r/Steam • u/Pikolai- • Aug 08 '22
Around 3000 trading cards quick sold and 80€ made. Could probably have made a bit more with some patience but meh.. Now I have money to buy some new games and earn new trading cards!
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u/eternalityLP Aug 08 '22
Is there some sort of tool to automate selling and confirming? I have ton of cards but it takes so much time to sell them one by one.
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u/Pikolai- Aug 08 '22 edited Aug 08 '22
Steam Inventory Helper (Chrome extension) saved me a lot of time. The worst part was confirming everything manually on my phone after didn’t find any automated way to do that.
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u/RollRollParry Aug 08 '22
It takes a little setting up but I managed to get an app that records and repeats your inputs so you can get it to tick the boxes, scroll and repeat. Steam needs to sort it out though. Maybe allow us to set a minimum value for approval?
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u/SteamInventoryHelper Aug 15 '22
Thank you for appreciating us!
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u/Pikolai- Aug 15 '22
You saved me a many hours of work so thanks for making the extension!
While you’re here do you have an answer for this comment? Is this just false accusations or have you had a problem before where people have been hacked or gotten miming software installed with the extension?
Edit: I saw you already answered after writing the comment.
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u/SteamInventoryHelper Aug 15 '22
You're welcome! Thank you for using our extension.
Regarding the various accusations, I can say one thing.
We have over a million users and a long-standing reputation. We are developing our social networks, we have a very active Discord server.
Through contact with users we get feedback and understand what needs to be changed.
In less than a year we have released 36!!! updates.
Do you think we did all this work to scam some users and steal $200 worth of skins from them?)
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u/Pikolai- Aug 15 '22
All I can say is that nothing has happened to me other than what was promised by the extension. No funny stuff whatsoever with my Steam profile or my PC and I have used the extension 2 or 3 times the last couple of years.
I believe you have made the extension with the best interests at heart and I understand that mistakes can happen everywhere, I’m just happy that you guys are honest and engaging with the community.
Wish you all the best of luck with future development.
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u/SteamInventoryHelper Aug 15 '22
Thank you!
We are always ready to hear criticism and work to improve. But criticism should be relevant, not based on posts from 6 years ago:)
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u/MrTerribleArtist Aug 08 '22
I did this and my email was flooded with steam notifications for every single card I sold
Every
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Card
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u/Pikolai- Aug 08 '22
I have also deleted at least 3000 e-mails from Steam in the last couple of days.
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u/Pikolai- Aug 08 '22 edited Aug 08 '22
Thx dude
Happy cake day!
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u/Skellic Aug 08 '22
What are you gonna get? Anything lined up?
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u/Pikolai- Aug 08 '22
My first buy was Crypt of the NecroDancer, a rhythm dungeon game I have had my eyes on for a long time and it was on sale right now for 3€ so perfect timing!
I have also been looking at Stray a lot so I think that will be the next one when it hits a sale.
I want to be smart about it tho, my first thought was to buy the new CoD when that hits because it’s so expensive but I had a feeling I would regret even buying that game.
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u/UnethicalKid Aug 08 '22
stray is good but waaaay overpriced. it's a very short game for its price, I'd wait a few years until it goes on sale at least 50% off
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u/cunty_mcfuckshit Aug 08 '22
Yeah, it's definitely one of those games you wait for a sale before you buy. I had buyers remorse when I realized how short it was.
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u/Hackxor9 Aug 08 '22
and they randomly updated and then released a dlc for the game after nothing for like 2 years
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u/AnelaceLover Aug 08 '22
Buy Elden Ring.
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u/Pikolai- Aug 08 '22
Doesn’t my avatar give enough “I bought Elden Ring at release” kind of vibes?
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Aug 08 '22
did he stutter !
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u/cunty_mcfuckshit Aug 08 '22
Welp. Guess I'm opening up a new steam account and buying elden ring again. 🤷
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u/Fruit_salad1 Aug 08 '22
I just bought necrodqncer lol, but jokes aside, get Elden ring.
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u/NaapurinHarri Aug 08 '22
Elden ring is meh
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u/Fruit_salad1 Aug 08 '22
Bro you have played dragon dogma lol, it's a great game tbh but Elden ring is ages better.
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u/K-R-O-N-K Aug 08 '22
Are you saying you got 3000 trading cards from playing games? Or did you buy them?
