I call shenanigans on the Pepsi Jeep

[Nuzzolese]

You know how cola companies are always advertising prizes like jeeps and vacations? Well, they used to anyway. Now it seems like it's just ringtones. But anyway, I'm convinced those big prizes aren't real. I bet there never was a Pepsi Jeep, I bet they never even put out a Pepsi with a winning cap on it. How would anyone ever know? Do they have to prove it? Have you ever known anyone who won something big from a bottle cap?

[Qdrop]

How would anyone ever know? Do they have to prove it? Have you ever known anyone who won something big from a bottle cap?

actually, this stuff IS audited by the government (better business bureau, etc)....
that's why they have to put ALL the small print rules shit on the commercials and on the products.

[Kid Presentable]

You know how cola companies are always advertising prizes like jeeps and vacations? Well, they used to anyway. Now it seems like it's just ringtones. But anyway, I'm convinced those big prizes aren't real. I bet there never was a Pepsi Jeep, I bet they never even put out a Pepsi with a winning cap on it. How would anyone ever know? Do they have to prove it? Have you ever known anyone who won something big from a bottle cap?

I swallowed a bottle cap.

That's what you meant, right?

[Nuzzolese]

actually, this stuff IS audited by the government (better business bureau, etc)....
that's why they have to put ALL the small print rules shit on the commercials and on the products.

I would think so, but I would also think they make it shady as possible. So where's the Jeep or the Caribbean cruise? If they really do award these things as regularly as they advertise, you'd think someone from the board would have known personally another person who won something once. Like, I wonder if they send out the winning bottle a week before the prize expires, hoping no one will win. There have been countless times when I drank a drink and never once looked at the inside of the cap. I wonder if I had a Jeep in my clutches and threw it away!!!

[BangkokB]

Wake me up when they have a Dune Buggy that's wheel can talk up for grabs

[Nuzzolese]

Wake me up when they have a Dune Buggy that's wheel can talk up for grabs

I am so confused by the last half of this sentence.

[Qdrop]

So where's the Jeep or the Caribbean cruise? If they really do award these things as regularly as they advertise, you'd think someone from the board would have known personally another person who won something once.

my cousin won $20 in that "money in the coke can" thing back in 88-89 (remember that...kinda gross)

i think you can look up winners on the websites.

[The Notorious LOL]

someone got sick from drinking the liquid in the "money in the can" coke contest.


maybe thats just an urban legend.

[Nuzzolese]

Oh here. Meh. FINE! THREADS OVER! HAPPY NOW?!

http://promomagazine.com/mag/marketing_diy_prizes/

[Knuckles]

This (http://pepsi.yahoo.com/freeride/winners_board.php) does look a little fishy. Why does everyone have such a short last name?

[Qdrop]

someone got sick from drinking the liquid in the "money in the can" coke contest.


maybe thats just an urban legend.

dude, my cousin drank it too!

he opened the can, and the money didn't pop out quite right and got stuck in the can....so he drank it.
he said it tasted like pond water.

so he looked in the can and saw the rolled up $20.

after that, we got obessessed with the contest.
he got that can from our grandma's....she had like 50 cans downstairs that she bought bulk.
but she would only let us open 1 a day.
so we would spend hours shaking them and trying to pick out another winner before opening it.

i never found one.

[Nuzzolese]

I bet the process is humilating and torturous, that's why you can't get your chevy tahoe until it's completed "successfully"

I'm convinced the world is a treacherous and unfair place and it will take some serious, seriousness, to convince me otherwise.

[Knuckles]

I won a Max Headroom shirt back in the day. (y)

[Qdrop]

Oh here. Meh. FINE! THREADS OVER! HAPPY NOW?!

http://promomagazine.com/mag/marketing_diy_prizes/

i think you owe a certain corporation an apology...

[Nuzzolese]

Outside of the occasional door prize at a BBQ or something, the only times I've ever won any copany prizes or drawings turned out to be secret scams that required me to sign a contract or buy something. Or they were like, free trials you had to cancel through an elaborate process.

[Knuckles]

I work for them so you can just apologize to me Nuzz.

