Steam cards, 1:1 or $:$?

People want profit :/ My opinion is the same as yours.

The market is the major complicating factor. Sure, a 1:1 swap might make sense, but if I have a card that I can sell for $2 on the market and I can buy your card for $0.50 (with very little effort involved), why wouldn't I do that instead?

Because people like money.

I dont even see a reason to collect those :D. I just get them and sell them so that i can get some free games during the Summer Sale XD.

Supply/Demand. For instance, since TF2 is a free game there will be more cards for it floating around than a game like Triple Town making them less valuable.

Are you not familiar with the concept of value?

People suck :>
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Fuck the market, market is where the PEOPLE choose their price and not the game itself - Just look after the game, if it's a game that is 20$ retail price and it's isn't on sales much and or less people have it then the cards of the game worth more than a another game that is 20$ also but goes more on sales as more people have it. Yes, there are some people with stupid offers as 1:2 for shit items but, it's a thing you'll have to deal as they will be always there to offer their stupid offer. Let's say for example tf2 cards worth almost nothing and will be worth nothing at all on the 26th since many idle account of other users will now drop cards so the demand will be less since more people will have it - What about the solitaire? Thousends of copies were given away and many many people have the game and the cards worth less than usual, now let's say BL2 which is a not such a common game, yes a decent amount have it but, not alot for it to drop by price worth, therefore I think that 2 solitaire cards will do a good offer for 1 BL2 card which is quite fair.

it's cards... go buy a lollipop

hey , Do you want 66% off coupon for galactic civilization II : ultimate edition?

People are greedy as hell even the tf2bp swap bot is now charging you a real money monthly fee if you want a fair trade otherwise it takes off points when you trade cards to it. Its all about the money now, has been for a while.

Traders trade only to make money. Tell them to get f'ed.

I'd prefer 1:1, but as others have said, cards aren't actually equal.

Trading cards from the same game at 1:1 is pretty much okay because the cards within a single set are pretty much equal. (Even that isn't going to be perfectly equal, though.) But once you are comparing cards for different games, various additional inequalities become a factor.

1) Different games are owned in different amounts, which affects the overall supply of cards. All other things being equal, a game that sold 10,000 copies is probably going to have 1/10th the cards floating around as a game that sold 100,000 copies.

2) Desire for badges/sets will vary by game. Again, all other things being equal, some games are just going to be more popular. This may be even more of a factor with bundle games, as there may be a larger percentage of people who own said games that don't actually care about them. This matters for both popularity as well as just having different percentages of people who care about cards at all.

3) Cards per set varies by game. Game X has a 5-card set, while Game Y has a 9-card set. If you are lucky and don't get duplicates in your drops, you only need two more cards to complete Game X's set, while you'll need four more cards to complete Game Y's set. Should cards be traded between the two at a 1:1 ratio? With strict 1:1 trading, people out for badges/xp/coupons would be trading cards from large sets for cards from small sets.

i make the other person add a bit of sweets because sometimes i already have that card.

I'd imagine if cards aren't marketable people would still consider to take offer based on cards rarity and/or how much that card is floating around...like early DOTA 2 beta wave. People were willing to trade a copy of Skyrim for 2x DOTA 2 free copy.
So there always be people who will trying to take profit from "rare" cards even if they're not marketable..

" a digital card is a digital card, for me at least they don't really have a price " ROFLMAO this guy have no clue about supply and demand

Metro last night or skyrim legendary for fortix. All are digital items, and their only purpose is -once put on library- to entertain the owner. Why they aren't trade 1:1?

Think like this. Instead of simply trading it with you, he could sell it in the market and with the money he gets he could buy both cards he was asking for. Of course the profit would be slightly smaller. That's why the cards are not worth all the same.

Nevertheless, there are people trading 1:1 simply because they have tons of cards and they trade the cards other people need in order to finish the deck, so for that people they are more valuable. They take advantage of that fact and simply try to make profit. Those are the ones I have most :).

I wouldn't mind trading card for card within sets. I wouldn't trade an offspring fling card for a Strike Suit card- mainly because of the market price. Why would I trade you a card that I could sell and then buy two of your cards for on top of paying steam on the devs a 15%(total) cut.

I would really preffer to trade 1:1 honestly. Ofcourse not 1:1 if one has a regular and one a foil, that would be probably weird to do :P

So, if you had 2 of these you would just trade it off for any random card you were missing? No, rarity and demand are very real things in the world of collecting.

No.

If you have for example Don't starve and Left4Dead2, in Don't Starve you get 3 cards from 5, and you are missing 2, in Left4Dead2 you got 4 cards out of 8, so You are missing 4. And now how both cards can have the same value for you?!?

If those cards are from the same game and they have the same "quality" (like they're both foil or both normal) then they should also cost the same. If you try to trade a foil Borderlands 2 card for TF2 normal card, of course you won't succeed.

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Use the BOT for ≈ 1:1 exchange. =)