Yeah. Technically, BP.TF just reports the price. It's the sellers who end up undercutting each other because of those price changes. So BP.TF is responsible, but not directly.

check your numbers in that comment giang

Chill out. Hostility. I'm just saying this is a quite small amount of proof. I'm not trying to attack anyone. lol

Okay. I apologize for doubting your intelligence of the amount of proof needed. I was just trying to assist because the price suggestions I have seen have had a lot more proof. I apologize for me being ignorant.

No? It was to difficult? Or you just disagree? Its proven though ;-) Check the history

It does make sense. Too bad backpack.tf doesn't care about ruining the economy or not...

The price has gone down because of flippers on outpost. The flippers don't want the price to go down, they don't care about the price at all. They just want profit.

However, when the first slight drop came, people became frightened, because "buds are going down" (which means they don't understand how backpack.tf works: the arrows indicate that it HAS gone down, not that it will in the future), and try to get keys A.S.A.P., by listing them at a bit lower than current backpack.tf price. However, the backpack.tf price will be adjusted because of these posts.

This means we're in a vicious circle. There is no way out. The mass who has buds just keeps quickselling.

This works the other way around on keys: they go up, so everyone starts buying them for even more than the current backpack.tf price.

Good bye, Mannconomy. It was nice knowing you.

Buds were originally used because people were too lazy to add 20+ keys in 100 key trades, lmao.

The sad truth :-:

Such a nice story

Not blaming anyone here :)

Just said it's a vicious circle.

I don't know how to stop such a thing, it's probably a thing we should do all together, but considering there's always the people who want to be pigheaded and still sell for less, it won't work.

Yay to everyone, good ol' community :D

First, not blaming anyone or anything. Just trying to open a discussion and to get people to think about this.

So questions as "Is this the right way to do this?" "Should we vote so often" are being asked.

Again, I really don't care much is they are 20 or 10 keys. Its just that there are so many price votes on these important items of the Mannconomy that I'm questioning it. Common sense?

How about this as a suggestion. What if an item can only have one accepted price vote each month?

I mean.... democracy is good but most prices don't change that often. This isn't Petrol ;-)

Agree, tho after this suggestion gets accept it wont be possible anymore, because they will start sell for less than 11 keys

I actually spoke to polar about pricing more items in keys. I mentioned that many high tiered stranges and low tiered unusuals use keys as their main currency, and that there should be a cap: anything valued under the cap gets priced in keys, and anything above gets priced in buds. Sadly, he said that the currency used should be the same as the one used in the trades, which is mostly buds for unusuals.

No one (hopefully) would pay with 115 keys instead of 10 buds (assuming stable values). That's the purpose of currencies: to make transactions easier. Price fluctuations in currencies is just one of the prices we pay for the convenience.