STALCRAFT Accounts, skins en kisten

The starter is the shelf's floor and its bulk. The southern story is the game's first act, and finishing it is the work a fresh account skips; sellers say «south completed» or list the side and the launcher, and those listings differ from each other by very little. The faction line on them reads as progress rather than as a price: an account that says only Stalkers or Bandits has picked a side, and one that says Dawn, Frontier, Covenant or Mercenaries has gone on to choose a sub-faction — which happens after the southern story, and costs accordingly.

The currency account is a different market with a straight ladder: the price follows the rubles almost exactly, from ten million upwards. Those listings say «without things» on purpose — the account is the wallet — and they are priced the way game currency is priced everywhere, per million, with no discount for the account around it.

The built account is the dear tail, and it is priced by names: a gun and the number after it. Upgrade levels run to fifteen, and a listing that reads «PzB 38 +15» or «AAC Honey Badger» is selling that weapon at that tier, with the account as its wrapper. There is no number we can rank across those listings; the gun is read from the title and verified from the screenshots.

The launcher line deserves one honest sentence. The Steam slice is dearer than the own-launcher shelf by a wide margin, and that is not a Steam premium: the Steam lots on this shelf happen to be the built and currency accounts, while the starters come through the game's own launcher. Choose Steam because you want a Steam account, not because it is worth more.

Decide which product you want: a start, a wallet, or a build. A starter is cheap because it is a starter; the wallet is priced per million; the build is priced by its gun. Comparing across the three is comparing nothing.

For a starter, read the server and the launcher before anything else — RU or EU, and Steam, VK Play or the game's own launcher — because those decide where and how you play and cannot be changed after. Then the side, and whether a sub-faction has already been chosen: if you want the other one, the choice was made for you.

For a wallet, read the rubles and nothing else matters; «without things» is the honest description. For a build, read the gun and its upgrade number, and then the screenshots, because the number after the plus is the whole price and it is verified only by looking.

Then the words that say the account is yours to keep: «native», «full access», the email included. On a shelf where most listings cost less than a lunch that line is easy to skip, and on the dear tail it is the purchase.

The login is the whole risk, and it has three homes. An account made through the game's own launcher is recovered through its email; one made through Steam through Steam's recovery; one through VK Play through that platform. A listing must say which, because the procedure is different for each, and the email behind it must come with the account — «native» is the word sellers use for that. Without it, the previous owner can take the account back.

The game bans for cheating and for account trading, and a bought account carries its history. A starter has almost none; a built account has months of it, and «one owner» or a clean-looking history is worth reading on those. There is no way to inspect a ban from outside.

Escrow covers the handover: the payment stays with us until you confirm the account opens, the side and the server are as described, and the rubles or the gun are there. The warranty window runs from there. What it cannot cover is the game: a wallet spent in the Zone is spent, and a weapon lost in a raid is lost.

Secure the login before you enter the Zone; on a wallet or a build, the thing you bought can be spent or lost by the first raid — or by whoever still holds the email.

Say which product it is in the first words. A starter: the server, the launcher, the side and whether a sub-faction is chosen, and that the southern story is done. A wallet: the rubles, and «without things» if that is what it is. A build: the gun and its upgrade number, then the rest. Say that the email comes with it and which login it lives behind. You keep your price in full; the buyer pays our fee on top.