Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:aeq From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: another sweepstakes Message-ID: <558@pucc-h> Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 15:03:50 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-h.558 Posted: Fri Feb 24 15:03:50 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Feb-84 07:56:08 EST Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 32 I received a postcard from the "Prize Headquarters" of a firm I know I've heard of in some connection--Carter & Van Peel. Text follows: Congratulations.... You have won a prize in the Carter & Van Peel $25,000.00 publicity sweepstakes. Return this card at once to claim your prize. There is no entry fee. Nothing to buy. The prize you have won is already yours. Please enclose $1 to cover the cost of processing your name and mailing your award notification to you. This $1 is voluntary. You do not have to send it, but we would appreciate it. Your official award notification will arrive within the next few days to tell you what your prize is and how to collect it. Mail this card with your name and address and $1 to . You must claim your prize before March 9, 1984. Unclaimed prizes will not be awarded. Return this card promptly. --- End of text I always distrust such things. If it's a publicity sweepstakes, will there not be pressure from them to buy some product of theirs? How in the world did they get my name for their mailing list? Why should I pay $1 for a cut in only $25000, i.e. for what is likely to be quite a small prize? Anyone else had any experience with this bunch? -- -- Jeff Sargent {allegra|ihnp4|decvax|harpo|seismo|teklabs|ucbvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h:aeq ...drifting along with the tumbling terminals....