Platform Review P2P Marketplace
Avan.market
Dubai-registered marketplace (Digital Black Horizon - FZCO, licence 37185) selling CS2, Dota 2, Rust and TF2 skins for real money, with a 4.5★ Trustpilot across 1,771 reviews. It advertises selling "without commission" but publishes no seller-fee percentage anywhere on its site, and describes withdrawal fees only qualitatively — crypto is a fixed network fee, bank methods are "percentage-based", with no figure given. Proceeds are held eight calendar days under Steam Trade Protection; an instant-payout route exists but requires KYC, $20 of cumulative sales, and caps each payout at $50.
Avan.market at a Glance
| Platform Type | P2P Marketplace |
|---|---|
| Founded | Not published |
| Fees | No published seller commission — operator advertises "without commission" |
| Cash-out | Card, e-wallet or crypto after an 8-day hold; ~$3 minimum, fees unquantified |
| Trustpilot Rating | ★ 4.5 / 5 (1,771 reviews), checked Aug 2, 2026 |
| Payment Methods | Bank card, PayPal / SEPA, Crypto (BTC, ETH, USDT and others) |
| Official Site | avan.market |
What is Avan.market?
Avan.market is a Dubai-registered marketplace — Digital Black Horizon - FZCO, licence 37185 — selling CS2, Dota 2, Rust and TF2 skins for real money, with a solid 4.5-star Trustpilot record across 1,771 reviews. Its Trustpilot profile carries no review-solicitation flag; if anything the opposite, with Trustpilot noting the company has not recently invited customers to review it. That makes the score more meaningful than a heavily-solicited one.
The payout menu is one of the broadest here: bank cards, e-wallets including PayPal and SEPA, and a genuine spread of cryptocurrencies, with a minimum withdrawal the site puts at roughly three dollars. For someone cashing out small amounts, that floor is dramatically friendlier than BUFF Market's $50 bank minimum.
Where it falls down is disclosure, and specifically the two numbers you would most want before selling. Avan.market advertises selling "without commission" but publishes no seller-fee percentage anywhere on its own site, and it describes withdrawal fees only in words — crypto is a fixed network-dependent fee, bank methods are "percentage-based" — without ever attaching a figure to either.
Avan.market fees explained
The operator's claim is unambiguous marketing: "you can sell and buy CS 2 skins without commission and receive your money in exactly 8 days." What it never does is publish a fee table. Its terms of service reference commissions repeatedly — confirming they exist, since a clause specifies that "any transaction fees and fees paid by Users are non-refundable" — but attach no percentage to any of them.
We therefore record no seller fee for Avan.market rather than a zero. This matters for how it ranks: treating "without commission" as 0% would place it above CSFloat at the top of the net-proceeds table on the strength of a marketing line, which is exactly the outcome the rest of this dataset is built to avoid. Until a real number is published, Avan.market stays out of that comparison.
The withdrawal side is the same shape of problem. The help centre states the categories — "Cryptocurrency — fixed fee (depends on the network). Bank methods — percentage-based" — and stops there. The actual figures appear only on the withdrawal screen behind a Steam login. A separate clause warns that returning funds to a bank card or wallet "will involve a bank fee, which is not reimbursed by the service."
Payments & cash-out on Avan.market
Payout routes are genuinely varied: bank cards, PayPal, SEPA, and Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, BNB, TRX, LTC, SOL and TON among others. Crypto and instant payments usually land within minutes; PayPal and SEPA take up to a few business days. The minimum withdrawal is published as an approximation — the help centre gives it as "~3 $ / ~250 ₴ / ~4000 ₸" — which alongside Ukrainian hryvnia and Kazakh tenge pricing and Privat24 as a payout option tells you where the user base actually is, even though the operator never states a regional focus.
The standard settlement is an eight-day hold, matching Steam Trade Protection: funds "will be credited to the user's internal balance or transferred to a user-selected withdrawal destination no earlier than eight (8) calendar days after successful completion of the transaction." There is an instant-payout escape hatch, but a tightly limited one — it requires completed KYC, at least $20 of cumulative sales on the platform, and caps each payout at $50.
One trap worth knowing before you deposit: money you add to your balance is frozen for four days and can only be spent on items during that window, not withdrawn. Avan.market states that a withdrawal request inside that period "will be rejected" and that available funds "can be used exclusively to purchase game items." Refunds also route only back to the account you funded from.
