Buying Everything on the Steam Marketplace (Again)
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Today we are attempting something very stupid. We are going to be buying every cucumber and tea hat on the steam market for profit!! I know how why and what is going on. Well let me explain. Items can be bought and sold on the steam market these range from weapon skins in csgo to just anime emotes and trading cards. Some of these items on the marketplace can range from £0.03 to thousands of dollars. Today I am attempting some cheeky price manipulation shenanigans as we purchase as many tea hats from golf it from the marketplace as possible to artificially inflate the price and then try to sell them at a profit. Now the Tea Hat will be starting today being worth just 3p but we will be driving it all the way up to £10 using a simple investment. Ultimately this steam market exploit is not going to make you a millionaire but it might let you buy shower with your dad simulator for free. So watch as the spiffing brit exploits the steam summer sale and the new Halloween sale to take advantage of temporarily lower prices to buy up the market supply of Tea Hats and Cucumbers for profit!
00:00 - Intro
01:42 - Spiff Gets Paid Money
03:39 - Why The Market Is Broken
06:04 - Spiff Buys Expensive Cucumbers
10:30 - The Great Hat Trade
What you have seen here today is part of a fantastic perfectly balanced series on youtube where I go from game to game and break them with wacky exploits to gain things like unlimited gold. If you enjoyed this then be sure to check out more. The style is similar to RT game and callmekevin in parts. A large influence on this series has come from Valefisk and The Killian Experience.
So sit back relax and enjoy this Steam Market exploit attempt! How on earth can one english bugger break the market with some casual market manipulation!! Who knows maybe we will only lose a few hundred pounds on this stupid idea.
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Title: BUYING EVERY TEA HAT ON THE STEAM MARKET FOR PROFIT- Steam Is Perfectly Balanced With No Exploits - Hry
*I love money... I love hats... I love Valueless items...*
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Steam: "You can't just buy the entire stock."
Spiffing: "Hold my tea."
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Spiffing: “correction, I’ll hold my tea, and yours and everyone’s, and their hats”
All the tea.
Every single "tea hat" is an identical NFT.
Correction :
Spiffing: "Give me MY stock, thank you gentlemen!"
In our next episode, Spiffing crashes the American stock market with a single package of Yorkshire tea.
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*Yorkshire tea gold
"Perfectly Balanced"
So they go drop it in the harbor.
Nope.
how it began is how it will end: not with a bang, but with a lovely spot of tea
This wasn't a lesson in Steam Marketplace manipulaton, but a lesson in Market manipulation in general. It's insane how much you can control the world around yourself with a starting budget.
There are some funny and less funny examples of stuff like this happening with bots in the real stock market. The first person to do that cause a lot of trouble, if I remember correctly.
I tried this when I was 13 in middle school. I bought the whole racket of Warhead lolly pops from the school store, and wouldn't you know they got popular by the next lunch! I started selling them for 125% price... Until the principal informed me I didn't have a license to sell goods on school property and confiscated them all. Hahaha, fun while it lasted!
man, middle/highschool businesses like this where epic.
The principal of a whole middle school took candy from a 13 year old.
Did he ever give them back?
@@bensoncheung2801 probably not, unless the item is made to last, they can take it without concequence.
What a terrible principal. No wonder why kids become school shooters.
@@universal5459 what do you mean by that because humans aren’t made to last
I am looking forward to the "Business expense is a totally balanced tax write-off with no exploits" episode.
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"so my weekly food shop is actually a business expense as I need that to record my videos"
@@thespiffingbrit you joke but I know a guy who tried that. He claimed for literally everything - flash suits (give a good impression), flash car (same reason plus transport) etc etc. Yup, even his lunches "to keep him fuelled"
Prizes for who can guess closest to how much he could actually write-off
@@thespiffingbrit i mean... Food Theory does that XD
im just wondering domething, if you make a video about paying taxes does that make the taxes a business expense?
When a real hat is cheaper.
NFTs have gone too far
@@thespiffingbrit nfTEAs
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rare tf2 hats in a nutshell
spiffing: "dont try this"
me: "immediately tries doing it"
How did it go?
I kinda want to do so as well
dank poutart is now the richest man online.
I failed in my journey it was too easy to get the item and people found out might try again with some more research
@@dankpoutart5312 that sucks, maybe many of us can band together and all profit from it a different time
First sponsored ad in a LONG time that actually convinced me to try a new product.
Well done Spiff. Well done.
how'd it go?
They got you 😭 I won't let them get me too
Opera GX is a dog water browser and literally every bit of functionality it offers can be achieved with extensions in ungoogled chromium or firefox. Please don't install that literal malware on your machine.
