Sold a (ptobable) phantom item

I was checking my personal assets and noticed an Ishtar in my Jita inventory. This surprised me since although I did buy an Ishtar recently I was sure I only bought one, however I have accidentally bought more items than I intended before so thought that must be it. I checked the drop-down menu and saw I could sell this Ishtar for a decent price so went ahead and sold it. It was then when things got weird; when I checked my Jita assets again there was still an Ishtar there. I once again checked the drop down and noticed the option to sell, which I refrained from doing since although it was possible I accidentally bought two Ishtars I was sure I hadn’t bought more than that. I also had a corvette there which I preceded to trash, but there was still a corvette there even after trashing it (which I again thought odd).

Even more bizarrely, when I docked up I checked my personal assets again and noticed the Jita Ishtar and corvette were no longer there. I hadn’t sold the second (phantom?) Ishtar or trashed the second corvette but now I’m worried the first Ishtar I had sold was also a phantom item and this might count as a fraudulent transaction somehow.

This must be a bug, surely. I was wondering if anybody else has experienced something similar and what happened next.

Assets window is delayed up to 5 minutes. You had one Ishtar and one Corvette, you sold/trashed them. This wasn’t immediately reflected in the assets window because it’s delayed, but the items were gone and attempting to sell the ishtar again would either do nothing, or tell you that the item doesn’t exist.

I didn’t know that. Thanks for telling me.

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What a dream :wink: