remember this classic /vr/ scam
>>11517187METER__PHEAVY__ITRILL___DSPOIL___EMODAL__ACLUE: PIDEA GAMES!
cant remember if i ever entered but i remember filling it out
hilarious that you could just never do a giveaway and no one would actually find out until decades after the fact
>>11517187I remember seeing this in EGM and GamePro magazines back then. I wanted that shit so bad. I finally have a setup better than that, but now I'm 42 and barely have time to play games. Shit feels bad, man.
>>11517187I've never seen this in my life, no.
>>11517187I entered these all the time when I was a kid. Never got a response, never heard of anyone winning. But that was the story for most /vr/ magazine giveways.
>>11517596>>11517187Was it actually a scam as in they took the money and ran or did people actually win stuff? (ie, a legitimate lottery)?
>Unclear prizes>ENTREE FEE>53% will answer "pidea.">20% will make it to tiebreakers and all correct answers will win.I imagine the tiebreaker was something along the lines of "what number am I thinking of?" Anyway, I tried to enter one of these, but my father wouldn't let me.
>>11517617These were scams, yes.A man by the name of Rick Lund organized these giveaways, pocketed the money, and then filed for bankruptcy before paying out each time.Supposedly he finally honored one of the winners with a cashier's check back in 2021, but I can't find any coverage on that outside of some faggot YouTuber's 40-second video with no source.
>>11517617i've always wondered this myself. for some reason as a kid I always had the assumption that there must be some false advertising law or something that would bind the publishers of these ads to what they're claiming to offer. but who knows. i'm sure there's ways to get away with it anyway
>>11517187here's a later 1994 version of that ad, which ads an Atari Jaguar, 3DO and a satellite dish.
>>11517187here's a 1995 edition, with Sega Saturn, PSX, Virtual Boy and a sweet beige Pentium 133MHz Windows 95 PC with 16MBRAM, 1.2GB harddrive and a 17inch VGA monitor.
>>11517187I entered it once in '95. I got another puzzle in the mail and I had to pay another fee if I wanted to continue.
>>11517764I've still got a mostly destroyed issue of Gamepro from 1999 with one of these in it. When did they finally stop?
>>11517640>i've always wondered this myself. for some reason as a kid I always had the assumption that there must be some false advertising law or something that would bind the publishers of these ads to what they're claiming to offer. but who knows. i'm sure there's ways to get away with it anywayIt was because of false advertisements (and other events) like this that laws were written. But some will still try to get away with it like MrBeast.
>>11517187>11517758>>11517764>>11517814>>11517775i remember seeing shit like this and i thought everyone knew these compos were a scam? they must have made a fortune out of gullible idiots for such a simple ad placement.
>>11517892It was one guy as far as anyone knows who printed these ads. Rick Lund.A bunch of former children on neogaf came into this thread about the ads and admitted they did indeed send this crook their allowance money.https://www.neogaf.com/threads/utlimate-entertainment-giveaway-ads-in-old-videogame-magazines.856285/One guy who won 6 times (lol) finally tracked him down and was able to at least get a not insignificant cash payout after threatening legal action. >As of this day though, I have only recieved enough money to pay just one out of the 6 times that I won. I have called Rick Lund so many times , and been so patient with him, and always when I talk to him on the phone I was giving a story of why he cant pay me, but always kept my hopes up that in the future he was going to be able to pay (example, after he runs another contest he would have money to pay me then)... So yeah I kept my hopes up, and yeah I got paid only $500 a month, and that $500 a month only lasted a few months because the company filed bankruptcy, and started up again under the name Puzzle Me.The company would file for bankruptcy the moment anyone tried to take legal action against them, and then pop up under a new name running the same scam.
>>11517637Lund is jewish?
>>11517821>It was because of false advertisements (and other events) like this that laws were written. But some will still try to get away with it like MrBeast.I almost posted this earlier. I don't know if they pay out or not, but Mr. Beast works with some giveaway company that claims to follow all sorts of transparency rules and publish winners, but they don't do any of it. If you ask, they'll say the winners will be published in a month or so. If you ask later, they'll ignore you.
