Buying Every Cucumber on the Steam Market

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  • čas přidán 12. 07. 2021
  • Today we are attempting something very stupid. We are going to be buying every cucumber 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 cucumber emotes from the marketplace as possible to artificially inflate the price and then try to sell them at a profit. Now the cucumber 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 to take advantage of temporarily lower prices to buy up the market supply of cucumbers for profit!
    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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    Patreon: / spiffing
    Twitter: @thespiffingbrit
    Discord: / discord
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    If you’d rather pick it up from you local Tesco, please do! I get a small commission when you buy it here, but that should never stop DRINKING THE GLORIOUS LEAVES OF POWER.
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Komentáře • 5K

  • @RTGame
    @RTGame Před 2 lety +18895

    The supermarket is empty where I live, there is no cucumber supply left and I am afraid

    • @averyrealnamethatismyname9495
      @averyrealnamethatismyname9495 Před 2 lety +306

      Oh no, not the cucumbers!

    • @youtubewanderer3347
      @youtubewanderer3347 Před 2 lety +72

      Sounds like something you would do hmmm

    • @Neimonster
      @Neimonster Před 2 lety +77

      It's not like shutting down the global economy could have any consequences, so

    • @mariocultleader6067
      @mariocultleader6067 Před 2 lety +29

      @@thespiffingbrit You forget the Divine MarioCultLeader is also infinitely wealthy. Its not just you that can purchase millions of cucumbers Spiff.

    • @mariocultleader6067
      @mariocultleader6067 Před 2 lety +17

      it seems quite inefficient to buy cucumbers out of supermarkets anyway. Personally I just buy the supermarket its much more efficient .

  • @IrelandVonVicious
    @IrelandVonVicious Před 2 lety +4937

    When a digital cucumber sells for more than an actual cucumber.

    • @cliftut
      @cliftut Před 2 lety +212

      A digital cucumber with a countable number of pixels, no less.

    • @chadpunte1731
      @chadpunte1731 Před 2 lety +109

      has clearly never owned a CS:GO knife.

    • @IrelandVonVicious
      @IrelandVonVicious Před 2 lety +23

      @@chadpunte1731 Nope. I'm a TF2 player. Tried CS:GO and didn't care for it.

    • @chadpunte1731
      @chadpunte1731 Před 2 lety +44

      @@IrelandVonVicious the absolute cheapest CS:GO knife when I played was 40 bucks.

    • @irvangb94
      @irvangb94 Před 2 lety +14

      Cucumber to the moon !!

  • @ZeroutlawRBLX
    @ZeroutlawRBLX Před rokem +853

    1 year later, the cucumber has never fallen back to its original price, it's at 0,63€ @ 15/12/2022

  • @josipmujan3737
    @josipmujan3737 Před rokem +1186

    Only this guy can make a video long 20 minutes about buying cucumbers, what a legend.

  • @antoinelangevin2955
    @antoinelangevin2955 Před 2 lety +2769

    "What do you do for a living?"
    "It's...complicated"

    • @georgeskhater487
      @georgeskhater487 Před 2 lety +40

      Just say trading its easier to explain

    • @MGSLurmey
      @MGSLurmey Před 2 lety +25

      Literally this is just the job of economists and traders.

    • @monikaisdonewiththeinterne2039
      @monikaisdonewiththeinterne2039 Před 2 lety +4

      Say you get tons of money by making other people starve without cucumbers

    • @gongarcia4071
      @gongarcia4071 Před 2 lety +2

      if in a friendly environment.
      i like to say "I earn 1/3 as a technician, and 2/3 playing crypo games"...

    • @vantilsley8633
      @vantilsley8633 Před 2 lety +3

      It's cucumberlated

  • @NorthoftheBorder
    @NorthoftheBorder Před 2 lety +7830

    Forget GME, forget AMC, I'm putting all my money into Cucumber Stonks

    • @turtilee5989
      @turtilee5989 Před 2 lety +48

      Cucumbers are going to be big! Everyone needs to buy right now or you’ll be missing out!

    • @mitchellalexander8508
      @mitchellalexander8508 Před 2 lety +9

      This is commodities trading

    • @High.on.Life_DnB
      @High.on.Life_DnB Před 2 lety +7

      Digital cucumbers taste the best! Just try it!

    • @Tester-sh1mn
      @Tester-sh1mn Před 2 lety +4

      Surely we can get cucumber companies into the ASX 500

    • @1dog915
      @1dog915 Před 2 lety +4

      they're floating around $2.40 now

  • @GarryAndrews_
    @GarryAndrews_ Před 2 lety +255

    This is actually a very good example of market manipulation, he controlled the pricing, and created awareness by having a trusted media source and network of engaged consumers. Very impressive

    • @user-rx1mb5fp7c
      @user-rx1mb5fp7c Před 10 měsíci +6

      @@dontreadmyprofilepictureyt Except its actually a terrible example of market manipulation because the only reason the price went up was because he overpaid for them and then set a sales price higher than anyone would actually pay. At the time of posting the video, he has effectively paid about £75 for stock that people won't pay more than £30 for.

  • @blake.foster
    @blake.foster Před rokem +242

    The algorithm is picking this video up, causing fluxuations in the cucumber market. Dammit Spiff, you're a genius!

