Platform Review P2P Marketplace
Market.CSGO
Long-running Cyprus-operated escrow marketplace (SLV TECHNO NTWRK LTD, Nicosia) where listings stay in the seller's own Steam inventory until sold, with roughly $398M in lifetime sales on its public counter. The fee structure is unusually blunt: 5% on the sale, fixed and explicitly non-negotiable, plus another 5% to withdraw — about 10% all-in, among the most expensive routes to cash we track. Trustpilot has removed its rating entirely for a guidelines breach involving fake reviews.
Market.CSGO at a Glance
| Platform Type | P2P Marketplace |
|---|---|
| Founded | Not published |
| Fees | 5% seller (fixed, not reducible) + 5% withdrawal = ~10% all-in |
| Cash-out | Withdrawal available immediately after sale, at a flat 5% commission |
| Payment Methods | Bank card (Visa/Mastercard/MIR), Steam balance |
| Official Site | market.csgo.com |
What is Market.CSGO?
Market.CSGO is one of the older automated escrow marketplaces still running, operated from Nicosia by SLV TECHNO NTWRK LTD and carrying a public lifetime-sales counter that had passed $398 million when we read it. The model is the appealing part: your listings stay in your own Steam inventory until somebody buys them, so you are never handing items to a third-party bot and hoping. Its own FAQ describes the flow as an automated escrow service in which "all items on the site are listed for sale by users and remain in their inventories until purchased by another user."
It is also multi-game, with sibling markets for Dota 2, Rust and Team Fortress 2 under the same operator, and it withdraws quickly — the FAQ notes that after a successful sale "the seller receives the money in their balance and can withdraw it immediately", with none of the multi-day settlement holds that Trade Protection has forced onto marketplaces that take custody of items.
What you need to weigh against that is the pricing and the reputation record, and on both counts Market.CSGO does poorly. It is one of the most expensive routes to actual cash on this page, and its Trustpilot rating has been taken down.
Market.CSGO fees explained
The sale commission is 5%, and Market.CSGO is unusually direct that it will never be anything else: "It is not possible to reduce the commission, as this percentage is fixed and applies to all users." There are no volume tiers, no loyalty discounts, no code that trims it. Whether you sell one skin or ten thousand, it is 5%.
Then there is a second 5% to get the money out. The withdrawal commission is "5% of the withdrawal amount", with a warning that some payment systems add a fixed fee on small amounts. Stack the two and the true cost of turning a skin into money is roughly 10% — worse than Skinport's 8% with its free payouts, worse than ShadowPay, and five times CSFloat's 2%.
That is the number that matters, and it is the number a headline fee table hides. A page that ranks marketplaces by sale fee alone puts Market.CSGO's 5% mid-table, level with LIS-SKINS and CS.Money. Counting the payout fee moves it to the bottom.
Payments & cash-out on Market.CSGO
The mechanics are good. Because items never leave your inventory, there is no delivery risk to insure against and no seven-day settlement hold — funds land in your balance when the sale confirms and can be withdrawn straight away. Payouts run to bank cards, and the site displays Visa, Mastercard and MIR as its payment systems; there is also a route to withdraw to Steam balance.
The price of that convenience is the flat 5% withdrawal commission on every one of those routes, plus whatever fixed charge your payment system adds on small amounts. Market.CSGO tells you the exact figure before you confirm, which is more transparency than several competitors offer, but it does not change that this is the most expensive published payout fee of any operating marketplace we track apart from ShadowPay's.
Pros
- Items never leave your inventory until they sell
- Fee is flat and identical for everyone — no volume tiers or hidden loyalty pricing
- Withdrawal is available as soon as the sale settles
- Multi-game: Dota 2, Rust and TF2 markets under the same operator
Cons
- Trustpilot removed its rating for a guidelines breach — "we've removed a number of fake reviews for this company"
- ~10% all-in to reach cash once the 5% withdrawal fee stacks on the 5% sale fee
- Commission cannot be reduced at any volume
- No published founding date or named ownership beyond the Cyprus shell
Who Market.CSGO is for
- Sellers who want items to stay in their own Steam inventory until sold, rather than sitting with a bot
- Anyone who values immediate withdrawal over a low fee — there is no Trade Protection settlement hold
- Traders who also deal in Dota 2, Rust or TF2 and want one operator across all four
Who should skip it
- You care what the sale actually nets you — roughly 10% all-in is near the worst on this page
- You weigh independent reviews, since Trustpilot has removed this company's rating for a guidelines breach
- You want a fee that improves with volume — the 5% is explicitly fixed for everyone
The Verdict
Market.CSGO gets the hard part right and the easy parts wrong. Inventory-resident listings and immediate withdrawal are genuinely better mechanics than most of the market offers, and the fee policy is at least stated honestly and applied evenly. But 5% to sell plus 5% to withdraw is about 10% to reach cash, and there is no version of that which competes with CSFloat at 2% plus a 0.5–2.5% payout, or Skinport at 8% with free bank transfers.
The Trustpilot situation compounds it. Trustpilot has not given this company a poor score — it has removed the score entirely, stating the rating is unavailable due to a breach of its guidelines and that it deleted a number of fake reviews. That is a harder signal to dismiss than a mediocre rating, because it speaks to what the operator did rather than to what customers thought. Unless the inventory-resident model is specifically what you want, there are cheaper and better-documented places to sell.
Key Features
Payment Methods
Payment methods vary by region and account verification level. Check Market.CSGO's website for your location's available options.
Market.CSGO FAQ
- What does Market.CSGO actually cost?
- 5% on the sale and another 5% to withdraw — roughly 10% all-in to turn a skin into money. The sale commission is fixed for every user and cannot be reduced at any volume, and some payment systems add a fixed fee on small withdrawals on top.
- Why does Market.CSGO have no Trustpilot rating?
- Trustpilot has suppressed it. Its profile states the rating is unavailable due to a breach of Trustpilot's guidelines, alongside a notice that Trustpilot removed a number of fake reviews for the company. We record no score rather than importing a stale one from an aggregator.
- Is Market.CSGO safe to sell on?
- The selling mechanic is structurally safer than most: items stay in your own Steam inventory until a buyer purchases them, and the site confirms receipt before releasing funds. The concerns here are cost and the removed Trustpilot rating, not custody of your items.
- How fast do I get paid on Market.CSGO?
- Quickly. Because items never leave your inventory, there is no Trade Protection settlement hold — the FAQ says the seller receives money in their balance after a successful sale and can withdraw it immediately, subject to the 5% withdrawal commission.
- Who operates Market.CSGO?
- SLV TECHNO NTWRK LTD, at Achaion 35, Agios Andreas, Nicosia, Cyprus, per the site's own footer. The company publishes no founding date and no named ownership beyond the Cyprus entity.
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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.