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Tarigal
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Posted - 2011.04.15 03:58:00 -
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Edited by: Tarigal on 15/04/2011 03:58:52
No real point to this post, so flame away if you like, but its a good lesson in NOT clicking that box that says "Are you sure you wish to sell this at %99.99 percent below region average?"
Best trade of the day by far, join me in a laugh.
Btw, I was on the BUYING end lol.
Edit: Let's make this post useful, anyone else have good stories of such awesomeness from the honest mistakes of another?
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Kei Darker
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Posted - 2011.04.15 04:04:00 -
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nice catch
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Roguehalo
Caldari
Roguehalo Ship Brokers
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Posted - 2011.04.15 08:03:00 -
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Crime and punishment is that way ---------->
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Shar Tegral
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Posted - 2011.04.15 08:38:00 -
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 Originally by: Tarigal
Edit: Let's make this post useful, anyone else have good stories of such awesomeness from the honest mistakes of another?
I probably do but I really don't pay that much attention. LaVista Vista used to live for such deals. I do remember that something like this did happen once though and the person was bold enough to evemail about making a correction. I did and we're still friends to this day!
Wealth, howsoever got, in Eve makes
Lords of morons and gentlemen of thieves;
Aptitude and intellect are needless here;
'Tis impudence and money that grants fame. |
Chainsaw Plankton
IDLE GUNS
IDLE EMPIRE
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Posted - 2011.04.15 20:02:00 -
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whats his face is always buying dreads/carriers for 1.4million, and then selling thrashers and whatnot for 700million.
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Lonely Island
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Posted - 2011.04.15 20:20:00 -
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lol I had a 20 stack of certain faction modules worth about 50 mil each in jita a couple of weeks ago, was about 2am and wasn't thinking clearly, so the entire stack goes up for 50 mil; contract gets accepted almost instantly and I learn a valuable lesson - don't play eve while tired.... 
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Klausan
GK inc.
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2011.04.15 20:20:00 -
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Silly goon, thats not billions
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Wyke Mossari
Gallente
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Posted - 2011.04.15 21:24:00 -
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A few weeks ago I was sold 100 Caldari hybrid decryptors at 600k each instead of the 6 million each of my buy order.
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Tehg Rhind
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Posted - 2011.04.15 21:28:00 -
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Don't have the exact contract but someone I know accidently listed his fitted/tricked out Nightmare in Jita for 3 mil. Was missing a couple zeros.....
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Tarigal
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Posted - 2011.04.15 22:33:00 -
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Originally by: Lonely Island
lol I had a 20 stack of certain faction modules worth about 50 mil each in jita a couple of weeks ago, was about 2am and wasn't thinking clearly, so the entire stack goes up for 50 mil; contract gets accepted almost instantly and I learn a valuable lesson - don't play eve while tired....
Ouch!
I like the 5.5 million jump freighter too. These are all pretty good
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UfoTRADER
Relentless Technologies
Quod Erat Demonstrandum
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Posted - 2011.04.15 23:50:00 -
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I had three chelm's cr's from a sold super cap and listed it for 5 or 6 billion, but didn't account for the STACK.
Needless to say I put expensive stuff in a different container now and only sell it while at work (and sober).... You live and you learn..
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Shar Tegral
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Posted - 2011.04.16 01:52:00 -
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Something that often needs repeating along with "Paranoia is good".
"Tab is your friend, enter is your enemy"
With the Eve UI enter most often confirms things and you'll find yourself quickly screwed. Tab on the other hand moves focus and for numeric entry fields "formatting" then gets applied and you can see disaster... and ok has not been pressed yet. So repeat after me:
"Tab is your friend, enter is your enemy"
Wealth, howsoever got, in Eve makes
Lords of morons and gentlemen of thieves;
Aptitude and intellect are needless here;
'Tis impudence and money that grants fame. |
Stealing Honest
Stealing Honest Speculation Group LLC
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Posted - 2011.04.16 02:20:00 -
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Originally by: Shar Tegral
Something that often needs repeating along with "Paranoia is good".
"Tab is your friend, enter is your enemy"
With the Eve UI enter most often confirms things and you'll find yourself quickly screwed. Tab on the other hand moves focus and for numeric entry fields "formatting" then gets applied and you can see disaster... and ok has not been pressed yet. So repeat after me:
"Tab is your friend, enter is your enemy"
This ^^^^ 100x over... THIS ^^^^^^^  .....  ......  ...... ..... .....