It didn't even get past installation. I always look at reviews before I install
It's spyware. Don't use OperaGX. Use Firefox, Ungoogled chromium, Brave, anything else. Just don't use Opera.
Spiff telling his accountant about the cucumbers is like how investors explain NFTs to their spouses.
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Baftown mindblasts
Speculators buy NFTs, not investors.
@@TheRealE.B. criminals buy NFTs 👀 they are by far the most efficient way of moving criminal cash into regulated markets like the US or UK
@@mor4y You're NGMI
I just looked and October 29th, the day after he listed his, there was a total of 500 sold for an average price of 48.24. If those were all spiffing Brit, he made almost £25,000 from this exploit. Well done
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Can you cash your steam wallet, pre can our inly bew used on steam?
@@franklinass8047 Yes and no, there are plenty of sites where you can sell csgo items for actual cash/paypal. But no there is no way to cashout directly
no that was already shown in the video and it was him buying it up before he started listing, 107 was sold for 2.54 and that prob all eh made now the price is dirt cheap
The regular Tea Hat went up in price too on that same day, ironically. 243 were sold for an average of £0.33.
"It wasn't the best financial decision we could have made"
Hindsight has never been less required.
I'm amazed Valve didnt sponsor you ... i mean, in the end: They're the winners here right?
"The Spiffing Brit bought my cucumbers!" *faints*....I imagine
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Were they used cucumbers? 🤔
@@hanzohattori4078 It's November relax
@@hanzohattori4078 yes marinaded in vinegar, dill and other spices.
I don't pretend to understand you damn kids and your slang memes, but I'm pretty sure SOMEONE'S mother needs to hear about all this
Spiff casually informing the world how steam is directly involved and profiting in global money laundry
@Boa-Noah You cant get money out of steam though, you need to spend it on games. (I mean ofc, you could sell a gift technically)
@@foty8679 That is where third party shops for steam games and items step in.
It's one of the reasons they stopped letting you sell CSGO case keys.
@@foty8679 can buy skins and sell them on 3d part sites/ buy lots of steam index vr head sets...
@@foty8679 people will buy skins in csgo for real money and im sure there is other games where the same can happen
This is honestly a good video on stock market bubbles and manipulation
SO good that it's been two weeks since he posted this lol
I love that Spiff went from, haha silly exploit in video game to "I have become the richest being through manipulation of economies".
There's a trading card for Payday 2 called "daylight robbery"
I'm amazed nobody has...
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So far
Lol SOMEONE is trying to get Spiff to abuse the market them 🤣
You must feel yourself very smart
People are definitely gonna try to do this and fail miserably
Oh god 100%... This happens in real life too with snake oil. Just because diamonds have an inflated fake price doesnt mean you can do the same with say platinum
@@thespiffingbrit China has been trying to do it with steel for years. Part of the reason Trump put in tariffs, or else the US steel industry would be unable to compete and be practically nonexistent.
@@jonathankotecki2408 So, if you are actually interested in economics, what you should look up is the process of dumping and the keys to power, because what goes on in China with steel (and the US with agriculture, especially corn), is more about babying certain groups to stay in power than it is economics. What the Spiffing Brit did is buy all of a product up (aka cornering the market) and thus trick the bots into thinking there was value and then buying at a price he dictated. Dumping is different. One can use dumping to corner specific markets, but with dumping, he would have dumped all of his products at 1 cent, in order to drive everyone else out of business. But in the Steam marketplace, nobody has to sell before the product rots, nor has to pay warehouse storage fees for bundles of steel, so dumping on the Steam marketplace has no effect. With no deadline to sell, the Steam traders can just sit on their product indefinitely. As for tariffs, well, tariffs have no effect on products dumped on the world market, since tariffs are a local tax and we're talking world markets here. The traditional use of tariffs is for kings to protect their corrupt cronies who in return keep them in power.
@@jonathankotecki2408 The chinese also did that with Dollars. They kept buying dollars since the 80's and financed virtually their entire country with currency transactions.
@@danyael777 that's just main issue with importing country, if one country import more than it can export, they eventually run out of money.
Your video's about RL lifehacks, exploits etc are always so interesting to watch. love them :D !
This dude is litterarly breaking everything that is set to stone and makes new things happen. I love this dude. You just earned a sub
This is my favorite because I literally did this to Neopets with two friends when I was a kid. The item was sand, just any sand except the rare sand. The sand economy took actual years to even out. Would recommend this exploit, it's good fun.
