The Steam Holiday Auction

there is a glitch when you buy a sack of gems, when buy 1 you get 2, when buy 2 you get 4 and so on.....
thats why the price of gems is 50 IDR (0.004USD) in the market
they using the glitch to produce hundred thousand sack and toss it back in the market

Looks like the gems are being returned now (they are currently disappearing and reappearing in the inventory). The Auction page itself still has "closed" notice though.

Guys help, how i convert my items in gems?

Gabe probably spit a chicken wing out of his mouth when he saw what was going on. Valve was crapping on their own markets' value. lol It's to their benefit too that cards stay at a decent price.

So, I'm the only one with gems now? Sweet 56 games are mine. mawahahahah

Do you remember snow globes? That were crafting items for previous winter sale. So, one week before summer sale they appeared on market again and I thought that these globes will be turned into summer sale crafting cards and I bought around 600 globes. And guess that happened after? Yes, they all disappeared next day. Steam support said that it was a bug, they were very sorry but you will not receive any refund. That's a sad story. Hope you, guys, will be more lucky :p

Funny how one of the Popular New Releases on Steam front page is...

It's a Wipe!

:)

thanks op! haven´t compared the Prices but this is realy bad. i think valve hasn´t thought about it enough

Well, I've still got my gems and the cards from the booster pack. At the moment, I'm about $0.30 and 183k gems ahead. I managed to buy one last stack of 60k gems right before it got shut down.

I made a few boosters and sold the cards for like 6 bucks. I got a foil who's at like 30 dollahs but I don't think somebody would buy it.

yeah, what a clusterf*ck... I had to go to work in the evening, managed to put an order for those gems before living. Now my wallet is lighter for some $$, I have gem sacks in inventory - and nothing to do with them. I don't care much about auction (though getting additional badge would be nice), but I can't even find now how to convert those gems into boosters. That's disabled too atm? Or what?

I wonder if Steam Cards Exchange, Tremor Games or any other sites that allow people to trade in cards took a big hit? If they weren't able to adjust the trade in prices in time, people could have traded stuff in for more than they cost to buy on the market or create with £/$/€0.03 sacks. I think the card exchange has an automated system of sorts to decide the trade-in value, but I don't know how fast that would have reacted and I don't know about other sites at all.

Every year I feel it gets worse and worse. More shady things that are closer and closer to a sam. I don't like it.

From where I'm sitting, none of this happened. People complain about trading card prices being extremely low. I don't see any changes. Gems are being stolen, taken away. I didn't even know what these gems were.
That's what 8 hours of sleep will do for a man, right.

Anybody knows how we can get a refund ? I've wasted around 15€ in sacks and backgrounds for that stupid event

I hope the even will be back in around 55 minutes :C

Wtf is this? I am too old for this shit

There's an update btw! http://steamcommunity.com/auction

The Auction will return shortly!

We apologize for the interruption. The yeti has been contaminated. We had an issue with Gems that means we need to reset and start again.

-All gems created by you will be returned to your inventory.

-All gems purchased by the Community Market will be reimbursed.

-All auction bids has been cancelled and the auction will be reset.

-Trades involving gems will be investigated on a case-by-case basis.

Steam Auction is up!

Now that it's back to normal, I wonder which game has highest gem per background/emotion at very cheap price?

So can anyone bother to explain me whats up with those gems ? Except getting cards ?

Edit: Just saw FAQ damn im blind

Can you still trade sacks of gems?

I have a question regarding:

=> Additionally, anyone who traded away items in exchange for Steam Gems on the first day of bidding will receive a copy of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in their Inventory.

Correct me when Im wrong, I just trade 1 emoticon or background for a gem or whatever and get a free copy? Is it over?
When does the offer end? First day of bidding, until 15 Dec or what?

EDIT: CS:GO is second place on bidding list? doesnt make sense unless you need an extra copy?

NOOB QUESTION: Do you get something (holiday trading cards, badges. etc.) for buying games during the winter sale?

i have 61 cards in my inventory, i don't wanna bid and don't have enough money to spent in this sale (i'm so sad for this ç_ç). what should i do?