Am I allowed to give my other account gifts?

[terr0r]

So I have 2 accounts on Steam, and this account has 50€ on it after selling some items on the market.

Am I allowed to gift myself games to my other account during the Steam winter sale?
Note that both accounts have the same region and such, so this is not about getting the games cheaper, simply just that I have money on this account and not the other one.

[Maria]

I don't see why not. Steam allowed a user to have more than one account anyway.

carry on.

[Ogami]

Its possible BUT it can trigger a "suspected of commercial trading" flag for the gifting account, especially if you buy the gifts with wallet funds.
Outside payment methods are not a problem, wallet funds usually trigger that flag after gifting a time or two.
Basically Steam considerds wallet funds as only really usuable for the account they are on, the same reason you cant transfer wallet funds between accounts.
So gifting games from one account to another with wallet funds seems to Steam like you are trying to circumvent that restriction.
If you never done it before it most likely will go fine a few times but any more and it will nearly certainly trigger that flag.
Once that flag has been triggered the account will be restricted from gifting games using wallet funds and only be able to gift using outside payment methods like PayPal, credit card and such.

Its something Steam has increasingly cracked down on over the last 1-2 years.

[terr0r]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Its possible BUT it can trigger a "suspected of commercial trading" flag for the gifting account, especially if you buy the gifts with wallet funds.
Outside payment methods are not a problem, wallet funds usually trigger that flag after gifting a time or two.
Basically Steam considerds wallet funds as only really usuable for the account they are on, the same reason you cant transfer wallet funds between accounts.
So gifting games from one account to another with wallet funds seems to Steam like you are trying to circumvent that restriction.
If you never done it before it most likely will go fine a few times but any more and it will nearly certainly trigger that flag.
Once that flag has been triggered the account will be restricted from gifting games using wallet funds and only be able to gift using outside payment methods like PayPal, credit card and such.

Its something Steam has increasingly cracked down on over the last 1-2 years.

Alright, noted.
But this is just really only this one time, since I usually dont have any funds on this account, hence why I want to gift myself the games to an account that I use more.
I'll probably buy 2-3 games and that will be it. Should be fine then?

[Ogami]

Yeah should be fine. If not you will notice very fast, when you try to send the gift it will give you a generic " there was an error with your transaction, please try again later. If this problem persists please contact Steam Support".
If you see that when trying to send a gift that account almonst certainly has been flagged by the automated detection system.
Support may even remove the restriction one time but if you should get it again its usually permanent.

Alternatively you could also just buy the games on the account with the wallet money and activate Family Share between your accounts, that way the other account can still play the games.

[terr0r]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Yeah should be fine. If not you will notice very fast, when you try to send the gift it will give you a generic " there was an error with your transaction, please try again later. If this problem persists please contact Steam Support".
If you see that when trying to send a gift that account almonst certainly has been flagged by the automated detection system.
Support may even remove the restriction one time but if you should get it again its usually permanent.

Alternatively you could also just buy the games on the account with the wallet money and activate Family Share between your accounts, that way the other account can still play the games.

I will do that if gifting doesn't work, but I feel like sending 3 games once wont have any effects, hell, I think contacting steam support about it would actually make it go through even if the system flags me

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by Allansson:

Originally posted by Ogami:

Yeah should be fine. If not you will notice very fast, when you try to send the gift it will give you a generic " there was an error with your transaction, please try again later. If this problem persists please contact Steam Support".
If you see that when trying to send a gift that account almonst certainly has been flagged by the automated detection system.
Support may even remove the restriction one time but if you should get it again its usually permanent.

Alternatively you could also just buy the games on the account with the wallet money and activate Family Share between your accounts, that way the other account can still play the games.

I will do that if gifting doesn't work, but I feel like sending 3 games once wont have any effects, hell, I think contacting steam support about it would actually make it go through even if the system flags me

You can try to rationalize it, but do remember that wallet funds are just store credit and Steam can, and has, deny your use of it for gifting. That's not to say you couldn't try, but if you find out that you can't, and Steam won't let you, I will hope you don't flip out like others have.