I used to do something similar in WoW years ago. I cornered the market of the White Kitten vanity pet. Its sold by a randomly spawning patrolling npc in Stormwind city, who only ever carries one. The pet was uncommon enough to get naturally that people would pay about 100 gold on the auction house. Which back then was a good amount. I hung out chatting with my guild instead of actually playing the game enough that I would just run his patrol route and find him sometimes more than once a day. I developed a surplus stock in my bank, only posting one for sale at a time and instantly buying anyone out who under cut me. And that’s how I afforded anything I ever wanted in game by becoming a corrupt kitten trader
You’re vile… and I may have bought a kitten from you at some point. I distinctly remember trying to get one from the damned trader with no luck, and then bought one from a player for yes… roughly 100 gold
Let’s all be fair here your moderator is the real winner, he got you to make a video all so he could sell you 1 cucumber at 20p. My man is a pure hustler 😂😂. Jeez 10k likes lol
@@Hastalapizza66 There's no way Spiff would be content with only 420 cups, he consumes at least 42069, any less might make him go mad in a negative way
This is actually a very good example of market manipulation, he controlled the pricing, and created awareness by having a trusted media source and network of engaged consumers. Very impressive
@@dontreadmyprofilepictureyt Except its actually a terrible example of market manipulation because the only reason the price went up was because he overpaid for them and then set a sales price higher than anyone would actually pay. At the time of posting the video, he has effectively paid about £75 for stock that people won't pay more than £30 for.
@@MultiGamerClub The only reason Bill's hat and earbuds are on market for $6 and $10 each (Traders would want you to believe $20 or the mythical $50) is because of manipulation. Both were one time free promo items. Bills hat for owning left 4 dead and the ear buds for playing TF2 on a Mac. (There is the belief that those 2 were "safe tokens" in for expensive hat trading. But they stored value and fools got shafted when the hats could be sold on market.)
True in some way. But did he actually manage to selle all his cucumbers and made a profit? Well if it didn't in a 20minute video then I'd suggest it didn't happen at all.
Well, value of anything depends on its rarity or availability in market. One of the reasons diamonds are expensive is because of that. I urge you to search for how diamond market and it's artificial rarity was created for the sole purpose of making money. Coldfusion did a video on this topic or i forgot.
@@Fit4C I have nothing to repent for. I am a perfect being above god himself. You shouldn't use "suffered" in the past tense, because he's suffering for me every day as he is locked in my basement.
Checking in a month and a half later, the cucumber is stabalizing at about $1, with a record setting sale of $13.89 (and $13.54 close behind) in early August. Super funny video especially after checking in on the market, love it!
@@He92irn imagine people trying to buy cucumbers in hopes they could replace the end result of this video without actually finding their own market item to use for it.
@@villeupmal7570 That's the advantage of people who have capital and fame. They can influence people to join their pump and dump scheme. Even Elon (in the name of Tesla) has Bitcoin pump and dump scheme and its profit was around $1B.
And with all these transactions it's only steam that's winning. The steam marketplace is brilliant, create a few pixels for the mortals to fight over and trade while Gaben just sits on his throne and collects all the profit.
@@TheMysteryDriver That's when life gets hard, life is easier than video games, just be yourself and stop thinking negatively. Your main character isn't lazy when he has to collect 10 quest items to prove his worth, your character doesn't walk when he travels towns. Life is easier than video games, we choose to make it harder because we're intimidated by it.
hahahaha, i shouldn't be laughing this hard, but it's hard to stop when i have like 10 of those in an old backpack just collecting dust before the prices go up. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’ve always found the beanie baby story really funny, because people were collecting them in hopes of them increasing in price because they heard that other people were doing it - when anybody with the slightest understanding of how markets work would realize why it’s a bad idea to do that.
@@williaml840 the top market rule is. If its already famous, dont. If many already think of it, dont. If youre not the first or atleast one of the only few ones. Dont.
I just found this channel and I love it. At this time, there are 201 for sale starting at $0.98. 12,668 requests to buy at $0.77 or lower. You single handedly raised the price of this random emote by 33 times!
When I first started buying items on steam, I realised that a number of items had the same seller. So I had a hunch that the market was being monopolised by some individuals. But this video actually proves it. 😂👍👍
This is not the usual video about VG exploits. This is a very brilliant lesson on advanced market manipulation mechanics. I'm impressed! Thank you Spiff!
I love how this is exactly how NFT's work, the only difference being every cucumber would have its own serial number to differentiate the first one ever on the market to the rest
It has to be the other way around. A buy order at $11.86 would be fulfilled by any sell order lower than that. Still, it does seem like the Spiff has made some waves.
