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Krixtal Icefluxor INLAND EMPIRE Galactic 952	Posted - 2012.10.24 15:50:00 - [61] - Quote Nocxium and Fuel Blocks. Now I just stay hovering around 3 Billion so I can fly what I can afford to lose. That's more than enough for a player without Capital combat ships.
Bovine Solution New Millineon Paper Tiger Coalition 0	Posted - 2012.10.24 19:48:00 - [62] - Quote Someone bought my jumpfreighter for a zero too much :)
shags Marginal Inc. 0	Posted - 2012.10.24 19:59:00 - [63] - Quote Ratting in Venal/Tenal many years ago after MC cleared out the north and installed the alliance I was in at the time as the new owners. We got kicked out a few months later when MC left and thats when i really started trading.
Svodola Darkfury Heaven's End League of Infamy 74	Posted - 2012.10.24 20:20:00 - [64] - Quote 1st billion: Got a shield booster of some kind from a low-sec ded (gist A-type large maybe?) back in 2009 that sold for about 800 mil, popped me over the top. 1st time sustained over a billion: day-tripping C1-C3s. 5 billion: Running C4 sites in current corp 10 billion: same as above 20 billion: same as above, plus getting a 5 billion ISK carrier kill that split out into payments of 500 million to pop me over. Some measurements in assets because I'm a ship *****. Svo.
Ravenclaw2kk Blue Republic RvB - BLUE Republic 10	Posted - 2012.10.25 02:08:00 - [65] - Quote I bought a GTC, sold it for 700m then bought a bunch of Rig BPOs and salvage when the small and medium sized rigs were introduced. I changed 700m into about 4bn then bought my 2 plex back and used them for game time.
Tali Ambraelle Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation 113	Posted - 2012.10.26 13:11:00 - [66] - Quote Station/Regional trading. Finding a niche market is for the weak. TRADE ALL THE THINGS.
Arkadelphia Day Trippers 0	Posted - 2012.10.27 14:03:00 - [67] - Quote Buying low and selling high meta items. Last year back before meta item changes and when meta 3 and meta 4 energy neutralizers were multi millions isk (gremlin, unstable- both medium and heavy). Well good old molden heath mission hub saw lots of these items drop from level three and four mission runners. I realized the only buy orders for these medium unstables (meta 4) were at like 1000 isk when they were selling for close to ten million in other regions. Well people were selling these to the thousand isk orders..so I upped them to 50-100k and saw a massive dump of these neuts. I also found this in faction ammo (plenty of isk to make) and scout projectile weapons showed similar success. For a few months I had no buying competition of these multi million isk items I was acquiring for mere thousands. Eventually a few traders caught on and I lost the desire to one isk. I didn't even realize at the time what I had done as I was still very new to market stuff and thought I'd make a few hundred million. One day I realized I had hundreads of medium and heavvy gremlin and unstables each. I took a large chunk to syndicate and made silly isk with null inflation. The rest I dumped to the highest buy orders in major hubs...still making millions per unit sold (some cases 8 million per medium unstable. So ultimately turned into my first billions I was visibly seeing made and added to my wallet, I had always hovered around a billion isk but that was long term accumulation of isknot instant dumpage. Just because I feel like sharing for new guys likely reading through here looking to become affluent in the universe. I've since not done much market stuff to that extent in 8 months. I have experimented with tags used in lp purchases. I found regions that lvl4 faction missions dropped tags but the Npc buy orders were five jumps away. I placed buy orders at fraction of the Npc prices in hi and low sec pockets not reached by the Npc order. People are dumb and sold me these tags for 125k and I went and sold them for 1.8-2.2 mil in RENs and hek. I also used these tags for my own lp trade but don't mission or facwar so usually spent points fast but saw almost 80% profit on republic fleet warp disruptors. My first two years of eve I ran lvl4s and never broke a billion while maintaining a pvp career. It's possible but I now believe its quite hard to be a level 4 running pvp guy with one account making billions. Of late combat boosters..absurd. I ran a pos for three months constantly reacting and producing with all materials self-attained, aka 100% pi'd pos fuel, harvested gas, acquire bpc through Ladar combats. I took my pos down a few weeks back because it became irrelevant. This kind of isk only becomes available with several accounts. I'm not here bragging by any means but showing you don't need big sov moons and towers or even expensive dives in wh space to be space rich isn't needed, but yes surely give tremendously. Yeah I'm not even close to some people doing that and couldn't replace multiple supers or fund an alliance, but I can run three accounts now with plex and and got there with just one account.
