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.
Ahem…
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.
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.