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Crookies ClawBone
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Posted - 2011.08.18 13:32:00 -
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Edited by: Crookies ClawBone on 18/08/2011 13:32:52 As the title says guys im getting anoied with other traders crashing markets i operate in.
Is it sheer stupidity or some kind of clever manipulation.
For example when selling an item in the undreds for about 800000isk profit (the difference between buy orders and sell orders) somewon comes in and lists 400 of the item at 350000isk profit. Now 350000 is still significant profit so every other trader just accepts there going be making less and 0.01's the idiot.
But what i ask is why are people so stupid, listing the item 450000isk cheaper doesnt mean they will sell more often with this item and i dont think he farmed the item because they were listed in a stack of exactly 400 which smells like a trader you set a 400 buy order. Also farming 400 of this particular item isnt really possible, in a similar way to implants there is no real way to farm them so to get a quantity of 400 it has to be from a buy order.
So i ask why this idiot shoots himself in the foot and loses 550000*400=220million.
If he bought the item from other trade hubs for cheaper and moved them here he is still stupid to take 550000 less per unit than he needs too.
Am i missing something here or are these people just straght up idiots?
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flakeys
The Great cornholio's Paper Tiger Coalition
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Posted - 2011.08.18 13:38:00 -
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I believe the biggest use of that , and i say i believe as i have tried/done that before usually with succes , is to drive other traders away.The same with people coming in and setting ridiculous high buy orders for certain items.
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Crookies ClawBone
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Posted - 2011.08.18 13:40:00 -
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I can understand that fully but even at 350000 isk its still a fairly high 9% profit for an item that you can buy 200 of and sell within about 8 hours (the time im at work)
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Devai Starchild
Caldari
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Posted - 2011.08.18 13:40:00 -
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1. He probably acquired the item for cheaper than you did 2. He doesn't want to bother with 0.01 isking
In short, they care less about the profits than you do
I also wouldn't call that crashing the market. It's pretty normal. If you could expect your price to only change by 0.10 isk in the length of time it took you to sell then trading would be easier than it already is to make money. So get used to it... it's part of trading.
Really crashing the market implies market manipulation, which is done either by:
A. Buying/selling a huge stock in order to change prices in a certain direction B. Constantly undercutting by a large margin in order to affect prices
In that case, the prices will drop to a certain point where a the manipulator (and everyone else) will buy a ton of stock. Then prices will shoot back up, at which point it will be sold. It might fluctuate in this manner a few times before stabilizing.
The other side is manipulating prices higher, which is more difficult, but to the same effect. -------------------------------------------
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Alternate Poster
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Posted - 2011.08.18 13:42:00 -
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1. Crash Markets 2. ... 3. ... 4. Profit.
P.S. Note the extra ...
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Levija Saplina
Supremacy Inc. Not Found.
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Posted - 2011.08.18 14:00:00 -
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Originally by: Alternate Poster 1. Crash Markets 2. ... 3. ... 4. Profit.
P.S. Note the extra ...
Quoting Alternate Poster to prove she's an alternate poster.
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Elise DarkStar
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Posted - 2011.08.18 14:46:00 -
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Most of the time it's because they're not nerdy enough to play market warrior on an internet spaceships game, so they just apply the basic economic principle that lower price = more quantity sold.
Sure the guys who play the margins will just follow the price down, but that's far from everyone who puts up sell orders.
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Crookies ClawBone
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Posted - 2011.08.18 14:56:00 -
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Originally by: Elise DarkStar so they just apply the basic economic principle that lower price = more quantity sold.
but this isnt the case with alot of items on eve, when people are fitting a ship, buying minerals to manufacture or items etc they will buy them when they need them for any price which is not unreasonable.
And as to weather or not im exagerating the crashed market this is just one individual example. Another occoured recently with an item that sells 5+ million a day of which i used to sell about 200k at about 200 per unit profit. Somebody selling has been undercutting by 10.00 every time somewon undercuts them untill now the item is worth 20 more for selling than buying and when you factor in broker/tax its not worth ivesting so the market has crashed and is now basically unprofitable for everyone.