  • @superplant0062
    @superplant0062 Před 2 lety +2667

    From 69 cents to 420 pound
    The universe is sending a message

    • @EEEEEEEE
      @EEEEEEEE Před 2 lety +30

      ‎‎‎‎E‎

    • @Hastalapizza66
      @Hastalapizza66 Před 2 lety +57

      Sometimes it scares me just how majestically spiff demonstrates the power of his brain after he drinks 420 cups of tea

    • @TaurusTheCrazyBull
      @TaurusTheCrazyBull Před 2 lety +31

      @@Hastalapizza66 There's no way Spiff would be content with only 420 cups, he consumes at least 42069, any less might make him go mad in a negative way

    • @Hastalapizza66
      @Hastalapizza66 Před 2 lety +20

      @@TaurusTheCrazyBull By the gods you're right, I've mistakenly miscounted the cups of tea, I'll be smote for my blasphemy for sure

    • @kiBe-
      @kiBe- Před 2 lety +4

      CZcams videos of glock fade trade ups are just that popular

  • @Svuem
    @Svuem Před 2 lety +462

    5 pounds of cucumbers irl: Nice bowl of cucumber salad
    5 pounds of cucumbers on steam: Market manipulation

    • @EEEEEEEE
      @EEEEEEEE Před 2 lety +2

      ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎E‎

    • @teathesilkwing7616
      @teathesilkwing7616 Před 2 lety +6

      Who eats 5 cucumbers in a salad?

    • @EEEEEEEE
      @EEEEEEEE Před 2 lety +2

      @@teathesilkwing7616 It's 7,3 cucumbers

    • @teathesilkwing7616
      @teathesilkwing7616 Před 2 lety +2

      @@EEEEEEEE hm we must be getting different weights for cucumbers, I got 400 grams

    • @EEEEEEEE
      @EEEEEEEE Před 2 lety +1

      @@teathesilkwing7616 It's many different cucumber sizes

  • @RocketRidge
    @RocketRidge Před rokem +66

    Almost a year later and the cucumber has officially sold at an average of $1 since may. That is great, thank you for this.

    • @xxTripleHBKxx
      @xxTripleHBKxx Před rokem +2

      Thanks for posting the update. I just found this video today and was wondering how the market had responded almost a year out.

    • @user-In_Cognito
      @user-In_Cognito Před 10 měsíci

      41$ now😅

    • @okolenmi7511
      @okolenmi7511 Před 10 měsíci

      ​@@user-In_Cognito so it was a "smart financial move" while you are youtuber with so many subscribers.

  • @cameroniandcheese1287
    @cameroniandcheese1287 Před rokem +29

    10 months later and this has still made an effect on the cucumber market

  • @PossiblyNic
    @PossiblyNic Před 2 lety +5803

    I used to do something similar in WoW years ago. I cornered the market of the White Kitten vanity pet. Its sold by a randomly spawning patrolling npc in Stormwind city, who only ever carries one. The pet was uncommon enough to get naturally that people would pay about 100 gold on the auction house. Which back then was a good amount. I hung out chatting with my guild instead of actually playing the game enough that I would just run his patrol route and find him sometimes more than once a day. I developed a surplus stock in my bank, only posting one for sale at a time and instantly buying anyone out who under cut me.
    And that’s how I afforded anything I ever wanted in game by becoming a corrupt kitten trader

    • @yurifan2537
      @yurifan2537 Před 2 lety +332

      Cool story, really, never played wow so there are little nuggets like this everywhere and it's always a fun read.

    • @J-Stoic
      @J-Stoic Před 2 lety +291

      If your linked in profile isn't "Corrupt Kitten Trader" i'll be disappointed

    • @azuremystwow603
      @azuremystwow603 Před 2 lety +24

      Little Timmy sells it!

    • @PossiblyNic
      @PossiblyNic Před 2 lety +22

      @@azuremystwow603 Yes! I had his patrol route on lock for a while there. Haha

    • @mxlxolm
      @mxlxolm Před 2 lety +100

      You’re vile… and I may have bought a kitten from you at some point. I distinctly remember trying to get one from the damned trader with no luck, and then bought one from a player for yes… roughly 100 gold

  • @valentinfonyo6164
    @valentinfonyo6164 Před 2 lety +2606

    "Is it a smart financial move?" "No"
    "But is it the move I'm going to make?" "YES."
    That really got me

  • @Herbertti3
    @Herbertti3 Před rokem +63

    You managed to do lasting impact. Cucumbers are now year later 0.51$.

  • @robertstewart79
    @robertstewart79 Před rokem +129

    A year later and they’re still $0.83 USD 😂

    • @dontreadmyprofilepictureyt
      @dontreadmyprofilepictureyt Před rokem

      no way 😂😂
      D̶O̶N̶T̶ ̶R̶E̶A̶D̶ ̶M̶Y̶ ̶N̶A̶M̶E̶

    • @icrievretim
      @icrievretim Před 11 měsíci

      Nowadays is 1.31 USD, at least as an equivalent of the 23.31 Mexican Peso at the moment but still 💀

  • @ROBiNuelson
    @ROBiNuelson Před 2 lety +11173

    This literally explains economy so well while being a joke

    • @Vexies
      @Vexies Před 2 lety +11

      Ikr

    • @randokaratajev2617
      @randokaratajev2617 Před 2 lety +101

      True in some way. But did he actually manage to selle all his cucumbers and made a profit? Well if it didn't in a 20minute video then I'd suggest it didn't happen at all.

    • @justamanofculture12
      @justamanofculture12 Před 2 lety +59

      Well, value of anything depends on its rarity or availability in market. One of the reasons diamonds are expensive is because of that. I urge you to search for how diamond market and it's artificial rarity was created for the sole purpose of making money. Coldfusion did a video on this topic or i forgot.

