Just got a flyer from an outfit in Brooklyn that invites us to a vast sale of UNCLAIMED VEHICLES!!!! Came complete with a check of $28,500 up front credit!!!! And, that's not all, when we scrtached off the scratch off patch the numbers matched!!!! WE HAVE WON!!! Maybe a brand new Mazda!!! Maybe $22,000 in cash!!! Maybe $500 in cash!!! Maybe a three day two night vacation!!!
Hmmmmm. Let's see what the fine print says here. There is an awful lot of it. The $28,500 check? "This offer is not guaranteed if you do not meet our criteria, including providing acceptable collateral." There's a whole lot more on the back of the check that becomes a contract if you endorse it. None of it has anythinbg to do with immediate no- strings credit.
Well, let's see what the flyer says. Takes some searching to find it among the garish colors and weird type faces, but there it is, buried deep like those voice-overs for poisonous over-priced drugs being hawked on TV these days. "Odds of winning $22,000 in cash or the vehicle 1:350,000. Odds of winning a 3 day/2 night vacation or $500 cash 349,999:350,000." Note the "OR" In other words you have one chance of NOT winning the $500 or vacation.
I wonder where the 3 day/2 night vacation is? Siberia, you supply the transportation?
Nonetheless, wife wants to go. She's the type that can't resist a boardwalk "auction" house in Atlantic City. The flyer shows an '04 Mercedes with the number $500. Bad vibes.