Banned from gifting from Steam Wallet

That sucks big time :(. I hope you get it solved.

Never heard of this happening with anyone, so I can't really help you.

Good luck <3

Yes i have too this bann since 1 years ago

only 1 rules must follow
keep the ratio on 3/2

example:
you have a cake
You have to eat 2 parts yourself, then you can give 1 slice as a gift :)

Read it this topic
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/1643170269566079038/

Interesting, I have not bought a game on Steam for myself in 2 or 3 years.

Yet I have given away more than 20 GA's here gifting from my Steam Wallet since then making me 0:20 ratio using my wallet.
I do have alot of market history of selling and buying cards (and occasional skins) which is where my wallet comes from.

While I do "temp" add friends, I'm not quick to dump them. Its been many months since I've posted "Steamgifts" in comments or chat.
Whatever the ban trigger is, I havent hit it.

I had this issue and got it lifted with my 2nd ticket I sent to them (first one was same bullshit generic response) when I requested that they either unlock my account or refund me my wallet credit (they were actually willing to do so, but it was very fresh credit so that might halve helped). Then suddenly the restriction was lifted and I haven't had issues since.

After checking this thread I recalled having issues gifting a game to my cousin as well. I was like "perhaps just an error". And I don't really know what it exactly was, haven't tried purchasing the game as a gift again but I decided to contact support yesterday regarding this failed purchase. They told me they see I had issues purchasing and updated my account settings and that fix the problem. Well, I'm super happy about that :D Although I haven't tried purchasing a gift yet.

I don't understand. So if you buy games from steam and gift them to somebody else you might get banned?
From what i read you must be payed for the gift you send. But how they can verify this?

You can gift games, but you have to use credit card or paypal and not steam wallet.

As annoying as you may feel, consider emailing Gabe. I was having an issue with my Link and not getting any answers from Support. I emailed him and politely explained my issue. Less than a day later I got a response from someone else who said Gabe had forwarded my email to him and he actually gave me the answer I was trying to get out of support.

I’m sure it won’t be quite that easy for you but could be worth a try

Sounds like an executive came up with a good idea to make more money for valve. Limit how users can use their steam wallets.
I hope that executive got a big fat bonus. And chokes on it.

hello there, were you able to sort it out? i'm experiencing the same issue.

Steam's prices make me wonder how you could make a profit selling game keys bought from Steam if you're located in U.S. like OP or in Europe like me.

I haven't got this issue yet but heard of it, though it seems there are a lot of people have/had this here. I only got a limitation once when I bought 10 gifts separately to a same person and apparently you cannot gift more than 10 times in a week (could be 10 days or 2 weeks). It was not 10 games by the way, it just cannot be more than 10 check-outs.

There's no problem gifting from your steam wallet to different cheaper regions as long as you do it once in a while. I've sent all my region restricted gifts here this way for example. But if that tends to happen they may judge it as a business and ban you.

I really wish they would do something about steam support. I've heard so many cases of people getting walled by automatic responses.