Pepsi's summer promotion: collect Pepsi Points on bottle caps and trade them in towards custom made CDs. 50 points for a five-track CD or 100 points for a ten-track CD. You can find the artists and tracks you can choose from at www.pepsi.com; there are Real Audio previews. There's even some tracks for a music snob like me: stuff from Wilco, Catatonia and even Great Big Sea. The Pepsi Points are going to be distributed through July 27, and they are supposed to be redeemed by August 31. I just know this is going to get in the way of my attempt to stop drinking so much Diet Pepsi.59 responses total.
Do the pepsi points qualify for different musical selections than the Mountain Dew ones? I read through the list on the inside of a Mt. Dew carton and decided that it was unlikely I could choose five tracks that I was interested in from the selections available, and that I'd have to drink an awful lot of soda to make it worth my while.. As far as getting in the way of giving up pop -- unless you're really looking for an excuse not to, it seems like the "pepsi points" are expensive enough not to provide much additional inducement to buy the product. If you're going to buy the pop anyway, sure, redeem the points if there's music you want, but if not, save the money you'd've spent on pop and buy a couple of full-length albums!
Mountain Dew is a Pepsi brand, so I assume the points are all pool-able.
Are you sure the list was a complete one? I doubt they're gonna appeal to many Mountain Dew drinkers by listing a band called Catatonia; they might just have left that one off.....
I wonder if they're different lists, anyway. I don't remember seeing Great Big Sea, for instance..
They aren't goign to give away another Harrier jet are they? :)
I think they learned their lesson on that one.. (said lesson being that no matter how obvious it should be that something was intended as a joke, there's always going to be *someone* out there with no sense of humor and money to hire a lawyer..)
I think "Great Big Sea" was listed in a page marked "Recent Additions," so they may well have just missed the deadline for the print materials. I'm tremendously amused by the idea of GBS's song "Mari-mac" getting a mainstream marketing push like this.
Re #6: Personally, I think the Harrier guy had a sense of humor.
To show up with 8 gazillion pepsi points and demand your Harrier is one thing. To sue the company for a jet nobody ever seriously believed they were offering is another.
Wow...not even GBS most recent.....and I agree with Ken.....Mari-mac getting a push is *very* amusing.....but would be appropriate for the Mt. Dew drinkers. :)
Re #9: I dunno. Keep in mind he's doing this to a major company that
has tons of money, ubiquitous advertising, and a legal department
that should've warned them. I still think it was funny.
I tend to avoid anything with the Pepsi stain on it. The usual deal is you spend tons of money and get back very little in return. Sorry, this is one rat who isn't going to follow the crowd.
I would love a Harrier. Those things are cool. =) Drinking nine thousand gallons of Pepsi for a ten-track cd isn't worth it to me. <shrug>
"My God, Alice, what is that roaring noise?! Head for the basement, it's a tornado!" "Stop opening windows, Ted, it's just the Domino's driver..." Bet you could get those pizzas there a lot faster...
<laughs> I drink a ton of Diet Pepsi, might as well save points and get a cd or two. <shrugs>
(RE#14 -- A small note here: opening windows before/during a tornado is not necessary, nor will it save your house/life...despte what we were told as kids in the 70's, we're advised not to do it anymore...)
(I know, but anyone who's stupid enough to mistake a Harrier landing in their driveway for a tornado probably doesn't. I debated putting in a public service announcement similar to yours, but didn't.)
I know *you* know Joe, but that was for the benefit of um...others...;-)
It's actually DANGEROUS to go around opening windows, rather than going for immediate safety.
Yes. And if you hear a Harrier landing in your driveway, you should also stay the hell away from the windows, because it'll blow them out.
As Dr Ojalla said in Skywarn class. "Don't open the windows during a tornado. The tornado will do that for you." I'm paraphrasing, but that was the general point. Best thing to do when a tornado is coming is to find a safe secure place, and pray. I'd rather have an F-18.