Although we all engage in market price wars and market PvP these people dont just ruin profit for their competitors they ruin it for themselves. Another example of this would be cutting a hole in a bucket that you are all trying to share water from, sure your competitors get less water but so do you and everyone is worse off....
In eve lower price does not generally mean more sold if the price is lower if it is an essential item peopple will pay for it anyway.
Atm in the UK gas prices are going up but consumption is not going down because its an essential commodity, people need heat, warm water and gas to cook with in the same way eve players need ammunition for example, eve players will happily pay +/- 10% on amuntion because the NEED it.
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Elise DarkStar
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Posted - 2011.08.18 14:59:00 -
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No.
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Fulbert
Gallente
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Posted - 2011.08.18 16:41:00 -
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Edited by: Fulbert on 18/08/2011 16:40:57 Making traders like you ragequit the market is indeed a valid tactic, especially if "the idiot" sells his stuff faster than the 0.01isk warriors with their crazily overpriced sell orders. ____________________________________ Fulbert Industrialist - Casual Trader EVE Online, the best browser MMO of them all |
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Molic Blackbird
Gallente Orion Faction Industries
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Posted - 2011.08.18 17:30:00 -
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If you think an sell order is priced to low, buy it up and relist it. Profit off the supposed stupidity instead of complain. If it isn't profitable to buy it up and relist, then the order isn't priced too low.
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AmarrettoDiAmarr
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Posted - 2011.08.18 17:53:00 -
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idiocy is always a reasonable guess.
But perhaps you are not taking into account time. What if, for whatever reasons (RL or EVE obligations), the person knows they will only be updating orders two or three times a week and they would like to sell in in the next couple of weeks. What would you do? I think nothing that involves 0.01 will work. With time constraints, his decision is whether a couple of re-lists will get the profit margin so low traders won't compete and/or buyout yet high enough over the current buy orders to be worth doing the re-lists. Unlike you, 800k profit was never an option for them.
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Srioghal moDhream
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Posted - 2011.08.18 18:02:00 -
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People are stupid. Especially in Eve.
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Smodab Ongalot
Shadows Of The Federation
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Posted - 2011.08.18 18:05:00 -
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Because it can be extremely rewarding to do it, then read the tears about it on forums.
And because some people have so much isk, it doesn't "cost" them anything.
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Crookies ClawBone
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Posted - 2011.08.18 18:32:00 -
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Originally by: Fulbert Edited by: Fulbert on 18/08/2011 16:40:57 Making traders like you ragequit the market is indeed a valid tactic, especially if "the idiot" sells his stuff faster than the 0.01isk warriors with their crazily overpriced sell orders.
thats the thing though it doesnt make traders like me ragequit the market it just makes everyone make less profit, did you even read any of this thread?
Originally by: AmarrettoDiAmarr idiocy is always a reasonable guess.
But perhaps you are not taking into account time. What if, for whatever reasons (RL or EVE obligations), the person knows they will only be updating orders two or three times a week and they would like to sell in in the next couple of weeks. What would you do? I think nothing that involves 0.01 will work. With time constraints, his decision is whether a couple of re-lists will get the profit margin so low traders won't compete and/or buyout yet high enough over the current buy orders to be worth doing the re-lists. Unlike you, 800k profit was never an option for them.
This makes sense and i can see it that way, thanks for your thoughts.
Originally by: Smodab Ongalot Because it can be extremely rewarding to do it, then read the tears about it on forums.
And because some people have so much isk, it doesn't "cost" them anything.
I really hope nowons life is so pathetic that they get their kicks from anoying complete strangers on an online computer game?? If there really are people like this i pity them, they probably got bullied at school or something.
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Kara Books
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Posted - 2011.08.18 19:53:00 -
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Excuse me for my imperfect English and punctuation.
Well, in my case, I crash markets to fool up bots and careless investors.
