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Stech’s first cash-out from Steam was $50 when he was around 16 years old. A few years later, he cashed out $2,500 to buy his first car . Stech stopped collecting cases about three years ago, and now, he’s looking to sell off the entire collection, which he estimates is worth around $100,000.
Selling this collection is no easy feat, however. For starters, Steam can break when trades get too large, necessitating hundreds of trades across dozens of different accounts. Further, Stech controls quite a large portion of known cases. “At one point, I calculated I had, like, 17% of all TF2 cases that are publicly known… I would have an extremely hard time selling it off because I am a large [portion] of the market. It’s like, you know, Elon Musk couldn’t dump a lot of his stock.”
Stech has, apparently, found a buyer that wants the whole collection, however, and the selling process is already underway. “The transaction has kind of started… he has admin privileges on the trade offers he sends to my accounts, so my accounts just automatically accept any trade from him,” Stech said. “An option was for him to just buy the accounts, but we know that is very bannable, so we haven’t done that.”
Stech says he expects to have the process complete around October. Just as he used case money to buy his first car, he says he plans to use the money from the sale as a down payment on a house.
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Ralston18 Is this the equivalent of paying real money to obtain "Monopoly" money? And all those 1.7 million cases could go into the ether with one simple misplaced bit – correct? = = = = My youngest Grandson has multiple storage chests with all sorts of Minecraft inventory items. He showed me his Minecraft world (?) and there were chests everywhere. Some others, he said, were hidden…. One chest was under a volcano I think. He just laughed when I asked about possible eruptions. Double chests with 27 items per chest if I correctly understand the situation… Can he sell that inventory now for real money to help pay for college costs? Just want to know in case I need to match a $ increase in his college savings account. Thank you. Reply
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