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Gifts in the oculus account?

schacht6
Explorer
Hi
does anybody know hows the category "Gifts" works in the oculus account? Can i give a give gift to another user? Do i do that in the store? I don't find an option to that in the store.
Thanks for your help
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PITTCANNA
Visionary
Gifts is a new feature, if a user knows your user name, they can click the 3 dots near purchases1ivufhx8x1s.jpg and buy it as a gift for a user. 

nalex66
MVP
MVP
I think it actually just takes an email address; you don't need to know the Oculus username or even the email address associated with an Oculus or Facebook account. The gift is sent in the form of a redeem code to the email address entered, but it isn't tied to an account--it can be redeemed by anyone who receives or has access to the code.

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I've just tested gifting to make sure it works as we'd expect.

I used my Oculus account to gift Beat Sabre to my burner email address which isn't associated with any Oculus or Facebook accounts, and yes, all it does is send a 25 digit gift code to the email address you specify. The sender gets an email confirmation that it's been sent with a note to say if the recipient doesn't redeem the code within 30 days you as the gifter get an automated refund. So the code must have to be used within that 30 days.

I then redeemed it using my Oculus account, so anyone can use the code, but it can obviously just be used once.

So this is also a way to buy games for yourself or someone else if they have a headset on order and it hasn't yet arrived or been set up.

You have to redeem the gift on the store page of the product that's been purchased where a 'redeem gift' option should be but I didn't see it in the Quest headset's store page, it was only there on the website's store page.

Also, interestingly, it seems you can't gift a music pack add-on if you don't have the game installed yourself... it just says you don't have the base gam installed so it gets confused and thinks you're buying an add-on for yourself, even if you're gifting it.

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