Steam Summer Sale trading cards thread

[gorobei]

Sent you a message in steam.

Not sure what you have/need now, is last post current.

yes, last post is current. direfrogs available.

 

[balloonshark]

I still have a Dominic to give. I haven't traded card before so make it easy for me.

 

[Craig234]

yes, last post is current. direfrogs available.

OK, I didn't hear back in chat.

 

[Craig234]

I still have a Dominic to give. I haven't traded card before so make it easy for me.

Great, I'd need your steamed to send you a chat.

A search found someone when I put in baloonchat but they said they aren't you.

 

[balloonshark]

Great, I'd need your steamed to send you a chat.

A search found someone when I put in baloonchat but they said they aren't you.

My steam name is BLUESHARK_13

 

[Craig234]

My steam name is BLUESHARK_13

OK, sent you a friend request (just searching wouldn't bring you up). What would you like?

 

[balloonshark]

OK, sent you a friend request (just searching wouldn't bring you up). What would you like?

I made my final Steam purchase and received a Golden Helm. I sent it as a gift. Enjoy!

 

[gorobei]

some interesting thoughts in retrospect.

if at the start of the event you sold each card on market as soon as you got it, you would probably make $5-$7.

if you wait until near the end of the event when the cards are about to expire you will find them selling for the bare minimum of $.03 (.01 for the seller, .02 valve tax). you could buy a set of 10 for 30cents.

you could effectively buy 10-20 sets at the end, craft them into badge level ups, and still make a marginal profit.

 

[Craig234]

thanks, balloon. Funny, I thought the badge limit was 5, but I did 5 and it seems to still allow another if I had the cards.

 

[Craig234]

So, with 20 minutes left, I decided maybe I'll put in low offers for the cards for a 6th badge, and since you need steam wallet money for that, and Steam almost forced using the little balance from selling a few cards on each game purchase, I had to buy $5.00 for the wallet.

OK, done. Go to place order. Um, Steam says your account is not allowed to use the market. The small print eventually says, since you made a credit card purchase for the wallet, it's a few days to confirm the funds, and until then you can't use the market. I couldn't even sell the cards I had, which seems absurd.

Steam offers some 'fast verification process' which has them place 2 holds on the card and you have to contact the card company and find out how much and enter them.

I actually got that done in time.

So, with 5 minutes left, I put in some orders to buy for .05. Surprisingly, the card value had held steady at about 8 cents for days, up to this last day and hour and 10 minutes of the sale. More surprisingly, as it got to like 2 minutes left, not one of the .05 buys went through, so all I could do was a quick convert to gems in the last minute.