Because of the tremendous power of the Steem Blockchain and the uber cool Steembay you've got a chance to get your hands on a limited set of 2017 Steem Trade Cards and actually profit from doing it!
Are You Curious? OK, Let's Get to the Details!
Let Me Answer These Questions:
- What are you actually bidding on?
- What twists have I created to determine the winning bids?
- What twist could help you profit from the auction that I've turned into a game?
1.) What Are You Actually Bidding On?
We are now in our second year of producing Steem Trade Cards. In 2017 we produced a set featuring 10 stars on this amazing platform.
We went on to print 25 physical cards of each recipient and we have no plans to print any more sets for 2017!
So far we've shipped cards to Nigeria, the Philippines, Panama, India, the Netherlands, The USA, Switzerland and elsewhere. The response has been nothing but positive!
Your 10 featured Steem Stars for 2017! What a distinguished group from homegrown blogging star to world renowned blockchain giants!
Here's a great review from @thecrytotrader who resides in India!
What Twists Have I Created to Determine The Winning Bids?
Twist One:
Here's the fun part. The final sale price will be determined by the 5th highest bid. Once that has been established at the close of the auction the highest bid right through to the 5th highest can all purchase the cards for the low price.
Example:
Let's suppose that @tom bids 11 SBD, @sally bids 10 SBD, @tony 9 SBD, @mary 8 SBD, @bill bids 7 SBD. In this case all of these Steemers can purchase a full set of 10 SteemTradeCards for the price of 7 SBD! Cool, but there's much more!
Twist Two:
Once all of these members have officially purchased a set by transfering the agreed upon price I will upvote their bids with my almost 55,000 Steem Power as follows:
- Highest bid 100%
- Second highest 75%
- Third highest bid 50%
- Fourth Highest bid 25%
- Fifth highest bid 10%
- Of course I will also give some upvotes to @steembay as this project helps all of us!
But there's more!
Twist Three:
When you receive your cards. Make a post about it showing a photo of you with the cards and I'll upvote that post according to the same percentages that I show above! Please be sure to message me when you create the post so that I don't miss it! I will also have your post resteemed from our site @steemtradecards!
What Could All of This Mean For You?
If you check my account you'll see that with my voting power at 85% a full vote would be worth $12.75! This means that you could end up with a set of cards and a profit to boot! How cool is that!
Here's How The Bidding Works (courtesy of @denmarkguy)
The opening bid will be 6.0 SBD
Reply (directly) to this post with "bid x" (where x is the amount you are willing to bid in SBD).
Decimals have to be written with a period instead of a comma (5.9, NOT 5,9). Wait for the bot to log in the bid (it will tell you in seconds if it worked... sometimes it takes up to a minute due to transaction failures of the system)
If someone bids higher than you, the bot will reply to your post and reference your username.
The bot will reply to each accepted bid, stating what is actual highest bid and who is the high bidder. The bot will also reply when you are overbid, and state the new high bidder.
If you need to retract your bid just enter "revoke bid"
"Normal" (non-auction) comments will not interfere with the auction, and will not make you a bidder!
Upvotes are welcome and accepted with gratitude as any rewards from this post will help cover the cost of this project. Please keep in mind that Steemtradecards is a make work project. We pay 10 Steem to the writer of each card, 15 Steem to the graphic artist for each card and we also pay to print and send a set of 10 cards to each recipient!
Shipping is FREE World Wide!
The cards are shipped form Ticino, Switzerland
Payment for winning bid will be in SBD. I will need the winning bidder's contact/shipping information, which we can either exchange via Discord or through Steemit.chat.
More Info About SteemBay
If you are interested in the @steembay project and would like to learn more about it please have a look at the tutorial which can be found here:
I hope that you enjoyed this article about Turning a SteemBay Auction Into a Fun Game Where You Can Profit!
Until next time,
@kus-knee (The Old Dog)
bid 16
Ok Great. I've given you your upvote and once I've got your address I'll send the cards! thanks!
Thanks @kus-knee.
Sent my address to you on discord
I still didn't receive your address over at Discord
Bid accepted! Highest bid is now @gamsam's bid of 16.000 SBD
@gamsam's bid of 16.000 SBD has been overbid by @kalemandra's bid of 17.000 SBD
bid 19
Bid accepted! Highest bid is now @kalemandra's bid of 19.000 SBD
Ok great, I received your transfer. Once I have your address I’ll mail the cards!
The #steembay Auction has finished.
The winning bidder is @kalemandra with an amount of 19.000 SBD - Congratulations!
Oh, my! This is great! I'm sooo happy! How can i pay and whom? @steembay or @kus-knee?
bid 18
Bid accepted! Highest bid is now @meesterboom's bid of 18.000 SBD
Good to see that you are booming the prices of these SteemTradeCards 😄 all the best @meesterboom
Lol, gotta keep it interesting!
