Redeeming accidental gift purchase. (Please help!)

[Crazy Horse]

In the process of giving a friend a game as a joke, I accidentally sent a game in my cart that I meant for myself as well. Now, when I go to "gifts" and click "add to library," it tells me "called object was in an invalid state." I have no idea what this means, or how to solve my issue. It started last night, and this morning, is doing the same thing.

The game was an expensive one I want to be playing. Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Soulstrike]

Found a thread that might help you.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/NewSteamCommunityBeta/discussions/0/630800446098404197/#c619574421384195678

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by big metal fan:

Bump.

Bumping is not allowed.

I suggest contacting the friend and having him/her either decline the gift or save it to inventory and gift it back.

There is no other way (that I am aware of) to fix this issue.

I suggest being more careful in the future.

[Crazy Horse]

Thank you, but I have read that thread, and it didn't help. Any other suggestions? If this doesn't resolve itself in a few days, is there a way to contact anyone at Steam for further assistance? I've been reading all over trying to fix this. Thanks.

[◢◤ xSerIfaη ◢◤ | ROOTS]

I had that issue as well i bought 2 games, one as a gift and one for a friend, but both were gifted on accident.

But i found a way to fix it:
-In the steam client click on the little envelope in the upper right, (just left of your user name.)
-Click on "# new gifts" (#=1,2,3,... depending on you)
-Here you will see all you pending out and incoming gifts. Click on the item you want for yourself.
-On the right side you will now see options: click on "send gift"
-From here select "Return the gift to your account"

Huzzah, you should now be able to play the game.

I think it has something to do with the other persons account being not currently active so steam gets confused.

[Crazy Horse]

I tried it again, and this time it tells me that the operation ("gifting" the game back to myself) was a success. However, the game still isn't visible in my library. I checked to make sure I had not selected "installed." I restarted Steam as well.

[Crazy Horse]

I have resolved my issue. Thank you all for the help.

[Soulstrike]

Originally posted by big metal fan:

I have resolved my issue. Thank you all for the help.

How did you redeem it? It would be nice if you would answer, in case someone with the same problem pops up. Linking a (useful)thread is easier than to guess again :P