I have seen this sort of “contest” and heard about it so many times over the last several years, but today something occured to me. There are mostly two different sets of people who use their credit cards enough to have any chance at actually winning.
First we have those who actually have the money to pay the credit card bill when it comes. So they can charge up a storm and pay it off at the next billing cycle. It seems to me that these people don’t really need the million dollar prize to begin with. Seems fair to me…
Then we have the people who can’t afford to pay the bills so they instead charge everything to their card. They may be worthy of winning the big prize, but are much less likely than the first group to use the card enough to have a chance.
Then there are the rest of us. I, like most people in this world, have no extra money for spending, and wouldn’t dare charge a credit card that I can’t pay off on the off chance that I might win a jackpot off astronomical odds. It leaves the average person such as myself at a disadvantge.
So what does this really mean? It means that someone who doesn’t even need this jackpot will be the one to win. And tell me something, of all the times you have seen this contest run through Visa, MC, Discover, or Amex when was the last time you heard of someone winning?
Just a rant about the “fairness of life” in general.
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I have seen this sort of “contest” and heard about it so many times over the last several years, but today something occured to me. There are mostly two different sets of people who use their credit cards enough to have any chance at actually winning.
First we have those who actually have the money to pay the credit card bill when it comes. So they can charge up a storm and pay it off at the next billing cycle. It seems to me that these people don’t really need the million dollar prize to begin with. Seems fair to me…
Then we have the people who can’t afford to pay the bills so they instead charge everything to their card. They may be worthy of winning the big prize, but are much less likely than the first group to use the card enough to have a chance.
Then there are the rest of us. I, like most people in this world, have no extra money for spending, and wouldn’t dare charge a credit card that I can’t pay off on the off chance that I might win a jackpot off astronomical odds. It leaves the average person such as myself at a disadvantge.
So what does this really mean? It means that someone who doesn’t even need this jackpot will be the one to win. And tell me something, of all the times you have seen this contest run through Visa, MC, Discover, or Amex when was the last time you heard of someone winning?
Just a rant about the “fairness of life” in general.
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