Forward a gift on steam?

So a friend of mine gifted me TF2, but I already have it on my steam account (through Orange Box)

I want to give this to my brother as a gift, and I want to know how to do this

The e-mail is in my inbox, but I haven't redeemed it
Is there anyway I can forward it to my brother?

Thanks

 

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/a909w/want_to_take_advantage_of_the_steam_sales_for/

 

That involves the person actually buying the game

I have been gifted a game I own and want to know how I can forward the gift on to my brother

 

DOH. Misread. Give me a sec.

Try forwarding the email to your brother and see if that works.

 

I believe if you are gifted a game, you cannot gift that to another person. The original person who gifted it to you will have to gift it to the person you want. Maybe I am wrong.

 

I thought about that, but I don't know if my friend would want to do that and it might sound bad

I'll give this a go since it was e-mailed to me

 

Was given the impression that the gift is tied with the activation code in the email, and not to the email account it was sent to.

 

Right. I can't imagine that you can't forward a gift to someone else if you already own the game. I would ask in the Steam forums. It won't matter if you forward the email.

 

That's actually where I found my answer.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1082051

 

Thanks for the quick replies guys,

I sent the link to my brother and told him to click
Was he happy to get a gift from me

Thanks again guys (+rep)

 

Yep, you can forward emailed gifts, since the actual activation link is in the email itself, as long as you don't activate it yourself.

That's how I gave a bunch of TF2 gifts back when they were $2.50...I bought 6 copies or so, and sent them all to one of my email accounts, and then when I gave one away, I would just forward it to the recipient. ^_^

 

Yeah

Giving my brother the link worked just fine