Market Discussions

What would it take to be able to save a route, so I do not have to input a 100+ systems every time I want to pick up buy orders?

Post those ideas in Little Things thread in General forums, it helps, sometimes ;)

Regarding the issue with editing a buy order by a small amount, try the following to avoid errors:

1) if you have a scroll wheel on your mouse, you can easily adjust the amount by 0.01 ISK. Click in the amount field to move the cursor there. Then use the scroll wheel to increase or decrease the price by 0.01 ISK per 'click' of the wheel.

2) Always press the Tab key after editing a price. The field will fill in the commas and periods (depending on your computer settings) so you can easily confirm whether you're buying the item for 500 million, or 50 billion. Click back into the price field if you need to edit.

afaik there is no way to do what you want to in-game. You could try doing it manually, or there may be a utility/app that lets you do it. In fact there may be a market for an app that does what you want to, as this question keeps cropping up in MD.

You know that little message that pops up asking you "Are you really, really sure you want to pay 885% above regional market average for this item"?

That message is your friend. An annoying but loyal friend, that shouts out warnings every time you cross a street, but a friend that is loyal and always there for you when you might make a mistake.

Just yesterday it saved me from accidentally listing five Oneiros hulls at 17.8 million ISK each, which would have been a somewhat expensive error.


As for why the market works the way it does - it's an anti-RMT feature. If an RMT seller instructs someone 'Give me RL cash, then go to station X, and set a sell order to sell 1 Tritanium for 4 billion ISK, and I'll buy it', this feature ensures that the RMT seller can be disrupted by someone else getting there and posting 100000 Trit at 10000 ISK/unit.

Just a few situations where I would sell to buy orders:
1. Someone undercuts my sell order every minute, and I do not have the patience/time/inclination to do pvp.
2. I have large units of the item to sell, and it would take ages for the all the units to sell, and I need the money now to buy the materials I need for my next manufacturing binge. Thus I dump on sell orders.
3. I want to crash the market, and I dump 20 zillion units on buy orders.
4. I have not trained trade skills, and do not have slots to place sell order/s, and the taxes are such for me, and the difference in buy/sell orders such that it makes little sense to sell using sell orders
5. I do not know that items sell pretty quickly using sell orders at Jita, thus in my ignorance I dump on buy orders.
6. I just have one fricking unit to sell. The hell with setting up a sell order.
7. Edit: My manufacturing cost is so low (I get the minerals free by mining 24/7) that I make a huge 'profit' selling to buy orders. Screw setting up a sell order.
8. Edit 2: I'm liquidating my corp industrial assets and I have run out of market orders and there are more than 200 different items still to liquidate....

The exact opposite holds true for buying using buy orders. A large majority of casual eve players buy stuff off sell orders. Whereas if they had patience they could set up buy orders and get it cheaper, but hey this is eve. People will pay double the price if you make the item available to them where they need it.

How do i raise a successful loan on these forums?


edit:
What does the community require?


API keys?
Forum Post? asking for isk and thats it?

Cool man thanks for the info, that makes more sense now.

afaik, base broker fee may also be as low as 0.75% of sales value.

For the entire formula see this

And he will just do the same, so that answers your "why does he do this?" He experienced the same when you put up your buy order at 130k. He though "I had it at 15% margin, why does someone raise it to 130k? I'll outbid him no matter what ..."