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Sticky · 02-28-2008, 06:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Charlatan

The sigh was because there is no Tim Horton's here...

On Sticky's comment... apparently Coffee Time has launched a similar roll up the rim campaign but has also said they will give a free coffee to anyone presenting them with a losing Tim Horton's cup.

At first I thought that was smart to...
...but I am not sure how smart it is.
What would a normal person do, pay for coffee at Tim's to get the roll up the rim. If they win, great. If they lose then they take the losing cup to Coffee Time and don't pay there. They keep going back to Tim's.

Also, CoffeeTime is just not as appealing as Tim's. I am not sure why.

Charlatan · 02-28-2008, 07:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sticky

At first I thought that was smart to...
...but I am not sure how smart it is.
What would a normal person do, pay for coffee at Tim's to get the roll up the rim. If they win, great. If they lose then they take the losing cup to Coffee Time and don't pay there. They keep going back to Tim's.

Also, CoffeeTime is just not as appealing as Tim's. I am not sure why.

I suppose they view it as a loss leader. If they come in and try the coffee maybe they will like it and come back.

The Coffee Time just south of Danforth on Broadview always had lousy coffee that sometimes tasted of floor cleaner. I agree with you that there is just something off about Coffee Time (not that I am a huge fan of Tim Horton's either).

Sticky · 02-29-2008, 06:12 AM

That is exactly it. There is just something off about Coffee Time.
I am not a big fan of Tim Horton's either, they just do this something better.
Also, I am not a huge fan of Starbucks but they do that same something even better. Fo some reason when I see a Starbucks cup, I just want the coffee - even though the coffee is just OK.

Charlatan · 03-03-2008, 05:15 PM

That's weird. I have the same urge when I see the Starbucks' cafe or logo. But then I remember how much I dislike their coffee.

Branding is a bitch.

Sticky · 03-04-2008, 11:54 AM

I have rolled up the rim and lost twice already this season.

thespian86 · 03-04-2008, 12:02 PM

I have rolllllled four times and one once. My mother won a BBQ once. Since then my family has been plagued with a lack of Tim-fortune.

edit: Is anyone ever annoyed that when you roll up the rim it is nothing like it is on TV. I'm not stupid, I realize ads are ads, but at least at McD's you get a Big Mac that looks like the ad once in your life time. Mine never roll up perfectly cut with pictures illustrating my winnings. Damn you false advertising.

Leto · 03-05-2008, 04:20 AM

It's Country Style that will be honouring Tim's Try Agains during the week of March 9.

I've been stopping at the Country Style on the way to work, because of the smaller line up and the almost identical coffee. Their boston cream doughnuts taste a lot better too. But so far in the past 3 weeks, I've one free coffee or food about 50% of the time. The remainder of the rims have things like 10% off Mark's Work Wearhouse, or Liberty Tax etc. Not really winning at all.

Charlatan · 03-05-2008, 08:56 PM

Starbucks was giving out free large coffees between 10 and noon today. I admit... I went down and scooped a free coffee.

Sticky · 03-06-2008, 08:23 AM

Charlatan, only one?

Rolled and lost again.

Charlatan · 03-06-2008, 05:08 PM

yes... only one. The whole office went down, though so it added up to around 25 coffees total.

Sticky · 03-07-2008, 11:59 AM

Once or twice a year the office building I work in does that. They pay for complimentary coffees and muffins (from one of the coffee places in teh building) to everyone (alot of people) who works in the building.

Sticky · 03-17-2008, 07:41 AM

Lost a few more times.

I am about to roll up the rim and lose again.

Leto · 03-18-2008, 01:15 PM

rolled and lost today and yesterday.

Sticky · 03-19-2008, 06:00 AM

There has not been any real talk of winnings this season yet.

Charlatan · 03-25-2008, 05:44 PM

Still no rolling here... but I am having a very tasty cup of coffee.

