If that canned good drive ever returns, I'll be there with busloads of homeless people. I look forward to analyzing their games and promotions more often.
Yet, when I harmlessly exploit them for 5 minutes (they actually made it about 20), all hell breaks loose. Their entire business is built on manipulation. I gave them 1 penny of action on a penny slot as an ironic payment for the lecture that I received, then left.Ĭertainly, they could have denied my request, but fulfilling it does not give them the right to lecture me. They scrutinized my ID and players card, scolded me for not giving them action, then gave me a not-so-subtle guilt trip/morality lesson. So, I called them and asked if they counted change for free and they said 'yes, with a players card.' However, when I arrived, they were incredibly unprofessional about the proposition. (Yes, I know about the opportunity cost of compound interest, but I also gained utility from pretending that I was Scrooge McDuck. Over the years, I've amassed quite a bit of loose change, about 80lbs of it, actually. I think I finished up about $125, nothing major. Creamed corn at the time was under 30 cents, so I maxed it out daily as I drove home, while taking advantage of their self-service coffee and soda stations.
I live in Pittsburgh and have only ever gambled at the Rivers year ago, when they did a canned food drive during which you got $3 in free slot play for every canned good that you contributed.
