Why wouldn't they? There aren't prices in the game. Everyone can trade whatever they want. If someone want to sell a key for 5.66 ref to him, then they'll trade. If nobody wants, then he won't get more keys for 5.66. It's easy.

Quoting the words of a TF2 Outpost Admin - Blue Screen of Dea†h


"We do not regulate or enforce prices and we have no plans on doing so. People are free to set their own prices and negotiate a better deal, and pricing guides should be used only as an estimate of an item's value. "Worth" is a very relative word".


SOURCES (From the Forum):
- " Trading and Selling "Prices" " - https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/tf2outpost/discussions/0/558754260265313230/
- " Prices of items on the site " - https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/tf2outpost/discussions/0/684839199208805599/

His trade is 1 year old, that was the standard price for keys back then. He's not trying to buy keys for 5.66 he most likely forgot to close it or just doesn't care about trading any more.

Feel free to report his trade for being unrealistic and it will be closed.

thanks guys

Feel free to report his trade and your ticket will be unanswered for a month.

Most items are not keys. Keys are sold in volume high enough that the price on tf is undeniable. Most other items are not, and then the assumption of "this is the price" becomes questionable by default. So there is always going to be leeway on items other than keys if the demand is soft. This is why most unusuals are quick sold if they aren't super hot and the seller needs to convert it into cash now, or just get rid of it. Say I had a fetti unusual soldiers stash, basically nothing more than a low level effect. Its "list" price is 4.5 buds. Would you buy it even if I knocked 10% off?;) Most just wouldn't have even that level of pure, and even if they did, they wouldn't part with it, so the "price" isn't quite what people think, unless its a super high volume/super high demand item.

In any case the price is whatever the next guy will pay for something, and what the market will bear. Its why a coke at the supermarket is about 20 cents a can, while the same can of coke at the 7/11 is a dollar. Backpack tf by the nature of the type of user who will "volunteer" to gather prices will have prices based on the supermarket, not 7/11. So just be careful in claiming what an item is "worth" when trading. Because pointing to tf can be a bit of circular reasoning. Fact is most trades are not visible to tf at all.

Just think of ebay. The "price" isn't what you claim it is based on some arbitrary source. Its whatever the highest bidder pays. Which is not to say absurd prices are ok, sharks trying to get a bud for a scrap exist but most things aren't like that. And in any case tf is always behind the market, thats why prices change;) Prices aren't preordained from gaben you know.

It's a free market. People may charge whatever they please. There's no garentee anyone will buy it though nor does anyone have to buy it. Unfortunately since the Spreadsheet scandal a good few traders don't trust price guides (Funny enough their buying price is always below said guide and selling price is always above said price)

End of the day these guys are traders. Business men in the world of a game market. They want a profit, nothing more.