Re: Konqui Oil Paintings

2011/11/14 Ingo Klöcker <[email protected]>:
> On Saturday 12 November 2011, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 22:37, Jos Poortvliet <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> > I love the e-bay thing. We can put one on ebay, see if it works and
>> > ppl like/buy it for a serious amount.
>>
>> While I love the ebay idea too I fear it'll only help us in the short
>> term. My idea was to get a lot of new members for Join The Game
>> through this. They will stay with us a lot longer than a one-off ebay
>> auction that might or might not bring 500 Euro (more or less random
>> number) will. If we get just 50 people to sign up as a member because
>> of this that's 5000 Euro each year they stay with us already if I'm
>> not mistaken. Just my 2c.
>
> I'm not really fond of the idea of making a raffle to lure people into a
> KDE supporting membership. In my book this is bordering on being
> unethical because we might trick people into signing up as a supporting
> member who cannot really afford the fee.
>
> Actually, isn't it verboten in Germany to tie the participation in a
> lottery to a purchase? As far as I remember, for all non-dubious
> (reputable?) lotteries that were part of a promotion for buying a
> product the participation in the lottery was possible even if one didn't
> buy anything. (Of course, one still pays for taking part in such a
> lottery, just not with money but with one's personal information.)
>
> ... *google* ... *read* ...
>
> I found it. § 4 Nr. 6 UWG (Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb)
> reads:
> Unlauter handelt [...], wer
> (Nr. 6) die Teilnahme von Verbrauchern an einem Preisausschreiben oder
> Gewinnspiel von dem Erwerb einer Ware oder der Inanspruchnahme einer
> Dienstleistung abhängig macht, es sei denn, das Preisausschreiben oder
> Gewinnspiel ist naturgemäß mit der Ware oder der Dienstleistung
> verbunden.
>
> Also look here: http://www.it-recht-kanzlei.de/gewinnspiel-
> preisausschreiben.html
>
> I'm not sure whether this really applies to our situation, but even if
> it doesn't apply such a lottery still leaves a "schalen Beigeschmack"
> (bad aftertaste).

Heya...  I didn't understood the German quotation, but I do belive
that's about gambling, is the KDE ev membership the same thing? Jos,
Lydia, everyone, I'll Take pictures of the Oil paintings and uploaded
it to a server today, sorry for my abscence, I don't have internet yet
in my new house, and in work I can barely look at my mail.

> Regards,
> Ingo
>
>
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