Leto · 03-25-2008, 05:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sticky

There has not been any real talk of winnings this season yet.

no... just prior to the Timmy's rollup the rim, Country Style had their contest running. In the space of a couple of weeks I won 2 coffees, a 6 pack of mini doughnuts, a cookie and a doughnut.

Since the Timmy's contest started, I've only won a coffee.

Daval · 03-26-2008, 04:50 AM

About two weeks into it my grand total is two coffee's and one donut. Total bought probably about 20ish coffee's so thats actually not too bad, although all three wins have been with the last 5 coffee's.

I really want a Garmin! (well car would be awesome too but virtually no chance of winning that)

Sticky · 03-27-2008, 06:53 AM

I tried a different location and lost again.

Leto · 04-02-2008, 11:01 AM

bought a breakbast sandwich and cashed in my free coffee wining and... got a please play again.

Sandwhich hit the spot tho.

m0rpheus · 04-02-2008, 02:13 PM

I had a nice little run there. Five free coffees in a row. Then I won a cookie. I have won nothing after the cookie. Damn cookies

thespian86 · 04-03-2008, 07:00 AM

I have one 1!! lousy coffee this year, and I buy maybe twice a day. Damn you tims.

Sticky · 04-15-2008, 10:48 AM

They ran out of roll up the rim cups at the closest Tim Horton's to work.
I still have not won.

Leto · 04-21-2008, 12:52 PM

goodbye for another what... year?

Incidentally, the "some" menu items that increased in price at Tim's included coffee. The little warning signs that they posted for the week prior to the increase made me think that the "some" menu items would be, you know, muffins, cookies, maybe fancy doughnuts.

But if they meant coffee too, why not just say all menu items???

So now, It costs $1.28 for a medium coffee (a five cent increase). So I say, off I go to Country Style, because their mediums (which taste identical) are probably still a buck and a quarter.

But nooooo.. $1.30 at Country Style. Also a nickle increase. Tell me there's no collusion.

Charlatan · 04-21-2008, 03:23 PM

Saw this story and thought it was relevant... Interesting that everyone seems to be winning less. Could Tim's have reduced the number of prizes?

LINK

Quote:

Coffee junkies say it's a lean 'Roll Up the Rim' season

PATRICK WHITE

From Wednesday's Globe and Mail

April 16, 2008 at 2:25 AM EDT

'Tis the season of our national lament.

We gripe, we caterwaul, but as another cycle of one of our dearest national pastimes peters out, we resign ourselves to the age-old losers' chorus of “Maybe next year.”

Yes, another season of Tim Hortons' Roll Up the Rim to Win promotion is at an end, though the promotion's finale has not come without protest. Everywhere, double-double drinkers are grumbling about their lack of wins, all united by one cold, bilingual line: “Please Play Again/Réessayez s.v.p.” Bloggers, construction workers, even radio personalities have noted long slumps.

At a Tim Hortons in downtown Toronto yesterday, morning caffeine imbibers streamed out the doors with dispositions as bitter as their joe. “I can't believe it's over already,” said Trevor Walcott, a three-a-day coffee drinker clutching a burgundy cup rather than one of the bright-red contest cups in which he'd invested so much hope over the past two months. “I've won three free coffees the whole time. Last year, I won like seven or eight times.”
Disappointed Tim Hortons patrons have begun cooking up theories to explain why they aren’t winning. Deborah Baic/The Globe and Mail

Disappointed Tim Hortons patrons have begun cooking up theories to explain why they aren’t winning. (Deborah Baic/The Globe and Mail)
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* What's your Tims experience been like this round of Roll Up the Rim to Win?

Behind him walked University of Toronto student Breanna Costelloe. “I'm really upset,” she said, over a song pumping through her iPod. “I drink two or three Tims a day and won a single coffee this time around. My mom says she's had the same luck.”

For five of the eight weeks that Tim Hortons ran the promotion, CBC host Stuart McLean and his 12-member tour bus drove from Fort St. John, B.C., to Fargo, N.D., perhaps braking for more Hortons outlets than any other vehicle on the road during that period.

