(One) Definition for the "Cynic":
- someone who is critical of the motives of others.
I was reminded of this while I got lunch today.
TB was nice enough to not print their "survey" on the back of the receipt. Instead they made the extra effort to print it on a separate piece of paper, and include it stealthily all ninja-like in with my napkins, either as a "SURPRISE! You could be this week's winner to be awarded $1000,... from this uber-cheap-ass fast food establishment, where it'll take a year for our employees to save up $3000 themselves, just for visiting this website or call (888) 731-9645 and take a survey, for which we either explicitly tell you the survey is anonymous or hope you don't notice you aren't given any form of receipt or ref number to claim any prize (and hence hope you don't realize that even IF we WERE to give away ANY money, we'd have no way of locating, let alone determine the identity of the winner). Enjoy your taco!",...
*letting all that sink in for a moment...*
... OR as a nice "Hope you enjoyed the taco, here's a surprise paper-cut while you dab the grease from your mouth."
Maybe it's just the cynic in me talking, but something tells me that no REAL person ever was awarded that prize.
If your bored, you can see this BS for yourself.
If you don't know of a valid TB store number, use 001738.
It's the one for Novi, MI on Grand River.
Fill the survey with whatever info you want (it doesn't matter anyways) and you'll note that at the end of the survey no contact information is collected, nor is a survey reference number given for you to tell if you were a winner.
Additionally, in the Official Sweepstakes Rules, under the Winner Selection section, they state "No one will know who the winner is until after the weekly random selection."
I think by " until after the weekly random selection." they actually mean "". (nothing)
Also, the WayBackMachine's archive of the winner's page is quite interesting.
Apparently Yum decided somewhere down the line that the winner's full last name was WAY too much information to be posting.
Also it seems that Yum decided it had the wrong date logged for all of these "winners", since most of the dates posted change from archive to archive.
Articles:
Whimper! *Sits patiently at door, waiting to go outside.*
toothpastefordinner.com
