Do you use shady key resellers?

The poll results are fascinating so far, given that non-anonymous sentiments tend to run significantly against such sites and practices.
Even accounting for 'well, I dislike it, but if it's there..' sentiments, it's still a good third of the votes so far.

Guess we see how such sites continue to do so well... :X

Very rarely, so far ive only used Kinguin, bought around 5 games there.
Usually i just search for good deals on isthereanydeal

I have bought on g2a once. had no problem though. it was a preorder from MGS5.
I dont plan to use it as much but sometimes a good deal like they have is welcoming.

If I have to risk something I prefer SteamTrades, at least I know if it's a reliable source or not.
That said, I bought a game on G2A once.

The gain is not worth the risk for me. Will play it safe.

I only buy from trustworthy nice guys with a healthy green skin, everything else would be ridiculous

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Not quite sure if the sites I buy games from are shady, but I have often wondered how the price can be so low for new games. I think they are legit though, or at least their site looks professional, and have not had a problem with any games I bought from them so far.

Mostly cdkeys.com, gog.com, greenmangaming.com and the usual Bundle Stars and Humble Bundle. But I usually just load up during Steam sales for the most part. If anyone has any horror stories about any of those site, please let me know, as I am assuming they are legit.

I mainly buy from steam myself during sales :) also from humble bundle and thats about it ;p though tempting i just dont want to risk it.

I use them for forced labor.

my first game was bought over 6 years ago in g2play, a warhammer chaos rising key :3
later i tried to buy some useless deus ex dlc on another site, got some issues because they asked my id with a photo and i refused. i threatened with reporting them for fraud on paypal and they sent me the stupid key 10 minutes later. -.-

never bought anything again from resellers.

One of my first games was from a shady reseller, I had no idea at that time if that's a "bad" thing or not...I even had to activate it via VPN.
I'm not using any of these sites nowadays though.

Used Kinguin once, buying 2 or 3 Steam Gifts of Alien vs. Predator when it got removed from the store, thinking I was being clever and I could profit off them. Then the game came back to the store a few days later.

Don't really want to touch these kind of sites otherwise.

I've bought a LOT of stuff from Kinguin and NEVER had any problems. Their customer service is semi-decent anyway though so if I did have a problem I'd imagine it'd get sorted really fast.

Sometimes i use G2A or Kinguin for removed games, for the rest always Steam or GMG.

I bought Warhammer Vermintide from GMG recently and the first two keys they gave me were duplicates. The third one finally worked but it took 4 days to sort it all out. The sad part is most of these gray market sellers have better customer service than the authorized ones. If something feels shady to you and you don't feel comfortable than don't buy from them. You can save money by buying from anywhere outside of steam, but you give up your ability to refund.

This issue is a bit contentious for me since I've made/posted a pretty large amount of replies right here on the SG trade forum section inquiring about game trades for PP and non-game stuff. So it would be terribly hypocritical of me to absolutely condemn the use of grey market game key websites. As such I'm not the morality police on places like Penguin-with-a-stupid-hat; if it's your money, then it's your choice and your prerogative on what you do with it.

That said, however, I take great umbrage whenever I see people posting about how it's "legit" just because you haven't had any problems with it or how just because it's an E-sports sponsor somehow automatically makes it legitimate or how we're idiots for daring to buy it from actual legitimate sources and being guaranteed to never have it revoked. I also really hate how when people speak up on the truths on taking your chances on these kinds of websites (game might be stolen, key might be revoked, etc.) 90% of the time there will be someone that shouts down the person that informed others of the risks, with their arguments consisting mostly of the above.

TL;DR: If you're informed of the risks and know what might happen and you still want to go forward with it, then by all means go for it; we're not stopping you, we're just offering the truth.

Yep. I don't like it; I'd rather buy from reputable resellers and legitimate channels, but if I miss a sale and they're reselling the game at a great rate or taking advantage of regional pricing I don't have access to, even though the key activates in my region, I use shady resellers. It's not a preference, it's a necessity; as a student without a job at the moment I can't afford to drop $60 on a new game, but if there's a significant discount, I'm mercenary enough to take it.

Nahhh, I don't use resellers, unless I think they're verified. For example, there is no way I'd use g2a or those sorts, just because of the issues some have. Yet I purchase many keys from sits like GMG and Gamersgate, because I know I can trust these sites from my experience and other's. Even humble store can have pretty good sales.

Most of my library I bought from such kind of site (because I'm poor, need to buy from russian resselers). Only once I had a problem with gift, that was bought with stolen credit. Steam revoked the game, but the site gave me money back. So it's k fror me.

I have bought several times (15ish) from G2A; almost all purchases were for removed games from steam and every time was cheaper and ofc much less time consuming than chasing that games over steamtrades or other trading sites. Only thing I got pissed about are "hidden fees" they are adding to advertised price eg last game I paid was 3.7e; they added 0.40e as "Additional cost" for paying with pp.

Yes I have got like 15 bought on G2A for a ridiculous price. They give you the option to use "G2A Shield" which is works as a guarantee that you wont loose your money if the key doesnt work or if it was a stolen key

I have bought a good dozen removed games on G2A and Kinguin.

I disabled the G2A and kinguin shield because if you use them once they keep coming monthly.

Also there are coupons to find for Kinguin (mostly 3%) and for G2A (mostly higher % coupons than Kinguin).

I didn't go for the cheapest sales on the 2 sites because I look more for sales (like on SG trades) from people with good rep preferably 100% rating. Also look at the flags/nationality of the sellers.

Also I take a decent look/read the icons and description of the posted games on those sites (like one should read the SG giveaway OP posts).

I don't see anything wrong buying from shady re-sellers. Especially when EU gets the same pricing in all countries despite salary differences up to 5 or even more times.
But there's barely any game cheaper than on funstockdigital, GMG, nuuvem or other legit seller.
But maybe i should mention i never use kinguin and G2A, they suck and full of scammers because everyone can sell the keys. I use one store which selling the keys by themselves so it's much more trustworthy.

I'll always try to avoid them :3

Havent used the 2 sites most of the posts in this thread mention, i use this http://www.cdkeys.com site and have never had a problem.