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A lot of these "guaranteed gift" promotions also use a clever little
trick.  They may advertize that you are guaranteed to win one of these
four gifts, including a "hawaii vacation" or some such vacation.  But,
they don't say "a trip to hawaii".  Instead, what you win in this case is 
a certificate worth a few nights in a sleazy motel, with NO TRANSPORTATION.
Look very carefully again at the promotional material and see if they
are advertizing a "trip" or a "vacation".  They can easily give away
one car, two wide-screen tv's, and 5,000 useless certificates to sell off
their condos, and the 5,000 certificate winners have ended up wasting a lot
of time.

Ask yourself...  Why do they need to try so hard to sell these condos?
If they were something good, wouldn't they have customers coming to them
instead of them bribing potential customers?

There's no such thing as a free lunch...

Brian Kell, California native
Department of Computer Science
The University at Albany / State University of New York
brian@isadora.albany.edu