What to do with Backgrounds and Emoticons?

[wyanwong]

I crafted a few badges. Got backgrounds and emoticons. What do people do with backgrounds and emoticons anyway? It's selling for less than the trading cards. Do we just turn them into gems?
Is there any difference in value among common, uncommon and rare backgrounds and emoticons?

[󠀡󠀡᠌ ⁧⁧mudo]

For the background to have greater value, it needs to have something eye-catching.

[Big Dave]

Trade them NEVER craft for gems

[󠀡󠀡᠌ ⁧⁧mudo]

about making gems it's up to you, cs2 cards give 40 gems per unit and cost almost 0.02 cents

[Big Dave]

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡᠌ ⁧⁧mudo:

about making gems it's up to you, cs2 cards give 40 gems per unit and cost almost 0.02 cents

NEVER CRAFT ITEMS INTO GEMS unles you want the 100 backgrounds/emtoes lol

[󠀡󠀡᠌ ⁧⁧mudo]

Originally posted by Big Dave:

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡᠌ ⁧⁧mudo:

about making gems it's up to you, cs2 cards give 40 gems per unit and cost almost 0.02 cents

NEVER CRAFT ITEMS INTO GEMS unles you want the 100 backgrounds/emtoes lol

I didn't understand

[wyanwong]

Me too, I still don't understand.
If I turn a background into gems, I get about 80 gems, which I can use to buy other cards. Isn't this the best option?

[Lokiator]

Originally posted by wyanwong:

Me too, I still don't understand.
If I turn a background into gems, I get about 80 gems, which I can use to buy other cards. Isn't this the best option?

For the most part, I'd say it's the best option with marketable ones.

I usually get a few valuable emotes and backgrounds that I can actually sell, but that's probably only 2-3% of the total.

The remaining backgrounds I convert to gems. Nobody collects them and there's usually so many in the market that I'd have to wait years for them to sell (I have some $0.03 ones from 2019 still in the market) or I'd have to list them for less than their gem value. So I don't see the sense in trying to sell common backgrounds.

There's plenty of emote collectors, so I often trade emotes for 10-20 extra gems above their base value. However, I end up converting most to gems because they're far too common, the collectors I deal with already have them, and the market is full of them (same issue as trying to sell backgrounds).

[wyanwong]

Originally posted by Lokiator:

Originally posted by wyanwong:

Me too, I still don't understand.
If I turn a background into gems, I get about 80 gems, which I can use to buy other cards. Isn't this the best option?

For the most part, I'd say it's the best option with marketable ones.

I usually get a few valuable emotes and backgrounds that I can actually sell, but that's probably only 2-3% of the total.

The remaining backgrounds I convert to gems. Nobody collects them and there's usually so many in the market that I'd have to wait years for them to sell (I have some $0.03 ones from 2019 still in the market) or I'd have to list them for less than their gem value. So I don't see the sense in trying to sell common backgrounds.

There's plenty of emote collectors, so I often trade emotes for 10-20 extra gems above their base value. However, I end up converting most to gems because they're far too common, the collectors I deal with already have them, and the market is full of them (same issue as trying to sell backgrounds).

How do you determine which of the backgrounds are the 2-3% you can actually sell? Is it based on rarity? Common + Uncommon convert to gems. Rare sell in Market? I suppose same guideline applies to emoticons?

[clees42]

lets say you have 40 gem background. you check market and see it at 0.03€ (0.01 after steam fee). gems are 0.31€ per sack(1000) so 40 gems would be worth 0.0124€.
That means coverting the bg into gems gives you 0.0124€ value vs selling it for 0.01€.

[M.Man]

I turn them into gems, if i dont like them every time...

[clees42]

Originally posted by M.Man:

I turn them into gems, if i dont like them every time...

there are bgs/emotes that constantly sell for 10€+ on the market