Hahah yup 😅
@meesterboom's bid of 18.000 SBD has been overbid by @kalemandra's bid of 19.000 SBD
Wow! I love all the twists and turns you've come up with here! SteemBay is fun though-- I just started my 9th auction today, and I have had a pretty good success rate! And it definitely looks like you're getting a lot of attention already... hope this takes off and runs!
I'll place a bid under a separate comment!
Thanks so much. I do really hope that SteemBay continues to grow and improve.
I think there are already smugglers doin a illicit traficking of those cards :D
Oooh that's exciting to know! One can only speculate as to how much your card will be worth when it comes out!
The twists and turns really make it !!! It is exciting to see how this works...I mean its like watching a real auction!
It works out to everyone’s benefit. Up voting the winning bids us a powerful tool.
Cor blimey. This is great fun!
I think that it should work out well for everyone.
Or it might end up in international murder. I can hear the theme tune to something mysterious already.!! :OD
This is really incredible, many times you do certain things without knowing the great repercussion that you will have behind, it is great what happens in our magnificent platform. I admire from heart the great work you do for the platform and the people dear friend @ kus-knee. I wish you lots of success!
We're having a lot of fun that's for sure!
Why there is no Pakistani? :/
No one from Pakistan has purchase yet but we will ship world wide. How is the mail service there? Is it fairly reliable?
Mail System has much improved over here, the address is easily locatable. Do you use general post service or some else? Like FedEx or DHL?
So far all by regular post. For the envelope that we sent to India we added tracking. It took 15 days but it arrived in good shape. I have also sent a package to the USA. It took 48 hours to get to New York and the 15 days to reach its final destination in Arkansas!
Yeah, normal post takes time and I am sure it will take the same time of 15 Days to Pakistan same as the others.
I need to understand it first before I participate in it! I think this year you will ship to Pakistan too. :)
We will ship world wide.
I didn't know about this! Thanks so much! Upvoted!!
This is getting tougher than I thought it would @meesterboom. :)
Don't worry I'll take good care of the top bidders, especially my brothers in Nigeria!
I will upvote their bids with my almost 55,000 Steem Power
It seems quite intresting, I will get my hands on SteemBay Auction, hope I will be one of those whome you will upvote.
So far we've shipped cards to Nigeria, the Philippines, Panama, India, the Netherlands, The USA, Switzerland and elsewhere. The response has been nothing but positive!
My nationality is Indian hope I will get my hands on these tokens , the response of these tokens will remain good in future too.
They are not tokens but physical cards as shown in the post!
Heyyyy, this project is amazing. How had I not seen it?
Did you see SpiritualMax's post about playing cards with whales and such? What do you think of his version? Did you start before or after him?
I love playing cards lol. I remember that when I was a kid everyone had Yu-gi-oh cards. I myself and all my cousins had them too, and my aunts used to buy me many and I loved to collect them, build my decks and play with them. So making a Steem version, my new favourite thing, ah, this is lovely!
There have been a few card producers and we used to mention them at the end of each new card release. I haven't seen SpiritualMax's post but it soiunds great!
https://steemit.com/steemit/@spiritualmax/steemit-card-game-community-powered-laughs-who-s-your-favorite
This was the beginning of everything. Rancho destroyed that post, so Bernie gave Max a $1000 vote with bots, and then Max started making a lot of those posts to capitalize on their popularity.
And this is the "launch", after a few rounds of nominations and card-creation
https://steemit.com/steemit/@spiritualmax/steem-trading-cards-mega-post-first-edition-launch
Looks interesting. We started this project well over a year ago. That's what's cool about this platform. Different ideas and different followers or audiences!
Yeah, it's just lovely <3 Sometimes people can think of the same thing separately, other times people want to derivate from what others do, and in the end, we end up with technological advancement, the blockchain, space travels and doughnuts. I particularly love doughnuts.
Double chocolate, maple dip or jelly!
owo I want it..
Bit 9
Right now the highest bid is 9.50 so if you have to outbid that to get into the game.
In all my auction days, I have never heard of an auction like that. Intriguing....and out of the box idea. Thanks @kus-knee
Thanks @enjoywithroy. I thought it up but since there is nothing new under the sun I imagine that it's been done before! Who knows!
The twists are awesome and creative this is an amazing proect thanks
@kus-knee
Lots of fun!
bid 17
Bid accepted! Highest bid is now @kalemandra's bid of 17.000 SBD
How exciting. Thanks for the bid!
I'm also very excited! :)
@kalemandra's bid of 17.000 SBD has been overbid by @meesterboom's bid of 18.000 SBD
It is great to have an own #steemtradecard . I will try to get one in next bid because its so interesting.
bid 12.0
Bid accepted! Highest bid is now @denmarkguy's bid of 12.000 SBD
@denmarkguy's bid of 12.000 SBD has been overbid by @meesterboom's bid of 13.000 SBD
It's too late in the cycle for me to give the 25% upvote here so I'll do it on another one of your comments.