    • @arv7539
      @arv7539 Před 2 lety +14

      commodities being overvalued, realize noone wants to buy a cucumber for 10$ and the larger commodities market dies

    • @ranvirkapadia5942
      @ranvirkapadia5942 Před 2 lety +13

      No it doesn’t

  • @DwarfElvishDiplomacy
    @DwarfElvishDiplomacy Před 2 lety +1675

    As a former TF2 scrap trader, you have no idea how deep this goes

    • @MultiGamerClub
      @MultiGamerClub Před 2 lety +86

      @@thespiffingbrit There's that few people manipulating the market?

    • @DwarfElvishDiplomacy
      @DwarfElvishDiplomacy Před 2 lety +203

      @@MultiGamerClub there are reddit accounts that can change everything on a whim, also steam sometimes fucks up and people go actual bankrupt

    • @Plzbanme
      @Plzbanme Před 2 lety +56

      @@MultiGamerClub Tf2 trade sites prices are set by the traders. The real valve is hidden.

    • @asbeltrion
      @asbeltrion Před 2 lety +98

      @@DwarfElvishDiplomacy Yeah, remember the TF 2 unusual hats bug, that gave unusual hats 100% of the timesa certain crate was opened. That was fun.

    • @willichtenstein7071
      @willichtenstein7071 Před 2 lety +50

      @@MultiGamerClub The only reason Bill's hat and earbuds are on market for $6 and $10 each (Traders would want you to believe $20 or the mythical $50) is because of manipulation. Both were one time free promo items. Bills hat for owning left 4 dead and the ear buds for playing TF2 on a Mac. (There is the belief that those 2 were "safe tokens" in for expensive hat trading. But they stored value and fools got shafted when the hats could be sold on market.)

  • @nicktincher1260
    @nicktincher1260 Před rokem +30

    This cucumber on the market has now been indefinitely inflated to around .70p

  • @bonovoxel7527
    @bonovoxel7527 Před rokem +2

    This is not the usual video about VG exploits.
    This is a very brilliant lesson on advanced market manipulation mechanics. I'm impressed!
    Thank you Spiff!

  • @joshthompson8478
    @joshthompson8478 Před 2 lety +998

    I can only imagine the guy who looked at his bot account and wondered why it bought a cucumber for 10 pounds

    • @Fit4C
      @Fit4C Před 2 lety +30

      Jesus loves you all very very much repent and believe and be saved from eternal punishment of sin amen, Jesus suffered for you

    • @davidburton9690
      @davidburton9690 Před 2 lety +66

      Quit buying cucumbers at 10, and I'll consider it

    • @self-promoterremover5611
      @self-promoterremover5611 Před 2 lety +22

      @@Fit4C dog god

    • @neortik7
      @neortik7 Před 2 lety

      🤣

    • @Jake-bt3fc
      @Jake-bt3fc Před 2 lety +61

      @@Fit4C I have nothing to repent for. I am a perfect being above god himself. You shouldn't use "suffered" in the past tense, because he's suffering for me every day as he is locked in my basement.

  • @perry714.
    @perry714. Před 2 lety +11333

    Let’s all be fair here your moderator is the real winner, he got you to make a video all so he could sell you 1 cucumber at 20p. My man is a pure hustler 😂😂.
    Jeez 10k likes lol

    • @MaquenaHere
      @MaquenaHere Před 2 lety +391

      And didnt lose a cent

    • @MaquenaHere
      @MaquenaHere Před 2 lety +208

      The real winner

    • @BFett-Human
      @BFett-Human Před 2 lety +265

      And the current price on steam is $3.19 to buy and $1.51 to sell. It's amazing to me what people will be willing to spend for a simple emoji.

    • @laurivaisanen6918
      @laurivaisanen6918 Před 2 lety +264

      But its not mere emoji anymore, its Spiffing Brit emoji now.

    • @GHSTDEEJ
      @GHSTDEEJ Před 2 lety +51

      @@laurivaisanen6918 Yeah i think he needs to change his slogan away from "Yorkshire Tea" and to "Cucumbers!"

  • @mstreetlight7537
    @mstreetlight7537 Před rokem +34

    This is actually an excellent lesson on how big companies manipulate markets

  • @ConviktioN
    @ConviktioN Před rokem +9

    One of the best videos I've watched in ages. God knows why but, fantastic.

  • @TroaBarton
    @TroaBarton Před 2 lety +659

    “Don’t look at the weird anime stuff, just look at the cucumbers.”
    Give my brain a moment to separate the two.

  • @CZpersi
    @CZpersi Před 2 lety +951

    Next video: “She Will Punish Them is a Perfectly Balanced Game With No Exploits”

    • @superchase4106
      @superchase4106 Před 2 lety +69

      Yes, the game everyone has recommended to them for some reason.

    • @badgermcbadger1968
      @badgermcbadger1968 Před 2 lety +3

      @@superchase4106 yep

    • @XionicAihara
      @XionicAihara Před 2 lety +6

      That game hurts. I couldn't even get through 20 minutes of playing

    • @BlackQuest575
      @BlackQuest575 Před 2 lety +9

      @@XionicAihara well at least there is hot babes.... I mean yeah what a terrible game!

    • @XionicAihara
      @XionicAihara Před 2 lety +1

      @@BlackQuest575 the reason I bought it lol. The facade is so apparent on the outside.

  • @le9038
    @le9038 Před rokem +21

    if this man can make a monopoly on the cucumber emoji on the steam market, imagine what happens if he were to go on the REAL market.

  • @ScalarYoutube
    @ScalarYoutube Před rokem +4

    Please do more of these videos, this was brilliant!

