Originally posted by dark-hello2:

I can't tell if y'all are poking fun at me or being completely serious.

I am serious. And if you look closely at what I said, you'll notice that I have a different opinion than Champelliot, i.e. that there is no need to close your trade.

But I wonder, just how successful these trades are. Unless you have an alt where you park your trophies, you BP suggests that you have no success at all.
Baffles me how someone advertising in his trade that he will buy for much less than everybody else (quicksell) can think that this strategy is successful.
But that is up to you, to wait for that 1 desperate fella selling you his unusual for a real bargain.

Originally posted by Champelliot:

When I refer to quicksells, I mean trades like these: http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/8063421

Although most of us don't like these trades, he does not exactly state at what price he's buying. We had that conversation and determined that buying at 33..50% of the value with "leeway" for unusuals would be grounds to report. I don't see that here.

In this case, I think we can simply ignore that trade (or block the user), no need to report. If you look at his backpack, you can see how successful he is - or isn't for that matter.

The new unusual (Steel Toe) he has in his BP right now, he didn't get through that trade but this one and within the range on bptf: http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/8165949

I guess he meant to say he's gonna spam his own trades with that sentence (in single quotes) now. Makes no sense, but...
anyway, just for that I'm gonna give #3 my love now ;-)

Originally posted by arand:

As long as it isn't fully intentional, it should be fine.

The fact that the trade was closed, should tell you otherwise. He did not get banned, but instead only his trade closed, probably because it wasn't "fully intentional".
There may be a grey area, but the line seems to have been crossed. You have to accept and respect that.

Look at it this way: If I had an agenda to lure people to bazaar, I could just open a lot of popular trades on OP with the link to the corresponding "trade" at bazaar. That would in effect circumvent the no advertising rule.

"No advertising — this includes referral links and third-party websites."

Bazaar is a third-party website. All other 3rd party website links that are not "punished" like yours, are only tolerated at the admins discretion. (like stats, pricing and backpack sites, if I am not mistaken, and maybe even the occasional youtube link)

If you are trying to sell an unusual, nobody cares about your "set". It doesn't matter if you add a Made Man + Business Casual in one trade and a Phantom + Rogue in another. They are just peanuts.

If I were you, I would at least close one of those two or you risk getting not only your trade closed, but also being banned for a repeated offense.

The 3rd trade, the upgrade, is a borderline re-list, imho.

Why not make just one trade for your unusual where you ask for promo offers or another (better) Fedora at the same time? Then you would be on the safe side.

Well, the reason why your trade was closed says it all, doesn't it?
So yes, linking to bazaar (a competitor) is against the rules. (user #4 and/or trade #1.6)

The $30 are only of cosmetic nature, not to look like a free to play game. Valve gave out so many Dota 2 gifts and invites, that practically everyone was getting it for free many times over.
(except me, I only got an invite and no gifts to give away)

I think Regen's answer was pretty definitive.

And the reason there is no "bump all" button was discussed here before. One reason was it would allow ugly blocks of trades from one user on the homepage. Those scripts would in effect do the same.
Another reason is, that you should not always bump all your trades. Especially those "stock: 0" and "not selling/buying atm" trades.