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Steam Accounts For Sale!!!!! (2007)
A noob hawks a stack of "clean VAC2" Steam accounts — and the forum immediately clocks the screenshot's giveaway file name
A brand-new member with only two posts listed a batch of Steam accounts for sale, priced individually or as a bundle, complete with screenshots as proof. Regulars haggled over prices (including offers in forum points) before staff and longtime posters questioned whether a low-post-count member should even be allowed to trade in that section. The thread eventually turned into an accusation of account theft after someone spotted a suspicious 'steamaccounts.txt' file visible in one of the seller's screenshots, a small but telling piece of forum detective work typical of the era's trading boards.
Now look at the name of that notepad toolbar. What does it say. Steamaccounts.txt Need I say more?— -Darkness-
im pretty sure these accounts are scammed man no one needs heaps of accounts unless syblings etc..— mark660
He doesnt have 100 posts, these accounts cant be sold...— Legit_Hacks
The Market Place — Fkn0wned.Com Trading Board (late 2007)
Steam accounts, Rapidshare logins, and a signature shop — the classic 2007 forum bazaar where everyone was buying, selling, or getting scammed.
This is the archived listing page for 'The Market Place,' the trading subforum of Fkn0wned.Com, snapshotted around December 2007. It's a grab-bag of member-posted classifieds: people hawking Steam accounts (especially prized low-digit ones), Rapidshare accounts, game CD keys, a signature/GFX shop, and even a request thread for game source code. Staff had pinned threads laying out trading rules, the role of middlemen, and an explainer on why low-digit Steam accounts were so coveted, showing the board took its trade economy seriously despite the free-for-all vibe. It's a good time-capsule of the mid-2000s gray-market trading culture that thrived on gaming forums before Steam locked things down harder.
Low Digit Steam Accounts Why are they so wanted?— [Co-Manager] Shifty
Trading rules and Middlemen.— [Supervisor] mr.N0Nam3
Qwerty's Signiture Shop... Open For Business— qwerty54
Wanted: A Cheap CS:S Steam Account
One guy just wanted Source, and haggled a Half-Life bundle down to a fiver-and-up deal.
A one-post member, Chosen_Kaine, dropped a quick want-ad in The Market Place looking for a Counter-Strike: Source Steam account, offering $5-10 since he only cared about CS:S itself. A month later TeKn1qu3z answered with an account bundled with Half-Life 2, Deathmatch, and Lost Coast for $9, pointing to AIM for contact. Along the way another user, fizzer, questioned whether this kind of sale even belonged in this section rather than the points-trading area. A small, low-key snapshot of the era's casual Steam account trading scene.
Anybody have an account with just CS:S..If it has other stuff that's fine depending on price...i'm looking to pay $5-10 for one— Chosen_Kaine
isant this selling stuff for points section?— fizzer
I have one with the following games. -Half-Life 2 -Counter-Strike: Source -Half-Life 2: Deathmatch -Half-Life 2: Lost Coast Price: $9— TeKn1qu3z