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Re: LEGO for Life Sweepstakes
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Thu, 25 Nov 1999 04:10:32 GMT
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spontificus@__nospam__yahoo.com (Richard Franks) wrote in
<FLoyHL.Gx7@lugnet.com>:
> In lugnet.general, Mark Herzberg writes:
> > In lugnet.general, Peter Callaway writes:
> > > > The sweepstakes is only open to US residents.
> > >
> > > Hohum.....Yet another international company ignoring their
> > > international customers by running a "US residents only" competition.
> > > How many times have I seen that?
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> > I'm pretty sure that LEGO America, Inc, not TLC, is running the
> > contest.
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> You know, living in Europe, I see so many examples of this, and I have
> to agree with Peters sentiment completely. Is there a *real* reason for
> making it US only, or just laziness, or bad company inter-communication?
> Because as a company that has world-wide distribution, I think they
> could effectively send their new sets to any kid anywhere, with relative
> ease.
There are a lot of legal issues about how to run a competition
in the U.S. Obviously lots of companies figure out how to do so,
and end up using all the standard text and so on: "no purchase
necessary", "void where prohibited", "no employees can participate",
etc. I wonder how much of this is to follow laws and how much is
in there to protect them from lawsuits.
I'm not a lawyer and I don't know much about those rules,
but I'll venture a guess here that running a worldwide competition
would be hideously complicated from a legal standpoint (particularly
for an international company). I'm sure it could be done, but
I wouldn't be surprised if the cost were prohibitive enough to
make it not worth doing.
-r'm
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| (...) Whilst that may be the case with international competitions, TLC has set up regional head offices in all the countries it distributes to, staffed by locals who (I assume) know all the legal pitfalls with running competitions. Why can't they (...) (25 years ago, 25-Nov-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | LEGO for Life Sweepstakes
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| Apparently, this isn't new, but I don't remember seeing anything about it on LUGNET before. In the Parent's section at www.lego.com, there's a sweepstakes running from now until the end of April. The sweepstakes is only open to US residents. The (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce)
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