One time, someone refused to give me the key for the giveaway, simply because I didn't win. The nerve!
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i been lucky enoguh, the worst winner i had just showed general indiference.
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I haven't had any attitude shown toward me, but I did discover after sending the winner of a non-bundle steam gift that the account was one of 7 alt-accounts that had entered for the giveaway. Support ticket still pending months later. :(
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Blacklisting me for saying "thanks" in a giveaway. I think that's one of the most asshole/dick moves that can be done here. If someone thanks you and you blacklist them for that you're a fucking asshole, period.
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Speaking of blacklisting certain individuals, you blacklisted me. :P No clue why. Anyhow, don't really remember a specific example of bad attitude on SG.
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Hello, dear sir.
Please don't take it personally if you get Blacklisted by any chance.
It just means that you have received more than what you have given and this is just my means to make it fair for others to give them a higher chance of winning a game.
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Hey, don't sweat it. I t's perfectly fine. Whenever I hear the word "blacklist" I always figure that to get on it, you have to insult or be a real douchebag to someone, which I don't remember being. But that is a perfectly good reason too.
Time to harass you!
HOW DARE YOU??!
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Trust me, a few sentences and a simple question is OPs defination of harassing. Now who do I call for false accusations and libel. This would get very interesting soon enough
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1) I just hate people that are like:
Me: You won a giveaway.
Him/Her: k
Me: Congratulations.
Him/Her: k
Me: I'm sending you the gift right now.
Him/Her: k
Me: Sent! Enjoy and have a nice day. Don't forget to mark the giveaway as received. ^_^
Him/Her: The user is now offline.
Me: Fck you, you ungrateful sht.
Can't they even say a thank you? And why can't they add the letter o and write the word with 2 letters, by the way?
2) Most times, I add the giveaway winners and they don't accept me and block me. I send them an e-mail to inform them about the giveaway. They add me and I ask them why they didn't accept me and they're like: I thought you were a scammer/bot. And I'm like: How the f*ck do I look like a scammer/bot? xD I'm a big-leveled steam user with a public old profile and lots of steam friends.
And one funny thing was that I once had to use my limited knowledge of the Italian language to communicate with a winner. :P I'm just saying this because it was funny. :P
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Argh, f*ck K. :P So many letters in the English alphabet and that's the only thing they can say. :B
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F*ck K?! But he is so nice steamgifts contributor, despite him saying how passive aggresive he is.
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I can't believe that there is a human being that decided to name himself as K. :B
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Welp, people often have their own reasons. Here you one more K.
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Well, at least that would be something more than a simple k. :P
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I don't know how you would feel, but kkthxbai feels really rude to me. Except it is recognizable as a joke.
Whereas a simple "k" shows an ammount of disinterest, but not rudeness.
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I'm guilty of one count of reverse 2), must've seemed really assholish of me to the guy because -
he won my GA, and got a humble gift link that told him 'invalid/nonexistent gift' or something to that tune, and then I ignored his friend request on Steam.
Fortunately he made a (very rightfully) agitated comment on one of my screenshots so I added him to sort things out, and found out that the link that to me seemed ok (someone sent you a humble gift! enter your e-mail... etc.) showed as invalid for him, probably for some regional issue (He was from Ukraine I think).
Humble support luckily got to me quickly and I was able to give him a working link this time. I really hope he doesn't hold a grudge against me now. :-) i'm sorry, guy!
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Well, yeah, can happen. He probably won't hold a grudge to you. ;P
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Hmm, can't think of an instance of someone being an asshole towards me. I feel like I am missing out on a rite of passge D:,
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Being called a hipster because I read books. Other than that I've had a grea time on this site and never had any trouble with anyone.
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wat. Are you offended they called you a hipster ;P jk
People nowadays are so quick to label.
I read books and there's that book smell I love which is probably lead
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I wasn't really offended, just confused how reading makes anyone a hipster. Also he said it as an insult ( I could almost hear the venom in his voice). I guess he really had something against hipster.
I also love that book smell. Call me weird (or a hipster) but whenever I get a new book I have to spend few minutes just sniffing it before I can start reading.
