Steam Summer sale - 19-30th June

Not sure what you mean, there were plenty of Steam competitors around just two years ago. I've bought games off Steam in sales for prices that I've never seen repeated since though.
Not sure I can agree. Years ago we had a kind of monopoly from STEAM. The competition was not very fierce. Key sites weren't very used. Now you even have a lot of different FRM (Origin, UPlay) and a lot of programs (there is playfire, Capsule and Desura, apart from the standard Orgin and UPlay). Also, before sales were kind of a big deal. People used to wait ages for deals. Now you have pretty much year round sales. GMG always have a code or two knocking about, and many websites have the daily things and stuff. This means that other websites reduce their prices before the STEAM sale comes along (which ties in to the 'you have all the games you want' part).

The sale itself is good. There are large discounts (50%+) and you have a lot of sets per day (daily deals, flash deals, community votes). Some are repeated, yes, but pretty much 75% of the STEAM library has a sale. The gams that don't are very new, which go in the second paoint I mentioned (recent games won't have a very large discount).

Regarding your second point....I don't know. I think all the games I bought have re-appeared at the same price or lower (if CS:GO won't get a 75% off, that will be a first for me).
Absolutely this tbh. Same comments every sale, this should become the standard response :)

Haha, thanks.
 
Okay, so I just decided to craft the summer badge rather than sell the cards I had accumulated.

I do so and get three items. One of them is listed as RARE. "Awesome", I think "the gamble paid off! I will sell it for many monies!"

Look at the marketplace and the average price for my RARE item? 3p.
 
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