Selling keys for paypal

Ever heard about the rants we do on G2A and Kinguin? They are the grey market. Imagine something like eBay for game keys. You put them up in one huge online flea market for a set price. They add a fee on that, and if a buyer wants the game, they can choose your offer personally to get the key from you.
Only instead of eBay, it is run by unknown people (seems to be Russians), registered in HK to avoid all Western consumer and fraud protection laws. Still, since most sellers do their damndest to do free advertising for them, they apparently always transfer the money. But like eBay, it is very difficult to get buyers unless you have thousands of positive feedbacks with 100% ratings. Even 99% sellers will receive a sharp decrease in buyers, since everybody knows that there are hundreds of thousand of fake, stolen, revoked, and duplicate keys there.

I can't really recomend that. You could try, but the chance you actually sell it there, is not high. You will have to put the lowest price and be lucky enough to have someone that wants that game, while you still have the lowest price. And even then, people rather pay 10 cents more to buy from a trusted seller.

Meh i've been doing it for 6 years haven't had a problem. I had a 12k a year business using that method 2 years in a row and no problems. The regulations they have are just text on a page, so far it seems there is no actual system to stop people from abusing it.

I don't know the exact rules, but I can tell you that if you want protection while selling digital goods, you are required to have a business account.

Friends and family is not for sales, it's for sending money to friends and family. They could easily refund on you and PayPal likely wouldn't do squat as you were trying to circumvent fees.

Uh what is false? If your experience differs from mine that doesn't somehow make my experience false.... You somehow got charged for doing it once while I have made nearly $30,000 US and have never been charged for any of them. Does that mean what you say is false?

well, only sell to high-rep traders. that lowers the risk significantly. i was the victim of a paypal scam once, but that guy had like 5/0 or something. lesson learned. now whoever wants to do a paypal trade with me, had to have some serious rep and has to be a trader for a certain amount of time. if you want to lower the risk as much as possible, i suggest you sell only to someone who has 100+ rep, a verified paypal account, and got his first rep at least a year ago. from my experience, the risk is virtually zero then. also, limit the amount of keys a single person can buy from you. i think if you strictly follow those rules (no matter how good an offer from a low-rep guy might be), then you should be fine. i have my rules, and i didn't get scammed in years.

wait, why dont you list them on the steam market? (or open the crates)

Then I suggest holding on to them to get a game you want. CS:GO keys are a very common currency on the trade section. Of course of you need the money you could sell them, but I'd just keep them if I were you.

they are not safe. If someone buys them via credit-card fraud or similar they will be revoked.

Guarantee for the buyer and the seller comes with a fee, always. If you want maximum profit, you must take risks. This is how practically the entire economy works, from white to the purest black.

Actually, no. The place is completely free to use, and I've used it several times. I might even be interested in buying some depending on the price. All it serves is a means of reputation for reliable buyers and sellers to contact and handle their PayPal transaction.

DanZDK is the kind of the guy who blacklists you and enters your giveaways. Just be careful whatever he suggests.

Just make a thread on steamtrades and compare your price to what others ask for it