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.

This just this.

Why is base currency TF2 key? most of traders are using Special cs:go keys.
Cant deposit CS:Go keys?

I just wanted independent csgo api + loading pictures of games + expanded wishlist options + cheapest price on top , new system is confusing , let the items (or whatever they sell here) sellers use credit system not game buyers/sellers

This new system sucks. Why did i pay 50$ for this? This is even more complicated for me, how could it be esier for new users?

Hi Joto,

I absolutely loved the old Dispenser site, but can't stand the new one as it's confusing and unfair to your current Premium Users. I understand you want to increase your profit margins so here is my proposal to keep everyone happy:

(1) All Premium Users that paid $50.00 will be required to use the old interface with unlisted games on the main page\search so we're not in competition with your new system.
(2) No Premium Users or their clients pay fees since we're unlisted and self promote our shops.
(3) Any listings on the new system will require a fee to be paid.

It is going to be like this. No fee if you use if the old way. You can continue to get exposure in Outpost and other website. So basically your point 1-3 are what is happening right now. And if possible we will try to give the old trades some exposure on the site, too.

Rather negative change, it is quite unfair for VIP users, and for those who bought subscription just recently, I guess you should open some margin of refunds for users bought it in relative short time, because one of premium features was auto bump, which is sadly lost. I can't say, I am very happy about this, honestly.

On the other hand, I understand you had some work in it and initial reaction is always this way. Time shall tell how this site develops. It is good thing that you're on direct contact with your sellers ;) I

please give me the old system.. its more faster and convenience..