Pending balance RANT. Add option to disable this feature?

[𝖘𝖙𝖚𝖉𝖒𝖚𝖋𝖋𝖓]

I'm sick of Steam (Valve) adding features that sacrifice freedom for safety. I sold all my skins in order to snipe some gloves off the market but have to wait 1 and a half days in order to get my money. Why? I want MY money now. I want the option to disable this stupid feature, it's bad enough I have to wait 7 days to trade my skins. This just feels like something to milk more money out of us as I contemplated putting in more money just to counteract my pending balance. Fix this PLEASE. It is so annoyingly broken and should be a feature that you can either have enabled or disabled. I'd rather sacrifice losing my inventory than constantly have MY MONEY get held above my head. Who are you guys to do that to me? Stop it Valve! You had such a good system then you just ruined it and continue to. It's like you guys want people to use third party websites to spend money instead of lining your pockets in it.

[lost in a crowd]

add option to disable a safety feature, lol

[Ogami]

Nope, learn to live with it, all you can do.
And thank all the users who click on every link they get send and log into any 3rd party site that promises them money for their items, they are the ones who constantly get their ♥♥♥♥ stolen because if it and Valve was obviously sick of it.
Like all the security measurements on Steam that were introduced over the years, its entirely because the mass of users are apparently completely learn resistent so they get forced to be more careful like this.

[𝖘𝖙𝖚𝖉𝖒𝖚𝖋𝖋𝖓]

引用自 sus guy：

add option to disable a safety feature, lol

Yes, same way I can buy a phone without paying for warranty. I don't see the issue here.

[𝖘𝖙𝖚𝖉𝖒𝖚𝖋𝖋𝖓]

引用自 Ogami：

Nope, learn to live with it, all you can do.
And thank all the users who click on every link they get send and log into any 3rd party site that promises them money for their items, they are the ones who constantly get their ♥♥♥♥ stolen because if it and Valve was obviously sick of it.
Like all the security measurements on Steam that were introduced over the years, its entirely because the mass of users are apparently completely learn resistent so they get forced to be more careful like this.

I get that, but it'd be nice for an option to disable it like they have with mobile authentication. I don't think it's ethical by any means to withhold my money from me. Maybe if it actually worked properly it'd be a different story. But it doesn't even work like at all. I sold $80 worth of skins and it marked one skin out of the 15 I just sold. I already have to confirm them on my phone which sucks then they add even more. Can't wait to see what other steps they add because they can't stop making it worse :(

[Ogami]

If you could disable it, all the same learn resistent users would happily disable it at once and then come running and cry to Support after their stuff got stolen, again.
Security measurements only work if you cant opt out of them, thats the sad truth.

[𝖘𝖙𝖚𝖉𝖒𝖚𝖋𝖋𝖓]

引用自 Ogami：

If you could disable it, all the same learn resistent users would happily disable it at once and then come running and cry to Support after their stuff got stolen, again.
Security measurements only work if you cant opt out of them, thats the sad truth.

They disabled steam support for the exact issue I'm having so why not just disable the support if they opt out as well? Makes no sense

[lsdninja]

Another reason why Valve won’t disable it is because I’m pretty sure they can park that money somewhere and make money off it themselves. This is also why credit card and, if you’re old enough to remember, cheque transactions take so long (cheques used to take a week to clear, but they eventually got it down to three days).

[𝖘𝖙𝖚𝖉𝖒𝖚𝖋𝖋𝖓]

引用自 lsdninja：

Another reason why Valve won’t disable it is because I’m pretty sure they can park that money somewhere and make money off it themselves. This is also why credit card and, if you’re old enough to remember, cheque transactions take so long (cheques used to take a week to clear, but they eventually got it down to three days).

It's money already spent tho like weeks ago, this is from me selling a cs2 skin on the marketplace

[Chika Ogiue]

引用自 Muffn：

Yes, same way I can buy a phone without paying for warranty. I don't see the issue here.

Warranties aren't designed to prevent you from being scammed.

[𝖘𝖙𝖚𝖉𝖒𝖚𝖋𝖋𝖓]

引用自 Chika Ogiue：

引用自 Muffn：

Yes, same way I can buy a phone without paying for warranty. I don't see the issue here.

Warranties aren't designed to prevent you from being scammed.

