People joining giveaways just to leave last minute

Why exactly does it matter to you? If nobody joins or if some enter and leave again, the result is the same.
And if people carefully consider before they enter or reconsider later is also irrelevant. They have the right to do both.

This thread makes so little sense, it almost motivates me to debate in another thread why people make such threads. ;-D

To save your precious CV? You don't get those without 5 potatoes in the basket.

People joining for saving up points is a thing, probably do shorter GAs
I generally avoid it with group GAs and low numbers, so I don't give the gifter a false feeling of safety to reach that 5 entries for CV

people are more prone to stay in giveaways when they have less of a chance to win, rather than more.

That's right, I do it for ratio reasons

• Some people store points, without want to win the GA and free the points before the GA ends. -I nearly never need to juggle with points and don't waste lifetime to gather up more as 400p-
• Some people enter all GAs and look later in the store pages to see if they own the games, if they really want to win them etc.. -Strange for me, because i always do such checks as first thing and not as last...-
• Some people look on their group stats and as example in my group the members are forced to leave entered GAs if they are worse as the allowed -$50 -A win strike before could be, sometimes, a reason in my group
• Autojoiners that enter all and the owner look then maybe later into it if he want to leave something.

Probably to save points to use on other GA, or yes after some thoughts they're not interested, so they give up, and it's nice from them that they leave it to someone who wants it

Sounds like they're saving points for the big events, but also sounds to much like a job :|

I see you make many group GAs, does those groups have a ratio of winning to stay? (In the group I mean)
Is this for an specific game? Or in general?

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I can sometimes do that when I got the game thanks to a trade after joining the GA, but before it ends to avoid winning a game I already own

Some people push thousands of points to make it big during major events. They park them by entering giveaways and before the GA ends they remove their entry. Rinse and repeat.
Could be one of the other reasons Masafor mentioned in his above comment too. He knows his customers very well.

Sometimes I enter a giveaway at work and then promptly forget about it and when I see it ending, I remember to check some gameplay and decide it's not for me. I'd rather leave games I know I will never touch to people who will play them... a rather optimistic approach, considering how many people play their wins, I know, but still...

The most likely scenario for me to leave a GA would be that I bought the game some time after I entered the GA, then resynced my account.

I occasionally leave GAs. Rarely, but it happens.
Mostly with games which aren't on my WL but I feel like I might play them and maybe will enjoy them. And half way there I have a change of mind again and leave. The lower the entry number is, the higher my uneasy might become, bc I really question myself if I want it and if it wouldn't be better to give the few other ppl who actually want it a better chance of winning it. And then Nin is already in panicmode and nothing really helps anymore but to pull back xD

I confess I do this to save some points for later. However I NEVER do that on giveaways with low participant count because that's a real d*ck move.

If I decide to get the Humble Choice, and I've entered some GAs for them, I'll activate, resync my account and that'll automatically leave any GAs for those games. That's the only reason I'll enter and leave a GA.

I don't save up points because I rarely ever use them all. I'm sitting at 400 points right now haha!