In csgo you can buy the agents. If you buy enough of them you have the monopoly as the supply is limited, they cannot drop anymore. The only problem is, people that want them probably already have them and also they are like $20
My friends and I did something similar on runescape actually. We would purchase massive amounts of logs of different variety in order to drive the price up, hold them for a bit, then sell them all at a massive profit.
As a fan of the Deponia series, you manipulating the market and absolutely destroying the price of cucumbers is something i could see as a running gag in said game series.
Spiff: "We did somehow managed to get a bot to buy a cucumber for 10 pounds, but there's definitely no way you could actively control a marketplace for very long." US Federal Reserve: *{Nervous Sweating}*
I’m Dutch, and I don’t understand this joke, I don’t know anything about tulip prices but I’m pretty sure they are cheap and clogs are also not expensive, clogs also don’t have a set price i think
@@averyrealnamethatismyname9495 the Tulip Panic was a period in Dutch history where tulips suddenly became all the rage, to the point that they couldn’t be grown fast enough to keep up with demand. This lead to the flowers being worth more than their weight in gold. Tulip bulbs were so valuable that a black market popped up essentially overnight to sell them
@@averyrealnamethatismyname9495 No worries, it's an obscure reference to people in the Benelux, I imagine, but a relatively common meme in the anglosphere when money is involved. It's a reference to 'tulip mania,' a sudden increase in tulip prices that occurred around the 1600's. It was further popularised by an advertisement for... I think an investment firm? Basically, tulip bulb prices skyrocketed (as in: competing with real estate prices) for, in hindsight, silly reasons, and it became a financial bubble that soon popped and went into historical infamy. As for the clogs, well, that's a pun on the 'laughing in' meme. It's usually represented as laughing in a certain language, then mutated into laughing in a concept as it were a language, but I only meant it as Dutch wearing clogs, since the stereotype of the tulip farming Dutch overlaps with that of the clog-wearer. But, that said: I'm Belgian, aka the punchline to the joke in five countries, so please believe when I say it's all in good fun. Always happy to help out our neighbours to the North. I'd say I'm always willing to lend a hand, but that's a phrase that raises a few eyebrows coming from us Belgians, so...
@@averyrealnamethatismyname9495 Your history teacher should review his material... tulip bulbs became more valuable than houses during the panic in 1637. Pretty famous example of a market bubble.
"Practicing a monopoly is illegal, however large companies find ways to 'get around' the laws of the countries in which they are installed..." Does this apply in steam?
I crafted all 5 badges on 2 accounts and got a single cucumber.. The current price of a cucumber is about $2 USD, which is half of what it costed to craft it. :(
The negev anodized navy is expensive because it's from a really old discontinued collection and can be used to trade up to the glock fade, a €1000 skin
Did this on Classic WoW: Vanilla withherbs on my alchemist. Bought all of the herbs that create a specific potion and the potions so that nobody could create new ones without farming mats. Would drive the price up 300-400%
I did the same with khorium metal bars that was the rarest metal at the time used for making all the twink egenering / smithing items... I still have frostweave bag full of the stuff even after making tones of bank
In the time since this video has been posted, there are now 400 cucumbers on sell order for $2+, and 11,700 cucumbers on buy order for $1.39 or lower. Also, during the ~4 hour period that he sold a $10 cucumber, there was a total average sale price of $11.47 with 5 sold.
I used to play flyff, an old mmo, and I used to control the sunstone market, I would buy any sunstone selling for less than 500k and sell them for 1m, anyone who needs a bunch wont find it anywhere else, and since this item is usually used by rich players they dont care the marked up price, at some point they just assume that is the standard price.
in hindsight, you're using your "greed" to manipulate and screw over other players by making them overpay, so that you can earn some "in game gold". Nothing to be proud of ^^ people who do this in real life should take enough at one point and not always want more and more
you say that it rose for no apparent reason, but for that skin there is a specific reason it went up that most people know, cases gets phased out when they get old, so no more get brought into the game but they are still used for contracts to make higher tier skins
Amazon sells for cheaper and undercuts small businesses and then they offer free or 2 day shipping; since people are lazy as fuck and cheap, the small businesses they pretend to support go out of business.
@@RickMyBalls When it becomes a complete monopoly you better not come complaining that Amazon is manipulating market prices and no one has a chance to compete with them
Me and my brother did the same thing on the World of Warcraft realm that we were playing at the time. We bought all of certain materials of which we knew they were in demand for crafting and then flipped them and massively inflated prices. Sometimes at ten times what they were going for on average before we came along and utterly ruined it for everyone. It didn't matter to the buyers though because they would still purchase everything we put on the auction house. We would then move along to another material while the one we just ruined would stabilize and return to where it was. It was fun while it lasted. We quit WoW over 10 years ago now. But I have some pretty fond memories.
