Wtf? Concert sweepstakes

[chalmers]

I got an email from LiveNation about 'Enter your email address etc to win some concert tickets'..yadda yadda. I went to the site and where it says 'Check here if you abide by the rules and regulations', I actually clicked on them and read most of it (bored at work)

In about the middle where it talks about odds of winning are dependent on number of entries etc...this paragraph lies...

If a potential winner is a Canadian resident, upon notification, the selected entrant, must, unaided, correctly answer a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question. In the event that a selected entrant is unable to answer the skill-testing question correctly, the Administrator shall have the right to disqualify said entrant and to randomly draw another eligible entry, and the Administrator shall be fully and completely released and discharged from any liability or responsibility in this regard.

WTF?

 

[sdifox]

I got an email from LiveNation about 'Enter your email address etc to win some concert tickets'..yadda yadda. I went to the site and where it says 'Check here if you abide by the rules and regulations', I actually clicked on them and read most of it (bored at work)

In about the middle where it talks about odds of winning are dependent on number of entries etc...this paragraph lies...

If a potential winner is a Canadian resident, upon notification, the selected entrant, must, unaided, correctly answer a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question. In the event that a selected entrant is unable to answer the skill-testing question correctly, the Administrator shall have the right to disqualify said entrant and to randomly draw another eligible entry, and the Administrator shall be fully and completely released and discharged from any liability or responsibility in this regard.

WTF?

In Canada, lotteries are government controlled. Thus, to make draws such as these not a lottery, a skill testing question is asked. Usually it's a math question and you can cheat anyway you want. The only requirement is that you answer correctly.

Radio stations tend to ask the "potential" winner what station they are listening to :biggrin:

 

[chalmers]

In Canada, lotteries are government controlled. Thus, to make draws such as these not a lottery, a skill testing question is asked. Usually it's a math question and you can cheat anyway you want. The only requirement is that you answer correctly.

Radio stations tend to ask the "potential" winner what station they are listening to :biggrin:

Wow, learn something new every day, haha.

 

[Vette73]

Thats law in Canada. You have to take a test to claim things like that. Its usually very easy but there for dumb canadian reason.

 

[sdifox]

Wow, learn something new every day, haha.

the plus side is all taxes are taken care of so you have no tax burden other than reporting it on your tax form.

 

[fustercluck]

Wow that nuts

Sweeps have some really lame stuff like that in the fine print a lot of the time. Like to actually win the $10,000 advertised as the grand prize, you have to select two envelopes out of 20 that have the same thing inside them or some crap.

Other sweeps will only attempt to notify the winner once by phone, if they don't answer right then and there, they forfeit the prize. So if there's some weird number calling your phone and you want them to leave a message, they can screw you