# How does contract price not match written price, scammers advantage? **URL:** \ **Category:** Market Discussions\ **Created:** [May 17, 2020, 7:07pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-does-contract-price-not-match-written-price-scammers-advantage/241940 "2020-05-17T19:07:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zazzmatazz\_Xu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zazzmatazz_xu/32/451037_2.png) [@zazzmatazz\_Xu](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/zazzmatazz_Xu)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 7:07pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-does-contract-price-not-match-written-price-scammers-advantage/241940/1 "2020-05-17T19:07:05Z")
Seen a contract, word beside the amount said 1.1 (billion), yet the actual price is 1.1 trillion, can we actually manipulate the contract words in order to scam others this way, seems very bad gameplay. ---
**Author:** ![Scoots\_Choco](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/scoots_choco/32/262262_2.png) [@Scoots\_Choco](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Scoots_Choco)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-does-contract-price-not-match-written-price-scammers-advantage/241940/2 "2020-05-17T19:31:55Z")
Do you have a screenshot of that? ---
**Author:** ![zazzmatazz\_Xu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zazzmatazz_xu/32/451037_2.png) [@zazzmatazz\_Xu](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/zazzmatazz_Xu)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-does-contract-price-not-match-written-price-scammers-advantage/241940/3 "2020-05-17T19:38:23Z")
No, got disconnected so I am away from home looking for TP that’s hard to find still, did send in a trouble ticket although thought it was a bug but realized what the issue really was. ---
**Author:** ![zazzmatazz\_Xu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zazzmatazz_xu/32/451037_2.png) [@zazzmatazz\_Xu](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/zazzmatazz_Xu)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 8:07pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-does-contract-price-not-match-written-price-scammers-advantage/241940/4 "2020-05-17T20:07:41Z")
Got home, tried screen shots but not working submitting bug report on possibility of an exploit. ---
**Author:** ![Tipa\_Riot](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/tipa_riot/32/443513_2.png) [@Tipa\_Riot](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Tipa_Riot)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 8:52pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-does-contract-price-not-match-written-price-scammers-advantage/241940/5 "2020-05-17T20:52:57Z")
Your screenshot in your other thread clearly shows the correct value. ---
**Author:** ![Ricardo\_DannoFort](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ricardo_dannofort/32/199394_2.png) [@Ricardo\_DannoFort](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ricardo_DannoFort)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 9:59pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-does-contract-price-not-match-written-price-scammers-advantage/241940/6 "2020-05-17T21:59:18Z")
3.4 T is the same as 3.400 B. There’s nothing wrong there my friend. You need glasses, that’s all. ---
**Author:** ![zazzmatazz\_Xu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zazzmatazz_xu/32/451037_2.png) [@zazzmatazz\_Xu](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/zazzmatazz_Xu)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 10:13pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-does-contract-price-not-match-written-price-scammers-advantage/241940/7 "2020-05-17T22:13:44Z")
> [@Ricardo\_DannoFort](#): > > 3.400 B Or other may see it as three billion four hundred million, they way we all interpret what we see is often wrong, people misinterpret others all the time, some are just crazy while others just see it sometimes wrongly at first glance so instead of raging at CCP they ask, no harm is posting it looking for the correct answer, at least I hope not. ---
**Author:** ![Ricardo\_DannoFort](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ricardo_dannofort/32/199394_2.png) [@Ricardo\_DannoFort](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ricardo_DannoFort)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 10:35pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-does-contract-price-not-match-written-price-scammers-advantage/241940/8 "2020-05-17T22:35:16Z")
I mean no offense, really. But do you see how I wrote 3.4 T and how I wrote 3.400 B? It’s of common sense to understand that 3.400 B is not 3.4 B. Because while adding those 00 I’m implying that they have value, and must be taken into consideration. I understand that it may be confusing at first, but when you really see it, you don’t have any difficulty telling one from the other. ---
**Author:** ![zazzmatazz\_Xu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zazzmatazz_xu/32/451037_2.png) [@zazzmatazz\_Xu](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/zazzmatazz_Xu)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 11:18pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-does-contract-price-not-match-written-price-scammers-advantage/241940/9 "2020-05-17T23:18:03Z")
> [@Ricardo\_DannoFort](#): > > mean no offense None taken, it was something that gave me pause when I looked at it, I also wear readers when playing, that aside I also copied and pasted the amount shown and it also said billions yet I was taken aback, thought it could be a bug but it’s cool, I understand how they (CCP), are expressing values, same way Brits use “stone” as a measurement while the USA uses pounds, etc, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Nepsy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nepsy/32/302840_2.png) [@Nepsy](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Nepsy)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 1:32am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-does-contract-price-not-match-written-price-scammers-advantage/241940/10 "2020-05-18T01:32:41Z")
> [@Ricardo\_DannoFort](#): > > But do you see how I wrote 3.4 T and how I wrote 3.400 B? 3.400B == 3.4B, what are you smoking? It might be a french localization problem, but for me I see 3, 400B which is equal to 3.4T as the highest value contract currently. ---
**Author:** ![Ricardo\_DannoFort](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ricardo_dannofort/32/199394_2.png) [@Ricardo\_DannoFort](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ricardo_DannoFort)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 1:52pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-does-contract-price-not-match-written-price-scammers-advantage/241940/11 "2020-05-18T13:52:47Z")
It depends on what you use to separate the numbers. But since in EVE there is no coma, 3.400 B is not equal to 3.4 B. ---
**Author:** ![Nepsy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nepsy/32/302840_2.png) [@Nepsy](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Nepsy)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 2:17pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-does-contract-price-not-match-written-price-scammers-advantage/241940/12 "2020-05-18T14:17:02Z")
> [@Ricardo\_DannoFort](#): > > But since in EVE there is no coma Again, I don’t know if this is just a french localization problem but there are definitely commas, at least for Canada/US ---
**Author:** ![Ricardo\_DannoFort](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ricardo_dannofort/32/199394_2.png) [@Ricardo\_DannoFort](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ricardo_DannoFort)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-does-contract-price-not-match-written-price-scammers-advantage/241940/13 "2020-05-18T14:20:40Z")
Then it must be it. I thought that the absence of commas was universal ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-does-contract-price-not-match-written-price-scammers-advantage/241940/14 "2020-08-16T14:20:49Z")
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