Poll of the Day > Subway offering Lifetime of Free Sub if you change your name to 'Subway'...

(+) Yeah! (+)

*Changes name to Subway Jared Foggle*

I'm now DJ Subway o'Clock

Nope, but I would change my name to Jersey Mike.

Hell naw. I could easily afford to pay if I really wanted to eat Subway that much.

And they're only picking one "Subway" for the prize; the rest are SOL. What cheapskates.

No. Then again, I don't think there's any restaurant I'd do that for

subway got expensive this is a good deal if you were guaranteed to get chosen

instead you're gonna get a bunch of people with their names changed to subway with nothing to show for it and a smear campaign against subway for it

I wonder how frequently you can change your name? If you win can you just change it back or is there a stipulation against that?

I wonder. Is it just the sub for free? Do the extras still cost something? And would there be a limit on how many subs a day?

Jen0125 posted...

I wonder how frequently you can change your name? If you win can you just change it back or is there a stipulation against that?

They probably have rules against that in the contract

LinkPizza posted...

I wonder. Is it just the sub for free? Do the extras still cost something? And would there be a limit on how many subs a day?

It's $50,000 in gift cards.

i looked at the rules, and if there's some stipulation that you need to keep your name changed for x period of time, or indefinitely, then it's not stated there

https://www.subwaynamechange.com/rules

but this is what you get

ONE (1) PRIZE: A check or prepaid card for $750 to reimburse winner for the cost of winner legally changing first name to Subway and $50,000 worth of Subway gift cards that may be used to buy Subway food for the rest of winners life, fulfilled at one time. Approximate Retail Value (ARV): $50,750.

so it's "well we think you only need $50,000 for a lifetime of our food" when it's like "one thing every week" or something

Seems like the perfect time for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1CuLm_CcNM&ab_channel=Community

Youd die from cancer sooner eating all that fake cheap preservative food.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

so it's "well we think you only need $50,000 for a lifetime of our food" when it's like "one thing every week" or something

If we assume $10/meal for easy math and another 50 years of life, that works out to 100 meals per year. While not strictly a guarantee of Subway whenever you want it for the rest of your life, that's still Subway 2-3 times a week, and I don't think I'd want more than that.

Though, saying that, Subway is just being cheap. 50 years of 700 $10 meals per year instead (twice per day) would cost ~$350,000, which is a trivial difference for a company of Subway's size and would easily be made up by the extra publicity this campaign will offer. That approach would, however, end up costing more in the long run because of inflation, but even so it wouldn't be a problem.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

so it's "well we think you only need $50,000 for a lifetime of our food" when it's like "one thing every week" or something

that is 10000 five dollar foot longs excluding tax and eating one a day that is roughly 27 years of terrible sandwiches

The sub I like is expensive, not to mention the other stuff I get on it and with it. I think its about $20 each time I go If I went everyday, Id only have enough for just under 7 years While I dont think Id go everyday, Id like to have the option to go everyday for more than 7 if I changed my name for it But Im guessing it might be different for the average person That said, Im not sure Id call someone who changed their name to subway the average person, so

zhangliao1 posted...

Seems like the perfect time for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1CuLm_CcNM&ab_channel=Community

I'm not a high enough susceptible to change my name to subway

Subway isn't worth that shit, now if Culver's came along and asked I would definitely consider it

This is like that episode of Community.

Name your baby born on September 1 2002 Turok and win $10,000

Muscles posted...

Subway isn't worth that shit, now if Culver's came along and asked I would definitely consider it

I mean Culver actually sounds like a name

it should, it was founded by the culver family of john, ruth, craig and lea culver

I mean it could be a first name even, people are giving their kids last names as first names now

Zareth posted...

I mean it could be a first name even, people are giving their kids last names as first names now

not a new thing at all
https://momlovesbest.com/last-names-as-first-names

They'll have an out anyways

I legit won a "years worth of pizza" from Dominos... it came in the form of a $350 gift card.

I mean you could change your name to that and then change it back I guess. I wouldn't personally

LinkPizza posted...

They probably have rules against that in the contract

Well fuck...

It�s always the places you don�t want that does this. I�d change my name to Chik Fil-A in a heartbeat.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

i looked at the rules, and if there's some stipulation that you need to keep your name changed for x period of time, or indefinitely, then it's not stated there

https://www.subwaynamechange.com/rules

but this is what you get

so it's "well we think you only need $50,000 for a lifetime of our food" when it's like "one thing every week" or something

Wouldn't you have to pay taxes on that? And what if you lose the gift cards?

If it was actually free subway for life, I would consider it. Already a subway meal that cost me $6-7 a few years ago costs 12-15 now. With inflation I wouldn't have to worry about food.

You would have to pay taxes on it if given it all at once like they do, would be better if they sent you gift cards each year or something.

Since it's gift cards they would work with promotional deals as well, like buy one get one free, or 5$ specials etc...so in theory you could get more that way.

Factoring in inflation etc, it would probably only be Subway for life, even eating only a few subs a week, if you are already past retirement age. Also probably only people that desperate for food and some why to survive on $1000 a month would be willing to do this deal.

If you were retired with no income other than SSI, you could in theory split the 50k over 3 years, so 16.6k a year, minus 13k= only 2.6k taxable a year (at 10%), so only about $260 a year or $800 total.

Not a horrid deal for someone in that situation and there are a ton of people in that situation.

That being said it costs anywhere from $100-250 to change your name (depends on the state), so to change it, and then change it back it could be about $500, and only 1 person who changes their name wins. Quite likely more than 100 people will try, which means more then $50,000 will be spent changing names........you would be better off having everyone just put in the money it costs to change your name into a pool, draw one person at random and then win it all (or better yet, have 1 person win per 100 people who enter). You have a 1% chance to win 50k for just a $500 enterance fee.

Subway doesn't directly profit from the name changes, but it's publicity for a cheap (for them) amount. Most importantly you almost definately would have a better chance with a pool of money and if done right it wouldn't be taxed as well (could be considered a gift from the other people, which means no taxing as long as you have not exceeded the gift limit (250k or something like that).

Basically this doesn't make sense for anyone to do at all, unless there was a maximum of 100 people who could enter and you were determined to win BEFORE changing your name (so only the winner changes their name at all).

Anyone watch that documentary on Jared Fogle? What a sicko

I crave them once in a while but I would not do this unless it was guaranteed.

Can A place with good food do this? Subway is super terrible.

And I say this from Canada, because impossibly Subway is actually worse here. You get even less choices.

lmao somehow this is worse than I imagined.

Yeah, no thanks.

I went to a subway in Canada.....multiple times, they never had meatball subs. I can confirm Canadian Subways suck donkey balls.

Lokarin posted...

They'll have an out anyways

I legit won a "years worth of pizza" from Dominos... it came in the form of a $350 gift card.

If a normal pizza is like $10, that's not even a Pizza once a week. Just over 2 a month?

i don't remember the specific like, terms it was, but i remember when lok won that the math behind it was really stupid, like they used the cheapest pizza on the menu and had it as like one every two or three weeks or something

HornedLion posted...

Its always the places you dont want that does this. Id change my name to Chik Fil-A in a heartbeat.

And in a heartbeat, you'd be labeled as a homophobe.

i might not care about it but ill still fuck wit a subway sammy

The ladies call me subway, when I show them my footlong

DragonClaw01 posted...

The ladies call me subway, when I show them my footlong

And it comes up short
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mo-subway-footlong-size-20130118-story.html

Even with some heavy rounding it still is, erm, pretty solid