what is with the price of the strange frying pan why is it so over priced

[renamon~]

think it will ever go down in price?

[Major Havoc]

Not as long as a there is a numpty around that is willing to buy it for such an extreme price.

[renamon~]

it;s 45 keys O,o i would never pay that

[BlaqkAudio]

Frying Pan is sooooo over-rated. .-.

[Element]

Well, in order to get a Strange Pan, first you have to be lucky enough to find a Salvaged Crate, which is more than twice as rare as a hat drop, then you need to buy a key, and then you need to get lucky enough to unbox the Strange Bacon Grease. So yeah, the price is justified.

[Gengur]

Learn your basic economics. Getting a Strange Bacon Grease itself is extremely rare and hard to get. Why?

Originally posted by Element:

Well, in order to get a Strange Pan, first you have to be lucky enough to find a Salvaged Crate, which is more than twice as rare as a hat drop, then you need to buy a key, and then you need to get lucky enough to unbox the Strange Bacon Grease. So yeah, the price is justified.

As such, the supply of Strange Pans is extremely low, and everybody wants one. This pretty much just jacks the price up to a godly amount.

As for its price dropping, I wouldn't bet on it too soon. Unless Valve decides to make the Bacon Grease much easier to obtain or people decide to stop the Frying Pan craze, its price will not be dropping much anytime soon.

[Kohchu]

Logic: Strange Bat, Strange Shovel, Strange Bottle, Strange Fists, Strange Bonesaw - All .33, Strange Wrench, Strange Knife - 1.33, Strange Fire Axe, 1.00 - All of these added up, equals a grand total of: 5.33 Ref at max.

Strange Frying Pan, a Reskin of all those weapons put together except the Wrench and Knife? 1.5 Buds

TF2 Community: Explain how this makes even the most remote of sense in the slightest. The Strange Frying Pan should be about 5.33 at max. It's a Strange Weapon, not an Unusual Hat. Let's be realistic here. And don't claim it's because the Frying pan is a "great and wonderful, amazing weapon," because it's a bloody reskin of the stock weapons. It doesn't have anything different.

And yes: It's rare, because it was just released, and it's in high demand, but low stock due to the salvage crates. What to do about this? Stop putting it so much in demand. The Frying Pan is a reskin of the stocks. If you want a replacement for it, it will cost 3/4 less for Stranges of the stocks weapons for each class as I calculated earlier. Sure, they aren't rare and valuable, but what makes more sense? Spending buds for a reskin strange, or paying considerably less for unique weapons for each character.

Than again, knowing the TF2 community, I'm assuming 3/4 of the people would likely pay 20 buds for a hat that is a garbage can lid because it was "Just Unboxed."

[Woobie :3]

Originally posted by xG Shadowlord90:

Logic: Strange Bat, Strange Shovel, Strange Bottle, Strange Fists, Strange Bonesaw - All .33, Strange Wrench, Strange Knife - 1.33, Strange Fire Axe, 1.00 - All of these added up, equals a grand total of: 5.33 Ref at max.

Strange Frying Pan, a Reskin of all those weapons put together except the Wrench and Knife? 1.5 Buds

TF2 Community: Explain how this makes even the most remote of sense in the slightest. The Strange Frying Pan should be about 5.33 at max. It's a Strange Weapon, not an Unusual Hat. Let's be realistic here. And don't claim it's because the Frying pan is a "great and wonderful, amazing weapon," because it's a bloody reskin of the stock weapons. It doesn't have anything different.

And yes: It's rare, because it was just released, and it's in high demand, but low stock due to the salvage crates. What to do about this? Stop putting it so much in demand. The Frying Pan is a reskin of the stocks. If you want a replacement for it, it will cost 3/4 less for Stranges of the stocks weapons for each class as I calculated earlier. Sure, they aren't rare and valuable, but what makes more sense? Spending buds for a reskin strange, or paying considerably less for unique weapons for each character.

Than again, knowing the TF2 community, I'm assuming 3/4 of the people would likely pay 20 buds for a hat that is a garbage can lid because it was "Just Unboxed."