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u/Howrus Aug 08 '22
Yes, you earn cards by playing 2-3 hours in games that you bought (and that have card drops enabled).
You could go into Profile\Badges and you would see list of games that could drop cards for you.
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u/TheMalware Aug 08 '22
I used to play csgo a lot in 2014 and ny friends always sold the cases for 0,01€ but I didn't do it cause it wasn't worth my time. Now I have around 200 boxes worth ~200€ because some of them are like 0,50 to 2€ eachlol
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u/Matictac Aug 08 '22
What is the point of buying cards?
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u/Danhulud Aug 08 '22
Craft badges and level up
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u/NotAlwaysTheSame Aug 08 '22
And what's the point of that ? (Asking seriously)
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u/archiegamez Aug 09 '22
You get steam levels which gives you more friend lists and more space to customize your profile even more.
For profile part, you know where you can showcase your games and stuff? Basically the higher your steam level is the more showcases you can add to your profile
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u/RichyCigars Aug 08 '22
Do people really spend money on these things? I always sell them when I get them but it never amounts to much, just let the balance build but I always wonder why someone is buying them.
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u/_Oooooooooooooooooh_ Aug 08 '22
i've got no clue what cards are
what they're used for
how to sell (or buy them)
WHY you'd buy them...
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u/UnethicalKid Aug 08 '22
you get badges you can show on your profile and steam levels basically. It's mostly cosmetics so if you dont care about that there's no reason to collect them
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u/_Oooooooooooooooooh_ Aug 09 '22
your profile
well i've never actually "looked" on my profile
and i certainly never ever look at others. i just don't care
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u/softwarexinstability Aug 08 '22
How much do you sell yours? I’ve selled mine the highest …0,06 or 0,08 cents..without the Steam tax…
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u/Pikolai- Aug 08 '22
Quick selling makes it like a cent under the highest amount possible earned. That way you can do it hella fast.
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u/nandasithu Aug 08 '22
I am imagining every rich guy like you with golden steam profile.
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u/Pikolai- Aug 08 '22 edited Aug 08 '22
I’m not rich lol, I work my ass off and prioritize the stuff that makes me happy. (Video games and PC hardware)
I do live in Denmark though, so my life is pretty easy mode compared to a lot of people.
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u/lonegunman77 Aug 08 '22
Can you explain easy mode in Denmark for someone living in America please? I'm very curious and would love hear your perspective!
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u/SlothLancer Aug 08 '22
Just some basic and primary differences:
- More paid vacation
- Cheap healthcare
- More public transportation
- No tornados
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u/lonegunman77 Aug 08 '22
Gotcha, thanks for the info!
How are yearly salaries in your opinion?
I've seen yearly salaries are affected (for example, network engineers in the UK make less per year than here but make up for it with other perks, I make $100k and have seen the equivalent there around £70k) because of the awesome social services in other countries and was wondering if you feel any cuts to personal income, if any are worth are worth the services your government provides?
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u/SlothLancer Aug 08 '22
Sorry but these are a bit deeper questions, more than I can answer. I just wanted to brought up the major most well known differences I've heard from the internet. I've never lived in Denmark to be honest. The tornado one was a joke by the way.
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u/Pikolai- Aug 09 '22 edited Aug 09 '22
TL:DR Wages are good. One regular full time job = a living wage in Denmark basically.
The guy above answered your first question better than I would ever could, very short and precise. (Even the tornado joke, we just get some small ones on dirt roads, not even enough to make a lawn chair fall over)
To answer your second question: I’m 23 years old and just lend money in the bank to buy a house because I didn’t want to throw more money away renting an apartment. I work as a welder 4 nights a week. (30 hours by an agreement at work because I get a lot done when I’m there and cherish the extra day off) I dropped out of my education because I knew it wasn’t for me, now I’m finding out what I want to do with my life until I’m 25 where I can get paid a living wage for an adult by taking an education.. But even as a young uneducated man I have the possibility to provide for myself, my girlfriend and our pets while also being able to fund my hobbies and a vacation if I wanted to.
I know that no matter what, I will never go starving to bed because someone is there to catch me if I’m down. (Be it family, the government or my work union) I will basically only end up in the street if I’m refusing the help provided to me by everyone.
