CS.Deals Review 2026: Low Fees, Slow Sales

CS.Deals is a safe CS2 marketplace with a 2% selling fee, quick human support and, since this autumn, a much better looking site. It is also a small market. When we priced our five-item basket in November it had only two of the items, both well above CSFloat. Our skin needed a price cut to sell, and the cash-out minimums start at 25 dollars, so small balances tend to stay on the site. We have used CS.Deals on and off since 2022 and ran a fresh round of tests between July and November 2026.

What Is CS.Deals

CS.Deals is a peer-to-peer marketplace for CS2 skins, with Rust, Dota 2 and TF2 items on the side. Users list items for real money and other users buy them, while the site holds the items in between. On top of the marketplace there is an instant-sell page, limited to Rust items.

We first bought there in 2022, and for years the site barely changed. It worked, but it looked old and some parts were confusing. In October or November 2026 it got a complete redesign, and it now looks clean and modern. The menu shows Market and Instant Sell. The fee page still lists a trading service, but we did not find it in the new menu.

Signing Up and KYC

You can sign in with Steam or create an account with an email address, and the new design adds Google, Discord, Telegram and X as login options. We deposited, bought and sold without ever being asked for an ID.

Verification only becomes relevant when you want money out. The security page says PayPal and Venmo withdrawals are for US residents only and need a US-issued document and a US address. Verifying with a document from another country unlocks the other withdrawal methods. To add a bank account you pick your country and currency and enter your name and IBAN, but the country list is short, mainly the US, Canada and the EU. Our own country was not on it, so for us crypto was the only way out.

Two-factor authentication is on the same page. It is optional and was off on our account, so turn it on, especially if you use an email login instead of Steam.

Buying Skins

The market page is where the redesign shows most. Next to the usual price and float sliders there are filters for collection, StatTrak and Souvenir, sticker name, pattern, and a trade-lock slider that hides items still under Steam’s trade protection. There is also a color filter. Click red and you get red skins, along with red stickers, capsules and music kits, so it seems to sort on the colors in the item image rather than on the skin itself.

The category menu groups weapons by type, so Rifles shows every rifle at once and you sort through AKs and M4s yourself. Listings show a percentage next to the price, and you can sort by the biggest discount.

For this review we deposited 7.80 dollars and bought an Operation Breakout Weapon Case for 7.79 on 8 July 2026. We paid exactly the listed price, with no buyer fee at checkout. On the same day the case cost 7.17 dollars on CSFloat and 11.37 on the Steam Community Market. Our item history also still shows the SSG 08 Threat Detected we bought in November 2022 for 4.29 dollars.

Delivery was the confusing part, at least on the old design. After we paid, nothing happened for about 15 minutes. There was no pop-up and no message. Eventually we noticed a small counter under our name reading 0/1, which turned out to mean one item was waiting for us in the CS.Deals backpack, the on-site inventory where bought items land. From there we withdrew the case to Steam, and the trade history shows it went out the same day.

The backpack itself is a good system, since it lets you hold items on the site instead of trading them back and forth. The redesign made it much clearer, with a backpack icon in the header and an indicator for active trades that tells you whether you still have to send or receive something. CS.Deals still does not prompt you after a purchase, so open your backpack yourself after every buy or sale.

CS.Deals Prices vs CSFloat and Steam

Every month we price the same five items on every marketplace we review. On 1 November 2026, CS.Deals had only two of them listed.

Item	CS.Deals	CSFloat	Steam Market	Skinport
Prisma 2 Case	1.13	0.87	1.35	0.94
AWP Atheris (FT)	4.79	3.73	4.77	4.56
AWP Chromatic Aberration (FT)	Not listed	28.39	36.72	27.81
M4A4 Asiimov (FT)	Not listed	156.20	225.50	164.09
M9 Bayonet Ultraviolet (FT)	Not listed	303.00	450.00	341.16

Over the two items it listed, CS.Deals cost 29% more than CSFloat and 3% less than Steam. The AWP Atheris was 2 cents more expensive than on Steam itself. With three of five items missing, CS.Deals is not part of our monthly price comparison.