Yes they are. If you bought a car without dealer warranty and all the lights come on while driving it home, you'd feel scammed. Plenty of new things release every day that break in front of our eyes such as the Ford Focus with their dual clutch transmissions, that one samsung phone that would explode, the iphone 6 that bent in your pocket, etc. This pending crap is essentially a lousy warranty that I did not opt in for nor opt out of. But I would LOVE THE OPTION TO opt out lol. Let's not make this an argument, you can probably understand I'm frustrated. I will die on this hill, I want people to cry with me bc this is an active example of me huffing lethal amounts of copium while I wait to overpay on a skin I could've got for $20 off if their "system" worked.

[𝖘𝖙𝖚𝖉𝖒𝖚𝖋𝖋𝖓]

引用自 Chika Ogiue：

引用自 Muffn：

Yes, same way I can buy a phone without paying for warranty. I don't see the issue here.

Warranties aren't designed to prevent you from being scammed.

If it ain't related to warranties then I'll change my argument to comparing this to insurance. Insurance I did NOT ask for and do not want lmao.

[Metal Izanagi]

Valve implemented the safety feature in the first place because a bunch of people turned out to be too gullible to be trusted with their own money, and kept complaining and threatening to waste everyone's time in court because they fell for incredibly basic scams.

Valve won't add a way to disable the safety feature for the same reason you have to have Steam Guard active to be able to trade in the first place; the moment people have an option to turn a safety feature off the most gullible among them will happily do so when a scammer tells them it's necessary for a trade or to get a free item or some other fantastical deal that anyone with an IQ over freezing temperature would recognize as a scam.

Just deal with the wait period and accept that it's for the good of a whole lot of people who would otherwise make trading a living hell to navigate.

[𝖘𝖙𝖚𝖉𝖒𝖚𝖋𝖋𝖓]

引用自 Metal Izanagi：

Valve implemented the safety feature in the first place because a bunch of people turned out to be too gullible to be trusted with their own money, and kept complaining and threatening to waste everyone's time in court because they fell for incredibly basic scams.

Valve won't add a way to disable the safety feature for the same reason you have to have Steam Guard active to be able to trade in the first place; the moment people have an option to turn a safety feature off the most gullible among them will happily do so when a scammer tells them it's necessary for a trade or to get a free item or some other fantastical deal that anyone with an IQ over freezing temperature would recognize as a scam.

Just deal with the wait period and accept that it's for the good of a whole lot of people who would otherwise make trading a living hell to navigate.

I can't, I now gotta spend $20 extra out of my own money bc stupid people exist. If they simply added the feature and basically stated that support cannot help anyone with it disabled lawsuits would have absolutely no value what so ever. If anything, this just feels like something to suck out even more money. Say a games on sale and I have a limited time to buy it, well chances are I'm gonna have to spend money to save money since they think they have the right to hold MY MONEY over my own head. I am dealing with it but my god am I triggered man. Robin hood did this to me after making big boy bucks from Doge Coin and this is giving me war flashbacks that caused me to lose thousands of dollars. I cannot stand when corporations think they can just do scummy sh** like this and think it's okay. They have so many tools at their disposal to prevent lawsuits, I don't have a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of money at my disposal to impatiently buy things at a discount because MY MONEY was put on hold >:(

[Chika Ogiue]

引用自 Muffn：

Yes they are. If you bought a car without dealer warranty and all the lights come on while driving it home, you'd feel scammed.

You need to learn the meaning of scam. A faulty product is a faulty product, it's not a scam unless it's intentionally faulty.

Likewise, insurance protects you from theft and damage, etc., it is not designed to prevent you from your own stupidity -- which is what this anti-scam mechanism is designed to do.

[𝖘𝖙𝖚𝖉𝖒𝖚𝖋𝖋𝖓]

引用自 Chika Ogiue：

引用自 Muffn：

Yes they are. If you bought a car without dealer warranty and all the lights come on while driving it home, you'd feel scammed.

You need to learn the meaning of scam. A faulty product is a faulty product, it's not a scam unless it's intentionally faulty.

Likewise, insurance protects you from theft and damage, etc., it is not designed to prevent you from your own stupidity -- which is what this anti-scam mechanism is designed to do.

My brother in Christ I do not care. The "anti-scam" mechanism ain't preventing any hackers/scammers, it's just holding my own money over my head because it gets triggered way too easily. It was designed poorly just like the 2015 Ford Focus I bought off the lot and had to declare lemon law on. You need to learn the meaning of COPIUM and understand the amount I'm huffing as we speak.