When you lot come across these contender cards well-nigh the entrance to a eating seat , simply piece of occupation out them on the rack. At best they are simply a crappy come-on , at worst , an utter rip-off or scam. Click to enlarge.
I saw this menu inward a eating seat the other twenty-four hr menstruation , side yesteryear side to a plexiglass fishbowl that was half-full of completed cards. Apparently , a lot of people intend they are going to "win" a opor-garai to the Bahamas. They aren't.
This menu is at to the lowest degree up-front , alongside no fine impress on the back. In the onetime days , many of these cards would accept fine impress on the dorsum maxim you lot consented to signing upwards for a long-distance service or other telephone improver conception , yesteryear filling out the card. You intend you lot were entering a contender , when inward fact , you lot were beingness "slammed" alongside a long-distance service - an expensive i , too.
This i didn't accept "fine print" on the dorsum , but pretty large impress on the front end , as well as it was pretty humorous to me. If you lot create total out this menu , you lot are automatically a "winner" as well as you lot "won" a "Free Bahama Islands Vacation" (in quotes) as well as all you lot accept to create is pay for the airfare , transportation , hotels , as well as resort fees as well as taxes. The "vacation" is costless , simply the getting as well as staying in that place you lot accept to pay for.
In other words , you accept to pay for the whole damn vacation.
It is a pretty funny come-on advertisement , to live on sure. They are simply harvesting names as well as after on volition telephone phone you lot (and telephone phone you) as well as offering to sell you lot a vacation.
Is the opor-garai a proficient bargain? Well , I don't bespeak to telephone phone them to honour out , because the agency it is marketed tells me all I bespeak to know. They are implying (but non saying) that you lot are entering a contender as well as if you lot win , you lot volition larn a costless vacation. But it is non costless , you lot accept to pay for it , period.
I honour it also humorous that they accept , at the overstep , "THIS IS NOT H5N1 TIMESHARE - Your Name volition NOT BE SOLD!" equally people are already wise to the "free cruise" scam which is simply a inexpensive cruise to the Bahama Islands , that you lot pay the "port fees" for (and thence pay for the cruise , basically) as well as they forcefulness you lot to sit down through a three-hour timeshare sales presentation earlier you lot piece of occupation out , or worse , piece on the boat.
At to the lowest degree it isn't that!
But I intend that whatever of these deals offered inward the lobby of a eating seat are probable to live on shitty deals. Even putting your concern menu inward a bowl for a drawing for a "free meal" in all probability volition never lawsuit inward said costless repast , but rather your advert beingness added to a mailing listing or sold to someone.
Contests are commonly a waste matter of fourth dimension to start out with. Contest cards at a restaurant? Just walk away!
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