Trade Hold 72 Hours but have 2FA for more than 7 Days!!!!

[Snake_Eyes_AR15]

I am trying to sell out my skins to third party sites and I have the mobile authenticator on. I have had MA for over 2 months now but Im still getting trade holds. This is really effecting my ability to cash out my skins because in some cases the trade hold makes the bot not recognize that the trade was accpeted. Thus in turn means I never get my money but they still get the skins. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME. I have read over 25 articles stating that once MA is active for more than 7 days trade holds go away but yet Im still getting them.

[999999999]

The only 3 day holds is for transferring the mobile app correctly to a new phone. And that should only last a few days.

[Snake_Eyes_AR15]

What about for 2 day holds???

[999999999]

None for trading, only the Market listings if you did what I posted above.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

"I am trying to sell out my skins to third party sites"
I can only assume the possibilities that could go wrong, either items lost, or having account hijacked by logging into phising site, or giving your login details to someone that you shouldn't have.

Just giving you heads on the policy here for trading.
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9958-MJDG-3003

[Snake_Eyes_AR15]

Two day holds do exist for trades but shouldnt if I have MA.

[Snake_Eyes_AR15]

Also the sites I am using are good sites unless something like trade holds happen without a reason for them to happen but valve always has a reason right

[JPMcMillen]

Have you checked your own trade history to make sure that the original trade wasn't canceled and replaced with an identical looking one (profile name & avatar), but was actually a completely different account?

[Snake_Eyes_AR15]

They are on trade hold and both trades have the same steam ID as the person I was trading. Nothing has changed.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by Snake_Eyes_AR15:

Also the sites I am using are good sites unless something like trade holds happen without a reason for them to happen but valve always has a reason right

One day it's good, the next day something goes wrong.

No 3rd party site work for Steam / Vavle, that's a fact, those 3rd party sites can change their mind at time they want, and turn their page into phishing site. Just because something didn't happen, doesn't mean it won't happen, and often enough if you been around long enough on the forums for couple years, we seen people swear up, and down saying it's a trusted site, because nothing happen yet to them, or because some youtuber told them to use it because it's safe they claim, but then days, weeks, or months later you see some of them run to the forum complaining about their items being stolen when trading by API that suddenly got added to their account by those phishing 3rd party sites, or their account hijacked. That's how something can go wrong. People assume they see login page, they just put in login detail, then bam you lost items, or account just like that, because you trusted those 3rd party sites. Can't sue them because they may have just used fake info, like name, and address, so trying to sue a non exisiting person, and this isn't the 1st time some of these 3rd party sites just up, and ran off either.

So take advice, beware what you're getting into.

[JPMcMillen]

Are you having this issue when trading with other people? Maybe the hold is because of something on their end.

[Snake_Eyes_AR15]

I know what I am getting into. I am no fool to the art of scamming and hijacking, but some sites are a legit way to cash out because Valve doesnt have a way. They are like Apple and like to keep it within there circle.

[Snake_Eyes_AR15]

I have had trade holds with people I wasnt friends with which is what I think is happening or Valve has flagged those accounts Im trading. Not sure yet. Currently working on contacting the support of the site to see if I can get some answers from there side. Thank you all for responding to my forum so quickly. I greatly appreciate it!

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by Snake_Eyes_AR15:

I know what I am getting into. I am no fool to the art of scamming and hijacking, but some sites are a legit way to cash out because Valve doesnt have a way. They are like Apple and like to keep it within there circle.

Steam is not a bank, nor does it support laundering money, that why you can't cash out from Steam wallet. It's a credit system, not a bank. If you wanted to hold money online, get a banking online, bank transfer like paypal, or a credit card.

Also we heard this hundreds times, "I know what I'm getting into, I'm not dumb, or I'm not a fool" then later time, we may see same people that say these things, "insert Guess Who's Back theme with sad tone" asking for help with lost items, or lost account. This was so common back in 2011, when Steam guard was added to Steam, people would disable their Steam guard, and shortlly lose all their items, and even the account, which then came trade, and market holds. You're not the 1st, nor even the last person.

[JPMcMillen]

Originally posted by Snake_Eyes_AR15:

I have had trade holds with people I wasnt friends with which is what I think is happening or Valve has flagged those accounts Im trading. Not sure yet. Currently working on contacting the support of the site to see if I can get some answers from there side. Thank you all for responding to my forum so quickly. I greatly appreciate it!

If the Mobile Authenticator has been set up on the account for the full 7 days or more, there should be no holds on any trading, provided you can put the item into your trade offer. Otherwise, you'd get a 1 day trade hold for long time friends and 15 days hold for anyone else.

But if you successfully trade with them and they say there is some kind of hold, that's something they are doing, not Steam. If a trade is being held, it will still show in your trade history as being held. The only known trade hold outside that is that CS:GO game items have a 7 day trade cooldown where you can't trade something you just acquired in a trade with someone else.

[Snake_Eyes_AR15]

Both trades that are on hold show up in my trade history.