...and if you take more than a few minutes to respond to the e-mail that somehow takes 20+ minutes for them to send, you get "token expired" and have to restart the whole process. Anyway if you set up payment via Paypal you can just go into your Paypal settings and de-authorize the recurring payments to G2A.
they are using a grey market, not really legal or illegal. or a better way to put it, no morals and its worse then pirating. pirate a game is better then buying "dirty" or stolen keys.
Probably someone backs them up? And a majority of gamers (imo of course) enjoys a game with high quality and low cost. That's what makes them still alive.
Wet Lettuce they would sue you or go to PayPal Paypal otherwise was understandable and they blocket g2a for me and I don't had to pay the fee PayPal rocks!
No, they dispatch cancelation emails 20 minutes later on purpose, that's what I'm trying to say. I tried this myself and it's most likely the case. But changing password can be done within seconds.
Fedir Hallenius you also have to use the mail in 10 minutes after receiving otherwise you get an error and have to do it all over again 😂😂 Fuck G2A and i will probably never buy from them again, i dont support such bussines.
My Girlfriend was wondering why I was getting angry at the computer, why I was screaming, pulling out my credit card, repeatingly checking my email and just staring at the screen... She almost left me that day... I was just unsubscribing from G2A "Shield" - Thanks again G2A, I'll miss you my old friend?
Want to know another funny thing? The email you get, you need to use it within 10 MINUTES that you receive it or you'll get an "invalid token" error. And you'll have to restart the entire deactivation process again. NEVER again will I use this scummy website.
One thing you can do as consumers is tell all the youtubers who promote this site what G2A is actually up to. Even big channels like PewDiePie are taking money from G2A to promote them.
you know for the amount of time it would take to do that (about an hour) I could just drive down into town to my bank. Mark the G2A subscription as fraudulent and cancel it. and be back home drinking tea before I could get it done manually.
Like many users i was scam by G2A. Only last month I discover they are taking 1.50€ every month from my bank account since January 2016! They say the first month is free(1 month trial) and they forgot to say after that "free month" they will take money from your account every month! And when you cancel that shit they scam you even more, you normally pay 1euro for the shield, after you cancel it, you start to pay 3 euros! Is not even worth it buy keys in the site anymore.
GonnaDoStuff I advice you to block that shit in your paypal or bank, because they will not stop charging that amount! Before is to late! When I Notice that was to late... I got charge close to 20 euros in several months payment of 1.50 euros!
Dr Pantsu Nope! They don't say anything. After that trial end, they will start charging the "shield amount" every month. They never say anything about that in the first time you decide to try trial for 30 days. This is a scam, G2A purposely hide that!! They charge money without the costumer knowing. If you read across the internet, you will see loads of people complaining about the same thing. A "trial" like it says its a Trial! Its not a permanent contract!!! they clearly do that on propose!
Sueshe hahaha I was just thinking what if you just couldn't really a fucking Shit and just clicking deactivate and to make your sure paying attention they make the deactivate button green to people that fuck up have to start over
Zone not really, if the seller canmot provide you means to cancel the service or respond to your claim PayPal has full right to reimburse you in your favor. It happened to me when I couldn't login to the swtor website because their email service is broken and the confirmation email never arrived, I tried a hundred times and this is a common problem with swtor, you cannot even contact their customer service without logging in. EA did not respond to my PayPal claim and PayPal not only canceled the subscription but also refunded the last two months of paid subscription for me. And EA never responded to any of that.
And if you cancel your PayPal subscription the seller (G2A, mmo sub...) will just automatically cancel it on their side as well as no payment has arrived. There is nothing illegal about this. It's the seller's fault i in the first place that he has not provided easier means to cancel it.
100% legal to go into paypal preapproved payments and cancel it. PayPal is not classified as a bank and it is 100% allowed. According to seller terms on PayPal it is mandatory for sellers to allow buyers cancel subscriptions.
Humble Bundle be like "You want to cancel your subscription? You will lose: stuff you lose "Are you sure?" *Clicks yes* "Ok, subscription canceled, why did you unsubscribe?" End. Thats all.
i bought the crews dlc with g2a, no problem. i bought gta v, no problem. my friend bought overwatch, he got scammed. im trying to say g2a is like opening some csgo cases, the odds of you getting what you really want is shit......just expect your money to go away if you buy from them.
not really, i've bought 14 games from them and not a single one was a scam. All you got to do to have REALLY high odds is see the sellers succesfull rate (100%-90% is good, less is bad)
It gets worse, I marked the days I could deactivate it in my agenda, tried it 5 days before, didnt work, 4 days before, didnt work, 2 days before, didnt work, 1 day didnt work and in the end it just got extended and they took my money. Not going to buy from G2A ever again.
anyone with this issue reading in the future, just call your bank and block g2a, g2a will either contact you to cancel your service or delete it themselves.
