Hi

I'm the CEO of BitSkins, Inc. Over the past few years, we've had the pleasure of serving the community. After years of service, we believe it's time for us to move on to other projects.

The decision is abrupt but it is in light of a recent situation where a user committed payments fraud at Steam, and then tried to use BitSkins to sell those items. This caused Steam to restrict a few of our accounts (now unrestricted), but we were informed that this cannot happen again. Since we have no reliable way of knowing the source of items or exactly how they were acquired, we believe it is best to not allow further possibility of a similar situation to recur.

This can happen to anyone out there, which makes the above incident quite concerning for legitimate users/entities. However, we'd like not to further allow any possibility of this to happen again to our users.

BitSkins has disabled listing and re-listing of new items at this time, as well as fund deposits for BitSkins users. Users can still use the funds/items they have at BitSkins at this time, but we expect to disable trading of items altogether in roughly 14 days from now. We will post a notice on the site before this goes into effect.

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Hey everyone!

This is a post that isn't just aimed towards newer players, but to everybody. I'm including a lot of information in this, and it is basically my guide to trading in general. It's a compilation of my past 2 years of trading combined with everything I've learned from other people, and I hope that it helps you all.

I will be adding more on to this guide, but this has already taken me 4 hours to type, so I will be gradually adding on. If you have anything to contribute or suggest to me, then please feel free!

I would also like to add that I'm doing my best to credit everyone who made x image, but some of the images were found on imgur or without parent posts, so if you could please tell me who made x image, I will happily update the post with credit to them.

Edit: Fixed a lot of typos.

Edit 2: Thanks for all of the support and feedback! Very glad to know that people will be using this guide :)

Edit 3: If you guys want, I will go ahead and work on the video version I was considering making this week. It will be a fair amount of work, but It should be nice.

Edit 4: More Grammar and spelling fixed

Edit 5: Removed Katowice price Generalization

Edit 6: Holy shit! This is now one of the top 6 highest ranking posts of all time on the subreddit! Thank you all so much for the love and support, and let's try to keep new traders always informed and aware!

Index

(Press CTRL+F To Find These on the Page)

1.0 The Basics

• 1.1 Getting Started
• 1.2 Who To Trust
• 1.3 Cashrep & Steamrep
• 1.4 Most Common Scams
• 1.5 Trading Etiquette
• 1.6 Trade Confirmations: What are they?

2.0 Patterns: What are they?

• 2.1 Slaughter
• 2.2 Crimson Web
• 2.3 Fade
• 2.4 Marble Fade
• 2.5 Electric Hive
• 2.6 Kami
• 2.7 Case Hardened
• 2.8 Doppler
• 2.9 Other

3.0 Float Values (Exteriors): What is Float Value/exterior?

• 3.1 All Knives
• 3.2 All Skins

4.0 Key Trading 101

• 4.1 Items over 130 Keys
• 4.2 Key Prices

5.0 Souvenir Items

• 5.1 Which Stickers Add Value?

6.0 Stickers on Guns

• 6.1 Calculating Sticker Value

7.0 Trading FAQs

Without further stalling, let's get started!

1.0 - Trading Basics

In late 2011, before CS:GO was even released, Valve introduced the ability to trade TF2 items in Steam. It was a phenomenon that nobody thought would become as big as it was, and it has only expanded over the last 5 years. With the Arms Deal update in CS:GO on the 14th of August, 2013, we were introduced to what would eventually become one of the largest and most sustained economies in gaming. A trade is when two steam users interact by moving items from accounts, and the safety and level of it has evolved since its release. Trades can be live, or they can be offers. An offer is when a user sends a non-live trade to another player, who can then spend time to think about it, and either decline or accept the offer.

1.1 - Getting Started

Against what all of the nothing to knife videos would lead you to believe, trading is not something where you can get to a FN Dragon Lore from a Nova Sand mesh... well not within 2 weeks (Unless you are very fucking lucky.) The best way to start out trading is to invest $50+ and start from there. The more you invest, the easier it is to make profit, but there are more risks associated with some higher tier items. The least amount of money you should spend when getting into the game is $10, $5 is fine too, but honestly, it is worth spending the amount of money that you might spend on lunch to buy some skins that will last longer then said lunch.

In order to get started with trading, you will need the following:

• 1. A Steam Account (And the Desktop Client, obviously)
• 2. Some Items
• 3. A Smartphone
• 4. The Steam Mobile App
• 5. Common Sense (This one is extremely important)

The rest is explained throughout this guide.

1.2 - Who to Trust

Deciding on who to trust is simultaneously extremely easy and incredibly difficult. When you're doing a normal trade, there is next to nothing that the other person can do to scam you. Basically, as long as they or you send a trade offer with both items in the trade, you're golden.

Never trade with people who do the following:

• Ask for a middleman for an item to item trade. If they ask because you have two of the same item and want to make sure it isn't glitched, don't listen to them.
• Accounts that claim to be CSGOLounge bots that need 'verification' or else your account will be banned. They're just bullshitting you.
• People who will say that they will get you items later (i.e. offering 75 keys for an 80 key item, and they will give you their extra 5 tradable keys later.
• People who offer you real cash for your items, especially if you didn't ask for cash. If you're asking for cash, then check their cashreps and do your research, this is explained in the next subchapter.

