How to Send CSGO Skins on Steam on PC or Mac

Last Updated: July 8, 2019

CS:GO stands for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, which is a multi-player first-person shooter played on either console or PC. You can trade items for CS:GO through Steam, which is a digital platform for trading and buying items and games. This wikiHow teaches you how to send CS:GO skins on Steam on PC or Mac. Steam. To trade on Steam, you'll need to install and register an account on Steam, confirm your email address, link Steam Guard (a two-factor identification tool) to your account and wait 15 days. Fortunately, Steam Guard is automatically activated once your email is verified and you have restarted the Steam app on your computer twice, so you don’t have to worry too much about that. To learn more about Steam Guard, you can visit the Steam Guard knowledge base.

Steps

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Open Steam. You’ll usually find this in your Start menu or in the Applications folder.
- Different items on Steam become tradable at different times. Some can be traded immediately, others may require you to wait weeks or months. For more information, read the Steam trading and market restrictions.^{[1]
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Click the View tab. You’ll see this in the upper-left corner of the window.

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Click Inventory. This displays the contents of your inventory.
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Click Trade Offers. It's above the inventory.
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Click New Trade Offer. Your "Friends" list will load.
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Click the friend you want to send the skin to. A trading window will load.
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Select the skin and click Make Offer. Your friend can choose to accept or deny the trade.