Bots/careless investors will beat my low price/high order price, I will then penny it waiting for another careless investor, then I quiqly run and make popcorn and watch these 2 ditch it out, they then get the buy orders filled by Careful investors (usually me--I usually wait till they get tired of penny battling each other for the heck of it), Then I crash the sale price systematically while the buy order prices FALL hard, in turn I stock up on that item Royally and chase away competition all at the same time and sell off my items at REAL market value.
If you hapten to stumble uppon my submarket, here are some GOLDEN RULES you have to follow if you want to avoid becoming a target:
1) dont increment by more then .01 ISK. 2) Dont increment by more then .01 ISK. 3) if you see the price altering by like millions or 1-2% of total item value at a time, its a trap STOP what your doing, come back in a few hours. 4) match my price, if I dont notice the first 5 times, I will by the 6th, sometimes I fight 6-7 people over 40-50 items at a time, ITS NOT FUN, im not happy but I will notice you if you are a person just wanting in on the item LIKE A GENTLEMAN/LADY, I will share with you if your NOT an animal. 5)Once your in the good with me, Create a price code, like .5 or .11 or something like that, I have several, one for diferent occasions, - that way I can identify you and will even greet you by matching your price and vice versa, remember the person who posted the buy order first, gets the item first and the person who was there selling the item/stack of items first, sells them first, even if prices are matched. 6)If you see some one beating our matched prices, Beat them! I will thank you by matching your price. 7)Try to take over my market, I WILL CRASH IT, rebuild it and will systematically target search for the items your into all over the market, feathers will fly.
Good luck, if you
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Prien
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Posted - 2011.08.18 20:33:00 -
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If a doughnut parks up a shedload of my target stock in one of my trading hubs cheap then I'll just buy the lot and relist it in the same spot at cost plus or whatever I can get away with. Happy Days.
Alternatively I will tow it somewhere else and sell there.
Thank god for market noobs I wish there was more of them
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Taedrin
Gallente Kushan Industrial
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Posted - 2011.08.18 20:57:00 -
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Edited by: Taedrin on 18/08/2011 20:59:02 It's all about supply and demand, and the fact that markets stabilize towards the equilibrium price for any given item. He might believe that your 800,000isk profit price is too far above the equilibrium and he doesn't have the desire or time to play .01 isk wars. So instead he selects a price which he believes is closer to the equilibrium. YES, everyone is going to .01 isk his order - but if he is correct and he selected a price which is close enough to equilibrium his order will eventually fill in the long run.
Or he could just be an idiot - especially if he .01 isk's his order after crashing the market like that. It's not clever market manipulation unless he is actually able to drive away/screw over competitors. ----------
Originally by: Dr Fighter "how do you know when youve had a repro accident"
Theres modules missing and morphite in your mineral pile.
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Ray McCormack
Nordar Innovations.
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Posted - 2011.08.18 21:25:00 -
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Because they're bad drivers?
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Angsty Teenager
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Posted - 2011.08.18 21:55:00 -
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I crash the market because I can and I want my items now. Deal with it.
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Isabella Addict
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Posted - 2011.08.18 22:03:00 -
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Im newto tradeing, i get **** when i cant get what i want, i see a nice margin and someone keeps 0.01 me..
Retaliaion is to just keep bumping up the price till its no longer worth it to me, screwing him/them upp too..
IF I CANT HAVE IT NOONE CAN!!
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Solstice Project
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Posted - 2011.08.18 23:31:00 -
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Originally by: Isabella Addict Im newto tradeing, i get **** when i cant get what i want, i see a nice margin and someone keeps 0.01 me..
Retaliaion is to just keep bumping up the price till its no longer worth it to me, screwing him/them upp too..
IF I CANT HAVE IT NOONE CAN!!
You just reminded me of a tactic against people like you, which would ... and in your case WILL ... make you even more rage.
Just let me tell you that your so called retaliation ... ... can backfire really hard !
