Still in a state of disbelief...

[waterspyder]

*blink* *blink*

What do you mean there is no timeshare obligation, nothing to purchase, no strings and the tickets are good to be redeemed for two years?

I just won two tickets to Hawaii?

*needs to read the fine print to be sure*

Comments

[corradus.livejournal.com]

Indeed...with the fine print....*nods*

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

The "strings" are all in the voucher obtaining... I have to let a man into my home with an air purifier than he doesn't want me to buy, but they want to purify the air in my home and then I'm supposed to tel my friends about it, but since you're all broke anyhow and I am marketing woman of steel who purchases nothing on impulse, the guy is kind of out of luck.

Okay, maybe I just don't need an air purifier since neither me mor zenten have allergies... if it were a humidifier, the guy might have a swinging chance since I need one of those.

[corradus.livejournal.com]

So what do you think, is it worth the hassle for the tickets?

[oni-neko.livejournal.com]

so what are you going to do about it?

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

The guy came and went... he was upfront, asked if I was willing to spend $90/month on an air purifier, I said no, he gave me the voucher and left.

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

It's basically what I expected... I will discuss more at length with zenten

[okcismelanie.livejournal.com]

Really, tell him to come to my house....I like thoses in house sales guys anyways!! and they give out free stuff. One I got a 30 knife set with a nifty wooden holder-they all rusted before I used them but I still have the holder thing. I'll go to Hawaii! Normally you have to pay the taxes and duties for free trips like that. But hell ya wicked!!

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Did you win two tickets *from* Hawaii, too?

[oni-neko.livejournal.com]

good luck. :)

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

lol yes, round trip. But as you can imagine, it's just the tickets.

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

How did this happen? I occassionally get odd messages like that on my answering machine but I ignore them since I never enter any contests from which I could win such stuff.

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

I agreed to do a 30-second survey. They called me back to tell me I won. They dropped off the voucher today.

[firedolljamie.livejournal.com]

And mine. Do you have their phone number that we can all call them???

I answered a survey when I was a teenager about pop consumption in the household - claiming I was the 'man of the household'. They phoned back a week later and offered to give this funky demonstration of a water carbonizer - the gimmick was to buy Coke in syrup form and make the pop for 'just pennies a glass'. Mom didn't buy it, but I had fun. It mighta happened if it didn't make an annoyingly obnoxious whistle noise every time you pushed the button (3 times / glass of pop).

I think this whole genre of compulsion is loosely related to the infomercial junky'ism of which I am a huge proponent. Except for the alumninum siding guys....hate them!