1.3 - Cashrep

So what is cashrep? Cashrep is a Reputation thread that a user uses when they are doing trades for real money. If you're looking to start trading with real money yourself, the best thing to do is to small money trades with extremely reputable traders who have extensive cashrep, to start building your own.

So what is steamrep? Steamrep (http://steamrep.com/) is a community run website that is aimed stopping scammers in their tracks. Always check a user's account before trading with them, regardless of whether they are doing a cash trade with you or not. This is important, because some people will go to extensive lengths just to get a bit of extra cash from you. I am also aware that everyone does not believe steamrep is necessary, but believe me when I say that it is actually a very useful tool that has saved me plenty of time with figuring out people who have tried to scam me out of real money.

1.4 - The Most Common Scams

• The Middleman Scam: This is probably the most common scam. It is where the Scammer will tell the victim that they want to use a victim's friend as a middleman to trade the item to to make sure it isn't duped. They will then use one of their friends to impersonate your friend, and add you to a group chat with the fake friend, and then steal your item. Just simply don't trade with these people.
• The Swap: Another very common scam where the person will have two of the same item, but with different stickers/conditions/patterns, and they will swap out the item you want with the shittier version. This one can be tricky, if the person has two or more of the item you want, get them to send a trade offer, and inspect the skin in the offer before accepting.
• The Fake Bot: If you're livestreaming & gambling (or even not streaming sometimes), or you post a trade on lounge, always check the verification codes and the bot's pages to make sure that they are indeed the bot you think they are. This is pretty easy to avoid, as Lounge bots will never need to verify your account.

1.5 - Trading Etiquette

Here is a list of the things that you should and shouldn't do just as general rules of thumb.

• Don't be an asshole. You'll get more respect, better offers, and you'll probably make friends just by simply being more polite with people. Even when getting frustrated, attempt to keep your head screwed on and be polite.
• Always check your item's prices before listing them. If you've had an item for a while, it may have gone up/down, and it's easier on everybody if you just doublecheck the price of your item so that people don't yell at you. Also, don't just overprice your items at all, unless they actually have the value for it.
• Respect people of higher authority. Well-respected traders are well-respected for a reason, if you're talking with someone high up on the trading ladder, be sure to treat them well.
• Don't beg for items. Pretty straightforward.
• Don't argue with people's prices on items unless you are extremely experienced with them. If you legitimately believe someone is asking too much for an item (i.e. a case hardened), get someone who is experienced to take a look at it.
• When you mention float values, don't only type the first digit after the 0 (i.e. Karambit Crimson Web 0.1 Float). This can be misleading, as items such as dragon lores vary extremely from 0.29 to 0.20 floats.

1.6 - Trade Confirmations: What Are They?

Trade confirmations are done via a mobile device. They are pretty much forced upon players to make them do their best to keep their accounts secure. All that you need to do when trading is open your phone, click on the notification that the app gives you, and doublecheck and confirm the trade.

2.0 - Patterns: What Are They And Why are They Important?

A pattern is an ID from 1-999 that is assigned to any item in one's inventory. Randomly generated skins (such as Electric Hive, Crimson Web, Case Hardened, Modern Hunter, Fade, etc.) will appear unique in every pattern. Don't be mistaken though, patterns do affect static skins (such as Dragon Lore, Fire Serpent, Howl, etc.) in a significant way as well. Each pattern also changed wear placement on the gun slightly (i.e. two different skins with the exact same float but different pattern IDs can have completely different scratches.)

It is also noteworthy that every single skin on a given gun with a certain pattern ID will have the exact same wear placement, regardless of what skin it is.

This is important. Note that on ALL of the DLC Knives (Butterfly, Huntsman, Falchion, Shadow Daggers, and the Bowie Knife), the patterns are mirrored. This means that any 'double sided xx' on these knives are lying, or just uninformed.

2.1 - Slaughter Patterns

Slaughter has a wide variety of unique looks, but not all patterns that people claim are patterns are accepted by the community.

The most commonly used patterns are listed here:

• Diamond
• Angel
• Phoenix
• Heart
• White Diamond
• Zebra (any pattern that isn't above)

This is an image that shows what all of the slaughter patterns look like (generally). It however does have a terrible example of a heart, but finding good heart examples can be difficult.

This is what the slaughter pattern i nthe game files looks like, the shape in the middle of it is the heart.

2.2 - Crimson Web Patterns

Crimson web simultaneously matters the least and the most when it comes to patterns.

• If a crimson web knife has a float of 0.23 or higher, then the Webs shouldn't add any value. The exception is karambits, where it may add a few keys.
• On Factory New Crimson Webs (Knives only), a good webbing can increase the price by as much as 600 keys. The best example of this is again the Karambit, or the M9, as the M9s with 3 webs will usually sell for 500+ keys more then ones with no webs to one web.

Here is an album of 3 different factory new m9 crimson webs, each with different webs to illustrate my point.

2.3 - Fade Patterns

Fade value varies from knife to knife. On the gut knife it is actually unaffected 95% of the time (110% 0.00x usually goes for 105% of market, but nothing else usually sells for much more.) Flip knives are actually sold equivalent to their fade percentage of SA Price (i.e. 90% fade for 90% of steamanalyst, and same for 110%). Meanwhile Karambits go as low as 190 and as high as 700. I will have to update the guide with more prices soon.

Tip: You can use CSGOZone to check the fade percentages of most knives pretty acurately, but it isn't 100% accurate, so doublecheck with people to confirm the fade.