Thanks. :)
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Smodab Ongalot
Shadows Of The Federation
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Posted - 2011.08.19 03:32:00 -
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Originally by: Crookies ClawBone
I really hope nowons life is so pathetic that they get their kicks from anoying complete strangers on an online computer game?? If there really are people like this i pity them, they probably got bullied at school or something.
I guess you've never been to low-sec, eh?
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Kesshisan
Minmatar
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Posted - 2011.08.19 05:01:00 -
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1. Post sell orders at WAY too low for competition to make a profit. 2. Competition gets frustrated and cancel their sell others, moving to another hub/investing in another part of the market for the time. 3. Raise prices. 4. Profit.
No ??? needed here.
It looks like this guy is on step 2.
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Camden Sine
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Posted - 2011.08.19 05:33:00 -
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I remember I dumped about 3 million units of missiles I had built on market once in Jita. Selling price was ruined for about 2 weeks until the market recovered from such low prices.
Sold it all pretty quick though.
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Milla Lekarariba
Minmatar 28 Meows Later Infinitas Consortium
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Posted - 2011.08.20 01:16:00 -
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Often, selling that much cheaper can make an item sell quicker, as other traders are likely to snap it up quick and put it back up for sale at the higher price.
Otherwise you are just waiting for those that need to buy the item or their use.
So in short it might be less profit, but it can be quicker profit
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MatrixSkye Mk2
Minmatar
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Posted - 2011.08.20 01:54:00 -
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Originally by: Crookies ClawBone Edited by: Crookies ClawBone on 18/08/2011 13:32:52 As the title says guys im getting anoied with other traders crashing markets i operate in.
Is it sheer stupidity or some kind of clever manipulation.
For example when selling an item in the undreds for about 800000isk profit (the difference between buy orders and sell orders) somewon comes in and lists 400 of the item at 350000isk profit. Now 350000 is still significant profit so every other trader just accepts there going be making less and 0.01's the idiot.
But what i ask is why are people so stupid, listing the item 450000isk cheaper doesnt mean they will sell more often with this item and i dont think he farmed the item because they were listed in a stack of exactly 400 which smells like a trader you set a 400 buy order. Also farming 400 of this particular item isnt really possible, in a similar way to implants there is no real way to farm them so to get a quantity of 400 it has to be from a buy order.
So i ask why this idiot shoots himself in the foot and loses 550000*400=220million.
If he bought the item from other trade hubs for cheaper and moved them here he is still stupid to take 550000 less per unit than he needs too.
Am i missing something here or are these people just straght up idiots?
I do it because I don't want to play the .01 isk games. I don't have time for that. I set a price that .01 isk warriors will prolly won't want to touch and I go to sleep. Next day my order is sold and still made a profit. It beats waking up to 30 .01 sell orders below my price.
Grief a PVP'er. Run a mission today! |
Ronan Connor
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Posted - 2011.08.20 14:41:00 -
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Dunno so much about crashing the whole market, but for me there are usually only 2 moments where I dont go for full profit margin. Firstly I have only few items and cant be bothered with endless price caring. Then I go directly for a much lower margin in order to sell faster. Secondly I dont start it, but follow it. I prefer having the 0.01 game in order to have better margins. But if someone is starting to undercut unreasonable, I sometimes use basic margin 5-10% and drop price directly to that amount. Unreasonable is to me if its an undercut like you mentioned from 800k to 400k but with normal stacks behind it. Like if I sell 1000 units A for 800k and someone goes with 1-2 units to 600k I dont care about it. But if its also with 100-1000 units its "unreasonable" to me. Cause then the prices will be harmed lasting.
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Dane El
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Posted - 2011.08.20 16:00:00 -
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Several reasons for me.
1. Because I don't care about that margin. I sell 60 - 70 some odd items over 5 stations. I usually have 250 - 300 sell orders open at a time. If you annoy me with undercutting I'm completely fine ruining my profit margin on a single item in a single station to make you go away. I don't want to play undercutting games with the volume I deal with.
