Hi.. I'm trying to buy some games as Gift Items right now and I keep getting the "There seems to have been an error initializing or updating your transaction. Please wait a minute and try again or contact support for assistance." Message. No I didn't buy anything today so it doesn't have anything to do with the purchase limit.

Could anyone try to purchase something as a gift.. no need to complete the purchase but simply tell me if you can get to the last step (last confirmation, you can cancel there) without an error. I would really appreciate it to know if I need to contact support or if it's a general problem.

Thanks for the help :\

9 years ago

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No one can just try and cancel a gift purchase ?? No need to actually buy and spend anything.. I just need to know if others also get stuck before seeing the last Confirmation step.

9 years ago*
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Hang on, I will try.

edit* nix that, I have a new CC and I cannot yet add funds until it arrives. Sorry for your issue. Hopefully it gets resolved.

9 years ago
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Did you close steam and reopen it before trying again? Sounds like the daily auth cookie didn't update.

9 years ago
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I tried in both my browsers and in Steam itself..

So it's either my region or general Store is bugged right now or my account was somehow flagged and blocked for some unknown reason.

9 years ago
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Given how steam sometimes does weird stuff like this with specific user accounts, all I can suggest is waiting an hour for it to clear before trying again. Sorry I don't have any more useful ideas : /

9 years ago
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Thanks for the support... I did send a message to Steam Support but I don't expect any answer soon. I just dislike the bug itself..

9 years ago
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no problems here.

9 years ago
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Thanks for trying.. makes me wonder wtf is up.

9 years ago
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You're cursed!

9 years ago
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I just bought 3 copies of gifts. Your account's specific problem.

9 years ago
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There's still the eventuality that it's specific to my Region.. Canada. Unless you tell me you're Canadian :\

9 years ago
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I'm from SEA. I have the same problem on browser but not on Steam. It happen for few days before untill now, but sometime I can add when using browser. When using Steam itself nothing problem occured.

9 years ago
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I'm Canadian and it works fine for me. I can get to the final stage before actual purchase just fine:

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9 years ago
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Yes Steam WAS Drunk... it works fine now for me too... but it was giving me the same error message for almost 2 hours.

9 years ago
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Thanks for the Help guys.. For some reason it's back to normal.. but a 2 hour Steam error is still unexplainable as to me.

9 years ago
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Closed 9 years ago by BoGG.