Fake giveaways

Peer pressure, online persecution?

they get banned.

just wondering because i wont a contest allmost a week ago and i think the guy made a fake giveaway

What exactly is the point of a fake giveaway? The site awards points (the 10%) to everyone when the giveaway ends? Couldn't it be set to make it give points when set to received (and possibly a week after if the gift wasn't set to received or not received. Obviously not awarding when flagged as not received).

Im also wondering the same cause it mega sucks that my first win was a false >:( Dam gu!

Most likely they would be banned from the site.

Well...
We all gather up on the chat and open our pockets. Count up the money we have and hire an assassin for that ammount of money. When the job is done (the assassin kills the troll) he brings us his head and the mods impale it and put it on the site. Very middle ages style... long story short, don't do it.

http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/q86qj/shadowgrounds

What do you do when you don't receive a gift?

FAQ says:
"I won a giveaway, but haven't received the gift.
The giveaway creator has 1 week to email it before you can mark the gift as "Not received". If it's been more than 24 hours since the giveaway ended try and add the giveaway host to Steam and remind them to send the gift."

So does that mean the right thing to do is:

• Wait 3-4 days,
• If nothing happens, add the person to your Steam friends in some vain hope to talk to that person and keep waiting,
• If nothing happens even after a week has passed click 'Received Gift?' (No)

and hope that mods would deal with that person, that's all?

What do you think of this?

http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/4wnpj/popcap-complete-pack/page3

....fake or not?

I think as soon as someone doesn't deliver any prize they listed, that should be enough for them to be perma banned. The stance needs to be this hard as fake prizes completely undermines the system. I mean, why enter into hundreds of prizes, each with hundreds of other people at a time (it seems the average entry:win ratio is something like 50-100:1) if there's a good chance the prize isn't real?