New Steam Community Market feature: Buy Orders

I will never use it, but it if fucks the bots up and levels the market, then let em rip.

Really cool idea, and just in time for summer sale!

Not going to use it.

An interesting concept.

I dont buy from the community market through so I dont feel it would be useful to me, but I can see it being useful to others.

Reading the description, IMO it's an Official Bot from Steam... Isn't it?

I like it. Helps make it a level field for everyone, and yeah, hopefully it kills bots. I'd miss the feeling of ninja-ing an item that is selling for way less than it should, though. :3

they will just make new bots that exploit it

It says only Half-Life 2 trading cards are available for testing phase. Is that... Is that a sign???!?!??!

Very good for CS GO traders. I'll probably use it quite a lot.

Items from the market will become much more expensive with this feature. If you are late to the party you'll never get a specific item for even a relatively cheap price since you have to outbid the one million people that placed orders already. It's good for Valve and people who sell items, but bad for people who buy items. Good thing I rarely ever bought something from the market.

If you want to buy something from the market for a cheap price you better do it now.

This is awesome. It also makes it clearer the spread of prices or market, rather than having to click through multiple pages. It means instant gratification for selling cards - you can sell at the highest buy price or gamble on the market going up, taking on some risk.

Finally!
Bye bye marketplace bots

Meh more bots, this time legit bots, yea how awesome is that... bleh

I'm a huge fan, as this is a great time/money saver when buying items and insures rapid sales whenever you want for selling items. The only people that it is bad for are people who already have bots - and I find it hard to care about that, since they're just cutting out gains for the rest of us.

Even those who might have been willing to constantly scan market for undervalued items would often be beaten to it by a bot if it was truly a good value - now you can just put a buy order in and save a whole bunch of time of refreshing a bunch of pages every hour (and the collective time saved is probably much more than worth the extra penny or two you might have to put a buy order in for, considering all the time it takes before you happen across a lucky mispriced item just above what bots are buying for).

Like a stock exchange for steam items? now we only need lower fees

As this feature is already in effect for half life 2. Is there already any change on the market ?

Well, now everyone can be a bot, which is actually nice, as it evens the playing field. Also, this will probably keep prices high for both sellers and buyers, which basically means more profit for Valve.

Bye, bye, having to stalk the market for a slightly cheaper price for that one final card I need to finish a set. You will not be missed.
Now let's see how it will actually affect prices in general...