Market Discussions

You know when the council diplomatic shuttle was released I picked up a few dozen of these in various regions using regional buy orders for anywhere between 50,000-100,000isk. I waited patiently however for their pricepoint to drop below 200,000(preferably 100,000) in trade hubs so that I might stockpile some. The price never did come down.
I hoard unique hulls for long term profits and I do my math. The council diplomatic shuttle loses between 2-5 ships per day. That's a rate 10x slower than the Gnosis.

I'm sorry guys but those of you who have been hoarding these aren't going to see a profit for 10 years minimum.

Shame on you for being overeager to get some and not letting the price drop to reasonable levels and letting me have some.
You get what you deserve.

I've been saying for ages that the Council Diplomatic Shuttles are hugely overpriced compared other ships we have been gifted in the past, or are the old ones just underpriced?

As for my own, I once bought a couple hundred researched Prototype Cloaking Device BPOs (still selling them now), have sold a bunch PLEX right before price spikes and probably lots of other little ones I don't remember.

There's things you lose on because you base your decision on solid reasoning and there's an unforeseeable change that shafts you. (I got done on the exploration changes but got out fast enough to not get hammered)

Then there's things you lose on because you base your purchase decision on faulty reasoning.

I got done a bit buying up lots and lots and lots and lots of meta afterburners and microwarpdrives, thinking that the tiericide would make one of them clearly best and that that one would go from being worth nothing to being a high priced meta item.

Turns out, there's still too much supply for any of them to hold any value, and I'd used regionwide buy orders to get the largest number possible.

Oops.

Didn't lose much ISK (200m max) but by god I lost a lot of time dumping those things at below cost.

You gambled on the wrong horse, even after my well written guide, basically spoon fed it!

my tiericde container has 3xvalue so far.

worst investment: i bought 2 characters with very high standings (to sell highsec standings pos corps) the nerf to standings requirement for pos, killed those 2 alts.

1 is still valuable, other is p much useless without lots more isk to fix.

Oh yeah SKINs too, kinda. During peak hype after the Devblog my can of SKINs that I paid about 30-40b for was worth over 300b on Jita sell orders. I managed to sell several dozen of them at what are now crazy prices, but I wasn't too bothered about getting rid of them too quickly as they were still well below where I thought the new prices would be. The patch hit and it's all a bit fuzzy, but I know prices just kept dropping. I've added a fair few to my can since then and its estimated price is now 150b. I guess I'll check it again next year .

nice - very nice, for such small risk

I bought every single T1 industrial in a region a few years ago. I think I ended up roughly breaking even on the manipulation - sold a few really expensive iterons, but it's too hard to hold an entire ship group down for long with the kind of bankroll I had at the time.

I own a silly large number of Geckos, most purchased back when I considered them expensive at ~14m each.

I also own a large number of Gnosis. At least it is my favourite ship to spin.

Yeah that's not a good idea. Ganker logistics is actually quite difficult to disrupt with buyouts.

That wasn't my intention.
I forgot what my intention was, but I didn't want to disrupt anything.

Maybe I wanted to put them back up at a higher price.
But I never did.

Now I'll check if I still have them ... ^_^