No just no. You really had something that was perfect & streamlined. The new layout is blah by comparison. As a business I understand it is always important to try new things but this isn't it. I dare I say might as well be using bazaar or tf2 trading post

I've ran website before. & i know when someone comes in & says we can make this so much better & you fall into it. But this dream doesn't have the ease of use of the old layout,

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I'll try to play around but I don't even know if people are going to understand my trades anymore. Good luck outpost been here since the start Sorry for my own qualms.

Well I was around before they were made dirty. Things in the store were clean and a huge sale hit the store & everyone was buying craft hats up like crazy. The other side was beating their drums about how the new craftable items would ruin the tf2 economy. Valve took a stand and made everything uncraftable from the store. Huge amounts of crap hit the fan when people had their craftable items turn uncraftable.

This in fact never really hurt the economy nor does it. The fact is when the sale hit everything was dropping in price while they were still craftable. Craft hats were hitting record lows and if had stayed that way..how could that have been bad for your average joe?

To encourage more people to buy form the store keeps the economy going.

I decided to start this discussions after I saw someone buy at 2.66 then resell at 3.33.

Keys used to be 2.33 and now are up to 3 refined. This only took about a year in trading for traders that trade exclusively in keys for metal to mess up. I saw the practice start happening over the last year or so. People buying keys for 2.33 (when you could still get them for this) and then jacking up the price and reselling them for a profit. Sometimes this amount to only a few scraps in profit for them. This kept going on and on until now that keys are at 3 refined.

We are looking in the future at keys at 4 refined or higher. Already people are selling them for more than 3 refined.

You should care because your metal is losing its buying power. All those hard earned drops and crafted metal netting you less & less.

I understand its a free market. At the same time I know that admins and mods on are various trade sites can control trades in anyway they see fit. I believe its time the mods step in here and stop the practice before we keep going in the hole with these traders that are turning a profit on keys. Identify who are buying keys for cheap and reselling them and warn them or just throw them out.

As traders you have to remain strong. Don't start buying keys at more than 3 refined. Draw the line in the sand.

I understand there are a lot of things that are bought and resold at a profit. Keys should never be one of them. For years keys retained their value at 2.33. A few traders have managed to spoil that for everyone.