What does this website do?
This website is a market for trading capital ships of Eve Online. It aims to make buying and selling a capital easier, cheaper and more fun than the in-game market. This service is offered free of charge to both buyers and sellers.
What are the main features?
The main features are:
- Provides a market for trading all capital ships of Eve Online
- Helps buyers to find a good offer more easily
- Manages complete purchasing workflow without need to use any additional communication tools
- Support for selling ships while they are still being manufactured
- Supports both classic stations and new (public) structures as pick-up location
- Automatic notification about order updates by Eve mail
- Statistics about market performance (planned)
- Special offers and/or pricing for alliance members (available on request)
- Notification about new alliance offers on Slack (available on request)
How does the basic purchasing workflow look like?
The basic purchasing workflow is:
- Seller creates a new offer for the market
- Buyer purchases an offer from the market
- Seller informs buyer as soon as the goods are ready for pick-up and the in-game contract is created
- Buyer accepts contract (in-game only)
What are the benefits of using this site over the in-game market?
The EVE Capital Market offers several benefits to both buyers and sellers of capital ships over the in-game markets. In addition it offers some unique benefits for alliances:
For buyers
- All offers are in one place which makes it easier and quicker to find good offers
- Access to more offers including capitals still being manufactured and ordered capitals on demand
- Potentially better offers than in-game, because the market is more transparent and sellers have lower transaction costs
For sellers
- Much easier to manage multiple orders than via Eve Mail, Slack or other unstructured methods
- Ability to sell capitals while they are still being built
- Significantly reduced transaction costs, since private contracts are much cheaper then public contacts
- Reduce risk and needed ISK by building capitals on-demand
For alliances
- Ability to make special prices for alliance offers
- Ability to offer capitals to alliance members only
- NOtification about new alliance offers on Slack
How can I contact the author of this website?
If you have any questions, comments or feedback please contact me in game. My Eve Online character name is Erik Kalkoken.