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Guides on trade-up contracts, collections, floats and selling CS2 skins for more — with live data from our own database.

Patterns & rare finishes

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CS2 Stickers: Prices, Rarity, and When the Overpay Is Worth It12 d👁 45What CS2 stickers really cost: from pocket change to million-ruble holo legends. Sticker types, rarity, craft overpay math — with live prices across every marketplace.CS2 Knives: All 20 Types Priced, From Budget to Grails12 d👁 44What a CS2 knife really costs: live prices for all 20 types — entry from ~$35, the beloved Butterfly and Karambit, Doppler phases and million-ruble grails. Cross-market comparison.Fake Howl: building the wolf from stickers for under $227 d👁 38🔥 1An M4A4 | Howl runs about $3,800, yet the burning-wolf look builds from five stickers for under $2. Every known variant — recipes, layer order and live prices.

Trade-up contracts

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Trade-up contracts on CS2Price: a step-by-step walkthroughJuly 27, 2026👁 61Where to click to find a plus-EV contract in a couple of minutes: the ready-made feed, how to read a card, buying inputs at the right float, the constructor and working with your own inventory. Screenshots for every step, plus why the same contract swings from −9.5% to +12.7%.How to find a profitable trade-up contract: step-by-stepJuly 22, 2026👁 811How CS2 trade-up contracts work, the odds formula the game has used since the 2019 patch (still misquoted in half the guides), where profit comes from, and which metrics separate a plus-EV contract from a lottery. With a live example priced from our own database.

Market news

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CS2 Skin Trading in 2026: How to Start and What You Really Earn11 d👁 41An honest skin trading guide: four bankroll tiers with real returns from 8 to 50% a month, risk rules, and the five beginner mistakes that drain inventories.Funding Your Steam Wallet Below Face Value: The 2026 Skin Route11 d👁 41Middlemen charge 10–20% on top — while the skin route fills your Steam wallet below face value: median rate 0.78 real per 1 wallet unit across 1,803 liquid items. All methods priced honestly.Best CS2 Skin Marketplaces in 2026: Fees, Payouts, Honest Comparison11 d👁 59❤️ 1CSFloat, Buff163, YouPin, instant-sell sites and Steam: fees from 1% to 13%, verification walls, limits — and where prices actually are lower. Compared by an aggregator that watches them all.CS2 Skin Trading P2P: Trade Percentages, Floats and Sticker Value11 d👁 37How much to charge on a skin trade: the 2.5–30% percentage matrix, craft tiers, rare float valuation, and protection from item swaps under Trade Protection.The CS2 Ban Wave: Valve Torches the Farms — What It Means for Cases11 d👁 35Three Valve strikes in a month: the VACNet bypass patched, 30k farm accounts banned, and the new labelling Patrol. The wave in numbers — and what it means for case and Prime prices.CS2 Skin Deals: Buying Below Market and Flipping the Spread11 d👁 168One skin, ten prices: right now 4,200 items sell 12–50% below the market median. Where the gaps come from, how to catch them — and when cheapness is a trap.Best CS2 cases in August 2026: unboxing ROI of all 42 casesJuly 28, 2026👁 601❤️ 11We ran all 42 tradable CS2 cases through our own price base: unboxing ROI, ROI with trade-up contracts, the chance to break even on a single open and the median of one open from 200,000 simulations. Full table with grades, a breakdown of 16 popular cases, the active drop pool and which cases are likely to rise.

Latest articles

CS2 Skin Trading in 2026: How to Start and What You Really EarnMarket news11 d👁 41An honest skin trading guide: four bankroll tiers with real returns from 8 to 50% a month, risk rules, and the five beginner mistakes that drain inventories.Funding Your Steam Wallet Below Face Value: The 2026 Skin RouteMarket news11 d👁 41Middlemen charge 10–20% on top — while the skin route fills your Steam wallet below face value: median rate 0.78 real per 1 wallet unit across 1,803 liquid items. All methods priced honestly.Best CS2 Skin Marketplaces in 2026: Fees, Payouts, Honest ComparisonMarket news11 d👁 59❤️ 1CSFloat, Buff163, YouPin, instant-sell sites and Steam: fees from 1% to 13%, verification walls, limits — and where prices actually are lower. Compared by an aggregator that watches them all.CS2 Skin Trading P2P: Trade Percentages, Floats and Sticker ValueMarket news11 d👁 37How much to charge on a skin trade: the 2.5–30% percentage matrix, craft tiers, rare float valuation, and protection from item swaps under Trade Protection.The CS2 Ban Wave: Valve Torches the Farms — What It Means for CasesMarket news11 d👁 35Three Valve strikes in a month: the VACNet bypass patched, 30k farm accounts banned, and the new labelling Patrol. The wave in numbers — and what it means for case and Prime prices.CS2 Skin Deals: Buying Below Market and Flipping the SpreadMarket news11 d👁 168One skin, ten prices: right now 4,200 items sell 12–50% below the market median. Where the gaps come from, how to catch them — and when cheapness is a trap.CS2 Stickers: Prices, Rarity, and When the Overpay Is Worth ItPatterns & rare finishes12 d👁 45What CS2 stickers really cost: from pocket change to million-ruble holo legends. Sticker types, rarity, craft overpay math — with live prices across every marketplace.CS2 Knives: All 20 Types Priced, From Budget to GrailsPatterns & rare finishes12 d👁 44What a CS2 knife really costs: live prices for all 20 types — entry from ~$35, the beloved Butterfly and Karambit, Doppler phases and million-ruble grails. Cross-market comparison.