I unknowingly bought a scammed unusual from Steam Market

[Jean Arthur]

Welp.

 

I just bought a Blizzardy Storm Coldfront Commando (Love the effect+hat+Star Wars Theme) but I checked its history and I see it was recently scammed. I had no idea. Steam Market gives me no info on the seller.

 

I just wish to state my innocence  and I hope I won't get in trouble for this...

[Zeus_Junior]

There is no way to check the item history on SCM as far as i am aware.

You wont get in trouble for this

[Scott Bakula]

There's really no way to tell unless the seller has a unique profile pic, but even then that's no guarantee.

 

I've had it happen with a few in my collection. It sucks, but at least those hats have found a loving forever backpack.

[Adolf Storms]

you're fine. there's no trouble for ya on your purchase that you can get into for buying off scm. congrats. it's an epic med hat

[BlastFM]

This post is too innocent, I can't imagine you not trolling us.

 

 

But yeah there's no problem with that, just like a bajillion people or so have saod before me

[Jean Arthur]

Phew...thanks for the replies guys. Appreciate it.

[XenSakura]

You won't get in trouble but i believe a friend of mine helped create a plugin that can identify the seller.

Lemme see if i can find it

EDIT: FOUND IT!
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/372333-scm-seller-profile-checker/code

[Jean Arthur]

^Okay, so now I can see the profile of the person who put on the market. That person is not any of the accounts on the hat's history.

 

What's the best way to go about this? 

 

EDIT: The seller is already marked to be a scammer alt. 

[Neo_]

2 hours ago, Mew2! said:

You won't get in trouble but i believe a friend of mine helped create a plugin that can identify the seller.

Lemme see if i can find it

EDIT: FOUND IT!
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/372333-scm-seller-profile-checker/code

Wait, so this can be used to identify any seller on scm via their profile pic? 

[D.Alex]

1 hour ago, Neo_ said:

Wait, so this can be used to identify any seller on scm via their profile pic? 

 

The answer was already above in this thread:

 

9 hours ago, Scott Bakula said:

There's really no way to tell unless the seller has a unique profile pic

 

Try searching for example two grayish avatars from here and you get 10,000 users and 4,232 users

[Adolf Storms]

On 1/31/2019 at 3:05 PM, CKDexterHaven said:

Phew...thanks for the replies guys. Appreciate it.

if it makes u feel any better, same thing just happened to me   https://backpack.tf/item/7083371493

[XenSakura]

On 1/31/2019 at 9:32 PM, Neo_ said:

Wait, so this can be used to identify any seller on scm via their profile pic? 

yes, just click on the pic, will redirect you to a website with a link to their profile

[{Filet}]

If OP is genuinely concerned, why not open a support ticket on steam about it? 

I know they're not supposed to dupe items anymore but at the very least maybe they can return the item to the user and reimburse your purchase. 

[Vrakos Anthrakir]

9 minutes ago, {Filet} said:

If OP is genuinely concerned, why not open a support ticket on steam about it? 

I know they're not supposed to dupe items anymore but at the very least maybe they can return the item to the user and reimburse your purchase. 

(this is a 2 week old thread by the way)

steam won't do anything about you buying scammed stuff, and it'd be a huge waste of time to open a ticket about it