@@thespiffingbrit you joke but I know a guy who tried that. He claimed for literally everything - flash suits (give a good impression), flash car (same reason plus transport) etc etc. Yup, even his lunches "to keep him fuelled" Prizes for who can guess closest to how much he could actually write-off
This wasn't a lesson in Steam Marketplace manipulaton, but a lesson in Market manipulation in general. It's insane how much you can control the world around yourself with a starting budget.
There are some funny and less funny examples of stuff like this happening with bots in the real stock market. The first person to do that cause a lot of trouble, if I remember correctly.
I tried this when I was 13 in middle school. I bought the whole racket of Warhead lolly pops from the school store, and wouldn't you know they got popular by the next lunch! I started selling them for 125% price... Until the principal informed me I didn't have a license to sell goods on school property and confiscated them all. Hahaha, fun while it lasted!
I just looked and October 29th, the day after he listed his, there was a total of 500 sold for an average price of 48.24. If those were all spiffing Brit, he made almost £25,000 from this exploit. Well done
@@franklinass8047 Yes and no, there are plenty of sites where you can sell csgo items for actual cash/paypal. But no there is no way to cashout directly
no that was already shown in the video and it was him buying it up before he started listing, 107 was sold for 2.54 and that prob all eh made now the price is dirt cheap
Opera GX is a dog water browser and literally every bit of functionality it offers can be achieved with extensions in ungoogled chromium or firefox. Please don't install that literal malware on your machine.
@Boa-Noah lol no that's not how laundering works. you can't just buy games or skins and then resell them and call that laundering. the IRS knows better than that. you would have to prove that you had made your original investment in a legitimate way. now if you owned a laundromat, or any cash based business, you could have only one or two customers a month but claim you had thousands of customers and your money would appear clean with almost no way to prove otherwise. that's how you launder money.
Oh god 100%... This happens in real life too with snake oil. Just because diamonds have an inflated fake price doesnt mean you can do the same with say platinum
@@thespiffingbrit China has been trying to do it with steel for years. Part of the reason Trump put in tariffs, or else the US steel industry would be unable to compete and be practically nonexistent.
@@jonathankotecki2408 So, if you are actually interested in economics, what you should look up is the process of dumping and the keys to power, because what goes on in China with steel (and the US with agriculture, especially corn), is more about babying certain groups to stay in power than it is economics. What the Spiffing Brit did is buy all of a product up (aka cornering the market) and thus trick the bots into thinking there was value and then buying at a price he dictated. Dumping is different. One can use dumping to corner specific markets, but with dumping, he would have dumped all of his products at 1 cent, in order to drive everyone else out of business. But in the Steam marketplace, nobody has to sell before the product rots, nor has to pay warehouse storage fees for bundles of steel, so dumping on the Steam marketplace has no effect. With no deadline to sell, the Steam traders can just sit on their product indefinitely. As for tariffs, well, tariffs have no effect on products dumped on the world market, since tariffs are a local tax and we're talking world markets here. The traditional use of tariffs is for kings to protect their corrupt cronies who in return keep them in power.
@@jonathankotecki2408 The chinese also did that with Dollars. They kept buying dollars since the 80's and financed virtually their entire country with currency transactions.
This is my favorite because I literally did this to Neopets with two friends when I was a kid. The item was sand, just any sand except the rare sand. The sand economy took actual years to even out. Would recommend this exploit, it's good fun.
Wow! this video should be shown to every university level economics class ever. I have never seen a better case of market manipulation explained so well.
@@bensoncheung2801 No, on the contrary, it was with steam balance, which is actually pretty close to its real world equivalent due to the recent addition of the steam deck. The Steam market overall is quite an interesting topic, but there will always be a way to convert steam balance to money, because that's a big part of valve's income. IIRC you can get about 80% of your steam balance in money through the CSGO or Dota markets. This of course works both ways, so if I were to put 1000$ into Steam directly, It would be inefficient because buying 1000$ worth of CSGO or Dota items on 3rd party sites would yield me about 1250 Steam balance. Spiff didn't do this so the potential profit is even higher.
