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My best profit so far was buying a :compy: emoticon for $1 and selling it for $31 (check it o ut here) - what's been your best moment on the market so far?

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darkdude8

wow, nice one :)

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godprobe

Sold a TF2 crate for $87.

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shockedfrog

Was there anything special about the crate?

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godprobe

It was one of the rare Salvaged type, yeah. :)

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Muskottah

What? Oh man, that's one pricey dino.
I guess my best profit was from a Alyx Vance foil - little less than 10€ with the effort of selling.

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BongoGT

Bought a game for 6$ and sold the cards for about 12$, not great but best I've done so far.

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Jams

Wow, how'd you manage to do that? o_o

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shockedfrog

At the time there were only two others on the market, both at around $40, and the very next day the game went on a 75% sale so its cards and items dropped in value very quickly. I was very lucky to sell it in that gap. :)

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Jams

Nice. I was the first to have a foil card for Monster Loves You, but I wasn't able to sell it at a higher price. ; ~ ;

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shockedfrog

I saw one foil for Runner 2 which sold for $230 and a few other good sellers, but mostly the foil market isn't all that great. :/

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Jams

WHAT. NO WAY. Who buys these foils?! I need to find like... foil collectors. lol

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ArmadX

What?????? I don't believe you, no-one would pay $230 for a foil when everyone knows they drop in price so quickly

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Bassnium

They used to be extremely valuable

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ArmadX

Sure, but like $10 or $20 valuable, not $230

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Bassnium

I dunno. Why does Mattie buy Unusual Team Captains for $1500?

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ArmadX

That's different, they don't decrease to a thousandth of their price after a couple of days

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FakeNameOF

Well I'll have you know that I used up only a few dollars to complete my Portal 2 card set, only to get some useless guff, and I only cried for 20 minutes. :3

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AgeOfArmageddon

Sold a Strange Festive Knife for $75 a few months ago. Bought Bioshock Infinite with the money :P

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BearHugger

ive made £25 so far. Got a foil on day 3, managed to sell it for £12

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MagYCko

Bought for around 10 cents each, lvl 0 sandvich, lvl 1 kgb, and lvl 99 jarate (for those who didn't understand, its tf2 stuff that can be worth a lot)

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GamesPlaying

I have some good news. I have seen prices of cards going back up again, since the flood yesterday.

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FrozenEagle

profits from the market total at $56.54 for me

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BananaNation

Probably made around $120 or so in total. I got one of the first series #50 crates which I sold for quite a bunch.

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warhawkturbo

Gotta revive this. :D I just sold a background for 17€ and I paid only 1.34€ for it.
w00t w00t

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PeasOfCrab

The only thing that I've done was sell a foil card for the Summer Getaway sale right after the end of the sale for 5 bucks. Now they're going down in price again as I thought they would as interest in them decreases - considering that you need an entire set and the other prices were fairly expensive before.

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ACorpse

I picked up a Skyrim Getaway foil towards the end of the sale for $1.15. Saw the panic buying when the market was glitching (not immediately adding new listings, lagging like hell) and listed mine under the assumption that it'd show up an hour or two later. It sold for $5.30, pretty close to the peak from what I can tell.

I still have a few other Getaway foils bought at the same price, will sit on them a little longer. :D

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PeasOfCrab

Hmmm, prices still seem to be on a downward trend for them.

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ACorpse

Yeah I was expecting to sit on them for weeks. The market panic just presented an opportunity for quick cash. :D

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Toca1FTW

Totally ballsed up by hanging on to my foils until SSS, lost maybe £6-10 by not selling straight away.

Probably about £20 up (all gone on games now), which isn't too bad since I still have 100+ cards and crafted to level 20.

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ArmadX

I didn't have any foils xD

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SomethingFancy

Making a 1 cent profit from a key I bought from the Summer Sale...

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Hageshisa

My best moment was selling a common Squidy Thing card for 3€ or so.

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ArmadX

I spent my entire Steam wallet buying up TF2 keys for about €1.40 each just before the SSS ended, now I can resell them for an (admittedly small) profit :D

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Keenzor

I made few bucks on TF2 items, completed few sets of cards, dropped poop, sold it for 3 bucks, bought Trine II and 5x Just Cause, exchanged that for Torchlight II for my friend. Still got 0.50e left, which I am gonna use to complete more badges.

And ye, if I sold the Summer Sale cards the morning of the sale, which I intended, I could have made almost 15 bucks. ^^

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hookahs

http://i.imgur.com/eL9PSel.jpg

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Tzell

$31 for a friggin emoticon? are you kidding me? WTF STEAM MARKET

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