Scammed by experienced user, lost faith in the community

No calling out, remove the link

Are you sure you got the right guy and not some impersonator? Check your trade history.

if you're not trading again then you don't have anything to lose by filing a scam report against him.,

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His L4D 2 bundle is so far back in his inventory. He probably acquired it some time back.

Remove the link, as mentioned above.

If you have the chat history than report him based on this. If they believe you, good for you. If they don't, well, you were not going to trade again anyway, right?

So you're not filing a report because the scammer told you not too? File a damn report and remove the link from your post.

That's a bummer all the way around. I can understand his point (untradable gifts are definitely less valuable and riskier than the tradable versions he thought he was getting back), but he should have been very clear about that requirement up front and discussed how to handle it if things went south. One of the many reasons I generally avoid trades that can't be done in a single trade window, too many ways for things to go wrong even without malicious intent.

The thing is that he's got 2 copies of Borderlands 2 right at the end of his inventory and his L4D2 is in the 2nd row of the last page.

There is no reason a tradeable copy which you probably traded using the trade window could have turned into untradeable ones. Something is definitely not right.

And check your trade history to see if the person you traded with is a Brit with 346 games and 625 comments.

Well, at least you didn't lose much. Something similar happened to me and I lost 3 tf2 earbuds (worth around 100§ at that time) to a trusted trader who decided to quit trading and scammed items valued at more than 500$ from different users at that day.

should have screenshotted

It's not the trader's fault that you didn't make any Steam purchase in a freaking long time so when you activated the four pack, extra copies turned into not tradeable ones in your inventory and would become tradeable after a month. If someone was screwed, I'd say it was the trader you dealt with so no wonder he was looking for compensation of some sort.

This is why I never trade. In real life I can punch the idiot in the jaw for trying to scam me but on the internet there isn't much you can do. I trust no one. Even on this site people have been misled or scammed by other users and got cheated out of their prize that they won. Report the prick and consider it lesson learned. It sounded like there were way too many variables in that trade to begin with anyway. There's no way I would have agreed to it unless I knew the guy. Also, rep can be manipulated if the party has a lot of friends or multiple accounts so I don't trust the whole rep thing either.

Take screenshots.

The no calling out rule kinda sucks, I want to know he's name/profile ID

Toss on steamrep and let them deal with it and let him get perma marked.

This is not trader's fault, remaining copies are untradable for 30 days unless you bought something on Steam recently (I guess it's on the previous year).

The trader is more experienced than you are and should have noticed you about it but even in that case, you can't just blame him.

I can't say he is wrong, the games turned in giftable only because you had not purchased something on the current year and giftable only copies lose their value in trading. Anyway he should have asked you and didn't trade.