Steam Market funds pending (sometimes)

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johnrob 18 Aug @ 9:06am

I've sold several items from my CS2 inventory recently, and some of them came through to my wallet instantly, while some show as pending for up to a week.

What's the criteria for whether a sale will instantly come through to my wallet vs show as pending? Is it some kind of account status on behalf of the purchaser? Or maybe someone that currently has funds in their steam wallet to cover the purchase?

It stands to reason that there must be some verification process that makes it so people can send funds instantly, as I've received funds from some of my recent sales instantly. Shouldn't I have the option to sell to those people and ONLY those people? I don't want questionable money and wasted time every time I sell something on the market place, I'm already agreeing to a relatively large percentage being taken out by Steam itself to facilitate market transactions.

TLDR: I don't want to wait a few days for my purchase, I want to sell off some of my skins so I can buy something else on Steam without having to load more money in, shouldn't we be able to sell only to people that would not need their purchases verified?

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pckirk 18 Aug @ 9:10am

read the email that is sent to you from steam for each marketplace transaction

johnrob 18 Aug @ 9:30am

Originally posted by pckirk:
read the email that is sent to you from steam for each marketplace transaction

Ah interesting it says the price for the items is unusual, but I went exactly with what steam said the trending price was...how is that unusual?

exitus.xyz 18 Aug @ 10:22am

I don't think it checks the amount of money that you ask for. Sometimes the balance goes pending even if it was ten cents, it might just be a preventive measure to verify the funds automatically and/or to check your account wasn't hijacked, idk.

johnrob 18 Aug @ 10:33am

Originally posted by exitus.xyz:
I don't think it checks the amount of money that you ask for. Sometimes the balance goes pending even if it was ten cents, it might just be a preventive measure to verify the funds automatically and/or to check your account wasn't hijacked, idk.

Well. it's very frustrating from an end user perspective. I just wanted a couple bucks to get my wallet over the threshold of a particular game purchase, without having to use my actual money to add funds.

Space is the Place 18 Aug @ 1:19pm

I´m drunk and speaking out of my arse, but I´m gonna say it depends on who buys it, or more accurately, from which country and therefor which rules has steam to adapt to that jurisdiction.

I usually didn´t got pending stuff, now I get it all the time. So maybe that´s it, some legal change on steam policies on some territories.

Volva* {Garbage Loot Ninja} 18 Aug @ 11:44pm

Pending funds seem to follow no rules as far as I experienced.
Could be few cents, could be 100 bucks.

The email for sales is an utter waste as it gives zero explanation beyond "unusual."

Regions of sales could be the case but also doesnt make any sense as the EU region I'm in shows Euro sales in my Purchase History and they still go pending.

Steam Support wont explain and Steam Community Market sales never get reversed.
Its as random and pointless as you can imagine.

cSg|mc-Hotsauce 18 Aug @ 11:48pm

Originally posted by Volva* {Garbage Loot Ninja}:
Pending funds seem to follow no rules as far as I experienced.
Could be few cents, could be 100 bucks.

The email for sales is an utter waste as it gives zero explanation beyond "unusual."

Regions of sales could be the case but also doesnt make any sense as the EU region I'm in shows Euro sales in my Purchase History and they still go pending.

Steam Support wont explain and Steam Community Market sales never get reversed.
Its as random and pointless as you can imagine.

The thresholds are not public so malicious actors can find ways around them.

And yes, Valve does reverse some Market transactions under extreme circumstances.

Volva* {Garbage Loot Ninja} 19 Aug @ 6:11am

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:
The thresholds are not public so malicious actors can find ways around them.

And yes, Valve does reverse some Market transactions under extreme circumstances.

:nkCool:

Ah yes, the malicious actors. If only they were so thorough when it comes to the tons of scammers that roam Steam.
Still waiting for them to do something about an account that I have been watching for over half a year that continuously receives scammed items.

Explaining away pending funds through alleged security purposes while not explaining anything and inconveniencing a lot of normal users truly is a system that nobody is going to be happy with.

Feel free to share some of these extreme circumstances in which they reverse SCM transactions. I'd love to learn about this.