Is Paypal safe or allowed in steam?

[Fury Road Warrior]

(sorry if this is the wrong place)

A friend of mine says a paypal account can be good for modding or trading or other purposes on steam or elsewhere, but I’ve never used Paypal or anything of the sort. Just wanted to ask to make sure and be extra safe with no doubts,
Is a Paypal link safe to give out or have?

What should i look out for?

What precautions should i take?

is it safe or allowed to give money/have people pay me for whatever services?

Any of that would be nice. Thank you and sorry for my paranoia.

[null.n0x]

Paypal is very safe, provided you are responsible also. Their support page has tons of info on how to avoid scams.

The main scam you run into is people asking you to "Send the money as a gift" instead of sending the money as "Payment for goods and services"

If you send the money as payment for goods and services, paypal will work on your behalf to refund you if the other party did not provide what you agreed to buy from them. In my experience, NEVER send money as a gift, unless it is, of course, a gift.

I exclusively use Paypal and I love it

[Quandarious Gooch]

I wouldnt usually send out a paypal link on steam just to be safe. try doing it on other websites and stuff there can be alot of hackers lurking around just waiting for something like this, but you can also be fine. just go over all your security and make sure its all realy hard. and for the best password use caps, numbers, letters, and spetial symbols if available. ex: H@x0r hope this helped :D

[Joker]

just buy wallte

[Satoru]

You CANNOT Steam trade with Paypal money

Period

If anyone says they can. THEY ARE LYING AND TRYING TO SCAM OUT


The ONLY thing you can do with Paypal is buy things from the Steam Store. Thats it. ANYTHING ELSE IS NOT SUPPORTED

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by Satoru:

You CANNOT Steam trade with Paypal money

Period

If anyone says they can. THEY ARE LYING AND TRYING TO SCAM OUT


The ONLY thing you can do with Paypal is buy things from the Steam Store. Thats it. ANYTHING ELSE IS NOT SUPPORTED

This.

There are a lot of people using paypal to scam people. While paypal is safe for purchases from a retailer, it can be used to scam when doing things from person to person.

If the user takes the items and never sends the money, Valve will not replace the items as you would have confirmed it as a gift on their system.

As with any form of payment, it is how you use it that determines how safe it is.

[Fury Road Warrior]

@ Spawn of Totoro -

@ [NB] ZerafuZe -

I see, thank you- simple common sense and caution seems to be the best defense from what i can see.

Wanted to ask also, what about a donation/pay for services link for mods or art?
"paypal .me" i think it's called. That's always been a dream of mine.

Any thing about that i should know?

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Sir Eggmond:

@ Spawn of Totoro -

@ [NB] ZerafuZe -

I see, thank you- simple common sense and caution seems to be the best defense from what i can see.

Wanted to ask also, what about a donation/pay for services link for mods or art?
"paypal .me" i think it's called. That's always been a dream of mine.

Any thing about that i should know?

Donation services would be hosted by 3rd parties. Maybe you could use something like Patreon instead. Or other donation type services. Steam doesn't support that.

With regards to Steam Trading specifically follow the golden rule

Unless EVERYTHING fits in a SINGLE trade window DO NOT DO THE TRADE.

If you follow this simple rule, you cannot be scammed on Steam. Ever. But once you go outside the rules, your protection vaporizes. As you said, use common sense, and if something is 'too good to be true' there's a reason. It is.

[Fury Road Warrior]

I see. A lot of this spawned from a guy saying he would pay me to make him a mod, and that he could use my Paypal.Me link to send funds.

That of course scared me. I assume it's some kind of scam, yes?

[Bawski]

yes id like to know this too