EVE New Citizens Q&A

iv been playing/distracting myself from my dissertation for a few weeks now and iv started to play around with the market. while it seems obvious how sell orders work i don't understand why anyone would bother to fulfill a buy order? i mean your just going to lose profit? i know its a bit faster but is that really so much of an issue? there must be something im missing here?

also it might be obvious that im not doing economics at uni haha! :P

Sometimes the difference between buy and sell prices is very small. Setting up a sell order involves broker fees, selling to a buy order doesn't. Sell orders can sit for days, weeks, even months without actually being sold.

If it's a difference between 1 million now and 1.1 million at most (because you may have to drop the price) that may take a few days to be sold, why would you not sell to the buy order.

Edit: Oh, and there's a maximum number of outstanding orders that you can have. So if you do have 200 different items you want to sell, you've got a choice between putting up batches of sell orders, watching them and changing them all the time, repeat until you've managed to get all 200 up on the market and tossing them all to buy orders and being done with it.

Time isn't free.

All of the above; plus, occasionally, you'll get an unbelievably good deal on a buy order. Always check them.

lol and my avatar didnt give it away already? :P i was actually quite successful in making it look just like me. although my Mohawk has grown out now :(

See also: Opportunity Cost

The answers in this thread is the reason traders are filthy rich, and is the only worth thing doing for isk.

C6 inhabitants might disagree.

no, it's the highest class of wormhole system, where the big boys live. check out the wormhole forum or google 'eve capital escalations' for more info.

For what it is worth, in a C5 system with 8 combat + 2 salvage/hacking/archeology ships + 1 booster ship controlled by only 4 people, we averaged 750 million to 1.1 billion each per 4 hour evening, largely depending on site availability (sites with T3 hull artifacts > combat-only sites), and how many times we wanted to roll our static outbound C5 wormhole (time consuming).

We used remote rep Tengu Strategic Cruisers with passive resists. They cost 1.2 billion ISK each. The corp paid for any replacements if there were losses. We lost 2 of them to unexpected PvP (they forgot to bookmark the wormhole home), and about 3 to carelessness while doing sites, and 1 to a POS with an attitude problem. The corp maintained an emergency fund of 2.5 billion ISK per member.

We didn't bother doing C6 very often, as their sites have a lot more sub-battleship Sleepers, and the battleships are more profitable when you have limited ships and time. Being able to do 4 capital escalations (triggering one wave at a time: Chimera, Revelation, Revelation, Chimera) in our own C5 system was more profitable, and safer, than doing 1 capital escalation in a neighboring C5 or C6.

It took me 2 ships to clear C5 and C6 mining and gas sites, but that was not for the squeamish: the first ship warped-in alone to get all aggro, especially neuts, and couldn't rep until the second ship arrived moments later, to avoid both ships getting neuted.

We found we could do C4 sites with 4 ships controlled by 2 people, but they were so incredibly easy that it was hard to stay awake.

C3 and below could be done with 1-2 people in T2 fitted battlecruisers or battleships.

Time is money. $100 million right now is better than $110 million next week.

Also, you have a limited number of orders you can put on the market. If you have not trained trading skills, a VERY limited number of orders. If you have 200 stacks of loot it would take you years to sell it all with sell orders.