We are pleased to release our new addition to Dispenser.tf - Market.

Here is a short FAQ about the new site, hopefully it will answer most commonly asked questions.

1. What is the difference between Dispenser.tf market and the Steam's community market?

Here is a few:

a. Our base credit is "Key" and "Bitcoin".
b. We feature trading between Bitcoin, Steam gifts (including untradable ones) and key interchanging.
c. Our fee is much lower than Steam market's, which should result in lowered item price.
d. We do not have the design flaw that the final exchange price only follows the user's input price, but ignoring if there are better price orders on the book.

2. Why make a market system at all?

We have been criticized for being too buyer unfriendly for having a poor search system and a somewhat complicated interface. The old system could not be further improved due to technical difficulties. For example, we could sort items by price as we did not have a common currency. We hope a market system can solve many of these problems and at the same time adds useful features. Also, there is a need to change the business model so that the website is actually self-sustainable and rewarding for increasing the amount of users. In our old model, more people using the website gives us no real benefit but paying more for the maintenance.

3. What will happen to the old system?

The old system will be kept for now. If you prefer the old style, you still can create those 'tradition trades'. However, we will no longer list these trades under the main page and search also won't support it. As a seller, that means you will have to send out your trade links directly to your buyers. The old system won't be developed much anymore. It's only kept to waive fee for sellers who have their own customers base and do not rely on the site to get exposure.

4. What is the new fee system?

We will be charging fee to support the long-term development of the site. It is a progressive structure that the fee percent is based on the volume traded in 30 days.

June is going to be the public beta testing period. We will not be taking any fees until July 13 BTC issue is resolved. But the trade volume you have made in this period will still be counted, which means your fee could be as low as 0.25% once we start taking fee.

5. Are there any other updates to the site?

In addition to the market, we have made two very important updates to fix certain important problems.

a. CS:GO trading no longer uses Valve's abandoned API. There should be no longer any downtime for CS:GO trading and at the same time we have added skin, exteriors and various item info to all CS:GO items.

b. Gem, trading cards and other community items now will be distributed via centralized bots, to bypass a limitation added by Valve recently that disabled limited accounts (including our bots) for trading these items. You may now notice trade offers coming from non-shop bots when you exchange these items.

c. Lots of bug fixes and an interface change, mainly to adapt to the market system.

6. So, how should I get started?

As a buyer, the only real change about purchasing item is that there is one more step involved: depositing keys for credit. After you have convert your keys to credit, you will search and buy your items just like how you used to, in a slightly different interface. But if you have experience in the Steam market or other similar markets, our market should not be difficult to use at all. It is like Steam market with keys and Bitcoin as currency. Please read the FAQ if you need some help.

As a seller, making orders may be more troublesome than before if you have many different types of items, due to the limitation that you can only update one market at a time. But now you have more options for your trades, for example selling a gift for 6.05 keys, or re-selling gifts by putting ask and bid orders in the same market etc. We will continue to improve the interface so that handling a lot of gifts could be easier. Before creating orders, please make sure you are in the correct market (key/BTC). Please also remember the price is in TF2 keys.

NOTE: If you have Steam community items prior to the update, please re-deposit them all. We need to re-index these items.

Do you have any plans to implement a measure to prevent spams like this https://dispenser.tf/market/3555/ ?

u can add one more wishlist for selling in market. example we can sell for 7 keys and 10 ref (this for old system) or 7.5 keys (for new system) if people will buy with old system they can choose 7 keys and 10 ref option, if they will use market 7.5 keys. i think its easy for you.
with current system we have to make 2x trade for this, one for market one for old style.

also still waiting price range for market (x.99 thing)

+1905

We will have CS:GO key credit.

Tried opening an ask order for 2x Garry's Mod: nothing happens when I click on "create as"
When I try and open a bid with just 1 copy, I get this error: "There are not enough inventory in your shop to open this ask order."
What? My shope page says this:
SHOP INVENTORY (1014/2000)

Checked up on dispenser after not using it for a few months, yah sorry not depositing keys just to buy a random game.

I totally understand you need to find a way to keep your selves sustained but this doesn't work for me. I barely trust the bots as it is, how the hell am I supposed to trust you with my keys?

Can I even withdraw?

Seriously boooooo.

Hi Joto, I'm buyer and all the games I have bought were with old search system method. It's true that this search method is difficult to improve but we don't want you to improveit, we just wanted to leave it just like it was, so we can keep using it. So we will have two search options, one for the market as it is now, and the former one for old trades, no need to order or improve it.

I don't how many people use only tf2outpost, but i could say that myself and many people I know used that old search system to check if there were cheaper options or "bundle offers" for the games.

This way like it is now it is impossible to check if there is cheaper price than the one in market.

Wrong, lots of resellers and bigger traders / buyers Search on Dispenser for Tradable or cheaper games. I sold thousands of gifts for resellers who were only searching on Dispenser. You don't need to fix, improve or do anything for the Old Search / Trade System. Just make it so it's available to choose between Market and Old Trade System, done. If it's doable of course, I know 90% of Sellers would agree on this one.