Why does my friend show different sale prices than me?

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We were excited for Steam sales to finallly play our favorite game(s) together. We both bought Ark Survival Evolved. Then she saw the steam sales made the Ark's Season DLC's extreemly cheap so she got them for only $7 (usa). She told me to buy the DLC's as well but when I opened it up to the same page as her my offer was $23. She ended up gifting them to me and I handed her the $7. But this is going to disturb me forever.

We both live in the USA. Why did we see a different price?

PS - Cannot ask on Ark's forum because so much idle pratter your thread gets scrolled away ignored. Big game lots of players.

[Black Blade]

That should not happen as much as I know and does sound a little odd there
is it possible she had a coupon or the like?

[๑]

Yeah idk. Well we found a workaround so I'll just ignore it unless it happens again. Good to know that is not a normal.

[999999999]

Originally posted by jemfaycrystal:

Then she saw the steam sales made the Ark's Season DLC's extreemly cheap so she got them for only $7 (usa). She told me to buy the DLC's as well but when I opened it up to the same page as her my offer was $23. She ended up gifting them to me and I handed her the $7. But this is going to disturb me forever.

We both live in the USA. Why did we see a different price?

Your friend does not have her account settings set to the US if that is the case. Only 5 countries have the Season Pass that cheap.

She is doing some shady things on her account.

[On Vacation]

Originally posted by 999999999:

Your friend does not have her account settings set to the US if that is the case. Only 5 countries have the Season Pass that cheap.

She is doing some shady things on her account.

Was the gifting restriction lifted? I've not read anything about that and it would have prevented such a gift from occurring if her region was indeed set to one of those 5 countries.

[WyderkoweLove]

dont know

[fourty #SaveTF2]

what was the workaround? im having the same problem here but with a different game

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by FourtyWasTaken (Main):

what was the workaround? im having the same problem here but with a different game

Be in the correct location with both accounts having exactly the same currency in use.

Also note that if one account already owns something that the other does not, it will certainly appear to be different in the store.

[fourty #SaveTF2]

well both of us do have the same currency in use, although i figured it may be because my friend moved to a different country not so long ago, is that the case?

[Zekiran]

... Yes, obviously.

If they legally live in that area, they MUST pay the local amount.

And since Steam has decided how it will be allowing or disallowing gifting because of money laundering and cheating for taxation purposes by faking location, your friend's currency is not your currency.

"The same currency in use" means if they moved to another country *they are breaking steam's terms of service*...

If you want to have you and your friend playing together, send them a digital gift card, as there are ways to do that instead. Steam knows that people live around the world from one another and still want to be able to play and be sociable, gift, and the like, but taxes and economics have strongly dictated that they have to change how it all works.

[fourty #SaveTF2]

he uses PLN aswell though

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by FourtyWasTaken (Main):

he uses PLN aswell though

Then that's what he will have to buy things with.

Are you unaware of how vastly different each country's economies are? That's why this happens. People were claiming to be in Argentina where the economy is absolutely terrible, and accepting money from those with a much better healthy economy to buy games cheaper.

Send your friend a gift card, that's the only legal and effective way.

[Shichiya]

Originally posted by FourtyWasTaken (Main):

what was the workaround? im having the same problem here but with a different game

Check the price using SteamDB. If you both are using the same currency then the price would be the same.

Even if you're living in a different country, as long as your steam currency is set to your original country (for example going to Asia but steam still show prices in USD) then you're still paying the price in USA instead of the pricing of Asia until you make a steam purchase using a local credit/ debit card.

[wuddih]

Originally posted by FourtyWasTaken (Main):

well both of us do have the same currency in use, although i figured it may be because my friend moved to a different country not so long ago, is that the case?

you are probably looking at a bundle or condition-depending discount ... if you really have the same store country and you are logged in while looking at the product.

without naming the products and actually confirming the store countries this is shooting into empty voids.
store country is also not your profile country, that is entire irrelevant for mostly anything in terms of Steam.