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Dethmourne Silvermane
Gallente
Northstar Cabal
R.A.G.E
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Posted - 2011.04.16 03:32:00 -
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I sold a number of t1 industrials lately in the 400 to 800 million isk range, does that count?
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Katie Tanaka
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Posted - 2011.04.16 08:16:00 -
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Originally by: Klausan
Silly goon, thats not billions
That's going to be a player-controlled station to which you're not going to have docking access. So you dash headlong to Deklein, accept the contract as soon as you hit the region jump (because you're reckoning that there're others on their way to take advantage of this mistake), but -- woe is you -- you're not able to dock at the station with your new JF. Your options are now limited to eating the loss or trying to find someone else who will fall for the same scam (cos you can bet that all players with access to the station are in on the deal).
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Guilliman R
Gallente
Northstar Cabal
R.A.G.E
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Posted - 2011.04.16 08:40:00 -
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Zeta Zhul
Caldari
Preemptive Paranoia
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Posted - 2011.04.16 13:33:00 -
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Jeesz.
And I thought I was doing pretty good getting 328m for a rifter. I can see now I'm working the shallow end of the Stupidity Pool.
Time to dive deeper! 
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Khanid Voltar
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Posted - 2011.04.16 14:18:00 -
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Edited by: Khanid Voltar on 16/04/2011 14:19:05
Originally by: Katie Tanaka
Originally by: Klausan
Silly goon, thats not billions
That's going to be a player-controlled station to which you're not going to have docking access. So you dash headlong to Deklein, accept the contract as soon as you hit the region jump (because you're reckoning that there're others on their way to take advantage of this mistake), but -- woe is you -- you're not able to dock at the station with your new JF. Your options are now limited to eating the loss or trying to find someone else who will fall for the same scam (cos you can bet that all players with access to the station are in on the deal).
I think you are missing the point:
A) If you can't access the station now then you have only spent 5.5m (oh noes, thats what 1 triple BS spawn at a belt?)
B) You can set up a remote contract sell order at the full (correct) price
and C) If you are absolutely desperate to have that JF then station ownership doesn't last forever and you may at some future point be able to get access.
Personally I'd just go for B and when it eventually sells laugh manically at my wallet / buy a new one in Jita.
edit - punctuation
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Hieronimus Rex
Minmatar
Infinitus Sapientia
New Eden Research.
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Posted - 2011.04.16 18:17:00 -
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Originally by: Guilliman R
How many contracts did you post before you got that one?
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Shar Tegral
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Posted - 2011.04.16 18:22:00 -
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Okay guys, you know posting images is bad m'kay? And quoting the images is um, bad squared. Let's keep this thread as Mod free as possible if we can.
Wealth, howsoever got, in Eve makes
Lords of morons and gentlemen of thieves;
Aptitude and intellect are needless here;
'Tis impudence and money that grants fame. |
Prad0r
Northstar Syndicate
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Posted - 2011.04.16 19:53:00 -
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c'mon Guilli tell the other half of the story...
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"Sir we're surrounded"
"Excellent, now we can attack in all directions" |
Guilliman R
Gallente
Northstar Cabal
R.A.G.E
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Posted - 2011.04.16 20:39:00 -
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It was my first scam contract, I wanted to see if this really works. I pretty much forgot about the contract after a week, until I saw my contract icon flash.. I nearly crapped myself when I realised a second later why it was flashing.
I don't really like it though, i even gave back 10b because I felt guilty <.<. I do sometimes make new ones now but they never work any more lol. Call it growing cynical and bitter over the years. I've stopped caring.
I used the money to buy pi mats at the PI expansion and cashed in a few months after 
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Brusanan
Sardaukar Merc Guild
General Tso's Alliance
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Posted - 2011.04.17 09:22:00 -
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Originally by: Katie Tanaka
that's going to be a player-controlled station to which you're not going to have docking access. So you dash headlong to Deklein, accept the contract as soon as you hit the region jump (because you're reckoning that there're others on their way to take advantage of this mistake), but -- woe is you -- you're not able to dock at the station with your new JF. Your options are now limited to eating the loss or trying to find someone else who will fall for the same scam (cos you can bet that all players with access to the station are in on the deal).