Ireland VonVicious Vicious Trading Company Alliance of Abandoned Cybernetic Rejects 78	Posted - 2012.10.30 06:14:00 - [68] - Quote First toon I had did it ninjaing peoples missions before they changed the probing system. This toons first bil came from salvage for hire business after the changes to the probing system. Took place before the noctis was added.
Koen L Order Carebears Solar Citizens 14	Posted - 2012.10.30 15:43:00 - [69] - Quote 1st Billion : mining veldspar. Mass buying Veldspar and trit from noob system and hauling it to other places, buy cheap sell high. Also high sec autopiloting and trading stuff around, always buy cheap, sell high. This is the magic secret i still make make iskies. And Diversity. Do not focus on one, do it all a bit. Small passive isk income sums up to 1 bn after some time with out doing a lot. GÖ½ When your ship gets blown to bits GÖ¬ GÖ½ And you lose your Faction fits GÖ¬ \Gÿ+/ Don't worry GÖ¬ GÖ½ GÖ¬ GÖ½ GÖ½ GÖ¬ GÖ½ GÖ¬ Be Happy \Gÿ+/
JohnathanGalt Imperial Academy Amarr Empire 37	Posted - 2012.10.30 17:46:00 - [70] - Quote Honestly, I don't remember, it probably had to do with J5B warp scrams, cause you can double your isk on those things pretty easily. It definitely involved inter-regional trading.

NoT KwarK LP Incorporated 0	Posted - 2012.10.30 18:17:00 - [71] - Quote Nothing particularly exciting, I just ran a bunch of l4s.
Vargan Armer Red Federation RvB - RED Federation 8	Posted - 2012.10.30 18:36:00 - [72] - Quote NoT KwarK wrote: Nothing particularly exciting, I just ran a bunch of l4s. Assuming you are KwarK, tell use the story of your first trillion please :)
Samroski Games Inc. 75	Posted - 2012.10.30 19:41:00 - [73] - Quote I sold skillbooks. After 2-3 months of playing Eve I was penniless most of the time. Invested 5m in skillbooks on a whim, and put them up one jump away at Hek at high margins. Overnight I had made 15m. I sold skills at Hek initially, and once I had some money (and trained up some market orders), I filled up my cargo with skillbooks and put them up for sale all over the galaxy, at really high margins. Never looked back.
Jori McKie Friends Of Harassment 34	Posted - 2012.10.30 19:57:00 - [74] - Quote My story is simple, i'm lazy and was sick shooting red boxes after 2 weeks so i started trading. In late 2009 i loaned 40m from a friend and started trading meta 4 buying regionwide in Tash Murkon and selling with ridiculous profit in Jita. After 3 weeks i was raking in cash and expanded to buy/sell in Amarr, Dodi and Rens. I was using the buy/sell difference in all four main hubs to my advantage and let Red Frog doing all the hauling work back then the profit was crazy but i was getting sick of handling 300 buy/sell orders in each hub. Late 2010 i was going to quit meta 4 trading but not before some market manipulation to maximize my cash out, the one that i still won't forget was getting Focused Modulated Pulse Energy Beam I up to 59m sell and almost 40m buy. Sometime in between i made my first 1b. After the cash out i had about 50b cash and started contract trading and if meta 4 trading was very lucrative contract trading was like having a personal ISK printing machine with a lot less work. My weekly profit was in between 3b and 6b depending on how often i updated my contracts and the best part i just needed 1h daily to maintain the 6b weekly profit. If you break that down to ISK/h, it's absolute crazy. I intentionally missed the good times of west and grey and Kwark and co. although i knew what they were doing and how many cash they were making it sounded like a lot of work. After Kwark revealed how many accounts and contracts he handled, i knew it was right for me i didn't joined the gold rush. After CCP killed the whole contract market and transfered it to the regular market i sticked to faction and deadspace stuff trading. First i thought my profit would dimish a lot but the major advantage of having faction and deadspace stuff in the regular market, the orders arn't expiring after 14 days, so i can be more lazy after all. Today i'm just trading a little bit here and there still having a decent 3b weekly profit with minimal effort.
Smodab Ongalot Shadows Of The Federation Drunk 'n' Disorderly 126	Posted - 2012.10.30 21:54:00 - [75] - Quote I bought 2 PLEX with cash.