As of July 13th 2021 (11pm CST) the cucumber emote is sitting at $3.19USD with buy orders of $1.51USD. And the highest selling price in history was $11.47USD with 5 sold at that price!
The supermarket is empty where I live, there is no cucumber supply left and I am afraid
Oh no, not the cucumbers!
Sounds like something you would do hmmm
It's not like shutting down the global economy could have any consequences, so
@@thespiffingbrit You forget the Divine MarioCultLeader is also infinitely wealthy. Its not just you that can purchase millions of cucumbers Spiff.
it seems quite inefficient to buy cucumbers out of supermarkets anyway. Personally I just buy the supermarket its much more efficient .
"What do you do for a living?"
"It's...complicated"
Just say trading its easier to explain
Literally this is just the job of economists and traders.
Say you get tons of money by making other people starve without cucumbers
if in a friendly environment.
i like to say "I earn 1/3 as a technician, and 2/3 playing crypo games"...
It's cucumberlated
I used to do something similar in WoW years ago. I cornered the market of the White Kitten vanity pet. Its sold by a randomly spawning patrolling npc in Stormwind city, who only ever carries one. The pet was uncommon enough to get naturally that people would pay about 100 gold on the auction house. Which back then was a good amount. I hung out chatting with my guild instead of actually playing the game enough that I would just run his patrol route and find him sometimes more than once a day. I developed a surplus stock in my bank, only posting one for sale at a time and instantly buying anyone out who under cut me.
And that’s how I afforded anything I ever wanted in game by becoming a corrupt kitten trader
Cool story, really, never played wow so there are little nuggets like this everywhere and it's always a fun read.
If your linked in profile isn't "Corrupt Kitten Trader" i'll be disappointed
Little Timmy sells it!
@@azuremystwow603 Yes! I had his patrol route on lock for a while there. Haha
You’re vile… and I may have bought a kitten from you at some point. I distinctly remember trying to get one from the damned trader with no luck, and then bought one from a player for yes… roughly 100 gold
Only this guy can make a video long 20 minutes about buying cucumbers, what a legend.
bro yeah he is a legend
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i didn't even realize it was 20 mins long till I read your comment lmao, thought it was only 10 mins
When a digital cucumber sells for more than an actual cucumber.
A digital cucumber with a countable number of pixels, no less.
has clearly never owned a CS:GO knife.
@@chadpunte1731 Nope. I'm a TF2 player. Tried CS:GO and didn't care for it.
@@IrelandVonVicious the absolute cheapest CS:GO knife when I played was 40 bucks.
Cucumber to the moon !!
Forget GME, forget AMC, I'm putting all my money into Cucumber Stonks
Cucumbers are going to be big! Everyone needs to buy right now or you’ll be missing out!
This is commodities trading
Digital cucumbers taste the best! Just try it!
Surely we can get cucumber companies into the ASX 500
they're floating around $2.40 now
Let’s all be fair here your moderator is the real winner, he got you to make a video all so he could sell you 1 cucumber at 20p. My man is a pure hustler 😂😂.
Jeez 10k likes lol
And didnt lose a cent
The real winner
And the current price on steam is $3.19 to buy and $1.51 to sell. It's amazing to me what people will be willing to spend for a simple emoji.
But its not mere emoji anymore, its Spiffing Brit emoji now.
@@laurivaisanen6918 Yeah i think he needs to change his slogan away from "Yorkshire Tea" and to "Cucumbers!"
1 year later, the cucumber has never fallen back to its original price, it's at 0,63€ @ 15/12/2022
18.01.2023 and its still the same. I think the damage is there to last
0.72 usd rn
wow xi you should do this in china
I wonder what people think to a cucumber randomly being so expensive and think hmm... this is a marvelous investment 🥒
Banana cost 6€
From 69 cents to 420 pound
The universe is sending a message
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Sometimes it scares me just how majestically spiff demonstrates the power of his brain after he drinks 420 cups of tea
@@Hastalapizza66 There's no way Spiff would be content with only 420 cups, he consumes at least 42069, any less might make him go mad in a negative way
@@TaurusTheCrazyBull By the gods you're right, I've mistakenly miscounted the cups of tea, I'll be smote for my blasphemy for sure
TH-cam videos of glock fade trade ups are just that popular
"Is it a smart financial move?" "No"
"But is it the move I'm going to make?" "YES."
That really got me
I died on this moment
💪🇭🇺🤙
I don't get that joke, because it was indeed smart financial move to make.
