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It's inconvenient, but effective for avoiding multiple gem stacks. Personally, I do all my gem conversions by opening a random market page and clicking the "Sell" button to view only those items in my inventory which can currently be traded, then converting the items there. The only way to prevent multiple stacks of gems from occurring is to only convert items which are already available for trade into gems. Worse, there's also no way to do it manually.

However, each different "available for trade" time will create a separate stack, and once the gems become available to trade, they won't automatically restack into one group. This makes them gain the same time limitation, and causes them to be made into a separate group from the gems which are currently tradeable. Trade limitations in this situation are usually from buying the items you want to convert on the market. I know there was an auction that used gems to bid on games long ago, but other than that, I don't know of any other use for the gems, so that's why I thought I'd ask here, just in case if there is a use for them. Multiple groups are created when one converts an item which is not currently available for trading into gems. I have a little over 2,000 gems, and I was wondering if they have any sort of use besides being used to make booster packs. Unfortunately, there's no way to stack them.
