After listing like 4 or 5 cards, steam keeps asking me for email confirmation, for every item I sell since then, it is really annoying. Then I click on the confirmation link on browser, it says logged in from device not protected by steam guard for at least 7 days, bam, my market listing is held for at least 7 days.... I'm stuck at an impasse. I don't use steam through browser and never will, if only I can open email confirmation link via Windows Steam client, windows steam client is my go-to.
Their security flag is way too sensitive, I'm literally selling at the average price... I read the comments online, they say email confirmation wud be triggered when I list my items too expensive or sell too much items. How many items exactly listed are considered too much? How much is considered expensive? They are never disclosed... I understand they did it as a security measure, the intention is good, the implementation however is terrible, there should be an option to opt out of it, explicitly saying if one chooses to opt out of steam protection program, shall issues arise, steam is not responsible and whatnot. At this rate, while they get to protect users from potential danger, they put unnecessary hassle onto false positives users like me.
I don't feel like asking the steam community or steam support, coz they impression they gave me is that at the end of the day, the problem is always on me, it is always my fault. Now, have you guys ever come across such issue? If so what do you do? You just confirm one by one, wait for the market listing held to expire as you are told? yeah, I can probably solve that by enabling mobile authenticator, no way am I giving away phone number, most VOIP/ burner numbers won't work and I am lazy to try one.. What's worse than using mobile authenticator is that another trap awaits me, I gotta wait 15 days b4 I can list my items starting from the moment I activate mobile authenticator... out of the frying pan into fire into volcano, trap inception
Their security flag is way too sensitive, I'm literally selling at the average price... I read the comments online, they say email confirmation wud be triggered when I list my items too expensive or sell too much items. How many items exactly listed are considered too much? How much is considered expensive? They are never disclosed... I understand they did it as a security measure, the intention is good, the implementation however is terrible, there should be an option to opt out of it, explicitly saying if one chooses to opt out of steam protection program, shall issues arise, steam is not responsible and whatnot. At this rate, while they get to protect users from potential danger, they put unnecessary hassle onto false positives users like me.
I don't feel like asking the steam community or steam support, coz they impression they gave me is that at the end of the day, the problem is always on me, it is always my fault. Now, have you guys ever come across such issue? If so what do you do? You just confirm one by one, wait for the market listing held to expire as you are told? yeah, I can probably solve that by enabling mobile authenticator, no way am I giving away phone number, most VOIP/ burner numbers won't work and I am lazy to try one.. What's worse than using mobile authenticator is that another trap awaits me, I gotta wait 15 days b4 I can list my items starting from the moment I activate mobile authenticator... out of the frying pan into fire into volcano, trap inception
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