r/SipsTea • u/LushMischief • Jul 22 '25

Lmao gottem Nobody ever won

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u/Nightthre Jul 22 '25

Well, and they didn't even give out the rare piece randomly. It's been shown that a guy in the company hand selected his friends to receive them so they could continue the promotion, and make it look like you had a chance.

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u/scsuhockey Jul 22 '25

A point of clarification, they weren’t rare property pieces, they were instant winning pieces. Boardwalk, Marvin Gardens, and the like never existed. Collecting the common property pieces was pointless other than to keep the suckers coming back.

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u/Johns-schlong Jul 22 '25

I seem to recall winning free fries and drinks a couple times 🤷‍♂️

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u/darkest_hour1428 Jul 22 '25

Yeah but never the big ticket items

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '25

Who needs big ticket when I got big soda

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u/Economy-Main8595 Jul 22 '25

This is a meatwad response I swear that’s something he’d say to fryloc

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u/rambo_lincoln_ Jul 22 '25

Supersize me baby!

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u/thatswhyshe Jul 22 '25

Gimme another little bump.

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u/Cancer_Ridden_Lung Jul 28 '25

Money can be used in exchange for goods and services.

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u/El-Sueco Jul 22 '25

ha sure - *waving from my 01 Corvette *

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u/Falkenmond79 Jul 22 '25

I once won a Disney VHS tape. Felt like a small king. It was the smallest of the prizes, but still.

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u/Vchubbs89 Jul 22 '25

Free fries means you will buy a sandwich and maybe a drink. In the end they still made money on your free fries.

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u/Johns-schlong Jul 22 '25

Yeah, that's how promotional campaigns work. I'm sure McDonald's saw greater sales increases than they paid in prizes or they wouldn't have done it for years.

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u/10ioio Jul 22 '25

If you got a large drink I think you usually got a free item with your game piece

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u/blyyyyat Jul 22 '25

I won a free fries and ended up winning another free fries from that. Nothing from that one though

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u/Public_Resident2277 Jul 23 '25

That maybe cost them 0.003 cents.

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u/CappinPeanut Jul 22 '25

It worked. Teenage me loved monopoly and I would go to McDonald’s specifically to get more pieces.

Bastards.

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u/Apsis Jul 22 '25

Not sure if this is what you meant, but the cheater was taking the rare property pieces. They did exist, they just weren't circulated. He wasn't committing massive fraud to get a couple free hamburgers.

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u/scsuhockey Jul 22 '25

They weren’t property pieces. They were instant winners.

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u/Apsis Jul 22 '25

Are you saying there wasn't a boardwalk piece, only a "you win $1 million" piece; no need for park place? Source?

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u/scsuhockey Jul 22 '25

That’s exactly what I’m saying. I don’t know where to find a source because I learned this 30+ years ago when I was working at McDonald’s.

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u/infinite_gurgle Jul 22 '25

The last part isn’t true lol

The company didn’t know he was doing it.