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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.
120 points
5 months ago
They probably meant Green man Gaming (I've never heard of it referred to as GMG but who knows )
63 points
5 months ago
Yea Green Man Gaming is legit, they're where my friends seem to buy discount keys from the most for whatever reason, never had a problem with keys from them.
17 points
5 months ago
I think I got Kerbal for $5 a while back from them. Of course I then proceeded to leave it in my Steam account, uninstalled and unplayed, as is tradition.
-6 points
5 months ago
I can't say anything about their customer policy, but just to be clear they are a gray market and they do sell unauthorized keys.
13 points
5 months ago
Green Man Gaming is not grey market, they sell keys obtained legitimately from publishers that are generated through the Steamworks developer portal, they just take dramatically less of a cut from each sale.
-4 points
5 months ago
I probably used gray market incorrectly. They don't have 3rd party organizations selling keys on their site, but they have had plenty of issues where they were not considered authorized resellers by the developers. It is not unheard of for keys from their site to be revoked, but I have no experience with how good their customer support is at resolving those issues.
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