Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Don't You Hate When That Happens...


Yesterday I punched the update button on my handy Eve Trader app and saw that I had a bunch of transactions and a total profit from them of 2.6 billion isk.  YOW!  2.6 BILLION?  That’s unexpected – I had checked a few days earlier and so expected to see a number much smaller. 

On closer examination, I saw that I had made a profit of 917.3% on a couple Zainou ‘Gypsy’ Signature Analysis SA-705 implants.  I bought them for 117,964,835 isk and sold them for 1,200,008,010 isk!  Obviously someone had mistakenly added a zero when placing a buy order (intending to offer 120 million, but with an extra zero offering 1.2 billion) – to which my two implants (being at the top of the list apparently) were immediately sold.  These two implants resulted in a profit of 2.1 billion isk!

I’ve done similar things in the past.  It’s a horrible feeling (even if it is just pixels in a computer game).  Stomach wrenching, adrenalin pumping, bile grabbing at the throat horrible…

While there are issues with the way things work on the market (if someone wants to sell an item for 5 and I offer 7 – shouldn’t I get it for the 5 that he’s willing to accept instead of him getting the full 7 from me?) – I’m fine with living with the way things work.

But now, what to do in this situation.  Eve is a rough place with lots of unsavory people.  But, that’s not me.  I’m generally a nice guy.  So, in order to Do the Right Thing™ and also to help teach the seller to be more careful with his fingers I decided to return to him 75% of the mistake.  I wrote a message to the seller pointing out the mistake (it possible that he hadn’t noticed it) and sent him about 1.6 billion isk.

My work was done and I slept very well last night… 

1 comment:

  1. I once paid 500 Million for a thrasher. Unfortunately for me the man who sold it to me was NOT a Jack Dancer gentleman type. Bless you for returning the bulk of his money. He learns a lesson but is not rendered indigent. \0/

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