CS2 Skins

What a float value is, and why it sets the price

A float value is a number between 0 and 1 stored on the individual item that records how worn its finish is. Lower is cleaner. It is generated once when the item is created and never changes, which is what makes it a property a buyer can verify rather than a claim a seller makes.

Float maps onto the five named wear tiers, and the boundaries are Valve's rather than ours to round. A float that lands on a boundary belongs to the higher tier: 0.0699 is Factory New and 0.0701 is Minimal Wear. The price gap across that one boundary can be larger than the gap between two entirely different skins, which is why every comparison in this codebase is written as a strict range rather than with a tolerance.

The subtler point that most guides miss is that a float range is per skin, not universal. Many finishes cannot reach 0.00 or 1.00 at all, so Factory New means something different on different skins, and the greyed ends of the float scale on a listing here are floats that particular item can never have. Our catalog holds float bounds for 20,735 of its 31,816 Counter-Strike 2 rows.

What the inspect link proves

An inspect link is a per-item URL that encodes the item's own attributes, and since March 2026 Counter-Strike 2 links are self-encoding, which means they can be decoded locally with no Steam bot pool and no API key. When a seller supplies one, the listing shows the float, paint seed, paint index, applied stickers and charms that came out of that link.

When there is no inspect link, the listing says so. It is marked unverified rather than filled with a guess, and the page tells you to inspect the item in game before buying. That distinction is the whole point: a decoded field is a measurement, a field with no link behind it is a claim, and a marketplace that renders both identically is hiding the difference from you.

Not every item has a float to be unsure of. Stickers, cases, agents and charms have no wear at all, so an unverified marker on those would be noise rather than a warning, and the listing does not show one.

How escrow works on a skin trade

When you buy a skin here your payment is held by PlayerSells rather than forwarded to the seller. The seller then has 6 hours to send the Steam trade offer. If the trade does not land inside that window the order cancels itself and you are refunded in full, automatically, without opening a dispute.

Six hours rather than a day is a deliberate choice. Your money is held for the whole of it, and a seller who is not at a keyboard within six hours will not be within twenty four either. The window exists to bound your exposure, not to give the seller room.

After delivery the seller's money enters a 7-day clearing period before it can be withdrawn. That number is not ours. Steam's Trade Protection lets either side reverse a Counter-Strike trade for seven days after it completes, so a seller could hand over a skin, take payment, withdraw, then reverse the trade and keep both. Nothing inside our own escrow can observe that from the outside. Holding the money until Steam's reversal window has closed is the only defence that works.

What is in the catalog

The Counter-Strike 2 catalog behind the search box holds 31,816 rows, every one with an image and a rarity. It is assembled from two open data files rather than scraped, and it is the source the listing form autofills from.

Breaking that down: 16,917 weapon skins, 10,433 stickers, 3,388 knives, 470 glove variants, 467 cases, 78 charms and 63 agents. 4,984 of those rows are StatTrak variants. A catalog row existing is not evidence that the variant is common in the wild, and it is worth holding those two ideas apart when you are judging whether an asking price is reasonable.

What it costs to sell a skin here

Selling an item costs 5% of the sale price, with a floor of $0.10 and a cap of $500. Listing is free, and withdrawing your balance costs a flat $1.50 regardless of the amount.

The item commission is a separate fee from the one on account sales, and the reason is arithmetic. The account escrow fee carries a $2.50 minimum, which is sane on a $300 account and absurd on a $5 skin, where it would take half the sale. Competing skin marketplaces charge roughly 2% to 6%, so item sales got their own rate and their own bounds rather than inheriting a number built for a different product.