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Coconut Cream (Banned) Feb 23, 2015 @ 5:09am
What are the rules on Real World Trading?
So I've heard Valve has no stance on it but if you get scammed they might not help, but apart from scam risk could you get banned for selling TF2 items for real world cash?

Thanks.

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Cathulhu Feb 23, 2015 @ 5:14am 
It's not explicitly forbidden, but trading outside the system negates any security. If anything happens, Valve won't help you. Keep in mind that receiving items without trading anything in return and then getting reported for scams doesn't look good for you as Valve cannot see what happened in chat (they don't save logs) or what you agreed to pay for the items.

Trading outside the system is entirely your risk and generally not worth it.
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Coconut Cream (Banned) Feb 23, 2015 @ 5:16am 
Originally posted by Cathulhu:
It's not explicitly forbidden, but trading outside the system negates any security. If anything happens, Valve won't help you. Keep in mind that receiving items without trading anything in return and then getting reported for scams doesn't look good for you as Valve cannot see what happened in chat (they don't save logs) or what you agreed to pay for the items.

Trading outside the system is entirely your risk and generally not worth it.
So it's risky but not something you will get in trouble for?

Cheers.
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Cathulhu Feb 23, 2015 @ 5:21am 
That's not what i said. Read it again.
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Coconut Cream (Banned) Feb 23, 2015 @ 5:30am 
Originally posted by Cathulhu:
That's not what i said. Read it again.
It's not forbidden you said.
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Cathulhu Feb 23, 2015 @ 5:31am 
Keep in mind that receiving items without trading anything in return and then getting reported for scams doesn't look good for you as Valve cannot see what happened in chat (they don't save logs) or what you agreed to pay for the items.
I did say a bit more than that.
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Coconut Cream (Banned) Feb 23, 2015 @ 5:34am 
Originally posted by Cathulhu:
Keep in mind that receiving items without trading anything in return and then getting reported for scams doesn't look good for you as Valve cannot see what happened in chat (they don't save logs) or what you agreed to pay for the items.
I did say a bit more than that.
Oh, well if I'm doing the selling it shouldn't be like that.
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Cathulhu Feb 23, 2015 @ 5:37am 
In that case, beware of chargebacks.
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