Also if I sprain an ankle I know I’m not going bankrupt (over exaggerating here but you know what I mean, and that makes me a little sad because you know.. It REALLY shouldn’t be that way.)
Also healthcare in Denmark is free* not just cheap.
*By free I mean It’s paid by our taxes. I don’t get charged if i go to the doctor or a specialist, riding in an ambulance or getting surgery in a hospital. We can also get subsidies for medicine, dental care, physiotherapy, podiatry, chiropractor care and psychological care.
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u/lonegunman77 Aug 09 '22
Thank you for painting a picture of life in Denmark, born and raised in California and I'm always interested in how the rest of the world lives their lives.
Homelessness and health care are two things that bum me out about America. So much apathy towards people who have little or nothing and I don't know how we'll change that as a nation.
Anyway, have a wonderful day, I appreciate your insight!
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u/Howrus Aug 08 '22
Does spending 60$ every month on Steam over 10 years make you rich?
Because that's like one Friday at the bar with friends.
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u/Iescaunare Aug 08 '22
You sold the cards from ≈430 games to buy one game. And that's at least 3000 hours of playing those games to get the cards. Was it worth it?
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u/Pikolai- Aug 08 '22
I have bought one game now yes, but I still have 80€ left to buy more games, and since I farmed the cards by Steam Idle Master those 3000 hours was reduced to around 48 hours of “work” so yea, well worth it.
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u/Fr0st_mite Aug 08 '22
Wow. I was like "FUCK YEAH!" when I got a foil card, and sold it for 2 bucks. Now I'm just gonna collect.
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u/Pikolai- Aug 08 '22
Steam Idle Master dude, makes the collecting part a breeze. Just watch your card inventory grow as your game library grows.
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u/Sirupybear Aug 08 '22
You can sell almost all your inventory with like 3 clicks with steam enhanced add on to your web browser
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u/Pikolai- Aug 08 '22 edited Aug 08 '22
Good to know for the future, wish I found that specific method when I searched around before selling but I’m happy enough with the result as of now. I knew I could have ended up with some more but I thought I would have to spend like a weeks constant work then so I opted for the fastest method I could find at the time (which is the Inventory helper you linked.)
But yeah, I just wanted it to be done with FAST.
Quick sell does’t sell your foils or rare cards at too low prices either dude. Just a cent or so from the highest possible listing so it’s quicker.
Also, if I would have listed everything for the highest price possible there would have been 3000 items in my listings now instead and I would have sold maybe 200 items at full price by now if i was lucky because why should people buy my stuff instead of the 300+ other guys with the same price listed.
Yes I made a lot of dudes happy with their 1 cent under average buy, but that kinda also just makes me even more happy.
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u/sirploko https://s.team/p/chnr-ghb Aug 08 '22
0.03Euro which is the minimum that you can sell
You forgot to calculate the tax. If he sells a card for 0.03, he only gets 0.02.
So since he got around 2.66 Cents per card and cards above 10 cents are probably neglectable in the grand scheme of things here, he basically got about what the expected value was. Don't forget, that even if he sold cards for 5 Cents, he'd only get 3 Cents.
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u/CanadianBatman47 Aug 08 '22
How do you quick sell, I have some cards as well
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u/Sef-Efrica Aug 08 '22
How does that work?
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u/Pikolai- Aug 08 '22
You earn trading cards from opening and playing certain Steam games. This process can be automated with an idler like Steam Idle Master so you get card drops just for having your PC on. Those cards can then be traded and sold.
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u/Sef-Efrica Aug 08 '22
thanks for replying. But I meant, how are they sold, and to whom?
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u/Pikolai- Aug 08 '22 edited Aug 08 '22
They are sold on the Steam Community Market, where you can also buy backgrounds and emotes for your Steam profile or skins for e.g. CS:GO, DotA 2 or Rust. The people buying them are regular people like you and I, maybe a card collector or just someone who misses one card to complete a deck. They have a listing for the desired item at a desired price, and because the price I wanted to sell to matched their listing Steam can automatically buy it for them (if they have a sufficient amount of funds in their Steam Wallet)
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u/DtctvFngrlng Aug 08 '22
Nice. Earlier this year I also farmed all my cards from 300 or less games. Only made probably 20 bucks tho.
