the system should not allow ppl to make as not received until the 7 days has passed. thats just a recipe for mistakes and confusion to be made
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I did that too once. With the screenshot. Worked out after about a week.
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Support can fix the feedback, since you provided proof of your sending the game. Once a reroll is granted, the giveaway disappears from the previous winner's won list, and the received/not received option along with it, so perhaps your feedback score will be automatically adjusted.
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I had a stupid man who got his account hacked but i made him to mark the gift as recived.
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not for a reroll i hope. pending 2 weeks old reroll request here. \o/
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I think fad knows that. What he's saying is that they might not re-roll because the key could now already have been used by someone else even if the game isn't on the winner's account. The winner could have given it to his friend, sold it, traded it, key dropped it on a forum, anything. We don't know if the key will still work.
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At best you can hope for the mods to delete your giveaway so you don't get a negative mark. They will not reroll if an activation code has been sent.
You have given away 60 games, I assume you've felt good about this. Please don't let one bad experience ruin it for you, think of all the other people instead and feel warm and fuzzy :)
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Well good luck with it!
Checking my keys, I have an unredeemed humble gift link for the game in question (it's Bridge Project, right?). If they let you re-roll and it turns out it was used already I'd be happy to give you the link so you can pass it on to the new winner.
Add me if or when you need to.
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I think you've got that a bit mixed up. It's more like "Reroll, and if it doesn't work, buy a new copy and give it to the winner. Sorry, giver."
By the way, this kind of thing happens to me a lot. That's why I give my keys through Steam chat. I have a copy of the conversation, and I can make sure the key is used (or not). When I get a winner who won't respond, I send him or her an email after five days saying something like, "You haven't responded, so I'm guessing you don't want your gift. I will contact Support for a reroll." That usually gets a quick response.
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The winner must redeem the game. They cannot give it away or trade it. Simply ban him.
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What a jerk, yep you probably should make your Giveaways $0.01 at least.
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That really sucks. It's a shame a lot of people here give games away for free, and yet there are people here who just decide to abuse that.
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don't you get a banner/notice on this site as well lol. You figure that would mae you double check email o.0
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well I do find common sense to be uncommon. And thanks for confirming the banner/notice I wasn't 100% sure on that
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Yeah I had a giveaway once where the guy who won visited the site multiple times and apparently still ignored both my email and friend request. Luckily he didn't mark it as not received. My only guess is, since it was a DLC, maybe he realized he already owned it and decided to just ignore me instead of tell me.
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I'm starting to get nervous myself actually. My first giveaway ended yesterday, I've sent the key, they guy activated the game on his steam account but didn't confirm he's received it. It's the first giveaway he's won so I've sent him an email to remind him to confirm it on steamgifts - and he's just sent me an email back thanking me instead... |D;
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Just a tip, a lot of emails get spam filtered, probably due to titles like "Congratulations, you're a winner!" and such. I always put the game title for the email subject to avoid that.
Also, if it's someone's first win, I always contact them through Steam rather than email, to give them a special congratulations, then can talk to them about activating the key and marking as received. If the user has had wins before, I feel more comfortable emailing the key. If they don't respond to the Friend Request, you can send an email asking them to accept.
Though we don't like to, sometime we will re-roll when a key has been sent already, assuming the winner doesn't have the game activated on his account, no sign of alternate accounts, and it truly seems like they didn't get the email.
And we will get to your ticket and your rep will be fixed.
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Anecdotally..
I once didn't realize that the email was filtered. After the 6th or 7th day (or possibly before, I didn't mark it Not received yet) I got an add. And a couple of days later a chat came asking why didn't I mark it. I checked my spam pretty fast right then and there.
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This is what I did on my last GA. I sent an email, simply informing the person that I'll sent the key when he replies back to the email. In order to make sure the email actually is read by the winner and not someone else, I requested that the reply should include a link to the GA.
Quick and easy :-) If there was no reply, I would have simply requested a new winner 7 days later.
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Those are good suggestions. If I can't contact them through Steam, I usually just email them the key. Its always worked out fine, but if they never responded, I couldn't be positive that they hadn't used the key, so it became a wasted key. Asking for a response back is a great idea.
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A key I won went to spam, but it's beyond me how anyone can miss it. On top of that how when you see on here that you won a gift, how you can go without checking your email is also beyond me.
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