While updating market orders in Hek, I noticed that the
Federation Navy 200mm Steel Plates had been undercut by 10 mil. This was indeed annoying
meaning, that I had basically 2 options:
- Wait until they go up the price I have, achieved once all
my competition gets bought by consumers;
- Undercut my competition, saying goodbye to my large
profit margin. This way I might still make a smaller profit or sell at a small
loss, getting the bulk of my isk back to invest in something else that might be
more profitable. I never really go check the “buy price” of my items… It takes
too long, so I just risk it.
In order to make a decision I do check for 2 factors. How
many items are really undercutting me by a large value and how many are sold
per week. I clicked the market order and here is what I found out.
I just had
a WTF moment… now take notice that this is happening in Hek and not in Jita. No
less than 12 orders were put up (they did not existed before as far as I
remember), with similar prices, and extremely similar creation times, because
they have pretty much all the same age, with few seconds apart.
This sort
of activity in Hek, with so many new created/updated orders so closely is very
odd to me. I don’t see it that often, specially after a big undercut. I’m
wondering… Is it all the same guy, that for some reason is putting the same
item in several orders, with a few minutes apart? I could really buy the 1st
order and one item from the 2nd order to find out, but it’s not like gonna do
much use. Was it a bot going haywire? Is it just a big coincidence and I’m just
crazy to think there’s something fishy? Might never find out.
Nevertheless
the decision here was simple. Considering the item sells little, and
having 40+ new items undercutting me, I’m gonna kiss my margin goodbye and
try to ditch them for now...
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