As I've said on many occasions prizes for competitions all depend on the agreement we can come to with people who donate prizes. Mostly of time this will be limited shipping.
Honestly I'm getting a little sick of having to explain this each time. We can either offer prizes to part of our readership on a regular basis or say "no thank you" and host a competition once every 6 months or so.
I don't think they're necessarily complaining, they're just expressing their sadness that they can't enter the contest.
Then again, maybe we're a bunch of greedy, whining yankee losers. =P
Originally Posted by Arkanrais I'm curious now as to the other reasons.
I would have liked to enter, but no matter. thanks bit-tech for having competitions anyway. you guys kick ass and crack skulls.
edit:ouch, that case is pricey. just under $800NZ before VAT, just over $930NZ after. that's the same price as 2 HD 4870's for the after tax price.
contest = advertising, in this case, from a uk online shop, why would a uk online shop advertise to people outside the uk? no reason to. It's mostly contests with prizes given out from manufacturers that are worldwide since they want to advertise to a worldwide audience.
As I've said on many occasions prizes for competitions all depend on the agreement we can come to with people who donate prizes. Mostly of time this will be limited shipping.
Honestly I'm getting a little sick of having to explain this each time. We can either offer prizes to part of our readership on a regular basis or say "no thank you" and host a competition once every 6 months or so.
ya I was wondering how do Bit-Tech pick the winners because even the ones open to the "world" tend to have more UK winners in it so I suppose the come back response would be that there is more UK entries so higher chance of someone from the UK entering and winning but still kinda makes you wonder if thats not the case then is it some what biased by chance, so if someone from the Bit-Tech staff could explain how the drawing and contest winners are chosen that would be nice to know. :)
why are people banging on about the ifs, buts and what about poor old me . The way i see it is i have wanted one of these for ages and unlike the lucky few out there i will never have the sort of money to spend on a case like this..which i love btw.
So i think its great and the guys at bit-tech are the nuts for giving people like me a chance to win such a nice high end product...top stuff bit-tech..keeep it up.
if you dont like it or cant enter then sorry about that but dont get all pi$$ey about it and ruin it for the people that can
That has to be the single most unhelpful comment in this thread.
What do you mean again? The last competition we ran from Noctua was open wordwide, as was our reader survey and our two monthly competitions (Mod of the month and picture of the month). That's 4 out of 6 in the last month being open to everyone. I doubt most other places give away that much stuff.
If this is the feedback from the community, I guess in the future bit-tech won't bother with competitions.
Originally Posted by Hiren That has to be the single most unhelpful comment in this thread.
What do you mean again? The last competition we ran from Noctua was open wordwide, as was our reader survey and our two monthly competitions (Mod of the month and picture of the month). That's 4 out of 6 in the last month being open to everyone. I doubt most other places give away that much stuff.
If this is the feedback from the community, I guess in the future bit-tech won't bother with competitions.
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I don't think they're necessarily complaining, they're just expressing their sadness that they can't enter the contest.
Then again, maybe we're a bunch of greedy, whining yankee losers. =P
Yeah, that's probably it....
contest = advertising, in this case, from a uk online shop, why would a uk online shop advertise to people outside the uk? no reason to. It's mostly contests with prizes given out from manufacturers that are worldwide since they want to advertise to a worldwide audience.
ya I was wondering how do Bit-Tech pick the winners because even the ones open to the "world" tend to have more UK winners in it so I suppose the come back response would be that there is more UK entries so higher chance of someone from the UK entering and winning but still kinda makes you wonder if thats not the case then is it some what biased by chance, so if someone from the Bit-Tech staff could explain how the drawing and contest winners are chosen that would be nice to know. :)
So i think its great and the guys at bit-tech are the nuts for giving people like me a chance to win such a nice high end product...top stuff bit-tech..keeep it up.
if you dont like it or cant enter then sorry about that but dont get all pi$$ey about it and ruin it for the people that can
Please do keep it on your side of the pond.
But... you drive on the wrong side of the road.. thats crazy.. even drunk swedes quit doing that a long time ago.
south park, s08e06 - goobacks.
also, what mayakovski said. you can keep the butt-ugly prizes UK only.
That has to be the single most unhelpful comment in this thread.
What do you mean again? The last competition we ran from Noctua was open wordwide, as was our reader survey and our two monthly competitions (Mod of the month and picture of the month). That's 4 out of 6 in the last month being open to everyone. I doubt most other places give away that much stuff.
If this is the feedback from the community, I guess in the future bit-tech won't bother with competitions.
But but, what about those of us that are thankful :'(
OR... break the glass and use the banhammer.
:)
Good.. more chance for me then
By reading the page with the competition details, you can clearly see when the competition ends,
Personally, I would like the winner announced through the medium of burping through a megaphone.
Yeah, that would be great to hear. I would just like to wish all who enter suc6 in winning and to Bit. Thumbs up.
Greetsz from the Netherlands.