EVE New Citizens Q&A

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always double check how many zeros you type

always.

You did sell to the highest bid, and you sold for way less than they were asking.

In short:
You always buy from the lowest available sell order and you always sell to the highest available buy order (assuming immediate buy/sell)

If you sell something and you type in a lower number than the buy order is asking, you sell to that person at the price you specified. It's essentially "You're willing to pay up to 1 million for this, but I'm going to sell it to you for 200k"

If you buy something and you enter a higher number than the sell order is asking, you buy from the person at the price you specify. It's essentially "You want 1 million for this, but I'm going to pay you 2 million"

And you're hardly the only one to do this, I've sold a stack of faction battleships (back when they were close to a billion) for 7 mil each. :-(

well now you have learned and are a more experienced trader for the effort. Better to get that lesson out of the way now while it's cheap than later on when like the previous poster with the stack of faction battleships it could be a much bigger mistake.

I believe the UI size can actually be adjusted in the escape menu. Might make everything else look funny if you put it too large though.

The trick is too click somewhere outside the text entry box after you finish typing the number. This will add the comma/periods so you can more easily recognize the value you actually typed. I like to live dangerously so I generally click and hold the accept button, give my brain one last chance to realize there's a problem, and drag off the button if there is.

I think I've lost about 100 mil the same way from various derps. But if you spend enough time in the markets what goes around will come around. I once had someone pay me 800 mil for an 80 mil item.

I probably would have even refunded them at least half of it if they'd asked. You can always try contacting the person. Can't really hurt.

Look on the bright-side, at least you've made someone elses day a little more pleasant. I suspect this is one of those things that everyone does or sees happen some point during their time. I was lucky, I was on the other side of a mistake - someone bought a Dominix off me once for 3.5 billion, took me ages to figure out where the money came from (I was saving up for my Super at the time, so every isk was being carefully watched, and I suddenly found myself 3 bil nearer my target than I was expecting!)

Make sure you have warnings turned on, they are a nuisance but can save your bacon once in a while. If you have turned them off you can re-enable them in the ESC menu.

When you enter a price to sell or buy, tab out of the field and it will fill in commas, decimal point and any zeros

Always double check everything.

As said above, it might be a lot of your net worth at the moment but in the long run it's a cheap lesson.

Hit dat tab key when you finish typing your prices in. It brings out the commas. Makes it very obvious when you've made an error.

If you specifically avoid the default 'sell item' mechanic in favor of typing a manual price instead, pretty much _any_ game will assume at that point that you know what you're doing and roll with it.

She manually entered a number, clicked through the approval box, and either clicked through or disabled the "you are selling this item for less than market value" warning popup. That's actually quite a lot of effort required to make this mistake, I'd characterize the 2-3 points where the game explicitly stops you to make sure you're sure with giant yellow exclamation points and pop-up boxes as 'stopping this from happening'.

I mean, no hate on her for screwing up, we all manage to do boneheaded stuff sometimes, but this is NOT a game design issue. Custom sell orders are just that: custom. Even World of Warcraft takes your input price at face value when you use the auction house custom set instead of the suggested sale price.

I like you. I'll send you some ISK later.

getting in the habit of keeping an eye on the percentage from the regional average before hitting accept is a good practice to get in. The regional average won't always be a good number but at least it can often alert you to huge mistakes like misplacing a decimal point.