Calling all Canadians

Everything else
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Explain to me this…

Canadian winners are required under Canadian law to correctly answer a time-limited mathematical question in order to receive the prize.

http://www.logitechcordless.com/index.htm?ad=homepage

For over 20 years Logitech has been making leading PC peripherals. You’ve made us number one in cordless peripherals, and now we’d like to say “thanks” by giving away 20,000 free Logitech® Cordless Navigator Duo™ Special Edition Mouse & Keyboard combinations. Like all of our products, it delivers superior performance, value and style.

For your chance to win a Logitech Cordless Navigator Duo Special Edition, visit this site on December 20th, 2002 between 12:00 noon and 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

OFFICIAL RULES
LOGITECH INC.
6505 Kaiser Drive
Fremont, CA, 94555, USA

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO WIN. PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE CHANCES OF WINNING.

OFFER VOID WHERE PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED BY LAW.

  1. ELIGIBILITY. The promotion is open to residents of the United States and Canada (excluding residents of Quebec or any jurisdiction where participation would be unlawful) who are 18 years of age or older on the date the entry is submitted. Employees and immediate family members of employees of Logitech Inc., its affiliates, and its subsidiaries are not eligible.

  2. HOW TO ENTER. The promotion runs for one day only, from 12:00 noon (Eastern Time) to 5:00 pm (Eastern Time) on December 20, 2002 (the “Promotion Period”). To enter, visit the promotion website at www.logitechcordless.com. Up to twenty thousand (20,000) visitors to the promotion website will be selected to win. If you visit the site and a Prize Claim Form appears during your visit, you are a winner! Read the instructions provided, and complete and submit the Prize Claim Form. If no Prize Claim Form appears during your visit, you may try again by exiting from and returning to the site as many times as you like during the Promotion Period. Prize Claim Forms must be electronically received by 6:00 pm (Eastern Time) on December 20, 2002 to be eligible to receive the prize.

  3. SELECTION OF WINNERS. Up to Twenty Thousand winners will be electronically selected at random. To comply with the laws of Florida and New York, no more than 62 prizes will be awarded to residents of Florida and no more than 62 prizes will be awarded to residents of New York. Only one prize per family, household or address will be awarded. Odds of winning depend on the number of visitors to the promotion website and the number of Prize Claim Forms submitted. Canadian winners are required under Canadian law to correctly answer a time-limited mathematical question in order to receive the prize.

  4. PRIZE. Each winner will be awarded a Logitech ® Cordless Navigator Duo ™ SE. The prize has an approximate retail value of US $79. There is no cash equivalent for this prize. Winners may not substitute the prize received or apply the value of the prize received under this promotion to another Logitech product. Logitech reserves the right to, without any prior notice and at any time, replace the prize with a similar product or the latest release of a product of the same category. Federal, state, provincial and local taxes are the responsibility of the winner. Return of any prize as undeliverable will result in forfeiture of prize.

2

Here’s the legal reason – you need to have a skill-testing question (even an intentionally ridiculously easy one) in order to prevent the contest from being considered a “lottery”. Lotteries can only be run by the Government in Canada.

3

Apparently we now understand why West Virginia residents just have to sign their name instead of getting a math quiz.

Thanks Dess… Canada is weird, but you’re pretty cool.

4

This goes for EVERY contest in Canada. When I lived in Toronto I won a Big Mac at McDonalds and went to redeem it. I had to answer a question first before they would hand over the goods. My only complaint was that it was a math question and relatively easy one at that. That Big Mac would’ve tasted so much better if they had given me a little blue book and asked me to explain and analyze the causes and effects of the French Revolution and I only had 90 minutes to complete the essay. I would have so much more respect for Canada if they did that.

5

I dunno. I’ve never found it weird because a math question’s been on every contest form I’ve seen all my life. To redeem coupons for free bags of chips when I was a kid, I had to answer stuff like 3x14/2=. Not exactly a big deal. I find it funnier as an adult, though. Had to answer a similar math question last week when filling out an entry form for some beer company contest while drunk.

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And you’d be lean and mean!