Question: I'm having an issue with Unique Events and Total events. I don't really understand why unique events are greater than total events (image attached: <https://analytics-a-googleproductforums-com.googlegroups.com/attach/584c3c65bd24cfec/Screenshot%20at%202013-05-14%2017:00:40.png?gda=9qkpgUYAAADqfLbDOUx1KZ9vP-6pB8mH0QevsNJBCwpb2zqmxh9R_FqJw8mf6kYUxitGhb4bDE5x40jamwa1UURqDcgHarKEE-Ea7GxYMt0t6nY0uV5FIQ&view=1&part=4>). 

Someone can explain how this is posible?

Santiago Vázquez

Answer: 
I think Google Analytics is simply buggy.  

They have to work on event reporting a bit more.

We are tracking events and e-commerce data to our own database, and we realised that both Google Analitics and Universal Analitics misses some events and e-commerce data.  

We are trying to find the reason for this, but no luck yet.
Google has deprecated (renamed) *Unique Events* metric as it was seriously confusing. We are expecting to see a number of times event with unique combination of category / action and label happened per other dimensions in report. Instead GA calculated a unique combination of every dimension in the report!
Now, this metric is deprecated and renamed to legacy. 
New one: Unique Events is giving expected results.

I written about why total events are higher than in my blog as too many questions.