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The item that was sold was a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive skin.
Sold for $55,000 by a collector and purchased by: http://steamcommunity.com/id/DeeNice23/inventory/

This is the skin:
http://screenshots.metjm.net/fa7418fa33d70f68f3418a8af3a80164.jpg

There are morons all over the world who can spend money in the most foolish ways.  :P

I wish I was the seller of this foolish item. 55k USD is big and it is 3.6 million in my local currency. I could have bought a superbike of my choice.

I find it difficult to understand why somebody would do that. Buy stuff from a game that can be replicated by the owner at any given time. It's just pixels on the screen, and it's not like bitcoin, which is decentralized.

Anyhow, congratulations to the buyer. I know that these items are difficult to acquire and go for a big price. Hopefully he can get rid of it when it comes to the time.

what does the user do with a steam account with 55k usd in it. unless the sale was made privately. one thing is for sure, that guy will never have to pay for a steam game ever again.

it is available for $400 isn't it? (https://steamcommunity.com/market/search?q=Karambit+Case+Hardened#p1_price_desc)

i have seen high price items especially those that are rare or have some special thing on them like a signature but never this much

Yeah, CSGO skins are extremely collectible and it's no big surprise that people are willing to pay that much money for it. I think they view it as a race, competition between the elite collectors.

They should really be focusing more on bitcoin though, as gaming just wastes money and time.

They're not morons, this item can be sold to another person for profits. The item market on Steam fluctuates like the btc market does, and it can double the price at any time.

I myself buy a few items and sell it for real money, not Steam money, since you can't cash out on Steam. There's a huge market for this.

55k Omg...I want to know the actual reason why it was bought for 55k...Surely a better quality dragon lore deserves more than this which I thought should only got for a few thousands at the minimum?

I have no idea why people want buy stuff like this, I better buy bitcoin for this $55k  ;D

Why? Just why would these Rich Russians buy a CS go skin for $55k it's not like the skin is very exceptional but even of it is 55k is simply outrageous.

Well there are people with a lot of money to spend on things they deem to be precious so I wouldn't condemn anyone for this I guess  ;D By the way where was the exchange conducted? Was it on the Steam market or off Steam and how did the buyer pay for that skin? For that much money $55k I would think he had used a bank transfer or something. Now if he had paid for that with Bitcoin it would have been bloody impressive right?  :o

$55k for a CS go skin. This is madness i think. Rich and mad man =)

The thing is - the rare blue pattern on the playside makes this knife EXTREMELY rare. 1 in the world. 100% blue Playside and on the ring.
$55k was the transaction XD

The pattern is very unique. 1 in the world. I can't understand the price as well. A souvenir Dlore Factory new is only $20k... but there a about 4 of those. Only 1 of these.

It just only means that he is a fanatic player of cs go. Spending thousands of dollar for a digital item proves that he is truly rich and at the same time a really weird guy on other people perspective.
Looks like to boast on other cs go player is worth $55,000 for him :o

Ok people I'll let u in in a little secret

it's called advanced money laundering

it's also a way of hiding drug purchases

Hey the accountant won't let u waste business

money but u arranged with the car dealer

if u buy his $300,000 Ferrari

their will be a nice big bag of stuff in the boot

now u just need to convince the accountant that

the business can afford a Ferrari :)

But this here is a item from a game called counter strike...

Pah. Check out property sales in Second Life. I'm sure there were a few that were in the hundreds of thousands.

yup Wat a lazy way to launder money :)

I guess the size of transaction didn't warrant a

hand made Ferrari hahahaha

The thing is the money being transferred is real money and  the goods purchased

in know way can amount to this physical value but hey when even ur French Poodle

wants to launder money and he has his eyes on a plush pad in second life.

I thought it was kind of creature skin, but it is game accessoris. I failed to see what the benefits of buying game stuff in a high price.

He maybe has too much money he doesn't know how to spend, so he buy such very very unimportant thing.

