Valve implemented the new system of barring games from being traded for 30 days because they wished to curtail scammers who steal credit cards and sell off numerous games that will later be revoked.

Now that this new rule is implemented, scammers can only give out games destined to be revoked through the gifting system. We have decided to not allow this practice on our site since it's clear Valve made the change for that exact reason. Also, the new system of gifting items is a new possibility of scamming seeing as someone must go first with trading items, which is always risky.

Essentially, our site was being used as a tool for these scammers with the only way to solve it was to ban them as fast as possible, which still let some fall through the cracks long enough to sell off handfuls of games. By following Valves lead on this new stance and disallowing these gifting agreement trades, we're going to have much fewer scammers on Outpost.

Is there any way to get your account approved for these kinds of trades? Like providing a lot of reps, or somehow prove that the games were bought legitimately? TF2 outpost is one of the main ways to get your items traded, and this change makes that a lot harder.

We currently have no plans to give these privileges to certain people nor reverse our stance.

We're aware of the inconvenience and while it does indeed hurt game trading, and thus some of our users, the changes Valve made were clear in what they were trying to achieve.