Originally posted by Mr Neanderthal:

maybe there is a reason but when i sell things sometimes i get that balance pending and its really annoying bc the only reason i sell is to buy different things and i have to wait.

the reason it is there - too many idiots giving away their account log in because they are idiots.

thank those people that dont care about their account security and happily give away their account log ins.

Not me. I love security features.

Originally posted by Wolf Knight:

Originally posted by Mr Neanderthal:

maybe there is a reason but when i sell things sometimes i get that balance pending and its really annoying bc the only reason i sell is to buy different things and i have to wait.

the reason it is there - too many idiots giving away their account log in because they are idiots.

Those are not the reason for Steam keeping the "balance pending"; the balance will never return to the buyer.

I'm not entirely sure what problem it's trying to alleviate, but it's entirely for Valve. Likely adding an additional delay in case the funds are stolen.