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That's actually pretty cool. A rare win-win scenario. Pros get a cool skin for the Major, collectors get to see their skin on the big stage, and the audience doesn't have to look at a Safari Mesh while they watch.
@@TheKimoLofi i never heard of that. ive heard that some pros have borrowed skins thats been in their inventory for a long time because the collectors wouldnt ask for them back
Even if they weren't borrowing the expensive skins they could afford to buy the expensive skins themselves so this doesn't matter. Only adds value to the skins.
what a lot of ppl don't realize is collectors WANT to lend out their skins to top players. They could afford them if they really wanted, they're the ones receiving the offers not the other way around.
Just because you can afford 250k for a skin doesn't mean you want it. This is a massive logical fallacy. Yes, they can afford them, no that doesn't mean they are willing to spend the money on them. Why do you have more than $0 in your bank account? Whenever you have more than 0 you can afford things and thereby have to buy them, as per your own logic.
Being able to afford something is different that wanting to shell the money for it. No matter what these people tell you, they're still just pixels. Pro players are better off investing their money on real property or investment than gambling on game skins.
@@silentKeys20 that's exactly what i said in the post they could afford it if they wanted but wouldn't (waste their money buying it when they can get it for free/waste unnecessary funds)
they do receive offers but lot of pros also ask for them, ofc a player like m0nesy or Zywoo would get bunch of offers but when donk was starting out he was asking to borrow a knife from collectors who denied his request.
yea its pretty cool to lend out skins to the pros for the big events, as someone in the server its cool to see skin community and pro community blend into a "looking for __" and getting very unusual skins in response. cant wait to see my skins at the major!
As a member of the discord who has lent out plenty of skins in the past and also has some in the current major i can tell that this was portrayed really well, great video! Also just to clarify, its not just whales lending out things. While it is a bit hard nowadays to get into the discord theres plenty of people in there who just have a passion for collecting unique stuff that isnt insanely expensive as well.
Its funny to see comments like" market manipulation" in the past years it has not once crossed my mind to think " if i.e. xertion does something fancy with my gun the price will go up" i am just happy that they enjoy the skins.
@tempcsgo5803 i have never sold anything for more because i had lent it out, also the only time there was a price spike was whenever s1mple used nomad knifes as far as im aware, which was a weird thing but not planned at all as far as i can tell. Also hello mister who sent me nice cologne merch, i recognize that name :D
5:28 this sounds like some dressmakers/brands are offering celebrities their dress/suit for them to wear on the big event. In this case, collectors are dressing up the pro players and I'm in for it
honestly a win for everyone involved, the pros get to look better in game without spending lots of money, and the collectors get to see their skins on stage instead of just sitting in their inventory
@@richardalcantara3359 I mean if they have a famous whiff with the skin I imagine that would also increase the value, or even just a famous play. Doesn't need to be winning it all
how is it market manipulation when all advertisers do it as well? even nike or any famous sports brand gets a boost in their sales when one of the major contracted players wins a championship.
s1mple using a borrowed nomad knife blue gem for a while single handedly boosted nomad knife prices all across the board, it went from a knife almost nobody paid attention to to a desired knife
Imagine if stattracks didnt reset after trading And you just let the pro's farm kills and say you got 100 mayor kills on your gun How sick will that be
I was asking myself how young players who are said to have no money when they start, they go pro and suddenly have all the skins in pro matches, thank you !
Lending is super fun! Another cool thing about lending is most of the time the pro player adds you on steam which allows you to flex even more. I lended to W0nderful for Copenhagen so that was fire. Hopefully Fl4mus wins this year so I can keep my 100% major winner lend status.
The thing that was not said but that is very important: As a collector it can also be profitable as you can add sentimental value to the skin, cuz sure there can be more of the same case hardened crafts, but with THIS one s1mple has clutched and won the Major (or whatever cool scenario). That skin then picks up more value than just the "average" market value.
@@aqktan You dont get it back. That's why I only lend to pros who have a rep they can collateralize. Never lend out to people who have nothing to lose.
