I'm banned from steam for gifting too much?

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mayafeyburger0811 2 Aug @ 2:36am

So, I don't own a pc. I made an account so I could buy games for my friends so we could play through them, particularly visual novels.

I also buy games I really enjoy for myself. Deltarune, steins gate, ect in hopes of getting a way I can play them someday. To my surprise, it seems I'm banned from gifting??? I genuinely don't want to cause trouble. When I googled what was going on, it said steam assumed you were a scammer. It genuinely spooked me. Like, I'm not doing anything wrong right? These are my genuine friends, both irl and online and I love them very dearly and would like to play through my favorite media with them.

Anyhow, I've read through some of these forums before, and some of you are a bit mean. If you could be nice to me I'd apricate that! Thank you!

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Tr1cK 2 Aug @ 2:53am

what message are you getting that it says you are banned

mayafeyburger0811 2 Aug @ 2:55am

Steam is unable to process the transaction or something along those lines. But whenever I purchase for myself it works just fine. So I refunded those and tried again and it still didn't work ):

datCookie 2 Aug @ 2:57am

Originally posted by mayafeyburger0811:
Steam is unable to process the transaction or something along those lines. But whenever I purchase for myself it works just fine. So I refunded those and tried again and it still didn't work ):

Do your friends live in different regions?

mayafeyburger0811 2 Aug @ 2:57am

It says an unexpected error has occurred

mayafeyburger0811 2 Aug @ 2:58am

Originally posted by datCookie:
Originally posted by mayafeyburger0811:
Steam is unable to process the transaction or something along those lines. But whenever I purchase for myself it works just fine. So I refunded those and tried again and it still didn't work ):

Do your friends live in different regions?

No, the person I'm buying for lives literally like next door.

mayafeyburger0811 2 Aug @ 2:59am

Yea it says an unexpected error has occurred

ZeroKasa 2 Aug @ 3:00am

When gifting too much steam might stop allowing you to gift more until you buy some stuff for your account, this is to counter accounts that trade with steam wallet balace (for example you have 50$, so you agree to use it to gift things to someone and they will pay you 50$ or such outside of steam). if I remember correctly this only happens if you were using wallet balance, I think gifting using other payment methods should work regardless, but I am not sure.

Last edited by ZeroKasa; 2 Aug @ 3:02am

datCookie 2 Aug @ 3:00am

Originally posted by mayafeyburger0811:
Originally posted by datCookie:

Do your friends live in different regions?
No, the person I'm buying for lives literally like next door.

It could just be a simple error with the gifting system in the store.

Otherwise, your best bet would be to contact Steam Support to see if they can give you an answer

GalerianXD1 2 Aug @ 3:00am

An unexpected error is not banned though. Contact support and ask them about the issue.

mayafeyburger0811 2 Aug @ 3:02am

Ok. Thank you. I'll do that.

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videomike_Ultimate_Plushie 2 Aug @ 3:16am

Yeah contact support and figure out whats going on. support isnt great but this does seem like an error you can clear up by asking questions. Worst case scenario you get steam support being steam support and giving you a middle finger. But sometimes the fraud system gets a bit buggy.

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mayafeyburger0811 2 Aug @ 3:21am

Ok! Thank you!!!

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theJJ88 2 Aug @ 6:20am

afaik gifting "ban" might happen if you gift games using only wallet funds. So people who gift their friends a lot, directly pay gifts to prevent that. And limit is quite generous, so it doesn't happen too often. Like others said, sounds like an error that should fix itself and you can contact support if still unsure and error continues.

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