2. Some times its necessary to liquidate existing stocks at near cost to get out of a bad purchase.
3. I don't like spending a lot of time typing out prices to be just a bit cheaper than the next guy. I generally just knock the price down at 10,000 or 100,000 isk level to beat the competition when I do update orders. Less chances of a typo and less keystrokes to get the job done. It also helps to achieve goal #1.
4. I purchased the items at a steep discount and I'm leveraging that to hurt other traders rather than make a huge profit. When I score on a cheap regional buy order I typically sell those goods well below normal prices because I still make plenty of profit and it stresses out other traders. (See this post.)
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Anya Ohaya
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Posted - 2011.08.21 02:33:00 -
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Originally by: Crookies ClawBone
But what i ask is why are people so stupid, listing the item 450000isk cheaper doesnt mean they will sell more often with this item
That seems unlikely. Items with perfectly inelastic demand are pretty much non-existent.
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Decesse
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Posted - 2011.08.21 02:44:00 -
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Because people try to do it to me all of the time, So I have to show them how to do it correctly sometimes.
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IceFyre S18
Zulu Labs Zulu People
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Posted - 2011.08.21 14:20:00 -
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It's just for fat profit, nothing personal.
Of course, for magic to work you should feel your e-peen touched and follow in crashing, to "show" how YOU can do it.
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Dorian Wylde
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Posted - 2011.08.21 17:23:00 -
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Originally by: Crookies ClawBone Edited by: Crookies ClawBone on 18/08/2011 13:32:52 As the title says guys im getting anoied with other traders crashing markets i operate in.
You don't have to be in space in low sec to pvp.
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Felix Newton
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Posted - 2011.08.22 03:52:00 -
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People could be crashing your markets as there is a quick profit to be made. These people are not interested in trading your hub or trading the item over the long haul.
They see a quick chance a turning a large inventory of stock at a decent margin (to them), then they move on.
Yes they could make more if they played your 0.1 ISK wars, but they made a quick buck and look for the next crazily over priced item. Make their quick profit there, etc..., etc..
It is a very valid market tactic, and by the time you are moaning on the forum about these certain players, they are on there 5th item down the chain and don't even remember the product your complaining about.
Turn and burn baby.
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Taedrin
Gallente Kushan Industrial
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Posted - 2011.08.22 06:06:00 -
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Someone might need liquid ISK fast and can't afford to wait while they play .01 isk games with you. Someone might be trading against long run price trends instead of spending hours playing .01 isk games for a mediocre turnover at a price that won't sell well. Someone got sick and tired of playing .01 ISK games, and just wants to get out of the market by selling their stock quickly. Someone might be trying to drive you out of the market. Someone might have acquired their goods much cheaper than you, and they can still turn a great profit on a crashed market. Someone might be TRYING to crash the market because they want to buy up goods cheaper. Someone might be doing the market equivalent of suicide ganking - they are doing it "for the lulz" Someone might not have been paying attention when they created their sell orders - as in they just sold the items at the market average price.
So many different possible reasons. ----------
Originally by: Dr Fighter "how do you know when youve had a repro accident"
Theres modules missing and morphite in your mineral pile.
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Nerath Naaris
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Posted - 2011.08.22 11:01:00 -
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I once thought I had an opportunity to get a 100% marge, so I bought some 70 items elsewhere and set them up on this market. However, that "opportunity" really was a bubble with the price falling fast (bad research on my part) and on a market that did not trade that much volume on that item anyway. So I set my order up well below the others. I got rid of most of my items with still some 20% or so margin and just in time as a few days later even that was gone.
So, by signifcantly undercutting the others, I still made even a little profit before the market returned to normal, something I wouldnŠt have realised if I had engaged in the usual 0.01 ISK war.
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Sjugar
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Posted - 2011.08.22 12:19:00 -
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Deep undercutting.
If someone does that to your orders he's not really crashing the market he's just bringing the price closer to the real vallue of the product you're trying to sell at a highly overinflated price.
