[Sponsored] Win A Gigabyte GTX 980 G1 Gaming Graphics Card

[Suferbus]

Because RI considers this gambling, and those communist don't allow that.

 

[gallovfc]

And 200M people here in Brazil alone, who can't enter !! And don't come thinking about Brazil as jungles !! Think about the city where I live: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_cities_in_the_Americas - Think about NYC + Chicago together... plus 770 thousand people. And we are out !! Tomshardware.com should realize that it is an international site by now.

 

[IInuyasha74]

And 200M people here in Brazil alone, who can't enter !! And don't come thinking about Brazil as jungles !! Think about the city where I live: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_cities_in_the_Americas - Think about NYC + Chicago together... plus 770 thousand people. And we are out !! Tomshardware.com should realize that it is an international site by now.

Tomshardware isn't the only one giving away the graphics card. In fact I think their largest branch is in Germany so if Tomshardware would give it away they would be more likely to do a Europe exclusive than a USA exclusive. A different company is sponsoring it.

"The official Sweepstakes Sponsor is BestofMedia, LLC (DBA "Purch") ("Purch"), 9696 Culver Blvd., Suite 104, Culver City, CA 90232, USA."

That is straight off the entry page. In other words, they are the one paying at least most of the cost of the GPU. Tomshardware is just telling people so that they can enter the contest, and Gigabyte might of given them a discount or just agreed to be associated with it. Stop complaining you can't enter and thinking Tomshardware and these other companies are racist, hateful, or care nothing about your respective countries just because you can't enter the contest.

 

[fkr]

I wonder what percent of the discrete GPU sales are made in N America. When I try and help others who are not in the states it can be difficult to find products. There just does not seem to be that robust of a market for things like newegg and amazon. I realize that this is all changing with the asia starting really get into gaming more. I just figured that they would give stuff away to the market that spends the most. I do not see many people from Africa complaining about the contest rules.

 

[The3monitors]

Hello (spinning the reels on the slot machine) please please cmon baby.

 

[blue17echo]

And 200M people here in Brazil alone, who can't enter !! And don't come thinking about Brazil as jungles !! Think about the city where I live: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_cities_in_the_Americas - Think about NYC + Chicago together... plus 770 thousand people. And we are out !! Tomshardware.com should realize that it is an international site by now.

Tomshardware isn't the only one giving away the graphics card. In fact I think their largest branch is in Germany so if Tomshardware would give it away they would be more likely to do a Europe exclusive than a USA exclusive. A different company is sponsoring it.

"The official Sweepstakes Sponsor is BestofMedia, LLC (DBA "Purch") ("Purch"), 9696 Culver Blvd., Suite 104, Culver City, CA 90232, USA."

That is straight off the entry page. In other words, they are the one paying at least most of the cost of the GPU. Tomshardware is just telling people so that they can enter the contest, and Gigabyte might of given them a discount or just agreed to be associated with it. Stop complaining you can't enter and thinking Tomshardware and these other companies are racist, hateful, or care nothing about your respective countries just because you can't enter the contest.

as a point, purch is the company that also owns tom's hardware

 

[IInuyasha74]

That doesn't really mean anything. Bungie was owned by Microsoft and they bought themselves from Microsoft and now produce games for Playstation also.
More to the point Tomshardware is the company owned by Purch, so I'm sure when Purch said "We want to give away a graphics card to a user on your website in the USA." that the people in charge of Tomshardware came back with "You make it world wide or you can go shove that graphics card up your racist @%$.". That seems a lot more likely than just doing what the company that owns them told them to do and being happy they are doing it.

Again the chances are that they chose just the USA cause they are in the USA and don't want to deal with international shipping and it has nothing to do with racism or not caring about other countries.

 

[tinmann]

It's worth a shot I guess

 

[AceoFSpadesShri]

I am from India can i win this Card?

 

[RazerZ]

Thanks for the chance!

 

[RazerZ]

I am from India can i win this Card?

The sweepstakes is only available to residents of the U.S. that are 18 years of age or older. (And, um, sorry Rhode Island, you're excluded.)

Unfortunately you can not.

 

[i7Baby]

USA only again!!!!

Don't you like people from outside US? Would you be happier if we didn't contribute?

 

[Csmith339]

how do we know who won the contest?

 

[IInuyasha74]

how do we know who won the contest?

They are accepting entries for another half hour about since they are Pacific time zone. They probably won't announce the winner for a few days, because they will likely pick someone randomly using a program, then email that person, then if they answer announce the winner. Its funny that some times people win and don't answer lol. Chances are when they do announce the winner though, they will post or update something here, or make a new thread in the forum or something.

 

[Major_Headache]

I was wondering, when do they announce the winner?

 

[TH SinisteR]

When is the drawing, or when will the winner be announced??
Is there a Forum Thread on this?

 

[David Vu]

Who wins?

 

[fkr]

i won stop asking

 

[David Vu]

its been quite long? When will the winner be announced?

 

[David Vu]

im guessing no one is winning then =)). I thought April Fool is on April??