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What happened with my sell order?
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Cadus Anzomi
Guns of Binary Stars
#1 - 2013-10-02 12:51:06 UTC
Hmm I had some stuff on a sell order for 60 mil/unit, and sold some of them for that price.
Though suddenly I sold one of them for 80 mil. How is that possible? That wasn´t my sell order price. =/
Good for my wallet, but I would like an explaination. =)

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Rhivre
TarNec
Invisible Exchequer
#2 - 2013-10-02 13:03:22 UTC
Eve has a broker system.

If someone fat fingers ,or has the market sorted incorrectly, it will give you more than you have it listed for.

The market always sells from the lowest priced order, regardless of price you enter. If always fills the top buy order, regardless of price again, hence you can get items for 1 isk if someone has sorted wrong or fat fingered, and sell rifters for 100m or so :)

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Cadus Anzomi
Guns of Binary Stars
#3 - 2013-10-02 13:52:50 UTC
Rhivre wrote:
Eve has a broker system.

If someone fat fingers ,or has the market sorted incorrectly, it will give you more than you have it listed for.

The market always sells from the lowest priced order, regardless of price you enter. If always fills the top buy order, regardless of price again, hence you can get items for 1 isk if someone has sorted wrong or fat fingered, and sell rifters for 100m or so :)


Not sure I follow in what you mean with "fat fingers" and "sorted wrong". What does that mean?

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Hel O'Ween
Men On A Mission
#4 - 2013-10-02 14:39:58 UTC
Cadus Anzomi wrote:
Rhivre wrote:
Eve has a broker system.

If someone fat fingers ,or has the market sorted incorrectly, it will give you more than you have it listed for.

The market always sells from the lowest priced order, regardless of price you enter. If always fills the top buy order, regardless of price again, hence you can get items for 1 isk if someone has sorted wrong or fat fingered, and sell rifters for 100m or so :)


Not sure I follow in what you mean with "fat fingers" and "sorted wrong". What does that mean?


Re: "fat fingers"

As Rhivre pointed out, EVE's market is a broker market = all goods sold are always sold from the lowest sell order. That's why people do the 0.01 ISK dance - to have their sell order being the cheapest = this item gets sold. So, if someone i.e. puts up a buy order and his intention is to put it up for 50 mil, and he "fat fingers" the "8" instead of the one-row-lower "5" key, his buy order will be immediately filled from all available sell orders which are <= his buy price but paying what the buyer was biding (=80 mil).

Re: "sorted wrong"

Market orders - both buy and sell - can be sorted by every column in the market interface , i.e. station, duration etc. If someone accidentally sorted his market by say station and clicks on the topmost sell order, mistaking it for the cheapest order, EVE will take the price of that order (=buyer seems to be willing to pay that price), but nonetheless sell from the lowest sell order due to its brokerage system.

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Velicitia
XS Tech
#5 - 2013-10-02 14:50:38 UTC
it's like this

you say "I want to sell 10 rifters for 8 million ISK apiece, in lots of 1 or more" (this is a sell order)

someone else comes along, and says "I want to buy a rifter for 80,000,000" (this is a buy order, where the buyer "fat-fingered" the order).

Assuming that you're the "cheapest" sell order (at 8 million per unit), the broker will make the trade on your behalf -- your listing will go down to 9x Rifter @ 8,000,000 per ... and you'lll get 80,000,000 in your wallet.

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Cadus Anzomi
Guns of Binary Stars
#6 - 2013-10-02 15:08:28 UTC
Holy crap! =)
You really need to train your typing skills then. ;)
Thanks guys for the answer. Now I understand.

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Sabriz Adoudel
Move along there is nothing here
#7 - 2013-10-03 23:55:57 UTC
And this is why you should never turn off that annoying little "Are you SURE you want to pay 136% more than regional average for this item?" prompt.

It's like a friend that doesn't shut up - most of the time they are downright annoying, but when you really, really need them, they are there.

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Cadus Anzomi
Guns of Binary Stars
#8 - 2013-10-04 11:30:30 UTC
Sabriz Adoudel wrote:
And this is why you should never turn off that annoying little "Are you SURE you want to pay 136% more than regional average for this item?" prompt.

It's like a friend that doesn't shut up - most of the time they are downright annoying, but when you really, really need them, they are there.


Couldn´t agree more ;)

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Velicitia
XS Tech
#9 - 2013-10-04 12:26:07 UTC
Cadus Anzomi wrote:
Holy crap! =)
You really need to train your typing skills then. ;)
Thanks guys for the answer. Now I understand.


nah, generally involves training "alcohol tolerance" past L3...Blink

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Mia Restolo
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#10 - 2013-10-04 15:22:19 UTC
I always approve of people buying my cruise missiles for 15000 isk each rather than 150.00. Lol