Games Workshop competition - win a space marines height in miniatures

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**Swabby**

Does anyone know if preorder items would count towards this?

**Alpharius**

Azreal13 wrote:
Even I'm not sure if I'm joking or not when I say this, but maybe they retconned the height of a SM to keep the value of the prize down?

You're the winner!

**Kanluwen**

Swabby wrote:
Does anyone know if preorder items would count towards this?

They should, as earlier when I preordered the Troupe and Solitaire it tried to add a nonexistent item with no name and with "No Longer Available"/"Ships in 24 hours"(not allowing me to check out because of that, which was hilarious) to the order.

**Wrecker**

Wait, so your telling me if I were to order from the website, being American, I may not be eligible to to receive the prize in the event, that by chance I got the "golden ticket" (Wiley wonka is playing in my head right now), due to the US and UK laws see differently? Hahahaha what ever happened to global enterprising? And Capitalism? I thought that we were buddies in this. Or is this some kind of grudge because of something else? ....and darn you Wiley Wonka! And you doughboys for your golden tickets! We all know that your still an empire! But that didn't help you when a few krauts came a knockin

lol jk lol jk or am I?

**Dentry**

You get nothing. You lose.

**streamdragon**

I have wanted to pick up one of the new Verminlords and/or some Stormfiends...

who am I kidding, I'd never get them assembled anyway.

**agnosto**

Wrecker wrote:
Wait, so your telling me if I were to order from the website, being American, I may not be eligible to to receive the prize in the event, that by chance I got the "golden ticket" (Wiley wonka is playing in my head right now), due to the US and UK laws see differently? Hahahaha what ever happened to global enterprising? And Capitalism? I thought that we were buddies in this. Or is this some kind of grudge because of something else? ....and darn you Wiley Wonka! And you doughboys for your golden tickets! We all know that your still an empire! But that didn't help you when a few krauts came a knockin lol jk lol jk or am I?

If internet gambling is legal in your state (I.e. Nevada, New Jersey) you're golden...pun intended.

**AndrewC**

Terms and Conditions
1. Entry is free to all eligible users of the Promoter's website who place an order of £40 or more.
2. To be entered, orders must be received between 7pm (UK time) Friday 30th January and midnight (UK time) Sunday 1st March 2015.
3. 5 randomly selected orders will contain a winning Golden Ticket along with details of how to claim the prize.
4. Each winner will receive a Space Marine’s height (210cm) in Citadel miniatures shipped to them free of charge. Height of a product is measured by laying the boxed product on its back. The winners will receive the prize within a reasonable time period after claiming their prize.
5. Prizes must be chosen from Citadel miniatures available on www.gamesworkshop.com at the time the winner selects their prizes. Products from the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings ranges of miniatures, as well as any limited edition products, are excluded from the prize. For the avoidance of doubt, Citadel Hobby products, audiobooks and publications are excluded from the prize. ‘Realm of Battle’ products are limited to 1 per winner. Reasonable restrictions may be placed on individual product quantities by the Promoter.
6. No cash alternatives will be offered for any of the prizes available. Prizes cannot be returned or exchanged unless faulty.
7. Prizes must be claimed before the end of March 2015.
8. By claiming a prize, winners agree that the Promoter can use their name, place of residence (in the format Rob W of Nottingham, UK) and details of their prize for advertising and promotional purposes. Details of all winners may be published on www.gamesworkshop.com.
9. Only residents of the Countries listed below are eligible to enter this prize draw. Entries from trade partners or employees of the Promoter, their families, agents or any other person connected with the administration of this competition will not be considered. Orders placed by trade partners using the Direct Through Trade service are not eligible for entry. Orders placed through the Australian webstore will not be entered into the competition.
10. The Promoter reserves the right to vary any of these terms and conditions without notice. In such event the Promoter will make reasonable efforts to communicate any change with entrants.
11. The Promoter’s judges' decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
12. These rules are governed by the laws of England and any dispute relating to the promotion will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts. Entry indicates acceptance of the rules as final and legally binding.

Promoter: Games Workshop Limited, Willow Road, Lenton, Nottingham NG7 2WS

Countries: Worldwide excluding the Statesand Territories of Australia and New Zealand.

