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Tian Toralen
State War Academy
Caldari State
#1 - 2013-05-19 15:31:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Tian Toralen
I had 2 Sarum Magnates in my hangar, decided I want them removed from there, so I can get a noob ship when I run out of ships. But I did not want to sell them, so I created a contract for both, for 1 billion isk, to remove them.

Then - I saw I just lost 16 million isk for some contract fees...
Daniel Plain
Doomheim
#2 - 2013-05-19 15:32:40 UTC
well, maybe someone will buy them ;)

I should buy an Ishtar.
Elena Thiesant
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2013-05-19 15:43:33 UTC
Always read the contract summary page before clicking finish, helps avoid silly mistakes like setting too high or too low a price, the deposit, sales tax and broker fees are shown there.
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#4 - 2013-05-19 16:03:30 UTC  |  Edited by: J'Poll
uhm...Am I the only one here that sees the error in this.


He either:


Set them up as a sell ORDER


or he made a CONTRACT


The problem is that contracts cost 10.000 ISK. Period.

So likely the first.


EDIT:

As for why you but them on sell order...EVE is has too many stations to even count, why do you want to stick to 1 station when you could have just moved to another for a free noob ship.

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Haulie Berry
#5 - 2013-05-19 16:10:09 UTC  |  Edited by: Haulie Berry
J'Poll wrote:
uhm...Am I the only one here that sees the error in this.


He either:


Set them up as a sell ORDER


or he made a CONTRACT


The problem is that contracts cost 10.000 ISK. Period.


....No, they don't.

Private contracts do. Public item exchange, auction, and courier contracts all have additional fees. Item exchanges have a broker fee (variable based on price and contract duration), sales tax (only collected if sold), and deposit (refunded if sold).

In this case, he made a 2-week long public item exchange contract asking for 1 billion isk, which should cost around 16.5 million for deposit and broker fees.
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#6 - 2013-05-19 17:26:26 UTC
Haulie Berry wrote:
J'Poll wrote:
uhm...Am I the only one here that sees the error in this.


He either:


Set them up as a sell ORDER


or he made a CONTRACT


The problem is that contracts cost 10.000 ISK. Period.


....No, they don't.

Private contracts do. Public item exchange, auction, and courier contracts all have additional fees. Item exchanges have a broker fee (variable based on price and contract duration), sales tax (only collected if sold), and deposit (refunded if sold).

In this case, he made a 2-week long public item exchange contract asking for 1 billion isk, which should cost around 16.5 million for deposit and broker fees.


Wow...learned something.

I only use private contracts as it's easier and most stuff can easily be shifted through market transactions.

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Vortexo VonBrenner
Doomheim
#7 - 2013-05-19 21:26:27 UTC
Who says one can't buy a noobship? You just did for 16 mil. Enjoy!

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