$10000 Apple Prize FAIL (almost)

[moodswinger]

Woman hangs up on $10,000 call from Apple

Technology facilitates intrusion.

People weasel their way into our lives in order to sell us cable TV, a zoo membership, or enhanced reproductive organs.

So who could be surprised when Gail Davis, a woman in Orpington, England, picked up the phone, listened to someone offering her a prize, and immediately replied, "Thank you very much; I'm not interested"?

The only problem was that the caller really was someone from Apple and Davis really had won a prize. For her household was, indeed, the one from which the 10 billionth app had been downloaded from Apple's app store. As the Cult of Mac tells it, Davis was brought to her senses by her daughters, one of whom had downloaded the free PaperGlider app, which is so utterly useful to humanity that Warren Buffett is probably playing it as we speak.
Davis was distraught when she called Apple back and somehow the person on the company's helpdesk reportedly proved to be less than helpful. Perhaps Davis was already a marked woman. Perhaps it had been Apple COO Tim Cook himself calling to tell her she had won a $10,000 gift card.

Davis was mired in shame. As she told the Cult of Mac: "The more I thought about it, the more I realized it was a genuine call. The girls were getting quite tense. They never would have forgiven me. They would have held it against me for all eternity."
Children hold all sorts of things against their mothers for all eternity, from looks to luck. But this would have been too much to bear.
Her eternity was made sweeter when she received another call from Apple. This time it was a colleague of Eddy Cue, Apple's VP of iTunes.
You might wonder why Cue himself didn't make the call. It could have been because it had, indeed, been Cue, rather than a telemarketer, who had made the original call and received a polite British brush-off.
So now Gail Davis and her family can download more apps and enjoy their fame. And Apple can content itself that it is now only Toshiba being rude to the company, rather than the woman whose family downloaded the 10 billionth app.

Source: PRIZE FAIL

 

[Wabsta]

The source, it's broken.

 

[RupeeClock]

Really? For something THAT important, they tried to phone her?
And not actually go to her home with a special event, like people in suits?

 

[gokujr1000]

She was lucky Apple gave her another chance and called again otherwise she would have been screwed big time.

 

[Frog]

Really? For something THAT important, they tried to phone her?
And not actually go to her home with a special event, like people in suits?

And a ridiculously oversized itunes card!

 

[moodswinger]

The source, it's broken.

Fix'd!

 

[RupeeClock]

She was lucky Apple gave her another chance and called again otherwise she would have been screwed big time.

Apple are the ones who screwed up.
They should've known better that NOBODY would've believed a prize message delivered by telephone, nobody ever does.
It's called cold calling.

Edit: the more I think about it, the more it just plain baffles me, it's a company that deals in digital downloads for fucks sakes.
To buy shit on itunes you need an email address.

 

[GundamXXX]

She was lucky Apple gave her another chance and called again otherwise she would have been screwed big time.

Apple are the ones who screwed up.
They should've known better that NOBODY would've believed a prize message delivered by telephone, nobody ever does.
It's called cold calling.

Edit: the more I think about it, the more it just plain baffles me, it's a company that deals in digital downloads for fucks sakes.
To buy shit on itunes you need an email address.

I disagree, Im someone who callers winners of our companies competitions. I have yet to have 1 person hang up on me
And calling them is just a tad more personal and companies liek to do that

How uninspired would receiving an email saying "Yay gratz you won, u 1337 bro" be? Id be happier with someone who called me with enthousiasm saying "OMG U WON U SO PWN GRATZLOL OMGWTFBBQ"

 

[Vigilante]

Well hoping to get the 20 billionth app to get my $20000

 

[shaunj66]

To be honest, if I wasn't aware of the promotion (like she most likely wasn't), and someone phoned me up telling me I had won a $10,000 gift card I probably would have hung up too.

 

[Vigilante]

To be honest, if I wasn't aware of the promotion (like she most likely wasn't), and someone phoned me up telling me I had won a $10,000 gift card I probably would have hung up too.

Agree,everyone at first would think of it as a scam because its not like everyday you will get 10000$ from a phone call

 

[InuYasha]

Given the crazy amount of email and phone scams these days I would of hung up to most likly...

 

[_Chaz_]

Apple doesn't simply GIVE money away, they take it.
I'd be skeptical as well if I received a call saying otherwise.

 

[Law]

 

[Rydian]

Edit: the more I think about it, the more it just plain baffles me, it's a company that deals in digital downloads for fucks sakes.
To buy shit on itunes you need an email address.

Post your e-mail address and I'll send you something from [email protected].

E-mail isn't secure either.

 

[bigpaws]

it is called phishing

 

[RupeeClock]

Edit: the more I think about it, the more it just plain baffles me, it's a company that deals in digital downloads for fucks sakes.
To buy shit on itunes you need an email address.

Post your e-mail address and I'll send you something from [email protected].

E-mail isn't secure either.

Come on, think that through a little.
If you bought the winning 10 billionth app, they'd know what it was, and be able to tell you that because of their records.

 

[Sir Spanky]

Love this clip!

 

[MelodieOctavia]

Congratulations, you just won a $10,000 iTunes gift card!

sounds awfully similar to

Congratulations! You just won a free iPod nano!

 

[RchUncleSkeleton]

$10000 in itunes?? No thanks....I'll take 5 or 6 macbook pro's instead and then I'll transfer my already vast collection of music to them. I would've guessed it was a scam by telephone or email, so either way I wouldn't have believed it.