# Free Guinness Bottle Opener Offer **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 13, 2002, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-guinness-bottle-opener-offer/98125 "2002-03-13T21:31:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-guinness-bottle-opener-offer/98125/1 "2002-03-13T21:31:00Z")
Act fast! It’s first come first served!! [http://www.guinnessopener.com/](http://www.guinnessopener.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-guinness-bottle-opener-offer/98125/2 "2002-03-13T21:44:03Z")
Cool beans! I signed up.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Chinaco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71c47a/32.png) [@Chinaco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chinaco)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-guinness-bottle-opener-offer/98125/3 "2002-03-13T21:55:06Z")
Doh! “Offer not valid to residents of TX and CA.” :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Lectricity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9d8465/32.png) [@Lectricity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lectricity)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-guinness-bottle-opener-offer/98125/4 "2002-03-13T22:40:34Z")
Sure, I signed up. No big deal. I’m just going to take a walk now and maybe glance in my mailbox… ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-guinness-bottle-opener-offer/98125/5 "2002-03-13T22:49:11Z")
Clever, clever… a very good way to build up a database of people willing to do surveys, etc. (Last part of signing up to get the freebie: notice the checkbox?) Good that you can opt-out and still get your freebie. 😃 (Now what am I going to _do_ with a Guinness bottle opener? I have a bottle opener on my mini Leatherman, and a neat-o cabinet mounted one in the kitchen. Also, I don’t drink beer, I use it in cooking. And using Guinness in shepard’s pies… yummy. ) * * * \<\< It takes a lot of time and money to figure out the best things in life are free. \>\> ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-guinness-bottle-opener-offer/98125/6 "2002-03-13T22:56:40Z")
Offer not valid in Alabama. Damn it to hell. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-guinness-bottle-opener-offer/98125/7 "2002-03-13T23:20:36Z")
Damn all you other dopers! They’ve plum run out of 'em! ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-guinness-bottle-opener-offer/98125/8 "2002-03-13T23:24:11Z")
RATS! Signed up, didn’t opt out, and I was too late. They’re all out, so don’t bother. ---
**Author:** ![slowhand53](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@slowhand53](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slowhand53)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-guinness-bottle-opener-offer/98125/9 "2002-03-14T04:31:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Danalan \* > \*\*RATS! > > Signed up, didn’t opt out, and I was too late. > > They’re all out, so don’t bother. \*\* But I just got my offer in the mail today (snail mail that is) :mad: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Qwisp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qwisp/32/397_2.png) [@Qwisp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwisp)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-guinness-bottle-opener-offer/98125/10 "2002-03-14T05:05:25Z")
Darn, Darn,Darn. I found out about this offer too late. I was trying to get one for my husband. He loves Guinness. (he’s drinking one now) With his birthday coming up, it would have been a great little add-on to his present.☹ ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-guinness-bottle-opener-offer/98125/11 "2002-03-14T05:59:41Z")
Looks like ebay has 'em. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-guinness-bottle-opener-offer/98125/12 "2002-06-07T23:07:54Z")
Woohooo it finally came today, I now have my spangly new Guinness opener on my key ring. Thanks for the heads up back in March, Burn. Now I’m sure when all the wimmins see how cool I am that I have a Guinness bottle opener they will offer me immediate sex. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-guinness-bottle-opener-offer/98125/13 "2002-06-07T23:13:00Z")
It has also just occured to me\* that It might have been better to start a new thread, than just post to this one cause people who don’t don’t notice the dates, might get misled. Appologies if I got anybodys hope up. \*Someone should do a study on why brain activity increases about a million times in the second after hitting submit, always making me think of things that I will never think of in 10 minutes of proofreading before the submiting. ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2002, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-guinness-bottle-opener-offer/98125/14 "2002-06-08T00:17:31Z")
Got mine yesterday – pretty spiffy, especially since they were supposedly out of them by the time I signed up. ---
**Author:** ![Washte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Washte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washte)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2002, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-guinness-bottle-opener-offer/98125/15 "2002-06-08T13:34:53Z")
☹ Bloody link wouldn’t even work… Prolly wouldn’t ship to the UK anyway ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2002, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-guinness-bottle-opener-offer/98125/16 "2002-06-08T18:56:39Z")
Mine came just last night! Woohoo! _does the happy dance_