  • @araghon007
    @araghon007 Před 2 lety +2886

    I like that he didn't realize he was selling the cucumber to himself at 60p

    • @69fox
      @69fox Před 2 lety +263

      I didn't realize it either lol

    • @tylerhamlin
      @tylerhamlin Před 2 lety +190

      I wouldn't have caught that if you didn't point it out.

    • @sambakker7563
      @sambakker7563 Před 2 lety +59

      It made me pull my hair out

    • @john_michael97
      @john_michael97 Před 2 lety +65

      He didn’t, he canceled the listing

    • @DerpySnake
      @DerpySnake Před 2 lety +36

      I don't think you can actually sell to yourself, can you?

  • @peanutinc.7670
    @peanutinc.7670 Před 2 lety +601

    Alternative Title: "Spiff talks about his cucumber for 20 minutes"

    • @IndustrialBonecraft
      @IndustrialBonecraft Před 2 lety +7

      Spiff: "Someone just brought my cucumber for £10!"
      Mango: "Well, I guess people make stupid decisions during lockdown..."

    • @Caboose1396
      @Caboose1396 Před 2 lety +2

      You too can purchase the rights to Spiff's cucumber for the low cost of 40p

    • @OneLeatherBoot
      @OneLeatherBoot Před 2 lety +1

      All this cucumber talk, when it was probably just a gherkin.

    • @facyual9061
      @facyual9061 Před 2 lety +1

      plural ;)

  • @brandonx7886
    @brandonx7886 Před rokem

    Idk how i stumbled onto this vid but i died.. loved the humor. Liking and subbing.. this was definitely my favorite video this month!

  • @user-ug6xv2yb7e
    @user-ug6xv2yb7e Před 11 měsíci

    You explained a pretty important yet convoluted topic in an informative and fun way.

  • @themikead99
    @themikead99 Před 2 lety +278

    "And we'll do a slight amount of market manipulation"
    *FTC gets out their notepads*

  • @TheC0oky
    @TheC0oky Před 2 lety +139

    Spiff in a few years:
    1. Finds 69 cucumber emojis in his Steam Inventory
    2. Checks the Community Market
    3. Sells them for 2 £ each

  • @Name-ot3xw
    @Name-ot3xw Před rokem +4

    You're doing it right when you're so far in profit that you just start destroying the cheap items people farm up for you for sake of space/sanity.

  • @TOXICG4MER
    @TOXICG4MER Před rokem

    Flipping awesome video bro been watching for ages always bring a smile on the low days

  • @sethera6049
    @sethera6049 Před 2 lety +638

    “Now we’re in a bit of a tricky predicament”. You could say we’re in a bit of a... pickle

  • @AmasterfulJuice
    @AmasterfulJuice Před 2 lety +1070

    spiff in 2050: this ponzi scheme is perfectly balanced with no exploits and legal and made me the 3th richest person in the real world!

    • @EEEEEEEE
      @EEEEEEEE Před 2 lety +4

      ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎E‎

    • @kamo7293
      @kamo7293 Před 2 lety +5

      @@thespiffingbrit hahahaha good one had a good laugh

    • @Banana_Fusion
      @Banana_Fusion Před 2 lety +2

      @@thespiffingbrit true

    • @zinzorius313
      @zinzorius313 Před 2 lety +18

      "Thith" richest person.

    • @the_redpyro4906
      @the_redpyro4906 Před 2 lety +12

      @@zinzorius313 "Threeth"

  • @loricharding
    @loricharding Před rokem +1

    I think this is my favorite episode ever. This is Spiff in real life. I love it.

  • @zeph_os
    @zeph_os Před rokem +7

    Even a YEAR later, cucumber prices are around $1 USD. Absolutely amazing

  • @oxybe
    @oxybe Před 2 lety +241

    pshaw.
    I've been doing this IRL for years. 10 more years and those mint condition Beanie Babies in my vault will be worth at least 2 Irelands.

    • @elbonnybar
      @elbonnybar Před 2 lety +8

      hahahaha, i shouldn't be laughing this hard, but it's hard to stop when i have like 10 of those in an old backpack just collecting dust before the prices go up. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @williaml840
      @williaml840 Před 2 lety +6

      I’ve always found the beanie baby story really funny, because people were collecting them in hopes of them increasing in price because they heard that other people were doing it - when anybody with the slightest understanding of how markets work would realize why it’s a bad idea to do that.

    • @AbhijayAgarwal
      @AbhijayAgarwal Před 2 lety

      2 Yankee Lands dude

    • @crossyright9493
      @crossyright9493 Před 2 lety +5

      @@williaml840 the top market rule is.
      If its already famous, dont.
      If many already think of it, dont.
      If youre not the first or atleast one of the only few ones. Dont.

    • @pickleyouelmo5940
      @pickleyouelmo5940 Před 2 lety

      In the apocalyptic future beanie babies will be the standard currency

  • @FM.Sandels
    @FM.Sandels Před 2 lety +191

    And with all these transactions it's only steam that's winning. The steam marketplace is brilliant, create a few pixels for the mortals to fight over and trade while Gaben just sits on his throne and collects all the profit.

  • @kur4325
    @kur4325 Před rokem +2

    The negev anodized navy is expensive because it's from a really old discontinued collection and can be used to trade up to the glock fade, a €1000 skin

  • @thesquaremonger
    @thesquaremonger Před rokem

    That bit about items no longer drooping just earned me some extra cash, thanks.

