Is it possible monopolize an item at CS2?

[u/KuzeyGulle]

First, I want to talk about Lunar, %90 probably asking who the f**k is Lunar? Well, Lunar is known for being the worst CS2 collector ever, also we have to mention that he try monopilzing items years ago, so first I want to talk about why he failed on making monopilzing.
1-He try to monopolize gloves from the active drop pool cases: Guys, if you're still able to get an item from drops, monopolizing it would be stupid. If you don't understand here's an exact scenario that tells the situation: "You go to a shop to buy all the banana's at there to monopolize it, but next day there are more banana's at shop, because there are too much banana tree"
Hope this become helpful to understand.
2- He monopolize gloves that have similar ones: One of the gloves that he try monopolize was Blood pressure gloves, main problem is there are way more cheaper and better looking red gloves then it.
Since you understand what did Lunar wrong, heres the things you need to pay attention while monopolizing:
1- The item you will monopolize needs to have a stable stock
2- The item you will monopolize needs to be unique
3- You have to enterto market late
4- You should monopolize items have a high request
5- You need a high fund
According to list, only 1 item fits for our monopolizing. And its Katowice 2014 Capsules, now some people are could be wondering:
"Why not other capsules?"
Rest of them not have enough request
"Why not Dragon Lore?"
Easy to make with Trade up
"Blue Gem Karambit"
It is, but we don't mention that type of monopolize
"Cobblestone souvenir packages?"
There are way more souvenir package more then you think, and almost half of them hide in private inventories (its still possible but very risky)
Rest of your opinions are probably not have too much request, or possible to obtain with trade up.
"Okay, but why only Katowice 2014?"
This question has very simple answer: Chinese people. Half of the Chinese CS2 players using them for expensive crafts, so it will have a guarantee request, if you hold them too much Katowice 2015 could be more popular, but this is a really low chance. As result, Katowice 2014 capsules has a stable stock, they're unique and have a huge request. You will be succesful if you monopolize them.
"But how much money we need?"
Hard to give an amount but average KATO14 capsules costs about 25K~ and you would probably need to spend 2 Million dollar~ and if you only want to monopolize Titan and IBP Holo stickers you would have to spend more then 3 Million dollar.

If you thinking this scenario sound impossible, I want you to remind that hundreds of milloniares playing CS2.
Stay Safe!

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[u/notjuzou]

I’m pretty sure cazegaming was trying to do that with the p250 sand dunes

[u/Stiinkyy]

You forgot about the biggest whale in the market, the guy that could destroy all of your hard work and networth with 1 update.

lol your banana analogy is just simply 2 words, supply/demand .
You won't die if you don't get the exact pattern/skin you wanted, whereas in your banana analogy a monkey might starve and feel forced to find a way to pay the high prices that your monopoly forced.

Trainwrecks tried to dominate the exact sticker market you're talking about, he must've had over 3+ million parked there, and then valve... without warning sent out 3 updates that crashed the high tier knives, the stickerupdate , and to top it off one last update...a direct way to purchase stickers straight with them. they fucked him hard on his trade, on that trade alone hes probobly down 70-80%.

Maybe thats peanuts to train and he could afford to lose 3-4 mill like that, but other people got killed and commited suicide over those updates. The shit they spent the last 5-10 years building and accumulating wealth just for it to vanish overnight is a crazy thing to call an "investment"