# Why does trade have to cough up all the isk sinks?

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**Created:** [October 19, 2019, 10:55am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-does-trade-have-to-cough-up-all-the-isk-sinks/196394 "2019-10-19T10:55:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marek\_Kanenald](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/marek_kanenald/32/257788_2.png) [@Marek\_Kanenald](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Marek_Kanenald)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2020, 9:47am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-does-trade-have-to-cough-up-all-the-isk-sinks/196394/171 "2020-01-12T09:47:18Z")

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I have made the suggestion to lower broker fees and raise transaction fees:

> [@Lower brokers fees, raise transaction fees](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/lower-brokers-fees-raise-transaction-fees/210916):
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> A market order is not a transfer of goods, it is only a form of communication to the other party that you want to buy or sell something. It shouldn’t take up to 5%(!) to just say you want to buy it. All this does is make managing larger market orders a pain because if you first say you want to buy and the market changes you lose the extreme broker fees. It forces people to micro manage the same buy order into smaller chunks, which is tedious and ads nothing. Broker fee should only be to preven…

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