Is it possible to ask someone from Argentina to buy me games from their Steam store as a gift?

[HiraBeing🩰🦢]

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[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by HiroBeing🌌:

Is it possible to ask someone from Argentina to buy me games from their Steam store as a gift?

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Sending anything in or out of Argentina and Turkey is heavily restricted these days on Steam.

[HiraBeing🩰🦢]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by HiroBeing🌌:

Is it possible to ask someone from Argentina to buy me games from their Steam store as a gift?

o.O?

Sending anything in or out of Argentina and Turkey is heavily restricted these days on Steam.

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T_T

[Leonardo Da Pinchi]

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[MadZec]

Originally posted by Leonardo Da Pinchi:

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Well does it goes as fraud if someone buys it in his reagion for full price there, but lover price then in your region and simply send it as gift...... How does that counts as fraud? He paid full price..

[Weimu]

Originally posted by MadZec:

Originally posted by Leonardo Da Pinchi:

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Well does it goes as fraud if someone buys it in his reagion for full price there, but lover price then in your region and simply send it as gift...... How does that counts as fraud? He paid full price..

if you're purposely trying to get around regional pricing yes it is fraud

[Leonardo Da Pinchi]

Originally posted by MadZec:

Originally posted by Leonardo Da Pinchi:

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Well does it goes as fraud if someone buys it in his reagion for full price there, but lover price then in your region and simply send it as gift...... How does that counts as fraud? He paid full price..

They also likely meant to reimburse the person who bought the gifts, which then is bypassing various tax laws.

Using a country's weaker GDP to save a buck may seem savvy, but can also be considered tax fraud depending your local tax laws.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by HiroBeing🌌:

Is it possible to ask someone from Argentina to buy me games from their Steam store as a gift?

o.O?

Sending anything in or out of Argentina and Turkey is heavily restricted these days on Steam.

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Apart from gifting not being possible in general if the price difference of the two store regions is more then 10%.
Which would be the case for pretty much 100% of games on the Argentinian store.

[Cypher Raige]

Why Argentina?

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Cypher Raige:

Why Argentina?

Because many games there only cost a fraction of the prices in other Steam regions.
Also the Argentinian currency has been on a downward trend for years now so its even cheaper.
You can get some 60 dollar games for like 5 dollars after conversion in Argentina.
Which made it a attractive goal for region hoppers on Steam and it got so bad that Steam had to introduce severe restrictions about switching your store region and further restrictions just for the Argentinian Steam Store.

[Vergo]

Originally posted by Der Admiral:

Originally posted by Cypher Raige:

Why Argentina?

Because many games there only cost a fraction of the prices in other Steam regions.
Also the Argentinian currency has been on a downward trend for years now so its even cheaper.
You can get some 60 dollar games for like 5 dollars after conversion in Argentina.
Which made it a attractive goal for region hoppers on Steam and it got so bad that Steam had to introduce severe restrictions about switching your store region and further restrictions just for the Argentinian Steam Store.

Not anymore actually, im from Argentina and prices where rised by 500%, so now the price is almost the same as everywhere, the problem is that here we earn 300-400 dollars monthly instead of 1500 :( (Doesn't work with every game, thats about the suggested steam price for Argentina, but almost every game is using it)

And yeah, that happened cause of people abusing of the Argentina store, no clue how, but thanks to them, now the Argentinians like me are ♥♥♥♥♥♥, will never be able to buy RE4

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Vergo:

Originally posted by Der Admiral:

Because many games there only cost a fraction of the prices in other Steam regions.
Also the Argentinian currency has been on a downward trend for years now so its even cheaper.
You can get some 60 dollar games for like 5 dollars after conversion in Argentina.
Which made it a attractive goal for region hoppers on Steam and it got so bad that Steam had to introduce severe restrictions about switching your store region and further restrictions just for the Argentinian Steam Store.

Not anymore actually, im from Argentina and prices where rised by 500%, so now the price is almost the same as everywhere, the problem is that here we earn 300-400 dollars monthly instead of 1500 :(

Your 75% taxes on top of the purchases will make most games way too expensive to gift anyways.

[Vergo]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by Vergo:

Not anymore actually, im from Argentina and prices where rised by 500%, so now the price is almost the same as everywhere, the problem is that here we earn 300-400 dollars monthly instead of 1500 :(

Your 75% taxes on top of the purchases will make most games way too expensive to gift anyways.

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Yup, exactly, RE4 costs around 110 dollars including the taxes, impossible to buy for most people here

[Ȼħⱥꞥꞥēł8753452]

Originally posted by Leonardo Da Pinchi:

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[Boblin the Goblin]

Originally posted by Channel_04:

Originally posted by Leonardo Da Pinchi:

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Trying to circumvent regional restrictions is considered fraud.

[Cypher Raige]

Originally posted by Der Admiral:

Originally posted by Cypher Raige:

Why Argentina?

Because many games there only cost a fraction of the prices in other Steam regions.
Also the Argentinian currency has been on a downward trend for years now so its even cheaper.
You can get some 60 dollar games for like 5 dollars after conversion in Argentina.
Which made it a attractive goal for region hoppers on Steam and it got so bad that Steam had to introduce severe restrictions about switching your store region and further restrictions just for the Argentinian Steam Store.

Hmm. Valve has banned people from doing stuff like this since the Orange Box days.