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Because then when somebody bought a key from us and got one they couldn't use on the vast majority of crates, they would feel cheated. We would have to pay significantly less than a normal key for them and hope that somebody somewhere wanted one.

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You were once able to sell expired event keys that turn into normal keys.

Unfortunately you can thank backpack.tf for creating an artificial collectors market for these expired keys by displaying their original picture instead of the regular key icon, so people started complaining about how the bots are trying to steal their "valuable" rare collectors keys.

Now those keys apparently aren't accepted anymore and now all the other people (the majority who don't give a damn about the so called non existant collectors value) who happen to have one of these keys which aren't looking any different than a normal key (besides being uncraftable, but who notices this).

So yeah, blame backpack.tf for creating the artificial collectors interest. Blame Valve for the way their item schema works and how they convert them into normal keys after the event if over. Blame the collectors who blindly follow anything backpack.tf tells them and who think these keys are anything special, just because they are displayed different on backpack.tf (and only there, maybe on outpost, but who cares) and who came here to complain about their valuable collector keys being "stolen" by our bots, instead of taking care of securely storing their "valuable" collection on an alt account.... like any good collector did in the past when items were at risk of expiring/disappearing upon launching TF2.

 

The only thing you can do is make a trade on outpost or a classified listing on backpack.tf where you offer your "valuable" rare collectors key for a normal key. Hey maybe you find someone who is so sure about his investment in this artificial hot air market that he is willing to overpay you. But if you just want to get rid of it fast, just trade it 1:1 for a "normal" key, theres enough traders who think they can make a quick profit from that.... and maybe it works, as long as enough people believe the things backpack.tf does have consequences on the economy.

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