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Candy Crown: It's Place in the Economy


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What's up with the unusually low price of the hat? The wiki states it's as rare as an unusual, and the strange counterpart is supposedly rarer. Yet, the former and latter go for a couple of ref and 3 keys respectively. What's up with that? Is the demand really that low for an elite grade?

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Hype is over and a metric shitton have been unboxed despite the rarity. It's the same case for the Bomber Knight, Sucker Slug, War Eagle, Peacebreaker, Lightning Lid, Texas Toast, Mr. Bones, Snowmann, Aztec Warrior, Bread Heads, and Flash of Inspiration.

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1 hour ago, ♪TheBasedGod♪ said:

What's up with the unusually low price of the hat? The wiki states it's as rare as an unusual, and the strange counterpart is supposedly rarer. Yet, the former and latter go for a couple of ref and 3 keys respectively. What's up with that? Is the demand really that low for an elite grade?

Totally an opinion on my side, but I honestly hate how the hat looks, and Imo it shouldn't even deserve its place being an Elite grade. I don't see any desirability in it, and Im probably not the only one, probs the reason why its so low, as well as other ugly looking elite grades. But again, that's just me, if anyone else likes the hat you do you ❤️

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A ton exist because of how many people have unboxed the winter 2019 case + it's not a good looking hat (just like 90-95% of the hats released in the post-crate era of TF2.)

 

So basically, high supply, low demand.

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3 hours ago, Pineapple Pizza said:

*Its

 

Forgive me. 

OP used the correct word. "The wiki states it's as rare as an unusual." You can rewrite the sentence as; "The wiki states it is as rare as an unusual." 

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6 hours ago, ♪TheBasedGod♪ said:

What's up with the unusually low price of the hat? The wiki states it's as rare as an unusual, and the strange counterpart is supposedly rarer. Yet, the former and latter go for a couple of ref and 3 keys respectively. What's up with that? Is the demand really that low for an elite grade?

Let's put it this way, a Massed Flies Crone's Dome is theoretically just as rare as a Burning Flames Crone's Dome. Are they priced close to the same? Hahahaha no.
Within the whole unboxing an unusual, there's so many variations with that 1% that makes the unusual rarer than a 1% hat that is always the same thing or the strange version of it.

Problem is
A] It's a hat - if people are going to spend a decent amount on an hat, might as well go the full 9 yards and get an unusual

B] It's really not a very good looking a hat, if you're going for a silly look you might as well get the ham hat from the same case, if you're going for a more serious look you're not going to touch this thing. Not many people go for somewhere in the middle.

C] Being the highest tier of the case, you can't even use trade-up to upgrade it to something else

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Is the supply really that high? I think around 200 strange CC's exist, that's a pretty low supply relative to other strange elite grades and a lot lower than promotionals. If Valve were to discontinue the keys needed to unlock the crates as well as the crate itself, would that change the pricing significantly?

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3 hours ago, ♪TheBasedGod♪ said:

If Valve were to discontinue the keys needed to unlock the crates as well as the crate itself, would that change the pricing significantly?

 

It might get a little bump up, but it'll still stay rather low. Rarity does not equal value.

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2 hours ago, Scott Bakula said:

It might get a little bump up, but it'll still stay rather low. Rarity does not equal value.

Try telling that to Sunkist when he bought those Texas Toast hats for thousands of dollars. 🤣

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17 hours ago, Navydinosaur said:

OP used the correct word. "The wiki states it's as rare as an unusual." You can rewrite the sentence as; "The wiki states it is as rare as an unusual." 

I was referring to the title. 

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