The other day I was selling some trading cards and I wondered: how is everyone else selling theirs?
Do you have a winning strategy that you want to share?

I once used to set a medium-high price and wait, but then I grew tired of having loads of rotting listings in the community market and started selling them instantly to the highest bidder. Heh, patience is not one of my virtues.

Mandatory giveaway of a game with decent-priced cards: Higurashi When They Cry

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How do you sell your Steam trading cards?

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Set a high price, leave 'em in the market forever
Set a price just above the starting price, hoping someone buys them
Set a price equal or just below the starting price, wait for a while
Check the requests for that card, sell it instantly to the "highest bidder"
Other, I'll tell you in the comments
I'm just here for the giveaway
Alpacas are my favorite animal ever (really? Mine too!!)

I see the current price and set it or a cent or two higher than the lowest bid or a cent under. If there are 4000 cards available for 0.07, I'll price it at 0.06 'cause I'm not going to sell one for ages :p

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Sell them at the market highest price at 9AM

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steamcardexchange.net - recommend this

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It depends. I check their value on market and then decide. For example if card is worth 7 cents I check ammounts on every price.

If it's like that:

7 cents - 2 cards
8 cents - 6 cards
9 cents - 40 cards
10 cents - 300 cards
and so on

I will probalby go with 10 cents, unless I want to buy something else and I actually need only few cents, then I will go with 9.

If it's like:

7 cents - 400 cards
8 cents - 500 cards
and so on

I will go with 7 cents.

Also, I check my listings from time to time to know how my prices correspond with current market situation, and sometimes I change them, if cards are in my invetory for to long.

I will also use the occasion to complain of people who set really low prices just to sell cards ASAP. It destroys the market, if we all would stay at some lowest point, people would eventually buy them anyway (well, probably not when they would be really expensive, but I hope you all know what I mean). But no, there is a race for the lowest prices, especially after game was bundled.

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I sell cards, backgrounds and emotes at lowest current price. If they are still unsold in 6 months or so, I would reduce their price to be 1 cent lower than lowest.

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It depends on each individual card. How many buyers, how many sellers, number of sellers per each price, history of sales,... I just look at everything and decide what is the optimum price I should set for that card. I NEVER lower the lowest price, that is just stupid. I do call the lowest price when that is the optimum price, but I will never go under it, because, like I already said, it's just stupid to do that.
Here and there I might make a mistake and the card does not sell and I have to lower the price a bit, but mostly I choose the right one.

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I usually set them for the current lowest price.

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And a related question - what do you do if you are late to a bundle and the prices of cards have already crashed? Do you sell to the highest bidder (for what is at this stage a few cents), or do you set higher prices expecting that the prices will eventually pick up again?

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Personally, if the prices crashed real bad I set a higher price hoping they will go up again.
Takes a while though...

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