OT: Great Arkansas car giveaway

[mrydel]

Well, Arkansas did not win a conference game so Frank Fletcher of Little Rock is standing by his deal of giving away a new car each month for a year. First give away is 12/27 and will be a new Dodge (not sure the model at this time). He is coupling the give away with "selling" 6 used cars for $1.00 and 3 for $500. He said the next month new car give away there will be a new promotion coupled with it. This guy is going to end up making a mint by giving away cars. He will have thousands of people coming in to register and sales people circling like sharks.

[birddogger]

He'll get a lot of good publicity out of this, I bet. I wonder whether he thought he had dodged a bullet when the Arky punt was downed at the LSU 1 and LSU had a true freshman QB at the helm. Congrats to him for sticking to his word. Hope there's no fine print.

[SMU 86]

Well, Arkansas did not win a conference game so Frank Fletcher of Little Rock is standing by his deal of giving away a new car each month for a year. First give away is 12/27 and will be a new Dodge (not sure the model at this time). He is coupling the give away with "selling" 6 used cars for $1.00 and 3 for $500. He said the next month new car give away there will be a new promotion coupled with it. This guy is going to end up making a mint by giving away cars. He will have thousands of people coming in to register and sales people circling like sharks.

Can you register from Texas.

[mrydel]

So far he requires you to come in and register. Wants the salesmen to have a shot at a sale. Do not need to be present to win the new car however. First give away is a new Jeep Patriot.

[Rayburn]

So far he requires you to come in and register. Wants the salesmen to have a shot at a sale. Do not need to be present to win the new car however. First give away is a new Jeep Patriot.

That's the way to do it, that and paint "I won this car at Jack Fletcher's!" on the side of the vehicles.

[SmooPower]

Aren't these kind of deals protected by insurance sometimes? Don't know if this one is but usually these guys know what they are doing.

[mrydel]

Aren't these kind of deals protected by insurance sometimes? Don't know if this one is but usually these guys know what they are doing.

This was not a planned deal. The dealer just visits and joins in with a local sports talk show group. At the beginning of the season he just casually said he would give away a car a month for a year if Arkansas did not win a conference game. Middle of the year people started reminding him of what he had said. He still felt like they would at least beat Miss. St. I do not think he ever believed it would happen and doubt he insured for it. He will still make money on it.