CS.Deals
- 2% Seller Fee
- 0% Buyer Fee
- 0% Deposit Fee
- 1.5–2% Withdrawal Fee
Introduction
CS.Deals is a combined skin marketplace and trade bot covering four Steam games. It is one of the longer-running platforms in this comparison, with an official Steam group of more than 85,000 members, and one of the few to publish a documented public API.
How the market works
CS.Deals is a hybrid: items are listed for sale and delivered through automated Steam trade bots rather than direct peer-to-peer transfers. That makes purchases fast and predictable, at the cost of the platform sitting in the middle of every trade.
Fees explained
CS.Deals advertises a 2% selling fee — "a very low selling fee of just 2%," in its own words — and states plainly that "buyers can also enjoy no buyer’s fee." Deposits are free across the board: crypto costs nothing, and there’s no charge on skins/trade, card or PayPal deposits either. Withdrawals run 1.5–2% depending on the rail — bank transfer, crypto or skins/trade — though that figure comes from third-party measurement rather than a published CS.Deals rate; the footer’s own "Fees" link currently points to a coming-soon page.
How to buy
Buyers pay the listed price with no buyer fee and receive the item through an automated Steam trade bot rather than waiting on a peer-to-peer match. Funding a purchase runs through skins/trade, crypto, card or PayPal, and none of those deposit rails carry a fee.
How to sell
Sellers list an item and pay a 2% selling fee once it sells, with the platform’s trade bots handling delivery to the buyer rather than a direct Steam trade between the two parties. That bot-based handoff is what keeps purchases fast and predictable on the buying side too.
Cashing out
Withdrawing turns marketplace balance into real money via bank transfer, cryptocurrency or skins/trade — the payout rails CS.Deals lists. CS.Deals itself publishes no rate for any of them, but third-party measurement puts the cost at 1.5–2% depending on the rail. Anyone leaving a balance untouched should also note the $10 annual inactivity fee, covered below.
Dormant accounts
Worth knowing before you leave a balance behind: CS.Deals charges a $10 annual inactivity fee on accounts dormant for more than 365 days. The company confirms this directly in its replies to Trustpilot reviews, and it is a recurring theme in the negative ones.
Security and impersonation
CS.Deals states publicly that it never contacts users first on Discord, after repeated impersonation scams targeting its community. Any Discord message claiming to be CS.Deals support is not from CS.Deals.
Who it's for
A reasonable pick for sellers chasing a low headline fee across several Steam games, and for developers who want an API to build against. Less suited to anyone who values reading a complete fee schedule straight from CS.Deals itself — the withdrawal cost only surfaces through third-party measurement.
Advantages & Disadvantages
Advantages
- 2% selling fee and no buyer fee at all, both stated directly by CS.Deals
- Deposits are free across every rail — skins/trade, crypto, card and PayPal alike
- Covers four games — CS2, Rust, Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2
- Publishes a documented public API, rare in this category
- Long-established, with an 85,000-member official Steam group
Disadvantages
- Charges a $10 annual fee on accounts dormant over a year
- Withdrawal fee rates are not published by CS.Deals itself — the 1.5–2% figure comes from third-party measurement
- Aggressive bot protection makes independent fee verification difficult
- Recurring user reports of withdrawal delays on its review page
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Frequently Asked Questions
Last reviewed 17 August 2026.