Item history?

[Myst1cS04p]

Im new to trading and i dont understand the purpose of item history. Does it help is trading somehow or is it completely unrelated.

[Freak4ever2000™]

Used to be more relevant in the early days of trading. These days it really means nothing to the average joe.

 

Its interesting to some to see where the item has been in the past, but since backpacks item history data was wiped some time ago, its basically an uncomplete mess.

 

If you wanna track down specific items, it can sometimes help to check item histories. But overall, not very useful for trading, very limited uses for people that care.

[Rainy]

It is actually super helpful in trading. It shows you the time the item was traded. Using this in combination with the compare tool on backpack.tf, you can see how much items have been sold for recently and double check pricing that way. Besides just having intuition and experience to be able to price things just by looking at them, the item history tool combined with the compare tool are two extremely helful parts of this website.

[RussellSproutz]

Item histories help me find what I need to price things for price suggestions.

[yal]

1 hour ago, Freak4ever2000™ said:

Used to be more relevant in the early days of trading. These days it really means nothing to the average joe.

 

Its interesting to some to see where the item has been in the past, but since backpacks item history data was wiped some time ago, its basically an uncomplete mess.

 

If you wanna track down specific items, it can sometimes help to check item histories. But overall, not very useful for trading, very limited uses for people that care.

Thats not true, you can use the compare feature to pricecheck unusuals with it

[Jeremy21312]

It was used to check if a unusual was duped but since data history was wiped some time ago and nobody cares about dupes now a days, the only purpose is just comparing price checks on unusuals 

[Sir Spoon The Second]

items history's show who all has previously owned it so it can show if an item was owned by a scammer/banned user meaning you probably don't want it

it also shows recent movements witch are useful for price suggestions allowing you to look into sales and suggest a price to update what backpack values that item as changing your inventory value on bp

it can also be used to show duped items but in modern trading that doesn't really matter all that much

other then that there's nothing else really to item history's or there uses  

[FP jh34ghu43gu]

3 hours ago, Sir Spoon The Second said:

if an item was owned by a scammer/banned user meaning you probably don't want it

Has this been relevant in recent times? Haven't heard of people avoiding items with scammers in the history for awhile beyond something like: scammer -> account with no history currently owns it and is probably an alt so don't trade em.

 

 

In regards to dupes they still will matter on some rare high priced items like vintage buds. Personally I want a pair of duped c. handshakes but none of the owners responded

 

For the thread as a whole: Another use of histories is to help people track where their old items ended up at if they feel sentimental and want them back (or if they got scammed and want some of them back).

[RussellSproutz]

17 hours ago, Jeremy21312 said:

It was used to check if a unusual was duped but since data history was wiped some time ago and nobody cares about dupes now a days, the only purpose is just comparing price checks on unusuals 

These days you can use next.backpack.tf to check if there's dupes or not. Albeit sometimes the dupes won't show up for some items. It would be easy to decipher if it is duped or not