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Darex Nidor
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2012-05-02 16:24:56 UTC  |  Edited by: Darex Nidor
I got little lucky today. I would like to open this thread for posting lucky finds from market.

I start with the one I just had.

http://go-dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/DarexNidor/lol.jpg

Shadow Serpentis Large Armor Repairer with 39,996.00 ISK Cool

Not that much, but brings up a smile in your face Big smile
Darex Nidor
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2012-05-02 18:36:23 UTC
Come on! There must be other good ones too! Search your market log!
SabotNoob
Doomheim
#3 - 2012-05-02 18:42:49 UTC
I frequently run across sell orders that were meant to be buy orders, probably placed by someone that's tired or drunk, or both.

Rough example:
Abaddon listed for sale at 161 million.
Highest buy order was 160 million. (this is where it was meant to go, as a buy order above the 160 million)
Lowest sell order at 175 million.
So you snap it up at 161 million and relist for 174 million, or so.

This works very well for stacked items, assuming you've got the ISK on hand.

Not as unique as your find, but I've made millions taking advantage of these careless mistakes. Unfortunately for the seller, they're unable to correct their mistake since they can't change/cancel their order for five minutes after placing it (if they're even conscious, that is).
Johnny Frecko
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2012-05-02 19:13:19 UTC
I'm finding way too many of what the poster above me mentioned.
People can't be THAT drunk.

I'm seriously finding like 5 of these a day(sells instead of buy orders)
Bifordus Maximus
MissoCorp
#5 - 2012-05-02 19:37:51 UTC
Sometimes we are just too tired. I once posted a buy order for a certain item and I put an extra zero in... Many people were happy for 5 minutes and I ended up buying a little over 5000 units of it and I lost about 200mil. Not a big deal though and I ended up making it back very quickly after some other people mad similar mistakes. Big smile
Whiteknight03
Trilon Industries and Exploration
#6 - 2012-05-02 19:40:16 UTC
Got a Navy Omen BPC for cheap on contracts once. I'm guessing someone had no clue of what Industry was.
Cold Burrito
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#7 - 2012-05-02 20:37:12 UTC
Bought a Thorax for 600k the other day. Not a big find, but I'm still going to have fun losing that ship.

There was also the two million units of cruise missiles I found in a trade hub listed for under mineral buy price. Sometimes people should look at the build cost of things before matching that undervalued price.
Debiru
Universal Fleet Operations
#8 - 2012-05-02 20:48:43 UTC
I haven't been fortunate enough to get this myself but a friend of mine, back when Rattlesnakes were 900-1b in price, got two of them for only 95m each.

Gotta love those zeroes.
Darex Nidor
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#9 - 2012-05-02 20:57:27 UTC
Debiru wrote:
I haven't been fortunate enough to get this myself but a friend of mine, back when Rattlesnakes were 900-1b in price, got two of them for only 95m each.

Gotta love those zeroes.

Ouch!
Yatama Kautsuo
Tencus
#10 - 2012-05-02 21:06:29 UTC
i have bought a cheetah for 190m... i wanted to play 0.1 isk games and somehow missed the delete button for substituting a 8 with a 9....

but on the bright side i once had someone buy like 20k faction ammo from me for 1400 ea only to sell them all back to me 2 minutes later for 100 ea XD
Simi Kusoni
HelloKittyFanclub
#11 - 2012-05-02 21:26:26 UTC
It's not quite the same, but very often while I'm flying around and notice an empty market I will put up random region wide buy order for nanoribbons and the like. Then just price them at below 50% of the real value, sometimes quite far below.

Inevitably over the next few days people will actually sell to them. Gotta love new players who don't know the value of the things they are selling yet.

[center]"I don't troll, I just give overly blunt responses that annoy people who are wrong but don't want to admit it. It's not my fault that people have sensitive feelings"  -MXZF[/center]
Johnny Frecko
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2012-05-02 22:09:33 UTC
http://imageshack.us/f/809/lolie.jpg/

Forgot to add my personal find.
2 months ago, still happy about it. :)
Lucy Ferrr
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2012-05-03 02:41:19 UTC  |  Edited by: Lucy Ferrr
Last month I got :
15 Cryptic Data Interface BPC
3 Cryptic Data Interface BPC
5 Crpytic Ship Data Interface BPC

All for the fair price tag of 10mil. I built everything and made like a 500mil profit after keeping a set for myself. This was off a contract in High-sec. I sent the guy a message asking him what happened, he never replied. Even with an extra zero it would of been way underpriced.
Sir William Wallace
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2012-05-03 07:14:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Sir William Wallace
Few days ago someone was trying to manipulate the Morphite market in Jita, 80,000 units at 8k per unit, bought it up and sold it all for 14,500k per unit in Heimatar, almost double, it's scary/incredible at how often this happens, if you're going to try and maniplate the market then at least do it properly and not just stick one wayyyyyyy underpriced sell order!
Aina Sasaki
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2012-05-03 08:42:29 UTC
SabotNoob wrote:
I frequently run across sell orders that were meant to be buy orders, probably placed by someone that's tired or drunk, or both.

