Suggestion: Purple Energy Splitting Headache at 29–30 keys

See: ''In many situations this does not change anything: under normal circumstances, you can still continue to use the key value at the day of the sale.''

In this case I see no reason to use the average.

Avatar Erik · posted 15 minutes ago

Even with seven sales at 189, 189, 190, 190, 187, 186, 184? That’s some pretty swingy sales data.

Avatar ★★★★★★★★★★ Bentry Suster · posted 11 minutes ago

Those numbers are all within a 3% band. I wouldn’t really call that swingy, it’s just normal market noise. An average only makes sense if the variation is big enough to distort the picture here. I mean even those seven sales average out at 1.88, while the actual key on the sale day was 1.89, that's barely any difference.

Avatar Erik · posted 6 minutes ago

I used to do it this way and it was fine, so why reject it now?

https://backpack.tf/suggestion/68ca1278dcda164e7800de5d

276 if take average, 275 keys if take the day of the sale.

Avatar ★★★★★★★★★★ Bentry Suster · posted 8 minutes ago

29, 30

The 3% mentioned earlier was just an example to illustrate the spread, it’s not a fixed threshold. As the guidelines state, this is handled on a case-by-case basis and we don’t work with hard cutoffs in percentages or absolute numbers. The intent is to correct for genuine anomalies, such as the $1.76 dump example ( https://forums.backpack.tf/topic/6033-rules-for-unusual-price-suggestions/?tab=comments#comment-641323 ) where the day’s value was far off the surrounding norm, so we can attempt to prevent extremely distorted prices. In this case, the sales average 1.88 while the key value on the date of sale was 1.89, which is normal variation and in my opinion not an anomaly, so the day-of-sale value is appropriate.