Yesterday, I put a buy order for a trading card for 0.04 €. The best sell offer at the time was 0.05 € and the best buy one was 0.03 so I was the only one at 0.04. Today, I still haven't got the card but the card graph shows that one was sold a few hours ago for 0.03. How is that possible?
It's happened a few times and I still can't wrap my head around it. Thanks if you have any ideas.

6 years ago

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different price in regions?

6 years ago
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different price in regions.

6 years ago
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different price in regions!

6 years ago
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different price in regions...

6 years ago
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How can there be regional pricing for market items when the users set the prices themselves?
And if that's the case, why show how much something was sold for in another region if you can't get that price?

6 years ago
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Well I don't think it is so much regional pricing, but different effective prices in different regions. The way different currencies vary against each other and are rounded up and down can create slight discrepancies.

6 years ago
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That would make sense, but then buy orders are rounded up and down too and my offer was still better, no matter how you look at it.

6 years ago
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Steam is not supposed to make sense. It might involve 2 currencies where one rounds down to 3 and other up to 4 cents.

6 years ago
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Could be so.

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I wonder the same thing all the time when I look at Steam market prices. The price for a sack of gems is currently $0.53 and there are thousands for sale, but if you look back at the sale history, it shows huge spikes to over $4 on a regular basis for the past month. There is no way they are selling for that much.

6 years ago
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Could it be someone just put it on the market for 0.03 and steam just matches it to the same price that people have put offers for?

6 years ago
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Here's what it says on ever regular item page:

the cheapest listing getting automatically matched to the highest buy order

¯_(ツ)_/¯

6 years ago
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OK so its not that. Probably due to the reasons as others have said.

6 years ago
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Thanks for your answers everyone. I guess the definitive answer must be as given by heavenhairsixes: rounding-up the prices for different currencies. I'll close the thread now.

6 years ago
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Closed 6 years ago by Lengray.