Steam Wallet frozen for...adding funds to my steam wallet...WAIT! WHAT!?

[Cancer Ridden Lung]

So I had $xx in my steam wallet and I added $yy to my steam wallet using a Visa gift card.
Now I cannot buy or sell items on the Market.

I just get this stupid error message:
"
Why is this option unavailable?

You've recently funded your Steam wallet
using a new payment method. You'll be
unable to use the Market for a few days while
the funds are verified.

Assuming nothing further occurs to restrict
your access, you'll be able to use the
Community Market on 8/31/2014 9:05:51 PM.
"

https://imgur.com/Cmr7qaq

However, it looks like I can still use my steam wallet to purchase items from the Steam store.
My annoyance is compounded by the fact that I already had $xx in my Steam wallet and those pre-existing funds are unusable (for Market activities).

[TirithRR]

Originally posted by Cancer Ridden Lung:

However, it looks like I can still use my steam wallet to purchase items from the Steam store..

Yes, the restriction is only for the Community Market. Steam doesn't care if you try to rip them off with stolen credit cards, they'll just suspend your account. But money on the market is transferred to other users. And they don't want to have to deal with fraudulent money being transferred across multiple user accounts, and dealing with removing all those and undoing all the transactions involved in that as it trickles through all the users.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1047-EDFM-2932

[meanckz]

well...this seems like a crock of poop to me...not even banks do this kinda crap

[Hextravert]

The above-mentioned 7-day restriction kicks in the moment you use a new payment method.

No distinction is made between the money that you had left and your newly added funds.

After all, there is only one Steam Wallet.

Originally posted by Cancer Ridden Lung:

So I had $xx in my steam wallet and I added $yy to my steam wallet using a Visa gift card.
Now I cannot buy or sell items on the Market.

I just get this stupid error message:
"
Why is this option unavailable?

You've recently funded your Steam wallet
using a new payment method. You'll be
unable to use the Market for a few days while
the funds are verified.

Assuming nothing further occurs to restrict
your access, you'll be able to use the
Community Market on 8/31/2014 9:05:51 PM.
"

https://imgur.com/Cmr7qaq

However, it looks like I can still use my steam wallet to purchase items from the Steam store.
My annoyance is compounded by the fact that I already had $xx in my Steam wallet and those pre-existing funds are unusable (for Market activities).

[Cancer Ridden Lung]

Originally posted by TirithRR:

Originally posted by Cancer Ridden Lung:

However, it looks like I can still use my steam wallet to purchase items from the Steam store..

Yes, the restriction is only for the Community Market. Steam doesn't care if you try to rip them off with stolen credit cards, they'll just suspend your account. But money on the market is transferred to other users. And they don't want to have to deal with fraudulent money being transferred across multiple user accounts, and dealing with removing all those and undoing all the transactions involved in that as it trickles through all the users.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1047-EDFM-2932

That's annoying...but my point is...
I had $xx dollars on my account...why can't I use those $xx dollars while the $yy dollars are "verified"?

Imagine if you deposited a check into your personal checking account at your bank and the bank froze all of your assets while they processed that one check.
They of course still allowed you to purchase new checks and pens from their "bank store" though...I mean they aren't monsters.

[Cancer Ridden Lung]

Why doesn't Steam just do pending transactions instead of freezing the whole account?

I also love how I'm warned after I do something perfectly innocuous.

[TirithRR]

The restriction is only for the Community Market, which Steam has control over and makes the rules about who can and cannot use it.

The restrictions are also available to view prior to you using the Market, if you just read them.

They also say you have to be an active paying customer of Steam to use it. Free users cannot. Another limit designed solely to reduce the chances of fraudulent activity on the Market.

There are many arbitrary rules. But it's their Market Place, they are free to restrict access to it as they wish. They aren't stopping you from using your money elsewhere, only stopping you from using the money on their Community Market (which makes your analogy invalid).

[Cancer Ridden Lung]

Originally posted by TirithRR:

The restriction is only for the Community Market, which Steam has control over and makes the rules about who can and cannot use it.

The restrictions are also available to view prior to you using the Market, if you just read them.

