Market.CSGO, at market.csgo.com, is a long-running CS2 marketplace with its own API. It works a little differently from most, and those differences trip up new traders.
Your skins stay with you until they sell
Market.CSGO sells from your own Steam inventory. When someone buys, the skin goes to them through a Steam trade. That has two consequences you need to plan for:
- You must be online on Market.CSGO, through its app or browser extension, for your offers to show to buyers.
- It needs your Steam trade link, and you need to be ready to send the trades.
If your items are not selling and the price looks right, this is the first thing to check.
Buy orders
You can place a buy order for an item, and sellers can sell to the highest one right away. One account can have one order per item and up to 100 orders in total. Unlike on DMarket, an order's price can be changed in place.
Market.CSGO publishes its buy orders, and we read them every 15 minutes. You can see them beside each item on our prices table, which is useful for comparing them with offers elsewhere.
A simple way to trade here
- Find an item that sells often, with a gap between its highest order and its lowest offer that is wider than the fee.
- Place an order one cent over the highest, under your maximum.
- When it fills, wait out any trade hold.
- List it one cent under the cheapest offer, above your break-even, and stay online.
Check the current fee on Market.CSGO's own pages before you work out your numbers. Fees change, and public comparisons do not always agree. Our fee guide shows how to work out your break-even from it.
Arbitrage from Market.CSGO
Because buy orders here are public, they make a good exit for arbitrage: if an item's highest order here is above what it costs elsewhere after all costs, the gap is backed by a real buyer rather than an asking price. Check that it is still there when you are ready to sell, as orders move.
Automating it
The robot for market.csgo.com connects with your Market.CSGO API key. It keeps your offers the cheapest of their item and your orders the highest, never past your limits, and shows a note on the account when something stands in the way of selling. The robot sets prices; the trading itself stays with Market.CSGO, so you still need to be online there.
It is free for one offer and one order. As with any trading, profit is not guaranteed, so start with something small.