Understanding how listings are sorted on the Steam Market

[joka]

Hello everyone,

This forum has many extremely interesting topics, and I’ve learned a lot from them. However, I couldn’t find anything addressing the issue of how listings are sorted - for example, in the link below. Listings appear to be sorted by price, but there are clearly other variables at play because the order is often incorrect. For instance, 182.43€ appears before 181.08€, and 187.25€ comes before 178.87€, and so on. I’m using euros, but this sorting issue occurs with any currency.

I’ve read before that it might be related to the different currencies used by Steam and the varying conversion rates and fees applied, but I’ve never been able to confirm this.

My question is: Does anyone know more about why this happens? Is there any way to mitigate this issue? For my application, properly sorted listings would be beneficial.

Link for reference: https://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/730/AK-47 | Redline (Minimal Wear)?count=100