Winter sale related? Sack of Gems market listing appeared.

Holiday sale mechanics involve bidding

http://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/753/335590-Blase

Create gems and bid to get the 2014 Holiday Auction badge?
Does that mean no sale cards?
Edit: Sale cards are really cheap. Emotes and backgrounds have higher gem value though.

And i gave away like 200 backgrounds and emotes like 2 months ago..........

is there a way to mass create gems?

And the whole Community market goes crazy

the auction is not officially anounced on steam?

i think i'll create sack of gems and sell them i don't care about auctions cuz i will not win them.

and where is this sack of gems coming from?
If you convert stuff into gems they are just in your inventory, but not in the form of a sack.
Somewhere these have to dropp. (Is this what you get for crafting?)

Just got rid of all my duple stuff and got 11450 gems, guess ill wait until they enable the "booster creator" and use them to craft badges since bidding seems like it wont be easy to win, too many people.

Okay, now that I got it, it seems like a most nerdish sale ever. Theres a good opportunity to get those obscure niche games while mainstream goes after hyped ones. Most people wont even scroll to the bottom of the list.

Anybody crafted the new badge?

Interesting, though I have to echo a worry about whether or not the usual christmas sales will happen.
Just paranoia, I know. Still~

i bet ppl will pay more in gems than the game costs :D

Is there any way to see more games on the list of the auction, I mean the list is full of games where people are bidding thousands of gems.
But there are many indies with very low bids, I want to see only those with low bids where you have actually a real chance of getting them.

Do you get winter cards for crafting badges?

I turned a bunch of useless stuff into gems, I got 110 gems, what I can do with that?

Do you lose your bid "points" if you won't win in the auction?

oh man, gaben wants more monies for those giant burgers so he came up with this!

Seems like it rewards the people more who hoard things in their inventory.

"This auction round will end at 15 Dez às 13:45." At what time ? PST?

Crafted so far 2k gems and even got a foil card. Now the real dilemma begins keep or sell it. :/

Bunch of 1:2 card traders will die of happiness tonight.

Damn... I'd rather recycle some trashy games...

lol that sack of gems loses it's price very very fast.