How to Sell CS Skins - What are the options?

Since the release of Skins that these items have accumulated a lot of value. There have been items being sold for thousands of dollars and some players actually use them as an investment.

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Through cases or some insane weekly drops, people have items on their inventories and want to try and cash out. Selling to players, external marketplaces or instant selling services are some of the options available nowadays.

Each type of service will differ between safety, speed and the amount of money you have to give up due to fees. Read more below.

Peer to Peer

Selling items with other players directly isn't something new. There are numerous examples from other games where players decide to make exchanges of cash to online items, mostly due to the rarity of these things.

Counter-Strike wasn't an exception. It wasn't long before players started exchanging skins for cash. This method probably started as the worst one, but right now isn't as bad (at least if you are the one selling the items). I think that the trade reversal implemented by Valve helps this users to sell items between, because if the money doesn't arrive you can just reverse the trade.

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Still with only 7 days of escrow to reverse the trade, it is normal for people to be fearful with this method, as the safety net is very thin. Thus there are people that offer their services as middlemans, but mostly for highly valuable trades and has a fee.

Nowadays you can also find streamers and content creators that buy inventories from people. But the prices that they do are considering a certain percentage of the value of the items in BUFF Market.

External Marketplace

External marketplaces were the solution created for the first method. A platform that connected buyers and sellers while also providing a middleman service to ensure some type of safety between the two parts.

This was essential to bring some confidence to real cash transactions, as the Peer to Peer alternative didn't provide much safety. The downsides of this system are simple.

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In order to accelerate the sale you would probably have to post your item on multiple websites, if possible. Because some of these external markets would require trading your item into one of the platforms' accounts, meaning you would've to choose for the platform with most traffic.

Then comes the fees... since you are using a platform there are fees associated with it. These fees can vary, but at first they were pretty big, sometimes up to 20% of the sale.

Nowadays with more competition you can find out who has the best fees for your use case.

Automatic bots and Instant Selling

If you don't want to wait for the whole process of posting the item, waiting for a seller to arrive and get the deal done there is a instant alternative.

There are a ton of websites that now provide an instant selling service of skins, you trade your item with a bot and within the next day you will get the money. Again this is great for people that hate waiting, but it comes with a caveat, a bigger fee.

These places will probably end up giving you less money than using an external marketplace, considering that their service buys your skins on the fly.

So if you don't care about the end price and just want to get this done, this might be the best solution.

It is important to understand that selling your skins outside of the steam market is against the TOS of steam.

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