Timeline for Why do I have to wait before I can trade my Steam Awards Foil card?
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| Jan 3, 2017 at 17:53 | comment | added | Sumurai8 | @SGR No. Any "Steam Awards" trading card received from crafting badges is not tradable for a while. | |
| Jan 3, 2017 at 9:36 | comment | added | SGR | Presumably because the relative price of foil cards to common cards is low enough that you could grind out badges to get foil cards and make free money. | |
| Jan 1, 2017 at 9:56 | comment | added | Jeff Mercado | There's a lot of discussion on Steam's forums of people not being able to trade/sell cards from crafting. 1 2 3. Including the topic of crafting was what I needed to add in my searches. | |
| Jan 1, 2017 at 9:47 | vote | accept | Jeff Mercado | ||
| Jan 1, 2017 at 9:13 | comment | added | Jeff Mercado | Ok, I'll take your word for it. I guess those that have sold the cards on day one of the awards must have been lucky and gotten the cards randomly. | |
| Jan 1, 2017 at 9:10 | comment | added | Sumurai8 | Source is my own experience. Trade restrictions on items is not uncommon on Steam though. Unboxing items in, for example, CS:GO, will put a trade restriction of a week on that specific item. All the "The Steam Awards" trading cards that I received through crafting have, or had, a trade restriction on it. | |
| Jan 1, 2017 at 9:02 | comment | added | Jeff Mercado | Is this documented somewhere? Official or otherwise community driven? I was pretty sure that I was able to trade other cards I gained through crafting almost immediately after receiving them. | |
| Jan 1, 2017 at 7:19 | history | answered | Sumurai8 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |