Temporary hold for item

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Hi I don't quite understand how temporary hold for item works. Does this hold have a effect on what I sell in the market? (like if I have temporary hold, the sell price would be lower than those items that are not) or like make my item go to the bottom of the sell list so that those that don\t have hold would be sold first.

Also, I just got my mobile authenticator yesterday. It said still need 7 days to remove the hold. But before that, I already tried to sell and buy several items in the market. There is no any hold for any trade, meaning instant money and item receiving, which make me confused,

From my understanding, but not sure if I am correct, hold means only when you sell sth, the buyer will take some time to wait for item received, but there is no any effect on the seller side. But it seems quite unfair for the buyer. That's why my first question.

Also, like the hold said, the trade can be cancelled during hold by the seller? But I don't see any cancell option in my trade history.

Thx to any help with that :)

[Ettanin]

The market hold is a delayed insertion of a sale entry. So it will be counted as if it was added 7 days later. This is done so that you have a chance to recover the item in case of a compromised account.

Current holds must still expire, even if you added a mobile authenticator. Please be aware that unless the authenticator was added more than 7 days ago, additional items you post to the marketplace get a 15 days hold. This is to ensure you added the authenticator and not a scammer.

Buyers won't see your item on sale until the hold is cleared.

Additionally, Valve may freeze the sale of an item if the buyer uses an untrustworthy payment method to add Wallet funds. Steam does it for its own protection waits for the monetary transaction between Steam and buyer to clear first. In that case, the item gets locked until the transaction is cleared, but that is independent of the above aforementioned market holds.

The above handles transactions on the Steam Marketplace. Trade holds work differently. A trade hold will temporarily freeze a pending trade in process from being accepted by both parties. If you cancel that trade, your account becomes temporarily ineligible for 168 hours (7 days to the second) to trade to prevent further unauthorized trades.

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Thx for the reply. Now I have only one sentence don't understand. "Listing on the Steam Community Market will have a hold of 15 days before an item can be sold" And from my understanding, this is not market hold. (which is generally 7 days) But now I don't have mobile authenticator, still made a few trade INSTANTLY days ago. (It didn't wait for like 15 days for the items to show up in the market) Why is that?

Originally posted by Ettanin:

The market hold is a delayed insertion of a sale entry. So it will be counted as if it was added 7 days later. This is done so that you have a chance to recover the item in case of a compromised account.

Current holds must still expire, even if you added a mobile authenticator. Please be aware that unless the authenticator was added more than 7 days ago, additional items you post to the marketplace get a 15 days hold. This is to ensure you added the authenticator and not a scammer.

Buyers won't see your item on sale until the hold is cleared.

Additionally, Valve may freeze the sale of an item if the buyer uses an untrustworthy payment method to add Wallet funds. Steam does it for its own protection waits for the monetary transaction between Steam and buyer to clear first. In that case, the item gets locked until the transaction is cleared, but that is independent of the above aforementioned market holds.

The above handles transactions on the Steam Marketplace. Trade holds work differently. A trade hold will temporarily freeze a pending trade in process from being accepted by both parties. If you cancel that trade, your account becomes temporarily ineligible for 168 hours (7 days to the second) to trade to prevent further unauthorized trades.

[Ettanin]

if you added the items to the market WHILE you had an authenticator for at least 7 days, THEN removed that authenticator, then those items stay available for sale on the community market, because the sale of these items were authorized using a secure authentication method.

If you remove these entries now and readd them, you will have to wait the hold.