[Julia_Gillard_the_Honest]

It's happened almost daily for the last two weeks! I just want a Party Phantom with a Plasma effect. I'm bidding on Outpost mostly when suddenly the mask disappears. I'm making fair offers of a bit under 3 Earbuds and am gradually rising when suddenly the trader sells it to someone who added him with a message somewhere along the lines of, "I'll but it for [my price + 1 key] but only if you trade me immediately right now!!!!" The hijacker then offers it to me for 2/3 Earbuds more. He wasn't even interested in the hat! What's worse, he's ALWAYS got 40 Earbuds and 100 trade messages that begin with, "Buying quick-sell unusuals!!!!"

I just want to buy it to keep it! Why do you sellers insist on rewarding these idiots? And why aren't I allowed to complain about this behaviour? I even try to make a joke about it (http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/3744957), but that gets removed by someone who also happens to have a bunch of "Buying quisk-sell unusuals!!!!!!!!!" trades.

I want that mask! Quick-sell buyers, get lost!

Sellers, please stop rewarding these delinquents!

That is all.

[OnceAndFutureKing]

Do the hats you're offering on have a B/O listed?
Why not just make a good offer right away instead of starting low raising?
How do you know the "hijacker" is only paying 1 key, it seems unlikely that most sellers would accept that right away since 1 key is insignificant at that point.

[Julia_Gillard_the_Honest]

I usually follow up with the seller to find out what he ended up trading for (it surprises me how many don't mind telling me). Usually it's just a little bit above what I was offering (mostly but not always in unusuals). Probably about half have buy-out prices listed. I also check the last owner's trades and start offering at (or maybe a few keys above) what the current seller paid (it's usually easy to find this trade because most of the time it happened within days of the seller acquiring it).

[Zhus]

or you can try being the scumbag that says "i offer 1 key more if u do it now" and hijack someone else's

but the thing in that one is yours is for keep, not for profit!

[hamie96]

Simple. The seller is always going to sell to the person who pays more for the item.

[beefntators]

Simple. The seller is always going to sell to the person who pays more for the item.

+1, profit driven whores EVERYWHERE

[Zhus]

Simple. The seller is always going to sell to the person who pays more for the item.

+1, profit driven whores EVERYWHERE

I know right?

http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/1070593
http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/866445

we've all did something like this before

[beefntators]

Simple. The seller is always going to sell to the person who pays more for the item.

+1, profit driven whores EVERYWHERE

I know right?

http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/1070593
http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/866445

we've all did something like this before

If you ask bluedemon, I literally traded that bills for an unusual and donated to RAWR spy crabs. Also donated ~30 keys too? Altogether I donated about ~3 bills and 40 keys, as a trader I'm probably least driven by greed, but still profit is a nice incentive but doesn't drive me like Teeird and Blackened

/edit, as for the buds, you can ask it's owner RickRick, that I was only brokering it to help him get his first unusual :P

[zzuubb]

+1, profit driven whores EVERYWHERE

I thought that was sarcasm but oh wait you were serious.

[kramurx]

Simple. The seller is always going to sell to the person who pays more for the item.

+1, profit driven whores EVERYWHERE

Yeah selling to the highest bidder what a cunt.