but you dont have to put 5€ on each account just buy 1 tf2 key on the tf2 site
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Do like me: sell a card for 0.20€, and them buy the cheapest hat available.
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Well, I found this. It's a TF2 key for €3.95.
You'd probably be better off just buying stuff worth €5 for each account and then reselling them on the market or trading for other items, which you could then dump onto one account and sell them all off that one.
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Here's how I got premium on my first 40 alts.
1)I add $5 minimum to half the accounts
2)Buy premium gift on one alt
3)Send premium gift to next alt
4)Repeat until done.
I still haven't gotten my 134 alts premium but I probably won't get that far til maybe by the end of the year at the current rate I'm going in trades.
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But that would be 3,74 € for 2 Accs.
If I d do it how I wrote, you only pay 0,60€ for 1 Acc
and have 1 € left to buy some Fortix or cheap games. But I ll think
again about your method. Why do u think is your method better?
Cuz I dont know which is better :/
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Well the thing is, if you put all the money into one account then you'd have to but the premium upgrade gifts for each account that needs it while adding the minimum to half the accounts will save you 50% of what you'd spend. For example;
Spend $5 on account one to buy premium gift and gain premium status on the same account
Send premium gift to next alt without adding money to the 2nd alt
3rd gets $5 to do the same as the first account, etc
This method is just dedicated to getting premium status without buying anything else.
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I only just decided to get into this recently.
I only have 1 alt account, I bought something on it as a gift to give it verified billing address.
Waited 30 days (In which time trading cards launched... damn it).
Gave account 29p worth of stuff and sold on market.
Bought cheapest item in game for 29p.
That was the cheapest way I could figure out how to do it, but it's less scaleable.
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The best way to do it for free, is idling as free user and wait to get Tags and Paints, these things are tradables, you can move them to your main account, then you sell those things in the market and get some credit to buy an upgrade to premium gift. You only have to be patient :P
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Chances are they won't go on sale.
When I created a bunch of my idle accounts, I bought tons of paints while they were 50-75% off. Prices dropped initially since many others did, but they eventually come back up and were easily sold at a profit.
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After re-reading your post a couple times, I'm just going to ask, what the hell is a "premium Steam account" and why would they want your account when they still have to pay for TF2 premium?
His choices are to either, use his own account and pay $5 for TF2 premium or use your account, pay $5 for TF2 premium AND take the risk that you might reclaim the account.
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well it's simple: if you have a steam premium account (with at least 1 retail game), you can add friends / trade stuffs and so on. He can put on market a copy of dota2 for [minimum_mannco_itemprice] + market fees and buy that dota2 copy with his main account. This you he will get a tf2 premium for minimum_blablabla + 15% (if i'm not wrong about market fees).
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I've made numerous idle accounts with no games on it other than TF2 premium. Perhaps there was a misunderstanding on what was required for TF2 premium, but your account would be no different than a freshly created one. (other than Sim City 4!)
There is also no reason to use the market and give 15% cut to Steam multiple times.
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oh, now I see the bold part: I only wanted to give a hand, but whatever, if you want to hear the story behind that account: I wanted to "troll" someone from my wotr clan, but, because I couldn`t send him a friend request, I had to buy a game (and simcity was that daily deal).
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Ok look dude u wait for something to go on sale for 49 cents u buy it u get tf2 premium
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:O I payed with paypal without adding steam wallet
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Very easy...
Step 1.: Create Accounts and activate SteamGuard
Step 2.: Wait until you can use the Market (15 Days)
Step 3.: Use your Main Account and Buy Trading cards for each Account and trade this to your idle Accounts
(Use Trading Cards that are worth enough for a Item in Mann Co Store)
Step 4.: Sell with every Idle Account your Trading Cards
Now you should have 0,30-0.40€ on every Account That should be enough for a Item in Mann Co. Store.
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The Key doesn't rise in euro/dollar, but the value of the items gets lower and lower. Like you could buy for only 2.33(2 refined metal + 1 reclaimed) a key. Now you need almost 6 (Refined metal) and why? Because items are free which can be crafted as metal. And it's not because of the high demand (If that would be the case why didn't Valve raised their key prices?). The gametrade mechanics degenerates and newbies need almost 5+ months to trade their items just to get 1 key.(If they cannot buy keys because of their country or they don't own a creditcard).
