How do you view items on the market that currently have 0 for sale?

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I want to place a buy order but can't because I can't access said item's market page...

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I just can't find it in the list. It's a Depth Dunkle skin.

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Originally posted by fauxtronic:

Am I misunderstanding the question? I just searched for a rare item which happens to have zero availability and I was able to place a buy order:

http://i.imgur.com/HOm63LS.png

Valve items and regular items (emotes, backgrounds, etc) are treated differently with regard to what the op is saying. If there are no items for sale you cannot place a buy order on Valve items

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Ah, I got it now. You have to search for the exact item's name else it won't register. Thanks a ton fam!

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Originally posted by fauxtronic:

Originally posted by Silversun ✴ Moon 0430:

If there are no items for sale you cannot place a buy order on Valve items

Well it turns out not to be the case, but can you relieve me of my ignorance by giving an example of a 'Valve item'? I've not come across that term before, and if it's sold on the Community Market I can't imagine why the store page would exhibit different behaviour.

I was mistaken. You can place on Valve items even if none are for sale. By Valve item I meant any TF2, DOTA2 or CSGO item that are unique and not listed in a batch. Even though there may be many of them, they are still listed individually.

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Probably the best example would be a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive skin, or a Dota 2 item. Basically any item where each version of the item is considered unique, and instead of seeing the number of items listed and buying from whomever started selling first, you see a list of every seller and choose who to buy from.

Saw this problem a while back with a user who wanted to buy a Team Fortress 2 item. The behavior was as described by Silversun ✴ Moon 0430; because the item had no sellers, they could not place a buy order.

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Originally posted by habitualaction:

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Saw this problem a while back with a user who wanted to buy a Team Fortress 2 item. The behavior was as described by Silversun ✴ Moon 0430; because the item had no sellers, they could not place a buy order.

Yes but this does confirm that it does happen as I suspected