# We may have been defrauded at the pub quiz tonight.

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 17, 2011, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-have-been-defrauded-at-the-pub-quiz-tonight/599885 "2011-10-17T04:15:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-have-been-defrauded-at-the-pub-quiz-tonight/599885/21 "2013-06-01T13:01:44Z")

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Forget about it. These type of prizes are rarely worth it because the entity awarding the prize usually sends a 1099 for a greatly exaggerated amount. For example, they’ll indicate that your hotel and airfare, which you could have gotten off Expedia for $500, has a value of $3,000.

That’s not to say that I wouldn’t trash their name on public message boards, though.

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**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-have-been-defrauded-at-the-pub-quiz-tonight/599885/22 "2013-06-01T13:10:08Z")

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Ahem…

> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#):
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> We never got the trip. When the trivia company person contacted them, they said they had the tickets for us, but they were “lost in the office”. Funnily, they never turned up, and the venue quickly got rid of the trivia game.
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> I spoke to a friend who is a lawyer, and he said there was not a whole lot of recourse short of Small Claims Court. We had no time to go further, and sort of gave up. Probably not the best ending, but I don’t think the restaurant is around anymore.

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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-have-been-defrauded-at-the-pub-quiz-tonight/599885/23 "2013-06-01T13:17:18Z")

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Hmm. That sounds a awful lot like “We never had any tickets, nor did we plan on ever actually sending anyone anywhere, but we did get a bunch of people through the door and all it cost us was $50.” And I’m guessing that $35/15 “prize” was off of the winners’ tab, so it probably only really cost them about $20 total, depending on what you ordered.

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**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-have-been-defrauded-at-the-pub-quiz-tonight/599885/24 "2013-06-01T14:24:25Z")

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It probably would’ve been standby tickets and a twin bed at an Econo Lodge directly under the flight path at McCarran. Or what I like to call the “High Roller” package.

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