I should acknowledge that the prizes being offered in this contest are very nice. Nevertheless, with the kind of sponsors listed (Nikon, Lowepro, Mamiya, etc.) the magazine should be able to afford running a contest without charging that much to entrants. Of course, maybe I'm just ignorant of the ways of good old Amer-uh, I mean Canadian business! :) Jim Again ----- Original Message ----- From: Michel Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 2:17 AM Subject: Photo Life Magazine contest: Is it a scam ? > > I just picked up the July issue of Photo Life, a Canadian magazine, and was reading the > rules of their contest, 'Image International 2001', when I came across the following: > > " 4 - Entry fees: $10 for one category (includes up to five images), $13 for two > categories (includes up to ten images), $16 for three categories (includes up to fifteen > images) ..." > > Has it come down to that even apparently reputable magazines are charging an entry > fee, like all the scam photo publications outfit we hear about? > > And to top it all, the government of Canada, via it's information office, reserves the right > to use your submitted photo on one of their web site! (Rule 10 of the contest). > > I don't normally pay attention to contests, since they usually exclude non-residents of > whichever country (usually the U.S.) the magazine is published from, but this one, being > 'local', so to speak, caught my eye. And they even made the contest international in nature! > > Is this fee thing an aberration or standard practice nowadays ? > > And what does it say about all the sponsors/prize providers (Kodak is one of them...) ? > I don't see how that would help the Canada Information Office to have pictures of Penguin > for winner in the Nature category (but then again, what are we to expect from bureaucrats, > business smarts ?). > > Relevant URLs: http://www.photolife.com/PhotoLife/contests.html > > Also: http://www.infocan.gc.ca/index_e.html , and click on 'Image of Canada and Canadians' > > > What say the PDML ? > > > > Michel > > > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . > - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
