# Salvage Price Spike - What's Driving It? **URL:** \ **Category:** Market Discussions\ **Created:** [June 29, 2018, 8:47am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/salvage-price-spike-whats-driving-it/85866 "2018-06-29T08:47:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Sabriz\_Adoudel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/sabriz_adoudel/32/14017_2.png) [@Sabriz\_Adoudel](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Sabriz_Adoudel)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 8:47am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/salvage-price-spike-whats-driving-it/85866/1 "2018-06-29T08:47:50Z")
A year ago I went deep speculating on various low-end salvage. I made a post at the time ( [Salvage Futures - A Market Analysis (Full Disclosure: Vested Interest)](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/salvage-futures-a-market-analysis-full-disclosure-vested-interest/16740) ). My analysis turned out not to hit particularly hard, and whilst I sold a bunch of stock at the height of prices, I was left with tens of billions of ISK tied up in salvage that was worth less now than at the time I purchased it. Not wanting to waste market broker fees on multi-billion ISK sell orders, I left a lot of it up there, adjusting the order each 90 days. When Charred Micro Circuits fell to 1100/unit, I still had a sell order for about 1750000 units at 4400/unit. Today, that order sold in its entirety to a single player. Other players bought similarly non-competitively priced sell orders out in their entirety. * * * I cannot see any recent announcements of game mechanic changes that would drive this, nor does the destruction of today’s fleet fight seem enough to merit this big a buyup of salvage. Does anyone have any insights into what is going on? --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/salvage-price-spike-whats-driving-it/85866)._