How To Become A Steam Wallet Retailer

[ItsJihad]

hello everyone...
can someone please tell me how i can become a steam wallet retailer code seller?
how i can buy wallet codes from steam and sell it?
how do they get the wallet code and sell it,can anyone please tell me?

[Wolf Knight]

you set up a business deal with Valve to sell codes.

[Jack Schitt]

It's probably pretty simple. You would first have to have a business license and company and legally eligible to resell products, then you would purchase them wholesale and resell them like any other product. I wasn't able to find any official Valve links for wholesale Steam Gift Cards so it's best you check this out thoroughly before throwing money at them:

https://mcdvideogames.com/gift-cards/buy-wholesale-steam-gift-cards/

Unless you're able to find an official Valve link to where they wholesale gift cards or digital codes for them it's probably best to contact official support and ask them this question. These are community forums, not official support if you didn't know that.

https://support.steampowered.com

On the Wallet Code Scam page:
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7797-AKLC-2742&l=

It says about retailers having to activate the code when a card is purchased. That may or may not be something that automatically happens when it's purchased which is one of many reasons you should insure you get legitimate info and answers on this subject. The way to do that is to submit a support ticket to official steam support at the 2nd link.

I have a small business and an online store and for some reason never considered selling Steam cards or codes so I'm going to look in to it myself.

[J4MESOX4D]

It's Jihad님이 먼저 게시:

hello everyone...
can someone please tell me how i can become a steam wallet retailer code seller?
how i can buy wallet codes from steam and sell it?
how do they get the wallet code and sell it,can anyone please tell me?

You don't buy codes - once you are a partnered business and have a networked terminal linked to Valve; when someone buys a code, the money is deducted from your business account and you then tender the money through your point of sale (till) from the customer. You cannot create or activate codes unless you have your own business account linked whereby the money is instantly cleared.

This is strictly a non-profit venture and the terminals that facilitate this are not cheap to rent and can only be integrated into certain POS's. You will need an established business and then a relationship with Valve at the very least.

[Jack Schitt]

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It's Jihad님이 먼저 게시:

hello everyone...
can someone please tell me how i can become a steam wallet retailer code seller?
how i can buy wallet codes from steam and sell it?
how do they get the wallet code and sell it,can anyone please tell me?

You don't buy codes - once you are a partnered business and have a networked terminal linked to Valve; when someone buys a code, the money is deducted from your business account and you then tender the money through your point of sale (till) from the customer. You cannot create or activate codes unless you have your own business account linked whereby the money is instantly cleared.

This is strictly a non-profit venture and the terminals that facilitate this are not cheap to rent and can only be integrated into certain POS's. You will need an established business and then a relationship with Valve at the very least.

Misinformation, incorrect.

Valve isn't a charity organization they're a for-profit company. It costs them money to make the cards and they surely acquire profits from other developers selling their products on the Steam Store or they (Valve) wouldn't be doing it, they'd only be selling their own products.

Steam Cards are in just about every store I've ever gone in to. NO business owner sells anything they don't make a profit on. Valve would be digging them selves into a very deep financial hole if they didn't profit from gift card and product sales.

Even "non-profit" businesses and organizations have overhead and actually do make a profit. People that think non-profit organizations give every penny donated to the cause are horribly mistaken.

[J4MESOX4D]

Jack Schitt님이 먼저 게시:

J4MESOX4D님이 먼저 게시:

You don't buy codes - once you are a partnered business and have a networked terminal linked to Valve; when someone buys a code, the money is deducted from your business account and you then tender the money through your point of sale (till) from the customer. You cannot create or activate codes unless you have your own business account linked whereby the money is instantly cleared.

This is strictly a non-profit venture and the terminals that facilitate this are not cheap to rent and can only be integrated into certain POS's. You will need an established business and then a relationship with Valve at the very least.

Misinformation, incorrect.

Valve isn't a charity organization they're a for-profit company. It costs them money to make the cards and they surely acquire profits from other developers selling their products on the Steam Store or they (Valve) wouldn't be doing it, they'd only be selling their own products.

Steam Cards are in just about every store I've ever gone in to. NO business owner sells anything they don't make a profit on. Valve would be digging them selves into a very deep financial hole if they didn't profit from gift card and product sales.

Even "non-profit" businesses and organizations have overhead and actually do make a profit. People that think non-profit organizations give every penny donated to the cause are horribly mistaken.

Nothing incorrect about it. Gift cards are a like-for-like service provided by retailers - there is no profit in this aspect. If someone wants a £10 card, it costs the retailer £10 on their business account and then they take £10 from the customer. Same with lottery terminals and phone top-up services.

The physical cards are also worthless until activation upon the tendering of money and Valve provides this to retailers because SHOCK HORROR they want people to buy games on Steam.

Valve will only work with select retailers who are either established or have the required universal terminal. Businesses provide services to get customers in the door - it’s not just a clear profit on each product. Newsagents make about 40p profit on a carton of ♥♥♥♥ costing £50 at wholesale each - you really think they’d outlay that much for a 40p profit? No, it’s a service.

[Jack Schitt]

LOL you've surely never ran a business. If you did it horribly failed because you surely do not understand how it works. No way in hell any (good) business owner is going to invest money that doesn't return a profit. What you're describing is an extremely horrible business model guaranteed to fail miserably and quickly if someone is that ignorant and stupid to run a business like that.

Top up features are included with mobile plans that offer that service. It's covered by the cost the consumer pays to the provider for their service.

Yes, even if the profit is "40p" (whatever that is, pounds? Not my currency.) 40p is profit. Anything that brings any amount of profit is worth doing. Even if it's just a penny (a very small amount) of profit it's one more penny you didn't have before the sale. Make multiple sales that profit a penny? Those penny's add up...that's how selling stuff works.

No use arguing with someone like you. I'm unsubscribing.
You're wrong.
Take care!

[J4MESOX4D]

Jack Schitt님이 먼저 게시:

LOL you've surely never ran a business. If you did it horribly failed because you surely do not understand how it works. No way in hell any (good) business owner is going to invest money that doesn't return a profit. What you're describing is an extremely horrible business model guaranteed to fail miserably and quickly if someone is that ignorant and stupid to run a business like that.

Top up features are included with mobile plans that offer that service. It's covered by the cost the consumer pays to the provider for their service.

Yes, even if the profit is "40p" (whatever that is, pounds? Not my currency.) 40p is profit. Anything that brings any amount of profit is worth doing. Even if it's just a penny (a very small amount) of profit it's one more penny you didn't have before the sale. Make multiple sales that profit a penny? Those penny's add up...that's how selling stuff works.

No use arguing with someone like you. I'm unsubscribing.
You're wrong.
Take care!

I actually rented a terminal for £625 a year from Barclays back in 2009 to provide a similar service for my old business so I know how it works thanks

Incredible ignorance and unsubbing is just pathetic behaviour when you know you’re beat

[Ogami]

J4MESOX4D님이 먼저 게시:

Incredible ignorance and unsubbing is just pathetic behaviour when you know you’re beat

The " dont bother answering , i unsubscribe" is the internet discussion equivalent of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXS1sJm7QEA