Market Discussions

Definitely not always as hilarious though.

I lose a lot of ships too. I never said I was good at eve. Eve is easy when you have no job.

apparently I didn't make it clear enough, which means his metaphor will probably escape you too.


if every warning is lit up like fukushima to warn you that it was created with margin trading and might be a scam, they might as well not be lit up at all

the man has a point the game should require you to pass such advanced tests as 2+2= ??? and "the sky is blue y/n" before allowing you to do something as dangerous as buy something off the market

Dude where did you read in my post that I said this should NOT be allowed?
I said people should be AWARE not, kill this game mechanic.

Gank, loot, steal, whatever have fun hopefully while doing it, I'm just not sure how you read this as STOP MARGIN TRADING.

I never said that.

good thing I was talking to someone who did then! while you're the center of attention in this thread, you're not it's only participant; please stop trying to insert yourself into the civil discussion Liberty Eternal & I had back on the first page.

And if the buy order can't cover the funds, it fails, the person who placed it loses their broker fee with no payoff, and you get to simply sell to another buy order. You're out nothing! Other than, of course, the difference between the real market value of the products you purchased and the overly high amount you paid due to not doing proper market research.

I reiterate: What if the buy order had been totally, 100% legit, but it was just a matter of somebody getting to it right before you? What if somebody else had made that ridiculous profit, leaving you hanging with goods bought at too high a price? How would you know the difference? Would it still be a scam?

The point being that the one thing you can control in all of this is your decision to purchase those products. If you don't buy them, then the scam never happens. That is the power you have over this situation. It's quite a lot of power, when you think about it. The funny thing is that, psychologically, everyone who falls for this scam knows that the profit potential is in "too good to be true" territory. That's why they buy the overpriced stuff, because they think "Oh, this is too good, a once-in-a-lifetime chance to roll over that mission dough!" What I'm going to tell you now, and what I think everybody has implicitly been telling you here, is that, if you have that feeling, that is a major, major, major red flag. Immediately go to EVE-Central or get an in-game price check on the goods in question. Because more often than not, the fishiness will reveal itself as flat-out scam bait.

I'm sorry that you got scammed. Really, I am. But chalk it up as a lesson learned. You must run some sort of due diligence when you come upon seemingly tasty situations like that.

Has anyopne ever told you that your avatar looks just like Grand Moff Tarkin?

He blew up right?

Thanks everyone liked that movie!