Some of us are full-fledged, active traders that know all ins and outs of CSGO skin trade. Others may know about some aspects of CSGO skin trading, but don’t consider themselves veteran traders. There are also people that never even thought about selling CSGO skins that they have laying around in their Steam inventory. Do you know what they all have in common? They can sell their unwanted CSGO skin for cash. But to do that, they would have to know how to estimate their skin inventory value.
In this post, we’ll focus on one topic: how to easily evaluate CSGO inventory price and do it in a way that will keep your Steam account’s personal data, and especially your Steam Web API key, secure. But, let’s start from the beginning. If you feel you know everything about CSGO inventory value and inventory worth you can skip that portion of the information.
How much is my CSGO inventory worth?
CSGO Inventory, or to be more precise a Steam inventory, is a list of all items and skins for all games owned by your account. If you have a particular game in your Steam library but have no skins for it, it will show as an empty inventory. To access your inventory, just log in to Steam, hover with your mouse over your account current nickname next to Community and choose Inventory from the bottom of the drop-down menu. This will take you straight to your Inventory.
Here, in your Inventory, all your items are categorized into games they are for. For example, all cards for Steam Card Collections will be held in “Steam”. Analogically, all skins and items for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will be stored at CSGO bookmark. This view on your skins (or anybody else) also offers easy access to the information regarding the version of the skins. Normal skins have white borders, whereas knives and gloves are bordered in purple. Likewise, Souvenir weapons have yellow borders and StatTrak – orange. A little exclamation mark will be displayed on skins that have a custom name tag. This gives a bird-eye view on your inventory and can be helpful in certain cases, e.g. you want to sell all copies of AK-47 | Asiimov you have in your inventory except StatTrak one. Thanks to the border colors you will immediately spot any mistake you might have done.
Clicking on any of the items will display all details in the window on the right. In case of weapon skins, these are the rarity class, weapon class, the name tag (if there’s one) exterior wear level, the immersive skin description, the name of the collection that particular skin comes from and the tags that identify the item. These tags are most helpful when used for advanced inventory filters.
One quite important thing in regard to CSGO Inventory is that the newest items always appear on the top of the Inventory. This means, most items on the first page of an active CSGO Inventory are in an 8-day trade hold after the recent trade. You can always make sure by finding if the item is tradable in its tags.
Calculating your CSGO Inventory value?
The easiest way to calculate the total value of all your inventory items would be to use one of the Inventory Value CSGO calculators available online. However, it does not mean that your CSGO Inventory worth will be calculated precisely. Certain calculators omit certain items and skins or have outdated or incomplete data. Moreover, many calculators have no safety measures against market manipulation. Luckily, you can do it yourself – it’s really easy when you know how to do it.
First of all, you’ll have to decide what market will be the decisive source of the market price. The easiest one would be Steam Community Market, mostly because there’s a ton of third-party markets that base on Steam in their own pricing. Moreover, you’ll get access to a number of very useful tools not available for most of the other skin markets, such as Steam Analyst or CSGO Stash. These tools help you track historical data regarding the pricing and volume of a particular skin. Now, take the average price for the last 30 days for each of the skins that you have in your CSGO Inventory. In case you have a freshly dropped skin from a collection or case that was introduced less than a week before, it’s better to wait a couple more days for the prices to stabilize a little. When you have the average prices for every item just add them together. The final number is your CSGO inventory value. However, please remember, no one will buy a skin from you on its market price, so to sell a skin you will always have to take other lower into consideration.
Is there a way to see private Steam Inventory worth?
Generally, your account’s details need to be public for the various applications’ APIs to get access to it. If your account is private, head to
Conclusion
In this article, we learned a bit about skins prices and how to evaluate the CS GO inventory value in a couple of different ways. We also talked a bit about tools helpful in calculations. Now you’re ready to trade whenever you want. If you feel you are ready to proceed further, here is a short guide that may be helpful in case you want to sell CSGO skins.