The new gifter's guide to gifting:


Basics:

NOTE: if you've WON a giveaway, you will see a green banner on your homepage, or any giveaway page you visit.


Purchasing the gift:


Creating the giveaway:

  • After you have purchased a game and stored it in your inventory, click the Create a Giveaway link.
  • Fill out all of the important stuff and click "Create your giveaway" at the bottom of the page.
  • Confirm all of the info, and click the "Confirmed" button at the bottom.
  • Wait until your giveaway ends. Go post on the forums or in chat; be friendly.

NOTE: If an item doesn't appear in the drop down menu on the giveaway creation page, do not submit it under a similar name. Search on the forums to learn more.


Sending the gift:


That's it! Congrats. You've successfully given something away, hopefully to a nice person who appreciates your efforts. Feels good, right?

12 years ago*

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Reserved

12 years ago
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3/2/12: Added green banner notice to Basics. Thanks.

3/2/12: SMNC/similar name notice to Creation section. Thanks.

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nice post qt

12 years ago
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a_a

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nice

12 years ago
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This was helpful.

10 years ago
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why did u reserve when u dont need to, RESERVE RESERVE RESERVE

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This thread + glue = ???

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12 years ago
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This as a pop-up before someone makes a giveaway for the first time.

12 years ago
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Unless it forcibly stays on their screen for over a minute, they'd just close it. If it forcibly stayed on their screen, they'd just move to a new tab or make a coffee.

12 years ago
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I still say add a mandatory quiz of some sort based on the site rules and guidelines when someone makes an account, forcing people to at least skim the rules. Don't know how hard it would be to implement, though.

12 years ago
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If it forcibly stayed on their screen

They'd just close it and go play in MW3/BF3 for more. And they'd never come back here again.

dream mode off

12 years ago
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would be too good to be true..

12 years ago
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I've stickied this until further notice.

12 years ago
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I'm amazed how a 1 dollar game could get up to 812 entries

12 years ago
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I saw Fortix get over 2000 entries. I gave away a Magicka $1 DLC that got over 1000 entries, and there you have to have the base game.

12 years ago
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Nice guide. A good addition to the stickies. I wonder if anyone will read it.

12 years ago
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This needs to be stickied permanently and translated!
Very nice guide :D

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12 years ago
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its MINECRAFT for the Library pic :P not MEINCRAFT

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NEINCRAFT

12 years ago
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I'll name my shortcuts whatever I like, thank you very much :)

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It's Meinkräft!

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Good tutorial, but I think something like this should be added under "Basics" or "Creating the giveaway":

Edit_ good rephrasing, I just realized how wrong "don't submit one with a similar name" was.

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+1

12 years ago
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Added to the creation section, thanks.

12 years ago
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Bumping and unstickying. Condensing stickies.

12 years ago
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What should I do if the person who won denies my FR and now is blocking me?

12 years ago
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Usually you'd need to wait for 5 days to a week.<br> It the gifting isn't successful you can request a Reroll on which a new wineer will be chosen at random.

10 years ago
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Why'd you reply to something that is a year old?

10 years ago
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another guy that thinks hes the only person on the internet....

10 years ago
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Cool, could have used this back then :P

12 years ago
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thanks for the guide

12 years ago
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This seems pretty out of date. I don't see anything that comes close to the Inventory indicated above.

What's the best way to send a key you got in an indie bundle?

12 years ago
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Created by cfriend 7 months ago

12 years ago
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-_____-

11 years ago
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Add the winner on Steam then send over chat or send it to the e-mail address shown on this page.

12 years ago
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hmmm

12 years ago
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I've looked over the FAQ but didn't see an answer to how it's determined how many giveaways you can create. Anyone?
Thanks,
TMG

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I think it's based on your contributor value.

12 years ago
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Unless it's changed while I've been away, it's the number of giveaways you can afford to have marked "not received" and still have a percentage of 75% or greater.

11 years ago
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+1 this needs to be stickied

12 years ago
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What do i do if i don't get a "gift received" after i sent a gift ?

12 years ago
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Tell them to select it as Gift Received.

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Thanks, this makes things a lot clearer :)

12 years ago
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I like you already. :)
make sure the read the faqs if you haven't already

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I swear there was another guy who had the same exact avatar picture....

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there are many with that avatar

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Yes, it's kinda confusing sometimes.

12 years ago
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how do i get lots of points guys?

11 years ago
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Have patience. Points regenerate over time, faster when there's more giveaways going on. 300 is maximum.

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thank you so so much i could never understand how the points worked

11 years ago
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how many people are winners? Only one from all?

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if it says Name of the Game (X Copies), then X different people win. If it doesn't say so, there's only 1 copy and 1 person wins ;)

Gifter can create giveaway for either one or multiple copies in a single giveaway ;)

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So I can't see this answer in my question and I am curious for the answer. What happens after 7 days if you mark the gift as sent, send the gift and the sender never marks it as received? I was curious what would happen after people were slow to mark games as received. If this happens do I just need to provide proof the game was sent for there to be no penalty or is there a not received button after 7 days?

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There's a not received button after 7 days for the receiver. If the receiver doesn't mark the game as received, or doesn't do anything at all, support will investigate.

I hope that helps. I had a hard time understanding what you were asking so feel free to clarify if I missed the point.

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+1 Same Q here.
i send the key and mark it Gifts Sent.

11 years ago
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Nice. Very clean and understandable. Great job. Hope it helps out the newer people better.

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Closed 10 years ago by cfriend.