If you have already collected a number of skins in your account and are now planning to sell them, you may want to estimate the value of the inventory before looking for deals on specific skins on different platforms. The total value of inventory — this is not only a figure that you can brag about to other players, but also a useful indicator that helps you estimate how much you can get for your items and how good a price a particular service offers.
Calculating the Cost of Items
You can check the cost of inventory in various ways. The simplest of them is chosen by those who, for some reason, do not want to make their profile public or connect third-party services. To find out the approximate price of items, the built-in Steam tools are sufficient, but you will have to spend a little time.
Go to your profile, open the list of items related to CS:GO, and click on each of them in sequence. The properties of the item will appear on the right, and at the bottom of them is the price on the Community Marketplace. Write down the cost of all items and add them up (the easiest way to do this is using a spreadsheet in Excel). If you have a couple of dozen items — this is a completely workable option, but if your collection is more extensive, the process will be too tedious.
Using Third-Party Services
An alternative option — use third-party inventory cost calculators. In order for them to get information about the items you have in your possession, you will need to make your profile and inventory public. To do this, go to the "Privacy Settings" section in the profile properties and select the appropriate parameters there.
Many sites that collect information about skins also offer cost calculators, among other things. For example, on CSGOBackpack you don’t even need to log in through your Steam profile. Just insert a link to your account to get a calculation of the cost of your inventory and information about the skins it contains. Since the site does not require a login, you can view your friends’ inventories in the same way if they have also made them public.
Other sites for assessing inventory work in a similar way. Popular options include CSGOExchange and SteamTools. The latter, in addition, has other useful tools.
However, it should be taken into account that inventory assessment using such services is not always accurate. For example, they usually do not take into account stickers, which greatly affect the cost of the item. If you want to sell a rare game item or skin with a remarkable sticker combination — contact LIS-SKINS, and with us you will always find a fair price.
