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Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

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Re: Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

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Post by sejje »

ungamedplayer wrote: post #56
andrewstuart wrote: post #47

A friend of the family recently won a million dollar house in the hospital raffle. It was a house on the Gold Coast in Queensland, which he immediately sold. I think he might also have won $20,000 of gold bullion in another hospital raffle. And off topic but my brother won a years supply of Kentucky Friend Chicken in the footy tipping..... and he is a vegetarian. Imagine that - you win the sacrifice of 365 chickens f…

When you say 'footie' that makes me think you are Australian. "Raffles" in australia have very specific legal requirements.

> Here is Australia in the 1980's

I think it's safe to say he's in Australia.

Re: Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

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Post by dpe82 »

ungamedplayer wrote: post #56
andrewstuart wrote: post #47

A friend of the family recently won a million dollar house in the hospital raffle. It was a house on the Gold Coast in Queensland, which he immediately sold. I think he might also have won $20,000 of gold bullion in another hospital raffle. And off topic but my brother won a years supply of Kentucky Friend Chicken in the footy tipping..... and he is a vegetarian. Imagine that - you win the sacrifice of 365 chickens f…

When you say 'footie' that makes me think you are Australian. "Raffles" in australia have very specific legal requirements.

Their explicit mentioning of Australia makes me thing they're in Australia.

Re: Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

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Post by LilBytes »

ungamedplayer wrote: post #56
andrewstuart wrote: post #47

A friend of the family recently won a million dollar house in the hospital raffle. It was a house on the Gold Coast in Queensland, which he immediately sold. I think he might also have won $20,000 of gold bullion in another hospital raffle. And off topic but my brother won a years supply of Kentucky Friend Chicken in the footy tipping..... and he is a vegetarian. Imagine that - you win the sacrifice of 365 chickens f…

When you say 'footie' that makes me think you are Australian. "Raffles" in australia have very specific legal requirements.

The Gold Coast and Queensland are in Australia, so you're 100% on the money. You see Surf Life Saving raffles for gorgeous homes and cars all the time. I imagine the laws in our country (I'm also in Australia, though not Australian) mean the advertised prizes have to be winnable.

Re: Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

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Post by katzgrau »

moomoo11 wrote: post #35
gruez wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of what you've described can also be applied to condominiums. The only difference is that you can occupy them year round, but I don't think that's a relevant difference. Are the "fundamental economics" of those also "a scam"?

I have no idea what a timeshare is (sorry) but aren’t condos something you fully own? Like some of my friends live in condos, some lived in a condo for a few years and then sold them before moving into a house or some other city. Where I live the condos are usually similar in appearance to apartments (bed bath living room kitchen all on same floor) and there are townhomes which are a bit fancier and you might get an…

Timeshares are very similar but the difference is that you typically only get a week or two to stay there - it's jointly owned by others.

That obviously has a big impact on resell value - so much to the point that some timeshare owners can't give it away let alone sell it, because no one wants to be beholden to the maintenance fees.

Re: Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

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Post by alexb_ »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #66
alexb_ wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You really think that they aren't?

Yes. I've never gotten a phone call from McDonald's.

Of course you've never gotten a phone call from McDonald's, but EVERYONE has gotten a scam phone call.

Re: Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

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Post by normac2 »

It sounds like they're raking in a lot from this, so you'd kinda think they'd be best off actually giving away a car like, once every 5 years. To literally never give out the thing they're advertising seems like playing with fire. (The actual supposed big prize—after you jump through a lot of other hoops—is $100k, but same deal.)

Re: Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

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Post by lizknope »

sejje wrote: post #71
ungamedplayer wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you say 'footie' that makes me think you are Australian. "Raffles" in australia have very specific legal requirements.

> Here is Australia in the 1980's I think it's safe to say he's in Australia.

He also mentions Queensland

Re: Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

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Post by winternett »

United857 wrote: post #5

It's unbelievable that showing a car when it's not being awarded doesn't fall under any sort of false advertising law.

Don't worry, they've mostly moved on to selling crypto and NFTs for the most part... I haven't seen a car parked in my local mall for ages, there's a bitcoin ATM parked in that space now.

There's a certain breed of huckster that even if they designated a prize winner, it would be one of their family members. The most important part of managing scams is to expose them, and cite the names involved so that they need to pick a different line of work.

Re: Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

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Post by paulpauper »

everyone wrote: post #30

I'm suprised they go to so much effort to get peoples info in 2022. Surely u can scrape as much of that as you want from social media or just buy it en-mass? Then u can spam people to your hearts content.

Buying leads is usually a waste of money. Fresh leads for easy marks is way better.

Social media companies have really clamped down over the past 5 years on any form of contact info scraping

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