A bit annoying

Many people enter and leave SG to do something else. Your giveaways ended 1 hour ago. Give the winners at least 24 hours.

it gets better! sending that ticket was already a good idea and a whitelist will probably work too, some people also add to the giveaway description that they want the winner to claim the game quickly.
i know this wont resolve your current situation but your limit will also increase just by creating giveaways and receiving feedback. you will soon reach a point where you have enough slots to giveaway 100s of games.

View attached image.

Press W to skip time

View attached image.

Sorry I guess I'm a bit of a drama queen. I got approved for more giveaways anyway. I'm watching The Boys and trying very hard to enjoy Elden Ring despite the developers apparently hating their player base, the game is so beautiful but the difficulty is ugh.

Welcome on sg.

It give a lot of autojoiner accounts. I assume around 50% of all active accounts use autojoiners.
So yes, most likely a lot of your GAs will be won from such a account and the bot owner check only each, round about, 4 days if he won something.

It's sad but only the site owner could do something and he don't care since 5 years+ for this problem.

The best you can do is to check your winners with https://www.sgtools.info/activation if they activated all their wins. If not send a reroll request and let the staff manage the problem or let them tell you the user got a suspension in the past for the unactivated win (which means you must send the win).

Even if I'm around the PC, I may not check SG for 2-3 hours. And I can also enter a giveaway in the evening, or even in the middle of the night, if I woke up :P
For best results expect 8-24 hours response time, people sleep, work or do other stuffs ^^

You should always assume that a giveaway will take anywhere between a couple of hours to a couple of days to be marked as received, it's the best way to not get too anxious.
Many people visit the site multiple times a day but just for a few minutes each time, so it's not rare for them to take a while to get around to seeing and activating the key after winning a giveaway. I sometimes enter a few giveaways right before turning off the PC and going to sleep, if I win one of those I won't be aware of that fact for many hours.

I wouldn't sweat it. In addition to what everyone else said, a lot of people join a bunch of g/a's via their phone and then go about their day. Can't really expect people to prioritize things the same way you do nor to have the same schedule. Best policy IMO is to wait a day or two, then just leave a simple note on their profile or via their email saying they won and congrats. If it goes seven days without being marked as received, put a support ticket in. Those ones are pretty simple for mods and get resolved very quickly most of the time.

Holiday season has many distractions. So it is easy to forget about SG for a week or more.

Here's hoping you get your giveaway limit increased soon! o/

really they have 7 days to take the win you know - if you read the rules you'd know that and yes you do have to wait
but just waiting is boring but what needs to be done not everyone is on all the time

People have lives outside of SG, you know?
And e-mailing a winner pressing them to activate a key shortly after a GA is just bad behaviour.

I remember winning a giveaway within this year and they actually emailed me within like, 20 minutes of the giveaway ending. Only time I ever got an email, it was a bit strange.

But yeah, as others have said they do technically have a week to claim the win and people may hop in during the hour-long giveaway (let's just say it's their morning) but then they don't check the site again until that evening. Give it time. :)

Yeah, I think that's why I enjoy being in a few different groups to do giveaways, just so there's more of a connection and less chance of having to deal with bots.
I do think whitelists are nice, too, but I need to remember to add people to it!

Patience is a virtue

View attached image.

well, there is something called work and sleep ... you get international audience here and that gives us the additional factor time zone, be patient

Yep, sometimes its very annoying, but every of us shoud learn patience. 😊

Regardless of how short you make your giveaways, the winner has 7 days to respond. When you get a moment you should take some time to read the FAQ and Guidelines.

Dude, no one with any semblance of a life will check the site every hour to see if they've won.

There are a couple users who are here every waking hour, but we're not even sure they've ever seen the outdoors.

I feel like mods should make sure op activates his wins within 1 hour.