Why have Tour of Duty Tickets gone up over $1 in ref?

[Faux King Christ]

Tour of Duty tickets have just gone up by 6 ref up to 30 ref. Any idea why? They are now more expensive to trade for than to buy them for cash from Valve. That makes no sense. They should be equal or lower. Not $0.20 over. That is ridiculous. Any one know what happened?

[HaloGAMER0329]

Might be cheaper for you to buy in the store but its more expensive for others. 

[Scott Bakula]

Ref is constantly dropping in value and people don't want it. So, it takes more and more ref to buy items.

[hollowka]

2 hours ago, Scott Bakula said:

Ref is constantly dropping in value and people don't want it. So, it takes more and more ref to buy items.

It's pretty stable at 0.04$

 

[Hk_Sh]

Simply shortage on supply, not everybody want to spend IRL money. Demand is bigger at the moment and supply is not delivering, so prices are increasing.

[Uncle Dang]

4 hours ago, renshin said:

It's pretty stable at 0.04$

 

That's only what marketplace.tf shows because you can't sell for fractions of a cent. Ref (at time of writing) would really be approx. in USD $1.67 (price of key) / 54.33 (bot buying price in ref) = 3.074 cents per refined

 

and now that I actually ran the numbers, lol no it's not stable at all because I did that a few months ago and wound up with ~3.4 cents each. Full drop to 3 cents coming soon

 

that also explains tickets raising relative to metal, it's still roughly the same price in USD just the ref is cheaper in reality

[MopkoBka116]

Well, keys didn't increased in price.
So, its just a price manipulation from bots.

Just sell all tickets to the bots and get a new from scm or ingame-store.

Easy profit.

Little explanation for the confused guys.
1 ToD ingame worth $0.99 / 1 Key on scm worth around $2.17
0.99/2.17= 0.456 keys

1 key worth ~54.4444 ref, so 0.456 * 54.4444 = 24.82 ref
Current buy order price = 29.88 refs.

Easy 5 ref profit from 1 ToD

[Alecto]

Considering significantly more people are at home now than a month ago with this whole COVID thing going around, more people are gaming -> more people playing TF2 -> more people playing mann up. There isn't, however, more people selling tickets for less than valve.

[Markt3]

Not the best one to talk about this. And a lil bit late. But personally I think it was the server crash exploit. Imagine, you wanna play the game. But everytime you enter a casual server it crashes. That means that the people that played casual are now going to community servers and mann up. Mann up coz for a bot to join it would have to play 1$ everytime it wants a server down.

 

That would make sense too. Coz since the exploit was fixed tickets have slowly started to go down in price being both 2 being sold for like 2 refs off from their bp price atm.

 

At least it is what I think it happened.