mostly likely attempting to buy region blocked gifts by using glitches (such as CoD Black Ops II, Skyrim LE and Borderlands 2).

Please post a message with your new account here.

uhm... can we talk in steam because i still have some quetions with transfer items from 1 dispenser bot to other...

Steam's stance on cross region trading and gifting has become much stricter lately. Buying games cheaper from other regions and then trading/gifting to users from other regions is illegal according to steam and they will ban for this.

This is the reason you see a lot of traders getting banned lately, mostly Russians. They will simply restrict your account from: purchasing, trading, gifting and using the market.

It doesn't matter what kind of games you buy, any game that is much cheaper in one region compared to others applies to this rule. They only ban the account that purchases those gifts from store, not the reseller or the buyer... at least for now.

I got a few friends that got banned lately and i assume steam started banning those that had the most buying and trading activity for now, maybe more will follow.

If you get banned and contact support they will reply with something like this:

"Hello XXX,

Thank you for contacting Steam Support.

Our records indicate that you are using this account to purposely bypass regional content restrictions or regional pricing.

In the future, do not resell games to users in regions that do not match the price of the region in which you reside or are purchasing from. Additionally, do not use proxy or VPN software to falsify your purchasing region.

Note that the reselling of games is not supported by Steam Support. If you choose not to follow these instructions, your current and future reselling accounts will be permanently blocked from purchasing on Steam.

Prices in the Steam Store are set on a region by region basis. The price and currency displayed are the set prices for those games based on your location.

We are always working with publishers to adjust prices to be in line with what can be found at local retailers and online shops."

None knows for sure, this gifting system is new and we have to wait and see what happens. Let's hope they don't or we are all in big trouble here ;)

Interesting read:
http://www.steamgifts.com/forum/vf7es/

Also - this banning thing is surrounded with tons of myths. Ppl think they are banned when they actually are not, and spread fud and makes everything hard to understand.

So, i got restricted during last sale. Error before each purchase. Trade ban? No. Some kind of limitation because bought too much - yes. Few days passed and i can buy again no problem.

>> I know about an occurence where every accounts that on a given day have traded with a russian dealer got banned: buying accounts, his trade account, resellers
This is interesting. Would be nice to know what amounts that guy moved.

Shop moved.

Thats exactly what i fugured after reading some posts here and there. Anyways its strange that steam operates this way, it would be easier to them just extract some RU profile statistics, order them by purchase rate and process one by one.


@thoth Unfortunately ppl are very secretive or just simply not motivated to tell about their situation... This thead is best discoussion about this topic on dispenser.

thank you Joto, the problem was solved, but appers new, i dont see untradeble gifts in steam from dispenser...