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Comptia #CyberMonday deal spinner appears Rigged

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Waited for cyber monday in hopes to get a sweet deal on a certification voucher from comptia but was disapointed this morning. Had to contact them directly for the following link and after a little testing the best I saw was 10% off which isnt a very good promo when you can get that any time of the year from any of there training partners or approved study materials, or a google search of coupon code websites.

Id be interested to hear if anyone gets something different that 10% off when testing this promo spinner game they posted. Seems the game is rigged but I could be wrong.

https://certification.comptia.org/cybermonday

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I got 10% (of course). It's powered by https://www.wheelofpopups.com/ and one of the features is you can set the probability of each item.

Below the raw deobfuscated data. 100% probability to get the "10% off".

                "segmentValuesArray": [{
                    "probability": 100,
                    "type": "string",
                    "value": "10% off exams",
                    "win": true,
                    "userData": {
                        "wheel_text_win_title": "Hurrah! You've hit 10% off exams. Lucky day!",
                        "wheel_text_win_description": "Please make sure to copy the following discount code to be able to use it on checkout.",
                        "wheel_coupon": "ITCareers10",
                        "wheel_text_coupon_button": "Continue & use discount"
                    }
                }, {
                    "probability": 0,
                    "type": "string",
                    "value": "Almost",
                    "win": false
                }, {
                    "probability": 0,
                    "type": "string",
                    "value": "15% off exams",
                    "win": true,
                    "userData": {
                        "wheel_text_win_title": "Hurrah! You've hit 15% off exams. Lucky day!",
                        "wheel_text_win_description": "Please make sure to copy the following discount code to be able to use it on checkout.",
                        "wheel_coupon": null,
                        "wheel_text_coupon_button": "Continue & use discount"
                    }
                }, {
                    "probability": 0,
                    "type": "string",
                    "value": "No luck today",
                    "win": false
                }, {
                    "probability": 0,
                    "type": "string",
                    "value": "20% off exams",
                    "win": true,
                    "userData": {
                        "wheel_text_win_title": "Hurrah! You've hit 20% off exams. Lucky day!",
                        "wheel_text_win_description": "Please make sure to copy the following discount code to be able to use it on checkout.",
                        "wheel_coupon": null,
                        "wheel_text_coupon_button": "Continue & use discount"
                    }
                }, {
                    "probability": 0,
                    "type": "string",
                    "value": "Next time",
                    "win": false
                }, {
                    "probability": 0,
                    "type": "string",
                    "value": "25% off exams",
                    "win": true,
                    "userData": {
                        "wheel_text_win_title": "Hurrah! You've hit 25% off exams. Lucky day!",
                        "wheel_text_win_description": "Please make sure to copy the following discount code to be able to use it on checkout.",
                        "wheel_coupon": null,
                        "wheel_text_coupon_button": "Continue & use discount"
                    }
                }, {
                    "probability": 0,
                    "type": "string",
                    "value": "Nope",
                    "win": false
                }, {
                    "probability": 0,
                    "type": "string",
                    "value": "30% off exams",
                    "win": true,
                    "userData": {
                        "wheel_text_win_title": "Hurrah! You've hit 30% off exams. Lucky day!",
                        "wheel_text_win_description": "Please make sure to copy the following discount code to be able to use it on checkout.",
                        "wheel_coupon": null,
                        "wheel_text_coupon_button": "Continue & use discount"
                    }
                }, {
                    "probability": 0,
                    "type": "string",
                    "value": "Sorry!",
                    "win": false
                }, {
                    "probability": 0,
                    "type": "string",
                    "value": "35% off exams",
                    "win": true,
                    "userData": {
                        "wheel_text_win_title": "Hurrah! You've hit 35% off exams. Lucky day!",
                        "wheel_text_win_description": "Please make sure to copy the following discount code to be able to use it on checkout.",
                        "wheel_coupon": null,
                        "wheel_text_coupon_button": "Continue & use discount"
                    }
                }, {
                    "probability": 0,
                    "type": "string",
                    "value": "Nothing",
                    "win": false
                }],

Thanks for that info. I figured it was heavily weighted for the 10% off but it appears it was the only possibility. I tested 10 for 10 before giving up.

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