Do you gift people quite often, or changed your name recently? Both of these can cause issues with gifting to others.

i havent gifted people before and i havent changed my name recently

Is he using his wallet funds to buy the gift?

Few reasons can happen.
- You recently loaded funds adding payment card for first time, new card, or haven't used it in long time.

- You recently changed password, email, or etc...

- You're using steam wallet funds to gift game, which system flag you for ratio of buying vs gifting, and contacting support may not help, as they say use external payment methods instead.

Originally posted by miamew3:

Is he using his wallet funds to buy the gift?

He is Using his steam wallet

Originally posted by shrkpunch:

Originally posted by miamew3:

Is he using his wallet funds to buy the gift?

He is Using his steam wallet

steam has been restricting accounts from using wallet funds to gift games. either contact support or use a different form of payment

Originally posted by Wolf Knight:

Originally posted by shrkpunch:

He is Using his steam wallet

steam has been restricting accounts from using wallet funds to gift games. either contact support or use a different form of payment

my freind only got money in his steam wallet and hes broke

Originally posted by shrkpunch:

Originally posted by Wolf Knight:

steam has been restricting accounts from using wallet funds to gift games. either contact support or use a different form of payment

my freind only got money in his steam wallet and hes broke

Then tell him to contact steam support, they may lift the restriction....

This usually happens when Steam’s gifting system or payment processor is temporarily bugged. Have your friend restart Steam, try gifting through the Steam website instead of the client, or wait a few hours and try again. Also make sure neither account has purchase, trade, or gifting restrictions. If it keeps failing, Steam Support is the only one that can resolve it.

Originally posted by anim:

This usually happens when Steam’s gifting system or payment processor is temporarily bugged. Have your friend restart Steam, try gifting through the Steam website instead of the client, or wait a few hours and try again. Also make sure neither account has purchase, trade, or gifting restrictions. If it keeps failing, Steam Support is the only one that can resolve it.

we literally tried everyhting u said and steam support was no help they mad us do the same thing over and over again

If trying to purchase a gift through wallet balance keeps failing, then the account is banned from using wallet balance to purchase gifts.

Only Steam support can help there.

Originally posted by shrkpunch:

Originally posted by anim:

This usually happens when Steam’s gifting system or payment processor is temporarily bugged. Have your friend restart Steam, try gifting through the Steam website instead of the client, or wait a few hours and try again. Also make sure neither account has purchase, trade, or gifting restrictions. If it keeps failing, Steam Support is the only one that can resolve it.

we literally tried everyhting u said and steam support was no help they mad us do the same thing over and over again

If your friend wants to gift it to you, they can send you the money via digital Steam card. Then you can buy it on your own with those funds.