Can't send a game to my American friend, Then charge me with the price Americans pay (as a gift)

[Tickles]

Is it too hard for them to make this?
I want to play a game with my friend but it's not possible for me to gift him due to regional price difference.
Americans can send gifts world wide because it charges them more than anyone else in the world. just make it simple like discord if I had to gift nitro they charge me $10 per month instead of $6

[Chompman]

Steam cannot do this as it breaks a law called "Bait and switch" and all you can do is buy them a steam gift card instead.

https://store.steampowered.com/digitalgiftcards/

[pckirk]

send your friend the USA $ amount via steam digital gift card

[rawWwRrr]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Tickles:

Can't send a game to my American friend, Then charge me with the price Americans pay (as a gift)

Is it too hard for them to make this?
I want to play a game with my friend but it's not possible for me to gift him due to regional price difference.
Americans can send gifts world wide because it charges them more than anyone else in the world. just make it simple like discord if I had to gift nitro they charge me $10 per month instead of $6

It is not only too hard but impossible as there are laws that prevent a store from charging you a different advertised price.

And the limitation isn't about prices being too big or small, it's about the difference between the two. If the price difference exceeds 10% then the gift won't go through. It doesn't matter if it's cheaper or more expensive.

Send your friend a digital gift card so they can buy the game on their own.

[KalGimpa]

i am going to assume it is more work than we would think

steam wants our money

if it was something easy and cheap to do

i have to think that they would have already done it to get it

could be dealing with the differing exchanges and how volatile a countries money is

or any number of things i just cannot think about because i do not know

but i am thinking there has to be something making them say

"yeah, that is too much work to get that money"

or whatever they said

[D. Flame]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Chompman:

Steam cannot do this as it breaks a law called "Bait and switch"

This claim was already debunked.

[Chompman]

Diposting pertama kali oleh D. Flame:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Chompman:

Steam cannot do this as it breaks a law called "Bait and switch"

This claim was already debunked.

It has not been debunked just because you think differently and you have been told this before.

It's because of that law and tax reasons and both are legal reasons steam cannot do this

The EU has something similar also.

[D. Flame]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Chompman:

Diposting pertama kali oleh D. Flame:

This claim was already debunked.

It has not been debunked just because you think differently and you have been told this before.

It's because of that law and tax reasons and both are legal reasons steam cannot do this

The EU has something similar also.

The law states differently. You throwing a fit about it doesn't change that.

[Tickles]

Diposting pertama kali oleh rawWwRrr:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Tickles:

Can't send a game to my American friend, Then charge me with the price Americans pay (as a gift)

Is it too hard for them to make this?
I want to play a game with my friend but it's not possible for me to gift him due to regional price difference.
Americans can send gifts world wide because it charges them more than anyone else in the world. just make it simple like discord if I had to gift nitro they charge me $10 per month instead of $6

It is not only too hard but impossible as there are laws that prevent a store from charging you a different advertised price.

And the limitation isn't about prices being too big or small, it's about the difference between the two. If the price difference exceeds 10% then the gift won't go through. It doesn't matter if it's cheaper or more expensive.

Send your friend a digital gift card so they can buy the game on their own.

If that's true then how come he can send me games and I can't?
I'm telling you. it only matter if it's higher not lower. I can't even do family sharing with him because of that.

[Chompman]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Tickles:

Diposting pertama kali oleh rawWwRrr:

It is not only too hard but impossible as there are laws that prevent a store from charging you a different advertised price.

And the limitation isn't about prices being too big or small, it's about the difference between the two. If the price difference exceeds 10% then the gift won't go through. It doesn't matter if it's cheaper or more expensive.

Send your friend a digital gift card so they can buy the game on their own.

If that's true then how come he can send me games and I can't?
I'm telling you. it only matter if it's higher not lower. I can't even do family sharing with him because of that.

The new family sharing only works technically for being in the same household but after you join it as long as your store region stays the same it should be fine as you can read about it here with multiple posts talking about it:

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamfamilies/discussions/

[rawWwRrr]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Tickles:

Diposting pertama kali oleh rawWwRrr:

It is not only too hard but impossible as there are laws that prevent a store from charging you a different advertised price.

