I can trade with my f2p account

[Veegish]

Hi,
a strange thing happened to my f2p account! I have a friend who just joined steam and started playing dota 2. Yesterday I wanted to give him a CS:GO wallaper which was gifted to me. Usually when I want to trade with someone or a bot, only items gifted to me would appear in the list. But yesterday, when I clicked on my tf2 items list during the trade, they all appeared on the list! I checked with scrap.tf to see if I could trade my items and it was possible. I usually get a message saying f2p accounts can't trade but not this time! I could buy hats, craft reclaimed metals and even craft headgear and the Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker. Can anyone explain how this is possible?

 

[ΩhiteΣtripeʐ]

I have no idea.

 

[Jerk]

I did some slight research, and I've heard of it happening twice, (I asked around my trader friends) and I think it's the result of a potential communication error between the TF2 information and valve. I.E.: they might think you bought something on the TF2 shop or actually owned the game before you downloaded it, or both. I think you should just consider yourself fortunate and trade with yourself all day long, because nobody else on TF2 will buy your stuff any more (in general)

 

[Johan]

Yeah steam can be a little bit dumb sometimes.

 

[Darth Doggy]

Yeah steam can be a little bit dumb sometimes.

Understatement. It sometimes asks me to log in, then log in, then log in, then log in.

 

[Veegish]

I did some slight research, and I've heard of it happening twice, (I asked around my trader friends) and I think it's the result of a potential communication error between the TF2 information and valve. I.E.: they might think you bought something on the TF2 shop or actually owned the game before you downloaded it, or both. I think you should just consider yourself fortunate and trade with yourself all day long, because nobody else on TF2 will buy your stuff any more (in general)

I made a purchase a week ago so it doesn't matter anymore