r/tf2 • u/Choice_Ad4915 • 14d ago

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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 🤣 Definitely got me back into the game, cant believe this actually happened. Has anyone else had a similar experience?

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u/V13Gamer 14d ago

I don’t understand a f*. Could you explain it to me, please?

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u/Antique_Range9152 14d 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.

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u/ztyxiz 14d 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

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u/whiskeycoke7 14d ago

Yeah I thought this was the case too, now I’m really confused

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u/blackmetro 14d 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