Website Selling Steam Games at Sale Prices

"I have no money" is a bad way to start. If you expect to make ANYTHING from this, you're gonna need to throw in quite a few pretty pennies. And even then, it may not work.

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A nice but impractical idea.

1. You would have to buy loads of excess steam keys (bad idea to tie too much money in stock).
2. What happens if the game goes on sale for an even cheaper price once you have an excess?

Well, my suggestion is :

1. You can stock old bundle / current bundle and keep it there as long as bundle sales over and you can start to selling it to who skip the bundle sales. And for steam deals, you can use that system too and keep the gifts as long as deal become over.
2. You can buy a lot of keys from developer and start to sell it with your own price.
3. You must update & fight your price lowest or cut off from other sites like GMG, nuuvem, amazon, etc.

I don't think this would work out if you do this "alone"

Unless you are prepared to do it properly, I would suggest not going through with it.

don't forget to think on the legal terms.. such as is it even legal to resell bundles? or selling games you bought on steam in your site? is that even legal? well.. just a friendly warning thou

One major problem with buying and then selling at the lowest Steam sale prices is that no matter how low one sale goes, the next one may be lower. If you buy anything during a sale, you would have to re-sell them before they go on sale for even less, or else you either risk having to then sell them at that new price, thus losing money, or attempt to sell them at the comparatively higher price that you paid for at the time, which disregards the entire purpose of the site.

Most of us have surely been there, buying a game at 50% or so, then before you know it, it's 75%. Even though it was the best price at the time when you bought it, there's a little regret for not waiting, especially if you haven't even played it yet. Now multiply that by however many copies you want to buy of it in hopes of selling.

Not to mention that with new games being put in bundles, that could possibly devalue them even further.

Edit-
Hah, and everything I said has since been already been said before getting around to posting this. Nevermind.

You need some business plan and some marketing person to help you... this kind of business is not something that you will make money that easy. In this kind of business sometimes you lose more than win, but when you win is very well but without a business plan and some money you will not going that far...

I already use a site that offers something like this. Tremor games. They buy a ton of games and sell them for pretty much the sale price they got it for. Only difference is you don't pay them with money, you do it by completing tasks and offers from certain sites.

Unless you got thousands of dollars to open up a real site that's on the level of Green Man Gaming, you'll just be a small common trader like you see on Steamtraders, but only with a website.

On a side note, your name is funny. The pronunciation of it in Spanish means "Ass" lol

You don't sound like you know what you would be getting into. You got no suppliers other than Steam directly.. you'll have to invest on stocking lots of games and expect to run a business while making a very small margin on those. What happens when you run out of copies for a game, and what happens when you're stuck with tons of unsold games while it gets bundled somewhere or becomes cheaper? You can't absorb those losses in any way with the small profit you intend to make, first sign of f*ckup will bring your lil business to it's grave.

TBH, I think you're being a bit naive to think that you can just get into this business. Doing this alone will take a LOT of time. I mean MORE than a regular full time job. The amount of research you'll have to put into market prices, pricing trends, sale trends, etc by itself is a huge chunk... not to mention website design and maintaining, debugging, customer support issues, advertising and promotions. You'd have to keep on top of the pricing fluctuation for each and every game and be prepared to lose money at a moment's notice.

I agree with PPG113 who posted above... you need experience in this field before you jump headlong into it. People are very suspicious of sellers online so having some reputation under your belt is highly recommended. Not to mention the lessons learned in doing this on a small scale will be invaluable. The fact that you're talking about asking people what they want to see just advertises the fact that you're not at all prepared for this field. If you're looking to invest money then you should already be familiar with the field.

If this is just an idea that you have that you're looking to set up in the next few years... great. Get started on that research. If this is something that you want to get into right away... forget about it.

breaking ToS, reported

It's an unsustainable business model. Your idealism is through the roof so I'm not going to bother trying to reason with you. I was once your age, I get it.

But here's the real deal, you can spend a lot of time on this fruitless venture, act in denial and think you're on to something, and then reach the point when a sobering reality hits you, possibly after you wasted a lot of money and energy and learn that way, or just understand that the real world isn't so simple. What you're doing is against Steam's ToS on a mass scale because it's easyto be mistaken for the fraud is done, even though that's not your intention; and with fees, taxes (which if you did make a lot of money, would catch up to you eventually) loss prevention because you're going to have chargebacks, and paypal disputes, your profit margin is negative and you'll lose money.

And publishers would have little reason to work with you. Basically, it's not going to happen. You're better off finding and studying about whatever passion, and if it's sales and retail, this is not the way to expend that energy.

But again, do as you will. I encourage you to be ambitious, just not over-idealistic and blind to the realities. (suppose I did end up trying to reason with you, but I won't be following this conversation)

I am closing this thread, as many people have pointed out, this would not work, and on inspection of steams T&Cs, it is not legal.