Thank you for the info, imo Sneeza should post a notification about this great feature!

Yep, just saw this in this trade:

http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/13825179

I didn't even have to add the guy to make him a trade offer.

How is it possible to make something like this in my own trades?

Originally posted by sebaKa:

yes should be able to turn off autobumping if they are not buying atm or to freeze the trade.
usually more than half the trades i go through are either missleading, out of stock or not buying atm. and auto bump brings the exact same trades up again whenever i want to buy or sell said items. reallllly annoying. and i agree something should be done about it

Thank you for this. This is the reason I have made this thread, I feel the same way, as you.

Originally posted by The Once and Future King:

Did you ever think that maybe he was buying at 3 ref when he made the trade and as keys fluctuated in value he changed the offer in the notes instead of making a new trade?

No, actually I did not. Even if that was the case, he could have easily close the trade and make another one. This still doesn't explain why the trade is still on, when he isn't even buying...

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Originally posted by Champelliot:

Problem 1: Doesn't exist. When using currency, he's simply using refined metal to show that he's paying in ref. Absolutely nothing wrong here, never has been, never will.

I see your logic here. There are a lot of trades out there, where people put for example one refined or 8 refineds in the offer list, and want to buy different things. That is completely fair in my opinion, but In this case however, this is more complicated. We all know the price "problem" with keys. Everyone wants to sell for 3, and everyone wants to buy for 2.66. The guy has posted exactly 3 refineds into the offer box, and this is very misleading. If there were only one, or 8 refineds in there, I wouldn't have complained, but he has posted exactly the same amount that everyone wants to get, making this trade completely distracting. It is only there to draw attention. Everyone clicks on it thinking, that they can sell their keys for 3 ref, but that is not the case.

The picture says all in a nutshell.

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/8725/tf2outposttrade.png

1. problem: He isn't buying for the price, he offered in the trade.

2. problem: He isn't buying at all.

I have encountered a lot of similar trades, like this before, and it seems there are getting more and more of these.

Why is it allowed to keep a trade up, that isn't even valid? Why do people post items in the trade that they aren't really want to offer or sell?

In my opinion, this is a real problem. Outpost is basically spammed with false trades.

Quicksells are definelty stupid. Mainly because only potential buyers tend to use it when they basically want rip off sellers by 50-70% of their unusual's real worth then they immediatly put the same item up for twice as much price.

It is very rare to see a real quicksell, when someone actually wants to sell their unusal, not buy, but these hats are usually so crappy, that noone wants to buy them.

You can however sometimes see real good quicksells, or kinda quicksells. I have seen a Scorching Berliners for 4 buds and a Purple Energy Merryweather (lvl 69) for 3 buds.

In times like these, I hate that I'm not a "high tier" unusual trader.