If I refund a game, will the money go to my steam account or bank?

[el connor]

I've been considering refunding a game for a different one but im cheap so..

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

If you paid with your wallet, it will go back to your wallet.

If you paid with your bank account, you can choose either or.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by kitten ✨:

I've been considering refunding a game for a different one but im cheap so..

Remember that refunds aren't instant. Not even Steam wallet refunds are instant so if you bet on using your bought came as store credit to buy something on sale ATM, prepare for the possibility of disappointment.

[taki]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Remember that refunds aren't instant.

Steam to Paypal should be instantly,

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by taki:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Remember that refunds aren't instant.

Steam to Paypal should be instantly,

No, it should not. It can be instant, it can take a minute or an hour, but it can also take a couple days. I remember waiting somewhere around a week for my pending refunds to become available. Not that it matters, since I don't use refunds to buy other games, I just bought what I wanted while waiting for the money.

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

If you paid with your wallet, it will go back to your wallet.

If you paid with your bank account, you can choose either or.

:qr:

Isn't it possible to let it go to my bank account in case I paid with my wallet?

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by FOREVER A LOSER:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

If you paid with your wallet, it will go back to your wallet.

If you paid with your bank account, you can choose either or.

:qr:

Isn't it possible to let it go to my bank account in case I paid with my wallet?

No as that wouldn't be REfunding. That would be money transfers and while money transfers are legally possible (see PayPal, see any bank), many countries of this world make this process legally complicated, among other things due to high potential for abuse (read: money laundry).
Now had you funded your Steam wallet from your bank account, you could REfund that money. But there's no REfunding when you want the money someplace else entirely.

I put an emphasis on "REfunding" because that's the easiest way to think about it: when you REturn, you get back where you were before going away. When you REconnect something, it's been connected before but isn't now. When money is REfunded, it is REturned so it gets back to where it originally was. Basically "RE" means "make things the way they were", not "I get to choose whatever I want what happens now".

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by FOREVER A LOSER:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

If you paid with your wallet, it will go back to your wallet.

If you paid with your bank account, you can choose either or.

:qr:

Isn't it possible to let it go to my bank account in case I paid with my wallet?

No. Steam wallet funds aren't real and they cannot be converted into real money and laundered.

The only way you can get wallet funds back to your account is if you added these and then opted to refund the whole unspent amount.

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by FOREVER A LOSER:

Isn't it possible to let it go to my bank account in case I paid with my wallet?

No as that wouldn't be REfunding. That would be money transfers and while money transfers are legally possible (see PayPal, see any bank), many countries of this world make this process legally complicated, among other things due to high potential for abuse (read: money laundry).
Now had you funded your Steam wallet from your bank account, you could REfund that money. But there's no REfunding when you want the money someplace else entirely.

I put an emphasis on "REfunding" because that's the easiest way to think about it: when you REturn, you get back where you were before going away. When money is REfunded, it is REturned so it gets back to where it originally was.

According to what you said ReBoot in your last paragraph then if I pay with my bank account and then refund the product that I both bought, purchased and paid for then the money should go back to my bank account and not to my wallet and that's it.

It won't go back to my wallet in any case of this case, because money returns and gets back to where it originally was that is my bank account in case I paid with my bank account.

So why cSg|mc-Hotsauce says "you can choose either or"?

According to you ReBoot this is not "you can choose either or" but it just will go back to your bank account and not your wallet and that's it.

What you said ReBoot contradicts what cSg|mc-Hotsauce said before you!

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by FOREVER A LOSER:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

No as that wouldn't be REfunding. That would be money transfers and while money transfers are legally possible (see PayPal, see any bank), many countries of this world make this process legally complicated, among other things due to high potential for abuse (read: money laundry).
Now had you funded your Steam wallet from your bank account, you could REfund that money. But there's no REfunding when you want the money someplace else entirely.

