what is the general process of earning profit in this game other than playing it every once in a while and getting like five cents in random junk?
before you read the rest of this post consider these two things:
- i am extremely unexperienced in unusual trading, don't know my way around or about it at all
- i do not care about how long the goal takes me, only want to know what's the most efficient way of going about it
my previous goal for ideal sniper hat (and it was really my only official goal for tf2 at the time) was to get an Anger with Orbiting Planets (237.01 ref, 39.14 keys, 2.2 buds, $73.47, AS SAID BY BACKPACK.TF (i've heard it's unreliable))
now i'm seeing there's an Anger with Aces High which i've immediately fallen in love with, but it has no price. a friend calculated that, based on the ratio between other hats and what other people are offering for it, that the AwAH is somewhere around 4.2 - 4.3 buds. that's a lot.
i was an idler for a short amount of time before my family got pissed at me sucking up bandwidth (long story on that), but it's obviously a disrespected method and valve is making it as inconvenient as possible (which i entirely understand) so it isn't worth it. what i'm asking for is what websites to hang around, what to watch out for in the trade business to take advantage of and what to work at to ultimately reach my final goal.