The chocolate company - not the planet...
Mars have a promotion to win a free bar running here, but I didn't win, as hard as I tried, so I told them.
Let me know if there's anything else I can add/edit as I want to post it too, at the moment I've just emailed.
Dear Sir/Madam,
As you may well be aware, Mars is currently running its "Win a free bar" promotion in Australia. "Brilliant!" I thought, when I first saw the ad on TV, 1 in 6 bars wins, it said.
Unfortunately, however, and it saddens me to say, this turned out not to be the case. During the last week or maybe ten days I've purchased around 7 or 8 Snickers bar for me and my lovely girlfriend(this isn't one of those moments when she's near and I have to be nice, I do actually think she's lovely. Also it's not that we're fat, it's just that we both like to have some chocolate in the evenings when we watch a film) and none of them have contained a message informing me I've won a free bar; in-fact they've all told me to try again, and I have!
Today it really bothered me, so I took to the local shop to experiment. I thought maybe it was the fact I'd been buying individual bars from different locations that could be causing me a problem; so today I bought 6 bars, at once, from one shop. A big risk (over $16.00); I think you'll agree, but I was sure I'd win at least one bar back.
Looking back it was a bit stupid, I've only eaten one of my 6 so far, god knows I couldn't manage 7 today, even if the lovely lady did manage her usual half a bar helping, but the fact was I wanted to win! (Now they’re all unwrapped) I wanted the rush and excitement the advert had promised me! (It would have been a good conversation starter in the office this afternoon too, now I have to explain why I've got 6 Snickers bars; do you know how humiliating that is? Especially when you didn't win a free bar)
Now I realise that the money I've wasted my employers by writing this letter to you is probably far more than a single Snickers bar, but I just wanted you to know how disappointed I am. In the advert the free bar is presented in game show style, and presented to the winner in what looks like a velvet box, I’m now wondering if this actually happens “in real life” because a free bar really is that hard to win.
In conclusion, I feel it would be appropriate it you put a disclaimer on your adverts informing people that 1 in 6 might win, and that they might not, thus discouraging idiots like myself from buying 6 bars at once in an attempt to win the ever lucrative free bar.
Kind Regards,
PS I’ve handed the spare bars around the office – so everyone else now thinks it’s great, not the guy with the nut allergy though; he mumbled something before collapsing.
