Why do people make fun of people who purchase skins to use in game? Yeah it's just pixels but so is the game you just bought for $60 according to your logic. You can a cool experience with the weapon and you stand out. What's stupid about that? Then after you're done with that knife or skin you can simply resell it back and only lose a couple of bucks in taxes. Kinda like putting a deposit on the skin, then when you're done, return the skin for the deposit. OPskins is a great website for this because you can actually use paypal money instead of steam money.
I don't have any knives or spend any money on the game but I don't think people who do it are "stupid." just upsets me when people make fun of them lol