“We had logged about 8,000 kilometres on the Vinyl Cafe tour bus,” Mr. McLean, who doesn't drink coffee, later reflected on his show. “[We] made some new friends and rolled up enough rims to make you wonder if anyone ever wins anything.”

More devoted coffee drinkers have taken to tracking their sagging fortunes like a trader watching stocks.

Cory Comerford, a telecommunications worker in St. John's, was so excited about his Roll Up the Rim prospects this season that he started a blog, rolluptherimtowin2008.blogspot.com, to monitor his winnings. After a 29-cup losing streak, he briefly stopped posting. The slump reached 35 cups before he won on a cup his brother bought.

“It was a definite rut,” says Mr. Comerford, who normally drinks three double-singles a week, but bumps his intake to one a day during Roll Up the Rim season. “But everyone's reporting lower winnings this year.”

And that's not just a lazy estimate. Mr. Comerford and several co-workers have posted all their cup counts on a whiteboard at work. Their win ratio stands at about one in 12, well off the one in nine that Tim Hortons advertises.

Mr. Comerford has taken his penchant for math and caffeine even further, working out the odds of winning the grand prize Toyota Matrix in each province on a complex spreadsheet.

“If you're in Quebec, you have the best chance of winning,” he says. That's based on calculations he made of the prize disbursements that Tim Horton details in a rules and regulations document. “Ontario, on the other hand, kind of gets the shaft.”

Concerned Tims fans have been quick to finger culprits.

“I've heard they're sending more of the big prizes to the States,” says Mr. Walcott.

Some patrons in Atlantic Canada suspect Hortons workers of stealing winning cups after St. John's resident Bernard Delaney was quoted in local papers insisting that he saw tooth marks on one of his rims in March.

“It would certainly account for the drop,” says Mr. Comerford.

Tim Hortons has worked to discredit these homespun theories. Every Roll Up the Rim season it hires a professional contest company to ensure the odds of winning remain at one in nine, just as they have for previous promotions. Rumours of regional prize disparities are “Not true,” according to company spokeswoman Rachel Douglas.

Not everyone has endured the great doughnut drought of 2008. Calgarian Jonathan Lin has graphed winnings far ahead of the company odds at linisus.com/tim-hortons-roll-up-the-rim. And one Toronto patron reported Tuesday winning “on every second cup.”

Beyond those few examples of success, there may still be hope, however faint. Even though many locations across the country are nearly out of contest cups, five cars and 29 boats remain unclaimed, according to Ms. Douglas, who offered somewhat hollow words of encouragement for desperate prize-seekers: “Keep r-r-rolling!”

Sticky · 02-23-2009, 09:38 AM

1 cup - 1 loss

my streak of losses continues.

Leto · 02-23-2009, 10:03 AM

damn... I just stopped at Country Style instead. But they have a winner in every cup (if you call 10% off at Mark's Work Wearhouse a win...).

Checking today's country style cup....

And it's a free Brookside Almond Sample! A winner of sorts.

Sticky · 02-24-2009, 12:53 PM

2 cups - 1 losses

Lucifer · 02-24-2009, 02:01 PM

0 for 2, bummer

Leto · 02-25-2009, 04:30 AM

3 cups, 1 free hot chocolate.

Sticky · 03-05-2009, 09:58 AM

Woohoo. I finally won something - a free cup of coffee.

Daval · 03-05-2009, 11:17 AM

I had a strong start to the contest with about 4 free coffee's in my first 8 or so cups. I've had another 8 or so cups since then though with no wins.

BadNick · 03-05-2009, 06:15 PM

frickin' Timmy should stay on ice....I bought a lb. of Gold Coast coffee (my favorite) ground Turkish at Starbucks today and got a free coffee and a free apple fritter just because I'm a good customer.

canuckguy · 03-05-2009, 06:21 PM

I am 0 for 14 so far.....