NoT KwarK LP Incorporated 0	Posted - 2012.10.31 05:44:00 - [76] - Quote Vargan Armer wrote: NoT KwarK wrote: Nothing particularly exciting, I just ran a bunch of l4s. Assuming you are KwarK, tell use the story of your first trillion please :) I'm not Kwark; however, the real Kwark made his first trillion by abusing a trading trick called "West and Greying", named after the guy who Kwark stole the trick from. It basically entailed selling faction mods for 2 or 3 times their actual value due to a sorting glitch in the old contract system. More on this tale can be found here
Vargan Armer Red Federation RvB - RED Federation 8	Posted - 2012.10.31 09:14:00 - [77] - Quote NoT KwarK wrote: Vargan Armer wrote: NoT KwarK wrote: Nothing particularly exciting, I just ran a bunch of l4s. Assuming you are KwarK, tell use the story of your first trillion please :) I'm not Kwark; however, the real Kwark made his first trillion by abusing a trading trick called "West and Greying", named after the guy who Kwark stole the trick from. It basically entailed selling faction mods for 2 or 3 times their actual value due to a sorting glitch in the old contract system. More on this tale can be found here Yeah, I know, I was in the hatch for a while and I'm kollin on TL :D
NoT KwarK LP Incorporated 0	Posted - 2012.10.31 15:02:00 - [78] - Quote I know, but you asked so I provided a link.
Chiralos Merchant Princes 7	Posted - 2012.11.05 00:45:00 - [79] - Quote Many years ago ... aggregating and hauling isogen and noxcium to trade hubs, T2 goods going the other way.
serras bang Lucien Coven 45	Posted - 2012.11.05 00:56:00 - [80] - Quote made me first billion and the second for me tengu thinking of it prolly my third also in lvl 3 missions

PorkJerky Cutting Edge Incorporated RAZOR Alliance 5	Posted - 2012.11.05 04:30:00 - [81] - Quote suicide ganking
HalfArse Dark Matter Avionics 12	Posted - 2012.11.06 13:30:00 - [82] - Quote rigs
Watooshi Makoochji Republic University Minmatar Republic 9	Posted - 2012.11.07 03:29:00 - [83] - Quote scamming and station trading.
pyronatic Mecha Enterprises Fleet Villore Accords 12	Posted - 2012.11.07 05:58:00 - [84] - Quote first selling all my things in high sec in order to have money for null. second FACTION WARFARE!
Xuixien Rifterlings Damu'Khonde 179	Posted - 2012.11.07 23:58:00 - [85] - Quote I took it. Everyone vs Everyone Xuixien - Space Cat, Queen of Rens
Ristlin Wakefield Wanderers of the Eternal Darkness Eternal Pretorian Alliance 134	Posted - 2012.11.09 15:09:00 - [86] - Quote low-/null-sec exploration; little over a month old at the time. I have a lover, her name is EVE. I see her every night and all she asks in return is that I have a pilot's license.
Bugsy VanHalen Society of lost Souls 243	Posted - 2012.11.09 18:23:00 - [87] - Quote Well I do not recall exactly when I made my first billion as the isk still goes out as fast as it comes in. I have has many billions of isk in assets for years. But the first time I had several billion in my wallet at once was when I sold my first jump freighter. It cost me about 6.4 billion to make and I sold it for 7.9 billion. Market was actually 8.2 when I brought it to Jita to sell, but since these ships sell in low volume, the 0.01 or in this case 50,000 isking brought me down to 7.9 before it actually sold. only took about 30 minutes to sell though. I just wish they were easier to sell, I really liked the challenge of building it at the lowest possible cost. After all they are the only T2 capital ship in the game. I plan on building many more.
Joatmo Dred Nots 2	Posted - 2012.11.14 19:12:00 - [88] - Quote Bump for awesome thread
jyppy Under Heavy Fire Mordus Angels 42	Posted - 2012.11.14 20:34:00 - [89] - Quote ECM modules and ships. I used to fly these a lot in gangs, if ever I died I'd have to jump forever to refit. Well screw that. I started to buy in bulk, and putting them up for sale in the local market I found out that I was obviously not the only one in that situation. Aha! It then expanded into hauling a whole range of modules, and selling basic T1 ships - that was probably around the time I made my first billion. From there it became buy orders for modules and building shed loads of T1 ships and rigs Frell
Barakach Caldari Provisions Caldari State 89	Posted - 2012.11.15 17:59:00 - [90] - Quote Inter-regional trit trading.



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