Confirming that I would be devastated if I were scammed into buying a JF at 1/1000 its value.
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Khanid Voltar
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Posted - 2011.04.17 09:49:00 -
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Originally by: Brusanan
Originally by: Katie Tanaka
that's going to be a player-controlled station to which you're not going to have docking access. So you dash headlong to Deklein, accept the contract as soon as you hit the region jump (because you're reckoning that there're others on their way to take advantage of this mistake), but -- woe is you -- you're not able to dock at the station with your new JF. Your options are now limited to eating the loss or trying to find someone else who will fall for the same scam (cos you can bet that all players with access to the station are in on the deal).
Confirming that I would be devastated if I were scammed into buying a JF at 1/1000 its value.
Confirming that if anyone wants to 'scam' me in this way please feel free to set up as many contracts as you like, I will fall for it every single time.
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Umad Ostus
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Posted - 2011.04.17 13:00:00 -
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"Someone bough 26k Fusion M from me today for 1.88b. Was kind of surprised to see my wallet that fat suddenly. 
Easy mistake though. Last night i accidentally put in two zeros too much in a buy order resulting in 108m brokers fee's costs. Ive also sold a viator for 107k instead of 107m once. Never lost 1.88b on a misclick though  "
Was posted in another thread
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Hori To
Masuat'aa Matari
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Posted - 2011.04.17 13:46:00 -
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buying overpriced stuff is sort of the same as forgetting session change when burning back to a gate etc. mistakes happen. |
Xtreem
Gallente
Knockaround Guys Inc.
Sin City Coalition
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Posted - 2011.04.17 14:09:00 -
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sold 1k missiles for 168mil
seem someone was trying to mess with the region averages, so buy orders were very high, guessing someone had fallen for it to push up his wallet enough to cover the buy orders, that was a nice one. not a huge amount but seeing as i was looking at a few hundred k, it made me smile :)
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Mister Rocknrolla
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Posted - 2011.04.17 15:51:00 -
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Originally by: Guilliman R
It was my first scam contract, I wanted to see if this really works. I pretty much forgot about the contract after a week, until I saw my contract icon flash.. I nearly crapped myself when I realised a second later why it was flashing.
Similar experience. Sitting in Amarr waiting for a skill to wind up so that I could fly a ship out...watching all of the scam contracts...I put up an Imperial Navy Bestower for 700m and linked the contract in local. It was gone in 30sec. Made me a bit ill that such things work so quickly...had to leave hisec out of fear of addiction.
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Tarigal
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Posted - 2011.04.17 16:04:00 -
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Another satisfied customer!
Seriously though, I am not scamming people, these are legit orders. Not sure how someone accidentally puts in 350 million for a 60 million item.
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Shar Tegral
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Posted - 2011.04.17 17:10:00 -
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Originally by: Tarigal
Seriously though, I am not scamming people, these are legit orders. Not sure how someone accidentally puts in 350 million for a 60 million item.
Because what he wanted to type was a buy order for 35,156,999.04. (Assumption but I think a fair one!) Ooopsie  Another person who doesn't say, "Tab is your friend, enter is the enemy."
Wealth, howsoever got, in Eve makes
Lords of morons and gentlemen of thieves;
Aptitude and intellect are needless here;
'Tis impudence and money that grants fame. |
Netheranthem
Eve Engineering Finance
Eve Engineering
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Posted - 2011.04.17 20:40:00 -
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Edited by: Netheranthem on 17/04/2011 20:40:52
Originally by: Katie Tanaka
Originally by: Klausan
Silly goon, thats not billions
That's going to be a player-controlled station to which you're not going to have docking access. So you dash headlong to Deklein, accept the contract as soon as you hit the region jump (because you're reckoning that there're others on their way to take advantage of this mistake), but -- woe is you -- you're not able to dock at the station with your new JF. Your options are now limited to eating the loss or trying to find someone else who will fall for the same scam (cos you can bet that all players with access to the station are in on the deal).
WTB any amount of JFs at 50 millions. Contract now.
You're probably underestimating how easy it is to get in an alliance / conquer stations.
And deklein? I guess you said it wouldn't be accessible. Recruitment policies there would let any awoxer get through. Though they'll kick you for being a JF pilot if you dare show it to them, since they think JF pilots are spies, cept for the ones that are already there :D
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