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Had a competition pop up on Facebook advertising you could "win a chance to feed your whole family for free for a year". The prize is a $2000 gift card. Just over $38 a week. Yeah it would be nice to win, but the false advertising with this sort of ad is bullshit.
I don't enter competitions these days because they're mostly personal info harvesting exercises.
$38 a week is technically doable on rice and beans. Corporate overlords say you need to bootstrap harder.
Feeding a family of any size (even one person really) on that seems extra unlikely if it is a gift card that stops you from using it anywhere except at a major supermarket!
What were they trying to get you to do to be allowed to enter?
It was the standard answering some "market research" type questions, opt in to get marketing spam, and agree if you win that you can be used for publicity stuff. It's fairly standard, and would be fine if they just phrased it better - Win a $2000 gift card to help feed your family. Valid for one year. Works perfectly without misleading anyone.
There was one time I actually went through with a marketing thing I saw online and it actually went pretty well. It was a market research company who wanted people to come into their London office and I happened to be in London at the time. Said they'd give me 150 pounds for I think 90 minutes of my time. Went there, they gave me an envelope with 150 pounds cash in it and then we had a chat about advertising for airbnb. I was shocked that there were no 'gotchas' in this modern world of bullshit and scams! It was even nice and early in the morning so it didn't even interrupt my day!