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F18? I didn't know the Fujita scale went that high! ;-)
I don't understand the references to the Harrier jet. Can someone explain, please?
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.
Re #21: Not for delivering pizza to people's houses. Re #23: ;-)
#25: Ah. Thanks! I take it he went to court to get his jet. How did the courts treat the request?
The storms that produce F-18 tornadoes also produce basketball sized hail, LOOK OUT!
<lol at #14> I like that. =)
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.
Maybe I should have said a F-18 Hornet; one of the Navy's baddest badass jets.
Sure, but her customers would have to install arresting cables and catapults.
#30> Some people just have too much time and money on their hands.
(Time, yes, but I don't think he used his own money. ;-)
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.
Aaron, could you explain what a "declaratory action" is, I have never heard that term before.
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.
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.
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.
I"m sure China makes some budget-friendly Harrier jets.
They could give him a model of a Harrier jet. =)
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".
It would take Perry Mason to make that argument stick in court.
they might even have been able to arrange for him to ride in a harrier jet.
I suspect he was more interested in money.
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.
but he lost Five Valuable Pepsi Points.
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.
SUE! SUE! SUE! SUE!
He did. The Judge said FRIVOLOUS! FRIVOLOUS! FRIVOLOUS! But the media had fun.
I have 2 points for the first person that sends me an SASE.
I'm ot sure they're worth the SASE.
whatever.
hahahahaha.
Hey Bruin! You mentioned getting your "Choose Your Music" cd in the "Music to Conference By" item. Tell us about what music you picked. And did you drink all that Pepsi by yourself, or did you have help? I find myself with only about 50 Pepsi points right now. Argh. I think I bought too many bottles out of vending machines, and the vending machines here at MSU never gave out the caps with points this summer. Also, caffeine-free Diet Pepsi was left out of this promotion, and I've been drinking more of that, especially at night. I'm going to have to decide whether I want to buy my fall stock of Diet Pepsi in early August: if I get boxes of cans, I can remove the Music Points now and drink the rotgut later. If I decide not to do that I will have to see who I want to bestow my Music Points collection upon.
I collected bottle caps mainly from the 1 liter and 2 liter Diet Pepsi, which included values of 1 to 10 music points. And yes, I am a diehard Diet Pepsi drinker. The playlist on the CD, per my request, is as follows" 1. "I Can Love You Like That" - All-4-One 2. "You Might Think" - The Cars 3. "Hold On" - En Vogue 4. "Blue Bayou" - Linda Ronstadt 5. "Roundabout" - Yes 6. "Roam" - The B-52's 7. "Sussudio" - Phil Collins 8. "Don't Know Much" - Linda Ronstadt with Aaron Neville 9. "One More Night" - Phil Collins 10. "Good Times Roll" - The Cars 11. "This Kiss" - Faith Hill The CD was mailed inside a cardboard mailer, so I'll have to get me a blank jewel box sometime soon. BTW, my selections, as with the entire list, were in conjunction with Warner Music Group (Warner Bros., Elektra, Atlantic).
(Richard, send me an email and I'll bring you some CD boxes at the picnic)
hehe bruin, that's a pretty schitzo play list. Don't get me wrong I like more than half of those songs, but the list made my head ache. ;)
I was about ready to offer up my Pepsi Music Points for someone else here to claim. But then a little bonanza came my way. Leslie and I were taking rubbish and cans to the bear-proof recycling/trash facility in Snowmass Village, Colorado, and I spied the cardboard packaging from two 24-can packs of Mountain Dew. With their 10 Point tokens still attached! With these fortuitous 20 extra points -- thank you, anonymous donor! -- I'm up to 87 points total. The "Choose Your Music" packages are starting to disappear from retailer shelves, so tonight I bought 26 points' worth of Diet Pepsi in cans and bottles -- I overbought because I had not counted my points yet. So, now it's time to hit the Pepsi web site and start picking some songs. I'll probably stick to the classic rock stuff. Suggestions welcome!
You have several choices: