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Lunar Ghoul 18 hours ago
Gifting needs change
I use to be able to gift games to my friend in Finland from Australia. Now we have this stupid 'Due to regional price differences, the gift you are trying to send cannot be sent to the recipient's region' Message.
But I'm paying the marked price in my country, let me gift it OR let me pay the regional deference! Instead of stopping the sale outright. Give us the option to pay the amount in their region. Please. I have 1 friend, and we loved gifting games to each other randomly when the other needed a little pick me up. This is gone now and it sucks. It was the one thing we could do living so far apart.
Let us gift please!
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cSg|mc-Hotsauce 18 hours ago 
Originally posted by Lunar Ghoul:
Gifting needs change

I use to be able to gift games to my friend in Finland from Australia. Now we have this stupid 'Due to regional price differences, the gift you are trying to send cannot be sent to the recipient's region' Message.
But I'm paying the marked price in my country, let me gift it OR let me pay the regional deference! Instead of stopping the sale outright. Give us the option to pay the amount in their region. Please. I have 1 friend, and we loved gifting games to each other randomly when the other needed a little pick me up. This is gone now and it sucks. It was the one thing we could do living so far apart.
Let us gift please!

People abused gifting and set up commercial businesses doing so.

Now, you can send a digital wallet card.

:nkCool:
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Jaunitta 🌸 17 hours ago 
https://steamhost.cn/help_steampowered_com/en/faqs/view/2C02-3563-B72F-F117
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d3str0y3r 13 hours ago 
They can only legally charge you the price listed for you.

The countless other thread have explained this already.
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HikariLight 13 hours ago 
"Loved gifting each other games"
More like abusing regional prices.

Bait and Switch laws state that when you have a price shown for your region, they CANNOT charge you a different price at checkout (excluding when sales tax is involved).
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rawWwRrr 13 hours ago 
Originally posted by Lunar Ghoul:
I use to be able to gift games to my friend in Finland from Australia. Now we have this stupid 'Due to regional price differences, the gift you are trying to send cannot be sent to the recipient's region' Message.
Depends on the price differences set by the publishers on the games. Some will have them set within the 10% threshold while others won't. I have friends in Europe that I run into the regional price difference problem, but with a little research I can find a game that I can gift.

Originally posted by Lunar Ghoul:
But I'm paying the marked price in my country, let me gift it OR let me pay the regional deference! Instead of stopping the sale outright. Give us the option to pay the amount in their region.
You can still gift if the difference is under 10%. And, no, Valve cannot charge you a different advertised price. Your price is your price. They are not allowed to charge you a different price based on the reason you are buying the item.
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