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[Shalashaska]

Now I know why my old emoticons randomly seemed to sell a little while ago.

 

[derExperte]

Experte is one lucky mofucka.

This will of course fuck everything up.

 

[Widdly Scuds]

I don't understand how to earn the holiday cards?

right now the only way to get them is by crafting a badge. once the winter seal starts there will most likely be other ways (every 3 votes you cast for the community choice and ever $10 you spend in the store)

 

[Lomax]

Wow, we really can't have nice things, can we? If people are getting hundreds of thousands of "free" gems it's only a matter of time before Valve pulls the whole thing.

 

[Turfster]

Valve, it would be great if I could actually buy anything at the moment.

 

[YianGaruga]

This will of course fuck everything up.

Glorious

 

[Jawmuncher]

Good luck trying to buy any gems jesus

 

[AHA-Lambda]

This will of course fuck everything up.

How?

 

[Servizio]

This will of course fuck everything up.

Bid them all on the Holiday Profile. You know you want to.

 

[jshackles]

This will of course fuck everything up.

Yep. Almost $950 worth at current market prices for CS:GO backgrounds.

 

[Salsa]

I bought the backgrounds and now im getting 99999 emails fucking buying orders

 

[Locust]

Great testing Valve :v

 

[Elija2]

Is it better to hold onto cards to craft them as badges or should I be turning them into gems?

 

[Ruruja]

Experte buying us all our Christmas presents then?

 

[bobnowhere]

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[Lomax]

Great testing Valve :v

Well, we are basically testing it for them now. This is no doubt why the system went live a few days before actual bidding began, right now any problems can't cost Valve any money out of pocket.

 

[Atraveller]

This will of course fuck everything up.

Raffle some gems.

 

[yuraya]

 

[inm8num2]

Has anyone found other backgrounds or items that sell for $0.03 and are worth 100 gems?

 

[darkchewie]

How would they even fix a glitch like that? A rollback? Can't imagine how much money changed hands already...

 

[Nzyme32]

Lol I fucking knew I shouldn't have gone in for this. I'm going back to bed haha

 

[inm8num2]

This will of course fuck everything up.

Pffff.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/EmoRin/inventory/

 

[Salsa]

fuck all this clicking

 

[Sarcasm]

So basically I am screwed since people are exploiting and my day just started. Won't be home in many hours.

Niceeee..

 

[Widdly Scuds]

Has anyone found other backgrounds or items that sell for $0.03 and are worth 100 gems?

the summer adventure emoticons and backgrounds

 

[Turfster]

Okay, one of my buy orders went through...
there's 40 cards "cheaper" than my buy order according to the list, and my order is in finnish, apparently...

 

[Salsa]

I lost like $5 in something like 15 minutes and im blaming experte

 

[MUnited83]

Good thing about this is that I will be able to pick up quite a few random cheap games nobody wants

 

[YianGaruga]

Okay, one of my buy orders went through...
there's 40 cards "cheaper" than my buy order according to the list, and my order is in finnish, apparently...

The market is kind of fucked right now because people are trying to sell billions of gems I guess

 

[Annubis]

Well... this sucks.
I was planning on maybe trying to win 1 game... but that's not gonna happen with people having 300 billion gems.

 

[The Dear Leader]

The system is getting hustled hard, just like the coal and present sale, this one will get drove into the ground and we will be back to dumb badge related sales in no time. Seems like every time Valve does something different it just back fires. How could they possibly fix this once money has already exchanged hands?

 

[Syphon Filter]

COD:AW free weekend, this is the earliest yet right? it usually is in spring i think.

 

[Lomax]

When you see hundreds of thousands of backgrounds and cards selling in just a couple of hours, it gives you an idea just how big Steam really is now.

 

[YianGaruga]

Well... this sucks.
I was planning on maybe trying to win 1 game... but that's not gonna happen with people having 300 billion gems.

This will be fixed by Valve

 

[Darkroronoa]

Pffff.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/EmoRin/inventory/

So he is gonna like get all the games

 

[Anteater]

that gems image looks kind of depressing to me

this is how i see it in my head:

 

[Ruruja]

And here I am with my plucky 1,600 gems. Haha.

 

[Salsa]

so basically we all bought those guarded backgrounds for $0.04 and now the stack of gems (of which you need 10 of those backgrounds to get, so $0.40) is worth $0.10

why do I do this to myself

 

[Annubis]

So he is gonna like get all the games

Nah, he's gonna buy Valve.

 

[derExperte]

Pffff.

shiiieeeeeet

 

[Annubis]

so basically we all bought those guarded backgrounds for $0.04 and now the stack of gems (of which you need 10 of those backgrounds to get, so $0.40) is worth $0.10

why do I do this to myself

Yeah, same here... we gambled and got burned.
Worst is we got burned because someone fucked up the code somewhere.

 

[tmarg]

This will be fixed by Valve

How? They can't do a rollback because people have paid money for the gems.

 

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[YianGaruga]

How? They can't do a rollback because people have paid money for the gems.

They have to do something. The entire thing is already screwed.

 

[zkylon]

i guess it's not really valve's fault but mine for being weird but all this weird speculating shit annoys the hell out of me

 

[Turfster]

Looks like my buy order didn't actually go through.
Oh well.

 

[Salsa]

now I gotta click hundreds of times through pages of this in order to lose money

 

[Jawmuncher]

Looks like my buy order didn't actually go through.
Oh well.

I manged to get one through.
System is so borked at the minute i'm done messing with it.
Won't be surprised if Valve switches the page to the old format.

 

[Maniac]

Aww, the animations on the auction site are really fucking cuuuuuute! <3

And uh, how many gems is a boosterpack, then? Dunno if I can be bothered betting on stuff I wont win.

 

[Nzyme32]

FUCK -I did it in reverse and LOST gems. Fucking figures haha