Complaint Review: McDonalds Monopoly Online Game Promotion

I just tore off a game piece from a large drink and fries and proceeded to enter the code online.

The online game state the codes were already USED!!!!

Now how the hell can that be when they were just torn off the cup?????????

Also I supposedly won that free ringtone thing but when you click to "claim" your prize the redemption code disappears when the game refers you to the feedmyphone website and when you click back you don't have your redemption code anymore.

A little info on feedmyphone.com The site was created early this year and only supports 4 carriers. What the hell is up with that??? A cheap worthless prize for a limit number of carriers.

Anybody notice that when you visit the online McDonalds Monopoly game that it says there are over 3 million prizes available. Yet the actually tally of online winners as shown by their own counter is far shy of that of only 1.3 million prizes paid out and the game only has less than two weeks left.

Coincedence? I don't think so. McDonalds uses this shameless promotion to boost sales in their restaurants where their tasteless food cannot do for itself. Just prior to this game starting, it was widely reported on Wall Street that McDonalds sales where dropping, (like a rock).

Also if you noticed the prices of the drinks and fries that have game pieces were purposely raised when the game started. Come on $2 for a large fries and $2 for a large drink. Please, your local convenience store is much cheaper.

Anybody notice that when you visit the online McDonalds Monopoly game that it says there are over 3 million prizes available. Yet the actually tally of online winners as shown by their own counter is far shy of that of only 1.3 million prizes paid out and the game only has less than two weeks left.

Coincedence? I don't think so. McDonalds uses this shameless promotion to boost sales in their restaurants where their tasteless food cannot do for itself. Just prior to this game starting, it was widely reported on Wall Street that McDonalds sales where dropping, (like a rock).

Also if you noticed the prices of the drinks and fries that have game pieces were purposely raised when the game started. Come on $2 for a large fries and $2 for a large drink. Please, your local convenience store is much cheaper.

Anybody notice that when you visit the online McDonalds Monopoly game that it says there are over 3 million prizes available. Yet the actually tally of online winners as shown by their own counter is far shy of that of only 1.3 million prizes paid out and the game only has less than two weeks left.

Coincedence? I don't think so. McDonalds uses this shameless promotion to boost sales in their restaurants where their tasteless food cannot do for itself. Just prior to this game starting, it was widely reported on Wall Street that McDonalds sales where dropping, (like a rock).

Also if you noticed the prices of the drinks and fries that have game pieces were purposely raised when the game started. Come on $2 for a large fries and $2 for a large drink. Please, your local convenience store is much cheaper.

Anybody notice that when you visit the online McDonalds Monopoly game that it says there are over 3 million prizes available. Yet the actually tally of online winners as shown by their own counter is far shy of that of only 1.3 million prizes paid out and the game only has less than two weeks left.

Coincedence? I don't think so. McDonalds uses this shameless promotion to boost sales in their restaurants where their tasteless food cannot do for itself. Just prior to this game starting, it was widely reported on Wall Street that McDonalds sales where dropping, (like a rock).

Also if you noticed the prices of the drinks and fries that have game pieces were purposely raised when the game started. Come on $2 for a large fries and $2 for a large drink. Please, your local convenience store is much cheaper.

BUSTED!!!!!! Mcdonalds Monopoly is definately a fraud. After playing this stupid game since it started Oct. 3, I looked down at my game sheet and then glanced at the online game board.

Guess what? The properties I didn't have on the physical game sheet are exactly the same as the properties that I did not have on the virtual game board. Statistically this should never happen if the virtual dice are truely random generated throws!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS GAME IS COMPLETE BULLSHI!@!@!@

If it could only be so easy. Again, you MUST physically present the game stamp to win the prize. If you have turned it in for a food prize, you NO LONGER have it to present for an online cash prize. Just simply copying the numbers will not suffice.

Sometimes when running a long distance you have to stop and take a look on the way.

There are numbers on these stamps?

Just asking because it would seem to me that you could copy the number down for yourself and then send the stamp so that you would get both prizes. Thats about the only logical way to do it ya think?

McDonalds claims that you are able to win multiple prizes with one game stamp. You can do this by entering the code online from a winning food prize stamp, thus win online also. HOWEVER, if you read the rules, they state you MUST turn in the stamp to claim your online prize. This will be virtually impossible, because most people have already turned it in to get their free food prize!

I tried to contact McDonalds via online. They have no true e-mail address. They do have a submit form, however it doesn't work. I called a phone number that was listed. It was verified that you do have to turn in the stamp to claim either prize. I asked how it was then possible to win multiple prizes as advertised with one game stamp. No true answer. Stated she would forward to the legal department.

We all know there is no way that McDonalds legal staff just happened to miss this detail in their review. They know that most people do not read the rules and will claim their food prize, thus voiding their ability to claim any real cash from the online game. Outcome, no stamp no prize, no payout from McDonalds!

RE to my previous complaint about not getting my codes for my snapfish prizes. I tried to contact them from their corporate site AND the game site.

BOTH contact forms error out leaving consumers high and dry with no way to get help on a game that will not pay out prizes!!!!!!!

I just won two (2) prizes each of 25 photos from Snapfish.com A pop up gave me a redemption code and stated they also sent me an email.

Guess what? I NEVER RECEIVED THE EMAIL AND THE REDEMPTION CODE IS INVALID.

I agree with the person stating the rolling of the dice did not always match where the token was SUPPOSED TO LAND. I have seen this happen several times myself where I should have landed on a property and instead the game put me on a worthless space like luxury tax or the jail space.

WHAT A CROCK OF SH$#@!!!!

This game is crap. Not only did it go from a game where you could just walk in and ask for a game piece, now you have to buy a whole damned meal to get a piece.

Sure...you can spend your own postage to mail in a request for a game piece, but who is going to actually spend money on that, knowing there's a s****.> Ray Krok would even think this is a crock of crap! I vote NO on McBlando's and every company associated with them!

The scheme went all the way back to 1995. I found the FBI press release. And no, McDonalds had nothing to do with it. Still, I give everyone one chance. They blew it. I'd rather waste money on the Lottery, and I don't do that either.

It wasn't McDonalds who was caught rigging it. IT was employees of the Supply manfuacturer that were rigging it (by taking hte "stamps" that were on the cups before McDonalds ever got those cups).

Before libeling a company, be sure to know the FACTS first:

http://boardgames.about.com/library/news/bl010916a.htm

"Jerome Jacobson, a security employee for Simon Worldwide Inc., is the man authorities believe was mainly responsible for distributing key game pieces to his friends and family, "winning" $13 to $20 million before being caught."

"Simon Worldwide is the company which McDonald's hired to run these and other promotions. No McDonald's employees are suspected of involvement, and authorities said McDonald's assisted in the investigation."

McDonalds had no part in any "rigging" of any sort.

This is the same Monopoly Game that McDonalds has been caught rigging every time they do it. It's either the company that produces the game that is rigging it, or McDonalds Corporation itself each time. The big prizes go to the big wheels at the companies and noone else. I stopped wasting time on it after the first time they got caught. I learned how not to get burned.