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BUFF163 Review

Is BUFF163 legit? · Updated Sep 2026 · by MattCS

7.8
★★★★★★★★★★

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Provisional

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The market's price reference

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Visits, Jul
2.1M
Instant payouts
No
KYC to play
Not stated
Trustpilot, 99 reviews
2.3/ 5

Overview

China's giant P2P marketplace, the benchmark for skin prices.

Provisional desk review: we haven't tested BUFF163 with real money yet, so its score is capped at 8.5. How we review

P2P marketplace

What we like

  • +Deepest liquidity for CS2
  • +Often the lowest prices
  • +Price-history tools

Watch out for

  • −Chinese payment methods and interface
  • −Harder to use outside China
Website
buff.163.com
Founded
Not stated
Operator
NetEase (China)
License
Not stated
Fees
2.5% on sales
KYC
Not stated
Instant withdrawals
Not confirmed
Categories
Trading

Features

P2P MarketplaceBuy ordersCS2 skins

Deposit with

AlipayWeChat Pay

Get paid with

AlipayWeChat Pay
Trust & reputation7.1
Payouts7.2
Pricing transparency7.0
Features8.6
Value & fees9.4
Design & UXNot scored yet

Fees

Seller fee1.5%
Buyer prices vs. CSFloat+2.1%

Market type: p2p. Fee data from DadsCap and CS2Cap, September 2026. Compare all marketplace fees

How popular is BUFF163?

Visits in July
2,104,547
vs. month before
n/a
Among trading sites
#2 of 11
Visits per day
~67.9K
Pages per visit
16.7

Where visitors come from

Mostly China, Russian Federation, United States.

One month of data so far. The chart fills in as we collect more.

Estimated visits per month from HypeStat, all devices. Third-party estimates, not the site's own numbers.

What players say

2.3/ 5 on Trustpilot

99 reviews

Read all on Trustpilot
  • ★★★★★

    china on top

    “as a eastern european i love buff 163 easy to use very understandable”
    Trustpilot · Nov 2, 2025
  • ★★★★★

    Review of n.163.com EU server

    “I'm leaving this review about the game management company in general, Their game management is just terrible, the complaints of people is getting ignored, the ingame complaints are not passed further to correct authorities, discord servers are managed by ingame players of the current servers,…”
    Trustpilot · Sep 18, 2026
  • ★★★★★

    It used to be the best website for…

    “It used to be the best website for trading skins. Now they’ve closed off to the whole world, only China is left! This is a terrible decision. That’s why it’s rated this way!”
    Trustpilot · Sep 1, 2026

Gambling sites often reward players for reviews, and people who lost review more than people who won. Trustpilot is one input to our trust score, not the verdict.

BUFF163 in 2026

BUFF163 (by NetEase) is the largest CS2 marketplace in the world and the price reference many other sites follow.

Catch

Payments run through Chinese services, which makes it hard to use from outside China. Many players use BUFF.Market, its international version, instead.

Verdict

The benchmark for prices, but not easy for most players.

Who runs BUFF163?

Founder and CEO of NetEase
William Ding (Ding Lei)
Operating company
NetEase (China)

BUFF163 is run by NetEase, the Chinese gaming and internet company listed on the Nasdaq and founded by William Ding. The 163 in the name is NetEase's classic domain.

Sources: NetEase, Wikipedia

BUFF163 FAQ

Who owns BUFF163?
BUFF163 is run by William Ding (Ding Lei), through NetEase (China).
Is BUFF163 legit?
We score BUFF163 7.8/10 in a provisional desk review. Players rate it 2.3/5 on Trustpilot from 99 reviews.
How popular is BUFF163?
About 2.1M visits in July 2026, according to HypeStat estimates.