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Luna Ironmind
#1 - 2014-11-14 20:12:59 UTC
What happens if I accept a freighting contract but end the contract before i leave the station? Do i get my collateral back and hey get their package back?

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ISD LackOfFaith
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#2 - 2014-11-14 20:26:18 UTC
No. Once you accepted it and the package is in your posession, there is no way to go back. If you end it at that point, the contract is in default and you get to keep the package, while the issuer of the contract gets to keep the collateral.

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Paranoid Loyd
#3 - 2014-11-14 21:37:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Paranoid Loyd
It seems fairly obvious you accepted a contract and there is an issue with it as you seem to want to back out of it, LOF answered your immediate question but we may be able to offer a solution to minimize your losses. Can you elaborate a bit about the situation?

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J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#4 - 2014-11-15 03:00:21 UTC
As Mr LoF said.

Once accepted there are only 2 options for you:

1. Complete the contract and get the rewards.

2. Fail the contract and lose the collateral (this can be either not completing it in time OR breaking the "box")

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#5 - 2014-11-15 05:52:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
You can contact the contract issuer and make a deal, too.

Courier contracts do not auto-fail when they expire. Instead the issuer can choose to fail an undelivered courier contract anytime after it expires.
Baneken
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Arctic Light
#6 - 2014-11-15 08:34:01 UTC
There is a reason why collateral need to be bigger then then the value of contents because you mailman might just nick it otherwise. Blink
Luna Ironmind
#7 - 2014-11-15 12:13:56 UTC
Paranoid Loyd wrote:
It seems fairly obvious you accepted a contract and there is an issue with it as you seem to want to back out of it, LOF answered your immediate question but we may be able to offer a solution to minimize your losses. Can you elaborate a bit about the situation?


I appreciate the help, really I do, but it's just a hypothetical question.

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Cara Forelli
State War Academy
Caldari State
#8 - 2014-11-15 16:28:27 UTC
Luna Ironmind wrote:
I appreciate the help, really I do, but it's just a hypothetical question.

Keep in mind that you can always contact the owner and try and work something out.

Though I usually set the collateral so high that I'd prefer to keep it Big smile

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J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#9 - 2014-11-15 19:36:55 UTC
Cara Forelli wrote:
Luna Ironmind wrote:
I appreciate the help, really I do, but it's just a hypothetical question.

Keep in mind that you can always contact the owner and try and work something out.

Though I usually set the collateral so high that I'd prefer to keep it Big smile


Honostly I didn't ship a set of skillbooks worth about 10 mil with Red Frog with a collateral of 1 bil...and was hoping it got ganked or something.Twisted

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#10 - 2014-11-15 22:54:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
J'Poll wrote:
Honostly I didn't ship a set of skillbooks worth about 10 mil with Red Frog with a collateral of 1 bil...and was hoping it got ganked or something.Twisted

I got "told" by a corpmate who was hauling for Red Frog when I paid a ransom for his freighter, as he was AFK.

I was told next time to let them blow it up, as Red Frog insures against such losses.

Later I happened to run across the same pirate while in my own freighter, and he turned out to have a code. After bumping my freighter, he didn't continue or ransom when he saw that I wasn't AFK (I warped to the nearest thing close to alignment, rather than the gate I was originally heading towards).