As you know there were lately many threads about Snow Globes and predictions about card prices. Some of us (me too) were predicting that prices will fall to 0.03-0.05 euro… as you see we couldn't be more wrong. I think that main problem is that we didn't calculate important factor: servers being jammed. Probably that's why there is "panic" on market right now and the prices are slowly rising… many people are having hard time buying it cheap so they decide to go for cards with higher price…

But never mind this.

The really issue is: did you profit? Or did you lose? That's kinda funny battle of traders, sellers fighting with buyers.

As for me (we are talking only about Snow Globes)

I sold all in all 14 cards - > "earning" 2.27 euro -> average price per card 0.16 (after steam-tax)

Bought all in all 10 cards -> "paying" 1.30 euro -> average price per card 0.13

Outcome ->0.97 euro (It proves that I'm rather poor trader)

And from crafting 1 badge I got: :tcry: emoticon, Holiday Sale 2013 - Surgeon Simulator wallpaper and Portable Smissmas Spirit Dispenser (I dunno why but I can't even sell it)… so yeah it was gamble and I lost the game.

Can't say that I lost something… didn't spend single penny so it's not that bad…

And what about you? How much did you earn/lose? How many badges? What items? I'm especially curious about heavy spender .

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Profit, and huge! Collected some games with it :3
Not spent any real money for it :)

10 years ago
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I was hoping to buy in the end but had to work and prices were too high just before I left.

I sold all my cards with No crafting. Made some nice change as I was lucky to get a Foil on day 2.

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The best time to sell was when the event started and there were only about 300 cards on the market. The highest price was 90c for normal cards. I messed up and sold them prior to the even @ 20c each. But even so, the event made me like a $15 profit. Aside from like 15 cards i sold, I also sold 3 foils and an uncommon warframe skin. At the time that i sold the skin, only 1,800 had been crafter. Got $4.32 for it.

10 years ago
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Not really, when event started they were like 0.2c each, on next day when i got my voting card, they were around 0.5c per.

10 years ago
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Did anyone from here get $150 for common (non-foil) cards? cause that's what they were going for before they sold out

10 years ago
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they not exactly sold out, Valve just was deleting them, and seems while they were deleting ppl could still buy, but what a surprise to ppl who bought it after they expired and saw this message "This trading card has expired, and can no longer be used."

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Normal ones sold out before they were deleted, half an hour before the due time.

10 years ago
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Damn, I should have put them up for sale.

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I hope you at least crafted them, if you didn't sell them.

10 years ago
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I tried, but my friend wouldn't give me the ones he wasn't going to use and even if he did, I would still be missing the first two. I crafted the badge once at least. It will be my first and last badge I'll craft.

10 years ago
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Looks like I made about $1.60. Not bad for free money.

10 years ago
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wrong, it's free credit :P

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An important factor is also that a lot of people are plain stupid and don't ever bother to read anything so they were hoarding those cards for no reason the same way as it was with summer cards never minding their expiration date.

Anyway that dota items for snowglobes business sucked hard. They should go back to events with achievements and rewards for playing games. I sold all of them and so i made a little money to buy games woooot.

10 years ago
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i sold all and earned 3 tf2 keys, dont care about silly badges
steam level is pointless

10 years ago
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I got only around 2$ because steam was down in the last day...I had 20 cards, selled only 9 for ~ 20 cents each.

And community is really stupid, because they didnt up prices for this cards...and i lost 11 cards for nothing, 20 cents for card its SO UNREAL.

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I recieved a full set save from 1 card, #2, and got quite alot spare ones, so I sold many, crafted a badge and sold the item, an uncommon TF2 item, so all in all I earned the only thing I purchesed from the sale; Bioshock Infinite Season Pass.
So for me, it's been only a win.

10 years ago
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Crafted 7 non foil and 1 foil badge. Loss I would say as I had to add steam funds lol

10 years ago
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I sold and bought a few cards and made a small profit of maybe 80 cents because I got the rare Dota 2 item with my first and only badge.

10 years ago
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Sold them all and did not buy any so 100% gain :P

10 years ago
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Meh still have seven snow globe cards

10 years ago
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Crafted and sold the rest. Ended with a good bunch of games, withput spending a single $$.

As my fellow Teladi say: 'For the prrrrrrrrrofits!!!!'

10 years ago
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Sold every card and made a few bucks; nothing worth writing home about

10 years ago
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Got 6 cards, sold them for 15-20 cents each, grand total $1.08. But my question is, how high did the prices go in the final hours? Could I have sold that last card for 40 cents instead and retired on the profits?

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I didnt sold cards with price more than 20 cents...

10 years ago
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In final hours? About 3 hours before end it was like 14-16 cents each. In last hour it was 10-12 cents each.

10 years ago
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Crafted one level of the badge and earned more than I spent since I didn't spend a thing on the cards.

10 years ago
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Spend the time working a McJob. You can earn more.

10 years ago
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Well that's for sure.

But it was fun for me. It was simplified version of stock market , fight between sellers and buyers, will the price rise or fall. Will you gain or lose. That was just fun. Of course on real stock market you can gain more (real) money, that's for sure…. And by working you can have steady income and if you want to spend real money on games… sure you can.

But as I said. It was just for fun. Well all in all I "earned' about 1 euro… I always say "earned" using "" because it's not real money. And let's be frank even beggar would gain more than that in just 1 hour.

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Honestly, I just sold my cards for a profit of 14 per card. I sold way too late, since as soon as they were available the sales were as high as 60-80 cents per card. I guess I could've traded for something worth while, but I was way too late on the voting.

10 years ago
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Level 1000 - http://steamcommunity.com/id/palmdesert/gamecards/267420/ It must have cost a lot of money

10 years ago
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what. the. fuck. !!!

10 years ago
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get profit $30

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i sold all my cards for around 3$ then asked my friends for all their remaining cards at the last 15 min before gone to craft one set. and i got the rare dota 2 item which is worth around a dollar.

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I crafted only one badge. Got a christmas candle sticker for a game, I've never played. So yes, I lost the gamble aswell.

10 years ago
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Profit.

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Closed 10 years ago by Phelan.