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Welcome to another episode of SHOW ME YOUR SKINS
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The program in which together with my guests we talk about their inventory
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and surely we get to learn many interesting things about their skins
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And if you'd like to be a part of the program, all you need to do is show us your skins
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Maybe you'll be the one we invite to another episode
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Before we move on to the next guest
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I'd like to invite you to visit Kingu.in/szpero, where you can find many cool things for CS:GO players
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And my today's guest is Tomasz "phr" Wójcik, well known Polish CS:GO player
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Former player of Virtus.pro, Illuminar and AGO
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- Hello Tomek! Thanks for joining us
- Hello!
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I won't start with CS:GO, because I've heard you had some contact with skins in other games as well
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Could you tell us a bit about it?
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I've been trading a lot in TF2
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It was more about metals, which you got from utilizing weapons dropped during the game
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And we had three levels - for three first-level metals you were getting one second-level metal
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For three second-level metals you were getting one third-level metal,
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So later you could use it for trading
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And obviously some of the weapons were more uncommon
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So you could sell it for more
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I don't recall the name of it, but there was a website similar to CSGOlounge
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where all the trading was happening
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If you were a lucky guy, you could also drop a hat
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- Did you get a hat?
- More than once!
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I was lucky enough to even get some kind of knife
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Because unusual hats had some kind of special effects
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For example your head was getting green
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It doesn't tell me much, but I see you were into TF2
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Did you make any money of it? Or was it just about trading?
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I made some money and it was quite a lot
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Back in the days I used to play it a lot
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I was also idling just to get some extra drops
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There was a limit of 6 drops per week
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And I think I made from it about $7500-$10,000
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Obviously you could get even more, but I was the guy who was buying cheap and selling more expensive
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If you were lucky enough, you could even drop a hat worth $10,000
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Unfortunately, I wasn't the chosen one
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But I think we could call it a good beginning before switching to CS:GO
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I was just going to ask about CS - have you been trading skins as well or did you focus on playing?
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It all began with buying CS:GO gift codes, when it wasn't a F2P game
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and I was selling it for keys
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Back then it was the main currency
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- I remember those times...
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Right, so you could really make a lot from it
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but I was also asking my friends from school, if they were interested in buying CS:GO
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And there were a couple of guys who bought it
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So I've been also selling it for real money
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Let's move on to skins, because we haven't talked about CS:GO
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How did it work for you? You just told us about keys, but I'm curious about skins
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How did it start? Were you trying to get some skins to play with or just started trading?
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I tried to switch from trading in TF2 to CS:GO, but CS community was much smarter
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So my previous method wouldn't work
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because the competition was too big
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However thanks to TF2 I've managed to save some money and I spent $1000 for my skins
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I always have some funds for skins, but if I want to, I can sell them
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obviously at lower price, because websites get some commission
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To sum up, it wasn't that easy at the beginnings
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and my first skin that I've bought was M9 Bayonet Night
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If i recall correctly, it was Field Tiested
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I chose it because Factory New that I always buy was too expensive and this "scratched" pattern was kind of my thing
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So how much of your money did you put into this?
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When it comes to CS, I've started with about $25
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but I also told myself that at every LAN event I attend, I'll open 10 cases
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So it was much more. The key is like 6 dollars, right? Let me check
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- It's more like 3 dollars
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So let's say I spent 25 dollars at every tournament
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And I played at plenty of them
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I've opened about 300 cases and didn't get any knife
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Sometimes I got some red skins and I was instantly selling it
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- It happens to some of the guys
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- But it's quite obvious many of us spend some money for it, but only a few make some profit
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Let's move on to your current inventory. Show us what you got
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This is quite a nice fella. Why did you chose this one?
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Well, I like green Dopplers the most, but I think the Falchion one isn't available
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However we have the blue one, which looks nicer to me than Ruby (red)
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Some time ago I had both of them. I was using blue one at CT-side, and the red one while playing as T
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But I cashed out some money and lost quite a bit at commissions, so now I have only the blue one, because I like it more
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That's quite interesting anecdote, that you've been using red one at T side and so on
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Well, it comes to mind that terrorists are red, and CTs are blue
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- I haven't heard about it but it's a cool idea!
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Do you have any skins that remind you of cool things at tournaments?
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I don't get too involved with this kind of things
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but I really like Neo-noir collection
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I don't even know how to prenounce it :D
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Anyway, I like this "anime" style. I also have USP-s from this collection
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I used to have M4A4 as well, but recently switched to The Emperor
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But it fits in pretty nice with the rest
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- So it's more about colourway
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Sometimes it comes up by accident. I don't really pay attention to it
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I also have AK - Legion of Anubis, which for me is the coolest one
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Wild Lotus may be cooler, but I think it's the most expensive AK skin
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What's interesting is that this skin is the first one to have some "3D" elements
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And it's current name isn't relevant, because I just bought it from the market
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Let's go back to trading for a bit. What's the highest you've ever sold a skin?
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I sold M4A4 Howl for 1900 dollars
- I know this skin pretty well!
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- There's a whole story with innocent behind it :D
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And this skin gets more and more expensive. If I checked the price, I'd be crushed
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Same goes for Stiletto Doppler Ruby, which I bought for 600 dollars. Now it's worth even $1000 more!
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It was quite silly of me to sell it so early
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It's easy to predict future prices of some of the skins, basing on cases and collections
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This knife is only in one or two cases, and it's ruby, so it's extra rare
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You can never predict all of the things. You can miss the fact, that some skins can be worth three times more in two years...
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I was more like: "I'm bored with this one, going to buy something different" :D
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It's kind of a meme right now on Twitch, that I switch knife skins pretty often :D
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I would play with one skin a week or two and I just feel that I have to change it
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Maybe the new knife will boost my skill
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- Maybe it's because you're still a trading guy?
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That's right. But I always trade one for one, so in many cases I lose money
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Let's not drag this out. I have two extra questions
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What's current value of all of your skins?
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It's about 1400 dollars right now
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So it's oscillates around my "$1000 budget"
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- That's quite a lot. I'm wondering what's your place in the ranking :D
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And the final question: do you have some dream skins?
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M9 Bayonet Emerald, it's probably my favourite skin
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Emeralds are the best skins, but they're also the most expensive ones
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The only Emerald skin I got was Flip Knife
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- What's the price of M9 Bayonet you're talking about?
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I think it's about 5200 dollars
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Just checked this. The one with StatTrak is worth about $10,000
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- That's quite a lot. I wish you'd afford it someday
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Thank you for coming by!
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Thanks, it was a pleasure being here
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That would be all for this episode. Thanks for watching!
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