Please mark received!

Your giveaways ended only less than 20 hours ago. Give it some time, keep in mind the fact that other people may have a different time zone or simply don't visit Steamgifts every few hours.

While I can understand your eagerness to create more giveaways (and I can respect that!), I believe you should have a little more patience. ^^

Oh, and welcome to Steamgifts! Really nice of you to register and start creating giveaways right away. Kudos to you!

Certainly, the rant was kind of general and not just pertaining to my giveaways. I was just giving my example. Thanks, a shout out to reddit for directing me here. People on reddit suggested me to put giveaways here

Yeah, creating the GA's here are way better. But what you are complaining about is such a complicated matter. Just a couple days ago there was a guy that created GA's complaining that, the winner of some of them was asking him for the key, while it had passed only 4 days since the end of the giveaway, opposed to 7 that is the time limit recommended by steamgifts. You'll often also see people complaining about not receiving the key right away. I mean, everyone has different times, and honestly different priorities. It is the "good" thing to do to send the key as soon as you can, and for whomever received it mark as received as soon as he can, but for some it'll happen in a few minutes, and for others in a couple days.

I have had one higher level winner of one of my giveaways rant to me that I delivered his key " to late " after 1 day that the giveaway ended but I have 7 days to deliver the key in full compliance with SG rules; period...

Some patience can go a long way :-)

I concur. It's really annoying when your winner redeems your gift and doesn't mark it as received.
Blacklisted someone for not marking my gift as received after 7 days...

The giveaway limit is annoying but it's a necessary evil to counter those who will join and start making fake giveaways because they either don't understand how the site works or they're simply trolling. Some people would prefer if the number of slots was even smaller for new members.

For every 3 successful giveaway, you get an extra slot so over time you gain more and more and this limitation is no longer a problem. (Unless you're trying to do a 100-gifts train or something like that)

Welcome to Steamgifts and enjoy your stay. We have a nice community around here, with a lot of nice people. (Except that guy over there, but you can just ignore him.)

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Thanks guys for the wonderful comments, I have given at places where people will flame you even for being generous, I am really liking it here. More giveaways coming from myside (atleast until my wife finds out about this). And yes I will add level requirements to some of my giveaways from now on.

Try to make quick 1 hour GAs. People are more likely to still be online and mark as received often instantly.

Also we (well, certainly I) am always more happy to join a 1h GA with very little entries rather than a x days long running GA with 10+k entries :D

steamergary, I know what you mean. I just joined a few weeks ago and had a ton of bundle games to give away and it was "painful" waiting to just be able to put another game up for giveaway. As you give more away though you get more slots to give things away and that helps. I'm still hitting the wall, but it's a little more wiggle room now.

My guess is they must have some problems with trolls coming through and listing giveaways that don't exist, so they may put limits on newer accounts so the site doesn't get bombed.

I understand your sentiment. (For some odd reason, my winners always seem to go on vacation for a week immediately after winning my giveaways.) However, they do have seven days to mark it received. As others have already pointed out, there are many possible causes for a delayed response.

:o i don't know why but when i see your post i think you have a heart of gold

and sometimes I see the GA winner come online and offline several times during a day but it seems (s)he don't care about her/his new win message !.

another day, and another day and another day and finally you should leave a comment on one of their public giveaways or their steam profile " :

Please activate this damn game and mark it as received " THANK YOU ! :D

As you build up your feedback reputation you will be able to create more simultaneous giveaways. Certainly appreciate your eagerness!

You will have no problem in no time. You start with 3.. but every 3 gift mark receive you get 1 more slot...

Welcome to SteamGifts! I started out myself around the end of July. It takes a bit of experience to get the hang of closing out a GA once it's ended, but I found the following steps to be valuable.

• If you've got a key, it's easy enough to insert the key when the GA is first created. The winner won't get it until you click the "send key" button anyway. That gives you time to review their profile before you send it. You can always add the key after the win as well.
• The same field will also accept a redemption link to a game sitting in your Steam inventory.
• Always review the profile! There are some great tools here to help you determine if your winner is good-to-go. Always check they've activated everything and that they don't have multiple wins for the same game. If anything looks suspicious, check it manually on their Steam profile. If they have multiple wins, check the GA comment log to see if they let the GA creator know about it. If you suspect the winner of breaking the rules, request a re-roll and let support know so they can investigate. Sometimes people have already paid for their bad behavior and are in the clear.
• Be patient. As others have said, people can get busy and are spread all over the world. Their schedule may not match up with yours.

Most importantly, have fun!

There are a lot of good people here.

:D

Well, you do like me: if after 4-5 days, the gifts are still not received, just add the winner on steam and ask them if something had gone wrong with the key - or if they received the mail with the link.