I put an emphasis on "REfunding" because that's the easiest way to think about it: when you REturn, you get back where you were before going away. When money is REfunded, it is REturned so it gets back to where it originally was.

According to what you said ReBoot in your last paragraph then if I pay with my bank account and then refund the product that I paid for then the money should go back to my bank account and that's it.
It won't go back to my wallet in any case of this case, because money returns and gets back to where it originally was that is my bank account in case I paid with my bank account.

So why cSg|mc-Hotsauce says "you can choose either or"?

According to you ReBoot this is not "you can choose either or" but it just will go back to your bank account.

What you say ReBoot contradicts what cSg|mc-Hotsauce said before you!

Nothing contradicts here, you just mix up two different concepts:
1. If you bought a game directly from your bank account or PayPal or any external payment method, you can chose whether to refund to that payment method or your Steam wallet. True, I haven't informed you of the CHOICE you get. But I assumed that you can combine what I said with what Hotsauce said & with common sense (stores love store credit) yourself.
2. If you bought a game from your Steam wallet (which you said you did), you can only REfund to your Steam wallet as I explained thoroughly. Either way, buying your game from your Steam wallet & then refunding it will result in Steam wallet funds because "cashing" out the money into your bank account wouldn't be a REfund because the money came from your Steam wallet, it can't REturn to your bank because it's not coming from there!

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by FOREVER A LOSER:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

No as that wouldn't be REfunding. That would be money transfers and while money transfers are legally possible (see PayPal, see any bank), many countries of this world make this process legally complicated, among other things due to high potential for abuse (read: money laundry).
Now had you funded your Steam wallet from your bank account, you could REfund that money. But there's no REfunding when you want the money someplace else entirely.

I put an emphasis on "REfunding" because that's the easiest way to think about it: when you REturn, you get back where you were before going away. When money is REfunded, it is REturned so it gets back to where it originally was.

According to what you said ReBoot in your last paragraph then if I pay with my bank account and then refund the product that I both bought, purchased and paid for then the money should go back to my bank account and not to my wallet and that's it.

It won't go back to my wallet in any case of this case, because money returns and gets back to where it originally was that is my bank account in case I paid with my bank account.

So why cSg|mc-Hotsauce says "you can choose either or"?

According to you ReBoot this is not "you can choose either or" but it just will go back to your bank account and not your wallet and that's it.

What you said ReBoot contradicts what cSg|mc-Hotsauce said before you!

You've completely misunderstood. If you've paid by card then you can choose to have it back to either that OR your wallet. If you've paid by wallet then you cannot have it sent to a bank account.

[Nx Machina]

If you topped up your wallet then purchased a game, the funds are credit not money and any refunded purchase automatically goes back to the wallet as you cannot convert wallet funds to money.

If you purchased with a card (credit, debit) or paid via your bank account or Paypal then you can choose to return the money to that payment method or to the wallet.

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by FOREVER A LOSER:

According to what you said ReBoot in your last paragraph then if I pay with my bank account and then refund the product that I paid for then the money should go back to my bank account and that's it.
It won't go back to my wallet in any case of this case, because money returns and gets back to where it originally was that is my bank account in case I paid with my bank account.

So why cSg|mc-Hotsauce says "you can choose either or"?

According to you ReBoot this is not "you can choose either or" but it just will go back to your bank account.

What you say ReBoot contradicts what cSg|mc-Hotsauce said before you!

Nothing contradicts here, you just mix up two different concepts:
1. If you bought a game directly from your bank account or PayPal or any external payment method, you can chose whether to refund to that payment method or your Steam wallet. True, I haven't informed you of the CHOICE you get. But I assumed that you can combine what I said with what Hotsauce said & with common sense (stores love store credit) yourself.
2. If you bought a game from your Steam wallet (which you said you did), you can only REfund to your Steam wallet as I explained thoroughly. Either way, buying your game from your Steam wallet & then refunding it will result in Steam wallet funds because "cashing" out the money into your bank account wouldn't be a REfund because the money came from your Steam wallet, it can't REturn to your bank because it's not coming from there!