199 sold at 16.51 28 October 2PM = 3285 EUR 500 sold at 41.49 28 Ooctober 7PM = 20745 EUR 107 sold at 2.18 28 October 8PM = 233 EUR Total = 24263 EUR. Did the bots really buy 25k worth of teahats?! Genious
@@Piesy001 its a flipping buiseness, copoled with illigal trades of giftcards and sites like g 2 play where gamekeys are sold cheap, for money made in ways like this. Steam gets their cut so they dont enforce it as they profit.
After years of having bots auto buying PS5, stocks, etc it brings me a lot of joy to watch them buy thousands of dollars worth of stuff they’re going to have a hard time selling
Except that most stock exchanges in the world are supposed to have controls to prevent this thing from happening. And some of those controls are based in laws, meaning this could send a person to jail. Not saying that it doesn't happen, but not as much as you see here. But Steam marketplace isn't technically a stock market or commodities exchange (Similar to stocks, but real world goods are traded.) Since steam isn't one, the laws regarding artificially inflating an item's worth probably don't apply. But, I'm not a lawyer, so check with one before attempting this.
@@jackielinde7568 Ye like that guy who cornered the onion market and all onion futures as well. Pretty mad. He owned almost all the onions in the US? (I can't remember) at the time. There's now a law to prevent that happening again
@@jackielinde7568 A very good example was when a bunch of gamers who does day trading started to do this to gamestop stocks on robinhood. The broker had to close the trade for that stock to prevent it from overinflating
This is the example of Monopoly, you buy all the limited product supply chains then proceed to be the only seller on the market. Of course, to do so would require alot of money, but you also need a demand for paperweights.
my dear tea drinking friend, did you ever consider exploiting Kenshi? It's a lovely magnificent RTS squad RPG that is completely broken and unbalanced in many mechanics. i'm sure you'll find something to your liking if you look.
Hey Spiff, Floridian Fan here, Thought you would like to know that my local supermarket started stocking yorkshire tea and I can confirm now that it is a nice black tea and I got Tea biscuits with it. That is all. The Tea revolution will come to america
looking at transaction history on the market spiff never sold them, immedietly after the £35 spike they dropped to being an average of 1.85, there is however, over 50 listed in tyhe "above £8" section, assumabvly the ones he listed in the video. so he could still profit if he dropped the price and sold them a handful at a time
You should do a video on New World, an mmo published by Amazon. It is in a perfect state with full of CRAZY exploits. I am sure you can figure out some new ones too.
The real question is: Did they all sell and how much did you make off it? How are you going to NOT show the most important part of the whole video! That was like Star Wars fans waiting so long for the other movies, only to be given garbage and told "NOPE!" Lol
@@jackhead4if it was me making this vid, I would have put the amount I made off this in the title and in the thumbnail. To not even include it in the video just seems weird.
Or maybe he didn't sell it in the time the video was made because he knew that the price of his item will increase even more when he uploads this video. Next video is called beeing an Influencer is perfectly balanced and has no exploits xd
@@profile-locked Nah, I think he learned his lesson about being careful with how he uses his reach as an influencer during the Minecraft Kingdom streams.
Wolflord might be up your alley. Obscure game with lots of strangely named cheap items on the Steam market, like the Golden Hamgrenade, Rotten Pumpkin or Moldy Pixie Hat.
I wanted Opera to know: I didnt knew you had a special Version of your browser. It looks really good and due to your sponsor, I actually downloaded it and I will try it out later. So keep on sponsoring that british tea lover
@@aig9672 its pretty good, I dont See any special reason to use it besides in my case: one Bug in Chrome which causes Videos to crash - doesnt crash the Videos in the Opera Browser
I basically skip all ads as a rule, but this one was great. And at least 50% because spiff failed at keeping it straight, and the features seemed genuinely interesting. But, I can't even use it as a linux user. Well played.
told my friends to hold on to them and put sell orders for crazy high waiting for spiff to buy it back another time. thanks for buying me and my friends games
We need a video on how you explain all this to an accountant. You made money doing what? how? really? WTF? Well, the paperwork for this will be interesting.
