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How Skin Pass Works

Skin Pass lets you use CS2 skins from GGBOYS official inventory on a six-month subscription. Pick a plan, choose a skin within your value limit, receive it through Steam, and return it when you are done with it. This page is a plain-language summary — the GGBOYS Skin Pass User Agreement is what actually governs.

Choose Your Skin Pass

Plan detailsSkin Pass BasicSkin Pass Premium
Price$59.90 / 6 months$99.90 / 6 months
Skins you may hold1 skin at a timeSeveral skins at the same time
Maximum value per skinUp to $59.90Up to $99.90
Maximum combined valueUp to $59.90, counting the skin you hold plus any pending claim offerUp to $99.90, counting all held skins plus all pending claim offers
Pending claim offers1 at a timeSeveral at a time
Inventory accessAll available inventory valued at or below $59.90All available inventory valued at or below $99.90, including everything in the Basic range
Inventory priorityStandard priorityPriority when several users want the same unreserved skin
Whether a skin is within reach is worked out from its current market value against your plan limit at the moment you open the list — inventory is not pre-labelled Basic or Premium. Premium goes first when several users want the same unreserved skin, but once a skin is reserved for someone it cannot be taken over, not even by Premium.

How It Works

01

Purchase a plan

Choose Basic or Premium and clear the entry checks: 18 or older, KYC complete, one linked GGBOYS account and one linked Steam account, a valid Trade URL, a public Steam profile and inventory, a linked external payment method, and the Steam trading eligibility check. Your six-month period starts the moment payment succeeds and the subscription is created — not when you claim your first skin.

02

Choose a skin

Browse the available inventory and pick a skin within your value limit. Claiming reserves both the skin and its registered value, so nobody else can take it while your claim is live.

03

Complete the Steam trade

When you claim, you choose how the trade offer is created. By default you send the offer to the GGBOYS official account; if you cannot send offers yourself, ask GGBOYS to send the offer to you instead. The 12-hour window starts when the offer is actually sent, so you always get the full 12 hours.

04

Use and return

Use the skin in CS2 as normal. To switch to a different skin, return this one once its Steam trade cooldown is over; your allowance is freed as soon as the return arrives, and then you can claim another.

05

Return your skins

When the pass expires, a renewal fails, or the pass is terminated, return every GGBOYS skin within the deadline stated in the return notice — 24 hours for a normal expiry, 12 hours for recalls and other special cases. There is no extra grace period.

Important Rules

Your subscription clock and inventory availability

The six-month period starts when Skin Pass is activated, not when you claim your first skin. Waiting for a skin, not using the service, or finding nothing suitable in stock does not pause, extend, or compensate the subscription. You can buy a pass even when nothing suitable is in stock, and that risk is yours.

Inventory depends on what is actually available. Every Skin Pass skin comes from GGBOYS official inventory, and eligibility is recalculated from live market value each time you open the list rather than from a fixed Basic or Premium label.

A reservation lasts 12 hours, counted from the moment the trade offer is actually sent — never from the moment you click claim. If the offer is declined on Steam or is not accepted in time, the skin returns to available inventory and your allowance is released immediately.

Cancelling a claim, and the risk-control ladder

You can cancel a claim while it is still on the GGBOYS side. If you are the one sending the trade offer, you can cancel until GGBOYS accepts it. If GGBOYS is sending the offer to you, you can cancel until it actually goes out — a queue or a retry on our side is never counted against you. Once the offer has been sent and is waiting for you on Steam, it can no longer be cancelled; you can only accept it, decline it on Steam, or let it expire after 12 hours.

Cancelling on GGBOYS, declining on Steam, letting an offer expire, and an offer that fails because of a system or trade error each count once against risk control. Three counts within 24 hours trigger it.

  • First trigger: new offers are paused for 24 hours.
  • Second trigger: paused for 3 days.
  • Third trigger: paused for 7 days and moved to manual review. After that, GGBOYS decides on further limits, ending the subscription, or permanently withdrawing eligibility.

Counts accumulate permanently and do not reset on their own, and the rules are identical for Basic and Premium. While you are paused, the subscription clock keeps running with no compensation or extension, held skins stay usable, and returns still work. If an offer was never sent because of something on our side, it is released automatically and does not count against you; a failure that GGBOYS confirms was not your fault can be removed from your count.

Basic and Premium in daily use

Basic holds one skin at a time. To get a different skin, return the one you hold first; once it arrives, your allowance is freed and you can claim the next one.

