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Geronimo! 22 Jan, 2014 @ 7:04pm
About Misleading Trades
I don't think people on outpost:
1. Get what the hell a misleading trade means.
2. Read the rules.

I literally see ~50 misleading trades a day, mostly when I'm buying keys. I want to be able to buy the cheapest keys possible and sell my keys for a fair profit (0.22 minimum in profit, I'm no profit ♥♥♥♥♥), and when I have to stop and read 50 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ trades for a fair price and see that they're selling their keys for 7.33 EVERY SINGLE TIME, even when it says they're selling it for cheaper, it pisses me off and wastes my time.

I'm going to start mass-reporting fake trades and I encourage others to do so as well.
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pegra 22 Jan, 2014 @ 8:16pm 
Please strat reprting fraud traders, the misleading trades piss me off too.
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MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™ 23 Jan, 2014 @ 12:05am 
Happens a lot, esp when traders have "store" trades and have things in the text that are out of stock but they for some reason don't bother to blank out the corresponding icon. If they had the @#% time to change the text to zero in stock, they had the time to click the icon.

But on the other hand, you might reconsider what you are doing:P .22 profit? you realize you are spending many minutes to earn 6 cents..... You'd need to have 300 transactions per hour to meet a 10 dollar minimum wage at that level of profit.

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Geronimo! 23 Jan, 2014 @ 6:31am 
Originally posted by MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™ idle:
But on the other hand, you might reconsider what you are doing:P .22 profit? you realize you are spending many minutes to earn 6 cents..... You'd need to have 300 transactions per hour to meet a 10 dollar minimum wage at that level of profit.
I tried buying for 7 and selling for 7.33, but few people buy keys for 7.33 because everyone else selling them for 7.33 as well (I've only sold 6 in 3 days). 7.22 is cheaper than most other people selling keys on the market, so I'll get more sales that way.

Also, I can't really afford to go into something bigger, as I only have about 11.33 ref that I'd like to spend. The rest is an engineer set (that I'd like to keep) or achievement/non-tradable items.
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norby89 23 Jan, 2014 @ 6:44am 
Originally posted by MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™ idle:
Happens a lot, esp when traders have "store" trades and have things in the text that are out of stock but they for some reason don't bother to blank out the corresponding icon. If they had the @#% time to change the text to zero in stock, they had the time to click the icon.
To be fair that's a relatively new feature that for those who don't frequent the group or read announcements might be unknown. What you can do is politely explain them how the feature works and that they can use it when they're out of stock. Chances are they didn't even know it's there.

Originally posted by MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™ idle:
But on the other hand, you might reconsider what you are doing:P .22 profit? you realize you are spending many minutes to earn 6 cents..... You'd need to have 300 transactions per hour to meet a 10 dollar minimum wage at that level of profit.
Everybody has to start somewhere and not everybody starts with enough to jump into the middle of higher tier trading.
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Lava 28 Jan, 2014 @ 1:00pm 
I report those trades all the time, and not just for keys but other items (a handful of traders would also list the wrong price in their notes so they get picked up by trade.tf's "good deals", then changed it a minute later once indexed because trade.tf doesn't reindex), but I've never once seen a single one of the trades I reported get closed; it's like the icons are completely meaningless. Considering I have to select the "another reason" to report misleading trades, I often wonder if the mods even read my notes...
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s8. kruz 4 Feb, 2014 @ 9:50am 
Not much point reporting trades, Outpost have openly admitted that is low on their priority list, and it's doub tful anything will be done about it, unless a their is a scam identified.
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