  • @thelegend8570
    @thelegend8570 Před 2 lety +473

    Alternative Title:
    "Market Manipulation for Fun and Profit"

    • @Fit4C
      @Fit4C Před 2 lety

      Jesus loves you all very very much repent and believe and be saved from eternal punishment of sin amen, Jesus suffered for you

    • @realexony
      @realexony Před 2 lety

      @@Fit4C uhm, yea?

    • @ipapachubbs8609
      @ipapachubbs8609 Před 2 lety

      @@Fit4C But I didn't ask him to suffer for me.

  • @AB-dx1co
    @AB-dx1co Před 2 lety +405

    This channel made me realize that everything in life is a game

    • @TheMysteryDriver
      @TheMysteryDriver Před 2 lety +37

      Games are just simple versions of real life.

    • @mk-v4660
      @mk-v4660 Před 2 lety +23

      Yes, it's a long and really hard game but damn that LORE it has, absolute banger

    • @nise6699
      @nise6699 Před 2 lety +12

      And doing crime is just a risky speedrun money glitch strat

    • @XShrimpGodx
      @XShrimpGodx Před 2 lety

      With the exception of Yorkshire Tea of course

    • @Mr3344555
      @Mr3344555 Před 2 lety +3

      @@TheMysteryDriver That's when life gets hard, life is easier than video games, just be yourself and stop thinking negatively. Your main character isn't lazy when he has to collect 10 quest items to prove his worth, your character doesn't walk when he travels towns. Life is easier than video games, we choose to make it harder because we're intimidated by it.

  • @vana4054
    @vana4054 Před rokem

    Proof of concept, this literally made me rethink my life choices, I won't be looking at cucumbers the same way I use too.

  • @hunterjordan8688
    @hunterjordan8688 Před rokem +20

    You have showed me the way of how the market works lmao

  • @NanoSeal191
    @NanoSeal191 Před 2 lety +1298

    Spiff is quite lucky, that he still have his Steam account.

    • @niekesselbrugge1132
      @niekesselbrugge1132 Před 2 lety +75

      *still has his

    • @juroofman355
      @juroofman355 Před 2 lety +5

      Yeah

    • @Leyrann
      @Leyrann Před 2 lety +118

      Honestly, at this point he's probably big enough that they'll be like "eh, we'll leave him be and patch the exploits he finds".

    • @snarkylive
      @snarkylive Před 2 lety +94

      @@Leyrann They nuked his paypal account from orbit during previous shenanigans.

    • @MF-R
      @MF-R Před 2 lety +52

      The world leaves him alone because they need him; he's the most efficient unofficial game and security tester.

  • @brother282
    @brother282 Před 2 lety +1963

    Checking in a month and a half later, the cucumber is stabalizing at about $1, with a record setting sale of $13.89 (and $13.54 close behind) in early August. Super funny video especially after checking in on the market, love it!

    • @mrfishman9016
      @mrfishman9016 Před 2 lety +95

      now the record is $18.79

    • @mattgriebel6280
      @mattgriebel6280 Před 2 lety +12

      Pump?

    • @He92irn
      @He92irn Před 2 lety +44

      And 13705 buy orders...

    • @villeupmal7570
      @villeupmal7570 Před 2 lety +49

      @@He92irn imagine people trying to buy cucumbers in hopes they could replace the end result of this video without actually finding their own market item to use for it.

    • @rifqyfadhilahrahman2498
      @rifqyfadhilahrahman2498 Před 2 lety +64

      @@villeupmal7570 That's the advantage of people who have capital and fame. They can influence people to join their pump and dump scheme.
      Even Elon (in the name of Tesla) has Bitcoin pump and dump scheme and its profit was around $1B.

  • @1brockmalone
    @1brockmalone Před 7 měsíci

    i love how this video continues to have lasting effects on the cucumber economy

  • @JTCF
    @JTCF Před rokem +1

    Oh so that explains why that emoji I randomy got jumped in price.
    Awesome game, btw

  • @woolfoma
    @woolfoma Před 2 lety +388

    spiff trying to sell himself a cucumber: "Profit ladies and gentlemen!"

    • @AxxLAfriku
      @AxxLAfriku Před 2 lety

      OH NOOOOOO!!! Most people agree that my vids are the worst on CZcams. I agree to disagree. Please agree to disagree with the haters, dear qo

    • @dernettekerl7665
      @dernettekerl7665 Před 2 lety +22

      @@AxxLAfriku stfu

    • @MrPotatoPro
      @MrPotatoPro Před 2 lety +1

      This is the canonical prologue to American Pickle

  • @DesolatorMagic
    @DesolatorMagic Před 2 lety +527

    Jokes on you, I got 10 cucumber plants in my backyard. Supply side FTW!

  • @pineapplewafers
    @pineapplewafers Před 2 lety

    When I load up youtube and see another video from you that I haven't previously watched, the first thing that I think is "Dear Lord, what has that crazy Brit done this time?!?"

  • @mikka409
    @mikka409 Před rokem +1

    2:00 WHAT DA HeEEL MY MAN, it the first time that i've ever seen your channel while driknking some tea at the moment and just o my god you said this this timing yep. Sorry.

  • @Sha.ll0w
    @Sha.ll0w Před 2 lety +156

    The Spiffing Brit has now learned the skill: Market Pump and Dump Schemes!

