Hi,

I ll make all my idle accs Premium. But I dont know
how. To get Premium I have to purchase sth. out of the mann
and co store. The Minimum of money I can put in my wallet
is 5€. That means I have to buy a 50€ Paysafecard and put 5€
on each account. I thing i ll buy 2 Keys and a Fortix gift.
That means I can sell the Keys for 1,50€ (x2=3,00€). So a premium acc
costs me about 1€. Do u think thats ok/good?
Than I ll have 1 € Left on my Account. Im planning to get some more Fortix for it.
Or what do u guy think, how I should get my Premium?

Thanks in advance, iRavage

TL;DR: Best way to get TF2 Premium

1 decade ago*

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why not just buy 1 tf 2 key which each account o.o?

1 decade ago
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I would have 3€ left on each account -> free money for gaben

1 decade ago
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but you dont have to put 5€ on each account just buy 1 tf2 key on the tf2 site

1 decade ago
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You do actually, you have to pay 5$ (or euros) minimum to put in your Steam Wallet.

OP, the best solution is not to create so many premium accounts

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1 decade ago
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Not a bad idea.

1 decade ago
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I also had the Idea, that I should get 2 Keys on every Accounts and get cheap gifts from the russian store

1 decade ago
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you can transfer those 3€ via community market to your main account.

1 decade ago
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But he'll lose 15%.

1 decade ago
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Do like me: sell a card for 0.20€, and them buy the cheapest hat available.

1 decade ago
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I cant use the marked since I have nothing paid with my idle accs.

1 decade ago
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Well, I found this. It's a TF2 key for €3.95.

You'd probably be better off just buying stuff worth €5 for each account and then reselling them on the market or trading for other items, which you could then dump onto one account and sell them all off that one.

1 decade ago
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What i did was find some nametags then sell them at the marketplace then buy the cheapest items on the store and im premium now.

1 decade ago
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But I cant use the Market. It says I have to purchase sth from the steam store first.

1 decade ago
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worst haiku ever

1 decade ago
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You made my day.

1 decade ago
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sell some cards if you can

1 decade ago
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Here's how I got premium on my first 40 alts.

1)I add $5 minimum to half the accounts

2)Buy premium gift on one alt

3)Send premium gift to next alt

4)Repeat until done.

I still haven't gotten my 134 alts premium but I probably won't get that far til maybe by the end of the year at the current rate I'm going in trades.

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But that would be 3,74 € for 2 Accs.
If I d do it how I wrote, you only pay 0,60€ for 1 Acc
and have 1 € left to buy some Fortix or cheap games. But I ll think
again about your method. Why do u think is your method better?
Cuz I dont know which is better :/

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Well the thing is, if you put all the money into one account then you'd have to but the premium upgrade gifts for each account that needs it while adding the minimum to half the accounts will save you 50% of what you'd spend. For example;

Spend $5 on account one to buy premium gift and gain premium status on the same account

Send premium gift to next alt without adding money to the 2nd alt

3rd gets $5 to do the same as the first account, etc

This method is just dedicated to getting premium status without buying anything else.

1 decade ago
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How do you even remember all your alts and emails lol.

1 decade ago
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Is that even legal?

1 decade ago
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No, The Game Police will come to arrest you if you do this. DON'T.

1 decade ago
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I only just decided to get into this recently.

I only have 1 alt account, I bought something on it as a gift to give it verified billing address.
Waited 30 days (In which time trading cards launched... damn it).
Gave account 29p worth of stuff and sold on market.
Bought cheapest item in game for 29p.

That was the cheapest way I could figure out how to do it, but it's less scaleable.

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The best way to do it for free, is idling as free user and wait to get Tags and Paints, these things are tradables, you can move them to your main account, then you sell those things in the market and get some credit to buy an upgrade to premium gift. You only have to be patient :P

1 decade ago
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Can a idle account sell his own tags and paints on the market?

1 decade ago
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Shocked to see a thread like this on sg

1 decade ago
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tell my why! Maybe some ppl can help me here!

1 decade ago
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I'm still shocked people get shocked over these topics

1 decade ago
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You can easily profit from creating idlers if you wait for a Mann Co sale.

1 decade ago
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I told him that in the chat and didn't know the mann co store HAD sales. Not sure what else to tell him.

1 decade ago
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what is the price for the premium gift at the sale?

1 decade ago
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Chances are they won't go on sale.

