Humble Bundle doesn't allow giving away on steamgifts?

I guess so you can gift them to family and friends, not random people you see on the street.

Filing a claim through Paypal will ultimately lead to Humble banning the account which may well then result in you losing access to everything you've bought.

I think there's some point here where if you buy something as a 'bundle', then you own it as a 'bundle', and perhaps these individual keys wouldn't be yours to resell.

e.g. Buying the bundle for $12 and selling it to someone else for $20 -- they can say what they want in their ToS, but if someone contested them on this, they'd lose. However, buying some bundle for $12, and giving away or selling part A, B, C, D, E as separate units, may not be so kosher. Maybe makes some of their ToS hold a bit more water, dunno.

EU law for individual keys at least is clear cut:

https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2012-07/cp120094en.pdf (not to be confused with some later rulings, where people claimed they were within their rights to sell entire steam accts etc)

US law, I don't know as much about.

Send them an email to explain that I'm not a reseller. Let's see what they will do.

Correct. This is also what i do to get around Humble's gifting "bug"

I recall someone contacting Humble regarding this security issue (gift link urls can be discovered by brute force) and them calling that person a reseller and not addressing the problem at all, just ignoring him.

It's the same for "download" links (the one you receive when you claim a gift link, https://www.humblebundle.com/downloads?key=blablabla), they can be found by brute force. It's really stupid because when you claim a gift link the game should be linked to your Humble account (they force you to verify the gift claimed via e-mail), and the "download" link containing the Steam key should be only visible to you when you're logged with your account (the account that claimed the gift link).

Apparently, Humble does not like active key traders/resellers but they don't care about people hacking (cracking?) into our accounts.

Great advice oginer. I've had the same problem in the past. If the links are over a day old then they end up being used. I don't know why. There's either a vulnerability here or at Humble Bundle.

These days I either make giveaways super short (an hour) or I only generate the gift links when a winner has been chosen.

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I almost always just do the code, though I've sometimes wished I did a gift link because HB keys constantly "bug out" which ones have been activated? I'll often have to reclick on the code a few times/refresh before it disappears from the "not redeemed" keys area. And even then a year later it'll sometimes randomly tell me to reveal the code when I know I've given it away before. Where when you gift them there's no confusion, it's always shown as sent. I hope that made sense.

I guess the alternative is writing down which keys I've given away, especially when it's to friends off Steamgifts. Instead I've just given them away on the leftover keys thread or to a friend on the off chance it works, but feel like I'm disappointing them if it's already used. ;_;

It helps me keep track of the games on there. I gift link anything that's a gift, and reveal anything that's for me.

There's no extra step, either. It's either click button A or button B - the amount of effort required is the same.

the key only provides access to the game on steam. the gift link often also includes drm-free download access and maybe a soundtrack download. i'd rather get a humble gift link than a key, but all the same i'd probably only use the key from it.

does this still works? like revealing the key instead of using the gift link? i have doubts before for gifting friends lmao

that's an interesting idea, jims, really curious if someone has done/will do this.

people here maybe don't know that after the recent changes they made, if they "know", from Steam linked account, you already have that game, the only option left is the dumb Gift Link ("only for personal use"...).

Next step for me is revealing all the keys left in my account, and simply paste them in notepad :D

You are wrong read what they said. They are against selling and trading their games. Meaning they are not against being charitable(gifting) the problem is they don't look deep enough at steamgifts to see that it is gifting and not selling/trading

Yeah, this is so annoying. It's a known problem for quite a long time now. No idea why they haven't fixed this yet.

I bought the Bundle just this month and created the gift-links a few days before I made the GA. Also I don't have those games in my steam library.

At this point you have to assume they're doing it on purpose. It's a policy decision.
They can't possibly actually not understand what SteamGifts is.

It seems to be entirely the fault of the Humble Bundle gift-link system.
Not sure why people always try to throw shade onto people with low levels on here.

Gift links can be brute forced, it has happened numerous times before, happened to me too. Lost ~ 20 games that were made into gift links, but all my unrevealed keys were fine, as I found out later. HB support said that my account was probably compromised, which obviously wasn't the case. At least they restored all my games a day later, didn't mention anything about steamgifts to them that time, thankfully.