Data Protection

Games Workshop Ltd is registered as a Data Controller in the United Kingdom under the Data Protection Act 1998 ("the Act"). The data given as part of this competition will be held and processed under the terms of the Act and in accordance with our duties to the Information Commissioner. We may use that data for communication, administration of the competition, and security purposes.

We will not sell, share or give any information given to us as part of this competition to anyone outside the Games Workshop group of companies without your explicit consent or unless the law permits or requires us to do so. By submitting your personal information you consent to the processing of your personal data as set out above and you confirm that the information is accurate and complete.

Added a bold in there at the terms and conditions. Looks like GW loves the U.S. as much as the antipodes. Serves you right for not allowing GW to own Roman numerals and punishing their lawyer for lying to the court.

Cheers

Andrew

**Kanluwen**

"The States and Territories of Australia and New Zealand" doesn't equate to "The United States of America".

**Wrecker**

Nope it's just Australia and New Zealand, because believe it or not queen lime'o still runs an empire, only you guys call it a common wealth. Sense that's the case...(just an observation) New Zealand and Australia are looked down upon. Personally I think it's because they have better rugby teams but what do I know...

**AndrewC**

Your right, reading comprehension fail on my behalf. Guess I should just go and get my beauty sleep then.

Cheers

Andrew

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Though technically still a part of the UK, I wonder what the postage would be for 7' worth of miniatures would be for down here?

**Lockark**

I have to spend $80 CAD to get a entry into this.

sadly that isn't to hard with Canadian prices.

**Snrub**

I'd like to find out why they won't ship down here.

I'm guessing because of shipping costs... But you never can tell with GeeDubs.

**insaniak**

Snrub wrote:
I'd like to find out why they won't ship down here.

I'm guessing because of shipping costs... But you never can tell with GeeDubs.

Shipping costs shouldn't be an issue, since they could just ship from the Oz warehouse.

I'd love to know how many emails from cranky customers they get over this. Would have staved off a certain amount of criticism if they had just stated the reason in the comp rules... But I can't help but wonder if they didn't expect us to even know about it due to it not being on the Oz GW site.

**Computron**

Slayer le boucher wrote:
Thats the problem with scales and GW, they have no fething idea how it works...

They have no idea how anything works! For feth's sake, they use their business model as inspiration for how the Imperium operates, they even have a separate and more efficient arm that deals with manufacturing the complicated stuff.

Snrub wrote:
I'd like to find out why they won't ship down here.

I'm guessing because of shipping costs... But you never can tell with GeeDubs.

Hardly a reason, if they can't shell out an extra hundred or so to send this way then something's wrong. There's only five winning tickets after all.

Oz is bigger than us so I can't speak for you, but at this stage it would be better for the hobby here for GW to close up the last of its shops. Let us become an unregulated market where we can order from anywhere, where shops can stock whatever they feel might sell. I don't get the aggression shown to such a small market.

**ImAGeek**

I'm not being funny, and I don't like a lot of what GW does as much as the next guy, but this is quite a substantial prize and I'm surprised at the amount of 'a space marine should be taller than that!' Going on. 2.1metres tall of models not enough?

The fact they're excluding Aus and NZ however...

**Matt.Kingsley**

My response when someone mentioned about this competition in the Harlequin thread:

Matt.Kingsley wrote:
That's a nice competition I should ent....

-Not in AUS/NZ-

...

Spoiler:

**Stormonu**

Products from the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings ranges of miniatures, as well as any limited edition products, are excluded from the prize.

Well, there goes half the new items on the website...

So...Australia & NZ can't enter, US looks iffy...

Good Job GW!

**Relapse**

Stormonu wrote:

Products from the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings ranges of miniatures, as well as any limited edition products, are excluded from the prize.

Well, there goes half the new items on the website...

So...Australia & NZ can't enter, US looks iffy...

Good Job GW!

It says worldwide except for OZ and NZ. If it wasn't allowed in the U.S. it wouldn't be on the U.S. website.

**alphaecho**

So, the fact that they don't make true scale marines has worked in their favour. Wouldn't a Space Marine model scaled up only be that tall?

As for the non-availability for Australia and New Zealand, could such a comp be illegal there as others say it is for the US? If not, surely the prize could be put together from stock already located down there?

