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Grex > Music2 > #254: Pepsi Summer Music Promotion |  |
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mooncat
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response 25 of 59:
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May 25 21:21 UTC 2000 |
John- several years ago there was this thing where if you collected
'Pepsi Points' could could "buy" merchandise, t-shirts, shoes, watches
just stuff. One of their commercials for these points featured a
Harrier Jet at the end with something like 8,000,000,000 points (or
something). Initially it didn't state that was a joke, and some guy got
the required points and asked them for the jet.
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jmsaul
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response 26 of 59:
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May 25 21:30 UTC 2000 |
Re #21: Not for delivering pizza to people's houses.
Re #23: ;-)
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jep
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response 27 of 59:
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May 25 22:07 UTC 2000 |
#25: Ah. Thanks! I take it he went to court to get his jet. How did
the courts treat the request?
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goose
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response 28 of 59:
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May 25 22:09 UTC 2000 |
The storms that produce F-18 tornadoes also produce basketball sized hail,
LOOK OUT!
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gypsi
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response 29 of 59:
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May 25 22:19 UTC 2000 |
<lol at #14> I like that. =)
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ric
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response 30 of 59:
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May 26 00:21 UTC 2000 |
The guy who managed to achieve the 8 billion Pepsi Points or whatever found
that you could BUY pepsi points directly from Pepsi. So he signed on some
lawyer/investor types, bought the required points for something like $150,000
and then asked for his harrier jet. When Pepsi wouldn't comply, the
lawyer-types sued Pepsi for false advertising (or something like that) and
requested damages in the amount of the cost of a harrier jet.
Presumably, the case was settled out of court, and the dude and his lawyers
got their $150,000 back and then some.
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omni
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response 31 of 59:
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May 26 05:25 UTC 2000 |
Maybe I should have said a F-18 Hornet; one of the Navy's baddest badass
jets.
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jmsaul
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response 32 of 59:
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May 26 13:52 UTC 2000 |
Sure, but her customers would have to install arresting cables and catapults.
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brighn
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response 33 of 59:
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May 26 14:53 UTC 2000 |
#30> Some people just have too much time and money on their hands.
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jmsaul
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response 34 of 59:
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May 26 16:18 UTC 2000 |
(Time, yes, but I don't think he used his own money. ;-)
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aaron
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response 35 of 59:
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May 26 16:23 UTC 2000 |
re #30: It was only 7 million points, which he obtained by getting friends
to commit a whopping $700,000. Pepsi brought a declaratory action,
and a trial court ruled that no reasonable person would have
believed that the offer was serious, dismissing the claim. I don't
know if Pepsi tried to play hardball, and said, "Now, select 7
million points worth of Pepsi merchandise," or if they issued a
refund. (Well, it is safe to assume that they returned the money,
but I do like the idea of the guy getting stuck with several
thousand items of junky Pepsi merchandise.)
re #33: Usually the wrong people.
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krj
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response 36 of 59:
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May 26 16:30 UTC 2000 |
Aaron, could you explain what a "declaratory action" is, I have never
heard that term before.
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aaron
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response 37 of 59:
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May 27 03:46 UTC 2000 |
It's an action to clarify the legal rights and responsibilities of the
parties. An insurance company might bring such an action, when asked to
cover a claim that it does not believe is covered by its policy. In
this case, Pepsi brought the action to have the court declare that it
had no legal duty to provide the requested jet.
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dbratman
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response 38 of 59:
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May 30 20:12 UTC 2000 |
In the 1940s, Burma-Shave made a joke offer of a trip to Mars for
[number in the thousands] empty jars. (I'm sure the Mars/jars rhyme was
deliberate: the offer was probably on one of their famous sign
sequences.) Some guy decided to collect that many jars, with the help
of his friends and neighbors, and he told Burma-Shave that he was
working on this.
Did Burma-Shave huff and puff and threaten legal proceedings? They did
not. They looked in an atlas, found a town in Germany called Mars, and
gave the man and his wife an all expenses paid vacation there.
Everybody was happy.
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aaron
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response 39 of 59:
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May 30 20:20 UTC 2000 |
Actually, it wasn't Pepsi that huffed and puffed and threatened legal
proceedings. They chose to react to that huffing and puffing by cutting
the threats off at the knees. But, no matter how you look at it, there is
no easy substitute for a Harrier Jet. Not even in Germany.
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brighn
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response 40 of 59:
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May 30 20:25 UTC 2000 |
I"m sure China makes some budget-friendly Harrier jets.
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gypsi
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response 41 of 59:
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May 30 20:44 UTC 2000 |
They could give him a model of a Harrier jet. =)
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mdw
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response 42 of 59:
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May 31 00:38 UTC 2000 |
You just need to find a hash harrier who also happens to ride a
motorcycle. The little nozzles the gasonline sprays out of in the
carburetor are obviously "harrier jets".
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jmsaul
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response 43 of 59:
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May 31 02:58 UTC 2000 |
It would take Perry Mason to make that argument stick in court.
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void
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response 44 of 59:
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May 31 03:51 UTC 2000 |
they might even have been able to arrange for him to ride in a
harrier jet.
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johnnie
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response 45 of 59:
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May 31 18:36 UTC 2000 |
I suspect he was more interested in money.
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janc
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response 46 of 59:
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Jun 5 20:03 UTC 2000 |
I read the plaintiff's declaration in the Harrier suit on the web at
some point. As I recall, the guy sent Pepsi about 5 actual Pepsi
points, a check for about $700,000 (or whatever) and asked for his
Harrier. Pepsi didn't send the Harrier, but they didn't cash the check
either - they returned it. So he didn't need to get his money back.
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brighn
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response 47 of 59:
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Jun 5 22:46 UTC 2000 |
but he lost Five Valuable Pepsi Points.
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mcnally
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response 48 of 59:
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Jun 5 23:39 UTC 2000 |
And suffered terrible psychological trauma, intentional infliction of
emotional distress, soft tissue injury, and a paper cut from the envelope
he used to mail his Pepsi Points.
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brighn
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response 49 of 59:
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Jun 6 00:08 UTC 2000 |
SUE! SUE! SUE! SUE!
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