Ask HN: Is it legal if my webapp rewards the winners with a gift certificate

[ssing]

I am starting a website where users predict individual match outcomes. I am thinking of rewarding them with a gift certificate. Is it legal. Any insight will be very helpful.

[DupDetector]

There are more comments on your duplicate submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2017757

[veb]

I'd give the winners some sort of virtual currency, in which they can use said currency to 'purchase' a gift certificate.

[f00li5h]

it's fairly likely that the laws would depend on the country the winner resides in ... which would be a pain in the ass to mitigate if you plan on doing it automatically or more than once.

having said that iAnal

[ssing → f00li5h]

Thanks. Actually the winner may be in different countries