Hello everyone, hope you all had a happy Easter.

Today we're releasing two new features for Premium users: Classifieds Deals[backpack.tf] and promoted listings.

As a Premium subscriber, you now get instant access to the latest deals available on the Classifieds section. You can use all the search filters you'd expect to narrow down your search to only the things you want.

Deals are removed after not being sold for 3 days, so you'll always be viewing the most recent items. Since the amount of Premium users is a very small subset of all Classifieds users, you can expect to snatch the best deals before anyone else can. Filters allow you to quickly search for past and present deals.

Here's an example of what you'll get to see.[i.imgur.com] New listings pop up every minute. Does the user no longer have the item in their inventory? Report the listing for 'Item no Longer For Sale' and it'll get removed automatically.

Before anyone unintentionally breaks the rules, I'd like to add that sharing Deals, just like Premium item search, is against the terms and conditions.

Along with the addition of Classifieds Deals, there are now also promoted listings. Each Premium subscriber may promote up to 3 listings, which they show up randomly on the front page. This replaces the previous "Recent Classifieds Ads" box. By only allowing up to 3 promoted listings at a time, we hope to guarantee quality, so everyone benefits. The old system simply showed a bunch of (in practice, random) listings, of varying quality, usually not even the best price for a given item.

If you already have Premium, be sure to promote your listings asap! You're missing out of a lot of eyeballs if you don't.

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