Spoils of War Sweepstakes

Canadian_Reaper, on Feb 12 2015 - 10:03, said: The reason for the physical prizes not being sent to us up North is any one of a dozen different reasons..   1) Different rules (for example, Canadian sweepstake wins can NOT be completely random- that's why there is a "skill testing question" on most of our contests)   2) Really different rules for Quebec (there are so many that a lot of Canadian companies don't bother running contests that include Quebec)   3) Cost to ship product North (in many cases it is more expensive,plus different import/export stuff)   4) Some thing aren't allowed to be sold up here, I have *no* idea how this actually works, or why, but a few years back I tried to get an LG monitor and a couple other things sent up here, the company (very politely) told me that I couldn't have that particular model number - I could have almost the exact same monitor sent, but it had a different model number. One was licensed for here, one wasn't. Seemed odd as I was completely allowed to visit te states, buy the monitor, and bring it back, but .. eh. Not an international law guy.   So basically, yeah sucks to be us, now alot of companies do have their legal departments work to make everything nice and easy, but they are the exception rather than the rule. And I really don't fault any of them for not including us, as much as it does suck. I just assume they hate us cuz they ain't us.