We shipped a change earlier today to reduce the number of cases confirmation is required to list an item on the market. Items that typically sell for under $1.00 USD will no longer require confirmation when the list price is reasonably within the median price, but confirmation will still be required once many of those cheaper items are listed. Confirmation will still be required on all rare and valuable items.

We'll be watching for any problems with this change, and make adjustments if needed.

We've updated the Steam Community Market with some more changes:

• All Steam Trading Cards, Emoticons, Booster Packs, and Profile Backgrounds now appear as commodities, with its easier method of purchasing and improved data display.
  
• There is now a 'recent activity' display for these items, which shows buy & sell activity that has occurred in the last few seconds. Only a sample of the activity it shown, and only users who have their community profile set to public are shown.
  
• There is a Buy & Sell Order graph (added yesterday) at the bottom of the page for commodity items, that expands on the data shown under the 'buy' and 'sell' buttons higher on the page.

You can leave feedback or bug reports regarding these changes in the Steam Community Market group discussions.

We've updated the Steam Community Market with a new method of purchasing - Buy Orders. A buy order is an order to purchase a commodity item at or below the specified price. This order stays in place until it is fulfilled or cancelled.

Buy orders can only be used on commodity items, which are items that are all identical to each other (no variations in description or function). To start with, we only have marked Half-Life 2 Trading Cards as commodities (links below). We'll expand that as we work through any issues with the system.

You can have multiple buy orders outstanding - up to 10 times your current wallet balance. If an item gets listed for a lower price than what you have on your buy order, you will receive the lower price. The buy order with the highest price gets priority for purchasing newly listed items. If there are multiple orders with the same high price, the oldest buy order gets fulfilled first. Buy orders can be cancelled at any time, by you or the system - if the item changes, if you no longer have enough funds in your wallet, or if there are any issues during an attempted purchase.

Here are some links to Half-Life 2 Trading Cards on the market if you'd like to try out the feature (Note: all sales are final!). Please post any feedback in the market forums (http://testx-steam.c5game.com/groups/community_market/discussions).

http://testx-steam.c5game.com/market/listings/753/220-Trouble%20Underground
http://testx-steam.c5game.com/market/listings/753/220-Bring%20the%20fight%20to%20them
http://testx-steam.c5game.com/market/listings/753/220-Alyx%20Vance
http://testx-steam.c5game.com/market/listings/753/220-Gordon%20Freeman
http://testx-steam.c5game.com/market/listings/753/220-City%2017%20Metrocop
http://testx-steam.c5game.com/market/listings/753/220-Respite
http://testx-steam.c5game.com/market/listings/753/220-Gordon%20%26%20Alyx%20%28Trading%20Card%29
http://testx-steam.c5game.com/market/listings/753/220-G-Man

We've released a new feature to allow users to manually verify new credit cards. When using a new credit card to add wallet funds, access to the Community Market is restricted for a week. But now, if you go through the verification process, you can remove the restriction right away.

You can begin the verification process from the card verification page. When applicable, there is a link to this page on your account page and the main Community Market page.

If you have any issue with this process or encounter a bug, please let us know in the forum thread here: http://testx-steam.c5game.com/groups/community_market/discussions/0/540744934336786360/

We've added new filtering options to allow you to more easily find the types of items you're interested in. Click the "Show advanced options..." button underneath the search box to see the new filtering options. Please post any feedback!