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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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I was going to post this but see it's already been
suggested. |
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It's a great idea because it would be a lot more
exciting to get a lottery ticket that you found was
worth $100 than getting $100 I'd think. |
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One the recipient saw the look on the giver's face
and said "Heyyy, did you just pre-pay this?" the
excitement will have already been enjoyed. |
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I wish giftticket.com would offer anonymous gifts as an
option. I would want the recipient to truly believe that they
just got lucky. |
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If the lottery companies were smart they'd offer these in an
envelope that clearly states is a guaranteed winner, but when
you remove that envelope it looks like any other lottery
ticket. Then you buy a few more, put this one in, there you
go. The person gets all the excitement and never knows. |
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This wouldn't be a bad way of laundering money. You could
spend your $100 dirty money on winning scratch cards,
redeem the $100 and claim you won the $100 from a regular
$1 scratch card. |
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I think the feds would probably catch onto that
pretty fast. Best money laundering plan I've ever
seen is the
one that explains modern art.
Not good stuff
like
Dali or Escher, garbage like Jackson Pollock or
Andy Warhol. |
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1- Buy a bunch of splatters on canvas for a million
dollars. |
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2- Sell it to an undisclosed buyer for 10 million,
because... art. |
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You can also do fun stuff like buy a bunch of skid
marks on canvas for a million bucks, pay an
"appraiser"
who tells you it's now worth ten
million, donate it to a museum for the tax write-
off. |
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So next time you look at a piece of garbage that
you're told you "just don't understand" now you
know the truth behind it. |
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Fun part is, they depend on the "Emperor's new
clothes" effect to have people not call this out.
"Oh yea, I can see the hidden beauty of a bunch of
splatters on canvas, can't you prole?" It's actually
pretty brilliant. |
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And yes, there's some of the bitcoin factor in
worth being assigned to worthless stuff just on the
hope that there's a
greater idiot down the
road
that will pay more, but the money laundering
ability of these things gives this stuff actual
utility that translates into market value,
something
that crypto currency
doesn't have. |
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