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January 11th, 2016 Pericles Tools 14 comments

If you’re anything like me, you’ve accumulated hundreds of seemingly worthless Dota 2 items over the years. Just last month, out of curiosity, I went into my armory and noticed I had close to a hundred dollars worth of items at first glance. Aside from me spending well over $1500 so far on compendiums, tickets or basic sets and getting peanuts in return, the one frustrating aspect of Valve’s super duper fair business model is that you can’t do anything with the Steam dollars you get in return, if any, lest of being able to spend them on more Steam titles or in-game purchases.

An hour later and 27 pages of items sold well below market price for quickness, I ended up with $40 which I will probably invest into the Shanghai Major compendium. It’s not like I can buy gas for my car with it.

steam market history

At the time, I had no idea about the handful of services allowing you to trade Steam items for cash which you can actually withdraw, until I came across Loot Market.

Full disclosure: Loot Market are actually a partner of our website, sponsoring our on-location coverage of StarLadder iLeague. That being said, in one month since they’ve launched they seemed to have taken over this micro-niche for the advanced Dota 2 trader.

Getting started with Loot Market

Like anywhere else these days, you will want to login with your Steam account.

Proceed with the email input and the Steam trade URL as instructed, it’s risk free.

Then, depending on what you are there for, you can start buying or selling. I haven’t bought anything for the purpose of this review and I am assuming the overwhelming majority of new users will want to get started with actually selling something for the promise of magic real money. That is one side of the business I have tested and here’s what you need to do.

Sell items on Loot Market

First you’ll want to have your inventory set to public, like any serious trader would. Then it’s a simple matter of choosing what you wish to sell and setting the price.

A few things you’ll want to pay attention to, as opposed to the familiar Steam Market.

You can’t set the price above a certain limit

In order to work as advertised – buyers get better deals than Steam – Loot Market has to set a maximum price limit. I am not quite sure how they set it up and whether their information about the ever-fluctuating Steam Market is accurate every second, but it seems that indeed, you have to sell for a maximum price that is roughly 10-15 per cent lower than Steam. But hey, it’s real money. Or it can become.

The market fee is lower on Loot Market

Let’s take my beloved Exalted Manifold Paradox and do a side-by-side:

side by side LootMarket Steam

If I’d sell it on Steam for the same price as I would on Loot Market (net), the fee is roughly 14%. A little higher than the advertised flat 10% fee Valve are always claiming, because what they don’t tell you is that there’s always a VAT component and then some. On Loot Market it seems to be a flat 10% and it’s been confirmed when I’ve made my sale.

There is a minimum withdrawal limit

It’s $10.

I don’t know if it’s a big deal. Maybe I would have made it $5, especially since you’re withdrawing on Paypal, but it’s gonna be all the same to most people. They seem to have been quite popular for these withdrawals though.

Loot Market sales

It doesn’t take long to make a sale

Especially if you employ my strategy of dropping yet another 5% below the lowest asking price. It’s worth it, especially in the realm of cheap but many items. Apparently the cheapest item you can sell is now $0.25, but at the time I used the platform, I was able to sell for less.

NB: Loot Market claim that they have intermediated over $57,000 in item sales over December 2015 alone. This is an impressive volume for a month-old platform.

lootmarket quick sale

Buy items on Loot Market

The process is obviously even simpler and I do advise you to double-check the Steam Market listing for the item you want. You either have money in your Loot Market wallet after successful sales or top up your account through G2A’s system. The addition of G2A Pay allows you to deposit funds using a credit card, bitcoins, PayPal, Skrill, Paysafecard, your G2A Wallet, Alipay, and more.

In conclusion

For the hardcore Dota 2 item trader, Loot Market is certainly a blessing. Even for the more casual of us whom have accumulated item after item over the years, getting rid of all of your unwanted inventory for real cash in your pocket is worth the time spent to learn the ropes.

The constant addition of new high profile partners and advertising connections at the highest level enforces the idea that Loot Market is here to stay.

