With the fourth Humble Indie Bundle I received second copy of the third pack that I already own. Is there any way to add the key or the games to my account as something gift/trade-able? Duplicate games don't seem to be rendered giftable (I already owned e.g. Super Meat Boy) so I don't want to risk spending the key by activating the third bundle a second time and simply wasting the key.
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From the more info link on http://www.humblebundle.com/
On your download page, you can optionally get a key to redeem your Humble Bundle #2 games (first shelf) on Steam and / or Desura. Not all of the games are on Steam yet: Cortex Command and Revenge of the Titans will automatically be added to your library once they make their Steam debut.
As of March 2016, Steam now subtracts the price of owned games from bundles, so you don't have to re-buy them.
"Past Complete Packs were sometimes a bad deal for customers that already [owned] one or more of the products in the pack," Valve added. "Either it made bad economic sense for those customers to purchase the pack, or they just felt bad about doing so since it [looked] like they were paying for products they already [had]. The new Steam Bundles system addresses this.
In fact, here's a bundle viewed from my own account:
And from incognito:
Note how the base price of the bundle is about $5 cheaper when I'm logged in.
Packages
However, it's important to note that Steam makes a distinction between "bundles" and "packages".
Packages are a fixed price - if you already own something in it, you dont get a lower price or a second copy. Bundles will take out content you already own and adjust the price accordingly.
-moistly harmless, Jul 2, 2017
With packages, the prices are fixed, and you pay the full price no matter what. So it would be silly to buy the game and then buy the game + OST package. Because you'd be paying for the game twice and only getting one copy.
Before buying the game:
And after:
That base price won't budge.
...I just bought a game to illustrate a point.
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Best Answer
Per the Steam article on the subject
There has also been some discussion in gaming chat about the ethics of giving away extra humble bundle keys, as the site says the keys are for your sole use.
The original discussion was here. Ullallulloo emailed Humble Bundle support and asked for us. He posted the reply in chat here. Here's what it said:
For non-Humble Bundle trading, I would suggest the meta post related to game trading.