every giveaway ive made ppl have been very thankful sorry you had some bad apples

I always say thanks like a thousand times when i win a game... To those that don't, well F them. They are just ungrateful little s****!

only one person never said thank you to me and he is currently trying to regift my key i gave him.

Why don't you just add the winner on Steam? That way you can actually talk to them.

I've had two public giveaways and both winners instantly started playing the game. I've had a private giveaway after that and the winner also started playing the game shortly afterwards. All three were very thankful.

I couldn't say thanks properly for the Faerie Solitaire that I won but the Borderlands GOTY was received with a lot of thanks by me. The fake Mass Effect giveaway that I won earlier was received with a suspension.

Of the giveaways I made, and the keys ive dropped in chat and gaveaway in forums, 75% say thanks. However, I add the user which might inflate the count more then others who might email them.
I also notice that foreigners are less likely to thank then natives. Could be a few things, not pointing any specific fingers...

This thread just made me a sad panda.

yea its sad to read. I only gave away 4 games so far and 1 person thanked me so far.

My first three giveaways were public, and now I will never make a public giveaway again. Too many ungrateful people out there.

People make threads saying they hate when everyone says "Thanks" in their giveaways, and the moment people stop threads are made saying nobody says "Thanks" in my giveaways...

What the fuck do you people want? Choose one and stop bitching!

I say thanks every time I win a give away. Its the least you can do for someone whos willing to give you something for free. :)

Two out of my ten public giveaways couldn't be bothered to say thanks after they won. I also gave away ~25 keys in the forums, and twice the one who won neither said thanks nor that he took it (I knew to expect that from Ninjas - they're sneaky, after all). So, for me, forum ninjas are more thankful then public giveaway winners, statistically speaking. Who would have thunk it...

I did three giveaways, only one thanked after. Still, doesn't bother me at all.

As a raffler who got lucky on this site, I'm actually surprised. A lot of people enter up raffles without even bothering to look the top comment to see what exactly they are entering for and not looking if the raffle is legit or not. One of the worst case I've seen so far is how people kept saying thanks you even when the guy said his friend took the giveaway game.

As for saying thanks, i prefers saying it to the giver when i win or when the guy have the game in his inventory and has already given out some successful giveaway before. It's just doesn't feel right to say thanks when there is not a single evidence that the person have the game. And if anything goes wrong, time will see through it.

I always say "Thanks!" when I enter a giveaway, and if I win I say it at least 5 more times.

Group and private tends to bring more thankful winners but it also tends to bring more repeat winners. Public giveaways are a cointoss, 9/10 times you get a winner that doesn't say thanks and has no real interest in playing the game. But public giveaways also has that small chance of the winner being someone who genuinely wishes for the game as is over the moon happy when he wins.

Just checked out winners of my giveaways. Two of then did not even redeemed their games. Two redeemed but never played and played just like 10 minutes and that's all.

So spamming every giveaway with ctrl+c will tell you how thankfull we are?
Depressing...

Alot. I'm not always saying thank you.
But I made a separate folder on steam and I'm planning on playing them all!

I don't spam thanks on SG, but I express my honest gratitude to the gifter if I win a giveaway.

I never watch if my winner says thanks in my giveaway page. The ones who won so far were nice though, tey all said thanks when I sent their gifts.

I didn't say thanks on giveaway pages ether in the past, and then I won a Sanctum complete pack and felt a bit like a jerk not doing at least that much beforehand. Granted, I said thanks through e-mail to the creator of the giveaway, and ever since I drop a line in everything I enter, even some I don't. I'm doing that because it seems to be common sense to me, but I don't require any of my entrants to drop a line, I'm perfectly fine if they don't.

The last guy to win something I gave away went to the trouble to even thank me on my Steam profile. <- Do this, I don't mind and I'm sure others don't either!

Well I say thanks (try me ;) ) but from my 1 giveaway he didn't say thanks either

Well, most winners from my giveaway did not said thank you

Maybe I haven't done many giveaways but I can remember only one situation when the winner haven't said 'thank u' (it was a private giveaway with maybe 20 entries and the winner wasn't a kind person, just a bad luck :) )
I remember that one of the winners didn't know any foreign language and wrote that 'even though I don't understand him, he thanks me' in russian (thank u google translate! ;) ).
It's a really great feeling when somebody can appreciate the contributor.