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NeoCom Experiments 4
Archua Zaul NeoCom Experiments Likes received: 4	#41 - 2013-11-13 07:06:02 UTC 1 I once had a lucky day trading in Jita. Put up a buy order for some Dual Heavy Pulse Laser II, about 1.5 mill each. Some poor guy managed to buy the whole stack for 150 million each, netted myself 8.5 billion! Actually couldn't believe it when I logged in and saw the cash sitting in my wallet.

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enterprisePSI Likes received: 299	#42 - 2013-11-13 08:35:43 UTC \| Edited by: enterprisePSI 1 Accidentally asked for billions instead of millions. No pop up window though about order exceeding regional average, so i got em back The tears of the many, outweigh the tears of the few. Or the one. enterprise-psi©

Emma d'Acques

Doomheim

Likes received: 62

#43 - 2013-11-13 08:41:32 UTC

The biggest f-up I personally had was when the new destroyers and the Venture were released in-game.

The day of release saw me net a filthy amount of profit, and then I went to sleep....
Prices crashed overnight, and what once was a filthy amount of profit turned into a financial setback of a quite large amount for myself.
Took me a week to get back on my feet, and make up for the losses I incurred.

Lesson learned: Don't go to sleep with new items/ships on buy on the day they have been released, and most of all, don't be (too) greedy.

I'm not totally useless, I can be used as a bad example.

Zizzy Balooba

Phoenix Ventures

Likes received: 4

#44 - 2013-11-14 04:58:43 UTC

Somebody once paid me 995,000,000 Isk for a Cap Recharger II. I had them priced somewhere around 650,000 Isk, so I know it wasn't just a misplaced decimal. Best scenario I could come up with was the guy was trying to pass RMT Isk through the market and instead of buying from the guy with a 995m isk sell order, it defaulted to the lowest priced order at that station (me Big smile

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X Tax Evasion Ltd 0
Max Cardamine X Tax Evasion Ltd Likes received: 0	#45 - 2013-11-15 05:29:53 UTC I keep missing numbers from my sell orders because the batteries on KB are running out. Selling stuff for 10%...

Middle-Earth 463
Samroski Middle-Earth Likes received: 463	#46 - 2013-11-17 09:07:14 UTC \| Edited by: Samroski 3 This happened about 5 minutes ago: was setting up sell orders for deadspace stuff, and instead of 449m, set up the order for 44.9m, for 10 units! Did not realize, of course, till about a minute later when there were 440m in my wallet, and 4b down the drain! Edit: am rage-quitting for an hour :) Any colour you like.

Lord Jita's Big Gay Corp 135
Lord Jita Lord Jita's Big Gay Corp Likes received: 135	#47 - 2013-11-18 01:50:00 UTC 3 I just bought 44 units of quafe zero for a cool 3.7B. I am just going to pretend that didn't happen and go about my day as normal.

Tempest Shipyards 26
Jerex Deka Tempest Shipyards Likes received: 26	#48 - 2013-11-22 03:26:51 UTC Just accidently bought 7 items for 121m a piece, when they sell for 14m a piece. Net loss of about 770m Biggest loss yet for me. This sucks. lol

Ranamar

Nobody in Local

Deepwater Hooligans

Likes received: 89

#49 - 2013-11-22 23:57:29 UTC

The first time I listed T1 ammo on the market (after listing things like modules and ships...) I wasn't thinking and put 70-ISK missiles up for something like 70,000 ISK per unit. All told, the broker fee, whose warning I did not examine closely enough because it was nullsec, and prices are always screwy, cost me around 77M ISK. I've since recovered, of course, but, at the time, I was very much on the knife edge of my finances because I was trying to seed a market.

Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation 85
Gerald Sphinx Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation Likes received: 85	#50 - 2013-11-25 18:47:20 UTC I remember someone buying two antimatter rounds (two little rounds) from me at literally about 300 million ISK each. This made me enough money to extend my game time. Thank you to whoever that was...

Galloglas Fraternity. 0
Sokot Galloglas Fraternity. Likes received: 0	#51 - 2013-11-26 11:19:36 UTC Forgot a zero on the collateral for a courier contract once, ended up as 250M for stuff worth almost 2B. For some reason it never made its final destination... ;(

Mia Restolo

Royal Amarr Institute

Amarr Empire

Likes received: 178

#52 - 2013-11-26 17:08:21 UTC

Abdiel Kavash wrote:

Dicnar wrote:

Hangar cleanout, trade window of around 2 bill worth of items with my alt to move stuff.
Wasn't my alt, and the trade window was accepted quickly Shocked

That's why you always accept with the receiving character first. Blink

That's why you have your alts on your contact list, open trade from contacts rather than station guests.

Like lots of others I've blown a few hundred mill on fees by adding a couple of zeros to the end of a sell order. But I've made way more selling to people who have done the same.

Space Fukery 32
Cloon McCloon Space Fukery Likes received: 32	#53 - 2013-11-29 04:05:39 UTC 1 I just sold 3 Stratios' for 129M each :/ I was putting up sell orders for 3 Astero's and 3 Stratios', and I thought I had picked the frigates first. Nope.

John Venividivici

The Korova's

Likes received: 2

#54 - 2013-12-20 12:24:10 UTC

My biggest market blunder was when I was quickly trying fit up a simple Algos in some quiet highsec system. I, for some reason, had the "jumps" tab primaried instead of the "cost" tab, meaning that things closest to me would be at the top of the list instead of the lowest costs.

That in conjunction with being in a hurry meant that I purchased a Damage Control II for 800 million instead of 800 thousand... Was very embarrassing and my friend was very surprised when I kept cussing in corp chat lol.

It turned out ok(ish) though, lesson learnt and I contacted the guy and he told me he'd return 300 million and keep the 500 million, which I was ok with seeing as I thought i'd lost 800 million. Had a laugh about it and all, named the Algos "EXPENSIVE AS ****"

an embarrassing story regardless, but seriously: put the cost tab PRIMARY in your market window.

Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic 0
Terran Jupiter Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic Likes received: 0	#55 - 2013-12-21 11:44:45 UTC I payed 730 million for a tec 1 Missile Launcher on 19th on December because the Market was spamed with players selling at those prices for some reason id did not click that it read 730 mil. Maybe eve should just make a maximum and Mimimum price for an Item it was painfull mistake that cost me £30.00.