That option would hide the giveaways for the game's that you already own... :|

Well, every week I think, I don't know the exact amount of time passing between auto-syncs. Every day would be insane though, considering how many users there are. Steamgifts would probably be down half the time if it tried to do that.

oh good lord no. First of all, that'd be a LOT of data to process, and we don't want to go back to the dark days when SG was laggy as hell. Secondly, the sync requires your account to be public. People who like having their profile private just switch it, sync, and then switch it back once a week. Asking people to do that daily would be stupid.

Of course you can't check every giveaway, but it is a comparatively rare problem. People making giveaways and then not delivering is far and above a bigger problem. The only way to effectively "block the option" would be for steamgifts to check your games every single time you entered a giveaway, which, I'm guessing, would probably break the site.

Basically, as it is now it's up to the creator of the giveaway to check the winner's games to see if they already own the game they won and if so request a reroll. It isnt perfect, but it works better than the other options.

Really? That sucks, I thought they were a little sooner than that. Like, you wouldn't get away with for very long. Guess they need more people to answer tickets?

edit: Waaaaait a goddamn second, the only thing you gifted was the ship. You do know that a lot of copies of the ship generated 2 more copies in someone's inventory right? It was stupid, but it looks like the person who won your giveaway activated it like they were supposed to, so technically they didn't do anything wrong. Person is pretty dumb/desperate though, doubt they got much, if anything, for the ship.

Heh