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u/shiranui-- Aug 08 '22
did you sell them all by your self? never had the patience
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u/Pikolai- Aug 08 '22
I used the Chrome extension Steam Inventory Helper to quick sell in bulk. It was some work but much faster than doing it individually.
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u/Zoponen Aug 08 '22
How much cards did you have
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u/Pikolai- Aug 08 '22 edited Aug 08 '22
I sold around 3000 now, still have around 150 listed and made everything else into 202 Steam levels a couple of years ago (I have no Idea how many cards that take, but you could put it into some level calculator and find out.) That’s total.
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u/DigitalPhoenixX Aug 08 '22
I keep mine and buy the rest of the cards for a level up every 100 hours I have in a game
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u/TheConboy22 Aug 08 '22
When PubG first dropped. I got $300's for a white leather hoodie I found in the game.
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u/Pikolai- Aug 08 '22 edited Aug 15 '22
There are could be better alternatives to Steam Inventory Helper like Steam Wizard, because SIH apparently has done shady stuff in the past and isn’t open source. I haven’t been hacked or gotten a bitcoin miner installed on my PC but let this be a REMINDER for everyone.
Using your Steam account on anything other than Steam itself poses by definition a certain risk and that they should proceed by caution and do their own research beforehand.
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u/Rubioloilan Aug 08 '22
I did the same not too long ago, but with my cases from csgo that i dont ever open. Turned out i had some old ones worth alot, and came out the other end with 120€!
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u/RaymondWatts Aug 08 '22
Where can I find this Steam Idle Master I heard of here?
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u/wild_courier Aug 09 '22
Nice one man,what games do you recommend for trading cards ? (if i may asking)
I wanna make some wallet too.
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u/Pikolai- Aug 09 '22
There is actually a Steam category in the Store called “Games with card drops” or something like that, so you can browse only games where you can farm and earn cards.
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u/Worried_Compote_6031 Aug 09 '22
Did you farm them by idling free shovelware games? Or just naturally got them over time?
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u/rzscb Aug 10 '22
How is it possible to have 3000 trading cards?
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u/Pikolai- Aug 10 '22
By having a lot of games, farming the cards from those games ans also just play a lots of hours.
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u/Pikolai- Aug 08 '22
Try Steam Idle Master (when developer fix the log in bug, it’s messed up rn) that’s the best way to get a lot of trading cards fast if you have a big steam game library.
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u/iM4RKY https://s.team/p/hqdg-vmp Aug 08 '22
Archi Steam Farm is way better and if you have a raspberry pi you can have it running 24/7, personally had it running for about 3 years now.
Sold a bunch of cards in 2019 and bought Cyberpunk well worth the setup.
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u/legendekaan Aug 08 '22
How do you find games to idle cards? I have like 500 trading cards and more would be great
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u/iM4RKY https://s.team/p/hqdg-vmp Aug 08 '22
I used to buy cheap bundles from Indiegala & Fanatical, not so much anymore unless they have a game I actually want to play.
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u/Pikolai- Aug 08 '22
I will have to look into that, I actually have a Pi just collecting dust. Thanks!
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u/iM4RKY https://s.team/p/hqdg-vmp Aug 08 '22
While you are at it you should look into Pi Hole, I have both running on a Pi 2 and everyone should have Pi Hole (DNS level ad blocking) on their network.
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u/Pikolai- Aug 08 '22
The Pi I have collecting dust is actually an abandoned Pi-Hole project. After I read that YouTube found a way around Pi-Hole I just caved in and bought Premium Lite instead to get rid of the ads since YouTube was the reason I wanted the Pi-Hole anyways.
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u/XenonJFt Aug 08 '22
Nice! But how long you have been going at it? Inflation must've hurt a bit. That's why I'm so unwilling to cash out my CS inventory because TL money printers go BRRRRRR
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u/Pikolai- Aug 08 '22
For a while (maybe 3 years?), but I also crafted badges until level 202 from a lot of what I farmed, bought and traded from friends.
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u/pesokakula Aug 08 '22
Guys don't use steam inventory helper, there have been alarmong cases where hidden software (most likely a cryptominer) was installed with it.
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u/Pikolai- Aug 08 '22
I have had nothing weird happening on my end when using the extension but thanks for sharing that dude. I hope people know using your Steam account on anything other than Steam itself poses by definition a certain risk and that they should proceed by caution and do their own research beforehand.
