To those who only sell steam cards, how do you maximize profits?

$35? How much cards did you sell? Maybe I should look into this whole card selling business :D

when a free game is ga, keep the card longer so you don't have to sell the card for 0.03-0.05$, instead whait to get 0.1 $, can take a long time, but if you don't need the money now, its a good way, you can buy alots of set when they are low price (usally when at least 100 k game anre gived away), they you sell the card 0.1 $ when you bought them 0.05-0.04 $.

i bought caster foild card for 0.08-0.1 $ each game and now they worth 0.2-0.25 in average

I've seen they mostly do 2 for 1 or 3 for 1 trades.

Check the card's page for selling price and buying ("looking for it at this amount") prices. If the gap is large, try to sell it on largest buy price +10%. If the largest buy price is significantly higher than the next, just sell it to that person before someone else does.

If the gap is small, either try to go under the current lowest by one cent, or sell for the same price. Keep in mind though that if, for example, 1000 people are selling a card for 10 cents with 2000 people wanting to buy it at 9 cents, then if you join the 10-cent sellers, your card will be put at the end of that queue, so it will only be sold if all 1000 sellers sell or revoke their cards.

Also, don't be greedy. If you get a foil drop, don't expect people to pay 2-3 dollars/euros for it. Check the average price of the normal cards, and multiply it by 5 at the maximum. Just because you see people selling stuff for much money doesn't mean there are others who actually buy it for that price.

Oh, and if you get booster packs, think, because all buyers do. Boosters give you three random cards, so never set the sale price to higher than the average price of three cards of that game -10%. (So, if a game has cards at around 12 cent, sell your booster for 30-33 cents… it is still a better profit than selling the cards individually.)

Click a card in your inventory. It'll tell you how many have been sold in the last 24 hours. On average, that'll be about how many sell each day (perhaps a bit more Friday through Sunday?).

Click the sell button. It will now bring up a graph showing how much the card sold for over the past month. You can trim it down to the last week to get the finer details, I wouldn't bother with the lifetime view (cards always sell for more when they're new). Find the price that the card tends to peak at each day. Set your price to that and it'll be sold for that price once all the cards presently priced like that get sold.

Patience is key. It's a FIFO system. First In, First Out. If there's 115 out there, it may take a good long while. If there's a couple dozen, not so long.

Don't price it at the current going rate (which Steam suggests you do) unless you are REALLY impatient. Generally that price is one or two cents below what the peak daily price is. Steam is going to take at least two cents off the top of any sale you get.

Key thing to know: If you're based in the U.S.A., once you've sold more than 200 items Steam has to issue a tax form for you, so they'll want and need your Social Security number. Until you sell 201, you don't need to give it to them (so don't). Last year I think I sold 200 and removed the rest of my sale items. Once you're getting near to the year's end, pull off your lower-priced stuff if you're getting towards 200 sales. Another thing to remember is that come the end of the year there's the whole Christmas sale thing where you get cards for votes. Those cards generally fetch a good 10 cents a piece (and more earlier on). Focus on unloading those while they're still worth something besides gems.

What I basically do is I always check out the average price and then I put it on sale..2 cents cheaper give or take.
The key emphasis is to get your stuff on the first page of listing which requires some undercutting

Then again its sometimes better to wait before pulling back items from sale to your inventory and reprice it (unless it doesnt get sold within a week

I sold like 750 cards in a matter of a month(?) I believe and made around 27 or more euro of profit, including boosters and foils.

BTW, one more thing that I do which I forgot to mention is set Steam Idle Master to "Priotize games with the highest card values". This way, I mine these first before their value drops.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=212414540

Guys, before Polarity was on sale, cards sold for ~0,5€. Now they sell for about 5 cents =/

Do you think there is a chance they will get above 10 cents again? =)

During the first few days of Steam sales, especially if it includes some sort of incentive to buy cards (like the gem one last winter), there is often a slight uptick in prices as people start crafting badges to get sale cards and other perks. This is seen mostly on lower priced cards and cards in sets that are easy to craft into badges (low cost + low card count). You'll have to decide if money now or the potential for more money later for yourself.

Personally I just check the number sold in the last 24 hours (150 for example) and then select the highest price that's likely to sell it within a day or two (so if there were 3 @ .08, 10 @ .09, 35 @.10, and 250 @ .11 I'd list for .10 because it should still sell quick.

Don't sell the cheap cards. Complete the cards for a badge and wait till summer/winter sale. And then craft the badges at the very start. So you can sell the "special" sumer/winter badges when prices are high. You get some other stuff to make gems and try to win some extra games.

I have 23 card sets and i will craft them during Steam sales

I purchase those visual novels launch day, use idle master, sell them, buy gems, craft boosters of those games, sell the cards again, profit. Nekopara, for example, had a card that was like $1 some time ago, Vanilla, and you will get some foils as well.

Buying 1$ bundles with max games with cards (or change leftovers for games with cards), drop cards from games, sell it, buy TF2 keys, buy games, sell games. PROFIT. I buy already buy much keys "for free" via cards. I do not remember when i buy keys for real money :D This is best profit i mean ;) (my best clear profit is 35,7€ on one game (franchise pack)) WOW!

I sold about 3000-3500 cards(Main&Alt acc.) and got 250-300$(Included Background/emoticons/gems). Thats why i love Steam&IdleMaster:D

I should really get back to using Idlemaster, I still have 847 card drops remaining, which is about $63.13 ^^

Like other people have said--wait for major Steam events before selling cards.

Crafting events, holiday events (winter sale / summer sale), etc. These occasions always draw the prices of cards upward. It's almost always in your best interest to unload quickly when something new comes out too (i.e., new cards for a new badge). You never know when that game might get bundled.

I think creating badges is much better as you get more booster packs which you can sell for profit so reaching a good level for proper drops of boosters. Besides I make more by making the badges during sale season and selling out the holiday cards.