@@aqktan ive never had a situation where someone intentionally didnt give it back. because oftheir semi-pro status, they are inclined to give it back else risk a reputational hit to their career which comes worse if they ever went pro. however i have had 1 guy who got vacced while having a few skins including a skeleton knife, gloves & a hydroponic ak skin. since then ive been more careful.
Who remembers the OG days where gambling sites would lend pros skins, with a nametag to that was an url to the site. Cause the HUD on the mainstream was just the ingame hud so everyone saw the item names. 😉
only t1 pros with big orgs have the privilege to borrow these skins. If you're an amateur or a t2/t3 pro most likely you get skins 1-3k range while a person like zywoo can ask for a 100-1m skin and it'll be fine.
Every major. Wow dragonlore + titan holo + ibuypower holo. AK blue gem. Knife also blue gem, ruby etc etc. Vice gloves wow. Like first year or two it was cool. But now? Its boring, you can have so many other skins that someone rarly uses, ok now probably alot will use armory pass collection and case skins but a lot will use same old skin crafts that everybody knows about. Its like going to an autoshow - wow Ferarri 250 GTO. Next year cool Ferrari 250 GTO. Third year nice Ferarri 250 GTO. Next year, Ou yeah 250 GTO i know. Everybodys seen it by now.
So... what happens if the pro doesn't give the skins back lol? heard about something like that happening all the way back when S1mple 1st started competing again after his ban and some dude loaned him some stuff and he wanted to keep it. As far as I know, there was no punishment, so are the collectors just screwed?
if a known pro doesn‘t give the skins back he will get massive backlash from the whole high tier skin community and probably won‘t borrow anything ever again
What really matters is not ur awp to show up in major but u urself...So psychologically it would hv little temporary feel good factor. It affects us in ways like ur money showed up in major not ur potential skills. Just philosophize this.
theScore esports missed the real reason why this is being done, idk if it's cause they didn't realize it or because they thought they covered it well enough or because that was part of the agreement for how they got the info they did. The big reason why collectors would want to do this is because it increase the value of their skin, in the same way that having a "game-worn jersey" increases the value of that jersey the same goes with these skins. My question is are we going to see Valve crack down on it? Because I think that if we see these skins going on market frequently we very well might see that since technically Valve doesn't approve of third party sales of skins even if we all know they happen, and they're able to be tracked. We could see a business being started by a third party where they arrange deals between players and collectors where the collectors will pay players to use their skins for a major with the hope that that skin is involved in a notable part of that tournament (say it's the glock skin a player used when they won a major, or even something like the scout skin used for olofmeister's boost an event like that) which will increase the value of that skin and they'll see a return on investment when they sell that skin. It might not be happening now but I'm sure there are already shady people out there looking for how they can profit off of something that seems rather wholesome.
its kinda funny tho coz anyone watching the pro matches dont go and ask whos the owner of the skins the general masses just assume the pros own the skins, so the flexing doesnt really work
Those "anyones" who's just a casuals are NOT the target audience of the skins lenders. They target other rich people, who are, presumably, either a part of rich community already or have money AND a passion needed for this skins and prices. Some people,who are not looking to resell, want to cement the legacy of their own skin, if a pro player makes an insane highlight, which is gonna be posted everywhere from twitter to a fragmovies. I mean, one can own some crazy skins, which is one or two in the world, but what's the point of the "in the world" part, when the world doesn't even know about to begin with? Imagine 5 ibp holo sand dune. People would go MAD crazy, when they see it. And imagine, if it does exist on somebody's private inv? Hope you get what I mean.
