steam gifts game

Steam changed the way the store works, you can't buy games then hold onto them in your inventory anymore. So yeah, pretty much you have to add the winner after the giveaway ends then buy the game for them.

Inventory storing was disabled what, over a year ago by now?

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1301948399254001159

Thank you all for you quick reactions, I know that the Steam updated the policy.......but I wanted to check with you first ...maybe there is a way to avoid this :D, so the only option is to create a quick giveaway and to be sure that the user will be online :|

You can schedule a gift to be sent anytime in the next year or so, and later you can reschedule at any time. I just don't know if you can use the same Manage gift window to choose another recipient, because if you can, you can juggle a gift as long as it is not redeemed or refused.

ok, and for example if I create a giveaway where I'm saying that the user must be online in next hour in order to send him the gift and he is not online, can I ask to support to extract another winner ? since the sale will end in next 7 hours ?

Can you still send the gifted game to an e-mail address or does it have to be a Steam account? Was wondering if you could do a work around where OP creates a new email address, gifts the game to that email and then gives the winner the email address and password so they can then add the game to their account.

You can have the giveaway end before the sale does, right?

Yes, I manage to add the winner and send him the gift, the first giveaway was win by someone from Swisserland and I was unable to buy the game for him due to steam price differences, the guy from Support told me that maybe they will remove this country from Eu region because of his higher rates