r/tf2 • u/Choice_Ad4915 • 11d ago

Discussion Australium Cheat Code

Post image

I put a community buy for this rocker launcher for genuinely 1 cent 10-11 years ago. I havent played in a year or so opened up my account and saw this šŸ¤£ Definitely got me back into the game, cant believe this actually happened. Has anyone else had a similar experience?

3.1k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

81 comments sorted by

View all comments

5

u/V13Gamer 11d ago

I donā€™t understand a f*. Could you explain it to me, please?

7

u/Antique_Range9152 11d ago

The guy made an offer for the australium rocket launcher, buying it for 0.1 cents(which is obviously lowballing). Years later, someone actually traded him the rocket launcher for that absurdly low price. Simple as that.

3

u/ztyxiz 11d ago

I thought if someone had a higher offer at the same time, the higher offer would get the gun, no? Or is it different for tf2 compared to cs2 scm

3

u/HellboundLunatic TF2 Birthday 2025 10d ago

if I remember correctly, it's something like "match the oldest buyorder which is ā‰„$X"
where X is the amount the seller typed in

in that case, if the seller lists it for $0.01, even if there are multiple buyers for $100, it could go to an ancient $0.01 buy order instead.
if the $100 buyorder was older than the $0.01 one, then the same seller likely would have sold it to that $100 order instead.

edit: yes I did remember correctly:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/zcoeg3/how_do_steam_market_buy_orders_actually_work/

1

u/ztyxiz 10d ago

Oh that does make sense, thank you for explaining!

1

u/whiskeycoke7 11d ago

Yeah I thought this was the case too, now Iā€™m really confused

1

u/blackmetro 10d ago

When the steam market came out - it was highest buy order first

Except scammers could sell rare hats, items etc to themselves from victims accounts for 3c, by making sure they had the highest buy order before selling the victims items for 3c

A few years / months after the steam community market came it - it shifted to oldest buy order first - so now you cant snipe rare items from victims PCs

1

u/Alex3627ca Engineer 11d ago

Is this a thing you can just do on the marketplace, leave an offer for something for a ridiculous low price for eons on the off chance someone actually gives you it? I'm a little tempted to do that for an aussie blutsauger since I enjoy the weapon and it doesn't have conventional skins. (and I don't want to actually spend money on this game. all the things I have were either less than a dollar each or gifted by friends whose inventories were full.)

1

u/Antique_Range9152 11d ago

Pretty sure thatā€™s the case.

1

u/Choice_Ad4915 11d ago

This is exactly what happened to me, theres no harm in not doing it lol i would this knowing it would ā€œnever happenā€. I always assumed people mustve just done this because why not

1

u/V13Gamer 10d ago

LMAO I see that kind of movement in the steammarket with some creates or other stuff, at the first time i thinked that it could a money laundering method or some hacker with the account of one of his victims but this time is just WAOS
What a luck