Affiliate disclosure

The short version, which also appears above the tools and inside every monetized page:

Heads up: some links on this page are affiliate links to skin marketplaces. If you sign up through them, this site earns a commission at no cost to you. Rankings are calculated from published fees — never from what a platform pays us. Marketplace and trading platforms only; we never link to gambling or case-opening sites.

This page is the long version.

How our affiliate links work

Affiliate links on this site always run through our own redirect (URLs beginning with /go/) and are marked with rel="sponsored" — the machine-readable way of saying “commercial link.” If you follow one and later make purchases or sales on that marketplace, the marketplace may pay us a commission, typically a share of its fee or a small percentage of referred volume. You never pay more by using our link.

We count clicks on these redirects in aggregate (no cookies, no personal profiles — see the privacy policy) so we know which pages are useful.

Who we partner with

Our current or applied-for partner programs are with skin marketplaces and trading platforms: CSFloat, DMarket, Tradeit.gg, SkinSwap, ShadowPay and White.Market. The list will change over time; this page and the redirect system are updated together.

Two things we consider part of the deal with you:

• Non-partners get equal treatment. Skinport has no affiliate program; it appears in our rankings, fee table and guides on identical terms, linked plainly, whenever the data says it’s a good answer.
• No gambling money, ever. We do not accept affiliate deals, sponsorships or advertising from case-opening, betting or skin-gambling operations — regardless of terms. The pledge is spelled out in our editorial policy.

Why the rankings can’t be bought

Every ranking on this site is computed from each platform’s published fees by one formula, identical for every platform (methodology here). The fee dataset is public on every page that uses it, re-verified monthly, and dated. A platform that wants to rank higher has exactly one lever available: charge sellers less. We consider that the system working as intended.

Sponsored placements

Separately from affiliate links, this site may carry clearly-labelled sponsored placements (static, first-party images — no ad networks, no tracking scripts). Every such placement is marked “Sponsored,” links with rel="sponsored", and is screened against the same exclusion policy: marketplaces and trading-adjacent services only, never gambling. Details live in the privacy policy and editorial policy.

Questions about any of this? Contact details are on the about page.