Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Woooo Millionaire!!!

Well whatda know? In an event more surprising then Manchester winning the super casino thing; I myself have just won a competition. I am now the proud owner of £1,000,000.00! {One million Great Britain Pounds} .



Now you may be slightly doubtful of this at first, but I assure you its all completely kosher. Its a competition/promotion set up by The Coca Cola Company, where by 20 people win "£1000,000.00{One million Great Britain Pounds}" each. And despite never having drunk a Coca Cola in my life; they've just e-mailed me to say I've won this random promotion.



You might like me be wondering how Coca-Cola have managed to have a £20 million pound give-away promotion campaign that, I at least, have never heard of before.



But if you think about it each of us 20 lucky winners, will be telling everyone we know (See I am already), so Coca Cola still get promoted. Only thing I don't quite get is why it wasn't a promotion requiring to say, buy something of Coca-Cola's first. All my talk about my massive money fortune will only encourage people to use e-mail more, as I was actually chosen "by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031,643 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet."



In fact re-reading that it does seem a little fishy. And why exactly would Coca Cola have to join forces with the British American Tobacco group for this promotion? They're only mentioned once in the e-mail, but apparently its a joint promotion thing. I mean I've never smoked tobacco either, and I'm not aware of any obvious Smoking/ coke connection, does Coca Cola now have nicotine in? Or perhaps there's a new Coca Cola flavour cigarette. Either way, neither is mentioned in the e-mail, which if they existed would be a bit of an oversight.



I did wonder if BAT are just there for finical reasons. On the face of it Coca Cola should have no problem raising £20 million, I mean they have enough to spare to build a Prize/Promotion Award Department and name the road its on 'Coca Cola Avenue.' Unless of course that's just a happy coincidence; They were looking around for office space, and had the choice between Coca Cola Avenue and Pepsi Rules Road.



But all may not be so financially secure for Coca Cola. They may have been able to afford the re-naming of a road, but it would appear that they don't have enough for some spare e-mail addresses. The pour people running this promotion have to just use free email accounts because Coca Cola won't shill over the money for them to have @cocacola.co.uk addresses. Heck Coca cola won't even splash out for a proof reader, or even computer spell check it would seem. I'm not sure I can accept this randomly assigned prize from a company so clearly with financial difficulties.



Especially as their money situation is bound to get worse. Although the competition is meant to have had only the 20 winners, they appear to have sent it to 50 e-mail addresses. And those e-mails all begin with the same letter too... I think some idiot might have accentually contacted all 29,031,643 people telling them winners...



pfft, I'm not going to be the only fool left out, I'm sending my details to "winning_claimsagent001@yahoo.co.uk" asap. Wooo! I'm going to be a Millionaire!