Well, no more Steam gift cards as birthday presents from my employer, I guess. The colleagues will have to come up with something else. How annoying.
They can still do digital steam gift cards
I hate gift cards but work gives them out for our birthdays each year. I always request games related gift cards. To hear that Steam are no longer selling them is disappointing considering that it’s my main gaming platform.
I remember saving up for those and then spending the money in Steam sales. Shame for all the kids who want to buy games that can’t use their parents credit card.
parents should just use PayPal. it requires you to approve purchases.
that or setup a steam family.
No one should use PayPal if they can help it.
I have to use it for a side gig I do. I make sure that as soon as money hits PayPal it goes right out and into my bank account. Fuck PayPal.
My bank lets me set up a kid debit card, I can see and approve purchases and set limits.
Also, IMO kids should either ask their parents to buy a game for them, or be old enough to have their own bank account.
Giving your kid a credit card is how they end up with a gambling addiction because AAA is an unsanctioned casino.
Bad thing in my opinion.
I used them to menage my funds to not to overspend.
Need to connect card to account, leaks happen.
More info to steam, you could use steam even without giving any personal details just by buying physical gift cards.
I had given them few times as gift.
Revolut single use cards. No saving, no leak.
I think there are others as well
One thing that can help with leaks is to not save your CC info with the account. Then it just gets used for the transaction and isn’t saved outside of the payment system, so less of a vector for it to make it on a leak database. Also helps control spending by adding more inertia between this side and the far side of a purchase.
Change to a bank that cares enough of their customers to enable virtual cards, you can create and revoke numbers as much as you like.
Relatives would give them as gifts to me as well.
I am sad about this.
You good bro? ;)
That sucks, they were the best for shady deals. Buy em with cash, and treat it like cash.
Say you didnt read the article without saying it
Scammers use steam cards to launder money. Hence the shady deals I talk about. I reread the article and I don’t see how my initial comment would make you think I didn’t read the article.
Never liked gift cards. Money you can only use in one place, and you don’t even save any money when buying it.
We see today how bad it is to rely so much on visa and paypal for steam payments when they can control what they want and what they don’t want to see being sold on steam. I think gift cards could be an interesting alternative but idk.
IMO we need regulation. Banks and payment processors should not be allowed to refuse service to any legal activity.
That concerns are also really inconsistent. They don’t seem to have a problem with cigarettes and alcohol, and are quite prepared to authorise payments to strip clubs.
But they have a problem with porn games. How does that track?
A coffee shop used to offer a $10 gift card for every $40 gift card you bought (or something like that) around Christmas. It was meant to get people to buy them as gifts but we knew we were going to go there throughout the year anyway so we loaded up for ourselves.
Same but with haircuts. My mom used to get 4 for $40 cards around the holidays. She was very astute when it came to finding actually good deals.
I always get them at Sam’s Club, they’re around 5% off the face value there. Can’t remember the exact price but was somewhere around $18.92 for a $20 card. Not a huge discount but will definitely miss it.
Gonna buy up all the local stock and re-sell it for profit
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Word on the street is that a $20 steam gift card today is worth $22 tomorrow.
Scalping gift cards. Now that is a million dollar idea! (in debt)
So, what scams are happening? Is this a “do not redeem” type of thing?
There are a lot of scams out there but a common one is to trick people into buying gift cards and giving scammers the info.
(Like calling your grandma and telling her you got kidnapped with an AI impersonation of your voice) or (stealing credit cards, using them to buy a shit load of cards and flipping those cards before the credit companies can cancel them)
Scammers sell the cards on 3rd party sites for cash and those sites resell them for a profit. You can often find deals for less than in retail stores.
It’s a grey area tho as there are some legitimate people just selling cards they got for a holiday and don’t want.
