Suggestion: The Value of Teamwork at 1.5–2 keys

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~52.22 ref

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This suggestion was closed Tue, 12 Mar 13 10:18:13 +0000 by Puddilicious.

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Pretty much every single trade on outpost is selling for 2 keys

***PROOF***

http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/9192352 Selling for 2 keys, sold 1

http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/8808729 Sold for 2 keys

http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/3522677 Sold a couple for 2 keys

http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/9037150 Selling for 2 keys, sold some

http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/4317242 Sold for 2 keys

http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/9172540 Selling for 1 key + 1 ref

http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/9031937 Offered 5.88 ref

More proof will be added as needed. Feel free to add more proof/counter proof below!

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This same suggestion was denied two days ago due to the fact that you can buy the paint for less than 1.5keys in the mann co store http://backpack.tf/vote/id/513a7812ba25369104000009

Real money doesn't affect the price of an item in TF2 items....

Steam wallet isn't real money.

Edit: I probably should explain a bit more. You can sell a key for $2 USD on the steam market, and you can buy the paint for $2.50 USD from the store.

Money does affect the price of items, lost of suggestions have been turned down because of that fact

then it has been very inconsistent. i've seen suggestions with some arguments based on steam wallet be denied for that reason

It's a case-by-case thing--A lot of people who claim that X item should be worth a certain price based solely on steam market prices are often forgetting that paypal funds are worth more than steam wallet funds.

Further, not all items are available from Valve for a fixed price, so basing prices off of market prices isn't viable when there is no option to buy an item in the store.

I've seen the exact same thing

You add steam funds to your steam wallet with real money and then buy it for that much at the Mann Co. Store, right? Or am i mistaken?

Did you miss the steam market? http://steamcommunity.com/market/

But even then... can't you sell items on the market for however much you want? Or is there a set price or something? Also, just because you can buy an item for real money doesn't mean that's how much it is in TF2 items, at least I don't think....

You can sell your items at whatever price you want, but if there are 100 keys available at $2.20, why would anyone buy the one you put up for 20 bucks?

I've sold over a hundred keys in the market in the last 4 weeks, average buyer price is between $2.15 and $2.25, it doesn't go any higher or any lower than that.

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Oh, okay that makes more sense, because I was going to say.... " Where Have I been?"

where did you find keys for 2$?

When you sell keys on the steam market, you can usually get about $2 steam wallet for it (buyer pays about $2.30)

http://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/440/Mann%20Co.%20Supply%20Crate%20Key about $1.95 for sellers currently

there's keys for 1.2$ too http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/9154730

you mean that the real money a put on my steam wallet are magically mutate int monopoly cash?

put you facts straight steam wallet fees pays Us taxes dude!is more real that you let others think!

that didnt stop gift wrap to worth more than a key did it! it`s about demand and offer dude!

1.5 keys is more than enough value for this one , much easy to get it less than it in market , and there a guy selling for 1.25 in op already http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/9172540

he is sold out though!

1.99 euro in store VoT

1.99 euro in store key

hmm you see whats the prioblem here?

you suggest 2 keys for every key spent in store

well i hope this aproved it will give you 100% profit

Same thing with expanders, prem. gifts, and white/black paints. You can sell them for 3 keys while buying them for $4.98 (2 keys USD) in the store

Keys can be bought for 2.20 on steam store. So 5 dollars is around 2.2-2.3 keys. Lots of tf2 players hv a job so they are willing to shell out 2.5 keys for convenience. I hv seen black and white paint listed at 3 keys and I can tell its very hard to sell them for that price. Once in a while an impatient trader may come along and buy 1 but that’s all..

An example of how price does not affect the price of an item is a Barnstormer, or even any other hats that are in the store, which can be bought for $4.99 USD. Does that mean that the price of the Barnstormer should go up to 2 keys? Also, another example is black/white paint, which has gone up to about 3 keys, as #andy pointed out, which can be bought for $4.99 USD, too, but people are not selling them at 2 keys. Instead they are selling them for the listed price which is 2.5-2.75 keys. Why would ToV be affected in a different way than any other paint that is rising or lowering?

My argument is that the low end of the price shouldn't go over the mann co store price.

For your examples, the barnstormer is worth less than the store price so no problem with that, and black/white paint is about 2.5keys if you sell keys on the steam market so no problem with that either.

While it is easy to sell this paint for 1.5keys+ (I sold 30 within 2 weeks myself: http://i.imgur.com/8yw1Oxd.png ), it is just as easy to buy it from the mann co store for 1.25keys.

I'd suggest putting the low end at 1.25keys, I have no opinion about the high end.

link 1 offer of 1 key and strange medi gun -- 1.2 keys, and there is no proof he actually sold 1 for 2 keys, more proof of 2 keys?

I sell this color for 2 keys and I have sold maybe 2 in the last week: http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/9037150

I would suggest 1.5 keys flat for the price of this item. This does not fetch 2 keys in a reasonable amount of time.