# I made a Big Mistake! **URL:** \ **Category:** New Citizens Q&A\ **Created:** [November 7, 2024, 10:11pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/i-made-a-big-mistake/467204 "2024-11-07T22:11:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zena\_Xena](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zena_xena/32/437564_2.png) [@Zena\_Xena](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zena_Xena)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 10:11pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/i-made-a-big-mistake/467204/1 "2024-11-07T22:11:03Z")
There’s too many ZEROS in the prices here! I set my wallet settings to NOT show the cents on ISK amounts. But… when I went to sell a bunch of silicate glass on the market, the cents still show on the market. I got confused and listed my silicate glass for a price that was 1000-fold too high… and wasted 700 million ISK on broker fees. A box did pop up saying that I was charging more than the average market price, but the message had green text, so I thought it was a benign warning. Any thoughts or suggestions or lessons or comforting words? After returning to Eve after a decade 2 weeks ago, that wipes out ALL of the profit I made this month! ---
**Author:** ![Analoreke\_Brunette](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/analoreke_brunette/32/441333_2.png) [@Analoreke\_Brunette](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Analoreke_Brunette)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 10:30pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/i-made-a-big-mistake/467204/2 "2024-11-07T22:30:31Z")
@Zena_Xena The fill-in field for Isk amounts is tricky and you are not the first one nor will be the last one to make that mistake. I almost made such huge mistake twice and I haven’t been playing for that long. Everytime you have to put an amount in such field make sure that you hover your mouse over the amount, a little pop-up will appear telling you exacty how much you have inputted in letters ( seven hundred million ) before you click “OK”. ---
**Author:** ![Terak\_Romaller](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/terak_romaller/32/374271_2.png) [@Terak\_Romaller](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Terak_Romaller)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 10:32pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/i-made-a-big-mistake/467204/3 "2024-11-07T22:32:39Z")
Might be worth raising a ticket, but don’t demand - or indeed expect - a positive outcome. It is very much a case of “your consequences for your mistake”. I’ve done something similar more than once - force of habit adding three zeros to the end of a sell order. It hurts: you swear, log off, take a breath, come back and re-earn the loss. I’ve learn to double check, and sell smaller batches of stuff where I can make that mistake. You have my sympathy. ---
**Author:** ![Princess\_Rose\_Ivory](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/princess_rose_ivory/32/515700_2.png) [@Princess\_Rose\_Ivory](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Princess_Rose_Ivory)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 12:13am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/i-made-a-big-mistake/467204/4 "2024-11-08T00:13:34Z")
Ouch! I have made a few mistakes in the market too. I bought some items unaware, as to their function, then had to sell them back at a loss. One such item I bought is a skill extractor. These run 500 to 600 million ISK, I still have it stored over in Dodixie in the hopes I either find a use for it or sell it for a tiny profit. I have purchased big ships just to have them explode only minutes after getting them fitted. I don’t get too sweaty on this game, since I have no real cash investment here. But when you lose a month’s worth of ISK from a typo… OUCH! ![ouch](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/1/5/9/1594fc909e8896063862c597a34ae4c149532145.jpeg) Have fun! ---
**Author:** ![MB\_ThePhotographer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mb_thephotographer/32/373722_2.png) [@MB\_ThePhotographer](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/MB_ThePhotographer)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 4:13am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/i-made-a-big-mistake/467204/5 "2024-11-08T04:13:56Z")
> [@Zena\_Xena](#): > > comforting words? Join the Club? 🤣 Without mistakes, we would never learn. You will recover! 🤩 ---
**Author:** ![Xalon\_Hawk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/xalon_hawk/32/442735_2.png) [@Xalon\_Hawk](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Xalon_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 7:37pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/i-made-a-big-mistake/467204/6 "2024-11-08T19:37:26Z")
Make sure you read all the text shown in popup windows. Never rush. You can miss out on some important info. Don’t worry though. A lot of players have had similar issues over the years. We all make mistakes. Now you learn from it and move on 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zena\_Xena](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zena_xena/32/437564_2.png) [@Zena\_Xena](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zena_Xena)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 6:20pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/i-made-a-big-mistake/467204/7 "2024-11-11T18:20:45Z")
I filed a ticket and got my 700M ISK returned after waiting for 4 days for a reply. The dev also included a small warning not to expect similar help in the future. HAPPY DAY!! ---
**Author:** ![Syzygium](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/syzygium/32/516281_2.png) [@Syzygium](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Syzygium)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 6:32pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/i-made-a-big-mistake/467204/8 "2024-11-11T18:32:49Z")
Happened to me as well, some years ago. Definitely learn from it and take care in the future, they probably won’t do it again. ---
**Author:** ![MB\_ThePhotographer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mb_thephotographer/32/373722_2.png) [@MB\_ThePhotographer](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/MB_ThePhotographer)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 2:03am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/i-made-a-big-mistake/467204/9 "2024-11-12T02:03:11Z")
They did me a favor as well early on. I never asked for a 2nd. 😉 Live and learn. ---
**Author:** ![William\_Crimsun](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/william_crimsun/32/440441_2.png) [@William\_Crimsun](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/William_Crimsun)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 10:58am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/i-made-a-big-mistake/467204/10 "2024-11-13T10:58:57Z")
Yeah, I’m new to Eve and I’ve found that the system can be confusing with the amount of numbers and zeros. It’s not quite a friendly interface for new players or anyone who may be dyslexic. Kind of the devs to help with the broker fees issue though. ---
**Author:** ![Zena\_Xena](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zena_xena/32/437564_2.png) [@Zena\_Xena](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zena_Xena)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 5:34pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/i-made-a-big-mistake/467204/11 "2024-11-13T17:34:00Z")
That interface is not just unfriendly to newbies and dyslexics. I’m a scientist, and astronomy enthusiast. I’ve spent a lifetime dealing with large numbers. And in my day-to-day experience, large numbers come with the zeros in sets of three, separated by commas. IRL, I can tell a trillion from a billion at a glance. But with Eve’s market (and many other interfaces such as PI, etc) showing sets of three, plus the unnecessary cents at the end, it throws me off. EVERY TIME. I can’t unteach my eyes how I’ve spent a lifetime dealing with large numbers. I wish I could just remove the ISK cents display from everywhere they show up in the game. I actually thought I had turned off the ISK cents display everywhere when I clicked that option in the wallet, but unfortunately, that only applies to stuff displayed by the wallet, not the whole game. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/i-made-a-big-mistake/467204/12 "2025-02-11T17:34:11Z")
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