I recieved a permanent trade ban for accepting a trade offer.

Hi,

On the 18 of July I got a trade offer:



Obviously I accepted it immediately.
Approximately 30 mins after that, I got trade banned for "violations of the Steam Trading Policy."

I made a ticket that day, still no answer. A few days later I contacted the guy who sent me those stuff. (I blocked him after I accepted the offer, I didn't want to talk with him because I was sure that he'd cry.)

Here is the conversation:



So, he was stupid enough to send me his stuff( a window pops up when you want to send something with nothing in exchange), and he reported me falsely, therefore, I got banned.

This is absolute bullsh*t. Trade bans are not given automatically, an employee does it manualy. And I think it is a huge problem, that they ban someone inappropriate.

So If somebody sends a few expensive items to a streamer, he accepts it, then the person who sent it reports him, he'll get banned? (Perhaps this happend to Anomaly)

(Btw I'm sure he wanted to lowball me, those stuff that he sent worth about 90€, and my knife is about 140€. Nobody like lowballers.)

There is so much scamming going on in CS:GO, I'd guess that Valve just bans on scam complaints, esp with a trade being there. And also, don't expect a answer within 2 weeks. Its summer, a lot more issues, and less valve staff.

And a side note, if you wheren't going to "give away" your "knife" worth about 140, for a "offer" of about 90, why would someone else "give" that much away?

So Karma got you a trade ban, for if you had been honest you would have rejected it.

Don't comply on something "too good to be true."

Thank you for the answers, except Captain Unicorn Smiles.

I don't completly understand what you wrote. When he made the trade offer, he forgot to put my knife into the window.

The only reason I got banned is that he falsely reported me.

He didn't get banned: http://forums.steamrep.com/threads/can-i-get-trade-banned-for-this.106235/

And don't compare this situation to the "someone dropped a 100$ and I ran away with it" It is a little bit easier to drop your wallet than sending skin to someone nothing in exchange.

Regards,

Surprise

After I got banned, I was pretty sure that I'm not the only one who have this problem. Since google is our friend, I found this. I spoke with the user, he/she said that it took him/her 6 months to get unbanned, and only after he/she could show a proof(conversation ss) that the user sent him/her the offer.

This reminds me of when someone gets VAC'd for cheating, "wtf VAC for no reason I swear im legit"

Valve has been around for a long time and they know what they're doing. The only time I've ever seen false cases of people getting banned is mainly through impersonations. For example; Large individuals in the trading community (whether that be middlemans, any trading community admins, YouTubers, Twitchers, any trading community moderators, well known traders or even community trading Bots) gets impersonated on a scammers account. The victim then reports the real (non-scammer account) to Valve without thinking. With lots of different people doing this and potentially each scammer doing it more than once the reports come in more and more. Causing a false ban on that individual.

I've done some research about you (steamid etc), I don't and I'm sure other people would agree that you aren't one those "Large Individuals". Looking at your screenshot you have had 720 incoming and out going trade offers recently. So that's potentially 720 scams that could have occurred or you have tried to conduct or you have been potentially involved in.

What he said^ If someone told you to jump off a bridge and you'll survive would you do it?

All I can say is that you are a scammer or are involved in scamming and you got what was coming to you. Good job on Valve catching you.

P.S.

*In relation to your trade ban*

[x]Rekt [ ]Not Rekt

Looks like you have no idea what are you talking about. I won't argue with you, have a nice day.

Rofl

I wont deny valve does make mistakes time to time with trade bans. I have been wrongly trade banned 4 times now.

I am not saying they were in the wrong here, but rather acknowledging they do make mistakes.

I don't think Valve pays attention to topics like that one.

I believe he spoke with the user after he got banned.


I'm pretty confident that I'll be unbanned, but still, valve shouldn't make these kind of mistakes. And their costumer service is simply horrible.

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