Blog / floats, patterns, trades
Blog
How floats, patterns and phases change a price, and how a skin actually gets from checkout to your inventory. Written for buyers.
Tiger Tooth: the safest knife finish to buy
Tiger Tooth has no phases, no gems and no tier lists. What the short float range means, what to check on a listing and why the price follows the knife model.
Crimson Web: reading the webs before you pay
How to count the webs on a Crimson Web knife, why only the playside counts, how hard the finish wears and why the same seed is worth more on one knife than another.
Refunds at PrefireSkins: what is covered and when
Full refund until the trade offer is accepted, final sale after. What each situation looks like on your side and what to do when an offer never shows up.
What a VAC ban does to your skins
A VAC ban does not delete skins. It locks them to the account with no way out. What is frozen, what is not, why game bans do the same, and why buyers check ban status.
How to spot a fake trade offer
Impersonation, the API key scam, offers with your items on the wrong side and fake login windows. How each trick works and the habits that make all of them fail.
Steam Community Market: fees, holds and what the price history hides
Two fees on every sale, money that stays in the Steam Wallet, a 7-day hold on purchases, and a price graph that pools every float and pattern under one name.