Pros
- 4.5★ Trustpilot across 1,771 reviews, with no review-solicitation flag
- Genuinely broad payout menu — cards, PayPal, SEPA and several cryptocurrencies
- Very low ~$3 withdrawal minimum
- No KYC for standard withdrawals unless anti-fraud triggers
Cons
- Publishes no seller-fee percentage at all — "without commission" is a claim, not a fee table
- Withdrawal fees are described but never quantified
- Deposited funds are frozen for 4 days and can only be spent on items, not withdrawn
- Registered address on its own site (Dubai) does not match the Hong Kong location on its Trustpilot profile
Who Avan.market is for
- Sellers cashing out small amounts, where the roughly $3 minimum beats almost everyone
- Anyone who wants a real choice of payout rail — card, PayPal, SEPA or several cryptocurrencies
- RU/CIS-region traders, whom the currency options and payment methods are clearly built around
Who should skip it
- You want to know what a sale costs before you make it — no seller percentage is published anywhere
- You need a firm withdrawal-fee figure without logging in first
- You might want deposited funds back quickly — they are locked to item purchases for four days
The Verdict
Avan.market is better than its disclosure makes it look. A 4.5-star Trustpilot across 1,771 unsolicited reviews, a payout menu spanning cards, PayPal, SEPA and seven-plus cryptocurrencies, and a roughly $3 withdrawal minimum add up to a platform that seems to serve its users well, particularly at small ticket sizes where the big Western marketplaces are clumsy.
But "without commission" is a claim, not a fee schedule, and a marketplace that will not put a number next to either its sale fee or its withdrawal fee cannot be compared honestly against ones that do. Use it if the low minimum and payout flexibility are what you need; check the exact figures on the withdrawal screen before you commit, and do not assume the advertised zero is the whole story.
Key Features
Payment Methods
Payment methods vary by region and account verification level. Check Avan.market's website for your location's available options.
Avan.market FAQ
- Does Avan.market really charge no commission?
- That is its advertising, but no fee table exists on the site to confirm it. Its own terms of service refer to transaction fees and commissions being non-refundable, which means charges of some kind exist. We record no seller percentage rather than a zero, because a marketing claim is not a published fee.
- What are Avan.market's withdrawal fees?
- Not published as numbers. The help centre says only that cryptocurrency carries a fixed fee depending on the network and that bank methods are percentage-based. Actual figures appear on the withdrawal screen after you sign in with Steam.
- How long until I can withdraw?
- Eight calendar days after the sale completes, matching Steam Trade Protection. An instant-payout option exists but needs completed KYC, at least $20 of cumulative sales, and caps each payout at $50.
- What is the minimum withdrawal on Avan.market?
- The operator publishes it approximately, as around $3 — or roughly 250 Ukrainian hryvnia or 4,000 Kazakh tenge. That is one of the lowest minimums of any marketplace on this page.
- Who operates Avan.market?
- Digital Black Horizon - FZCO, licence number 37185, at Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, UAE, per its own footer and terms. Note that its Trustpilot profile lists a Hong Kong contact location instead — a discrepancy the company does not explain.
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How we compare trading sites
- Fees are read from the operator, not estimated.Every fee in the table comes from the platform’s own pricing or terms page. Where a site prices by spread rather than a stated percentage, we say so instead of inventing a number.
- Trustpilot scores are dated. Each one carries the day it was read, because a score quoted without a date is a claim about a moving number.
- We publish cash-out reality, not just the fee. The headline percentage matters less than whether you can get actual money out, how long it takes, and whether KYC is required — which is where most complaints in this category come from.
- Shut-down platforms keep their page. We do not quietly delete a marketplace that failed. Those pages stay as a record of what happened, because that is the most useful thing anyone can know about them.
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Staying safe when you trade skins
Fees are the thing people compare and theft is the thing that actually costs them. Almost every inventory lost in CS2 trading goes the same handful of ways, and none of them involve the marketplace itself being hacked.
- Never give anyone your Steam API key. A stolen API key lets an attacker silently cancel your real trade offers and substitute their own, so you confirm a trade that no longer goes where you think. Check your API key page and revoke any key you did not create yourself. No legitimate marketplace needs it.
- Read the trade confirmation, not the website. The Steam mobile confirmation is the only screen that tells the truth about what you are sending and to whom. Check the items and the recipient there every time, however trustworthy the site looked.
- Support will never DM you first.Impersonated “support” accounts on Steam and Discord are the most common approach in this category. Real support happens on the site you logged into, never in an unsolicited message.
- Check the domain before you sign in. Phishing sites clone marketplaces exactly and differ only in the URL. Type it yourself or use a bookmark; never sign in from a link someone sent you.
- Valve will not help you afterwards. Trades are final, Steam Support does not reverse them or restore items lost to a scam, and third-party sites are outside its remit entirely. Prevention is the whole of the cure here.