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Kris Koen
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Posted - 2016.12.11 10:13:37 -
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I made a thread about this in the Market Discussion forum but i also think it may serve as a good warning for new players getting into trade.
I started station trading a few weeks ago with capital i'd built up running missions. I don't really know a huge amount about trade in EvE but the player driven economy has always interested the number cruncher in me. I played with a few different modules and hulls to differing degrees of success but eventually found a few cheapy ones and one or two high value hulls. Did well on a Navy Dominix before noticing Bhaalgorns had a nice wide margin and had been both sold and bought once or twice over the past few days, a rare purchase but a great payoff when it happened thought i  Well.. to cut a long story short when i edited the buy order this morning i failed to check the decimal had entered properly  Literally a second after i confirmed the update my wallet flashed a big red number and it dawned on me what had happened  a 245 Million ISK buy order had become a 2.4 Billion ISK buy order. I bought 1 Bhaalgorn for the price of 10 and my wallet went from 10 digits to about 200 Million ISK..
This isn't a complaint thread, rather the coming of a lesson i had always been aware could happen. I think it's something all newcomers must go through but man am i salty it happened on the Bhaalgorn 
Hats off to the guy who sold me the golden Bhaalgorn, i'll be back... soon.. ish
Sorry for inflating the daily price of Bhaalgorns in Rens this morning  |
Kris Koen
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Posted - 2016.12.11 11:23:09 -
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gfldex wrote:You may want to think about this a little longer.
Care to explain? Not sure what you mean |
Kris Koen
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Posted - 2016.12.11 15:11:18 -
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No i ikmagine the box flashed up and i confirmed it, idiot that i am  So used to seeing it and it not meaning anything that it's become second nature to skip it. I will learn though, failure will teach me.. |
Kris Koen
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Posted - 2016.12.11 15:28:03 -
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Iria Ahrens wrote:[quote=Kolmogorow]It doesn't hurt to ask the seller for a refund. Be polite and offer a premium, since the main goal is to replenish capital, not make a profit. If the letter is polite enough, and they are in a good mood, they might give a refund.
If the letter is not polite, or if the don't refund and one complains, then the whole incident might appear in Crime and Punishment
I did mail the seller, asking if he might see it in his heart to send me 1B back of the 2.4B so i can try to trade my way back on top. Was hoping since it is literally all my trade capital he might take pity. As yet he has made no reply though, and i don't hold it against him 
Thanks for the advice. |
Kris Koen
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Posted - 2016.12.12 11:15:31 -
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This game / these forums have a certain reputation for flaming people, but you've allbeen so nice  Even on the market forum nobody made fun of me for throwing my ISK out the window |
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