Re:Georgia teacher read the fine print and won $13K (2019)
by wccrawford on Friday December 24, 2021 @07:40PM
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Also, if I read that, I would assume that figuring out where I needed to go and actually taking time to do that would end up in nothing, so I wouldn't bother. I wouldn't expect to get rich off it, and the chance at (apparently) $50 wouldn't excite me enough for me to waste my time on it.
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Re:Georgia teacher read the fine print and won $13K (2019)
by dlhavema on Saturday December 25, 2021 @01:04AM
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When i was in college, a chance at say 50$ would totally tempt me to spend a few hours hunting around campus ( Arizona State Uni for me ), i made ~$8 an hour at the time
Re:Georgia teacher read the fine print and won $13K (2019)
by Frondo on Saturday December 25, 2021 @05:48PM
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Sure, it could be a fun thing to do (I'd have done a little treasure hunt for $50, too), but the professor's syllabus doesn't say it's $50 at all. "Free to the first who claims" -- claims what? free what? It isn't even a complete sentence, in the middle of boilerplate that's if anything exceedingly verbose. It doesn't parse like meaningful instructions. That's why I think it's a hokey gotcha, and not an actual sign of "people don't read instructions" (which we all instinctively know anyway??)