I'd sue -- Sweeepstakes winners are really the losers

[pbartch]

Sweepstakes Winners Lose Out in Newspaper Typo
1 hour, 30 minutes ago Oddly Enough - Reuters


NEW YORK (Reuters) - A glitch in a newspaper contest turned apparent $100,000 winners into losers and led hundreds of angry game-players to protest outside New York's Daily News on Monday.

The "Scratch n' Match" contest page in the newspaper's Saturday edition included the number 13 in error in a series of 10 numbers, instead of the number 12 as intended.

The "wrong" number triggered a rash of winning scratch card tickets in a contest that is set up to pay out $222,500 a week in prizes, ranging from $25 to $100,000.

People who thought they had won, but hadn't, lined up outside the newspaper's Manhattan offices on Monday demanding their money.

The paper published an apology on Sunday and again on Monday, blaming the company that runs the contest for the daily, D.L. Blair, Inc. of Garden City, N.Y., one of the largest U.S. sweepstakes companies.

"We are outraged at D.L. Blair. We are outraged on behalf of our readers," Daily News president Les Goodstein said. "We are going to fight to make sure that everyone gets a fair shake."

Goodstein said contest players using the number 13 on cards they had thought were winners were eligible to enter a lottery-type contest to divide the available prize money, as spelled out in contest rules in the event of errors.

In an apology printed in the News, D.L. Blair said it "profoundly apologizes for and regrets any inconvenience" from the printing error.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050322/od_nm/life_sweepstakes_dc_1

[GOPisEvil]

1. The Daily News should pay up, then sue DL Blair.

If they refuse to pay, they will suffer. They should use this as an opportunity to score some points with the public. If you're handed a lemon, make lemonade.

[pbartch]

3. Go to the YAHOO link and hit 5 - make this a POPULAR story

We would getting the story out there and show support for the folks who thought they won.

If I thought I won.....I'd go on a shopping spree!! What if these folks spent $$$$ they didn't actually have? Someone needs to cough up and pay!!

I would SUE the paper!

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. Too damned bad. Pay up News. I do this at the grocery store all the

time when they print those little oops notices. Truth in advertising. Proof and re proof.

[pbartch]

4. Wouldn't you hate to be one of these people -- Celebrate

take your family & friends out for a spendy CELEBRATION dinner....and the next morning when you went to get your winnings.....the paper would "Oops, Sorry....we made a mistake"


I WOULD SUE!!!

[DS1]

5. When you're that pissed off, everyone deserves a fair shake

/had to be done

[jswordy]

6. LOL --- JUST LIKE THE CONSERVATIVE RIGHTIES THE POST REPRESENTS!!!

Play our game, and you may come out ahead! Then when you do so, IT TURNS OUT EVERYBODY LOSES!

ROFL -- this sounds way too much like deja vu over and over again! Are you sure the Bush Administration isn't SOMEHOW involved?

HEHEHEHEHEHEH!!!

[jswordy]

7. I know why it sounds familiar! It's the SOCIAL SECURITY PLAN! LOL