GamerPay Skins School Lesson 2: Difference Liquids & Niche
GamerPay Skins School Lesson 2: Liquid and Niche items
Are you unfamiliar with what constitutes a Liquid item?
Don’t you really know what a “Niche item” is?
No reason to be worried! Here you learn everything about what makes a liquid item liquid, the meaning of its name, why Niche items are Niche and how you can use that to your advantage!
In this Skins School article, our Professor Asger Yde explains to you the difference, and what to look for when buying and selling CSGO skins!
”Today, we are talking about the difference between liquids and niche items let's get into it.” - Prof. Asger Yde
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Liquid items
Liquids, or pure items as they are sometimes referred to are often basic items with nothing unique to them. Usually, they are easy to sell and relatively stable in price, which makes them high in demand.
Some examples of liquid CSGO skins are the AWP | Asiimov & AK-47 | Redline, this is because these skins are:
Easy to sell
A lot exist
Basic items (meaning they have a regular float & no special pattern)
High sales volume
Nothing unique about the skin
Relatively stable in price
High demand
Due to the lack of special or unique patterns, the uniformity of those skins makes them all cost around the same price. Excluded are Special Floats, StatTrak™ and Stickered items with rare stickers.
This makes it an quite obvious choice of what skins a casual CSGO player will buy or invest in.
Niche items
Niche items on the other hand are basically the polar opposite of liquid items.
They are in low demand, have low sales volume, and also fluctuate a lot in price and thus are difficult to sell.
Buying niche items is often a high-risk high-reward situation due to the factors just mentioned.
Not always though. Sometimes a high risk can also lead to a terrible mistake in buying.
Some examples of niche CSGO skins are Blue gem knives (extremely expensive, rare but also hard to sell),
or items with rare and sought-after stickers, like an AK-47 | Vulcan with 4 x Titan (Holo) | Katowice 2014.
The reason they are counted as Niche CSGO items is because these skins are:
Low sales volume
Often not too many available or existing (Blue gem knives, 4x Kato holo crafts…)
Has one or more unique features such as pattern, float or stickers
Can fluctuate a lot in price
High-risk high reward
Low demand
Difficult to sell
This means that these skins are usually purchased by collectors, who are a bit more into skins and are aware of the factors mentioned above.
There are quite a few collectors who search out to collect rare, and hard-to-obtain items and crafts.
Such as Katowice 2014 holo stickers or crafts, rare souvenirs, rare stickers or Blue gem knives.
It is very important to identify if you’re getting a liquid or a niche item, or an item that is somewhere in the middle when you’re doing a purchase.
If you are unsure, you can always ask us and the community on the GamerPay Discord.
”That way you have an idea of the risk associated with the purchase, as well as how easy it will be for you to sell that item again.” - Prof. Asger Yde
Conclusion
And that wraps up the second lesson of GamerPay Skins School. We hope that you have learned something new and look forward to bringing you the next Skin School article! Prof. Asger Yde
Thank you for reading our article.
You can find all the GamerPay Skins School videos from our beloved Professor Asger on our YouTube!
We hope that this series can bring you CSGO, soon-to-be CS2, skins, items and trading a lot closer!
If you are here to be educated, you will know your way around skins after graduating from our GamerPay Skin School!
