Unusual Trading Tips
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Be Polite I know this is hard to do especially when
someone lowballs your offer but instant unadding them will make you loose
opportunities. I’ve been so close to blocking someone when they lowballed me
but I decided to talk to them some more and we reached a fair deal later. If I
had blocked him that never would of happened.
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Respond to offers in a timely matter. Don’t wait
one week to start discussing an offer. Add them or comment as soon as
possible. You will miss a lot of deals
if you wait off on taking offers because those good deals will be gone quick.
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If you’re unsure ask your friends or experienced
traders. New to unusual trading go on the bp.tf forums and ask for an unusual
trade mentor. Many people will be glad to help you price check and guide you
throughought your first deals. Don’t be shy people will gladly help you. J
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Always check recent sales of the items and the
offers it’s getting. Don’t be so quick to take an offer. Ask your friends on
opinions, take account if it’s a robo hat or not , and take account on how long
it takes to sell.
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Time = Money if you have a crappy or hard to
sell unusual don’t reject offers a few key less than what your expecting to
get. Your much better of taking that offer then waiting for other offers that
may never come or take months just for a few more keys. Remember in that time
you wait for another deal , you could of sold the less valuable unusual for
pure/offers and keep trading more and
more and make a whole deal of profit.
While holding on that one unusuals ties you up to do anything.
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Make friends they will help you a lot later one.
I have made a complete page on this. One of the most important tips here.
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Check if it’s duped or not. While it doesn’t
affect that much on value it may affect how quick it sells. But for high tier
definetley check if its duped or not because that’s when it starts affecting
values. Refer to Gifted and Duped Section. If it’s duped I always try to snatch
the item for around 10% or a few keys less if it’s a quicksell. Though it’s
definitely not an excuse to turn down a good quicksell.
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Read the forums once in a while is a great way
to see what’s happening to the economy and why. I highly recommend the bp.tf
economy section, there will always be threads on why keys and buds are rising
and dropping and a lot of experienced traders sharing their opinions. For
example why buds rose to 10 keys was because SCM crashed and people started to
sell buds for high and since it was the only ones up they were being bought.
Thus showing it in the history buds were being bought at a high price. People
started to panic buy and it rose from 5 keys to 10 keys but then people started
to realize that no one is buying their buds. Which made buds drop back to
around the 5 key mark. That type of knowledge is vital to know what is going on
in the economy. If you thought buds were rising and bought a bunch of them or
had a large supply of buds. If you had read that you would know to sell all
your buds at that moment. Preventing any further losses or even profiting.
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Ask friends if unsure on the unusual pricing but
use your gut instinct too. If one of them saids it’s not a great deal but in
your mind you know for 100% you can profit then take it or check with a few
other friends. There has been times where my friends have been wrong but I
bought it regardless and have made profit in instants of listing it on outpost.
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If getting Aussies , Strange Festives , or
promos. Value them at what price you can quickly sell it for not what bp.tf
pricing is. A good way to find this is look at cheapest classified listing and
minus that by 1 key. An example is Aussie Scattergun might be 30 keys but one
or two people is selling for 29. I would value you it at an easy sell at 27-28.
Look at quick buyers for it too and take account their price.
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Check if the price of an item is dropping. For
example a Max is 33 keys and dropping and already has a pending suggestion with
good proof of sellers selling it for 31-32.
Sell it quick for something around 30 keys pure. The reason for that is
once the suggestion passes people will start to panic and sell for cheaper.
Undercutting eachother so when the suggestion pass and Maxes are 31 keys.
People will probably start to sell for 29-30 to beat competition. Level 1/7 Maxes are less valuable fyi.
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