Do you remember any memories from when you started trading?

[Happysedits]

Do you have any memories from those ages, I do from 2014-2015 quite a few.

I used to be happy with every single scrap profit I gained and it seemed like 1000$ to me. I used to join random servers, go to spec, see if people have hats, if they had hats, I traded them and showed them like 50 unique weapons asking if they wanna buy one for 2 other weapons, and it worked lol. Today we have scrap.tf.

Or when I traded hats for the first time. I went to tf2outpost and I saw someone selling conga, he had 1 ref on the other side, I was like OMG PROFIT ITS 48931% DISCOUNT WHAT WHAT. (and he had his price in the notes, yeah, I was one of those kids offering 1 ref if you had 1 ref on the other side XD) 

Or I made 1 scrap profit by selling 1.33 hat for 1.44 hat and I felt like the richest guy in the world.

[MrDeepDarkmind]

I remember when this happened

But yeah I remember back then how easy it was to profit and to sell expensive unusuals easily now it's somewhat slow

I remember when you can craft black roses and make profit out of them which happen over about 1 fucking week, same to the craftavle poker night items, Strange normals being unboxed and universal killstreaks (Glitch mettle Lel), I remember how keys where like 12 ref

[Kevin the Chicken God]

I remember back before bptf when people would be trading weapons for hats and shit

I also remember selling a salvaged crate (worth like 7 keys at the time, which was a ton for my like 1 key bp) to tf2wh for 2 ref

 

Later on I remember trading a lot on RAWR trade servers, which was fun even though there wasn't a whole lot of trading going on

[Professional Map Painter]

Used to frequent Luigi 30's toaster trade server back in 2011. UKCS also used to run some great TF2 servers, but they've been dead for just over a year now.

 

As for trades:

 

 

Been using most trade sites since their release (tf2tp is probably the only exception) - iirc I'm one of the first 4k users to log in to tf2op (back when it was actually alive). This was back when keys went for 2 ref, and quite a few hats were worth more than they are now.

 

First unbox was a Strange Medigun from one of the Uber Updates series of crates (around #25 iirc.) Sold it for a key.

[Slippery Nipple]

I remember TF2 spreadsheet.

People caring if an item was gifted or not.

Signed items being relevant.

I also remember when people referred to hats as dirty, didn't hear that for a while now.

[Prof. TrollDemo Ph.D]

I was trading from near the start, I don't remember that much, but when my brother started trading, I remember him getting quick switch scammed for 2 ref, he was devastated.

 

How the times have changed...

[AdamWTS]

I remember getting my first strange. I started as your typical w+m1 Pyro, and after some time, I wanted to get a strange Backburner. At first, I thought you got Strange weapons by crafting (that's because the trading recipe required more cost than just buying a weapon for a scrap). But to my disappointment, I was proven wrong. Later a friend that introduced me to TF2 explained that you get one by uncrating or buying from other people. I had absolutely no idea how to buy one, yet even find one, so I asked my friend to help. I slowly amassed my first 1.66 ref from weapon drops and gave it to him to buy a Backburner for me.

 

Sadly, I don't seem to have that Backburner anymore. I must've had sold it when I was changing my playstyle.

[Apo]

I remember overpaying for taunts and hats in pure keys because I didn't want to deal with metal.

I'd buy some like half key taunt and a misc and craft hat together for a key.

 

I also avoided buds entirely. Good decision on my part I guess lol.

 

I also remember my first (or one of my first) unbox being a strange part damage dealt (it was like 5-10 keys or sth), and some people tried sharking it for random shit. Like some guy tried offering a white vintage fosters facade 1:1. This was when I was completely new to tf2, so I was already sketched, as I always am, when starting a new game that has an economy. I told him how scm prices made his worthless compared to mine, and he kept trying to argue. Luckily I'm not retarded.

[Gren]

Getting an aussie axtinguisher when 2 cities first came out and trading it for a clean peace sign AA, which at the time was 1.6 buds and buds were 20 keys.  

[Corpfox]

Didn't care about trading.  Always gotten hat drops and give away to friends. But remember when everything was dirt cheap.

http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/6106780#latest

 

And glitchy...

[Moose]

One of the first trades I remember making was buying a level 100 tower of pillaring hats for a key. At the time a key was worth like 2 ref. So wasn't that bad of a deal plus I really liked the hat at the time and level 100

[Noot Boot]

I remember the Trade.tf name apacolypse. I was confused, why everyone suddenly had "trade.tf" in their name, later I realized it was a website and decided to check it out, that was the day I started trading

[Scootaloo]

Oh, I have loads of memories. One of my highlights'd have to be when that one crate with the Strange Liberty Launcher came out and it easily sold for 4 keys and pulling 2 of them during the hype.

[karma miguel]

Getting a key for free back when keys were 3 ref. and I had a 1 ref backpack.

the person just said I could have it.

[Julia]

[Geel]

I remember when I didn't own Backpack.tf.

[BlaqkAudio]

I remember being extremely lucky with my trading. A lot of my first drops were cosmetics and tools. Got myself up to a 4 key backpack and then getting scammed shortly after. I'm just glad it happened very early on since it was a huge learning experience.

[SpotlightR]

Looking back at my old Outpost trades now and wondering why i didn't take some of the offers I got, haha.