Also there is no magic "we" or "everyone" that makes less profit.
If he would change his orders once a day and play the 0.01 isk game with that the guy wouldn't make any profit at all.
By deep undercutting the guys drives off the 0.01 undercutters and does make a profit.
So, the guy isn't an idiot, doesn't shoot himself in the foot. The guy clearly makes a profit but cuts into YOUR profits. It's your foot he's shooting in. Who is the idiot now?
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Lederstrumpf
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Posted - 2011.08.22 12:44:00 -
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Originally by: Crookies ClawBone 550000*400=220million
Sometimes it's worth to spend 220m to see people cry.
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Oh'Freddled Gruntbuggly
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Posted - 2011.08.22 19:27:00 -
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Originally by: Molic Blackbird If you think an sell order is priced to low, buy it up and relist it.
Then watch the price plummet and realise you've been mugged.
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Archua Zaul
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Posted - 2011.08.22 19:40:00 -
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Easy way out of this...
1. Watch the margins, if they become unacceptable pull you buy orders and dump your stock. 2. Reinvest the freshly liquidated cash into a more profitable item. 3. Wait for the original item to re-stabilise at a decent margin and if you want to, re-invest.
It happens from time to time, you just have to be up for burning some fees every now and then.
And remember, you pick your margins, if you dont like the margin on an item, cut and run and pick one you do like. There are always other items to invest in that will make similar or better profits.
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OllieNorth
Gallente R-K Industries
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Posted - 2011.08.22 20:24:00 -
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Originally by: Oh'Freddled Gruntbuggly
Originally by: Molic Blackbird If you think an sell order is priced to low, buy it up and relist it.
Then watch the price plummet and realise you've been mugged.
Your name quite literally made me chuckle out loud, I love it.
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Chequer Bones
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Posted - 2011.08.23 01:54:00 -
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Undercut with small amounts to drive the price down --- your goods sell for less when yours get bought.
You have less isk, therefore I win. I want to break your trading market so you have to go mine.
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Jacob Stiller
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Posted - 2011.08.23 02:37:00 -
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I sometimes wind up crashing a market when I'm placing a buy order to save some isk on an item I actually want. Someone will try to 0.01 isk me so I start upping the price in bigger and bigger increments. If they're smart, they'll quickly stop chasing me. Other times, though, some fool won't get a clue until half his margin is gone. By the time my buy order is finally filled, a second fool has started to bid against the first fool and the market is f'ed for weeks. All because I wanted to buy one unit.
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Tasko Pal
Aliastra
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Posted - 2011.08.23 04:21:00 -
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I've been away from Eve for a bit so I've been looking for the good discussion threads. This one looks like a good "pro tips" thread, giving out solid advice to a worthy questioner. So why do I crash markets? I often do it when I screw up. I hope this information helps you, Crookies set up that trade empire you richly deserve.
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The Offerer
Minmatar
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Posted - 2011.08.23 10:24:00 -
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Originally by: Crookies ClawBone Edited by: Crookies ClawBone on 18/08/2011 13:32:52 As the title says guys im getting anoied with other traders crashing markets i operate in.
Is it sheer stupidity or some kind of clever manipulation.
For example when selling an item in the undreds for about 800000isk profit (the difference between buy orders and sell orders) somewon comes in and lists 400 of the item at 350000isk profit. Now 350000 is still significant profit so every other trader just accepts there going be making less and 0.01's the idiot.
But what i ask is why are people so stupid, listing the item 450000isk cheaper doesnt mean they will sell more often with this item and i dont think he farmed the item because they were listed in a stack of exactly 400 which smells like a trader you set a 400 buy order. Also farming 400 of this particular item isnt really possible, in a similar way to implants there is no real way to farm them so to get a quantity of 400 it has to be from a buy order.
So i ask why this idiot shoots himself in the foot and loses 550000*400=220million.
If he bought the item from other trade hubs for cheaper and moved them here he is still stupid to take 550000 less per unit than he needs too.