I mean The Sand Economy is Important
You sound like you would eat sand to dry up the stock
@@manatanks no but Sands Very important I mean How do you Think There Stamping out Modern Citys and Stadia in the Rich Near East
@@Jesus_Offical I don't know what you're talking about.
I mean sand is important
Without it how would we survive?
199 sold at 16.51 28 October 2PM = 3285 EUR
500 sold at 41.49 28 Ooctober 7PM = 20745 EUR
107 sold at 2.18 28 October 8PM = 233 EUR
Total = 24263 EUR.
Did the bots really buy 25k worth of teahats?!
Genious
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I wouldn't be surprised...
How much money do these bots hold?
@@Piesy001 its a flipping buiseness, copoled with illigal trades of giftcards and sites like g 2 play where gamekeys are sold cheap, for money made in ways like this.
Steam gets their cut so they dont enforce it as they profit.
After years of having bots auto buying PS5, stocks, etc it brings me a lot of joy to watch them buy thousands of dollars worth of stuff they’re going to have a hard time selling
You should do a video on New World, an mmo published by Amazon. It is in a perfect state with full of CRAZY exploits. I am sure you can figure out some new ones too.
Great episode! I enjoy watching these videos with a cup of Yorkshire gold (and maybe a drop or too of RSO)
Wow! this video should be shown to every university level economics class ever. I have never seen a better case of market manipulation explained so well.
You see them all the time. They aren't on the radar but they're there.
@@miinyoo I'm sure they are but they need a bigger platform. This is how shortages and holding happens
The issue here is that he's only manipulating bots. You'll notice everyone else drove the price back down
@@backlogbuddies What did the bots pay him with? Monopoly money?
@@bensoncheung2801 No, on the contrary, it was with steam balance, which is actually pretty close to its real world equivalent due to the recent addition of the steam deck. The Steam market overall is quite an interesting topic, but there will always be a way to convert steam balance to money, because that's a big part of valve's income. IIRC you can get about 80% of your steam balance in money through the CSGO or Dota markets. This of course works both ways, so if I were to put 1000$ into Steam directly, It would be inefficient because buying 1000$ worth of CSGO or Dota items on 3rd party sites would yield me about 1250 Steam balance. Spiff didn't do this so the potential profit is even higher.
We were seeing on how The Netherland created the first ever Stock Bubble on Tullip Bulbs.
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and we're still profiting off that.
Yep. At its peak you could buy a nice house in Amsterdam for one tullip bulb. These days it is hard to find a house there for under 800k euros.
@@DBZVelena yeah, we are gladly!
You are literally my idol lol
You honestly have the best content on CZcams!
My God man, you make me laugh. Your comedy and just overall ability to break the world is fantastic. Keep it up good sir.
This lesson teached me more about investing than my whole life
Except that most stock exchanges in the world are supposed to have controls to prevent this thing from happening. And some of those controls are based in laws, meaning this could send a person to jail. Not saying that it doesn't happen, but not as much as you see here. But Steam marketplace isn't technically a stock market or commodities exchange (Similar to stocks, but real world goods are traded.) Since steam isn't one, the laws regarding artificially inflating an item's worth probably don't apply. But, I'm not a lawyer, so check with one before attempting this.
sorry, "taught"
@@jackielinde7568 Ye like that guy who cornered the onion market and all onion futures as well. Pretty mad. He owned almost all the onions in the US? (I can't remember) at the time.
There's now a law to prevent that happening again
@@justforthis3208 Yeup. That did happen. And I'd have to look it up.
@@jackielinde7568 A very good example was when a bunch of gamers who does day trading started to do this to gamestop stocks on robinhood. The broker had to close the trade for that stock to prevent it from overinflating
i have to be honest, this is quite possibly the funniest video I've ever seen on youtube. I'm in tears over this
this gave me an idea actually that would be interesting if you were to look into it. Final Fantasy 14 has a marketboard where players can buy and sell items for whatever prices they want, and the average prices for said items can change over time, similar to the steam marketplace. Might be interesting to look into for a future project of yours, but that's just a random idea I had while watching this, lol. Great video btw!
2:07 Truly the greatest technological advancement of the millenium, behind tea of course. I wonder if spiff knows where this is from...
Honestly, i'm curious to find out just how this ends up finishing
yeah this video lacks a punchline without the actual items getting sold
I'm pretty sure Spiff doesn't want to have to report that income out of embarrasment.