Thats just pathetic and gives and unfair advantage against others.
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Anyone playing TF2 and complaining about not getting paid enough by playing is silly. You average around 0.55ref per week if you cover all 10 hours of item dropping. This is certainly not a lot these days, but if you want to customize your dudes to a very high standard, even back then you'd need to wait a very long time. Just buy shit with real money, to be very ignorant here i'd say "Do you think Mattie! Built his collection on just playing on his account?"
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Incorrect, idlers have low impact on the price of metal-key. They do contribute to it being higher, as the total amount of metal gets bigger. However, the main reason for why the keys explose in price, is that people sell keys for above the backpack.tf price( or whatever sheet you use) and sucessfully sell. Then backpack.tf changes their price, to what the keys are being sold for at the high end. Then people continue to sell at higher then the range, and people still buy the keys because people are more or less not caring about a scrap here or there. A scrap here or there does in fact make the entire market explode, because a scrap here or there, every week, or every day. Very quickly becomes several refined in differance. There are many different aspects to as of why the metal-key price is rising/has been rising, idling is one of them, but it's a minor one. Personally (as this is not backpack.tf) I'd like to complain on Backpack.tf admins for being really bad at their jobs. They accept key suggestions like crazy, and claim that any counterproof is "quicksells" because they sell in minutes, or even seconds. The thing is that, the only reason keys in a higher price sells at "regular speed" is that they are above the range, and therefore it takes longer to sell them. People are constantly buying and selling keys for every minute that goes, it is a very fast paced market - therefore the keys in the range do sell very quickly.
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The amount of metal to key ratio has stayed almost the same, if you want someone to blame for key prices, blame yourself for actually paying out the 5.55-5.66 refined it now takes to buy a key, they only sell at that price because people accept it as that price.
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This is how I made my idles Premium.
Add $5 Steam Wallet to account (each payment method can only be used on 2 accounts max per month)
Purchase a marketable 99 cent item from the Mann Co store that you then trade to your main account to resell (or in my case a main idle account that sells all of my TF2 items on the market) I can generally buy a 99 cent item and then resell it for roughly 80 cents after fees, meaning a slight loss of 20 cents or so.
The remaining $4.01 I let sit in my account until there is something on sale that I want to buy. Generally I continue using balance on my idles until it gets low enough that I won't be able to spend that money on Store purchases, at which point I either spend it on the community on cheap emoticons/backgrounds/cards that I want or sell myself a Dota 2 to move the remaining balance over to my main.
This method requires you to invest more money into the system ($5 per account), but you retain more of it as well in the form of Steam Wallet.
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kataztrophik already mentioned it. You can only use your CC/Paysafecard/paypal/whatver for 2 different accounts per month, if you try to fill your steam wallet on 3 accounts steam will simply give you an error. You cannot use the same payment method on more then 2 accounts. You can bypass this with, buying prepaid cards with your prepaid card, create multiple paypal accounts, etc etc. But trust me, it's not worth it. Me and a friend was looking for DAYS for ways to easily bypass this 2-limit. We tried everything, went through every site we could find, but they simply took way too many fees or needed you to be a customer at their bank, or required a unused cellphone number from a special country... There are many different ways to get your accounts premium. But by far, the safest way is to either do 2 accounts per month per card (you can also get webmoney checks and therefore get maybe 6 accounts from 1 card. If you do 2 staight off the card and 2 from paypal and 2 on webmoney. Things get very easy if you are a russian these days. Sometimes you wish you lived in the russian part of steam, I wouldn't live there because of that though, too much other things I would miss here, wouldn't be worth it.
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Hi,
I ll make all my idle accs Premium. But I dont know
how. To get Premium I have to purchase sth. out of the mann
and co store. The Minimum of money I can put in my wallet
is 5€. That means I have to buy a 50€ Paysafecard and put 5€
on each account. I thing i ll buy 2 Keys and a Fortix gift.
That means I can sell the Keys for 1,50€ (x2=3,00€). So a premium acc
costs me about 1€. Do u think thats ok/good?
Than I ll have 1 € Left on my Account. Im planning to get some more Fortix for it.
Or what do u guy think, how I should get my Premium?
Thanks in advance, iRavage
TL;DR: Best way to get TF2 Premium
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