When I created a bunch of my idle accounts, I bought tons of paints while they were 50-75% off. Prices dropped initially since many others did, but they eventually come back up and were easily sold at a profit.

1 decade ago
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If it is possible to change a steam account's email, I can give you a premium STEAM account which I don't use (has only simcity / not tf2 premium). This way you will get a tf2 premium account for [minimum_item_price]+15% (steam market fees).

1 decade ago
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Not only did that make little to no sense, but you cannot trade on SteamGifts. Let's not forget the fact that you are never allowed to trade/sell your Steam account regardless.

1 decade ago
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I don`t use that account - I give it for free.

1 decade ago
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After re-reading your post a couple times, I'm just going to ask, what the hell is a "premium Steam account" and why would they want your account when they still have to pay for TF2 premium?

His choices are to either, use his own account and pay $5 for TF2 premium or use your account, pay $5 for TF2 premium AND take the risk that you might reclaim the account.

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well it's simple: if you have a steam premium account (with at least 1 retail game), you can add friends / trade stuffs and so on. He can put on market a copy of dota2 for [minimum_mannco_itemprice] + market fees and buy that dota2 copy with his main account. This you he will get a tf2 premium for minimum_blablabla + 15% (if i'm not wrong about market fees).

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Using Market requires billing address on record, which means buying through Steam.

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I've made numerous idle accounts with no games on it other than TF2 premium. Perhaps there was a misunderstanding on what was required for TF2 premium, but your account would be no different than a freshly created one. (other than Sim City 4!)

There is also no reason to use the market and give 15% cut to Steam multiple times.

1 decade ago
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Steam premium account is something he came up with as he doesn't know what else to call such a status.

1 decade ago
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oh, now I see the bold part: I only wanted to give a hand, but whatever, if you want to hear the story behind that account: I wanted to "troll" someone from my wotr clan, but, because I couldn`t send him a friend request, I had to buy a game (and simcity was that daily deal).

1 decade ago
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this is the account (I just logged because I did not know the steamid): click

1 decade ago
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Ok look dude u wait for something to go on sale for 49 cents u buy it u get tf2 premium

1 decade ago
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Still have to add a minimum to the account which would be more than that. Using my method would be a bit easier but time consuming. At the very least you save money even if it's not as much as profiting from sales in the mann co store.

1 decade ago
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:O I payed with paypal without adding steam wallet

1 decade ago
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Very easy...

Step 1.: Create Accounts and activate SteamGuard

Step 2.: Wait until you can use the Market (15 Days)

Step 3.: Use your Main Account and Buy Trading cards for each Account and trade this to your idle Accounts

(Use Trading Cards that are worth enough for a Item in Mann Co Store)

Step 4.: Sell with every Idle Account your Trading Cards

Now you should have 0,30-0.40€ on every Account That should be enough for a Item in Mann Co. Store.

1 decade ago
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I've already pointed out at least twice that using Market requires you have a billing address on file and that requires some kind of purchase. It is still the cheapest way, since you can buy as gifts anything you want anyway.

1 decade ago
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I despise you cause keys are rising because of these people.

1 decade ago
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This guy asgain, a friend of mine has 150+ idle accounts, but that doesn't get the keys rising in euro/dollar value maybe in metal value but that just changes because of the high demand.

1 decade ago
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The Key doesn't rise in euro/dollar, but the value of the items gets lower and lower. Like you could buy for only 2.33(2 refined metal + 1 reclaimed) a key. Now you need almost 6 (Refined metal) and why? Because items are free which can be crafted as metal. And it's not because of the high demand (If that would be the case why didn't Valve raised their key prices?). The gametrade mechanics degenerates and newbies need almost 5+ months to trade their items just to get 1 key.(If they cannot buy keys because of their country or they don't own a creditcard).

Thats just pathetic and gives and unfair advantage against others.

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Anyone playing TF2 and complaining about not getting paid enough by playing is silly. You average around 0.55ref per week if you cover all 10 hours of item dropping. This is certainly not a lot these days, but if you want to customize your dudes to a very high standard, even back then you'd need to wait a very long time. Just buy shit with real money, to be very ignorant here i'd say "Do you think Mattie! Built his collection on just playing on his account?"

1 decade ago
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Pre-paid card...

