Why? Im new, and never use g2a. whats wrong with them?
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Too long to list. Let's just say some people host illegally obtained keys and G2A itself is the kind of company that kinda forgets to pay taxes and such.
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Taxes? Haven't heard about that one, do you have a link? I'd like to read it and spread to my friends who still believe G2A is the second coming of Christ since the birth of steam
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You don't need a link. G2A itself asks you what taxation you would like to choose, meaning they don't actually look up where you live and pay the value-added taxes accordingly. G2A is your typical tax-evasion setup: a company registered in SEA territory, actually owned by a hazily defined shell company registered in Singapore, that all somehow lead to the Polish owners through offshore relations. The setup itself wouldn't be illegal if not for the whole choose-your-VAT part. Even Kinguin properly taxes its buyers, so if anything, they at least pretend to confirm laws.
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Wow, you really a kind person. Cebause i really often see you helping answering and explaining any question on sg^^ (you help me with pc hardware the other day)
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Haha, oh man. In the interest of science, because I'm bored and because I believe in PayPal's buyer protection having my back, I went ahead and did it... This was possibly the worst transaction experience I've ever had on the internet. Here's all the ridiculous things that happened along the way:
- G2AShield default on. Adds a €3 cost to the €1.39 bundle. Easy to turn off but it is, of course, the smallest button on the page.
- Default tax setting is "EU Business" with 0% VAT. I left it there and the page didn't say anything and just let me continue. I guess I'm not paying taxes on this?
- Payment option page has a few other options as window dressing, but they're crap, and you're really just forced into using G2A PAY.
- Go into G2A PAY and select PayPal, next step G2AShield is on AGAIN and has to be turned off AGAIN.
- Once I'm about to pay, they've thrown on a €0.30 "transaction fee" for absolutely no reason. Why the hell are they charging me money to charge me money?
- After payment, I'm forced to wait 5 minutes while a countdown ticks down, just for no reason at all. Despite the "delivery type" being labeled "instant" during the purchasing process.
- 5 minute timer runs out and they hit me with a 12 minute timer with no explanation. Only about 3 minutes of that passes though.
- Finally, a "Get CD Key" button appears and I click it. What do you know... The ad for this bundle specifically said "no giveaway games". First game in my list? Street Racing Syndicate.
- The last kick in the teeth is that the dumbass box your keys are in isn't even selectable! I can't copy the stupid keys and have to copy them manually!
Here's the list of crap I ended up with:
Street Racing Syndicate
Incitement 3
It's Spring Again
Energy Cycle
Energy Balance
Bacteria
Super Space Pug
Spikit
Turbo Pug
Hyper Color Ball
The last one actually is unbundled so I guess I came out on top?
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The PayPal one is them charging you the PayPal transaction fees, which by the way is against PayPal terms of Service to do so. AFAIK, they were reported several times, but PayPal does nothing.
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You can't have a surcharge, but you can charge a handling fee.
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Thank for giving detail of your purchasing experience, may this lead you to the throne, so you can be as powerful as Trump, than you can close that site. (But seriously thank you for make me understand why G2A is a bad site.)
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It's a grey market, meaning the keys are not sold by official redistributors. G2A is notorious for their scammy business practices such as a G2A shield subscription which a lot of people found was charging their account without notifying them and was very difficult to remove/unsubscribe. Secondly, G2A is well known for stolen keys, which in the case of AAA games get revoked leading to loss for the buyers, and other indie and third part games which leads to a loss for the developers of the game (Punch Club is an example) I've bought a game exactly once from there and I'm thankful to heaven that it didn't get revoked, but a lot of people have had that complaint.
As far as your question goes, you'll get 10 random keys which may or may not work. But don't go in expecting premium random titles like Arkham Knight or any AAA game - unlike other promotional deals by legitimate companies such as Amazon, here the seller is the one who sets the keys so they'll simply give you 10 random indie bundled games, and it wouldn't be illegitimate either.
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well, im not checking the thread everyday. and while i learn so many in this generous and kind website including :
- Bundle system,
- Paypal,
- Steam trading card,
- Pc hardware,
- Other ppl life in another country,
- Konrad6
- Digital Homicide
- Jigidi and another interisting puzzle
- How to insult bundle site when the new bundle not live up your expectation
- Rachellove
- If there are more than 1999 people in the same room, i will never be the choosen one
- RU/CIS region price are the most cheap
- Be a kind person actually give me something^^
etc
i rarely see people mention anything about G2A. soo... im asking^^
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well, i've seen The Fate be naughty 2 times this year, and not making me met the G2A thread is one of them, the second is making this year US Election lol. but i guess there is no harm in asking here^^
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I just would like to point out dude! just because someone has been registered to this site for 7 months does not mean they have used it for 7 months and even if that is the case they may never or hardly ever use the forums.
