It's easy for me to say that I am addicted to entering contests and raffles and such. However, it surprises me how many other people are equally or, as in some...er...many cases, obscenely more obssessed in regards to their contest/raffle interest.
Currently Hershey is doing a "wrapper cash" event or sorts where you get wrappers each worth 2 points, enter the codes online and then proceed to 'bid' your wrapper points on items. The people who win, have spent hundreds of dollars on candy or candy wrappers. As it is ebay is auctioning lots for 50 to 10,000 "wrapper cash points". Why? Well, I suppose that's prolly cause they're auctioning 10 cars...
But honestly...I have 8 points. yay. Contests like this promote wealthy-type winners, or compulsive gambler-type winners. People who are willing to invest hundreds of dollars in candy. That's great. It is, honestly, 1-2k dollars for a new car. Not half bad. That's 1k-2k in CANDY.
But what about the people who don't have hundreds to potentially lose to something like this. You need at least 200 points to actually get anything. That is 100 Candy bars. Great. Binge.
And you don't want a basketball clock anyway. You want the ipod, the car or the caribbean cruise...but you gotta ditch hundreds of dollars in candy bars for that.
Hence, the winner issss...the over obsessed gambler!
followed by mister rich-dude and his son.
It wouldn't be so bad if they werent selling the points on ebay. If you had to absoultly get them yourself and there was a limit, perhaps it would be better. Even so, it's difficult to make something like that fair.
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