Market Discussions

You have to have highest buy order to receive isk. Also if there are two orders at same price, older gets filled first.

Also, just as I read a while ago someone had confused how buy orders work, hopefully that didn't happen to you: instead of selling stuff, you actually bought something.

EDIT: In fact, above was commented when not properly thought what you said. But in essense, if there was some sell order with lower price than yours, it got filled first. In selling cheapest go first. So if there was sell order of 100 isk and you put 200isk order, and tried buying stuff with 200isk, that 100isk gets filled first.

The other person's order was put up before yours, then. The fact that they were offline is irrelevant (sales happen whether you're in-game or not).

Just to make sure you understand:

The cheapest order is always filled first. Regardless of the price that you set.

If I'm selling something for 100 isk, and you're selling for 101 isk, people will always buy from me.

If they set the price they'll pay as 101, I'll get that 101 isk.

You can't buy from a specific sell order, just like you can't sell to a specific buy order. The money goes to whichever order is "on top" (in the case of sell orders, it would be the lowest priced one). The thing is, the order that you try to buy from is the price you'll end up paying to the person who's "on top." So basically you gave that guy 32m ISK because he already had a lower sell order up. That's how the market mechanics work. It's not a scam.

thats the way the broker system works ...



Concrete: the broker takes the money and gives it to the cheapest sell-order. In other words ... that guy sold Republic Fleet EMP S probaply for the normal price, but the broker gave him (your) 32,000,733 ISK .
I order to to buy an overprized item from your trial account alt you need to find an item at a specific station with no (cheaper)sell orders up .

It happens quite often for me that I get paid much higher amount than I'm asking. Anything above asking price is just nice bonus. And as it was said, you give money to broker, which then passes it on to acquire items you were buying.

I haven't tried or thought of this, but you'd have much better chance passing money by checking really slowly moving item and then putting sell order with quite low amount of money and then buy it way overpriced. If someone buys your item, money isn't lost. However you should be sure that your order remains when you do your own buy, or else you're once again buying someone else's item, giving them your money.

It seems to obvious to be a bug. I'd say it's more likely just a very bad game mechanic.

Confirming that this is working as intended. There are game mechanics that prevent you from transferring isk to a alt on a trial account. Trial accounts can not use contracts, and can not be sent isk. What you are trying to do is work around that mechanic. This method of running market transactions does seem odd, but is meant to prevent this type of workaround you are trying to do. There are ways of doing what you are attempting, but it takes a little more thought and planing than you have put into it.

Not a bug. You guys just don't understand how a commodities market works. Buy and sell orders are not like retail stores. They are offers to buy and sell generic commodities.

When you clicked on a buy order and hit 'buy' you didn't say "I want THAT republic fleet shell please" you said "I am willing to pay 32 million ISK for a bullet. Who wants to sell me one?"

Now, lots of people are willing to sell you a bullet for 32 mil, so the market has to decide who gets first dibs. The answer is: Whoever was more eager to sell, AKA, the person with the lowest sell price. Lucky them, they found a buyer willing to pay more than their offer price.

Why would we want a mechanic like this? Let's say you were a war logistician and you wanted to stock up on bullets. You need 1,000,000 of them, but no one is selling that many. There's 1,000 for 6.98, 278,0000 for 6.99, 10 for 7.00 11,000 for 7.01 and so on. You could manually make an order for each price point, or you could determine that your time is not worth the savings and just put up a buy order for 1,000,000 at 7.50 and get all the ammo in one fell swoop.

If you wanna buy and sell from specific people, you need to make a deal with them, using the contracts. If you are on a trial, you can't do this, so you'll have to find something cleverer to do...

As a lot of other people are saying, it is a broker system and not a retail store, and it is working as intended.
Sorry for your loss. Or should I be happy for that other dude who had his sell order up.... I don't know

But please, tell us. Are you poor now?