I feel dumb

"luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln!" (luvmesome142) 04/07/2016 at 10:35 • Filed to: None

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So, I got one of these type things in the mail. Not exactly the same, but similar. My wife hands me the flyer and says, “I think we won a TV!” Below each prize is a number and the number uncovered in the scratch off matches the 4K TV!

I’m a skeptical guy, so I read the fine print and I can’t find any gotchas in there. It looks like we really did win the prize. The numbers match, 1:65,000 odds, no purchase necessary, blah blah blah.

I take one of my sons with me to the dealer and since we’re there, we talk to a salesman and look at some cars. I found this Subie Outback 3.0R with only 80k on it! I’m not really in the market, but I say I’m interested and give me a price.

Oh, I should say that the salesman deftly keeps the prize thing on the back burner until we’re done talking about cars. I actually think I’ve won, and I’m OK checking out cars first.

After I say there is no way that I’ll be buying a car today, we walk over to the prize board. It turns out that the numbers on the flyer below the prizes are just a distraction. “The numbers aren’t associated with the pictures of prizes that happen to be near them.” There is another little number printed near my name and address that has to match a number on the prize board. I won a 5$ gas card.

Sneaky bastards. But that’s kind of what I expected from the beginning. And I won’t be buying the Subie, although I would definitely go for something like that down the road.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! 04/07/2016 at 10:42

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Yeah it’s always how it compares to the “prize board”

I personally think they should all be sued for false advertising and improper use of sweepstakes (Ad guy speaking here) but I think they work around every law about it. You’d be amazed how complicated the sweepstakes laws are too...

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! 04/07/2016 at 10:45

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But hey you got back the 5 dollars of gas you may have spent driving to the dealership.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 04/07/2016 at 10:50

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Yeah My dealership did one of these when I was selling cars. It was embarrassing,

“Oh no sir, or madam, you didn’t win anything, You only won a chance to win . Would you like to test drive a new Dodge Dart? And no one ever did win that white Dodge Dart, we were giving away, go figure. We did give away a few fishing poles, and coolers tho.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 04/07/2016 at 12:27

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I suppose that guy with the “winning” ticket didn’t believe the “scam” sweepstakes....or maybe when a less legit sales person than you went to the board and said “nope, here’s your gas card” when in reality it was in fact the car.