From Steam

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2052495

Only gifts that are purchased on trusted accounts can be traded immediately; otherwise there is a 90-day cool down before the gift can be traded. Any account that has made any valid purchase from the Steam Store more than 90 days ago is considered trusted. This is to ensure that all games traded are valuable, and help prevent fraudulent purchases for the purpose of trades.

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Nice

13 years ago
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How can it be determined if it's a trusted account?

I just don't get it...

Um, 90 days? How can it be determined that a guy buying a game of 99 cents is trusted?

13 years ago
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You mean fortix?

13 years ago
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Whatever game, also another thing came up in my mind:
Okay just to clear that one out...
My account is not trusted so I buy a game for gifting in the Steam inventory, by the time I do this my account becomes trusted because I bought something from the store and there is no 90 day limit for me, for you, for everyone, the limit is not just there... If you legitly buy the game...

You purchase every game/gift from the Steam Store... Buying a gift removes you the untrusted account status.

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Steam just wants to make sure that there are no accounts created, which buy a game, trade it and then cancel the payment in some way. There is no way, you could cancel a payment after 90 days and that's why Valve considers those accounts as trusted.

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Uh... that's why gifts shouldn't be canceled.
It's a better and save way, you should be only cancel it if it's from the both sides.

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Cool, I like it! :D

13 years ago
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I think this is more about preventing people making accounts from different regions of the world only to buy and gift themselves games cheaper.

13 years ago
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Hey Cult, can we add whether or not a user is trusted in user profile?

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Does anyone know if this affects sending gifts the old fashioned way (sending them to your own email and resending them via the gift window in steam) at all?

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Every little bit helps to prevent fake giveaways and such. Good idea!

13 years ago
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It's a good damn change, thanks for the update.

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That's awesome!

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Closed 13 years ago by Cult.