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Already grumpy after months of being hit hard at the pumps, scores of price-weary motorists in New Brunswick were not amused to discover their winning "Reveal a Deal" coupons were nothing more than duds.
Oct of 314,000 contest booklets distributed by gasoline retailer Ultramar Ltd. in New Brunswick in early June, approximately 100,000 contained, in error, winning coupons for a $1,500 instant gas prize-a real problem considering the company only meant to give away three such grand prizes.
The blunder, attributed to a printing mistake,...