Hey everyone,

I was wondering what the most hilarious excuse is you guys received from someone for not receiving a giveaway (or anything else in that matter).

Yesterday I won a giveaway and so I contacted the guy on steam. He told me he didn't knew he had to buy the game. He thought SG would buy the game. His excuse... and I quote... 'It didn't say in the FAQ'.

I'm not even mad, just stunned by his stupitidy. But I was wondering if anyone else encountered something as ridiculous as this?

Greetings

9 years ago

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I didn't giveaway won Bad Rats. I found the guy and stabbed him. Nobody would take my money.

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I receive all the games I win here and I don't plan on encountering something stupid yet.

9 years ago
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YET.

9 years ago
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your time will come

9 years ago
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I hope you reported him. It says this under the faq:
Who is giving away all these games?

All giveaways on our site are provided by users in the community. Users manage their own giveaways, choose when they start, when they end, and who is able to enter. Once their giveaway ends, a random winner is generated by our site, and the giveaway creator receives the necessary information to contact the winner in order to send the gift.

9 years ago
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So he's a swindler and a liar.

9 years ago
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LOL pretty much :)

9 years ago
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and really bad at both...
this guy will never be a politician

9 years ago
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I have reported him. He has a giveaway currently open aswell so I hope the ticket gets picked up quickly.

9 years ago
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Well I'm too new here to have encountered anything bad yet... but that's pretty lame :P I hope it all works out for you.

9 years ago
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If anything, report his giveaway and give your story as reason for report.

User reports might get stuck in limbo-ish state.

9 years ago
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maybe he didn't know that he was a user in the community. maybe he thought it meant something other than just anybody.

9 years ago
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Never won a fake giveaway.
At one time, I saw a user give three copies of GTA V away here, so I added him to tell him how the website worked.

"i know"

...That's what he said. Why?

"im just trolling everyone XD"

...Well, at least I convinced him to delete them in the end so... I guess it wasn't a total loss of my time?

9 years ago
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Every now and then you see someone like that. I don't even bother to enter those one's. It's mostly attention what those guys are seeking. But maybe you got through to him :).

This one had nothing suspicious about it. And unfortunately he has another giveaway running atm.

9 years ago
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found a guy with a bunch of alt accounts. He tried to use them to farm CV, but failed (he made fake GA, had his alt enter, but as it was not 5 entried got nothing). So he set up a group with 5 alt accounts. All had same nickname, all same description, avatar etc. And he was obviously getting cheap game on them to get them onto SG as well. All only had him as a friend and in the group there was only his main as an admin and all these multiaccounts. When I encountered him about them, he explained that these are not alt accounts but his RL friends that he just got into steam, and set up this group to help them start out, and they were all so grateful towards him that they all changed their avatar and nicknames to group-related as a way to thank him :D:

Luckily guy is now permabanned.

9 years ago
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Thanks, that made me chuckle :D.

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he did only on 1-2 alt accounts before ban, but it's not so hard. you only need to spend like 10-15$ to get 100$ valued account.

9 years ago
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That, and it's possible to abuse free weekends. The latest big one would be Total War weekend.

9 years ago
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Hmm.... Time to give away 15 copies of GameMaker: Studio Master Collection to my group of closest friends! Sure I will only get full value for the first 5, but I don't mind the diminishing returns. I'm that nice.
Psygineer (Admin)
Reenigysp (Mod)
SpryGenie
PsiEnergy
GreysPine
EyeSpring
SingePrey
GeyserPin
GineerSpy
RinsePegy
SeePrying
EeryPings
EpSyringe
YeeSpring
YepSinger
Grey Pen Is

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seem legit enough to me

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Oh man that last one, I really did not expect that.

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I was randomly rearranging the letters and that one came up around the same time as GreysPine

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All joking aside, SpryGenie would be a great name for a video game company or a movie studio.

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Spry Genie™

9 years ago
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I did something like that on Travian (online browser game) when I was 13
had 1 account, after a while decided to get another one, then 2 more. I had no idea it was against the rules, I just thought I was clever, lol
but I guess I'm at least good with stories, as I managed to still keep my best account, I felt so proud

9 years ago
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He should know though.

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why bother with reading, don't you know you should always just click "Continue" or "Next" button? ;p

9 years ago
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It would be a good idea to make the first giveaway creation process using itstoohard, so they have to answer FAQ questions ^^

9 years ago
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scanning...

green button found

click!

:3

9 years ago
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I ike this version more :P

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If only you could see the rules lawyering going on in unsuspend requests.

A) I wasn't begging! I was trying to trade!
Me) Trying to "trade" something for nothing? Regardless, trading is also not allowed on the forums, as given by the guidelines
A) I wasn't posting a trade, just asking to trade!
Me) wtf
a) It's your fault! Your guideline is crap and everyone hates the mods anyways!
Me) Close ticket

This is a made up scenario, but there have been similar incidents.

9 years ago
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And all that in your free time...

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I won Payday 2, but the guy said he didn't understand so I moved on... He's actually still on my friendlist for some reason xD

9 years ago
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Never happened to me so far, so I have nothing to contribute other than a silly joke I made on Zelghadis' post

9 years ago
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But is it really a joke ;)

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ew ew ew brony get the fuck away HITLER WE NEED YOU

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oh boy how you all getting butthurt with this site. why you can't be casual visitors and being relaxed about everything happens here...

9 years ago
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1) A site like this would not work without rules and restrictions. You can't have everybody doing what they want.

2) We're making fun of these people (look at the word "hilarious"). If laughing about something isn't relaxed then I dunno what is.

9 years ago
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On this planet 99,99% people are cheaters and liars, please don't act like you are surprised. Let it go with the flow...

9 years ago
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Speak for yourself.

9 years ago
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That's not really an excuse but just making a dumb assumption. I've heard that before. Not sure how it would make sense tbh :s

9 years ago
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My dog ate my digital copy?

9 years ago
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I was told, "I thought '1... 2... 3... KICK IT! (Drop That Beat Like an Ugly Baby)' was how long until the giveaway started, then i forgot about the whole thing."

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I won Bioshock Infinite, and I was sooooo excited! I friended the guy on Steam, and he seemed really happy to talk to me... Until I mentioned how happy I was to have won BI, and he instantly stopped responding to me. I ended up buying myself a copy in the end (actually, I had bought it for my brother's birthday, then accidentally added it to my account -- WHOOPS!), but boy was it disappointing!

9 years ago
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Well this happened to me.
And after I made the thread, the guy added me again and said something like "TempeteJoachim, really ? I never said the game would be on Steam."

Wow, how did no one think of this trick before ??? You're so clever and you're also permabanned now

9 years ago
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My homework ate my dog.

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I just won a GA yesterday, and now I'm waiting on the excuse because the key has been used previously, so there will be something sneaky that happens I can bet. :)

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