"RoseGarden" - - - - - - - from - nscave

Not mentioning any names, a local bread company has a contest running where you register and enter coupon codes obtained from their bread packages. (Not mentioning any names, but there is a clock in London with a similar name.) You can win two computer systems, one for yourself, plus one for the school of your choice, and various other lesser prizes.

For several days I tried to register and enter one of those codes. However each time my registration would be rejected saying information was incomplete, even though the form was carefully completed accurately each time.

So after several days of trying, I sent the company an email describing the problems of registration. Yes problems, for if you click on the 'contact us' button it would open forty Internet Explorers that you couldn't stop. No wonder I like Firefox.

After approximately a week I got a reply from noreply@the bread company. No names, no text, just the same web page logo to click on to enter their contest. So I clicked on it, and up pops the same web site with the same form as before.

I proceed to enter the required registration information figuring they likely had fixed the problem. But nope, same thing, a return message "Incomplete information, please supply the information as indicated below." And of course it never indicated what information was missing because there wasn't any missing.

Then the light bulb came on and I began to wonder. There was a drop down list to select your age bracket. I had been selecting '65 and over'. I just wonder what would happen if I made myself a little younger. So I selected another age bracket.

Well AllaKazzam I am registered - thank you for registering!

I am finding out day by day that seniors are discriminated against. Sometimes in tiny ways.

-=One Day At A Time=-

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