That will just leave you unable to make a lot of trades. The person with the key doesn't want to be scammed either. If I have higher rep and you want me to go first with the key the we just aren't going to trade at all.
I don't care. It's easy to fake having a key, while on the other hand the inventory can easily be made visible to everyone. Furthermore, IF you get scammed, Valve will give you the "sorry, no items in the Trade window / no CD key trading allowed" speech, so you should NEVER go first if the other person has a key and your item is tradable.
Valve will give you that speech no matter which side of the key trade you're on. You are free to make your own choice in that matter, but you are excluding yourself from a large number of trades if you refuse to respect rep seniority.
"Rep seniority"? Rep means nothing, really. A better indicator would be the number of games the key trader has. Most people wouldn't risk losing an account that has 200+ games.
First of all, no one loses an account over a bad trade. Second, trade-only alts extremely common. Third, rep seniority means plenty. It's a way to decide who shoulders the risk without arguing about it endlessly like we are now. It's no substitute for checking for red flags and general trade history, but it's a very useful convention. You can choose to ignore it, and maybe you'll be marginally safer. But lots of established traders including myself would simply walk away from the deal if you insisted on us going first while having lower rep. In fact, it's a huge red flag.
That's even more ridiculous. There are lots of games that can be gotten much cheaper via keys than via gifts. Well worth the risk if you take reasonable precautions. If you're completely risk-averse and are going to need psychotherapy if something goes wrong in a key trade, then you probably shouldn't trade keys. For the rest of us keys are a highly viable commodity.
I don't take keys in general, that way I cannot get scammed. At least not irreversible. And if there's stuff like cheap keys going around you can just offer similar or slightly higher valued items on the tradable counterparts of these keys. If noone accepts, you just don't trade for the things available significantly cheaper as keys.
That's nonsense. If I followed that rule I would be already scammed many times. You never saw scammers with steamgifts that got charged back? I had many of such suspicious offers. And thanks to rep rule I NEVER got scammed.
Thats the reason i made the first trades with trustworty traders... sorry for your lost, but just report him on steamrep http://steamrep.com/ and valve
I think he traded me a few days back, just closed it after he wanted me to go first and didn't post.
He also did all those winky faces.
"Dude i was scammed" = Red flag
"Bad Engrish" = Miniflag
"Key, no reputation and he wants you to go first?" = Another huge red flag
Always use logic and you won't be scammed :P
- Dude, he scammed me
- Yea, i can see that - "Bad Engrish"
- Use your flags for your self.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/thanikson/
Scammed me...(Facepalm) Just be carefull... :(
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