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♥ElCapitanAmericano♥ 9 Apr, 2013 @ 8:19pm
People aren't updating their trades
I used to be able to come onto this website and find traders selling keys for money fairly easily, but for the third night in a row now I have been unable to successfully find and contact anyone selling keys. 60% of the listings that show up when I search for keys being sold for money are auto bumped "out of stock" listings. About 20% of the listings are not even selling keys but still have a key in the search field to generate more exposure for the unusual or whatever that they are selling. That leaves about 20% of posts that claim to actually have keys for sale and in stock. I've added every single person from that 20% which was 12 individuals. Now, 2 days later, I have only heard back from 1 of the 12 individuals I attempted to contact and it was a courtesy on their part just to let me know that they did not actually have any keys to sell. Whoops.

So my question is this: What can I do to make this site work for me again? Am I searching incorrectly or have legitimate key sellers migrated to some other website? Any advice in locating legitimate key sellers would be greatly appreciated!
Last edited by Nose; 10 Apr, 2013 @ 9:02am
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Regen 10 Apr, 2013 @ 12:11am 
Keys are getting harder to get etc.

I dont think all the keysellers moved to a different site tho.

I went trough the search for keys for money and closed a lot who bumped the trade even tho they were out of stock, but i did find a lot who had keys in stock.

I could suggest going on tf2shop, it may cost a tad more, but they always have keys there.

http://tf2shop.net/r/49047f00a080
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eddy 10 Apr, 2013 @ 5:34am 
for money trade use sourceop forum, better and faster.
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gukingofheart 10 Apr, 2013 @ 1:17pm 
With all the scammers, chargebackers, and carders...how can we trust you?
I will sell some keys every now and then.

http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/9890865

You need a sourcerep thread..0 rep min, but a thread is needed.
I will sell to my close friends first, then go down the list to see who looks trusting.
I suggest sourcerep...some users are really respected with rep, and even if that means paying a little more, it will be worth it.

So how can we change it? Simple..add a rule about sourcerep must be required in some form. If there;s a problem, that person's rep will be publicly scared as well as a steamrep ban.
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swarƒega 10 Apr, 2013 @ 1:31pm 
Maybe there could be a sop icon like the offers one.
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atb 10 Apr, 2013 @ 1:40pm 
What the site really needs is to force trades to close when the person no longer has items in their inventory. The same thing is happening with trades with people who have/had earbuds. I'm guessing somewhere around 25-30% (possibly more) of people selling earbuds don't actually have them in inventory any longer. In some cases they haven't had buds in their inventory for weeks/months. It really is starting to clutter up the ability to search for relevant trades.

Another option to just closing trades would be to have a separate icon/marking for people who want to keep trades open without having items in their inventory. That way these results could be filtered on a search, or an account setting option to not have the trades show up at all.
Last edited by atb; 10 Apr, 2013 @ 1:42pm
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Dwerklesberry 13 Apr, 2013 @ 1:43pm 
Originally posted by atb:
What the site really needs is to force trades to close when the person no longer has items in their inventory. The same thing is happening with trades with people who have/had earbuds. I'm guessing somewhere around 25-30% (possibly more) of people selling earbuds don't actually have them in inventory any longer. In some cases they haven't had buds in their inventory for weeks/months. It really is starting to clutter up the ability to search for relevant trades.

Another option to just closing trades would be to have a separate icon/marking for people who want to keep trades open without having items in their inventory. That way these results could be filtered on a search, or an account setting option to not have the trades show up at all.

Problem is people have more than one bp much of the time, and I'm sure scanning backpacks like that would be a burden.

That being said if you are selling something and its out of stock, the icon should be grey'd out.

People don't do it because you can't undo this, and i think just adding the ability to undo that grey out of the icons on a post would fix most o the problems out there.
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