Steam Account Alert after reaching the winners

I never had issues like this, but I avoid creating level 0 GAs fearing it.

Other than that hint, just play cool. Try contacting them here, adding them on Steam, and wait the 7 days.

If they don't contact back, just reroll the winner, eventually you'll find someone who'll get it. Patience is the key!

YEAAHH dont bring up steam gifts on steam..... you could get post banned for like a week

ive found lvl 0 users are the most likly to play the games they win and not just 1+ to their account. i try to play 100% of my wins and do it almost every time within a week of winning. that is not the case for most of steam gifts. you will hit scammers from time to time and end up having to wait a week to reroll or the report to go through. but i still default everything to level 0.
twice ive run into users that win and have private accounts, when i friend them they still have private game data so no way to check wins
when i inform them of this they say i don't like your attitude and i no longer want the win, you can reroll. almost word for word
reported them and the accounts got perma banned

It was never that bad for me, but my usual hierarchy of action is: contact via an old giveaway on steamgift>contact via email>contact via steam
I usually can't be bothered with this, so the levels of my giveaways have gone higher and higher with time for this exact reason. Higher level users are more likely to activate their giveaways, I've noticed. It's a pity, because I would love to give everyone a fair chance, but I'm not nice enough to do that at the expense of my own convenience.

Yeah but still, having that one little accident by posting a stupid comment made my account blocked. I've learned my lesson and I partly agree with the steam decision. It's just that I expected some loyalty to a loyal customer of theirs.
If a valid and loyal account goes inactive for a year, then suddenly reappears and starts sending links then yeah, it has been hijacked.
In my case I just got hit by automatic suspension I guess

Remember: people automatically get an email notification to say they have won a game.
If there email account isn’t active isn’t your fault.
I follow these rules:

1. Never do Steam Gifts. Never do Humble giftlinks. Only gift keys direct on SG.
2. See step 1.
3. Set Levels on giveaways - I almost always set to level 3 or above.
4. Invite only if you really want to weed out the autobots and decepticons.
5. Don’t be hasty. I will sometimes wait a day or two for users who seem sketchy.
6. Wait a week after key sent to complain to SG about users who haven’t marked received.
7. Never contact a user through Steam comments. Always try commenting on an old giveaway they’ve done, ours comment on a giveaway they’ve won. It’s not your fault if the user takes more than 7 days - you are allowed to request a reroll after that.

How do you guys deal with unresponsive winners of your giveaways, what's the best practice here?

Simple, I don't deal with them at all.

SG really should update the outdated FAQ section that still suggests that we need to notify our winners. These days they receive a mail from SG, notifying them about their win. Anything beyond that shouldn't be our concern. Not to mention a duty,

How do you guys deal with unresponsive winners of your giveaways, what's the best practice here?

Wait 7 days if the winner react, if not, send him a message on sg, in one of his old GAs (if he ever done one..), wait 1h and send than a reroll ticket.

To avoid such stress, plus autojoiner, multiaccounter, cheater, exploiter and ultra leechers, do high(er) level GAs. I recommend 5+
And, of course, check your winners with sgtools for unactivated wins.

I dont contact winners on Steam, why should i? They use this site so it cant be that hard to check here if they got a mail when they won.

It's an automatic steam feature trying to stop all the people who message you trying to steal your acc or items. I know that's not your intention, but you're caught in the misfire. They'll unlock you pretty fast, but do as others have said, or just invite on steam and if they don't accept screnshot and send that.

I've had unresponsive winners, but never pushed. I patiently wait 7 days after my initial attempts, even a profile message on Steam, and ask for a reroll or deletion if nothing changes.

Mods rerolled the winners, I sent out the gifts and BOOM! One gift was retrieved within 10 minutes.

Thank you guys for the insight and support, I've learned my lesson lol

New fear unlocked. ;_; I always just do email contact now,but 99% of the time if it comes to that,they never answer anyway,but it's good enough for support to re-roll. I always thought I looked shady when I had done the Steam comment like 'hey,you won a game from me but haven't redeemed it'.

That sucks.

I don't bother with any platform other than SG concerning contacting winners of my GAs.
They won on SG, they get it on SG.

• as soon as I verify they don't already have it in their library and there aren't any recent non-activated wins.
  which is within a few hours of the GA ending.

One week later, and I take screenshots of me contacting them here on SG with 0 response and send them to Support for a reroll.

If some winners don't care enough to even click a few times to get a free game, you shouldn't either.

I never make giveaways for Level 0 accounts. I know that's awful for anyone who is brand new to the site and not a bot or asshole. But if I'm making a giveaway, I don't want hassle. I just want to make giveaway and give key.

Or join something like Unlucky 7 and gift games there to level 0 if you want to give to people with very few wins.

After 14 days reroll... I dont try hard to contact winner. If someone is inactive, then it is their fault, and those are not organs for transplantation, just games.

The way I try and run my giveaways, I always make sure that what I'm giving away has enough time on the key that I can reroll at least once or twice if needed so I can relax if the first winner takes a week or longer.
I also like to make my giveaways Level 1+ and since users need to make at least 1 giveaway to reach level 1, I can try to reach them through that giveaway. If I can't access it for whatever reason, I check a giveaway that my winner has won and commented on so I can notify them through that comment.
If that's not accessible (and in the past I've been guilty of doing this first), I'll send them an E-mail a few days before reroll but reaching out through Steam is like the last resort I never want to go through for reasons like above.
I never reach out with more than 1 message and if they miss it, a reroll might bring the gift to someone who might have been wanting that game more or had more time for it.

A valid strategy. My initial mistake was posting 0 level GA, which would have made my day easier by 50% at least I believe

The last time I was impatient to get a GA squared away§, the message I sent on Steam was something like "SpaceCat has something for you." and that didn't trigger any flags. (§ I think the GA was getting me to the next level.)

As others have said, it's better to be chill and let 7 days (or more) play out.