Any Way to Turn Steam Credit into Real Money?

Apparently all the cards I have collected over the years were worth very little individually, but add up to a decent amount when you spend hours selling all of them. Problem is, considering I play plenty of games on Steam but almost never buy anything from the store, that credit isn't that useful to me.

I'm assuming the concept of "mate wants game > you gift it > they transfer you $" would work but I don't have nearly enough of a social circle for that to work. At all.

So is there another way I can turn a chunk of Steam credit into money in my bank account (quickly moved to credit card after I buy something, generally)? Or some secret club I can join that does this sort of thing but are probably suspicious of strangers?

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  • Not that I can really think of, I mean I guess if you have enough Steam credit you could buy a Steam Deck and sell it? Go through some parcel forward service or something to get it shipped here.

    Or another method that probably isn't worth the time or effort is buy items on the SCM eg. TF2 keys or CSGO stuff and sell it elsewhere?

    No easy way though.

    • I think the Csgo route might be the best way.. You can basically gamble it and try get more value or same ish value or just buy Csgo items and sell it on some websites for real money.

  • +5

    Buy you own indie game and you'll get 70 cents on the dollar.

  • +2

    1: Become a whale in a game
    2: Build a cult following
    3: ???
    4: Profit

  • I think you can sell steam games on game flip just get the popular new trending game with good value. Maybe like the latest cod or something.

    Or whatever is brand new so you can sell it as close to rrp as much as possible.

  • +3

    You can convert it to game skins and sell them on a third party site for cash, that's the only way i know of converting it to cash.
    Beware and do your homework on trusted skin sites and not get scammed.

  • Are manco tf2 keys still a thing?

    • +1

      Yes, TF2 economy is still very much a thing

      • +1

        I was hoarding manco crate keys when they first came out, had soooo many thinking I would one day open my accumulated crates or sell the keys for a nice little cash lump sum. Then one day idk… i just stopped gaming/caring. I should log back in and see what’s up. I kinda do miss tf2 internode 24/7 ffa. I was never much of a team player/objective player

  • -1

    How much lol

  • Just offer to buy friends games at a 10% discount for cash until you run out

    • +1

      So I'm assuming you didn't read the post, where I said I lack the friends to make that a realistic option?

      • +5

        No I pride myself on only reading the titles.

  • Sell your Steam Account

    • I could probably have gotten enough for it without spending hours selling cards if I wanted to go that route

  • So (and thanks for the replies folks) several people have suggested selling CSGO keys or TF2 keys or skins or whatever on some websites? Does anyone know any of these? Because I wouldn't be too surprised if some scammers had managed to SEO a list of the "top" sites to the first result on Google.

    • I have used skinport a few times with success. It is one of the few trading sites that allow withdrawals to Australian banks, and it is one of the easier sites to use. The only gripe I have is the 12% selling fee. Also if you are buying items from the steam market, you will have to wait one week to sell them due to trade locks.

    • I used csfloat recently to cashout my steam inventory. Sold everything on steam market then bought the most expensive cs2 knife skin I could then listed it on csfloat. Keep in mind you'll lose upto 30% as steam money isn't equal to real money.

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