Educate me?

Cards are always lowball offers!

if have to think about, yes maybe those cards add up to $6, but he has too sell each card and im guessing that make take an hour. And ill tell you $6 usually isn't worth an hour of my time. so you aren't trading him $6 you are giving me a job to do, which sucks.

And if the deal is so fair why don't you sell the cards yourself on the market and buy the game at the sale price?

(55 * 0.10) - 15% = 4.67 $. 4.67 < 6 .so ...yes, your offer is a lowball

You didn't actually start off offering 55 cards, you just offered him "cards". He then proceeded to fly into a rage because presumably he's been offered "cards" for games many times before -- as in, a few they happened to have, not nearly close to value. From that point on, the conversation's pretty much over.

And yeah, 55 cards would be awful to get if you're not into trading them. 55 items versus 1 makes quite a difference in usability.

All the cards have varying degrees of prices, a lot of which are 10-15 cents or less. Add to that the fact that if you try to sell them on the market you lose a % of that AND have to go trough the effort of actually getting them sold... then, yeah, 55 cards for a 6$ game is a pretty crappy offer.

If each card is at most valued around 0.10$, that would only mean 5.5$ without counting sale tax and all the bother he'd have to put the cards on sale. Not counting IF they would sell.

Well, consider that most people trade 30 cards for 1 tf2 key(saw threads on SteamTrade about this), and $6 is about 3 keys. So by that, the VERY LEAST you should have offered was 90 cards if he/she accepted cards as trade offers.

If the trader you were talking to also went by that exchange rate, you were basically only offering him hypothetically about $3 worth of cards. Better than some people offering only 7 cards for a $15 game but still a lowball. :/

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