r/Csgotrading

posted a field tested asiimov, basically clean, no scope scratches worth mentioning, and the first offer in is something like 40 percent of where it sits on buff. i get that everyone wants a deal but make it a believable one, that's not a lowball it's just disrespectful lol. second guy comes in even lower and tops it with "that's the market bro." the market according to who exactly, your own wallet?

at some point the few quid you'd squeeze out of haggling stops being worth the time and you just want the thing gone with money in the account. anyway that's the vent over, back to refreshing offers that make me reconsider my hobbies

The site rec threads here go in circles because people argue brands when the variable that moves the math is the model underneath. Two structures exist. Peer to peer, where you list and wait for another person to hit your ask, and counterparty, where the platform is the other side of every trade and you transact against its inventory on the spot.

On p2p your price discovery is genuine. You can sit close to Buff and the spread is whatever you negotiate, but liquidity is your problem and the wait is real on anything that isn't already in demand. On counterparty the liquidity is instant because the platform is always willing to be the buyer or seller, and you pay for that in a spread baked into both sides. The part people forget is that the spread widens on illiquid items, since the platform takes on the same offload risk you were trying to avoid, so a weird float or an off meta sticker craft costs you more to move fast than a clean liquid AK does.

So match the model to the item instead of picking a forever site. Liquid and you want it gone, the counterparty instant price is fine. Illiquid or high enough value that the spread is real money, list it p2p and wait it out.

i want FN huntsman marble fade but if you have any good offer you can send it in a price range of 180-200$

tradelink: https://steamcommunity.com/tradeoffer/new/?partner=351885598&token=Mx4XRJt5

Coming back to cs2 after being away a couple of years and I want to grab maybe two or three skins so my loadout stops looking like the day I installed the game. Problem is the whole buying side shifted while I was gone and I genuinely can't tell which sites are safe to put money through now. I'm not trying to trade or flip anything, I just want a few pieces I like and then I'm done.

I’ve been playing Counter strike for 12 years now, I started off as a kid and now I’m a grown adult and just landed my first job as a quant researcher.

I started a project during my Masters of building CS2 website scrapers and I implemented them into a trade up finder using mathematical models like NPV , IRR and listing depths to rank me the best trade ups. For the math nerds you would appreciate the amount of math I put into the project. I used a NPV Decaying equation skins get more expensive as you buy the cheapest listings, so the more you buy of the same skin, the more and more expensive it will get down the list, that’s just how price decaying works because if people trying to undercut each other when selling, so the decaying equation takes this into account.

What started off as a project to land me a job, made me a good amount of money to fund most of my Masters, which was pretty expensive as I am an international student in London ( my tuition fees alone were £51,000) , the trade up finder was able to make me a good 800-1200 a week. ( such a huge relief on uni fees burden, the London living is really not for the weak lol)

I won’t have time anymore to do these tradeups, I hope you guys can appreciate the maths behind this. Also the trade ups prices and floats are scraped from real live listings , so every trade up is possible the second you look at it, not like these other trade up finders that give you the most unrealistic floats and prices. I also built in a listing depth feature that scrapes all cs2 markets available and shows you how many tradeup contracts you can craft from the tradeups listed.

I hope you guys check it out and let me know your honest feedback and if you have any questions about the math behind the system , I would be very happy to answer any questions. I appreciate everyone I came across along the 12 years I played this game, but now it’s time for me to go. ❤️

Hey, solo dev. I kept opening Skinport, DMarket, Market.CSGO and Steam in

separate tabs every time I wanted a skin, so I built one place that does it:

https://clutch.deals/

- Cheapest price for any CS2 skin across Skinport, DMarket and Market.CSGO,

with the discount vs Steam.

- Shows the float + stickers of the actual cheapest piece — the real listing

you'd buy, not a generic price.

- Price history per skin so you can tell if now's a good time.

- Community "good buy?" rating that also shows the price it was rated at, so

the score still means something when prices move.

- Inventory value tracker (Steam login) + a share card of your top skins.

Free, no pushy ads, still in beta (I ship most days). Not affiliated with any

market — prices move, always verify on the target site before buying.

Would genuinely appreciate feedback: missing markets, wrong prices, anything

that feels off. What would make you use it over checking manually?

i wanted to do a csfloat to SCM arbitrage but i had a problem. i can not deposit money to csfloat as i am 17 years old and the only way to deposit is buy buying items on SCM and selling them on csfloat and that makes me loss lots of money so i have to wait till october until i become 18 years old but i need a way to earn money from csfloat without wasting those 3 months . what do you recommend??

Hey everyone. This last week I was watching the Cologne Major. I use to play a lot of CS in high school back in 2015. Haven’t touched the game in over 10 years. Anyway logged in and saw some of my items have some significant value. Karambit, case hardened AK, AWP.

Where do you go these days to sell these things? I have to use for steam cash. Any way to safely liquidate this old inventory?

Obviously the basics of not responding to DMs or random trade requests etc. TIA!