I finally won Mafia III - or not...

Happened before where I won a game called Trillion but due to steam not being able to gift to countries 10% more expensive, I gave the giveaway creator to possibility to reroll. Its life and also steam messing up the whole steam gifting thing.

If you gave the right one, you might want to consult with support?
You may contact the person you received from support and check with misuse of feedback.

https://www.steamgifts.com/about/faq

The winner has redeemed my gift, but not marked it "Received". How do I proceed?
If your gift has been activated or redeemed by the winner, and they have not left feedback after one week, please create a support ticket to request received feedback. A support member will review your ticket, and if the gift is activated on the winner's Steam account, they will update the feedback to "Received".

Fortunately I hadn't any problems with giveaway creators who don't send the game. Two of my wins had to be deleted because of the steam gift policy and and one time the creator accidentally made a GA for an uplay key. But as less than 1/4 of my wins are from public GAs the possibility is quite small :)

Hopefully you will win the game again 🍀

I won devil may cry, but unfortunately it was region locked, even though it wasn't stated in the description. Even the information on humble's page was rather obscure. It was not the gifter's fault at any case. I just asked for a reroll.

Recently i one a game, that was region restricted (the giveaway was not) and i try contact the creator with no success. I waited a week, marked as "Not received" and contacted support. This is all you can do.

i won 2 wishlist games recently, one was a duplicate key, the other was never sent...i feel your pain..

Won a wishlisted game, dupe key, so the giveaway was deleted :/
But that's the only time I got a bad experience as winner... and it's kinda dwarfed by the guy winning my Unlucky-7 giveaway trying to actively abuse the group (my one non-activated giveaway).

Recently won a giveaway for which the giver thought he still had a bundle and created 20-30+ giveaways for games of the bundles which could not be delivered. Understandable mistake and allowed him to delete.

I have two not received. One from a user thats inactive. Dont think creator has been online since it ended. And one from a user that had some sort of accident. Was many users that didnt receive the keys.

Other then that it has been a couple of invalid keys etc and I just agreed to have it deleted. No big deal, shit happens.

I once won a game here, the key was invalid, contacted the giveaway creator, he gave me another key which was invalid aswell... After that he just blocked and blacklisted me, and mods here told me that the guy accused me in stealing his keys or something like that. Not exactly the same situation you have here (cuz it wasn't a game I wanted so much), but it felt bad.

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Really unfortunate for u. Took a look at the giveaway, was the first giveaway for the creator and completely new on steamgifts. He/she probably didn't know what he/she was doing.

Mafia 3 wird einer meiner giveaways in meinen monatlichen Puzzlezug (in 9 Tagen, läuft eine Woche und hat i.d.R. weniger als 100 Teilnehmer) Wenn ich dran denke, gebe ich dir kurz Bescheid. Vielleicht hast du ja nochmal Glück

I won a game that ended up being region locked, felt so bad to win a game I rly wanted to play just too see it had to be rerolled :'(

Thats why i dont enter on GAs from new users who giving good games. But at least u won smth xD i didnt got anything over year...

Yes, won after a lot of tries .... and then the key was region locked to CIS/RUS... the GA was deleted and restarted as CIS/RUS only GA.
It was frustrating but the Creator show me that (HB) marked it not as region locked and he tried to get me a ROW key and proofed it with screenshots of his communication. Soit was not his fault and no problem that i say "ok" to the GA deletion.

Such things can happen....

And to your GA... report the ne that not give it when he made the same by others. Maybe not know the rules but maybe make troll GA's.
Worth that the Support takes a closer look on him

Not exactly, but my first ever SG win never got delivered, which was a bit discouraging. It's not something I'd play nowadays and I've won lots of other games since so I'm not sad about it.

Once, after one week has passed, I had to contact a giveaway creator for them to deliver on my win because somehow they forgot about it. But that was the only time something like that happened to me in more than three years here.
And looking at the profile of giveaway creator that you've won the game from, all of the giveaways they created are not received. With only a few weeks them being active here, they probably haven't even read nor rules, nor FAQ and didn't even understand how this site works.

That's, more or less, the case with every lvl 0 public GA of any popular game.

Not yet but there's always a chance that a gift has a key that is dupe or region locked and also I refrain from entering dud giveaways, you know those that you can't talk about because of support suspensions, but have a clear feeling and profile that they are duds.

Thank you for your giveaways, ShadowRaven and have a bump! :D

Sorry to hear that. :(

Have a bump.

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thank you for gibs :3

Never had a problem. I did receive a duped key once but it was sorted out without issues.

In your case though I'd guess that there is a language barrier and that the user simply doesn't know how the site works or managed to screw something up in the process, I don't think he intentionally created "fake" giveaways (doubt someone who's just fucking around would create giveaways for Humble games and mention it in the description). Of course, there are a lot of strange people out there so who knows?