Market Discussions

You should check out the adaptive invulnerability field II that was bought for 1.2b not long ago i think 1-2months since that time, that trader was lucky.

Many thanks to a Jita trader for creating a public contract containing a plex for 2 million
Made a colossal profit with it.

This. I have read enough of these threads now that I live by that little warning.

You can game this if you want to buy something.

Say it's a 20-27m spread but you would buy at 23m. Post two of the item at 23m and have an alt undercut you at 22.999m. Then have both characters complain in local. 'Bloody deep under cutters".Link the item.

Almost without fail, rivals will counter undercut you. If one has a large stock buy it all, then cancel your orders.

I did that a lot when I traded ammo, a market I hardly touch now.

After a prolonged stay in W-Space, I went to Jita to load up on skills that had become unlocked. As I hastily went through each skill group in the market, I somehow ran out of money, which seemed impossible because the toon I was on had over 3b isk when I began. A quick look at the transactions showed me that I had bought a skill for almost exactly what was left in my wallet: 3b isk. Even worse was that I injected the skill as soon as I bought it.

Fortunately for me a petition resulted in the skill becoming un-injected and the skill was returned to my cargohold, which I ended up selling at a profit within a month. The skill was astronautic engineering.

Would be nice if CCP gave us personal sub-wallets that we could set aside our savings, and that couldn't be used for purchasing.

I just recently went a little heavy on something in jita with a rare 30% margin, power was out at my house for a day and when I logged in the margin was gone and items selling 500k less than what I paid for them, loss of about 100m. Not TOO bad but I was standing to make 300m off it if it worked out.

Now they're up until the next time the market swings up again in a month or so from now lol



These are great I dunno why but I love reading about mistakes and lucky profits!

Keep em coming!

Not quite a market blunder but I once repaid a loan to the wrong character and lost a couple of bil. Actually, thinking about it, I have done that twice. Both times the lender had a name with a double or triple consonant somewhere it shouldn't have been. Sent isk to Strogg instead of Strrogg, for instance.

Market blunders ... about half of my manipulation attempts

Yeah, if we're talking about straight up bad calls, my worst was 20-25b on a bad speculation bet.

Just ate a 3b loss today.

worst? probably losing 200 - 300 mill when battleship prices started spiking a year or two ago, I was flipping them over a period of 2 weeks or so and didn't stop until the prices stopped rising. So I ended up on the plus side but had to dump a bill or more worth of Maels at a loss.

Apart from that a few speculations that didn't work out and lost me a few 100 mill here and there but that's just the cost of taking a risk.

Oh and I was flipping CN Scourge heavies and cruise in Jita a while back, the icons look very very similar, so yes I sold the cruise at the heavy price and wiped out all the profit I made on that item over the hour or two that I was flipping it :)

I keep the warnings on and always tab out of the price field - that has saved me so many times.

someone killed the Damage Control II marked about a year or so ago. like really killed it.
so I bought a huge stockpile, knowing that if only I'd leave it alone long enough, I'd double my isk easily.
dude who killed the marked then convoed me, telling me he needed my stock to correct the damage he did.
I sold him my stock at that current price.

still hate myself for it.

oh and decimals. **** decimals.