Current price dip is just market manipulation, if you have any sense you'll just buy up their underpriced minerals and troll them a little. I already did this last night, and had one of them private convo and ask me to stop so he could continue trying to force the price to drop.
Me being an absolute douchebag, I refused and bought a little bit more just to troll him. Chat logs for anyone interested:
Quote:[ 2012.05.02 02:27:12 ] Simi Kusoni > ?
n++[ 2012.05.02 02:27:50 ] x > hi
n++[ 2012.05.02 02:27:58 ] x > how you doing moneybags?
n++[ 2012.05.02 02:28:31 ] x > or maybe not so much now, lol
n++[ 2012.05.02 02:28:48 ] Simi Kusoni > not bad thank you, although I'd say you certainly have quite a bit of isk yourself since I just bought a bit of zydrine off you :)
n++[ 2012.05.02 02:29:06 ] x > I bought it at 700
n++[ 2012.05.02 02:29:13 ] x > you bought it at double what I paid
n++[ 2012.05.02 02:29:29 ] Simi Kusoni > Aye, I have quite a bit too. Been buying zydrine and morphite since january :)
n++[ 2012.05.02 02:29:55 ] x > you might want to let the market crash for a bit before you buy it all up
n++[ 2012.05.02 02:30:10 ] Simi Kusoni > market started to raise, so I bought it up
n++[ 2012.05.02 02:30:10 ] x > I mean c'mon, this downward trend will be temporary
n++[ 2012.05.02 02:30:24 ] Simi Kusoni > Plus I'm off to bed, so won't be able to mess with market for another day or so :P
n++[ 2012.05.02 02:30:30 ] x > dude, the people with the money make the market
n++[ 2012.05.02 02:30:50 ] x > right now, you're a normalizing trend and that isn't good
n++[ 2012.05.02 02:31:09 ] Simi Kusoni > Aye, I'd have let morph and zydrine keep spiralling down if I wasn't about to log off for a few days :)
n++[ 2012.05.02 02:31:13 ] x > people can't make money off of the peaks and valleys if more people like you keep doing this
n++[ 2012.05.02 02:31:31 ] x > yeah I don't believe you
n++[ 2012.05.02 02:31:36 ] x > well take care
n++[ 2012.05.02 02:31:41 ] Simi Kusoni > I'm not particularly bothered
n++[ 2012.05.02 02:31:44 ] x > thanks for the isk
n++[ 2012.05.02 02:31:44 ] Simi Kusoni > fly safe o7
If you go down the list of sell orders in jita atm they're still trying to do it, or maybe different people now. Same guy is responsible for almost all the sell orders, and he is undercutting himself repeatedly by a considerable margin and posting loads of Zydrine in small bunches.
Bad attempt at market manipulation is bad. Wonder how much these guys lost. Also, morphite lowest sold is 1,000 ISK this morning? Someone selling a bit to themselves to try and lower the average, or did they really put some up at such a ******** price?