Comment on Valve to no longer offer physical gift cards due to scammers
timestatic@feddit.org 17 hours agoBut there will always be some form of gift card. if not steam gift card people will buy apple or google play cards. Its a sad thing going of with the scamming but honestly a physical gift card still beats a print out of an email on a piece of paper.
Anivia@feddit.org 10 hours ago
Apple and Play store gift cards are a lot less valuable. With Steam gift cards it’s trivial to turn them back into cash. Just buy marketplace items (like Counter Strike skins) and sell them for cash
timestatic@feddit.org 3 hours ago
Valve could also just stop allowing people to turn the gift card money back into real cash. It would be trivial to implement this with a bit of goodwill. But i get your point
Anivia@feddit.org 2 hours ago
How would this be trivial? They would have to completely disable trading marketplace items