SteamTrades Site Rules

Please don't bump within 12 hours after your last bump.

Coolio.

Is there an official S. Trades steam group?

Can we get a sticky where we can post scammers / bad deals or some sort of feedback system?

Start an official middleman group?

good job

soz this rules have just been applied i didnt know about them so please dont remove my thread just this once

Rule Suggestion: Please Delete your thread when your trade/s are complete.

Sorry, i don't know about bumping rule

What is Steamtrades policy on people offering (or wanting) money via paypal or whatnot for gifts?

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6262-QXCN-0755

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9958-MJDG-3003

Quotes:

May I sell gift subscriptions?

Steam Gift Purchases can not be sold. Attempting to sell a gift subscription is a violation of the Steam Subscriber Agreement and may result in your account being permanently disabled. You can trade gifts using our new Steam Trading system and can read more about that here.

What should I not trade for?

Do not trade for anything that cannot be added into the trade window within Steam. The most common examples of these scenarios are the following:

* Trading items/gifts for money. You cannot add wallet credit or any form of money into the trade window. A common example of this is trading for items/gifts in return for money via PayPal.

Do not use Adfly or other paying, or non-paying, referral programs.

Why are non-paying links/programms forbidden? O______________o

Do not offer to trade or trade for items with money/Paypal. Why?if i had a positive reputation, why im cant offer with paypal?

and wath about new topic limit? if bump is allowed 1 time in 12h then ppls will just make new topic cuz old one will slide down very fast...

So if I want to close trade I need to add EXPIRED to title, right?

While it might not be a rule, i think trading etiquette is important. had a deal last night where guy was trying to trade me X for Y, almost bought Y when he told me he done the trade with someone else.Never did he inform me about completing the deal with the other trader. 2 seconds away from buying Y without having a trade.

Can the stickies be perma-attached at the top of the page? They aren't exactly easy to find at the moment.

Thanks for informing.

Idea: make it possible that we can acces other users steam accounts from right from steamtrade, like is on steamgifts.

I'm sorry, but half of these rules are very obscure.

I think we should prevent modification/rules to these forums until the end of the Steam Winter Sale.

Two quick questions:

1. Bumping = replying to people? I had a thread locked on Steam forums because I was simply replying to people.
2. Cache issues, I had DOTA 2 for trade a LONG while ago yet people still ask me about my thread that contains I guess an older cached version of my list. Any resolution? I edited it out about 2-3 days ago but people even today just added me for a DOTA gift.

Also another point i want to make. No posting or advertising your stuff on other people's threads. It's rude and impolite.To steal a customer is morally wrong.

http://www.steamtrades.com/forum/K105P/hlist-of-games-coal-wpayday-worms-u-mayhem-dirt-2-gmod-offers Termz - HE LIED!

This site is flooded with exploited dead island keys (many users dealing them with multiple accounts as well). Easily over hundred keys have passed through today while i surfed the site, with fast and simple deals.

I've even tryed to warn people that when the key is reported already taken by the person whom buys it retail the key with the account becomes frozen & that is quite common as dead island is an alluring game and sells easily (Deep Silver announced that Dead Island has sold over 3 million copies and growing ~ 12/21/2011) Some of the threads I try to warn users in vanish shortly after but they just reappear later with similar descriptions and procedure.

But meh people will figure it out eventually i suppose. Likely not though of course & this glorious site will just continue to be a haven for misuse and cheating people out of legit items. :/

So what's the policy on people spamming and trolling? I know it's not as bad as scamming, but shouldn't they be banned all the same? If people come in spamming my topics and posting troll offers what am i supposed to do? I'll have to close the topic and if you don't ban them they'll feel encouraged so these topics will degenerate in insults. It's mostly a question of etiquette, but some people are retarded so...

