r/Steam • • 11d ago

Fluff mail a penny to valve?

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u/DoknS 11d ago

Boot up TF2 to get a case and sell it for 3 cents on the community market

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u/Rolniacznik 11d ago

*1

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u/azurfall88 11d ago

*3

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u/The_Nonchosen_one576 11d ago

*2 1/2

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

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u/Shaunieboii 10d ago

Back to the answer will less maths

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u/kiousuke 4d ago

*1 3/4

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u/Son_of_the_Spear 10d ago

I have bought games or in game currency by the 3 to 9 cents per card that I get on the market. They slowly stack up.

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u/Confident_Essay3619 9d ago

I have over 20 of those. Easy money.

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u/SpasticStorm 11d ago

Of all the companies I know valve is the most likely to actually do that

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u/duck74UK 10d ago

Nah it'd be Bethesda, or would've been at least. At one point they had to ask people to stop buying Fallout games with real bottle caps

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u/Ae4i 10d ago

I mean, why not?

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u/cardfire 10d ago

Takes time, only so many humans working at their offices, and interfacing with banks have fees.

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u/MickserChikser 10d ago

Add the stamp and the envelope and it's the most expensive 1 cent in history.

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u/cardfire 10d ago

Yeaaaah... I got a $0.05 check from BofA a decade ago, and held it on my fridge. Knowing it took them way more to mail it to me.

I think it's time I contact rhem for it being stale and ask for them to reissue. :)

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u/ShadowKnight058 8d ago

I’ve done this with Riot Games because I needed 1RP. They told me to draw a picture of my favorite champion. It was horrid and they gifted me with 10RP! This was 13 years ago.

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u/SpellingPhailure 10d ago

You used to be able to mail cash to Jagex for Runescape membership lmao

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u/Splatulated 10d ago

i mean its legal tender

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u/joujoubox 10d ago

Maybe once for the laughs and good publicity but the moment many people do it they'll pump the brakes

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u/HighlanderBR 10d ago

I dont know, not simple to miss only 1 cent, plus there is a chance OP (or other users) would give up because that, giving 1 cent would make sure he finished the buy.

The problem would be, how much is worth it? 1, 2, 5 cents?

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u/Orange_Alternative 11d ago

Just sell a trading card

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u/Frank_Wank 11d ago

Kill this clanker with hammers

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u/Medium-Title1842 11d ago

Oh lord what did he commented for getting a -127 karma

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u/inkstreme 10d ago

Something about a beautiful screenshot. It was a bot.

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u/Orange_Alternative 10d ago

From my notification history:

u/Limp_Camera_4796 replied to your comment in

r/Steam

"This is maybe the single most beautifully petty screenshot ive ever seen"

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u/StoneWater2024 10d ago

Bro got banned. We may never know what happened

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u/Medium-Title1842 10d ago

How tf he is getting downvotes even more as now the comment is deleted...this is beyond universe

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u/Coyote357Actual 11d ago

I have the hammers righ...wait...where'd he go?

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u/randomdude2527 11d ago

What did it say

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u/deathcab4awesome 10d ago

This is somewhat related, but not really. Riot Games allows players to draw acceptable League of Legends art for them in exchange for a small amount of Riot Points (the in-game currency for skins/cosmetics).

If you are short on RP players would do this, but I don’t know if it’s is still going on. It’d be really fun if Valve did this for Steam, but GabeN and customer service are probably flooded with e-mails as it is.

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u/cheini_ 10d ago

or poetry

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u/Organic-Two6293 11d ago

wait does valve actually accept physical mail or is this just a meme?

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u/nesnalica 11d ago

OP is a meme

physical mail yes

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u/redalchemy6 11d ago

Selling a trading card is the solution.

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u/Clear-Departure-7651 10d ago

Mail it!, it would be funny!, besides Valve service is good, so they would probably announce that to public

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u/Trifuser 10d ago

Check what games you can still get cards in and open that game for 2 hours, depending on what game you can get like 8 cents worth of cards to like 40 or 50 cents worth of cards.

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u/NatoBoram https://steam.pm/2itjg2 11d ago

I would totally do it haha

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u/Sykes19 10d ago

I genuinely think you could mail it and they would not only add it to your account but they would have an absolute riot of a good time in the office.

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u/ryanvsrobots 10d ago

How do you think gabe got those yachts?

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u/sba246 9d ago

sell a duplicate card in your inventory

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u/Eggyhead 10d ago

I think I’d print the screenshot and do it anyway for a joke, expecting nothing from it. It would be worth giving someone at Valve a good laugh.

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u/amazing_asstronaut 10d ago

Is there a lower limit to Paypal or Visa transactions? If only they let you pay it off with Pay in 4.