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What do y'all think of the trading's future now that bots are exterminated?
kenkku replied to eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee's topic in Team Fortress 2 Discussions
Owning bots really only helps if you have a lot of good inventory to move. For instance, hosting 5 bots that are only trading a bunch of unique hats I have gotten maybe ~2-3 keys profit total after months of them being online. Considering that even the cheapest VPS instance runs you about $2-3 a month you're actively losing money if you go into bot trading with nothing to sell. Even more so if you pay someone else to set up and host your bot for you, like Gladiator. -
What happened to the prices of Quicksell buyers?
kenkku replied to Drunk Uncle's topic in Team Fortress 2 Economy
4 of my 5 trade bots were banned, even though all of them are hosted on the same instance and are piloted by the same process. No reply from staff since 2 days ago, so not sure what to think of it. -
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What happened to the prices of Quicksell buyers?
Drunk Uncle replied to Drunk Uncle's topic in Team Fortress 2 Economy
So all the items them bots had are just stuck in limbo until then? Kinda crazy feel like half the tf2 economy is in the inventories of these bots lmao. - Today
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What happened to the prices of Quicksell buyers?
RussellSproutz replied to Drunk Uncle's topic in Team Fortress 2 Economy
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What do y'all think of the trading's future now that bots are exterminated?
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee replied to eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee's topic in Team Fortress 2 Discussions
"a couple" and we are still not fully recovered -
fran reacted to a post in a topic: Beware of new fishing/scam method.
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we are joking about this but i wanted to sell robo parts yesterday and there were pretty much no real buy orders the only active / online bot was buying them for 0.44 so...yeah,no i hope things will go back to "normal" soon edit :
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Do the oauth api endpoints even work?
Batya replied to PeculiarTrader's topic in Technology & Gadgets
this is so stupid, they don't explain it on their main page, you have to face this problem first, then you have too google it and pray that you will get on this thread. -
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Unfortunatelly this has been a thing for a long time, there's always a lot of rudeness towards these situations From bullying people who get scammed, to reporting people for the smallest mistakes (when it's you doing it) and so on threads like these are still helpful to me though, thank you op for posting.
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What happened to the prices of Quicksell buyers?
lucak replied to Drunk Uncle's topic in Team Fortress 2 Economy
I was wondering the same, thanks for the clarification! -
mnd333 started following did all bots got banned?
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What happened to the prices of Quicksell buyers?
RussellSproutz replied to Drunk Uncle's topic in Team Fortress 2 Economy
Honestly Steam just made a mistake and they're to unban all the bots that were affected. Eventually everything go back to normal -
This guys sent me bad offers for stuff I’ve said I’m not selling a couple times, didn’t think much of it
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MK Price Check Appraisal Request
Dominant replied to RussellSproutz's topic in Team Fortress 2 Discussions
Asks for opinions. People give their opinions, surprisingly all fairly simular opinions. Reject all their opinions and tell them they are wrong. -
With an inventory worth ~3,800 keys or so I think it is safe to say OP is not a newbie. It honestly just sounds like they are mad that they got lowballed. You should have been around for the tf2tp/tf2outpost days... Creating this thread is an over exaggeration. Calling the "offense" mentioned in the OP phishing/scamming is really reaching.
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backpack.tf don't care about scammers or phishers they all scammers and phishers
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Please don't rely on buy orders. It will affect and slow down your progress. From personal experience.
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Beware of new fishing/scam method.
RussellSproutz replied to Zoskapai's topic in Team Fortress 2 Economy
Ngl we do have a topic discussion of unbalanced trades that's ongoing right now by Teeny herself, Esteban. I believe putting forward the discussion and asking about this would help. If there's anything that you're still thinking about asking for clarifications on may help for the foreseeable future. -
Beware of new fishing/scam method.
SpotlightR replied to Zoskapai's topic in Team Fortress 2 Economy
I swear to God every time I visit these forums I can tell who has never played Runescape. - Yesterday
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This is just people telling the truth. If you're trying to make profit (or even just not lose money) trading, you should have at least a vague idea of how much your item is worth.
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Unbalanced trades reports - feedback - READ OP BEFORE POSTING
Teeny Tiny Cat replied to Teeny Tiny Cat's topic in General Website Discussions
Either. We can look at the last 6 months if that's provided, we can look at a longer period if that's provided. If all trades provided are over a year old, we'd probably ask for some more recent evidence also. We can note this in the guide. We're planning to go over how to confirm sales in the guide. I don't expect people to be adding sellers, that's potentially a bit intrusive and not really helpful. There's no set number or amount on the rule, we're simply looking for patterns. I see your point that 10 trades in a week could be 90% of trades done by a small trader but less than 10% of trades done by a larger, high volume trader. The reports are public and reported users are free to add their perspective and context to each one, which we do consider when assessing them. We can note that in the guide if it'd be helpful. I mean we're not looking at what buy orders people have up, no. The likelihood of a large enough proportion of someone's trades being super unbalanced dumps to low buy orders for it to appear like a pattern of unbalanced trades seems pretty low to me. One trade isn't gonna get you caught by the rule, neither is the odd one here or there, only a fairly substantial pattern. Either way, this isn't really related to reporting. No, if you read the rule, you can't report people for "sharking" just for having low buy orders. I've linked the rule in the first post. And again, this thread is not for a discussion of the rules, it is for users to let me know what would be helpful in a guide for reporting. They are not the same in our rules, and the difference is clearly stated already in the post linked in the OP. The guide will also cover the difference between deceptive trades ("sharking") vs unbalanced trades. -
The fact that so many people are saying 'hurr ur dumb if you fall for that' is kind of telling of the sort of community we have here. Shouldn't we be 'sticking up for noobs'? or is it just fair game to screw people over who don't know any better? I mean yeah in this situation it's not really that egregious given the relative values, but referring to buy offers that are artificially low in your offer to try mislead someone as to value is super scummy. I swear to God every time I visit these forums I lose a bit of faith in humanity.
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MK Price Check Appraisal Request
Braxol replied to RussellSproutz's topic in Team Fortress 2 Discussions
It must be really life-changing to be sharking kids' money off virtual items with your little experience of 10 years. The irony of immoral people asking for morals from people with power over them is funny. Reverse the roles, and we see your true nature, lying and sharking; you've got nothing to lose being banned on backpack already.