trade for games you would like (for example if a new bundle has bta games that you own already you could try to trade what you have for that one you dont have)

Give Away, but better set some lvl requirement - from personal experience - the bigger lvl requirement the more likely the winner is to follow site rules.

For example - not long ago I've run a set of private GAs on a forum, lvl 0 to 7. Support approved rule for all these GAs was "Comment to Enter". On lvl 0,1,2 a lot of ppl didn't even bother to read the description and didn't comment. Few reroll happened. For lvl 4 or 5 and higher there was not a single person who wouldn't follow GA rules. Generally higher lvl ppl are sure to been around for a while and knowing how stuff works on SG, so they are less problematic as winners ;)

I'd say start a trade, let it open for a while and when you're satisfied with what you got from it, give away the rest

I've yet to have any success with a bundle keys trading thread, even when offering 3-5 keys for 1 key I don't own.

yes, giveaway, raise CV and enjoy low entries 7+ ^^

The answer is 42. I don't know what the question is though.

Trade for what games you want, then when you don't get any bites for a bit, give away the rest to people on your friends list. Higher chance they'll actually play them too :)

Eat them, they are delicious!

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I throw my games up for trade, but then I periodically give one or two away.

you could try to beat jatan11t's giveaway train record ;) (150 giveaways)

Do both :P
If you have more than 1 key for a game trade 1 and giveaway (or more, depends the quantities). If all are singles decide which you think you wanna give away and use the rest to trade.

What about private giveaways on the forum? Maybe some puzzle or hidden link? If people put more effort to find it it they're... I don't know less ignorant. You'll get some sort of selection ^^

If you give them away, you should do two thing.
Give them away on the forum, and add a level requirement.

By doing so, you'll avoid and trouble with new users.

Build a whitelist from people that are active on the forums. Those are the ones that are easy to deal with, usually helpfull and gratefull. I think you can determine pretty fast who is a nice person and who might be the ones you might run into problems with.

Or look for a suiting group. If you're willing to give away stuff, you shouldn't have problems finding one. In the groups other people will enforce the rules for you on a stricter base than here on steamgifts itself.

Certainly this will be no guarantee to not encounter any difficulties...

Hm, tough question. For me trading was never interesting. Too much work for too little gain. You could try splitting your keys. Keep the more valued ones for trading and give away the other ones.

If the negative experience is what keeps you off then just follow the advice before: Use the forum, make obscure puzzles, make whitelist giveaways, increase the needed CV level. This should normally keep off "unpleasant entries and aftermaths".

Other than that you could give them away to your friends (Steam or real life). Either let them choose or make a group for them and make giveaways here so you can still gain some Contributor value.

Thanks for the advice so far guys :)

I'd say you should decide what do you want more.
Do you want to get some new specific titles in the near future? If so, and you have some time to spare, go for the trades. If you would rather raise your CV for a chance to win some better random games later then give your keys away.

As for the mishap with the givaway, there is a chance you are going to have problems regardless of what you do. That's life. Just because some people are not too cool sometimes, does not mean you should stop doing what you wanted to do.

I'm always fond of trains, mass forum giveaway threads, and blacklist giveaways.

Do what makes you feel good. I give games away because if I win games I should give games. Also I am to lazy to trade. :)

make a love train of giveaways

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In my opinion, if the game has any value to it, set it with a level requirement, if you got the game for free, like that penguins game that was given out on Christmas, or the playfire account games, then put them as level 0 and not care about who wins.

the thing is you don't have to put the key into the cd key option, you can hand it out yourself and then as a last resort e-mail it to him and if that even is hopeless contact support

Are there any good gift groups i could join to give them away in?