Heya :) The best site for trading games is barter.vg . I use it everyday and made a lot of good trades there.
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I'm looking into this seems easy to use. Thanks for the suggestion!
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Yeah steamtrades.com kind of drops you in the middle of it, but it's very easy to use after a looking around a bit.
I've seen several communities based on this, discord groups, websites, and steamtrades is the one I use.
In essence it's a collection of posts that can be searched, where users post the games they have and the games they want, then other users can search through the posts and when they find something to trade for they post a comment and connect through steam to exchange.
Users give +/- reputation after trades so there is a reputation score, and I have done about a dozen trades and haven't encountered any issues, everyone seems pretty chill since they are all there for the same reason, just to get rid of codes that aren't doing them any good.
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Yeah but which game can you trade? Apart from trading cards, skins etc as far as games go I only saw that to exchange them it has to be a steam gift. Or I don't understand something?
And what about steam keys not from steam? Humblebundle, fanatical, indiegala, dailyindiegame, etc. Can you add them there?
This site is chaotic :/
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When you want to trade, you add the person on steam (or discord, or whatever you prefer, usually steam), then exchange keys or links to gift-links. Usually the side with lower rep goes first, as an unwritten rule. Game keys not for steam are usually tagged as uplay or origins. Double check before trading as to not create a confusion :)
As far as the origins of the keys, as long as they work on the platform, i don't think anyone cares where you got them, not sure though.
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There seems to be some general misunderstanding happening here. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
What I get from your writing is that you are asking about how the trading is done within Steam's own trading system (please see picture for reference, this is what you're talking about, right?),
whereas these people here are talking about a website with the URL www.steamtrades.com
Steamtrades used to be the sistersite of Steamgifts, so it's understandable people confuse it.
This would be the other go to place when you want to do some trading of keys. You can just write for witch platform they are, so fairly easy, but not as great as barter imho
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Ahhh.. I think this is what got me so confused..
So on official steam trading what or more precisely how is it allowed? What is deemed tradable? Can you use unsed keys or only this "gift" thing they mention?
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Difficult question kind of.
Personally I never use Steam's own built in trading system. From what I understand it is to make the trading of valuable items safer. There are some particular games (namely CS:GO and TF2 and presumably others I have never heard of) which spawn items (no idea how) that can be worth thousands of credits in whatever currency. Skins, knives, hats, whatever. If you trade them for other items via Steam that's kind of like a built in security measure. An insurance if you so will.
It's also an easy way to swap cards if you're into collecting for making badges.
Back in the day it was possible to store games you bought on sale in the Steam store in your inventory to give them away later and that's also how trades happened, I suppose. However, Steam does not allow that anymore and additionally installed tons of regional restricitions which make trading games via Steam nearly impossible and useless, hence you only see gifting as an option.
Tradeable is everything in your inventory that says so. Every item has tags which tell you what you can do with them.
I wouldn't know of a way of trading keys that way, especially since the chat is much better suited for this kind of trade. You would not have any kind of insurance either as you didn't buy those keys at Valve. The only insurance when trading keys is common sense and some basic rules you should follow (plenty of threads around this topic, please use the search function if you wanna know more).
tl;dr: if you wanna swap your duplicate bundle leftovers with other likeminded people, forget about Steam's built in trading system. Nobody ever uses it for that. You will find plenty of people doing the same thing on barter.vg and steamtrades.com
I hope this was helpful.
Happy trading :)
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It was. I think I start getting the handle on it! Ok thanks a lot! :D
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Watch out for scammers. Make sure you're trading with who you think you're trading with. Don't trust links to "my profile", "my main account" etc. From steamtrades.com profiles there are links to the Steam profile. Use those links.
If you're being offered a too-good-to-be-true trade, it's probably a scam.
If you're new to trading, you will most likely have to go first, meaning you give your part of the trade, and when it's been confirmed working, you'll get the other part. It's easy to get scammed this way. Don't send more than one key at a time.
I only have experience with steamtrades.com, but I believe these apply to all trading :)
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I clicked by accident on permalink. No clue what it is or what it does :/
Yeah general rules of trading :P
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Aside from all the tips abouts scammers and trust and all that (which are SUPER important), the second most important thing you have to know after that is the value of your duplicates and the value of other people's games.
How do you know about it? Just search for how much other people are selling it for in raw values (paypal, tf2 keys, cards) because the value of your games isn't always how much you paid for it, but how much other people are buying it for.
Quick examples: you get a game for 2$ then the games becomes free, it's now worth less than 2$. You buy a game for 5$ in a limited time offer and wait after it expires, since it's popular and sells people will sell it for more and you have to do a similar price too.
You will get the hand of prices with experience, but for now just try to get some games you like. And don't get scammed!
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I just don't know how I feel about gifting some totally worthless keys.. Dlc that noone will ever need or those ^&%&^% you get in a bundle with 0.50 and noone will ever play :/ (you know.. the 99% have 80% negative reviews :/ )
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Ok over time we may buy a bundle and in it already own a game. So we are left wondering what to do with all those duplicates.. So I thought to myself let's google steam trades (apart from the obvious option to simply go here, indiegala, discord groups and exchange steam codes on faith - dailyindiegame is also an option but I don't understand ANYTHING) which got me even more confused.
While reading about steam trades I felt like I was as smart as rocks :/ So I have many questions in which I hope you can help me.
I don't understand how it works. I mean I get the concept of listing, finding what you like and exchanging but I don't understand how and what you can list. I was reading for "buy as a gift" but I always thought that option was only to clearly buy something as a gift to get the code and send it to a friend. And also many codes are not from steam. I just really and truly can't understand how and what you list.
And apart from steam trades (which I clearly don't understand - I only get the technical part of it but not what and how it is added - and btw it's the WORSE page I have seen in my life.. explains nothing), indiegala trades, random discord groups what other option do I have to exchange a duplicate game? I also saw something at dailyindiegame but I don't understand that either.
Are there any other good pages or do I have another solution? Or only blind faith? Something with a reputation score? And how that steam trade works?
Sorry for the long post I became frustrated feeling sooooooo smart -.-
And sorry if it is the wrong section for posting
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