How is it half price already on key stores?

[Ms. E Girl]

across multiple stores its 26gbp. how is that possible before game is even launched?

[evanloohaklm]

It's not impossible to sell keys at a lower price than when you bought them, it's just very unprofitable, that or it's just a scam, who knows?

[Ms. E Girl]

its across 10 well known keystores. look it up on allkeyshop

[evanloohaklm]

Originally posted by MR.:

its across 10 well known keystores. look it up on allkeyshop

How strange.

[Horak]

credit card fraud

[Enterprofilenamehere]

Originally posted by Horak:

credit card fraud

This

Steam key resellers can be sketchy. They'll buy up keys with stolen credit cards and then sell the keys to make a profit at the expense of both the victim of the credit card fraud, and the person who bought the key who will often lose access to it in the future when the fraud is discovered.

[General T.Montana Tropic Thunder]

Sometimes, depending on the publisher and situation
...If one buys 50000 keys with instant ( advanced, before game release ) cash payment as a reseller, one can sometimes get huge discounts - Such B2B key batches are often non-refundable between the publisher and the reseller.

It's just one variant of game key business, not all of them are shady.

There are also promo key bundles, which can come bundled with hardware for example. These kind of keys can also find their way onto the public in larger quantities, some batches will show up as "Product received for free" on Steam, some batches not.

There will be more constellations on game key handling, I don't know all of them.

By accident, I just bought Steel Division 2 for the second time! @.@
I hope the wait for Men of War 2 is not too long, I need my WW2 RTS fix !

[noragrets]

cheapest on isthereanydeal.com is 42.95 on 2game. I don't trust any site that I don't see on isthereanydeal.

[Ritsuka]

Originally posted by MR.:

across multiple stores its 26gbp. how is that possible before game is even launched?

just about all keystores use stolen CC and identies to get their keys soo

[Its Not Daniel]

Originally posted by Horak:

credit card fraud

yup the sad truth

[CoLD__FuSioNzZ]

So I have a key sitting in my order confirmation box, what do I do with it, is it likely fraud and won't be redeemable? I've never had a negative experience with keystores (not saying there isn't bad people on there)

[MrCrowBard]

It's £27 on CDKeys and they don't buy directly from individuals so there's no CC fraud going on there. What they do is purchase keys in regions where there's a lower regional pricing (either directly themselves or via 3rd parties) and then sell them on.

Looking at the steam price across regions it's currently 420 Turkish Lira for the base game. That's equivalent to £16. Companies like these purchase the game there and then sell it to you for £27 and take the difference as payment.

[Nebthtet]

Originally posted by Horak:

credit card fraud

Not always. Reputable stores have this game cheap too. It's obvious that in this case the reason must lie somewhere else.

[Ms. E Girl]

Originally posted by CoLD__FuSioNzZ:

So I have a key sitting in my order confirmation box, what do I do with it, is it likely fraud and won't be redeemable? I've never had a negative experience with keystores (not saying there isn't bad people on there)

who did you order from? i havent got my key yet. should be able to redeem it now?

[CoLD__FuSioNzZ]

Originally posted by MR.:

Originally posted by CoLD__FuSioNzZ:

So I have a key sitting in my order confirmation box, what do I do with it, is it likely fraud and won't be redeemable? I've never had a negative experience with keystores (not saying there isn't bad people on there)

who did you order from? i havent got my key yet. should be able to redeem it now?

I got my key through CDKeys, their policy is with any pre-order you get the key on the day of release. It does let me open the order but tells me to wait until 24-10-23 to get the key (which is in line with their policy).