"(which you said you did)"

I didn't do anything at all.

I didn't ask my question right.

What I wanted to ask is:

If I will either buy or purchase anything, pay for it with my wallet and then refund it so will I have the option and choice to get my money back to my bank account or it will as it must get back to my wallet?

And your answer to my question is that I won't have any option and choice and my money will get back to my wallet as it must.

Also your statement that if someone refunds anything then his or her money must both return and get back to where it was before the purchase is only true in case the product was paid with his or her wallet.

But this statement is false in case the product was paid with his or her bank account, because if he or she refunds the product then his or her money may appear in his or her wallet and not in his or her bank account where it was before the purchase if the person chooses to get his or her money back to his or her wallet and not to his or her bank account.

Your statement is not true in all cases but only in half of all cases and there is at least one case where your statement is false and thus your statement is generally false and not true.

In general if any statement is not true in all cases and there is at least one case where this statement is false then this statement is generally false and not true because this statement is not true in all cases because there is at least one case where this statement is false.

No one can beat me if this comes to propositional, predicate, quantificational and first order logic!

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by FOREVER A LOSER:

"(which you said you did)"

I didn't do anything at all.

I didn't ask my question right.

What I wanted to ask is:

If I will either buy or purchase anything, pay for it with my wallet and then refund it so will I have the option and choice to get my money back to my bank account or it will as it must get back to my wallet?

You said

Originally posted by FOREVER A LOSER:

Isn't it possible to let it go to my bank account in case I paid with my wallet?

Well, you did say you paid with your Steam wallet. I already gave you the answer that in that case, you can REfund to your Steam wallet for reasons stated. Which you still haven't understood because the money can't go BACK where it doesn't come from! How can your money return to your bank account if it was taken from your Steam wallet? How can you return to where you've never been previously?

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by FOREVER A LOSER:

"(which you said you did)"

I didn't do anything at all.

I didn't ask my question right.

What I wanted to ask is:

If I will either buy or purchase anything, pay for it with my wallet and then refund it so will I have the option and choice to get my money back to my bank account or it will as it must get back to my wallet?

You said

Originally posted by FOREVER A LOSER:

Isn't it possible to let it go to my bank account in case I paid with my wallet?

Well, you did say you paid with your Steam wallet. I already gave you the answer that in that case, you can REfund to your Steam wallet for reasons stated. Which you still haven't understood because the money can't go BACK where it doesn't come from! How can your money return to your bank account if it was taken from your Steam wallet? How can you return to where you've never been previously?

I didn't ask my question right

Isn't it possible to let it go to my bank account in case I paid with my wallet?

is my mistake and people like me are not perfect and sometimes they do mistakes in their everyday lives!

I didn't buy and purchase anything and I didn't pay for anything as a result!

All what I get is from my parents and brother and they are buying, purchasing and paying for what they bought and purchased.

Also three people, no one, no two, but three, all cSg|mc-Hotsauce, J4MESOX4D and Nx Machina said that there exists a scenario where you pay with your BANK account, then refund and then you CHOOSE to get your money back to your WALLET!

In this SPECIFIC SCENARIO Money started in your BANK account and ended in your WALLET!

In this SPECIFIC SCENARIO Money didn't return to where it was before the payment after the refund!

The end location is different from the start location in this SPECIFIC SCENARIO!

There is at least one scenario where your statemetn is FALSE and thus your statement is GENERALLY FALSE and NOT true!

[taki]

Originally posted by FOREVER A LOSER:

.....GENERALLY FALSE and NOT true!

u should learn how to quote

steam to visa card is the most painful thing i waited about 28 days. i think, paypal is the best option. but don't buy the game if u are not sure about that game, and u will never have any refund problems! i refunded.. idk. maybe 3-4 games in 10 years and all those games had a terrible performance