Steam Trading Bots

[KrunchyNapkin]

I want to setup a trading bot for storage and of course buying and selling stuff. is it legal, people said that its not legal to have one on market place but their is nothing in the SSA that says you arnt allowed to make a trading bot for trading tf2 keys and stuff. thx :D

[Soulstrike]

Automated market trading (bots) isn't allowed.

[KrunchyNapkin]

Originally posted by Soulstrike:

Automated market trading (bots) isn't allowed.

but are normal trading bot :P?

[Soulstrike]

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It's in their SSA

edit:

Originally posted by SqU1D:

Originally posted by Soulstrike:

Automated market trading (bots) isn't allowed.

but are normal trading bot :P?

I'm not sure about normal trading bots, but i've seen a truckload of them and there are alot of popular trading websites(for quite some time) that utilize bots to automate their trading.

It's probably okay but i'm not sure either.