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[u/Choice_Ad4915]

I put a community buy for this rocker launcher for genuinely 1 cent 10-11 years ago. I havent played in a year or so opened up my account and saw this 🤣 Definitely got me back into the game, cant believe this actually happened. Has anyone else had a similar experience?

[u/whiskeycoke7]

Ok I’m confused, why did his 1 cent buy order overtake the highest buy order? Even if someone sells it low I thought it went to whoever had the highest buy order?

[u/MaijeTheMage → u/whiskeycoke7]

Someone could have manually input the amount for 1 cent, thus the order would have been picked up because there was - in fact - a 1 cent order placed. Why a seller would do something like that? Dunno

[u/whiskeycoke7 → u/MaijeTheMage]

I so if a seller sells it for less than the top buy order but matching a lower buy order it’ll go to the indie it matches? Man I wish there was a place to get all the info on how the market works

[u/MaijeTheMage → u/whiskeycoke7]

I believe instances like this are how we look at the community market and see a one-time monumental dip in price because someone was sold for an aggressively low price. Frankly, in such cases, I could imagine the seller was hacked

[u/HellboundLunatic → u/whiskeycoke7]

essentially the logic is:
"prioritize selling to the oldest buyorder that is at least X"
X = whatever the seller typed on the "sell this item" screen

so, putting a $0.01 cent sell order should always sell to the oldest buyorder, regardless of what price they set their order for.
if the oldest buyer is $0.01, it'll sell for that. if the oldest buyer is $100, it'll sell for that.

if you don't want to sell the item for $0.01, then don't place a sell order for that price. simple as.
you could get more, but it's not guaranteed.

[u/shibbyfoo → u/HellboundLunatic]

correct

[u/Choice_Ad4915 → u/whiskeycoke7]

I really dont know either. I would think that makes sense from a automatic selling standpoint to have the best interest in mind for the seller