Affiliate links on your steam profile?

[Monarch of Shadows Pom / Sung]

Are you allowed to have affiliate links to different sites on your steam profile or is it against the rules?

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

You can on your profile, please note that links to certain sites can be filter out by Steam, due to certain sites being reported for reasons, such as phishing scams, or linking to inappropriate, malicious, or illegal sites.

As well please note, people can report people profile that are advertising inappropriate, illegal, malicious, or phishing site, which will cause support to remove said content from profile, and give warning.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Renting skins?

[Supafly]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Renting skins?

:qr:

Yup. People rent them for x days and return them as it's cheaper than buying them outright. Kinda like how people can hire expensive clothes and cars for events and stuff.

Not sure on the specifics as I wouldn't use the site but the agreement requires them to provide a source of payment, bank/credit card, and if they don't return the skins the cards get charged.

[Zekiran]

It's SUPER sketchy, that. Wow.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

It's SUPER sketchy, that. Wow.

Agreed. This is sketchy.

[Supafly]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

It's SUPER sketchy, that. Wow.

Yup, the site OP has on profile gets 1% trust factor on scamadviser
https://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/app.lootbear.com


Just skimmed that sites FAQ

Rent a maximum of 4 items or up to the combined value of $400

1 month subscription = One charge every month for $24.99
6 month subscription = One charge every 6 months for $101.94 ($16.99/mo)
12 month subscription = On charge every 12 months for $179.88 ($14.99/mo)

The site also checks the card used for security with each new rental to ensure the user can still afford the value of the skin should they not return it.

[Matt]

These things are against the rules:
Soliciting, begging, auctioning, raffling, selling, advertising, referrals

I'd say affiliate anything is basically like a referral.

Now whether or not support would take action (i.e. remove a link) is perhaps a different story. But, for such a high level, high value account, why do anything that could even remotely be interpreted as a rule violation? Seems risky to me. But ultimately, your account and your responsibility, so make your own decisions but live with the consequences.

[Zekiran]

It's okay if I chime in with "in before the inevitable 'why can't I get my items back from that site' thread"?

Asking for a me.

[Snapjak]

Talk about double dipping scams.