Free Draw Scam At Camping World Burlington WA

It would be a scam if there were no prizes given out. If there were it was not a scam, but a marketing tool. Common business practice.

Anyone remember "answering machines"? I still have one- I call it my Telemarketer Screening Device- and it WORKS! Of course this is on a land line, so one needs to still have that ancient technology, too.

We never pick up until we hear who's talkin'. Telemarketers hang up on such machines and rarely call again.

This is the only control measure we've ever used- never even bothered with "do not call lists" etc..., and we get very, very few such calls anymore.

M GO BLUE wrote:
Welcome to reality...

X3.

There is no free lunch.

If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.

The only people that can be scammed are the greedy.

Follow these three rules that my dear departed mother taught me when I was very young, and you will avoid a lot of problems.

Welcome to reality...

I don't answer calls from numbers I don't recognize.

I check the number on who called me.

Yep, generally, a telemarketing call...

The call gets blocked, they have to find a new number to call me from....number blocking on cell phones is better than the do not call list!

I don't do contests or surveys that want an address,,,,,,!

If I can't afford to go out and buy it, I don't need to win it! Oh, wait,,,,,300 million + odds,,,,,,,like winning the lottery!

Have fun!

What The Heck Is Camping World Doing? There was nothing on the coupon about being Contacted by A Time Share Company. This Scam phone call has really Pissed Me off. Nice way to thank me For the $2000.00 worth of business. I sure that the other people who entered as well will be just as mad as I am.

Why the surprise? Getting mad solves nothing. Getting wary for the next time fixes the problem for you. Marketing is everywhere and it works very well. It is a numbers game and a certain percentage will buy the product. The larger the pool the larger the numbers that buy. It can be a CW drawing or offers for a free trip to Hawaii or some other come on. It works and is profitable. Nobody forced you to enter the drawing and apparently you did not ask if it would be a marketing tool. So, is it really CW's fault? If you had asked and were told 'no' and then you received the call, I could understand your frustration. But, otherwise why would any business have a drawing if not to promote business? And at the end of the day all you had to do was say 'no thanks' to whoever contaced you about the product you did not want to buy or be contacted about. CW has come under a lot of heat lately but your entering a drawing surely would not be something I would think is wrong, bad, or a customer service problem. Maybe we are all learning that there is no free lunch, no free drawing, and that even if we do not win the drawing or trip to Hawaii, it still costs us something. Live and learn, chalk it up to experience, but certainly don't get mad.

And it is not just businesses. Send in $20 to a charity and they will sell your name to others and soon you are bombarded by direct mail solitications from charities and non profits you never even knew existed. Some even call on your home phone, sometimes even your cell phone. It is not just a CW issue. I seriously doubt all the others that entered are upset also. They probably figured there was a catch somewhere, no free lunch anywhere in the drawing, and expected to receive some solitication from submitting their name.

Years ago I gave $20 to the Red Cross. Nowhere did they say they would sell my name, but they did, and in the end they got way more from me than $20, they got to sell my name for $0.50 to dozens of other similar organizations and my $20 grew to probably more than $50 for them.

obgraham wrote:
Cube:
Just what do you think is the purpose of the myriad drawings, contests, and surveys that we all get offered almost every day?

Marketing. Not good will!

Why hid the scam & not even mention it on the ticket. I though I would receive email from Camping World (fine) but not phone calls from a time share scammer.

That happened to us one time in Indianapolis when we went to see the Indianapolis team play hocky. (I've never been to a hocky game in my life until this time, got free tickets, shoot ... I still don't know what the name of the Indianapolis team is anyway!)... anyway... there was this little booth there for a contest drawing so we put our name in the hat. A few days later we got a call and I asked them who they were and how they got my name. They said it came from the hocky game contest. I listened to their pitch and then simply told them I wasn't interested. Nothing to get upset about there. I was nice to them. To this day, I still don't know what it really was they were trying to get me to buy into. But hey! I filled it out, so ... it's just one of those things!

Cube:
Just what do you think is the purpose of the myriad drawings, contests, and surveys that we all get offered almost every day?

Marketing. Not good will!