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Amelia Libbon
Gallente University of Caille
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Posted - 2010.07.19 18:01:00 -
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So I am new to Eve and decided to give trading a shot. Found a great deal and thought I was going to make about 500k for only 6 jumps. Bought the stuff, went to go pick it up, and found out that my cargo can only fit 1k of the 50k I bought. Doh! Im frustrated and just wanted to share. Live and learn I suppose :).
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Taross
Caldari People with Guns Initiative Mercenaries
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Posted - 2010.07.19 18:48:00 -
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I like the way you seem to be dealing with this... Others might've whined or cried, you just share your mistake in this forum to possibly help other new people avoid similar stuff. That's the kind of attitude that'll get you far in EVE.
Another common way to lose money trading early on is to accidentally buy stuff in lowsec, then lose both your ship and your new cargo. This can easily be avoided by setting up your market screen so it doesn't show orders in lowsec, but that's not immediately obvious...
And, well, we all lose ISK learning lessons. The ones that sting a little are the ones you're most likely to remember, though. Your signature exceeds the maximum allowed dimensions of 400x120 pixels and filesize of 24000 bytes -Sahwoolo Etoophie |
Darunia Goron
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Posted - 2010.07.20 04:31:00 -
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I did exactly this myself when I first started out and thought I wanted to do trading, except I was in a frigate at the time (granted it was an Imicus, the Gallente "cargo frig" with a 320 m3 hold). Fortunately for me, it was a lucky strike on an in-system NPC trade; 50-something round-trips between stations later I'd finally moved my haul and then discovered my next mistake:
The buy order I was selling to had a quantity of roughly 1/4 what I'd just spent more than an hour hauling to the station!
Fortunately for me it was an NPC buy order and immediately re-appeared, albeit at a lower price. Long story short, I still managed to come out of that mess with some profit, however much less than I'd expected to make. I learned that day to always check my ship's hold and the quantity on any orders I buy from/sell to!
In the end I decided trading wasn't for me and used my (not insubstantial) profits to get a good head start on what has turned out to be a rather lucrative solo mining career. I still dabble in trade and make a fair profit at it, but I consider myself a miner first and trader third.
Welcome to EVE, and don't let the mistakes you make early in your career discourage you -- because there will be a lot of them! You've got exactly the right attitude here -- a little bit of self-deprecating humor and an attitude of "oh well, live and learn" -- and if you stick to that I'm sure you'll find your place in this game and have a long and lucrative career. Hit me up in-game if you want some of my wisdom -- I'll be happy to share!
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Baka Kurupa
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Posted - 2010.07.21 15:12:00 -
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As a relatively new miner myself, I had no idea you could filter out low and null sec orders from the market screen. (Just never thought about it to be honest). This thread and two clicks probably just saved me countless combined hours checking the sec status of every unknown system when selling my minerals.
Thanx forums o7
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Abdiel Kavash
Caldari Paladin Order Fidelas Constans
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Posted - 2010.07.21 16:36:00 -
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Originally by: Baka Kurupa As a relatively new miner myself, I had no idea you could filter out low and null sec orders from the market screen. (Just never thought about it to be honest). This thread and two clicks probably just saved me countless combined hours checking the sec status of every unknown system when selling my minerals.
Thanx forums o7
Exactly the opposite here. For about half a week after my corp moved out to 0.0, I was wondering where all the market orders everyone was talking about were.
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