About some g2a products and their region locks..

It's kind of similar to pirating though, since none of the money is going to the dev/publisher through these unauthorized sources.

The pirated version doesn't cost the developer anything. Some keys from unauthorised resellers were acquired then the buyer issued a chargeback on the transaction.. This costs the developer money. So please tell me how an unauthorised reseller is more moral than just pirating the game.

Or lets try a selfish argument. The pirate version will keep working. Stolen keys that find their way onto unauthorized resellers can be revoked., meaning they will suddenly stop working. G2A is one of the places that has had keys revoked

The point was that if you're going to be illegitimate, pirated copies are typically guaranteed to work and it costs you nothing. If you want to be legitimate AND save money though then you're also going to have to avoid these illegal cd-key stores. It's not like they have the lowest prices anyway. There's only so much they can do with their botting/sweatshop/scam network.

Well I can see their point. It is like buying stuff from a fence. The merchandise is real, the price he sets is great but where the merchandise came from...

You're confusing traders with stores. Do you think you're required to follow the same rules as Amazon/Wal-Mart? Or vice versa. If Wal-Mart was selling a soap brand without permission from that company then they would be in violation of many laws. If you sold off your copy of Skyrim, you would not be. I hope you can process that.

And Luxy covered the other point. If you're not buying an authorized/approved copy from an authorized/approved reseller who was authorized by the owner of the product/IP to sell this in their store, then you're not buying a legitimate copy. It's that simple. Garage sale rules do not apply to 'official stores'. This has nothing to do with their user market but what they (G2A) themselves sell.

You're going off on something else here. The problem isn't what G2A considers okay for the users or the users themselves (they're only part of the problem). The problem is that G2A's products are not legitimate. As a user you can trade your products off. They are a store though and their large-scale ebaying is in violation of many things. Besides their other policies that violate EU commerce laws.

The people defending them have absolutely no idea what they're defending except "cheap games that (sometimes/usually) work". And none of them can think outside of that little box.