Clear Channel - Mix 106.5 contest rip-off, fraudulent practice San Antonio Texas

In June of 2004 I entered a Clear Channel contest through a website for Mix 106.5 out of Cleveland, Ohio.

The contest was for a $250,000 home makeover. A few days before the winner was to be announced I e-mailed 106.5 to find out when they would announcing the winner.

Approximately, 2 days later a friend of my husband's called and said "you won the home makeover contest, look at the Mix 106.5 website."

I logged on and went into their nationwide website and on the home page it read "Congratulations to Lori Malames, the winner of our $250,000 home makeover.

I called everyone that I knew and they logged into the computer as well and saw that I had one. I proceeded to print the web page off for a keepsake.

My husband and I started making plans for the makeover and we celebrated we called all our friends.

I called the radio station, Mix 106.5 to claim my prize. They told me they were still verifying that I was the right Lori Malames.

An hour later, they called back and said that I was not the winner, that there was a computer glitch and someone else had won the prize.

I went back on the website to find that they had removed my name and replaced with another. Her name is Erin Williams. I will never forget that name as long as I live.

I contacted Clear Channel, since they own Mix 106.5 radio station. They again told me that there was a computer glitch and I was not the winner.

A week later I recieved a package from them with dinner coupons and amuzement park tickets. I have never used them nor will I ever.

I was sick for 2 weeks. I finally contacted an attorney who worked on the case for about 1 year and told me that Clear Channel had too many lawyers to fight.

I believe if it would of went to court and I would have had a jury trial, they would have found in my favor.

I feel cheated and decieved and do not believe they should be able to get away with doing this to people.

They tried to tell me that I was not announced on the radio station for people to hear so they would not honor my prize.

However, my name was posted on their Web-site for a day and 1/2 showing that I was the winner. In my opinion, things in writing should be considered more powerful then the spoken word.

I think I should be awarded the prize since I was announced as the winner.

I have all the documents from that day in my possession as well as all the correspondence from the attorney's and the dinner passes and amuzement park tickets, unused.

I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me. To this day, this situation still haunts me. I believe they deserve to pay up when they run a contest and announce a winner.

Lori
Lakewood, Ohio
U.S.A.