# Selling lower than highest buy price - why? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [November 7, 2018, 3:16pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/selling-lower-than-highest-buy-price-why/118895 "2018-11-07T15:16:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CistaCista](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/cistacista/32/482254_2.png) [@CistaCista](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/CistaCista)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2018, 5:52am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/selling-lower-than-highest-buy-price-why/118895/21 "2018-11-11T05:52:46Z")
> [@Solonius\_Rex](#): > > If you sell at the exact amount of a current active buy order, you will sell to that person, and not to the highest buy order. This is 100 % wrong, as was already pointed out by 1 person. What you have seen is if you try to sell at an amount that is “too low”, you _will_ sell at that low price. So you will not get the amount that the item is worth. However, what you sell the amount _for_ and who you sell the amount _to_ is two different things. The guy with the highest buy order will _always_ get the item, so he will just get it cheaper and be happy. This is why you will see posts in the forum of “Oh this guy sold me an XX for just YY ISK, to my big surprise”. The same goes for sell orders. You can trick yourself into paying too much, but you cannot decide who to buy from, you always buy from the person with the lowest sell order. The system has to be this way, in order to prevent people buying and selling items to themselves at artificial prices. Every item on the market would be heavily price manipulated by people like myself if this was possible. ---
**Author:** ![CistaCista](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/cistacista/32/482254_2.png) [@CistaCista](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/CistaCista)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2018, 6:13am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/selling-lower-than-highest-buy-price-why/118895/22 "2018-11-11T06:13:35Z")
Here are a couple of old threads that also explain that you can not buy or sell to any other person than the one that has the first sell order and buy order: [https://forums-archive.eveonline.com/topic/359999/](https://forums-archive.eveonline.com/topic/359999/) [https://forums-archive.eveonline.com/topic/57167/](https://forums-archive.eveonline.com/topic/57167/) ---
**Author:** ![Solonius\_Rex](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/solonius_rex/32/388172_2.png) [@Solonius\_Rex](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Solonius_Rex)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/selling-lower-than-highest-buy-price-why/118895/23 "2018-11-11T17:13:40Z")
Oh jesus youre right. My mistake. I tried to make a buy order for a lower amount, the item sold but not to the buy order. ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Saboteur](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dread_saboteur/32/270709_2.png) [@Dread\_Saboteur](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dread_Saboteur)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2018, 5:38pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/selling-lower-than-highest-buy-price-why/118895/24 "2018-11-11T17:38:31Z")
You will sell for what YOU typed in if it’s below highest buy order.I had a few people forget a digit here and there neting me easy money ---
**Author:** ![Ganellon\_Devians](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ganellon_devians/32/13647_2.png) [@Ganellon\_Devians](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ganellon_Devians)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2018, 8:19pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/selling-lower-than-highest-buy-price-why/118895/25 "2018-11-11T20:19:41Z")
> [@Solonius\_Rex](#): > > Oh jesus youre right. My mistake. I tried to make a buy order for a lower amount, the item sold but not to the buy order. … 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2019, 8:19pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/selling-lower-than-highest-buy-price-why/118895/26 "2019-02-09T20:19:43Z")
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