Gift was Refunded, is it possible to resend it?

[NecromancerCrow]

I bought a game for a friend on Christmas he has unfortunately not been able to accept it yet. The gift was refunded today and he will have the ability to accept by the end of the week. Is it possible for me to have the gifted item resent or am i forced to spend the difference in price from the sale and now in order for the gift to go through at a time he could accept?

[KOOLLAYDTAC]

I could be wrong and feel free to correct me if I am, but I thought it would just return to your inventory. I'm in the same boat with my son. I gifted him a game and it still shows it in my inventory. Pretty sure he didn't even bother to accept it. Guessing he's still butt hurt because I said something to him about his nasty little attitude with me. lol Check your inventory though mate. As far as I know you keep the gift copy until you actually refund it yourself. Hope this helps some and good luck mate.

[NecromancerCrow]

Originally posted by KOOLLAYDTAC:

I could be wrong and feel free to correct me if I am, but I thought it would just return to your inventory. I'm in the same boat with my son. I gifted him a game and it still shows it in my inventory. Pretty sure he didn't even bother to accept it. Guessing he's still butt hurt because I said something to him about his nasty little attitude with me. lol Check your inventory though mate. As far as I know you keep the gift copy until you actually refund it yourself. Hope this helps some and good luck mate.

I had thought this was still the case but found out Steam automatically refunds gift copies now after not being accept/declined for 30 days. I honestly much preferred the system of gift copies just going to your inventory instead of auto refunding. I am hoping someone knows something i can do as the refund was given today and i have not touched any of the refunded money.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by NecromancerCrow:

I bought a game for a friend on Christmas he has unfortunately not been able to accept it yet. The gift was refunded today and he will have the ability to accept by the end of the week. Is it possible for me to have the gifted item resent or am i forced to spend the difference in price from the sale and now in order for the gift to go through at a time he could accept?

If the gift was refunded due to expiring, then you will either need to wait for another sale or pay the current price of the game.

[KOOLLAYDTAC]

Originally posted by NecromancerCrow:

I had thought this was still the case but found out Steam automatically refunds gift copies now after not being accept/declined for 30 days. I honestly much preferred the system of gift copies just going to your inventory instead of auto refunding. I am hoping someone knows something i can do as the refund was given today and i have not touched any of the refunded money.

Oh wow. I didn't know they changed that up on us. Since it refunded more then likely you'll get stuck waiting on the next sale or have to pay full price. I'd contact Steam support and see what they can do, but I don't have a lot of faith in Steam support these days. I'm sorry mate. They should have made that an optional thing. That doesn't really motivate me to want to gift copies of a game to many times on this platform anymore.

[NecromancerCrow]

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

Originally posted by NecromancerCrow:

I bought a game for a friend on Christmas he has unfortunately not been able to accept it yet. The gift was refunded today and he will have the ability to accept by the end of the week. Is it possible for me to have the gifted item resent or am i forced to spend the difference in price from the sale and now in order for the gift to go through at a time he could accept?

If the gift was refunded due to expiring, then you will either need to wait for another sale or pay the current price of the game.

Ah that really sucks, thanks though for the quick reply! As extremely disappointed as i am by this change to how gifting games is it helps to know for the future to only buy when someone can except immediately

[KOOLLAYDTAC]

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

If the gift was refunded due to expiring, then you will either need to wait for another sale or pay the current price of the game.

I'll ask this then because this will be good information to know for people. Can you contact Steam support prior to the 30 day refund time limit and have them remove the person who's name it's gifted to from it so it can stay in your inventory? Is there a way to do that? Thanks in advance mate.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by KOOLLAYDTAC:

I'll ask this then because this will be good information to know for people. Can you contact Steam support prior to the 30 day refund time limit and have them remove the person who's name it's gifted to from it so it can stay in your inventory? Is there a way to do that? Thanks in advance mate.

Not likely. Support tends to be hands off with such things.

Valve did away with games in the inventory because people were buying large amounts and selling them on 3rd party sites after the sale was over. There are very few packs that allow one to have a copy of a game in their inventory and they are not the exception, not the rule.

Best practice is to either schedule the delivery date for when you know they can accept it or contact them to make sure they can accept it with in 30 days.

[KOOLLAYDTAC]

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

Not likely. Support tends to be hands off with such things.

Valve did away with games in the inventory because people were buying large amounts and selling them on 3rd party sites after the sale was over. There are very few packs that allow one to have a copy of a game in their inventory and they are not the exception, not the rule.

Best practice is to either schedule the delivery date for when you know they can accept it or contact them to make sure they can accept it with in 30 days.

Well I hope that at least doesn't effect people who have had extra copies of games in their inventory from either from buying 4 packs and/or gifted to them by developers and stuff. I got a few myself that's been handed out over the years that's been in my inventory for a while now. lol Anyway thank you for the information mate. I appreciate it.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by KOOLLAYDTAC:

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

Not likely. Support tends to be hands off with such things.

Valve did away with games in the inventory because people were buying large amounts and selling them on 3rd party sites after the sale was over. There are very few packs that allow one to have a copy of a game in their inventory and they are not the exception, not the rule.

Best practice is to either schedule the delivery date for when you know they can accept it or contact them to make sure they can accept it with in 30 days.

Well I hope that at least doesn't effect people who have had extra copies of games in their inventory from either from buying 4 packs and/or gifted to them by developers and stuff. I got a few myself that's been handed out over the years that's been in my inventory for a while now. lol Anyway thank you for the information mate. I appreciate it.

Any that are from packs or already existed will continue to exist. No one is taking them away, they just are not creating any more (with the 4/2 packs being an exception, but only if they already existed before Valve no longer allowed such packs).