How to monopolize a market

This is a plan for those who already have some EVE Online ISK but want to make a lot more and are prepared to take a risk. People often forget that the EVE market is like the real world market. If in the real world, I bought all the Coca Cola in England then I would have a monopoly and be able to charge what I liked, so instead of 50p a can I could charge 75p a can, people would have to pay 75p as no-one else is able to sell them, as I have them all.

Now transfer this thinking to buy EVE isk. If we take a system that’s is not a central trade hub ( so NOT Jita or Rens) then we look at what is low compared to it’s price history average. I see that in this system DCU I’s are selling for 150,000 ± 5,000 and there are about 1500 for sale within a 5 jump radius. So I now buy up ALL the DCU’s in that 5 jump radius. This will cost me 150,000 ± 5,000, so between 217,500,000 and 232,500,000 ISK.

Now you have just spent 230,000,000 isk price and you will want at LEAST a 10% profit on those, so you are looking to make 255,000,000 after all taxes and sale charges. This meant you have to sell your DCU’s for 175,000 each as a minimum. As you are the sole trader people will have to pay. This strategy takes time to perfect and is potentially risky but I have seen people buy up all of a mod and double the price and put them back on the market.