EVE New Citizens Q&A

I made a thread about this in the Market Discussion forum but i also think it may serve as a good warning for new players getting into trade.

I started station trading a few weeks ago with capital i'd built up running missions. I don't really know a huge amount about trade in EvE but the player driven economy has always interested the number cruncher in me. I played with a few different modules and hulls to differing degrees of success but eventually found a few cheapy ones and one or two high value hulls. Did well on a Navy Dominix before noticing Bhaalgorns had a nice wide margin and had been both sold and bought once or twice over the past few days, a rare purchase but a great payoff when it happened thought i Well.. to cut a long story short when i edited the buy order this morning i failed to check the decimal had entered properly Literally a second after i confirmed the update my wallet flashed a big red number and it dawned on me what had happened a 245 Million ISK buy order had become a 2.4 Billion ISK buy order. I bought 1 Bhaalgorn for the price of 10 and my wallet went from 10 digits to about 200 Million ISK..

This isn't a complaint thread, rather the coming of a lesson i had always been aware could happen. I think it's something all newcomers must go through but man am i salty it happened on the Bhaalgorn

Hats off to the guy who sold me the golden Bhaalgorn, i'll be back... soon.. ish

Sorry for inflating the daily price of Bhaalgorns in Rens this morning

Care to explain? Not sure what you mean

Decimal places,
Super important.

Always double check.

Warning window might have been disabled. Many people disable it after it annoys them a few times.

If a buy order is posted that is higher than the lowest sell order, it is filled immediately at the buy order price. And yea, 5 minute lock.

It doesn't hurt to ask the seller for a refund. Be polite and offer a premium, since the main goal is to replenish capital, not make a profit. If the letter is polite enough, and they are in a good mood, they might give a refund.

If the letter is not polite, or if the don't refund and one complains, then the whole incident might appear in Crime and Punishment

I did mail the seller, asking if he might see it in his heart to send me 1B back of the 2.4B so i can try to trade my way back on top. Was hoping since it is literally all my trade capital he might take pity. As yet he has made no reply though, and i don't hold it against him

Thanks for the advice.

Sounds good. Just don't cry, or they will tease you to milk your tears. In this game, the community responds pretty well to players that own up to their own mistakes. Try not to sound like you're begging or it might trigger tear extraction.

Also, keep in mind that orders are up for 3 months time, which means the player might not even be active for a month or longer to read your email. Some people have trading alts that they only play when seeding the market.

Ouch, expensive lesson, OP. Thanks for sharing without crying about it. It will save some folks some troubles for sure.







lol

Don't trade when you're sleepy.

This game / these forums have a certain reputation for flaming people, but you've allbeen so nice Even on the market forum nobody made fun of me for throwing my ISK out the window

That's because you have the right attitude about it.

A lot of people post a whine that it's unfair and that the market interface must be changed to prevent this mistake in the future. Believe me, we flame those people.

By the way, the way the market works, the guy who happened to sell you the Bhaalghorn is probably as surprised as you were (though pleasantly). He just happened to have the cheapest price at the time; the market interface said "Oh you want to pay that much? Ok, I'll give it to the cheapest seller." The market always fulfills the best priced order that it can match, regardless of which one you click or how much money you put in (if it's more than enough).

Another trick is to not keep a lot of money on your main account; make an alt, keep your ISK reserves there. Although, this being your trading account, it makes sense why you had that much on it. But, "don't risk what you can't afford to lose", you may want to reserve half your capital using an alt, anyway. Or at least a few hundred million in case your market orders crash.