The Personality Code and the missing Wii.
While looking around Amazon.com, I noticed a suggested title from them called The Personality Code by Dr. Travis Bradberry. It seemed interesting and covered topics that I studied as an undergraduate in college so I looked more into it and the book itself was interesting enough but there’s more to this story though.
On the Amazon page for the blog entry by the author promoting a game hosted on his website. It was a Press-Your-Luck game based on the story of Michael Larson, the guy behind the game show scandal which is mentioned in the book. You could win prizes such as a blinkie, autographed copy of the book, a IPod Shuffle or an Nintendo Wii based on how well you scored in the game. I got lucky and got enough points to win a Wii. The game asked me to fill out a form with my information and said the prize would be shipped out within a week. Weeks go by and nothing shows up, I try following up and got nowhere.
Now I see the blog entry mentioning the contest is gone and the game on the website has been changed to a play game. Maybe they meant the contest to be over a long time ago and just dropped the ball by not changing their website or their entry on amazon before someone won a prize, but it seems a little shady to not award the prize and then just erase any mention of the contest like it never existed. There were no posted rules saying the game was over by a certain date or anything like that, I played the game in good faith and guess I really lost in the end. They could have at least sent an email or called and said “Hey, we screwed up, sorry.” At this point, I would not be surprised if the blog entry over at Amazon just got totally erased to get rid of my comment and although I don’t expect anything to come of this, I have to say I’m really disappointed at the outcome from the author of a book I find interesting.