LAST EDITED ON 07-08-08 AT 09:21 AM (EST)There is a similar flap up here, although the outcry is limited to a few rogue message boards dedicated to getting stuff for free.
There's this contest that Nestle is running called the Blue Freezer Quest. There are four Nestle blue freezers hidden in Canada, and each day or two, a new clue is posted on the website. The first person who guesses the correct location of the freezer wins $25K. For each guess you need a new PIN, found on the inside wrapper of the Drumstick.
The first two freezers have been found and we are now working on the third.
The problem is that some people suspect that Nestle is holding back on announcing that freezers are being found, so that people will continue buying their Drumsticks and wasting PINs on guesses that are futile, since the freezer has already been found.
Their are five fields on the guessing page. They are province, city, street, place, and location. The first freezer was Ontario, Toronto, Jane Street, Canada's Wonderland, at the front of the line of the new Behemoth ride.
You can see that the location is very specific.
For the first four fields, you get immediate feedback. It will say correct or incorrect next to each of these fields. If they are all correct, you apparently get something saying "you may be a winner and someone will call you within four days if you are the first person to have guessed correctly." So a bunch of people got this message and thought they won, but then they didn't hear anything for four days. Meanwhile, they noticed on the website that the contest was still open and it appeared that the freezer was still up for grabs.
Then, they announced who won and what the correct guess was. Lots of people are ticked off because they guessed "Behemoth ride" or "in line at Behemoth" or "on Behemoth" and weren't told that they were incorrect or not specific enough so that they could keep guessing.
This all happened again with the second freezer which was found after only three clues in Victoria BC on Government Street, buried in the time capsule under the gates to Chinatown. (There are two time capsules and you had to be specific as to which one.)
So, Nestle let people buy Drumsticks and plug in the PINS when the $25K was already won -- twice.
The next freezer is in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I can't nail down a street, but it's probably already been won. I am sofa king sick of Drumsticks.
I wouldn't be surprised if this 'Merican lottery uproar doesn't nudge some of these angry Blue Freezer people toward the media.
Perpetual *headbutt* compliments of Rolly.
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