1- it's against the spirit of the site... but you can't do much if the person doesn't want to give you the game.
if they don't deliver they just lose 1 ga slot and if they keep abusing the system they get suspended.
btw, you waited 2 days after the ga finished and demanded the key?
you know they have 7 days to give you the gift/key. that's pushy and it annoys most people here. -.-
anyway, sorry you couldn't get the game you entered for, but at least you got something else. :3
2- i also have an unsent ga for 2 weeks because i got a reroll from 9 months ago (thanks stupid people winning multiple times!).
having pending gifts doesn't mean someone is ill-intentioned.
3- that trader probably got suspended, asked for a ban lift, activated the win, and the suspension was removed. that's how it works for everyone.
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No, I understand about waiting. I wish I could send the link for GA for people to see how it was. But ridiculous rule about usernames stops me. Heck, I was in the same situation, couldn't send the key for 2 days because some things needed to be cleared with support and winner was writing "where is it" every 12 hours (annoying indeed).
As for Monstrum, I just wrote a message "Still no key..." and after some hours he sent it. All that time he wasn't offline, visiting SG and idling for cards on Steam. Then I wrote "It's the wrong key, going to report" after finding out that key is indeed wrong.
He just didn't comminicate AT ALL. Not a single word. Not trying to resolve anything. Like "look, you got a key, whatever it is, now sod off".
It's not just about this case, it's just these things I see here and how these users safely get away with it, like it's normal here.
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honestly... if your first response was to try and report me after accidentally sending the wrong key, I wouldnt try to work anything out with you either.
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It wasn't my first response. My first response was thanking for the gift (before the key was sent).
But I understand what you mean. From the way user behaved it didn't look like it (and you can't just forget to activate the gift for winner while being on SG, it informs you right away, especially since it was his only GA at the time).
I guess I'll be waiting for support just for a single word.
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at least you'd try to say "hey, im sorry. ill change it". especially because hes threatening to report. regardless if hes done right or wrong there, you wouldnt wanna be reported for something if youre truly innocent. however, this person didnt even say a word at all, before and after he said that, and didnt even try to clean his/her name; they went away with it and again tried another giveaway.
thats the main thing too. the giver didnt even say a word in the whole time. even if they dont speak english, at least they could try translator or something. there really isnt excuse..
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the creator has a week to send the game and the site asks winners to not contact them during this time even.
responding with threats to report someone is unnecessarily hostile.
support cant do anything about this anyways.
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He just said it wasnt his first response, tho. I do agree that report threats arent exactly a good move. And if there's rules about it, if you were the gifter you'd tell the winner about it if they threat to report. The gifter in OP's example, however, didn't say a word or even care about the threats, didn't respond about giving a wrong key (and thats not something you "just wait" to fix, if you already gave out a key), didn't respond after the 7 days time was close to end either. So, the point is the Gifter didn't reply to anything, threat or not. And seems they'll likely wont respond either; if they're often online in SG they can't just "oops forget" to check previous GAs...
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not really sure why you'd start asking for the key after 2 days, especially when the person has 7 to send it. Although just be happy you got anything at all, probably was a mistaken, everyone is human, sometimes it happens, especially with some games which may be older keys and the sites they are taken from having a poor inventory system.
If I make a mistake and someone starts to threaten I probably wouldn't make it right either, especially when mistakes do happen all the time and the person got a key they were able to use.
Sometimes being nice can get you everything,
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See my response to CeilingChair. Pay attention to the major detail about lack of communication.
And it wasn't a threat (like "where is the key, I'm gonna report you, how dare you, you!"). I really wish to share the link for people to see, but that rule.
I guess I'll just close the thread and it'll be a reminder for someone from support to review the case. I know they get a lot of requests, but some cases get cleared out very quickly and some users say they're waiting for months for an answer.
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Recently won a giveaway (Monstrum). After 2 days waiting for the key I asked him where it is and he sent key for the wrong game (A Game of Thrones - Genesis) without any words. Wrote a report and left a message in the GA comments that the key is wrong - zero communication from both scammer and support since then. Already marked it as "Not received" and the scammer blacklisted me. Instead of waiting for support I already got the game through trade 2 days ago.
Here, you can check the key for yourself if you have the game (A Game of Thrones - Genesis): http://imgur.com/a/uD5ya
Today I stumbled upon a user who was giving away a free a game and spotted that one of his GA was marked as "not received", yet here he is, not suspended, now giving away a free game.
You can just send the wrong keys and get away with it?
Another episode - I saw a trader (with high rating) selling his won gift for CSGO keys (large amount of them), reported to support, it was marked as resolved and he removed the game from the list, but they didn't suspend him at all, not even for a day. He absolutely knew that he was doing (20+ trade rating), not a newbie.
So...the question is in the title.
I saw some thread about users with "Developer" badge doing the same thing, but don't remember its title.
Moved to Offtopic.
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