Browsing the market shows the same pattern. An AK-47 Olive Polycam in Factory New had two listings at 7 cents and the rest at around 50 dollars. A Souvenir UMP-45 Scorched, a consumer-grade skin, was listed at 862 dollars. Listings like these sit there because nobody buys them, and there are not enough sellers to push the prices down. Check another marketplace before you buy anything here.

Selling Skins

Listing is simple. The sell page shows your Steam inventory, your CS.Deals backpack and your active listings, each item with a price next to it, and mass listing takes a single click. The 2% fee is only taken when an item sells.

Getting the sale is the hard part. We deposited a Glock-18 High Beam (Factory New) on 8 July, and it finally sold on 13 October. For the last stretch it sat at 13 cents for about three weeks without a buyer. We cut it to 10 cents, and it sold about a week later.

A 10 cent skin is a small test, but it shows how the market works. On a marketplace with buy orders, such as CSFloat, a listing priced 10 to 15% under the rest usually goes quickly, and if a buy order sits above your price you simply sell into it. We found no buy orders on CS.Deals, so a cheap listing waits until a buyer happens to find it. A 2% fee only saves you money if the item sells at a fair price. If you have to undercut the market to get rid of it, the price cut costs more than the low fee saves. For a knife or another expensive item we would sell on a bigger marketplace.

The alternative is instant sell, which pays out right away but only takes Rust items. CS2 skins cannot be instant sold on CS.Deals. Steam’s 7-day trade protection makes this harder for every site, because a trade can still be reversed during that week. Other marketplaces work around it in one of two ways. Some still let high-volume traders, or accounts with enough inventory value as collateral, instant sell. Others buy your skin right away but only pay you once the 7 days are over. CS.Deals does neither, so a regular listing is the only way to sell CS2 skins there.

Deposits and Fees

We funded our account with two small crypto deposits, 2.40 dollars in USDC on Solana on 7 July and 5.40 dollars in Litecoin on 8 July. Both arrived in full and the transaction history matches to the cent.

With the region set to Global, the deposit screen offers cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay, as well as crypto options like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, USDT, USDC, Litecoin, Tron and Monero. Bank transfer was not a deposit option there. USDT works for deposits but is not on the withdraw screen, so do not count on taking USDT back out.

What	Fee
Buying on the marketplace	0%
Selling on the marketplace	2%, after the sale
Instant sell (Rust items only)	0%, the offer is the price
Deposit by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay	A processing fee
Withdrawing your balance	2%, plus the network fee for crypto

There is no VAT on deposits. Unused card deposits can be refunded if you ask within 24 hours, according to the CS.Deals refund policy.

The fee to watch is the inactivity fee. The terms of service call an account inactive after 365 days without a login, deposit, withdrawal, trade, sale, purchase or new listing. After that, CS.Deals can charge 10 dollars per month against your balance and sell items you left on the site at a price it sets. It sends one email first. We left a balance of one cent for two to three months and nothing was charged, so a break is fine, as long as you do not forget the account for a year.

Cashing Out

This is where CS.Deals is weakest. You can withdraw by bank transfer or in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Solana or USDC, and each method has a minimum.

Method	Minimum
Ethereum, USDC, Solana, Litecoin	25 dollars
Bank transfer	50 dollars
Bitcoin	100 dollars

The Litecoin screen states the 25 dollar minimum outright, with the 2% marketplace fee and a network fee underneath. On most marketplaces we have tested, a Litecoin withdrawal starts at 5 to 8 dollars. The Bitcoin screen charges the same fees, and its amount field starts at 100 dollars.

Bank transfer starts at 50 dollars and, as covered above, only works in a limited set of countries.

We did not complete a cash-out. After buying the case our balance was one cent, and after selling the Glock it was 10 cents, far below every minimum. That is the real takeaway for small sellers. If you sell a few cheap skins, the money stays on CS.Deals until you reach 25 dollars, and you then lose 2% plus a network fee on the way out. Our skin withdrawal, the case we sent to Steam, worked without problems.

