The Steam Holiday Auction

Bids are too high :(

"The first auction round ends on 1 Jan, 1970 @ 1:00am with a new round ending every 45 minutes until the last auction round ends on 1 Jan, 1970 @ 1:00am."
Oh, Steam..

I crafted the Sales badge :D
Unable to sell other cards on the market though. LAAAG

I wonder how booster creation will be tied to badge pricelist. If not, then all those overpriced waifu cards gonna drop real fast for a short period of time.

Sack of gems price will probably rise very soon as cheap CSGO backgrounds are selling super fast

even the cheapest games are way to high, hell no, gona use money and know that ill get a game centanly buying it.

This is some really stupid crap, sell your cards, keep the money, then buy the game. Gems gtfo.

The swell chaps who have done the "cleaning out my inventory, send me a trade request" posts may be feeling sad in the pants right now.

I hope this isn't replacing the Xmas cards, that would suck hard.

Sounded cool to me...until I saw the bids for the one game I wanted...yeah I rather trade for my games then bid for them...

I don't know how it's possible, somebody just bought me a sack of gems for 0,44€... poor guy

is it possible to make money from crafting booster packs>?

I grabbed a bunch of cheap 100 gem emoticons so I'll probably turn that into a couple older games that have been sitting on my wishlist for a while

I get the impression that the later auctions will be more reasonable due to later times.

if we lose an auction, do we lose ours gems or do we keep them?

Am I the only one who can't buy Sack of Gems?

I can't sell anything because the market is crazy! Made an pack from Vampires, this thing is expensive as hell!

I've made 2 dollars buying gems for 3 cents and selling cards i get from making boosters so far...

Now at 5 dollars

Buying gems is a major pain in the butt though. i've been somewhat successful buying 10 sacks at a time for 3 cents each.

They're worth .03 a sac now. lol Can we convert these to booster packs now? Nm page is loading now, was able to get a booster pack. Now I can't buy sacs though, says item may be gone every time. :/

why should i trade cards for gems? instead of getting 12 cents per card, i can sell it and buy backgrounds and emoticons and sell them for 100 per piece

they diddnt think this through

edit: buying a sack for 3 cents =)))

So does that mean they are not doing the winter card system this year?

Converting unused emotion and background for gems or selling them right now, it's too cluster in my inventory.

should I hoard gems or just use them right now?

I don't like it. If this was a permanent thing I wouldn't complain but the fact that Steam wants people to buy cards like crazy or emoticon craft their own items to make gems is just a way to get people to spend more money than they are going to during the winter sale. And since you are only auctioning for a game and there is no guarantee that you will win the game seems like a waste of time and money to me.

I just bought 100 Sack of Gems for 3 cents each.Lel.Not sure if I should use them or sell them for profit later on.

Edit: Even buying and selling Booster Packs would grant me more than 20$ right now.But you can get 1 booster from each game every day, I'll try to sell as many as I can ^^