Market Discussions

I don't think there's a better answer than the dreaded 0.01 isking (I wish the term "centing" had been coined for it). If you're being beaten on price, rather than getting low sales because nobody is buying the item at all, you'll just need to spend more time supervising the order and 0.01'ing your way to sales.

The other option is to find a different system, one where the item is still in high demand but has less people selling it. For example I sell a particular T1 rig at Jita for 1.1M, and can sell a LOT until somebody beats me on price. This can be within minutes, or several hours, of my last price change.

But I sell the same item in another system for 1.7M. I sell far fewer, but I rarely have to update my sell price because barely anyone else tries to sell there.

What the guy above said is pretty much your only options. There is a balance between being able to sell a ton for low profits and having to update orders every 5 min or being able to sell far fewer at much higher margins and only update orders 1-2 times a day. You will quickly burn out from trading if you are logged in 8hrs a day updating a hundred or so orders every 5min in Jita/Amarr/Dodixie/Rens etc.

Since you are hauling and trading in trade hubs you are going to be competing with far more traders then you would be if you sold stuff at some backwater system. Therefore, your only option would be to watch your orders and update more frequently. Seems easy enough but this will cause the other guys to update their orders more frequently since they will be getting a lower % of the volume and before you know it you will crash the market trying to out compete each other until one of you leaves. Welcome to trade in eve.

The other option would be to list items in as many stations as possible and increase the volume/margins of sales through convenience of people not having to fly to the nearest trade hub. Always remember people are lazy and if they have to pay a few extra 100k or 1mil isk and not have to fly 5+ jumps to the nearest trade hub most likely they will. It will just be a pain for you having to stock items in so many stations and keep track of sell/buy orders and profits not to mention the number of different types of items will be limited since you now have 5-10 orders used up for the same thing.

The way I personally look at it is basically sell more types of stuff and not more of the same. Trade hubs are a great way to shift stock but the speed that you are outbid doesn't make it worth selling at times.