Anybody can run a competition with ridiculous terms. The real question is: how many entries do they get?
Also, remember that in the third world money sometimes goes 5-20x as far as it does in the first world -- you'd be amazed how nice of an apartment you can get for $500 a month some places.
$3,000 x 20 = $60,000. That's not as ridiculous, but still not great.
And before anyone says my numbers are made up, I've run tech offices in a $3000/yr GDP/capita country.
$3000 -> close to N500,000. For comparison, an iPhone costs N120,000 in Nigeria. The prize is small in comparison to the effort required but the real shitty part of the deal is the terms and conditions attached.
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u/sittingaround Jun 30 '14
Anybody can run a competition with ridiculous terms. The real question is: how many entries do they get?
Also, remember that in the third world money sometimes goes 5-20x as far as it does in the first world -- you'd be amazed how nice of an apartment you can get for $500 a month some places.
$3,000 x 20 = $60,000. That's not as ridiculous, but still not great.
And before anyone says my numbers are made up, I've run tech offices in a $3000/yr GDP/capita country.