TL;DR I have a ToD in my inventory that is not tradable and not marketable. It's not the 1 week trade lock and I bought it from the official Steam market. Wth?

One and a half weeks ago I wanted to 'buy' Just Cause 2 for 1 ToD from someone on Steamtrades. He was a really nice person because I didn't have a ToD back then and he offered me to give me the game immediately and let me pay later once the 1 week trade lock for the ticket I wanted to buy from the market was over. So I bought the ticket and a red message appeared in the item's description telling me that it wouldn't be tradable or marketable until one week later - just like expected.

Now, one and a half weeks later it came to my mind that I didn't pay what I promised yet so I made a trade offer. But the ticket was not in my TF2 item list. I checked my inventory and the ticket was there, but it had 'not tradable' and 'not marketable' in the description. No red letters with a date (the week long trade lock was over a few days ago already). It looks just like any other regular item that can never be traded or sold on the market no matter what.

Why? This is completely ridiculous, I traded a lot of ToDs already and most importantly I bought that ticket on the official Steam market from a random Steam user. How is that even possible? Is it some kind of bug?

I would appreciate any info on this matter.

9 years ago*

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The only thing I can think of is - did you buy anything inside of TF2? Do you have "Premium"?

In case nothing else comes to your mind, you gotta think of a different way to pay off your debt..

9 years ago
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I didn't buy anything in TF2, neither do I have premium. I don't even have TF2 installed. I bought it from the market for ~€0.8.

I have other means to pay my debt and I most certainly will, but this is quite annoying and I feel ripped off since Steam took my money and invalidated the item I bought afterwards for no apparent reason. Even if it's only a small amount of money - this shouldn't happen.

9 years ago
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Happened to someone I know, It was just a BUG, he then gave me the item through the trade window and then I gave it back to him and then it was fixed.

9 years ago
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Problem is it doesn't even appear in the list of available items in the trade window.

9 years ago
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Trade window or trade offer? Cause it's different.

9 years ago
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Volvo y u do dis

9 years ago
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First I'd say check if it's maybe just a small bug and you can actually trade it.

9 years ago
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I have the same problem with my TOD too.and no i cant trade it :|

9 years ago
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You have to launch Team Fortress 2 and then it will become tradeable and marketable. I had the same problem and this solved my problem.

9 years ago
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Yeah, I heard about something like this, but with dota 2 "treasure keys".

OP, google "jengerer item manager", it's really light and will allow you to simulate running tf2. (Or you can use good old appid trick, too).

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At MvM release (or somewhere close) Valve gave everyone 1 trade/market locked ToD.

9 years ago
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he's not talking about that read his post

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