Do you enter giveaways like those?

To bank points and to fill daily reporting quota, sure.

Why would you get your points back if the giver has a change of heart? Although if dealerships would replace a new off the lot car that got t-boned, I'd be pretty impressed with them. In the case of not received, the giveaway is still valid and existing. When it's deleted, then the points will be refunded.

I don't. Instead, I enter giveaways for games I don't even want. Better than wasting points.

I don't, because if I win (and that's a rare occurrence) I have to live with the disappointment of getting chosen by the RNG for the wrong giveaway.

I don`t, I enter in giveaways of games I want to play!

wait what, why my SG+ doesn't work then? O_o

I tend to avoid giveaways for AAA games with thousands of entrants unless I have a load of points to burn. AAA games with not many entrants because there's a higher CV, or because the giveaway is only open an hour or 2 are different! :p

I sometimes avoid giveaways that look suspicious to me.

Newbies (I'm kind of one myself) creating a giveaway for a newly released AAA title without saying anything in the description can tick both boxes. I've been known to avoid giveaways like those, choosing instead to enter for some bundled games I'm interested in.

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I enter for games I'm interested in playing. Points are free and stuck to 300 most of the time anyway so I don't care if the giveaway looks suspicious or not. I'll be disappointed if I win and it turns out to be a fake, but I don't really lose anything since I haven't spent anything either beside the free ever flowing points.

If you like burning points, sure.

lol, i am too lazy to look at the creators profile, usually two times a day i just enter all give aways that end within an hour unless its a dlc where i dont have the base game.

Yes, I keep trying to win one of those "this guy doesn't understand how steamgifts works" giveaways, without success. :(

I think once you stop trying to win every game in sight, and just try for things you would enjoy, there's not much else to try for - you'll have 300 points constantly. Also it's a public service, if I win that fake call of duty giveaway, there's one fewer heartbroken teenager in the world. :)

What I'm worried about though is winning a fake call of duty giveaway that turns out to be real. Oops. :)

As a result of filtering giveaways myself, I get so many extra points that I enter whatever giveaway there is for games I'd like to have.
Statistically speaking, I win so few giveaways that for me winning a fake one is close to impossible; and I wouldn't care about getting my points back anyway; I forgot what it's like to have 0 points.