Who runs afk.tf

The things you'd want to know before handing a bot your items.

afk.tf is run by one person — Filip, in Sweden. It is not a registered company. You are dealing with an individual, under Swedish law, and this page says what that means for you before you pay rather than after.

Who, specifically

Service operator

Filip — full legal name available on request

Country of operation

Sweden. Servers are in the EU.

Legal form

An individual. No company, so no organisation number.

Contact

afk.tf Discord — a dedicated contact address is being set up and will be published here.

Governing law

Swedish law, Swedish courts, and your own national consumer rights are unaffected.

The fair criticism, and our answer to it

Someone evaluating this service put it like this: there is no legal entity and no legal contact point, so in a dispute there is no one to hold accountable. The first two parts were true, and we have fixed what can be fixed — the operator is now named on every legal page, and a contact address is coming.

The third part deserves a straight answer rather than a defence. Here is what you are actually exposed to:

• Your items sit in an account we own. This is the big one, and it is first on the list for that reason. The bots run on Steam accounts belonging to the operator; you rent one and deposit your stock into it. Those items stay your property and we owe them back — that is an express term, not a courtesy — but while they are there, they are in an inventory we control. That is the real counterparty risk in renting a bot from anyone.
• No limited liability. There is no company to absorb a loss and no insurance policy behind the service.
• Our liability is capped at the fees you paid in the previous three months. For a two-key rental that is a small number, and you should read it as a small number.
• One person is a single point of failure. If something happens to the operator, there is no team to keep it running.
• It is young. There is no decade of reputation to lean on.

If any of that is more risk than you want to carry, the right answer is not to rent, and we'd rather say so here than take two keys from someone who'd regret it.

What protects you instead

No paperwork substitutes for the above. These are the concrete things that do some of the work a company would:

• The items stay yours, as a written term. Section 3 of the terms says we hold your stock as custodian, that we never acquire ownership of it, and that we owe it back. We take no cut of your profit.
• You can see your items without trusting us. The bot's Steam inventory is public and its backpack.tf listings are public. You can look at your own stock, and at every price it is advertised at, any time — no dashboard, no permission, no asking.
• You never hand over a password. Sign-in goes through Steam's own system, so your personal account is never exposed to us at all.
• You set the limits. Buy ceilings, sell floors and the banking range are yours, and the software will not sell an item below what it paid for it.
• Each rental is isolated — separate process, separate storage, separate credentials — so one customer's bot cannot reach another's stock.
• No long commitment to lose. Rent is two keys a month, paid monthly. The most you are ever exposed to financially is the month you're in.
• Items are never held against money owed. Even on an unpaid rental your stock goes back to the account you nominated. Section 9 of the terms spells out exactly what happens.
• The software won't sell below what it paid. A hard cost floor and a review queue for anything unusual are built in, not optional.
• Published, versioned policies. Terms, privacy and refunds each carry a version and a date, and the version in force when you paid is the one that applies to you.

What you can check for yourself

Don't take any of this on trust — most of it is externally verifiable, which is the point:

• The bots are public on backpack.tf. Every bot available to rent is listed on the bots section of the front page with its profile. Their listings, trade history and reputation are on backpack.tf and Steam, visible to you and not editable by us.
• Ask in the Discord before you pay. It isn't moderated to hide complaints. Ask whoever is already in there.
• Read the refund policy before you need it. It says plainly that a started month isn't coming back. We'd rather you knew that now than discovered it in a dispute.
• Test with a small inventory first. Rent one bot, put in a handful of items, see what happens for a month.

Our actual advice

Deposit the stock you want traded — not your whole inventory. Start with a small batch, watch it for a month, and scale up only once you have seen how the bot behaves and how we handle it. That's true of every bot-hosting service, ours included, and it's the single thing that most limits what can go wrong for you. It also means less of your stock with us and so less money for us, and we'd still tell you to do it.

If something goes wrong

Raise it on Discord first. We'll acknowledge within 7 days and give you a reasoned answer within 30. If that isn't good enough, you keep every avenue you'd have against any trader: a consumer complaint under Swedish or your own national consumer law, a data-protection complaint to IMY or your own national authority, and the courts. Being an individual rather than a company doesn't exempt the operator from any of those — it just means they apply to a person.

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