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Accidentally locked myself out of the community market...

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Catplane

I got a new phone and made that phone my new authenticator... Dumb move on my part apparently because all of my devices have subsequently been locked out of the market. Is there an (efficient) way to still monetize cards?

8 years ago

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ChequeMateX

None that I know of. Unless you get a friend and trade him the cards and ask him to give you the money.

8 years ago
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niceguyjon

except that trades are held for 14 days now :p

8 years ago
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Lucifera

Either you wait until the restriction is lifted, or you turn the cards into gems (not worth it, in my opinion). Luckily the holiday cards last until Feb. 2, though they may be nearly worthless at that point.

8 years ago
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madjoki

Or maybe they are worth more if people compete on highest level?

8 years ago
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Catplane

I seem to be locked out until feb. 9th which is kind of ridiculous because it's still the same phone number and stuff so steam could easily identify me as the rightful owner of the account if their support was any good.

8 years ago
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Lugum

That's an exceptional long time.

8 years ago
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MPluffle

That's ridiculous, the wait time should be 15 days.
Contact support, that's your only chance.
They will probably send an automated message and effectively show up too late, but as I said, that's your only chance.

8 years ago
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Catplane

Apparently I misread, it's January 9th. Thanks for making me recheck!

8 years ago
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MPluffle

Oh well, no problem! XD
I'm glad you will be able to do something with those cards! :)

8 years ago
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iubjaved

You should have changed ur authenticator to email only before changing it completely to ur new phone, so u could still do the trade etc before u move in to new authenticator.

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AtzeMD

Yep, thats how I did it a few days ago. No restriction anymore.

8 years ago
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iubjaved

Steam support won't help you regarding reducing any sort of market restriction. They will only help you if you have an issue with the authenticator, a bug perhaps.

8 years ago
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MPluffle

Precisely. That's why I told to contact support, before OP replied that he misread the restriction ending as February instead of January. 45 days restriction would have been a bug, as the traditional restriction time is 15 days.

8 years ago
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Lucifera

Oh, wow, that seems a bit excessive. I just figured you possibly got the 15 day one - which I got for trying to sell something through my phone, after recently activating the authenticator. Steam seemed to think I had deactivated my Steam Guard... which I've never done.

8 years ago
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madjoki

Autenticator and Phone Number isn't tied at all.

And stealing a phone number (as in taking control of) is relatively easy, so better to be safe than sorry.
Phone Number alone isn't safe to trust.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-a-hacker-can-take-over-your-life-by-hijacking-your-phone-number
http://www.idigitaltimes.com/social-engineering-hack-foiled-my-online-security-how-attackers-stole-my-identity-my-552475
https://theantisocialengineer.com/sim-swap-fraud-porting-your-digital-life-in-minutes/
https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/622968-t-mobile-will-give-away-your-sim-card-reason-behind-recent-youtube-account-compromises/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/366298942101387804/

8 years ago
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Loupou22

no - no way to do it - best way - in future - someone said was to migrate the settings from the phone to winauth - not sure how to do it - and then use that - assume it is possible (but for now you have to wait - and is the reason mine is on a crappy tablet and not my phone)

8 years ago
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kapy

So if I change my phone I'll get locked out of the market for 2 week? Wasn't the reset code you get made to avoid this issue? o_o

8 years ago
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MaxBedlam

I think the reset code is made so you can use it in case you lose your phone.

8 years ago
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Scarwiz

Same, and it keeps pushing the date back every time I get a new card...

8 years ago
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Palstone

I wounder if you traded the cards with another account and after 14 days ended , will he get the cards or they will just disappear from his inventory .

8 years ago
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Closed 8 years ago by Catplane.