Support bro +1 ;)

Perhaps steam groups can have their own Steam Wallet for the admins/moderators.
Of course for accountability it should show who contributed or spent on what and when.

Main issue here is that what if the resident Troll decides to input 1 cent.

Then 1 month later they do a charge back.

Originally posted by Satoru:

Main issue here is that what if the resident Troll decides to input 1 cent.

Then 1 month later they do a charge back.

no money has changed hands.

I am a little confused on this. are you talking about dual/multi ownership, or just gifting the money? one of those is reasonable the other impossible.

Originally posted by Satoru:

Main issue here is that what if the resident Troll decides to input 1 cent.

Then 1 month later they do a charge back.

Indeed, it should display a message "You are giving money to a someone's account, no refunds!".

Originally posted by gardian06:

Originally posted by Satoru:

Main issue here is that what if the resident Troll decides to input 1 cent.

Then 1 month later they do a charge back.

no money has changed hands.

I am a little confused on this. are you talking about dual/multi ownership, or just gifting the money? one of those is reasonable the other impossible.

It would be like, someone give a link to other people and they could give some money to his/her account to buy a specific (or not) game, like a chip in.

Then, as Satoru said, a scammer could do a chargeback of the ammount he placed on your account, your game gets revoked and you have to pass through Support Hell in order to have your account unrestricted.

Originally posted by Sync:

Indeed, it should display a message "You are giving money to a someone's account, no refunds!".

And if a users' account gets hijacked, then the hijackers use a 'pool' account to pool different stolen accounts to buy games, which they then distribute. A no chargeback policy there would effectively give hijackers a rock solid way to launder stolen money.

Note that this is different than steam's 'no refund' policy. When a chargeback is issued usually the offending account is suspended and games are revoked that were purchased.

Originally posted by gardian06:

no money has changed hands.

I am a little confused on this. are you talking about dual/multi ownership, or just gifting the money? one of those is reasonable the other impossible.

The idea, as presented, would allow multiple users to transfer money into a pool by which a game would be purchased.

My point is that a single chargeback really throws that entire process into chaos. Or worse allows scammers to effectively use stolen accounts and credit cards with no repercussions at all

Look not saying the idea isn't cool. I mean lots people want to 'pool' in to buy say a 4 pack of games for a bit cheaper. I get the idea. The problem comes when unscrupulous people abuse that system for their own benefit.

Originally posted by Sync:

Indeed, it should display a message "You are giving money to a someone's account, no refunds!".

That would only prevent someone from getting a refund from steam. They could still get a refund from the card company who would then take their money back from steam. Steam would be required to comply by law, and would then take back the game from the users account. Over a single penny and the acusation of fraud.

+1

You can't have people from around the world sending people money to purchase things and not pay taxes. This would get Valve in trouble with many governments around the world.

Originally posted by ChrisW:

You can't have people from around the world sending people money to purchase things and not pay taxes. This would get Valve in trouble with many governments around the world.

This function should be just for friends of the guy that is asking the money, or just the people who are from the same country of him.