Yea I sold my extra for 2 rec in an hr after my post

While I upvoted this, I don't understand why anyone would need more than one Alien Parasite hat. Even if you wanted the hat, why not download the game for free through Steam and play any 2 missions online which in turn gives you the hat in TF2 for free.

-shrug-

I don't understand why anyone would want this hat. Not voting, but still.

Although it's one of the most common hats, the tradable ones are far rarer than the untradables, and couldn't be acquired after Mannconomy. They are limited and thus susceptible to price increase, especially with the ton of collectors (most notably this guy, who had trouble buying at 2-3 scrap nearly a year ago http://tf2b.com/tf2/DICKS_OAK )

I'm not sure what to vote here, so I won't vote any... but it definitely seems as though people have seen this and are taking advantage of this information before it comes official - http://www.tf2outpost.com/user/53813

I'm not seeing anyone paying nor offering 1 refined for an unpainted Alien Swarm Parasite.