Leto · 03-06-2009, 03:33 AM

will be ordering 3 large in about 2 hours.... we'll see.

(Starbucks? It's not the same...)

Leto · 03-06-2009, 11:09 AM

strike 3!

Lucifer · 03-06-2009, 04:25 PM

0 for 5. This year just sucks.

Leto · 03-11-2009, 09:02 AM

this is bad. Every purchase has yielded the dreaded please play again except for one hot chocolate so far. But I heard that Coffee Time will honour your losing cups from Timmie's for a free cup of joe at their place.

So, the Star has this article in it today. Shows how consuming this institution is in Canada:

I also read in one of the comments, that there are NO grand prizes under the rims of the medium coffees. You need to at least purchase a large to win the car.

Tim Hortons contest odds give Ontarians reason to cry over double-double - Yahoo! Canada News

Tim Hortons contest odds give Ontarians reason to cry over double-double

Wed Mar 11, 3:11 AM

TORONTO (CBC) - Tim Hortons lovers across Canada are rolling up rims of coffee cups and, although millions dream of seeing a shiny new car reveal itself under the lid, documents show that's not likely to happen especially if they live in Ontario.

Debra Deveau, a Tim Hortons server in Saint John, N.B., watches traffic at the popular coffee shop mushroom during the annual "Roll Up the Rim to Win" contest, where customers can roll up the rim of their cups to see potential prizes.

"I've seen people come in and buy tons and tons of larges," Deveau said.

"You'll get six, eight, 10 ... cups of large coffees from people who will come in the run of a day, compared to when the contest is not running."

Tim Hortons has issued 281.7 million special contest cups for its popular springtime contest, which runs across Canada and in 11 American states.

The average Canadian adult will roll up a rim 10 times before the company closes the promotion May 1.

Top prize is a $32,000 Toyota Venza and is hidden beneath the rim of 35 of the cups, but company documents show they are not distributed equally across the country.

For example, although 52.5 per cent of all contest cups will be sold in Ontario, only 15 of those 35 grand prize cups or 43 per cent have been allotted to the country's largest province.

That's three fewer than provincial coffee drinkers could have expected under a proportional distribution of top prizes.

Instead, those three cups have been slipped, one each, into stores in British Columbia, Quebec and Atlantic Canada.

Tim Hortons lists the overall chances of winning a Toyota Venza as slightly more than one in eight million.

But because of the distribution of cups those odds vary across the country. The best chance to win big is in British Columbia (one in 5.9 million) and the worst is in Ontario (1 in 9.9 million).

Tim Hortons gives no reason in its contest documents for the uneven placement of the car cups around the country.

All other prizes are distributed proportionately.

A call to Tim Hortons headquarters in Oakville, Ont., about the issue was not returned.

Still, many customers say they have their sights set lower than the grand prize anyway.

Katie Burtt, a student at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John, said she would happily celebrate a free doughnut.

"I keep a tally. I've had 26 coffees and won nothing," Burtt said.

Lucifer · 03-11-2009, 10:45 AM

Finally today, a free doughnut! That makes it 1 for 6!

Daval · 03-12-2009, 04:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daval

I had a strong start to the contest with about 4 free coffee's in my first 8 or so cups. I've had another 8 or so cups since then though with no wins.

Geez, after about 15- 18 or so cups I am now at a grand total of 5 coffee's.

Sticky · 03-18-2009, 11:43 AM

Another few cups and then a win again. Awesome - fee coffee.

