Why do you create CV and private giveaways?

I always consider who my "target audience" is before I make my giveaways.

• Private giveaways are so that I can restrict access to a specific section of the SteamGifts population.
• Group giveaways are so that I can restrict access to a particular Steam group.
• CV-gates on giveaways are used when I want to either thank generous people or disquaify those who have not given beyond a set minimum.
• Use of multiple restrictions is done when I want to target a very specific group of people with my giveaway.
• Sometimes, of course, I put no restrictions at all on my giveaway so that anyone and everyone can participate.

(Too bad I have no time for a puzzle.)

Umm... How are we supposed to solve that puzzle? You're literally just numbering questions that ask nothing..

just for being sure about the guy/gal who's gonna won knows how to Giveaway/redeem/confirm things works, no other reason for me really.

When I first entered the SG I was thinking like you but after the winner of a giveaway activated his gift and never came back I changed my mind.

I create private giveaway and post them on the forum, because I don't want the users to enter blindly without really wanting the game... Or perhaps just because it's more interesting that way.
I sometimes also create puzzle giveaways, because it's way more fun.
I usually add $0.01 of CV requirement to avoid complete leeches.

The only CV restricted giveaway i did, it was at 0,01 cents, and kind of experiment to know how it was, i was testing the website. Nevermore.

I don't like CV restrictive giveaways, it's kind of separating people who has a certain adquisitive power with those who cant afford to buy non bundled or better games.
The final purpose of Steamgifts should be to make someone happy who wants X game that you have and you are not going to use, not to kind of show off how much adquisitive power you have and how many colleages you have in the same range of CV.

My CV is limited to 30 USD, and i don't care, because i just feel good when i can help other person to have a game he wants, it has nothing to do with money.

If it has happened something bad to you due someone didn't know how to use this website, well, at least, don't blame the rest of participants doing restrictive giveaways.

I see it this way, but well, that's just me.

Have a nice day :)

Not even bothering with the puzzle, I'm not capable to solve that

bump for solved

itstoohard >_<

Because leechers always like to leech and ninjas like to ninja and you one can't change this harsh world.

I generally just put 1 penny on it for the sake of having less issue when I send it off, it guarantees they know how the site works and if I'm gone for a while, they'll know how to get it taken care of without having to explain everything if I'm not around to sort it out.

I do it just so the people with multiple steam accounts just to create multiple SG accounts cant enter.

To cut off leechers, ofc.

I haven't made a single private glveaway.
Oh, Really? http://pbrd.co/1oQKlQn
Also, bump for solved)

Because people who have already successfully given away a game (should) understand the system. They will activate the game on their account, and they will mark it as received. In a fully open public GA, it's a crapshoot where you might get some newbie or person that can't communicate and doesn't know wth they are doing.

I love puzzle giveaways - even sometimes they are too hard and I can't enter. This way maybe a few hundred people, or even less take part, not thousands.
CV: I'm not really sure I'll, or I want to pass the 30$ mark. I love buying bundles, and if I don't like a game in it, I give it to my friends, or put into fb group, gameminer, steamgifts, or random giveaway group I'm in. Usually I buy 5-ish non-bundled games a year (not counting steam sales [ngggh]) and they are usually in the 10-15 $/euro tier :Broforce, Volgarr the Viking, Dieselstormers currently - sorry community, but I'm not feeling generous enough to give away not-bundled games when I don't really buy them for myself either. At least clicky

i create high cv giveaways, because i would like to give the guys something back, who invest so much in this site and keep it running. i like that the winner is someone who probably gave more than he got so far (instead of someone who won 36 games already, but gave only 6). and since there are more than enough public no-cv giveaways already, i don't see how i could possibly feel bad about how i restrict most of my giveaways.

EDIT: lol, i managed to read your post without even noticing all the links there. derp. ^^

How long do your private (puzzle?) giveaways mostly last? I think making mine a day and 12 hours long was a mistake. I should have made it just 12 hours.

I prefer to give to those who have given, been to busy at work lately(soooo much overtime(also preventing me from playing my games :/)) to do private giveaways on the forums
CV req usually depends on the game(won't really go past 40 for bundle games)

Considering picking up a Witcher III Pre Order or two and giving em away to the high CV ppl(500+)

Why....hm why not

My intention is to give people in my GAs a win-chance better than 0.1%
My second intention is that I would like to give a Game to people that would like to play it
and not to people that just want to increase their game-portfolio and running scripts.

But I don´t set a CV, cause those numbers are just numbers and don´t show if someone "deserves" a game or loves it or whatever. And I don´t make Group-GAs , cause there are enough micro-groups out there.
So my GAs are private, but open to everyone...via a puzzle. If someone likes the Genre he is able to solve it , maybe with a little help, and enough people could solve it.
(my puzzles with flash-games for kids are very very easy, but even they had relatively good win-chances, cause it´s you ahve to do more than one click).

This is my way...it increases the win-chance of those that want to participate, and reduces them to all others to zero. But maybe it increases the factor some that someone will actually play it.

I like to put at least a little bit of CV when I make a giveaway for one simple reason: it greatly improves the chance that the winner knows how the site works.

Last thing I want to be doing is giving a game to someone who is going to resell it, or not mark it as received or not even accept my friend request. Giving a gift should not feel like a chore :)

I never put CV.

Custom rules are one reason to make a private giveaway. A more common one is making the giveaway available to a particular group. In my case that was often the fans of my Facebook page (when I maintained it) or forum goers.

Bumpity for solved.
I am very tempted to start making CV giveaways in the future ( of the 1 cent variety) after one case of regifting and another where I had to track the winner down (after a couple days and e-mails ofc) and use google translate to help him activate the game in steam chat... But I am not decided yet.
Is it worth the hassle? Some bad apples don't mean all of them are.