Mass Account Blocks by Valve

Hello, Redline here, and some very very bad stuff has been happening in the past few days in the TF2 Unusual trading community. An unusually high amount of account "locks" have been going around, all circling around rare vintages { duped ones } and unusual hats { duped ones }. These rare vintages have fell in price in the past couple of months cause of the "mass dupage" of them. And In the last 2-3 days, TONS got deleted from honest trades, like TF2- Outpost admins, and there accounts have gotten locked, restricting them from trading, buying games, etc. I already have found 5 insentient people who this had happened to, and I'm looking to find everyone that got affected by this situation. If this has happened to you, post below, stating what hats/vintages got deleted, and what accounts got locked. My account got locked, and I want to get to the bottom of this.

I got my vintage big kill deleted for absolutely no reason. I purchased it for 11 earbuds from a reputable trader by the name of ombers. Wasn't scammed or anything. Unfortunately, I fear either the item getting deleted or getting the "Sorry, steam support cannot further assist you with this issue." This is all such bs. Those who have vintage items, and have purchased them fairly, are getting the short end of the stick by getting their items deleted.

I think valve is sorta scamming us, taking our hats, without any reason to.

I traded buds for a vintage big kill. A few days later, the person I bought from used chargeback and I was restricted for it. After contacting steam and getting no information, they unrestricted me.

Just a few weeks later, I've been restricted again. I traded with old and reputable accounts for only buds in that time frame.

They didn't delete anything the first time, but they might have seen the bk move into my backpack and restricted me so they could delete it-- lol.

Not sure how this is report a scam because you cant exactly mark valve as a scammer....

This belongs in general discussion.

Also anyone is has any experience with unusual trading, should know the very grave risks associated with certain vintage items. This is a matter to address with Valve and as trade locks/bans has nothing to do with SR whatsoever.

Hello, this is not a report, I'm moving this into the general area.

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