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Blind Paul
unholy alliance
#1 - 2012-06-05 14:41:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Blind Paul
Item on market 400mil. Buy orders under, one for 800mil. I'm rich, so I buy to test. Re selling nets 8mil when 800mil buy orders are out there?

Explain? I'm not fussed about the isk, I only have interest in why such a thing happens and can I exploit it to become uber rich?

Buy order requests 1 item not lots
Princess Strawberry
#2 - 2012-06-05 14:45:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Princess Strawberry
I can't tell exactly what you mean from your post, but I strongly suspect this is the good old Margin Trading scam.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=105236&find=unread

And if that wasn't what you meant, then maybe it's of interest to you anyway to exploit it and become uber-rich Big smile

EDIT: probably not actually since margin trade scams usually have some large minimum amount, and also it seems from your post that you did not have the item left at the end of it. Well, maybe someone else has a better idea.

http://eveonomics.blogspot.co.uk/
Blind Paul
unholy alliance
#3 - 2012-06-05 14:50:45 UTC
I thought it was that at first, but nope. Very strange, anyway I just put back on market for 400mil and it sold within seconds of me spamming lol. I think it may have been a glitch with my UI, very interesting anyway. thank you for input
Lauren Hellfury
Super Happy Awesome Fun Times
#4 - 2012-06-05 15:17:46 UTC
it was the margin trade scam and you just passed the crap onto someone else. That buy-order at 800 had a min-qty greater than 1. That's why it only offered you 8m when you tried to sell despite the 800m order still being there.

Got lucky there boyo

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Fremi Masag
FGC Inc.
#5 - 2012-06-05 15:36:22 UTC
I'm new to the game but have very quickly learned a popular real life saying applies in eve. "If it's too good to be true..."


Or maybe we can change it to, "If it's too good to be true, it's probably a market scam."
Blind Paul
unholy alliance
#6 - 2012-06-05 19:32:30 UTC
+1
David Forge
GameOn Inc.
#7 - 2012-06-05 19:48:22 UTC
If it's a post asking about a weird market glitch 99% of the time it is the margin trading scam. I don't condone botting, but if I did, a bot that would paste a link to the margin trading scam guide to these threads as soon as they're up it would be of some utility.
malaire
#8 - 2012-06-07 06:10:41 UTC
Some margin trading scammers use min quantity = 1. So it was probably that.

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Anya Ohaya
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#9 - 2012-06-07 23:49:16 UTC
Blind Paul wrote:
I thought it was that at first, but nope. Very strange, anyway I just put back on market for 400mil and it sold within seconds of me spamming lol. I think it may have been a glitch with my UI, very interesting anyway. thank you for input


There's a sucker born every minute.

In this case, two.