🧠Buying CSGO Skins for Thousands? Yeah, That’s Real Smart

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Let’s all just take a moment and really appreciate the brilliance of spending thousands of dollars on virtual skins. Ah, yes, because nothing says 'wise investment' quite like blowing your hard-earned cash on pixels. The best part? You’re not even getting something real. You can’t touch it, you can’t use it for anything outside of a game. It’s not an asset, it’s a glorified JPEG that you can flex on people who probably don’t care.

But hey, you’re cool, right? I mean, who wouldn’t want to show off their expensive digital skins as if it somehow makes them an expert in financial decisions? A true ‘prestige’ move—spend a fortune on a skin that’s overpriced no matter where you look. Real genius-level thinking, right?

Spoiler alert: Spending hundreds or thousands on virtual gun skins is the epitome of bad choices. Sure, if it brings you joy, go ahead—but let’s not pretend it’s a smart use of money. You’re not investing, you’re indulging in the kind of nonsense that makes you the target of everyone who can think past their nose.

[Name Jev]

Some people prefer buying skins over crypto for example because with skins u can play ingame, i can't do that with my georgefloydAI solana coins, those are stuck on the blockchain and same goes for my Nvidia stocks..

[LoudBoi]

I made money by investing into cs2 skins. Also I got the spare change so

[Name Jev]

Originally posted by LoudBoi:

I made money by investing into cs2 skins. Also I got the spare change so

People bought litterall houses / AMG'S Spiders & MacLarens, started their companys, moved to dubai to become citizen and cash trade cs2 skins, man this game opend so many doors for so many people, but u had to be there, same with the 1% memecoins, if u hit it once.. ur in.. and same happend to cs in 2012, people that bought bravo cases for 0.03 cent and sold for 75usd +++ etc etc. People moved mountains with their cash influx.

[Name Jev]

This may get deleted but if i had to give my 2 cent to someone that would be ready to spend thousands in 2025 on cs2, get the armory stuff, 1 or 2 top3 patterns heat treated, get a few m4a1s fades, get discontinued stickers pre 2015!, basically the older the better. And u will see, it's a litterall money printer, yesyes ofcourse nowhere near 2012 /2015 levels of pump crazy, but if ur dedicated u won't be disapointed with cs2,

[Lazlow666]

I see that you most be new to the whole thing. At least these skins you can trade with others, unlike other games where you buy skins and it's locked to your account.

[A1mdoktor]

buying a 1000$ cs skin is cheaper than buying a 20$ fortnite skin

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Originally posted by A1mdoktor:

buying a 1000$ cs skin is cheaper than buying a 20$ fortnite skin

Oh, absolutely! Because nothing screams financial genius like spending $1,000 on a virtual knife. Yes, clearly the superior move compared to a $20 Fortnite skin. Forget logic-why buy dinner for a month when you can blow it all on overpriced pixels? Bravo, Einstein, truly groundbreaking economics at play here!

[♛⁧Schultheiß]

It's sad that the greater fool theory works. But you can't really call people dumb for making 10x returns on their investments.

[A1mdoktor]

Originally posted by Stewart Gilligan:

Originally posted by A1mdoktor:

buying a 1000$ cs skin is cheaper than buying a 20$ fortnite skin

Oh, absolutely! Because nothing screams financial genius like spending $1,000 on a virtual knife. Yes, clearly the superior move compared to a $20 Fortnite skin. Forget logic-why buy dinner for a month when you can blow it all on overpriced pixels? Bravo, Einstein, truly groundbreaking economics at play here!

the thing is, a 1000$ cs skin is worth 1000$ while a 20$ fortnite skin is worth 0$

[𝔾𝔸𝕀𝕁𝕀ℕ]

Try to tell the same thing to who buy 75€ COD + 10 battle pass + avg 20€ bundle and then after 1 year u got a new COD
Love it

[Rakerovka]

It's immediately obvious that you don't understand skins, don't talk about what you don't understand.

[someone]

Originally posted by A1mdoktor:

buying a 1000$ cs skin is cheaper than buying a 20$ fortnite skin

Yeah, that's true—CS skins hold value because we can trade and sell them on the community market. But I want to share something that made me a bit skeptical. A while ago, I listed a few trading cards from a decently popular game (with 5k-14k daily active players) on the market. I priced them lower than the average, yet they never got sold, even after months. Meanwhile, the same cards priced higher were getting sold.

This makes me wonder: if items worth $0.06 can't find buyers, how many people are actually buying $1,000 skins like knives? Sure, there might be buyers, but I imagine finding them isn't exactly easy, unless you go to some phishy third-party website that wants to scam you.

Also, even if it gets traded, the money is always on Steam, you know? Unless, of course, you go to those phishy third-party websites that want to scam you, which, as far as I know, is against the Steam guidelines

[Valerie]

Originally posted by BOBER:

Originally posted by LoudBoi:

I made money by investing into cs2 skins. Also I got the spare change so

People bought litterall houses / AMG'S Spiders & MacLarens, started their companys, moved to dubai to become citizen and cash trade cs2 skins, man this game opend so many doors for so many people, but u had to be there, same with the 1% memecoins, if u hit it once.. ur in.. and same happend to cs in 2012, people that bought bravo cases for 0.03 cent and sold for 75usd +++ etc etc. People moved mountains with their cash influx.

-And what did you do in comparison to all that without buying knives?

[WTHELLY]

Originally posted by Stewart Gilligan:

Let’s all just take a moment and really appreciate the brilliance of spending thousands of dollars on virtual skins. Ah, yes, because nothing says 'wise investment' quite like blowing your hard-earned cash on pixels. The best part? You’re not even getting something real. You can’t touch it, you can’t use it for anything outside of a game. It’s not an asset, it’s a glorified JPEG that you can flex on people who probably don’t care.

But hey, you’re cool, right? I mean, who wouldn’t want to show off their expensive digital skins as if it somehow makes them an expert in financial decisions? A true ‘prestige’ move—spend a fortune on a skin that’s overpriced no matter where you look. Real genius-level thinking, right?

Spoiler alert: Spending hundreds or thousands on virtual gun skins is the epitome of bad choices. Sure, if it brings you joy, go ahead—but let’s not pretend it’s a smart use of money. You’re not investing, you’re indulging in the kind of nonsense that makes you the target of everyone who can think past their nose.

ur jealous that u aint got no skins XD

[Mr. Nice Guy]

A set of tires is 2k, a house is 300k, my software licenses are more than 10k a year, not seeing how spending a few thousand on skins is a big deal. It’s how I support the game. It’s all relative anyways, maybe you need to develop your skill set to make yourself more valuable to an employer or start your own business.