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Originally Posted by woj
hmm, I don't get it, so you mailed 5k envelopes at ~40 cents each that's $2k.
You invested $2k in a McDonalds contest? And in any other state it would be $4k. What am I missing here?
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You only have to put a stamp on the envelope you use to send the SAE (which is inside of the enevelope you send, an envelope within an enevelope) to MCD. The SAE inside is addressed to the mail drop in Vermont (Cost: $60 for 3 months, plus postage to forward boxes of mail) and so it dosent need a stamp.
When each SAE came back, it had a free game piece in it. The game piece was guranteed to be a winner of at least a $1 gift certificate (Best Buy Buck) to be used at Best Buy, and about 30% of them were worth $3 each. The "money" was made when you went to Best Buy, bought shit that had big mail in rebates on them (like hard drives and APC BackUPS units) and sent them in. The checks came AND you got a bunch of merchandise. Only thing that sucked was a rule you couldnt redeem more than $300 in BBBs in the same day, so no HDTVs and stuff. The plan was orginally to eBay all the stuff and cash the rebate checks, but we eneded up liking the crap we got too much and kept it all.
That dosent even account for the other little stamps that were sometimes winners of free food or other crap. We didnt win any of the real prizes, although I figured with that many we'd at least pick up an iPOD or something. Didnt happen.
In summary: Each request costed $0.37 for a stamp (this was done pre-rate hike, mind you), the cost of two envelopes (boxes of 500 Office Depot store brand, $6 a box) and the time to address (we both had lots of time on our hands then, so time wasnt an issue) and was guranteed to be worth at least $1 in free shit at Best Buy.