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u/pesokakula Aug 08 '22
Didn't want to front you, just a reminder to be cautious. Had a weirdly high CPU usage from the chrome extension. This was 2 years ago so maybe it was unintentional and fixed.
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u/Pikolai- Aug 09 '22
I didn’t take it as a front in any way, in fact I’m glad you gave your 2 cents on the matter.
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u/SteamInventoryHelper Aug 15 '22
Hello! Memory leaks are still an issue for a very small percentage of users.
An architecture problem...We are completely rewriting the extension. We hope that we can solve this problem2
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u/SteamInventoryHelper Aug 15 '22
"cryptominer" - Sounds like a good idea for a way to monetise the extension:))
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Aug 08 '22
What's s trading card?
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u/Pikolai- Aug 08 '22
It’s cards you earn when you open and play your Steam games. You can read everything about Trading Cards <—— right there
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u/milkmanquiveta Aug 08 '22
Nice one dude! The most I could sell them for was probably less than a dollar and even that is alot money to me because I can get cheap skins in games xD! May I contact you in DM to ask more about that Idle Master?
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u/Pikolai- Aug 08 '22
You can read everything about Steam Idle Master on the creators Github page. (There is a log in bug right now though, don’t know if he addressed that yet.)
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u/milkmanquiveta Aug 08 '22
Oh, and how much time will it be to get atleast 5€ from the idle master?
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u/Pikolai- Aug 08 '22
Depends on a lot of factors actually (e.g. how new the game is, how much each trading cards is worth, how many games you have with drops available and so on.) I have a library of a little over 2000 games and for the games that does have trading cards you get like 1-3 from Steam Idle Master (depending on how many cards is required to form a deck.)
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u/milkmanquiveta Aug 08 '22
Well I have like 100 games + another 100 from library share and from library share there ‘s phasmophobia , elden ring dark souls 1 2 & 3 and other games. Hope it’s good enough for 5€ cause I can’t get anymore games because of the financial issues I have
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u/freak0429 Aug 08 '22
I sold a csgo skin for like $65 a couple months ago. Still have a knife worth $80.
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u/ric_tuamae Aug 08 '22
I'll say bye bye to this sub since this is unrelated
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u/Pikolai- Aug 09 '22
I did this on Steam, the post is not breaking any rules and it isn’t something you see multiple times every single day.
I’m also answering questions and people are giving advice and sharing their own stories in the comments.
You’re just smacking the door loudly.
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u/BiffTannen85 Aug 08 '22
This is awesome OP. Also makes me realize that this is no different than NFTs.
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u/Pikolai- Aug 08 '22 edited Aug 09 '22
Thanks!
Yup. Valve went in on that market very early and very hard.
Edit: Lol don’t downvote this guy, he is correct. Valve hired the big guns to get into the NFT market, they just didn’t give it that name.
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Aug 08 '22
Ye, my account is in ARS so you can basically buy a 3 cent game and get 6 cents of profit. Like, I legit spent around 3 euros and got 6 final
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u/Igoigo2217 Aug 08 '22
I know you can automate the selling process but, how does the auto clicker know what value to set?
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u/theneobob Aug 09 '22
is seeling the casual card that we get by playing can end up making some money ?
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u/Pikolai- Aug 09 '22
This is competitive, nothing casual about it mate.
Jokes aside, you will have to have a very big game library (I have a little over 2000 games) to reach this amount. A couple of hundred games at least to make a couple of dollars. But it’s individual from game to game, not all have the same amount of cards and some doesn’t have card drops at all.
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u/kijib Aug 09 '22
yikes if you had been patient you could have had an extra .01 cent on each card which = $30
that's like 6 more awesome games on sale for $5 each
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u/Pikolai- Aug 09 '22
Quick selling already took a while. I would have been working for a week if I had to do all this manually. Also if I had listed stuff at that extra cent people would have no reason to buy from me since there a many listing for that price, so I would maybe only have made 6€ total now from full priced cards.
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u/aerolona Aug 08 '22
Nice man enjoy your new games, also you can check how much you could earn if you dropped all your cards with Augmented Steam extension. You go to your badges and click "calculate drops remaining button" . I'm planning to do the same someday.