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Eh probably does if you can hear it in his tone.
Well that is kinda weird jk again! :P haha. But yeah even when it's an old book I love the smell this time it's probably mold
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no offense meant, I hoard digital games because my room is FULL of books. books on shelves, books on a table, books on books...
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I feel you. I try to keep my bed book free though.
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well, i get called uneducated and ignorant because i don't read books. :3
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You read books?
Well seems like you have way too much time D:
Excuse me now I have to play some games for the next couple of hours.
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Oh wow, that is called a hipster nowadays?
As I was a kid that word didn't even exist. :-D
I thought hipsters are those who do all this together:
- wear caps without removing that silly sticker
- use all Apple devices and only Apple devices
- wear sunglasses or normal glasses with a black rectangle-shaped frame
- run around with headphones (bonus if the headphones are big ones)
- buy expensive ripped "vintage" clothes that normal people would be happy to throw away and had money to buy new ones
Now it is only reading books? x-D
Then I am a hipster gaming nerd.
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I've posted a key of free game on the forum, hiding Latin letters with it's Cyrillic equivalent to ninja-proof it. Some guy tells me "Shutup Russian Nerd". =:)
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Being unblacklisted and unwhitelisted for no reason. When somebody blacklists me I feel like he gives a damn about me. And this is kinda unpleasant when he deletes me from his list. Like he says "Yes, you are regular leecher, but I don't give a shit about you".
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How ungrateful and unreasonable. Do you have screenshots? (With censored name/picture). It sounds like having a good laugh seeing those rage.
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What a coincidence my German is better than my English. x-D
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Thank you. Okay he didn't rage that much and insulted you twice.
I think it is good you reported him, especially after other users didn't care about that.
Best part is that he blames you that he got suspended and not himself for not following the rules. It would be okay because no one else complained and it wouldn't be your problem. ^^
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Get blacklisted for a joke, get blacklisted for telling a lvl 7 guy that he should not make 8 GA's from a free game, get stabbed by someone that would be annonymous for the calling out rule and being harased for say that some people arround here are addicts ~~~ muahahahah
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I was called an idiot for having more than 100 people in my blacklist.
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Yep, I think 100 might not be enough judging from the quality stuff some user come up with in the forum; case in point that tread:
Some people... well I'll just leave it at that!
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100 is considered a lot? hell... some people these days... ;p
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Yeah the guy also thought I was power-hungry and immature for using this SG feature exactly as intended. I thought I was taking crazy pills when I saw his message.
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yeah I get what you're saying ;) One guy keeps spamming my Steam profile page for 2 days now, because I BLed him for having ratio 1:36 (or 1:104 if we consider game values). In this time I learn I'm "really fucking stupid", have "no fucking clue", should "Go fuck yourself you ignorant piece of shit.", that I have no right to BL him, because his ratio is "compretly irrevelant" and cannot be reason for blacklist, that I'm "spewing hate towards people who can't afford making GAs" (I never commented towards him before he started spamming me btw, but who cares ;p) and so on and on :D:
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Oh.... that guy looks like a real winner. How dare you BL him! :D
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Now that is what I call actual harassment. OP claim I harass him simply because I asked him a question in a public discussion a week ago and never contacted nor talk about the incident until this stupid thread popup. Explain to me how that is harassment kind sir. That is more like libel to me
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You claim I am picking a fight when OP made this thread claiming I harass him? When I actually only asked a simple question on day 1, and never talked at all until I marked his fake gift as not received which was why he made this whole thread? Have you seen his false allegations on me? How am I trying to pick a fight when all that is left is me crawling up after I am punched and kicked until I am already on the ground trying to climb back up? While OP sits comfortably because people believe him simply because he give more stuff away?
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I do hope you find it in your heart to give it a rest. You aren't going to change anyone's mind by continuing to call him out. If anything you are making OP look right.
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Hey that was me :3
And I still hate people blacklisting everyone for ever little stupid reason, like not liking someones haircolor or shit like this, but hey you're totally right that's not immature at all ^-^
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Can't say about worse attitude because it's based on misunderstanding - both not being English native speakers.
