PayPal does it's own raffle

I'm not trying to reopen a can of worms again, but I thought the irony of this was too much and I just had to share. Especially after Paypal shut down the CPF raffle. Although I do want to say that I readily admit that it did seem to be justified based on their rules.

I had to laugh when I recieved an advertisement from Paypal this morning. Their rules don't allow ticket purchases for a chance to win a prize But when it serves their purposes, they'll ask you to make other purchases for a chance to win a prize. :thinking: I know the situations aren't exactly the same, but the similarity and timing was just too coincidental. I had to post it.

Here's an edited version; sorry, but I couldn't figure out how to copy the e-mail as a single picture and when I did a straight copy and past it was too wide for CPF. So I deleted the extraneous stuff which was causing the side scrolling.

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Hello, Donald Shockley [/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]August 2007[/FONT]






Play for a chance to win $10,000 in cash or cool prizes, such as an Apple MacBook Pro or Sony PlayStation 3*.

I hear ya' Don! WOW!

Except that the very first thing in their "Official Rules" is "no purchase necessary."

TigerhawkT3 said:

Except that the very first thing in their "Official Rules" is "no purchase necessary."

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I know that it's not the exact same situation.

DonShock said:

I'm not trying to reopen a can of worms again, .......I know the situations aren't exactly the same, but the similarity and timing was just too coincidental. I had to post it.......

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DonShock said:

I'm not trying to reopen a can of worms again

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Close the can. The place still stinks to "high heaven" from the first can of (nightcrawler) worms.