Is it really safe trade gifts on Steam?

That sucks :|

was probably due to a chargeback. People steal credit cards. If it was a trade you can ask steam to get the game you traded (if it was a gift as well) back i believe. If it was for a key, you got boned :/

If you traded through steam trade system they must give your stuff back. If you have traded for game keys, then you lost your games.

http://steamrep.com/ is a good place to see if the trader is reputable before you trade. You can see if he is a reported scammer or not.

I had a similar problem (gift for gift trade) and then the game was removed from my inventory.

After contacting support and sending them a screenshot of my trading history (yeah, as if they can't access it on their own), I got my games back.

It's happen to MoneyHypeMike, a big BIG contributor here on SteamGift. [Here] (http://pastebin.com/s34hqu6k) to read the conversation with steam support.

Steam is indeed a scam. If you used trading window to get that gift subscription, you should've received your traded gift back.

But they didn't automatically reverse the trade - which is visible to naked eyes of Support. What a great company that is.

So, you didn't even get a message that the game disappeared?

I have to track ALL my games I recently traded, just to be on the safe side?

I need to write a game tracker that detects missing games and automatically sends an email .__.

What a lot of people replying here are overlooking is the clear language that Steam is using to imply that the OP is somehow involved in the wrongdoing (despite no evidence on their part, and probably with evidence to the contrary). He is warned to not accept Steam gifts from unknown sources (kind of the definition of trading) and is given a mild threat that authorities might be involved if he continues in his "bad" behavior (i.e. continues being an innocent victim).

While I don't blame Valve at all for removing games that were charged back or bought with stolen credit cards, there is no excuse for how they treated the OP as complicit in the wrong-doing and how they did not immediately reverse the trade (giving him his traded game(s) back).

The worst part is that they don't alert you to removing something from your inventory/library... that is complete BS IMO... if we're being SAFE by trusting what Steam has in place to allow SAFE trades and then they don't keep them selves accountable but put all blame on us is not fair at all.

Still no update from Steam support

Yea, one of the games I won on here got charged back by the guy who gifted it to me, but he says that it was a problem with the bank and not intentional.

I don't trade on Steam, but I guess that if you traded entirely in the trade window and one of the items was charged back, then Steam would reverse the trade and give back the item?

EDIT: having just re-read the post, it looks like they don't reverse the trade.... That's a bit shit really.

Anybody else had same trouble with trading?

The issue has closed as this evening I got back my initial gift before trade from Steam.
I received this message from Steam support

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Please exit Steam, restart your computer, and log back into your account. This should resolve the issue.

Let us know if you have any other questions.
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That sucks sorry but I cant help I dont trade