Cards are set to vanish in about 45 Minutes, yet they can no longer be sold/ purchased on the market?

[Shellshock]

Wouldn't have been much of a problem if this HAD BEEN STATED ANYWHERE.

[Biederer]

The early Bird catches the Worm. You shouldn't have waited till the very last second ;)

[Shellshock]

Publicado originalmente por Biederer:

The early Bird catches the Worm. You shouldn't have waited till the very last second ;)

Not the last second. Still over 22 Minutes to go until they are set to disappear.

[DALCOhstangultion]

Hey, Steam! In the Pacific Time Zone, 10:00 am is when the little hand is on the 10 and the big hand is on the 12. Are the people running your site incapable of figuring that out?

[Hornet 85]

I believe this is to prevent people from puchasing the card only to have it disappear before they could craft the badge. There has to be a buffer between the stop of sales and the deletion of the cards.

Seriously I'm not sure why people still hold on to their card this late, there were plenty of buy orders, could have easily let go of your cards for something.

[tmwfte]

Publicado originalmente por Nicolas:

Publicado originalmente por Biederer:

The early Bird catches the Worm. You shouldn't have waited till the very last second ;)

Not the last second. Still over 22 Minutes to go until they are set to disappear.

For a sale that has lasted 336 hours, the final 22 minutes is the last second.

[deezus]

Publicado originalmente por tmwfte:

For a sale that has lasted 336 hours, the final 22 minutes is the last second.

This^

[Cocod'or]

Yeah, really disappointing that they can't even get the hour right. No problem if they followed what was written under the card (15mn from now)

[Forced_Into_Unwanted_Water_Gas]

Turn them into gems ... rather than losing them altogether

[Hopper]

Publicado originalmente por Da Blue Peeps Whitey Dragon:

YEAH IF THEY HAD ACTUALLY DISAPPEARED FROM THE MARKET WHEN THE TIMER RAN OUT, I wouldve been fine with it. But since I still have cards in my inventory I cant craft anything with..

I know, Its stupid that Valve pulls cards from the market a hour early.

[PipChaos]

You also can't earn them anymore through purchases. So basically, valve can't tell time. Not shocked.

[edesignspl]

Publicado originalmente por Hornet 85:

I believe this is to prevent people from puchasing the card only to have it disappear before they could craft the badge. There has to be a buffer between the stop of sales and the deletion of the cards.

No, there absolutely does not have to be a buffer. There's a set end date and time that people are fully aware of as evidenced by the many, many, many threads about this. Quit with the "nanny" protective bs. If people are not smart enough to read then they'll get burned until they do learn to read.

Seriously I'm not sure why people still hold on to their card this late, there were plenty of buy orders, could have easily let go of your cards for something.

Because you're supposed to still be able to buy, sell, and craft until the expiration date AND time. Coding text is very simply. If Valve wanted to cut it off early they could easily have added another few characters of text to the expiration date/time saying, "Trading will end X hours early."

[edesignspl]

Publicado originalmente por PipChaos:

You also can't earn them anymore through purchases. So basically, valve can't tell time. Not shocked.

Over the years I've noticed there's lot of basic things Valve seems incompetent at. I sold all my cards last night and bought my last purchases to avoid any last minute debacles. When I saw these threads this morning I remembered that yeah, this seems to happen on a regular basis with the holiday sales. Dumb, really, no excuse for it.

[Meturoido]

Heh, just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, what happened with Valve anyway?? Ah well, only two remained in my inventory.

[deezus]

Well it obviously wasn't that big of a deal since only about 10 people complained about it. LOL

[Sk@nkw0n]

Yeah also not happy about this, I have 8 and expected to be able to try and sell them in the last hour, if I couldn't make up the last 2 needed to craft a badge.

Oh look, now they're not even tradable. Ended up wasting time for nothing .... Thx.