I am a normal user and this is an assumption based on all the messages I've received from the support. The problem itself seems to be a currency exchange lock that wasn't intended by Valve, I don't work with them. Don't get your hopes up because it's more of one shot in a million, but at least it's proof that they are working on fixing this issue. However, at the time of writing, I managed to bypass this after more than 20 different strategies. Please wait a minute and try again or contact support for assistance.' All the people I know is unable to send a digital gift card to a friend or alt account from another country ( Edit: I am only referring to Argentina and Turkey, thanks to the OP for pointing this out). 'There seems to have been an error initializing or updating your transaction. I am here to explain based on my experiences through the years, if you don't want to read entirely skip to the TL DR.Įveryone here is probably getting the same error. Valve is not tired of people abusing this system or using it legitimately, because in the end they aren't losing money.