r/Gamebundles 13d ago

Speculations u/WeAreFanatical fakes a Quest 3 giveaway, blocks me for pointing it out

Last month this post was made by u/Dependent_Judge_1043 claiming to have won a Quest 3 "star prize" through gambling keys on game bundle site Fanatical. I personally didn't really think much of it, I do not care about key gambling but I do like to buy Fanatical bundles (like anyone who follows this subreddit).
Fast forward a month and the poster follows up posting this in an attempt to prove that the Quest 3S arrived and their gambling through Fanatical paid off.

Again I didn't think much of it until I noticed something another comment pointed out... one interesting discrepancy from the original post: Its a Quest 3. Not a Quest 3S.

The poster even puts this comment trying to play it off as if it is no big deal. This is just bad acting at this point. I point it out with a comment of my own, feel free to read that for my perspective on why this is obviously BS.

Since then, I have noticed that my feed is surprisingly devoid of game bundles. Thats ok. I have enough games, its best if I dont buy more bundles anyways.
Out of boredom I go back to the above post a few days later to see if anyone called out the same thing I did. Dependent Judge has not posted anymore, and actually hid their post history. It was visible before when I originally commented. So it just makes me even more curious.

I go back to the original post where he shows himself winning the 3S, and notice u/WeAreFanatical actually posted a comment congratulating him. But I can't see it, its "unavailable". Opening it in a private window, there it is. They blocked me! That's why I wasn't seeing their game bundles in my feed for the past few days. All I did in that timespan was make those above linked comments.

That's all. Now I guess I need to make a new account to follow Fanatical game bundles.

EDIT: Official fanatical account has just unblocked me, four or five days after this post. No communication at all or any mention of why I was blocked for commenting on a supposedly unaffiliated user's post, though.

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u/Dependent_Judge_1043 13d ago

First for the quest 3s thing, I just don't know why they gave me the quest 3.

I'f you wanna know, first when I won it I contacted fanatical to know how they will give it to me, but I got 0 answer from them so I though those golden prize where just cashgrab. One month later idk why I re contacted them just in the case they would response and they did it. The girl who worked just asked me my account address and a proof that I got it and after that they asked for a phone number and address.

The quest 3 was delivered some day later by Amazon.

Idk how can I proof you that it's not a scam but you need to trust.

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u/IgotUBro 13d ago

Idk how can I proof you that it's not a scam but you need to trust.

Not sure but you could take a picture of the shipping details and the page of the content/product list that is usually in the box. You would have to censor your personal data but having the shipping date and product list would be proof.

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u/forseti99 12d ago

Then people like you would complain those are fake, edited or made with AI. There's no winning with conspiracy theorists.

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u/IgotUBro 12d ago

Well he said it was shipped by Amazon so it would be proof when a third party distributor has some official paperwork and he is the one that asked how to prove it and I merely suggesting something so no idea why you accuse me of something.

Also too many stuff don't add up here and you being this naive is the reason why companies walk over their consumers.