@@cubertmiso Was it? xD
@@Gabriel-ServantOfGod It worked didn't it
5 pounds of cucumbers irl: Nice bowl of cucumber salad
5 pounds of cucumbers on steam: Market manipulation
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Who eats 5 cucumbers in a salad?
@@teathesilkwing7616 It's 7,3 cucumbers
@@EEEEEEEE hm we must be getting different weights for cucumbers, I got 400 grams
@@teathesilkwing7616 It's many different cucumber sizes
This is actually a very good example of market manipulation, he controlled the pricing, and created awareness by having a trusted media source and network of engaged consumers. Very impressive
@@dontreadmyprofilepictureyt Except its actually a terrible example of market manipulation because the only reason the price went up was because he overpaid for them and then set a sales price higher than anyone would actually pay. At the time of posting the video, he has effectively paid about £75 for stock that people won't pay more than £30 for.
As a former TF2 scrap trader, you have no idea how deep this goes
@@thespiffingbrit There's that few people manipulating the market?
@@MultiGamerClub there are reddit accounts that can change everything on a whim, also steam sometimes fucks up and people go actual bankrupt
@@MultiGamerClub Tf2 trade sites prices are set by the traders. The real valve is hidden.
@@DwarfElvishDiplomacy Yeah, remember the TF 2 unusual hats bug, that gave unusual hats 100% of the timesa certain crate was opened. That was fun.
@@MultiGamerClub The only reason Bill's hat and earbuds are on market for $6 and $10 each (Traders would want you to believe $20 or the mythical $50) is because of manipulation. Both were one time free promo items. Bills hat for owning left 4 dead and the ear buds for playing TF2 on a Mac. (There is the belief that those 2 were "safe tokens" in for expensive hat trading. But they stored value and fools got shafted when the hats could be sold on market.)
This literally explains economy so well while being a joke
Ikr
True in some way. But did he actually manage to selle all his cucumbers and made a profit? Well if it didn't in a 20minute video then I'd suggest it didn't happen at all.
Well, value of anything depends on its rarity or availability in market. One of the reasons diamonds are expensive is because of that. I urge you to search for how diamond market and it's artificial rarity was created for the sole purpose of making money. Coldfusion did a video on this topic or i forgot.
commodities being overvalued, realize noone wants to buy a cucumber for 10$ and the larger commodities market dies
No it doesn’t
I can only imagine the guy who looked at his bot account and wondered why it bought a cucumber for 10 pounds
Jesus loves you all very very much repent and believe and be saved from eternal punishment of sin amen, Jesus suffered for you
Quit buying cucumbers at 10, and I'll consider it
@@Fit4C dog god
🤣
@@Fit4C I have nothing to repent for. I am a perfect being above god himself. You shouldn't use "suffered" in the past tense, because he's suffering for me every day as he is locked in my basement.
The algorithm is picking this video up, causing fluxuations in the cucumber market. Dammit Spiff, you're a genius!
he really is 😭😭
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I like that he didn't realize he was selling the cucumber to himself at 60p
I didn't realize it either lol
I wouldn't have caught that if you didn't point it out.
It made me pull my hair out
He didn’t, he canceled the listing
I don't think you can actually sell to yourself, can you?
“Don’t look at the weird anime stuff, just look at the cucumbers.”
Give my brain a moment to separate the two.
Checking in a month and a half later, the cucumber is stabalizing at about $1, with a record setting sale of $13.89 (and $13.54 close behind) in early August. Super funny video especially after checking in on the market, love it!
now the record is $18.79
Pump?
And 13705 buy orders...
@@He92irn imagine people trying to buy cucumbers in hopes they could replace the end result of this video without actually finding their own market item to use for it.
@@villeupmal7570 That's the advantage of people who have capital and fame. They can influence people to join their pump and dump scheme.
Even Elon (in the name of Tesla) has Bitcoin pump and dump scheme and its profit was around $1B.
Almost a year later and the cucumber has officially sold at an average of $1 since may. That is great, thank you for this.
Thanks for posting the update. I just found this video today and was wondering how the market had responded almost a year out.
41$ now😅
@@user-In_Cognito so it was a "smart financial move" while you are youtuber with so many subscribers.
spiff in 2050: this ponzi scheme is perfectly balanced with no exploits and legal and made me the 3th richest person in the real world!
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@@thespiffingbrit hahahaha good one had a good laugh
@@thespiffingbrit true
"Thith" richest person.
@@zinzorius313 "Threeth"
Next video: “She Will Punish Them is a Perfectly Balanced Game With No Exploits”
Yes, the game everyone has recommended to them for some reason.
