Sent: 2/6/2002 1:03 PM
The New York Times reported on Sunday that a credit card company is doing a promotion at the World Economic Forum which is being held at the Waldorf=Astoria here in NYC this week. This credit card company has set up a little booth just beyond the meeting rooms there where they are hoping to pick up some pretty important new customers. The promotion offers those attending the conference a complimentary $100.00 (!) on a pre-paid credit card in hopes that these powerful, already rich, people would appreciate the $100.00 gift so much that they would switch from whatever credit card they are currently using to this particular credit card company. Nevertheless, even if they decide not to enroll with this company, the $100.00 is still theirs to spend, that is, if these people even bother to stop by the booth to pick up their card. (What's $100.00 to these mega-millionaires?)
Now, let's do the math. There are approximately 3,000 attendees at this conference, which means this company is GIVING AWAY over $300,000 to the richest people in the world.
The New York Times reporter asked if Bill Gates had picked up his card, and the credit card company's spokeperson stated that she was not allowed to release that information to the press.
Then the reporter asked what the credit card company planned to do with the money that was not picked up by these attendees, if any:
She stated that the credit card company was going to donate whatever is not retrieved by the World Economic Forum attendees to those small businesses in the
Um. Can you spot the ludicrousness???
