Time to bail from Steam trading, but how?

I wanna do the same tbh, btw paypal is not safe at all

Buy from key resellers, problem solved. These are usually 2nd on the list to buy from, for cheapest price.

When i want a game i check GMG (sometimes they have decent prices, even better than key resellers on certain items), 2-3 key resellers and their feedback/status and compare prices. Buying from russian traders turned out to be a problem for me as of late, witcher 3 + dying light got region locked after activation, none of the gifts had a region restriction, waste of money/keys.

PS: Steam basically lost my trust on this, and i'll rarelly be buying anything directly from steam anymore. Unless the price is properly discounted or if the game is actually worth it, which is kinda hard to know given that most games nowadays seem like crap and rigged with dlc to boot.

The trust thing is really hard. But i think you should befriend a few trusted sellers, that will make it easier. Trading is a pain though.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/CardsforCharity

Consider joining my group and donating a few.

Why wouldn't be getting good sales? I don't see the correlation.

Why is trading dangerous now?

I've been trading a bit less but still do with a few reliable sellers I trust. I just don't trade with random people for any valuable gift outside of the trading window. And I've started buying as much as possible from GamersGate/GMG/Amazon as a mean of protest. If the game is gonna cost me the same either way, I'll now buy it outside of of the Steam storefront.

Trading is still fine. It's just now people should be doing what they didn't do before - avoiding randoms that you don't really trust. Also, you can't just jump to Amazon. You see, they sell NA locked codes like Inversion and Metal Gear Rising. You'd still have to trade for ROW copies no Steam for those titles.

Trading isn't dangerous for those who know what they're doing and there are still going to be plenty of good deals. The biggest danger is Valve themselves. Scammers are predictable and easy to avoid/remove. You never know what Valve is going to do though.

I think you're jumping the gun and thinking entirely too rashly.

What is this "good chance that we will never see a good Steam deal again"?? You're basing this on the new trading rules? Just this week, Dead or Alive Last Round was made available for pre-order. It was trading for 6.5 keys (and still is) region free. The Disney Mega Pack which is on sale for $54.99 was trading for 10 keys. I'll give you that a lot of new games are going to be less likely to be tradable if they are cross region trade/gift locked, but there's still thousands of games on the platform that will be able to be gotten at cut rates from traders that will never be locked. The biggest problem is going to be for sites like Dispenser.tf as a lot of its sellers wont be able to restock immediately anymore. Steam is still going to have their bonkers sales every year and the large majority of games will not be locked.

Until Valve decides to retrolock games, I'm not fearful. That will be my tipping point. You only have to be more careful right now.

I've traded (looks at history) 17 times since the new rules have been in place and have not had one hiccup from it.

• Its dangerous if you're trading with noobs that demand you go first now, but you have a +52 on ST. That is not a lot, but its more than average. You can easily find people to go first.
• Stick with proven traders that have a solid track record - older Steam account, high rep (> 200). In the 17 trades I've made with the new rules, about 1/3rd were with the same person (a Russian) that I have dealt with for over a year now.

There's many ways to mitigate any "supposed" danger right now. And IMO (I can purchase from Amazon and GMG) Steam still has the better deals if the game is not locked. Occasionally Steam is bested but its not cut and dry.