Bah - was at a crappy raffle contest for Beatles: Rock Band stuff earlier tonight. I say "crappy" because it was being funded and hosted by a Chicago radio station (Can't remember the exact station at the moment) at a Blockbuster Video nearby. Problem is, as soon as they left around 10:00 to get back to Chicago, the hosting of the event was turned over to the Blockbuster, who proceeded to fuck it up fairly badly.
3 issues here:
1 - People suddenly had to be present at the drawing (12 midnight), when leading up to it it was stated that no one had to be. Friend of mine would have won one of the grand prizes - the huge bundled set for the PS3 - if he had just been there. As it stands, we called him immediately after his ticket was brought up, but they still gave it away to someone else (after they went through another 3-4 tickets to find someone that WAS actually at the store).
2 - In line with the "new" previous rule (Must be at drawing), no one was allowed to hold a prize for someone who wasn't present...EXCEPT for one guy who won that apparently worked for the store and helped set up a temporary fence for the parking lot or something. Everyone else who knew someone that won something? No dice.
3 - Some people put in more than one raffle ticket, which was pretty obviously against the rules. I know some people did, because one guy won something (Guitar, I think), and then "won" something else. He didn't actually get the 2nd item, but he still get to keep the first thing he got - he, and a couple others with him claimed that the people originally hosting the thing (Radio station) said it was okay to put a 2nd raffle ticket in. Riiiiiiiight.
Arg.
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Err, anyway. At least I got a nice Abbey Road poster/frame thing for my wall...that I paid for. But ignoring all that, I do want to start listening/studying The Beatles more. Now seems like a pretty good time.