Think about it like this. If you wanted to have a super car to mess around with for a weekend and you had someone say “hey, you can borrow mine for absolutely free just give it back at some point”… would you take the free car and give it back when you’re done or uninterested in it? Or go out and drop a shit ton of money and buy it then have it sit in your garage and collect dust
@@carlvincentarquio7341 kenny who? kennyS. Those skins aren't prob borrowed. Typically people only borrow skins like ak47 blue gem scar patterns. Karambit blue gems. ibuypower ak47 crafts. Stuff that costs six figures +. Most of kenny's items cost around 2k each so prob not borrowed. Pros still have their own skins that they use. But when we're looking at super rare skins like blue gems, or kato crafts, it's prob borrowed from a skin collector.
Would you lend your skin to a pro?
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I wish i had infinite money. Or something like that.
That's actually pretty cool. A rare win-win scenario. Pros get a cool skin for the Major, collectors get to see their skin on the big stage, and the audience doesn't have to look at a Safari Mesh while they watch.
But some pros don’t give you your skins back
@@TheKimoLofi really? I bet it's s1mple lol
@@TheKimoLofiimagine risking it like that lmao
@@TheKimoLofi I guess that's what the platform is for. No idea how reliable it is, but at least there are measures to prevent that.
@@TheKimoLofi i never heard of that. ive heard that some pros have borrowed skins thats been in their inventory for a long time because the collectors wouldnt ask for them back
So basically every big tournament is unofficially turned into a fashion show run by the rich whales.
yeah and im pretty boy flacka baby
Always has been
having a pro do an iconic 5v1 clutch with your ak or awp skin could raise its potential value
Isn't it been like this since skin was a a thing?
Even if they weren't borrowing the expensive skins they could afford to buy the expensive skins themselves so this doesn't matter. Only adds value to the skins.
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what a lot of ppl don't realize is collectors WANT to lend out their skins to top players. They could afford them if they really wanted, they're the ones receiving the offers not the other way around.
Its both, for majors and big events theres 1 channel where pros will ask for skins and 1 where collectors can offer up skins for any pro to borrow.
Just because you can afford 250k for a skin doesn't mean you want it. This is a massive logical fallacy. Yes, they can afford them, no that doesn't mean they are willing to spend the money on them.
Why do you have more than $0 in your bank account? Whenever you have more than 0 you can afford things and thereby have to buy them, as per your own logic.
Being able to afford something is different that wanting to shell the money for it. No matter what these people tell you, they're still just pixels. Pro players are better off investing their money on real property or investment than gambling on game skins.
@@silentKeys20 that's exactly what i said in the post they could afford it if they wanted but wouldn't (waste their money buying it when they can get it for free/waste unnecessary funds)
they do receive offers but lot of pros also ask for them, ofc a player like m0nesy or Zywoo would get bunch of offers but when donk was starting out he was asking to borrow a knife from collectors who denied his request.
Imagine getting my AK-47 Safari Mesh Battle Scarred to a CS2 major or in a graffiti.
if it doesnt have 4x ibuypower holo on it chances are you ain't getting that thing on the big screen
Yo i promise if i ever make it to a major ill borrow ur Ak-47 Safari Mesh Battle Scarred. (Im hardstuck gold on Val and have 50 hours on CSGO)
Dimitri to his granchildren : my awp skins once killed S1mple
now i want to see some pro's rocking a set of entirely safari mesh skins
jL is probably the pro that is most likely to do something like that considering what skins he is usually picking
yea its pretty cool to lend out skins to the pros for the big events, as someone in the server its cool to see skin community and pro community blend into a "looking for __" and getting very unusual skins in response. cant wait to see my skins at the major!
I had the pleasure for paris major. Its nice having the screenshots from in game as a momento.
@@damien5887 same i gave some stuff to woro2k!
As a member of the discord who has lent out plenty of skins in the past and also has some in the current major i can tell that this was portrayed really well, great video!
Also just to clarify, its not just whales lending out things. While it is a bit hard nowadays to get into the discord theres plenty of people in there who just have a passion for collecting unique stuff that isnt insanely expensive as well.
Its funny to see comments like" market manipulation" in the past years it has not once crossed my mind to think " if i.e. xertion does something fancy with my gun the price will go up" i am just happy that they enjoy the skins.