But I've been confronted to two or three winners asking for their games not even 24 hours after the end of the giveaway and another user that thought I was regifting a game (I won it in a massive giveaway, I've activated it, played it and months after, decided to give a copy back to the community with a link to Yunie's thread about it) but it was cleared quickly as someone else came to my defense.
Apart that, nothing bad enough to make a voodoo doll and curse someone.
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a user that traded me a game mass given away ( giveaway is still going ) and he told me that he "Bought" it, while in steam chat logs he told me that he got it from a different user, and in his -Rep ( it should be obvious if u check my profile ) he said that i scammed him lol
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This hasn't happened to me, but a personal pet peeve on SteamTrades is when a user visits other trader's threads just to tell them their games aren't worth the trade at all. I remember seeing one trader at least 5 to 10 newbie threads (20 +reps<) just to tell them nobody will trade for their games, and then I took a look at his own trades and saw him offering virtually the same games. x-x
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"Mine is being harassed for "blacklisting" a certain individual."
Your definition of harass is amusing. Did I call you or spam you anywhere except the stupid thread where I merely asked why I was blacklisted while you let someone else help you reply and meanwhile calling me a leech? Or sending me a steam gift which turned out to be redeemed by someone else and than after 7 days when I marked as not received you claim I am a kid who "declined your gift" and proceed to start this whole thread with an obvious intention?
Not sure who is the "stop being a kid, grow up".
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How can a Steam gift be redeemed? o_O You cannot even send a gift using Steam's system if somebody added it to their library; the inventory item that was the gift gets consumed in that process.
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That was what Steam system wrote in bold red letters when I clicked the steam gift url in the email from OP 7 days ago. "GIft has been redeemed". I checked my library, it wasnt redeemed to mine. Neither did it ever show up in my steam client. The only plausible reason is OP retracted the gift after the inital email and trying to put the blame on me. Today, after 7 days and marking not received, OP finally sent another email which appeared in my steam client and was successfully added to my library. His message in the gift was,
"Dear Jiawei,
Rejecting the gift then marking it as not received is a new low.
Stop acting like a child and grow up.
You Owe Me," .
Guess what? i actually marked it as received on the 3rd day after the first email before actually trying to redeem it, and now op claims I rejected the gift. Loopholes everywhere ain't it?
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Wait. If that was your message, I think you two managed to fall out on a misunderstanding; read this:
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?p_faqid=549#redeemed
Steam gifts cannot be revoked by the gifter themselves; once it is sent, it is up to the receiver what to do with it and the sender cannot do anything about it.
The already redeemed message is a known Steam error, and given how bad their community servers were in the past year, it is not that uncommon that it happens.
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There is also this thing my dear
"
Q: I sent a Steam gift to a friend's email address, but that person already owns this game. Can I give this gift to someone else?
Yes, provided your friend has not already redeemed your gift using a different Steam account. To give your gift to a different friend, install Steam if you haven't already done so. After logging into your account, click on the "Games" menu and select "Manage gifts and guest passes". From your Steam Inventory locate the gift that has not been redeemed and click on Re-send gift.
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But that only works if the gifted account does already have the game. I cannot find any trace of actually doing any shady stuff with Steam gifts; this is the primary reason Steam gifts are considered a helluava lot more valuable at trades or as a surefire way to avoid scam (unless the gift was purchased illegally and revoked by Valve itself).
I understand that you are upset and salty, but based on your story, I'm almost 100% sure it was a misunderstanding and you just had your gift stuck in Steam, which eventually results in the return of the gift to the sender an an unredeemed one.
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A few pedantic traders I guess.
I've had a very nice experience with the SG users, most seem to be really nice people.
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I am not sure why anyone would really care about the attitude of someone they don't even know what looks like, let alone hardly ever engage with.Surely one just cuts ones loses (if there are any) and moves on. There are ways to limit communications and one doesn't always need to rise to the occasion and have the last word because as they say you can't argue with crazy.
Far better to spend time talking about the people that make you happy rather than the people that piss you off!
Some give the anonymous person on the internet far too much of their thoughtful time when quite frankly they really shouldn't even give a dam to be honest if said person actually means nothing in their lives.