How do I know if I accidentally subscribed to that crap? I payed with paysafe every time, so a subscription is not possible. But I just want to make sure ...
RazingHel Nope, I paid with paysafe and I didn't give them any information. I also haven't been getting any emails or anything. So I guess I'm lucky. Thanks for the replies :)
That is why I refuse to just hand over my credit card information to some random online services I just heard about, I gave them the Paypal link instead. Although I think G2A might have gone wise on it though; earlier that day I made several purchases with my Paypal at Steam and Humble Bundle which worked just fine but having huge issue with G2A for, which I can only assume issue on G2A's side (I've made multiple calls to both PayPal and my bank to check if the issue is on my end). Either way, with Paypal, with one quick call to Paypal support center, I was able to kill the account link in a few minutes hassle free. The whole ordeal gives me a very good idea on what Grey Market is like. High risk, high reward.
Holy shit, they do NOT want you to unsubscribe. That is dedication to make THAT MANY dialogues. They should just have a bot generate new dialogue options and make it a text-adventure game.
I have only used g2a a few times, never been scammed, never dumb enough to buy "random" steam keys, but I will say it is a sketchy ass site and g2a shield subscription is bullshit anyway when they make you pay for it whether you have it or not.
OK, I can't work out if I'm doing this right or wrong, but I love G2A. So far I've managed to get Overwatch, For Honor, Deus Ex Mankind Divided and Battlefield one for massively discounted prices without a problem. No reoccuring fees, no problems with customer service and no failed keys (besides Overwatch which I resolved in 20 mins with one of the reps. I got a new key.)
Well duh if you buy something itll charge your bank account. But if you dont sign up for G2A shield then it doesnt keep charging your bank account for it. Been using G2A for a while now and never get randomly charged cause Shield is deactivated
Wait, so I've purchased the shield only about twice, and that was the price that depended on the game. I don't actually have a g2a account as I'd rather just pay the 55 cents every purchase from PayPal. Was I buying one-time shields or was it a subscription I was buying even though every time I buy a game I usually choose not to have it active as it would cost more money. Basically do I have the subscription or have I only been purchasing the one-time shields?
NEVER buy the shield AT ALL. You don't need it. It's just an excuse for them to make more money. If you get a dodgy key, you are entitled to a refund regardless.
(apparently, terms of service 5.12 protects G2A from issuing any refund from this awful cancellation process) "After you go to the page and scroll down, you'll see two links to the Terms and Conditions and the Privacy policy. The terms are here: The information about the Shield charge is available in the point 5.12" Worst cancellation process ever. this needs to be known and this info needs to spread like wildfire. Though the 1.xx$ isn't much I tried to get them to issue a refund and I failed. Thank you RazingHel for spreading this information.
G2A takes even longer. I had G2a Shield on a purchase. Stupid code didn't work in my region like it was advertised. Had to wait weeks to give the seller a chance to reply to the ticket, which they never did, so right there the 5 minute money back promise is bullshit. Took almost a month to get my money back. Paypay takes 10 days at most, probably even less if you give them a call and tell them about G2A. What gets me is why G2A hasn't been sued or raided by the FBI yet for the bullshit they pull constantly.
KaZixt, yeah I did too. My point is the shield promise it bullshit. You pay extra for the security that if the key doesn't work, they'll get you a new one in 5 minutes. When the key I bought didn't work, they open a ticket and wait 2 weeks for the seller to respond to it. 2 weeks is a lot longer than 5 minutes, and in my experience the seller doesn't respond because they've already ran off with the money and moved onto using another account. So I got tired of it and called Paypal. Maybe it's because the person I spoke to had past experience with G2A customers or I got them on a good day, but I got my full refund in a day.
Okay. I use g2a when I want to buy game, which was formerly in sale but now it isn't. I never use g2a shield. Just buy the game. Is this video means I shouldn't buy game from g2a or just saying g2a shield system is fucked up? If it means g2a shield is trash, I don't use it so it won't be problem for me. Because at least for now I never had a problem with'em. Games works properly.
I've used it twice while not being subscribed to their monthly plan, I had no problems and was very satisfied with their service. I only bought the shield with every game purchase.