Let's be realistic here. Supply and demand. There are low amount of pans. It is an all class AND a joke weapon that has been wanted to be strange for ages. Think about it this way - diamonds in jewelry is expensive. It doesn't have much of a practical use. A pillow is not nearly the same price. But you use it to sleep.

[dinero]

>idle
>get salvaged
>uncrate
>get bacon grease
>profit

[Smugleaf]

Originally posted by xG Shadowlord90:

Logic: Strange Bat, Strange Shovel, Strange Bottle, Strange Fists, Strange Bonesaw - All .33, Strange Wrench, Strange Knife - 1.33, Strange Fire Axe, 1.00 - All of these added up, equals a grand total of: 5.33 Ref at max.

Strange Frying Pan, a Reskin of all those weapons put together except the Wrench and Knife? 1.5 Buds

The problem is that those other items you listed are quite common. Most of the stock stranges aren't used often too. The only reason why the Fire Axe is at that price is because it's new. It would eventually drop down in price after awhile.

TF2 Community: Explain how this makes even the most remote of sense in the slightest. The Strange Frying Pan should be about 5.33 at max. It's a Strange Weapon, not an Unusual Hat. Let's be realistic here. And don't claim it's because the Frying pan is a "great and wonderful, amazing weapon," because it's a bloody reskin of the stock weapons. It doesn't have anything different.

It's a strange weapon and not an unusual, but it comes from a salvaged crate. All weapons from the salvaged are quite expensive. It also doesn't help that the salavaged crate was just recently released. While I don't really like the Pan or meleeing anyone in general, most people do like the Frying Pan because they consider it hilarious.

And yes: It's rare, because it was just released, and it's in high demand, but low stock due to the salvage crates. What to do about this? Stop putting it so much in demand. The Frying Pan is a reskin of the stocks. If you want a replacement for it, it will cost 3/4 less for Stranges of the stocks weapons for each class as I calculated earlier. Sure, they aren't rare and valuable, but what makes more sense? Spending buds for a reskin strange, or paying considerably less for unique weapons for each character.

It's in demand because a lot of people enjoy it and think it's funny. Even if you believe it isn't, most people do, which creates a demand for a strange Pan. The only way for it to drop in price would be if people realized that meleeing people isn't that funny, but it would still be worth a lot because it's in a salvaged crate.

[high level misandrist]

The price sure will drop, all the stranges from Crate no 50 are extremely expensive right now. This is because a) they're new. The crate will drop for quite some time, so the supply will increase soon. and b) they're extaordinary. Let's face it, nobody expected a strange pan or a strange PDA (even though many people were hoping for it). However, remember what happend to the items from crate no 40 after the craze for the Salvaged crates no 30. No way the new stranges will exceed the price of the no 30 crate stranges on the long term.

Originally posted by xG Shadowlord90:

Logic: Strange Bat, Strange Shovel, Strange Bottle, Strange Fists, Strange Bonesaw - All .33, Strange Wrench, Strange Knife - 1.33, Strange Fire Axe, 1.00 - All of these added up, equals a grand total of: 5.33 Ref at max.

Strange Frying Pan, a Reskin of all those weapons put together except the Wrench and Knife? 1.5 Buds

As has been pointed out be a few others already, this is simply a matter of supply and demand. There is no guy sitting there and making up the prices (even though the admins of backpack/spreadsheet could do that, but it wouldn't work for a long time hopefully).

[MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™]

Supply/demand, pan is rare, pan is awesome.

So how do you decide who gets the pan?;)

Just give to the guy willing to pay the most...he really really really wants it more than you do, and thats fair.

[MyNameIsAnon]

I have one :D Im soo happy :3

3 seconds later... Me:Must sell!!!!!

[JimothyJohn]

Originally posted by Gamenerd2000:

I have one :D Im soo happy :3

3 seconds later... Me:Must sell!!!!!

Did you not see the date of the last post?

[The Guppy]

It cost a lot because it is the most overpowered weapon in the game....

[renamon~]

Originally posted by The Guppy:

It cost a lot because it is the most overpowered weapon in the game....

just because it crits alot doesn;t mean it;s over powered