Mrs. L.A. entered a Publisher’s Clearing House sweepstakes. After decades of ignoring them, I thought ‘What they hell,’ and entered myself. Sometimes I get tired of endlessly playing Sudoku, and their ‘games’ are mildly diverting. Of course to actually enter a sweepstakes, you need to complete the ‘final step’ several times a day. (They seem to have an unusual definition of ‘final’.) This invariably involves clicking through several pages of things to buy before you can enter. (And then you need to look at more stuff before you can enter.) Today I was curious…
They had a DVD (one I would never buy) for five payments of $2.99 each – call it $18 total. I went to Amazon and found the same DVD for $8.22. I also looked up a butter dish (I don’t use them). I couldn’t find the exact one, but the ones I did find were much cheaper from Amazon. Not to mention that all of the stuff they advertise is cheap crap you’d expect from Fingerhut or someplace; things that grandparents in the '70s might think were fabulous.
Anyway, I’ll play with PCH a while longer, until I get tired of it. I’m not buying anything from them though, because I don’t want what they’re selling and, if I did, it’s cheaper elsewhere. And it’s mildly amusing to do the required searches by entering things like ‘recipes for human flesh’, ‘where to buy human flesh’, ‘cannibalism’, ‘roast kitten’, and ‘are pch sweepstakes a scam’.