You could be on a new server where there is not many decent players on the transfer market and all the token buyers will be going mental to try and get the best players leaving you with the scraps to buy off the market.
Some token buyers will buy around 500T a month a build themselves a strong squad (like myself), but at the high levels you can win things and get good players from auctions if you are very selective and know what players to bid on, however you need to basically be on a old server to achieve this because most of the token buyers on the older servers would be at the highest levels, I've only came across 2 other token buyers at my level on my server and always seem to avoid getting them in any of my league draws and CL draws each season, so a non-token buyer with a decent brain and a lot of luck could win these competitions.
Some players in western world countries such as USA, UK, Canada have the opportunity to farm tokens for free watching videos and completig surveys or taking a paid offer like you did. I once farmed over 400T in a season just by watching videos from all the various sponsors on there, but it does vary, theres not always videos and advertisements available and it should be seen as a bonus for players that do get the opportunity to farm tokens.