Contests And Us And Canada.

[lcm]

I Was Just On A Site That Has Some Great Prizes And Giveaways But When I Clicked On Them It Says Not Available In Your Area And Redirected Me To Canadian Survey Panel. The Thing Is, If Wanted To Join A Survey Panel I Would Have Went There. Why Can't Canada Have The Same Great Prizes And Giveaways That The Us Has. We Are Not A Poor Country We Are A Great Nation. But Tight My God. And While I'm At It, If You Do Win Something (doesn't Matter What) You Have To Answer A Skill Testing Question. Could Someone Explain To Me Why.?
Lcm

[awaite]

to make sure your human

[HappyCappy]

Goverment rules and regulations, just to drive you a little mad.

[Sexybabe20]

I hate that fact that I go to these sites that have great prizes but yet get nothing

[chicky82]

There is a good article on about.com about why canadian contests have skill testing questions and some other ones about contests in general: http://contests.about.com/od/sweepst...llquestion.htm

I think sometimes it good that some US contests aren't open to us because perhaps we'd be liable for shipping of the prize and some prizes don't work in Canada (think Iphone) or the laws are different

[Destiny]

Q. Why Do Canadian Sweepstakes and Contests Require a Skill Testing Question?

What's Up with Skill Testing Questions for Canadian Contests and Sweepstakes? If enter sweepstakes for Canadians, you'll find a strange math equation on the entry form. Or, as in the case of the Bizrate Cash Sweepstakes, you'll see a line in the rules that says something like: "If a Canadian resident wins a prize, that person must also answer correctly within a 5 minute time period a mathematical skill-testing question without the benefit of any... calculating devices before the prize will be awarded." Why do Canadian contests require skill testing questions to enter? Are sweepstakes discriminating against Canadians?

A. Canadian contests don't have skill testing questions because the sponsors want to discriminate against Canadians, but because of Canadian sweepstakes law. In the Introduction to Contests and Sweepstakes, I wrote about how lotteries have three major components: the prizes have value, the sponsor benefits from the sweepstakes financially, and the winner is chosen at random. In order to avoid being an illegal private lottery, at least one of the three components must be removed. In the United States, the sponsor usually removes the financial benefit component to avoid being classified as an illegal lottery. That is why most sweepstakes include statements in their rules that confirms that the entrant does not have to pay to enter, and that a purchase will not change the chances of winning.

Canadian sweepstakes law, however, requires that the third component, "winners are chosen by luck," is removed. zSB(3,3)
Sponsors cannot use pure luck to determine who wins a sweepstake.

In order remove the element of pure chance, sponsors narrow the field of potential winners by requiring a skill testing question to enter their contests. Every entrant does not have the same chance to win; only those who at least pass the skill testing question are eligible to win prizes.

Of course, this is only a technicality. Most people can pass the skill testing questions without difficulty, although sponsors are required to make the test somewhat challenging. The courts have agreed that a four-part mathematical test such as "155 plus 33 divided by 2 minus 12" is enough to qualify as a skill-testing question. An easy math testing question is the minimum required to hold a legal Canadian contest or sweepstakes. Some Canadian sweepstakes go a step farther and ask a trivia question or something a bit more difficult. Others are true contests, where the entrants are judged based on their skills.
Otherwise, skill testing questions for Canadians will continue to show up on contests and sweepstakes.

[cdnmidget]

I always get a kick out of the "skill testing" questions on contests { (3+2)*4/2 }. They are usually so nice and easy that it would be hard to screw the answer up { 10 }. I remember working in a fast food place when I was younger and when people would come in to redeem their prizes we would just ask them stuff like "What restaurant are you in?". They always seemed to get it right, and we had done our part by getting a "skill testing" question answered lol!!