This has happened to me too. Prospector has about 40k hyperiums at 50% on the Larkinor market. When I posted them there about 2-3 weeks ago, I made sure they would be bought first by buying all the other hyperiums that were listed at 50%.
Today, I noticed that his market balance hadn't increased in about a week, so I sent him on a rare trip to Larkinor to investigate. The hyperiums were still on the market and still 50%, but they were no longer first in the queue. I had to buy about 400 hyperiums to get his stock back into the front of the line.
I tried the following:
- Character A posted 2 hyperiums for 50% on the market
- Character B posted 2 hyperiums for 100% on the market
- Character C posted 2 hyperiums for 50% on the market
- Character D bought 1 hyperium (from Character A, as expected)
- Character B reduced the price of his hyperiums to 50%
- Character D bought 1 hyperium (from Character A, as expected)
- Character D bought 1 hyperium (from Character C, as expected)
In other words, items are bought in the order they were priced, not the order they were listed. Character B has to wait until Character C's hyperiums are sold, even though Character B listed his first, because Character C listed his for 50% first.
So that didn't work. Any explanation on how this is happening would be appreciated... I'd like to take advantage of it too.
Sandy