Spiff has become a stock market youtuber now, when can we expect your first 24 hour trading stream where you suffer from lack of sleep for a -37% profit margin
You managed to trash the steam marketplace in one nigth? xD This is insane. Started to scroll for items in quantity, gave up at page 750+. All items with 1 in stock. Good jobb, Spiff! :D
Q - Why would Spiff make the best librarian? A - He practically invented the "Loose Leaf" system Q - Why is Spiff a terrible lover? A - He just likes to teas! Spiff was once contacted by Yorkshire about a sponsorship, way back before broadband... He missed out due to his sporadic tea-1 connection ._. It took him over 20 years to remedy the situation.. now Yorkshire tea simply calls him when they have tea related questions :) I heard that once, he actually had enough blood in his caffeine system that he managed to sleep... If Tea was cocaine, Spiff would have been played by Benicio Del Toro in a subpar movie :D
Btw, I would ADORE to build you a hot and cold running tea-on-tap system for your house :D that would be a wicked project XD Piping hot Yorkshire Gold or iced Yorkshire Breakfast or their Toast and Jam tea.. ... ehm I godda run to the store! need to try this iced toast and jam tea.. NOW
The Royal Bank of Spiff: ''Sir, we've detected some... odd purchases on your account... we're just calling to inquire if you made the purchase of several hundred cucumb- Spiffing Brit: [Tea drinking cackling] *I'M PICKLE BRIIIIT!*
Thanks spiff, just bought 100 epic tea hats for $20 Edit: 35 Minutes later and $1.79 per hat. Buy Orders are the best way to purchase now! Edit 2: 10 hours later and there are now $1 sell orders.
Would it not have been a good idea to put a sell order at 10.00 as soon as you could and then continue buying and such? That way if a bot comes in and cleans out the market you get to sell your 100 hats at 10 a pop making 1000.
Judging by the current graph he probably made a huge loss and that is it about it. 107 sold for 2.18€ which is probably less than what he paid for in total.
@@Karavusk and sold 50 for 35 pounds. so 50 x 35 = 1750. 1750 - 500 = 1250 pounds of profit. and thats just the ones he showed he posted in the vid. If he sold the rest too, thats only more profit.
I think with what we've seen this year with the rise of meme stocks, the real life stock market might actually be as easy to manipulate right now. Everyone is prepared to hop on the bandwagon whenever they see something go up a few 100%. You could hyperinflate the value of pretty much any penny stock and then just enjoy the profits...
okay so you spend the entire video byung up stock and the just end it after listing them on the marketplace? no conclusion to if they actually sold or not?
You did it with the summer cards or with random items? Anyway, summer and winter sale sounds like the perfect time to do this kind of stuff due to people trying to use the market to get more money for games I guess
*I love money... I love hats... I love Valueless items...*
oh also opera is cool Download now for FREE: operagx.gg/TheSpiffingBrit3
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Steam: "You can't just buy the entire stock."
Spiffing: "Hold my tea."
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Spiffing: “correction, I’ll hold my tea, and yours and everyone’s, and their hats”
All the tea.
Every single "tea hat" is an identical NFT.
Correction :
Spiffing: "Give me MY stock, thank you gentlemen!"
In our next episode, Spiffing crashes the American stock market with a single package of Yorkshire tea.
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*Yorkshire tea gold
"Perfectly Balanced"
So they go drop it in the harbor.
Nope.
how it began is how it will end: not with a bang, but with a lovely spot of tea
I am looking forward to the "Business expense is a totally balanced tax write-off with no exploits" episode.
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"so my weekly food shop is actually a business expense as I need that to record my videos"
@@thespiffingbrit you joke but I know a guy who tried that. He claimed for literally everything - flash suits (give a good impression), flash car (same reason plus transport) etc etc. Yup, even his lunches "to keep him fuelled"
Prizes for who can guess closest to how much he could actually write-off
@@thespiffingbrit i mean... Food Theory does that XD
im just wondering domething, if you make a video about paying taxes does that make the taxes a business expense?
This wasn't a lesson in Steam Marketplace manipulaton, but a lesson in Market manipulation in general. It's insane how much you can control the world around yourself with a starting budget.
There are some funny and less funny examples of stuff like this happening with bots in the real stock market. The first person to do that cause a lot of trouble, if I remember correctly.
I tried this when I was 13 in middle school. I bought the whole racket of Warhead lolly pops from the school store, and wouldn't you know they got popular by the next lunch! I started selling them for 125% price... Until the principal informed me I didn't have a license to sell goods on school property and confiscated them all. Hahaha, fun while it lasted!
man, middle/highschool businesses like this where epic.
