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Gordon Burditt <gordonb.rg8ml@burditt.org> wrote

>>> There's plenty of reason NOT to reply to an offer in a EULA
>>> for 'a "consideration" including money'.  Much of the same
>>> argument applies to trying to redeem a $0.50 mail-in rebate.

>> Nope, not one.

> You're going to spend $0.39 in the hope of getting a $0.50 rebate?

You aint established that that offer in the EULA costs
you a cent and it certainly paid a tad more than 50c too.

> Even if the merchant is honest, there's
> the risk of the post office fouling up,

Using that terminally silly line, you'd never do anything by post.

> and it takes much more time than it's worth.

Takes fuck all time to do what that EULA offered.

>>> Second, if they are supposed to send you money,
>>> they have to have someplace to send it, so you
>>> probably have to give out your postal address.
>>> More opportunity for marketing crap.

>> Unlikely to be the end of civilisation as you know it any time soon.

>>> If they are going to send it via Paypal, or E-Gold, or
>>> some such thing, you probably don't have an account
>>> so you have to go to the effort of setting one up.

>> And its completely trivial to do that.

> Does it take more than *ONE* mouse click?

Even 5 mouse clicks is trivial.

> You may think it's worth your time to deal with this crap.  I don't.

Like I said, mindlessly suspicious.

>>> Third, the description of what you get was vague and certainly
>>> didn't promise $1,000 to everyone who responded.  You are more
>>> likely to get a quarter or maybe even a dollar, not much more.

>> Turns out to be mindlessly suspicious again.

> It's mindlessly suspicious to expect that something offered
> as "some money" is going to be less than a few dollars?

Yep.

> Hardly, that's the way 99% of all marketing offers work.

Irrelevant when its so little effort to send the email.

>>> That may simply be not worth the trouble.

>> You can always bin it in that case.

> It's much easier to not ask for it in the first place.

Yep, and you clearly would have missed out.

>>> If someone sent you a paper check for $0.01,
>>> would you bother to cash or deposit it?

>> Nope, but its completely trivial to bin it if it isnt.

> Yes, but it's already used way more time than it's worth.

Pity about the $1K which didnt.

>>> If someone sent you an old (but not too old to cash it in
>>> if it's a winner) Texas State Lottery ticket (cost $2, pays
>>> something like $0.45 cents on the dollar in winnings) is
>>> it worth your time to look up the winning numbers?

>> That has happened to me on occasion, mostly when I
>> have refused any payment for sending a couple of CDs
>> etc to those still stuck on dialup and if you actually have
>> a clue, it doesnt take long to check the winning numbers.

>>> Oh, by the way, assume there's NOT a lot of news
>>> about how the jackpot winner still hasn't claimed it yet.

>> If you actually have a clue, it doesnt
>> take long to check the winning numbers.

> If it's more than five milliseconds, that's way too much time wasted.

Mindlessly silly. You've wasted FAR more time than that in your silly posts.