EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi all,

A new player here. Started making some money by mining. And when I was trying to sell, I was confused with sellers and buyers parts of the market screen.
I understand the sellers part, I think. However, how do I sell to a specific buyer? Whenever I double click a buyer, still a "Buy item" window pops up, not "Sell item", just like when I click a seller. I thought I had to be at the buyer's station, so I warped there, but still could figure it out :(.
Please help!

I kinda suspected that after reading more about the market system in EVE. If you place a sell order in the same system, it is automatically sold to a buyer in that system. I thought that maybe it was like a direct player to player deal with no broker fee and tax involved :).
Thanx for confirmation.

The buy sell orders are pretty straightforward once you know them. Sell orders are from the people selling an item, they name their price and the item is held in leiu until someone buys it at that price or the duration of the sell order runs out. Buy orders are people sayining they want to buy the item at a price they specify. Their money is held in leiu again, until someone sells to them at that price or the order expires.
If you r-click - sell an item it will generally be sold to the highest buy order available to you in the station the item is in. Likewise, buying an item will charge you for the lowest sell order price in the station you are in or the nearest station if there are none for se where you are. If you look on the market the 'range' of buy and sell orders can be important. Look at the highest buy price and where they buy from. All regional buy orders will be displayed but only those in green are within range to buy from your current location. When selling an item the range can be important; the best buy orders may not be buying from the station where your goods are and so you will lose money selling it there. Just as you'd go a couple of jumps to save a couple of mil on a cruiser.
If you want to name your own price then instead of selling to the highest bidder in range, sell the item and click advaced in the sale menu. Then you can pick your price and the duration of your sell order. This is often the better plan if there's a large gap between the lowest sell order and the highest buy order at your location. R-clickselling is easy and quick but sometimes you will get ripped off. Hope this makes sense and good luck!

If you set the duration to "Immediate", you will be able to sell without paying a broker fee. But you always pay the sales tax.

IIRC in the simple view (where you don't see a duration), it's always "immediate".

good explanation - the only factor that wasnt mentioned is range.

you can only sell to buyers IF their buy orders are with range of your goods., otherwise it goes to the highest within range.

very often the well-paying buy orders will have limited range, like one system, one station, or 2-3 jumps (seller get lower price for not having to deliver their goods to market.

some of the worst paying buy orders are region wide; convenience of being able to sell from any station and making the buyer roam the region scooping up his purchases commands lower prices.

Thanks for tip about immediate sell. In my case, by default a sell order is set to 1 day, so I wouldnt have know without this information.
Now I am a little confused about range...
Is there range for sell orders? Or when I buy something, it always appears at that station and I have to go there to pick it up?
And if range for a buy order is wider than station, then I can sell to it from anywhere within the range, even if it may be a few jumps away from the station where the buy order was originated?

The above posts are incorrect. Yes, you sell to the highest bidder, but you buy from whomever you click on. So it is possible to pay above the lowest price.

If shuttles are selling for 12k and 120k and 1.2M Don't click on the 1.2M and select buy..

If you want to sell to someone directly, meet them in a station or use contracts.

--edit double checked just in case since everyone else was saying something different.. I selected1 unit of Mexallon at 120 even though there were orders selling for 70, 70, and 68 at station. My transaction history shows a deduction of 120 not 68.

If you ever wondered why people had stuff priced stupid high on the market, now you know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrjwaqZfjIY

You will buy from the cheapest order, just at the higher price.




If you purchased from the 1.2M order, you would end up paying 1.2M to the person who was selling them at 12K. The person selling them at 1.2M would still get nothing (unless they're the same person with two different orders, which is possible).

Yes, and you bought one unit of mex from the guy who was asking 68, paying him 120 isk. Look at the quantites of the orders before and after, the one at 68 is the one that dropped by 1 unit, not the one at 120.

I've several times been the cheapest sell order in the station and had someone do what you did, buying an item from me for far more than I was asking.

While I appreciate the correction about the item transfer, no one addressed overpaying by clicking on a different order. The post you made above only mentioned accidental overpayment when entering prices.

I wanted to make clear that clicking on a random station buy order would not always net the lowest price. Which is how the posts above read, intentional or not.

Specifically comments like:

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