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.

In old one (system) putting links on other websites wasn't necessary to sell something. Dispenser wasn't only the place where You were selling but also it was the advertising itself. For trades like old ones it hard to create the filter where buyers can filter offers by price (becouse of different items like keys, TODs, and shit like that) but filters like sort by popularity, maybe by amounts of gifts offered by seller would be great. Or do it like on outpost (autobump - the working one :P) -> pay 5$ per month and You will be able to autobump. You can say : so simply go use the outpost but the truth is that dispenser have one big adventage - it can manage automaticly out sale. I really think that new market stuff is very good (for buyers) but You should consider to put it on different domain.

Fee? The very special thing that dispenser.tf had was the lack of thereof, unlike from steam community market, that's why it became so popular. As someone replied before, it will look like another G2A. If the fee thing becomes real to all trades... another 'dispenser' with that 'magic' thing should be made.

I paid my VIP not to sell, just to support the site.
As a wholesale buyer I think this change is for good. Old system search thing was really unfriendly and every time u wanted to search for a game u had to go to every page looking for the cheapest offer... This way is much faster. Even for sellers I see it easier to track prices and compare if you are best offer
All changes always try to change the mind and are difficult. For this reason i would have tried to do after o before steam sales.
I would also try to be able to sell ticket of duty.
For last I would like to see on shop not only 20 orders but all.
And yes I would try old system to leave it die and people get used to the new one.
Thanks for work

Well, that is my opinion as a buyer. Not only sellers are important I think.



As I said If in the shop profile all offers of the new system were listed and you could buy directly from there you would keep advertising your bot on trading websites

Edward, I understand your concern and we will try to make it at the end that both types of traders would be pleased.

tl;dr
Why did almost all of my trades disappeared so I'm forced to set them up again?

Steam summer sale is a very important time. Everyone is just flocking to other sites to trade. Nobody is using this site anymore except linked from tf2 outpost. This was a very bad time to test this. These changes needed to be gradually rolled out and tested, not forced upon us.

This page: https://dispenser.tf/view_key_credit/
The usage was just like how you deposit or withdraw refined credit.