I actually used to buy magazines from them, thinking that it would improve my chances. Now I just throw the money away on lottery tickets, and save having to put the old magazines out for recycling.
Actually, there are laws that require the prizes be real, and that they send out a notice telling everyone that buying anything does not improve your chances. BTW, for PCH, since you can enter online, you don’t even have the cost of the stamp. For Reader’s Digest, you may or may not have postage to pay (sometimes they send you a business reply card or envelope), but their offers often come with an offer of a free sample from a book or recording set. You do then have to write them a cancel order to keep from being sent any more, but you can figure that the cost of that stamp is all you are paying for the otherwise free sample product and that the sweepstakes entry is cost-free except for your time and effort.
With either company (I don’t have personal experience with any others, but the basic principles are similar), your chances of actually winning anything are infinitesimal but if you can enter any contest for free (at least monetarily speaking), then I figure why not. If enough people enter without ordering anything, then they’ll probably quit offering the prizes, because they can no longer afford it, but that is their business decision to make. Regardless, there are very strict laws that they have to conform to if they do hold sweepstakes.
that’s why we’re in your capsule, bud. flyin’ high. right there with ya. hey, skylab is down-to-earth, and you can be too ’cause we still think you really are that millionaire-to-be.after we check our files again, just to be sure
bluskies almost 12 years ago
Truth in advertising? What a novel concept!
DrMoses almost 12 years ago
Yes, Ziggy is already a WINNER!
thirdguy almost 12 years ago
I actually used to buy magazines from them, thinking that it would improve my chances. Now I just throw the money away on lottery tickets, and save having to put the old magazines out for recycling.
Vontese almost 12 years ago
Daaaang! That’s messed up.
Gigantor almost 12 years ago
“You may already be a winner. But don’t count on it, loser.”
Zaristerex almost 12 years ago
One of my “already a winner” letters that I recently got included a car key. You have to go to the car lot, and if your key fits, you win a car.
gocomicsmember almost 12 years ago
Actually, there are laws that require the prizes be real, and that they send out a notice telling everyone that buying anything does not improve your chances. BTW, for PCH, since you can enter online, you don’t even have the cost of the stamp. For Reader’s Digest, you may or may not have postage to pay (sometimes they send you a business reply card or envelope), but their offers often come with an offer of a free sample from a book or recording set. You do then have to write them a cancel order to keep from being sent any more, but you can figure that the cost of that stamp is all you are paying for the otherwise free sample product and that the sweepstakes entry is cost-free except for your time and effort.
With either company (I don’t have personal experience with any others, but the basic principles are similar), your chances of actually winning anything are infinitesimal but if you can enter any contest for free (at least monetarily speaking), then I figure why not. If enough people enter without ordering anything, then they’ll probably quit offering the prizes, because they can no longer afford it, but that is their business decision to make. Regardless, there are very strict laws that they have to conform to if they do hold sweepstakes.
REDROCKER51 almost 12 years ago
i won my wife in a raffle….and they won’t take it back…..
comicnut4636 almost 12 years ago
Odds of winning: 1 in 548,269,754,361,901!!!!
(Approximately, depending on number of entries received.)
revisages almost 12 years ago
that’s why we’re in your capsule, bud. flyin’ high. right there with ya. hey, skylab is down-to-earth, and you can be too ’cause we still think you really are that millionaire-to-be.after we check our files again, just to be sure
cloudblue almost 12 years ago
one day you open a letter and you a winner, hahaha!
cloudblue almost 12 years ago
GOOOD LUCK HOPE U A Wnr.