Just checked the steam market place, i don't think Spiffing actually sold any of them. Maybe due to legal reasons.
looking at transaction history on the market spiff never sold them, immedietly after the £35 spike they dropped to being an average of 1.85, there is however, over 50 listed in tyhe "above £8" section, assumabvly the ones he listed in the video. so he could still profit if he dropped the price and sold them a handful at a time
my dear tea drinking friend, did you ever consider exploiting Kenshi? It's a lovely magnificent RTS squad RPG that is completely broken and unbalanced in many mechanics. i'm sure you'll find something to your liking if you look.
told my friends to hold on to them and put sell orders for crazy high waiting for spiff to buy it back another time. thanks for buying me and my friends games
Spiff seems to be perfectly balancing his sponsors now. Can't wait to see that video
Spiff's videos taught me economics better than real business courses
What a lovely demonstration of the (sketchy) high-end arts market
Need more of these the first one is what made me sub 😂
Since your last video about cucumbers, I was thinking ' Why didn't he go for the tea products?'
I sit corrected now.
Hey Spiff, Floridian Fan here, Thought you would like to know that my local supermarket started stocking yorkshire tea and I can confirm now that it is a nice black tea and I got Tea biscuits with it. That is all. The Tea revolution will come to america
Meh. I'll stick with my Twinning's Irish Breakfast. Earl Grey has an awful aftertaste due to the additive they use.
@@jackielinde7568 i mean i have other teas too
Also its not earl grey its more of a straight breakfast tea
@@ZK95004 Keep an eye out for Twinnings Assam Strong and Malty. Trust me
@@azuresky96 i do like twinning but those are new to me
Dear Mr Brit,
This was so funny tea came out my nose!!
The flying pengy gold coin stuff made me cry.
Another glorious conquest for the queen !! i honestly do not know if enjoy you breaking games or life more.
I love this I learn more from this than any dubious stock advice on youtube
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moral of the video: dry out the stocks to control the market
i would noot suggest trying this at home unless you try it with a small supply item. low risk just for practice, worst case scenareo you lose a fiver.
@@charmedrools1 I am aware of this and honestly investing is mostly gambling anyways so that's the only thing I would do
I also love that it's the cucumber from Deponia, a great game
The sponsor is so good that I use the product before I've ever seen an ad of it
This was awesome, looks like you made a bunch of profit in the making.
Spiff is our dream self
A wise sausage, a omnipotent being, have the power to control stocks market, lastly a Cultured one.
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Did this man just wake up one day and decide he wanted to use exploits to effectively destroy the Steam market?
Of course not, that would be preposterous! He woke up like that _at least_ twice.
@@docontra4921 underrated comment🤣
Your background sold me! XD
Wolflord might be up your alley. Obscure game with lots of strangely named cheap items on the Steam market, like the Golden Hamgrenade, Rotten Pumpkin or Moldy Pixie Hat.
Every time Spiff uploads it feels like it's raining tea... Yorkshire Gold Tea to be spiffic😀
Great tutorial on how to make Valve rich. Very entertaining.
The fact spiff didn't mess with the pengy "totally not a money laundering scheme" somehow disappointed me.
Practical, or not, loads of fun! I may have a new favorite game to play on steam>:3
He never actually told us whether or not the hats sold. They probably didn't, so he made just about nothing.
i checked 500 sold at 50 usd.
@@mathgasm8484 OH. OK THEN.
they're still selling at over 1$CAD today
The real question is: Did they all sell and how much did you make off it?
How are you going to NOT show the most important part of the whole video! That was like Star Wars fans waiting so long for the other movies, only to be given garbage and told "NOPE!" Lol
Seems questionable not to show that part.
Looking at the steam market, I guess he sold about 100 of them at about 2 pounds each. (if him)
@@jackhead4if it was me making this vid, I would have put the amount I made off this in the title and in the thumbnail. To not even include it in the video just seems weird.
Or maybe he didn't sell it in the time the video was made because he knew that the price of his item will increase even more when he uploads this video.
Next video is called beeing an Influencer is perfectly balanced and has no exploits xd
@@profilgesperrt2702 Nah, I think he learned his lesson about being careful with how he uses his reach as an influencer during the Minecraft Kingdom streams.
Ohh my gods… imma go watch this happen all over steam market.
Cause this is amazing
0:45 people are still buying the cucumber because of your video, not just because of your cucum-flation
now it shifted to the platypus emoji 😂
I love how the sponsor chapter is called Spiff gets paid
I wanted Opera to know: I didnt knew you had a special Version of your browser. It looks really good and due to your sponsor, I actually downloaded it and I will try it out later. So keep on sponsoring that british tea lover
...are you advertising that the spiffing brit is a good ad medium? lol
@@CouchPotator Sir yes sir
@@IceBioshock how is it
@@aig9672 its pretty good, I dont See any special reason to use it besides in my case: one Bug in Chrome which causes Videos to crash - doesnt crash the Videos in the Opera Browser
I did the same thing on world of warcraft, monopoly of one item makes you sooo rich, and you ask in chat to buy to people who collect it directly for cheaper in mass amounts, and sell back for much more
I swear spiffing is slowly teaching us all basic economics and how flawed most game systems and even sometimes real life systems.
