"buy remaining cards on market" causes error screen and doesn't load

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Albalore 24 Dec, 2023 @ 8:28am

"buy remaining cards on market" causes error screen and doesn't load

Whenever I view an incomplete badge and select "buy remaining cards on Market" it loads for a while then shows an ERROR page.

"Sorry. An error was encountered while processing your request.
There was a problem communicating with the Steam servers. Please try again."

I need to go back and click the button repeatedly until EVENTUALLY after the 10th time I finally get access to the market and buy the missing cards for the specific badges.
I can buy cards without issue.. It's when I click that prompt to buy that the trouble starts..

I've gone as far as re-installing Steam.. hasn't fixed it at all..

Someone please help.

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Originally posted by metamec:

If you keep hitting F5 to refresh it will load eventually.

Just don't keep holding your breath expecting Valve to fix this... because you may expire.

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cSg|mc-Hotsauce 24 Dec, 2023 @ 8:38am

It's not you. It's been having issues since before the sale began.

UncleGwen 24 Dec, 2023 @ 12:06pm

Also having this issue

crunchyfrog 24 Dec, 2023 @ 12:43pm

Sale time.

There's been issues of alte apparently anyway but sale time will make it worse.

All you can do is bear this in mind and try to do any such actions as late as you can when the least people are on in your area. Try last thing before you go to bed or first thing when you get up.

CEMEH TOPEHKO 24 Dec, 2023 @ 12:43pm

tnx

Albalore 24 Dec, 2023 @ 12:48pm

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:
Sale time.

There's been issues of alte apparently anyway but sale time will make it worse.

All you can do is bear this in mind and try to do any such actions as late as you can when the least people are on in your area. Try last thing before you go to bed or first thing when you get up.

Understandable.. although I've been having this issue a few weeks before the sale even started..

crunchyfrog 24 Dec, 2023 @ 1:00pm

Originally posted by Albalore:
Originally posted by crunchyfrog:
Sale time.

There's been issues of alte apparently anyway but sale time will make it worse.

All you can do is bear this in mind and try to do any such actions as late as you can when the least people are on in your area. Try last thing before you go to bed or first thing when you get up.

Understandable.. although I've been having this issue a few weeks before the sale even started..

Yes, I said it;s been going on as of late.

MthHsd 3 Jan, 2024 @ 7:50am

Still have this problem.

Albalore 3 Jan, 2024 @ 8:57am

Originally posted by MthHsd:
Still have this problem.

Unfortunately.. steam has yet to fix it.. or just chooses to remain unaware, since its been an issue for months now..

Artichoke 28 Jan, 2024 @ 6:02am

Aaaand they haven't fixed it yet

Shafarih. 28 Jan, 2024 @ 7:26am

tuyrkey its arwee you winnn

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Shafarih. 28 Jan, 2024 @ 7:26am

All you can do is bear this in mind and try to do any such actions as late as you can when the least people are on in your area. Try last thing before you go to bed or first thing when you get up.

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crunchyfrog 28 Jan, 2024 @ 8:41pm

Originally posted by XANTARES PEEK//#Shafarih.:
All you can do is bear this in mind and try to do any such actions as late as you can when the least people are on in your area. Try last thing before you go to bed or first thing when you get up.

Please don't quote parts of other people's post as your own.

The info you're getting online about getting a steam badge for posting here does not work. It hasn't for many years.

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Oxin 3 Feb, 2024 @ 11:04am

steam moment
Unfortunately the best course of action seems to be to manually go through each card and buy them as such. A pity really, a feature designed to speed up badge creation just so happens to be the slowest way to buy cards for levelling your badges