Can you give us an example of broken search?

It's simple. Ignore those who keep long notes. If enough people do that then they will realize it's bad for business.

You can also report those which have nonsense/completely unrelated things written.

To clear things up:

1) Profile trading reports do stack up, and a warning is automatically shown after a certain number is reached. It happened to me. Trade bans, however, have nothing to do with these reports.

2) There is no common sense on these matters. It's up to the trader to check the history of the items. It is usually very easy to know whether an item is hijacked/stolen or not, but sometimes one may still slips by.

3) Support takes from one to several days to reply to a ticket. There's no estimate time.

4) Market offenses include a ban from the market as well, if you are not banned on the market then it happened on normal trades.

5) Steam usually acts only when they find there's enough evidence to punish the user. Explaining the situation might grant you a shorter ban, though.

This is going in circles, we have answered your question multiple times.

Originally posted by Jacob S> all weps:

As I said before:

Originally posted by Jacob S> all weps:

People are searching by items, not by trade notes..

So u mean, that the problem is that in all those trades I mentioned that I'm selling all weps, so if I delete that string, everything will be OK? And u're not going to close all my trades in the future?

No, because we know that's your intent. Either list all your weapons in a lot of trades, or sell of all them in just one. Stop trying to get around the rule.

Originally posted by Jacob S> all weps:

I cann't list all my weps in 2 trades.. that's impossible.

That's what trade notes are for. Bold part:

If you are selling all your weapons then either (1) list every single weapon once (# of weapons / 8 = # of trades), or (2) have one trade saying you are selling all of them. Anything and everything else would be a relist.

Originally posted by Jacob S> all weps:

So u mean, that u have to close 3/4 of all outpost trades, because people are selling items for metal or keys?? Because at least 3/4 or even more of all trades has the goal in getting metal or keys..

Stop it. Your goal was to sell all your weapons, and if you have 2 trades selling all your weapons that's a relist.

If you are selling all your weapons then either (1) list every single weapon once (# of weapons / 8 = # of trades), or (2) have one trade saying you are selling all of them. Anything and everything else would be a relist.

I suggest you give up as the list would be several thousand lines long.

If you bought from a non-obvious alt, and it was not marked at the time, then you should not have to worry about it.