Valve has introduced the Steam Trading beta allowing users to trade Steam gifts (games that are in your gifts/guest library that you can give to other people) and Team Fortress 2 items with other users.
Drag your item into the chat box to show it off!
In the old wild days of Team Fortress 2 (meaning yesterday) in order to trade games and items, the seller of the item must find a Middle-man, a trusted person who will hold onto the seller’s item and then transfer the items to the buyer once the seller has received the goods.
Finding a Middle-man took time as only a few people are trusted enough to handle merchandise and the seller/buyer must be able to contact the Middle-man and hope the Middle-man agrees to help in the transaction.
Without a Middle-man, it was all too common for the buyer or seller, whoever went first in the trade, to just run off with the items without honoring the deal. These people are known as Scammers.
The Steam Trading beta completely eliminates the Middle-man for the trading of games for items. Better yet, the beta allows users to trade more than the default eight item limit within Team Fortress 2, another function that Middle-men were used for.
To access the beta, go to “View–> Settings” and in the Account tab, click on the dropdown menu for betas and opt-in to the Steam Trading beta. Once you restart Steam, you’ll be able to right click on any friend’s name and click “invite to trade” to initiate the process.
