Account value doesnt match.

Surround the text of the link with square brackets then immediately after it surround the website link with normal brackets

eg: [Clicky] (http://www.steamgifts.com/forum/vUnIE/important-updates-to-contributor-values-and-bundle-games)
I left a space in between the two groups so it doesn't encode, but you MUST remove the space

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There was no asterisk by it when I created the giveaway... There was by the time it finished... I didn't get the CV...

That's not accurate. Giveaways created before a game was added on the bundled list CAN and DO later have their CV changed to bundle values, because it's not based on when it was added to the bundled list itself, but when they set it in the database. They have repeatedly changed things retroactively in the past for exploited titles, especially those removed because they flooded and it took a couple days for support to remove it from the list, etc.

So it's absolutely possible that it was bundled part way through a giveaway, and the resulting CV gained would be bundle value instead, as long as the giveaway itself was started after whatever retroactive date & time was used to add the title to the bundle list. For that matter, even if he had already gained the CV from a completed giveaway, but that giveaway was started after the time set, he would lose the CV the same way. Hence all the threads about people complaining that they lost their CV over many of the exploited titles that were removed, of which Takedown: Red Saber is one.

The reason you did not lose any CV and had the game you mention giving away count as non-bundled CV is because you started the giveaway BEFORE the bundle started, and when it was added to the bundle list, the database was set to only work retroactively on giveaways started after the time the bundle went up for sale.