03-03-2008, 05:15 PM	#244 (permalink)
Charlatan Getting it. Super Moderator Location: Lion City	That's weird. I have the same urge when I see the Starbucks' cafe or logo. But then I remember how much I dislike their coffee. Branding is a bitch. __________________ "My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars." - Old Man Luedecke

03-04-2008, 12:02 PM	#246 (permalink)
thespian86 change is hard. Location: the green room.	I have rolllllled four times and one once. My mother won a BBQ once. Since then my family has been plagued with a lack of Tim-fortune. edit: Is anyone ever annoyed that when you roll up the rim it is nothing like it is on TV. I'm not stupid, I realize ads are ads, but at least at McD's you get a Big Mac that looks like the ad once in your life time. Mine never roll up perfectly cut with pictures illustrating my winnings. Damn you false advertising. __________________ EX: Whats new? ME: I officially love coffee more then you now. EX: uh... ME: So, not much.

03-05-2008, 08:56 PM	#248 (permalink)
Charlatan Getting it. Super Moderator Location: Lion City	Starbucks was giving out free large coffees between 10 and noon today. I admit... I went down and scooped a free coffee. __________________ "My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars." - Old Man Luedecke

03-06-2008, 05:08 PM	#250 (permalink)
Charlatan Getting it. Super Moderator Location: Lion City	yes... only one. The whole office went down, though so it added up to around 25 coffees total. __________________ "My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars." - Old Man Luedecke

03-25-2008, 05:44 PM	#255 (permalink)
Charlatan Getting it. Super Moderator Location: Lion City	Still no rolling here... but I am having a very tasty cup of coffee. __________________ "My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars." - Old Man Luedecke

02-29-2008, 06:12 AM	#243 (permalink)
Sticky	That is exactly it. There is just something off about Coffee Time. I am not a big fan of Tim Horton's either, they just do this something better. Also, I am not a huge fan of Starbucks but they do that same something even better. Fo some reason when I see a Starbucks cup, I just want the coffee - even though the coffee is just OK. __________________ Sticky The Stickman

03-04-2008, 11:54 AM	#245 (permalink)
Sticky	I have rolled up the rim and lost twice already this season. __________________ Sticky The Stickman

03-05-2008, 04:20 AM	#247 (permalink)
Leto Junkie Location: The Danforth	It's Country Style that will be honouring Tim's Try Agains during the week of March 9. I've been stopping at the Country Style on the way to work, because of the smaller line up and the almost identical coffee. Their boston cream doughnuts taste a lot better too. But so far in the past 3 weeks, I've one free coffee or food about 50% of the time. The remainder of the rims have things like 10% off Mark's Work Wearhouse, or Liberty Tax etc. Not really winning at all.

03-06-2008, 08:23 AM	#249 (permalink)
Sticky	Charlatan, only one? Rolled and lost again. __________________ Sticky The Stickman

03-07-2008, 11:59 AM	#251 (permalink)
Sticky	Once or twice a year the office building I work in does that. They pay for complimentary coffees and muffins (from one of the coffee places in teh building) to everyone (alot of people) who works in the building. __________________ Sticky The Stickman

03-17-2008, 07:41 AM	#252 (permalink)
Sticky	Lost a few more times. I am about to roll up the rim and lose again. __________________ Sticky The Stickman

03-18-2008, 01:15 PM	#253 (permalink)
Leto Junkie Location: The Danforth	rolled and lost today and yesterday.

03-19-2008, 06:00 AM	#254 (permalink)
Sticky	There has not been any real talk of winnings this season yet. __________________ Sticky The Stickman

03-26-2008, 04:50 AM	#257 (permalink)
Daval Junkie Location: The True North Strong and Free!	About two weeks into it my grand total is two coffee's and one donut. Total bought probably about 20ish coffee's so thats actually not too bad, although all three wins have been with the last 5 coffee's. I really want a Garmin! (well car would be awesome too but virtually no chance of winning that) __________________ "It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it." Winston Churchill

03-27-2008, 06:53 AM	#258 (permalink)
Sticky	I tried a different location and lost again. __________________ Sticky The Stickman

04-02-2008, 11:01 AM	#259 (permalink)
Leto Junkie Location: The Danforth	bought a breakbast sandwich and cashed in my free coffee wining and... got a please play again. Sandwhich hit the spot tho.