  • @AsbestosMuffins
    @AsbestosMuffins Před 2 lety +245

    NFT's: Look we're making value out of nothing
    Steam Marketplace: Did that years ago m8

    • @jmooroof1769
      @jmooroof1769 Před 2 lety +1

      this needs to be at the top

    • @do0myk
      @do0myk Před 2 lety +10

      Making money out of nothing is why banks were established

    • @ilias9579
      @ilias9579 Před 2 lety +6

      @@tylerhawley4012 banks loan you money they dont have so they make money from nothing

    • @JewTube001
      @JewTube001 Před 2 lety +5

      @@tylerhawley4012 making investments with money that doesn't exist is the kicker.

    • @brag0001
      @brag0001 Před 2 lety +2

      @@tylerhawley4012 your idea of how banks work is outdated by several centuries 🤣

  • @mikeyuso9231
    @mikeyuso9231 Před rokem

    This was literally the most op consistent way to make money on escape for tarkov and they removed the ability to resell items. Thanks for the memories

  • @nickingel9497
    @nickingel9497 Před 2 lety

    Wonderful video. Once pulled this off on an in-game marketplace but was able to increase its buying price from .01 to 2.00 selling over 100 thousand of some basic craft component.

  • @brandonbeanman274
    @brandonbeanman274 Před 2 lety +165

    7:49 he literally had the perfect opportunity to say "now we are in a bit of a pickle" but no he says a tricky predicament!

  • @pinguinn_
    @pinguinn_ Před 2 lety +258

    "Don't look at the anime stuff, focus on the cucumbers"
    Speech 100

    • @xyc350
      @xyc350 Před 2 lety +5

      That's something my priest used to say to me in his dark chamber

  • @Peteruspl
    @Peteruspl Před 10 měsíci

    Red Dragon was a cool browser PvP game before micro transactions. It was strategy where coalitions of up to 17 players fought wars until one coalition topped some limit, built end game building and it ended an age. It also had lets say "emergent strategy" of group market manipulation.
    There was turn limit per day, so you could log on and play for 15 minutes and that's it if you didn't talk to anyone or didn't have some hard problem to think through only executing a strat you knew. If you had more countries it would of course take more. That game also had a market place and most strategies relied to some point on buying and selling materials. Usually you would rebuild after a war, switch to peace time economy, make money, load up for next war and fight. But during the war you needed some stuff, or a quick buck so market was necessary for it. One coalition, or a couple of them that schemed together, might have hoarded enough money to clean up market for some resource. Then they dictated the price as demand was much to big for the normal supply. Most people couldn't immediately jump on it and switch to that resource, only some of them could rebalance peace economies a little bit. Meanwhile unfortunate guys who absolutely needed it had to pony up the money, or if someone put too high price limit on auto-buy he'd get completely railed buying tiny amount of super pricey stuff. Completely legit strat, over time people in higher ranks would survey game situation to anticipate some other coalition hoarding loads of money etc. There were also "war treaties" where you'd set up a "clean war" with other group and agree to fight any aggressor if someone jumped in, "ambushes" where you attacked without treaty and hunts for treaty breakers. None of this was in the mechanics in the game but evolved on top of it. In a good coalition you needed a leader to run this diplomacy, master mage, master thief and master strategist to calculate optimal group effort in attacks, while normal members optimized their own "countries". I've played it for 3-4 seasons and my group changed master strategy and race composition of countries between runs and it was quite interesting each time. All that cool meta, and no P2W. Only payment was for more countries per player, but it made no difference if someone had 3 countries or if it was 3 people each running 1.

  • @accie.
    @accie. Před rokem

    never thought that watching a guy buying and then purposefully inflating the price of online cucumbers would be a thing i watched today but here we are and i fucking love it

  • @TheOvervoid
    @TheOvervoid Před 2 lety +197

    "Where were you when the cucumber record was set?"
    Taking a shit

    • @utterclown1580
      @utterclown1580 Před 2 lety +14

      I was eating cucumber wen fone ring
      "cucumber is worth £84.59"
      "no"

    • @hollowluis100
      @hollowluis100 Před 2 lety

      @@utterclown1580 so sad 😢

    • @LKLM138
      @LKLM138 Před 2 lety

      Had a cucumber toast as breakfast. Thatvwas the most expensive cucumber yet

    • @lextricityuk
      @lextricityuk Před 2 lety

      Snap! XD

  • @tallforfun
    @tallforfun Před 2 lety +301

    “We have the two pound cucumber.”
    Yes you do.
    Yes. You. Do.

    • @Fit4C
      @Fit4C Před 2 lety +1

      Jesus loves you all very very much repent and believe and be saved from eternal punishment of sin amen, Jesus suffered for you

    • @chickenman6334
      @chickenman6334 Před 2 lety +1

      Whoa. Another Talon. Never seen one in the wild before.

    • @Android-xe1ne
      @Android-xe1ne Před 2 lety

      @@Fit4C lmao that’s hilarious

  • @skulkgaming9821
    @skulkgaming9821 Před rokem +1

    "what do you do for a living"
    "Oh I sell cucumbers on steam"

  • @lukasg4807
    @lukasg4807 Před rokem +9

    You needed to list all the cucumbers at about 10 so that looks like the right price and people would be more willing to buy

  • @Koden
    @Koden Před 2 lety +175

    At the time of this message, there are currently sell orders at $3.03 and buy orders at $11.86. No one should be allowed this much power lol

    • @helper_bot
      @helper_bot Před 2 lety +9

      the $11.86 guy got too much money to waste lol

    • @candlestyx8517
      @candlestyx8517 Před 2 lety +5

      This is exactly how the real economy is manipulated.

    • @phizc
      @phizc Před 2 lety +6

      It has to be the other way around. A buy order at $11.86 would be fulfilled by any sell order lower than that. Still, it does seem like the Spiff has made some waves.

