If you've visited a Mickey D's recently, you might've noticed that they have on the back of some of their receipts a notice of a survey you can fill out at www.mcdonalds-survey.com. The main headline says to "complete our survey for a chance to win a Weekly Prize of $1,000 or 1 of 6 Weekly 25 McDonald's Arch Cards or $25 McDonald's Gift Certificate". I was bored so I continued reading some of the finer print, and this is where it got interesting. Some of the wording is quite interesting, including things such as:"Completing the survey will not increase your chances of winning."
Oh really? That's not what it says in the bold print. How are you supposed to win if you don't fill out the survey, huh geniuses? I'm pretty sure if you don't fill it out, your odds of winning are 0%...it doesn't take much to be higher than that.
"In order to win, a Canadian must correctly answer a skill testing question."
This one's my favorite. Notice it doesn't say in order for a Canadian to win, it just says "in order to win". So what happens if you are drawn, do they contact you and ask you if you have a Canadian that's ready and willing to answer a question? What if you don't? "Oh sorry, all the Canadians I know aren't available right now." "Oh, that's unfortunate, I guess we will try someone else. Thanks for participating!" What is interesting is that the online rules state that "If a potential winner is an eligible Canadian resident, such potential Canadian winner will be required by law to correctly answer a mathematical skill-testing question". So why don't the rules on the receipt say that? Either way though, it's kind of lame that dumb Canadians can't win stuff. I think that's awfully discriminatory.
Just for fun, I took the survey, so I'll know in a month if I need to find a Canadian so I can win some money.
