How do I become a middleman or positive alignment with SteamRep

https://forums.steamrep.com/threads/how-do-i-become-a-steamrep-middleman.96063/

Which means absolutely nothing, at all, in any way, you realize.

no prob - just read that..should cover your question well enough.

On another note - certainly don't recommend anyone letting you take remote access to their machine.
That is a nono ... I know the reasoning for it but entirely something that nobody should allow you to do regardless.

Please see this: https://forums.steamrep.com/threads/what-constitutes-reputation.12391/

Ebay reviews are not relevant to Steam trading because it's a different platform.

We recommend against trading any sort of codes or CD keys, as well as against installing software at the instruction of another trader or "middleman".

As a middleman, if you're dealing with someone else's codes, the first time either party ends up being a scammer you're going to find yourself in a sticky mess you don't want to be in.

Your existing "reputation" here, in the form of eBay feedback, would be limited in scope to your eBay account. There's no way to definitively tie that to your Steam account, nor to prove you aren't manipulating fake reviews on eBay, nor that anything you're saying here is true. If you're happy doing eBay trades, then you can stick with that, and use your eBay reviews as an indication of your legitimacy. There's also no way to definitively tie any given eBay account to a single Steam account, but you can confirm who you are through eBay messaging for each customer.

Reputation on reputable 3rd-party websites, which can be vetted and verified, in a place which you yourself cannot control what users post, would be a useful form of reputation. If you scammed someone, they could freely provide that feedback about you, both positive and negative. It would work similar in principle to eBay feedback, except on a different website that's not only reputable, but also dedicated to a different type of "feedback" outside of eBay.

UTC no longer exists. SOP, or SourceOp, can be found here. There are a couple other affiliated websites using a similar reputation thread structure including FoG, SMT, Bazaar.tf, r/SteamGameSwap flair, and Backpack.tf. Each has its rules and nuances, and it's up to both sides (including your buyer) to decide and mutually agree which, if any, of these sources to trust were not manipulated. Backpack.tf is pretty standard among most of TF2, SourceOP is a really old one which is valuable among higher-tier PayPal-for-item trading and very strict, and r/SteamGameSwap is relevant for some CD code trading but only within that subreddit. I don't know much about the others, so you'd have to ask about specifics in those communities. When both sides mutually understand how to validate and use reputation in a given community, it becomes very useful and effective for filtering out scammers and determining who is or isn't trustworthy in trades that require trust.

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That's not how it works. There is no special "trusted trader" status because there's no way we could safely vouch for someone solely based on their number of (claimed) trades and guarantee they won't end up scamming. We have "trusted" roles for certain admins in partner communities and for active volunteer middlemen. And those tags are provided by our partner communities, who we give access to our database for tags pertaining to their own community; we at SteamRep don't vouch for anyone.

Furthermore, once again we do not condone selling or trading product codes. They aren't designed to be traded or resold, and there's no way of tracking them or proving who is telling the truth or lying in the event of a dispute. If someone claims a code isn't valid, it's your word against theirs. And encouraging your customers to install software could very well lead to them getting malware, as scammers have been known to use fake teamviewer installers to hijack Steam accounts or other credentials, so we don't recommend that either.

Using Teamviewer so you can get remote access to their PC and manually enter the code is a big no no. You wanting to do this as you said here and you clearly stated the same exact thing on your Steam profile is already a big red flag to any buyers or traders out there.

As a middleman I strictly stay away from any code trades, you just can't verify that the code is 100% valid and legitimate when you do these sort of trades with a random person on Steam.