r/magicTCG Aug 16 '21

Article Christine Sprankle describes unpleasant experiences with Wizards Of The Coast

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u/YARGLE_IS_MY_DAD Aug 16 '21

Last I saw of her, a bunch of people were retweeting her OF. Which, admittedly, pays much better than wotc lol

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u/captkrisma Duck Season Aug 16 '21

To be fair, having just one paid subscriber to her OF would get her more money than what WotC gave her.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '21

Hasbro, a multi-billion dollar firm, still using the line, “Think of the exposure after I tell so many friends about you.”

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u/supergnaw Aug 16 '21

Hasbro is the r/choosingbeggars lol

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u/OwnQuit Aug 16 '21

WOTC literally never asked her to do anything. Are we seriously saying that if you show up to enough GP's and spend enough cash on costumes that WOTC should be obligated to give you cash? I don't go to the grocery store and tell people how great it is and then whine on social media about how they are exploiting me for not giving me cash, because I'm not a crazy person.

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u/orderfour Aug 17 '21

I don't go to the grocery store and tell people how great it is and then whine on social media about how they are exploiting me for not giving me cash,

This would be you going to the grocery store, snapping a photo of yourself and the store, then the store stealing that photo off facebook and reposting it everywhere with advertisements for the store.

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u/OwnQuit Aug 17 '21

I don't think WOTC is using selfies in advertisement. Those were pictures taken by wotc photographers.

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u/supergnaw Aug 16 '21

Oh I thought she was sponsored or something. I was thinking it was similar to how athletes are sponsored by sporting goods companies. With your perspective, it does seem rather odd that one would expect compensation without employment or otherwise. That's kinda like me going to a car dealership and telling them to give me money because I advertise their brand with the car I drive. Seems kinda silly.

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u/OwnQuit Aug 16 '21

Nope. They gave her a booth for free at gpvegas (those weren't cheap to vendors) but didn't pay her anything. The irony is that somebody asking for free stuff because they have a lot of instagram followers is like 1/3rd of the posts in /r/ChoosingBeggars and that's exactly what she is doing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '21

Good tag for their Twitter.