McDonalds Monopoly Latest Fraud McDonalds Monopoly used deceptive language and programming Internet Nationwide

ok, first off, I read both reports, and must say, that is a chunk of my life I'll never get back..... I'm forced to ask myself why I even wasted my time reading these complaints as one was about a silly game, and another was a proof reader's response..... by the way, George, in your long, and critical response.... you spelled restaurant wrong..... word to the wise... next time you want to spend an hour typing a rebuttal for the sole purpose of insulting another's report, do a spell check. Other than that.... very valid argument.

Poor George, the world is out to get you I fear.

I just read your post. I want the 5 minutes of my life back that I just wasted and will not get back.

Are you trying to earn your attorney badge in Boy Scouts? If so, do all of us a favor; stick to the sewing and box car derby badges. Ignore the ads on the back of match books that say you too can be a lawyer and use big words with impunity.

Let's start from the top shall we?

1) It's a shame when multi-national mega-corporations have the power, substance and finances to do whatever they please.

It's the right of that multi-national, mega-corporation ( nice invention of a word there fella) to do what they please. That is why it is called a Democracy. And please, dont try and use the word substance in a sentence again ok? The point was made with just power and finances.


2) If the average person had the means to call such a company on their misdeeds, then corporate accountability and the face of corporate America would be very different.

This run on sentence makes no sense at all.
Didn't know you could "call" a company.
Corporations can be held accountable only to them selves and the stock holders, no one else. The public does not count.
How would it be different? It would be a communist run America.


3) In the absence of the fiscal or time resources to hire the extensive litigation it would take to confront McDonald's with this corporate misdeed,

Again, another sentence that makes only half the sense that you intended.
I believe you mean fiscal resources and time there buddy.
You do not hire litigation. You hire an attorney or legal representative to LITIGATE an issue in a court either civil or criminal.
If you need another word for misdeeds, try the word crime or error or offense (yeah you are trying to talk like you think an attorney would ,) Repeating words just "sucks" lol.

4)I present it here read through the entire thing and see if you don't think that McDonald's behaved illegally and needs to be held accountable.

I already have and want a refund from you. I now have irreversible Drain Bammage.

5) McDonald's Corporation engaged in deceptive advertising and misleading and fraudulent contest actions. McDonald's commenced a game on October 3, 2006, called Monopoly.

Where do I start with this cluster****?
Commas would should have been used instead of the word AND.
The words deceptive and misleading have the same definitions.
They STARTED a game, not commenced.
They didn't call it Monopoly, they NAMED it Monopoly. There is a significant difference there kiddo.

6) The Online Game is deceptive, misleading and fraudulent in the following ways.

Again, the words deceptive and misleading mean the same things.
You have not shown where this game is fraudulent at all. Someone has won or will win the game eventually correct?? Yep, correct.
Please stop using big words that tend to cramp your brain. Leave them to the big boys who have spent 6 years in college and wear a suit and tie.

7) In order to play the Online Game, one goes to the web site: https://playatmcd.com

You VISIT a web site, not GOES.

8) and plays Monopoly on a virtual (computerized) game board.

Are you inferring that we can not figure out what the word virtual means? Putting the word in parenthesis just made you lose all credibility by assuming that we all are idiots and need you to define it for us. Please don't insult our intelligence.


9) the player must enter a 10 digit alpha-numeric code printed on the bottom of the game piece.

This is another sentence that makes ZERO sense. There is no such thing as a "10 digit alpha-numeric" code.
It is either a 10 digit number OR it is an alpha-numerically sequenced code that takes up 10 spaces.

10) The problem (and actionable behavior) is that this statement is NOT true.

What part of this problem is actionable behavior? Don't you mean SOLUTION??? Stop trying to use words that are too big for your brain. Actionable behavior means that when someone behaves in a certain manner, action may be taken. Example from a blog at http://themoderatevoice.com/general/11840/imams-removed-from-flight-may-sue-passengers/feed/
If the caller directly harasses his l*****n neighbors, then he has crossed the line into "actionable behavior."

