Transaction costs exist for these cards. Would you want to be given a transaction cost of say 50 cents on every small purchase?

Originally posted by Joey Septic Tank:

Allow purchasing from the market place directly instead of adding funds to wallet.

Just as the title says, it would be a nice feature to be able to buy directly from the market place like trading cards or skins for games with a debit or credit card, rather than having to add funds to your steam wallet. Especially when you don't want to add a whole $5 to your steam wallet when whatever you are buying adds up to less than a $1.

The Market requiring the use of Valve's own wallet fund system is very intentional.

It curbs fraud by a lot.

Don't expect it to change anytime in the foreseeable future.

I had never tried to make badges outside of a Steam Sale badge before now, so I am finding the process…a bit annoying. I used to sell cards to help fund game purchases (at least it sometimes covered tax)-now I’m selling them (for games I have no interest in making badges for) to help fund trading card purchases.

Am literally 1 card away from having my first full set-6 cents in my stream wallet from sales (bought 3 on the market with funds made from card sales, traded for another with a friend). Have several items for sell that haven’t been bought yet. So I’m 3 cents short of the typical lowest price of the final card I need. Don’t really want to add 5 dollars for 3 cents.

And of course out of the 3 games I was considering for my first badge, I picked the one with the most expensive trading cards. Lol. Crossing my fingers more of my cards sell soon….

Or TL;DR, I agree with OP’s suggestion, just don’t know if it’s practical.

Originally posted by KrakenGreywolf:

I agree with OP’s suggestion, just don’t know if it’s practical.

It is not.