I think it's bettee to buy foods than this virtual skin  ;D

This is really not something new. Have you heard of the Tulip Mania? This is something similar.

Wow! He or she must be a game addict. Spending money this much for a game accessory is crazy. He must be very rich. I wish I was the seller. :)

yeah there are a lot of people who actually spend that much money on the games as they want to get full collections or something like that though i doubt its worth the money and efforts

i would never buy such an item for so much money in my opinion, first of all i wouldnt have anywhere to use it as i dont play that game and secondly i need more money for a living

I wasn't shocked after reading this. There are tons of CS:GO fans/players out there. They don't actually mind buying an item there that costs a lot simply because they know that they can sell it one day especially if that item is limited. These kind of items are just like the items in the real world which you can sell it after a long time. You just hold on to it for a long time and then if the item is on demand and you put it in auction, then surely your money will double or even triple.

Some people (well, most of them) playing CS:GO are pure morons, kinda stupid, and ready to buy all that shit.

Maybe I am just a little off the pace today, but where are you seeing that $55k was paid for this thing?

It would suggest they are fairly smart to coin up such an advanced

money laundering system while brushing up on ur headshots

How could they do money laundering using that ? Money can't be withdrawn of Steam.

How people can be stupid like this really hard to believe on that kind of foolish stories, $55,000 spent on a digital item and i believe buyer was drunk at that time or it is self buy item maybe that is easiest way to get publicity with that kind of trick.

No but u need to explain how u spent ur 55k and why ur whole

steam team was up for 6 weeks straight playing CS

 :D

I have no Steam team. What are you talking about ? I've never completely understood your posts. You're a kind of new Nostradamus :P...

The Dutch Golden Age

And the invention of advanced money laundering

Sire where did those 10,000 gold coins in ur vault come from

ahh I sold 10 fresh tulips to the Duke, his mistress

demanded them,

This reminds me much of those real estate madness in Entropia. Check it out: http://singularityhub.com/2010/11/21/man-sells-virtual-real-estate-in-online-game-for-635000-wtf-video/

$250 Million for a Real Appartment  in  New York

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/05/central-park-south-pad-selling-for-250-million.html

that's like the epitome of money laundering

how did u earn the quarter billion

ahhh just flipped a few pads was nothing really

Wow, Unbelievable, this is the power of collector. The collector always has unlimited money... :o  well, $55,000 only for re-skin weapon.... I can't understand it, what did can make a collector want to spent their much money for that....  and it's only a skin.....  I got shocked after I've heard this news.

Look at his username:


I think this gives the 'why' away.

That's just crazy!
Ok I can understand the gamers paying a few hundred bucks for really rare items.
I can even understand if people pay ~ $2000 for a capital ship in star citizen.
But 55K for a knife??? Jesus christ!!

I can see why people want to do crazy stuff like that.... I played a strategy MMO and you buy crystal packs in the game, to enable you to grow much faster and also add crazy looking skins

for your castles and hero's. I just cannot see why someone would dump $55k into a damn dagger... that is just crazy... yes small amounts like $10  to $100 .... but not $55k ...Wow.

Unfortunately that game, do not accept Bitcoin, which is a pitty, because it give loads of fun and entertainment.  ;D ;D ;D .... If we get one of these games to start accepting Bitcoin, the price would

skyrocket... lot's of kids with loaded pockets, but not allowed to use it, because of age restrictions.

Not just morons, you need to be a rich moroon  :P
But like has been said, it's probably just some money laundry...

some people are going to see a very expensive skinned blade on their replays

lol, i have seen these wierd expensive trades on steam where people buy items that should be worth $0.10 with $500 but never this much!
it is definitely shady!

I fully agree. He has spent in fact over $100k on CS:GO items. But this item in particular was with Bitcoin so I found it interesting to share.

that amount of $$ for a CSGO skin???
And its a very ugly skin:D
OGM..

