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To my disappointment, Steam now prevents you from trading purchased items right away. I'm wondering if there is a way around this by purchasing a booster pack, then immediately opening it and trading the cards you get?

Will Steam allow this, or will the waiting period on trading still apply?

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  • What's up with the downvote?
    – smallest_weird_number
    Commented Aug 14, 2015 at 21:53
  • Tim lost his keys. Again.
    – Frank
    Commented Aug 14, 2015 at 21:54
  • @ardaozkal It's not trolling. I'm making the point that asking for reasoning for a downvote is a lost cause; it's going to happen, and if someone wanted to give a reason, they would have.
    – Frank
    Commented Aug 14, 2015 at 21:58
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    @Frank Well, asking couldn't really hurt. I mean, it took about 10 seconds of my time and worst case scenario, they don't respond.
    – smallest_weird_number
    Commented Aug 14, 2015 at 22:06
  • And they would have already told you if they wanted to. It's a complete lost cause to do so.
    – Frank
    Commented Aug 14, 2015 at 22:08

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If the 7 day trade-ban time is over on the booster pack, the trade-ban won't apply. But if it isn't over, it'll still apply, but it won't reset to ~7 days, the trade-ban will finish at the same time the booster pack will.

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Any item purchased on the Steam Community Market has a trade restriction applied to it immediately for 1 week, so no, you won't be able to bypass the trade restriction as that also applies to the cards unboxed that way.

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  • @ardaozkal If your answers are in a couple of minutes of each other, no, they won't. Even mentioning it is a waste of time, with answers showing up that quickly.
    – Frank
    Commented Aug 14, 2015 at 21:37
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    @ardaozkal Nothing wrong with answering, but don't assume that being first by a couple minutes entitles your answer to special privileges. Yeah, we delete answers that don't add anything, but we also give a good faith exception within a time frame to be exempt from it. There's no reason to threaten deletion just because you were first. By two minutes.
    – Frank
    Commented Aug 14, 2015 at 21:44

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