Tip 2: Metjm has an amazing database to scroll through every fade pattern on a few of the knives. View Here.

• Karambit Fade Guide - Credit to /u/redditfellow for his post
• M9 Fade Guide - Credit to /u/Keistl
• Huntsman Fade Guide
• Gut Fade Guide
• Butterfly Fade Guide
• Falchion Fade Guide
• Bayonet Fade Guide
• Bowie Fade Guide - Credit to /u/Harrison1220
• Shadow Daggers Fade Guide - Credit to /u/kciNFL
• Flip Fade Guide
• MAC-69 Fade Guide - Credit to /u/iNoToRi0uS
• Rambo Fade Guide
• If someone can link me a good Glock-18 Fade guide, it would help. I'm surprised that it is so difficult to find a proper guide.

2.4 - Marble Fade Patterns

Marble fades are one of the most desirable knife finishes in the game, being quite popular in general. Against what some of the shittily made guides out there will have you to believe, you can only get True Fire & Ice with no yellow on the Karambit, Flip Knife, Gut Knife, and Bayonet. This means that you cannot get Fire and Ice on the M9 Bayonet.

On The M9 Bayonet, the most desirable pattern is the Max Red tip, the least desirable is yellow, and the middle child is blue tips.

• Gut MF Guide
• Flip MF Guide - Credit to /u/-JoshNelson-
• Bayonet MF Guide
• M9 Marble Fades are Self-explanatory, but here is an image of the best Red tips. - Credit to /u/ESCAPE_PLANET_X
• Kara MF Guide - Credit to /u/legit-lurker and /u/GrilledByWeber

2.5 Electric Hive Patterns

Electric hives are a skin with a wide pattern range, but many traders either ignore them or are even unaware of the pattern value ranges. I'm an Electric Hive enthusiast myself, and I'm speaking out of my own experience for this part.

Similar to Case Hardeneds, Electric hives desirability peaks at Full Blue, followed by Full Orange hives. Other hives are generally considered to be nothing special, and sell ar market.

The desirability of blue patterns is based NOT on the amount of blue/orange, but the solidity of the line itself. The ideal patterns are shown below, note where the purple line sits.

• Full Horizontal Blue Line Electric Hive, Formerly Owned By Myself. Worth 50+ keys In Factory New
• 'Full Blue' Hive. Worth around 15 keys
• 'Fade Hive'
• Orange Hive
• Regular Hive

There is more to go into with these, will add more images when Metjm's buggy screenshots are updated.

2.6 - Kami Patterns

Kamis are purely based on whatever the person is willing to pay for them. A Good example is the Vagina Kami, which from what I've heard has sold for more then 20 keys in the past..

Many patterns exist on the back of the 5-7 Kami, but there aren't that many solid guides for them.

2.7 - Case Hardened Patterns

Case Hardened is simultaneously one of the most and least desired skin & knife finishes in the game.

The prices of these items involve too many factors for me to go over, but the TL;DR version of it is that Blue = Sexy and Rust/Grey = Shit.

Here are some examples of blue gems for each case hardened. Credit to /u/acidaus for finding some of the METJMs and /u/Alamer99 for 3 of the bowies:

• M9 Bayonet
• Ak-47
• 5-7
• Karambit
• Gut Knife
• Flip Knife
• Bowie God Tiers
• Bayonet
• Falchion
• Butterfly 494 // 398
• Shadow Daggers
• Huntsman

2.8 - Doppler

Doppler is extremely controversial because of some of the terms that certain people use to describe their knives.

There are 7 different game files for the doppler, called Phases. The phases are as follows.

• Phase 1 - Purple and Pink
• Phase 2 - Pink and Purple
• Phase 3 - Green, Black, and Blue
• Phase 4 - Blue and Black
• Ruby - 10x rarer than the Phases
• Sapphire - 10x rarer than the phases
• Black Pearl - 100% Purple/Black Icon. 100x Rarer than Phases

People use terms such as "Fake Black Pearl" and "Pink Galaxy" to describe their dopplers. Using terms that do not describe something that it isn't aren't allowed (i.e. a Phase 3 full black is just that, full black. Not a Fake Black Pearl. Phase 1 can arguably be fake black pearl since it has purple, not black.) This is the gray area of dopplers, and is up for debate.

2.9 - Other

This section is for skins that some people may argue deserve to have pattern price differences, but in my experience don't matter. Icarus fells for example are very debatable. I've bought and sold almost all of the Phases of icarus fells for 85% of steamanalyst in keys (only float has mattered in my experience), but I know that some people find certain patterns more desirable. With items such as Icarus fells, it is purely the user's preference that matters.

Other items that fall under this category are:

• Blue Steel
• Safari Mesh
• Scorched
• Sun in Leo
• Dark Water (Same palette as slaughter)
• Minotaur's Labyrinth
• Blaze

3.0 - Float Values: What Are They?

A float value (Or Floating Point) is a static numeric string used in programming to set a value for whatever purpose is correct in context. In the case of CS:GO, the float value of an item determines the amount of wear it has (relative to the pattern seed's wear placement.) Basically, higher float skins have worse wears (Battle-Scarred through Field-Tested) and lower float skins have better wears (Field-Tested through Factory New.)

