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ArtosVI

I traded some keys for a region locked game however I didn't know it was region locked, now when I try to contact the trader they don't accept friend requests. I'm currently trying to trade it but i'm not sure anyone would want it, should I report the trader? Should I try activating the keys I traded? Help.

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Kaaputi

How do you know they are region locked?

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pampuch721

I had giftable copy of region locked game (DLC) once. It was Fallout New Vegas Courier Stash DLC and it had (R) or something like that near it's name or somewhere in the description (don't remember). I couldn't activate it (not that it told me it's not for my region or something but still, there was an error).

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CyberneticYouth

Do not activate it by means of VPN and such, otherwise you'll risk your account getting banned.

Simply report him to steamrep.com (but not to Steam itself, since they basically say you got it coming due to illegal trading activity 99% of the times) since he did not warn you about the region lock apparently, and try to trade it with a person of the same region the game belongs (if it's russia only, go for a russian guy etc)

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TheDopefish

Afaik, steamtrep immediately closes reports that involve game keys.

It's not really a scam either, since OP did get the game he asked for, just a region restricted version.

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CyberneticYouth

Yes, but what the guy did is against the trading ethics. If a game is region restricted, you tell about it before trading. Of course he should have asked and been more cautious, but personally I would assume a game is region free unless I am warned beforehand as well.

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Martin1592

Still, steamrep wont do anything if the trade was out of the trading window :/

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TheDopefish

You should have asked if the game is region locked before you traded.

Or you could have checked http://steamdb.info/

Or you could have seen the restriction next to the game's name when the trader did put it into the trading window (assuming there was a country code next to the name).

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Argeus

He got a game code not steam gift.

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Bassnium

Tough luck. You just gotta suck it up. Maybe you could try re-selling it

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ogeraisi

pretty much, it's not the trader's fault imo
sucks though

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Argeus

It is if he sold region locked game without informing the buyer.

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ogeraisi

not really, he might have not known, or maybe he did,
either way when trading keys one should be aware to the source of the key and have some sort of an assurance that it's valid, that's why keys trading is risky

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Argeus

If the seller got the keys from someone else, perhaps it's not his fault, but then he should have made sure the key is not region locked (from whoever he got the key). You can't really tell where the key is from just by looking at a key and asking people won't help either. The seller either doesn't know his key is region locked in which case asking him for the source is useless as he probably can't tell, or the trader knows he is giving a region locked key and doesn't inform the buyer in which case he will probably lie about the source. In the latter case, it is a scam.

And he is not accepting the OP's friend request which means he was well aware of what he was doing. If a decent person sold the OP a code he cannot use, they would give a refund. Only scammers do this and run off with the payment. It is very much the sellers fault. As a buyer of game codes, you have to take a leap of faith and trust the seller unless the seller is giving code first and taking payment later.

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tanim

This is SCAMMING. The trader should clearly state that he is trading a region locked game. There is no way to know if it's region locked or not before trading. The trader hid the fact and now that he is now ignoring OP clearly proves that trader scammed OP, period. I don't care if anyone thinks otherwise

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ArtosVI

I found a trader for the key and it was a dup for an entirely different game! Now the guy has changed his entire steam profile! Any advice? Should I send a request to the new account? Where should I report them to? Also they are impersonating another steam trader.

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