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Where to actually trade Steam cards?

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nigerianmahogany

So I know this may seem like a stupid question but where would you go about actually trading cards in like a 1:1 trade thing? I have duplicates and the booster packs seem rather rare so I don't want to wait for the pack drops. I've looked on Steam Trades but the primary threads I see there are asking games for cards or cards for games. I have yet to see a thread that says trading cards for cards in a 1:1 manner. The Steam Market is really annoying in its taxes and I end up losing money rather than breaking even. Does anyone know how I would go about trading the cards?

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Shepi

tf2outpost(DOT)com is my favorite site

1 decade ago
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EGod

Link

1 decade ago
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ArtyX7

Create a topic like [H]Cards [W]Cards 1:1, or search for it in the forum.

1 decade ago
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Mozi111

*Steamtrades forum

1 decade ago
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ArtyX7

I forgot that part

1 decade ago
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Mozi111

Just wanted to make sure we don't get more threads that we don't need (on this forum).

1 decade ago
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Kleiser

Or in the STCG group discussion page. There's a forum dedicated to that matter.

1 decade ago
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qetc

http://backpack.tf/cardswap/

trade with a bot, close enough to 1 to 1, but is worse if you want the last few cards the bot has or if the bot has a lot of a certain card that you want to give it

1 decade ago
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koddaM

a bot here aswell http://www. steamcardexchange .net

1 decade ago
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Hageshisa

Much better than the backpack.tf "cardswap"

1 decade ago
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cst003

i've been playing around with the backback.tf cardswap bot and i'm a fan of it so far.. its credit system is fairly close to market prices on most cards, and it accepts emoticons and backgrounds for credits as well.. so, less $$ going to valve and more just pure trading cards.

1 decade ago
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ceildric

They recently changed it so that they are not paying full price anymore for cards though. Now it's 90% of value on all card buys. It makes it almost not worth it for me.

1 decade ago
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cst003

Hasnt stopped me from completing a couple sets and getting badges I wanted by trading in the cards I didn't want.. and again, at least this way Valve isnt making any more money off of me.

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ceildric

Valve was not "making money off you" since the money you got was from cards they gave you for free to begin with. On the other hand the people at backpack.tf that had nothing to do with implementing the trading card system are making a profit off you.

1 decade ago
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cst003

Yes, there has always been the steam transaction fee in the market. On top of the "game fee" which theyve never been 100% clear on if that actually goes to the dev or not.. So yes, Valve makes money off every single steam market transaction... Otherwise, why would they bother creating the infrastructure to support the market?

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Peroxide

I would advise reading what he actually wrote.

"the money you got was from cards they gave you for free"

The point he is making, is despite the fact they're taking a percentage, they were the ones who gave you the cards and allowed you to sell them for "free Steam Wallet". If you look at it like that, they're not "making money" from these transactions since they're giving out more credit than the fees are bringing in.

This is ignoring the fact that store credit doesn't cost the business anything until it is actually used.

1 decade ago
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StormIce91

Great!

1 decade ago
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Skaboomatude

There are also a few steam groups for trading as well as the old steam forums(which takes a few days to verify after sign up)
http://forums.steampowered.com/

1 decade ago
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rewas

The only place where I've got 1:1 trades done is steambadges.com .

1 decade ago
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nigerianmahogany

I tried some of the bots but none were flawless in the credits thing. Some were just plain rip offs (even if there were plenty of the card in stock) and none seemed to have an equal value for credits and cards. The value of the card I was giving them was always much lower than the one I wanted.

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happyfrog

steam market or tf2op.com, u can do 1:1 trades there

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lilfenrir

http://www.reddit.com/r/SteamTradingCards/

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NurEinSpitzname

http://www.steamcardexchange.net/

It features a Trading-Bot which is quite fair (as long as the bot has a card more than once you can always 1:1 trade inside a game). It has an active groupchat and a trading Forum inside the Group.

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pielord17

I will 1:1 so long as you aren't giving me a bunch of the same cards/cards I had. Edit: of the same game.

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Closed 1 decade ago by nigerianmahogany.