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Sperco Tibblets
Zelph Corporation
#1 - 2015-03-17 19:39:57 UTC
I haven't seen this covered elsewhere, so I appologize if this is a repeat topic. I am fairly new to Eve and I am even newer to trading. Last night I had two items to sell. I found a station that had it listed for 58,000,000 ISK. I got to the station, I carefully verified the price when I clicked the two items for sale, and I sold them.

They both sold for 16,000 ISK

I have no idea how I just lost 100,000,000 ISK. I just want to know what happened and how I can avoid this in the future. By the way, I really did carefully check the price at the time of sale and it really was listed for 58,000,000 ISK. I have seen others post about getting an error that the sale won't go through because the buyer doesn't have the funds. I got no error, just a sale for 16,000. I had to go into my journal of transactions to see what happened.

I am hoping that there is some stupid thing that I did that I can easily avoid in the future. Please help!
Tam Arai
Mi Pen Rai
#2 - 2015-03-17 20:02:17 UTC
Sperco Tibblets wrote:
I haven't seen this covered elsewhere, so I appologize if this is a repeat topic. I am fairly new to Eve and I am even newer to trading. Last night I had two items to sell. I found a station that had it listed for 58,000,000 ISK. I got to the station, I carefully verified the price when I clicked the two items for sale, and I sold them.

They both sold for 16,000 ISK

I have no idea how I just lost 100,000,000 ISK. I just want to know what happened and how I can avoid this in the future. By the way, I really did carefully check the price at the time of sale and it really was listed for 58,000,000 ISK. I have seen others post about getting an error that the sale won't go through because the buyer doesn't have the funds. I got no error, just a sale for 16,000. I had to go into my journal of transactions to see what happened.

I am hoping that there is some stupid thing that I did that I can easily avoid in the future. Please help!


for the high priced order, was there a minimum number required? if the had minimum of 3, then you would move to next buy order.

A window comes up to confirm selling items and for what price, always check before hitting yes
Sperco Tibblets
Zelph Corporation
#3 - 2015-03-17 20:08:02 UTC
That window is where I did my last check I'm sure it said 58,000,000 and then I clicked yes.

Could that window come up like that if there was a minimum number required, like you said?

Feoria Saissore
Evil League of Evil Corp
#4 - 2015-03-17 21:32:41 UTC
right click item > view market details (shows the current buy/sell for items) NEVER set sale time to immediate, that's how you get ripped off, instead set the item to the cheapest sell order by .01 isk and wait for it to sell.

Do this and you won't run into the same issue ever again.

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Sperco Tibblets
Zelph Corporation
#5 - 2015-03-18 02:45:44 UTC
Wait, Are you saying to sell for .01 is more or less than the cheapest sell order?

So if something is selling for 3000 ISK, are you saying to sell it for 3001 ISK and wait? Or sell for 2999 and make an immediate sale even though my settings are for not immediate?
Feoria Saissore
Evil League of Evil Corp
#6 - 2015-03-18 03:29:31 UTC
if the cheapest selling offer is 3000, then offer the item for 2999.99 you get your money out of it, it sell quickly because you have the cheapest item. This is how you play the market game. Buy for slightly higher than the competition, and sell it slightly lower. Most people are lazy and will just sell to the highest buyer and buy from the lowest seller to make life easier.

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Elizabeth Norn
Nornir Research
Nornir Empire
#7 - 2015-03-18 22:06:55 UTC
What item and which station was it?

If it said 58m in your 'create sell order' window then it will not sell below that number unless you late update the order ad lower the price.

Do you understand the difference between the top sellers panel and the buttom buyers panel on the market window?

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Bagatur I
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#8 - 2015-03-19 14:41:26 UTC
Tam Arai wrote:
Sperco Tibblets wrote:
I haven't seen this covered elsewhere, so I appologize if this is a repeat topic. I am fairly new to Eve and I am even newer to trading. Last night I had two items to sell. I found a station that had it listed for 58,000,000 ISK. I got to the station, I carefully verified the price when I clicked the two items for sale, and I sold them.

They both sold for 16,000 ISK

I have no idea how I just lost 100,000,000 ISK. I just want to know what happened and how I can avoid this in the future. By the way, I really did carefully check the price at the time of sale and it really was listed for 58,000,000 ISK. I have seen others post about getting an error that the sale won't go through because the buyer doesn't have the funds. I got no error, just a sale for 16,000. I had to go into my journal of transactions to see what happened.

I am hoping that there is some stupid thing that I did that I can easily avoid in the future. Please help!


for the high priced order, was there a minimum number required? if the had minimum of 3, then you would move to next buy order.

A window comes up to confirm selling items and for what price, always check before hitting yes


if he was selling for 58mil, and the 58mil order had minimum number of items, how can it go to the lower priced order? it would just say no match?
Bagatur I
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#9 - 2015-03-19 14:47:47 UTC
Sperco Tibblets wrote:
I haven't seen this covered elsewhere, so I appologize if this is a repeat topic. I am fairly new to Eve and I am even newer to trading. Last night I had two items to sell. I found a station that had it listed for 58,000,000 ISK. I got to the station, I carefully verified the price when I clicked the two items for sale, and I sold them.

They both sold for 16,000 ISK

I have no idea how I just lost 100,000,000 ISK. I just want to know what happened and how I can avoid this in the future. By the way, I really did carefully check the price at the time of sale and it really was listed for 58,000,000 ISK. I have seen others post about getting an error that the sale won't go through because the buyer doesn't have the funds. I got no error, just a sale for 16,000. I had to go into my journal of transactions to see what happened.

I am hoping that there is some stupid thing that I did that I can easily avoid in the future. Please help!


116 mil minus 16k is still almost 116mil, not 100 mil ISK.
Maybe they sold for 16 mil ISK (which would make your claim of 100mil ISK loss true), in which case maybe you forgot the "5" in the front of your price? :)

the market will not sell the item for the price below what YOU set! if your price it higher, it will not lower it down, it will just say that no match was found.
Garnoo
Eternity INC.
Goonswarm Federation
#10 - 2015-03-19 22:10:52 UTC
wasnt this a standard scam with margin trading skill? he saw good price on buy orders but when selling he got low price (because previous buyers had emoty wallet to cover it)

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