Winners of our Cyrus competition

[Andy Clough]

Congratulations to Steve Oyewuni, Peter Pointon and Claire Fawkner who each won a Cyrus 8 SE CD player and PSX-R in our August issue competition.

 

[8009514]

Wow, that was close. Saw the name Pointon and nearly started jumping for joy. Sadly, for me, my first name isn't Peter. Darn it!!!!!

Just have to keep trying.

 

[Anonymous]

Congrats!

Hopefully some day we who live outside the UK can take part in these ;-)

 

[vinod_david]

Congrats to winners and thanks to the team. Yes, as the above poster pointed out, I really want to particpate in a contest like this, but am in India, and win some products that i can only dream of here in my place (too expensive).

 

[NigelF]

This is very true and I think pure discremination against readers who are reading what hifi for decades and lives in EU & still can't participate in the competitions. Infact we pay more for magazine then UK resident.

 

[Clare Newsome]

To clarify, we're not intentionally discriminating against non-UK readers: both British competition law and the wishes of the manufacturers donating the prizes are involved in the compos being UK-only, not WHF decision..

 

[NigelF]

Then WHF can probably reject such conditions & tell manufacturer bluntly that WHF is a magazine with international circulation and will not discrimate readers reside outside UK.

 

[professorhat]

What about the British competition law issue?

 

[Clare Newsome]

NigelF:Then WHF can probably reject such conditions & tell manufacturer bluntly that WHF is a magazine with international circulation and will not discrimate readers reside outside UK.

It's not as simple as that. Firstly there is the key issue of competition law, which varies from country to country on how competitions are run/entries taken etc etc (there's not even, strictly speaking, 'British' competition law, as Northern Ireland has its own rules!) That makes running a truly international competition near-impossible.

Add to that the fact that products are sourced from UK distributors and i'm afraid we have to stick to UK-only competitions.

We do, however, urge our overseas partners to run their own giveaways in their countries!

 

[Dennis Michos]

Can someone explain what the UK competion law specifies? EU laws are above any local country laws and I don't think there is any EU competion law preventing to ship goods in any EU country
UK is part of EU (some people like it or not)

I am sure if this comes as a case to the European Court of Justice, UK will loose easily

It would be interesting to understand though what are the exct conditions. Who is considered a UK resident? What prevents me to put the address of my cousin in UK although I do not live in UK? or put the address of WHF and then go and pick the goods myself??or even collect the goods from the UK distributor!!!

 

[Anonymous]

Could you have perhaps some smaller competitions and give aways like say cables or smaller items that are not as expencive and hard to send as expensive hifi boxes? Cables, itnerconnects etc are not dependant on diffetent powercord standars etc either. Maybe you could aloso win some online stuff?

I dunno.. Just something fun for is international customers to enjoy 🙂

 

[unfocused]

There was an item on the news here a short time ago about UK tourists in Spain not being allowed to collect lottery winnings on the Spanish Lottery as rules specify that you must be a Spanish resident to enter.

They actually bought a ticket and were not refunded the ticket price either.

 

[Alec]

When does the comp in the awards edition end?

 

[Clare Newsome]

It already has. All in-mag competitions typically end the day before the subsequent issue comes out (or in other words, competition ends the last day that issue was on sale).

 

[Alec]

Darn it. Cheers Claire.

 

[Dennis Michos]

unfocused:

There was an item on the news here a short time ago about UK tourists in Spain not being allowed to collect lottery winnings on the Spanish Lottery as rules specify that you must be a Spanish resident to enter.

They actually bought a ticket and were not refunded the ticket price either.

I think this is not the same as the winnings in this case may be taxable to income tax. Winning a CD Player is not taxable
Besides buying a lottery ticket is different from a free competition. Lotteries may have different rules (gambling). A free competition is not considered as gambling

Anyway. Free subscription gifts are also not given to International WHF subscribers (or did this change?). Is this again the UK law?
I would be happy to pay the shipping cost and have a 60 GBP cable when I subscribe to WHF
This is the reason I have not subscribed all these years (although I buy the magazine every month). 76 GBP for a European subsciption is the price I pay for buying the mag every month. I don't save anything. There is no real incentive in subscribing. A free gift would make me consider a subscription though