Am i missing something here or are these people just straght up idiots?
That looks more like old stock wholesale than market crash. Wholesale traders usually go for Jita Sell + Buy / 2 for the price of large quantity batches. This guy went slightly below that hoping that a trader will spot his order and buy his whole stock.
On Bulk Trade mailing list, for example, this price determination method is very common. |
Gnulpie
Minmatar Miner Tech
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Posted - 2011.08.23 12:57:00 -
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Why do people crash markets?
Why do people shoot down other peoples ship?
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Kaynas
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Posted - 2011.08.23 15:25:00 -
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Its all based on greed there bro. By crashing it the have a chance of controling it. Welcome to eve btw I trade to my main stay is mining. I trade when the market is good.
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Gypsio III
Dirty Filthy Perverts
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Posted - 2011.08.24 15:48:00 -
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If I'm not profiting, why should you?
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Degnar Oskold
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Posted - 2011.08.25 15:26:00 -
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I do it just to annoy people (especially the 0.01 ISKers) while making a little bit of money out of it.
At Rens, I noticed Damage Control IIs selling for about 840,000 with buy orders at 620,000. I found a system a region away where 60 DC IIs were selling for 640,000. I bought them all, took them to Rens, put them on the Market for 750,000, and each time I got 0.01ISKed I dropped the price by another 20,000.
I ended up still making a profit on my sales, while 3 days later the price of DCIIs was left around 660,000.
So I made some money while also being able to delight in the fact that someone out there must be having tears about the vanishing fat profit margins on their DC IIs. Making the margin fall from 220,000 to under 80,000must is quite the accomplishment.
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Acac Sunflyier
Gallente
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Posted - 2011.08.25 18:26:00 -
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I recommend hoarding it until the price comes close to where you want it. Maybe a little above so you can have room to lower the price.
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Kalipoli
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Posted - 2011.08.25 21:22:00 -
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Screw em, and profit off of them. Just like in RL people sell stuff cheap to get rid of it. this guy probably had a set margin and he would get that margin at that price and sell his items faster as they are the cheapest on the market.
These are the people I love, cannot live without them. These people are to lazy to do the proper research and keep a market healthy, by not flooding the market or severely undercutting others prices.
Yes if you buy his product to resell it he will make his margin alternately you will increase your stock and heal the market by resetting the given markets value for that product.
In my opinion this person was not being stupid just lazy. he wanted to make sure no-one undercut him so he set it so low they almost can't. also means with some certainty that he doesn't have to keep on top of his orders with .01 isk game. It doesn't guarantee it but his item will sell faster at the top of the list.
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Celeste Benal
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Posted - 2011.08.30 09:43:00 -
[52]
Speaking of, there was an interesting sell-off of Maelstroms in Black Rise recently. Going sell price was about 135M ea. Some person or group of persons suddenly listed a couple dozen for 100M. Making region trading much harder.
They sold like hot-cakes. Market is now back to normal. But was damn annoying as I was trying to unload my own stock.
To whomever said getting prices to go up is hard, I regularly manipulate buy orders to raise prices. I absolutely leveled the Mexallon market in BR a few months ago. Put up some buy orders at the new low price, rode it up to its peak and then resold again. Made a tidy 20% profit on a couple hundred million worth.
It wasn't much. But for a toon that was only a month old with a piddly 100M in starter capital, it was a nice play.
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Torva Licentia
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Posted - 2011.08.31 03:53:00 -
[53]
Ask the guys behind Costco and Walmart why "crashing" a local market is good business.
Very simple example: I took my new commerce alt on a tour through the market the other day getting a feel for this and that, and I came across some small hybrid turrets with active buy orders moving steadily at 5k each. Sell orders were 60k+, but they weren't moving. When the price is so high that people are turning up their nose at it, you're not earning as much as you could. I bought a very small amount of these turrets via buy orders and flipped them for 30k. They sold within a matter of hours.
