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Mars, Inc. promotes dumpster-diving
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That's right, folks. The message on the outside of the new Skittles package with the Shrek contest reads "No purchase necessary. Winning wrapper required to claim prize. Prizes may vary from models shown. Details on back."
The back helps a little - it says you can send away for a game piece. They must do this so it's technically not gambling, that is, you pay for a chance to win.
The problem remains, however, that the person who gets a game piece (visible on the inside of the wrapper, along with a whole lot of text which I'm too tired to read now) does NOT have a wrapper with which to win the big bucks.
Sooooooooo, the only way for someone religiously denied the option to play games of chance to win this promotion is to go rooting through garbage. Wonderful.
Oh rats - I just read the thing again, and it seems that game pieces are not transferrable. Fascists.
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Actual conversation between UCLA and Stanford during a login on early Internet - U: I'm going to type an L! Did you get an L? S: I got one-one-four. L! U:Did you get the O? S: One-one-seven. U: <types G> S: The computer just crashed.
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Err, if people are religiously disinclined/forbidden to "play games", as you say... tough ****?
Pick a new religion. 
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Um, I'm pretty sure that if you sent in for a game piece, and it was the winning one, that you would be able to get your prize. I think that it's required by law. Therefore, it's time to somebody set up us the bomb:
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Posting Junkie
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All games in the US must offer an alternative to purchasing the product.
AKA a mail in option. The same was true for the iPod promos for the 100,000,000th iTMS download...
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Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
All games in the US must offer an alternative to purchasing the product.
Only sweepstakes.
Companies can charge for contests when skill is required to win.
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I had a roommate in college that used to dumpster dive.
For women.
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Originally posted by Zimphire:
I had a roommate in college that used to dumpster dive.
For women.
I'm sure, a woman who is impressed by a guy who dumpster dives can not be far from being trash herself...
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Originally posted by scaught:
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I object.
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Originally posted by gorickey:
I object.
Don't you have batting practice or something to occupy yourself with?
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Originally posted by turtle777:
I'm sure, a woman who is impressed by a guy who dumpster dives can not be far from being trash herself...
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Huh? That was the point.
If you go dumpster diving for women, that means you are searching for trashy women.
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