Buying keys cheap from a reseller

Moriendor said:

What special authority or legitimization does Keyradar.com have to publish a list of authorized vs. unauthorized resellers? Are they God?
Why does Keyradar.com obfuscate their identity and why do they use whois protection with a PO box in Panama?
In whose best interest could it be to publish such a list and hide your identity?

Hmmm…

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Well, you can check various pages there and compare them with lists of authorized resellers given by publishers. And they match. They also match with pages which are known to cause problems repeatedly over the last years (g2a, kinguin...)
They even mention green man gaming as mixed, which is also what they are "known" for:

Some of the titles in this vendors catalogue are authorized, however they have been caught selling unauthorized keys for specific titles. We would recommend that you avoid this vendor unless you want to take the gamble of the key possibly being deactivated in the future.

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So I cannot tell you anything about the legitimacy behind this page. All I can tell at this point is that I haven't seen any error there so far.
Please be aware that they are checking against "being authorized" or not. As it was pointed out before not being authorized does not mean that you are fraudulent. Fraudulent sellers are just within this group.
From their own statement they worked together with GameDeals, which is another page showing deals (of authorized resellers) which you can find here: https://www.reddit.com/r/GameDeals/wiki/rules#wiki_4._unauthorized_resellers

Regarding lists of approved resellers you can also check them manually.

This one is from Devolver Digital (Publisher of several cool indie and semi-indie games):
https://www.devolverdigital.com/static/vendors/

And here are a couple of other lists, from Rebellion, Ubisoft and the ESO people, which should be 2k.
http://www.epicbundle.com/official-steam-reseller

Oh, and apparently the link to the cdkeys page is automatically removed on steam forums, meaning it's on their black list. Seeing that they also have an referral program which likely causes spam, that's not too surprising either way.

Moriendor said:

What special authority or legitimization does Keyradar.com have to publish a list of authorized vs. unauthorized resellers? Are they God?
Why does Keyradar.com obfuscate their identity and why do they use whois protection with a PO box in Panama?
In whose best interest could it be to publish such a list and hide your identity?

Hmmm…

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Btw: I have no idea where you checked this, but could you also look it up for the cdkeys page? As unlike other resellers they are not stating their legal location (which is Hong Kong for most unauthorized resellers including g2a and kinguin).

Enough. You have no evidence of intentional credit card fraud; or piracy; or torrents. Yet you continue to use these terms. It's time to stop with the guilt by innuendo and association.

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Kordanor said:

Btw: I have no idea where you checked this, but could you also look it up for the cdkeys page? As unlike other resellers they are not stating their legal location (which is Hong Kong for most unauthorized resellers including g2a and kinguin).

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https://www.whois.com/whois/keyradar.com

https://www.whois.com/whois/cdkeys.com

cdkeys seems hidden.

https://www.whois.com/whois/rpgwatch.com
As a slightly more information-based example.

https://www.whois.com/whois/natwest.com
Or a fully transparent one here (as it should be for a UK bank)

Our info is hidden as well. Domain By Proxy is the owner listed just as with cdkeys.
As the name says, they are a proxy.

The problem is that politics (making practicable laws) hasn't kept up with digitisation and is still way behind.
A digital product can be traded worldwide without actual effort and there is no attrition. Old laws aren't practicable here so we still have these unclear situations.