Snow Globes - profit or loss? [let's hope this will be the last thread about Snow Globes]

Yesterday I traded 5 Snow Globe cards (3 + 2 x same) for Batman: AA GoTY.

Crafted 10 badges, the best I got was one rare Phase whatever worth only 30 cents at the time I got it, otherwise mostly common items and one rare emoticon worth 20 cents. I ended up with -10 euros.

money money money..... who cares about money ? :)

During whole sale I profited like 20€-30€

Crafted lvl 1 badge with the cards i got from voting/trading. Got shit and spent nothing.
Sold 7 on the market for +/-0,13euro each

Bought 6 for £0.63
Sold 13 for £1.32

I'm rich!

Actually, people go for more expensive cards because before you F5 and get Steam to load new list, other traders already bought everything there :) .

I spend like 10 minutes yesterday (when all was working like it should, not with today's servers...) trying to buy one last card to finish badge (yeah, decided to live dangerously instead selling them) and every time I loaded page everything for less than 0.14 euro was already purchased after I seen list.
So I started to wander to second page, where it suddenly was not 0.12, but 0.15 (shows how bad those steam traders from first page are) and were F5 hoping some 0.12 would appear on second page. After less then one minute some massive wave of cards came and 6 appeared on second page, had no problem purchasing then. Crafted and got some rubbish.
Rest sold for 0.15 euro pm market - all went in one hour, even through Steam still reports lowest price being around 0.12.

Also, had pre-voting cards, sold them for 0.3 euro only through - which means only around 20 euro for me, not around 40 :(

I decided to invest about $15 this year into just buying cards, so now I'm up to level 30. This'll help my booster pack drop rate, up my friends list, give me another showcase, all sorts of things. Also bought a phased asa sydanya, Vasto skin, and Vauban skin for Warframe, but most of that I covered from other sales. If you look at the badges in a long-term view, over time it's worth it to sell the expensive ones ( use a site like http://ehsankia.com/steam/cards/ to help determine what cards are worth in what sets) and build badges out of the cheap ones. For the most part if you get half a set of cards and want to build a badge, just buy the rest, unless the price difference is exceedingly high. Also, if you can swing it and want to level up, save your cards until a sale pops up and involves making badges, and then you can make more prize cards or whatever with your badges. I may put in another $15 or so next summer or Christmas if I feel like I've got a swing at it and I'm not too busy buying games.

Crafted lvl 31 badge mostly from purchases from trading and spent about a dollar completing sets when I wasn't in the mood to wait but recovered it and made a bit more now selling the left overs I had.

I'd say I profitted. I crafted to level 5 or 6 (not sure cause I cant see right now since community is acting dopey), but I made out like a bandit when the sale first started as I had 5 globes right when the sale started and sold them all for around $1.60 each. I've bought a few, traded for a few, sold a few.

As for items received, only got crap. I got one of the Dota rares that I sold for a few bucks though. The axe thing (I dont play the game) rest was all garbage.

crafted one badge got crappy item from game I dont play and sold rest of the globes

after crafting a chrstmas badge i got an item from dota 2, then i traded for item from spiral knights - but i dont it in my inventory

Sold and traded my cards off and ended up with Shadow grounds pack and Alan wake pack, not sure how I did it but I consider that a success.

I gained a few U.S. dollars by all the trading, selling off my dozen cards. I never crafted, and had no interest in the badge.

When I look at the Steam market, I think this is far too much time investment for far too little return. You accumulated hours of trading and thought for far less than the minimum wage. Perhaps it's a good gateway to stock trading.

Crafted one badge with a 1 card purchase to complete a set, purchased that card at around 15c. Made about $9 selling.

I think such stability of prices - at least strange. More than 75,000 copies, which will disappear after 2 hours.., people are strange.

P.S. I earned about $5 USD . Cards are do not bought, (with this event) took itself only the background and smiles. :)

The real reason why prices haven't gone down is because of greed. People rather let their cards expire than to sell for .04 cents. There were initially 2 trains of thought:

1) when the sale nears the end, all sellers wanting some money will instantly lower their prices to get whatever they can (what most people would have believed), and/or
2) Buyers will be so desperate that they will buy up the cheap cards and eventually work their way up to the more expensive ones (what most of these 70,000 card sellers probably believe, and is actually happening).

Also, most sellers probably forgot they listed cards for sale.

Crafted 10 badges for 13€, huge loss, got only some shit worth 1€ max

I created 1 badge and got a rare PoE (3.00) then sold all other cards (about 40, because I did a lot of badges that were sitting on my inventory) I have around $ 38.90 (around 20USD) so yeah, I hope they do more deals like this, mainly because with that money I could later add 7 more interesting games in my library.

I sold 4 or 5 cards in the market, so yes, profit :P (and I got them by voting)

got 45usd out from selling all my card mostly on first day about average 65-75 cent a card. did not Craft any snow globe badge so far. I wanted to craft 1 for collection, but I refuse to pay over 0.08 on snow globe.

I seriously have no idea how this thing works, made 2.6 usd selling everything i had, got a cheap game.

Protoss?

Sold everything. Did not bought any globe. Why? For the badge? for something so useless i should waste my money? I rather give them to homeless.