Marketplace.tf Reviews 1,278

TrustScore 4 out of 5

4.2

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Review summary

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Evaluating 112 reviews, reviewers had a great experience with this company. Many customers consider this platform a trusted and excellent website for purchasing items, often highlighting its extensive selection and competitive pricing. The user experience is frequently praised for being clean, easy to navigate, and efficient, with many appreciating the quick and straightforward payment options. Reviewers consistently report fast delivery times, with items often arriving within minutes, making the overall process smooth and reliable. However, some people mentioned issues with delivery, particularly concerning cooldown periods that delay item reception for 24 hours or more, especially for bulk purchases. This can lead to frustration, as items may go into cooldown immediately after a previous one, and some users experienced difficulties with multiple trade offers becoming unavailable. Additionally, a few customers found the requirement for identity verification for certain purchases to be excessive.

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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Most trusted site in my opinion for buying items related to Valve games. Several quick, easy and secure payment methods from providers with little hassle. Only downside is slow delivery on items which... See more

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Great website, been using it for years but just because the bot traded me an item that was used in another trade i have to wait 24 hours for a new one? thats totally stupid.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I've been using Marketplace.tf for over 5 years now, and they’ve never let me down. The service is quick, reliable, and incredibly easy to use. Whether I’m buying or selling, transactions are always s... See more


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  1. Online Marketplace

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Buy and sell TF2, Dota 2, and Steam items quickly and safely.


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4.2

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TrustScore 4 out of 5

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Reliable, Fast, and Trusted for Over 5 Years

I've been using Marketplace.tf for over 5 years now, and they’ve never let me down. The service is quick, reliable, and incredibly easy to use. Whether I’m buying or selling, transactions are always smooth and secure. The user interface is clean, and their support has been responsive the rare times I’ve needed help. It's hands down the best marketplace for Team Fortress 2 items. Highly recommended!

June 15, 2025
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Not the best -- It's been worse recently

This used to be my go-to website to buy items and stuff, but nowadays (and even when I first started buying from here) the bot trades take pretty long to be sent and on top of that, the website has been kinda buggy itself.

Items can take either a couple minutes or more than 24 hours to be delivered. That's kind of ridiculous. Even if I buy, say, multiple of the same thing, I'll only receive ONE of that thing "quickly," but the rest? Gotta wait 10+ hours!

About that... All of the items you buy are sent in separate trades. Even if you buy multiple of the same item. You will receive a different trade for each duplicate. It's an insane waste of time... It would be so much easier and would probably take less time to just send one trade for ALL of the items you bought. Why is everything separated???

And the website being buggy MIGHT just be me... But I've been seeing the website go "under maintenance," but then I reload and it's perfectly fine. It'll be like this on a different device, but on another, it's like it never happened. The website has also been somewhat slower recently, for whatever reason. Again, might just be me, but still.

I WOULD give this 3 stars, since TECHNICALLY this website is perfectly "fine" to buy from, but I've been having trouble with this website ever since I started using it, like the slow trades and such.

It's honestly not that good, plus the prices for some items are WAY more expensive on here compared to other sites. So you're better off buying stuff somewhere else.

June 12, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Requiring identity verification

Requiring identity verification just to buy TF2 keys is excessive. This isn’t a high-value asset like real estate or high-end jewelry—it’s a virtual item, especially when the item is overpriced compared to other marketplaces. The 'high fraud risk' explanation feels like an excuse to over-collect user data.

June 10, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Marketplace.TF is great!

I have used this website to buy TF2 items for a while now and have had no bad experiences thus far. This is possibly the best website to purchase all the cosmetics, weapons, and taunts to fill your heart's desire!

June 8, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Payment process went well, probably could have picked a better time.

Payment process went well, but some issues appeared on Steam's Side when receiving the items. I probably should have waited when the Steam API wasn't in trouble to purchase these items.

Thankfully there is a failsafe system in place when the trades failed, and they will redeliver my missing items in 6hrs.

One of them was seemingly dropped by Steam entirely, as I had the chance to accept it, but the trade turned into an "Unable to load details for this trade" decline error, (I can verify my two of five expected items were in that trade) which neither side can create themselves. The other trade never even made it to my side.

May 29, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Good, but "review" periods suck.

I've used this website over 5 times now for purchasing items, and they've always delivered what I ordered perfectly fine. The issue is however that there is ALWAYS a hold placed on my items, that requires a human staff member (of which always take 12+ hours) to verify. Really disappointing.

May 19, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Marketplace.tf, the best marketplace..... .tf

I always use marketplace.tf because its cheaper, faster, way more reliable and its easy to navigate, the selection system is good, the filters are great and the settings are easy as can be! the only downside is selling is very controlled so if you are under 18 (which i was when i first found it) it is really good at stopping you from selling stuff. but i just use sk*npo*t to sell. ;)

May 2, 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

STOP REVIEWING EVERY THING I BUY OML

STOP REVIEWING EVERY THING I BUY OML

They raised the base cart checkout to 5$, Almost every time without fail my items will go on cooldown AND for the past 3 orders in a row (only being around 10$ each) they placed it under manual review, so it takes EVEN LONGER to get the items I spent real world money on, I've been buying a lot of things here and I'm getting really sick and tired of the waiting.

March 25, 2025
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