04-02-2008, 02:13 PM	#260 (permalink)
m0rpheus bad craziness Location: Guelph, Ontario	I had a nice little run there. Five free coffees in a row. Then I won a cookie. I have won nothing after the cookie. Damn cookies __________________ "it never got weird enough for me." - Hunter S. Thompson

04-03-2008, 07:00 AM	#261 (permalink)
thespian86 change is hard. Location: the green room.	I have one 1!! lousy coffee this year, and I buy maybe twice a day. Damn you tims. __________________ EX: Whats new? ME: I officially love coffee more then you now. EX: uh... ME: So, not much.

04-15-2008, 10:48 AM	#262 (permalink)
Sticky	They ran out of roll up the rim cups at the closest Tim Horton's to work. I still have not won. __________________ Sticky The Stickman

04-21-2008, 12:52 PM	#263 (permalink)
Leto Junkie Location: The Danforth	goodbye for another what... year? Incidentally, the "some" menu items that increased in price at Tim's included coffee. The little warning signs that they posted for the week prior to the increase made me think that the "some" menu items would be, you know, muffins, cookies, maybe fancy doughnuts. But if they meant coffee too, why not just say all menu items??? So now, It costs $1.28 for a medium coffee (a five cent increase). So I say, off I go to Country Style, because their mediums (which taste identical) are probably still a buck and a quarter. But nooooo.. $1.30 at Country Style. Also a nickle increase. Tell me there's no collusion.

02-23-2009, 09:38 AM	#265 (permalink)
Sticky	'Tis the Season - Roll up the Rim 2009 1 cup - 1 loss my streak of losses continues. __________________ Sticky The Stickman

02-23-2009, 10:03 AM	#266 (permalink)
Leto Junkie Location: The Danforth	damn... I just stopped at Country Style instead. But they have a winner in every cup (if you call 10% off at Mark's Work Wearhouse a win...). Checking today's country style cup.... And it's a free Brookside Almond Sample! A winner of sorts. __________________ You said you didn't give a fuck about hockey And I never saw someone say that before You held my hand and we walked home the long way You were loosening my grip on Bobby Orr http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Leto_Atreides_I

02-24-2009, 12:53 PM	#267 (permalink)
Sticky	2 cups - 1 losses __________________ Sticky The Stickman

02-24-2009, 02:01 PM	#268 (permalink)
Lucifer Husband of Seamaiden Location: Nova Scotia	0 for 2, bummer __________________ I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. - Job 30:29 1123, 6536, 5321

02-25-2009, 04:30 AM	#269 (permalink)
Leto Junkie Location: The Danforth	3 cups, 1 free hot chocolate. __________________ You said you didn't give a fuck about hockey And I never saw someone say that before You held my hand and we walked home the long way You were loosening my grip on Bobby Orr http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Leto_Atreides_I

03-05-2009, 09:58 AM	#270 (permalink)
Sticky	Woohoo. I finally won something - a free cup of coffee. __________________ Sticky The Stickman

03-05-2009, 11:17 AM	#271 (permalink)
Daval Junkie Location: The True North Strong and Free!	I had a strong start to the contest with about 4 free coffee's in my first 8 or so cups. I've had another 8 or so cups since then though with no wins. __________________ "It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it." Winston Churchill

03-05-2009, 06:15 PM	#272 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	frickin' Timmy should stay on ice....I bought a lb. of Gold Coast coffee (my favorite) ground Turkish at Starbucks today and got a free coffee and a free apple fritter just because I'm a good customer.

03-05-2009, 06:21 PM	#273 (permalink)
canuckguy I read your emails. Location: earth	I am 0 for 14 so far.....

