Tesal
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Posted - 2009.07.25 16:28:00 -
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I do it all the time. Its a response to .01 is warfare. The more people who are doing .01 is warfare, the more likely that item is to get shock therapy. If I am interested in staying in that market segment I will try to kill off some of the competition. When I can neither buy, nor sell something, thats a problem for me when I am trying to trade. Also, the more people who are doing .01 isk wars, the easier that item is to manipulate, because I can force you to give me your stuff for free. Are you a stupid moron for doing this? I guess I don't have an answer for that.
Another reason I do it is because I don't like trading items at 4,563,276.83 or something like that. I like a nice simple round number, so I might round it up or down to the top 2, 3 or 4 digits. When you think about it, I could raise some things a 500 times with 4 digits before it might make any real difference in the price on some items.
I also deleted the decimel point once when selling stuff, and it left me traumatized, so I avoid them usually. I think I am less error prone when I use nicely rounded numbers.
Sometimes I get bored and make patterns in market graphs for fun. I have also tried to buy everything just to see if I can do it with some things. I don't make isk, but I have wrecked markets for months like that. I like to make nice smooth lines and then bounce them up and down, or sometimes chaos. It makes me happy.
In my mind, its also better for me to take a 5% profit with higher volume, than a 50% profit that I can take in theory but never sell anything. In some cases I will reduce the profit to negative and buy up stock too. I do it intentionally. This also has the benefit of causing people to freak out and dump stock, so I can buy it back. I am a firm believer in never buying into a market where I am above mineral cost for trade, I will do it for other reasons though.
I also buy sometimes for pvp ops where I need to get certain things I don't trade in, or have run out of a few things I need to do something. In those cases, its not about profit, its about getting the items I need in a couple of days at a decent price. So I might buy 30 of this or 50 of that in ways where I am certain to get a better price than the sell orders. I am perfectly willing to run the price all the way up to the sell orders. Some people are really dumb and don't understand that not everyone who puts up buy orders is a trader. A good trader always knows the break point on an item. I purposely go above that to avoid .01 isk competition.
You seem like a nice enough guy, I am sorry if this offends you. Well. Actually I am not sorry. But I will benefit if you stop trading, so I have a keen interest in wrecking your world I guess.
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