Market Discussions

I sold a battleship BPO for 2 million instead of 2 billion. The end.

The other day I got mad because I successfully sold a Mastadon for 160k.

Not nearly as annoying as when, LESS THAN FIVE MINUTES LATER, I sold another transport ship (whatever the Amarr one is) for like 90k ISK.

I made a killing, for me, the last week on tengus. Last night sold almost 30 for 90m above what I consider a stable price for them. You have to love it when null groups decide to make new doctrines and buy all the trade hubs out. It would appear though that they are coming down to more stable levels, below 200m, but maybe someone else needs more of them.

My hat is off to you.

My most recent one:

http://i.imgur.com/tlouMMh.jpg

Zydrine was purchased between 400 - 600 isk per unit and Megacyte between 700 - 1000 isk per unit

Another one from a market I have now exited.

When the null mining changes were announced, I missed the boat on Zydrine/Megacyte. I wasn't able to log in for the 12 hours before the market reacted, and so couldn't get in at the ground floor.

But I noticed the changes affected Morphite as well, in a very roundabout way. Pre-change, mining morphite was a chore done in order to 'finish' an anomaly, and as a result a lot of Morphite was produced as an unwanted byproduct of more profitable mining operations. Morphite thus paid a lower ISK/hr rate than other ores in null.

But with the changes, the incentive to do this was gone, and most mining of morphite is now done by people that intentionally set out to mine morphite. Considering this, I expected morphite to hit 11000 ISK - the level needed for morphite mining in a Procurer to be on-par with ABC mining in a Retriever.

As such, I assessed that morphite had room to rise a lot in price. I bought a little under a million units at 6600 ISK. I wish I'd bought more, but I wasn't *quite* certain enough of my read on the supply dynamics to borrow the money needed to buy more.

I sold some of that morphite at 10k but most at 12.4k. (Some was used for production, but I consider that to be sold to my production efforts at the then-present market price).

It's on topic - win or lose. I just think it's interesting for people to know that marketeers are actually doing stuff. (Stuff less boring than the standings grinding I've been doing for the past two days.)

It varies, but we're talkinga bout probably (generally) making something like less than 1m per item, on items spread across a region, usually no more than 10 items (in 1-2 qty ea stacks) in any given station.

I do this often if and only if my goal is to lower prices in the hub for a buyup.

If Light Neutron Blaster IIs get to 440000.00 on buy orders in a hub, I might well post a few at 440000.01 across the region in bad locations, and put up a massive buy order at the same price in the hub station. Goal is people see 'ooh, cheapest order in the region is 440000.01 and there's ten different orders, better 0.01 ISK them all'.

Doesn't work well on modules. Does work well with other goods.

Sometimes I'll price my stuff lower again - that just means I'm lazy or out of contract slots, and I want someone to buy it from me and haul it to the hub for me.

i once bought a JF for 6.8b and resold it for 7.6b 8 hours later :)

made much more on other deals, but this is one of my favorites