Help about Steamgifts

You can always check if giveaway creator has many "Not received" markings. Which means giveaways where they have not delivered the game.

On other hand also making fake giveaways that is making one and not even attempting to give gift can be punished by admins.

Welcome to steamgifts!

If you want to improve your win chances, you can join various groups.
like, a steam group - sync your account, and you'll gain access to exclusive group giveaways with much better win chances.
See the Group recruitment channel for a few examples.

Also, if you give away a few games yourself (fanatical or humble bundle are good sources), you will increase your steamgifts level.
This allows you to see and enter giveaways with a higher level restriction, and thus improve your win chances.

As for legitimacy - usually users who have given away a number of games in the past are likely to be good.
People who create a giveaway as a joke, and never given anything in the past - are the kind of things you can be skeptical about.
If you've entered a few giveaways - you can check back on those later and see who won it or whether it was sent. You'll find very few fake giveaways.

Up to a certain point, new people get 3 giveaway slots, if none of them are received they got nothing left.

And depends, do you go for AAA games or just smaller bundle stuff, if so then offcourse you get more chance, there are also certain groups you could join for better chances, and if you are active here, perhaps do some events, hang around and people might like you enough they add you to their whitelist and also increase your chances.

And per giveaway you can see the entries easily.

Yes GAs can be created and then deleted by the author before it ends. Once ended, they have to get an admin involved to delete. Otherwise they will have a not delivered on their account and no credit as credit is issued after the game is successfully received.

Check the odds, if its averaging 2000 entries, expect to win a game on average after 2000 entries. Some are lucky and win sooner and some are unlucky and win later. Joining some public groups (such as Playing Appreciated, Unlucky 7) will lower the number of entries you are competing with.

Hi !

To have more chances, like this was said before, you can improve your level (by gifting games gifts or keys) to be able to enter more giveaways and have more chances to win (the highest the level the less people can enter the giveaway, so it improves your chances).

Like others said you can join groups which does giveaways only the members of the group can enter.

You can also be invited to private giveaways through events: puzzles (you have to do a puzzle before entering the GA), trains (a long list of giveaways made by one person), or sometimes people post links to private ga's in specific posts.

I never encountered anyone that "faked a key", but it can happen, tho, don't worry too much about it because you got a whole staff of mods and admins to prevent it from happening again.
Don't worry about losing, it's part of the fun. One day you will have a pleasant surprise ;) (It doesn't happen that much but it happens regularily)

Hope you will have fun within this community ;3

For what it's worth, it wouldn't be much of a scam because the only person getting hurt from removing the giveaway or not giving the key is the one who listed the giveaway in the first place. It doesn't feel good to not receive the game key after being lucky enough to win something but like the other comments say, there is very little incentive for people to do that sort of thing.
I believe on all my year here, I've only had to personally deal with 6 instances where I'd won but the giveaway creator wanted to delete the give away because the key was a duplicate, they didn't want to provide another, but at that point, they have to get the winner's consent in the comments to agree to delete the giveaway or else the winner can mark it as not received and nail it on their record.
The giveaway creator can request a reroll for another winner but as far as I am aware, those requests can only be made if you've broken any rules like having multiple wins of the same game or in the case of a puzzle event for instance, getting the URL link to the invite only giveaway through external means (like someone finishing the puzzle and sharing the giveaway url) or also sharing that url with others and getting caught for doing so.

Tl;Dr, This site is basically community run and in most cases, the site is kind when you are kind to it. Welcome and best of luck!

• Give more = Win chance more
• Join groups more = Win chance more
• Take part in discussions = Win chance more

Unlucky 7 or something is a group you can try.

I didn't win my first game until the 1k entries mark. Even then, I was throwing my points at EVERYTHING.

If you want a higher chance to win, you qualify for Unlucky 7. Please read how to enter the group carefully.

Welcome!

• Answer for questions about winning
  Less than 10% of gibs (giveaways) are not working. But SG have protection system with moderators that bans users who violated rules 3 times (check rules for more info).
  Here're general scenario.
  GiveAway (GA) creator must send key (via steamgifts.com) or gift (via Steam) due 1 week. Winner must check it, activate on own linked account (!), mark giveaway as "Received" or "Not received" due 1 week from win-time or received-gift/key (I'm not sure). If something go wrong than you should check rules/FAQ (and send ticket).
• Answer for questions about giveaways
  Number of wins depends on 1. your luck, 2. level of GA (GiveAway), 3. is it private (whitelist) GA, 4. is it group GA. Higher level mean less number of entires. Same to private and group gibs. Some groups have own rules for participating in them. Well, some users could have 100 wins per 65k entires, some other users could have 200+ wins per same entires and other users could have less than 50 wins per same entires. It's possible to have about year without wins and it's possible to have several wins while month or week.
  Have a nice day
  Check this pages for more info.
  1. FAQ: https://www.steamgifts.com/about/faq
  2. Guidelines: https://www.steamgifts.com/about/guidelines
  3. You able to check number of entires per giveaway on stats page: check right upper side of page and find button near your profile icon -> click on arrow to open context menu -> choose "My stats" -> choose "Giveaways" on left side navigation bar.

Thank you each and everyone, I never expected to get such decent "attention" to my lame question. I'm new to steam gifts(kind of) so it's hard for me to reply to everyone(I don't even know how to reply ) but I'm thankful for your efforts to answer my question, once I read all comments thoroughly I'll discuss even more (if I'm curious enough, which I'm but need to read all comments first) .

Yours 471 entries are not "quite a lot" at all!
For me its 1 win in 1000 giveaways.
To increase your chances you can:

• Join several groups like Unlucky-7 or some others
• Increase your SG level, more your level less entries there will be
• Search for Invite only giveaways in discussions
• Complete Jigidi's for invite only giveaways
• And of course, just enter all giveaways you want and eventually you'll win something
  Good luck!

The group that helped me gain more wins, especially in the beginning was Unlucky-7. Make sure you read up on the group rules and I wish you the best of luck!

Welcome to SteamGifts, by the way. Even though you have been around for a few months, you have not entered very many giveaways, so keep trying also and you will be sure to get some wins eventually.

EDIT:
Of course that group has been mentioned several times already.

There is also a group called Playing Appreciated where the members are expected to play their wins from the group within a 30 day window after the giveaway ends. I like giving to this group because I know people are planning to play the games when they enter. Because you haven't won anything yet, you would have to join by giving away a game to the group, but in the long run, you will see that it's worth joining. After all, seeing your few entries over so many months, it's clear you are joining games you are finding interesting and not everything under the sun.

Hello my friend. Hopefully you win some games soon from some of the groups I showed you.

There is no formula for wins. I registered 6 Feb 16. My first win was 1 of 5595 entries on 14 May 16. My next win was 1 of 1391 entries on 9 June. Then I won a slew of invite-only and group-only giveaways (enter through discussion forums). For public giveaways, I won 10 in my first 9 months. Of those, only 2 were Level 0 giveaways. So you could say I had better luck than you, but that's what this site ultimately comes down to: luck. I agree with what was said above:

• give away a game to achieve Level 1, then give away more games to get an even higher level
• participate in groups for group-only giveaways
• participate in discussions for invite-only giveaways
• read the site FAQ and guidelines to understand how entry points (P) and user Level work.

ohhh, I see. thank you very much :D I guess it's time to level up then