The principal of a whole middle school took candy from a 13 year old.
Did he ever give them back?
@@bensoncheung2801 probably not, unless the item is made to last, they can take it without concequence.
What a terrible principal. No wonder why kids become school shooters.
@@universal5459 what do you mean by that because humans aren’t made to last
When a real hat is cheaper.
NFTs have gone too far
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Spiff telling his accountant about the cucumbers is like how investors explain NFTs to their spouses.
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Baftown mindblasts
Speculators buy NFTs, not investors.
@@TheRealE.B. criminals buy NFTs 👀 they are by far the most efficient way of moving criminal cash into regulated markets like the US or UK
@@mor4y You're NGMI
I just looked and October 29th, the day after he listed his, there was a total of 500 sold for an average price of 48.24. If those were all spiffing Brit, he made almost £25,000 from this exploit. Well done
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Can you cash your steam wallet, pre can our inly bew used on steam?
@@franklinass8047 Yes and no, there are plenty of sites where you can sell csgo items for actual cash/paypal. But no there is no way to cashout directly
no that was already shown in the video and it was him buying it up before he started listing, 107 was sold for 2.54 and that prob all eh made now the price is dirt cheap
The regular Tea Hat went up in price too on that same day, ironically. 243 were sold for an average of £0.33.
spiffing: "dont try this"
me: "immediately tries doing it"
How did it go?
I kinda want to do so as well
dank poutart is now the richest man online.
I failed in my journey it was too easy to get the item and people found out might try again with some more research
@@dankpoutart5312 that sucks, maybe many of us can band together and all profit from it a different time
First sponsored ad in a LONG time that actually convinced me to try a new product.
Well done Spiff. Well done.
how'd it go?
They got you 😭 I won't let them get me too
Opera GX is a dog water browser and literally every bit of functionality it offers can be achieved with extensions in ungoogled chromium or firefox. Please don't install that literal malware on your machine.
It didn't even get past installation. I always look at reviews before I install
It's spyware. Don't use OperaGX. Use Firefox, Ungoogled chromium, Brave, anything else. Just don't use Opera.
Spiff casually informing the world how steam is directly involved and profiting in global money laundry
@Boa-Noah You cant get money out of steam though, you need to spend it on games. (I mean ofc, you could sell a gift technically)
It's one of the reasons they stopped letting you sell CSGO case keys.
@@foty8679 can buy skins and sell them on 3d part sites/ buy lots of steam index vr head sets...
@@foty8679 people will buy skins in csgo for real money and im sure there is other games where the same can happen
@Boa-Noah lol no that's not how laundering works. you can't just buy games or skins and then resell them and call that laundering. the IRS knows better than that. you would have to prove that you had made your original investment in a legitimate way. now if you owned a laundromat, or any cash based business, you could have only one or two customers a month but claim you had thousands of customers and your money would appear clean with almost no way to prove otherwise. that's how you launder money.
"The Spiffing Brit bought my cucumbers!" *faints*....I imagine
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Were they used cucumbers? 🤔
@@hanzohattori4078 It's November relax
@@hanzohattori4078 yes marinaded in vinegar, dill and other spices.
I don't pretend to understand you damn kids and your slang memes, but I'm pretty sure SOMEONE'S mother needs to hear about all this
"It wasn't the best financial decision we could have made"
Hindsight has never been less required.
This is honestly a good video on stock market bubbles and manipulation
SO good that it's been two weeks since he posted this lol
There's a trading card for Payday 2 called "daylight robbery"
I'm amazed nobody has...
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Lol SOMEONE is trying to get Spiff to abuse the market them 🤣
You must feel yourself very smart
People are definitely gonna try to do this and fail miserably
Oh god 100%... This happens in real life too with snake oil. Just because diamonds have an inflated fake price doesnt mean you can do the same with say platinum
@@thespiffingbrit China has been trying to do it with steel for years. Part of the reason Trump put in tariffs, or else the US steel industry would be unable to compete and be practically nonexistent.
