Steam Holiday Auction and Gems Discussion!

[Spawn of Totoro]

How it Works

http://steamcommunity.com/auction

Recycle Steam Community items like Trading Cards, backgrounds, and emoticons from your Inventory into Gems and use them to bid on games up for auction. The first auction round ends on Dec 15 @ 7:45am with a new round ending every 45 minutes until the last auction round ends on Dec 18 @ 10:00am. At the end of each auction round, the top bidder for each title wins.

Pro tip: Need more items to turn into Gems? More than 1,200 games on Steam drop Trading Cards just for playing them. Find out which of your games has drops remaining on your Badges page. Also, don’t forget to craft the Trading Cards into badges, the resulting emoticons and backgrounds have a higher Gem value. If you have nothing in your Inventory to recycle, you can also trade for Gems or purchase them on the Community Market.

The Auction runs Dec 15 @ 7:45am to Dec 18 @ 10:00am when the Holiday Sale begins.


Steam Holiday Auction FAQ

NOTE: On Thursday Dec 11th we had an issue with Gems that meant we needed to reset the Auction and start over. We apologize for the interruption. Any placed bids will need to be placed again.
All Gems created by you have been returned to your Inventory
All Gem purchases from the Community Market have been reimbursed. View your Store Transactions to see the Wallet Credit to your account.
All previous Auction bids have been canceled and the Auction has been reset.
Additionally, anyone who traded away items in exchange for Steam Gems on the first day of bidding will receive a copy of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in their Inventory.

[vladee]

Whatttt??!! I won game and all gems i bid on that game are deleted??

[⭐=Vu= zarathustra⭐]

Messaggio originale di OnlyAW:

Worst event ever. Who had a lot of games - gets more. Awesome generosity

Awesome entitlement.

Messaggio originale di bukbiragen:

I am late to the party. I was excited to join in. Traded all my limited trading cards for 100+ gems and just realized they're useless for any bidding attempt. You must be kidding me right? 10,000 gems over??? Now what do I do with these gems? :( I thought it'll be an opportunity for the poor like me.

Sell them for £0.50 per thousand. There's a free fiver for you to spend. How evil of Volvo, amirite?

[Jurus]

Messaggio originale di Zowieanna Zanthia:

Messaggio originale di Jurus:

I bid 1 gem just for the badge and got nothing.

I see you got the level 2 bidding badge, and you wont win a game with 1 Gem sorry.

I got it with a delay.

And Jesus does anyone know how to read? I said I did it just for the badge.

[TheTKForce]

Messaggio originale di  echelon:

Messaggio originale di Zowieanna Zanthia:

Well i just won, and i'm not sure, because i dont want to bid the same game again anyway. :)

yes but some people arent as nice as you :D you could always just bid lower than the top price to see if you can, then cancel the bid. im just a bit concerned that some people will try to get multiple copies of games just to trade them later on.

I won a game and yes it let me place a bid again, I don't want another copy though so I bid low just to check.

[echelon]

Messaggio originale di TheTKForce:

Messaggio originale di  echelon:

yes but some people arent as nice as you :D you could always just bid lower than the top price to see if you can, then cancel the bid. im just a bit concerned that some people will try to get multiple copies of games just to trade them later on.

I won a game and yes it let me place a bid again, I don't want another copy though so I bid low just to check.

well that sucks, cheers for letting me know though :D

[Burn]

Hi all, this auction doesn't make a lot of sense to me ... guess there's a "under the table" stuff going on here ... you see, in my experience, if a big company throws a big event/party that doesn't make sense, it usually involves some shady things, so better just smile and slowly back away.
Edit: but at least it's a good opportunity to clean the inventory.

[bpais008]

So I got up late... how much did that first wall paper and CSGO end up going for?

[echelon]

Messaggio originale di bpais008:

So I got up late... how much did that first wall paper and CSGO end up going for?

wallpaper was like 1.2million gems, no idea about csgo

[☣ T-Virus ☣]

cs go was ~ 233 thousand

[Xaelath]

Messaggio originale di Vidarr:

Its all useless to be honest, I've got pages upon pages of items....and can guarrentee if I cashed them all in for gems I wouldn't be able to win a game thats valued under £5............Steam should just bring out the sale and quit with this useless ♥♥♥♥♥ auction

wait till my birthday (18-12)

[bpais008]

Thanks, wish I had gotten up earlier to see it, lol.

Or wish that the winning bids were recorded along side the name of the winner, which I thought would be the case....

[vladee]

I just won game and all gems i bid on that game are deleted.. is that ok or.. ?

[bpais008]

Messaggio originale di vladafkv λ³ Hixx:

I just won game and all gems i bid on that game are deleted.. is that ok or.. ?

Errr, yes, that is OK. Thats how auctions work.

[echelon]

Messaggio originale di vladafkv λ³ Hixx:

I just won game and all gems i bid on that game are deleted.. is that ok or.. ?

when you win an item on ebay do you get to keep your money?

[💢𝓐ℓ ¢нємιѕт💢]

I am gonna bid just for that nice looking auction badge.