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Star Trek Online: Win An Intel® Core i7-980X Processor Extreme Edition!
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MMORPG.com is proud to present an exciting sweepstakes opportunity for our community. To now until Nov 15, 2010 @ 9PM EST you can enter for a chance to win the mother of all processors - the Intel® Core™ i7-980X Processor Extreme Edition! This bad boy boasts 6 hyperthreaded cores, 256KB L2 Cache, 12MB L3 Cache running at a whopping 3.33Ghz.
As with all sweepstakes at MMORPG.com the more days you login to our site the better your odds of winning (only one login per 24 hours is counted, see official rules for details).
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USA and Canada only, or some ristrictions i guess. Well, long time ago i won my zboard. (Resident of Germany)
I don't see any restrictions as i was able to join
Poland
not bad.
seems like the prizes of STO now are more famous that the game itself, lol
way to go Cry-tic
So What Now?
The drawing is only eligible to members of the MMORPG.COM Web site who are residents the United States or Canada
So, what else is new ?
so didn't they do this before, but with 2 or 3 prizes instead of just 1?
Seems a bit unfair...
makes you wonder what the reason behind this is?
I shall sign up any way and see what happens... Call it a protest action.
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I don't see any of this. ( Poland ) normal IP without any Proxy and don't see any restrictions. Last time on STO giveaway i was unable to join but now seems to be ok.
"YOU ARE ENTERED TO WIN! We have received your entry form and you are now eligible to win the prize! We will be holding the drawing on 11/15/2010 at 9PM EST.
We will select the winning tickets and contact each one by e-mail as well as their MMORPG.COM private mail. If you are a winner you will only have 24 hours to claim your prize or you will be disqualified...so be alert!
Remember, the more days you login to MMORPG.COM - the better your chances of winning (we only count one login per day)!"
Yey, another contest for USA and Canada residents only!
God Bless America!
"Eligibility
The drawing is only eligible to members of the MMORPG.COM Web site who are residents the United States or Canada in a region where such contests are not prohibited by law"
You're still not eligible to enter the contest.
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This would fit nicely in my cm stacker tower.
MAGA
I entered as well with no problem.
What? Bah.
BOOOO!
People don't ask questions to get answers - they ask questions to show how smart they are. - Dogbert
due to international trade and tax laws, it is hard to give free stuff to people in other countries. canada is hard enough because if i remember correctly it is against the law to get free prizes, and as a workaround they are forced to answer some simple questionaire in order to "earn" their prize if their name comes up. that being the case, every additional country involves more paperwork/lawyers, and a company is forced to choose what areas they will and will not support because allowing the contest to be truly international would be a nightmare of legal work.
if you are in a country other then the united states or canada, it is likely that you will be allowed to enter the drawing. However, if you actually win you will need to have a valid verifiable mailing address within one of those 2 countries in order to legally recieve the prize. by "legally" what i mean is that cryptic and mmorpg.com will gladly give the prize to a citizen of poland or wherever, so long as they can do it without having to worry about being sued by poland.
if you can prove to them that you are a legal citizen living in the us or cananda, then they can give you the prize without being liable for crazy trade/tax laws that they were not aware of. if later on it turns out that you were indeed NOT a citizen of the us or canada, and there WAS some crazy law against giving you free stuff, then YOU are the one that lied, and therefore mmorpg.com is off the hook and their lawyers are satisfied because all of the liability rests on you.
TL/DR:
if you are not from the US/Canada you may enter the contest, but you will probably have to prove that you live in the US/Canada before they will mail the prize to you.
What would I do with it....
Probably sell it to buy my lappy so I can start playing games more again.
Forever looking for employment. Life is rather dull without it.
So, do Americans (and Candians) gripe about contests they can't enter held by sites in Poland and Germany?
I mean, seriously people, you do realize that each country has different laws? That's why they are different countries, after all. It's nothing personal, but to get a contest vetted for every country on earth would costs tens of thousands of dollars (or Euros or whatever) in lawyer fees.
R.I.P. City of Heroes and my 17 characters there
maybe I am blind but haven't seen any country-based restrictions....
Atleast you dont have to play the game and then answer questions about it to enter for the prize. Cause no one would win then
the reason is customs laws. they would have to declare a value of the contents of the package, and you would have to pay a tax to pick it up.
if you sign up and win, when they find out your shipping address you'll be ineligible and they'll pick someone else.
if you find a north american friend to claim it and ship it to you, you'll either have to pay the customs tax, or he can roll the dice on committing international mail fraud and declare a 'gift' value of zero.
don't like it? talk to your local government.
have a blessed thread.
why do i always win prize that my pc can not use .