Huhhh... I bought a game a while ago, and the G2a shield was selected by default when I went to checkout but didn't notice it. It was only like a 2 dollar charge, so I figured fuck it I didn't want to deal with the hassle of asking for my $2 back. Did I accidentally subscribe for a montly recurring charge? Or was that shield a "just for this purchase" buy? I don't check my bank statement for every dollar that's been withdrawn, so this is kind of concerning. I don't think I even have a G2A account on their website, I just paid through paypal.
You can. They just tricked me again into getting Shield. Did multiple purchases and just missed un-clicking Shield one time... sigh. This was my second time getting tricked, they don't refund, even when you cancel Shield that very same day. So I deleted my account and will never be using their site ever again. I suggest you all do the same.
nah, its still 2.61$. it was not free... hence why im never using them again. they just trick you into getting it, and charge you even when you instantly cancel it.
Chris Kenworthy Well, I'm sorry to hear that for sure. Was hoping they'd get their act together better on the consumer side of their business but thanks for letting us know.
Thanks man I learned a lot of customer retention it's actually ingenious how the trick you, not fun I agree but looking at it from the psichology of of marketing it's brilliant.
I accidentally subscribed to G2A Shield a few years back when I bought a dedicated bot for CSGOLounge. Had no idea what G2A Shield was, and accidentally checked out with it checked. A month later, I check my bank account to see I've gone in the negative because I was without a job at the time, and ended up paying 33$ for G2A Shield after the 30 day free trial. I was beyond livid.
g2a just wants to help the consumer out! g2a understands that the consumer cant help, but get tricked, bamboozled, and even scammed more often than not. G2A knows that this maddening issue keeps reoccurring over, and over again, on g2a's astonishingly, business-to-customer-friendly, awe inspiting, website... However, regarding to the greedy people who just want to take the consumer's hard earned money G2A has the solution :) and yet this is how the consumer treats his friend ):
Have you noticed how many gaming channels on TH-cam still promote it? Pewdiepie promotes them as a matter of fact, you'd think that if the site was super sketchy then the face of TH-cam wouldn't be partnered with them.
Holy crap, when it got to "I thought we were friends" I thought this was going to end up going over the table stupid hard like that captcha video from dunkey.
G2A gave it to me even worse. I bought a key and selected the box to pay for g2a shield on THAT purchase. I was all happy then one month later it said I paid money again, I was confused so I checked g2a and it turned out they signed me up for a subscription. I followed to unsubscribe like the video shown, however it was even worse. Once it got to the email part it sent me the email half an hour later and when I clicked the confirmation link it sent me back to step 1 of unsubscribing. It was an infinite loop so I contacted their support team and they said I could only do it and through the email. So after so long of doing research I found out I could stop paying them through PayPal so they didn't receive any money. I did that and they threatened to delete my account, they did in the end because I didn't pay them but who cares. Good job g2a :)
I don't know why people use the shield....the games are so cheap and even if you get screwed, you can buy the same game 4-5 more times until the price is the same as when you purchase from the steam/other platforms..... Still have yet to be screwed by them.
once I bought something from G2A and I accidently closed the window I had g2a shield they said they couldn't help me because I didn't have an account when I bought it. The thing that saved me was going to the page through my history.
Why is nobody speedrunning G2A unsubscriptions?
the 20 minute cutscene demotivated me
Noxris next world record
I couldn't get the Japanese version
omg yes dude this is great. I'm on it. Hahahah
the referee would go home out of boredom
You forgot to mention that they cancel the deactivation if you dont click the link in email after 5 min :D
TheAzumDude Wow seriously
This is the worst process I've seen for trying to cancel a service online.
SuperResistant No, click 6 hidden buttons, then give them your credit details, press another hidden button, then wait 20 mins+ for the email...
SuperResistant Of course I have, I was referring to g2a
Oranje Tijger They only allow cancellation if you have a credit card for some reason
...and if you take more than a few minutes to respond to the e-mail that somehow takes 20+ minutes for them to send, you get "token expired" and have to restart the whole process.
Anyway if you set up payment via Paypal you can just go into your Paypal settings and de-authorize the recurring payments to G2A.
Impossible. Only the game developer could do that by banning it.
no idea how G2A is still somehow up and running and hasn't just been taken down
they are using a grey market, not really legal or illegal.
or a better way to put it, no morals and its worse then pirating.
pirate a game is better then buying "dirty" or stolen keys.
Probably someone backs them up? And a majority of gamers (imo of course) enjoys a game with high quality and low cost. That's what makes them still alive.
Valentine their HQ is registered in Hong Kong , paradise of scam companies and money laundering
Why are you everywhere?
Because most of the people didn't notice this pile of shit and keeps charging them
It would just be easier to contact the bank and block the subscription payments...
