Discussion here for the HubLove Contest, which launches today.

HubLove Contest

Looks fan-hubbing-tastic!

A shame I'm in Australia,

I agree with you Darkside! I'm in Canada so I'm out too. How about a hearbroken crying smiley.
Zs

I'm in Australia, too.

We should make our own contest ...

Jenny

Good luck to everyone on this one.  Nice prizes! bjp

Darkside, I didn't realise you were from Oz, too. That makes three of us so far in this thread. Is that enough members for our own contest?

Make that four!

Ask Frank, Mr Marmalade.

Well, I'm not from the US either so.....

Well I live in Perth, Australia at the moment and have a car, some houses, a storage unit in New Zealand. I have a UK and NZ passport and file tax returns in Australia and NZ - not really sure where I reside!  I can't work you why they can't extend the contest to anyone -with the understanding that we'd have to pay for the extra postage - I know Jason blamed the lawyers - but what's the difference where you live?

Erm, as someone who has had to get permits for contests in Australia I can attest that governments surely do screw them up.

You need a lotteries permit in NSW, Vic and the Northern Territory. You don't need a permit in Queensland, but the prize can't be in cash, it has to be in gold bars.

You can't require South Australians to attach proof of purchase if you are doing a trade promotion, you must allow them to enter with a hand-drawn facsimile of the product packaging or bar code if they choose to do so.

When you go international, you start to run into problems with taxes, too. At least the income tax rules are consistent in Australia - winnings aren't taxed, unless the ATO decides you are making a career out of winning competitions.

But in the US I know that lottery winnings are taxed as income, and God knows what other legal minefields there are.

I can understand not wanting to do the work involved in having an international contestant win a competition.

I was very excited about the contest but not a U.S. resident either. Whatever I will watch the contest.

OK - I have to say, I am a little miffed that I am not able to take part in this either.

An explanation please.

If hubpages can pay people that are outside the US when they write a flagship hub, why can't they send competition prize also?

Happy Valentine's day

Woo!! I'm in the U.S. 

Can it be noon now?

gamergirl wrote:

Woo!! I'm in the U.S. 

Can it be noon now?

Go on... rub it in.

In Canada so can't play, so sad.

Good contest, but not for everyone. Very bad

I'm getting curious as to what % of all a) all hubbers and b) hubbers with a score >90 are resident in the USA!  And yes I agree Mark - they are happy to pay me cash for Flagship hubs so what's the difference - IF I was making a living on the internet I would have to declare those earnings and pay NZ tax on them - potentially much more complex than awarding a prize in goods I would have thought? I know they can give me the prize in cash paid to my paypal a/c in lieu :-)

Hovalis wrote:

Darkside, I didn't realise you were from Oz, too. That makes three of us so far in this thread. Is that enough members for our own contest?

We should make an Aussie Rollcall thread.

Not for the purposes of a competition. But to see whereabouts we are on the map.

Question for Jason or Paul---will there be a badge/widget available for us to put on our blogs (with our referral code, preferably  ) to advertise the contest?