any way to trade steam points for community items?

[Dandelion]

TLDR got like 110000 steam points that i'll never use cause i prefer using by personal stuff for my (private) profile
i do not care about browsing the forums a lot to give awards to people i agree with or to trolls, so for me these points got no use, can't even use them for the (rather worthless) trading card booster packs or anything else

someone did tell me that there's sites you can apparently trade them on but i haven't found any at all

guess this is more or less looking if there's anyone that would trade community items for steam points/awards lol

[Tobirama]

Yeah, it's just like for reputation badge.
To made your Profile looks better

[Dandelion]

Originally posted by Frank Honey:

Yeah, it's just like for reputation badge.
To made your Profile looks better

i know and i won't use them, so i am kinda trying to find a way to get something i wanna use out of them, idk maybe some CS skins or dota items to sell or whatever but the points are useless to me and they are only getting more

tbh i think they should at least be an alternative to gems for trading card booster packs, not like valve will lose anything from that tbf, trading cards are only sold and bought by the community and they still got their 20% share on them or whatever it was

[J4MESOX4D]

You can't get real money items in return for play money. It would either devalue market items or Valve would have to pay out of their own pockets.

Steam points are generated out of thin air whereas wallet funds always stem from a real cash injection so either Valve has to pay the conversion or items value will slide by monopoly money used to obtain real money items into the trading domain.

Sadly they are tied to your account and can only be used to customise the profile or to award community aspects.

[Tobirama]

Originally posted by Jax Dandelion A Silly Boykisser:

Originally posted by Frank Honey:

Yeah, it's just like for reputation badge.
To made your Profile looks better

i know and i won't use them, so i am kinda trying to find a way to get something i wanna use out of them, idk maybe some CS skins or dota items to sell or whatever but the points are useless to me and they are only getting more

tbh i think they should at least be an alternative to gems for trading card booster packs, not like valve will lose anything from that tbf, trading cards are only sold and bought by the community and they still got their 20% share on them or whatever it was

Yeah, it is what it is
Nothing we can do about that

[Dandelion]

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:

You can't get real money items in return for play money. It would either devalue market items or Valve would have to pay out of their own pockets.

Steam points are generated out of thin air whereas wallet funds always stem from a real cash injection so either Valve has to pay the conversion or items value will slide by monopoly money used to obtain real money items into the trading domain.

Sadly they are tied to your account and can only be used to customise the profile or to award community aspects.

Tbf tho technically speaking wallet money isn’t ’real Money‘ either
As once the money is in the steam wallet it can not be taken out of steam at all

[Nx Machina]

Originally posted by Jax Dandelion A Silly Boykisser:

Tbf tho technically speaking wallet money isn’t ’real Money‘ either
As once the money is in the steam wallet it can not be taken out of steam at all

Wallet is real money because it has a currency symbol such as £ and in turn is stored as credit hence why it is not transferable.

And finally "community items" have a "monetary value", Steam points do not because you are not buying them.

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Jax Dandelion A Silly Boykisser:

Tbf tho technically speaking wallet money isn’t ’real Money‘ either
As once the money is in the steam wallet it can not be taken out of steam at all

As a slight technicality, the IRS absolutely considers steam wallet to be 'real' money earned regardless if it has limited use cases. Which is why steam has to report earnings over a certain amount to the IRS

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by Jax Dandelion A Silly Boykisser:

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:

You can't get real money items in return for play money. It would either devalue market items or Valve would have to pay out of their own pockets.

Steam points are generated out of thin air whereas wallet funds always stem from a real cash injection so either Valve has to pay the conversion or items value will slide by monopoly money used to obtain real money items into the trading domain.

Sadly they are tied to your account and can only be used to customise the profile or to award community aspects.

Tbf tho technically speaking wallet money isn’t ’real Money‘ either
As once the money is in the steam wallet it can not be taken out of steam at all

Wallet money is indeed real money as are gift cards. Its a form of debt companies report as part of their accounting

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by Jax Dandelion A Silly Boykisser:

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:

You can't get real money items in return for play money. It would either devalue market items or Valve would have to pay out of their own pockets.

Steam points are generated out of thin air whereas wallet funds always stem from a real cash injection so either Valve has to pay the conversion or items value will slide by monopoly money used to obtain real money items into the trading domain.

Sadly they are tied to your account and can only be used to customise the profile or to award community aspects.

Tbf tho technically speaking wallet money isn’t ’real Money‘ either
As once the money is in the steam wallet it can not be taken out of steam at all

Yes but it comes from a real money source and if you buy a game then real money is paid to the developers and if you buy an item, real money is paid to Valve. Steam Points aren't any form of currency and are created out of nothing.

People have been asking to directly transfer Steam points into vouchers for instance but this isn't possible because let's say you buy a load of AAA games and store points to earn £10 off your next purchase and then buy a £10 indie game. Who pays the tenner and where does it come from if Steam points have zero value? Valve would have to subsidise it out of their pocket and if every active user managed to earn one voucher, it would cost them £1bn.

So this is why Steam points are consigned within the points shop which offers no real money purchases.

[Dandelion]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Originally posted by Jax Dandelion A Silly Boykisser:

Tbf tho technically speaking wallet money isn’t ’real Money‘ either
As once the money is in the steam wallet it can not be taken out of steam at all

As a slight technicality, the IRS absolutely considers steam wallet to be 'real' money earned regardless if it has limited use cases. Which is why steam has to report earnings over a certain amount to the IRS

I am European I don’t use IRS
Also if it counts for your taxes then it is outright criminal to bind that money to steam with no official way of getting it out imho

[Nx Machina]

Originally posted by Jax Dandelion A Silly Boykisser:

I am European I don’t use IRS
Also if it counts for your taxes then it is outright criminal to bind that money to steam with no official way of getting it out imho

Valve (Steam) is not a bank.

As for taxes (vat) the EU gets lt's slice when you confirm at checkout.

[Kage Goomba]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Originally posted by Jax Dandelion A Silly Boykisser:

Tbf tho technically speaking wallet money isn’t ’real Money‘ either
As once the money is in the steam wallet it can not be taken out of steam at all

As a slight technicality, the IRS absolutely considers steam wallet to be 'real' money earned regardless if it has limited use cases. Which is why steam has to report earnings over a certain amount to the IRS

You're presuming said user is in the States. He may be outside the IRS's jurisdiction lol

[matt]

You can buy a seasonal badge in the points store. Each level costs 1000 points and gives 100 xp. To buy out the badge for an entire season, it'd cost 40K points and give you 4K xp. So, after three seasons, you could empty your points and get 12K xp. That'd almost take you up to level 70 and give you a better chance of getting a booster pack. You could then do whatever you want with the booster packs, such as trading them away or go up more levels.

But, no, you can't buy stuff with Steam points. And if you go to a third-party site that tells you differently, you're probably just going to get scammed. At least read a "how to avoid common Steam scams" guide if you intend on going that route.