sjobenrit Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 (I am not English, sorry for my grammar) How can you make Profit as a small trader? I just started again, with this BP'https://backpack.tf/profiles/76561198202483873 can someone give me some tips which of my items I can sell easily and for a good price? thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vrakos Anthrakir Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 Are you looking for short term investmet/gain or long term investment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjobenrit Posted July 23, 2018 Author Share Posted July 23, 2018 short term, I really want monies for the 3 cats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tardlife Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 Ah yes! the weekly "please tell me exactly how I can make profit without doing anything" -post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barbapagga Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 My unusuals are good investments. Buy them. Please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apeiron Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 People are not willing to reveal their methods and tricks nowadays. You have to search previous topics about trading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.50 Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 By far the easiest way to get the cats is just to buy them with real money, because the time and effort required for low-tier trading is very large compared to the returns. Plus, you can always sell them if you get tired of them (or tired of the game), so it's not 100% money lost when you spend it on hats. But if you can't (or won't) spend money for whatever reason, and you're serious about wanting to trade your way up, keep in mind that there's no way to make this happen quickly. It's going to be slow going no matter what you do. It's going to take a lot of time and/or a lot of effort. 1) Liquidate everything. You're basically going to have to double your value, and it'll be stupidly slow if you're not willing to invest everything you've got. Twice as much invested = twice as much profit (approximately) in the same time. 1a) Pay attention to the values of your items, not just their prices. Check buyers and sellers to find values. Your war paint cases, for example, do not have recently updated prices, and are worth more than they show. On the other hand, your spec. Third Degree fab (which currently shows as the most valuable item in your bp) is actually worth a scrap, if that. 2) Once you have pure, figure out what you want to buy/sell. Choose items where there's a bit of a gap between buy listings and seller prices. An example of an item with no gap, which you would NOT want to attempt to trade for profit: https://backpack.tf/stats/Unique/Taunt%3A Kazotsky Kick/Tradable/Craftable Always do some research on an item before buying it. Cosmetics that are higher in value (not craft hats) can be good for flipping. Buy for 6, sell for 8; there's still some room for that. Back in the day, I made good progress at low tiers of trading by flipping painted cosmetics--a craft hat (~1.33 refined) with good paint (black/white/lime/pink/TS/maybe gold/purple) can sometimes be bought for no extra, and then flipped for 5 ref or more. You can also be one of those guys spamming the chat in trade servers with offers to buy trading cards for a scrap each. Maybe even buy strange weapons with good parts and wait for someone willing to pay extra...you just have to find what fits your style. But whatever else you do, no banking. No craft hat banking, no currency banking (don't try to buy and sell keys). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.50 Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 7 minutes ago, Apeiron said: People are not willing to reveal their methods and tricks nowadays. You have to search previous topics about trading. Here's one trick to get lots of people to divulge at least some of their methods (One easy trick!! Traders hate him!!) Post status update saying you made x amount of profit trading and everyone else is nubs, they'll line up to tell you how much more than you they made and how they made it, to prove they're better than you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.chemo Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 >Buy Halloweens for dirt cheap >Get massive, massive overpay >Rinse and repeat >Easy money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuccuBo Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 It would probably be faster to go back in time to 2013 and scam buy hats at very cheap prices Not saying you should, 2013 was a dangerous time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksolis01 Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 On 7/23/2018 at 1:20 PM, 3.50 said: Here's one trick to get lots of people to divulge at least some of their methods (One easy trick!! Traders hate him!!) Post status update saying you made x amount of profit trading and everyone else is nubs, they'll line up to tell you how much more than you they made and how they made it, to prove they're better than you. Aw yes, the good old dick measuring contest. Gets everybody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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