Bypass trade hold?

[TheHeretic]

I have a trade on hold with my friend I want to play a game with, like right now. What do I have to do to push through a trade hold?

[Glimmer]

Travel back in time 7 days prior to the trade and enable the mobile authenticator. Or travel back 15 days so the trade hold would be finished. If you do not have access to a means of time travel, then you're out of luck. Trade holds can not be shortened/removed once they've been triggered.

[Azza ☠]

You can bypass it: If you turn off your Steam Guard, reset your password, then re-enable it.

ps: April Fools, enjoy an additional 30 day wait if you do that. What good would the security protection be, if you can just bypass it?

[Eimi]

You can't bypass it. Just wait it out.

[FPS]

You can send the game as a gift instantly

[Azza ☠]

Originally posted by FPS:

You can send the game as a gift instantly

You can also bypass any scam protection that way, it's awesome! *slaps forehead*

ps: If you gift something, you are giving it away. Hense why scammers always want to rush you into gifting them something for nothing but a promise in return, then just block. If you haven't already figured it out, the annoying trade holds are there for a reason and not just to be annoying the customers, but rather to protect them.

[TheHeretic]

I do understand the concept, but it's annoying when you want to give your friend things in a game to introduce them to it, and they're sitting right there in your living room ready to play, and steam says "Nah. We'll do it in two weeks."

This isn't a scammer. It's my friend. At my house. And my login is verified. I'm not a hacker. I'm me. There should be a way for a legitimate user to bypass the hold under legitimate circumstances.

I'm not an idiot. I don't need "protection" from myself. What I NEED is a service that takes my desires and intentions into account and does what I want it to do in a timely fashion.

[FFL2and3rocks]

Originally posted by Something Spicy:

I'm not an idiot. I don't need "protection" from myself.

Unfortunately, too many people have said this, and then ended up having their items stolen and immediately blamed Valve for failing to protect them.

[Azza ☠]

Originally posted by Something Spicy:

I do understand the concept, but it's annoying when you want to give your friend things in a game to introduce them to it, and they're sitting right there in your living room ready to play, and steam says "Nah. We'll do it in two weeks."

This isn't a scammer. It's my friend. At my house. And my login is verified. I'm not a hacker. I'm me. There should be a way for a legitimate user to bypass the hold under legitimate circumstances.

I'm not an idiot. I don't need "protection" from myself. What I NEED is a service that takes my desires and intentions into account and does what I want it to do in a timely fashion.

If it's your friend and you know them in person, then you can just gift it (specially if you aren't expecting anything in return).

However, did you login at your friend's place? If that's the case, it's detected a different device and IP address, therefore Steam Guard is protecting the original owner to ensure. It's a system, treat it as such. It doesn't know if it's you or not. It's seeing it as someone else attempting to logging in from another location and trading off items. It should delay and warn about that. Else if it was a hacker, hi-jacking or scam, then the victim would be complaining why Steam never protected or warned them.

[Kargor]

Originally posted by Azza ☠:

If it's your friend and you know them in person, then you can just gift it (specially if you aren't expecting anything in return).

Not thorugh the trading system, though. I have tons of trades "on hold" that are just gifts from one account to another, due to Steams "no mobile gadget" penalty.

[Narcoleptic Marshmallow]

If there was a way to bypass these restrictions, there wouldn't be any need for them to exist in the first place. Everyone would claim they don't need protection, which is the exact reason why these holds exist.

Get the Steam mobile authenticator, and get your friend to do it too. Next time you trade there won't be any hold.

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by Something Spicy:

This isn't a scammer.

Valve cannot prove that.

It's my friend.

Valve cannot prove this.

I'm not a hacker.

Valve cannot prove it.

I'm me.

If someone else were to log in as you, they would be you as well.

There should be a way for a legitimate user to bypass the hold under legitimate circumstances.

How do you define what is or isn't legitimate in the obscure world of Internet commerce?

I'm not an idiot. I don't need "protection" from myself. What I NEED is a service that takes my desires and intentions into account and does what I want it to do in a timely fashion.

The hold is not meant to treat you like an idiot. It's meant to provide an even level of protection for everyone. Everyone is subject to it, not just you, so stop thinking it only applies to you. It's a pain in the ass, yes, but it's there for a reason and Valve won't be changing it because one of it's users is being inconvenienced by it today.