It came to my attention recently that there’s a website out there selling different models of the Steam Deck, at a discount, along with Steam Accounts. Don’t fall for the trap like accessory maker JSAUX did.
This SteamDeck.info (it’s not a link on purpose) website popped up on my feeds recently, and it was raising some clear red flags. Made even worse today, because accessory maker JSAUX partnered up with this “company” to authorise them to sell JSAUX products. JSAUX clearly not doing any basic background checks here before announcing anything.
Quite a number of issues appear even on a very basic 2 minute check of this Steam Deck and Steam game store. There’s no company number, their registered address is incomplete pointing to a luxury apartment complex, they have a discount on the Steam Deck that Valve don’t even have (and they are clearly not an authorised reseller), they listed out of stock “Limited Edition” models (no such thing exists) and so on. How do they do it? If you read carefully, they claim they buy it all with their own Steam account — I don’t think I need to explain how bad this is.
Add to that this store sells actual Steam Accounts with games, which is against Valve’s own terms and will get people completely banned and the list keeps on going.
More in the video below:
You might think this is obvious and no PSA (public service announcement) is needed, but other consoles can be easily purchased officially online from a great many places. It’s easy…