Wet Lettuce they would sue you or go to PayPal Paypal otherwise was understandable and they blocket g2a for me and I don't had to pay the fee
PayPal rocks!
Yung TedBounty
Good luck enforcing a debt for a few bucks through any court....
Wet Lettuce I would bet my ass they would do
That's there loss when they have to pay hundreds of dollars to reclaim like five bucks and I still don't pay up....
Wet Lettuce Well in the past I ripped g2a off sometimes
Was quite fun
"I thought we were friends?" Lmfao
Cyntical who's lmfao a korean
SoZ Onyx his brother is lmao?
Password verification email comes instantly, while cancellation email is.. well.. delayed purposely.
Fedir Hallenius tru dat
That Email thing meant that you should wait at least 20 minutes before trying again because sometimes emails are delayed
No, they dispatch cancelation emails 20 minutes later on purpose, that's what I'm trying to say. I tried this myself and it's most likely the case. But changing password can be done within seconds.
Fedir Hallenius you also have to use the mail in 10 minutes after receiving otherwise you get an error and have to do it all over again 😂😂
Fuck G2A and i will probably never buy from them again, i dont support such bussines.
Alexander I'm not gay but I like Laurens Hamilton its is, happened to a buddy of mine
they should make it, WAIT 49 hours before the email arrives.
"Sorry, you can only unsubscribe from the service in the last two days of the payment term."
Wait 49 hours, you now have a 30 second time frame to use this email. good luck have fun gg
I started laughing so hard when it got to the sad squirrel XD
me 2
Me too xD
scrolled down to comments as it came to the squirrel ...
bobbyreads SAME
Should have been a picture of a sad dog I would have clicked the green button
My Girlfriend was wondering why I was getting angry at the computer, why I was screaming, pulling out my credit card, repeatingly checking my email and just staring at the screen... She almost left me that day... I was just unsubscribing from G2A "Shield" - Thanks again G2A, I'll miss you my old friend?
if she almost left you because of a small think like that, you shouldn't be with her then
Savage
Want to know another funny thing? The email you get, you need to use it within 10 MINUTES that you receive it or you'll get an "invalid token" error. And you'll have to restart the entire deactivation process again.
NEVER again will I use this scummy website.
Terrorclaw this happened to me. Since you have to wait for 20 minutes before the mail arrives, you will most likely guaranteed forget about it. Cheeky
Terrorclaw lol
DAMN!
Terrorclaw they don't send the email until the last 1 minute.
mmoga is a pain because of someone us just want to use paypal with it
for the very last slide they need to make the green button deactivate it (switch the buttons).
don't give them ideas!
dude this is too much...thanku for letting me know this shit
One thing you can do as consumers is tell all the youtubers who promote this site what G2A is actually up to. Even big channels like PewDiePie are taking money from G2A to promote them.
*Last step clicks green button* Mission failed, well get em next time.
R6
reminded me of the "Far Cry 3: Blood Draon" tutorial
Penguin Games oh I remember that
That game was the shit
"Sprinting is Like running, just faster"
"To jump, jump"
you know for the amount of time it would take to do that (about an hour) I could just drive down into town to my bank. Mark the G2A subscription as fraudulent and cancel it. and be back home drinking tea before I could get it done manually.
Like many users i was scam by G2A. Only last month I discover they are taking 1.50€ every month from my bank account since January 2016! They say the first month is free(1 month trial) and they forgot to say after that "free month" they will take money from your account every month! And when you cancel that shit they scam you even more, you normally pay 1euro for the shield, after you cancel it, you start to pay 3 euros! Is not even worth it buy keys in the site anymore.
they are charging me 3eur and I didn't even do anything ever
GonnaDoStuff I advice you to block that shit in your paypal or bank, because they will not stop charging that amount! Before is to late! When I Notice that was to late... I got charge close to 20 euros in several months payment of 1.50 euros!
GamerDemand sorry for misunderstanding, I ment without subscribtion. They used to only charge me 1 eur, then after a while 2 and emideitely 3!
eh......... will my trial end will there be trial notification end??
Dr Pantsu Nope! They don't say anything. After that trial end, they will start charging the "shield amount" every month. They never say anything about that in the first time you decide to try trial for 30 days. This is a scam, G2A purposely hide that!! They charge money without the costumer knowing. If you read across the internet, you will see loads of people complaining about the same thing. A "trial" like it says its a Trial! Its not a permanent contract!!! they clearly do that on propose!
I would have fucking lost it if they made the last screen's deactivate now button green
Sueshe hahaha I was just thinking what if you just couldn't really a fucking Shit and just clicking deactivate and to make your sure paying attention they make the deactivate button green to people that fuck up have to start over
That squirrel trick won't work with people that hate furries.
