Dota2 30 day gift hold?

[TTV/ OBT_dl]

So I'm guessing this is new but when trying to do a gift swap for a new compendium set I couldn't find the person on my list, I then clicked a link and it said "you need to be friends with this person for 30 days if you wish to gift them, if you have mobile authen". I've never seen this before and I have mobile authen, is this a new restriction or something? I've never been tradebanned or anything. Kind of sucks now because you have to wait 30 days and be friends with someone if you want to gift trade with them. Any solution? Maybe this is a bug?

[天才イタチ]

It's not a bug, I think it's part of the stricter trade restrictions they put in place on March 9th this year. The background of these restrictions is to prevent credit card fraud according to Valve. It's so you can't just use a faulty credit card, purchase lots of stuff and then gift it to other accounts, then cancel the charge on the credit card or something like that.

Personally I think it's beyond stupid because it inconveniences all users including honest users, who don't do that kinda stuff. In my opinion Valve should just change that system, so that when you use a credit card, you can't use the Steam Wallet immediately to purchase stuff. Those users who use that payment option, should have to wait those 30 days to use their Steam Wallet or use another payment option. Not sure if that's legal though, I don't know the specific customer laws.

I don't have that mobile authenticator thingy and for me the gift restriction is 1 year. You have to be in my friendslist for over a year or I can't gift you stuff. If I want to sell on the market, my items are on hold for 14 days before they are listed. If try to trade my items, they are on hold for 14 days before the trade is completed. Guess what I won't be doing ever again (until I get a smartphone I guess)...