If they are complaining about your prices on your own trade, this can be classed as spamming and reported.
If they are using the report system to actually threaten other users, (not just saying reported :3 or something moronic like that), that is also an offense.

If they're just rejecting your offer, ignore them and move on, little else for it.

can you actually get banned for lowballing?

thx elliot

Originally posted by Ice0x:

can you actually get banned for lowballing?

Oh no, definitely not. Simply giving an offer someone doesn't like is no offense whatsoever.

But then, if you do make a terrible offer and they accept it, you may get banned for that, and permanently. Say for example you offer a few low tier hats for an unusual, and because the trader is inexperienced, they accept. That could be considered sharking, assuming you deceived them about the hat's value.

There is, of course a fine line between "lowballing" and sharking. Just remember that although posting a bad offer (not so bad that it's considered spam, like offering 1 scrap on an Unusual) is not a bannable offense, insulting the OP, or anything like that in response to your offer not being accepted, can be punished.

If they mention the price is firm, or that they will sell at that price only then you might as well not offer at all. You're saving everyone's time, not only theirs but yours too.

Good thing lowballing isn't bannable or 90% of this tf2outpost community would be banned.

Well, there is always the argument that no item has any value, and it's only based on arbitrary values put down by the community, based on popularity and rarity.

I dont get the lowballing shit at all. Tell me your offer/price and if I like it we might have a deal. If somone goes out and trade me an unusual for a scrap well, not my fault. Dont offer stuff when you have no clue or overpay a lot - maybe. I have offered pretty low like I have traded pretty low and the other extreme. In the end it´s a deal between you and someone else nothing more. :)

Originally posted by |UKCS|baka_saru™|TTRL|:

I dont get the lowballing shit at all. Tell me your offer/price and if I like it we might have a deal. If somone goes out and trade me an unusual for a scrap well, not my fault. Dont offer stuff when you have no clue or overpay a lot - maybe. I have offered pretty low like I have traded pretty low and the other extreme. In the end it´s a deal between you and someone else nothing more. :)

Ah, but it is (or would be) your fault. Taking advantage of a person not knowing the value of an item is an offense, to the degree where it could be considered sharking.