Doctor Waffle Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 Hey, this is my first post here. Go me. Anyways, I recently unboxed an unusual Convict Cap with the Fifth Dimension effect, which, to nobody's surprise, is unpriced. Rather than just asking "what should I sell it for when it becomes tradable" with no thought of my own, I'm gonna at least try my shot at pricing it myself. I'm still very new to TF2 trading, so if you think I missed the mark, please let me know. I'll try to explain my thought process if looking at that helps correct my pricing, however. So my first thought was to check the backpack.tf listings for existing unusual Heavy hats to try and find a good starting price. Starting off with the hat itself, I'm personally not a huge fan of it. The black stripes clash a little bit with the color schemes of TF2, but nothing a little paint can't fix - still, it doesn't fit too well with most of Heavy's miscs, not to mention it's mercenary grade. It's not completely ugly, though, so I'm pricing it as a low mid/high low tier hat, so somewhere around the pricing of the Sinner's Shade, Polar Bear, and Copper's Hard Top. However, the effect itself, to me at least, seems absolutely GORGEOUS. It may not fit with the hat all too well, but the effect is amazing. It has a pretty space theme, and the actual constellations (at least that's what I call them) inside are an amazing detail. All in all, I'd say the effect is definitely high-tier AND is a halloween-exclusive, but the effect is diminished a little bit by the clashing themes of the hats (space convict?) and how new it is (as it will likely be unboxed in greater qualities). I decided to use the Chiroptera Venenata (32 keys) & Clairvoyance Sinner's Shade (approx 30.5 keys) to estimate a pricing since both are Halloween Unusual effects. While I believe 5th dimension looks a bit cooler, like I said, it's a new effect, so I decided to bring the mark down slightly. TL;DR, for a 5th Dimension Convict Cap, does somewhere in the 35-30 key range sound fair as a starting price to ask, or did I under/overprice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brown Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 Looks like that's just about where it would sell, sellers on steam market are a little cheaper surprisingly, you'd assume the hype would be enough to push it up at least a little bit, plus the hat isn't that bad, but ig not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forgivable Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 You can also notice that Fifth dimension is the most common unusual effect unboxed from the crate https://backpack.tf/overview/Convict Cap https://backpack.tf/overview/Voodoo Vizier https://backpack.tf/overview/El Mostacho https://backpack.tf/overview/Skullbrero Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keks Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 I know this is irrelevant, but you can make a cool loadout with the convict cap using the heavy hunter and yuri's revenge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pooopooo Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 honestly in my opinion start it off as listing it for 35 and then go down 2 keys each time you feel like you have been patiently waiting for someone to offer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Waffle Posted October 19, 2019 Author Share Posted October 19, 2019 Woah, thanks for all the support. Good to know I actually managed to come up with a fair price on my first try, huh? But regardless, I still have one more question I forgot to adress - item overpay. I have zero clue how much overpay to ask for when it comes to unusuals if I need to ask for overpay in a trade. My best guess is an extra 3-5 keys worth of overpay, but I could be wrong here. Does that sound like a fair amount? Also; 6 hours ago, Keks said: I know this is irrelevant, but you can make a cool loadout with the convict cap using the heavy hunter and yuri's revenge Wow, that does look really nice, actually. Maybe this hat works with miscs better than I thought. Either way, I don't play Heavy too often, plus I already have a cosmetic set for him, but hey, now I've got something to say if someone asks "What can I even wear with this?". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Virus Esponjosito_David Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 59 minutes ago, Doctor Waffle said: Woah, thanks for all the support. Good to know I actually managed to come up with a fair price on my first try, huh? But regardless, I still have one more question I forgot to adress - item overpay. I have zero clue how much overpay to ask for when it comes to unusuals if I need to ask for overpay in a trade. My best guess is an extra 3-5 keys worth of overpay, but I could be wrong here. Does that sound like a fair amount? Also; Wow, that does look really nice, actually. Maybe this hat works with miscs better than I thought. Either way, I don't play Heavy too often, plus I already have a cosmetic set for him, but hey, now I've got something to say if someone asks "What can I even wear with this?". it always comes to what tipe of overpay they give you....it can go from 2-3 to even 10 keys.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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