Xero’s Rant of the Moment
8:48 PM - July 24th, 2006
Instant Winners
I remember a time when you could open up a bottle of soda and look under the cap with anticipation and bated breath. To see if you had the fortunate timing and immense luck needed to win anything from a free soda to a new car. Or a time when you could go to a McDonalds and peel off a sticker and right there see if you had won something! When you could say “I’ve just won a free ice cream” and instantly redeem your frozen delicious prize.
But these days, it’s all gone. There are no more instant winners. Today’s contests involve codes and entries. Always requiring you to go online and enter the code from under your cap. Not only is the thrill of possibly being a winner completely gone, but it’s come to the point, where I don’t even care about the contests anymore. The act of entering said codes online is more than I wish to do for the slim chance of winning a motorcycle.
So please, companies, bring back the thrill. The fun! Bring back the chance for me to be an instant winner.
July 24th, 2006 at 10:51 pm
strongly agreed. i did this code thing for maybe once in the past. then i start saving the caps up and think “i’ll get this done later” because the yahoo stuff requires you to login and all that crap. eventually they expired and i threw them all away. since then i don’t do that stuff anymore. i probably threw away a cap with my new car at some point but i don’t really care.
August 1st, 2006 at 12:56 pm
i think they want more ad revenue by having you look on the website.