And the limitation isn't about prices being too big or small, it's about the difference between the two. If the price difference exceeds 10% then the gift won't go through. It doesn't matter if it's cheaper or more expensive.

Send your friend a digital gift card so they can buy the game on their own.

If that's true then how come he can send me games and I can't?
I'm telling you. it only matter if it's higher not lower. I can't even do family sharing with him because of that.

Not all games are priced the same. I have friends in the EU and sometimes I can gift them a game, other times I can't. It all comes down to price difference. Nothing more. "Rich" countries can't gift to "poor" countries with no restrictions.

And the family restrictions are a different problem unrelated to price differences.

[HikariLight]

Diposting pertama kali oleh D. Flame:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Chompman:

Steam cannot do this as it breaks a law called "Bait and switch"

This claim was already debunked.

Wrong.
A business CANNOT advertise one price and then charge a different one.
This includes if you are gifting something, you must pay the show price.
And due to regional pricing restrictions, if the price difference between regions is 10% or more Steam will not allow the gift to be sent.

[D. Flame]

Diposting pertama kali oleh HikariLight:

Diposting pertama kali oleh D. Flame:

This claim was already debunked.

Wrong.

Incorrect.

If you walk in and a menu says "cheese pizza' = $10, first topping free, each additional topping +$0.50" then your bill is for $15, because you ordered 11 additional toppings, then contrary to your opinion, that is perfectly valid.

The menu lists the base price, and the price for additional toppings. It can NOT tell you the final price up front, because the final price depends on the amount of additional toppings that you add. The law specifically calls out exceptions like these, from what I recall reading.

People upset about this are just upset that they can not gift themselves cheaper games from their own alt accounts.

[HE❌EN]

The system was designed, the way it was, for a reason. And by god, it works.
And that's a good thing.

[Piston Smashed™]

Diposting pertama kali oleh D. Flame:

Diposting pertama kali oleh HikariLight:

Wrong.

Incorrect.

If you walk in and a menu says "cheese pizza' = $10, first topping free, each additional topping +$0.50" then your bill is for $15, because you ordered 11 additional toppings, then contrary to your opinion, that is perfectly valid.

The menu lists the base price, and the price for additional toppings. It can NOT tell you the final price up front, because the final price depends on the amount of additional toppings that you add. The law specifically calls out exceptions like these, from what I recall reading.

People upset about this are just upset that they can not gift themselves cheaper games from their own alt accounts.

Except when you buy that pizza with the added toppings you're buying it in the your current region. You are not buying it to send to another region where the rules, taxes etc are different.

[D. Flame]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Piston Smashed™:

Diposting pertama kali oleh D. Flame:

Incorrect.

If you walk in and a menu says "cheese pizza' = $10, first topping free, each additional topping +$0.50" then your bill is for $15, because you ordered 11 additional toppings, then contrary to your opinion, that is perfectly valid.

The menu lists the base price, and the price for additional toppings. It can NOT tell you the final price up front, because the final price depends on the amount of additional toppings that you add. The law specifically calls out exceptions like these, from what I recall reading.

People upset about this are just upset that they can not gift themselves cheaper games from their own alt accounts.

Except when you buy that pizza with the added toppings you're buying it in the your current region. You are not buying it to send to another region where the rules, taxes etc are different.

My point is that the law has exceptions built it. One of those exceptions is for add-ons, and another is for items that you cannot know the price of before hand.

Ordering a gift for someone in one of those other countries very clearly seems to fall into those exceptions.

So if Steam makes a disclaimer:

"The displayed price is the price you will pay to purchases the game for your own account. Purchasing a gift for someone in another region may affect the price. The final gift price will be displayed in the cart, and you will have the opportunity to make the purchase or decline the purchase at that time."

Then it seems like it would be in line with the law.

Alternatively, steam could just let you pick a game, pick a region, then display the gift price before you click purchase.