do you trade? :-)

Haven't traded in a while but fair value for most part. I'd guess at least half my trade rep came from Russians/Brazilians when we could freely deal with them. They'd only take a little profit which I'd consider fair as they were the cheapest source for the games in question at the time.

Outside of that I mainly used to go hunting for people who had refined metal and were looking for bundle keys I owned rather than make my own thread. I don't really know why I did this as refined metal means nothing to me and I could have given them away here instead. Think I just wanted to build some rep and I had a lot of keys lying around. Fair prices with those people as well.

Probably took the worse end of the deal one of the last time I traded in terms of strict value. I wanted "The Dig" which I think was in a cheapish Groupees bundle, and I traded away 2 Humble BTA games for it. That said, The Dig hadn't been in a bundle for a good while so not many people had it to trade. Went on to trade 50 games for 10 Tf2 keys wiht the same person and I probably got the worst of it there too but I wanted those keys for something specific so again I didn't mind.

trade is ok i guess.

but it's more fun to steal and scam

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I usually don't trade at all, but on the rare occasions when I do trade, I belong into the "I want that game, they want this game so what if mine's worth more, they're happy, I'm happy, win-win!" category \o/

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"What's mine is mine, what's yours is going to be mine as well" made me laugh a little. Next time I play some sort of thief in an MMO, I'm going to put this quote on my profile :D

Your poll has lots of typos..

And picked the third option.. :3

(hart floating in the air)

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I like trade as a hobby in this community but it's not easy to wait for a trader when you see create a new giveaways button

I don't trade, aside from the odd steam trading card trade now and then.

I am a trader, but I always value honesty and equality. I try my best to make fair offer.

At first I used to look at the value of the games I traded but nowadays I just try to make a deal that makes both parts happy

I joined this site for trading, then switched mostly to gifting. When I do trade, I mostly care about the game, less so its value.

IM'A SHPY

I dont know wheter I understand the given options. Also, trading in a fair way is not possible if you just compare the steam store values (your option 1). So I guess I am gonna go with option 3?

I don't care about value, I'm trading games for games. I also don't care if there's a $5 difference. I also like to give. That's why I gave away around 70 games. in not even 2 months. :)

I wouldn't really call it trading what I do really. All I do is split the games for the exact value on the groupbuys steam group. When I have leftovers from a bundle purchase I do this. I don't try and make a profit at all.
Used to trade a lot during the time when russian games weren't region locked. But since then trading is pointless to me.

I always have to trade for the bundles I want. Sadly, so many of the bundle resellers are now seeking $3 to $5 for a $1 bundle because it has some supposedly sought after title in it.

I remember back when the region locking first hit and I tried my hand at reselling ROW titles from the Canadian store. I got supreme shit for getting a 19 cent profit off a $40+ deal... >.<

I usually trade non-bta for non-bta and bta for bta. But becomes more complicated with BS and IG with multi purchases. So the easiest is to try to trade a key of an estimated value for something of a similar estimated value. I don't care for little differences I usually get those "cost numbers" from groups and sites that prepare shared purchases. Every day is harder so I get a bit lazier every day.

I traded a few cards once. I thought it was pointless so now I just sell them.

I use to trade a lot on other sites with pretend economies but that crap is addictive.

So, no trading for me!

Everybody values their penny-ante games differently. Tier for tier, actual cost for actual cost, market value, whatever. I think the real value is how much you want the game. If you don't want what's offered, decline or ask for more. But be polite about it. When I had trades on SG, I rejected about 9 of 10 offers because I just didn't want what was offered. I tried never to admonish anyone over their offer, though. No one needs that aggravation.

There are some games that have been bundled in the past, but are valued higher because a lot of people want the game, like Among The Sleep, Gemini Rue, ENSLAVED: Odyssey to the West, and Blackwell 5: Epiphany. These are all games I am currently looking for, so if I buy a bundle and have a game leftover that is in high demand, I will try and trade it for one of these games. I will often offer any 2 games I have for 1 or even 3 sometimes if I want the game bad enough. It's basically supply and demand.

Other than that I don't really put a value on any of my games because they are all just leftover bundle games. I have never looked at the price for a game when trading. I don't care if the game I am trading is worth $20 and the game I get is only worth $2 because after being released in a bundle they no longer have a dollar value to me, they are now valued just as a leftover bundle game and have the same value as every other leftover bundle game. The only thing that would give it more value would be if there is a high demand like I explained in the first paragraph.