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MacRumors Giveaway: Win a New Mac Studio From GRID Studio

Question for Macrumors: How is this taxed by IRS? Claim as a gift or do you send a 1099 to the winner? It seems that these things are getting more complicated, even for students.
 
It's great that these competitions have now opened-up to UK readers, but is there any acknowledgement we've actually entered? I do all 7 entries, but if I refresh the page, it shows me as 0/7 again. I suspect it's linked to the cookies warning, but maybe some instructions how to 'fix' that and what to expect in terms of acknowledgement should feature in the article?
 
I wonder if you took the parts out of their frames and put them together, would the devices work? :)
 
Phogro said:
Part of me always wonders about the legitimacy of these kinds of giveaways. There is very little transparency into how they are run, no real oversight to stop them from doing shady things. All we can do is hope that one day we end up being the lucky one.
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I won a Woolnut leather folio from one of these MacRumors giveaways a couple years ago.
 
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jclo said:
Giveaways are run by me, MacRumors Senior Editor of 10 years. A company that wants to give away something to MR readers emails me, I write up a giveaway article, I create a giveaway widget in Gleam, and I publish. Giveaways run for one week, at which point I use the built-in Gleam random number generator to pick a winner. I email said winner, collect their contact details, and provide those details to the partner company to ship the prize. There is indeed oversight.
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I always wondered, just because of emails getting lost in the spam emails and stuff like that, if someone doesn’t reply right away, do you trying contacting them via Twitter or the forums? Genuine question as it’s something that’s always nagged me when I enter these things lol
 
stiligFox said:
I always wondered, just because of emails getting lost in the spam emails and stuff like that, if someone doesn’t reply right away, do you trying contacting them via Twitter or the forums? Genuine question as it’s something that’s always nagged me when I enter these things lol
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No, I don't, I don't always have that information from the person who wins. I email and I give 48 hours under the technical rules, but I often wait even longer just in case. And send another email. I very much recommend that all of our forum members whitelist MacRumors.com to make sure the emails don't go to spam.
 
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jclo said:
I email said winner, collect their contact details, and provide those details to the partner company to ship the prize. There is indeed oversight.
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I and several other winners have posted about our wins here. Including some relatively recently. I don't get the whining and complaining because you didn't win when there are thousands upon thousands of entries for each and every giveaway. 🤷‍♂️
 
Love that’s it’s open to the UK as well but then tried to enter and it wanted proof I was a person by logging into a social media site …none of which I have. Doh!
 
jclo said:
No, I don't, I don't always have that information from the person who wins. I email and I give 48 hours under the technical rules, but I often wait even longer just in case. And send another email. I very much recommend that all of our forum members whitelist MacRumors.com to make sure the emails don't go to spam.
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Thank you! Good to know!
 
HylianKnight said:
Followup question: Is the ending of the email address that winners should be on the lookout for @MacRumors.com? Thank you.
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It’s actually going to end in @NigerianPrince.net

Keep an eye out and make sure you have your social on hand!
 
After watching the recent Apple event, The new Mac Studio is amazing, love to be able to return this old "work" 2013 Mac Pro. Best of luck everyone, and thanks for the chance of winning.
 
jclo said:
Giveaways are run by me, MacRumors Senior Editor of 10 years. A company that wants to give away something to MR readers emails me, I write up a giveaway article, I create a giveaway widget in Gleam, and I publish. Giveaways run for one week, at which point I use the built-in Gleam random number generator to pick a winner. I email said winner, collect their contact details, and provide those details to the partner company to ship the prize. There is indeed oversight.
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I'm happy you took time to respond and add some color to the matter, but the oversight I'm referring to is more about the transparency of the drawing / winner process. This is not an attack on MR by any means, but more just pure curiosity. In most cases the drawings are done behind closed doors and the winners are not made public. This means there's no way for the public to verify that the company holding the giveaway is following basic rules.

1.) How do we know the winner isn't an employee or relative of an employee of MR or the sponsor?
2.) How do we know that the winner didn't enter with multiple accounts to increase their odds?

That said - I do trust that MacRumors is not a shady business and I believe that you do everything you can to minimize any sort of issues like this. It's just not clear to me how the public can verify these things are followed.

Again - I want to stress I'm not talking about MacRumors specifically here but internet giveaways in general. They all follow the same pattern and I've always wondered what sort of oversight is in place to prevent a company from holding a giveaway and collecting thousands of email addresses and then either not delivering the product or delivering the product to a predetermined winner who is conflicted with the sponsor or company.
 
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