@@superchase4106 yep
That game hurts. I couldn't even get through 20 minutes of playing
@@XionicAihara well at least there is hot babes.... I mean yeah what a terrible game!
@@BlackQuest575 the reason I bought it lol. The facade is so apparent on the outside.
Spiff in a few years:
1. Finds 69 cucumber emojis in his Steam Inventory
2. Checks the Community Market
3. Sells them for 2 £ each
10 months later and this has still made an effect on the cucumber market
Alternative Title: "Spiff talks about his cucumber for 20 minutes"
Spiff: "Someone just brought my cucumber for £10!"
Mango: "Well, I guess people make stupid decisions during lockdown..."
You too can purchase the rights to Spiff's cucumber for the low cost of 40p
All this cucumber talk, when it was probably just a gherkin.
plural ;)
Spiff is quite lucky, that he still have his Steam account.
*still has his
Yeah
Honestly, at this point he's probably big enough that they'll be like "eh, we'll leave him be and patch the exploits he finds".
@@Leyrann They nuked his paypal account from orbit during previous shenanigans.
The world leaves him alone because they need him; he's the most efficient unofficial game and security tester.
And with all these transactions it's only steam that's winning. The steam marketplace is brilliant, create a few pixels for the mortals to fight over and trade while Gaben just sits on his throne and collects all the profit.
It's like NFTs
You managed to do lasting impact. Cucumbers are now year later 0.51$.
0,89
its 0.83 now
“Now we’re in a bit of a tricky predicament”. You could say we’re in a bit of a... pickle
Ooooh Shit dawg!
i read that as he said that 😂😂😂 that was great!
no, its a cucumber.
@@c4ho0t53 a pickle is a cucumber
No
This channel made me realize that everything in life is a game
Games are just simple versions of real life.
Yes, it's a long and really hard game but damn that LORE it has, absolute banger
And doing crime is just a risky speedrun money glitch strat
With the exception of Yorkshire Tea of course
@@TheMysteryDriver That's when life gets hard, life is easier than video games, just be yourself and stop thinking negatively. Your main character isn't lazy when he has to collect 10 quest items to prove his worth, your character doesn't walk when he travels towns. Life is easier than video games, we choose to make it harder because we're intimidated by it.
pshaw.
I've been doing this IRL for years. 10 more years and those mint condition Beanie Babies in my vault will be worth at least 2 Irelands.
hahahaha, i shouldn't be laughing this hard, but it's hard to stop when i have like 10 of those in an old backpack just collecting dust before the prices go up. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’ve always found the beanie baby story really funny, because people were collecting them in hopes of them increasing in price because they heard that other people were doing it - when anybody with the slightest understanding of how markets work would realize why it’s a bad idea to do that.
2 Yankee Lands dude
@@williaml840 the top market rule is.
If its already famous, dont.
If many already think of it, dont.
If youre not the first or atleast one of the only few ones. Dont.
In the apocalyptic future beanie babies will be the standard currency
This cucumber on the market has now been indefinitely inflated to around .70p
"And we'll do a slight amount of market manipulation"
*FTC gets out their notepads*
You're making Elon Musk proud.
We will engage in a little bit of market manipulation
Alternative Title:
"Market Manipulation for Fun and Profit"
Jesus loves you all very very much repent and believe and be saved from eternal punishment of sin amen, Jesus suffered for you
@@Fit4C uhm, yea?
@@Fit4C But I didn't ask him to suffer for me.
7:49 he literally had the perfect opportunity to say "now we are in a bit of a pickle" but no he says a tricky predicament!
That was the joke
This is actually an excellent lesson on how big companies manipulate markets
spiff trying to sell himself a cucumber: "Profit ladies and gentlemen!"
OH NOOOOOO!!! Most people agree that my vids are the worst on TH-cam. I agree to disagree. Please agree to disagree with the haters, dear qo
@@AxxLAfriku stfu
This is the canonical prologue to American Pickle
Jokes on you, I got 10 cucumber plants in my backyard. Supply side FTW!
@@thespiffingbrit get checkmated
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honk
Time zu burn the garden
I just found this channel and I love it. At this time, there are 201 for sale starting at $0.98. 12,668 requests to buy at $0.77 or lower. You single handedly raised the price of this random emote by 33 times!
12668 you say? Well that dropped like a brick
A year later and they’re still $0.83 USD 😂
no way 😂😂
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Nowadays is 1.31 USD, at least as an equivalent of the 23.31 Mexican Peso at the moment but still 💀
"Don't look at the anime stuff, focus on the cucumbers"
Speech 100
That's something my priest used to say to me in his dark chamber
NFT's: Look we're making value out of nothing
Steam Marketplace: Did that years ago m8
this needs to be at the top
Making money out of nothing is why banks were established
@@OnliPhans_Kenobi banks loan you money they dont have so they make money from nothing
@@OnliPhans_Kenobi making investments with money that doesn't exist is the kicker.
