How to Read a CS2 Seller's Track Record Before You Buy

Every listing on a peer-to-peer market belongs to a person, and two figures describe how that person trades: how often they complete a trade, and how long they take.

Price gets the attention. These two decide whether you receive the skin.

Completion rate shows the share of a seller's trades that finished. Of everything on a listing, it tells you the most.

Below 80 percent, you face a real chance of waiting several days and then getting a refund instead of a skin. You get the money back, you lose the time, and the skin may have gone up in price while you waited.

When we sampled live CS2 listings in 2026, about seven in ten offers cleared the 80 percent bar. The other three in ten explain why the cheapest price on a page so often leads nowhere.

Hand-over time shows a seller's average wait before sending. On CS2 it runs to days in most cases, which reflects Steam's 7-day trade hold more than a slow seller.

Read it together with completion rate. A seller averaging six days with a 98 percent completion rate trades well within Valve's limits. A seller averaging two hours with a 30 percent rate will often never send.

A low asking price and a reliable seller have nothing to do with each other.

On one Huntsman Knife, the cheapest listing on the market asked $148.10. The cheapest listing from a seller above the reliability bar asked $187.69, about 27 percent more. The first price wins a comparison. The second gets you the knife.

PoshSkins shows the cheapest listing you can buy with good odds, so the price on the grid matches the price at checkout.

1. 1
   Completion rate at 80 percent or higher
2. 2
   A hand-over time you can accept, keeping in mind that days tends to mean a trade hold
3. 3
   Extra scrutiny for any listing far below every other price
4. 4
   A refund request if the skin has not arrived and you no longer want to wait

A peer-to-peer market will show you a cheap listing from someone who has not completed a trade in months. Spend ten seconds on the seller's record before you spend money on the skin.