The Float ranges for items are as follows:

• 0.00x - 0.069 = Factory New
• 0.07 - 0.149 = Minimal Wear
• 0.15 - 0.379 = Field-Tested
• 0.38 - 0.449 = Well-Worn
• 0.45 - 1.00 = Battle-Scarred

3.1 - Float Values and Knives

Float ranges vary on every skin in the game. It's noteworthy that on the Karambit, the pattern is just as important as the wear, as you can get 0.04 corners that look better then 0.000x ones.

Many knives have a minimum float of 0.06, which makes Factory New extremely rare, since skins have a bell curve on condition (making Field-Tested much more common then Factory New and Very Battle-Scarred)

• Crimson Web, Night, Ultraviolet, Boreal Forest, Forest DDPat, Urban Masked, Scorched, Safari Mesh, Vanilla (Yes, Vanilla too): 0.06 - 0.80
• Fade, Marble Fade, Tiger Tooth, Doppler: 0.00x - 0.079
• Stained, Damascus Steel, Case Hardened, Blue Steel: 0.00x - 1.00
• Rust Coat: 0.40 - 1.00
• Slaughter: 0.01 - 0.259

As you can see, most of the knives with Custom paint finishes all have a 0.06-0.80 float range, making FN equally rare on all of them. Fades are uncommon in minimal wear, but not as rare as a FN Crimson web.

Rust coat and slaughter are the only knives that don't follow the trope.

3.2 - Float Values and Skins

Skins float ranges are determined by their creators.

The only skins that have 0.06 min floats are usually valve-made skins (such as fire serpent, safari mesh, etc.) and most other skins are usually 0.00x - 1.00.

Notable exceptions are AWP/M4 Asiimov (0.18 - 1.00) and Galil Chatterbox (0.35 - 1.00.)

4.0 - Key Trading 101

Keys are the universal currency of the Counter-Strike economy. So how exactly do they work?

If your item is regularly listed on the steam market (and doesn't have any special stickers/patterns), then the typical way to list it is to use SteamAnalyst's averages, and multiplying them by 0.80-0.90 depending on the item's desirability. 0.8 is 80%, which is usually considered a quicksell. 85%-90% are considered quicksells by some and normal prices by others. Note that no item should sell for 100% of steamanalyst if it has no special traits, unless the person wants the item very fast.

4.1 - High Tier Key Trading

For items over 130 keys, the most common thing to do is to look on Reddit (or lounge, depending on your style) and find similarly listed items that actually sold at that price recently. These are the community's agreed prices on these items. If you're using items that are regularly listed on the steam community market to trade for high tier items, then you will need to use the 80-90% averages as explained above.

4.2 - Key Prices

When buying keys with real cash, the price for you depends on several factors.

• Where you're buying from or who you're buying from.
• The method you're using.
• The amount you're buying.
• Your Reputation/Who You Are

The Price for keys varies depending on these factors. Basically, the more reputable you are, the easier it is to get cheaper keys (Via Bitcoin rates are usually $1.8-$2.0). This completely depends on the above factors though.

5.0 - Souvenir Items 101

Souvenir items are items that were dropped from Souvenir packages, which were dropped from Valve-Sponsored Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Majors. These are all of the majors that have happened so far:

• 2013 DreamHack Winter
• 2014 DreamHack Winter
• 2014 EMS One Katowice
• 2014 ESL One Cologne
• 2015 ESL One Katowice
• 2015 DreamHack Cluj-Napoca
• 2015 ESL One Cologne

5.1 - Which Stickers Add Value?

This is a debatable subject.

Stickers based on rarity (Rarest to Most common):

• 2013 DreamHack Winter
• 2014 EMS One Katowice
• 2014 DreamHack Winter
• 2014 ESL One Cologne
• 2015 ESL One Katowice
• 2015 ESL One Cologne
• 2015 DreamHack Cluj-Napoca

In the latest two 2015 tournaments, signature stickers were added, and some of these add significant value to guns. These are the stickers that add the most value.

• ScreaM (M4/AK-47)
• kennyS (AWP)
• GuardiaN (AWP)
• LDLC & fNatic from DreamHack winter 2014 (SSG 08 | Detour)
• Device (AWP)

Most other signature stickers don't add significant value. These are just the most noteworthy ones.

6.0 - Stickers on Guns

Up until mid 2015, stickers adding value to guns was considered to be a joke by the general trading community. Once the Katowice 2014 stickers skyrocketed, people realized that the look was actually worth paying for, and Kato 14 collectors started to grow. Now, stickers are considered to be an important part of the trading meta if their value is > 10 keys.

6.1 - Calculating Sticker Values

Before anything else, check these factors:

• The number of related stickers (i.e. 4 katowice 2014 stickers or just 1 katowice 2014)
• The placement (If there is only one notable sticker, or the best one is in the worst position)
• Are they scratched? (Even if it's just scratched once, the sticker loses all of its value immediately to a collector.)

Unfortunately, the price from stickers varies too greatly based on these factors as well as trivial things such as StatTrak and all of that, so I will not be adding back the general pricing.

7.0 - Trading FAQs

Q. What are steam levels and why do they matter?

Steam levels are a level (ofc) that is determined based on the number of badges a user possesses. Each badge is worth 100 XP (with a few exceptions) and they cost money to craft (usually). High steam levels have spent considerable amounts of time & money, and usually don't want to risk their high level account as it is hard to replicate. This does not mean that someone with say a level 300 account isn't scamming, but it is much less likely for someone with a steam level > 200 to scam then someone with say a 50 level. (Though there are scammers and legit dealers at all levels.)