@@jonathankotecki2408 So, if you are actually interested in economics, what you should look up is the process of dumping and the keys to power, because what goes on in China with steel (and the US with agriculture, especially corn), is more about babying certain groups to stay in power than it is economics. What the Spiffing Brit did is buy all of a product up (aka cornering the market) and thus trick the bots into thinking there was value and then buying at a price he dictated. Dumping is different. One can use dumping to corner specific markets, but with dumping, he would have dumped all of his products at 1 cent, in order to drive everyone else out of business. But in the Steam marketplace, nobody has to sell before the product rots, nor has to pay warehouse storage fees for bundles of steel, so dumping on the Steam marketplace has no effect. With no deadline to sell, the Steam traders can just sit on their product indefinitely. As for tariffs, well, tariffs have no effect on products dumped on the world market, since tariffs are a local tax and we're talking world markets here. The traditional use of tariffs is for kings to protect their corrupt cronies who in return keep them in power.
@@jonathankotecki2408 The chinese also did that with Dollars. They kept buying dollars since the 80's and financed virtually their entire country with currency transactions.
@@danyael777 that's just main issue with importing country, if one country import more than it can export, they eventually run out of money.
This is my favorite because I literally did this to Neopets with two friends when I was a kid. The item was sand, just any sand except the rare sand. The sand economy took actual years to even out. Would recommend this exploit, it's good fun.
I mean The Sand Economy is Important
You sound like you would eat sand to dry up the stock
@@manatanks no but Sands Very important I mean How do you Think There Stamping out Modern Citys and Stadia in the Rich Near East
@@Jesus_Offical I don't know what you're talking about.
I mean sand is important
Without it how would we survive?
I love that Spiff went from, haha silly exploit in video game to "I have become the richest being through manipulation of economies".
Bitcoin: no
Dogecoin: Nope
Cucumbers: Yeaaah
Wow! this video should be shown to every university level economics class ever. I have never seen a better case of market manipulation explained so well.
You see them all the time. They aren't on the radar but they're there.
@@miinyoo I'm sure they are but they need a bigger platform. This is how shortages and holding happens
The issue here is that he's only manipulating bots. You'll notice everyone else drove the price back down
@@backlogbuddies What did the bots pay him with? Monopoly money?
@@bensoncheung2801 No, on the contrary, it was with steam balance, which is actually pretty close to its real world equivalent due to the recent addition of the steam deck. The Steam market overall is quite an interesting topic, but there will always be a way to convert steam balance to money, because that's a big part of valve's income. IIRC you can get about 80% of your steam balance in money through the CSGO or Dota markets. This of course works both ways, so if I were to put 1000$ into Steam directly, It would be inefficient because buying 1000$ worth of CSGO or Dota items on 3rd party sites would yield me about 1250 Steam balance. Spiff didn't do this so the potential profit is even higher.
199 sold at 16.51 28 October 2PM = 3285 EUR
500 sold at 41.49 28 Ooctober 7PM = 20745 EUR
107 sold at 2.18 28 October 8PM = 233 EUR
Total = 24263 EUR.
Did the bots really buy 25k worth of teahats?!
Genious
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I wouldn't be surprised...
How much money do these bots hold?
@@Piesy001 its a flipping buiseness, copoled with illigal trades of giftcards and sites like g 2 play where gamekeys are sold cheap, for money made in ways like this.
Steam gets their cut so they dont enforce it as they profit.
After years of having bots auto buying PS5, stocks, etc it brings me a lot of joy to watch them buy thousands of dollars worth of stuff they’re going to have a hard time selling
This lesson teached me more about investing than my whole life
Except that most stock exchanges in the world are supposed to have controls to prevent this thing from happening. And some of those controls are based in laws, meaning this could send a person to jail. Not saying that it doesn't happen, but not as much as you see here. But Steam marketplace isn't technically a stock market or commodities exchange (Similar to stocks, but real world goods are traded.) Since steam isn't one, the laws regarding artificially inflating an item's worth probably don't apply. But, I'm not a lawyer, so check with one before attempting this.
sorry, "taught"
@@jackielinde7568 Ye like that guy who cornered the onion market and all onion futures as well. Pretty mad. He owned almost all the onions in the US? (I can't remember) at the time.
There's now a law to prevent that happening again
@@justforthis3208 Yeup. That did happen. And I'd have to look it up.