Premium can hold several skins and can claim a new one without returning anything, as long as enough allowance remains. When the remaining allowance is not enough, return some of the skins you hold first; the allowance they use is freed once they arrive. A skin still under a Steam trade cooldown cannot be returned yet and keeps using its share of your allowance in the meantime.

Once a return completes, your allowance is freed immediately and you can claim again straight away. The skin you returned only goes back into the pool after an 8-day protection period.

Two values: allowance value and original registered value

When a skin is delivered, GGBOYS records two figures from live market data. They normally start out identical, but they are used for different things.

  • Allowance value decides eligibility and how much of your plan limit the skin uses. GGBOYS may adjust it after a significant market change.
  • Original registered value is recorded at delivery and is used only to charge for an unreturned skin. Adjusting the allowance value never changes it.

If a skin moves in price while you hold it, you can simply keep it — GGBOYS does not force a return and does not rebalance your allowance for it. Unreturned-skin liability is always calculated on the original registered value.

Steam trade cooldowns and the final 7 days

GGBOYS cannot bypass Steam trading restrictions. A skin under a Steam trade cooldown cannot be returned until Steam allows it, and managing cooldowns before your pass expires is your responsibility.

During the last 7 calendar days of a pass, claims are closed. Neither Basic nor Premium can claim, even with allowance left over. Held skins stay fully usable and returns are never restricted. This exists because a Steam trade cooldown can run up to 8 days, so anything received in the final week would be impossible to return on time.

An offer that was already valid before the freeze began stays valid until its own 12-hour expiry, unless GGBOYS cancels it for risk-control, trading, inventory, or security reasons.

Automatic renewal

Skin Pass renews automatically by default. You can switch renewal off at any time before the renewal payment succeeds, either in your GGBOYS account settings or through support. GGBOYS normally takes the renewal payment when the current period expires, and the new period is only created once that payment succeeds.

Reminders are normally sent 7 days and 3 days before expiry; not receiving one does not by itself make a renewal invalid. You can pick GGBOYS balance or your linked payment method as the renewal source, and the two are never combined for one payment. If the source you picked cannot cover the full amount, no partial charge is taken — GGBOYS charges the other source in full instead and tells you the source changed. Using the backup source does not change your default for the next period.

  • If both sources fail, no new period is created, automatic renewal ends, and the amount that failed is not treated as debt.
  • The current pass still ends on its original date and every GGBOYS skin has to be returned.
  • Topping up afterwards does not revive the old subscription or call off the return.
Returns, verification, and unreturned-skin charges

Every Skin Pass skin stays GGBOYS property. A return is only complete once the Steam trade succeeds, all required skins have arrived in official GGBOYS inventory, and GGBOYS has verified quantity, item details, and Asset IDs.

For a normal expiry the deadline is 24 hours, counted from the subscription expiring or from GGBOYS sending the return notice, whichever the applicable notice defines — not from when you read it. Some cases are shorter: 12 hours for a skin moved out of your linked account, 12 hours for a risk, security, inventory, or operational recall, and 12 hours for a serious violation or permanent ban; a chargeback gives 24 hours from our notice.

There is no additional grace period once the deadline passes, and a reminder does not create a new one unless GGBOYS says so in writing. The deadline also does not pause or extend for trade cooldowns, Steam outages, network problems, an invalid Trade URL, a private inventory, account restrictions, an unread notice, or an automatic offer that failed to send.

After the deadline, GGBOYS may charge your balance or linked payment method the original registered value of every skin still outstanding, combined if there is more than one. Stickers, charms, and name tags you added yourself are not included in that amount. If the charge fails, GGBOYS may retry, chase the amount by message, email, SMS or phone, deduct it from later balances, use a third-party collection agency, or pursue legal recovery, and may restrict or ban the account. Balance is only used after a notice is sent; if it does not cover the full amount, the available balance can be taken and the rest stays as debt.

Paying an unreturned-skin charge is not a purchase. It does not transfer ownership and does not give you a right to keep the skin — GGBOYS can still require it back. If you return everything after being charged, GGBOYS can refund the registered value less the costs actually incurred, and that refund can be as low as $0.

Payment method, deposits, and refunds

No security deposit is taken. You still have to keep a valid external payment method linked, for subscription payments, automatic renewals, unreturned-skin charges, and any other amount due — this holds even when you pay for the pass entirely from your GGBOYS balance. Balance and card are never combined for one payment.

