Mauna Loa ripoff with their game when you get a code thru an e-mail instead of buying the product Hilo Hawaii
I bought a can of Mauna Loa macadamia nuts and discovered they had an instant game where you could win a free trip to Hawaii. I tore off the label, got my code and entered and didn't win.
I noticed that the rules said only 1 entry per e-mail address. I have several e-mail addresses, as does my husband, so I decided to receive several different codes.
Imagine my surprise that every code that I got from all of the different e-mail addresses was the same. So unless you buy the product you have no chance whatsoever to win.
This to me is a definite rip-off! On the can it says, "No purchase necessary." Yes you don't have to purchase anything to play but you aren't going to win unless you do.
Zava
Hays, Kansas
U.S.A.
4 Updates & Rebuttals
Sheelaugh
Tulsa,Oklahoma,
U.S.A.
You seem as nutty as your can o' nuts!
#5Consumer Comment
Mon, November 24, 2003
You are way off base with your report there. It says "one entry per email address," and the way it works is the computer you're trying to get a code from recognizes the computer you're dialing in from by means of what is called an IP address. When it recognizes that all of your multiple email addresses are coming from that same IP address, it does not reveal any additional codes. Get over it! You were trying to play the system and it did NOT work. Why not file a true rip off report, perhaps on how you tried to rip off the nut company by trying to scam them out of multiple codes by using numerous email addresses. Now THAT is a rip off!
Sheelaugh
Tulsa,Oklahoma,
U.S.A.
You seem as nutty as your can o' nuts!
#5Consumer Comment
Mon, November 24, 2003
You are way off base with your report there. It says "one entry per email address," and the way it works is the computer you're trying to get a code from recognizes the computer you're dialing in from by means of what is called an IP address. When it recognizes that all of your multiple email addresses are coming from that same IP address, it does not reveal any additional codes. Get over it! You were trying to play the system and it did NOT work. Why not file a true rip off report, perhaps on how you tried to rip off the nut company by trying to scam them out of multiple codes by using numerous email addresses. Now THAT is a rip off!
Sheelaugh
Tulsa,Oklahoma,
U.S.A.
You seem as nutty as your can o' nuts!
#5Consumer Comment
Mon, November 24, 2003
You are way off base with your report there. It says "one entry per email address," and the way it works is the computer you're trying to get a code from recognizes the computer you're dialing in from by means of what is called an IP address. When it recognizes that all of your multiple email addresses are coming from that same IP address, it does not reveal any additional codes. Get over it! You were trying to play the system and it did NOT work. Why not file a true rip off report, perhaps on how you tried to rip off the nut company by trying to scam them out of multiple codes by using numerous email addresses. Now THAT is a rip off!
Sheelaugh
Tulsa,Oklahoma,
U.S.A.
You seem as nutty as your can o' nuts!
#5Consumer Comment
Mon, November 24, 2003
You are way off base with your report there. It says "one entry per email address," and the way it works is the computer you're trying to get a code from recognizes the computer you're dialing in from by means of what is called an IP address. When it recognizes that all of your multiple email addresses are coming from that same IP address, it does not reveal any additional codes. Get over it! You were trying to play the system and it did NOT work. Why not file a true rip off report, perhaps on how you tried to rip off the nut company by trying to scam them out of multiple codes by using numerous email addresses. Now THAT is a rip off!