If the comp IS illegal in the US, isn't that the US's fault rather than GW's?

GW do however remain fully responsible for stupid prices and dodgy business decisions.

**kb305**

if i win can they post all of it on ebay for me?

**alphaecho**

kb305 wrote:
if i win can they post all of it on ebay for me?

No.

The invisible Faustian small print means that in 5 years time you have to prove its still sitting in a cupboard with all your other unfinished projects.

**insaniak**

alphaecho wrote:

As for the non-availability for Australia and New Zealand, could such a comp be illegal there as others say it is for the US?

Since they have an Australian shopfront on the website, yes, that's most likely the problem. Australia has fairly strict laws governing these sorts of competitions, and in one state they can't require a purchase... You used to see lots of ' collect tokens off the packet ' style competitions here that had a note in the rules allowing residents of South Australia to send in a hand -drawn picture of the pack instead of tokens. These days, it's more common to see ' games of skill' where you call a million -dollars -per minute phone line and answer a stupid question rather than having to buy something.

If that's the case, though, a simple "sorry, local laws mean we can't run this competition in Australia " would have gone over much better than the current "Nope, feth off" they ran with instead.

**H.B.M.C.**

Alpharius wrote:
Once again GW shows they don't even know their own Fluff!

Or you don't. Marines are 7 feet tall. In armour.

**-Loki-**

People that don't think 7' tall is big have never seen someone who is 7' tall.

Spoiler:

**Torga_DW**

ImAGeek wrote:I'm not being funny, and I don't like a lot of what GW does as much as the next guy, but this is quite a substantial prize and I'm surprised at the amount of 'a space marine should be taller than that!' Going on. 2.1metres tall of models not enough?

The fact they're excluding Aus and NZ however...

I'm less interested in the reward and more in the scaling of marine physiology.

-Loki- wrote:People that don't think 7' tall is big have never seen someone who is 7' tall.

Now crop his image several inches on either side because he should be wearing power armour to reach that height. Platform shoes, disco flares, power plant, the armour adds a bit of bulk. Isn't the armour like an inch thick of ceramite or something? 7' without armour is tall. 7' with exaggerated bulky armour is.... not so big. It does suddenly make catachans look more realistically scaled though.

**Herzlos**

ninjafiredragon wrote:
Too bad it requires me purchasing 60$ worth of stuff.

They've always let you buy from the webstore, get it delivered to a GW store and then return any bits you don't want, no questions asked. I've done it with a few regretted impulse purchases. Might want to check there's no ticket in there first though

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ImAGeek wrote:
I'm not being funny, and I don't like a lot of what GW does as much as the next guy, but this is quite a substantial prize and I'm surprised at the amount of 'a space marine should be taller than that!' Going on. 2.1metres tall of models not enough?

I think it's more than it's usual GW; great idea but terrible execution. Competition only runs for 53 hours* over the weekend - anyone who only uses internet from work/school will find the competition has ended before they knew about it. Seems to only apply to the webstore, potentially not legal in one of the main markets. Vague delivery schedule.

*Why would they do this? I mean, it looks like they've just started ripping off Warlord Games wholesale, who ran a similar competition (buy anything online in January and enter a draw for £250 in vouchers). My thoughts are either: [a] they don't actually want people to enter, but that's slowed as they're giving out 5 prizes anyway, or [b] they really need a quick cash boost before Monday (maybe they need to pay for the 9th Ed WHF books).

**BrookM**

They've probably excluded Australia and New Zealand because it would be a $20 local currency purchase for them to be entitled to entering the raffle.

**Wrecker**

Is no one seeing this?

Or are we all hoping to be

Either way, I will keep my

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**Schlyne**

Ok, about the US thing...I was told about this from the local GW store manager...and I'm in nebraska.

As far as things like going to gamble in a casino...you can't do that in this state (Unless it's a tribal casino), you have to go across the border into iowa.

Too bad for the LOTR/HOBBIT players...nothing in that line can be won as a prize, also

citadel products, audiobooks and publications..

So, no books, no filling up on hobby knives and paints and stuff

And it looks like you can only pick one realm of battle table...

reasonable restrictions may be placed on individual product quantities

I think they might have an issue if you figured out what the slimmest, most expensive model there is, and then asked for as many of them as you could get