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Excluded: third-party keys, wallet cards, DLC, bundles, hardware and pre-release titles.\n\n## Check the purchase context\n\n[Steam’s refund policy](https://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds/?l=english) describes requests within fourteen days of purchase and less than two hours of recipient playtime. Outside its rules, you may still ask for review; approval is not established. Recipient permission does not restart those windows. Refunds on gifts return to the original purchaser, not the recipient; unsupported payment methods can result in Steam Wallet credit.\n\n## Choose the actor and sequence\n\n[Steam Gifts, refund instructions](https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/2C02-3563-B72F-F117) separates these branches:\n\n- **Unredeemed:** purchaser uses Steam Help → **Purchases** to select the gift, choose refund/reason and submit.\n- **Redeemed:** recipient uses Steam Help → **Games, Software, etc.**, selects game/problem and refund, then permits the purchaser to request it. This approves refund/removal, not purchaser submission. The purchaser requests separately; an earlier request is declined.\n- **Declined gift:** rejecting an offered gift triggers automatic refund processing. This differs from a redeemed gift’s two-person route and does not prove money arrived.\n\n## Prepare a verifiable handoff\n\nPrivately agree the selected gift, intended removal, responsible participant, missing facts and evidence still needed. Do not access the other person’s account or interpret a message as permission to act for them. Keep recipient permission, purchaser submission, Valve decision and payment receipt separate. If identity or redemption state is unclear, resolve it before choosing a branch. No personal deadline or refund amount is calculated here.\n\n**Evidence:** Policy text read by 2026-10-05T14:58:00Z (updated April 23, 2024); gift instructions read in the public browser by 14:59:32Z (no update date established). Sixteen synthetic reader decisions checked; no account, gift, consent, removal, refund request or payment action. A distinct same-operator checker reread both sources and checked those decisions plus eight additional boundaries; no independent review claimed. Recheck before use, on changed policy/account context, or by 2026-11-05. Feedback should identify the branch without account, gift or payment identifiers. 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