I generally do giveaways for level 3 or higher now, which cuts down on this some. Of my 264 giveaways, I've submitted 12 reroll requests, 7 were granted, 3 were denied for suspensions already being served, 1 I canceled after messaging with the winner and them activating the missing games, and 1 I cancelled after not getting a response after 4 days, as I wasn't going to be around to send the game if it was denied, so decided to just send it (just noticed that that person is now permanently suspended).
I also tend to make a judgment call on my own sometimes if someone has a single very old not activated / multiple win situation, as I usually assume they either already served their suspension or learned the lesson if things since then are all in order.
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I have almost 1400 giveaways and I have requested a new winner 14 times. So about once every 100 giveaways. Always because the winner already owned the game or was kicked out of the group before the giveaway ended. All of the requests were granted.
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So far I haven't requested any rerolls.
Just curious--would you reroll if I won your giveaway?
I regifted something I won ~2 years ago, in direct violation of the rules, and landed myself a 30-day ban which turned into a permanent ban when my account value was put into question. After a couple months and a support ticket I was back, but I have that one unactivated win on my account. I have absolutely no excuse for regifting; I blatantly thought I could get away with it. I've learned my lesson since then.
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Given that I probably wouldn't know about the suspension I would request a reroll. Support would then inform me of it, and it would be fine.
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Surely they would mention the fact that a suspension had already been served in their denial of it?
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So if it's over a month old it's a denial without a reason?
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The reason is that the rule-breaking is too old. You can try if the user has a tons of inactivations, especially if those are the majority of their wins. In this case, they get forwarded for a perma. But even then, I had a 6+ time rule-breaker who I had to send the key to, because all of those served their increasing suspensions.
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No , it's not, you're absolutely correct that if the infraction has not been served yet your reroll would be granted. The 1 month thing means that even if the suspension was served but the infraction is not over 1 month old you would still be granted your reroll.
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Wasn't one where it was said it was too old? I remember something like that, this is why I don't bother with any of the 30+ day old inactivations any more. Even though I'd really like to reroll on accounts of 2-3 month old ones sometimes, especially with repeat offenders.
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i set mine to lvl 4, so not much problem with the winners, no rerolls, i feel bad for all the lvl 0 giveaways going to trash
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Seems like I've been a bit on the lucky side with my winners. I've only had to reroll once, but that was because the winner had won the same game a few hours before, and forgot to remove other entries.
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Mostly I'm too lazy aswell (also don't want to waste support's time), but if it's someone I never ever saw before with barely any comments, or not too many wins or whatever, and they have a 2-3 year old non-activation, I still make a reroll ticket. I did get a few suspended for an ancient one. :p
Ooh yes, I know that feeling.. That's why I rarely give away dlc's or those games that has the API bug. When I do I make sure to write in the description something like 'Please check if you already own the game/dlc *link*' with bold letters :P works out way better. (for those that are reading ofc)
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On SGTools-protected giveaways, I never have to re-roll. I like that, because I like the giving-away part, not the checking part.
I request re-rolls from support whenever there is a recent (2-3 months) unactivated game; of those, probably half are granted. I did have one where the infraction was recent and they gave me a re-roll but also said that the suspension had been given and served. I would have waived the re-roll in that case if I'd had a chance.
I've also asked in cases where a winner had several games unactivated, spread over a long period of time. I had to send one a key in the end - I forget if it was 5 games or 6 that were in violation - and was pretty unhappy about it.
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I've rerolled twice in the past 15 giveaways because both winners hadn't activated 3+ games to their accounts in the past 6 months.
Generally speaking I would forget to check sgtools before though, so I don't know if it's increased, but sounds about average.
Also sgtools seems to have a hard time checking people with 3k+ games. Sometimes I give up checking if I've tried for a few hours with constant errors (coming back at a later time rarely seems to do anything, since people with less games will load, just not with a massive library).
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Only when the person lets me know they already own the game. So I think 2 times. For me it is about the gifting so if they don't activate the game the universe will find a way to sort them out.
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So far I made 43 GAs and never rerolled. My first GA thought, the winner was a rule-breaker. I didn't notice at that time (it was my first day here) so I sent the gift and then they regifted it. After that I never encountered any other problem.
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I don't bother with rerolls unless the winner tells me they already have the game or something. No patience to go digging through profiles after every giveaway. Besides, most of my gibs are around lv5, which helps weed out the rulebreakers.
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Sadly, my GA have about 20% choose a winner with un-activated wins. :(
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So I just had 4 giveaways end, and 2 users had un-activated wins, this is on top of the last giveaway I did having a winner with one win not redeemed. I'm noticing this becoming more and more common. How often on average do you guys who give stuff away find yourself re-rolling winners?
Have I just been unlucky lately, or is it starting to become a bit of a problem?
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