    • @anothrto1045
      @anothrto1045 Před 2 lety

      Not bad, getting a spiffing Brit shout-out for £10

  • @winged_destro
    @winged_destro Před 2 lety +239

    “I’m seeing a large quantity of soft core hentai”
    Spiff just summed up the internet in 9 words

  • @kadyngray5558
    @kadyngray5558 Před rokem +2

    i love how spiff makes EVEN MORE money by uploading this exploit to youtube

  • @_Podzilla_
    @_Podzilla_ Před rokem +2

    This is exactly what happened with the Strange Gunslinger in TF2. If I remember, they even deleted some to make the prices skyrocket

  • @undertyped1
    @undertyped1 Před 2 lety +1419

    The cut that steam takes is hilarious. No stockbroker in the world would take a cut that big, but steam does it.

  • @gzs7483
    @gzs7483 Před 2 lety

    You being "The Spiffing Brit" makes this even better tbh

  • @user-rx1mb5fp7c
    @user-rx1mb5fp7c Před 10 měsíci +1

    I love the fact that he paid nearly £90 for items that are worth about £2, sold one item for £10 and then decided that it means he made a profit, when in reality, he has 68 items left that are still worth a collective £2.
    It was good fun to watch but the only reason he was able to affect the price of the items was because he was overpaying for them himself (and then not selling them because they were overpriced)

  • @dyehardxen
    @dyehardxen Před 2 lety +226

    I just found this channel and I love it. At this time, there are 201 for sale starting at $0.98. 12,668 requests to buy at $0.77 or lower. You single handedly raised the price of this random emote by 33 times!

    • @trolololo720
      @trolololo720 Před 2 lety +2

      12668 you say? Well that dropped like a brick

  • @justanotherguy3348
    @justanotherguy3348 Před 2 lety +368

    Although the cucumber pricing stabilised, the price went from $0.03 to $3.08...
    You monster.

    • @clodolcmidnights837
      @clodolcmidnights837 Před 2 lety +32

      That’s an increase of…
      10166%
      102.66 times it’s Original price
      Aka
      A lot

  • @alloftheexperts2111
    @alloftheexperts2111 Před 8 měsíci

    Me and my brother did the same thing on the World of Warcraft realm that we were playing at the time. We bought all of certain materials of which we knew they were in demand for crafting and then flipped them and massively inflated prices. Sometimes at ten times what they were going for on average before we came along and utterly ruined it for everyone. It didn't matter to the buyers though because they would still purchase everything we put on the auction house. We would then move along to another material while the one we just ruined would stabilize and return to where it was. It was fun while it lasted. We quit WoW over 10 years ago now. But I have some pretty fond memories.

  • @MrCinnamonWhale
    @MrCinnamonWhale Před 29 dny

    7:48
    Not saying you're "in a pickle" was very honorable of you. You're a stronger man than me

  • @CallieYote
    @CallieYote Před 2 lety +95

    As a fan of the Deponia series, you manipulating the market and absolutely destroying the price of cucumbers is something i could see as a running gag in said game series.

    • @rasrandir
      @rasrandir Před 2 lety +2

      Yesss 😂

    • @wilfriedklaebe
      @wilfriedklaebe Před 2 lety +4

      Was the guy buying the 🥒 for 10 £ named Cletus, maybe?

  • @RaichuWizDom
    @RaichuWizDom Před 2 lety +42

    Spiffing Brit: getting all excited about cucumber prices.
    His Dutch viewers: laughing in tulip. And/or clogs.

    • @averyrealnamethatismyname9495
      @averyrealnamethatismyname9495 Před 2 lety +2

      I’m Dutch, and I don’t understand this joke, I don’t know anything about tulip prices but I’m pretty sure they are cheap and clogs are also not expensive, clogs also don’t have a set price i think

    • @samreid6010
      @samreid6010 Před 2 lety +9

      @@averyrealnamethatismyname9495 the Tulip Panic was a period in Dutch history where tulips suddenly became all the rage, to the point that they couldn’t be grown fast enough to keep up with demand. This lead to the flowers being worth more than their weight in gold. Tulip bulbs were so valuable that a black market popped up essentially overnight to sell them

    • @RaichuWizDom
      @RaichuWizDom Před 2 lety +2

      @@averyrealnamethatismyname9495 No worries, it's an obscure reference to people in the Benelux, I imagine, but a relatively common meme in the anglosphere when money is involved. It's a reference to 'tulip mania,' a sudden increase in tulip prices that occurred around the 1600's. It was further popularised by an advertisement for... I think an investment firm? Basically, tulip bulb prices skyrocketed (as in: competing with real estate prices) for, in hindsight, silly reasons, and it became a financial bubble that soon popped and went into historical infamy.
      As for the clogs, well, that's a pun on the 'laughing in' meme. It's usually represented as laughing in a certain language, then mutated into laughing in a concept as it were a language, but I only meant it as Dutch wearing clogs, since the stereotype of the tulip farming Dutch overlaps with that of the clog-wearer.
      But, that said: I'm Belgian, aka the punchline to the joke in five countries, so please believe when I say it's all in good fun. Always happy to help out our neighbours to the North. I'd say I'm always willing to lend a hand, but that's a phrase that raises a few eyebrows coming from us Belgians, so...

    • @Tuning3434
      @Tuning3434 Před 2 lety +1

      @@averyrealnamethatismyname9495 Your history teacher should review his material... tulip bulbs became more valuable than houses during the panic in 1637. Pretty famous example of a market bubble.