I'd rather buy two turrets for a total of 10k and sell them for 60k than buy one turret for 5k and not sell it at all.
To be fair, this was a very small transaction. I think I bought a total of 5 turrets. I'd be more inclined to think a bit harder about the long-term implications of slashing the common sell order price by 50% if I had 100s (1000s) of units to move.
(And before anyone lols at me for using such a trivial transaction as example, my commerce alt is an experiment/learning tool and has received no funding from my main. 60k is still significant to him.)
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Kara Books
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Posted - 2011.08.31 11:50:00 -
[54]
Originally by: Sjugar Deep undercutting.
If someone does that to your orders he's not really crashing the market he's just bringing the price closer to the real vallue of the product you're trying to sell at a highly overinflated price.
Also there is no magic "we" or "everyone" that makes less profit.
If he would change his orders once a day and play the 0.01 isk game with that the guy wouldn't make any profit at all.
By deep undercutting the guys drives off the 0.01 undercutters and does make a profit.
So, the guy isn't an idiot, doesn't shoot himself in the foot. The guy clearly makes a profit but cuts into YOUR profits. It's your foot he's shooting in. Who is the idiot now?
That is the correct answer. +1 karma to that.
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Smargle Luxx
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Posted - 2011.08.31 17:42:00 -
[55]
Traditionally market crashes occur when a real big competitor or a central bank wanna bust all the small actors and perhaps buy medium actors for cheap. This creates monopols and at worst oligopols.
Anyway thats in real life. In eve it could simply be someone wanna liqvidate hes stock fast. You dont realy care about big profits in such situations. You just wanna get whatever you can as fast as you can, So you can reinvest it or buy something else(maybe he lost a T3 cruiser).
Anyway it is the economicly responsibility of big actors to quikkly buy them up and relist them unless they fancy their profit cut (in your case half).
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DigDoug
Lightspeed Ship Yards
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Posted - 2011.08.31 22:57:00 -
[56]
Why not attempt to talk to the person and see if you can get them to sell their product directly to you at that price and bypass the market completely ?
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Calmen
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Posted - 2011.09.01 14:20:00 -
[57]
I do this all the time. I do this for several reasons.
1) If its a good enough price you may trigger a trade route setup in out of game trading helpers 2) It moves the units faster 3) Other traders in this market will just buy my items up and put them back on the market at the price they originally wanted. 4) Profit is profit, I can't have my isk sitting around for weeks doing nothing
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Zeta Zhul
Caldari Preemptive Paranoia
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Posted - 2011.09.01 20:16:00 -
[58]
Originally by: Molic Blackbird If you think an sell order is priced to low, buy it up and relist it. Profit off the supposed stupidity instead of complain. If it isn't profitable to buy it up and relist, then the order isn't priced too low.
This.
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Wyke Mossari
Gallente
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Posted - 2011.09.02 09:20:00 -
[59]
Originally by: Zeta Zhul
Originally by: Molic Blackbird If you think an sell order is priced to low, buy it up and relist it. Profit off the supposed stupidity instead of complain. If it isn't profitable to buy it up and relist, then the order isn't priced too low.
This.
This only works when sophisticated traders out number (in financial resources) the lemmings. My information suggests that a lot of old money is leaving the game, or station spinning.
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Kara Books
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Posted - 2011.09.04 15:46:00 -
[60]
Its a gamble, as long as I can make SOMETHING before your large order totally crashed the item, I will beat your very very low price and liquidate way faster then you.
Be careful about posting those sell orders, sometimes they work, but most of the time they get pushed wayy behind by the army's of alt station traders by the end of the day.
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Anaesthera
Gallente The Scope
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Posted - 2011.09.05 00:05:00 -
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Originally by: Crookies ClawBone Edited by: Crookies ClawBone on 18/08/2011 13:32:52 As the title says guys im getting anoied with other traders crashing markets i operate in. ... Am i missing something here or are these people just straght up idiots?
Because I have the ISK, but I don't have the time or patience.
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