How to report someone on eBay selling access to their Steam games

[Megalomaniac166]

I was looking to buy a steam code for a game in eBay. I came across someone who is selling access to their account with the game on it for $49.99.

He even says that you are only paying to get onto the account, download said gsmes and then keep Steam in offline mode after that to use the games. He says he is not selling jid account, just ability to fownload those games.

I have looked everywhere to report it on here and have found nothinf. I even reported it to eBay and they said there is nothing wrong with that listing.

[Ogami]

That is actually a common practice, there are hundreds of offers like that.
There are even whole ( very shady) sites that offer those "offline accounts".
Honestly you cant do much but report the auction to EBAY because Steam accounts may not be sold.
EBAY usually terminates those auctions if they are made aware of it.
But Steam cant do much if they have no information about the account like user name and so on.
And EBAY are not allowed to give out any information about the seller because of privacy laws.

[Radene]

If eBay is allowing it, this needs to be sorted between Steam and eBay. With actual litigation and court orders and such.

[Ogami]

引用自 Radene：

If eBay is allowing it, this needs to be sorted between Steam and eBay. With actual litigation and court orders and such.

Well no, they dont. They dont allow the selling of digital accounts in most cases and especially not if its forbidden by that services TOS.
But they have millions of new auctions put on each day and if the user just disregards that its forbidden there is not much they can do unless someone reports the auction to EBAY.
Its flat out impossible to control every auction that is created.

EBAY is in the clear by disallowing such auctions in their TOS, the user who puts up the auction is the one responsible.

[Radene]

引用自 Ogami：

引用自 Radene：

If eBay is allowing it, this needs to be sorted between Steam and eBay. With actual litigation and court orders and such.

Well no, they dont. They dont allow the selling of digital accounts in most cases and especially not if its forbidden by that services TOS.
But they have millions of new auctions put on each day and if the user just disregards that its forbidden there is not much they can do unless someone reports the auction to EBAY.
Its flat out impossible to control every auction that is created.

EBAY is in the clear by disallowing such auctions in their TOS, the user who puts up the auction is the one responsible.

I am responsible for what people do on my premises. And eBay must have some sort of an algorithm to prevent illegal auctions, otherwise it'd be full of...illegal stuff. Drugs. Weapons. Even people being sold.

If a court declared that Steam account access is an illegal thing to auction off on eBay, then eBay would need to do sonething about if.

Of course question is if such litigation is economically feasible for Steam.

[Drab]

Report the account on their Steam profile. Include a link to the page on Ebay in your report to Steam.

[Brujeira]

引用自 Radene：

引用自 Ogami：

Well no, they dont. They dont allow the selling of digital accounts in most cases and especially not if its forbidden by that services TOS.
But they have millions of new auctions put on each day and if the user just disregards that its forbidden there is not much they can do unless someone reports the auction to EBAY.
Its flat out impossible to control every auction that is created.

EBAY is in the clear by disallowing such auctions in their TOS, the user who puts up the auction is the one responsible.

I am responsible for what people do on my premises. And eBay must have some sort of an algorithm to prevent illegal auctions, otherwise it'd be full of...illegal stuff. Drugs. Weapons. Even people being sold.

If a court declared that Steam account access is an illegal thing to auction off on eBay, then eBay would need to do sonething about if.

Of course question is if such litigation is economically feasible for Steam.

EBay isn't obviously full of that stuff as people selling obviously illegal items use legal sounding euphemisms to describe their goods. Algorithms pick up on it? Just change the euphemisms. Of course, all that stuff has undoubtably moved off to the dark web so it's a moot point.

Courts don't enter into it - all clauses in a contract are legally binding unless a court decides otherwise. Valve decided that selling accounts is illegal, courts have never said otherwise, therefore it's illegal. Therefore no need for litigation on Valve's part and eBay have a legal responsibility to enforce the rules in their own ToS.