@@OnliPhans_Kenobi your idea of how banks work is outdated by several centuries 🤣
When I first started buying items on steam, I realised that a number of items had the same seller. So I had a hunch that the market was being monopolised by some individuals. But this video actually proves it. 😂👍👍
This is not the usual video about VG exploits.
This is a very brilliant lesson on advanced market manipulation mechanics. I'm impressed!
Thank you Spiff!
I love how this is exactly how NFT's work, the only difference being every cucumber would have its own serial number to differentiate the first one ever on the market to the rest
a better analogy: a .69420 float P250 Sand Dune skin 😭
Actually, NFT is used to laundry your money.
@@Stokfish I launder all my money with cucumber emotes
Funny because every trading card and emote has a unique ID on Steam (that's how it tracks the 1 week hold after buying).
@@6lake. it’s funny how a service that came out around a decade ago has more functionality than something that came out not that long ago
The cut that steam takes is hilarious. No stockbroker in the world would take a cut that big, but steam does it.
You don't know old school stockbrokers then.
@@rb9951 they dont exist anymore
and thanks to these cuts steam can live forever as a platform
@@rb9951 they're all dead lmao
Have you seen roblox?
The Spiffing Brit has now learned the skill: Market Pump and Dump Schemes!
is that a tensei shittara reference?
Elon Musk would be proud.
@@karthkalbi no, not everything about skills is a Slime reference
if this man can make a monopoly on the cucumber emoji on the steam market, imagine what happens if he were to go on the REAL market.
Imagine how much money actual dedicated bots for this make
At the time of this message, there are currently sell orders at $3.03 and buy orders at $11.86. No one should be allowed this much power lol
the $11.86 guy got too much money to waste lol
This is exactly how the real economy is manipulated.
It has to be the other way around. A buy order at $11.86 would be fulfilled by any sell order lower than that. Still, it does seem like the Spiff has made some waves.
Not bad, getting a spiffing Brit shout-out for £10
“We have the two pound cucumber.”
Yes you do.
Yes. You. Do.
Jesus loves you all very very much repent and believe and be saved from eternal punishment of sin amen, Jesus suffered for you
Whoa. Another Talon. Never seen one in the wild before.
@@Fit4C lmao that’s hilarious
Try to find a game that only has one female character skin to monopolize next, I bet you'd actually make money
That might actually work.
Oh my
you might be onto something over here!
In csgo you can buy the agents. If you buy enough of them you have the monopoly as the supply is limited, they cannot drop anymore. The only problem is, people that want them probably already have them and also they are like $20
buy and sell mrs foster
Although the cucumber pricing stabilised, the price went from $0.03 to $3.08...
You monster.
That’s an increase of…
10166%
102.66 times it’s Original price
Aka
A lot
This dude is literally on his way to becoming an internationally wanted market exploiter, and I want to see every step of it
I don't mean to sound like a bot you sound like you would enjoy the book Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale
My friends and I did something similar on runescape actually. We would purchase massive amounts of logs of different variety in order to drive the price up, hold them for a bit, then sell them all at a massive profit.
the classic pump and dump
They have trading restrictions know
the reason i quit runescape after 12 years.
@@IAMACIVIVFAN People like them have dozens of membet alts for more GE slots and they also do the alts for afk gold making like Gargs.
@@RuiRuichi we didn't do afk gold making we were all skillers and pvpers. We had alts but only because we were building pures for pvp.
Fun fact: something like this basically happened irl in 1920’s USA but with onions. You can no longer trade onions on the us stock market
As a fan of the Deponia series, you manipulating the market and absolutely destroying the price of cucumbers is something i could see as a running gag in said game series.
Yesss 😂
Was the guy buying the 🥒 for 10 £ named Cletus, maybe?
“I’m seeing a large quantity of soft core hentai”
Spiff just summed up the internet in 9 words
Congratulation man, I just checked the steam market, and there is currently 12k requests for buying a cucumbre for 1.63 pounds or less xD
7:48
Not saying you're "in a pickle" was very honorable of you. You're a stronger man than me
Never imagined there would be a point in my life when I would be shaking in the brim of my seat looking at the market trade of cucumber emotes.
Every. Single. One. Of. Us. 😂😂😂
"Where were you when the cucumber record was set?"