03-06-2009, 03:33 AM	#274 (permalink)
Leto Junkie Location: The Danforth	will be ordering 3 large in about 2 hours.... we'll see. (Starbucks? It's not the same...) __________________ You said you didn't give a fuck about hockey And I never saw someone say that before You held my hand and we walked home the long way You were loosening my grip on Bobby Orr http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Leto_Atreides_I

03-06-2009, 11:09 AM	#275 (permalink)
Leto Junkie Location: The Danforth	strike 3! __________________ You said you didn't give a fuck about hockey And I never saw someone say that before You held my hand and we walked home the long way You were loosening my grip on Bobby Orr http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Leto_Atreides_I

03-06-2009, 04:25 PM	#276 (permalink)
Lucifer Husband of Seamaiden Location: Nova Scotia	0 for 5. This year just sucks. __________________ I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. - Job 30:29 1123, 6536, 5321

03-11-2009, 09:02 AM	#277 (permalink)
Leto Junkie Location: The Danforth	this is bad. Every purchase has yielded the dreaded please play again except for one hot chocolate so far. But I heard that Coffee Time will honour your losing cups from Timmie's for a free cup of joe at their place. So, the Star has this article in it today. Shows how consuming this institution is in Canada: I also read in one of the comments, that there are NO grand prizes under the rims of the medium coffees. You need to at least purchase a large to win the car. Tim Hortons contest odds give Ontarians reason to cry over double-double - Yahoo! Canada News Tim Hortons contest odds give Ontarians reason to cry over double-double Wed Mar 11, 3:11 AM TORONTO (CBC) - Tim Hortons lovers across Canada are rolling up rims of coffee cups and, although millions dream of seeing a shiny new car reveal itself under the lid, documents show that's not likely to happen especially if they live in Ontario. Debra Deveau, a Tim Hortons server in Saint John, N.B., watches traffic at the popular coffee shop mushroom during the annual "Roll Up the Rim to Win" contest, where customers can roll up the rim of their cups to see potential prizes. "I've seen people come in and buy tons and tons of larges," Deveau said. "You'll get six, eight, 10 ... cups of large coffees from people who will come in the run of a day, compared to when the contest is not running." Tim Hortons has issued 281.7 million special contest cups for its popular springtime contest, which runs across Canada and in 11 American states. The average Canadian adult will roll up a rim 10 times before the company closes the promotion May 1. Top prize is a $32,000 Toyota Venza and is hidden beneath the rim of 35 of the cups, but company documents show they are not distributed equally across the country. For example, although 52.5 per cent of all contest cups will be sold in Ontario, only 15 of those 35 grand prize cups or 43 per cent have been allotted to the country's largest province. That's three fewer than provincial coffee drinkers could have expected under a proportional distribution of top prizes. Instead, those three cups have been slipped, one each, into stores in British Columbia, Quebec and Atlantic Canada. Tim Hortons lists the overall chances of winning a Toyota Venza as slightly more than one in eight million. But because of the distribution of cups those odds vary across the country. The best chance to win big is in British Columbia (one in 5.9 million) and the worst is in Ontario (1 in 9.9 million). Tim Hortons gives no reason in its contest documents for the uneven placement of the car cups around the country. All other prizes are distributed proportionately. A call to Tim Hortons headquarters in Oakville, Ont., about the issue was not returned. Still, many customers say they have their sights set lower than the grand prize anyway. Katie Burtt, a student at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John, said she would happily celebrate a free doughnut. "I keep a tally. I've had 26 coffees and won nothing," Burtt said. __________________ You said you didn't give a fuck about hockey And I never saw someone say that before You held my hand and we walked home the long way You were loosening my grip on Bobby Orr http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Leto_Atreides_I Last edited by Leto; 03-11-2009 at 09:11 AM..

03-11-2009, 10:45 AM	#278 (permalink)
Lucifer Husband of Seamaiden Location: Nova Scotia	Finally today, a free doughnut! That makes it 1 for 6! __________________ I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. - Job 30:29 1123, 6536, 5321

03-18-2009, 11:43 AM	#280 (permalink)
Sticky	Another few cups and then a win again. Awesome - fee coffee. __________________ Sticky The Stickman