Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Legendary Edition

They sell their trading cards, buy it on sale, and they reduce the price on G2A with the price they got for the cards. In most cases, they sell cards they received from games they got for free, so all card money is a bonus.
For example, if you can sell cards for 5 bucks and buy a game on sale for 15 dollars instead of 30, then you can ask for 12.50 for it and still receive a 2.50 profit.

"carding" often refers to credit card fraud

• Obtain stolen credit card details
• Buy game from Steam
• Sell on G2A for less than cheapest ever Steam price, so that it is sold as quickly as possible
• Buyer gets working game, marks as "received"
• Credit card owner reports fraudulent charge, gets new credit card, purchase from Steam is reversed and game gets revoked
• G2A buyer loses cheap game he bought, requests refund from G2A, gets refused
• G2A seller keeps money and positive feedback, because it worked at the time of purchase and the buyer can't take it back

I have a lower annual income than a Russian in the same job. I pay 2-3 times more on Steam…

I live in quite poor country, right next to Russia I may add, yet I still pay the same prices as old Europe countries.

Well EU is most expensive region.

In Norway, when they have 2x more PKB per capita in comparison to Eu countries, they have also like 30% lower prices.

Steam pricing is terribly bad.

Brazil and Russia aren't small poor countries, and the Czech Republic is not Germany/UK/US, yet they get the worst prices. In general, most of the small poorer countries have higher prices than elsewhere, or US prices if they're lucky (but miss out on on most special offers that US get).

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It is a rare method though. Many keys bought on G2A are revoked, but they usually just play regional pricing, sales, and bundles. In most cases, if you are patient enough you can buy the same game cheaper somewhere, but G2A plays successfully on those who are impatient or lazy to look around on the internet for better deals.

''We're going to conveniently assume people who bought the game from g2a whould have bought it at full price from a retail store"

Yes - and - No - don't burn me for this one, but it is both answers, cause the publisher has clearly decided that they are willing to accept the lower price for their game from the different regions, and perhaps a higher price from, say, mine. Now I am unlikely to go searching too much for that cheaper option, cause I don't have the money anyway, so I will wait for it to be on sale. But others will go searching for it. Now if the publisher didn't want this to happen, they would region lock it, not just sell it cheap unlocked in those regions, so they anticipate that some people will circumvent in this manner - but they also probably think that those people are the ones that might just as easily pirate the game - so some money is better than no money at all - especially as they have decided that the price is acceptable. It is a grey area, and I myself have never knowingly done it - but I can see the reasoning behind some doing it. Really wish games were not so expensive where I live :(, or I would play and purchase more...

yeah its still not worth it i need to pay 20 euro

Steam had them for $5 USD each just a short while back, which I think brought it to $6.10 for both through the bundle option.
That aside- as I said, it's silly and a waste, but it's unfortunately a superior option to take your approach in most cases.

I really dislike modern sales practices, and Bethesda has always been one of the worse ones for it.. :/

my point is: latest "deals" are weak... even the crappiest sale ever was better than this last one.
I didn't mean flash sales because I arrived on steam before that. I mean sales in general.
the "new market situation" now is reach consoles prices. this is where I think steam is going to.

Valve influences the prices though. They now take at least 30% cut, and that is the minimum, and they also have a minimum price they take no matter what. This is very likely a large part of the reason why there are no more large discounts on PC any more. The other being the market large enough to actually milk it, banking on the fact that Steam is so dominant, it essentially has a monopoly.

You know the Mafia did G2A Guard first, they called it protection money! llol

If a seller has over 10k sales, then it is actually a group, and a high chance of being the actual organised crime. No, I am not even kidding, some Eastern European mobs use game trading or game making to launder money.