Hi there,

I feel that sometimes it's rather difficult to get in touch with winners on Steamgifts. A lot of my winners appear to either be online, but don't tick the received button or simply don't have the time.

Recently I have made a giveaway and someone won. But, it's rather difficult to get in touch with them through this platform, so I'd normally contact them on Steam. Through steam, you need to submit a Friend Request and hope to god they can accept it so you can talk to them. Alternatively, I would write to them on the their profile, but if they are private or restrict that section, I can't.

How else do you contact people who you need to speak to about their giveaway? I feel there should be a message system that allows you to chat with the winner for a while about the code or something. Don't you think that would be a good idea?

Share your views please!

2 years ago

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I generally don't. Like people already mentioned, the winner gets an email from the site already notifying them that they've won something and if the winner doesn't react to that, I have no reason to believe me trying to contact them would bring more reaction. I don't bother checking if people are online or not, they'll claim their win in the week or not. Admittedly so far I've been pretty lucky with my winners and everyone has either claimed their games in that time or let me know in advance if they can't, so I haven't really had to think about what I'd do if the week passed without winner marking 'received.'

2 years ago
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I've tried so far every method possible and to be fair, nothing worked so far. The person I'm trying to reach out didn't contact me to discuss about the prize.

2 years ago
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That's very unfortunate, hopefully they'll react soon. I'm also replying to your other reply on the comment below: I'd suggest upping your giveaways to Level 2 entry, that could help a little bit if you keep running into this same issue many times. To get to Level 1 people need to give away just anything (that the site doesn't consider to be a freebie), so even a single 1P giveaway will let people become Level 1 without much effort. At Level 2 people have needed to dedicate a bit more effort into giveaways and paying attention to the site, so there's slightly increased odds they'd also be faster in receiving their gifts when they know what it's like to host giveaways. This is naturally not a guarantee and there will still be people you've run into now, but you might want to test it out at some point to see for yourself.

2 years ago
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They did today. Asked me to reroll as he owned the DLC.

2 years ago
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I don't. It's been years since I last did a low-level public GA, stopped after reading a bunch of insults from a particularly nice winner. Haven't had a single hiccup since then.

2 years ago*
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How low of levels do you like to go? I'm doing a Level 1 entry, most of the time.

2 years ago
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I set them really high (like level 6-7), and I understand that it's not a nice thing to do, I'm just making life easier for myself. I think that a compromise would be sensible: setting level not that high (because if everyone does that, the site will become a mess where the majority won't be able to enter anything), but not as low as you do. So, maybe level 2 or even 3?

2 years ago
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i think 3 is a good way to start, you can get to 3 easily, you only need 50 CV, which is about 10-20 bucks
i set my bar even higher

2 years ago
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I normally would do GA's at Level 1, but I'll consider increasing it to Level 2 or 3 at times for games worth the level.

2 years ago
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everyone who gave only one crap shovelware game is level 1
users who stay at that level usually just leech and don't contribute to the site, just saying

2 years ago
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You're right. it's a bit better than Level 0 though. There's still a filter of a sort.

2 years ago
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I think the givers of this website deserve a lot more in my opinion.

2 years ago
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that's why i limit my GAs to level 4 and above, to reach the real givers
and you attract way less accounts with autojoiner and thank you script

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Yeah that's true!

2 years ago
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As for me i try to contact them trough steam and also send them a message on an earlier open steamgiveaway they have done telling them they won. Some people dont have reactions to their profiles open so worst case scenario if my friend invite doesnt work [and the sg message] i can always comment on one of their Screenshots which usually works too :)

2 years ago
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The screensshot idea is a good one, I've not thought about that one. Luckily the person replied.

2 years ago
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Closed 4 months ago by Vasharal.