A week without internet, a price crash, and a ton of filled buy orders. My ISK hurts. Read about it.
I moved to a new apartment recently after getting back into station trading (Jita.) The date of the move snuck up on me... then the cable installation took a week longer than expected.
I had never sorted out my orders the whole time.
Price. Crash.
EVE market prices crashed... and naturally all my buy orders filled. I lost about 4 billion ISK (total worth) and my wallet was tied up in under-priced goods till I sold it off a week later—taking nearly the full loss.
A Valiant Recovery!
I was still trading with my crippled wallet during this. I had a little ISK... and my speculative hauling
strategy doesn't tie up my wallet. I just ran what I had through the mill over and over. Purchase, haul, sell, and so on.
I was able to PLEX my main account at least! The ship I used: a Viator.
Stockpiling Sucks.
This isn't the first time I had an issue with stockpiling mods. A while back I tried stockpiling one item (my first attempt) and it was folded into another module.
The new one was worth about 1% as much. Lost 600Mil there. Woops!
Goodbye Station Trading.
My main strategy doesn't depend on EVE patch notes (and I have A.D.D.)...so I can't be bothered to watch for market changes. My solution? Don't stockpile.
I also don't like station trading... so none of that either anymore. Back to my speculative hauling
yay. It's better ISK and I enjoy it more.
Thanks for the read!!
Fun story! I was a bit grumpy by it all but it got sorted out. I made my ISK back (and some.) I also learned a good lesson:
Do what you love (especially if it makes you more ISK.)
Happy to be trading in EVE Online again. =)
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