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.
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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.
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This actually the case, if the keys stay low, then people are more tempted to buy the keys from the market to trade, which gives profit to the Russian/Brazilian traders, thats why they try to keep the price not to high... If its too high it would be cheaper to directly buy from the store instead of treading from the market...
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the current deals aren't all that great, so there's no rush to sell and get wallet money to buy things
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OFC :)
in begin that was a profit you crafted low cost badge for example 70-80 eurocents for set then get globe card as reward sell the globe card for 80-90 eurocent(people was that dumb they insta buy for this price hahahaha) so you got free badge + 10 or more euro cents as profit i got about 30+ badges for free
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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.
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Possible reasons
these are all guesses
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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.
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Because people buy keys like crazy during christmas sale so people need to up the price a bit.
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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.
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Since last year, on any sales, the price of tf2 keys dropped, but this Christmas Sales, only just at the beginning, the price dropped. But, since yestarday the price is raising.
Any one knows why?
You can check the historical price on the chart
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