Why am I getting pending funds?

[Jeffren]

It's not the first time that in my last 2-3 sales on the steam market my wallet is getting the funds on hold, does anyone know why? I'm not selling big quantities, this time i have 23€ that i will have to wait 24 hours to spend because steam now decides to get my money stuck when I sell items on the Market.

Issue is I'm pretty sure that there's some items that get the money on hold but there's others that my money instanly goes to my wallet and I can use it

[B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t]

It's a new feature added to the Steam market to slow down if not stop people hijacked accounts to have all their items sold off without the account holder being able to do anything about it, now they are held for hours to days (depending) to allow the user to regain access to their accounts and cancel the transactions if they did not do them and no you cannot get around it and have to be patient and wait for the funds to release.

[Jeffren]

Originally posted by B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t:

It's a new feature added to the Steam market to slow down if not stop people hijacked accounts to have all their items sold off without the account holder being able to do anything about it, now they are held for hours to days (depending) to allow the user to regain access to their accounts and cancel the transactions if they did not do them and no you cannot get around it and have to be patient and wait for the funds to release.

So what you're saying is that this happens and applies to everyone? Even if I want to buy a game on the Steam Store, I can't in any way use the pending funds?

[Cristal Maiden ™]

U can use them when U get the money.. 24-48 hours

[B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t]

Originally posted by Jeffren:

Originally posted by B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t:

It's a new feature added to the Steam market to slow down if not stop people hijacked accounts to have all their items sold off without the account holder being able to do anything about it, now they are held for hours to days (depending) to allow the user to regain access to their accounts and cancel the transactions if they did not do them and no you cannot get around it and have to be patient and wait for the funds to release.

So what you're saying is that this happens and applies to everyone? Even if I want to buy a game on the Steam Store, I can't in any way use the pending funds?

For the most part it does effect everyone, but in different ways (I've heard people have gotten hit with a few cent items being sold or 10s to 100s$) who really know what triggers it or if they are still fine tuning the system still.

But yeah, you cannot interact with "pending" funds until they are released into your Steam wallet.

[Dave the Spooder]

im selling a $0.03 cents items and steam said it was a "unusual amount of price", like bro thats the average pricee people are selling and yet i my funds is pending

[Seregosa]

Originally posted by Velcudez:

im selling a $0.03 cents items and steam said it was a "unusual amount of price", like bro thats the average pricee people are selling and yet i my funds is pending

Yeah, I’m selling to me useless cards and stuff, quite a bit of them where I upped the price of every single one to about 0.01 or 0.02 above average price. Not a lot but gives me several euro more overall for a lot of them. They’re gradually being sold at a pretty slow pace, but at least they’re getting sold.

Had all of these out for a few months now. What is even slightly suspicious about it? It’s not even at the level of chump change. Maybe you could buy a heavily discounted old 2-3 euro game for the amount I’ve received so far. This latest sum I got was a ”big” one worth a whooping 0.24 euro. Wow, so much money.

I believe steam needs to fix their alghoritms and set a lower limiter where it doesn’t react for too cheap things(when the price is just 0.01 or 0.1 cheaper or more expensive) and even for more expensive things if the price fluctuates up/down less than 10% of the average market value.

Not like I need 0,24 euro, it’s just irritating how it flags something as unusual when it’s obviously not. It should also go by average prices when things were put up in case it compares then to current prices when deciding.

Well, first time out of probably 15 things sold that one got flagged, not too bad I suppose unless they have a system that now gets triggered easier for my things because one thing was ”caught”. Would have to contact their customer service if it suddenly became more aggressive in flagging things.

[DEMANATI]

Originally posted by Jeffren:

It's not the first time that in my last 2-3 sales on the steam market my wallet is getting the funds on hold, does anyone know why? I'm not selling big quantities, this time i have 23€ that i will have to wait 24 hours to spend because steam now decides to get my money stuck when I sell items on the Market.

Issue is I'm pretty sure that there's some items that get the money on hold but there's others that my money instanly goes to my wallet and I can use it

same here and its so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid. i sold something worth $13 before and i was able to buy a game right away. not i have to wait to use 70 cents?? steam should be able to tell when an account is hijacked by using steam authenticator. its so damn stupid that i have to wait over pocket change

[Moyer]

There should be a way throught the 2 FACTOR AUTHENTICATOR TO RELEASE FUNDS AND CONFIRM YOU ARE THE OWN LIKE WHAT?

[Dragotonal]

it is absolutely stupid.

[Uusimene]

It's 100% not to stop any sort of scams or misuses, the community market sales are 100% final. Once you buy an item off of the community market, there is no way to cancel the transaction. Makes you wonder what in the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hell this pending funds ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ really is about.

[Montula]

no warning or anything, i have day off and the game is on sale then they f....g hold the item and money for 5 days, wtf would the money do after that?

[jümeha]

bro i cant even list an item for 1 cent lower the lowest price and get the money instantly when it gets sold. this is really annoying. its not once, not twice, it happens every single time. i dont want to list my item for the current lowest price and wait. so they make me wait even more, nice solution.

[Sandr's trucK]

Originally posted by arifJ:

bro i cant even list an item for 1 cent lower the lowest price and get the money instantly when it gets sold. this is really annoying. its not once, not twice, it happens every single time. i dont want to list my item for the current lowest price and wait. so they make me wait even more, nice solution.

This.

This is what's happening to me too. I am okay with waiting for a long time with selling some of my items.
But I really needed to sell some other items just now (I have added to much actual money to my account, now it's time to obtain Steam funds by selling stuff, which is a choice I should not feel bad about making) and when I placed the item on the Market with hopes of immediately getting the funds, the item was sold but the funds are pending.

Valve, if you decide to hold the purchase, make it so that I can cancel it and keep the market listing or the item itself.
Or if this is related to unverified payment sources of buyers, make it so that sellers can choose whether their listing can be purchased by anyone or only by people with verified payment information.

[svu11]

I have noticed that it always happens to items that are newer in your inventory rather than items you have had for a good amout of time which instantly give you the funds

["El Dictador"]

Originally posted by svu11:

I have noticed that it always happens to items that are newer in your inventory rather than items you have had for a good amout of time which instantly give you the funds

just sold an ak that i had for around 6 months so im not sure about this still got the funds pending