Trading card sales

[Lost Knight]

When you look at the price history of a card, and it says for example "X amount sold January 28 for $0.03," does that mean they were sold for $0.05? Valve takes $0.02 from small sales like that. Or does it mean they were BOUGHT for $0.03, i.e. the lowest price possible?

This is important for figuring out how to price sales.

[rawWwRrr]

Sold price. So a listing of $0.03 was sold to someone who bought it at $0.03.

[Maria]

Historical prices shown are the price + valve's cut.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Always the purchase price, not the sellers take.

[Leader of the Zakonistians]

You know, I've tried to sell things before. It never works. I can't figure out if I just don't have any high value cards or if people just aren't interested in trading with me. I have plenty of friends and I know some of them participate in trading deals, but never with me. Either way, I'm just surprised people are still trading. I thought that kind of died out a few years ago.

[Leader of the Zakonistians]

Ursprungligen skrivet av rawWwRrr:

Sold price. So a listing of $0.03 was sold to someone who bought it at $0.03.

How does that make sense? You're breaking even. Isn't the point to make a profit?

[rawWwRrr]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Leader of the Zakonistians:

Ursprungligen skrivet av rawWwRrr:

Sold price. So a listing of $0.03 was sold to someone who bought it at $0.03.

How does that make sense? You're breaking even. Isn't the point to make a profit?

I was answering OP's question, not yours.

OP is thinking the historical prices possibly takes into account Steam's cut. It doesn't. Whatever a item sells for, whatever someone bought it for, that's the price of the sale and is captured as part of the historical prices.

[crunchyfrog]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Leader of the Zakonistians:

You know, I've tried to sell things before. It never works. I can't figure out if I just don't have any high value cards or if people just aren't interested in trading with me. I have plenty of friends and I know some of them participate in trading deals, but never with me. Either way, I'm just surprised people are still trading. I thought that kind of died out a few years ago.

Because it doesn't really work like that.

When you put one up for sale, it goes into a pool if you will. If there's tons of others that listed before you at the same price, they're going to sell first.

It has nothing to do with your friends, just how many others are up for sale and if they're selling.

[Lost Knight]

Ursprungligen skrivet av crunchyfrog:

Ursprungligen skrivet av Leader of the Zakonistians:

You know, I've tried to sell things before. It never works. I can't figure out if I just don't have any high value cards or if people just aren't interested in trading with me. I have plenty of friends and I know some of them participate in trading deals, but never with me. Either way, I'm just surprised people are still trading. I thought that kind of died out a few years ago.

Because it doesn't really work like that.

When you put one up for sale, it goes into a pool if you will. If there's tons of others that listed before you at the same price, they're going to sell first.

It has nothing to do with your friends, just how many others are up for sale and if they're selling.

As a test, I put in a few orders at $0.03 for the Winter cards. The sale history says hundreds have sold at $0.03 every day. This is why I have a feeling that this "price" is really $0.05, after Valve takes their cut out, because it's now been over a day and I haven't been able to buy a single card.

What gives?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Lost Knight:

Ursprungligen skrivet av crunchyfrog:

Because it doesn't really work like that.

When you put one up for sale, it goes into a pool if you will. If there's tons of others that listed before you at the same price, they're going to sell first.

It has nothing to do with your friends, just how many others are up for sale and if they're selling.

As a test, I put in a few orders at $0.03 for the Winter cards. The sale history says hundreds have sold at $0.03 every day. This is why I have a feeling that this "price" is really $0.05, after Valve takes their cut out, because it's now been over a day and I haven't been able to buy a single card.

What gives?

The prices in the graph are for what the items sold for.

[crunchyfrog]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Lost Knight:

Ursprungligen skrivet av crunchyfrog:

Because it doesn't really work like that.

When you put one up for sale, it goes into a pool if you will. If there's tons of others that listed before you at the same price, they're going to sell first.

It has nothing to do with your friends, just how many others are up for sale and if they're selling.

As a test, I put in a few orders at $0.03 for the Winter cards. The sale history says hundreds have sold at $0.03 every day. This is why I have a feeling that this "price" is really $0.05, after Valve takes their cut out, because it's now been over a day and I haven't been able to buy a single card.

What gives?

What gives is that hundreds do sell, but there's likely THOUSANDS in the queue.

I don't know why you can't grasp this.