I've already created a lot of giveaways, but all of them were Group. But, when I won ND I decided to create public giveaway of this game with some contribution fee. I thought, that there will be some problems.
In a day my giveaway ended. But before sending gift I decided to check winners profile, and this is what I saw. One of the winners previosly won CoD:MW3 and CoD:BO in private giveaways, but not activated them. So, i created a support ticket.
Next day winners added me on steam and I explained to both of them, that I asked for reroll.
But, the winner, who didn't activated games said, that he traded them for magicka or something, and he was saying, that it was completely legit.
I said that I won't send gift to him.

Today, he posted comment on my steamprofile (it's public) and I added him and again I said, that I wan't send gift. This is what he said, right before deleting me:

person: you little comunist freak, you will get what you diserve
person: so
person: have a bad day
person: bitch
person is now Offline.

Now I'm waiting for support, and I hope they will ban him.

P.S. Sorry for my English.
P.P.S. and I don't want to create any public giveaways after that.

upd: our previous chatlog

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So you dint gift the winner because he dint activate a private giveaway?

Private giveaways are private and im pretty sure there are no rules for private giveaways beeing activated or whatever.

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All wins MUST be activated on the account of the winner. They are not to be traded or gifted away.

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Don't trade, sell, resubmit, or give away games you win.
It's not important, what kind of giveaway it is.

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But I think the purpose of this site is to give players the chance to play games they couldn't afford. What the OP did seems reasonable to me.

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How I (or anybody else) can be sure, that that gift was gifted.
And it was giveaway of 1 copy with 2 entries, and the person, who created that giveaway won and not activated that game on sg.

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If someone won a giveaway and didn't activate the gift, that is by default a violation of the rules. The mods will handle exceptional circumstances.

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Private giveaways are under the exact same rules as any other giveaway except for the special rule for private giveaways (don't share the URL without the giveaway creator's permission). They absolutely have the same requirements for activating your gift.

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Registered 6 months ago, still don't know what rules are.

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Sorry to hear, but a**holes are everywhere. I suggest you to make at least contributor 0,01$ if it's public. It filters some fake accounts & contributors at least understood the site rules, but its just my opinion.

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The giveaway in question is set for $100 contributors. It's just the blind faith in humanity. Sadly there are too many people who didn't bother to read the rules and boosted their contributor status with something not allowed here (bundle seps, fakes, etc) :/

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:O
You probably never get rid of those bundlers.

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@Incognitoe
•Don't trade, sell, resubmit, or give away games you win.
•Winnings must be redeemed on the winning account.
•You must redeem the game on the account you entered with, and may not trade it to others.
•Members may only enter for their own account for games they do not already own.

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I approve of this. He broke the rules and probably was lying. I doubt someone would have traded away those games just for Magicka. Two 60$ games in exchange for a 3$ game? Even if he got something else out of it, it just seems impossible. He probably entered a fake private giveaway to boost anothers contribution.

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CoD:MW3 and CoD:BO for Magicka. Sounds legit :3

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It was not magicka, the trades where the following: MW3 for magicka complete collection and Hidrophobia, and BO for CS:SOurce and Payday THe Heist

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Probably suspended temporarily, not permanently banned. They're clueless newbies that didn't bother to read the rules, not deliberate scammers with a history of doing this.

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Well, considering that he didn't read the rules, he didn't know what he was doing was wrong. So when Ball00n tells him that, no, he's decided not to give him the gift he's won, I can see him being a little upset.

Doesn't excuse him for being a dick, but consider ignorance before malice.

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They should be banned. Two high valued giveaways with 2 entries. It looks like boosting contributor status to me. It doesn't look like ignorance of the rules but deliberately breaking them.

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That doesn't matter, except that it makes you less like an outright scammer and more a regular rulebreaker.

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If he is a dick or not, he won.
I would have given him the game and then reported him for the games he didn't activate.

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If you look at the chronology of this...
that person broke the rules (the crime wasn't yet discovered by SG)
now he won again (if SG had already found of the above crime, he would have been banned and would not be able to participate anymore; Balloon just acted preventively and did not give to the fellon what he did not deserve)

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I see where you are coming from but i still think that he should not be the one to judge if the guy deserved the win or not.

He shouldn't have told him that he isn't going to give him his game, he should have told him that he asked the support about what he should do and that he is waiting for their reply. He has one week time to give him the game anyway.

If the Support says that he didn't deserve the win and that he can get a reroll, fine. But i wouldn't have said that he just isn't going to get it.

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Totally disagree. If I've bought a game to gift, I've done so [with my hard-earned cash] so that someone can enjoy it. If I wanted it traded, I'd have done so myself. I doubt I'm the only one who see it this way.

Personally, I think the "winner" being an utter fucktard invalidates any obligation for the gifter to give them anything.

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you will get what you diserve

Yeah, some respect from community for not giving the game to a cheater and standing your ground to preserve the rules. You had every right to ask for a re-roll.

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this.

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That's a shame :\ You did the right thing!

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I'm pretty sure Support will be on your side. They really don't like cheaters.

