Kinguin Sells duplicate keys

[MyBooMStick]

Beware

[MagicHp]

Początkowo opublikowane przez busyman:

Don't ever buy from kinguin or g2a. Only buy from sites vetted by IsThereAnyDeal (like Humble, GMG, Fanatical etc).

Of course, even better, trust the random guy on the forums vouching for a random site, much more secure ;)

If you want to buy a key at a lower price outside of official stores, you take a risk.
By reading the fine prints before you buy you know easily what you risk and what you are protected from.
All these sites have been working for years or even decades for some, the illegal or actually dangerous ones have been filtered out years ago.
These sites have MUCH more to lose than you if they sell you an actual nefarious key and not doing anything about it.....
You take responsibility for your actions, if you want to buy at a lower price, there is some "risk" involved, that you can reduce or even negate with a good preparation.

And, we still have no word from OP, so no context and no story yet, just a few words thrown to get some attention, working so far ;)

[Jade]

Początkowo opublikowane przez solaris32:

Początkowo opublikowane przez MagicHp:

A key seller, among GMG and others.
I have been using their services for years for about a third of the games I buy, never had any issue.

Ohh. Because there are keys in the game itself so I was confused.

I only ever buy games on Steam, I don't trust 3rd party sellers. Also you can't refund games and get your money back unless you buy direct from Valve.

That's technically wrong, I used to be an absolute ♥♥♥♥ and chargeback on PayPal every time I bought a game that costed more than like $10 from G.2.A and they'd refund me as they had no proof of me lying. Key resellers are usually fine, if the key is invalid they'll believe you 99.98% of the time but CDKeys and G.2.A are the only ones I really cared to use.

[kiteless 凧無し]

the things people do to save a few bucks
just buy on steam

[Bͥatͣmͫan]

Początkowo opublikowane przez kiteless 凧無し:

the things people do to save a few bucks
just buy on steam

You make it sound like some crazy thing people do
all they do is go to another site *click buy*
it's not that deep brother.

[MagicHp]

Początkowo opublikowane przez kiteless 凧無し:

the things people do to save a few bucks
just buy on steam

I live in France, have you checked the news about us lately?
Saving a few € is pretty vital lately, even with a job and a good salary ;)

[Jade]

Początkowo opublikowane przez kiteless 凧無し:

the things people do to save a few bucks
just buy on steam

key sites are like 50%+ cheaper most of the time, it's hard to blame people. I've literally only gotten an invalid key once out of maybe 60 games bought from resellers.

[kiteless 凧無し]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Bͥatͣmͫan:

Początkowo opublikowane przez kiteless 凧無し:

the things people do to save a few bucks
just buy on steam

You make it sound like some crazy thing people do
all they do is go to another site *click buy*
it's not that deep brother.

why bother, you can't refund the game like you can directly through steam

most these people are going through dodgy key sellers who probably got stolen keys or are abusing regional pricing, if its sounds too good to be true, its because it is

[MagicHp]

Początkowo opublikowane przez kiteless 凧無し:

why bother, you can't refund the game like you can directly through steam

To save some money and spend less on gaming as explained? ^^
I don't refund my games, ever, why bother? ;)

[kiteless 凧無し]

Początkowo opublikowane przez MagicHp:

Początkowo opublikowane przez kiteless 凧無し:

why bother, you can't refund the game like you can directly through steam

To save some money and spend less on gaming as explained? ^^
I don't refund my games, ever, why bother? ;)

yes you choose to play Russian roulette instead and hope your key doesn't get banned because your half price day 1 AAA key was stolen

If you're buying through a legit site like GMG fair enough, but still no refunds

Oh I refunded at least 7 games, it's the best thing about direct buying, some were trainwrecks at launch, looking at you batman arkham knight. Considering how bad so many pc ports are at launch the ability to refund is priceless

[Bͥatͣmͫan]

Początkowo opublikowane przez kiteless 凧無し:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Bͥatͣmͫan:

You make it sound like some crazy thing people do
all they do is go to another site *click buy*
it's not that deep brother.

why bother, you can't refund the game like you can directly through steam

most these people are going through dodgy key sellers who probably got stolen keys or are abusing regional pricing, if its sounds too good to be true, its because it is

when you buy a game you want you don't really care about a refund
because you are there to buy it and play it not get it refunded.

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I'll buy keys if I want because it's a free market.

[kiteless 凧無し]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Bͥatͣmͫan:

Początkowo opublikowane przez kiteless 凧無し:

why bother, you can't refund the game like you can directly through steam

most these people are going through dodgy key sellers who probably got stolen keys or are abusing regional pricing, if its sounds too good to be true, its because it is

when you buy a game you want you don't really care about a refund
because you are there to buy it and play it not get it refunded.

Even if its a game you 'really want' you'll soon be hitting that refund button if it crashes on you ever 2 minutes or there some other massive technical issues with it

those purchases are called 'refund and i'll come back and buy on sale once you bother fixing the game'. Had a few of them over the years

[MyBooMStick]

i provide Proof as Screenshots to kinguin ... thay dont care .... keysellers is Gamingworld

[Grimzy]

Początkowo opublikowane przez 󠁳 ⁧HardLimiter:

I never had problems with these sellers. (Same with others)
And I buy my games for over 10 years now from there.

Steam is too overpriced, I can´t understand ppl if they buy old games for 30 euro if you can get them for 4 euro or in a normal market for 7.

Steam sells games for the actual retail price. Sites such as the ones mentioned that are "unofficial" sell them cheaper because those are keys either gotten by stolen credit cards, or people got them for free with purchasing a GPU or w\e else. So naturally they will sell it much cheaper because it is still a profit for them. However they still have a high risk factor.
And by all means, you can be lucky to have no issues, but it does not diminish the risk.