After activation, the fee for the current period is generally non-refundable. Switching automatic renewal off does not end the current six-month period early or refund it, and you cannot end a pass early yourself: returning every skin, or simply not using the service, does not stop the clock.

If the price of Skin Pass changes, the period you have already paid for is unaffected; the new price applies from your next automatic renewal, and your first purchase price is not locked in permanently.

Upgrading from Basic to Premium

Each time you pay for a new Basic period — including a renewal — you get one continuous 72-hour window to upgrade to Premium for a fixed $40.00 difference, paid immediately. The first three days count as complimentary use and are not pro-rated back to you.

  • The Basic period ends the moment Premium is created, and a full new six-month Premium period starts.
  • A skin you already hold stays with you, and its original registered value carries over into the $99.90 Premium allowance.
  • Valid pending offers carry over, and the new Premium pass has automatic renewal switched on by default.

If the $40.00 is charged but Premium cannot be created, it goes back the way you paid it — to the card you used, or to your GGBOYS balance.

After 72 hours the window is gone for that period; it is never paused or extended. Accounts suspended for risk control or under manual review cannot upgrade at all. Premium cannot be downgraded while it is active — you can only buy Basic again once Premium has ended, every skin is back, and nothing is outstanding.

Your Steam account

The linked Steam account and its inventory have to stay public and normally tradeable. You can change your nickname, avatar, and other public profile details as long as the linked Steam ID stays the same. You can update the Trade URL only to another one on the same Steam account, and it is verified straight away; claims pause while that verification runs. If the old URL still works, recall and return offers keep going there, and return deadlines do not pause for any of this.

GGBOYS re-checks trade eligibility before your first claim. If the re-check fails you cannot claim for the time being, but the subscription keeps running — no refund, no pause, no extension — and you can run the check again once the problem is fixed. If your inventory becomes private, claims stop immediately while held skins stay usable, and access comes back automatically once it is public again and the check passes. GGBOYS will not end a pass purely because inventory is temporarily unreadable.

A GGBOYS skin must not leave your linked Steam account. It cannot be transferred to another Steam account, sold, rented out, pledged, gifted, deposited on another platform, used as collateral, or moved out in any other way without written permission from GGBOYS.

If a skin does leave, GGBOYS can require it back within 12 hours of sending the notice. Miss that and GGBOYS may charge its original registered value, end the pass immediately with no refund of the remaining term, recall your other skins, deduct from your available balance, and suspend or permanently restrict the account, alongside collection and legal recovery.

Stickers, patches, charms, and name tags

GGBOYS skins are delivered exactly as shown on the claim card: no stickers, charms, name tags, or other added content by default, and some agents come with patches. You are free to add and remove them while you hold a skin.

  • They never count toward your Basic or Premium allowance.
  • They never increase an unreturned-skin charge.
  • GGBOYS does not refund or compensate their value.

The return deadline is not extended so you can strip them off. Anything still on a skin when it goes back is returned with it and treated as given up.

Keeping your account in good standing

You cannot buy, renew, or reactivate Skin Pass while any GGBOYS skin from a previous period is not fully back — that includes a partial return, a skin still under cooldown, a restricted account, or a broken Trade URL. The same applies while any balance or related fee is unpaid, Steam trading or inventory eligibility is missing, the account is suspended or under review, or a required KYC or eligibility check is incomplete.

Once everything is back and paid, purchase eligibility returns immediately — no waiting period and, in principle, no manual review. Each GGBOYS account can hold only one active Skin Pass at a time.

If a trade fails or a record looks wrong, open a ticket within 24 hours of the event. GGBOYS aims to review within 7 working days and will tell you if a complex case needs longer; penalties already running continue during the review. If the appeal succeeds, the record is removed, it does not count toward the ladder, any limit based only on that record is lifted immediately, and amounts already charged can be reversed or refunded less the costs actually incurred.

GGBOYS Skin Pass User Agreement

This page is a short summary of how Skin Pass works. It is provided for convenience only and does not replace the full legal terms, your obligations, the risk disclosures, or the GGBOYS platform rules. Please read the full agreement before buying.

If anything on this page conflicts with the GGBOYS Skin Pass User Agreement, the Agreement governs, and the English version of the Agreement is the controlling one. By buying, renewing, or upgrading a Skin Pass you confirm that you have read, understood, and accepted the Agreement and every other applicable GGBOYS term.

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