http://www.teamfortresscollectors.blogspot.com.es/ The List of Craft Number Collectors

I like outpost because I was trying to buy a stupid strange medigun for a week on trade servers with no luck, opened a trade on outpost and I got 1 in five minutes, and now I only use trade servers as deathmatch fun, because it's a complete waste of time trying to trade there

by "I would like to know if that counts.." I didnt mean you should tell me, more like let's hope an admin/mod clarify a little :P but I dont see the same looking for metal than looking for sydneys, since if what you want is a sydney, one trade is enough, you make your point of collecting a weapon for weapon, if you want to sell weapons for metal and dont list them you can't use the matches system propperly, at least thats the way I see it

So what you are saying is that the guy on the first link (the others had a ton of weapons didnt want to go 1 by 1 cheking if they have the same weapon in several trades) can't put his weapons for scrap sell, because they all have the same reason (aka getting 1 scrap per weapon) even if he did not relist any of the weapons once, if thats how relisting works I have relisted a ton of times, I did check not to have the same weapon twice, but I did put many weapons for scrap trades, because if you dont list them you can't not use the matches system properly, I didnt consider that relisting but I would like to know if that counts as that, just in case

You said that you did the same trying to get sydney sleepers, I'm guessing you are collector in that case I can see the relisting, but not when selling things for metal, since that is currency, I might be wrong, maybe they can clarify on the rules what counts towards relisting and what doesnt :S

He is selling different weapons at 1 scrap each, how is that relisting? (1st link)

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ok, I've seen the second and third link now, there might be some relisting there, there's just to many weapons to check 1 by 1, I personally believe the relisting rule should be applied to higher tier trades, like the people that relist their unusuals a ton of times, or that opens a ton of trades with the same items, when selling weapons for 1 scrap is almost a mistake to click the same weapon twice, also it mostly happens with new users, did you even try to warn them that they were relisting items?

unless it's really a super expensive hat, I'd say that you would be better selling it for buds/metal and then buying all the things you'd like inside tf2 or steam games, much more safe than real money trades, just what I would do

yeah, good thing you didn't fall for the whole rushing thing, he would have finally succeded scaming, maybe you could add some info on his report, so steamrep sees he is still attempting to scam people

I don't really know how middleman and real money works, but if you can use it it might be the best choice, also I've found this mini help guide for trading http://www.tf2pricecheck.net/Thread-GUIDE-Trade-Tips-Advice-Megathread-v1-1 , scroll down to "Guide to Paypal" there might be some more help there ;)

I just checked and your unusual seems to be around 2 buds worth http://backpack.tf/unusuals/323/German_Gonzila so the whole rush thing+overpaying a lot might be a good indicator of a scammer attempt , I might be wrong but as far as I know a 2 buds hat doesn't equal 200$ worth.... see what happens when you talk back to him today, and if he act wierd take screenshoots of the conversation and such, because in the event that he trully is a scammer you can report him to steamrep

I have never trade for money, that said, if he wants to buy it from you he needs to have a rep thread in a trustable page, like sourceop (not outpost rep, not steam profile rep,..) http://www.sourceop.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=23 also here is a thread on steamrep talking about starting one, because I guess you don't have one yet http://forums.steamrep.com/threads/getting-rep-as-a-new-trader.2971/ usually if both are trustable traders, the one with less rep goes first.

Also check the guy on steamrep to see if he is tagged or has scammer friends, check that he has many games on his account (scammers makes alts all the time with a few games, he could be a legit user and have few games, but it makes you be more carefull) check that he has friends too (again things to see it's not an alt account)

One last thing is go to steam preferences an on interface check the "display steam url adress" so if the guy says "here this is my rep link" and once there you see that the user url doesnt match the guy you are talking to url, means that he's an impersonator.

I've also noticed some people tell the buyer to write something in the transaction description on ebay, along the lines of "I will not make a chargeback...." but I'm kinda clueless how that works

Hope this helps you ;)

PS: I didnt knew shit about how scammers behave until I mistankenly got a scammer tag (appealed and fixed on the very same day, phew) I learned a lot reading others people's appeals/reports...