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and no free food doesn't count, I mean REAL PRIZES, did anybody actually win anything good from buying a poo poo ton of large big mac meals and gaining 400 pounds? and don't be a smartarse and say they won type 2 diabetes.
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Nope.
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Apr 29, 2016 16:57
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they only give out certain things to certain mcdonalds in certain parts of the country. To win anything you'd either have to buy them off ebay or travel up and down the country going on a loving mcdonalds tour
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Apr 29, 2016 16:58
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the ppl that run the contest are the only ones winning the prizes
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Apr 29, 2016 17:00
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Only thing I won was 2 medium fries. Better than nothing i guess.
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Apr 29, 2016 17:01
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I have Park Place, someone want to give me their Boardwalk and we can split the million? It's a good deal I swear, pls PM me.
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Apr 29, 2016 17:04
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when I was in college I worked at mcd's and during my break I'd take entire bags of french fry containers and take off the tickets then throw out the french fry containers when I had to take out the trash. I was kind of an rear end in a top hat back then, nowadays I would just dump the containers onto the floor.
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Apr 29, 2016 17:05
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It's a scam
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Apr 29, 2016 17:05
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You can trade the Baltic/Mediterranean monopoly in for a Something Awful Forums account.
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Apr 29, 2016 17:06
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zooted heh posted:the ppl that run the contest are the only ones winning the prizes Literally true considering for years the winning tickets were stolen by a worker of the company that printed them.
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Apr 29, 2016 17:06
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Gaunab posted:It's a scam
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Apr 29, 2016 17:07
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thatguy posted:when I was in college I worked at mcd's and during my break I'd take entire bags of french fry containers and take off the tickets then throw out the french fry containers when I had to take out the trash. I was kind of an rear end in a top hat back then, nowadays I would just dump the containers onto the floor. Did you win anything?
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Apr 29, 2016 17:08
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I took my kids to a McDonalds in France once, and one of them won a silver Coca Cola tray. Maybe the French didn't understand that you are not supposed to hand out any actual prizes? They are an odd sort of people, after all.
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Apr 29, 2016 17:08
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Type 1 Diabetes.
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Apr 29, 2016 17:09
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Furious Mittens posted:Did you win anything? Just food
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Apr 29, 2016 17:12
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dude i know won a car
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Apr 29, 2016 17:14
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I won a bad case of dysentery
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Apr 29, 2016 17:17
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Every set has one piece that is many orders of magnitude rarer than the others. You can google which pieces are rare and on the one in a million chance you find one it'll be piss easy to get the other two. It's a brilliant scam because every piece feels like a winner if you don't know how it works AND it's very likely that whoever does find the really rare one will accidentally throw it away.
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Apr 29, 2016 17:20
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ManDingo posted:Type 1 Diabetes. This guy... The intern wants to stop at McD's every loving day so he's won maybe 10 hashbrowns/fries/shake but nothing substantial.
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Apr 29, 2016 17:21
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Rurea posted:I have Park Place, someone want to give me their Boardwalk and we can split the million? It's a good deal I swear, pls PM me. Why do they call it Park Place instead of Park Avenue?
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Apr 29, 2016 17:27
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I haven't gone to McDonald's in a while. Their unsweetened tea is p good though
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Apr 29, 2016 17:28
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I just throw those away. With my luck I somehow got a rare one and tossed it.
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Apr 29, 2016 17:29
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Fenn the Fool! posted:Every set has one piece that is many orders of magnitude rarer than the others. You can google which pieces are rare and on the one in a million chance you find one it'll be piss easy to get the other two. It's a brilliant scam because every piece feels like a winner if you don't know how it works AND it's very likely that whoever does find the really rare one will accidentally throw it away. mcdonalds knows how stupid and uninformed their customers are, and successfully fleece them every year with this dumb game i mean people sell common game pieces on ebay for stupid prices, post craigslist ads begging people to sell them the piece they are missing, literally ignoring the entire mechanics of the charade
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Apr 29, 2016 17:30
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Even if you perfectly understand the statistics and mechanics of this game it still works because it's designed to manipulate you on an unconscious level. There is a lot of research and science behind games of chance, your response to it is emotional not rational.
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Apr 29, 2016 17:37
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What do you mean free food doesn't count? That's the best thing you can realistically get. Are you implying that if you win money you wouldn't just go buy more McDonalds food? Shameful..
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Apr 29, 2016 18:06
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When I was catching the train back home, someone threw out a sticker for a free magazine subscription for 3 months, surprisingly it wasn't redeemed yet, so I won it for myself. That's the closest I'll get to winning something decent.
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Apr 29, 2016 18:07
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yeah actually my fat friend won $10k several years back. he's one of those people who was always told he was very special by his rich parents and i think this was the most money he had ever made b/c he didn't have a job until he was like 29. he won getting mcdonalds on the way to our soccer game and i was kind of wondering why you would get mcdonalds on the way to go play a running intensive sport but i guess the reason is to win $10k
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Apr 29, 2016 18:08
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When I was a kid, my family won free Happy Meals for a whole year, or more accurately I think it was 52 vouchers they could turn in one by one. I think free food counts if you can use it to plan your child's meals for the week. Anyway, I was a fat kid
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Apr 29, 2016 18:19
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yeah
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Apr 29, 2016 18:21
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I won type 2 diabetes
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Jerry Mumphrey posted:yeah actually my fat friend won $10k several years back. he's one of those people who was always told he was very special by his rich parents and i think this was the most money he had ever made b/c he didn't have a job until he was like 29. theres a local metalhead here who won 10k from monopoly and put it all into a down payment on a house smh
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Apr 29, 2016 18:28
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Mange Mite posted:I won type 2 diabetes get out
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Apr 29, 2016 18:28
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I won "it".
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Apr 29, 2016 18:33
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Junior Jr. posted:get out Make me
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Wikipedia posted:In 2000, the US promotion was halted after fraud was uncovered. A subcontracting company called Simon Marketing (a then-subsidiary of Cyrk), which had been hired by McDonald's to organize and promote the game, failed to recognize a flaw in its procedures. Chief of security Jerome P. Jacobson[4] was able to remove the most expensive game pieces, which he then passed to associates who would redeem them and share the proceeds. The associates won almost all of the top prizes between 1995 and 2000, including McDonald's giveaways that did not have the Monopoly theme.
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Apr 29, 2016 18:37
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I have not eaten at McDonalds, but I do play the Safeway Monopoly game and haven't won poo poo.
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Apr 29, 2016 18:39
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There was that guy that worked for the company that ran the game for McDonalds and rigged it so he won everything for 6 years. He won 3 years in prison too, so I guess no one really wins Monopoly. Yeah that guy
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Inept posted:There was that guy that worked for the company that ran the game for McDonalds and rigged it so he won everything for 6 years. He won 3 years in prison too, so I guess no one really wins Monopoly. If only he had a get out of jail free card. Junior Jr. fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Apr 29, 2016 |
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Apr 29, 2016 18:43
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OctoberBlues posted:I have not eaten at McDonalds, but I do play the Safeway Monopoly game and haven't won poo poo. the odds on that one are really bad, I really don't get why they don't do substantially more $5 and $10 Safeway gift cards since that's basically weekly coupon level and small occasional wins get people disproportionately excited while not ever winning poo poo just makes people dismissive
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LGD posted:the odds on that one are really bad, I really don't get why they don't do substantially more $5 and $10 Safeway gift cards since that's basically weekly coupon level and small occasional wins get people disproportionately excited while not ever winning poo poo just makes people dismissive I just throw them away without opening them.
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