Items to avoid investing in CS2 Pt.1

Interested in investing in Counter-Strike Skins? Throught this series I will explain why certain items shouldn't be considered as a better option, saving you some future troubles.

There are over twenty thousand items on the Counter-Strike Market and more to come. Still due to this influx of new updates, the market hasn't tanked and carries some good value in terms of market cap.

It is expectable that some items will have a worse perfomance than others, it is hard to predict which will rise faster, but there are always a few things to look out for.

Well-Worn Items could lead to a loss

Counter-Strike skins come in many shapes, forms and floats. We could have two skins of the same collection and pattern, but the wear of it could distinguish a better look between the two items.

Well-Worn is the second to last when it comes to the worst wears, but this isn't what makes it a bad investment. Scratched skins doesn't mean that they will be cheap, for example, when the Black Scope Asiimov started to pick up in popularity made it very expensive.

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What really puts the well-worn in a bad place is essentially two things: bad in terms of liquidity and high in volatility. The Well-Worn items are usually not that frequent drops, which makes the pool of items small.

Also the difference of prices and looks between well-worn and battle-scared doesn't justify the purchase, which means that a player would be more driven to get a battle-scared with a good float, rather than the well-worn.

Getting a Well-Worn item, could eventually lead to a bigger time span when it comes to sell it. And if you get a high tier one, the worse it can get, unless the skin has something that interests a niche.

Skins with certain patterns

Besides floats, every pattern has different arrangements and some of them could raise the value of the skins. The most common example is the Case-Hardened skins. The amount of blue would drive the price up, but it wasn't for certain.

The blue gem was definetly the pattern to have, but the fever of the case-hardened would expand into different patterns. The Blue Magazine, or the blue on the inspect side would be considered less valuable than the Blue Gem, but still over the average market price.

These type of items aren't the best to have stored, mostly because it is like pitching it to a niche. All players will prefer the blue gems, but then the tastes will start to be different as the rest of the patterns start to hit the market.

If you end up buying one of these patterns, you could have some difficulty selling later on. Maybe at the time you are selling it there aren't many interested players and that overprice you were looking for could vanish.

Conclusion

The key takeaway from this small article is to keep your items within a certain spectrum: liquid and that spark interest of the general player base.

Having liquid assets is always positive, because it means that you will be able to trade or sell them quickly. Moving faster allows you to have shorter loops of buying and selling, and also expand your portfolio.

If you follow this criteria the items that you will buy, most likely will have a steady growth, mostly because the general public agrees that they are good.

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