Market fees not adding up on on cards and other items. HELP!

[SteveZee]

I could be wrong, but the card fees dont seem to be adding up. I haven't found anything on the subject aside from the 5% flat fee charged for selling cards. But im being charged .02 cents for all cards up, not the minimum of .01 cent which is what id get rounding up if i took 5% of of most low priced .05 cent cards. Am i missing something here? Why is steam taking more than it says it should?

Try it. Sell a card for .01 and see what you get. I get -0.01, which means i owe them a penny? Something isn't right.

[Cathulhu]

It's up to 5%, with a minimum of 1 Cent that goes to Valve and another Cent that goes to the developer/publisher of the game the item belongs to.
So it's a minimum of 2 cents and up to 5% of the item's price.

The minimum price you can set is 3 Cent. Anything less will cause an error.

[SteveZee]

Ok, thats stupid, but fine.

[Cathulhu]

Not really stupid, it's how it simply works. That way everyone makes a tiny profit. And since everyone has to follow those rules, equal and fair treatment is guaranteed.
How is that stupid?

[SteveZee]

How it works doesn't mean it isn't stupid. The devs shouldn't get a penny for me selling what amounts to a picture. They dont need a penny for a card being sold. They give you a card for free, then want money for selling it. LMFAO. I have no problem with giving them higher amounts if the price is higher, but 1 penny for what amounts to a small number of cards wont give you anything in terms of profit. Its negligible.

Everyone makes a profit? the devs all ready make a profit. They dont need more money from such a small transaction.

Equal and fair treatment is irrelevant. Thats got nothing to do with it.

[Cathulhu]

The devs made that picture. It's their work and they are entitled to a share. If they didn't, no one would take the time to create cards, emoticons, backgrounds et cetera.
Artists need to be paid too, you know?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Fox and Cathulhu told you who gets what.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/community_market/discussions/0/1742229167193890483/

[SteveZee]

Cathulhu eredeti hozzászólása:

The devs made that picture. It's their work and they are entitled to a share. If they didn't, no one would take the time to create cards, emoticons, backgrounds et cetera.
Artists need to be paid too, you know?

the devs made the game, the picture is free. It makes no sense they need money for something like that. Its their work isn't a good enough excuse. 1 penny per card is negligible profit. Its stupid. LMAO. YOu think cards take time to produce per game? They take art being produced anyways and put in a little picture. You're naive.

Emoticons are easy to produce. Backgrounds. All of that can easily be produced and most devs all ready have people to do that kind of thing anyways.

ARtists are paid! What is wrong with you dude.

[SteveZee]

cSg|mc-Hotsauce eredeti hozzászólása:

Fox and Cathulhu told you who gets what.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/community_market/discussions/0/1742229167193890483/

:qr:

Not really the point at this point. I know why steam charges 0.02 to trade, but i dont understand why. Its stupid.

But its the way it is. Im not arguing that it isn't, only that it shouldn't be.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Don't pay the creator? Are you that mad because you didn't get $0.01.

[SteveZee]

cSg|mc-Hotsauce eredeti hozzászólása:

Don't pay the creator? Are you that mad because you didn't get $0.01.

:qr:

who is the creator? The devs? Steam? community? IF its the devs, the creators are all ready paid. Steam? They are all ready paid by working for steam.

IF someone in the community creates the card, then they get 1 penny per card traded? LMAO. So someone is getting overpaid by getting 1 penny for every single card reproduced on the stea, market. you're silly. Hed be a millionaire. The devs wouldn't allow that.

Look dude. I have no problem losing more for cosmetics because it makes sense, but not little game pictures. And for 1 penny, its absurd.

ARe you mad because i point out the stupidity?

[Cathulhu]

XorZed eredeti hozzászólása:

cSg|mc-Hotsauce eredeti hozzászólása:

Don't pay the creator? Are you that mad because you didn't get $0.01.

:qr:

who is the creator? The devs? Steam? community? IF its the devs, the creators are all ready paid. Steam? They are all ready paid by working for steam.

It's the developers of the game. And how are they already paid? Please explain.

[SteveZee]

"Since their introduction in 2013, Steam Trading Card sets have been integrated into over 7,000 games.[1] The developer revenue gained through trading card sales has attracted undesirable attention from "asset flippers"; developers who release low-quality games onto Steam solely to profit from their trading cards. In a series of blog posts, Valve condemned this behavior, calling such games "fake games", and claimed that trading card farming was responsible for damaging the Steam storefront"

Exactly why you shouldn't be doing it.

[SteveZee]

Cathulhu eredeti hozzászólása:

XorZed eredeti hozzászólása:

who is the creator? The devs? Steam? community? IF its the devs, the creators are all ready paid. Steam? They are all ready paid by working for steam.

It's the developers of the game. And how are they already paid? Please explain.

The devs get revenue from selling games. Not from selling trading cards. It incentivizes the wrong thing. Produce crap games, get money from trading cards. You dont seem to get it.

"Since their introduction in 2013, Steam Trading Card sets have been integrated into over 7,000 games.[1] The developer revenue gained through trading card sales has attracted undesirable attention from "asset flippers"; developers who release low-quality games onto Steam solely to profit from their trading cards. In a series of blog posts, Valve condemned this behavior, calling such games "fake games", and claimed that trading card farming was responsible for damaging the Steam storefront"

[Cathulhu]

Which is why Valve already put countermeasures in place to catch those asset flippers and fake games. Those countermeasures are working fine and the fakegames are pretty much extinct now.

[SteveZee]

Cathulhu eredeti hozzászólása:

Which is why Valve already put countermeasures in place to catch those asset flippers and fake games. Those countermeasures are working fine and the fakegames are pretty much extinct now.

LOL fake games are pretty much all that's on steam now. Garbage, low cost, cash grabs.

Nope....didn't work. If your game is so bad that it requires me to pay .01 cents to sell a card, you got bigger problems and shouldn't be in business. LMAO.