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Why the store price is under the Steam price

Two price scales on one skin: what you pay in real money, and what trade credit costs. Here is the math behind both.

2026-10-22

Two scales, one skin

The store price is what you pay us in real money β€” toman or USDT β€” and it sits below the Steam Community Market price, usually by about thirty percent. A skin worth $500 on Steam sells here for roughly $350.

Trade credit runs on the Steam price plus a spread of about forty-five percent. That looks expensive until you remember the credit never leaves the site: you spend it on more skins, so the spread is what keeps the bot's stock liquid.

Why not one price?

Real money and site credit are not the same asset. Cash can go anywhere; credit can only go back into the marketplace. Pricing both at the Steam number would either make cash purchases a bad deal for us or make trades impossible to fill.

Every card on the site shows the number you actually pay on the scale you are using, so there is no surprise at checkout.

Reading a card before you buy

Check wear and float first β€” Factory New up to 0.07, Field-Tested up to 0.38 β€” then the price, then what the same item costs on Steam. The gap between those two numbers is the whole business.

The calculator page turns any Steam value into store price, trade credit and instant sell payout side by side.

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