SlashSero 729 points730 points 7 months ago

They are also charging a whopping 10% payment fee on any purchase made which isn't allowed by most banks and providing false information about third party service fees is considered fraudulent under consumer protection laws. Furthermore it is not allowed in the EU to sign the user up for a paid subscription or service without their explicit consent, having to unchecked a box to not get signed up to a paid subscription is exactly what this protects against.

G2A does it all and it's detestable how PayPal is partnering with them ( despite breaking PayPal's TOS on charging customers service fees ) and how many gaming events are taking their sponsorships money based on monetizing fraud, theft and malpractice.

It's just that a lot of these things aren't really enforced and businesses can get away with predatory practices towards both customers and employees for a long, long time.

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Traiklin 88 points89 points 7 months ago

"We don't and never have dealt in stolen credit cards or money laundering" - G2Aspokesman

I know for a fact they dealt in stolen shit because I used G2A to buy Xbox 360 accounts for cheap to get the DLC items for cheap, they were 100% stolen (either account or CC) because they would be disabled within an hour.

DrAntagonist 7 points8 points 7 months ago

Every once in awhile someone asks why their Guild Wars account is banned, and sure enough it's always because they got a key from G2A that was bought with a stolen credit card.

[deleted] -75 points-74 points 7 months ago

oh no the multimillion dollar companies are gonna lose on 15$ of profits! what will the CEO's do?!?!

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FINDarkside -5 points-4 points 7 months ago

I'd like to point out that only indie devs who make their own stores face this problem. That's why there's only one indie dev who has been vocal about this.

[deleted] -29 points-28 points 7 months ago

sure indie devs can be screwed. and i dont buy games second hand from developers that deserve it. even bigger ones like cd projekt red.

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Bloodyfoxx 0 points1 point 7 months ago

You may want to educate yourself before speaking.

ClawTheBeast 10 points11 points 7 months ago

Cries in Scottish

Lambpanties 1 point2 points 7 months ago

It's even worse with their subscription bullshit. You aren't allowed to unsubscribe until 48hours before renewal. The box is literally greyed out until then, maximizing chances you'll forget, miss your brief gettingunfucked-window and be stuck another month.

It always surprises me that I haven't heard of any (civil or criminal) litigation against this company yet with all they do.

[deleted] 1 point2 points 7 months ago

And this is why I use cdkeys and not G2A.

TheRealMathiiS 0 points1 point 7 months ago

Except PayPal isn't partnering with them, PayPal have just removed some of their payment options on G2A.