That's like going by hours played as a indicator of how much they have played the product which has no bearing how much they invested in the product.I find it silly when people point to hours played as a way to make there review honest and real hours mean nothing when they can be faked so easy.
I am just saying stats do not always reflect how much time or effort has been invested in said use of product or in this case site.
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I've heard people buy keys with stolen CCs and sell the keys @ g2a, I've also heard more than 50% of buyers will activate the key, THEN request a cashback and say the key didn't work.
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Both are true but not to that degree. Buyers pull that shit if they see you are a new seller. This is why you can now mostly see that same 2-10 groups selling most of the stuff there, despite G2A's attempts to lure new suckerssellers in through Gold Mine.
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Why? Im new, and never use g2a. whats wrong with them?
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99% of keys bought on G2A are not legit, stolen or something.
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Other way around, less than 1% are stolen, but that is more than enough to stay the hell away.
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99% is from bundles, press keys, keys obtained from physical copies, an obscene amount of keys somehow leaked from Russian reseller stores (by the way, I am partially surprised the Brazilians didn't get in the game with their own cheap region prices). Then, of course, there are keys from free giveaways from other sites (including this one) and sometimes keys received from developers/publishers themselves, originally intended for promotional purposes.
For the most part, people there just resell bundle/promo keys, which would not be the problem (let's disregard the whole taxing and fees issues for a moment). The problem starts when they offer brand new games cheaper than any other store, including the publisher itself. This is when you know that if you are lucky, it was just a press copy or a game store accountant leaking physical disk keys on the side, but if you are unlucky, it is yet another key bought with a stolen credit card, where it may take up to 3 months before the key is revoked.
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It's a bad deal because they're just bundle fodder generally. You're better off just buying whatever individual games you want.
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You will get a bunch of crap and multi copies. Better off with a gmg mystery bundle.
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from my experience GMG mystery bundles have been awful
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They are, but at least they are actually confirmed to contain some more expensive non-bundle games. Including a surprising amount of TransFormers: Devastation keys for some reason.
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wow I'm after that game, maybe I should try and get some more then :p
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Too low chances. You may spend more on the mystery bundles than with just buying the game. =)
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yeah it's like Murphy's law, whenever you try and get your way, the universe always ruins it so you can't win :p
then there are other people...people who probably have the game already and happen to win it
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lol this thread looks more like a "hey I have a bunch of random 10 keys auctions up, buy them and share what you got"
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Only $1.49 for 10 totally random games plucked from the finest selection of last month's overly-negative freebies?
Wow! Where do I sign up!?
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Culling of the Cows
Catch a Falling Star
Drayt Empire
Final Quest
Hyper Color Ball
Turbo Pug
Spikit
Super Space Pug
Turbo Pug 3D
Turbo Pug DX
Now please, close thread :)
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I bought those once. I won't do it again. Keys were mostly or all free games from DLH giveaways...
Random keys are generally keys that would not find buyers otherwise...
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Got these, leftovers are for ninjas:
Culling of the Cows
Catch a Falling Star
Flesh Eaters
State of Anarchy
Super Mustache
BEFL0-BBM7L-WJW3?; ?="E" - Hyper Color Ball
6DG8M-H792V-646T?; ?="H" - Turbo Pug
YHI49-45ERP-FA44?; ?="4" - Bacteria
78RZK-MC0W3-FLA8?; ?="F" - Energy Balance
6F4RK-EWBWV-6772?; ?="A" - CLASH
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Add my 2 cents into the topic: once I had to cancel my debit card because of reccuring charges for the 'protection shield'. There is a standard feature on the g2a site to unsubscribe from their forced protection, but guess what?.. The last thing I had to do is to confirm my decision by clicking on the link in the email they sent. Never got any email from their side. Just wow!.. :/
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lol this thread looks more like a "hey I have a bunch of random 10 keys auctions up, buy them and share what you got"
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At least it isn't a ref link... Now I think about it, I have not seen any for quite some time now...
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lol I was just poking fun.. I don't deal with the site normally. I have no idea if that's what they are doing or if it's what they stated.
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Well, people can sell their keys there, although I'm not sure if they will appear in the weekly deals section...
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There was this G2A weekly deal with random CSGO skins.. I got a knife from it, not an expensive one, and i lost it shortly afterwards. Easy come, easy go :(
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Nothing beats Humble Bundle is the bundle business.
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https://www.g2a.com/weeklysale?banner=wallpaper&shop=en
What You Get?
ill close this thread if someone already made same topic, or make better thread
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