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I'm sure too, but I'm waiting for response for a 3 days. ):

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All of this started from nothing, and i want you all guys to give your opinion.Yes i broke the rule when i traded the 2 gifts, but if you check my account, i have only 3 weeks since i joined, i was a newbie.Second, those where private giveaway so i thought that i can do anything i want with them, since my PC is not so strong.When i won his giveaway, and added him to get my gift, he refused, saying that i don't deserve it.I explained everything that happened, but he didn't understand, he wanted a reroll, just because he considered me a scammer.Again, yes i broke that rule, but i was very happy when i saw i can get a game that i can play.Check my profile, you will se that i am no scammer,i am legit, and all of this is a miss understanding, where people judge others without knowing.
I hide from nothing.I take my fault for braking that rule, but again, i was a newbie, ho did a single mistake.I am not the only or the last.

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Being a n00b doesn't give you an excuse to not read the rules

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1) Newbies, especially, should read the rules

2) You didn't read the rules and then broke them

3) Not knowing the rules is no excuse for breaking them

4) Let the mods handle the support ticket. If the mods say you win the game, the gifter will be punished if they don't give it to you. Otherwise, you don't get the game.

Only enter games that you want to win and intend on activating on your account. That is what SteamGifts is for. However, I expect that the mods will give you a chance to explain yourself, if they don't see this thread.

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Hope this 2, i don't undersntad people who comment whithoout knowing nothing about.

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Well, you see, nobody but you knows why you did things like breaking rules.

There is also a rule against calling people out on the forums, so your name was not mentioned. This meant that nobody knew who Ball00n was talking about until you showed up and decide to let everyone know it was you.

You really need to read this before you do anything else here.

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Your comment on ops profile says it all. http://i.imgur.com/nEBqG.png

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Yes , he is wasiting his time because i am CLEAN, and he will destroy his reputation because i will report after this week ends for no recieving the gift.

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Um... be warned that if you mark the gift as "not received" and the mods decide that Ball00n was right not to give you the gift, they will also remove the "not received" and you will have done nothing to his reputation.

Especially because right now, Ball00n has already submitted a ticket and has been waiting for several days. If the mods decide that you DO get the game you won from him, he will be told to give it to you. If he doesn't THEN, at that point you can mark it as "not received".

You need to stop posting in this thread and read the rules.

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I wager the opposite. I suspect you'll be taking a timeout for your past transgressions.

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this is your reputation that is at stake so i wouldn't even think about making a complaint about not receiving the gift when you appeared to be a moron taking an advantage of the sg humble community and not fucking knowing this few simple rules we have here. be gone

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Without reading what everyone said before me let me say one thing:

That person is an arrogant and presumptuous little dipshit.

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Right,now his frends gona support him,i dont even know you, and you make me a dipshit, nice

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I don't know ANY person from this thread. They'r not my friends.

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I think I understood only half of what you said, but if you are the one who wrote that chat message to Ball00n... yes... to me you are both arrogant and a dipshit.

Rules are rules, and winning a game that others wanted to play but couldn't afford only to trade it for something else is not only against the rules but also a slap in the face to everyone who was hoping to play that game you inconsiderably traded.

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Maybe if he post the entire chat, you will se why i made those sayings

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Is it not true that you traded CoD:MW3 and CoD:BO? If it isn't then I've been agreeing on something that wasn't true in the first place.

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No, it isn't true... those giveaways were fake.
He never had the game imo, it was just to boost someone's contributor value

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Do you have proof to support your claims, MerdA? Is it only because they're both suspiciously 2 entry private giveaways that you're saying that or do you know something else?

Either way the situation's going from bad to worse, imo.

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oooh, now I understood what you meant by "now his firends gona support him"...

No, I have no clue who Ball00n is and he's not in my friend list, but he exposed his point well and I agree with him regardless.

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Yea, and he makes me a dipshit, without having anything with him

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I'm wondering, did he get banned?

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The mods are swamped in tickets, so nothing's happened yet. Maybe if you read the original post, even, where Ball00n says he's waiting for a response on his support ticket.

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Faith in my fellow country lost...it has been aleardy fucked up but now...And yes you did the right thing, he didn't deserve the win.

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"person: you little comunist freak, you will get what you diserve

person: so

person: have a bad day

person: bitch

person is now Offline."

Such a nice world we live in.

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The grammar police needs to confiscate his keyboard for ruining a language.

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I work for the grammar Naz....... I mean police. I would simply burn the house down. Wipe him from the face of the planet.

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Indeed.

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you've got my hand +1, hate people like this. Need automatic sync account for sure

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i side with the OP. hope everything works out as it should

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People like that will lose in natural selection, just the matter of time

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Yes, people like that transform into onos only to get killed 30 sec after.

Edit: We are not talking about the mod? :3

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Ban him If I win something I will play it until I finish whole game.
But when I win this is a question ? :D
Sorry for my english (propably there is a lot of mistakes) but I'm still using it only for reading not writing :)

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person: its the same pwerson
person: on 2 diferent account

Hmm...? [raises an eyebrow]

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I stand where you stand Ball00n, good job.

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Shame that your first public giveaway ended with problems. Do not let it discourage you. There are still plenty of good people out there.

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Great, he is suspended. =)

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Closed 12 years ago by Ball00n.