Today I received a promotional marketing mailer from HP that had a combination lock/safe inside. The box instructs you to contact your HP partner for a face to face meeting where you will get your combination to the safe to find out what the prize is. I really don’t have a current need for HP products and didn’t want to bother any of my vendors with something so trivial but was currious to see what was inside.

Inside is a very simple 3 place, 10 digit per place lock. The thing is mostly plastic so if you really wanted to crack it you could use a stick of dynamite or a butter knife to get into it. I simply pressed the open button while rolling each dial until I could feel the tumbler click and was able to open it in 2 minutes tops. There were no unique codes on the lock or the box that would indicate the padlock to be a unique combination so they are all probably the same. The magic numbers they used to secure the device? 1-2-3. Yup, sounds like they took a page right out of Spaceballs. Inside mine was a link and a code to a website which promises me a $25 Amazon gift card. I haven’t gotten a confirmation email back yet so we’ll see if they hold true on this promise.

Update 4/8/08: Unfortunately the actual promo site and code has been leaked to Dealspl.us. HP has taken down the site and it now redirects to a “Page Not Found”. Thanks for killing this for us user coupcoup on Dealspl.us. Jerk