Well... I got scammed

I'm so sorry =(. Similar thing happened to me few weeks ago. Only thing you can do is move on and learn from this. Be more patient in trades, try to find someone who goes first. Don't take the first offer that comes, especially if the guy is too persistent and doesn't want to go first.

I'd recommend reporting this guy to steam, steamrep, aswell giving him bad rep on steamtrades.com, however I'm not sure how this will help you since steam doesn't return scammed items, and you'll be the one blamed for going first.

Anyways, that's sad, sorry for your loss, gl next time!

welcome to the club happens to everyone on steam :3 i was scammed 5 times but you will get over it :) dont worry he will pay for what he has done to you karma is a #####

Next time trust your guts and say no

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is the first time when you got scammed? If is it the first time , maybe you can create a ticket to steam , I got hijacked my account and i lost a lost of items from dota 2 , I create a ticket to steam and they rollback all my backpack, but they stat in clear : "is one time only!!"

I fail to understand why do we trade like this. Why don't we use the Marketplace for these transactions.
Rule of thumb always applies, "if it sounds too good to be true, it is".

Thank you all for your sympathy
It's still hard to believe why I acted like that but I have to cope with it and just let go
And thank you "bytebyster" for adding me and helping me recover :)

Never happened to me. 1 hour for a trade is madness, if it's a scam you should feel it within the first minutes and run away.

Don't trade if you feel there's something wrong.

Let's go beat him up and get your stuff back.

Too bad, I hope you didn't lose too much value.

Such a jerk, he deserves this

I know how it feels. Got scammed myself 2 times a while ago. Never go first unless you requested the trade first. If they did no matter what don't go first. Also if you have to argue for that long it's just not worth it. Tell the guy to shove it and get lost then.

Ahh sorry to hear that. This is the issue. "I finally got tired and accepted to go first ". I've made some great trades simply because I didn't back down and wouldn't lower my price aka Civ 5 and dlc for less then 2 Tf2 refined. Sometimes its best to be stubborn.

Tbh I understand the 'don't go first' rule most people suggest, but you should also understand why this helps scammers big time - they say they are scared to go first themselves, that you (or whoever is the honest party in the trade) might scam them and so on, convince people into thinking they are being reasonable not to go first.

The simple rule of thumb is don't trade with people who don't seem trustworthy. I am still to see anyone with proper time and money spent on Steam attempting scamming. Even if someone shady is outright fine to go first, I'd never personally be sure their product (game, keys, money) won't be revoked and leave me with nothing. So it gets down to this - trust your guts, and only trust the people who are genuinely trustworthy. If you have a tradable item and the person doesn't convince you well, ask for a tradable currency you can later resell - e.g. keys. As long as the trade consists of items coming from the 2 parties, you are mostly safe, even if something gets revoked (don't take my word for it, but I have this impression). In the end of the day, if your trade partner doesn't want to listen to your reasoning, you'd better step down and leave it be. Better safe than sorry, as they say.

Next time, if you had to go first don't give out everything if it's more than one item. i.e. give out one and wait for him to give you a part of the price (or full price) for authentication. If he doesn't he is probably a scammer.

What happened was terrible, but I have to be surprised at for much work he put into it, I would think he would've thought "Meh, I'll just move on to someone else" after 15 minutes...

1hr? 5mins if he says yes for going first we have a deal or just say sorry n let him knw it wont work

Once again thanks for helping me through
And well about the trade I should say that everything seemed fine about him
He had pages of +rep on his profile, his steamrep was good and his D2LNG profile was clean as well
But finally he turned to be a thief

Here's something small for you guys which makes me feel better: http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/zDeVk/interstellar-marines

Too good to be true.
I feel you. I got scammed before. and that's why i do have trust issues with so good trades

I remember a time where I was in a stand off with another trader and he said he was scammed not too long ago and insisted that I should go first if I want the trade to happen. After a long discussion, we ended up not doing the trade, was he a scammer? don't know, but I managed to make the same trade to a different more trusted person and everything worked out fine.

Moral of the story: If a trade is not working the way you want it, then don't force it, there might be another trade not far away.
scammers prey on desperate; so don't be one.

I'm so sorry.. Sadly it happens especially if you trade expensive items. I rather to use market, sell what i dont want and buy what i want, expensive sure, but safer. You cant really trust a stranger. I only trade for very cheap leftovers, low risk.
I wish you good luck.

Dude, take it easy. You lost 40$ in pixels, but you will get something more precious instead. Scammers never gonna win. Karma is real and it will show up in near future. May be it was a kid who is starving and he really needs this 40$ to buy some food. Just accept it as a charity. You were honest and your intentions were good. I wish it was the worst thing that happen to you in your life. Stay strong, spread the love. Cheers!

I feel you man, I got scammed once before too. by a Chic. A Friggin chic! A real one too, not a dude posing as a chic. I found this out later after researching some more about her. Turns out she's a chronic scammer. Those people lash out words that are too good to be true. They use their charm or whatever to put a spell on you. Also learned the hard way: Never ever ever ever trust your head down there. Or maybe your heart if she's crawled up that deep already. The heart usually is wrong. :( Trust the only part of your body that's thinking.