Can you get VAC/Community Ban from the same Payment Option

[Ich?]

I often allow my brothers to use my PayPal account to buy some games on steam incl CSGO Keys Weapons. I wonder if they ever decide to cheat would I get in trouble because they used my PayPal? What I also use on my main here .

[Ettanin]

No, payment methods are not used to identify someone over multiple accounts and therefore cannot, contrary to library sharing and phone number sharing, lead to a VAC, game or any other form of ban.

[circl or line]

yep

[Cathulhu]

VAC bans? No.
Community bans? No.

But if any of your brothers would be stupid enough to do a chargeback, then expect all accounts using the same PayPal account to be affected by Valve reacting to getting their money stolen.
As in, accounts getting suspended until the agreed on money is returned.

An account suspension would be way worse than a VAC or community ban.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Don't allow anyone to use your personal payment method, ever, on anything.

[Ich?]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

VAC bans? No.
Community bans? No.

But if any of your brothers would be stupid enough to do a chargeback, then expect all accounts using the same PayPal account to be affected by Valve reacting to getting their money stolen.
As in, accounts getting suspended until the agreed on money is returned.

An account suspension would be way worse than a VAC or community ban.

Thanks for you answer!
A chargeback I would notice anyways

[Ich?]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Don't allow anyone to use your personal payment method, ever, on anything.

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Reason why I shouldn’t trust my family with my payment methods ? They clearly wouldn’t scam me

[Cathulhu]

You wouldn't be the first to be mistaken in that way.

[Ettanin]

Originally posted by skillmaster3000:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Don't allow anyone to use your personal payment method, ever, on anything.

:qr:

Reason why I shouldn’t trust my family with my payment methods ? They clearly wouldn’t scam me

Everyone can betray your trust once you give them the choice to betray you.

You can buy digital wallet cards for your family members and gift these instead. That way your data is not in their hands.

https://store.steampowered.com/digitalgiftcards/selectgiftcard

[Ich?]

Originally posted by Ettanin:

Originally posted by skillmaster3000:

Reason why I shouldn’t trust my family with my payment methods ? They clearly wouldn’t scam me

Everyone can betray your trust once you give them the choice to betray you.

You can buy digital wallet cards for your family members and gift these instead. That way your data is not in their hands.

https://store.steampowered.com/digitalgiftcards/selectgiftcard

Well sadly you can’t set your own amount only fixed prices 10-25-50-100€ …

[Wolf Knight]

Originally posted by skillmaster3000:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Don't allow anyone to use your personal payment method, ever, on anything.

:qr:

Reason why I shouldn’t trust my family with my payment methods ? They clearly wouldn’t scam me

one chargeback is all it takes to get the payment method banned permanently from steam. it would not matter if you reversed the chargeback or not, steam would no longer allow it to be used.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by skillmaster3000:

Originally posted by Ettanin:

Everyone can betray your trust once you give them the choice to betray you.

You can buy digital wallet cards for your family members and gift these instead. That way your data is not in their hands.

https://store.steampowered.com/digitalgiftcards/selectgiftcard

Well sadly you can’t set your own amount only fixed prices 10-25-50-100€ …

Yes you can, with workarounds like using Augmented Steam[augmentedsteam.com] or...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=328859255

https://www.howtogeek.com/331114/how-to-send-a-steam-digital-gift-card-in-any-amount/

[Thermal Lance]

Originally posted by skillmaster3000:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Don't allow anyone to use your personal payment method, ever, on anything.

:qr:

Reason why I shouldn’t trust my family with my payment methods ? They clearly wouldn’t scam me

The top 2 things that can ruin an entire family.

1. Politics
2. Money

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Originally posted by Thermal Lance:

Originally posted by skillmaster3000:

Reason why I shouldn’t trust my family with my payment methods ? They clearly wouldn’t scam me

The top 2 things that can ruin an entire family.

1. Politics
2. Money

...and sometimes religion.

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Originally posted by Cathulhu:

VAC bans? No.
Community bans? No.

But if any of your brothers would be stupid enough to do a chargeback, then expect all accounts using the same PayPal account to be affected by Valve reacting to getting their money stolen.
As in, accounts getting suspended until the agreed on money is returned.

An account suspension would be way worse than a VAC or community ban.

I made an accidental charge back once, and I don't exactly remember how it went but I do remember that my paypal account was banned from making transactions with steam. My account was no affected, maybe because it was a small amount of money idk.

[Tim]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.