Got raped by Steam
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That sucks man, it's obviously Steam that's at fault. Hope Gabe/one of his assistants are able to help.
Never knew there was so much money in TF2 items lol, had the game before it was F2P and only played it once. Amazing the amount of crap some people will spend money on.
Never knew there was so much money in TF2 items lol, had the game before it was F2P and only played it once. Amazing the amount of crap some people will spend money on.
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Soon Valve with be the next EA. I'm surprised gamers don't vote them as Americas worst company with their ****** subscriber agreement, customer support and incident's like the OP, where innocent buyers get penalized.
I like the way you seized on this in order to avoid responding to the legitimate criticisms of your post
He hasn't been arrested, his account hasn't been banned and he hasn't had the items confiscated he still owns them and can give them away if he wishes.
All that has happened is he has been stopped from trading. He gambled with a large amount of his own money and it's failed.
Next time you make an "opinion" you should start with facts and sound logic, not a hit and run post and then afterwards when someone calls you out on it.
Can you at least see you were wrong in assuming someone must know if it's stolen or not?
I suspect quite a few people either haven't read the post properly or don't understand what the steam trading is all about.
I think you should definitely contact someone higher up. It is obviously a mistake, there's no way in hell you could have known that the items you were receiving were, in fact stolen from an account that should have been secured. In reality, you should have been contacted first in order to work out what actually happened - But that cannot stand for every situation.
Hope you get your trading privileges back though, it'd be a right shame to lose that much considering you actually did nothing wrong.
I think you should definitely contact someone higher up. It is obviously a mistake, there's no way in hell you could have known that the items you were receiving were, in fact stolen from an account that should have been secured. In reality, you should have been contacted first in order to work out what actually happened - But that cannot stand for every situation.
Hope you get your trading privileges back though, it'd be a right shame to lose that much considering you actually did nothing wrong.
He already said he hasn't got a clue.
He's just talking a nonsense about something he obviously didn't understand.
Hope it gets sorted, and nice one OcUK for trying to help out. Some of the comments in this thread though, bloody hell, just go out and get 'I am an idiot' stamped across your forehead and that way people will be pre-warned when you open your mouth.
That's what I said in my second post, I don't know of any way to do this.
Maybe I didn't explain myself well enough. What I'm trying to say is that he is unhappy with Valve's actions, but Valve told him that he had traded
stolen/hijacked items already.
At that point he had three options:
1) Continue to receive items with no way of verifying their legality.
2) Set up some system where he only traded with those deemed trustworthy in some fashion.
3) Stop receiving items and eventually stop trading.
He chose to go with number one, he took a risk and that risk (as it stands) did not pay off. As far as I'm aware it's not within the Steam user agreement to vet these trades as they are transacted between two private parties. Even if they were to offer some service to help with this as the OP rightly said if the account is hijacked Valve would only find out after the fact which does not solve anything.
The only sure fire way that Valve can stop the OP trading stolen items is to ban him from trading.
I can see that you are wrong in thinking that I said that anywhere.
Indeed, what I was more getting at is the fact that Valve already told him that he was dealing in stolen goods previously, after that point Valve and the law in the case of my example would still continue to investigate further, as in this case they have done.[TW]Fox;24112962 said:
I'm not trying to say that he would be arrested or go to jail for it, I specifically avoided saying that in my post just that the excuse alone is not absolution.
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So like I said, you can't really tell where it came from nor the legality of it.
You're asking for the unanswerable.