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they win what you paid (and a small fee of course).
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If I get this right, you're proposing some method of
identifying break-even winners for the purposes of giving
gifts that won't disappoint? Noble, but completely illegal.
Just give your mom a crisp new $1 bill for her birthday
instead. |
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I didn't get it, I swear. |
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Huh? They would not need to be cherry-picked
break-even tickets from a real game, just gift cards
that look like scratch-off game tickets. |
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How, then, are they redeemable for the prize? |
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They aren't. They get what you paid, minus a small fee, of course. |
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The problem is this. What kind of miserly, thoughtless, gobshite c*nt hands out these equally purile gifts. The kind (my paternal family excluded for reasons I don't/won't go into) that doesn't want you to win. |
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With this in mind the above idea is offered as a solution. |
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I get it now. I actually think I've seen this somewhere, but
I'm not sure. Where I live, scratch tickets are common
stocking-stuffers, so this might be a big hit. [+] |
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Clever! [+] But they would have to be
indistinguishable from standard scratch cards,
while
the vendors would have to be able to distinguish
them (they'd come in differently-labeled boxes,
say). So, the vendors would substitute standard
cards for winning cards, then sell the winning
cards to a confederate, or themselves, at the
price of standard ones. |
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It seems a difficult scam to prevent: Since the
recipient of the gift believes it to be a standard
card, he/she notices nothing unusual, and the gift
giver might never learn that the card didn't pay
off. |
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<obligatory Charlie Sheen reference> Winning, Duhhh!</ocsr> |
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// But you could always drop the winnings by 20% so
they would get 80% Gift Value guaranteed plus increased
odds for a crack at a million. // |
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Now you're starting to think like a State Gaming
Commission. Congratulations, you're a robot. |
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I'll be waiting for mine + |
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// Just give your mum a crisp one dollar bill// |
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oh come on, she deserves it. |
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I like it, but for younger viewers isn't this luddite bitcoin? |
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Would be good if there was some sort of artisan exchange element. Like if you were offering, I dunno, a ukelele composition, you'd get a slightly crappier one back. |
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