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14 Comments

  1. DavidJ
    (16 comments) Reply ↓

    Been using lootmarket for a while. Except i haven’t sold anything. Looks legit at least.

    March 8, 2016 at 11:42 pm
    1. KevinAce
      (3 comments) Reply ↓

      Just been buying items DavidJ?

      April 9, 2016 at 6:34 pm
  2. hideaway
    (1 comment) Reply ↓

    For desparate people maybe, for serious traders unsuable. First big problem is with selling Unusuals. You are forced to set maximum price as the lowest price on Steam for particular item. The implementation is rather poor, since when you are trying to sell your Unusual Ethereal Wardog, you can sell it only for 17$, since the most shittiest Unusual Wardog on Steam is being sold for 17$ with some Burning animus gem, which nobody wants. What’s the point in setting the max price as the lowest price on Steam anyways. Every average trader can count himself, no one will buy overpriced items anyway and you could have at least selling orders doubled or trippled. The site would be looking more serious. With current implementation it looks more like a garbage or even scam.

    March 17, 2016 at 12:17 pm
    1. KevinAce
      (3 comments) Reply ↓

      Great feedback hideaway. This is a tricky situation for us. We don’t want the site to be polluted with mis-priced / over-priced items. You seem to be a smart/savvy consumer but unfortunately not everyone is. Many would end up overpaying for items.

      But on the flip side, we don’t want to restrict prices for items which shouldn’t have restrictions (such as your Unusual Wardog with a good gem). We’re stuck between a rock and a hard place and are working on a few different solutions.

      April 9, 2016 at 6:37 pm
  3. QuiT
    (26 comments) Reply ↓

    I don’t use it(dont have anything to sell yet:D) but it’s a good initiative.

    April 8, 2016 at 8:25 pm
    1. KevinAce
      (3 comments) Reply ↓

      Much appreciated. If you decide to give us a try and have any questions, hit us up via live chat on the site.

      April 9, 2016 at 6:35 pm
  4. 935ice
    (969 comments) Reply ↓

    LootMarket is a pretty good site. Commended!

    April 16, 2016 at 12:35 pm
    1. Kiop
      (163 comments) Reply ↓

      lol^

      April 19, 2016 at 8:45 pm
      1. 935ice
        (969 comments)

        LUL

        May 17, 2016 at 4:49 am
  5. Giancarlo
    (12 comments) Reply ↓

    This can prove very useful!

    April 17, 2016 at 1:09 pm
  6. Kiop
    (163 comments) Reply ↓

    Bought from here several times

    April 18, 2016 at 7:41 am
  7. dimitar9597
    (5 comments) Reply ↓

    Saw a mention in the newsletter and decided to try it out. Works fine, but mobile browsing is buggy af.

    April 25, 2016 at 1:16 pm
    1. bakala
      (868 comments) Reply ↓

      Yeah, the mobile search is a problem. Would be nice if they made an app.

      May 3, 2016 at 3:58 pm
  8. bakala
    (868 comments) Reply ↓

    Bought some items from it, it’s really legit. Items are usally 20-30% cheaper than the community market. The buying process is fairly easy and fast. Also sold 2 or 3 items, 1 didn’t sell but it’s not a popular item so I’ll just sell it on steam instead. You can also buy/sell weather effects, which is awesome, and they are reasonably priced (All of them are around 0.50-0.80. I got Moonbeam and will probably pick up Harvest). Immortals are super cheap. I have 2 complaints/suggestions. Dimitar already mentioned 1-mobile search is buggy as hell. When you try to search for an item by its name, you get stuck on the same page forever. The other one is the display of prices. I believe it was a feature on lootmarket at some point, and I don’t know why it was removed. It’s the option of prices being displayed in 2 currencies- I would like to see how much an item costs in euros and USD at the same time. You can see that when you click on the actual item, but not while on the search page. It helps to compare prices to the community market (which is in Euros for me), but also to see what the actual price is (since lootmarket uses USD). All in all, great site, would recommend.

    May 3, 2016 at 3:56 pm

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