@@jackielinde7568 A very good example was when a bunch of gamers who does day trading started to do this to gamestop stocks on robinhood. The broker had to close the trade for that stock to prevent it from overinflating
I'm amazed Valve didnt sponsor you ... i mean, in the end: They're the winners here right?
This dude is litterarly breaking everything that is set to stone and makes new things happen. I love this dude. You just earned a sub
We were seeing on how The Netherland created the first ever Stock Bubble on Tullip Bulbs.
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and we're still profiting off that.
Yep. At its peak you could buy a nice house in Amsterdam for one tullip bulb. These days it is hard to find a house there for under 800k euros.
@@DBZVelena yeah, we are gladly!
Spiff's videos taught me economics better than real business courses
I love this I learn more from this than any dubious stock advice on youtube
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moral of the video: dry out the stocks to control the market
i would noot suggest trying this at home unless you try it with a small supply item. low risk just for practice, worst case scenareo you lose a fiver.
@@charmedrools1 I am aware of this and honestly investing is mostly gambling anyways so that's the only thing I would do
This is the example of Monopoly, you buy all the limited product supply chains then proceed to be the only seller on the market. Of course, to do so would require alot of money, but you also need a demand for paperweights.
my dear tea drinking friend, did you ever consider exploiting Kenshi? It's a lovely magnificent RTS squad RPG that is completely broken and unbalanced in many mechanics. i'm sure you'll find something to your liking if you look.
Spiff seems to be perfectly balancing his sponsors now. Can't wait to see that video
2:07 Truly the greatest technological advancement of the millenium, behind tea of course. I wonder if spiff knows where this is from...
Spiff is our dream self
A wise sausage, a omnipotent being, have the power to control stocks market, lastly a Cultured one.
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You are literally my idol lol
You honestly have the best content on RUclips!
The fact spiff didn't mess with the pengy "totally not a money laundering scheme" somehow disappointed me.
Did this man just wake up one day and decide he wanted to use exploits to effectively destroy the Steam market?
Of course not, that would be preposterous! He woke up like that _at least_ twice.
@@docontra4921 underrated comment🤣
Hey Spiff, Floridian Fan here, Thought you would like to know that my local supermarket started stocking yorkshire tea and I can confirm now that it is a nice black tea and I got Tea biscuits with it. That is all. The Tea revolution will come to america
Meh. I'll stick with my Twinning's Irish Breakfast. Earl Grey has an awful aftertaste due to the additive they use.
@@jackielinde7568 i mean i have other teas too
Also its not earl grey its more of a straight breakfast tea
@@ZK95004 Keep an eye out for Twinnings Assam Strong and Malty. Trust me
@@azuresky96 i do like twinning but those are new to me
Honestly, i'm curious to find out just how this ends up finishing
yeah this video lacks a punchline without the actual items getting sold
I'm pretty sure Spiff doesn't want to have to report that income out of embarrasment.
Just checked the steam market place, i don't think Spiffing actually sold any of them. Maybe due to legal reasons.
looking at transaction history on the market spiff never sold them, immedietly after the £35 spike they dropped to being an average of 1.85, there is however, over 50 listed in tyhe "above £8" section, assumabvly the ones he listed in the video. so he could still profit if he dropped the price and sold them a handful at a time
You said buy all Tea Hats and instead I bought Yorkshire Gold Tea. Spiffing Britt video instructions unclear, but in return received some quality tea.
The sponsor is so good that I use the product before I've ever seen an ad of it
I also love that it's the cucumber from Deponia, a great game
Since your last video about cucumbers, I was thinking ' Why didn't he go for the tea products?'
I sit corrected now.
Great tutorial on how to make Valve rich. Very entertaining.
You should do a video on New World, an mmo published by Amazon. It is in a perfect state with full of CRAZY exploits. I am sure you can figure out some new ones too.
His exploit abilities have extruded outside games into the real market
The real question is: Did they all sell and how much did you make off it?
How are you going to NOT show the most important part of the whole video! That was like Star Wars fans waiting so long for the other movies, only to be given garbage and told "NOPE!" Lol
Seems questionable not to show that part.