@tempcsgo5803 i have never sold anything for more because i had lent it out, also the only time there was a price spike was whenever s1mple used nomad knifes as far as im aware, which was a weird thing but not planned at all as far as i can tell.
Also hello mister who sent me nice cologne merch, i recognize that name :D
As a member aswell, you can get in with just unique skins and cool sticker crafts, it dont have to be some 50K knife to get in
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@@dingliren-d5j hello monesy i'm simple wanna buy my course play like simple?
5:28 this sounds like some dressmakers/brands are offering celebrities their dress/suit for them to wear on the big event. In this case, collectors are dressing up the pro players and I'm in for it
honestly a win for everyone involved, the pros get to look better in game without spending lots of money, and the collectors get to see their skins on stage instead of just sitting in their inventory
I could barely recognize that it was coltan doing the ad read since I didn't see any vtubers in the back
I tried to get them to put them on the TV in the studio but sadly they're only allowed in my editing dungeon >.
@@theScore_Colten Tape a poster to the front of the tv 😂
That Tigers Jaw sweater!! A true man of culture
This is actually cool to see. Pros and the community (specifically the collectors) are hand in hand in showing off the crazy shit CS has to offer
long story short, it's like having no legs and arms but you have a bugatti and borrow it to people in car competitions
- Give skin to a pro
- Pro win major
- Price of the skin increase
Easy market manipulation
Yeah you just need to win a Major to manipulate the market, it's that easy
@@richardalcantara3359 I mean if they have a famous whiff with the skin I imagine that would also increase the value, or even just a famous play. Doesn't need to be winning it all
how is it market manipulation when all advertisers do it as well? even nike or any famous sports brand gets a boost in their sales when one of the major contracted players wins a championship.
s1mple using a borrowed nomad knife blue gem for a while single handedly boosted nomad knife prices all across the board, it went from a knife almost nobody paid attention to to a desired knife
marketing*
Chances of getting your items back is 50/50
Imagine if stattracks didnt reset after trading
And you just let the pro's farm kills and say you got 100 mayor kills on your gun
How sick will that be
no
i knew that people lent skins to be seen, but didn't know about the discord. nice video
I was asking myself how young players who are said to have no money when they start, they go pro and suddenly have all the skins in pro matches, thank you !
For real, this video was such a mood booster!
Tigers Jaw hoodie is so based
literally just commented about it. first hes wearing wicca phase merch and now hes got tigers jaw merch. W music taste
Lending is super fun! Another cool thing about lending is most of the time the pro player adds you on steam which allows you to flex even more. I lended to W0nderful for Copenhagen so that was fire. Hopefully Fl4mus wins this year so I can keep my 100% major winner lend status.
Its really cool that this can be done on CS. Wish other games could do this.
The thing that was not said but that is very important: As a collector it can also be profitable as you can add sentimental value to the skin, cuz sure there can be more of the same case hardened crafts, but with THIS one s1mple has clutched and won the Major (or whatever cool scenario). That skin then picks up more value than just the "average" market value.
Thanks for this great video, i've always been wondering how the pros lend these skins and how it keeps the skins "safe"
Lended some of my skins to jkeam in Paris major. Was nice to see my skins in a major
I’ve had a few pros sign my skins, awesome to have as souvenirs
Ah yep my Awp safari mesh FT
They definitely want that
I already expected when seeing flusha from time to time using a skin back in the old csgo, heck i made hella conspiracy around it
love the tigers jaw shirt. I got a feeling u like title fight
Everybody talking about the skins and not about dem whiskers
First this guy is wearing Wicca Phase merch and now hes wearing Tigers Jaw merch??? W music taste.
run for cover records supremacy
Poor nap about to get a flood of people with basic ass k14 holo blue lams and doppler bayonets lmao.
i can smell you and it is not a good smell
@@hutch1010 My father will hear about this.
