A New item in a Steam inventory, first of all has a Trading blocked for 7 days. This block is useful in many respects to ensure the security of all users. On the other hand, it is nerve-wracking for traders as there are long waiting times between trades.
What is the Steam Trade Lock?
The trading block is a security mechanism from Valve. It ensures that Recently acquired or traded items the new Do not leave the inventory for 7 days can. In this way, Valve ensures that fraudsters cannot quickly trade items across many Steam accounts in order to disguise their origin.
When is a CS2 item blocked from trading?
Regardless of whether a new item is bought on the marketplace, traded with another player or taken from a Box drawn becomes: The item always has a 7-day trading ban afterwards.
In short, this means that whenever an item is new in an inventory, it is blocked for 7 days.
The block is automatically applied to the respective items by Steam. You don't have to do anything yourself, as soon as a new item is in your inventory, the 7 days expire for this item.
Can the trading ban be circumvented?
No, it is not possible to circumvent the trading block. It serves to protect every Steam user and cannot be switched off or shortened by anyone.
Why is there a trade ban on Steam Items?
Originally, the trading ban did not apply to traded items. Value changed this in March 2018 in order to take action against gambling, trading sites and scammers.
Gambling and trading sites were reliant on users being able to trade their skins quickly. Although the 7-day trading ban put obstacles in the way of the sites, many sites have worked out workarounds using virtual credits.
At the same time, the trade ban should also help against the many scammers that Valve and CS:GO in particular had to contend with. The fact that the items are "tied" to a Steam account for 7 days gives Valve more time to uncover scammers and reverse the transactions. In the past, fraudsters would quickly trade the items across many accounts and ultimately sell them on an external site. The trading ban has made it much more difficult for fraudsters to do this, as Valve has more time to react.
Steam trade ban after changes to account security
If changes are made to account security, such as the password or 2-factor authentication, the entire Steam account will be blocked from trading. This serves as a defense against fraudsters who steal account data in order to trade the items on the account on their own.
Depending on which setting is changed and how active the account is, this account-wide trading block is between 5 and 30 days.
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