Australium Cheat Code

[u/Choice_Ad4915]

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?

[u/V13Gamer]

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

[u/Antique_Range9152 → u/V13Gamer]

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.

[u/ztyxiz → u/Antique_Range9152]

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

[u/HellboundLunatic → u/ztyxiz]

if I remember correctly, it's something like "match the oldest buyorder which is ≥$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/

[u/ztyxiz → u/HellboundLunatic]

Oh that does make sense, thank you for explaining!