Can't send steam digital gift cards to friend in foreign countries

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DenizCinemreUS 21 ธ.ค. 2021 @ 12: 19am

I was able to send my friends gift cards on holidays, but I am unable to send gift cards for about 4 days now. Is this a steam technical issue, or did they bring a country restriction to digital gift cards?

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Joke 19 มี.ค. 2022 @ 3: 29pm

People abusing the regional pricing is likely the reason:

Argentina,Turkey and Russia steam stores have very low prices compared to the US and EU.

So people created accounts on the Argentina, Turkey or Russia steam stores, even if they don't actually live there. Publishers are not happy to sell their games for 1/10th of the prices they should get from the EU, US or other high priced regions.

One way to combat this is to prevent funding those accounts with money from their owners home countries.

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ecznos 22 มี.ค. 2022 @ 8: 13pm

Happily there are third party sites, so i don't have to deal with this.

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Joke:
People abusing the regional pricing is likely the reason:

Argentina, Turkey and Russia steam stores have very low prices compared to the US and EU.

So people created accounts on the Argentina, Turkey or Russia Steam stores, even if they don't actually live there. Publishers are not happy to sell their games for 1/10th of the prices they should get from the EU, US or other high priced regions.

One way to combat this is to prevent funding those accounts with money from their owners home countries.

Makes no sense at all. We're talking about digital gift cards. You can't change your country that easily anymore like you could before. You have to use a payment method that matches your Steam country setting.

So how exactly are they abusing it? What does digital gift cards has to do with regional pricing? The prices are still the same for them.

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cato 1 เม.ย. 2022 @ 10: 19am

Turkish Lira is much more stable in 2022 so far. Do they continuing the same policy?

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McSweeny 2 เม.ย. 2022 @ 2: 26am

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย ibrahim allkeyshop.com:
Turkish Lira is much more stable in 2022 so far. Do they continuing the same policy?

probably yes

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Slymeleon 10 พ.ค. 2022 @ 4: 30pm

Im still getting this issue sending a card to my Latin friend in Brazil, my guys what, are we not supposed to have friends?

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McSweeny 10 พ.ค. 2022 @ 4: 34pm

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย TU4AR:
Im still getting this issue sending a card to my Latin friend in Brazil, my guys what, are we not supposed to have friends?

they removed it.

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Fat 14 ส.ค. 2022 @ 4: 14pm

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย ecznos:
Happily there are third party sites, so i don't have to deal with this.

Sorry for replying to old comment, but do you know any good sites that doesn't sell gift cards like 40% more expensive and such ?

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KurumiMIkoto 14 ส.ค. 2022 @ 5: 07pm

uhn

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crunchyfrog 14 ส.ค. 2022 @ 5: 11pm

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Fat:
โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย ecznos:
Happily there are third party sites, so i don't have to deal with this.

Sorry for replying to old comment, but do you know any good sites that doesn't sell gift cards like 40% more expensive and such ?

Nope, because think about it.

If this function has been stopped due to the obvious abuse, those sites that still offer them aren't up to much good are they?

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Ogami 14 ส.ค. 2022 @ 5: 25pm

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย crunchyfrog:
Nope, because think about it.

If this function has been stopped due to the obvious abuse, those sites that still offer them aren't up to much good are they?

In this case the prices are skyrocketing because Valve apparently has stopped producing Argentinian Steam Wallet cards so whats being sold right now is the rest of the available stock, thats why the prices go higher and higher.

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crunchyfrog 15 ส.ค. 2022 @ 7: 25am

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Ogami:
โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย crunchyfrog:
Nope, because think about it.

If this function has been stopped due to the obvious abuse, those sites that still offer them aren't up to much good are they?

In this case the prices are skyrocketing because Valve apparently has stopped producing Argentinian Steam Wallet cards so whats being sold right now is the rest of the available stock, thats why the prices go higher and higher.

Yes that's what I mean.

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Satoru 15 ส.ค. 2022 @ 7: 29am

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Ogami:
โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย crunchyfrog:
Nope, because think about it.

If this function has been stopped due to the obvious abuse, those sites that still offer them aren't up to much good are they?

In this case the prices are skyrocketing because Valve apparently has stopped producing Argentinian Steam Wallet cards so whats being sold right now is the rest of the available stock, thats why the prices go higher and higher.

Its more that the peso is so bad and is in a multi-year death spiral that effectively any card you print pretty much loses 10% of its value every other month

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