Valve deleting extra games to punish refunds?

So I've decided to return a game. I've not done this before. I bought the game along with six others in a single purchase. When I go to set up the return, I am told that I will be refunded the cost paid for the one game and that all seven that I bought in that single purchase will be removed from my account.

Is this Valve's way to reduce returns, is this fraud, is this even legal? I can't return the game now, it would cost far more to buy the other six games again than I would receive for the one return.

Oh so they were all in the cart at the time you purchased it?
Ive never heard of that. I have heard however people returning the whole thing if it was all in a bundle. Like the Hitman bundle or the Just Cause bundle.

Well, you bought them in a bundle, so they remove the bundle. Kinda "normal".
Otherwise you could basically abuse the bundle feature (somehow,... i guess)

No, they were completely separate games. This is the message I received.

try that again

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From what I've heard, the only way to refund a single game from a purchase of many is to get Steam Wallet from it instead of it going to the original payment method. I've never refunded a game so I can't say from experience.

1.59

send a ticket to steam support, we can't do anything...

OK, thanks for support all. I was a bit alarmed at it. I'll take it to support.

Yeah... I bought a game with all dlcs (complete pack) and I tried to refund it. When I go to options, I can't refund the pack, only the main game or the dlcs, so, I paid 10 dollars and I could refund 3 dollars... I didn't refund.

This is why all my purchases on steam are single games, never multiple ones at once (except for bundles).

They must have been part of a bundle of sorts. $1.59 for all those games outside of a bundle is a little wierd. Historically those games have never been available for those prices. Something here isn't making sense.

i had same problem one month ago
http://imgur.com/9rfXM1u
I bought 4 games and wanted refund one of them (Pixel Boy and the Ever Expanding Dungeon)
Don't worry, it's just a steam bug, i got my money back for "Pixel Boy and the Ever Expanding Dungeon" and 3 games left in my library

They refund transactions, not individual games. They can remove an individual game, as long as it was a separate product ID, but you cannot just go back to a store and say you want to refund a single item of a long purchase list. Every store on the planet needs to write a new receiptin that case. Valve cannot do that in an automated way, so they do what they have to and just refund the entire thing.
All other digital retailers do similarly, refunding an entire transaction, by the way, only some do the new receipt for you in these cases. But they cannot just cross out an item from a bill like that. Every known tax/revenue agency would fuck them up for that.