• Hello, today a steam user contacted me and told me that his Game (Skyrim) was removed from his Library. He recieved a message from Steam Support (a small window opened) "your gift was revoked because of a problem with the payment".
  • The Game was gifted to the user by me, which I had traded before with someone (the game was for some weeks in my inventory).
  • I got no records of the trade in my trade history, so I can't tell you who the guy was which I traded with :( [ I guess it got removed ]
  • The case is still open and I will give you updates on this.

  • Please be carefull and check always the profiles of the person that you are trading with.
  • Don't buy Games from useres that you don't know, better buy games via the official steam store.
  • I guess there is no safe way of trading, because as you can see the steam gift that was redeemed by the user was removed from his Library.

UPDATE #1

  • User contaced me today again with some news - this is what he told me:
  • "seeems like a dude brought 9k dollars of skyrim and MW3 copy and traded it on the whole web"
  • "then asked a chargeback at the bank"
  • "and he got all the money back revoking our copys"
  • now he is trying to get my games back that I had traded for Skyrim...

UPDATE #2

Hello xxxxx,

Thank you for contacting Steam Support.

A gift subscription that you recently accepted in your account has been removed. The transaction has been reported as fraudulent.

Please refrain from accepting Steam gifts from unknown sources in the future. Valve reserves the right to refer the matter to the appropriate authorities if such activity continues.


Updates will follow as soon as I will get more informations!

1 decade ago*

Ew, so now we're just screwed. Anyway, making this comment just to bump the topic.

1 decade ago
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  • VALVE should not allow to useres to trade / gift games, that they just bought.

  • 14 Days trade block for the game

  • of course this would be stupid for legal buyers but atm I can not think of a better solution :/

  • this really sucks....

  • also I'm done with trading, its just to risky and time confusming :l

1 decade ago
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even if the exchange with the seller with a high reputation - there is always a chance to get into a situation like you.
and then can not prove who is guilty and who is not

1 decade ago
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  • I guess the buyer took the money just back... e.g. "My Paypal acc got hacked, I did not bought any games... etc."
  • VALVE could just track it back.
1 decade ago
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I have same problem -.-

and steam reply with me :

"Hello,

Thank you for contacting Steam Support.

We are investigating this issue further. As soon as we have more information, we will update your ticket."

1 decade ago
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I don't get why it says dontt trade games with people you don't know.. thats kinda why the trading system was created... whats the point of a trading system if your just gonna trade with buddies?

1 decade ago
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Also, even if you were only trading with people you know, you don't know the guys they got the game from. Thus, you are only save if you trade with people you know who personally bought the game they're trading. Yay.

1 decade ago
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I think most people wont do this because it will get their account suspended. One thing I'd recommend is to check the account you're trading with. Look at how many games they own on the account, how often they play and the age of their account. If it looks like an alt, I'd stay clear.

If the person really spent over 9000 in games only to revoke them, that's pretty serious fraud and I think you should contact authorities.

1 decade ago
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Again, the problem is, even if the person you're dealing with has a $5000 steam account, you don't know where he got the game from. Or the guy before that. Or the guy before that... you just can't know if the original buyer isn't a fraud.

1 decade ago
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My "Dead Island" has been taken from me as well... ; /

1 decade ago
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That's completely Different. The keys were STOLEN, and there were warnings all over saying to not do trades for that. This, however, was using Steams Trade system itself, which means that it is otherwise impossible to know if the person used a Stolen Credit Card/Will do a Charge back.

1 decade ago
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Update #2

1 decade ago
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You'll get your stuff back unless you traded for something outside the trade window.

1 decade ago
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Closed 1 decade ago.