Meanwhile my entire inventory is an AK Slate, glock catacombs, and Huntsman black lam lol
tigers jaw hoodie goes incredibly hard
“Your Awp to make history”
my awp: safari mesh (FT)
Living beings buying pixels
yeh ive got a little side hustle where i loan my skins to some semi-pros for their matches or just whenever they play. been doing it for 10 years now.
what happens if they dont give it back?
@@aqktan You dont get it back. That's why I only lend to pros who have a rep they can collateralize. Never lend out to people who have nothing to lose.
how much do they pay you or do you rent them by rate?
@@aqktan ive never had a situation where someone intentionally didnt give it back. because oftheir semi-pro status, they are inclined to give it back else risk a reputational hit to their career which comes worse if they ever went pro. however i have had 1 guy who got vacced while having a few skins including a skeleton knife, gloves & a hydroponic ak skin. since then ive been more careful.
@@AsherSkylark i dont really have a system. first come, first served. new people i usually charge more.
Who remembers the OG days where gambling sites would lend pros skins, with a nametag to that was an url to the site. Cause the HUD on the mainstream was just the ingame hud so everyone saw the item names. 😉
devin w the tigers jaw hoodie 🙏
mustache jump scare
Boo.
Did this for an aussie semi-pro player a few years back and never got the knife back 😂
im sure no one with an IQ over 70 needed to be told this
Tigers jaw hoodie i love you
I've seen the video where a guy was distracted by 4 titan holo blue gem AK, it does add a competitive advantage 😂
And remember guys after this video Zywoo, Niko or S1mple is not going to ask for your skins! :D BEWARE
a lot of Pros like to steal them too and sell them
respect the tigers jaw hoodie
Devin rocking the Midwest emo drip
dope tigers jaw hoodie brah
Wait I love the Tigers Jaw hoodie
Will be proud for pro player to use my skins, the default skins. 😂😂
I dare these collectors to lend at least a skin to elige 😂
This is the equivalent of renting a Lambo lmao, just to flex.
but an actual professional is using it.
You wouldnt let Lewis Hamilton borrow your lambo?
i smell an exit scam
only t1 pros with big orgs have the privilege to borrow these skins. If you're an amateur or a t2/t3 pro most likely you get skins 1-3k range while a person like zywoo can ask for a 100-1m skin and it'll be fine.
they lend those skins out to increase their value and profit from it
When even pros can't reasonably justify the prices of buying these overinflated NFTs
Every major. Wow dragonlore + titan holo + ibuypower holo. AK blue gem. Knife also blue gem, ruby etc etc. Vice gloves wow. Like first year or two it was cool. But now? Its boring, you can have so many other skins that someone rarly uses, ok now probably alot will use armory pass collection and case skins but a lot will use same old skin crafts that everybody knows about. Its like going to an autoshow - wow Ferarri 250 GTO. Next year cool Ferrari 250 GTO. Third year nice Ferarri 250 GTO. Next year, Ou yeah 250 GTO i know. Everybodys seen it by now.
tigers jaw, dude. respect.
I would love to see a pro use my battle scarred $9 deagle
Man if I would’ve gotten into skins earlier smh
1k$ for a monitor is crazy
Can you guys make a video on how Marvel Snap community is imploding right now with their game monetization and disappointing series drop?
Scammers love this ! this vid should should come with a huge warning
man kept saying "ME" while i only owh a vanilla stilleo knkfe
And Elige is just like: nah, thanks, f* you.
Couldnt be me less the pro was paying to rent my stuff
tiger's jaw nice taste.
Pros invtory is more then my rent
i still don't get it why this channel that talks about esport still doesn't make any MLBB esport content
Zywoo could so easily just get himself all of these skins 😂😂😂 I find this silly
How dimitri got a gungnir lol
tigers jaw shirt 🔥
0:32 game name ??
