You know what they don’t like? …
… When you REDEEM THE FUCKING CARD
Comment on Steam is ending the physical Steam Gift Cards at retailers!
Jestzer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It makes sense, scammers looooove gift cards. And any time you see someone with a $500 or $1K+ gift card with s suspiciously vague and unenthusiastic story paired with it, you almost certainly know they’re being scammed.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Rothe@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Yeah, besides crypto gift cards are basically the currency of scammers.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I never understood the reason for gift cards.
“Let me give this company a fixed amount of my money so that my niece can either use a portion of it and while the company keeps the remaining balance, or spend some of her own money on top so it doesn’t go to waste.”
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Buying Steam games and hardware without involving credit cards or bank accounts is only possible by buying gift cards with cash in a local shop. What do you mean the only winner is the company? This is a real value for me, so am I not a winner in that sense too?
pivot_root@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Call me a luddite, but if I don’t want to give my purchase history to a bank, I drive to the store and pay with cash. I can see how that might not be an option for online-only retailers, however.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Gift cards allowed me to give my nieces/nephews money to spend on Steam so they wouldn’t need a credit card.
wirelesswire@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Ah, so you do understand the reason for gift cards.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Back when the original Steam Deck came out, I was purchasing Gift Cards for 500 Euros in my local shops. They all had a limit to how much I could purchase in one shop, so I had to wander around to get more in smaller chunks. To my surprise they told me because of scams, and I looked at them with a side eye not believing and not understanding.