Apparently there's a Squishmallows sweepstakes that anyone in the U.S. 13yo+ can enter. So naturally I looked into the fine print & was just as disgusted as I always am with companies:
You can enter for free online OR free by mail via postcard, but if you enter via either of these methods, you can only enter once & you can't ever enter via purchase of their collectors cards. MEANING that if you take your 'free entry', & (like most people will do) later enter in a code from their collectors cards (because naturally you'd like some extra entries) you're seen as 'falsifying entries & violating the rules' --- so any earlier entries are automatically disqualified.
What this ends up as is youre automatically disqualified if you a) take your free entry first & later try to get another entry by ANY method or b) you pour hundreds of dollars into their shitty cards while entering dozens of codes & then at any point take that free entry.
Whereas if you pour scores/hundreds of dollars of your money into their shitty trading cards, & never touch that free entry, you stay in the contest the entire time. So effectively NO ONE who takes that free entry will ever win, only the people who buy their way to the prize squish have a chance.
But of course, they're not going to tell anyone that.
& Just in case you think 'Well there's still a chance if I buy my way in, especially if so many people are disqualified!', yeah think again. There's 250 possible winners between now & October of next year, via 250 winning codes in their shitty card packs. Ya know how many packs with codes are going to be circulating?
2.5 million. So your chances of winning even if you purely buy your way in are 1 in 10000
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