11) This is statement is contradictory and mutually exclusive with the other statement made in the Official Rules.

The words contradictory and mutually exclusive loosely mean the same things!! Another example:
From www.thefreedictionary.com: mutually exclusive = necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities; "'either' and 'or' in 'either this or that'"
and from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/contradictory: Contradictory ; Either of two propositions related in such a way that it is impossible for both to be true or both to be false.

12) The following are the untrue, deceptive and fraudulent results of the structure of the Online Game.

There has been no fraud committed in this game PERIOD!!!. Someone eventually wins; it all depends on who receives the game token with the code that has been selected to win. And since there are so many pieces released to the public it is virtually a random person who wins.

13) 1. The rules state that you roll the virtual dice for a chance to win (which isn't true). A specific ticket code will determine the win, not a roll of the dice.

The company has chosen to use the words "roll the dice" so that a simpleton would understand how the game is played. Apparently, you missed this point somehow.

14) 2. The game is set up with a virtual board and dice to lead people to believe the comment made in the official rules about rolling the virtual dice for a chance to win.

Makes the game a lot more fun than visiting the site and not doing anything at all and see a message appear saying you lose, try again. Doesn't it?? Dude, were you the little punk kid that would put out the neighbors burn barrel by pissing in it? Stop telling people that they can't have fun because you can't seem to have any yourself.

15) 3. People believe that the chance to win is based on the odds of a roll of a pair of standard dice; in this case 1 in 20 of hitting a winning' game location within 2 to 12 spaces away.

Where do people believe this?? Did you complete a poll at the door when customers were leaving the establishment? What makes you assume that "people" believe that? Simply because there are 6 sides on each dice?

16) 4. The dice and the virtual game are merely deceptive ways to encourage purchases for game ticket acquisition,

Dude, did you just give your self a brain cramp with this comment?? Read it to your self, then out loud. Again, stop using large words that you think sound legal. You're just making your self look idiotic and that you have the IQ equivalent to room temperature. Again, NO PURCHASSE IS NESESSARY!!!


17) BASED ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT YOU ARE PLAYING ON A VIRTUAL BOARD WITH ODDS RELATED TO A ROLL OF A PAIR OF STANDARD DICE.

You have to assume that you are playing on a virtual board because YOU ARE!!! A simple fact. They do not spit a real Monopoly board thru your cable line. And you are the only one that is making the ASSUMPTION. If you are not, show me a copy of the census you took and the tabulated results.

18) 5. The real odds of winning have nothing to do with dice. They are based on ticket codes and for the major prizes (those prizes valued at $100 or more) are approximately 1 in 416,726,000.

Obviously those are the odds of winning. They are on the web site aren't they? Of course they are. Or are they there just to take up space to make the site look uniform and even?

19) 6. McDonald's, through the Monopoly game, has deceived vast numbers of people into purchasing food items for an attempt at a prize in their Online Game by leading them to believe that the odds are significantly better than they really are.

Talk about a run on sentence from Hell!!
Also, if you read the web site a little more closely it clearly states: " NO PURCHASE NECESSARY" !!!!! They have deceived NO ONE!! Well, maybe your self but given the way this post has been written, I have no doubts that you were deceived and that the VAST NUMBERS actually are the numbers on the weight scale in your bathroom in the triple digits that you see.


20)7. During the duration of the game, I regularly spent a minimum of $2 per day on drinks or food items which contain tickets.
While some small amount of food or drink purchase might have occurred anyway, a significant number of the purchases were solely for the purpose of attempting to win the Monopoly game, because of the ostensible dice roll' odds of winning the online virtual game.

No one force fed you. No one shoved money in your hand, drove you to the resteraunt, held a gun to your head and threatened to blow your brains out if you didn't purchase a product with a ticket attached. You knew the odds of winning. You state them yourself. These statements clearly show that you recognized that you have no one to blame but yourself for purchasing the food. And since there is no purchase needed, you scammed your self and there is no fraud what so ever.

Now, get back on that tread mill, work off that Monopoly Weight' and look for another fast food restaurant to harass and claim are fraudulently ripping the masses off.