Free Fill-Up in Madison, WI, This Summer

 "Plan your perfect escape this summer to Madison[, WI]!  Use the
Travelocity booking engine in the right side column of our website to
book your hotel room before June 28th and you will receive a $10 PDQ
Gas Card (while supplies last)."

o Greater Madison Convention & Visitor Bureau. "Packages & Specials:
Madison Summer Escape." 29 May 2009
<http://www.visitmadison.com/visitors/
stay/packages%2Dand%2Dspecials/>.

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.. Be Seeing You,
.. Chuck Rhode, Sheboygan, WI, USA
.. Weather:  http://LacusVeris.com/WX
.. 60° — Wind NNW 14 mph — Sky partly cloudy.

 Chuck Rhode wrote:


"To qualify for actual 'Fill-Up' you must ride a Sportster with
'Peanut Tank.'"

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   -Friends don't let friends drive Windows

 
Thanks for the thought.  There are a number of problems.

I have exposure to various surveys and so on all the time where they want me
to complete a survey and as a result "be entered in a raflle to win
$10,000".  Well, that has no value.  If I knew that the raffle would be
conducted and the prize would be awarded, there is some value there ($10,000
/ N).  But nothing that I'm aware of would prevent a survey-taking company
from promising that I'd be entered in a raffle and then simply not
conducting the raffle.  That is quite hard to verify.

My stance has always been "I need the check in my hand, then we'll do the
survey".

The problems are:

a)$10 is not enough to deal with the complexity of using a gas card at a
specific location.

b)There is actually no guarantee that ANYONE gets a gas card.  The clause
"while supplies last" is just an invitation to advise EVERYONE booking their
vacation that all the gas cards have already been distributed.

c)There may not be an adequate selection of fat chicks in Wisconsin to suit
my tastes.

Feel free to forward my reply to the Madison Convention & Visitor Bureau.
Tell them that as soon as the gas card actually arrives in my P.O. box, we
can talk about the Wisconsin vacation.

A "while supplies last" offer has no value.  It is an invitation for fraud.

Datesfat

 On Fri, 29 May 2009 14:37:23 -0400, Datesfat Chicks wrote:


PDQ is a chain of convenience marts.


... so cancel the reservation if the card doesn't arrive.  You get to
tell the hotel that PDQ welched on their part of the deal.


The odds are better than even that the bimbo who thought up this
promotion for Madison COC was one.

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.. Be Seeing You,
.. Chuck Rhode, Sheboygan, WI, USA
.. Weather:  http://LacusVeris.com/WX
.. 59° — Wind WNW 6 mph — Sky mostly cloudy. Light rain.