How to Sell Your Unusuals

How Do You Sell Your Unusuals?

One of the biggest question traders get asked all time. I got my first unusual, how do I sell it? In this page, I’ll talk about some highly effective methods to sell your unusuals.

• TF2 Outpost

• Best places for people with limited time, just need to bump trades takes less than 10 seconds too.
• Depending on your  unusual you can have a high response rate
• Usually get a decent amount of offers if you are patient
• Great resource for checking how much an item is worth

End Line

Outpost in my opinion is the best place to sell and buy your unusuals. If your unusual is decent meaning good effect and high tiered you should have no problem selling it. I’ve been able to make tons of profits in just a few days due to outpost itself. I haven’t used trade servers much now, and have found it more time effective/useful just using outpost. Been able to sell many unusuals in a mere week just through offers and buyers on outpost.

Pro Tips:

• You can click the unusual in the trade and copy the “Orignal Id” and type backpack.tf/item/(Paste Item ID). That’s quick and easy tip to check if the item is duped or not.

• If you just bought an unusual look through other people selling that same unusual or previous trade offers to see if their is any good offers taking. I seen someone decline an offer of 190 keys on easy to sell unusuals on an unusual worth only around 100 keys. You can get many quick and easy deals just by looking at peoples offer and adding them to see if there still interested in that hat.

• If you don’t have any time to bump trades it’s a great investment to buy Outpost Premium for 4.95 a month. You get tons of more advertising of your unusual due to it being automatically bumped every half an hour. Although, if you're able to bump trades constantly I’d recommend just staying regular. I’ve talked to many people and they have told me whenever there buying quicksells or offering on trades via clicking recent trades open on outpost. They will always click the non premium user because they almost always know the owner is online because of the online outline and that the trade is manually bumped. Versus a premium person where they can’t tell. This is because they usually need pure/their item gone fast and will just contact the person who’s almost guaranteed online.

• Allow people to add you not just trade offers only. I find that people will usually want to add you and not send you a trade offers resulting in a loss deal. I mean seriously who wants to spend 10 minutes counting and sending a trade offer of 100 keys and having it declined. It’s way easier to add you and plus you got a better chance to get a better deal by negotiating.
• When making trades for your unusuals. On the other side its best to maximizes the items you will trade it for. Example instead of just keys , put cs go keys , buds , maxs , houwars , unusual offers , unusual class tokens) Don’t just put straight up keys people usually find unusual deals via recent bumped trades if yours is straight up pure they will think you're not taking offers.

• For Cancer unusuals like really bad robot hats with horrible effects. A good way to get rid of them is offer them on lower valued by easier to sell hats. My Time Warp Virus Doctor I struggled to sell for anything over 22 keys , kept offering it on trades eventually sold it for a Blizzard Company Man (22-24) + 8 keys. Even though bp.tf said it was higher, it was hella hard to sell and definetely worth it to sell at that price. Robo hat vs All Class hat. I bought the Virus for cheap to so I still profited and time is money, not worth it to sacrifice a few keys for a month of waiting and offering. Can easily make back that loss of profit by buying and reselling quicksells.

• Trade Servers

-Great if you have time

- Maximize Deal Potential

- Can be very time consuming, and have no yield.

-Great place to get rid of your cancer unusuals that get no offers

This is one of the most simple methods. If you're selling unusuals on a server I suggest you go on a Unusual Trade Server such as Fire Powered not just an ordinary trade server.

Tips

• Offer on peoples item if you're looking to get rid of your hat. If your hat is hard to sell a lot of people won’t trade you, so trade them instead.

• Be patient I’ve had some weekends with the whole day spent on a trade server and get no offers.

• Say your items price and what type of item it is. People in unusual servers usually don’t buy your unusual to keep rather to profit or trade.

  Ex. Selling Tossle. I’m thinking what tossle burning or nuts and bolts. If I have an unusual worth 20 keys and yours is a nuts and bolts worth 15 and I want it. I won’t trade you because I don’t know what in the world your tossle is.

• How to get pass no buying quicksells rule.

-”Taking good offers on “X amount of keys.”

-”Buying good deal unusuals with pure.”

- “Buying Discounted Unusuals”

I don’t recommend doing this buy if you really need too. I’d just stick to buying quicksells on outpost.) You get way more offers and its so much easier and less time consuming.

• Backpack.tf Classified

• Great for selling Aussies , Hats , Items

• Not the best for unusuals

• Easy and quick to use

• Decent for looking for quicksells

Tips:

• If your selling something like an Aussie for cheap using bp.tf classified as effective as outpsot. Same applies to promos,taunts,and keys.

• Great way to buy regular items for cheap

• If you hover around an unusual hat and click classified you can look for all classified ads of people selling that unusual not dependant on effect. This can be a way to find quick sells or unusual hats that are cheap. As some people use bp.tf classfied to quicksell.

• Doesn't hurt to list your unusual its quick and easy.

Other Methods

• Forums
• Ex. Backpack.tf forums, Sourceop and other various trade forums

• Bazzar.tf ( Kind of like outpost, I don’t use it but I’m sure it woudn’t hurt to use it. Not sure on amount of people who use it though.)

• Trade.tf ( Good for finding quicksells too )