Love the video btw
DatSoldiersASpy Official yes btw your picture is nice
So everyone
Don't worry, it wont work with furries either, its not explicit enough
It just might be the final push an already pissed off person needs to punch their monitor meaning they can't cancel their subscription...
Im unsure if i'm severely autistic or not. But is this legit the process g2a uses?
T Bag Yeah
T Bag sadly... yes
They find possible loop holes to manipulate and thus use "emotion/mind control" basics to get your trapped in paying for the sub..
Yes
they changed it. You have to go to g2a pay now and deactivate there.
- 1 friend
Mission failed
Well get em next time
Stealthy_ Person booooooooooooooo
Stealthy_ Person *We'll
+1 euro
Devi true
On the last screen they should make "Deactivate now" into green button "Leave G2A Shield active" into grey link.
They charge like $1.23 every week they charged me on dec.6 then dec.9 I haven't bought anything since November wtf!!!!!!!!
lol why u waste time in the website? I just cancelled the service in my PayPal account, easy in less than 5 seconds!
Zone not really, if the seller canmot provide you means to cancel the service or respond to your claim PayPal has full right to reimburse you in your favor. It happened to me when I couldn't login to the swtor website because their email service is broken and the confirmation email never arrived, I tried a hundred times and this is a common problem with swtor, you cannot even contact their customer service without logging in. EA did not respond to my PayPal claim and PayPal not only canceled the subscription but also refunded the last two months of paid subscription for me. And EA never responded to any of that.
And if you cancel your PayPal subscription the seller (G2A, mmo sub...) will just automatically cancel it on their side as well as no payment has arrived. There is nothing illegal about this. It's the seller's fault i in the first place that he has not provided easier means to cancel it.
100% legal to go into paypal preapproved payments and cancel it. PayPal is not classified as a bank and it is 100% allowed. According to seller terms on PayPal it is mandatory for sellers to allow buyers cancel subscriptions.
in my case the shield option remained active for some months after I have cancelled it from the paypal account. Must've been a bug or something.
www.g2a.com/r/https-www-g2a-com-r-qb808buy
Ha ha ha! Oh man, this is hilarious! This video needs more views, it''s comedy + a great review, very well done.
Humble Bundle be like
"You want to cancel your subscription? You will lose: stuff you lose
"Are you sure?" *Clicks yes*
"Ok, subscription canceled, why did you unsubscribe?"
End.
Thats all.
i bought the crews dlc with g2a, no problem. i bought gta v, no problem. my friend bought overwatch, he got scammed.
im trying to say g2a is like opening some csgo cases, the odds of you getting what you really want is shit......just expect your money to go away if you buy from them.
not really, i've bought 14 games from them and not a single one was a scam. All you got to do to have REALLY high odds is see the sellers succesfull rate (100%-90% is good, less is bad)
And even if you get scammed, you can open a dispute on g2a and in most cases you get a replacement key or a refund.
And even if you don't want to open a dispute on G2A with their shitty customer service, you can always issue a chargeback.
26 games, one was scam got money back.
Never bought g2a shield, customer support still comes to your rescue without it.
Someone needs to speedrun this
I almost bought ArmA 3 Apex with g2a. I didn't trust them at all, I ended up coughing up the extra $10 and just buying it on steam.
they usually dont't sell anything, sellers sell the codes and if seller has 100% positive feedback you can buy, i bought few keys and all were good
I just bought GTA 5 from scdkeys and it worked perfectly :D.
I also deleted my G2A account. $10 says that cancels my subscription.
Charles Barkley Lmao I wish
Nice, you supported the devs in the process too, thumbs up to you man.
The way they worded a lot of the pages was pretty scummy as well.
It's like 3 or 4 euros now per month, and ACTIVATES without user knowledge..
Wolfenberg isn't that illegal?
Probably was hidden in some kinds of terms and conditions
Wolfenberg
It doesn't activate without your permission. You just didn't bother to READ! The checkbox for shield is fucking massive.
fuckin 50 shades of g2a confirmation screens
It gets worse, I marked the days I could deactivate it in my agenda, tried it 5 days before, didnt work, 4 days before, didnt work, 2 days before, didnt work, 1 day didnt work and in the end it just got extended and they took my money.
Not going to buy from G2A ever again.
mugenjouproject goodluck
Go to your bank and tell them to block G2A.
Thanks, i could deactivate it after
i could cancel the subscription after, they still took 1.50 euro though.
anyone with this issue reading in the future, just call your bank and block g2a, g2a will either contact you to cancel your service or delete it themselves.