[mickill]

A friend of mine found a large chunk of something gross in her bottle of V8 once. It was sent to a lab to be identified by her mother. Turns out a disgruntled employee over at the V8, um...brewery or whatever had sliced a chunk of his or her palm off and intentionally dropped it in that particular batch. I can't remember if she got free V8 for life or a settlement of some sort.

But yeah, nobody wins any real prizes from pepsi. Or Campbells.

[Matt]

My friend Steve won a Mountian Dew Xbox. It's green. I've never won anything though, so it's all LIES.

[BangkokB]

Sorry, Nuzz.
I was trying to insinuate this talking dune buggy car cartoon I saw as a kid. the wheel could talk. It ws almost like KITT but just a friendlier tire talking model instead that happened to be a dune buggy.

A janitor here looked at the bottom of a tea cap and won $1Million baht which equates to ~$25,000 and the owner of the place took the money bc he said that since he was working for him at such and such place that it was essentially his $. He, like a fool, complied. Kick and scream would have been my words of that day

[Matt]

Sorry, Nuzz.
I was trying to insinuate this talking dune buggy car cartoon I saw as a kid. the wheel could talk. It ws almost like KITT but just a friendlier tire talking model instead that happened to be a dune buggy.

Speed Buggy (http://www.tv.com/speed-buggy/show/5028/summary.html)

[BangkokB]

Nice Matt! You know how to work the internet like a pro. By any chance can you find the true to life version picture? Where the headlights are half shut eyes. It's almost frightening in a 9 year old sort of way

[Matt]

Take your pick, mang (http://images.google.com/images?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial_s&q=speed+buggy&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images)

[DandyFop]

I remember when that guy got enough Pepsi points to buy the plane -

eonard v. Pepsico, Inc.
Dade County, Florida (11th Jud. Cir. 1996)

He Who Dies With the Most Toys Wins! In a 1996, Pepsi launched a marketing campaign aptly named "Pepsi Stuff." The campaign included Pepsi products offering a certain number of random points, as revealed under the twist off cap. By collecting points (or buying them from Pepsi at $0.10 each) comsumers could then redeem them in exchange for Pepsi promotional "stuff," i.e. t-shirts, hats, etc. Pepsi then ran several television commercials promoting the campaign. At the end of one such commercial a student was portrayed showing up to school in his new Harrier jet and the words "7,000,000 points" flashing across the TV screen.

Mr. Leonard, age 24, collected 15 Pepsi Points and together with a check in the amount of $699,998.50 (for 6,999,985 additional points) plus $10.00 for shipping and handling, forwarded his Pepsi Stuff order form with a request to redeem the Harrier jet, as shown in the television commercial.

Surprise! Pepsi refused to honor the request saying it was a joke and Mr. Leonard filed suit. U.S. District Judge Kimba M. Wood agreed with Pepsi saying, "no objective person could reasonably have concluded that the commercial actually offered consumers a Harrier jet.

[cosmo105]

^that's bullshit! they've got to assume the average consumer is a literal tardbrain!

[Qdrop]

A friend of mine found a large chunk of something gross in her bottle of V8 once. It was sent to a lab to be identified by her mother. Turns out a disgruntled employee over at the V8, um...brewery or whatever had sliced a chunk of his or her palm off and intentionally dropped it in that particular batch. I can't remember if she got free V8 for life or a settlement of some sort.

uh huh.

[Nuzzolese]

^that's bullshit! they've got to assume the average consumer is a literal tardbrain!

That must be why a lot of them don't play around like that anymore. Like theyll have an animated cookie or something and in small print in a low tone at the end, will be the declaration "Cookie does not actually talk"

[bigblu89]

I feel the same way about the state lottos. I think it's all a scam, and the no one ever wins the millions upon millions of dollars.

All the winners you see on TV are actors.

[Loppfessor]

I once wone $500 from Chips Ahoy (http://www.kraft.com.au/nabisco/products_chipsahoy.cfm) because I bought a bag with no chocolate chips. At first I was kinda pisssed cus I was really craving some chocolate chip cookies....then I read the bag and was happy cus I was one broke mofo at the time.