w0lk Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 There's a possible price-manipulation going on with the Pyromancer's Raiments. https://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/440/Pyromancer's Raiments It's quite obvious from the SCM sales. https://backpack.tf/classifieds?item=Pyromancer's+Raiments&quality=6&tradable=1&craftable=1&australium=-1&killstreak_tier=0 Now, Innocent until proven guilty, but this seems pretty suspicious. I'd advise to stay away from this item for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w0lk Posted October 3, 2020 Author Share Posted October 3, 2020 Same happened on Marketplace.tf , the item spiked just in 7 hours after the last sale. Keep in mind that this has been done in a span of 2-3 days, which seems pretty obvious that this was price manipulated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duskfen Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 Huh, I thought this was only a bot glitch again, looks like i was wrong. I doubt this is 1 person doing it all, and there's definitely hype around this item right now. As with all hype items, people want to invest into them as soon as possible, we saw the same thing happen to the Upgrade for the spy once the "Observer" meme became popular. This is sorta the same, because people realized "Oh wait, there's this cool af pyro wizard loadout". Just like the Upgrade though, the price will most definitely fall after hype. I'd only recommend avoiding buying them because it's just a horrible price lmao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beaser Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 Haha price go brrrrr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loli (hiding) Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 wait so people messed around to get the item to a high price and to resell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duskfen Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 10 minutes ago, loli (hiding) said: wait so people messed around to get the item to a high price and to resell? Capitalizing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LstratosHF Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Comparing this to the hype with the upgrade doesn't work that well. That is a merc grade item you can still unbox, so the price of that fell back down quite quick, if not all the way back down to the level before the hype. This is a limited cosmetic that you can no longer unbox, and it's rarer than a max head (8k vs 11k exist). It's clearly not a 50 key+ item, but I could see this staying somewhere in the 10 key area. It for sure not gonna be 1.5 keys ever again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adolf Storms Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 manipulation? lol have u seen how good it pairs with the new pyro head w/hood (seared sorcerer). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snaz Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 This was done to trick a certain gambling site into overpaying for said item most likely.There have been other items like this in the past few months Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h0wLze_ Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 On 10/4/2020 at 7:02 AM, Puddingkeep said: There's a possible price-manipulation going on with the Pyromancer's Raiments. https://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/440/Pyromancer's Raiments It's quite obvious from the SCM sales. https://backpack.tf/classifieds?item=Pyromancer's+Raiments&quality=6&tradable=1&craftable=1&australium=-1&killstreak_tier=0 Now, Innocent until proven guilty, but this seems pretty suspicious. I'd advise to stay away from this item for now. Yeah, this is fairly blatant price manipulation. Hope that no one is dumb enough to buy for the 10 or 20 keys (and even 100... seriously?) up currently, because you're almost guaranteed to get fucked when the price inevitably crashes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w0lk Posted October 4, 2020 Author Share Posted October 4, 2020 1 hour ago, h0wLze_ said: Yeah, this is fairly blatant price manipulation. Hope that no one is dumb enough to buy for the 10 or 20 keys (and even 100... seriously?) up currently, because you're almost guaranteed to get fucked when the price inevitably crashes. Already started crashing as everyone started dumping it on SCM. It's sadly an unavoidable fate of low-supply items. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[DFS]🐾FoxyWithTheMoxy🐾 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 I was wondering what was with the price inflation, wanted to get it due to the Seared Sorcerer cosmetic as it fits a magician pyromancer (guess I wasn't the only one who wanted such as thing). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainKodachrome Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 On 10/5/2020 at 11:09 AM, [DFS]FoxyWithTheMoxy said: I was wondering what was with the price inflation, wanted to get it due to the Seared Sorcerer cosmetic as it fits a magician pyromancer (guess I wasn't the only one who wanted such as thing). That may be the reasoning behind the inflation. It's a sleazy way to get extra keys out of an item that was already at a fairly balanced priced months ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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