Hi,
I have won a giveaway, but I can't reedem it at the moment, because I'm on holiday without PC and notebook. I can't activate the key via Mobile Steam. I will be back in September.

What should I do?

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Contact the creator of the giveaway, explain to him and see if he's okay to wait until you're back.

Whatever you do, don't mark it as received beforehand.

Or... if there's somebody you can really trust with your password (family, close friend), maybe ask him to redeem on your account ?

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It's fine to mark a giveaway received before activating it, as long as it is activated after 7 days have passed since the giveaway ended

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if it's an expensive game, you could even go to an internet café and activate it that way.

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Sure and let someone use a keylogger and get access to his account.

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One could use a privacy linux distro installed on a flash drive in order to activate.

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Exactly! And if you're paranoid about someone ARP poisoning the LAN to monitor all unencrypted traffic, VPN into a penny-per-hour DigitalOcean box.

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you could of course reset steam guard then.

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Yeah, because all public PCs in the world have keyloggers installed.

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No just rather assume all public PCs are safe, i mean why risk it?

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if you are in a hotel, doesn't it have a pc/laptop for their clients?

just assuming you aren't camping or something like that :3

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Remote control?
both chrome, or teamviewer. take control of your home computer.

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That's assuming he has something set up on his home computer already. Kinda hard to install something on your home computer when you're already away. :P

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yeah, but maybe a family member is there.
most people have house sitters or pet sitters or watering the plants on a long vacation.
just to turn it on, install something simple and leave

well, he knows if it is possible

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When will you be back ? You have 7 days to activate your game

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He says he will be back in September. More than a month.

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Ah yes I didn't pay attention. I guess the only solution is to contact the giveaway creator to explain the situation then.

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He wrote September... that's a bit far.

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Maybe some relative at home you trust your account with to activate the game for you?
Or if it's not a big game, then I would just ask the host to re-roll, good karma for the next GA :p

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Ask for a reroll, stop entering giveaways and enjoy your holiday.

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Just like DavidSarif said,

Contact the creator of the giveaway, explain to him and see if he's okay to wait until you're back.

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Yup, contact the creator and request a re-roll, if it's a game you really want find a way to activate it before the 7 days pass.

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Also although it is unlikely you win another one you should probably pull all your entries.

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write to the steam support to activate the gamekey on your steam account, check the activation there and mark the win as recived.

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Closed 9 years ago by sinuscon.