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Lizuzuzu Dec 31, 2023 @ 1:24pm
Can't buy trading cards?
I am trying to get the last few cards to complete some badges. I can access my own cards, put them on the market, trade with friends etc, but any time I try to purchase card/remaining cards on the market place, I am getting the Sorry! page; "There was a problem communicating with the Steam servers. Please try again later." error message. Nothing says anything is down on the steam status, it's been like this for like... the past week? No restarting, reinstalling or anything has stopped this from occurring. Am I missing something?

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B0sh1 Dec 31, 2023 @ 1:33pm 
I have the same issue even after validating a couple charges because I have a new CC that was issued.
Lizuzuzu Dec 31, 2023 @ 1:36pm 
It wont let me even look at the listing to attempt to buy any. If I view badge progress and scroll down to "buy remainder on the market", it usually takes me to a page with a price breakdown for each card I'm missing and I can buy them, but I just get the error instead
B0sh1 Dec 31, 2023 @ 2:05pm 
I went in and put in a manual rule for my anti-virus/firewall software and it worked briefly but back to getting the same error as before.
SleepingBRB Dec 31, 2023 @ 2:34pm 
I can buy individual cards if I keep requesting the page over and over; it eventually brings me to the listing. It doesn't let me use the "buy remains cards" feature though. This has been extremely annoying this past week, and it's not just cards, it's the marketolace in general. All market searches seem to have a 60% chance of returning an error, requiring you to search again, and an even higher chance for a specific listing to fail loading and give you an error. I'm done crafting badges until this crap is fixed; making dozens of small orders to level up a badge is so damn annoying.
Last edited by SleepingBRB; Dec 31, 2023 @ 2:40pm
Lizuzuzu Jan 1, 2024 @ 3:20pm 
Mhm so I hadn't tried more than a couple/few times to refresh before; I learned if I do it in browser and refresh like a billion (may or may not be an exaggeration) times, it sometimes will let me.
Thorkkuldar Jan 4, 2024 @ 10:37pm 
Has there been any kind of resolution with this? I still cannot get past the "Sorry! An error was encountered while processing your request: There was a problem communicating with the Steam servers. Please try again later." I have exited Steam completely, checked my antivirus exceptions. Every time I try to look at something on the trade forum I get this error. This has been happening since New Years. 01/01/2024.
SleepingBRB Jan 5, 2024 @ 4:09pm 
Originally posted by Thorkkuldar:
Has there been any kind of resolution with this? I still cannot get past the "Sorry! An error was encountered while processing your request: There was a problem communicating with the Steam servers. Please try again later." I have exited Steam completely, checked my antivirus exceptions. Every time I try to look at something on the trade forum I get this error. This has been happening since New Years. 01/01/2024.
It's been happening for a lot longer than that for many of us. And no, there's no fix yet; Valve's just a small company, please understand.
charlize Jan 5, 2024 @ 4:37pm 
Originally posted by Lizuzuzu:
"There was a problem communicating with the Steam servers. Please try again later."
same here.
SleepingBRB Jan 6, 2024 @ 11:35pm 
I just checked today and it seems to be fixed (for me at least). Hopefully it's no longer an issue for anyone else.
maka Jul 2, 2024 @ 6:36am 
Going through the same problem right now.
Connie Jul 3, 2024 @ 3:56am 
This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.
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Date Posted: Dec 31, 2023 @ 1:24pm
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