# What happens when you make a purchase you can't afford?

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**Created:** [June 19, 2024, 4:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-happens-when-you-make-a-purchase-you-cant-afford/453283 "2024-06-19T16:10:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Larry\_Darzay](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/larry_darzay/32/459620_2.png) [@Larry\_Darzay](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Larry_Darzay)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 4:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-happens-when-you-make-a-purchase-you-cant-afford/453283/1 "2024-06-19T16:10:25Z")

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I usually try to avoid these situations, but if i had 10,000,000 ISK and made a 20,000,000 ISK purchase, what’s the outcome?

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**Author:** ![Qia\_Kare](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/qia_kare/32/279281_2.png) [@Qia\_Kare](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Qia_Kare)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 4:50pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-happens-when-you-make-a-purchase-you-cant-afford/453283/2 "2024-06-19T16:50:08Z")

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I am pretty sure you can not do that. If we are talking about a market order where the amount put in escrow is less than the purchase price and you don’t have sufficient funds at the time the order would go through, it fails and the order is canceled.

Going isk negative is possible if you get penalties or fines, but you can’t make purchases that exceed your available funds.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Darzay](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/larry_darzay/32/459620_2.png) [@Larry\_Darzay](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Larry_Darzay)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 8:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-happens-when-you-make-a-purchase-you-cant-afford/453283/3 "2024-06-19T20:10:08Z")

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Helpful? Quite.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 8:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-happens-when-you-make-a-purchase-you-cant-afford/453283/4 "2024-09-17T20:10:57Z")

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