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[Rodney]

Starting next month, there will be prizes involved in the Fishy Shot contest for subscribers.

[THE_ROE_SLINGER]

right on rod, hopefully there ill submit a nice pic of a red or two

[IronNoggin]

LOL!  Great Timing Rod!
Just headed offshore for a week, and suspect we'll generate one or two for consideration 

Cheers,
Nog

[Sterling C]

What happens if the suscribers are beat out by a non suscriber.

[Big Steel]

I believe it will be for Subscribers only!!  But I could be wrong!!

[All Tangled Up]

Is it legal to have a contest like this with prizes whereby you have to pay to enter. I thought this was the land of 'no purchase necessary'.

[THE_ROE_SLINGER]

yes

[All Tangled Up]

I did a little research and found this.........


Skill testing questions are a legal requirement attached to many contests in Canada.

The combined effect of Sections 197 to 206 of the Canadian Criminal Code bans for-profit gaming or betting, with exceptions made for provincial lotteries, and licensed casinos and charity events. Many stores, radio stations, and other groups still wish to hold contests to encourage more purchases or increase consumer interest. A classic example of such a contest is Tim Hortons' Roll up the Rim to Win, that gives chance to win prizes with every cup of coffee purchased, with prizes ranging from vehicles to doughnuts. These organizations take advantage of the fact that the law does allow prizes to be given for games of skill, or mixed games of skill and chance. In order to make the chance-based contests legal, such games generally have mathematical skill-testing questions incorporated.

The most common form that these questions take is as an arithmetic exercise. A court decision ruled that these must contain at least three operations to actually be skill testing; for example, a common question might be "(2 × 4) + (10 × 3)" (Answer: 38). Enforcement of these rules is not very stringent, and especially for small prizes, the player may not be required to answer the skill-testing question to claim a prize. Anecdotally, getting the answer wrong is also often not an obstacle to claiming a prize. For contests held in the United States or other countries that are open to Canadians, the questions must also be asked of any Canadian winner.

The same section of law prohibits receiving consideration in exchange for playing the games, resulting in a related peculiarity of Canadian contests: the "free entry alternative", which is usually telegraphed by the fine print "No purchase necessary". Generally this means that it is possible to enter the contest for free by, for example, writing a letter to the entity sponsoring the contest and requesting a game piece or entry form.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skill_testing_question"

[TrophyHunter]

Is it legal to have a contest like this with prizes whereby you have to pay to enter. I thought this was the land of 'no purchase necessary'.

time to coin up and buy a membership!!!!!

[Rodney]

Oh no, I'm a big bad crook! Lock me up!

Anyways, first pic came in the inbox from birdman today. Where are the rest? You don't want Ronald to take the prizes do you?!

[All Tangled Up]

Time to coin up?
I've been a member of this site for 3 years and the only thing I lose out on is private messages. One being a bashing against Rodney!
I don't see the value for my money aspect of joining up. Thanks anyway.

[TrophyHunter]

Time to coin up?
I've been a member of this site for 3 years and the only thing I lose out on is private messages. One being a bashing against Rodney!
I don't see the value for my money aspect of joining up. Thanks anyway.

? the biggest reason I became a member is because this is a great site and rodney has been paying out of his own pocket to make it happen !!!!!! who cares what bonuses we get as a member , as long as this site is still around.. if you wanna still be on this site thats fine but don't complain that you can't enter a contest then ... pretty simple don't ya think??

[Rodney]

Be honest TR, you paid to satisfy your need for gossiping with Big Steel via the private messages.

No need to give ATU a hard time, he does have a point. If a person feel that the service being offered is not worth his or her money, of course he or she would not pay, I take no offence to that. He is partially correct on the services that are offered though. The subscribers section is only a few months old, so the services of course are not very apparent to those who have not subscribed. Those who have, I hope you have enjoyed it so far as Nina and I have been exploring numerous ideas on how we can produce an entertaining section to keep our bosses satisfied. The privelege of using the private message system is just one, album in gallery, photo attachment in forum, and videos are others. In the next couple of months, you'll see some more development that no other sites have done yet. On one hand we originally started this to cover the sudden rise of web hosting (currently $150 per month, but about to go up again since our last server down-time last week), but we do not wish to see this as a donation drive. Instead we want to provide services that you all are willing to pay for.

The non-subscribers are of course still welcome on the forum, most of the features on the discussion forum are still available to them. I don't wish to see this develops into subscribers vs. non-subscribers, that would just be silly.

[THE_ROE_SLINGER]

well said rick!  This is just paying back to rodney for all his work and dedication plus the bonus features

[All Tangled Up]

By no means am I bashing Rodney for trying to attract money to his account. Who wouldn't charge you if you're willing to pay. Don't you make any money from ads Rodney? All the traffic this site has should be worth something. I just hope that you don't start charging for other aspects of this site like forum reading and posting. You may end up making some money but I seem to recall in the early days that this was all for pure enjoyment and not the almighty dollar.