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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Gold Coast Distributers
Message-ID: <191@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Dec-84 15:45:08 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 28 15:45:08 1984
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> 
> Aren't they supposed to provide a list of odds for the awards?  Ask
> to see a list, and look for the prize with the highest odds of
> winning.
> 
> mikey at trsvax

I've noticed that the odds are usually stated something like

	Prize one: one in one hundred thousand, prize two:
	seven in one hundred thousand, prize three: ninty
	nine thousand nine hundred ninty-two in one
	hundred thousand.

Besides being nearly impossible to read, the odds of winning
some prize almost always are exactly one in one.  I don't know
about Gold Coast, but this seems to be the pattern with the
"You've won a prize" promotions.

-- 
Ed Gould
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