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Receiving excess ISK for Sell Orders?
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Hans Tesla
RigWerks Incorporated
#1 - 2012-05-26 22:26:31 UTC
Not that I'm really complaining, but I just registered a sale on one of my sell orders and the amount of the sale is for MORE than the listed price of my sell order. I've never seen this before. All of my other sell orders are for the listed price. Any ideas?

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Stigman Zuwadza
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-05-26 22:59:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Stigman Zuwadza
Someone tried to buy a higher Sell Order, however, lower value Sell Orders are fulfilled first. This means you can get a Brucey Bonus when this occurs.

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Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#3 - 2012-05-26 23:34:43 UTC
The lowest price on sell orders is /always/ the one that is sold from. You cannot select a particular order to buy from. People commonly screw up here. Or just don't pay attention. Say, they have it badly sorted.

So they pick a higher order on the sell, and you get the sale, at the price that they've set. Bonus for you Smile

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Hans Tesla
RigWerks Incorporated
#4 - 2012-05-26 23:37:49 UTC
That's nice! Thanks for the info!

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Khanera
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2012-05-27 02:15:18 UTC
So why are putting people up Sell Orders like 1 trit for 500mil in Jita if they wouldn't benefit from it either way?
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#6 - 2012-05-27 03:11:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
Also note that when people buy in bulk, it is often easier to simply place an immediate order for the highest price they are willing to pay, versus having to repeatedly buy-out a lot of smaller orders.

Example: You want to buy 50 Rifters and there are 15 sell orders for 1 Rifter priced below a sell order for 100 Rifters, and you really don't care about the few ISK difference, so you place your immediate order at the 100 Rifter order price.
Tauranon
Weeesearch
CAStabouts
#7 - 2012-05-27 03:42:59 UTC
Khanera wrote:
So why are putting people up Sell Orders like 1 trit for 500mil in Jita if they wouldn't benefit from it either way?


They will if it so happens that their regular sell order is also first.
Nerath Naaris
Pink Winged Unicorns for Peace Love and Anarchy
#8 - 2012-05-27 13:13:29 UTC
Happens more often than you might think, actually. Not necessarily big sums, but that can happen as well.

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TarNec
Invisible Exchequer
#9 - 2012-05-27 13:46:08 UTC
Happens regularly. As mentioned, not often the 300m rifter etc, but it is always nice to get a bit extra isk, or when someone is trying to buy an order several below you for a wierd qty (300 ammo, for example), they will spend ages buying 300 of yours at the price of the other stack, and I always think they must be getting really confused by "WTF, that order is still there"

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Alexis Valentyne
Anacorn Contracts Agency
#10 - 2012-05-28 00:49:09 UTC
Tau Cabalander wrote:
Also note that when people buy in bulk, it is often easier to simply place an immediate order for the highest price they are willing to pay, versus having to repeatedly buy-out a lot of smaller orders.

Example: You want to buy 50 Rifters and there are 15 sell orders for 1 Rifter priced below a sell order for 100 Rifters, and you really don't care about the few ISK difference, so you place your immediate order at the 100 Rifter order price.


I do this when building large numbers of ships. Although, I was always under the impression that I would still receive the smaller quantity items at the lower price that it was set at - not the highest one I clicked on. Will need to watch for that.

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Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#11 - 2012-05-28 08:06:45 UTC
I /think/ the 1 trit at 500 million will serve to skew the regional average price.

But I'm not sure. As I'd /hope/ that the averaging works on a 95th percentile or similar.

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Tubrav Sadarts
Viscous Logistics
#12 - 2012-05-28 14:57:42 UTC
It's amazing how easily this goes wrong. A lovely person paid me 134mill for a Navy Slicer once... fun times.

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ShinRa Electric Power Company.
#13 - 2012-05-28 18:42:58 UTC
KIAMoonZ
MASS
Pandemic Horde
#14 - 2012-05-28 23:02:42 UTC
This happened to me once, I couldn't figure how I had got 1 bil richer, was real happy for a while, then started thinking how totally gutted the buyer must of felt, convod the fella and gave him his 1 bil back, he was pretty chuffed =)
Terajima Kazumi
Perkone
Caldari State
#15 - 2012-05-30 04:24:09 UTC
My best take from an erroneous order was this Charon. I flipped it for a near 10 billion ISK profit in a day and a half rather than the expected 100-200m profit.

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Fozzy Dorsai
Friendly but Irritating
#16 - 2012-05-30 04:40:20 UTC
Trade long enought or tired/drunk enough and you'll miss a decimile point eventually. It happens. When you turn an order that was supposed to be for 20 million into 2 billion (missed decimile) or 20 billion (hit a number instead of the decimile) it can get really painful. I've gone "ouch" a few times.
Hannibal Ord
Fer-De-Lance
#17 - 2012-05-31 09:58:25 UTC
If they mistype the manual buy order and you are at the bottom = profit. Yesterday a fw pilot bought one of my rifters for 455mil.