How we make money
A site that compares where you spend and cash out real money owes you a straight answer about its own money. Here it is — plainly, including the lines we will not cross, so the rules are public and testable.
This site earns nothing from the links it shows
- No affiliate links. Every "View deal" and "Sell" button is a plain link to the venue’s own listing, with no referral or tracking parameters of ours attached. We receive nothing when you buy or sell through them.
- No display ads, no sponsored posts, no paid reviews, no paid placements in any table or directory.
- No sale of user data. See the privacy policy for what little we process.
The project is currently funded by its own team as a long-term product investment.
Independence from the venues we compare
- We operate no marketplace. Steam Dashboard does not own or run any trading venue and is not affiliated with any venue we compare. Upcoming venues are tracked pre-launch in "on the radar" mode, with no rating until live data exists.
What may change, and the rules that will apply
We are a measurement tool: every ranking is computed from real figures — the effective price you pay and the net amount you keep — so no venue can pay to rank higher, be featured, or have a fact softened. That does not change. What may change is narrow, and these rules hold if it does:
- No pay-for-placement, ever. Commissions, data partnerships and ad budgets never move a row, change a score, or reorder a table — ranking is math, not money.
- If an outbound link ever carries a tracking parameter, it exists only for our own analytics or a data-sharing partnership with the venue — we take no commission through it, and it never changes your price or a venue’s position.
- If a venue ever becomes a real partner, it is labelled "Partner" in plain sight and disclosed here — never blended silently into the neutral comparison.
- Any change to the above ships on this page in the same deploy that makes it live, naming any venue we have a partnership with.
Other models we may explore later — a paid data API or premium trader tools — would charge for our own product, never for placement in results.
What we never take money for
- Positions in price tables, rankings or the markets directory.
- Trust scores, review verdicts or the facts in a market dossier.
- Removing or softening negative facts about any venue.
- Anything from gambling: case-opening, jackpot, coinflip, roulette and betting sites will never be listed, reviewed, advertised or linked, at any price.