Every time it says "Leave G2A Shield active" take a shot
How do I know if I accidentally subscribed to that crap? I payed with paysafe every time, so a subscription is not possible. But I just want to make sure ...
Once logged in click on the "My Account" button, if it says "G2A Shield Off" then you don't have it activated.
RazingHel I didn't make an account.
thebatmanhimself Well I'm not sure then, if you see it pop up on PayPal or Credit Card you could dispute it I guess.
RazingHel Nope, I paid with paysafe and I didn't give them any information. I also haven't been getting any emails or anything. So I guess I'm lucky. Thanks for the replies :)
thebatmanhimself
How you can be charged monthly if you don't even have an account on their website?
Just use your brain!!!
Oh wow it's less work to launch a nuke than to deactivate this g2a crap. :D
if youre using paypal you can just disable there with one click
Song is "Canon in D"
Crunkbar by John pacabel I presume.
Stalker Of Pripyat Pachelbel
Mika Ruba sorry
+Lolyou 1337 THAT KILLS PEOPLE CARRRRRRRLLLLL!
GOD DAMIT CARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRLLLLLLLLLL!
That is why I refuse to just hand over my credit card information to some random online services I just heard about, I gave them the Paypal link instead. Although I think G2A might have gone wise on it though; earlier that day I made several purchases with my Paypal at Steam and Humble Bundle which worked just fine but having huge issue with G2A for, which I can only assume issue on G2A's side (I've made multiple calls to both PayPal and my bank to check if the issue is on my end). Either way, with Paypal, with one quick call to Paypal support center, I was able to kill the account link in a few minutes hassle free. The whole ordeal gives me a very good idea on what Grey Market is like. High risk, high reward.
Holy shit, they do NOT want you to unsubscribe. That is dedication to make THAT MANY dialogues. They should just have a bot generate new dialogue options and make it a text-adventure game.
I have only used g2a a few times, never been scammed, never dumb enough to buy "random" steam keys, but I will say it is a sketchy ass site and g2a shield subscription is bullshit anyway when they make you pay for it whether you have it or not.
That squirrel gets me everytime,i've been locked in the contract and the squirrel prevents me from getting out
you're verified at 1.7k? fancy
I just blocked their payments on my bank account 😂
How do u do that??
OK, I can't work out if I'm doing this right or wrong, but I love G2A. So far I've managed to get Overwatch, For Honor, Deus Ex Mankind Divided and Battlefield one for massively discounted prices without a problem. No reoccuring fees, no problems with customer service and no failed keys (besides Overwatch which I resolved in 20 mins with one of the reps. I got a new key.)
or you can call your bank and tell them to block payment to them and the bank legally has to do it I know because I've done it
A friend recommended g2a to me. Glad I read some of the finer details of their site. That site scares me.
they have a lot of scammers lolz
I buy games on g2a a lot. But I havent used the shield and i havent got any problems with keys.
True,just don't use the fucking shield and problem solved
Chroma Virus it still charges your bank account. g2a kept popping up on his PayPal, he canceled it, then it came back
Well duh if you buy something itll charge your bank account. But if you dont sign up for G2A shield then it doesnt keep charging your bank account for it. Been using G2A for a while now and never get randomly charged cause Shield is deactivated
kakka putti most steam dlc: 15-20€ on g2a: 2€
yep. My friend asked me to buy just case 2, but in steam it costs 15e. And I wont pay that much from that old game. But In g2a 4e :D
You did the same thing for this video. This could have been a 2 minute video.
gotta do dem 10 min videos for money dud
Wait, so I've purchased the shield only about twice, and that was the price that depended on the game. I don't actually have a g2a account as I'd rather just pay the 55 cents every purchase from PayPal. Was I buying one-time shields or was it a subscription I was buying even though every time I buy a game I usually choose not to have it active as it would cost more money.
Basically do I have the subscription or have I only been purchasing the one-time shields?
You don't need account to have active subscriptions, you just can't manage them or unscuscribe. I know it personaly.
NEVER buy the shield AT ALL. You don't need it. It's just an excuse for them to make more money. If you get a dodgy key, you are entitled to a refund regardless.
nope.
You purchased one time protection. It is *not* a subscription.
Thank you.
(apparently, terms of service 5.12 protects G2A from issuing any refund from this awful cancellation process)
"After you go to the page and scroll down, you'll see two links to the Terms and Conditions and the Privacy policy. The terms are here:
The information about the Shield charge is available in the point 5.12"
Worst cancellation process ever.
this needs to be known and this info needs to spread like wildfire.
Though the 1.xx$ isn't much I tried to get them to issue a refund and I failed.
