What happens if you decline a steam digital gift card from a friend?

[Official Posse Inspector]

This page says this
https://store.steampowered.com/digitalgiftcards/selectgiftcard


"What if my friend declines the digital gift card I've bought for them?

If your friend declines your digital gift card then your purchase will be refunded. If possible, your purchase will be refunded to your original payment method. If your payment method does not support this, then the purchase will be refunded into your own Steam Wallet."

So if a friend sends a digital gift card and I decline it, they'll automatically get a refund back to their card? I'd wanna make sure this is what happens and it doesn't cause issues somehow, doing that doesn't initiate chargebacks or anything like that does it?

[Official Posse Inspector]

Originally posted by Toast:

A chargeback is when the payer/cardholder retracts a payment. A refund is when the seller willingly gives back a payment. A refund is not a chargeback.

Thank you for answering, btw does anyone have any idea how long it takes to issue the refund or is that unknown? I was wondering if the person will get their money back instantly or if it takes a while.

[Cathulhu]

Up to 14 days.

[ReBoot]

Or more, depending on the bank.

[Stengus]

i sent money to my alt it was ment to be purchaseed via my steam wallet but cam from my bank instead, if i decline will this be refunded back to my bank of the senders wallet? thanks

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Stengus:

i sent money to my alt it was ment to be purchaseed via my steam wallet but cam from my bank instead, if i decline will this be refunded back to my bank of the senders wallet? thanks

Declined digital gift cards will be refunded to the payment method used to buy it, so to the bank in this case.
BUT, you CANT buy Digital Gift Cards with Steam Wallet funds, only with outside payment methods.
So this was the correct way to send a digital gift card, wallet funds do NOT work.

[Bill]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.