Man, the key only went up last week...Guess it is another increase +Upvote

Oh look, it's the virtual economist, trying to save us all from the inflation.

Listen, backpack.tf is only a guide that reflects the prices of what items are commonly sold alongside the community, it doesn't affect prices directly. Backpack.tf doesn't set the price, the community does, if people would stop buying keys for more then they would stop rising, but the community decides to buy more at higher prices, leading to a price raise, it isn't the site's fault that some people threat it as a bible. And if people buy for more than backpack.tf price commonly then the guide that is backpack.tf has to be updated, which is done throught price suggestions. There is NO manipulation going on, just look at the current classifieds buy and sell orders and it should seem obvious to you that 19.77 is not the price keys are commonly sold for, which means that the guide has to adjust.

Note to mods: I'd appreciate if this comment would not be warned since it might not be direct proof/counterproof but is still related and relevant to this suggestion.

this guy gives me more cancer than McDonald's food.

It's not BPTF's fault, it's all our fault. Blame the ones who start selling and buying at higher prices and the ones who make such suggestions to raise the price. As much as i'd like the key price to lower as well, everybody and nobody wants that; people are going to lose a lot of their inventory value if this happens. If you wanna complain about it so much, force the key price to lower by selling a shitton of keys at 10 ref or less.

Also, note that BPTF is only a price guide for TF2 items. Don't take it literally.