The security on steam marketplace is ridiculous

[wood]

I bought a steam deck and couldn’t wait to sell some of my old steam items so I can buy some games. Had to wait 7 days before I could sell anything as there hadn't been a steam purchase on my account in the last year. Okay, bit annoying but ill deal with it. 7 days later I can finally sell my items and buy all these games that are steam sale, exciting right!? All of my items are put on a “15 community day hold” or some bollocks like that. You got to be kidding me. 15 days later my items can finally be seen on the marketplace and they all sell! Fantastic! i can finally buy these games that are on steam sale!!!! Most of the items that sold are now “pending” in my wallet balance and are gonna be held for 5 days as a final security measure. Apparently they were sold at an unusual price. Yeah, unusually cheap as I had already waited 22 days to put them on the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ market now its gonna be a full 27 days until I receive the money in my steam wallet. A lot of the games I was gonna buy are no longer on steam sale.

[ShelLuser]

Hardly ridiculous, also considering the amount of people who manage to fall victim to scammers.

Thing is, it's not Steam's fault that you (obviously) didn't bother to read up on the services you're using, as such you had no idea how they worked and just assumed things. You do realize that assumptions and security don't really mix very well, right?

Please keep that in mind next time you assume to be in trouble because a Steam rep is asking you for your trade history.

Anyway.... all these restrictions are fully documented:

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/61F0-72B7-9A18-C70B#restrictions

There's even a full FAQ about all those restrictions:

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/451E-96B3-D194-50FC

Maybe next time look into a service before you just start using it, it'll avoid such surprises.

[Anonymous Helper]

You avoid the 7 days market hold by buying something from steam store once every 365 days. Price does not matter as long as purchase is made in the Steam store (market transactions do not count).

You can avoid 15 days market hold by activating and using steam mobile authenticator.

You can thank the tens of thousands of people getting phished and/or scammed every year for the latest pending funds security feature. Also for the profile name change cool down after every change amongst others.

[Aachen]

Originally posted by 🆐:

…. No person in the world is reading every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ EULA, FAQ and Documentation on every product they buy.

Anyone who makes agreements without knowing what they read is the root of their own problem — and not reading the documentation yet banking on the related feature is similarly self-inflicted.