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:Cueball with hat: That will be $23.03.  
 
:Cueball with hat: That will be $23.03.  
 
:Cueball with hat: Also, I will pay you 24 cents for your last name, 35 cents for a list of your family members, 79 cents for your cell number, and $1.20 if you let me have you phone and scroll through your facebook posts.  
 
:Cueball with hat: Also, I will pay you 24 cents for your last name, 35 cents for a list of your family members, 79 cents for your cell number, and $1.20 if you let me have you phone and scroll through your facebook posts.  
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:Loyalty cards and rewards account offers get way weirder if you think of them as separate transactions.
 
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Revision as of 15:31, 13 June 2018

Customer Rewards
We'll pay you $1.47 to post on social media about our products, $2.05 to mention it in any group chats you're in, and 11 cents per passenger each time you drive your office carpool past one of our billboards.
Title text: We'll pay you $1.47 to post on social media about our products, $2.05 to mention it in any group chats you're in, and 11 cents per passenger each time you drive your office carpool past one of our billboards.

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Transcript

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[Cueball with a baseball hat and curball with no hat are standing opposite over a sales desk.]
Cueball with hat: That will be $23.03.
Cueball with hat: Also, I will pay you 24 cents for your last name, 35 cents for a list of your family members, 79 cents for your cell number, and $1.20 if you let me have you phone and scroll through your facebook posts.
[Caption below the panel:]
Loyalty cards and rewards account offers get way weirder if you think of them as separate transactions.
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Discussion

For the transcript's description, I wouldn't consider that hat to be a baseball cap. Baseball caps are generally rounded (like the head) and that one's flat on the top... 108.162.216.52 15:47, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

You're right, no guesses at the transcript. It's just simply a peaked cap. And the salesman isn't a Cueball with hat, Black Hat isn't a Cueball with a black hat as well. --Dgbrt (talk) 21:08, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
Also, 1221 clearly shows a baseball cap, and this hat does not match. 108.162.246.215 02:26, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

In the comic image, the subtotal is $20.45, which probably refers to the future comic 2045. --Fakefred (talk) 01:00, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

If the title text were ever implemented I'd use social media a lot more lol 108.162.216.154 01:12, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

I'm not playing that many phone games and I still found several incentives giving in-game cash for posting to social media from the game. Sure, you can't convert that cash back to money ... -- Hkmaly (talk) 06:21, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
I use Google Play Rewards, which is pretty similar to this premise; except they never tell you how much Google Play Store credit you'll earn for a given question until you've answered it! So far I've bought every app I like & have been spending the rest on games. By now, it mostly asks me the same questions in different order. I just got 23¢ for answering (yet again) that I've never been to a "Kelp's Water Slides" (is that even a real thing?); My Play Store credit is around $10 right now. Haven't paid for an app in years. Ironically, I use AdGuard to block ads & tracking tokens in apps & on the web, yet I have no qualms about telling Google almost anything they want to know about me, since virtually everything in my life runs through Google anyway. -- ProphetZarquon (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

This is EXACTLY how I look at online contests, like more recent years' version of the McDonald's Monopoly contest. "Enter this code online to win!", not mentioning that in order to do so, you have to register some of this valuable personal information. Or make it easy by logging in with Facebook, and provide THAT info, LOL! NiceGuy1 (talk) 03:21, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

If you're curious, it'd take 154 passengers to begin making money. Anyone got a plane?