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Gordon Burditt <gordonb.gr610@burditt.org> wrote

>>>> 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."

>>> 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.

Nope, not one.

> First, spammers like to collect and SPAM email addresses,

Mindlessly suspicious and if you are that mindlessly
paranoid, you can always use a one use email.

> and you don't know this guy isn't a spammer or
> won't sell your email address to spammers.

Mindlessly suspicious and if you are that mindlessly
paranoid, you can always use a one use email.

> 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.

> 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.

> That may simply be not worth the trouble.

You can always bin it in that case.

> 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.

> 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.