But not zero. And that is potentially a problem. All it takes is one incident to create a headache.
There was a quote in a movie I watched once that went something like “the bad guys need to be lucky all the time, the good guys just once.”
In this case, MR need to be lucky all the time, one bad luck incident can be a nightmare. So, why risk it?
You willing to cover ALL their financial losses should something bad happen? If not then quit trying to give them the benefit of your “legal advice”.
Just exactly what 'bad' is going to happen?
There are thousands of companies in the US that ship products around the world. If the giveaways were open to other international areas, what if a Swedish member was to win a giveaway?, if a Swedish customer was to purchase a pair of Nike trainers from Nike's US online store and have them shipped to Sweden from the US, whats the difference in terms of postage and packaging and liability.
Could it be that Macrumors does not want to spend money on expensive international shipping?. It is far to easy to have stuff sent around the world today regardless if one is a business or a forum doing giveaways hence why I do not accept the excuse of it being due to gambling laws in other countries.
I know of many gaming forums that have sent giveaways to winners from countries all over the world and the admins never complained of it being due to a countries gambling laws. Wargaming.net, Ubisoft, Origin, Blizzard, Electronic Arts have all done it, so why can't Macrumors? (am expecting to hear same excuses as to why they can not).