Steam trading help.

sissj · December 30, 2015

So, I have moved to another steam account but now my acc is 30 days old I want to get all my inventory from my old acc. I only have 1 PC in my household, I've sent my new account a trade offer but I keep getting an eroor that says something like (There was an error accepting this trade offer. Please try again later. (25)). I have been trying to get it to go through so I can have my stuff.

P.s. steam says there is a holding period of 72 hours for my new account to get its stuff, could this be the problem?

1823alex · December 30, 2015

So, I have moved to another steam account but now my acc is 30 days old I want to get all my inventory from my old acc. I only have 1 PC in my household, I've sent my new account a trade offer but I keep getting an eroor that says something like (There was an error accepting this trade offer. Please try again later. (25)). I have been trying to get it to go through so I can have my stuff.

P.s. steam says there is a holding period of 72 hours for my new account to get its stuff, could this be the problem?

I am not an expert but Steam now requires a mobile authenticator in order to not have a trade hold, they're basically trying to protect you and are tired of the support requests of people losing items, it's like two factor for your Steam trades, you MUST accept the trade from your computer and it will ask for you to confirm it on your mobile authenticator. You need to have a mobile authenticator linked to your account for 7 days. The trouble is as you said, you have one computer and 2 accounts, the only thing I can think of is if you have your smartphone linked to your new account as a mobile authenticator and then download the Steam Desktop Authenticator and link it to the old account (At your own risk, I've heard many people like it). So as far as I know this would work after 7 days of each being linked, then you would initiate the trade from the old account using your PC, and accept the trade with your smartphone, as well as then accepting the trade on your Desktop Authenticator. As far as I know this should work, but as I said not an expert.

TL;DR - New security measures by Steam, you need a mobile authenticator, read full post for how to get your trade to work.

sissj · December 30, 2015

I am not an expert but Steam now requires a mobile authenticator in order to not have a trade hold, they're basically trying to protect you and are tired of the support requests of people losing items, it's like two factor for your Steam trades, you MUST accept the trade from your computer and it will ask for you to confirm it on your mobile authenticator. You need to have a mobile authenticator linked to your account for 7 days. The trouble is as you said, you have one computer and 2 accounts, the only thing I can think of is if you have your smartphone linked to your new account as a mobile authenticator and then download the Steam Desktop Authenticator and link it to the old account (At your own risk, I've heard many people like it). So as far as I know this would work after 7 days of each being linked, then you would initiate the trade from the old account using your PC, and accept the trade with your smartphone, as well as then accepting the trade on your Desktop Authenticator. As far as I know this should work, but as I said not an expert.

TL;DR - New security measures by Steam, you need a mobile authenticator, read full post for how to get your trade to work.

I know, I remember the good ol' daus when steam used to be free and not clogged up with crappy security measures.

1823alex · December 30, 2015

I know, I remember the good ol' daus when steam used to be free and not clogged up with crappy security measures.

I don't mind it too much, as far as I know the trade hold only activates if the giving account receives nothing in return. It may also still activate if you don't have a mobile authenticator but I'm not quite sure.