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Re:The McDonalds Monopoly Fraud (2014) by jimrandomh on Saturday November 28, 2015 @11:19PM (#10643696)
That sounds like little more than a theoretical loophole. Almost no one will pay the time and fuel cost to go to a McDonald's if they aren't going to eat anything, and McDonald's knows this.
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Re:The McDonalds Monopoly Fraud (2014) by nitwit005 on Saturday November 28, 2015 @11:34PM (#10643729)
Assuming they have to walk anywhere. People have tried rigging games like this by sending thousands of letters to the address to request entry.
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Re:The McDonalds Monopoly Fraud (2014) by oldmanjay on Saturday November 28, 2015 @11:26PM (#10643712)
Trivially, there are tremendous numbers of people who, by dint of their normal day-to-day, need expend no effort to get to McDonalds. Have you other objections that can be addressed?
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Re:The McDonalds Monopoly Fraud (2014) by jsprogrammer on Sunday November 29, 2015 @04:01AM (#10644185)
People are buying the food. The "lottery ticket" you get is just a marketing gimmick, not an actual game of chance in exchange for money.
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