I’ve opened a few cases during tournaments CS2 and ended up with some souvenir skins. To me, they don’t look that special, but I know people pay crazy amounts for certain ones. I can’t figure out if it’s worth keeping them as an investment or if I should just sell while there’s demand. Do you guys treat souvenirs like regular skins or as collectibles with long-term value?
Souvenir value really depends on the exact combo (event/year, map, stickers, teams/players) and the condition, so I wouldn’t lump them all together as “hype.” What helped me was checking how the same souvenir skin behaved across different marketplaces and over time; if the price only spikes around a specific tournament and then fades, I treat it like a short-term collectible, but if it holds up across markets and shows steady demand, I’m more comfortable keeping it. On csmarketcap.com you can pull up price history, see fee-adjusted prices from multiple platforms, and check how the souvenir compares to its non-souvenir version — that gives a clearer picture of whether you’re sitting on a legit collectible or something that’s only hot because of recent buzz.