So... what happens if the pro doesn't give the skins back lol? heard about something like that happening all the way back when S1mple 1st started competing again after his ban and some dude loaned him some stuff and he wanted to keep it. As far as I know, there was no punishment, so are the collectors just screwed?
if a known pro doesn‘t give the skins back he will get massive backlash from the whole high tier skin community and probably won‘t borrow anything ever again
i saw water
The tigers jaw hoodie tho. emo lives
KBIZZY MENTIONED
What really matters is not ur awp to show up in major but u urself...So psychologically it would hv little temporary feel good factor. It affects us in ways like ur money showed up in major not ur potential skills. Just philosophize this.
Skins = wins, of course it makes sense for pros to use them 😉
Zywoo earns 80k a month he could be a whale too now
The players make history not your overpriced skins
I don't see the issue here?
I finally get some recognition nice
Skin speculators trying to hype their skin .. so sad
I am Faceit lvl 3 player, nobody lends me :(
im proud of my 1$ skins 😁
theScore esports missed the real reason why this is being done, idk if it's cause they didn't realize it or because they thought they covered it well enough or because that was part of the agreement for how they got the info they did. The big reason why collectors would want to do this is because it increase the value of their skin, in the same way that having a "game-worn jersey" increases the value of that jersey the same goes with these skins. My question is are we going to see Valve crack down on it? Because I think that if we see these skins going on market frequently we very well might see that since technically Valve doesn't approve of third party sales of skins even if we all know they happen, and they're able to be tracked. We could see a business being started by a third party where they arrange deals between players and collectors where the collectors will pay players to use their skins for a major with the hope that that skin is involved in a notable part of that tournament (say it's the glock skin a player used when they won a major, or even something like the scout skin used for olofmeister's boost an event like that) which will increase the value of that skin and they'll see a return on investment when they sell that skin. It might not be happening now but I'm sure there are already shady people out there looking for how they can profit off of something that seems rather wholesome.
haha, is this equivalent to me borrowing 7b from my friends on osrs? :P over 1k usd in loans XD
simple borrow my paw 🙏🙏🙏🙏
its kinda funny tho coz anyone watching the pro matches dont go and ask whos the owner of the skins
the general masses just assume the pros own the skins, so the flexing doesnt really work
Yeah but Twitter exists
Maybe it's about flexing for a small number of people.
Those "anyones" who's just a casuals are NOT the target audience of the skins lenders. They target other rich people, who are, presumably, either a part of rich community already or have money AND a passion needed for this skins and prices. Some people,who are not looking to resell, want to cement the legacy of their own skin, if a pro player makes an insane highlight, which is gonna be posted everywhere from twitter to a fragmovies. I mean, one can own some crazy skins, which is one or two in the world, but what's the point of the "in the world" part, when the world doesn't even know about to begin with? Imagine 5 ibp holo sand dune. People would go MAD crazy, when they see it. And imagine, if it does exist on somebody's private inv? Hope you get what I mean.
This needs explaining?
Who gives a fuck about digital pixels lol
Zoomer era is L A M E
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This is so pathetic lmao
is this real? I mean pro players can buy skins easily
bro pro players have been borrowing skins from chinese collections for years now. no player is spending 200k+ for an ak skin.
I’m sure pro players would rather buy houses and cars, instead of a skin that they can easily just borrow
@@fearlessdistinguish4186 what about Kenny? Is it also borrowed skins?
Think about it like this. If you wanted to have a super car to mess around with for a weekend and you had someone say “hey, you can borrow mine for absolutely free just give it back at some point”… would you take the free car and give it back when you’re done or uninterested in it? Or go out and drop a shit ton of money and buy it then have it sit in your garage and collect dust
@@carlvincentarquio7341 kenny who? kennyS. Those skins aren't prob borrowed. Typically people only borrow skins like ak47 blue gem scar patterns. Karambit blue gems. ibuypower ak47 crafts. Stuff that costs six figures +. Most of kenny's items cost around 2k each so prob not borrowed. Pros still have their own skins that they use. But when we're looking at super rare skins like blue gems, or kato crafts, it's prob borrowed from a skin collector.
Hello, this is uh .. totally Simple, um. Pls send me your cool knives pls :3