Steam Market Wiped out my Kills when I tried to sell a Strange o.O

[Trelock]

Okay, so here's what happened:
I went to the Steam Market to buy some stranges on sale and I thought to myself:
'if I level it up, it might cost more on the market, which means I can sell it off again!'
After a little work in an achievement server that was simply chaotic with both sides shooting one another to rack up points, I was able to get it over 3000 kills and get it to the level of Server-clearing.
So! I was like "EH!... GOod enough!" And placed it on there for a couple of cents, time passed and I decided it might be best to level it a little more to bring some more eye appeal and have people want it (Though it seems that from what I found out, Killstreak Stranges are more valuable >.>;) and LO AND BEHOLD!... THe kills were at 0...
I checked, there are SEVERAL Stranges that have kills on the market, hell! Theres a Hale's Stickybomb Launcher thats just close to $2 on the same list I bought the Stickybomb Launcher.

I'm not upset, I'm just confused about this. o.O
Is there some sort of Bug or... Something that is wiping kills out on Stranges?
All I did was click remove from the list then poof!...
I just want to figure out what happened, any insight into this would be appreciated.

[Keyek]

far as I know, whenever a strange changes hands, even going from the market to you, it resets.

[Kirin]

If you put a strange up on the market, it's kills automatically reset to 0

[[Sam] [Hall]]

Originally posted by KaBewm The Drunk:

If you put a strange up on the market, it's kills automatically reset to 0

It tells you this when you sell on the market. Read it next time.

[ll_Vaporware_ll]

Originally posted by KaBewm The Drunk:

If you put a strange up on the market, it's kills automatically reset to 0

Sad but true. Ya can't cheat your kill tallies. You've gotta earn it yaself. everything resets. Everything.
The name sticks, however, if ya named it.

[Solaris]

I'm not sure what was more stupid, the fact that you didn't know it resets to 0 or the fact you think the more kills it has it's worth more

[chance]

Sol4R summed up what I was about to say.

Originally posted by Sol4R:

I'm not sure what was more stupid, the fact that you didn't know it resets to 0 or the fact you think the more kills it has it's worth more

[MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™]

Lol thats like runnning up the odometer on your car before you sell it. The ONLY reason your strange weapon retains value is that it does reset on trade or sale. No one wants your kills, and no one wants your FAKE kills. Everyone knows about those achivement servers, they aren't impressed, and its just sad that you bothered. You cheat yourself when you fake your kills because you just defeated the entire purpose of having a strange weapon in the first place.

[Trelock]

Originally posted by MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™:

Lol thats like runnning up the odometer on your car before you sell it. The ONLY reason your strange weapon retains value is that it does reset on trade or sale. No one wants your kills, and no one wants your FAKE kills. Everyone knows about those achivement servers, they aren't impressed, and its just sad that you bothered. You cheat yourself when you fake your kills because you just defeated the entire purpose of having a strange weapon in the first place.

*Shrugs* It was under the impression that I could sell the launcher, not that I wanted to level it: thats why I got a Special Baby Face Blaster for my scout to keep: to actually play the game. Ah well, guess I got 2 stranges now to use. ^^

Oh and to those who were helpful and just told me the facts. Thanks XD I feel like a goob for not noticing those little details. x.x
And hey :P To those that were hostile, at least I'm not like the guy that I mentioned before: the one who renamed THEIR launcher as "Hale's" :P I'm still new to Steam, thought it was a thing. *Shrugs*

[Trelock]

Originally posted by ParadeCharade:

Originally posted by KaBewm The Drunk:

If you put a strange up on the market, it's kills automatically reset to 0

Sad but true. Ya can't cheat your kill tallies. You've gotta earn it yaself. everything resets. Everything.
The name sticks, however, if ya named it.

I'd rather not: I thought I could put a good quality weapon out there for someone.XD
Turns out that the items that I was thinking of was a completely different type of Strange. :P
Not new to TF2, but the Trading System is still kinda a little aways away. I think I just need to be a bit more attentive next time and not jump the gun on any ideas. XD

[Oshul]

guys i need help i whent on a trade server and i got some scrap meatal played for a bit then i say someone in the chat type in !give items i jokingly did the same thing and it gave me alot of achivements i got free items to i deleted te items but now im felling very bad i still have the fake achivemints how do i get them to go away :(

[Oshul]

Originally posted by moterhead1976:

guys i need help i whent on a trade server and i got some scrap meatal played for a bit then i say someone in the chat type in !give items i jokingly did the same thing and it gave me alot of achivements i got free items to i deleted te items but now im felling very bad i still have the fake achivemints how do i get them to go away :(

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[Vena Champion]

guys why you all so toxic he asked the question to get an answer not learn 16 different ways to insult someone