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Actually, give away merchandise is quite good, but it's usually quite troublesome during shipping for winners who are in distant countries, so I don't really agree with giveaway merchandise

I have an experience of winning merchandise from a giveaway in facebook/twitter/instagram (I cant really remember it) long time ago. It was an official jersey of a football club + some other merchandises such as keychain, stickers, and a hat . I was surprised when I received it because I have to pay a tax which I think is too much. It is because the tax is counted from the shipping fee + the price of the merchandises. What I had to pay is something that I can use to buy 2 or more better t-shirt in my country

The most surprising thing is that the shipping fee was more than the price of the merchandises. Although I did not pay it but it affects the tax that I had to pay. Of course it is all about preferences, maybe other countries are not charging too much for the tax but in my country can be said as an expensive one (at least for me).

The tax alone when you contemplate about it can discourage you from been an interested party participating in the contest or any other from another casino, and am talking about myself as someone from a country I know custom charges are outrageous for imported goods. Imagine paying a tax amount higher than what you are receiving, governmnt of some countries ain't helpful at all. Grin

. What I opine imo is if it's achievable, these merchandise can be converted to cash equivalent of the merchandise price it will encourage more users in participating particular those that tax fee for receiving their prize is their element of discouragement to participate in contest like this.

This is something that needs to be considered when thinking about those giveaways, since not only the taxes you may need to pay could be very high, but depending on how corrupt are the customs agents you may not even receive the prize as it gets confiscated and then they claim it got lost in transit, so if bigger giveaways are being planned it may be a good idea to just keep them in the form of bonuses or maybe Shuffle could send a deposit straight to your wallet instead.

Nah I doubt those guys will get an interest for a small goods deliver to the winners globally so I think those plan to send it anywhere in the world is fine since the amount declared is so small for them to corrupt. For sure they will look on huge shipments since from there they can earn a lot of money. But maybe for running this giveaway Shuffle management should ask the receiver on what is the cheapest way for them to receive their items since for sure there are many option for that and also they should cover up the fees so that the winner could really feel that they win and will not think about been discourage since they pay those taxes.

@avp2306 you made some sense on this, corrupt officials or no corrupt officials those guys in the custom wouldn't expend energy on small items for they are always on the look for the big things, and peradventure they do and are denying any arrival of such shipment you can contact the management about the shipment to confirm they had sent it and with all available details you can sue the officials to court for illegal confiscation. But to avoid these hiccups it's just as you have said there should be open options on how the winner would love to receive his/her prize either in cash or.....