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Selling to individual buy orders ???
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HuskyBear
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#1 - 2016-04-11 17:39:24 UTC
Hey guys I have a quick question. I have recently taken up inter trading and I am confused by the process.


For example I am trading from jita to amarr and I see 180 harpys selling in jita at 19,500,000 and buying in Amarr at 21,000,000

Great !!! But there are 4 other buyers in Amarr offering slightly higher prices but with low units so when I go to sell it's sells to these to these other buyers first and I get hit with a load of broker fees and transaction taxes ?

How do I stop these ? Or only sell to the one buyer who is selling the 180 units

Please help because the fees are killing me
Memphis Baas
#2 - 2016-04-11 18:06:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Memphis Baas
You always have to pay the transaction tax.

However, you can avoid the broker fee if you set the box that pops up when you right-click and "sell this item" to "Immediate."

However, you cannot pick which order you sell to, the market will always sell to (or buy from) the best priced order in that station.

So, for example, if there's an order for 55.00 isk and another for 58.00 isk, and you click the 58.00 isk order, it will actually sell/buy to the 55 isk guy but pay 58 isk. This is why people sit in station and modify their orders continuously by 0.01 isk to be the first order listed, because only the first order listed (best price) actually sells/buys.

So, bottom line, sort your Jita sellers' window by price, and sort your Amarr buyers' window by price. And only look at the cheapest seller and at the highest price buyer (top of the list). That's what you can trade at, with the "immediate" setting.

Otherwise, you can set up your own orders.

You can, for example, set up a BUY order in Jita to buy 180 Harpy at 19,000,000, and wait for the price to come down and / or people to sell to you at that price. Then in Amarr you can set up a sell order to sell your Harpies at 22,000,000, which will take a while because there are people offering better prices, but eventually the prices may change enough for you to get rid of them. With this setup you're paying tax AND transaction fee, on both ends. So when you take that into account at 1% and 1.5% (or whatever your skills and standings actually are), times 2x, maybe a price difference from 19 million to 21 million doesn't make it worth trading. Because taxes.