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[jboydgolfer]

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[Jaffakeik]

Never bought from there I buying from CJS-keys.com so far no problems bought around 10 games in last half year. But I did have consideration to buy from G2A in past but looks like I did a right call and didnt make any orders from em a wont in future. Thanks for letting ppl know.

 

[jboydgolfer]

Never bought from there I buying from CJS-keys.com so far no problems bought around 10 games in last half year. But I did have consideration to buy from G2A in past but looks like I did a right call and didnt make any orders from em a wont in future. Thanks for letting ppl know.

you're very welcome, MOST people just from visiting the Mainpage can tell that its a "sketchy" company immediately. I mean, when games that are $30 anywhere else, are listed @ $8 you KNOW something is up. I hope they get they're deserved karma in the end.

 

[Frag_Maniac]

My only question is, if you buy a lot of game keys, surely you must have bought some at a good price (IE: reasonable but not unrealistic) with no such problems before. So why don't you just stick with those places instead of shopping around in what is often times a volatile key market?

Especially since you claim to know it looks like a sketchy site at first glance. You base literally ALL of your skepticism on their prices, yet it appears that is the primary reason you gambled on them.

My general rule of thumb is, if it's less than half the full price at release, it can't be trusted. Wanting to push your luck and get unreasonably low prices is why such sites exist in the first place. Even if dozens of people that get burned put up several posts about it on forums all over the net, they'll still get suckers to buy from them on price alone.

What I'm saying is, if you don't put a large part of the blame on yourself for falling for it despite your skepticism, you may make the same mistake elsewhere. There are plenty of ways a site can deceive people, even with ridiculously low prices.

 

[kn00tcn]

do people not know how things work? have you ever opened the origin store with a thailand proxy? how about steam regional pricing? https://steamdb.info/sub/40085/ MGSV is officially $20.49 in russia

the logistics of a global market doesnt mean things cant be trusted, although first people have to confirm region locks

g2a has 2 sets of prices, theirs (i think?) & 3rd party market sellers, so which one did you buy?

regardless of that, console DRM is a nightmare so i wouldnt trust keys unless i knew the regional source... my friend that happened to live in usa for some months ended up having 2 psn accounts due to sony locking down ps+ codes to the country they're sold in (this isnt even about key sites, it's just getting cards from best buy)

as for support requests, g2a ended up quite popular... with average joes, so what do you think will happen.... support will be flooded... well maybe all support at every company is flooded, so it's in everyone's interest to make short concise sentences or bullet lists, HOW is a LONG paragraph like THIS going to be EA$Y to READ? there are even douchebag customers that try to make long winded posts or scam the store, it's going to be a problem to potentially appear like them

so in the end, you got the refund? that's good... i've seen people that didnt, i was on a youtube about CJS the other day & he made multiple awkward mistakes that made him appear like a scammer, so he ended up with a bad time with support yet blamed the store ( youtube .com/watch?v=kX9qloxLKpk you can see my comment)

TLDR: keep support requests SHORT almost like programming logic, dont bother with console codes due to extreme regional restrictions unless you know the source of the code, research steam regions per game & maybe even make friends in different regions

 

[jboydgolfer]

My only question is, if you buy a lot of game keys, surely you must have bought some at a good price (IE: reasonable but not unrealistic) with no such problems before. So why don't you just stick with those places instead of shopping around in what is often times a volatile key market?

your right, its all my fault.what was i thinking? nevermind everyone, it turns out it was just me being an idiot.

 

[qubit]

@jboydgolfer What you've gone through sounds like a very frustrating nightmare and the kind of shit one really doesn't need. I get that it's "only" $7, but it's the principle, isn't it - why let them get away with it? I'd take it to the bitter end too.

I've read quite a few horror stories about dodgy key resellers ripping customers off, enough to never want to touch any of them or try a grey import trick with proxies or whatever and I've never had a probem.

I only buy Steam or Origin games nowadays, plus www.gog.com for DRM-free games. To ensure I won't be caught out, I either buy direct from Steam, Origin, gog or www.amazon.co.uk as a reseller and that's it. I've bought over 200 games this way and every single activation has worked, first time. I recently bought FIFA 15 from Amazon for half price which activated on Origin without a problem. I got a Battlefield 3 code in a sealed envelope as a special offer when I bought my 2700K CPU back in 2011 and that worked on Origin too.

For games such as the Call of Duty series, I like to have the box to display on my shelf, plus it's usually a bit cheaper off Amazon, so I buy it there. I then open the box, stick the key into the Steam client and download it, not bothering to first install it from the out of date discs in the box. Again, never had a problem.

To avoid this headache in future, I can only recommend to you what I do myself above, as anything else has a certain amount of risk attached to it. Hope you don't go through this again.

EDIT: I see you've deleted your OP and want this thread closed for some reason. Shame.

 

[Blue-Knight]

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[Tatty_Two]

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