Do dealers really give away the things they advertise?

Kinja'd!!! by "Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
Published 02/11/2017 at 15:23

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A local FIAT dealer is giving away cheap smartwatches if you bring in their flyer. I was thinking about testing a 500 Abarth anyway, so why not get a free gadget at the same time. I know the big contest with 5 fabulous prizes is a scam, but will they really give me the smartwatch?

Years ago I remember my dad going for a test drive; the dealer was offering a nice bottle of wine for stopping by, but not surprisingly the seemed to run out when he asked for his...

Have things changed in the last few decades, or can I expect them to run out of stock when I ask for my watch? (Lots more in the manager’s office, but it’s locked and he’s not here today, etc., so on an so forth...)


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Kinja'd!!! "HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
02/11/2017 at 15:28, STARS: 1

Check the fine print. It’s usually something like:

Odds of winning X prize 1:499997

Odds of winning Y price 1:499997

Odds of winning Z prize: 1:499997

Odds of winning $5 walmart giftcard: 499997:1

Though I almost always go in. I got 2 movie tickets and a steak dinner for 2 at Texas roadhouse recently...AND they let me drive cars I wanted to drive.

Kinja'd!!! "Laurence" (mrlaurence)
02/11/2017 at 16:03, STARS: 0

Not a scam, but the number of watches they have will be limited. The idea is they give a few away, then just tell everyone else “sorry, we’ve run out of free stuff, but you can still look our cars anyway”, in the hopes of getting a few easy sales. The fine print on the flyer will probably say something like ‘while stocks last’

Quite a clever idea, actually.

Kinja'd!!! "Bourbon&JellyBeans" (bourbonandjellybeans)
02/11/2017 at 17:42, STARS: 0

I got a $100 Visa gift card for test driving the 2015 Mustang when it came out. That wasn’t a dealership thing though, that was straight from Ford. Still I got paid to test drive a guard green EcoBoost!

Kinja'd!!! "Shane Moore" (snakesm13)
02/11/2017 at 18:25, STARS: 0

Last year at a nice mall in Southlake, a nicer neighborhood in the Dallas-Fort worth area, Lincoln sponsored a ride & drive event that gave you a $50 Visa gift card to driver and passenger. Paid for my wife and I’s date that night. Not sure about dealer promos though.