Mr. T may have some nuts but Snickers parent company, the M&M MARS Company MADE ME NUTS this morning.
MARS had a great little marketing promotion, called the Real Chocolate Relief Act. They plan on giving away Candy Bars(or coupons redeemable for free candy bars actually)from a website they set up for this purpose, every Friday morning at 9 amET, until September.
Nice little idea but let me tell you, the first day, the execution SUCKED!
SUCKY SUCKED.
BIGTIME.
PISS YOU OFF SUCK
ED.
SERIOUSLY.
I'm sorry if this offends you or the Mars company or your pet 3-toed newt, but I hate wasting my time (53 minutes to be exact!) trying to fill out a website's form to get a single candy bar, only to have the website crash repeatedly on me.
How could the IT people working at Mars' websites NOT have planned for the site to be deluged with hits?
Maybe they need to NOT give away so much free merchandise, since they obviously really Need some extra revenue to pay for a bigger SERVER that can handle the online MONSTER they have created!!
Seriously, I feel like the biggest SMUCK for sitting at this machine waiting for pages to load, backing out of error message pages to try to get through to the last "we got your form & you get the chocolate in about 6 weeks from now" confirmation page.
No.
Such.
Luck.
After you finally got to the "congrats you got through, now fill this form out" page, you had 5 MINUTES to fill in the form and hit submit or you lost your place in line for chocolate and had to start over again. I got through TWICE but do you think I could get the form filled out and submitted in time?
That's a big honking NO.
I even changed computers and tried....got through on the other machine and STILL couldn't get the website to accept my submission.
If you had been in my yard this morning, peeping through the windows, you would have seen me flying through the house, shouting out near obscenities much like the Dad in A Christmas Story during one of his furnace rampages.
I am not a crazy person.....ok, maybe I am, but who isn't when driven there by things out of their control?....most things don't get to me like this did.
I wish Mr. T was here.....yah.....he'd give M&M/Mars what for!
He'd make sure those IT geeks at M&M/Mars had the kinks out before subjecting the chocolate addicted public to this Travesty of Candy!
"Pity the fool who comes between Sluggy and her Chocolate Bar!"
I hear ya Mr. T....
I calmed down about an hour later and sent M&M/Mars a nice email. Well, maybe nice isn't the correct descriptive word exactly....
I made it clear what I thought of their weakly executed idea.
And I further told them, come lunch time, I'd be heading out to my nearby store that sells Chocolate Candy to spend my money on a HERSHEY Bar!!!
As far as I'm concerned, M&M/Mars can stick that candy bar up Mr. T's A-Team, if ya get my drift....
Sluggy