Thanks for the support on this auction!
I did not know about this, if you knew it would be very good for me but we have got it done through the blog so much better for the whole world. I enjoyed this post very much like your important post. Many thanks and many wishes.
This is very nice, I’ve always wonder how the bids works. Some say it’s is early bidding but I clearly understand it’s it the amount of bid. Thanks my friend. Keep steeming and touching lives
Very special game really and very wonderful
Well done, my friend, I wish you all the best
I wanna participate here.
Great opportunity. Free shipping.
Thank a lot.
Very nice post man
Start 6.0
Auction is now opened. Starting price is: 6.000 SBD
Bids will be accepted until cashout time: 2018-05-06T11:52:27 UTC
Good job, I appreciate your post.
best of luck my dear friend......
Great content.i appreciate your content. thanks for sharing Valuable post.
Best of luck... @kus-knee
bid 8.5
Bid accepted! Highest bid is now @gamsam's bid of 8.500 SBD
@gamsam's bid of 8.500 SBD has been overbid by @lordjames's bid of 9.000 SBD
Bid 9.0
Bid accepted! Highest bid is now @lordjames's bid of 9.000 SBD
@lordjames's bid of 9.000 SBD has been overbid by @gamsam's bid of 9.500 SBD
Good job @lordjames your still in the game with this bid!
What's the highest bid now.
The highest bid is 11.0 but the fifth highest establishes the price! Fun!
bid 9.5
Bid accepted! Highest bid is now @gamsam's bid of 9.500 SBD
@gamsam's bid of 9.500 SBD has been overbid by @meesterboom's bid of 10.000 SBD
wow
many information this post..thanks for sharing
Thanks a lot for mentioning me friend @kus-knee and i am totally exited to see who 5 are going to win SteemTradeCards for themselves and i also like the twist part that you are going to upvote winning bid from highest to lowest, for make sure that each of them Receive their SteemTradeCards as an affordable and fair price,
Just waiting to see the next highest bidder this time😃 All the best for your auction.
Iam going to Resteem this because some of my Followers were asked me about how they can purchase these SteemTradeCards,so i think right now is a great opportunity for them too.
Cool, this is fun!
wow very excellent post Thanks for sharing i will done upvote..
excellent post ..loving to your blog.thanks for sharing..
It's really....Perfect review and I agree
Hi @kus-knee. I would like to know more about steem cards. I think its something everyone needs to get involved in.
Ask anything that you like or visit our site @steemtradecards.
pretty cool stuff!
bid 10.0
Ooooh @meesterboom I'm excited!!!!!!!! I'll take good care of you my friend!
Hehe, I thought it might be exciting!
Welcome to the auction @meesterboom 😃
Cheers mate, it's my first ever one!
I am sure that you are going to enjoy this steembay auction 😃
Bid accepted! Highest bid is now @meesterboom's bid of 10.000 SBD
@meesterboom's bid of 10.000 SBD has been overbid by @gamsam's bid of 10.500 SBD
bid 11.0
Bid accepted! Highest bid is now @meesterboom's bid of 11.000 SBD
@meesterboom's bid of 11.000 SBD has been overbid by @denmarkguy's bid of 12.000 SBD
bid 10.5
Bid accepted! Highest bid is now @gamsam's bid of 10.500 SBD
@gamsam's bid of 10.500 SBD has been overbid by @meesterboom's bid of 11.000 SBD
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Why there is no Pakistani? ...
owo I want it..
Bit 9
You need to bid over 11.0 to get into the game. This doesn't mean that you'd pay 11 but only 8.5 which is the lowest of the 4 different bids so far! You'd still qualify for the two 100% upvotes!
Did you see SpiritualMax's post about playing cards with whales and such? What do you think of his version? Did you start before or after him?
This has already been posted. Please don't steal other peoples comments!
Looks interesting. We started this project well over a year ago. That's what's cool about this platform. Different ideas and different followers or audiences!
I did not know about this, if you knew it would be very good for me but we have got it done through the blog so much better for the whole world. I enjoyed this post very much like your important post. Many thanks and many wishes.
THX for using our service again!
This sounds like a VERY fun game.
Working hard on improving the services overview matters. (soon done ;-) )
If I can do anything else to support the SteemBay initiative please let me know!
I appreciate that very much, will contact you soon about that, I am pretty sure that we can develop a nice working trading environment with Steem/SBD when we are finished with the next two updates
I am agree thank you for other loan
Great friend project through which they join people from all over the world @kus-knee. Greetings and congratulations
bid 13.0
@meesterboom's bid of 13.000 SBD has been overbid by @gamsam's bid of 14.000 SBD
Bid accepted! Highest bid is now @meesterboom's bid of 13.000 SBD