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Holo Sep 24, 2022 @ 3:12pm

Steam Gift Card purchase Limit

I encountered a slight inconvenience at a London Drugs store in town and it seems to be an issue at 7Eleven as well. I purchased $100 worth of Steam gift cards at London Drugs and the guy behind me wanted to buy a Steam wallet card as well but couldn't. The store said there was a $100 dollar sale limit on Steam cards per hour. 7Eleven wasn't able to sell a steam card either because the activator wouldn't activate the card. Similar issue to the guy that was behind me at London Drugs. Why is this happening? That's good money that is walking out the door because folks can't buy/activate the cards. I must ask Steam to look into this. I wanted to buy more but couldn't because I thought it was $100 dollar limit per customer, which is still an inconvenience.

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Holo Sep 24, 2022 @ 4:51pm

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:
Originally posted by Simm:
Citation?

Contact London Drugs corporate support or talk to their manager.

No place in the US has these restrictions.

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Best Buy Canada has a $200 limit

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Pscht Sep 24, 2022 @ 4:52pm

Best Buy is NOT Valve, surprisingly enough.

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cSg|mc-Hotsauce Sep 24, 2022 @ 4:52pm

Originally posted by Simm:
Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Contact London Drugs corporate support or talk to their manager.

No place in the US has these restrictions.

Best Buy Canada has a $200 limit

As I said before, it is a retailer restriction, not a Valve restriction.

Then again, could be BC enacting further restrictions after they had to reverse the tax on gift cards after Best Buy had to take your government to court over it.

Last edited by cSg|mc-Hotsauce; Sep 24, 2022 @ 4:58pm

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no154370 Sep 24, 2022 @ 11:06pm

Originally posted by Simm:
I appreciate the interest in this subject, however, I am not interested in excuses made for Valve by people who are not responsible for, or employed by valve. This "Discussion" is to draw attention to a serious problem that is affecting customers. And since there is no support topic for this in the Help section. I will leave this subject open until the issue is resolved.

those who reply to you OP are NOT MAKING EXCUSES.

the one that refuses to see REASON is you and you alone OP.

stop pushing the blame to Steam and Valve Corporation.

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Steam and Valve Corporation are not in charge of stores like 7 eleven, Best Buy, London Drugs store.........etc at all.

7 eleven stores are under Seven & i Holdings Co., Ltd.

Best Buy is under Best Buy Co. Inc.

London Drugs Store is under London Drugs Limited

Steam and Valve Corporation have NO JURISDICTION OVER THOSE COMPANIES AT ALL.

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Beardy Sep 24, 2022 @ 11:15pm

It's 7-11 policy. Scammers use gift cards to launder money out of country. In such cases 7-11 has a hard time getting their money out of steam while the legal teams sort everything out. It often takes several months to resolve. So as a safety protocol and a deterrent to scammers they limit the sale to something manageable.

Once again, because people are inherently piles of garbage we can't have nice things.

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no154370 Sep 24, 2022 @ 11:17pm

OP needs to learn this

1) Gaming Companies has no authority and jurisdiction over Convenience Stores and the Companies in charge of the Convenience Stores

as long as he failed to see that, he will continue to argue here.

Last edited by no154370; Sep 24, 2022 @ 11:18pm

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Holo Sep 25, 2022 @ 2:42am

Originally posted by Beardy:
It's 7-11 policy. Scammers use gift cards to launder money out of country. In such cases 7-11 has a hard time getting their money out of steam while the legal teams sort everything out. It often takes several months to resolve. So as a safety protocol and a deterrent to scammers they limit the sale to something manageable.

Once again, because people are inherently piles of garbage we can't have nice things.

Funny, I worked at 7Eleven and the only thing we were told to watch were the pre paid credit cards, and since it's none of 7Eleven's business what people use their money for this is clearly not true.

Last edited by Holo; Sep 25, 2022 @ 2:44am

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Pscht Sep 25, 2022 @ 3:55am

Because policies can't change without them telling you, a FORMER employee, about it or what?

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no154370 Sep 25, 2022 @ 6:32am

Originally posted by Simm:
Originally posted by Beardy:
It's 7-11 policy. Scammers use gift cards to launder money out of country. In such cases 7-11 has a hard time getting their money out of steam while the legal teams sort everything out. It often takes several months to resolve. So as a safety protocol and a deterrent to scammers they limit the sale to something manageable.

Once again, because people are inherently piles of garbage we can't have nice things.
Funny, I worked at 7Eleven and the only thing we were told to watch were the pre paid credit cards, and since it's none of 7Eleven's business what people use their money for this is clearly not true.

working at the 7 eleven store and working in the Seven & i Holdings Co., Ltd company directly as an employee are 2 different things.

Seven & i Holdings Co., Ltd. is the parent company in charge of all the 7 eleven stores worldwide

they decide the rules and regulations and policy of everything they are in charge of.

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you "Simm" is just an employee of 7 eleven store.

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no154370 Sep 25, 2022 @ 6:38am

and this is from channel news asia in Singapore

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/police-warn-scams-delivery-couriers-itunes-cards-remittance-2675771

and here is one thing from Federal Trade Commission "consumer advice"

https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/gift-card-scams

another link

https://www.scamalert.sg/stories-details/Story-14Dec2018125057PM

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there are already plenty of Gift Card Scams for X Years.

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exile3dd Mar 20, 2024 @ 6:23pm

Scammers use prepaid visa cards to launder money, yet no similar restrictions appear to exist. I rose early today, made my way to Walmart (not a place I particularly care for) and set my sights on $100 worth of steam credit. As the only denominations available were $30, and $20 USD, I grabbed two of each. Perhaps my surprise, and indignation weren't valve's fault, but the fact that I no longer think I need that complete Connan Exiles pack with all the DLC is their problem.

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