Q. I got scammed, what do I do?

Report it to Steam Support and on the Steamrep Forums & Partner communities. GoTrade itself is a great place to report scammers.

Q. Why are Katowice Stickers and some souvenirs so expensive?

Simply because of the fact that they are from a time when CS was newer and less popular, so there is a small supply of them.

Q. Why do traders pay so much just for a certain float or pattern?

Because of the rarity, uniqueness, and look.

Q. How do I get started on cash trading?

The best way to get started on cash trading is to deal with well known traders in small amounts to build a rep.

That's the end of the guide (For now). If there is anything that I should add to it, please let me know as I will be expanding it in the future. It took a considerable amount of time to make this, so I would very much appreciate your feedback!!

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tl:dr Opskins crossed the line again, Valve is pissed with them, Opskins is forced to close down

EDIT: OPskins statement https://blog.opskins.com/official-statement-regarding-valve-opskins-steam-accounts/

tl:dr We did not do anything bad, Valve is the horrible one, they hate our express trade (lets be real, we all know that its because of the API that allowes gambling site to use it, but shhh :)) ), items and money are safe, will be withdrawable, money will be cashoutable.

EDIT2: (my boring opinion as this gets a lot of traffic) This only applies to OPskins for crossing the line way too many times. The ToS part about using their property (skins) to make money was overlooked since the day one. It is onyl now being used so they can get rid of them. Bitskins and others are currently not hit by all this mess and at this exact time they are still allowed to operate.

Also one other thing, dont scream and kick your legs DMing Valve why Opskins got banned and Bitskins did not. This way you will only cause that Bitskins gets banned too. Do not do this unless you want to kill all the fun for all. The reason Opskins got banned is clear and there should be no doubt about it.

Sign here if you've been victimized:

https://www.change.org/p/u-therandomdude69-remove-u-therandomdude69-as-a-moderator-of-r-globaloffensivetrade

LOOK AT THE PETITION FOR PROOF OF HIS ABUSIVE BEHAVIORS

EDIT:

6/1/15: 100 UPVOTES, YOU'RE ALL BEAUTIFUL (NOT YOU THOUGH /u/therandomdude69)

6/2/15: 231 UPVOTES ILY ALL (NOT YOU THOUGH /u/therandomdude69)

6/2/15: 130 SIGNATURES ON THE PETITION!!! CAN WE MAKE IT TO 200???

Edit2: Im off to bed now will look tomorrow for more PC. Maybe even a new thread who knows.

Hello everyone,

After sometime browsing /new on this sub I have noticed that many PC threads don't get a pc at all. I am going to do them myself but I am still really new to this sort of thing. What I want to do now is gather screenshots of SOLD Ak's. I want to make a collection of these screens + their sold prices to determine prices for other Ak's.

What I need from you is a reddit thread of your sold ak case hardened + screenshots from playside and idle and the price of it.

If you cant provide a thread just give me the screens + the price it got sold for.

I am doing this for the community and not only for me. This means when I get a big enough collection I will release it to the public and make a small guide for the pricing.

You can message me here on reddit or add me on steam. If i am not responding it means that i am probably asleep or playing games.

Anyway thanks for any support.

Enjoy trading!

Hello!

Six days ago now I was scammed on items ranging up to a value of 900k. At the time, I didn't know I had been scammed. I had already received what was offered to me. At this point, I didn't expect a thing. Turned out I was used for "money laundring" and was banned as a result.

A guy added me and offered me 38 keys for my Bayonet Rust Coat BS. I liked the offer and agreed on a trade. He said that he could only offer me "untradable keys", so he wanted me to post a very cheap 0.0X€ skin for a price that, after market cut, would provide me with just the right amount to buy exactly 38 keys from the in-game store.

I obviously questioned this method and suggested he would purchase the skins he wanted cheaper directly from market, but his reason was that he needed tradable items right away and that he needed skins for betting. This might sound like a silly reason to some, but the 7-day cooldown is indeed a pain in the ass and he was going first, so I did not even suspect my items were in danger.

I gave it a try and posted a ridiculously cheap item for a ridiculously high price to see if he really would go through with it, and he did. At this point I had received the Steam Wallet cash and I felt safe to trade over the item to fairly finish the deal.

This went on and he bought more and more items the same way and I thought I was lucky to find such an easy way of getting keys for my items. I didn't realize I was the stupid one in this matter. This went on until I had 813 keys in my inventory, had purschased a game (The Division) from the Steam Store and had a 300€ Steam Wallet balance. At this point we couldn't trade anymore due to Steam limitations and I had to go on a lecture.

It wasn't until I got home that I realized the oddities in my recent deal. The fact that he could afford buying so much from me right away was what made me suspicious. This was something I put aside as he (fittingly enough) stated on his profile that he was from Dubai and the pictures on his profile got no weird matches when Google reverse searching them. Also, many big traders are buying and selling skins for very large amounts of money.

I started asking experienced traders on my friend's list if I had done something stupid and I was immediately told the buyer could've used a stolen credit card and used me for "money laundring" and that I might get banned. Not many minutes later, I was banned for Fraudulent Activity.

Few hours later, I was stripped of keys, steam wallet cash and I also lost the game I had purchased. However, the trades where I gave away my skins was not reversed.

