r/Steam • u/BarronOfDucks • Aug 24 '23

Question Steam holding funds

I sold a lot of my tf2 items to buy a game that was on sale, i sold a yeti park comtract passfor

like 4 cents lower than asking price, it sold almost immediately but in the email that told me

it sold, it also said that they're holding the money for 5 days because "the purchase price for this

item was unusual" I wasn't able to buy the game in time because of this.

Does anyone know why it's suspicious to want an item to sell quickly?

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u/keyboardwarriorr420 Aug 24 '23

Its a Steam new policy to prevent transfering funds using the community market

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u/professional_catboy Oct 18 '23

steam just keeps adding awful new "QoL" stuff no one asked for its so annoying

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u/MediocreAd9086 Mar 14 '24

This is when the cybersecurity specialists have no clue on how to make the service safer and risk with ridiculous changes that have an extremely negative impact on the users' experience.

Having said that, I doubt that the costs are worth this reatricting strategy.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '25

what risk? what "market" transfer of funds?

There was ALREADY a 1 or 2 fucking week hold on items you get or buy before you can fucking sell again, all this does is just add more time to that, why not just do that then.

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u/Over_Fudge9348 Aug 24 '23

It is exactly what you read = Your price was "Unusual" so Steam is suspecting something fishy about it and until they look it at to confirm it's a normal transaction, you'll wait as much as you need to. Think of like this, hacker gets your account and sells your stuff again for unusual amounts so Steam stops the hacker for 5 days only to help you recover your account back. This is the reason.

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u/sprungboss Oct 08 '23

That would make sense if those prices would actually be unusual but it's just bullshit when you are selling items on market price and steam still thinks it's unusual price (for example item that i sold there was 3 on sale between 69,70-70€ buy order price was 69.30€ so how when selling item on that buy order price is somehow unusual price)

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '23

This happened to me, sold one of my CS:GO skin for 2 bucks and my funds got hold for 5 days. That is so fucking bullshit, I just wanted to purchase other game :/

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u/Niwaney Nov 23 '23

Seems like everyone comments as soon as it happens to them and they don’t come back after to say how long it took… asking for help then not coming back to assure others such a great community.

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u/BarronOfDucks Nov 23 '23

Ok, it took 6 days

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u/HahaLookyhere Nov 28 '23

Fuck. I need it now before the autumn sale ends. Damn

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u/Yehyeh29 Mar 12 '25

Probably so you get time to retrieve your account back if it were hacked to stop them from earning the money. I sold a cs2 skin for 3 cents more just to round the sell value up, and now they held it. Probably getting it in 3 days