They also say you have to be an active paying customer of Steam to use it. Free users cannot. Another limit designed solely to reduce the chances of fraudulent activity on the Market.

There are many arbitrary rules. But it's their Market Place, they are free to restrict access to it as they wish. They aren't stopping you from using your money elsewhere, only stopping you from using the money on their Community Market (which makes your analogy invalid).

You're not lying about the arbitrary rules...there are a lot of them.
I won't lie about my desire to track down all the arbitrary rules either.

A simple heads up before I completed the transaction with another payment method would have made it less terrible.



Please stop forgetting that my $xx dollars were 100% viable across the steam universe until the transaction.
They were only restricted after I added $yy dollars.

I'll add this bit of information even though I'm certain I am the only one that cares.
My $xx dollars was actually a greater number than my $yy dollars.

[dreaming]

hello

[Cancer Ridden Lung]

So I just noticed this...

If I go to the market place it says this:
"
You've recently funded your Steam Wallet using a new payment method. While the new funds are being verified, you'll be unable to use the Community Market. You can verify the funds now, or wait until the restriction is automatically removed on 8/31/2014 9:05:51 PM. Find out more in the FAQ.
"



If I click on "You can verify the funds now" I get a page that says:
"
Verify Credit Card Ownership
You have recently added Steam Wallet funds with a new credit card or a credit card that hasn't been used in a while. Access to the Community Market will be restricted and purchased microtransaction items or gifts may be untradable until you verify ownership of the credit card.
"



If I click on "Begin verification" I get:
"
Verify A Credit Card
To verify your credit card, we will make two small authorizations on the card. The authorizations are not a payment and will never leave the pending state nor will they cost you money. The authorizations will automatically expire, but the time it takes for them to expire depends on your bank.

After we make the authorizations on your credit card, you will have to login to your credit card's online account and look for the two small authorizations under your "posted transactions" or "pending transactions." It may take one or two days for the transactions to appear, depending on your bank. Once the authorizations show up, come back to complete the verification process by entering the amount of the two authorizations.

Click the button below to make these two small authorizations on the card and begin the verification process.
"



Clicking on the "Begin verification" buitton results in:
"
Your bank declined one or both of our small authorizations. If you clear this issue up with your bank, you can retry then.
"



This happened most likely because it is both a VISA gift card and it is empty.
Oh well I guess.....

[JewishCabbage]

nigerians

[MDG]

Originally posted by Cancer Ridden Lung:

So I just noticed this...

If I go to the market place it says this:
"
You've recently funded your Steam Wallet using a new payment method. While the new funds are being verified, you'll be unable to use the Community Market. You can verify the funds now, or wait until the restriction is automatically removed on 8/31/2014 9:05:51 PM. Find out more in the FAQ.
"



If I click on "You can verify the funds now" I get a page that says:
"
Verify Credit Card Ownership
You have recently added Steam Wallet funds with a new credit card or a credit card that hasn't been used in a while. Access to the Community Market will be restricted and purchased microtransaction items or gifts may be untradable until you verify ownership of the credit card.
"



If I click on "Begin verification" I get:
"
Verify A Credit Card
To verify your credit card, we will make two small authorizations on the card. The authorizations are not a payment and will never leave the pending state nor will they cost you money. The authorizations will automatically expire, but the time it takes for them to expire depends on your bank.

After we make the authorizations on your credit card, you will have to login to your credit card's online account and look for the two small authorizations under your "posted transactions" or "pending transactions." It may take one or two days for the transactions to appear, depending on your bank. Once the authorizations show up, come back to complete the verification process by entering the amount of the two authorizations.

Click the button below to make these two small authorizations on the card and begin the verification process.
"



Clicking on the "Begin verification" buitton results in:
"
Your bank declined one or both of our small authorizations. If you clear this issue up with your bank, you can retry then.
"



This happened most likely because it is both a VISA gift card and it is empty.
Oh well I guess.....

:cfacepalm:

This exact same thing happened to me even down to the visa gift card and it being empty

[76561198200935158]

Я сергей!!!!

[MDG]

английский

[MDG]

Can u help me plz i sent in a steam ticket

[Coooopur]

DUDE WHAT IM VIEWING OTHER PEOPLES INFORMATION