Rust Contas, skins e baús

Skins first, and by a wide margin. Rust skins are Steam Marketplace items: they can be sold, they have a public price, and an account carrying a large collection is carrying tradeable value rather than a look. That is why the skin count sorts this shelf more cleanly than anything else, and why it is the one number a buyer can price independently — the inventory is public.

Hours second, and only to a point. Going from a few hundred hours to a couple of thousand moves the price substantially; past roughly four thousand it stops, and the highest-hour accounts are not the dearest. The listings explain themselves: many of them say «AFK hours» outright. Beyond a certain number, hours stop describing a player and start describing a machine left running, and buyers price that difference.

Twitch drops third, and they behave like a collectible rather than a stat. Drops are handed out during specific streams and cannot be earned afterwards, so a modest number adds a little and a large one changes the account's class entirely.

The Steam side sets the floor rather than the price: the store region, whether the email is included, and whether the account has ever been resold. A Steam level of ten is written into many titles because it lifts some new-account limits — it tells you the account is not brand new, and nothing about its value.

Start by deciding which product you want. An account on this shelf is bought for the game: the hours, the skins, the profile. If what you want is a Steam library that happens to include Rust — the game plus everything else somebody bought over the years — those live on a different shelf, and mixing the two is the most common way to overpay here.

Then the inventory. Ask for the Steam profile link before anything else: the skin inventory, the hours and the game bans are all public there. This is one of the few shelves where the seller's claims can be checked rather than trusted, and a seller who will not show the profile has answered the question.

Third, read the hours against the skins. A played account has both; a farmed one has hours and little else. If the title leads with a very large hour count and says nothing about the inventory, assume the hours were idle.

Access last and never optional: this is a Steam account, so the email is what makes it yours, and the store region comes with it. Every card says whether the email is included.

Rust is anti-cheated by EAC, and its bans are permanent and tied to more than the account. A banned account stays banned, and the ban is shown publicly on the Steam profile — which is both the risk and the protection here: unlike most games, you can see the answer before paying. A card that says «no ban» is making a claim you can verify in thirty seconds.

The Steam side carries the ordinary risks of any Steam account. Valve's terms forbid selling, support restores accounts to whoever proves the original email and purchase history, and an account whose email is not fully yours is an account the previous owner can ask for back. A new authenticator brings a trade hold that does not affect playing but does affect selling skins — worth knowing if the inventory is why you bought.

The specific thing to distrust on this shelf is an account whose hours and inventory disagree. Thousands of idle hours with nothing in the inventory is usually what it looks like: a machine that was left running so the account could be sold as «played».

Change the Steam password, then move the email to your own, then turn on Steam Guard on your device. Expect the trade hold that follows a new authenticator: it does not stop you playing, and it does stop you moving skins for a few days.

Then open the profile and compare it with the card: hours, inventory, game bans, and the account's creation year. All of it while the confirmation window is open — that is the window in which the seller's money is still frozen.

Listing is free, and you receive exactly the price you set: the platform's fee is added on top for the buyer, not taken out of your price. What sells a Rust account is the inventory first — say how many skins and let the public profile back it — then the hours, honestly, and the Twitch drops if the collection is large. Say whether the account is native and whether the email is included. A profile link in the listing does more for you than any adjective.