Thank you RazingHel for spreading this information.
porn sites do that, nothing new here
you pay for porn?
G2A = porn??
TheBoyOutside but insteqd of the squirrel it is mia khalifa.
TheBoyOutside P0RN
zrex2metagor If u use brazzers yes
hi man congrats for all those viwers i remeber when you had less than 1k viewers with stronghold kingdoms videos good job
Thanks for sticking around!
well g2a shield might become free if they want to continue their deal with gearbox
I love how it says "Unsubscribe now" on every page, yet it takes you like half an hour to do the whole thing.
Someone needs to sue these people.
Instead of the sad squirel, they should've used Obi Wan saying: This is not the unsubscription you are looking for, move along..
Just refund on paypal. If you get banne like me just use a vpn
wow thanks God
G2A takes even longer. I had G2a Shield on a purchase. Stupid code didn't work in my region like it was advertised. Had to wait weeks to give the seller a chance to reply to the ticket, which they never did, so right there the 5 minute money back promise is bullshit. Took almost a month to get my money back.
Paypay takes 10 days at most, probably even less if you give them a call and tell them about G2A.
What gets me is why G2A hasn't been sued or raided by the FBI yet for the bullshit they pull constantly.
KaZixt, yeah I did too. My point is the shield promise it bullshit. You pay extra for the security that if the key doesn't work, they'll get you a new one in 5 minutes.
When the key I bought didn't work, they open a ticket and wait 2 weeks for the seller to respond to it. 2 weeks is a lot longer than 5 minutes, and in my experience the seller doesn't respond because they've already ran off with the money and moved onto using another account.
So I got tired of it and called Paypal. Maybe it's because the person I spoke to had past experience with G2A customers or I got them on a good day, but I got my full refund in a day.
Thank you for posting this
Okay.
I use g2a when I want to buy game, which was formerly in sale but now it isn't.
I never use g2a shield. Just buy the game.
Is this video means I shouldn't buy game from g2a or just saying g2a shield system is fucked up?
If it means g2a shield is trash, I don't use it so it won't be problem for me.
Because at least for now I never had a problem with'em. Games works properly.
I appreciate you documenting this. It's good to keep eyes on the more cancerous parts of the industry.
how do you get to the first cancel dialog...
I think they might have changed it since, I no longer have the shield and it no longer shows as an option in my account. Sorry.
ive been paying but it didnt recognize me as a shield user and i had to get a free trail and now i need to wait 27 days to cancel that shit
deprived better to cancel bank payments from ur bank if ur getting scammed
Cant they wont let me
I've used it twice while not being subscribed to their monthly plan, I had no problems and was very satisfied with their service. I only bought the shield with every game purchase.
Huhhh... I bought a game a while ago, and the G2a shield was selected by default when I went to checkout but didn't notice it. It was only like a 2 dollar charge, so I figured fuck it I didn't want to deal with the hassle of asking for my $2 back. Did I accidentally subscribe for a montly recurring charge? Or was that shield a "just for this purchase" buy? I don't check my bank statement for every dollar that's been withdrawn, so this is kind of concerning. I don't think I even have a G2A account on their website, I just paid through paypal.
Same here. I bought a game and after 1 month the shield grab my money.
This has sold me the service. I have now subscribed.
that is spooky but tbh I don't use g2a shield half the time any how
great choice of music, cannon in d. love it!
Can't the customer sue them for the whole drama?
You can sue pretty much anyone, it costs a lot of money though.
Mr AnonymousStar its a hong Kong based company so I wish you succes
Now it makes so much sense.
I'm already exhausted just by looking at it...
Is it easier to just delete your account and remaking it?
I don't know if you can even delete an account with them.
You can.
They just tricked me again into getting Shield. Did multiple purchases and just missed un-clicking Shield one time... sigh.
This was my second time getting tricked, they don't refund, even when you cancel Shield that very same day.
So I deleted my account and will never be using their site ever again. I suggest you all do the same.
Chris Kenworthy The first month might be on the house, which is maybe why there was no refund?
nah, its still 2.61$. it was not free... hence why im never using them again. they just trick you into getting it, and charge you even when you instantly cancel it.
Chris Kenworthy Well, I'm sorry to hear that for sure. Was hoping they'd get their act together better on the consumer side of their business but thanks for letting us know.
That "I thought we were friends" one was just ridiculous
Anyone else accidently click the green button like 8 times too? Fuck that shit man smh
That is absolutely ridiculous, im never using their services again. Ty for this
I actually experimented the 20 minute email, I knew it was fishy turns out it's exactly 20 minutes, *sounds legit*
G2A is like a sobby child; never leaves you alone and wines
thank god they didn't reverse the buttons on that last promt. that would be a major dick move.