Rough example:
Abaddon listed for sale at 161 million.
Highest buy order was 160 million. (this is where it was meant to go, as a buy order above the 160 million)
Lowest sell order at 175 million.
So you snap it up at 161 million and relist for 174 million, or so.

This works very well for stacked items, assuming you've got the ISK on hand.

Not as unique as your find, but I've made millions taking advantage of these careless mistakes. Unfortunately for the seller, they're unable to correct their mistake since they can't change/cancel their order for five minutes after placing it (if they're even conscious, that is).


I run into this all the time as well. I love when it happens. :)

- Rei
Rhivre
TarNec
Invisible Exchequer
#16 - 2012-05-03 10:38:58 UTC
SabotNoob wrote:
I frequently run across sell orders that were meant to be buy orders, probably placed by someone that's tired or drunk, or both.

Rough example:
Abaddon listed for sale at 161 million.
Highest buy order was 160 million. (this is where it was meant to go, as a buy order above the 160 million)
Lowest sell order at 175 million.
So you snap it up at 161 million and relist for 174 million, or so.

This works very well for stacked items, assuming you've got the ISK on hand.

Not as unique as your find, but I've made millions taking advantage of these careless mistakes. Unfortunately for the seller, they're unable to correct their mistake since they can't change/cancel their order for five minutes after placing it (if they're even conscious, that is).



Thats usually because they have sell screen on advanced, and try to fill a buy order. So if I have 10 trit on a buy order for 6.01 each, and you try to right click sell 11, it will fill my buy order at 6.01 and put the final one on the market for 6.01.

The next person coming along then sees the order up just above the buy order price and assumes it is meant to be a sell.....which technically it is, but it originated as a right click sell.

Fluffy Bunny Pic!

Johnny Frecko
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#17 - 2012-05-03 10:52:42 UTC
This just in

Talos for 8.5M, i'm only guessing it was suppose to be 85M :)
Sir William Wallace
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#18 - 2012-05-03 11:38:52 UTC
Rhivre wrote:
Thats usually because they have sell screen on advanced, and try to fill a buy order. So if I have 10 trit on a buy order for 6.01 each, and you try to right click sell 11, it will fill my buy order at 6.01 and put the final one on the market for 6.01.

The next person coming along then sees the order up just above the buy order price and assumes it is meant to be a sell.....which technically it is, but it originated as a right click sell.


Done this myself on many occassions, usually try and match the buy order amount with my sell order amount but sometimes screw it up and end up putting the surplus on the market as a seperate sell order, I can always remove it after 5 minutes or if it sells it's no biggie, 99% of the time you'd be happy to sell at that price anyway.
george harries
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#19 - 2012-05-03 17:17:12 UTC
I have a buy order for some large rigs - some guy sold me 100 (8m pu below sell) - I get a mail asking that I can keep half if I sell half back to him at fair market Big smile .....I thought best to let him learn the hard way Evil

Also had an order for some tags - slow trade as relatively rare.......wallet flashes and a corpie pastes in a comment from local that I would be happy....looks like he accidentally sold me 100 rather than placing to sell - 80% profit margin so I was happy - and they sold quickly.


All time favourite - though luck really......when not knowing the value I researched an x-large Booster......so looked at the different ones on contract and bid on one....seems no interest in the auction....I got an officer mod for 400m.....still have (yeah probably will drop in price) but they sell for 2-3bn a pop...and then were 1-2bn and my corpies were gob smacked when I told them!!
Trader Kiai
Doomheim
#20 - 2012-05-03 17:37:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Trader Kiai
Debiru wrote:
I haven't been fortunate enough to get this myself but a friend of mine, back when Rattlesnakes were 900-1b in price, got two of them for only 95m each.

Gotta love those zeroes.

:D Gotta love those missing zeroes an yes i get them alot
Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System x 9 for 99.23m :D

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