From personal experience you have to wait 30 days after buying anything before you're able to buy or sell anything on the Marketplace. :( After not making any purchases for over a year, I bought Bastion for like 3 bucks a month ago and I just got my Marketplace privileges today (despite buying plenty of other games on sale this past week). If I hadn't happened to notice that Bastion was having a sale then, I wouldn't have been able to use the market at all during the sale.

Edit: Ninja'd a bit. Don't know why I didn't see the post from 15 minutes ago. :)

That is the general rule, but I think that Steam silently makes exceptions to that in some manner that I'm not able to determine. I have 2 Steam accounts, one that is 9 years old that was activated as part of installing Halflife 2 way way back then, used for several months and then more or left sat idle for 8 years because my computer sucked. When I got back into gaming more recently I made a new account but didn't like the name on my old account and wasn't aware that you could change it at the time so I made a new account instead. I did have to purchase at least one game with the new account before trading and whatnot would work but I'm pretty sure it did not force me to wait 30 days, it seemed much shorter than that. I could be wrong though, but that's how I recall.

But... I have never bought a single game on my ancient 9 year old account from Halflife 2 in well over 9 years, and Valve has never had my credit card or other payment info on that account before either, but I am able to trade, buy sell no problem. Sometimes it wont let me at all for no apparent reason, then after futzing around, restarting, etc. like mentioned above by someone it magically lets me buy/sell/trade. Could be a bug in their system or something else, I dunno but since I posted above about being unable to do anything I am now able to buy/sell/trade on both accounts and the old account definitely has never had any money spent or credit card or other financial connection on it for ages.

Glitch in their system perhaps? Grandfathered into trustdom? I dunno... Could be they like my Gibson SG!

I guess I understand the timed restriction on marketplace activity, it helps discourage scamming perhaps. I just wish I could at least give away these soon to disappear cards.

EDIT: Thank you for the trade, klaattu!

Done. Thanks, chean.

Edit:

Done

nvm.

Got it.

I don't know if this has been mentioned, but I figured it would be an appropriate place to mention it for those who sell Steam trading cards.

I started getting into this about a week ago, and have been surprised by how easy it is to get Steam cash from selling(what I consider to be) useless trading cards. I've made somewhere between $25-30 so far. Anyway I went to go and list a card and got a big warning in red letters(oooh danger! :P) saying that if I wished to sell more than 200 cards in a calender year, that I needed to click the link and this was the text from the link:

[i]"Under Internal Revenue Code section 6050W, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service requires us to determine whether you are a U.S. citizen or resident alien before permitting you to sell more than 200 items in the community market in a single calendar year. If you are a U.S. citizen or resident alien, the IRS also requires us to collect your Social Security number or other Taxpayer Identification Number. Please note that we are not required to report this information or information about your sales to the IRS under section 6050W of the Internal Revenue Code unless you engage in more than 200 sales in a single calendar year AND the gross sales proceeds from those sales exceeds $20,000 in a single calendar year. For more information, you can view the Community Market FAQ here.

To verify your citizenship status, and if required, to verify your taxpayer information, please respond below."[/i]

And then a form to give them all my details. I wonder what would have happened if I was a US citizen - taxes? I mean this has been a great little extra income, but it is hardly something worthy of being taxable!


Then again after reading that text(I just woke up from a nap) it seems they forsee the possibility of some getting more than $20,000 per year in sales - wow! lol

I'd never heard of this and am far from making anywhere near that much from trading cards but I wish I could say I was more surprised. I wonder if anyone I know has had to pay taxes for using Steam.

I seem to keep getting a bunch of coupons I'm not interested in that are marked as 'tradable'
Has anyone had any success in trading them for trading cards? Is there anywhere to go to find anyone who might want to trade for them?
Cheers!

Same thing happened to me! It is quite annoying, because since paypal isn't available in Pakistan, my paypal address is US. So I can't sign that thing.

Although since this thread popped up, and I have that issue as mentioned above, perhaps someone will be willing to trade with me? I'm looking to completing badges for NPPD, Acceleration of Suguri, Hacker Evolution, Hacker Evolution Untold, Sir, You Are Being Hunted and Shank 2.
For exchange you can see the cards available in my inventory:
They are from: Guns of Icarus Online, Ballpoint Universe: Infinite, Rising Storm/Red Orchestra 2 Multiplayer, Zeno Clash 2, Deadbreed, Guacamelee! Gold Edition, Surgeon Simulator 2013, Batman: Arkham City GOTY, Dino D-Day, RefleX, Suguri, Left 4 Dead 2, Sid Meier's Civilization V, Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller and Gun Monkeys.

I can't seem to even give my coupons away, much less trade stuff for them.

Are you in the Coupon Dumpster group? Great idea; all you do is post what you have and leave a trade link and if someone comes along they will ask for the coupon they are after. NO trading, that's the key. They sometimes do game giveaways and have lots of backgrounds and emotes for the asking as well. Nice bunch of people.