Taking a shit
I was eating cucumber wen fone ring
"cucumber is worth £84.59"
"no"
@@utterclown1580 so sad 😢
Had a cucumber toast as breakfast. Thatvwas the most expensive cucumber yet
Snap! XD
You needed to list all the cucumbers at about 10 so that looks like the right price and people would be more willing to buy
Imagine living in a world where its entire economy can be controlled by a few people establishing monopoly in the market... Oh, wait...
Spiff: I wanna be the guy that sells a cucumber for £2
Also Spiff: Buys a cucumber for £2.
and turns around to sell one for 10...
Spiff: "We did somehow managed to get a bot to buy a cucumber for 10 pounds, but there's definitely no way you could actively control a marketplace for very long."
US Federal Reserve: *{Nervous Sweating}*
Even a YEAR later, cucumber prices are around $1 USD. Absolutely amazing
Every seven days, a week passes in Britain. With your help and some small weekly donations we can change this!
Spiffing Brit: getting all excited about cucumber prices.
His Dutch viewers: laughing in tulip. And/or clogs.
I’m Dutch, and I don’t understand this joke, I don’t know anything about tulip prices but I’m pretty sure they are cheap and clogs are also not expensive, clogs also don’t have a set price i think
@@averyrealnamethatismyname9495 the Tulip Panic was a period in Dutch history where tulips suddenly became all the rage, to the point that they couldn’t be grown fast enough to keep up with demand. This lead to the flowers being worth more than their weight in gold. Tulip bulbs were so valuable that a black market popped up essentially overnight to sell them
@@averyrealnamethatismyname9495 No worries, it's an obscure reference to people in the Benelux, I imagine, but a relatively common meme in the anglosphere when money is involved. It's a reference to 'tulip mania,' a sudden increase in tulip prices that occurred around the 1600's. It was further popularised by an advertisement for... I think an investment firm? Basically, tulip bulb prices skyrocketed (as in: competing with real estate prices) for, in hindsight, silly reasons, and it became a financial bubble that soon popped and went into historical infamy.
As for the clogs, well, that's a pun on the 'laughing in' meme. It's usually represented as laughing in a certain language, then mutated into laughing in a concept as it were a language, but I only meant it as Dutch wearing clogs, since the stereotype of the tulip farming Dutch overlaps with that of the clog-wearer.
But, that said: I'm Belgian, aka the punchline to the joke in five countries, so please believe when I say it's all in good fun. Always happy to help out our neighbours to the North. I'd say I'm always willing to lend a hand, but that's a phrase that raises a few eyebrows coming from us Belgians, so...
@@averyrealnamethatismyname9495 Your history teacher should review his material... tulip bulbs became more valuable than houses during the panic in 1637. Pretty famous example of a market bubble.
... is there a tulip emote on Steam? Asking for a friend.
"I'm seeing a large quantity of softcore hentai"
Just as Lord Spiff intended.
soft core hentai is to internet as water is to wet
nice simile
7:50 R.I.P to the missed opportunity to say 'We're in a bit of a pickle'.
"Practicing a monopoly is illegal, however large companies find ways to 'get around' the laws of the countries in which they are installed..." Does this apply in steam?
applied at any in-game market too..
Anarchy easily turns into autoritarism
how is monopoly illegal? it isn't
@@onniruusunen9444 usually it is fought in form of disproportionately increasing taxes
@@Слышьты-ф4ю so if you make a company which produces a product that no one else does you are doing something illegal. It cannot be like that
"What du you do for your living?"
"I sell cucumbers on steam"
When you realise you could make a living just doing this.... (Use the profit from your cucumbers to buy a csgo skin and sell it on bitskins)
@@joeyblox3709 no you cant lol it is as the man said, you cant actually manipulate steam market, they have AI against that.
@@brehh1337 my brother made £15 2 days ago from manipulating lol
You're doing it right when you're so far in profit that you just start destroying the cheap items people farm up for you for sake of space/sanity.
I crafted all 5 badges on 2 accounts and got a single cucumber.. The current price of a cucumber is about $2 USD, which is half of what it costed to craft it. :(
I’m sorry for your loss.
