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Is their a way to get a more realistic approximated value?
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Kix7
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2012-07-10 05:36:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Kix7
When you loot items, on the bottom right side of your cargo bay/container etc, it has an estimated market value.
Often I find this number to be drastically incorrect when I go to sell my loots on the market, with more often than not the number to be less than half (occasionally it is higher though ^^ )

Is their a way to update this with current market values? Or is it something that will fix itself in time?
Iam of limited intelligence, and could not find something about this on the forums allready :<

Also, this is my first time in the Market Discussion forums, I see a lot of people selling shares/bonds, is it all just a scam like the contracts in game?
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#2 - 2012-07-10 07:01:15 UTC
The estimated value is from the sell order transactions across eve from a while back.

You can't adjust it.

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Beckie DeLey
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2012-07-10 07:50:02 UTC
Kix7 wrote:
Also, this is my first time in the Market Discussion forums, I see a lot of people selling shares/bonds, is it all just a scam like the contracts in game?


Pretty much, yes.

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Korgan Medel
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2012-07-10 08:11:46 UTC
Save it all up and sell it in Jita, The competition among the traders will ensure you get a decent rate for your loot, Otherwise your offering it for sale in an area where there may be little competition so the prices offered will be next to nothing.
Dezolf
DAX Action Stance
#5 - 2012-07-10 08:12:38 UTC
All your questions have been answered, and in only two posts, I'm amazed!

Anyway. You could simply check the market (like in the "dark old days" Roll) to get a pretty good "approximated" value. Alternatively, you could check (in example) Eve-Central for the item, to see some inter-region prices.
It will sort of "fix itself" with time, when the markets decide to stabelize for longer than the time it takes for the "estimated value" field to be updated (which, according to a dev post/blog is automated)

To your second question w.r.t shares and bonds.. Well, some of them are, some aren't. Most are a form of roleplay. Investing is like flying a ship; don't do it, if you can't afford to lose it.
Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
#6 - 2012-07-10 08:43:07 UTC
Kix7 wrote:

Also, this is my first time in the Market Discussion forums, I see a lot of people selling shares/bonds, is it all just a scam like the contracts in game?


Some are scams, most scams get revealed within 20 minutes from being posted.
Others are not scams, like most things in EvE you can profitably deal with bonds if you know what you are doing.

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Kix7
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#7 - 2012-07-10 11:15:10 UTC
sweet as, thanks for the answers ^^
CorInaXeraL
The Dresdeneers
#8 - 2012-07-10 14:32:41 UTC
Vaerah Vahrokha wrote:
Kix7 wrote:

Also, this is my first time in the Market Discussion forums, I see a lot of people selling shares/bonds, is it all just a scam like the contracts in game?


Some are scams, most scams get revealed within 20 minutes from being posted.
Others are not scams, like most things in EvE you can profitably deal with bonds if you know what you are doing.


This.

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