Was it an authorized seller? If so contact the company you bought from. If not... welp. You are up a creek without a paddle.

That's the risk you take if your buying from a non-authorized seller. To ensure you don't get ripped off, only buy codes from trusted stores in your region.

Yeah, I got scammed ones or twice, not for much, but enough to realize not to use those sites.

引用自 ✨Saint✨：

Yeah, I got scammed ones or twice, not for much, but enough to realize not to use those sites.


:saint:

thank you for your reaction. Do you know if it is allowed to name those sites in this forum?

If you have payed with paypal or the like tell the site that you will open a refund case there.
Most of those sites act really fast in returning your money (as they rather give that back then have notices on payment sites), and if they do not care you still can open a case and most likely will get your money back that way.

引用自 Stella：

引用自 ✨Saint✨：

Yeah, I got scammed ones or twice, not for much, but enough to realize not to use those sites.

thank you for your reaction. Do you know if it is allowed to name those sites in this forum?

No, do not name them. It falls under advertising, something you can get in trouble with.

引用自 Stella：

I was expecting such a reaction.

It's just common sense, bro. Not an attack on you. You made a bad decision. Learn from it. It's not like anyone here can help you. And it's not like Valve is the company that screwed you. So you're in the wrong place for any actual solution.

引用自 Chika Ogiue：

引用自 Stella：

I was expecting such a reaction.

It's just common sense, bro. Not an attack on you. You made a bad decision. Learn from it. It's not like anyone here can help you. And it's not like Valve is the company that screwed you. So you're in the wrong place for any actual solution.

It is not common sense but plain stupidity. You think that everybody should just swallow their pride , suffer in silence and shut their mouth. That is exactly what these scammers are hoping for.

BTW, it is a renown site. I have used it many times with no problem. Like I said, they work with independent sellers. I am mot accusing them personally of theft, but of complacency. They must take their responsibility in such situations.

引用自 Stella：

BTW, it is a renown site. I have used it many times with no problem. Like I said, they work with independent sellers. I am mot accusing them personally of theft, but of complacency. They must take their responsibility in such situations.

Being a renowned site doesn't disqualify it from being dodgy.
Some grey market resellers are quite popular but are also the source of a lot of headaches for users and developers. And of courde have a lot of people who 'have used it lots without a problem'

引用自 Stella：

引用自 Chika Ogiue：

It's just common sense, bro. Not an attack on you. You made a bad decision. Learn from it. It's not like anyone here can help you. And it's not like Valve is the company that screwed you. So you're in the wrong place for any actual solution.

It is not common sense but plain stupidity. You think that everybody should just swallow their pride , suffer in silence and shut their mouth. That is exactly what these scammers are hoping for.

Not exactly. But sometimes the consequences of dealing with shady or questionable entities is to learn a lesson about getting involved with them in the first place. Depending on the circumstance and how much effort you want to put into something, there might be limited options. There's no golden hammer answers here.

引用自 Stella：

BTW, it is a renown site. I have used it many times with no problem. Like I said, they work with independent sellers. I am mot accusing them personally of theft, but of complacency. They must take their responsibility in such situations.

A well known grey market site is still a grey market site. And there's always going to be an asterisk. Past transactions don't guarantee all other sellers or transactions will be legitimate or error free. And when problems come up you get to see some of the issues you ignored so long as things worked out when you have to deal with grey market support.
There's a lesson there.

Ultimately depending on how your support ticket goes with the grey market site, you may just need to resort to a chargeback or whatever anti-fraud systems your FOP has. A lot of grey market sites will waste your time and send you on wild goose chases in the hopes you do give up and just live with results you got.

Your opinions on what grey market sites ought to do aren't wrong. But your opinions might not have much power in a situation like this. They already know what they're doing. They could operate 100% legit. But they don't. There's a lesson there too.

引用自 Stella：

引用自 Chika Ogiue：

It's just common sense, bro. Not an attack on you. You made a bad decision. Learn from it. It's not like anyone here can help you. And it's not like Valve is the company that screwed you. So you're in the wrong place for any actual solution.

It is not common sense but plain stupidity. You think that everybody should just swallow their pride , suffer in silence and shut their mouth. That is exactly what these scammers are hoping for.

It is common sense. If you have to question if they are an authorized seller than you probably shouldn't risk it. Nobody said you should suffer in silence or to shut your mouth. Chika Ogiue is right though, you made a mistake and nobody here can help you. You should learn from this. You are in the wrong here. Sure you got scammed but it was a choice to buy from an unauthorized retailer. Doesn't matter how popular they are, it still isn't an authorized seller.

same argument in a different cover.