A common sense guide to trading, depositing and everything else you can do with your Steam inventory

Common sense, often forgotten, often neglected. Yet, its the best way to keep your stuff safe and you from disappointment. Here we go!

The whole picture

Here we go! Never ever give away anything unless one of the following is true:

• You receive what you want in the same transaction
  
• You get a ransom from the other party you get to keep when the other party screws you over
  
• You get a written contract from the other party

Everything else is extremely likely to be a scam.

“But wait” I hear you asking “other people win at that site so I can trust it, right?” WRONG! How do you know they’re not lying? Everyone can claim what he or she wants. Making up a web site, hooking it up with the Steam API and get scamming takes under a day. And even if people win, how do you know those people are really users like you and me and not partners of the site owner? And at the end of day, the bank always wins. Want to win, then buy a casino.

With that covered, the rest is simple. Middle man trading, item lending, promises to pay via PayPal aren’t worth jack.

Have an example

Hey, lets say you got a nice bike a couple years ago. That bike was 500€ back then and its still pretty good. Now a stranger approaches you. “Hey bro, fantastic bike. Imma give you 500€ for it!” You know that the bike is old and you could get a new and better one so yeah, it’s a good offer so you agree. The stranger replies “Great! Now let me take my bike, ride home and fetch your money. I promise ill come back because im trustworthy.” Unless you’re stupid, you won’t agree. And why would you? Everyone can claim to be trustworthy. If you don’t trust strangers on the street, you should also not trust strangers on the internet.