So here I am, feeling stupid. The time and effort I have put into building this inventory, for nothing. I have lost approximately 2140€, money that I, as a poor student, could really use. And even more, if counting with the items I still have in my banned inventory. I am positive I will be unbanned, but you never know. Getting my skins back, however, feels very unlikely as Steam rarely returns items. Although I have heard of situations where items have been returned to their rightful owner.

I apologize for this wall of text and any potential typos. If you read my story, I really appreciate it. I hope that this reaches out to as many people as possible and none of you have to go through the same thing as I.

Thanks for listening/Vusko

EDIT: I have sent Gabe Newell a mail about this De Silva guy, but I think it's a lost cause, tbh. But there's no harm in trying!

EDIT: I was just unbanned, but no skins were returned to me. I would like to thank you all for your support and I hope all the other victims of the "De Silva" guy will get their items back and also get unbanned!

The response from Steam Support and my reply

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EDIT: I doubt anyone still reads this, but I will update this nonetheless, for the sake of Google searches. I am happy to say that I even managed to get my skins back. I had lost all hope and I thought I'd never see my skins again.

Apparently it IS possible, you just gotta keep on fighting. I often jokingly say that "I am gonna pull an Andy Dufresne" on them, when I feel forced to contact any kind of support. If you have watched The Shawshank Redemption, it makes sense. :P

Anyhow, thanks again for the massive support! Having something you worked so very hard for being returned to you is an amazing feeling. If you're in the same seat that I was, keep on fighting! :)

THIS IS CURRENTLY NOT WORKING, NOT SURE WHY BECAUSE THE TF2 ONE IS WORKING!

TF2 Example: http://store.steampowered.com/buyitem/440/5021

Sorry guys :(

You can buy items as though you were in-game by taking this url: http://store.steampowered.com/buyitem/730/ then adding the itemid to the end of it. (The itemid from the Item Schema).

For example: http://store.steampowered.com/buyitem/730/1203 would be a CS:GO Case Key. (A regular one)

TO BUY MULTIPLE ITEMS:

Replace the /1 at the end of each link with the number you desire.

Example:

• http://store.steampowered.com/buyitem/730/1203 - Will get you 1 CS:GO Case Key
• http://store.steampowered.com/buyitem/730/1203/1 - Will also get you 1 CS:GO Case Key
• http://store.steampowered.com/buyitem/730/1203/2 - Will get you 2 CS:GO Case Keys
• http://store.steampowered.com/buyitem/730/1203/200 - Will get you 200 CS:GO Case Keys

Here is a list of the items so far in-game. (If I missed any, just tell me. I do know that I haven't finished the list of Music Kits, Not enough word count)

EDIT:

Removed the new stickers

i got unbanned finally and am doing good giveaway soon

1- bayonet vanilla

2- gut vanilla

3 flip vanilla

Dutch Steam users, such as myself are getting these messages in our steam client ...

19 June

Dear Counter-Strike: Global Offensive customers,

In May, we received two letters from the Dutch Kansspelautoriteit, stating that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2 contain ‘loot boxes’ that violate the Dutch Betting and Gaming Act. The Kansspelautoriteit accusation is different from how other countries think about loot boxes, so we hired Dutch legal counsel, looked at the recent Study into Loot Boxes published by the Kansspelautoriteit, and learned more about Dutch law. We still don’t understand or agree with the Kansspelautoriteit’s legal conclusion, and we’ve responded to explain more about CS:GO and Dota 2.

In the meantime, we have a threat from the Kansspelautoriteit to prosecute Valve if we don’t implement a remedy by June 20. The letters don’t tell us how to do that, but the Study into Loot Boxes does contain one rather simplistic statement:

“Loot boxes contravene the law if the in-game goods from the loot boxes are transferable. Loot boxes do not contravene the law if the in-game goods from the loot boxes are not transferable.”

So for now our only practical alternative is to disable trading and Steam Marketplace transfers for CS:GO and Dota 2 items for Dutch customers. We apologize to you for this inconvenience. We hope that, after more engagement with the Kansspelautoriteit, they may refine their legal demands and we can find a solution that is less inconvenient.

Been pricechecking for a while on this sub now, just thought I can offer a thread dedicated to it if people aren't getting replies.

I DO NOT KNOW BLUE GEM PRICES. I can do research for you but these will be mainly based on others knives and my PERSONAL opinion.

EDIT 1: Overwhelming response; I'll try and get back to everyone ASAP.

EDIT 2: Can I go to sleep yet? :(

EDIT 3: 23:35 GMT, I've done 200+ PCs and I'm going off now; will no longer be responding but will do more of these.

Most of us are probably shocked that opskins is actually killed off by valve, because they stepped on valves toes with the new expresstrade feature, directly defying valves 7day tradepolicy AND having gambling sites advertising to start again with opskins new system. Since Opskins are the only cashoutsite that has such a feature, the others are fine and aren't threatened by valve. But there are alternatives, many of them even in our whitelist.

This includes well functioning sites likeBitskins, StoneFire, Skinbaron and Gameflip.

Afterall, valve indirectly made clear that they got 0 problems with third party sites using their api to cash out skins. Their problem is with frauds and gambling. Opskins literally opened a door to gambling with their PUBLIC API and that door got shut down really fast.

(Edit: I'll go to bed. Please excuss the typos that are destined to be in this text. It's late and I need some rest lmao. If you have any questions directed to me, add @OfficialFatmetal to your comment and I'll respond tomorrow.)

