McDonald's Monopoly was rigged?
Also, a few years ago, they started making the rare pieces the same from one game to the next. I assume it's to prevent someone from combining pieces from different games and claiming a win, although all of the "rare" pieces now have phone numbers on them to call for the instructions on how to claim the prize. (Before then, a winner had to go to a McDonald's and ask for a redemption envelope; there was one color for prizes under $500, and one for $500 and over. It never occurred to anyone that having someone go into a restaurant where quite a few of the people there are working for minimum wage and advertising that they had just come into a lot of money was not a bright idea.)
And no one squealed for a decade
But on another thread about shufflers with beast mode setting the common agreement is no conspiracy of that size would either be possible or last long
Quote: ThatDonGuyLittle-known fact: when the St. Jude's ticket was announced, McDonald's replied, "Technically, we can't award the prize to St. Jude's as there's a rule against transferring game pieces. However, since nobody is going to win that million dollars anyway, we will donate one million dollars to St. Jude's." Of course, with the latter, McDonald's could write it off as a charitable expense.
They would be writing off the expense either way, the tax implications are a net zero difference. From a legal standpoint though, I can see why they would do it that way.
Pepsi had a game back in the 1980s where you had to spell "Pepsi Spirit" to win I forget how much, maybe $5,000 then. In some areas they held back the "E" and in others the "T." It was bottler by bottler, and you could not use "foreign" letters. One guy sent his mother a short letter and got upset when her bottler would not cash it.
Later they had a "name game" where you spelled your last name and got $5 per letter, vowels held back. People sold them in pennysaver papers for $5-10. I think I got $10 for selling a couple. Word was some guy had some weird Asian name with no vowels and tried to clean up as there was no limit, but they tried to and IIRC did stiff him.
I would definitely watch this.Quote: ams288Somebody needs to get the movie rights for this story to Martin Scorsese, ASAP.
Yeah I ended up reading that entire story, and it was a great story. I always thought the McDonald's games were rigged, as I'm sure others had the same feelings, but I was like "why didn't anything ever come of this?" but the article explained why... Great read and would recommend.
"Got any tickets?" - lol at least the guy's got a sense of humor.
I liked the pepsi promotion back in the 80s, when you opened a bottle(glass back then), they had cash values you won. It would just say 25c or 50c, and you would get the money for them.Quote: AZDuffmanThey would be writing off the expense either way, the tax implications are a net zero difference. From a legal standpoint though, I can see why they would do it that way.
Pepsi had a game back in the 1980s where you had to spell "Pepsi Spirit" to win I forget how much, maybe $5,000 then. In some areas they held back the "E" and in others the "T." It was bottler by bottler, and you could not use "foreign" letters. One guy sent his mother a short letter and got upset when her bottler would not cash it.
Later they had a "name game" where you spelled your last name and got $5 per letter, vowels held back. People sold them in pennysaver papers for $5-10. I think I got $10 for selling a couple. Word was some guy had some weird Asian name with no vowels and tried to clean up as there was no limit, but they tried to and IIRC did stiff him.
Quote: onenickelmiracleWhat concerns me about the game and the scandal, seems like after it was revealed it was rigged, the big prizes seemed to not be as valuable. I remember the green ones being for things like a dream house worth $250,000-$400,000(something like that), then later seeing it was $25,000 or something. I don't know if the number of prizes increased or not. Seems odd if not true, for the company to be giving less when it wasn't rigged. I also wonder how the company went from giving free cards to placing them on certain items. Obviously they require a purchase, they have a costly mail in method to get free game pieces, but before that, they didn't. Things like this, you wonder why they changed, were regulations changed to allow them a better method from their perspective, or did the company just become less fearful of regulators during this time.
I remember that dream house promo, too.
However, the last year I was really paying attention, and they had the smaller value prizes, they had gone from 2 $1M prizes to 10 of them. So maybe they budgeted to the big prizes at the expense of the medium one.