    • @bificommander7472
      @bificommander7472 Před 2 lety +1

      ... is there a tulip emote on Steam? Asking for a friend.

  • @Eta_Hoyimi
    @Eta_Hoyimi Před rokem

    A fellow once did this with derivative trading and onions. You're going to set a precedent large enough to make gaben wake up from his eternal slumber if you aren't careful lol

  • @sashamacritchie2427
    @sashamacritchie2427 Před 2 lety +1235

    Try to find a game that only has one female character skin to monopolize next, I bet you'd actually make money

    • @heathjake25
      @heathjake25 Před 2 lety +82

      That might actually work.

    • @kierdotk
      @kierdotk Před 2 lety +22

      Oh my

    • @jhorbirnlokrisson6528
      @jhorbirnlokrisson6528 Před 2 lety +16

      you might be onto something over here!

    • @SuchanOriginal
      @SuchanOriginal Před 2 lety +37

      In csgo you can buy the agents. If you buy enough of them you have the monopoly as the supply is limited, they cannot drop anymore. The only problem is, people that want them probably already have them and also they are like $20

    • @Snowissnowier
      @Snowissnowier Před 2 lety +2

      buy and sell mrs foster

  • @Leongon
    @Leongon Před 2 lety +42

    Never imagined there would be a point in my life when I would be shaking in the brim of my seat looking at the market trade of cucumber emotes.

    • @davidinark
      @davidinark Před 2 lety

      Every. Single. One. Of. Us. 😂😂😂

  • @Luis-gz3oo
    @Luis-gz3oo Před rokem

    This is the best explanation of nfts I have seen

  • @Ben111000111
    @Ben111000111 Před rokem +1

    This is basically what I did when my little sister made me play Neopets with her. I needed to buy an item for a quest, there was only about 6 on the market so it occurred to me that I could buy them all and monopolize the market

  • @trolly4233
    @trolly4233 Před 2 lety +117

    This dude is literally on his way to becoming an internationally wanted market exploiter, and I want to see every step of it

    • @IndigoGollum
      @IndigoGollum Před 2 lety +3

      I don't mean to sound like a bot you sound like you would enjoy the book Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale

  • @l1sher
    @l1sher Před 2 lety +74

    Imagine living in a world where its entire economy can be controlled by a few people establishing monopoly in the market... Oh, wait...

  • @steampog
    @steampog Před 2 lety +1

    7:50 R.I.P to the missed opportunity to say 'We're in a bit of a pickle'.

  • @guaranteedvirgin7834
    @guaranteedvirgin7834 Před 2 lety

    didn't think this day would lead to me watching a 20 minute long video, about LITERAL cucumber stonks

  • @reinbeers5322
    @reinbeers5322 Před 2 lety +162

    "I'm seeing a large quantity of softcore hentai"
    Just as Lord Spiff intended.

  • @Janduin45
    @Janduin45 Před 2 lety +89

    Spiff: I wanna be the guy that sells a cucumber for £2
    Also Spiff: Buys a cucumber for £2.

  • @nemtudom5074
    @nemtudom5074 Před rokem

    4:29 Lmao, he had an emoticon he couldnt get rid of so he made Spiff inflate the price of it so that he could sell for a nifty profit out of his own boss' bank account
    LOL

  • @sambader6917
    @sambader6917 Před 2 lety +3

    half a year after release cucumber price has stabilized at 80 cents. If the spiffing brit held his cucumbers hes looking at some serious gains.

  • @jay-rad8303
    @jay-rad8303 Před 2 lety +747

    I love how this is exactly how NFT's work, the only difference being every cucumber would have its own serial number to differentiate the first one ever on the market to the rest

    • @teddysadcat
      @teddysadcat Před 2 lety +24

      a better analogy: a .69420 float P250 Sand Dune skin 😭

    • @Stokfish
      @Stokfish Před 2 lety +36

      Actually, NFT is used to laundry your money.

    • @rymoaudio
      @rymoaudio Před 2 lety +17

      @@Stokfish I launder all my money with cucumber emotes

    • @joe--cool
      @joe--cool Před 2 lety +5

      Funny because every trading card and emote has a unique ID on Steam (that's how it tracks the 1 week hold after buying).

    • @aruce9
      @aruce9 Před 2 lety +10

      @@6lake. it’s funny how a service that came out around a decade ago has more functionality than something that came out not that long ago

  • @brandonng1660
    @brandonng1660 Před 2 lety +113

    Take a shot everytime Spiff says cucumber.

    • @lols6478
      @lols6478 Před 2 lety +4

      i feel my liver hurting.

    • @nise6699
      @nise6699 Před 2 lety +2

      Can't las t the firsts 5 minutes

    • @evolvedmonkey5271
      @evolvedmonkey5271 Před 2 lety +3

      No thanks, I don't want to get alcohol poisoning within 3 minutes

    • @PRO100SashaX
      @PRO100SashaX Před 2 lety +3

      And become as balanced and majestic as Spiff himself IF you take a shot of YORKSHIRE TEA

    • @RustyDust101
      @RustyDust101 Před 2 lety +1

      my EKG is going beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

  • @jotarokujo3603
    @jotarokujo3603 Před 3 dny

    Spiff really missed out on a gem by not buying "She Will Punish Them."

  • @NjoyEdits
    @NjoyEdits Před rokem

    love how i can go in the community market and see this happening in the lifetime graph xD

  • @kholi9441
    @kholi9441 Před 2 lety +291

    When I first started buying items on steam, I realised that a number of items had the same seller. So I had a hunch that the market was being monopolised by some individuals. But this video actually proves it. 😂👍👍