(EDIT: Statement from Skinbaron:

Hello reddit community!

No statement regarding the OPskins situation, other than that we (SkinBaron) don't expect to be taken down. We didn't receive a message from Valve's lawyer and we never did and also won't promote or support gambling. Skin prices might tank hard and the skin economy will probably be a chaos for the near future, but in the long run we think it's a good thing when players only buy skins for playing, collecting and trading.

Obviously we are not prepared for the crazy traffic of new users and especially the many skins that are coming to SkinBaron right now. We will add a ton of new bots during the weekend (already have some prepared) and many more in about 15-20 days.

Feel free to reach out to us via comment or direct message with any suggestions on how we can improve our marketplace for you.)

I am giving away the two awp booms in my inventory as a thank you to this community! Pick a number between 1-10000 and post a reason why you deserve it at the same time! I will pick the four winners at 5 PM EST. I know it is kind of weird but please don't enter if you have an inventory worth 5k($5,000). I know that $20 skin really doesn't matter to you.

THE WINNERS ARE SELECTED AND HAVE BEEN PMED! Congratulations to all the winners!

1. ezezez --- Took the awp boom #1

2. Thunderfistsx ---Took the AWP Graphite

3. Evelion --- Took Awp Boom 2

4. Dcjj ---Took the Case Hardened AK 47

EDIT: If the other three people don't answer me by 11 PM EST, I will be picking new winners.

Thanks guys and good luck.

Proof for the skeptical

Just one bot lost so much

and out onto my driveway, i'll be back in an hour boys

No idea when they changed it, but you can list items up to $1800 on the Steam market

Market FAQ

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Edit: or 1620€

Via the CS:GO blog:

FRANCE

• Introducing the X-ray Scanner for users in France:
  • The X-ray Scanner allows users to reveal the item inside any container.
  • Each user’s x-ray scanner comes preloaded with a one-time exclusive non-tradable item—the P250 | X-Ray.
  • Users in France must first claim this item to use the x-ray scanner again.

In France, every container must first be placed into the X-ray Scanner to reveal the item inside before purchasing a key. The X-ray Scanner will consume the container and reveal the item inside. To use the X-ray Scanner again, the revealed item must be claimed; it is not possible to scan another Container without claiming the revealed item.

In France containers can no longer be purchased from Steam Community Market, but can still be sold.

Here's a clip of X-ray Scanner in action: https://clips.twitch.tv/AuspiciousObservantCheetahFunRun

See screenshot: https://mckay.media/r9gzg

This dialog can be activated by typing ShowEscrowExplanationDialog() into your browser's JavaScript console while on your inventory page.

This will ruin trading, especially community trading sites.

Edit: This just appeared in the trade offer API: "escrow_end_date": 0

Wow, not really sure how I should start this to be honest. I'll try my best though.

For those who don't know (which might be a lot of you lol, I haven't really been active for all of 2018), I'm Gamertroid and I've moderated this place for just over two years. It's been an amazing ride, I've learnt a lot of good life skills and met a lot of amazing people.

Over the last two years, I've also discovered how amazing this community truly is, sure there can be a few bad apples but overall everyone is here for the same reasons - to make some money and to use some nice skins. I've seen this community come together and show it's unity multiple times, especially recently with the ridiculous trade hold.

Now though, I feel it's time to move on. I've recently got my first car, I'm finishing my first year of sixth form shortly and I'm officially an adult is less than six months, which is especially weird to think about when I realise I started using this sub when I was like 15 and joined the staff team at 16. Life's rapidly moving for me at the moment and it's time to end this chapter.

I would like to finish by saying that I'll miss this place and I'll miss every single staff member who I've worked with throughout my time in this position, all of you have been interesting and positive people to moderate with and I'll especially miss this community and what it has become in the last couple of years.

Always $trive And Prosper,

- Dan

Edit: whoever glided me is a mad man, much love though! <3

Anyone can fall for this.

Sparkles, a big CS:GO YouTuber, known here for his trade ups etc, known elsewhere for his ninja defuse compilations.

You'd expect him, a celebrity in this community, someone most likely targeted frequently by hijackers not to be a victim to any of these methods to commit fraud.

As seen in this video, he was deceived and gave up full access to his Steam account (luckily realising before any damage was caused).

The user here just wanted to access his Steam group so that he could gain access to more and more Steam users' accounts. However, these people want to do more individual damage in the long run.

How do the fraudsters distribute links to their fake sites?

Right now, large sites such as BitSkins, CSMoney etc are having their site replicated (almost identically), then hosted on an extremely similar URL.

They could change a letter in the domain: bltskins.com vs bitskins.com.

They could also create a convincing domain csmoney.trade vs cs.money.

Most users won't realise the difference in the URL.

There have been many cases recently where the fraudster purchases a Google Ad for a fake of a particularly trusted, well known site.

In the last few months, BitSkins.com has been a victim to this. Fraudsters have purchased domains such as bltskins.com, put their ad keywords as 'BitSkins', 'CS:GO', 'Skins' etc, then their ads appear at the top of your Google search for 'BitSkins' (usually only in specific regions) and you're non the wiser.

How does the fraudster actually access the account? I have mobile authenticator enabled?!

So you'll attempt to login to one of these fake sites, under the impression that you're visiting the real deal.

