colonel717
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I recently won a 55 inch 3D tv from Verizon Sweeps with ARV $2260.00. When speaking with the prize company about the prize, they said the tv they were going to provide was not available so they gave me a different model. Well, the model they gave me was $800 less than the AVR.
I feel they have pulled some deceptive practice with the prize. There was no specific tv model listed in the rules, just the generic description, but with AVR of $2260, the price of the tv would indicate it is a higher end model. At the time they ordered my prize, there were tvs that fit the description for that ARV. I am now fighting with them to get the difference in a gift card from Best Buy where they ordered the tv. Has something like this happened to anyone else. They have said that my tax form would indicate the lower value.
The rules state they can subsititute prize for equal or greater than ARV. They claim it is the 55 inch tv that is the prize value not the ARV. Look at it this way, for instance if they said the prize was a car for $22,060 and they said that car wasn't available, per their explanation they could give me a car for $1000 and they would say they are within the rules.
https://paperfree.verizon.com/OfficialRules.aspx
GENERAL: All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply.
No cash equivalents, substitutions or transfer of prize permitted except that Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value in the event that the offered prize is unavailable.
I feel they have pulled some deceptive practice with the prize. There was no specific tv model listed in the rules, just the generic description, but with AVR of $2260, the price of the tv would indicate it is a higher end model. At the time they ordered my prize, there were tvs that fit the description for that ARV. I am now fighting with them to get the difference in a gift card from Best Buy where they ordered the tv. Has something like this happened to anyone else. They have said that my tax form would indicate the lower value.
The rules state they can subsititute prize for equal or greater than ARV. They claim it is the 55 inch tv that is the prize value not the ARV. Look at it this way, for instance if they said the prize was a car for $22,060 and they said that car wasn't available, per their explanation they could give me a car for $1000 and they would say they are within the rules.
https://paperfree.verizon.com/OfficialRules.aspx
GENERAL: All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply.
No cash equivalents, substitutions or transfer of prize permitted except that Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value in the event that the offered prize is unavailable.
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