@@missingindy my condolences
The dislikes are all from people who were scammed by cucumber dealers
Jesus loves you all very very much repent and believe and be saved from eternal punishment of sin amen, Jesus suffered for you
Ever since this video went up, the cucumber market on Steam has gone insane..yep, just goes to show, news drives price action
I mean Markiplier once affected google search results cause of a stupid answer he did as joke in google feud
The negev anodized navy is expensive because it's from a really old discontinued collection and can be used to trade up to the glock fade, a €1000 skin
The fact that these are business expenses are the best part.
imagine being his accountant, especially if he forbids them from looking at his TH-cam
"Where the fuck is he spending his money"
Did this on Classic WoW: Vanilla withherbs on my alchemist. Bought all of the herbs that create a specific potion and the potions so that nobody could create new ones without farming mats. Would drive the price up 300-400%
I did the same with khorium metal bars that was the rarest metal at the time used for making all the twink egenering / smithing items... I still have frostweave bag full of the stuff even after making tones of bank
This is exactly what happened with the Strange Gunslinger in TF2. If I remember, they even deleted some to make the prices skyrocket
I am loving all the "real world" exploits. Perfectly Balanced.
In the time since this video has been posted, there are now 400 cucumbers on sell order for $2+, and 11,700 cucumbers on buy order for $1.39 or lower. Also, during the ~4 hour period that he sold a $10 cucumber, there was a total average sale price of $11.47 with 5 sold.
The negev skin is actually used for trade up contracts so thats the main reason why therye worth so much
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One of the best videos I've watched in ages. God knows why but, fantastic.
The spiffing brit plays 4D chess
uood: "I am 4 parallel universe ahead of you"
uood is the true winner here. He got 17p for that trade.
Teacher: What do you want to do with your life?
Spiff: Break games and then economies
Modern day Diogenes
I used to play flyff, an old mmo, and I used to control the sunstone market, I would buy any sunstone selling for less than 500k and sell them for 1m, anyone who needs a bunch wont find it anywhere else, and since this item is usually used by rich players they dont care the marked up price, at some point they just assume that is the standard price.
in hindsight, you're using your "greed" to manipulate and screw over other players by making them overpay, so that you can earn some "in game gold". Nothing to be proud of ^^ people who do this in real life should take enough at one point and not always want more and more
@@thescatterpiratesquarepant7935 don't look out the window and at the real world buddy xD It gets far worse than sunstones
I remember flipping in flyff aswell, eventually I was flipping the cosmetic items
you say that it rose for no apparent reason, but for that skin there is a specific reason it went up that most people know, cases gets phased out when they get old, so no more get brought into the game but they are still used for contracts to make higher tier skins
"If someone ever were to buy a cucumber for 85£ that person needs to have their credit card being taken away from them"
Laughs in NFT
Isn't this what Amazon kind of did with smaller business. Also, is this technically scalping?
Amazon sells for cheaper and undercuts small businesses and then they offer free or 2 day shipping; since people are lazy as fuck and cheap, the small businesses they pretend to support go out of business.
@@TheMysteryDriver Amazon is actually defined as a monopoly, which makes things a bit more complicated than that.
@@teemumiettinen7250 Amazon isn't a monopoly lol
@@TheMysteryDriver It's not on me to keep everyone's business afloat; if I can get the same thing cheaper faster I will always choose that option.
@@RickMyBalls When it becomes a complete monopoly you better not come complaining that Amazon is manipulating market prices and no one has a chance to compete with them
Take a shot everytime Spiff says cucumber.
i feel my liver hurting.
Can't las t the firsts 5 minutes
No thanks, I don't want to get alcohol poisoning within 3 minutes
And become as balanced and majestic as Spiff himself IF you take a shot of YORKSHIRE TEA
my EKG is going beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...
Please do more of these videos, this was brilliant!
I love how this is more educational than any economics class I had in all of high school.
Spiff: Don't look at the weird anime stuff!
Me: I see you're a man of culture as well.
Deponia is actually a pretty cool game, funny to see a reference to it in a exploit video.
@@thespiffingbrit Cool, I was looking for a way to fund a new PC, now I have the perfect cucumber to do so.
Thanks for driving up the price
Deponia was a hell of a trip and a great purchase. It's a hilarious series and I recommend it to adventure game fans.
@@thespiffingbrit Too bad I only own it on Epic...
Me and my brother did the same thing on the World of Warcraft realm that we were playing at the time. We bought all of certain materials of which we knew they were in demand for crafting and then flipped them and massively inflated prices. Sometimes at ten times what they were going for on average before we came along and utterly ruined it for everyone. It didn't matter to the buyers though because they would still purchase everything we put on the auction house. We would then move along to another material while the one we just ruined would stabilize and return to where it was. It was fun while it lasted. We quit WoW over 10 years ago now. But I have some pretty fond memories.
I have the funny feeling that suddenly no one will be able to buy certain emotes at a reasonable price...
As of July 13th 2021 (11pm CST) the cucumber emote is sitting at $3.19USD with buy orders of $1.51USD. And the highest selling price in history was $11.47USD with 5 sold at that price!
For anyone wondering the anodized navy was practically used in trade ups until extinction