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You would be amazed how OP claim I am harassing him when he started with the attitude after my simple question. And following up a week later with this post and than proceeding to say I declined her steam gift url and marked as not received when his initial steam gift url returned "This gift has already been redeemed". The irony.
TLDR: OP claim I harass him. Truth : One simple question 7 days ago, no further contact until today. Claimed to be harassment. Talk about libel eh
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Who cares? You must have me confused with someone that does. Sorry.
Your post has absolutely nothing to do with what I am trying to say.
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You do realize OP started this whole thread to whine about me marking his gift as not received because it was indeed not received, but he claimed I declined his gift? The whole puzzle is just a cover for his main motive.
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We actually weren't aware of who this thread was about until you posted in it like 20 times.
Just saying...
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One time i saw that some user was regifting a game he won here, and told that he better delete that giveaway and activate it, in another case that may follow with a suspend or even ban. And i got blacklisted because i wanted to keep him out of troubles on his account.
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Terrible people calling another names, urging them to end their life because of an unfortunate event, & rude comments, bad attitude towards rules and expectations, animosity ... There's just a lot that goes on ...
But please, Be respectful of other and be wary of your comments everyone! Telling someone to hurt themselves and/or others is NOT funny. It is offensive, degrading, and a form of cyberbullying and abuse. You never know what the person is going through and what they may do in reaction to your words. Your words are powerful, your voice is a privilege, and you must remain vigilant about what messages you are trying to convey.
From personal experience, I've both experienced physical and online bullying, and I have seen other people literally committing suicide or killing others because people were egging them on. Do NOT participate in this behavior. Stand up for those who are being pushed down. IMO, There is too much idling and diffusion of responsibility (bystander effect) and ignorance that goes on in society. If you don't want to directly confront the abuser/attacker, contact support or talk to other peers in the community who do feel comfortable enough to voice your concerns.
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Some people actually do not care. Just look at the way some people like OP can reply to some people in a nice way and a fucking asshole attitude to someone else. And claiming being harassed when OP is the one coming up with lies and libel about me.
I only asked a simple question after I was bl after winning a game, he had to let others reply for him and claimed it was my fault for being a leecher (I have a 2:1 ratio ROFL). I NEVER contacted him for a week until this stupid thread popped up. He initally sent a steam gift url which when clicked steam website said in red letters "Gift has already been redeemed". Now after 7 days I marked as not received he sent me another gift url claiming I declined his gift and is acting the victim. And mods do not care at all about libel.
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I understand that some people just don't give a f--- about things :/ I know reality, my friend. Unfortunately, the world is full of good and evil.
But I am putting this message out there to people who do care. Because where you have people who fall short of advocacy, there are groups of people who WILL stand up for others and WILL do the right things.
Sorry to hear about your experience :/
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I feel you. Some people actually think that doing good digitally is better than doing good in real life. Which was how I got labelled a leech in the original ramblings with this OP
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well I think you are just expressing your opinions on this matter, so whoever called you a leech, well.. that's their opinion ... don't take it to heart!
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Very true. There is this idea by some, that because bullying online does not involve direct contact, it's "just words" and people should "get over it". We belittle the impact of non-physical violence too much. Offline and on. Bullying is not only horrible due to its direct nature, as dangerous as that can get for someone's physical well-being. It is horrible due to what it does to a person's emotional and mental well-being, above all. And you don't need direct contact to harm those.
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It angers me how insensitive people are! I agree, bullying is any form of behavior that does harm to others ... whether it be physical, verbal, mental, online, etc. It's horrible to see what people have done in reaction to being bulled D:
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Well, what about snobism? Can I at least reserve the right to be snobbish? ^-^'
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you can be snobby, but to be snobby online would probably let others see how snobby you can act :/ I guess what I'm saying is, people know you from your words and reactions. If you act or say something, it may or not be indicative of your personality. If you come off as a snobby person, people might be dissuaded from talking to you >_<
but i think we all know you can be a very nice person :)
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I can, and helpful too… but when it comes to certain things… let's just say I never apologised or ever will for using the term console peasant, just to stay within video games as a topic. (Even though I love Nintendo's stuff and would accept a 3DS or WiiU any time.)
