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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37That's a good way to harvest email addresses that include personally-identifying information.
- anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33*enters own address* :D
- noGoodNamesLeft, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26My name is DR WILLY WONKA, INTERNAL AUDITOR MILK CHOCOLATE CO. PLC. I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of our company Mr. NESTLE with account number 14-255-2004/ASTB/123-99 who perished in an auto-crash in october 15 2003.
Since the demise of this our customer, I personally has watched with keen interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds of 9.5m bars of chocolate (Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), which has been with our branch for a very long time.
...eh, sod it. It was a funny idea, but I can't keep this up :-) - Fett101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17You get free chocolate. They get addresses where they can send you their catalogs. Mmmmm chocolate...
- skealoha86, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15on that note:
3.Delivery – Free chocolate samples and vouchers will be mailed out within 28 days of entry – we’re receiving lots of entries so please be patient! At present we can only deliver to UK addresses only.
not only is that grammatically incorrect, it sucks for the U.S. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+141. Collection of Information
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From Privacy Policy - goat77, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18Who you calling Honky?
- kevnaca, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13it's a freakin mini bit size chocolate. go to walmart and buy a bag of them. it's not worth me time for this crap and get spamed.
- roguescout, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12For only $20 more you could send this:
http://tinyurl.com/mtbfa
(possibly NSFW if your boss has the browser filter set on Amish or Quaker) - c0uchm0nster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11that sounds like a personal problem
- noGoodNamesLeft, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Note (a) That this is to UK addresses only, and that (b) In exchange for taking the time and giving them your information, you get a *bite-size* piece of chocolate (4.2g).
Just to put that in perspective, a normal-sized 45p bar of Dairy Milk weighs approx. 40-50g, and those large, flat bars that cost about £1.20 - £2.00 weigh 200g.
Not that Divine chocolate isn't nice... it is (the milk chocolate is creamy), and it's good that the cocoa producers aren't being screwed over. But I still wouldn't bother giving them my information (or rather my friends' information) in exchange for a bite of chocolate(!) - noGoodNamesLeft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@hackwrench
http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/about_what_is_fairtrade.htm
http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/about_standards.htm - Gaius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Some of the messages in the message log lol:
sup
Gift
Just 4u :-0
I thought you'd like a little surprise - for free.
hope it tastes as good as you. xxx
Hello there Honky. Please enjoy this lovely chocolate. - Hermitwise, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I think if I got free chocolate from some strange website I would be more annoyed than happy, I'd eat the chocolate, but I'd still be annoyed.
- Biznack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It will if you're not sorry, and want them to be spammed with mail catalogues.
- _jens_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Looks like some shady harvest scam!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5OK, everybody send a piece to some random person in the middle East! We'll have that area chilled out by Monday.
- ollj, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Its a Trap!
Though it's not from Nigeria, it's still pretty close. - edicius, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9"it's not worth me time for this crap"
Arrrgh matey!!!! If'n yee be sendin me yer choc'late I'll be makin ye walk tha plank ARRRRGH!!!!!!! - skoobisnaxs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Osama sending out poison candy huh? U.K. first, then USA.
jk of course. funny how we kinda dont care where the chocolate comes from or what their cause is. We just have our greedy hands outstreched like a 5 yr old on halloween. I hear "free chocolate" and my IQ instantly drops 40 points. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4this is the kind of thing you wish you found before it hit digg..
like the many free usb keys and other things i doubt i will see any chocolate. - MisterEd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4At present we can only deliver to UK addresses only.
Anyone outside the UK is wasting their time. - Jarasmen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Actually, not only would this 'gift' be really sucky (c'mon, it's like a microscopic piece of chocolate for gnomes!), but my friends would also kill me for giving out their personal adresses in strange places.All in all: if you want to make a friend happy, buy chocolate (and/or beer) and give it to him/her yourself.
- yuricurri, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"Dear neighbor, please give this chocolate to my parents next door as I told them to expect it, but hey, I'm sending you a gift too, its just gonna take a little longer in the mall, its a really cool magazine."
Muhahaha! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's all over????
where do i sign up? I feel stupid - ianjones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There's no such thing as free chocolate, you and your family/friends will have to put up with junk mail and spam until the end of time.
- catoutfit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I sent mine to my mum.
- timmclargehuge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It means if you ever decide to buy chocolate from then the retailer, wholesaler and supplier will collude together to jack up the price on the consumer.
- zvezdochka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's free chocolate. I'd do anything.
- Xanin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How about they use this money to support the people who grow the cocoa? Pfft
- pedmond, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No more chocolate. They reached their 10,000 requests goal, so game over.
- synystar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Talk about underhanded. "Send us all your friends e-mails and we'll send them choc.. choca....well we'll send them a chock of spam anyway!"
- FuzzyCat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2
... and I've already had spam from them on the throw-away email address I used just for this.... "FollowUs" mobile tracking can feck off and die. - Wamzlee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Do you think this will make a good "I'm sorry" gift for someone in Germany?
- thebog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It was just this week on TWIT that Dvorak said a name in a data base is worth at least $20-$50 when sold...
Wanna get your (and your friends) personal data sold worldwide because of a 50¢ piece of candy? - yuricurri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2*mail
- hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3So what does "fair trade" mean in this context?
- mtxe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"UK" not "EU"
- actionscripted, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3"hey combine here a pressie form miss sniffy innit sexual do ya luvs it do yas. i said a bye bye innit luvs it sexuals"
:) - hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"The FAIRTRADE Mark is an independent consumer label which appears on products as an independent guarantee that disadvantaged producers in the developing world are getting a better deal."
So how does this work out with free chocolate? The farmers can't exactly pocket a portion of $0 - slantyeyed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1have fun with the junk mail, idiots
- uptown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Reminds me of this:
70% of people will give up their password for free chocolate.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3639679.stm - ffachopper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Happy Chocolate Day" was my message sent from me... to me =P
We'll see if this works!
Dugged btw - uz2surf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Too late for the offer. It was a great gimic idea because most people love something for nothing and chocolate.
- daRoach, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Why not "Happy apple day!" ?
- Warpling, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Im afraid to enter my home... e_e
- Yashar, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1nice, sent to:
home
office
p.o. box
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