Good video! I like the :dollars: from Tropico 4! The pengi coins do not appear to be a money laundering mechanism at all!
Another majestic video! I have to make myself another tea...
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Taky bych si dal čajíček
Ale bez mlíka
Bri*ish 🤮
Ahhh yes…
Finally a fellow Brit
Selling tea?
Amazing work good fellow
I basically skip all ads as a rule, but this one was great. And at least 50% because spiff failed at keeping it straight, and the features seemed genuinely interesting. But, I can't even use it as a linux user. Well played.
"It's just... good business..." - Lord Cutler Beckett
I always am surprised when I see the Nekopara background on his Opera browser.
personally never played it but I do find the background is a great conversation piece
Yay a new video about exploits! Let's gooo!
Ok I will give Opera GX a go. Do love when you type it sounds like the old mechanical typewriter I used to own.
Ah yes, capitalism at its finest.
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Challenge
@Chadrick Basedman It's in the sport!
Day 21 of trying to make Spiff say "Sugoi"
I support this venture.
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Yey
@Pan Garchomp nic nie dodałem
Heard that you were in Sweden at the best bar we got. Have a good one mate!
I don't normally have a reason to believe we live in the matrix but every time brit posts I fall deeper into it
His exploit abilities have extruded outside games into the real market
We need a video on how you explain all this to an accountant. You made money doing what? how? really? WTF? Well, the paperwork for this will be interesting.
It would be pretty easy for an accountant. Depending on where you live, its either untaxed or you have to pay a capital gains tax
technically he earned coupons for steam games not actual money since it can't be withdrawn. important distinction to make for tax reasons.
Lmao. Imagine paying taxes.
You managed to trash the steam marketplace in one nigth? xD This is insane. Started to scroll for items in quantity, gave up at page 750+. All items with 1 in stock. Good jobb, Spiff! :D
Spiff, you have to try Executive Assault 1 & 2. Rumor has it they are both made by one guy and if that's true then he is flipping amazing. It's an RTS/FPS hybrid where you are a corporate CEO in control of a robot army. It's funny, replayable, and surely full of exploits. I NEED to see to the exploits, Spiff... I'm addicted now and it's your fault.
If Spiff was a business professor he'd produce endless amounts of mini Jeff Bezos
You’re the best Spiff!
Man I haven't watched you on CZcams for a couple weeks, I'm due for some of that delightful sarcastic voice of yours
Well, seeing Jojo and Nekopara in a spiff video was definitly something i never expected
Spiff has become a stock market youtuber now, when can we expect your first 24 hour trading stream where you suffer from lack of sleep for a -37% profit margin
Ah yes, Opera GX Nekopara edition, the only right way to use Opera...
BRO YOU ARE MY NEW ADDICTION, PLEASE UPLOAD MORE
I’m pulling a Brit move and taking that quote “bugger me sideways with a teabag” my empire of things I totally own is complete
*sips tea
The Steam Market is the new Stock Market
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And cucumbers are the new Bitcoin
And tea hats are the new Ethereum
Would it not have been a good idea to put a sell order at 10.00 as soon as you could and then continue buying and such? That way if a bot comes in and cleans out the market you get to sell your 100 hats at 10 a pop making 1000.
this is still fs the best operagx ad ive ever fucking seen lmao
There is this gem of a game called: Long live the Queen (yes I know, appropriate!) and it has this item called :lumen: which in game is a crystal used for magic. Somehow that’s always been my favourite item on the steam marketplace.
When 5 pounds of cucumbers take on a whole new meaning
Thanks spiff, just bought 100 epic tea hats for $20
Edit: 35 Minutes later and $1.79 per hat. Buy Orders are the best way to purchase now!
Edit 2: 10 hours later and there are now $1 sell orders.
Tea hat to the moon ^^^^^
Hope you buy cucumber and tea hat next time again so that way some of us can sell it for good price as well btw nice video mate keep it up
Very interesting. I see that Steam now has a one-week waiting time to sell them back. Should still work though if you own the entire supply.
I'll be honest the scariest thing would be if spiff actually played a game with no exploit and totally balanced could you imagine
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thank you sir! i needed that, i ran out of coffee...
Been watching this guy for two day and I burst evertime he says Yorkshire tea 🤣