If you want to start trading or if you just like throwing away money by opening cases in CS2 it’s a good idea to stock up on some keys. There are quite a few places where you can find and buy CS2 case keys and in this guide, I will try to collect and list the best shops that sell keys, so you easily can compare prices and find the best places to buy cheap CS2 keys. I won’t display the exact CS2 key price for each store because the prices change all the time and it would only make this guide outdated in a few weeks, instead, I’ll give you a short description of the shops and I’ll share my experience dealing with these places.
BitSkins – CS2 items shop
Bitskins is a very similar site to Opskins, it’s just not as popular as Opskins but it’s still a pretty busy place with a shitload of trades going on all the time. People will sell their skins and keys here and then the shop will take care of the transactions for you. You just have to pay for your items and they will be sent to you within a minute or so. The prices on the site are very competitive and one of the cheapest shops on the list. There’s also a buy order feature which is nice if looking to buy CS2 keys in bulk. The site also has one of the lowest sales fees around, which is good for both buyers and sellers.
You can pay using Bitcoin and Paypal
SkinBaron CS2 Marketplace
SkinBaron is a new marketplace dealing in CS2 skins and keys, they’re based in Germany (where they’re big already) and they’re now expanding their marketplace internationally. They have an easy navigated layout which makes it easy to find what you’re looking for and to buy the keys you need in bulk. If you head over to the site and it’s all in German, fear not, just click the flag at the top and you can easily change it to English.
SkinBaron accepts Bitcoin, Paypal, Paysafecard
G2A CS2 item shop
Most gamers know about G2A and that they sell cheap games (sometimes suspicious cheap games if you ask me) but recently they added a section where they also sell a range of different Steam items including CS2 items and keys. The price of the keys varies from time to time but it’s usually pretty cheap. The interface for the site is painfully bad but apart from that I have no complaints. The last word of advice about G2A is to avoid their G2a shield service, it’s expensive and pure poison, always remember to remove the G2A Shield option when placing an order.
The site accepts most payment options.
Kinguin Game shop
Kinguin is a similar game marketplace to G2A, with tons of cheap games that you can buy from a variety of resellers. They also jumped onto the wagon and had their own CS2 key and skins section where you can find a bunch of Counter-strike items to buy. The price varies a lot but there’s potential to find cheap CS2 keys here, might not be as cheap as Bitskins & Opskins but still pretty good, and as with all these sites you need to check the prices of the keys yourself, because it can differ a lot from time to time.
Accepts Paypal, Bitcoin, and pretty much everything.
Opskins – Player-to-Player shop (The biggest CS2 shop)
Opskins is a place where people can put up their items and sell them for real money to other players, it’s player to player trading with Opskins acting as a man pretty much (and also taking a fee for the seller) Among many things you can find cheap keys here too. How it works is that you need to add money to your Opskins account (via Paypal or similar) and then you buy the items you want and it will be delivered to you within seconds. This is the largest marketplace for CS2 items so there are plenty of keys to be found here.
Other places to buy CS2 keys on
Reddit CS2 Trade – Trade directly with other players
This place is nothing I would recommend to a new trader but it’s the place where you can find the cheapest keys from all the sites on this list. Over at the subreddit CS2 trade you can find other players that are selling keys for cash, unlike the other sites on this list, you´ll be trading directly with the other person with no middle hand bumping up the price tag with fees or whatever. So the upside is of course cheap keys but what´s the downside? It can be quite complicated to get started trading over there and there’s always a risk of being scammed. If you planning on buying a lot of keys then this way of buying keys is worth learning more about, just be sure to be safe out there and don´t do anything stupid.
There are of course a lot of other places where you can find people selling keys like this, but the CS2 trade was the first that came to my mind, and it’s also one of the biggest places for trading. if you have any better suggestions of sites or other advice for trading for keys I would appreciate it if you left a comment, I’m not that experienced with this kind of trading and would love to learn more.
Backpack.tf’s CS2 Cash Trading Forum
Backpack.tf is a great place if you want to check out what a TF2 item is worth. They also have one of the most popular forums for trading CS2 items for cash. Here you can find some really good deals if you’re looking to trade directly with other traders using Paypal. And as I mentioned with the CS2 Trade subreddit, always be careful when trading with cash.
CS2 Lounge
This is a place where a lot of people do their daily trading, and it’s also a nice place if you’re looking for some keys to buy. You can simply search for any key you’d like to buy and choose real money as your payment, and you´ll get plenty of people selling their keys. Just be careful when trading directly with people using cash.
The Steam community market – Expensive but safe
This is of course a no brainer, the Steam community market, everyone knows about this place and it can be one of the most expensive places to buy keys, there´s also a 7 days waiting period before you can trade the keys you bought, sure it don´t sound that great but I thought it still was worth mentioning on this list because of one reason. During the big Steam sales that are live a few times a year (Christmas-, summer-, spring sale, and so on) the price for case keys almost always drops a lot and that goes for pretty much all the items on the community market during sales, people wants to buy games during the sale and they sell their CS2 items to afford the games, a lot of people do this resulting in price drops. So if you have funds on your Steam account you don´t know what to do with during a sale, it can be a good time to buy some semi-cheap keys.
If you have any suggestions of your own I would love to hear them or if you want to share your experience with any of these stores, doesn’t matter if it’s praises or horror stories, so just leave a comment below.
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Hey, thanks for reaching out, unfortunate the keys on your site is quite high and adding your site to this list wouldn’t add much value
Nice article.