McDonald's Monopoly: Winning Losers
Just Visiting
game at playatmcd.com and you're ready to cash them in at
mycokerewards.com. Well, here's the catch. Coca-Cola is limiting how
many winning codes you can enter into your account. Once you've
exceeded your limit, you'll get this error message: "Oops...You've
already redeemed the maximum number of codes allowed per member for
this promotion. (Sorry)" So, you might have won a few 'My Coke
Rewards' points on McDonald's Monopoly, but you lose the rest of them
when you exceed the maximum number of codes allowed per member for
this promotion. Congratulations for becoming a 2010 McDonald's
Monopoly Winning Loser!
The Real Bev
I feed in the numbers because there's no reason not to. A free 12-pack
is a free 12-pack and the effort is minimal if you have somebody read
while you type. What's really silly is that they make you wait a few
weeks, and then send you a notice that your coupon will be SNAIL-MAILED
to you in 4 or 5 weeks.
It's swill, of course, but my husband likes it.
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Cheers, Bev
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There's something wrong with my keyboard.
Whenever I type x I get x.
LG
Gordon Burditt
I recall a long, long time ago McDonalds ran another Monopoly-based
game. About mid-1980's. I read the odds of winning statement and
there seemed to be something wrong with it. You got one little
piece of cardboard, with two game pieces representing board squares,
for each purchase. Your objective was to get all of the pieces in
one color group, a color group having 2 or 3 properties in it. (I
don't recall whether both utilities or all 4 railroads were included
- they weren't really in "color groups".) Each color group had a
cash prize amount associated with it. I think the prizes went up
to $10,000 or so (for Boardwalk and Park Place). They gave odds
for each level of prize based on the number of purchases made.
So what was wrong? They gave non-zero odds of winning all the
prizes with *ONE* purchase. You can't possibly win a prize from
one of the 3-property color groups with two game pieces, yet they
were claiming you could win that prize. There are only two 2-property
color groups on the board. I wrote them (not sure where I got the
address, probably in the fine print rules of the contest) complaining
about this, not really expecting a response.
A couple of months later I got a call from a man from the company
running the game (not McDonalds itself)'s marketing department. He
told me that the odds were based on the odds of getting the "rare
piece" needed for the color group, and this was the government-required
method of stating odds.
By this time I knew what the rare piece was for most of the color
groups, as I walked there about once a week for lunch from work and
I had accumulated all-but-one of every color group, plus some
duplicates. Plus, I had won one small prize, like $3 or $5. I
pointed out that it was still impossible to win some of the prizes
with only two game pieces. We agreed to disagree, keeping the
conversation pleasant on both sides. I understood his point, and
he understood mine. If I played for a while, getting the non-rare
pieces wasn't a problem. I had demonstrated that myself. But the
odds for someone who played only a few times were still far less
than stated.
I asked if anyone had ever considered running a game without a
single "rare piece". He said none of their customers (like McDonalds)
had ever dared do that. It could turn out to be an expensive
mistake, even if you, for example, sent all of the Boardwalk pieces
to the East coast and all of the Park Place pieces to the West
coast. Nowadays, with easy ability to trade pieces (even if it
violates the rules) over the Internet, someone would have to be
really crazy to do that.
He asked me a few marketing-survey type questions about my opinions
about Monopoly, the game, and McDonalds. He was rather surprised
*I* didn't have a copy of the game. Well, when I was growing up,
my parents did, and so did my great aunt, but being single and
living alone, I wasn't into board games much.
Mrs Irish Mike
When I was young...
In 1984 McDonalds had an Olympics contest. You got a game piece that
had an Olympic sport on it. If the USA won gold in that sport you won
a Big Mac, if silver then an order of fries and if bronze you got a
coke. If USA swept the sport, then you won all three.
Most of the tickets had sports the US never won, things like women's
gymnastics and swimming. At the last minute the USSR pulled out of the
games to protest some slight, just as USA did in the previous games
four years earlier. If you were a fast food fan it was like manna from
heaven. Go into a McDonalds and get a free game piece, walk out with
an entire meal. I even got them to substitute fish for burgers on
Friday.
I was layed off from work in L.A. during the games as most large
employers did. I ate McDonalds for free, when to lots of free or low
cost events and had plenty of tourists buy me drinks in order to
practice their English. Seemed as most of the city left due to fears
of traffic and over crowding, at times it seemed I was the last
Angeleno left in an a half empty town. Best two weeks of my life.
Jimmy John
Mrs Irish Mike <BeaF...@msn.com> wrote:
Go into a McDonalds and get a free game piece, walk out with
> an entire meal. I even got them to substitute fish for burgers on
> Friday.
So maybe you know the answer to this question. When they changed the rules
so that Catholics can eat meat on Fridays, what happened to all the people
who went to hell for eating meat on Fridays? Did they get let out?
JJ
want a sammich?
Bob F
....
Then, there's MacPolitics
http://gawker.com/5676830/mcdonalds-tells-employees-to-vote-republican
Mrs Irish Mike
No, they're still in Hell. People in prison for marijuana trafficing
will not be let out when the Devil's weed is finally legalized. It's
the same thing with eating meat on Fridays.
As Jesus said, "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."
Ubiquitous
wrote:
>Just Visiting wrote:
>
>Then, there's MacPolitics
>http://gawker.com/5676830/mcdonalds-tells-employees-to-vote-republican
Considering what was going down in SanFran, I don't blame them.
--
"Listen, I would never put Kool aid, candied yams, a peppermint candy,
pancake syrup, you know, none of those things in my vajayjay. That's
crazy!" Nene Leaks, RHoA