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Only if you always attach this gif when you do it.
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I have thankfully not come across any unpleasant winner for my giveaways. Everyone has been very nice and even when there was a Humble Bundle mix-up with delivering the link, the user was kind enough to wait and trust me.
Even a blacklisted person had a very reasonable discussion with me, which made me remove them from the list quite quickly. I do blacklist folks if they show some really bad behavior/break the rules or then seem like the kind I don't want to spend my money on (I would rather not pay to entertain a troll, racist, sexist, homophobe etc), but I am always up for discussion, if I have misunderstood someone.
But I have not made that many giveaways, so I am sure I'll run into some unpleasant person or other at some point. Personally, I just ask for following the rules and showing basic politeness and respect to myself and other users. I know level-free, public giveaways are most appreciated by some, but I do prefer to make sure the people who enter them at least bother giving back a little and actually participate in the community. Not that this guarantees the absence of rule breakers or generally jerk-natured people, but I hope it helps a little with at least the very bad ones.
My sympathies to those who have had to deal with such individuals. Hang in there, folks. And vent when you need to.
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Dear Orion, imagine this.
If a bl user ask a simple question on why he was bl and you did not reply, waiting for others to help you reply instead. And me simply telling you that had you told me earlier, it would not have been so much mess. Is that my wrong?
Proceed to not have any form of contact with you for a week and after that you claim I am harassing you. Is that my wrong?
Proceed with you imagining sending me a steam gift which appear in my email but not in my client. And when I click the gift url, steam web says "Gift has already been redeemed" but its not in my library. So after 7 days I mark as not received, is that my wrong?
Imagine you proceed to claim that I purposely decline your original gift which was not the case, is that my fault?
All the scenarios are the tldr of what a big liar the OP is. You be the judge
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I believe someone has the right to not speak with you if they have blacklisted you. However, if you entered a giveaway before being blacklisted, you should be given the game you won. At least as far as I understand the way things work here.
As for the gift issue, I would personally try to sort it with SG, since I cannot know if the person is lying or if there was a technical mix-up, which does happen quite often (the redeemed gift thing). I certainly would not enter an unrelated topic created by them and try to shame them for things I am not sure are their fault though.
And I do not appreciate you sticking your personal attack to the OP on my message, frankly. That shows great lack of respect to me and my words. I hope you two can sort it out, but please do not piggyback your issues on other unrelated users.
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Nah, don't worry. As in literally: just don't worry about your winners and you'll less likely have anything to get mad about with them. I just distribute the keys, maybe run around a little in email if they don't bother to redeem already, and move on to the next dozens GAs next week. Haven't had an argument with any winner of the 600 or so.
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As someone without the money to have dozens of GAs so often, I guess I get more annoyed when people do not follow rules and are ungrateful. But I would not get mad at a winner unless they broke the rules or lied. I just send the things out, maybe throw an email congratulating them, just for good measure, and it's done. For more pricey games, I do try to make as sure as possible that those who can enter in the first place are at least members who give half a damn (level restriction helps), but other than that, I'm good with whatever happens. And SG support is there for the rest. Well, when they manage to get through everything.
Your advice is good in general, however. "Don't worry" is a good mindset to have. Makes you healthier.
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It's a lot cheaper to make lots of bundle GAs than most people think. I doubt I spent 400 USD in the past 8 months on GAs entirely. If you are careful enough, bundle games are about 12-18 US cents on average.
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I generally wish to give away games with good reviews or then of course bundle leftovers when I do buy bundles. I just don't buy them that often and do not want to make purchases that might make it harder for me to buy a game I do want later. I do like this site, but I don't want to obsess over it too much. I buy when I can spare and find something that looks nice, give what I don't need/want away and just go with it in a way that fits my own purchasing methods and frequency, I guess. It does not level me up quickly, but I am ok with that. :)
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Aside from being scammed, what is the worst attitude that a certain SG user has shown to you? (Please remember to not drop names)
Mine is being harassed for "blacklisting" a certain individual.
Anyways, here is the mandatory GA: DK2oY
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