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>>> Because hardly anyone does. To prove that point, PC Pitstop included
>>> a clause in one of its own EULAs that promised anyone who read it, a
>>> "consideration" including money if they sent a note to an email
>>> address listed in the EULA. After four months and more than 3,000
>>> downloads, one person finally wrote in. That person, by the way, got
>>> a check for $1,000 proving, at least for one person, that it really
>>> does pay to read EULAs."
>>>
>>> [...more]
>>
>> Even if I read the clause about getting money for replying I wouldn't
>> do it. I'm just too suspicious.
>
>Clearly that is mindlessly suspicious. 

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.

First, spammers like to collect and SPAM email addresses, and you
don't know this guy isn't a spammer or won't sell your email address
to spammers.

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.  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.

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.  That
may simply be not worth the trouble.  If someone sent you a paper
check for $0.01, would you bother to cash or deposit it?

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

					Gordon L. Burditt