2 day holding periods in regards to safety when it comes to stolen items but Roblox take around 2 weeks to reply to any reports anyways, seems kind of pointless.
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In that case it should be a 7 day or 14 day holding period.
It is quite unbelievable the direction that Roblox has taken the platform in. Implementation of unwanted restrictions on features that have been among the core of the platform for over a decade, implementation of unwanted features, and blatant ignorance and disregard of developer & community opinion and feedback. It used to be much more community driven, but that has clearly changed which is rapidly turning this platform into the average platform owned by game developer companies.
At this point might as well make a blatant attempt at running any legacy players off the platform because a majority of mid-level to high-level traders are old school players. The values and standards that started and ensured the rise of this platform has clearly disappeared. Youād do well to listen to the trader community and revert this change or at least come to a middle-ground because this is among one of the worst changes that you have made in recent history.
Not sure why Iām even writing this, probably wonāt even be seen.
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If Roblox did that premium would be useless. Itās already the slowest process ever to trade as is. And you want it basically unusable?
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I still do not understand the purpose of implementing 2FA across the board for anything related to the economy if youāre going to add holding periods in the first place.
If you do want to go forward with 2FA, then make it so every trade that is sent outbound gets a 2FA checkpoint; otherwise, why mess up a perfect system? This seems like a spaghetti method of ignoring your rollback procedures
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I wonder how many people stopped renew premium subscripction.
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This is the worst update Roblox has released and Iām sure anyone reading this plus the hundreds of trading YouTuberās agree. Stop making these terrible updates and revert the ones that donāt work. This is clearly not working.
You make a change that ruins 100,000+ peopleās experience to combat the few 100+ scammers max. Roblox can see which IPās log onto your account which makes it very simple for cookie logging and anything to do with stealing your items really simple to undo.
Well done Roblox ruined trading, completely.
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I feel Roblox is scared to act like they think an update is bad. Stop trying to be firm with updates, if one isnāt working, you cut it. Simply cut this update and archive it, simple.
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Iām really interested in the actual intention of this change (in the sense of what this meant to tackle), as despite the number of posts on this thread, thereās a surprisingly low amount of actual insights into what this helps to stop, outside of a few vague comments about it
From what i know, rbxflip and other related sites had basically died entirely when roblox had released holding periods, but I donāt know if this will stay, or if loopholes have now been found; if anyone can update on that, please do. Is Roblox now able to identify stolen items before they are exchanged by too many users now? Is that all it prevents?
Like, has this change been anyhow useful to merit having to forcefully change how the trading community operates, in a disproportionately unjust way for newer players with no discrimination between users/item types/history?
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Accounts are still getting compromised and rollbacks arenāt quick enough. This update was just a middle finger to trading
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Exactly because of this you donāt get the problem, trading involves the value of the item that can go down while the holding period is active.
When you trade you have to be fast you get an item and try to trade it in hours so the value change doesnāt affect you Iām going to give you an example that ruined my trade
I bought an item with 500 rap and in the 7 days it went below 470,then I traded for an item with 900 rap and in the 2 days it got proyected and I couldnāt do anything about it, the item went below 670
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So I bought premium yesterday without knowing that Roblox has added a Trading Hold Period feature.
I just got informed about it and I do regret buying Premium because with the Trading hold period its hard to trade items or gain any Value with an amount of time you have to wait which is insane aswell. However if the intention was to make it safer Trading items you should add a minimum age to trading like 13+.
Never would I buy Premium ever again, I thought that trading was like before. Like the past 10+ years how it was.
You should take that as a sign Roblox.
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what is the point of using premium now then
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I only just recently got back into trading, and while the holding period wasnāt too horrible at first, me making just a few trades in the last day put a large part of my inventory on hold. The worst of it comes from selling items which have a crazy cooldown.
I sold my Messor on catalog for 3.8M A/T, which is a great profit as itās valued at 2.7M and I could buy up tons of high demand to profit almost a million with 1:1 deals. The problem? It took 7 days for me to receive my funds, meaning I was left with no items or robux for 7 days with no transparency on when Iād receive my funds (I expected 5 days), and then after buying another item I have to wait 7 more days just to upgrade them to be hit with ANOTHER holding period?
Thatās over 2 weeks Iāll have to wait if I wanted to get my Messor back. This used to be an instant process. I donāt like wasting time and this change has made trading feel slower and more dead than ever. If such a large percent of your Premium membership is spent on holds (where trading is the only actual value nowadays), whatās the point of it?
I know it has been several months but I still hope that this trade holding can be replaced with something else that actually protects users items without changing how fast-paced trading is. I have to actively avoid trading some items because Iāll end up being stuck on a holding period so I couldnāt do anything with my inventory.
Isnāt there some way that to trade/sell limiteds, your account needs phone # verification and authenticator/security keys enabled? Heck, asking for verification before each trade would be so much better than this. Gambling and black marketing sites still exist so I really cannot see this helping more than it harms.
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Authentication being required per trade has been a thing for me for a while - Iām constantly seeing myself typing in a 2FA code when accepting any trade that I wish to do.
The holding period seems like a really big longshot in all honesty, however, I can see where it comes in useful.
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Can you revert this? It serves no purpose. Accounts still get compromised and the 2 day hold rarely if not ever fixes anything
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Came back to this now after having this feature for nearly half a year. Still feel like this was a big mistake and should be reverted. Trading has lost a lot of people and it has become really diffficult to even trade. There are way better solutions to this like 2FA on every trade or just being able to turn off this feature behind 2FA and having ID verification required.
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Roblox plz remove holding periods 
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roblox try to listen to user feedback challenge difficulty: (impossible)
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revert this, seriously!!! i plan to like start trading again and it seems like it will be harderā¦
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