steam market didn't exist then. the other comment links to a steamrep thread - steamrep was a reputation tracker for traders doing real world transactions, whic

steam market didn't exist then. the other comment links to a steamrep thread - steamrep was a reputation tracker for traders doing real world transactions, which was crucial to mitigate counterparty risk without steam market. the thing to remember here is that money launderers are looking to push a lot of volume. they care about the volume of clean money they can get, even if that means negative margins (you are "paying" for the service). i'm guessing market making in crates is not a very high volume kind of service but I might be wrong!