Some people have tried to beat the odds legally. However, the odds of winning the top prize of $1 million are a whopping 1 in 602 million. In the McDonald’s Monopoly sweepstakes, the odds of winning a prize (mostly food prizes like fries) are about one in four. Click the images to enlarge them.įor information on McDonald’s Canada’s 2018 Coast to Coast Monopoly contest-especially the new Canvas Pop prize- see here.Īndroid Apple Art Automobiles Bicycles Bike trailers Binning British Columbia Canada Computers Development Discarded paintings Downtown Eastside East Vancouver Fairview Films Gnu Linux Google Homeless life Internet Kitsilano Mount Pleasant People Personal South Cambie Things I Found in the Garbage Ubuntu Vancouver B.C.“That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.” - Adam Smith, “The Wealth of Nations” In A Nutshell That however, only appeared on the promotional posters, not - so far as I know - as an actual sticker prize. HP began trying to unload Snapfish in 2013, two years after Instagram proved, beyond any Flickr of a doubt, that most people were more than happy to share their photos online.Īs usual, I will post all my McDonald’s Canada Monopoly Snapfish stickers as I receive them and anyone who wants to, is free to redeem the codes online and take the prizes (see photo above).Īside from the food and cash prizes, the only 2015 McDonald’s Canada Monopoly prize that interests me is the iON Air Pro HD Wi-Fi Camera but I would still much prefer the Polaroid Cube from the 2014 Monopoly contest. HP had originally snapped up the company back in 2005 for USD$300 million, when it still seemed as though there was a mass market for printed photographs. Snapfish, by the way, is now owned by District Photo (a “leader in digital imaging fulfillment services”), which paid an undisclosed amount of money to take it off Hewlett-Packard’s hands in April of this year. This year’s Monopoly Coast to Coast Snapfish instant win prize, which must be redeemed online, is for some manner of personalized Snapfish calendar - probably the least expensive USD$19 version. In a nutshell, Snapfish is the name of a online photo service that turns uploaded digital photos into physical printed objects such as photobooks. Whole schools of the instant win prize are waiting to be peeled and puzzled over by McDonald’s customers. The perennial head-scratcher Snapfish returns for another year to spawn even more confusion. One of the more puzzling of the 14 million prizes to be won. That would be fun for the whole family! A sorry excuse for Canadian rebranding And if they are, might “junior” be able to hack their parents’ Renegade using one of the instant win Xbox One consoles? One can only wonder if the ten 2015 Jeep Renegade Sport vehicles to be won are like the 7800-some 2015 models of the Renegade being recalled because they can potentially be remotely hacked through their computerized entertainment system. The promotional bumf claims that “every family in Canada could win a prize” this year (based on the Statistics Canada 2011 Census of Population, which counted 9,389,700 census families).Īnd all the major signature prizes (aside from the basic cash and food prizes) have been chosen to appeal especially to families - Jeeps Renegades, snowmobiles, BMX bicycles, vacation trips, family fishing equipment packages, and computer game and gaming console instant prizes. This year’s Monopoly contest is also trying to increase traffic into McDonald’s Canada restaurants one entire family at a time. And, by placing the game stickers on the larger portion sizes and more expensive menu items, all customers are driven to “upsize” their orders McDonald’s the world over use the Monopoly promotion to strengthen the brand loyalty of existing customers and to bring in new customers. Careful, you could be throwing away a rare “Chateau Frontenac” piece!
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