Market Discussions

I was buying stuff on the market today and viewing the transactions in my wallet to see who's selling what. When I noticed it was always buying from same person no matter if I clicked that 9,000 isk order or the 9,829 isk order . It would always take from the top person.

So if the person at the top of my market list was selling something for 9,000 isk and he had a quantity of 1000 and the person 4 rows under him was selling the same thing for 9842 isk with a quantity of 3000 and lets say I chose to buy 100 units from the person 4 rows under. It would charge me the 9,842 isk and reduce the quantity of the first order to 900 instead of the 4th order going to 2900. Is this a bug or am I just misunderstanding something?

I also put up my own order of 1 unit from myself but instead of buying my 1 unit it would charge me my price that I put and reduce the quantity from the person at the top of the list. Leaving my 1 unit there.

congratulations!!, you've just figured out how the market works.

you can choose the price you want to pay, but the market system chooses who you buy from, and its the person whose order's the best price for you, that's been there the longest.

Are you sure it's been that way for the longest? Anyone else can confirm this? I'm buying stuff for the more expensive price because that guy had more units and I didn't wanna bother having to buy two separate orders.

Lol ok ,well that sucks. I was hoping to buy stuff from different people so I could see who's selling what on the market and hopefully make deals with them. Guess that doesn't work. Thanks for answering.

Best way to do that is buy orders, especially if you need it regularly in bulk. Place a large buy order in a market hub and try to stay at teh top for long periods of time, you will see all the people who sell to your buy order, these are the people you want to deal with.

Most sell orders are placed by resellers, they buy low and sell high so are less likely to make a deal as they will get less than what the could. However those selling to buy orders are usually lazy and want there money now and dont care too much about unit price, therefore they will be much more willing to accpt a lower price if you offer an incentive, ie ask them to contract them in their home system, saving them the hassle of moving them to a hub. You can then haul or contract a hauler to collect for you.

If you're in the market for a while you will get to know all the major market suppliers this way.

Sometimes, I will put up 10-30 different sell orders for a single type of item at different prices, its rare but there's always a good reason, no matter what it be, always a reason.

Gawd, it's getting to be a weekly thing here...

I have encountered a weird market bug.

I was buying a certain item, noticed i could not buy out the stock.

I was attempting to buy out. re-list. It went fine at first, then i hit a certain persons orders.

When i attempted to buy this persons stock, his quantity never reduced.


It only happened on this specific item, and with that specific person. (Well, I could not test the same person on another item due to not knowing his orders)

Their stock was non depleting. I was messing around with it thinking it must be lag or something.

I tested it on another character, same thing. His stack of 254 units would stay at 254 units, even after i bought those 254 units more than once to double check.

First time I have experienced this bug.


I am fully aware you buy / sell from the top order. This has to do with stock not going down upon buying.

And yes i have it sorted according to price. I have bought out stock many times before. And this is not working as intended.

Assuming it is a server side issue, that may be rectified. I have filed a petition with the necessary information. Item / characters name etc.

Will see what response I get.

The "not wanting to do transactions" is one reason its like this. Say there are two orders: 1000 units at 9000, and 3000 units at 9100. You can buy 3500 units at 9100 and your order will fill. 1000 units from the cheaper one and 2500 from the more expensive one. You just spent more money than the minimum possible, but in return got the convenience of having to do just one transaction.

As another example, say you want a large amount of something, and it would take the 10 lowest orders to fill your needs. But they are all 0.01 isk apart. You just spend a bit more, buy at a price that covers all the needed orders and sweep up all 10 in one go.