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so i finally won an awesome game (bioshock infinite).

the dude emails me the key which ends up being region locked to russia.

i told him to contact steam support to see if they can do anything. no response from him at all.

should i contact steam support myself? would they be able to added a RU locked steam gift that i can trade for a worldwide version so that i can play it?

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wotgamer

Mark as not received and report him to support since region locked keys aren't allowed on SGifts.

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gonkretep

1 day left till i can mark it as not received

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xamtheking

Some bad news: Steam can't do shit in this situation. The guy who gave the game away will get banned from SG for giving away a region-locked game, but that's about it.

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beebs

steam support aren't going to convert your key

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TeeJax

Steam wont do anything as it'd allow people to buy cheap Russian region locked keys, get steam to unlock them and sell them at a profit. Sorry man :(

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Shard

As long as your gifts won/estimated wins ratio checks out OK, there's really no bad luck.

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Whoppy

Lol, I actually entered that giveaway too. Sorry about the bad luck, it happens to all of us. In fact, last week I got scammed out of my Tomb Raider and Bioshock Infinite keys. A scammer that was not reported on steamtrades at the time copied someone else's profile and name and stole my 2 keys on steamtrades.com

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KaOtiCz

Do not trade keys, the chances of you being buttfucked are pretty high.

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Whoppy

Learned my lesson, I hadn't been on staemtrades that long.

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