Thanks man I learned a lot of customer retention it's actually ingenious how the trick you, not fun I agree but looking at it from the psichology of of marketing it's brilliant.
Isn't cd keys better
You know what if that doesn't work I'll just pirate a game
#PCMASTERACE
PCPIRATERACE
I accidentally left shield on when buying something, never realized it was a monthly thing... Thanks for the information!
All for $1 a month
G2A does”nt want to lose your 1$ its 100 cents for crying out loud.
Well it is small price for a single user but if every human on world gave you 1$ Suddenly you have over 7 billion dollars :D
I accidentally subscribed to G2A Shield a few years back when I bought a dedicated bot for CSGOLounge. Had no idea what G2A Shield was, and accidentally checked out with it checked. A month later, I check my bank account to see I've gone in the negative because I was without a job at the time, and ended up paying 33$ for G2A Shield after the 30 day free trial. I was beyond livid.
g2a just wants to help the consumer out! g2a understands that the consumer cant help, but get tricked, bamboozled, and even scammed more often than not. G2A knows that this maddening issue keeps reoccurring over, and over again, on g2a's astonishingly, business-to-customer-friendly, awe inspiting, website...
However, regarding to the greedy people who just want to take the consumer's hard earned money G2A has the solution :)
and yet this is how the consumer treats his friend ):
The scam went straight through your head.
what drugs do you take man?
Are you a G2A employee?
4:26 When people want to copy off your test and act all friendly out of nowhere.
Are you telling me that is super sketchy site acts sketchy.... shocking.
Have you noticed how many gaming channels on TH-cam still promote it? Pewdiepie promotes them as a matter of fact, you'd think that if the site was super sketchy then the face of TH-cam wouldn't be partnered with them.
Holy crap, when it got to "I thought we were friends" I thought this was going to end up going over the table stupid hard like that captcha video from dunkey.
who really care i can tell that little hamster no any day
Distorteduke50 but can you tell xhamster no?
BEYBLADERAYO10 Fraid not
are you suggesting a day without porn? hah, amateur.
i dont under stand??
Distorteduke50 xhamster is a porn site
G2A gave it to me even worse. I bought a key and selected the box to pay for g2a shield on THAT purchase. I was all happy then one month later it said I paid money again, I was confused so I checked g2a and it turned out they signed me up for a subscription. I followed to unsubscribe like the video shown, however it was even worse. Once it got to the email part it sent me the email half an hour later and when I clicked the confirmation link it sent me back to step 1 of unsubscribing. It was an infinite loop so I contacted their support team and they said I could only do it and through the email. So after so long of doing research I found out I could stop paying them through PayPal so they didn't receive any money. I did that and they threatened to delete my account, they did in the end because I didn't pay them but who cares. Good job g2a :)
I bought GTA V for £25 and they took £150 from my card! Guys don't buy stuff from this site even if the prices are good.
how could they take so much money?
Gotta love that background music...
I'm the only one who deactivate it and buy games normally whitout problem and whitout spending more money?!
yes
out of all the people in this world
YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE
I don't know why people use the shield....the games are so cheap and even if you get screwed, you can buy the same game 4-5 more times until the price is the same as when you purchase from the steam/other platforms..... Still have yet to be screwed by them.
It auto checks the box for g2a shield subscription when u put money there
I've never used any shield on this site. I spent hundreds of $$ and I've never got scammed. Thumbs up g2a
Andrei Sebastian La fel lol
I got scammed for gta v
Alege-l in pula mea pe cel cu cei mai multi cumparatori si gata cu teapa nu va mai cacati pe voi.
I legit just got scammed
Oberon I hope you know that the key was meant to be redeemd in socialclub and not steam.
at the end you should have said "we hope to see you in the future"
Used G2A to buy atleast 50 different games, never had a single problem, G2A best sites, 100% legit
Noobboy117 I am also bought few games, all worked. All AAA games that otherwise overpriced game at steam.
didn't watch the video did you now?
Can't quite tell if you're serious or not...
good thing I saw this before I subscribe
this is the video equivalent of a g2a shield subscription
once I bought something from G2A and I accidently closed the window I had g2a shield they said they couldn't help me because I didn't have an account when I bought it. The thing that saved me was going to the page through my history.
I never signed up on this site and somehow they email me saying they'll charge a dollar if I don't log on their site.
Chaotic Neutral. I found this funny.
FINE..! I watched the god-damn video..!? Will you stop recommending it to me TH-cam!?
Thank you for this!