steam gifts cards available via steam

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/7nJHg/steam-now-lets-you-gift-wallet-cards

The increments are rather limited. $5, $10, $25, $50, $100 only? Unless I'm missing something, that's some pretty big jumps. $15/20 would be a good increment, along with $30, $40, and $60. I know we can send more than one card, but if you want to give someone, say, "Any AAA game" you would want it to be one transaction to make it neat and stuff. Maybe that's just me.

Anyway, I like the ability to do this, I just wish it was more flexible. Maybe this would go well with the writing contested I teased a year ago and then never started...

so my steam wallet have 100$, i send 50$ to my friend in same country, did he/she will received full amount ?

Nice scheme. First ruin gifting completely, then get people to pay more than they have to (and out of sale time) for an expensive gift card. If you can't send a $10 game to your friend because it's $11.5 in their region, how about gifting them a $20 gift card? Sorry Steam, you'll need to find another sucker to fall for this.

This will make gifting on Steam to other regions possible in a way for me, region locking seriously affected my gifting on Steam.

and you cannot use your own Steam Wallet funds to pay for them

Damm it, nearly thought steam did something useful for once.

You should put that first in bold. Major drawback.

Well this could fix those who put giveaways without realizing it is region locked, I think? Instead they could send money to buy the game themselves. But it will be a 'keep the change' thing though.

At least they are trying to still a huge fail given that even Amazon and other big retailers let you pretty much select any amount from 1.00 on up.This is clearly Valve sticking with this system to extend profits nothing more.As if you want to buy your friend a 12 dollar game you now have to send them 15 so they can purchase it or have them foot the rest which defeats the purpose of buying it for a game.

I just don't see why they can't get rid of region locks and always of buying of gifts to anyone but you have to pay the proper price in currency.Like the example, the OP used of buying a gift card for 100 CND but only the friend in the U.S. only gets 80.

Why won't they do this for games cross region if a friend wants to gift a game from a cheaper region to a more expansive one they have to make up the difference but if it's the same region they don't.I would think it would solve the issue of needing region locks as nobody can still abuse cheaper regions?

I mean its still, not a perfect system but I think it would be better than it's current state for gifting games.

You can only send digital gift cards to people who have been on your friends list for a minimum of three days, and you cannot use your own Steam Wallet funds to pay for them—PayPal, credit card, and Bitcoin are your only options.

Useless. I would send the money through PayPal instead because using gift cards you can only send 5, 10, 20... (not custom amounts)