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- From: colette@bwdls46.bnr.ca (Colette George)
- Subject: Re: Misprinted Ad with great prices
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.153157.16906@bwdls61.bnr.ca>
- Sender: usenet@bwdls61.bnr.ca (Use Net)
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- Reply-To: colette@bwdls46.bnr.ca (Colette George)
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research
- References: <1992Jul23.004620.11385@oracle.us.oracle.com> <1992Jul23.203422.7879@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:31:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.203422.7879@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>, stank@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Stan Krieger) writes:
- |>
- |> The foggiest issue is that of "typo's" in contests. That is, the
- |> store intended to issue a total of, say, 100 matching right halves,
- |> but instead all BUT 100 of the game pieces have a matching right
- |> half. What's the typo; they look like they're printed OK with me?
- |> --
- About ten years ago my family participated in a contest run by the company
- that makes Vachon cakes (they make Twinkie-like cakes and pastries). The
- game had a card with a number of little pictures on it - you had collect little
- game pieces which corresponded to the pictures and cover the card. Well, after
- a couple of months, we actually found the last piece we needed and sent our
- "winning" entry in. I believe the prize was a TV, so needless to say my
- parents were happy and all 5 of their children were really excited (our TV
- at the time needed to be replaced badly).
-
- Anyway, about a week later we get a letter from Vachon saying "Sorry, but
- your entry isn't valid. We accidentally sent out two many 'winning game
- pieces', and you used one of the extra ones that shouldn't have been sent out.
- Too bad."
-
- Naturally my parents called, wrote letters and eventually spoke to one of the
- company big shots, but they refused to give us the prize. We didn't have the
- money to hire a lawyer, so nothing more ever came of it. No one in my family
- has purchased a Vachon product since then.
-
- --
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- Colette George
- Bell-Northern Research Ltd. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Internet: colette@bnr.ca
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