Listing items on the Hypernet is not completely free of risk, though.
However, if listed as a Hypernet raffle, the seller can choose to list
up to 512 individual raffle tickets, each at a fraction of the total price.
The Hypernet is a trade network in which players are
able to see how many tickets are available for a certain item and how much those tickets cost.
This happened very famously just a few days after the release of the Hypernet Relay, with one of the rarest ships in
all of EVE Online as the subject of the raffle.
Because these items are rare, they often sit in the inventories of collectors for years,
but one hoped-for goal of the Hypernet is that these rare items will re-enter circulation in the economy.
To list an item, a seller must provide an amount
of“HyperCores,” a new item added to the game alongside the Hypernet Relays, proportional to the total value of all of the tickets in the raffle.
A few days after the launch of the Hypernet Relay, a Raven State Issue,
most likely the same vessel Bluemelon attempted to sell, appeared on the Hypernet, with 512 tickets costing nearly 8 billion ISK each, or somewhere around $90, adding up to a staggering 4 trillion ISK.