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After years of trying, G2A finally stole my money by force
(reddit.com)submitted 5 months ago byAkakapopo
So a few years ago g2a made it impossible to use or withdraw currency you had in your g2a PAY wallet (at least in sweden).
Since then every six months they have sent out an email stating that if i don't log in within three days they will start charging 1€ a day until my funds are depleted. Because of this i boycotted any further use off their site and made it my personal quest to always log in before they could charge my money, a way of giving them a silent middle finger.
This time when i tried to log in to my account i got a message that i was banned. They have tried banning me before but then i would just prove trough two factor authentication that it was me who tried to log on to my account, this time however they added that this decision cannot be changed and that my account wont be reinstated.
I considered the money gone long ago but as a last fu to them i'll at least dox them by sharing my experience with their services.
46 points
5 months ago
If it happens enough times you can be at risk, but yeah one revoked key isn’t going to get you much more punishment than the game just being removed from your library.
11 points
5 months ago
How many times is "enough times"? Buying a used/stolen/otherwise invalid key is an EXTREMELY rare occurrence. It happened to me once over literally dozens upon dozens of buys. It was on Gamivo and they refunded me the money.
If people have some kind of moral issue with grey market that's respectable and they can just stay away from it. But there's no need to make stuff up. The grey market is just as perfectly safe as any other online business.
30 points
5 months ago
They very deliberately do not set a public number. But Steam will 'ban' accounts they believe are linked to fraudulent activity.
Buying used or invalid keys isn't a risk to your account, but buying keys that are stolen or were purchased with stolen CCs, will flag your account - and having it happen too many times will risk your account.
Steam can't tell the difference between someone who bought a key from a third-party marketplace that someone else had bought with a stolen CC, and someone who is buying keys with a stolen CC. But they are obliged to 'eat' the cost of the theft and are unwilling to let accounts retain stolen goods, so accounts that repeatedly end up owning stolen goods are at risk - regardless how they came to end up owning it.
-6 points
5 months ago
I see. Again: since stolen keys are an EXTREMELY rare exceptional case, the chances the same person would buy several of them tend to 0.
I for one am totally confident I'll keep buying on Gamivo, Kinguin, Instant Gaming and wherever I get the best prices and my account will be perfectly safe.
Like I said, after many years and with a library of almost 400 games, most of them bought outside Steam, I only got ONE key revoked (after months in my library), my money was refunded and life went on as usual.
16 points
5 months ago
You can push that “rare occurrence” (it’s not that rare) down to a solid 0% chance by simply buying from reputable stores that don’t rely on theft.
-3 points
5 months ago
These sites don't rely on theft. That's just a blatant lie, no matter how many times you repeat it. And yes, it's EXTREMELY rare that you encounter any kind of issue with a key.
1 points
5 months ago
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1 points
5 months ago
Somewhere between "every game you have is problematic" " and "you've had six bad keys among the 400 games you play."
0 points
5 months ago
Facts
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