Looking at the steam market, I guess he sold about 100 of them at about 2 pounds each. (if him)
@@jackhead4if it was me making this vid, I would have put the amount I made off this in the title and in the thumbnail. To not even include it in the video just seems weird.
Or maybe he didn't sell it in the time the video was made because he knew that the price of his item will increase even more when he uploads this video.
Next video is called beeing an Influencer is perfectly balanced and has no exploits xd
@@profile-locked Nah, I think he learned his lesson about being careful with how he uses his reach as an influencer during the Minecraft Kingdom streams.
I love how the sponsor chapter is called Spiff gets paid
"It's just... good business..." - Lord Cutler Beckett
0:45 people are still buying the cucumber because of your video, not just because of your cucum-flation
now it shifted to the platypus emoji 😂
Wolflord might be up your alley. Obscure game with lots of strangely named cheap items on the Steam market, like the Golden Hamgrenade, Rotten Pumpkin or Moldy Pixie Hat.
He never actually told us whether or not the hats sold. They probably didn't, so he made just about nothing.
i checked 500 sold at 50 usd.
@@mathgasm8484 OH. OK THEN.
they're still selling at over 1$CAD today
Every time Spiff uploads it feels like it's raining tea... Yorkshire Gold Tea to be spiffic😀
I wanted Opera to know: I didnt knew you had a special Version of your browser. It looks really good and due to your sponsor, I actually downloaded it and I will try it out later. So keep on sponsoring that british tea lover
...are you advertising that the spiffing brit is a good ad medium? lol
@@CouchPotator Sir yes sir
@@IceBioshock how is it
@@aig9672 its pretty good, I dont See any special reason to use it besides in my case: one Bug in Chrome which causes Videos to crash - doesnt crash the Videos in the Opera Browser
i have to be honest, this is quite possibly the funniest video I've ever seen on youtube. I'm in tears over this
I basically skip all ads as a rule, but this one was great. And at least 50% because spiff failed at keeping it straight, and the features seemed genuinely interesting. But, I can't even use it as a linux user. Well played.
Another majestic video! I have to make myself another tea...
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Ale bez mlíka
Bri*ish 🤮
The Steam Market is the new Stock Market
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And cucumbers are the new Bitcoin
And tea hats are the new Ethereum
You know it's a good advert even it doesn't even feel like an advert
11 days ago and not 1 week ago? RUclips has had a drink!
told my friends to hold on to them and put sell orders for crazy high waiting for spiff to buy it back another time. thanks for buying me and my friends games
We need a video on how you explain all this to an accountant. You made money doing what? how? really? WTF? Well, the paperwork for this will be interesting.
It would be pretty easy for an accountant. Depending on where you live, its either untaxed or you have to pay a capital gains tax
technically he earned coupons for steam games not actual money since it can't be withdrawn. important distinction to make for tax reasons.
Lmao. Imagine paying taxes.
Ah yes, Opera GX Nekopara edition, the only right way to use Opera...
This dude really went from breaking games to breaking reality.
Practical, or not, loads of fun! I may have a new favorite game to play on steam>:3
Your video's about RL lifehacks, exploits etc are always so interesting to watch. love them :D !
Spiff has become a stock market youtuber now, when can we expect your first 24 hour trading stream where you suffer from lack of sleep for a -37% profit margin
If Spiff was a business professor he'd produce endless amounts of mini Jeff Bezos
Day 21 of trying to make Spiff say "Sugoi"
I support this venture.
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@Pan Garchomp nic nie dodałem
Well, seeing Jojo and Nekopara in a spiff video was definitly something i never expected
You managed to trash the steam marketplace in one nigth? xD This is insane. Started to scroll for items in quantity, gave up at page 750+. All items with 1 in stock. Good jobb, Spiff! :D
When 5 pounds of cucumbers take on a whole new meaning
I always am surprised when I see the Nekopara background on his Opera browser.
personally never played it but I do find the background is a great conversation piece
This man could control the stock market if he wanted to
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I personally like to leave it to the space hamsters that currently control it
Q - Why would Spiff make the best librarian?
A - He practically invented the "Loose Leaf" system
Q - Why is Spiff a terrible lover?
A - He just likes to teas!
Spiff was once contacted by Yorkshire about a sponsorship, way back before broadband...
He missed out due to his sporadic tea-1 connection ._.
