Earbuds, why so expensive?

[GoldTheAngel]

Do earbuds do something to your character other than make it look better? Why does it cost so much, it's like an unusual without the unusual. And it's tiny, I have trouble seeing it from a distance. Like the triad trinket.

[Joke Train]

Because they're rare.
Please apply common sense before asking stupid questions.

[Resident Gamer]

Because you can't get them anymore, thus raising the price higher than a normal hat by a massive amount. Also, people mainly wear them to look really rich, kinda like a rapper with a ton of money.

[tut34]

Because they are rare and are now a currency in the TF2 economy for trading more expensive items like glitched vintages and unusuals.

Nobody really wears them, though.

[Jingle]

Only people who logged in on a mac for the first week it was out on macs received one. Thus, their inherent rarity. earbuds are used as high level currency for unusual trading, thus why it has a near unusual price.

[Datlossit (Inactive, check bio)]

They are rare, only those that logged in on the first week when the mac update came out got one. They also became the highest tier item in trading, unusuals can worth from 1 bud to 25 or more, depending on the hat and it's effect. Not many wear them however.

[Forum Maintenance Engineer]

You also have to understand the state of TF2's economy in its early days; there are other unavailable hats nearly as rare as Buds, but they don't have the value of Buds because of how TF2 trading used to be carried out.

In the old days, you could only exchange a maximum of 8 items in one trade. Because of this, anything people valued as high-tier, such as Unusuals, couldn't simply be paid for with Keys. So, people took the 3 major no-longer distributed items of the day, Bills' Hats, Earbuds, and Maxs' Heads, and used them in place of a set amount of Keys. Big Kills and Lugermorphs also had a great deal of value, but they are more often used as expensive weapons and not as currency. Nowadays, you can pay for any Unusual in Keys since you can trade a massive amount of items at once, but in TF2's past these items had to be high-tier for a reason.

[ौौMajor Kuznetsovौौ]

Originally posted by ⟦_↓⟧ Joke Tra↓n:

Because they're rare.
Please apply common sense before asking stupid questions.

*cough cough* Banned. *COUGHHHH*

There is like 277 of them on sell for ~$27.50 and more...
100% Rare...

[Pepman]

Originally posted by ☢ Gleb AA-Gun ☢:

Originally posted by ⟦_↓⟧ Joke Tra↓n:

Because they're rare.
Please apply common sense before asking stupid questions.

*cough cough* Banned. *COUGHHHH*

There is like 277 of them on sell for ~$27.50 and more...
100% Rare...

BE SMITED, NECROMANCER

[[TTC] Daryl Dixon]

Originally posted by ☢ Gleb AA-Gun ☢:

Originally posted by ⟦_↓⟧ Joke Tra↓n:

Because they're rare.
Please apply common sense before asking stupid questions.

*cough cough* Banned. *COUGHHHH*

There is like 277 of them on sell for ~$27.50 and more...
100% Rare...

Why. Just why.

[b]

I find it absolutely hilarious that there are cosmetics that glow, are big, and overall look amazing and there dirt cheap. EARBUDS on the other hand are small, a little tacky, and cant really be seen unless u get up close to a player yet are like hella expensive (ref wise).
I get that there rare and everything but like still XD

[Igris]

Originally posted by Hey Guys. TF2 Demoman here:

I find it absolutely hilarious that there are cosmetics that glow, are big, and overall look amazing and there dirt cheap. EARBUDS on the other hand are small, a little tacky, and cant really be seen unless u get up close to a player yet are like hella expensive (ref wise).
I get that there rare and everything but like still XD

Nice necro

[Stremniy tip]

Originally posted by GoldTheAngel:

Do earbuds do something to your character other than make it look better? Why does it cost so much, it's like an unusual without the unusual. And it's tiny, I have trouble seeing it from a distance. Like the triad trinket.

As usually, traders and rarity factor. They aren't really special, really small item which you never really notice. Reminds me in a sense of CS2 but in CS2 there is so many high quality good looking skins which barely cost anything compared to much uglier skins which cost a lot. So as the first guy here told you, it's just the rarity. I personally don't go for rarity in a sense, I just take whatever I like looking at.

[Yzal]

It's Apple stuff, that's why.

[RedReimu]

Originally posted by GDK DINKLEBERG:

yo

Originally posted by korea guy official :p:

Nice necro

[RedReimu]

Originally posted by Joke Train:

Because they're rare.
Please apply common sense before asking stupid questions.

Ngl, I kinda miss joke train.