Jeremy Laukkonen. If you want strangers, and third-party trading websites, to be able to use your Steam Trade URL, you need to change your Steam privacy settings to allow the public to view your inventory and send trade requests. Once you confirm the trade, the offer will be sent. Share Pin Email. Your Steam account also has an associated inventory that can contain both in-game items, like skins and weapons and unredeemed copies of full games. Any tradable items in your inventory.