Business accidentally promises 10 free ATVs
September 19, 2007 11:47 AM   Subscribe

A retailer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi attempted to give away a new ATV to one lucky customer using a "draw the key" contest. "We don't know (how it happened)," Store owner Larry Myatt said. "It was supposed to be nine (keys) that wouldn't crank the engine and then one that would."
posted by marklyon (7 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: This is kind of a non-story. Local-news-of-the-weird articles aren't generally great post material. -- cortex



 
The person who is complaining must never have been told "no" as a child. Life isn't fair, deal with it. They had one ATV, and that's it.
posted by SansPoint at 11:52 AM on September 19, 2007


Entitlement issues. Seriously.
posted by GrammarMoses at 11:54 AM on September 19, 2007


Why didn't the store owner test the keys out before the contest?
posted by cmonkey at 11:59 AM on September 19, 2007


So the key guy mixed up which ikey was to be copied.

This is so much better than the LOLLERDERBY post!
posted by dhartung at 12:00 PM on September 19, 2007


Why didn't they stop after the first guy "won"?
posted by Gungho at 12:02 PM on September 19, 2007


The woman complaining does have a point. The contest rules apparently stated that the person whose key opened the ATV would win it, so she has a claim. The manager screwed up and should have just given away 10 ATVs or divided the amount of money one ATV costs by ten and split it among all the contestants.
posted by cmgonzalez at 12:07 PM on September 19, 2007


Why didn't they stop after the first guy "won"?

Exactly!
posted by brautigan at 12:08 PM on September 19, 2007


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