The year we really chased it was 2007 or 2008. A group of us were making chow runs there a couple times a day and sharing all the tickets. We didn't get any decent prizes, but we JUUUUUST missed one, because a couple hours before I went by one night, the national prize patrol had been to MY McDs and handed someone in line an instant million.
Quote: ams288Somebody needs to get the movie rights for this story to Martin Scorsese, ASAP.
McRob (McRibb), The Real Hamburglar, Shamburglar, Scamburglar
Quote: rxwineMcRob (McRibb), The Real Hamburglar, Shamburglar, Scamburglar
The Big Hack, Clowned, McNopolized, What a Kroc!
Quote: rxwineMcRob (McRibb), The Real Hamburglar, Shamburglar, Scamburglar
I'll have the McRip with the Off sauce and just a side of high cholesterol.Quote: KeeneoneThe Big Hack, Clowned, McNopolized, What a Kroc!
Quote: onenickelmiracleI liked the pepsi promotion back in the 80s, when you opened a bottle(glass back then), they had cash values you won. It would just say 25c or 50c, and you would get the money for them.
At first you had to peel the liner off which was not easy. As a kid the $.25 seemed a big win. I never saw more than $.50.
Quote: NathanI was wondering why I haven't seen the McDonald's Monopoly game in a couple of years now. :/ Their free food such as free McFlurry and free French fries were the bee's knees. :)
The fraud has nothing to do with not playing the game in 2017 - or in 2015, for that matter. Also note that in the 2016 game, at least in the USA, all of the non-food prizes were cash.
I think they skipped it last year to concentrate on rolling out the new $1/2/3 value menu and the new "chicken selects," although they "sort of" had a lottery last year; being able to get the limited supply Szechuan sauce, almost certainly riding the publicity from Rick & Morty, and then making a quick profit on eBay.
Buy them by the dozen. Feed the homeless.
$3.79 for a Big Mac and a MacCoin. Sell on eBay for a quick profit or wait until the exchanges explode.
𝐁𝐔𝐘𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐄𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐄
Only 1 layer of security over a mult[-million dollar value in that part of the chain of custody. The officer achieved that breach going into the bathroom where the auditor couldn't observe.
There should be multiple layers along every part of the whole chain. I didn't notice whether they sued the bajesus out of that company for negligence, but seems they should of.
Quote: rxwineIf you were to do a very simple analysis over that company that was running the Mcdonald's monopoly game, you can see it only required a breach between the officer and his 1 auditor.
Only 1 layer of security over a mult[-million dollar value in that part of the chain of custody. The officer achieved that breach going into the bathroom where the auditor couldn't observe.
There should be multiple layers along every part of the whole chain. I didn't notice whether they sued the bajesus out of that company for negligence, but seems they should of.
Reminds me of the Sochi Olympics
Urine samples stored in a locked secure room.
KGB drill a hole in the wall.
Person slips dirty urine to KGB through the hole, KGB gives back clean urine through the hole
Russia has best winter Olympics ever
Icarus documentary on Netflix exposes all this
Quote: rxwineIf you were to do a very simple analysis over that company that was running the Mcdonald's monopoly game, you can see it only required a breach between the officer and his 1 auditor.
Only 1 layer of security over a mult[-million dollar value in that part of the chain of custody. The officer achieved that breach going into the bathroom where the auditor couldn't observe.
There should be multiple layers along every part of the whole chain. I didn't notice whether they sued the bajesus out of that company for negligence, but seems they should of.
Yes at end of article it says company went bankrupt from this scandal
Makes me think of that cop taking a complaint: Diogenes filing a stolen lamp report.
Quote: ams288Somebody needs to get the movie rights for this story to Martin Scorsese, ASAP.
Well, that was fast.
The film rights have been snatched up.
It's not Martin Scorsese who will be directing (sadly), but Ben Affleck. Matt Damon will likely star.
Quote: ams288Well, that was fast.
It's not Martin Scorsese who will be directing (sadly), but Ben Affleck. Matt Damon will likely star.
hahaha!
