Why the price of tf2 keys are not dropping?

Because the current deals are very bad, a lot of 60% off for games already discounted less and they aren't the most-wanted ones.

Either people are being smarter and not impulse buying and thus don't require more money and thus don't need to sell their TF2 keys...or...nah, there's no way people can resist these 85-90% off deals. The only explanation is divine intervention.

I just watched the market since I tought: Hey lets trade a game for keys... Then I saw the prices and almost died of an heart attack...

Should've bought all the keys I needed at the start of the sale T-T

Does anyone know exactly why prices drop during a sale? I think that it's because of Russian/Brazillian traders bulk selling their keys they earned so they can earn back the money to get more games to sell, but not sure if I'm right.

Why the steamglobes price went from 60-70 cents to 14-18 cents and the keys are still like 1.60-70

because the price ingame stays the same

Why should it drop ?

new cases or crates or hats or whatever are released and theres still lot of people who are smart enough to buy keys to unlock those new cases or crates or hats or whatever

the current deals aren't all that great, so there's no rush to sell and get wallet money to buy things

because its a fucking shitty sale is why. valves sales each year become worse... crappier prices, shitty offerings (dlc flash deals, already-bundled games, etc) - its no surprise there isnt a rush on selling keys this time around.

people don't care about winter cards no more

If memory serves, the same thing happened last year. I wondered the same.

I had two theories.
1> Valve bought up a ton to increase the price and increase their cut. Not costing them anything as its all digital.

2> There was a problem where people were posting items and no one could see them. So the keys were being eating up really quick to the point that the price increased (as no one had a chance to lowball the next)

I have a feeling its happening again.

Possible reasons

1. Sale sucks and/or people got done buying what they wanted, so no need to sell keys meaning less sellers
2. Some just people ran outta keys to sell and can't get more
3. Some people were selling them to get funds to buy naughty/nice keys, but the initial hype is over
4. Christmas day means gift cards which means some people suddenly got more money to buy keys which might increase demand

these are all guesses

Haven't paid much attention to this sale but what's usually the primary motivator in keys being sold is opening crates. Last Christmas a bunch of rather heavy money items dropped significantly in price because everybody was crashing out to get keys and open crates. Some of those prices still haven't recovered.

i like it, higher key prices on the market mean you can get more value from the russian traders in exchange of one key :)

Because people buy keys like crazy during christmas sale so people need to up the price a bit.

Because people try to sell them for higher and higher and people actually buy them at that price.

Also because everyone knows that keys can be sold on the community market for funds, so that's worth money too.