Marketplace Rules

These Marketplace Rules supplement the Terms of Service. By listing or buying any item on the Blastforce Marketplace you accept them. They are designed to protect both buyers and sellers and to keep the marketplace usable for the long term.

1. Scope & eligibility

• The Blastforce Marketplace is a peer-to-peer (P2P) trading service. Blastforce is not the seller of the items; we connect buyers and sellers, lock the buyer’s funds in escrow, and verify the trade through the Steam Web API.
• To list or buy you must have a Blastforce account in good standing, a linked Steam account, a valid Steam Trade URL and a Steam profile that is not Steam-Community-banned, trade-banned, escrow-restricted or otherwise blocked from trading by Valve.
• You may only sell items that you legitimately own and that you are entitled to transfer.

2. What may be listed

• Tradeable CS2 items (skins, knives, gloves, stickers, agents, music kits, cases, capsules, charms, graffiti) that the Steam inventory API marks as tradable=true.
• Items must be in your inventory at the time of listing and must remain there until the trade is sent.
• Float, pattern, stickers, stattrak status and souvenir status displayed on the listing must accurately reflect the actual item being sold.

3. Forbidden listings

• Items obtained through phishing, account theft, hijacked Steam sessions, payment fraud, chargebacks or compromised API keys.
• Items currently subject to a Steam trade hold, Steam Guard cooldown, escrow due to mobile authenticator inactivity, or any Valve-imposed restriction.
• Items not tradeable to other Steam users (e.g. game licences, in-game currency tickets, gift items in untransferable form).
• Items priced significantly below market in order to launder funds or to artificially trigger refunds (“wash trading”, “trade boosting”).
• Bundles or descriptions that misrepresent the item, its float, its stickers, its rarity or its inventory state.
• Items advertised together with off-platform deals (real money on the side, account sales, “come to my Discord to finish”).

4. Pricing & fees

• Sellers set their own price in B-Coins. Buyers pay the displayed price plus any visible service fee at checkout.
• Marketplace service fees, if applicable, are shown before confirmation and may be updated from time to time. The current fee schedule is always visible inside the listing flow.
• Withdrawing the proceeds of a sale follows the standard withdrawal rules: 5% fee, 100 B-Coin minimum, 5 requests per day.

5. Buyer flow

1. You confirm the purchase. The price is immediately deducted from your B-Coin balance and locked as a buyer escrow.
2. The seller sends a Steam trade offer to the trade URL on your account.
3. You verify that the offer matches the listing (same item, same float/stickers, no extra items being asked from you) and accept it. Never accept a Steam trade offer that asks for items in return unless that is exactly what the listing says.
4. The Steam Web API confirms the trade. Your escrow is released to the seller’s 8-day hold.

6. Seller flow

1. You list the item. The listing is matched against your live Steam inventory; we may delist it if the item is moved, traded or made non-tradeable.
2. When a buyer pays, you receive a notification with the buyer’s Steam trade URL.
3. You send the Steam trade offer manually from your Steam account. You then confirm in the Blastforce trade ticket that the offer has been sent.
4. Once the buyer accepts and Steam returns a confirmed status, your payout enters the 8-day escrow hold.

7. Time windows

Step	Window	If exceeded
Seller sends Steam offer	12 hours from purchase	Trade auto-cancelled, buyer fully refunded
Buyer accepts Steam offer	12 hours from offer sent	Trade may be cancelled and item returned to seller
Seller payout escrow	8 days from Steam-verified delivery	Payout released to seller’s withdrawable balance
Buyer-initiated refund window	From 6 hours to 8 days after purchase	Buyer may open a refund dispute with evidence

8. Escrow & payout

• Buyer funds are frozen by us at the moment of purchase and are not available to either party while the trade is in flight.
• After Steam verification, the payout is parked in a per-trade escrow entry for 8 days. This window exists so that we can absorb chargebacks and resolve disputes.
• Once the 8-day hold expires without a dispute, the payout is automatically credited to the seller’s withdrawable B-Coin balance.
• If a dispute is opened during the hold, the escrow remains frozen until the dispute closes.

9. Cancellations

• Sellers may delist an unsold listing at any time before a buyer pays.
• Once a buyer has paid, the seller may not unilaterally cancel the trade. Failing to send the trade within 12 hours triggers an automatic refund to the buyer and may count as a strike against the seller.
• Buyers may not cancel after paying, except by opening a refund dispute under the conditions in section 10.
• Repeated last-minute cancellations or non-deliveries by a seller are grounds for listing privileges being revoked.

10. Refunds & disputes

A buyer may open a dispute and request a full refund if any of the following occurs:

• The seller did not send the Steam trade within 12 hours.
• The Steam trade offer contains a different item, a different float, missing stickers, or extra items being asked of the buyer.
• The trade offer expired or was cancelled by the seller through Steam.
• Steam imposed a hold or escrow that prevents the trade from completing.
• Evidence of an API-key scam or partner-mismatch is detected by our verification step.

Disputes are resolved by Blastforce based on the data returned by the Steam Web API and our internal trade record. Decisions are final. Both parties are notified of the outcome and the affected funds are either refunded to the buyer or released to the seller.

If our automated Steam verification fails 50 or more times for the same trade, the trade is escalated to manual review.

11. Banned conduct

• Off-platform settlement. Asking the counterparty to pay in cash, crypto, gifts or another platform is forbidden and treated as a scam attempt.
• Wash trading. Buying and selling between accounts you control to inflate volume or manipulate price.
• API-key scams. Inviting the counterparty to install a fake Steam login page, browser extension or “trade helper”.
• Look-alike offers. Sending Steam trade offers from a separate account that mimics the listed seller.
• Price laundering. Listing an item far above or below its true value to move funds between accounts.
• Item-swap fraud. Listing one item but sending a different one with a similar name, lower float or fewer stickers.
• Inventory hide / re-trade. Setting your inventory to private or trading the listed item elsewhere while it is for sale on Blastforce.
• Targeting other users. Doxing, threats or harassment in trade chat, profile description or community posts.

12. Steam & third-party risk

• The Steam network, Steam Guard mobile authenticator and Valve’s trade-hold rules are operated by Valve and are outside our control. Steam outages, Steam-imposed holds and Steam Guard requirements may delay or block a trade.
• You are solely responsible for the security of your Steam account, your mobile authenticator and your Trade URL. We will never ask for your Steam password, mobile authenticator code, or login token.
• Where a Valve action (VAC ban, trade ban, Steam Community ban) reaches you during an active trade, the trade may be cancelled and the buyer refunded.

13. Enforcement & sanctions

• Violations may lead to listing removal, refund of buyers, forfeiture of seller payouts, balance freezes, partial or full account suspension, and permanent ban from the Marketplace.
• We will respond to law-enforcement requests in line with our Privacy Policy.
• Decisions can be appealed once via the Support form within 14 days.