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No, they are no, I doubt anyone is an official partner of theirs and I'd strongly advise against buying from them.
Thank-you very much! Just curious - how would they get their codes then?
As far as I am aware, the black and grey gaming markets generally use stolen credit cards to directly purchase codes, or buy them from people who themselves use stolen credit card details to buy game keys.
This,and they also give some keys that are not for the region where you buy the game,most of these keys are from Russia,so if you want to activate that key on Steam,you will get a nice error message:
"This product is not available to your region" or something like this.
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A good rule of thumb is that if a price seems too good to be true that product has been acquired in a fishy way. It's also very unfortunate as this affects legitimate customers who aren't aware of the grey market and think they are buying a real copy. Last year we had several instances of customers who bought games from a site that was very much not legitimate and then found that we banned all the keys resulting in them having no game, no money and no help from us or the vendor. It's a hard lesson and one that is never fun 
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.Indeed,it's very frustrating for these customers.As with many things in life,there is always still bad persons looking to rip people off.It is really shameful but this exists sadly.
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Ubisoft lists them as an approved digital retailer.
https://support.ubi.com/en-GB/Faqs/000023753/List-of-authorised-Retailers
A good rule of thumb is that if a price seems too good to be true that product has been acquired in a fishy way. It's also very unfortunate as this affects legitimate customers who aren't aware of the grey market and think they are buying a real copy. Last year we had several instances of customers who bought games from a site that was very much not legitimate and then found that we banned all the keys resulting in them having no game, no money and no help from us or the vendor. It's a hard lesson and one that is never fun
Like, Steam Sales? They sell games ~90% less than normal, but I've always got the game.
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I'm sure the game gets delivered, however, once we (for example) find out that a key has been acquired using a stolen credit card or other fraudulent behavior the key will be banned. This can sometimes takes weeks which means that you could enjoy the game for a long time before one of a day finding that the game is removed.
Steam doesn't have to buy Steam codes from itself. 3rd party platforms do.
They are allowed on /r/gamedeals. /r/ is very strict when it comes to resellers.