Dennis Kirban
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- Mar 5, 2009
Here is a topic that hopefully many readers can chime in. Lets say the amount of winning has to be $500 mininum in cash or gift certifcates etc and no gambling monies count.
Point being has anyone won a car(s) or hit your state lottery afterall they always say someone has to win and I have yet to stumble on anyone anywhere personally that has won even $100 ever.
In my 65 plus years on earth I hit my first and biggest jackpot ever $500 gift certificate once. It was a few years back about 3 weeks prior to Christmas. I had made a deal with a Dodge dealer about 60 miles from home trading in my used 05 GT Mustang for a 06 Hemi Charger. I did the deal at nite and to kill time while they did the paperwork I noticed a Christmas tree in the showroom with a bunch of sealed white envelopes hanging on the tree. I asked the sales guy about it and he says every customer that buys a new or used car gets to pick a sealed envelope off the tree. I asked him what the top prize was he said one of the sealed envelopes has a $500 gift certificate at I think it was target store.
So I make my pick.....yep nailed it the $500 certificate. So, my wife got an extra certificate that year!
Almost every car magazine you pick up charities are running contests with either a new Vette or a new Vette and a matching old Vette. So, have you ever won, got a friend that won?
Heck I would gladly pay the sales tax. Some of the odds are as good as one of 500 in some of those car givewaya. I like to hear if someone reading this has been a winner.
Perhaps this is one reason we do the M&M contest at our open houses and at the Turbo Buick Nats, prizes aren't anything monumental but their is always a winner.
denniskirban@yahoo.com
Point being has anyone won a car(s) or hit your state lottery afterall they always say someone has to win and I have yet to stumble on anyone anywhere personally that has won even $100 ever.
In my 65 plus years on earth I hit my first and biggest jackpot ever $500 gift certificate once. It was a few years back about 3 weeks prior to Christmas. I had made a deal with a Dodge dealer about 60 miles from home trading in my used 05 GT Mustang for a 06 Hemi Charger. I did the deal at nite and to kill time while they did the paperwork I noticed a Christmas tree in the showroom with a bunch of sealed white envelopes hanging on the tree. I asked the sales guy about it and he says every customer that buys a new or used car gets to pick a sealed envelope off the tree. I asked him what the top prize was he said one of the sealed envelopes has a $500 gift certificate at I think it was target store.
So I make my pick.....yep nailed it the $500 certificate. So, my wife got an extra certificate that year!
Almost every car magazine you pick up charities are running contests with either a new Vette or a new Vette and a matching old Vette. So, have you ever won, got a friend that won?
Heck I would gladly pay the sales tax. Some of the odds are as good as one of 500 in some of those car givewaya. I like to hear if someone reading this has been a winner.
Perhaps this is one reason we do the M&M contest at our open houses and at the Turbo Buick Nats, prizes aren't anything monumental but their is always a winner.
denniskirban@yahoo.com
