Editorial policy
How SkinMarket is produced, sourced, checked and corrected.
What this site is
SkinMarket is an independent editorial site covering in-game skins and cosmetics and how their markets work. It is a publication, not a shop, marketplace or financial service.
How articles are made
Articles are drafted with the help of AI language models. Each draft starts from an item in public gaming and esports news feeds and is written to fixed editorial rules covering structure, length, tone and neutral wording. Drafts are then scored automatically for quality and compared with existing articles to avoid near-duplicates. Articles that pass these checks are normally published automatically; they are not individually reviewed by a human editor before they go live.
We do not use personal bylines and we do not present articles as the work of named experts. The publisher of every article is the site itself.
Sources
Our sources are publicly available gaming and esports news feeds and announcements. An article is a new write-up prompted by a source item, not a copy of it. The site does not do original reporting: no interviews, no leaked or unpublished material and no first-hand testing, unless an article explicitly says otherwise.
Accuracy, corrections and updates
AI-assisted writing can contain mistakes, and details in fast-moving areas such as skin prices, market rules and trading policies change quickly. Please check time-sensitive facts against the primary source before you act on them.
If you find an error or an outdated statement, email [email protected] (also listed on the contact page) and include the link to the article. We review these reports and correct, update or remove inaccurate content. Revised articles get a new last-modified date in their page metadata.
No affiliation with Valve, Steam or any marketplace
SkinMarket is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated by Valve, Steam or any skin marketplace or trading site. We do not run a marketplace, we do not buy, sell, hold or trade items for anyone, and we never ask for your Steam login, account credentials, trade links or payment details. If a message, website or account claims to be SkinMarket and asks for any of these, it is not us. Nothing here is financial or trading advice; skin prices and market rules change quickly.
Independence and links to our own products
This site is editorially independent of the games, publishers, platforms and companies it writes about. It is operated by the same people who run him.gg, a competitive gaming and esports hub. Some pages and many articles link to him.gg: https://him.gg. Treat those links as promotion of our own product, not as an independent recommendation.
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