What Toughsox said. You have to look at the bigger picture and you'll understand. Both trade holds and market holds are meant to prevent hijackers and scammers from making a quick profit using stolen items over Steam. Sadly this comes with an inconvenience to regular users but it was a necessary step because the problem was getting out of hand.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8078-TPHC-6195

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย LaughingLollipop:

I don't understand

http://imgur.com/a/iuLIi

I make reports for what I see and I'm told to stop?

I have to apologize, maybe I wasn't clear enough (shouldn't have used the word "especially"). The user would have to show clear intent of price manipulation as well as own said item(s) for it to be considered a bannable offense, otherwise it's more of an off-topic/unrelated comment.

E.g spam every single trade with "raise your hat's price to xxx keys, it's too low" just so it appears expensive when other users are searching for it and they can sell it faster or hope that someone would suggest a new price on it on backpack.tf.

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย LaughingLollipop:

Also where on earth does it say I can only report spam on my own posts? I'm pretty sure that just got made up outta thin air :P

This one falls more into the common sense category, their trade, their business. Some people don't care about off-topic comments and if they were hidden that would confuse both the OP, since they haven't sent in any reports and the users commenting, thinking the OP reported them.

As explained in the post above, TF2Outpost does not have control over what type of ads are displayed. In order for "malicious" ads to be removed they have to be reported to the ad provider.

If you believe you can't use the site anymore because of annoying ads then you have 2 options:

1. Purchase Premium which will hide all the ads
2. Use an Ad Blocker

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/tf2outpost/discussions/0/558747922562007365/#c540742485382301536

#6 https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/tf2outpost/discussions/0/558755530343215312/

"Don't sell this under ### keys" can be considered price manipulation especially if the user commenting owns said item, which is a bannable offense. As for "take this offer", I'd say that falls more into the spam category, if it's reported it will be hidden.

Just for clarification, TF2Outpost does not ban people for selling "glitched" items. There's a niche in the market for such items and collectors might or might not pay a lot for them. That is if your item is truly unique in some way. If you attempt to sell an ordinary item claiming it's glitched then obviously your trade would be closed or you'd get a temporary ban.

As for its price, we don't do price checks here. The best way of knowing what you can sell it for is to open a trade on the site and patiently wait for offers.

I'm sorry to hear you got scammed and glad the scammer got tagged, however please refrain from posting threads like this here. This information is not helping anyone.

Also your best bet of getting your items back is talking to the scammer or hoping that he'll realize his mistake and pay you back.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/tf2outpost/discussions/0/558747922562007365/#c540742485382239358

I passed your message on to the higher ups, you should probably receive a reply soon.