326454: But if it‘s almost impossible to make money with selling at least "legally" acquired codes, than why is this such a big and growing business (Eneba received another funding just before Christmas)? Any loopholes we all are not aware of? And again, why was someone able to get a gift code on GOG just days after the user was registered?
There are some grey area loopholes, like getting keys from bundles and selling them elsewhere.
Obviously this isn't something that really happens with GOG, because there have been very few bundles where you can get GOG keys from, and in some cases there have been technical solutions to prevent that, like binding your GOG account to another service.
On a darker area, and I'm not sure if this is applicable to GOG, there have been rumours that some developers are selling keys to their own games on some questionable sites. If you ask how and why, well, first they get a number of free (Steam) keys for reviews and other purposes. Then, when they sell them, they get almost 100% profit, cutting off the store as the middleman and possible taxes.
I don't know how widespread this is, but presumably it has happened more than once, because it is a known phenomenon. Presumably any developer who has any real reputation wouldn't do that for a number of reasons though.