Who would have ever thought the jewel runners of TF2 would lose to some stupid API? Not us! Unfortunately Valve's unstable API and the impossible rewrite of the site we would have to tackle to even mitigate a tiny part of the issues is a colossal task.

Since we are no longer able to deliver the quality we always aimed for and see no way of this ever changing considering the API issues have only gotten worse over the years - we have decided to shut down Bazaar.

It's been a fight for years to keep the site running to be honest and at the end of the score card, Valve won. "We always have to be in the middle of the action 'cause we're the warriors. And without some challenge, without some damn war to fight then the warriors might as well be dead, Stallion."

This does not mean we lost at all however. How many sites with much better structure and financial support we outlived, how many friends we made, how many great interactions with our user base we had - nothing will ever take that away! "I think we make a real sharp couple of coconuts – I’m dumb, you’re shy, Whaddaya think, huh?"

11 years man. This is the most painful announcement I have ever written. We want to sincerely thank everyone who helped bring the site to what it is today. The original founders, all the former staff, all the current staff but most importantly - YOU. Without our great community we would have been nothing but a few nostalgic idiots headbutting trading for 11+ years. Whether a donator, a non donator or even a banned user. We thank you ALL for making our YEARS!

I can not describe how much this experience meant to all of us, former and present. It was an absolute blast to be able to share our work and passion with you. We fought to keep the site alive as long as possible, mostly because we can not sing or dance but that is not the point.
We wanted to provide a haven to those who still appreciate trading as we do. Person to person, talking, negotiating. We can not thank you enough for helping us keep traditional trading alive for all this time.

All we wanted to do is go the distance. For us. For you. We did it Adrian!
"Going in one more round when you don't think you can - that's what makes all the difference in your life."

Cordially and for one last time,
Inu
Buddhapest
Alpha

The site will stay up for 7 days so save what you want.

We got DDoS'ed twice in the last month

Yesterday it forced us to bring the site down for almost 24 hours.

From now on, you will occasionally see a challenge when visiting Bazaar. Sorry about the extra potential click and delay but I think y'all are pretty familiar with these anyway given how many trading sites employ them.

Sorry about the length of the outage. Now get back to quickbuying and overvaluing your pixels

~bp

Approximately 10 years ago this humble trading website launched to the public and contrary to bots taking over trading (and the game), the fun times of phishing scams and Dave having been on staff for longer than 14 whole days - here we stand, and proudly so!

When the project was started by Fiskie and Accell, the aim was to create a more advanced trading site and a competitor to TF2 Outpost. Considering we are writing this announcement right now and Outpost is not, I think there is a certain success here.

Nowadays it is an alternative trading site run by Buddha as a developer, myself as a de facto owner, and Alpha as the head admin, that stuck to the old person to person trading system where as all other sites have adapted to bot trading. We think bot trading is cool too but we'd like to preserve the kind of trading we started with. We're not quite the Clubber Lang to Backpack.tf's Ivan Drago but it'd still make for a good training montage!

All of this could never have been done without the fantastic staff (and Dave) who have helped run the site over the years and the user base who has been like the Adrian to our Rocky. Without people who share our love for the traditional forms of trading, we would have shut down years ago. Thank you for continuing to stick with us, it's more than we could have ever hoped for!

This is the part where I tell you about the future, where I tell you about the many years we'll stick around and the cool things to come...but, do I even know? All I know is that this is a humble site not looking to throw hands anymore run by people who truly love the game and appreciate their community and that'll stay that way until the bell rings.

Yo Adrian, we did it!

c u in 2032 for the next one
~Inu
~Buddha
~Alpha


Thank you to all current and former Bazaar staff in no particular order <3
- Rob
- Swag Machine
- hyclrs
- Mr Rusty
- Æsirson
- rynz500
- Mr. Man
- D'Koda
- CuddleCat
- Labraxadores
- Hans
- Lynx
- Napoleon
- Curly Brace
- Laughing 'Can' 86
- hot
- ugh...Dave The Bear (legally required to thank this guy, can you believe it?)

Special thanks to Zemnmez and Dr. McKay for their contributions to the site!

we believe the danger is over now

in case you haven't already heard there's an issue with trading that could result in stolen items.

more info here: https://forums.backpack.tf/topic/80628-urgent-trading-not-currently-safe

TL;DR to be safe, don't trade and if you have trade bots, disable them for now
~bp

...a cache server!

One of our servers crashed for the first time after 5 flawless years of service. It has been restored and given a raise and some chocolate.


~bp