Market Discussions

I started station trading a few weeks ago with capital i'd built up running missions. I don't really know a huge amount about trade in EvE but the player driven economy has always interested the number cruncher in me. I played with a few different modules and hulls to differing degrees of success but eventually found a few cheapy ones and one or two high value hulls. Did well on a Navy Dominix before noticing Bhaalgorns had a nice wide margin and had been both sold and bought once or twice over the past few days, a rare purchase but a great payoff when it happened thought i Well.. to cut a long story short when i edited the buy order this morning i failed to check the decimal had entered properly Literally a second after i confirmed the update my wallet flashed a big red number and it dawned on me what had happened a 245 Million ISK buy order had become a 2.4 Billion ISK buy order. I bought 1 Bhaalgorn for the price of 10 and my wallet went from 10 digits to about 200 Million ISK..

This isn't a complaint thread, rather the coming of a lesson i had always been aware could happen. I think it's something all newcomers must go through but man am i salty it happened on the Bhaalgorn

I'll post this in the new players forum too as a warning to others like me but i thought you trade people might enjoy my misfortune from a closer perspective.

Hats off to the guy who sold me the golden Bhaalgorn, i'll be back... soon.. ish

[EDIT] and sorry for inflating the daily price of Bhaalgorns in Rens this morning

These "fat finger" mistakes happen more often than you might think. With some luck you'll be on the receiving end someday. My biggest gain was from someone who put up a Jump Freighter for 70m instead of 7Bn with me having the top buy order in the market.

My most pleasurable experience in this regard was the result of direct market PvP. I was flipping Freighters that day and controlled most of the active market orders. Someone tried to sell a Fenris and was almost immediately undercut by me by 0.01 ISK. Now it got interesting. He started lowering his sell offer in 1m intervals, with myself always undercutting him by 0.01 ISK, mostly within seconds of his order. Apparently he got angry with me and started to lower his sell offer in 10m intervals. I continued to undercut him by 0.01 ISK. Considering that my profit margin was big enough to make a profit even by selling to buy orders, I didn't care how low he got. And all the recent buy orders were mine anyway. Suddenly my wallet flashed and his sell order vanished from the market. Got the Fenris for 130m (or so) instead of 1.3 Bn. Made my day.

Thanks everyone for your moral support

I did actually message the guy asking if he might see his way to refunding me 1Bil of the 2.4Bil i lost, seeing as it was pretty much my entire trade startup.. but he has not seen fit to compromise... which is fair

Love this game.

Back to mission grinding til i can get another lump saved.

This is part of the fun

You make those mistakes, other people make those mistakes.

Lesson's learned, don't update market orders when you are tired/drunk.

Mine was somewhere along the lines of 10B .

Worst I done was listing something with a zero to much, and paying more taxes on the item as the initial profit margin.

Just remember to allways petition it if it's a ''decent fuckup''.Sometimes you can get it back.

i be surprised if CCP smile upon you for this one unfortunately although there might be a possibility if you outline how new you are n stuff, as iv mentioned i doubt it though since this was not a fault of CCP or a glitch. I once did a simalar thing and lost just over a billion, which like you was most of my total ISK.

Since you have not begged and showed great attitude to this game i have sent you 20mil, which i know is not great amount but i hope it will help you get back to your feet.

BfB

CCP will *not* reimburse your wallet if your money has enriched another player.

They might reimburse in cases where you have set up ridiculous sell orders that cost you many millions in broker fees without another player having been involved.

Dont worry about it. Everyone has a story of how they lost isk on a miss click.


I remember when someone put up a bunch of Dreads that they had just made for 1.6 million isk.


It can be really painful. but the first time is always the worst :)