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		<title>McDonald&#8217;s Monopoly Lies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott VanderPloeg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a regular McDonald&#8217;s diner for lunch or a quick breakfast.  On October 5th they started their Monopoly game: on certain food items you receive two game pieces.  Emblazoned everywhere around the store and on the food items is the following from their home page:

The asterisk will lead you to the details which state the odds are for food prizes and diminish as the game progresses.  In the first nine days I acquired seventy-nine (79) game pieces, five of them winners.  That puts the odds at 1 in 16; alright, it&#8217;s 1 in ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">I&#8217;m a regular McDonald&#8217;s diner for lunch or a quick breakfast.  On October 5th they started their Monopoly game: on certain food items you receive two game pieces.  Emblazoned everywhere around the store and on the food items is the following from their <a title="McDonalds" href="http://www.mcdonalds.ca" target="_blank">home page</a>:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ebabble.net/wp-content/uploads/McD1in6.jpg" rel="lightbox[1658]"><img class="size-full wp-image-1659 aligncenter" title="McD1in6" src="http://www.ebabble.net/wp-content/uploads/McD1in6.jpg" alt="" width="251" height="100" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The asterisk will lead you to the details which state the odds are for food prizes and diminish as the game progresses.  In the first nine days I acquired seventy-nine (79) game pieces, five of them winners.  That puts the odds at 1 in 16; alright, it&#8217;s 1 in 15.8 but I rounded just like I&#8217;m sure they did.  All my game pieces were obtained from the same McDonald&#8217;s.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Either McDonald&#8217;s:</p>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">doesn&#8217;t like the store I frequent</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">can&#8217;t divide</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">is part of a massive conspiracy to deny me normal food winning odds</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">can&#8217;t randomly distribute game pieces</div>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Or is simply misrepresenting the game or itself.</p>
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		<title>The Book Depository &amp; Abe Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott VanderPloeg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across two new online book sellers, or at least new to me.
The Book Depository ships the items from their warehouse in Gloucester, United Kingdom within 48 hours free worldwide.  Their prices are comparable to Amazon and with free shipping it&#8217;s hard to go wrong if you don&#8217;t meet Amazon&#8217;s $39 minimum for free shipping.  They also have over 11000 free eBooks.
Abe Books deals in used and rare books: items you&#8217;re not going to find at Amazon or The Book Depository.  A huge selection makes them a great choice ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">I came across two new online book sellers, or at least new to me.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a title="The Book Depository" href="http://www.bookdepository.com/?a_aid=ebabble" target="_blank">The Book Depository</a> ships the items from their warehouse in Gloucester, United Kingdom within 48 hours free worldwide.  Their prices are comparable to <a title="Amazon.com" href="http://www.amazon.com/?&amp;tag=ebabble0c-20&amp;camp=15301&amp;creative=331417&amp;linkCode=bn1&amp;adid=1CFFAA25PPWT9W68AS4G" target="_blank">Amazon</a> and with free shipping it&#8217;s hard to go wrong if you don&#8217;t meet Amazon&#8217;s $39 minimum for free shipping.  They also have over 11000 free eBooks.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a title="Abe Books" href="http://clickserve.cc-dt.com/link/tplclick?lid=41000000024374652&amp;pubid=21000000000255104" target="_blank">Abe Books</a> deals in used and rare books: items you&#8217;re not going to find at Amazon or The Book Depository.  A huge selection makes them a great choice for out of print material.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I&#8217;ve signed up as an affiliate so please support eBabble by clicking on our link here or on our home page under Sponsors.  I&#8217;ll be using these two vendors in my review links as well.</p>
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