What is your embarrassing / totally inexperienced / sad/ wish I didn't do it moment on Steamgifts?

related to buying: i always thought SteamGifts users to be different kind of buyers. if you navigate a little these forums, you get sufficient knowledge to be a different kind of buyer. we also are different kind of Steam users, and players and ...

i think it's funny that what you call "embarassing" i define it as "hella lucky!" ... guess we're different kind of SG users :P

First one would be requesting to enter groups as a newbie. A user who held continuous trains also had a group for all their winners to join, they also have another group for general users. In my excitement of discovering SG groups, I mistakenly applied into both the groups! I found out i was blacklisted when I couldn't enter their continuous train! Tbh I was a bit sad that happened, all my SG excitement sank there and then!
But with time, i was like...meh... not a big deal. There are way too many GAs, some nice threads with cool users. The concept of being BL-ed also became not as impactful to me either, there is nothing more to it than unable to enter GAs. Is that such a big deal? Nah. I guess this situation helped me dissociate from SG as well. Its nice to win stuff. But its okay even if you don't.

Second?... wait i had something on my mind but i forgot due to all the reminiscing 😂

When I was new to the site, August 2013, new members where trolled within the forums by "old" members that posting "Thank you" on a giveaway you enter raises your chances of winning it.
Being new and still not knowing my way around here, I believed it and posted "Thank you" on every giveaway I entered.
Until I got a really aggressive response from someone that I should stop flooding his inbox or he would report me to support for spamming. That's when I realized: "Wait a minute..."

Giving: I came here in the beginning to give away just a bunch of shovelware keys I had around (sorry SG community!)
Taking: My first won GA was for a completely random game I have to admit, that in the end I didn't enjoy.

But I adjusted my behaviours soon!

I made a passing joke about just giving me the key or I want a key as well or something to that effect. I didn't think much of it as I wasn't really interested in the game, just a stupid joke. Imagine my surprise when I got a notification I was suspended for begging. I forgot how many days as this was a couple of years ago. Worse part is I wasn't really a newbie at that point as I was here already for maybe two or three years I think, my memory's hazy. I just didn't know as I'm not a regular in the comments.

When I was new I once made a giveaway which wasn't allowed since I had the standard version and gave it away as a special version since the standard couldn't be given away, back then you could not give away 0CV games I think? Got suspended for 3 days I think?

Also when I was new, like most people, I joined everything that looked remotely decent enough, problem is that I won a few games I am not happy with and rather get rid of but well, we are stuck with it now and we move on.

Burned myself with a Secret Santa event. Person to be gifted removed a LOT of their cheaper games and only left 30+€ ones, meanwhile I got for myself the cheapest game from my wishlist, because I thought people usually gift the middle of the price range. So spent like 30€, got a 3? 5? € game, and the experience really spoilt the game, and the next few years'similar events