The only distinction is that in case of a gift you exchange items for empty slots, and in case of an exchange, you also add the desired skins to the trade window. This sequence of actions is also used to exchange the skin. Your playmate will get skins after they accept the offer.
Choose which items you decide to give away.Ĭheck, if everything is right, and click the “Make Offer” button. Scroll through your friends list and choose who receives the gift. Open your inventory in your Steam client.įind the button called “New Trade Offer…” and click it. Here is the basic sequence of actions, considering you have a Steam account, have played CS:GO for a while, and have some in-game items:
The process is simple and doesn’t have much difference whatever operating system and platform you are using.
Basically, to gift skins in CS:GO means to transfer them to another person’s inventory without getting anything in exchange.