Market Discussions

I made my first big mistake on the market today, I was setting a buy order up to on the market today to buy some 200mm plates, I thought I typed in 30000 but some how ended up putting in 3000000, didn't notice this at first as the market and my wallet update at, by the time I noticed I found I had paid one guy a 108mil for 36 and to another guy I paid 49 mill for 23 of them, some others got some a few million out of me to by the time my keyboard mishap was over I lost 177 mil. Quite funny I thought, I have had the other way before some paid me 90 mil for some shuttles. But I was wondering what was the most any of you guys has lost on a similar typing mistake? I can't be the only one to do this am I , I will take a screen shot later of the wallet and attach it to this post for your amusement

I am normally really careful when I type in the amounts, I told my corp mates bout it they haven't stopped laughing at my mis fortune.

A couple of days ago I had the same **** up. It did cost me aproximately a PLEX. Bought close to 200 remote Large shield boosters for 4.5million ish instead of the 450k they buy order was supposed to be.


I chalk it up as lesson learned. I tried to contact the lucky "seller" if he would a least split the profit which would have left me with 400 millions of loss. Didn't work out. Internet spaceship is serious business

Since then I double check every order I change.

I sold 5 Ishkurs for 2.45 million each recently after derping on setting up a sell order.

Sent the guy whose regionwide order an EVEmail saying 'Good Fight'. They set a trap and got me; only 115m lost but it was an important reminder to me.

Well it's the day after and only managed to get 40 mill of my losses back, but did loose a mammoth in the process, a troublesome camper out side the station outside the station he didn't even give me chance to hold him to ransom ha ha. I can't work out how to attach the pic of the wallet took a screen shot but that's as far as my computer knowledge could take me ha.

That is a good one for the buyer.

I know people do it deliberately from time to time to manipulate the average price, but when someone sells me a Rorqual for 240 million ISK I know that's not the case :)

Sometimes people try to bargain when they do such thing, however this is not real life, but a virtual currency, so I don't do anything about it, plus I've made mistakes on my own. I think of it as a compensation - we all make such mistakes from time to time. You may screw up today, but someone will sell you something cheap in the future so you can call it even.

When they bargain with you, just send them a polite EVEmail saying 'Thank you for the good fight'. The market is PVP. Especially if a (basically) free Rorqual is involved.

I am *extremely* careful when I set up my market manipulation orders.

Several fat finger incidents.
4years ago my first one ~1.5b
until today several ~2b

I was close to have a really bad fat finger some months ago when i dabbled in the tag market, that kind of market is a good example as you trade in relative high numbers with relative high prices.
Like
buy 2000tags @400k =800m
but
buy 2000tags @40m =80b

I was lucky instead of fat fingering the 2000tags order i did it with a leftover one with 15tags. That was the hint i needed to reduce my cash on the active trading accounts, because if you don't have the funds to execute the order you are saved by game mechanics. At least partially ;)