It took him over 20 years to remedy the situation.. now Yorkshire tea simply calls him when they have tea related questions :)
I heard that once, he actually had enough blood in his caffeine system that he managed to sleep...
If Tea was cocaine, Spiff would have been played by Benicio Del Toro in a subpar movie :D
Btw, I would ADORE to build you a hot and cold running tea-on-tap system for your house :D that would be a wicked project XD Piping hot Yorkshire Gold or iced Yorkshire Breakfast or their Toast and Jam tea.. ... ehm I godda run to the store! need to try this iced toast and jam tea.. NOW
What a lovely demonstration of the (sketchy) high-end arts market
Narrative of Self is the result of a feedback loop between “Separate Self” & Cosmos 🎈
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Good video! I like the :dollars: from Tropico 4! The pengi coins do not appear to be a money laundering mechanism at all!
I'll be honest the scariest thing would be if spiff actually played a game with no exploit and totally balanced could you imagine
Your background sold me! XD
The Royal Bank of Spiff: ''Sir, we've detected some... odd purchases on your account... we're just calling to inquire if you made the purchase of several hundred cucumb-
Spiffing Brit: [Tea drinking cackling] *I'M PICKLE BRIIIIT!*
Ah yes, capitalism at its finest.
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Challenge
@Chadrick Basedman It's in the sport!
Thanks spiff, just bought 100 epic tea hats for $20
Edit: 35 Minutes later and $1.79 per hat. Buy Orders are the best way to purchase now!
Edit 2: 10 hours later and there are now $1 sell orders.
Tea hat to the moon ^^^^^
RUclipsrs: You have no idea how little we earn from sponsors.
Spiff: Casually spends my months salary on digital pickles using a single sponsor.
Turns out many youtubers lie about how little money they make.
So dumb people wont complain that 'YoUtuBers DonT WorK ANd DoNT DeseRVe So MuCh '
Man I haven't watched you on RUclips for a couple weeks, I'm due for some of that delightful sarcastic voice of yours
Ahhh yes…
Finally a fellow Brit
Selling tea?
Amazing work good fellow
Would it not have been a good idea to put a sell order at 10.00 as soon as you could and then continue buying and such? That way if a bot comes in and cleans out the market you get to sell your 100 hats at 10 a pop making 1000.
when csgo cases were 0.03 :(
Your videos always do a fantastic job of pointing out how money is fake.
Whoever sold those tea hats for value is the real winner
This man single handedly paid the paychecks of the devs of Golf It!
Judging by the current graph he probably made a huge loss and that is it about it. 107 sold for 2.18€ which is probably less than what he paid for in total.
Weird, because an hour before you someone posted saying that 500 had been sold for 4.58, which is almost certainly a profit.
@@Santisima_Trinidad Its because £2.18 is the average price
Have you watched the video? He clearly shows that he spent 30 pounds on those hats
@@dmitrijzubanic994 In total he spend about 500 pounds on those hats if you watched the entire video.
@@Karavusk and sold 50 for 35 pounds. so 50 x 35 = 1750. 1750 - 500 = 1250 pounds of profit. and thats just the ones he showed he posted in the vid. If he sold the rest too, thats only more profit.
You’re the best Spiff!
I think with what we've seen this year with the rise of meme stocks, the real life stock market might actually be as easy to manipulate right now. Everyone is prepared to hop on the bandwagon whenever they see something go up a few 100%.
You could hyperinflate the value of pretty much any penny stock and then just enjoy the profits...
The fact that it got cheaper to just buy a real cucumber than that one is surreal
how is bro exploiting real life he is the pinnacle of Britain
okay so you spend the entire video byung up stock and the just end it after listing them on the marketplace? no conclusion to if they actually sold or not?
Where do the bots get the money from.
This what I did while Steam Summer Sale was active couple of years ago, made so much Steam Money its ridiculous 😂
You did it with the summer cards or with random items? Anyway, summer and winter sale sounds like the perfect time to do this kind of stuff due to people trying to use the market to get more money for games I guess
Dear Mr Brit,
This was so funny tea came out my nose!!
The flying pengy gold coin stuff made me cry.
spiff showing us the power of the steam market, then telling us not to do it ourselves, probably because he wants to be in control kekw