Free Cups Received - One winner!

I got one winner out of the three free cups I received. This brings my 2008 Roll up The Rim to Win stats to 5 wins in 50 tries. Just slightly below the stated 1 in 9 odds of winning!




This year they placed the whole cup in a bigger envelope than my self-adressed stamped envelope and then added another 63 cents postage

As you can see in the photo, my complaint remains regarding the cup being squat so much that the rim could easily be checked before it is placed in the envelope.

Free Roll Up The Rim To Win Lids!

Thats right, lids! Last year I sent in a couple of self-addressed stamped envelopes to get a free contest cup and it turned out to be the lid of a cup ripped off and put in the envelope.

So I've decided to send in a few more this year and to see what I get back. Obviously the LIDS I received back were all "Please Play Again/Réessayez s.v.p.” - we'll see if anything changes this year.



If you want to receive a free contest LID, just send a self-address stamped envelope along to:

Tim Hortons Contest Cup
PO Box 9899
Saint John, NB
E2L 4P8

They must be post dated by May 3, 2008 and received by May 11, 2008 in order to be eligible.

The losing doesn't stop....

Three more tries in the last couple of days and the bad luck continues. I have not won in my last 29 rim's now! That brings my total for the season to 4 wins in 38 tries which is below the stated odds of 1 in 9!

Update

Well, I jinxed my lucky streak. Since my last post I have not won! To make th ings worse I have had Tim's 23 times. Meaning I am 4 wins in 31 tries! This is still better than the stated odds of 1 in 9 but going on a 0 for 23 streak stinks!

Here are a couple of poor photos that were on my phone.

Day 5: Three Large Tim's = One Winner

Today I had Tim's three times! I got one winner out of it! See below:

Day 4: Frugal Tips For Roll Up The Rim To Win

I am seriously falling behind in this competition with Boo Radley. He won again yesterday for the second time in row! I certainly have my work cut out for me. I wonder if its winning percentage or total wins that matters most? I guess it doesn't matter right now as I am behind in both!

Also, for those of you with a Country Style in your area Boo Radley has confirmed they will be giving away free coffee for each "Please Play Again" rim. As MediaInCanada explained they will be giving a free medium coffee for each non-winning rim from Tim Horton's from March 3rd to the 9th. They go on to explain this is a "promo hijack" and are using various viral marketing avenues including Facebook postings to promote it!




This, my friends, is a massive XTRA-LARGE Smoothie from Tim Horton's. I used my "Win Coffee" rim to get this. Many people don't know, but the free coffee rim's can be used to get any hot beverage in ANY SIZE.

I know, its not that big of a deal. But for those of you out there who like to get the most out of everything this is a good tip.

To make the best of it, I won another coffee from this roll up the rim.




This now brings my totals to 2 wins in 4 chances. Not quite as good as Boo Radley's 2 wins in 3 chances but its well above the stated 1 in 9 posted odds!

Tim's Cups Not Recyclable

Buzz at The Blog According to Buzz has pointed out that Tim Horton's Cups are not recyclable. This seems to really bother him and he ultimately suggests "Got a problem with Tim’s doing this promo, again? Let ‘em know:" and he proceeds to give contact information.

I might have missed the boat but what does this promotion (a fantastic one I might add) have to do with the cups not being recyclable? Is it being suggested that without this contest that people would bring reusable mugs in to be filled up? I find that notion hard to believe.

Sure, you might be displeased with the cups not being recyclable but please - I think your anger is misguided by attacking the Roll Up The Rim To Win contest!

What does everyone else think?

Day 3 Bring Good News

Thats right, good news! Decided to get my Tim's before going to work and I got a free coffee! Woot woot!




This makes me 1 for 3. Three large tea purchased and got one winner! Defying the odds so far! While Boo Radkey was successful on his second day, he'll need to lose toay and we will be tied!

Latest Statistics (Updated Feb 27, 2008):
Record: 1 - 3
Spent: $4.65
Won: $1.55
Probability: 33%

Crunching the Numbers on the 2008 Edition of Roll up the Rim to Win

If you look at the results below you'll notice that the Tim Cards, GPS and Boat are pretty much fairly distributed throughout each of the regions. However, you'll notice quite the difference for the Matrix.

The spreadsheet to quickly view this information has been included here.

First thing I noticed are there are almost 300 million contest cups this year - 282,492,000 to be exact.

Your overall odds of winning the Matrix are about 1 in 8 million.
However you have the best chance of winning the Matrix is in region 4 which is Quebec (excludes Bas St.-Laurent, aspsie & Iles-de-la-Madeleine) & Labrador. Your odds of winning the Matrix there are 1 in 5.5 million. The worst place to have a chance at the Matrix is in Ontario, where your odds are 1 in 10 million.

I thought the differences in odds were interesting, what do you guys think of this?

Rick Mercer Breaks Down Prior Year RUTRTW Contest

Rick Mercer has this humorous clip on the breaking down the Roll Up The Rim To Win contest.

Day 1: Starting out wrong.

I have this feeling that something great is going to happen for me this year on Roll Up The Rim To Win! I'll document my thoughts on the contest and how I am doing.

Unfortunately I never won on day one. I purchased a large tea, two milk and one sugar and here are the results(hopefully you can see it, I took the picture with my phone):