All 50,000 Scratch-Off Tickets For Car Dealership Contain Grand Prize

The CBC ^ | July 20, 2007 | Canadian Press

[UglyinLA]

Its only $50 million bucks.

I think they going to need a “going out of business” sale sign.

[Thumper1960]

That’s more like $30,000,000.

[ontap]

How you gonna check a scratch off.

[rface]

I think the bill is more like $50,000,000.00

[SeaHawkFan]

Legally speaking, this was a “mistake” and neither the dealer, nor Fprce Events will be liable for payment other than to remail the promotion with one winning ticket in the mix. This is much like a mistake in an advertisement in a sales flyer inserted in a newspaper.

[A_Tradition_Continues]

Read carefully...20K of the 50K were not sent out, hence only 30K were actually delivered. 30,000 X 1,000=30,000,000

[Allegra]

Some enterprising individual with an attorney for a relative made the dealership honor the ad.

Where'd he get the clams?

[Syberyenta]

no, reread: if they were able to stop 20K, then only 30K went out.

I read a suggestion that the dealership ‘leverage’ the prize into a $1000 price cut on a new car.

[Michael.SF.]

30 million is correct. They caught the error and prevented 20,000 mailers from going out.

[whereasandsoforth]

If the contest rules on the back of the ticket is worded as most are, this printing mistake voids the contest and no one owes anyone anything. Lawyers were involved BEFORE the idea went to the printers. Now what is left is some PR damage control.

[2111USMC]

I agree with you.

For a short time, I sold cars at a mid-to-large sized dealership.

Believe it or not, $30,000 in advertising costs ain’t that much. Probably would only cover the cost of a couple of weeks newspaper ads.

[2111USMC]

Ooops!

I did the math wrong also!

Need more coffee...

[sportscaster]

Paging Ambulance chaser John Edwards.....................

[Robert A Cook PE]

Paying off 30,000.00 (30,000 tickets x 1.00/ticket) is reasonable, and I’m sure they’d do that.

Paying 300,000.00 at 10.00 per ticket is possible.

Paying 30,000,000.00 at 1,000.00 per ticket can’t be done.

[Jemian]

There was an Andy Griffith show in which something like this happened to Goober.

[Larry Lucido]

How you gonna check a scratch off.

Scratch them all off before mailing them. Duh! :-)

[UglyinLA]

Yes, you’re right. Its only $30 million. My bad.

Hey, they save $20 million by stopping those mailers.

[ontap]

I feel so stupid that I didn’t think of that. LOL

[Iwo Jima]

Yes, you are right. I misread the numbers.

Sounds like some lawyer will make some money off of this after all. Not that it is their fault.
The dealership needs to consider offering to pay the holders of each ticket off at $10.00 with the idea being that holdouts may get nothing if they have to file bankruptcy.

[Trajan88]

Oops!