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Joel wanna share your secrets, I tried CSGO lounge trading to try and improve from my ak wasteland and galil chatterbox but literally every single offer was somebody lowballing and when I responded to other peoples trades they all wanted way to much.
I couldn't even get one like for like trade.
Is this different when you are trading knives then?
i have no secrets my friend. ive made some pretty good trades making say 10k a time and made an incredibly lucky/good trade which got me around 100k profit.
so for the 5-10k ones that i looked at as many quicksell threads as i could (they stick to a set price for buying as the wanna make lots of profit)
for example. i would like to say i know my M9 fades pretty well now.
look at the quicktrade threads for someone offering just above what the quicksellers/buyers will pay (normally around 10k above they offer them at), the buyers will turn it down as they stick to their prices. i on the other hand will offer 1 or 2k lower than what they wanted (normally the sellers dont turn this down)
i then put it up for sale on as many threads as i find so that i make 5-10k profit. (it may not be the best way of doing it but its the only way which has worked for me but its time consuming and for fairly little reward)
for my big profit trade it was the case of being in the right place at the right time. dopplers are new, the flips on market are £130 (people tended not to know the sapphires/rubys/blackpearls are worth more as its still a flip doppler in their eyes)
i had a huntsman slaughter mw, i searched for flip dopplers and found a guy who had a sapphire + a FN AWP Lightning who happened to want a MW Huntsman Slaughter. i sent him a trade offer straight away and he accepted. everyones happy. he got the knife he wanted and i got a knife i knew i could profit from.
but like i said, for me it was a lot of time and effort.
but all in all i went from
unboxing a St Flip Fade FN (around the 110k mark) - which i did a bad trade with.
to now
M9 Slaughter MW (190k)
13keys in my inventory
£45 in my steam account
FN USP Guardian (i like the guardians)
40 x esports winter cases (got them in a trade)
3 x pheonix cases (got 10 in a trade but someone wanted 7 in another trade)
1 x CSGO Weapon case (about £2 for this case)
AK47 Redline FT
AWP Redline FT