I really think there should be a rule against spamming and trolling in other people's topics. Otherwise we can all fuck each other like on 4chan ;) A guy is posting a troll offer... if he's not banned i can only send him to go fuck himself, having lost the topic anyway :/

edit: i'm talking about MrGrinch (http://www.steamtrades.com/user/MrGrinch). So, is there a penalty/warning for trolling or not? It's very easy to disrespect other people and if he won't be punished i'll just respond the same and fuck up his topics with troll offers. If he won't be warned for trolling then i don't see why i'd be, so we'll have a lot of messed topics just because some users lack etiquette and the site allows them to.

bumping every hour is useless since many are fake bumping; bump, delete, bump, delete and so on every few minutes and it all looks legit like this guy and many others http://www.steamtrades.com/forum/3U8oy/h-risen-w-bioshock-1-or-dead-space-pack

i dont know where to write so will write here. i propose to do full-text search in forum. its realy needed.

Can you ask for one game offering "game to decide"? As example: I'd like to get The Darkness 2 from someone from Russia, and I could offer game worth in Europe around 12 euro - since that's the price of The Darkness 2 in Russia.

Are Amazon Gift Cards acceptable for trading?

we need to expand on the rules... case in point

So it doesn't die.

Updated with "Keys we consider exploited" in regards to trading.

Keys Considered Exploited:

Serious Sam: Double D

Dead Island Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Bulletstorm

Homefront Shotgun DLC AI War

Supreme Commander / Forged Alliance

Portal 2

DiRT 3 Dark Messiah of Might & Magic Multiplayer

Eets (in certain amounts)

dont buy this game from russia (MW3 key work only on CIS countries! Russia,Ukraine,Belarus,and other) (if you buy key from russian guy and active key game added to libarty and removed for few days )

Eets it's free game! download this game for your iphone, complete game, and you unlock steam key for eets!

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic Multiplayer,Supreme Commander / Forged Alliance,Dirt 3 and other it is stollen keys from internet and from polan site (cdaction) with proxy

"Only post one thread regarding your offer, no duplicate threads."

Many users (myself included) maintain different threads for different offers.
While as far as I understand the rules this is not considered 'duplicate threads' (please correct me if I'm wrong on this), the fact that people are maintaining 3, 4 or more different thread each does lead to the forum being rather swamped.

Might it perhaps be a good idea to limit the maximum number of threads per user ?

Can we sell minecraft accounts?

Are there any rules for reviews? For instance, one user (http://www.steamtrades.com/user/cLassEg) responds to negative reviews he receives by giving retaliatory negative reviews with no justification. In one instance ( see here: http://www.steamtrades.com/user/TheHotstepper) this guy got three of his friends to write negative reviews on an innocent person's wall. Seems unfair for the guy who had the courage to report someone and now has 4 negative reviews for doing so. Shouldn't there be some kind of oversight for these kinds of things? Otherwise, there seems to be a disincentive to write negative reviews even if you are completely innocent.

"Keys Considered Exploited:" <--- giftable/tradeable copies of those games seems to be fine, I suppose?

You may only bump your thread once every hour. Bumping more than once every hour may result in the locking or removal of your thread.
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Please do not bump your thread within 30 minutes of the last thread activity. This would also be a waste of your bump.
Sounds like contradiction for me. Any explanation?

Rule ""Only post one thread regarding your offer, no duplicate threads" need to be revised so that it means no multiple posts from the same person can be active at the same time because the word "duplicate" is being taken advantage of. Take a look at the front page. Filled with posts from the same 3-4 people... Claim is the posts are different (they vary the items by one or two items) and hence is not against the rules since "Only post one thread regarding your offer, no duplicate threads" and if an item in offer is different, then it is not "duplicate"...

As I recall, the rule was placed specifically made so that trading could be made fairly by all and not have the threads of a few people clutter up the front page. This not only makes it hard for people to advertise their threads fairly, but also increases burden on the site (imagine everyone making 4-5 threads...) and defeats the purpose of the whole bumping restrictions and such on both accounts stated previously.

we need to put faerie solitaire and Dota 2 SEA region keys on the exploited keys list now... Dota 2 SEA keys are not exploited but do require the use of services not allowed on the Steam TOS to activate for people not in the SEA region...

I got a Quick IMPORTANT question. Some people says that they want Paypal money, how can you be sure that you don't get scammed?