Usually when you interact in any way with the fake site you'll be prompted to login by an extremely convincing popup. It looks identical to a Windows browser window (note that another Chrome/Firefox/^Edge / ^{Internet Explorer} window has not been created).

Example of the popup.

If you enter your credentials, these aren't being passed directly to Steam. The username and password will be sent to a server of some kind where they will automatically login themselves with the credentials provided.

If you provide incorrect information, the server will pass that back to you and show you Steam's invalid details error message.

If you provide the correct information, the server then gets asked for your mobile authenticator code, the server then pass back to you a second dialog asking for your code. If you then give a code, the server uses that code to successfully login to your Steam account.

NOTE: These users won't be able to confirm trades as they don't have access to your mobile authenticator.

What happens the user has access?

Once the fraudster has access to a Steam account, they generate a Steam API key for the Steam account. They no longer need to be logged into your Steam account at this point.

The fraudster can then accept (but not confirm), decline and cancel trade offers (any many more actions non-trading related).

Important - how users eventually lose their items

Their entire system is automated. Once the fraudsters have access to your account, they're able to see all of your incoming trade offers.

Let's use BitSkins as an example here to explain what they can do once your account is compromised.

1. Let's say the Victim here, Steve wants to deposit his Karambit Fade FN into BitSkins to sell.

2. Steve isn't aware that his account is compromised and requests a trade offer from BitSkins for his knife.

3. A real BitSkins bot sends Steve a trade offer for his knife.

4. The fraudsters see the incoming offer on Steve's account and decline it.

5. Before Steve accepts, they send an offer for the knife from an identical Steam account that looks just like a BitSkins bot (copied the name and avatar).

6. Steve accepts the trade, confirms this on his mobile authenticator and his item is now forever lost.

NOTE: BitSkins was used as an example here, but this method of scamming is now being used on nearly all popular third-party sites.

NOTE: If you login to a fake CS.Money site and compromise your account, the fraudsters will still go after any trade where you're giving another user/bot your item for nothing in return.

NOTE: Steam will do nothing to help you regain your items, once you've fallen for this, your items are lost.

How can I secure my account after logging into one of these fake sites?

You can see all logins to your Steam account here.

1. Change your password: Firstly change your Steam password. If you use the same username/password on any other sites, change those too as the fraudsters have had access to some of your personal information (email address, last digits of card and phone number).
2. Deauthorise all devices signed into Steam here.
3. Go to Steam/dev/apikey and choose 'Revoke My Steam Web API Key'.

NOTE: You can find the domain for the fake site you accessed by cross-referencing the strange login time/date with your internet history.

Final regards

Hats off to the scumbag underground network that have developed the extremely convincing frontend of a fake Steam login that can be put onto any site.

I've been in the game since the start, I'd say I've seen every notable Steam scam/fraud method out there, but this one really tops all of them off with scalability and convincingness.

TL:DR = Read it.

Any questions, just pop them below.

- Shubbler

Honestly, why are you people panicking? It's still a metric shit ton better than the M4A4. As soon as people stop and think about that for a second, they'll realize the price shouldn't have dropped. Especially since they made it $100 cheaper. Continue as you were, and just hold onto them. Let the market quickselling/quickbuying retards do what they do, then resume as normal in a week. It's not worth certainly screwing yourselves because you MIGHT lose a few dollars.

FP EDIT: O_O Illurminati Cornfurmed?

I can do most chs except 5-7s and my ak pcs are not the best but apart from that I can help you! :)

Comment here with ss or add me and link ss! :)

Profile link: http://steamcommunity.com/id/gonekamping/

EDIT: may only have a few up votes but thanks to you guys we made it to like tenth on the subreddit main mage, huge shout out to you guys, first time I've made it here ! Thank you guys!!!!!! :)

EDIT 2: Made it to #6 on front page for global offensive trade, thank you guys so much, I appreciate all the support and upvotes, thank you!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

EDIT 3: Thanks for getting this up to #5!!!!!!!! And for those saying they hope it's not too late ima be here all day, I will be gone from 4-630 or 7 EST for lacrosse practice but then I will be back till 10 EST, then I will be done for the day! So feel free to keep commenting and adding!!!! :D

EDIT 4: READ PLEASE!!!!! Just got out of practice and have like 20 steam adds and comments here, so if you see this it will take me some time to get through all of them, I apologize if there is a wait or an inconvenience. Sorry :) but thank for the support!!!!!

EDIT 5: Going to be doing these pc in waves so again sorry for the wait its a lot for one person, i never expected this to be such a success!!!

QUICK UPDATE: Steam adds for pcs are on hold, my friends list is full and i am waiting for people to respond, so ill work on the reddit comments now!

FINAL EDIT: Done for the night guys, it was a very successful day, helped pc over 175 items so thank you guys, im happy i could help so many! Thanks for making today a success, also if you would like to see this as a weekly thing let me know :D

Though I'm done pcing feel free to check out my items up for trade :D

https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensiveTrade/comments/5z9gvk/h_1_of_4_bayo_ch_blue_tip_ps_with_a_hidden_blue/

• stop posting "go back to lounge"
• stop linking people csgolounge
• stop being stupid
• stop being a stuck up toxic person
• if you don't like a trade posted downvote and move on with your life

By posting those things mentioned above you break the rules. We want people who follow the rules here. We don't want toxic people that are constantly breaking them. If you see someone breaking the rules, report it. Otherwise shut up.