Wow he literally paid 55k$ for some shiny pixels. We all pay for pixels while we are buying bitcoins but that is a whole different level of madness.

Will he be able to resell those pixels for the same amount? I doubt it. He is probably richer than any of us combined here so he didn't give a damn about that probably.

I hate to say this..

But he will probably sell it for more to a Chinese / Arab collector. And they will pay a lot.

He could potentially make profit.

 Yes but with a Ferrari, you would have to sell it again to receive funds, this way it's direct.  Seller and buyer are in the same game so to speak ;)

You have a point. Watson seller and buyer is the same person 

Wat better way to launder money than with your alt,

This way you could be the buyer or the seller

depending on which way the BTC prices goes

and the balance of your tax return

I have steam installed in my laptop but never played CS:Go but have heard about this in many places but my question is does that $55K is withdrawable from steam network? ???

If yes, this may be intresting to check but paying 15$ for a game is really expensive.

Good vid about the most expensive digital items ever sold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUNRl3kAATk

Some I guess make sense from a business standpoint, some are just people being dumb that have too much money on their hands.

Secondly life is mad.  The amount people spend on virtual property is unbelievable but they do make money out of it from those who visit their property/planet.

Well in this case, if he can afford 55k on a skin then I'm sure that his bank balance is pretty deep.  

It's too much money, anyone w/ the slightest brain can see that - but! There is a glimmer of good news about things like this.

It shows virtual world economies, lifestyles, the concept of earning a living exclusively via work in virtual worlds ; as well as, by consequent, more in-depth virtual realities, eventually leading to full-immersion VR, are well in progress!

This is the dream. The sacred vision of the future all us cyberpunks/gamers/anime fans/many other circles have longed for since the '80's.

That's pretty much how I looked at this - Bitcoin is being used in a different marketplace. I thought this was good news.
But I am still baffled with a purchase for just pixels... $55k is ridiculous

I am astonished....that is a huge amount of money for a digital item.  Who would have thought?

That's not impossible either. People are really smart nowadays and use whatever platform to transfer money, even through games. I mean, just imagine that the seller and the buyer are mates, and just used CS:GO to transfer funds.

I think we getting a bit too deep XD

I know that dota 2 item was sold for $38,000 but it's new record i think, so huge amount of money.

why it worth 55,000!?
special edition or limited edition?

btw...few years later when no 1 play CS:GO, it worth nth... ::) ::)

This is true. The less people that play CS:GO = a drop in price of skins - Not necessarily! People believe it or not, actually trade CS:GO items as a job, and example would be a user named cAre. His inventory is worth around $200k and trades daily.

As for the knife, the pattern is one in the world. Extremely rare.

thats why it worth 55,000
but if I got that money I would prefer to buy some real-world's stuffs, at least I can hold it in hand :P

You sound like my dad :D he questions why I have spent so much on digital / virtual skins


CS:GO skins give you the most satisfying feeling if you play the game.

I can understand why people paying money for online game for better items...
however, just a better skin I don't think it really worth that much of money

It's debatable. Personally I agree with the fact that this is insanely high priced. But I find it completely normal to have skins worth $5k-10k.

wow congrats to the seller who sold the item, I guess he struck the big jackpot when he know his item sold for $55,000 USD. This world is amazing, someone that are willing to spend so much money to buy one virtual item :D

And I personally think someone else is going to buy it for more :3

the seller and buyer prolly own both accounts and only try to make the item seam more worth. just my thoughts..

I highly doubt that, purely because the Dubai collector that sold the knife is extremely reputable.

You suggestion isn't a bad one though :D

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Obviously the money wasn't doing anything useful where it was before - may it find a better home.

I would build a business rather buying item that price its so lucrative only rich kids can afford.

I'm thinking to stop mining and start playing games :D

No need to play, you can invest some money and start trading in steam.

Altcoin trading out, CS:GO item trading in =)