Before we get started, This isnt my account personally its just something that popped up somewhere and thought it was quite interesting to share and discuss here

A little introduction. During the Christmas sales of 2010, I gifted many non-American users Steam games at the American prices (Steam prices in USD for most games is a lot cheaper than the EUR/GBP price). The non-US person Paypal's me X USD (X = the price of the game in USD), and I gift them the game. I did with around 20 people or so. Everyone is happy; the non-US player saves money, and Valve/the publisher is still getting paid for the game. I guess Valve wasn't so happy, however...

Has this ever happened to anyone here who helped European gamers save some cash by gifting them the games for cheaper? I am mainly surprised since I see nothing about it in their ToS, etc. (though I may have missed it). Valve and the publishers are technically not losing anything. Based on my account being banned, do you think the prices are just raised for non-US "because they can"? If it was due to currency conversion, why would they ban me? Just some food for thought...

Edit: just to confirm, I am banned (account 100% disabled). It was not a warning. The image is a reply of my "ban appeal" via Steam Support.


Now to me this sounds off he must have been gifting like like $1000's or something stupid maybe that would even flag of credit card company's like someone stole the card, I've gifted oversea's people games before from EU to US and AUS.