1 decade ago
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Incorrect, idlers have low impact on the price of metal-key. They do contribute to it being higher, as the total amount of metal gets bigger. However, the main reason for why the keys explose in price, is that people sell keys for above the backpack.tf price( or whatever sheet you use) and sucessfully sell. Then backpack.tf changes their price, to what the keys are being sold for at the high end. Then people continue to sell at higher then the range, and people still buy the keys because people are more or less not caring about a scrap here or there. A scrap here or there does in fact make the entire market explode, because a scrap here or there, every week, or every day. Very quickly becomes several refined in differance. There are many different aspects to as of why the metal-key price is rising/has been rising, idling is one of them, but it's a minor one. Personally (as this is not backpack.tf) I'd like to complain on Backpack.tf admins for being really bad at their jobs. They accept key suggestions like crazy, and claim that any counterproof is "quicksells" because they sell in minutes, or even seconds. The thing is that, the only reason keys in a higher price sells at "regular speed" is that they are above the range, and therefore it takes longer to sell them. People are constantly buying and selling keys for every minute that goes, it is a very fast paced market - therefore the keys in the range do sell very quickly.

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I bet when this guy d sell all his keys for 3 Ref he could lower the price. But he got banned: Link

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The amount of metal to key ratio has stayed almost the same, if you want someone to blame for key prices, blame yourself for actually paying out the 5.55-5.66 refined it now takes to buy a key, they only sell at that price because people accept it as that price.

1 decade ago
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Don't do this. Get a idle account add 5 euro/dollar whatever, buy a upgrade to premium gift trade it to another account, and you'll only need 25 euro paysafe to get 10 accounts

1 decade ago
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Does anyone know if its enaugh to gift my alt a dota 2 copy and acitvate it?

1 decade ago
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No, did you even read the thread?

1 decade ago
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Russians are DA best if you dont want to spend a lot of money in each acc

1 decade ago
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This is how I made my idles Premium.

Add $5 Steam Wallet to account (each payment method can only be used on 2 accounts max per month)
Purchase a marketable 99 cent item from the Mann Co store that you then trade to your main account to resell (or in my case a main idle account that sells all of my TF2 items on the market) I can generally buy a 99 cent item and then resell it for roughly 80 cents after fees, meaning a slight loss of 20 cents or so.
The remaining $4.01 I let sit in my account until there is something on sale that I want to buy. Generally I continue using balance on my idles until it gets low enough that I won't be able to spend that money on Store purchases, at which point I either spend it on the community on cheap emoticons/backgrounds/cards that I want or sell myself a Dota 2 to move the remaining balance over to my main.

This method requires you to invest more money into the system ($5 per account), but you retain more of it as well in the form of Steam Wallet.

1 decade ago
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kataztrophik already mentioned it. You can only use your CC/Paysafecard/paypal/whatver for 2 different accounts per month, if you try to fill your steam wallet on 3 accounts steam will simply give you an error. You cannot use the same payment method on more then 2 accounts. You can bypass this with, buying prepaid cards with your prepaid card, create multiple paypal accounts, etc etc. But trust me, it's not worth it. Me and a friend was looking for DAYS for ways to easily bypass this 2-limit. We tried everything, went through every site we could find, but they simply took way too many fees or needed you to be a customer at their bank, or required a unused cellphone number from a special country... There are many different ways to get your accounts premium. But by far, the safest way is to either do 2 accounts per month per card (you can also get webmoney checks and therefore get maybe 6 accounts from 1 card. If you do 2 staight off the card and 2 from paypal and 2 on webmoney. Things get very easy if you are a russian these days. Sometimes you wish you lived in the russian part of steam, I wouldn't live there because of that though, too much other things I would miss here, wouldn't be worth it.

1 decade ago
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Hmm, what If I d buy 5 * 10€ PSC and activate it from a different IP? (Dads Home, Friends Home...)
I think that should work!

1 decade ago
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Buy a premium as gift from tf2op?

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^this, cheaper then in Mann Co Store of course.

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Buying in-game premiumizes the buying game as well as you still having the item.

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Indeed, however you can only use one payment method for 2 accounts.

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I usually just buy premium gifts, my 120+ premium idles convert 15-20 accounts a week, so soon I'll have 700 premium idles ;D, however your initial setup is going to require either premium gifts or buying from the store.

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I would just say for you to get 10 premium upgrades from sourceop instead. They don't require adding wallet for each account.

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Closed 1 decade ago by iRavage.