WHY DOES STEAM KEEP BLOCKING THE MARKET FOR ME WHENEVER I ADD MONEY.

[Goy]

This is the 4th time within a month now that i have added money. Every time I add something using my card I get blocked from the market for 5 days to verify the payment. This is utterly ridiculous and i'm sick of it. I am sick of having to wait 5 days every time I add money for something i want to buy.

The reason why I am so angry about this is because when I log into my bank account to verify the payment manually. There is no freaking statement from steam whatsoever. Please fix this steam. This is unacceptable.

[Sebastian Nielsen]

You should contact your issuer about it.

Some issuers will return a high risk for fraud score to the vendor if you attempt to buy from a other country than the card was issued.

Also make sure you dont have any fraud settings on the card. For example, in my account I can set my card to reject payments made in certain countries, also I can set limits on online purchaes.

Another reason can be that your card is issued in a country which have a high fraud rate, why Valve has blocked the country. Another reason can be that your purchasing habits differ too much so the banks anti-fraud scanning system do always flag your transactions as high fraud risks.

The reason your bank scans your purchasing habits is to protect YOU, eg, if your card is stolen, the purchasing habits of the card will rapidly change (pruchasing habits is something personal, for example, I never purchase jewerly. If I would purchase a gold ring today, my bank would immediately block the transaction and call me. Becuase the bank know that I never purchase jewelry and thus the card must be stolen), and the bank can detect that and requst additional verification.

Another reason is that your AVS information does not match your billing address exactly. Make sure that you use the exact same adress as it appears on your card statement.
Eg, if your adress is "s:t peters street 5A Apt 7B" dont write "Sankt Peters Street 5A Apartment 7B". Write the adress EXACTLY as it appears on the statement, including correct captiliaztion.

[HLCinSC]

You may be experiencing some other problem. If Steam really does think it is a new payment method everytime despite you storing the info with Steam, you should of had a 7 day wait and not a 5 day wait. The only 5 day wait to my knowledge is if you reset your password.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1047-edfm-2932

[Goy]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von HLCinSC:

You may be experiencing some other problem. If Steam really does think it is a new payment method everytime despite you storing the info with Steam, you should of had a 7 day wait and not a 5 day wait. The only 5 day wait to my knowledge is if you reset your password.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1047-edfm-2932

I haven't changed my password recently.

Meh nevermind i'll just stick to buying the codes from the local game store. Doing it online is clearly broken for me.