Question. So I made a 5 game giveaway. and if the winner cannot be contacted within the next 23 hour

Cue creepy girl in a well following him.

well that sucks. ill just delete the GA then. cuz steam wont let you keep the game as a gift in the inventory anymore.

it may be a good idea to reduce the 7 days to something like 5 days or something, but not everybody is online in sg every few days, but then we r having more problems like this. That steam gift inventory thing really fuckd us up hard

because the sale ends in 24 hours, and i'm about to leave home for another ~2-3 hours. so i figured i'd have the giveaway end asap and then if the winners actually read the description we could contact each other, steam friend , give/receive their gift. asap when i got home later

Yeah, I was going to suggest this to. Made no sense to me that he just changed GA description that he was going to delete it instead of just deleting it :)

10USD*5=50USD. If OP is a minor and does not have any income of his own, he's totally relying on parents and only getting wallet money from selling steam items it's very plausible he cannot afford 50$ or even 10$ out of thin air. When I was minor I was getting like 20PLN aka 5USD allowance per month from my mom, anything extra I had to work for.

Also I would disagree with you that never relying on Steam sales. Sales that are over 7 days 1hour long from time you are posting your GA (this is minimum considering 1h GAs are minimum, longer GAs will need longer sale ofc) are totally fine. It can include a lot of preorders (which often have sale till release day) but also with biggest Steam Sales (like Summer and Winter) which lasts 11 days. If your GA is ending when there is still more than 7 days of Sale you are basically safe. Winner must accept your contact within 7 days, so you will still have time to buy and send the gift. If he does not and sale ends because of that this is a valid reason for GA deletion as confirmed by Khalaq here

while this is true, it is not easily possible for everyone to buy from these stores as they don't accept all pay methods
also you only can use steam wallet for steam

You can't anymore since a few months. You have to add the winner on Steam now, because Valve...

I login to Steam and goes online during work, to participate in Steam chat or group chat.
Or to idle games for cards.

But, because I am at work, I will not login to SG to check for winnings or even redeem Steam games (which requires me to open my Steam library, which will raise some questions when showing a big Steam library window on screen during work).

Make sense?

I don't know it works that way, anymore. Valve made it pretty difficult to do anything other than a direct transfer. P

as Khalaq said - storing gifts in your inventory is no longer possible - only direct gifting - as Valve changed the rules some months ago

oh wait never mind I'm reading other comments and this isn't possible anymore that sucks

that makes a whole lotta sense, i'll do so next time theres a sale.