I have a little problem here. By surprise I won a Giveaway. While not knowing this I logged into Steam to see someone added me. Since I did not knew him I simply did not react to it. Afterwards I noticed who he was. Tried to add him, but he did not answer yet. He apparently send me a gift by Steam. At least that is what the mail from before was saying, but when I tried to retrieve it, Steam told me that the gift has been activated by someone else.
So what should I do? Mark the giveaway as "not received"?
Thx for the suggestions

9 years ago

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Yep mark it as not received.

9 years ago
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You sure you don't have it in your inventory?
You maybe clicked on it and received it, and it goes into your inventory
Also the gifter has 7 days to give you the game, so wait those days, contact him or mark not received

9 years ago
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Yes, it is nowhere in my inventory or library.

9 years ago
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yep that happened to me as well.. not on SG though.
It was lost in a crack in steam..

9 years ago
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http://www.steamgifts.com/about/guidelines

  • Allow the giveaway creator one week to send the gift. Please be patient and do not contact them during this time. If the gift is not received after one week, you may contact the giveaway creator on Steam to follow-up.
9 years ago
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9 years ago
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Done that, now will anything happen?

9 years ago
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If you have already tried to contact the creator of the giveaway, mark the gift as "not received."

9 years ago
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Most probably nothing, unless GA maker decides to send you the game. Try to add him again, to know what happened, or maybe you did something wrong idk, just to discuss this.

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Go talk to him and see what happens. Give it a week.

9 years ago
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Maybe since you blocked them,they decided for a re-roll or maybe gave it to someone else

I think if your going to be using this site it might be best to check who it is and who it might be before blocking them,adding someone will not do any harm as you can always block them if you find out it is some random idiot

9 years ago
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Pretty much what I do with the random invites I get from time to time.

  • Open their steam profile (usually private)
  • Click Enhanced Steam link for Steam Gifts
  • If not registered here or another giveaway site, ignore and block.
9 years ago
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+1

9 years ago
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The point is though, that there is not any single person on my block list. I have not blocked him, I just did not react to being added. And the person also has not added me after I tried it. I guess I will never see that gift or hear from the dude. Too bad.

9 years ago
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Does it still say you're the winner? If the gift was activated by someone else, (s)he still have 1 week to give you the goodies you rightfully won

EDIT: Oh, didnt realize this thread was a week old. just ignore this please, also, if the creator really did re-roll, you shouldn't really have the option to choose received and not received right? That means he didn't re roll for a new winner

9 years ago
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Yes, I am still the "winner".

9 years ago
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Damn, that sucks too. Was an awesome win :/

9 years ago
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Mark as not received and move along with your life as normal.

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