Is CS.Deals Safe and Legit

Yes, in our experience. Across several years of occasional use and this round of testing, we never lost an item or a cent, and every deposit, purchase and sale shows up correctly in the history.

Support is the strongest part of the site. A real agent answered our live chat within 30 to 45 seconds, stayed professional and actually answered the question. That matches what users say on Trustpilot, where CS.Deals had 4.5 out of 5 from about 455 reviews when we checked in July 2026, with support agents praised by name again and again.

Two things to know. The terms allow CS.Deals to ban an account and keep its balance and items if you file a chargeback or dispute a completed trade, so do not use a card payment you might reverse. And scammers use lookalike domains such as cs2deal.com, which has nothing to do with CS.Deals. Type cs.deals yourself and never log in through a link someone sends you.

What CS2 Players Say

Long-time users mostly agree with what we found. The site is trusted, the fee is low, and selling CS2 items takes patience. One Reddit user in the r/csgomarketforum thread “Is cs.deals still safe?” put it like this.

“I still use it and everything is fine! It just takes me a while to sell CSGO items but if I lower the price they sell quickly.”

u/Matt201090 on Reddit

The same thread warns about the inactivity fee, and in an older thread on bulk trading users called it a trusted, low-commission site but found the interface clumsy for mass listing and price changes. The redesign should help with that last point. The negative Trustpilot reviews we read are about lag, deposits that would not go through and the inactivity fee, not about missing items or money.

CS.Deals Referral System

No, not for regular users right now. The on-site referral program is switched off, and when we asked support, the agent told us it will be back in the near future. There is no date yet.

The separate affiliate program for creators is still open. Its signup page on Tapfiliate offers 50% of CS.Deals’ commission for 90 days on users who sign up through your link and then buy or sell. With a 2% selling fee, that comes to about 1% of what your referrals sell. The page does not say what the referred user gets.

The links in this review are plain links, not referral links.

CS.Deals vs Other Marketplaces

	CS.Deals	CSFloat	Skinport
Selling fee	2%	2%	8%
Our two listed basket items, November	5.92	4.60	5.50
Basket items listed	2 of 5	5 of 5	5 of 5
Cash-out	Bank (few countries) or crypto, 25 to 100 dollar minimum	Bank transfer	Bank only, 10 euro minimum

On fees, CS.Deals matches the cheapest marketplaces we have tested. Everything around the fee is where it falls behind. CSFloat charges the same 2% to sell, has buy orders and far more stock, and was cheaper on both items CS.Deals did list. Skinport takes 8% when you sell, but pays out from 10 euros, so a small balance does not get stuck. Our CS2 marketplace overview compares every site we have tested.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• 0% to buy and 2% to sell
• Fast, professional support from real people
• Balance and history accurate to the cent, nothing went missing
• Clean new design with good filters, including patterns and color
• No ID needed to buy, sell or deposit
• Mass listing in one click

Cons

• Thin stock, only two of our five basket items were listed
• Listed prices well above CSFloat, and many stale overpriced listings
• Slow sales and no buy orders to sell into
• High cash-out minimums, 25 dollars in crypto and up to 100 for Bitcoin
• A 2% fee on withdrawals on top of the selling fee
• Bank withdrawals only in a few countries
• Instant sell does not take CS2 skins yet
• Inactivity fee of 10 dollars a month after a year

Final Verdict

CS.Deals is a safe, honest marketplace with a low fee and some of the best support we have dealt with. The redesign fixed most of what made the old site awkward, and the backpack and filters now work well.

The problem is the market behind it. Our basket found two of five items, both priced well above CSFloat. Our skin only sold after a price cut, and a small balance cannot leave the site until it reaches 25 dollars. Use CS.Deals if you trade regularly, keep a balance on the site anyway and like a low fee with fast support. If you want to buy at the lowest price, sell quickly or cash out small amounts, a bigger marketplace suits you better.

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Further Reading

• CSFloat review, the 2% marketplace with buy orders and far more stock
• Skinport review, a higher fee but a 10 euro payout minimum
• How to not get scammed in CS2, the traps every trader should know