How does the Steam 'Community Market' work?
August 4, 2019 9:05 AM Subscribe
I played TF2 a lot in the years before it went F2P, and continued a bit through its transition to lootbox complexity I can't understand anymore.
Consequently, I have a few hundred items in my inventory I don't ever intend to use and would like to liquidate them. How do I do this easily and get a fair value?
Most of them estimate the value as < 10 cents, but there are a couple crates that are significantly more. Total value is likely < $100 unless a crate revealed an ultra rare item. I read an article about the market tanking last week due to some broken update. For the sake of these questions, assume that returns to normal.
Questions:
Most of them estimate the value as < 10 cents, but there are a couple crates that are significantly more. Total value is likely < $100 unless a crate revealed an ultra rare item. I read an article about the market tanking last week due to some broken update. For the sake of these questions, assume that returns to normal.
Questions:
- Is there a way to view the total estimated value of my items in one place? clicking around in steam is painfully slow and cumbersome.
- Is there a way to sell everything with one click? I'd accept that this might not get me the highest price. I am not willing to sell my account.
- Does it make sense to open crates and sell after? or should I assume that the market correctly prices the expected value? I don't currently own any keys
- Can I get any money for 'tradeable' but 'not marketable' items?
I recently cleared out all of my trading cards and low value items and made around $100 for half an hour of work. The actual selling process is kind of a pain, you'll need to download and setup the Steam mobile app with two factor auth, then you sell via steam or web and approve via mobile app. I strongly recommend the Steam Inventory Helper chrome extension for selling all your < $1 items, it allows you to quickly sell an item at the current market value at around 10x the speed of doing it individually in the steam client. You'll still need to open up your mobile app to approve the sale, the app kinda sucks and will only let you approve 10 at a time before you need to refresh the pending list.
The helper will show you the value of all items on the market so you can decide to sell expensive items at whatever price you think they're worth, I didn't bother so always just used the market price. Some of my cards never sold at all because they were for obscure games so I ground them up into gems to raise my imaginary level that doesn't do anything. "Tradeable but not marketable" items can be sold, but you'll have to go on sketchy steam trading forums so I didn't bother
posted by JZig at 9:22 PM on August 4, 2019
The helper will show you the value of all items on the market so you can decide to sell expensive items at whatever price you think they're worth, I didn't bother so always just used the market price. Some of my cards never sold at all because they were for obscure games so I ground them up into gems to raise my imaginary level that doesn't do anything. "Tradeable but not marketable" items can be sold, but you'll have to go on sketchy steam trading forums so I didn't bother
posted by JZig at 9:22 PM on August 4, 2019
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posted by pharm at 9:51 AM on August 4, 2019