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Contract - Buy order scam?
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Killertox
Unforeseen Consequences.
Valkyrie Alliance
#1 - 2011-09-17 18:41:34 UTC
Just wondering what experiences you guys have.

I was the victim of someone putting up a contract and when i checked the buy orders for the ithems the ithem had a buy order for 50% more. so i accepted contract and emidiatly clicked sell ithem but then the buy order was retracted. This must be a really risky scam, if you turn youre eyes away from the screen for even a few seconds you risk getting scammed youreself... Must say this is one of the better scams i encounterd..
Chevalleis
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2011-09-17 18:44:23 UTC
Margin trade. Also, I bought 6 Quafe Ultra for 25m.
Killertox
Unforeseen Consequences.
Valkyrie Alliance
#3 - 2011-09-17 18:52:59 UTC
Ok you clearly cant utilize youre 2 brains cells can you. Read what i wrote


Scenario was


Ithems exchange contract for a station construction part and some other random stuff for 900 mill


when i checked the market for the statio construction part there where a buy order for 1.4 billion


same second i accepted the contract the buy order vanished i.e the guy having contract had the buy order up to scam ppl

hope this was more clear for you
Kethas Protagonist
Protagonist Ventures
#4 - 2011-09-17 18:59:07 UTC
Google "eve online margin trading scam". The toon he used to put up the buy order didn't have enough isk in his wallet to cover the purchase, so when you tried to sell, it auto-cancelled.

You got a snarky reply because this pops up here on MD a few times every week.

Nothing to see here, folks, move along.
Chevalleis
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2011-09-17 19:11:38 UTC
Killertox wrote:
Ok you clearly cant utilize youre 2 brains cells can you. Read what i wrote


Scenario was


Ithems exchange contract for a station construction part and some other random stuff for 900 mill


when i checked the market for the statio construction part there where a buy order for 1.4 billion


same second i accepted the contract the buy order vanished i.e the guy having contract had the buy order up to scam ppl

hope this was more clear for you


That would mean that the scammer is an idiot. Like you, since You accepted a contract that had a buy order for 50% more. Did it never occur to you that the contractor might retract the contract itself if he would notice a better chance to sell it off? Even more so, as you probably didn't check the item's price history to see what the usual price for that particular item was.
Kesshisan
#6 - 2011-09-17 19:25:17 UTC
Killertox wrote:
Ok you clearly cant utilize youre 2 brains cells can you. Read what i wrote


The correct reply was "Margin Trading."

Also could you please stop being rude? It makes other believe that EvE is full of rude people and we don't want the rest of the world thinking this.
Zeta Zhul
Preemptive Paranoia
#7 - 2011-09-17 19:47:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Zeta Zhul
Google is your friend. Google "eve online market scams" and then have a good time reading.

Oh and while you're at it please read "Goonswarm recruiting scams" just in case you weren't aware of those either.

Frankly hardly a week passes without someone coming on MD and screaming about being scammed in one way or another. Maybe I'm the only one who searches Google for past scams to avoid. Wish more people would do so though because recurring threads like this frankly clutter up the joint.

edit: 3 likes? 3!? WTF? What am I? Chopped liver?
Serene Python
#8 - 2011-09-17 19:49:58 UTC
Killertox wrote:
Ok you clearly cant utilize youre 2 brains cells can you. Read what i wrote


If you're going to go around insulting peoples intelligence why don't you actually type in an intelligent manner? Spellcheck is your best friend and using capitalization when you begin a sentence, believe it or not, actually goes a long way once it becomes habit.

Maybe when you get to highschool you can start discussing biology, kay?
flakeys
Doomheim
#9 - 2011-09-18 07:52:07 UTC
Killertox wrote:
Ok you clearly cant utilize youre 2 brains cells can you.



Says the guy who just got burned buy a well known scam , irony dude? Roll


We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Rita's Mammon
New.Lab.Era
#10 - 2011-09-18 09:10:14 UTC
Kethas Protagonist wrote:
Google "eve online margin trading scam". The toon he used to put up the buy order didn't have enough isk in his wallet to cover the purchase, so when you tried to sell, it auto-cancelled.

You got a snarky reply because this pops up here on MD a few times every week.

Nothing to see here, folks, move along.


I think we play different EVE.
When u place BUY ORDERDS your cash is already taken, u can get it back when u DELETE the BUY ORDER..
Jagga Spikes
Spikes Chop Shop
#11 - 2011-09-18 09:54:39 UTC
Rita's Mammon wrote:
Kethas Protagonist wrote:
Google "eve online margin trading scam". The toon he used to put up the buy order didn't have enough isk in his wallet to cover the purchase, so when you tried to sell, it auto-cancelled.

You got a snarky reply because this pops up here on MD a few times every week.

Nothing to see here, folks, move along.


I think we play different EVE.
When u place BUY ORDERDS your cash is already taken, u can get it back when u DELETE the BUY ORDER..


we indeed play different EVE, because i always get money back from canceled buy order.
flakeys
Doomheim
#12 - 2011-09-18 09:58:41 UTC
Rita's Mammon wrote:
Kethas Protagonist wrote:
Google "eve online margin trading scam". The toon he used to put up the buy order didn't have enough isk in his wallet to cover the purchase, so when you tried to sell, it auto-cancelled.

You got a snarky reply because this pops up here on MD a few times every week.

Nothing to see here, folks, move along.


I think we play different EVE.
When u place BUY ORDERDS your cash is already taken, u can get it back when u DELETE the BUY ORDER..



Allways nice just like the OP -probably an alt as such - when you play the smartass and kinda look like the dumbass ....

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
malaire
#13 - 2011-09-18 11:41:27 UTC
Rita's Mammon wrote:

I think we play different EVE.
When u place BUY ORDERDS your cash is already taken, u can get it back when u DELETE the BUY ORDER..

Yes, cash is taken into escow unless you have Margin Trading skill. In that case only some of the cash is taken into escrow and the rest is taken from wallet when someone sells to that order. If there is not enough cash in wallet when someone tries to sell to that order, then that buy order will just disappear.

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Cyniac
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2011-09-19 11:43:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Cyniac
Rita's Mammon wrote:
I think we play different EVE.
When u place BUY ORDERDS your cash is already taken, u can get it back when u DELETE the BUY ORDER..


Given that it is false statements such as this which perpetuate this kind of scam one must wonder what your intentions are in putting such emphasis on this disseminating this information.

Margin trading - read about it. It has already been explained here.


And yes - we most definitely play a different EVE.
Brock Nelson
#15 - 2011-09-19 14:05:31 UTC
OP is stupid, don't feed him

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Hokala
Perkone
Caldari State
#16 - 2011-09-19 16:16:26 UTC
It is simple, if you are selling something to a buy order and it has a minimum number required. 99.99% of the time it is a scam.