ggbrown said:
I could swear that the "twist" of clear plastic is different on the bottles in the DC area of late. It takes more to see what the words are....
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I could swear that the "twist" of clear plastic is different on the bottles in the DC area of late. It takes more to see what the words are....
ethernet76 said:
Correct, it is the IP address from your ISP as well.
We can view and sample tracks from iTMS in NZ but we cant buy any yet.
Savage Henry said:
Low turnout seems about right since I have yet to even see one of these bottles in the DC 'burbs.
jeffgarden said:
Lucky you didn't get arrested. What seem innocent is actually theft or destruction of inventory. The cups at 7-11 and many fast food joints are inventoried.
This whole iTunes-Pepsi thing is turning out to be a huge fiasco.
They should extend the promotion and do it right this time.
All you cheapskates looking to cheat the promotion by looking through the caps for winners should leave them alone for people who have never used ITMS before. That what it was intended for--not people who already use the music store willing to waste their time cheating to get a free 99cent song.
They should extend the promotion and do it right this time.
All you cheapskates looking to cheat the promotion by looking through the caps for winners should leave them alone for people who have never used ITMS before. That what it was intended for--not people who already use the music store willing to waste their time cheating to get a free 99cent song.
morkens said:
morkintosh said:
There's more to recommend OJ over soda than just a question of sugar. Most of the sugar in OJ is fructose (all, if you're drinking 100% natural OJ), which is better for you than the sucrose that is in soda. Further, OJ lacks a lot of the bad stuff that's in soda (I won't go into that on this forum), and has a lot of good stuff that soda lacks.
I'll take OJ any day over soda.
Oh, and I haven't seen any of the yellow caps in Tucson, AZ. This despite having a number of people looking out for them. (I've offered to buy winning caps from anyone who doesn't want them, as I don't drink any Pepsi products...)
How come a couple of you guys blame everything on apple, like in saying that everything they announce is delayed. I personally don't think the problem lies with apple here. They don't produce the bottles, they don't bring the bottles to the store. My feeling tells me the problem lies more with the bottle provider than something else.. sure, maybe the preparation could've been done a bit earlier, but still, there must have been plenty of time to get the bottles ready and ship them to stores!? Delivery problems with bottles, like shops keeping them in the back until the old ones are sold, etc, are things Pepsi should know, not Apple, Apple is into making computers & software, not distributing soda bottles..
just my 2 cent, no flame intended, just don't want to blame Apple for everything that's not going as it is suppose to go..
cya!
just my 2 cent, no flame intended, just don't want to blame Apple for everything that's not going as it is suppose to go..
cya!
Tilting DOES WORK = It's very quick and easy
Once you get the hang of it, it takes about 1-2 seconds to determine if it's a winner. I'm 7 for 8, although all of the bottles I've looked at I've purchased. Lots of winners in SW Michigan. Nobody uses Macs here, unfortunately. Nearest store that sells Macs is 45 miles away and I'm in a community of 150,000.
Once you get the hang of it, it takes about 1-2 seconds to determine if it's a winner. I'm 7 for 8, although all of the bottles I've looked at I've purchased. Lots of winners in SW Michigan. Nobody uses Macs here, unfortunately. Nearest store that sells Macs is 45 miles away and I'm in a community of 150,000.
davetrow1997 said:
benoda said:Typical Apple, something is announced but yet it takes 6 weeks to show up
Typical troll, blaming Apple for every little problem, even when Apple had nothing to do with it...
j/k
Frisco said:
Well, I'd say it's as much for those who already use iTMS as for those that don't. Geez.
There are 100,000,000 winning caps out there, after all. That is to say, there are more winning caps than there have been songs downloaded so far. I don't think that those of us who use iTMS already choosing to get some of these winners is really going to have that big an impact.However, on the other hand, I do agree with you that they should extend the promotion, given how Pepsi is bungling their distribution...
I've won caps in San Francisco, Denver and Atlanta so far, just in the past 2 weeks (they've been at my local store in SF since it started)...I see them everywhere I go.
I've also noticed Coke is putting yellow caps on their 20-oz bottles...in an attempt to confuse? Yes there are some people out there who don't make a distinction.
I've also noticed Coke is putting yellow caps on their 20-oz bottles...in an attempt to confuse? Yes there are some people out there who don't make a distinction.
frankly said:
How many people do you know that cruise the soda aisles looking for promotions? TV first then newspaper is the way people will know about the contest. Ask non-mac people about the promotion and see if you get 2 in 10 that know anything about it.
Why I don't even bother with the promotion
First off, where I go to buy soda the only soda bottles that have it are the non-diet Pepsis.
Secondly I have to spend $1.05 to get a single bottle of Pepsi. That's 6 cents more than the cost of a song if I were to win the song the first try every time. So even if I tilt the bottle to see if it is a winner, I still am a loser of 6 cents since the regular cost of a song is 99 cents. If the cost of a single bottle of Pepsi was less than the cost of a song I might have tried it. But since it isn't, it isn't worth it to me.
First off, where I go to buy soda the only soda bottles that have it are the non-diet Pepsis.
Secondly I have to spend $1.05 to get a single bottle of Pepsi. That's 6 cents more than the cost of a song if I were to win the song the first try every time. So even if I tilt the bottle to see if it is a winner, I still am a loser of 6 cents since the regular cost of a song is 99 cents. If the cost of a single bottle of Pepsi was less than the cost of a song I might have tried it. But since it isn't, it isn't worth it to me.
I'd like to see a shipment or two of the bottles smuggled north of the border for us Canadians.
Unfortunately you can't buy anything from the iTMS up here yet... HOWEVER I've been given a few codes from the caps from American online acquaintances and I purchased songs with them... of course I had to falsify my information for my iTunes account. If anyone asks I live in Pleasant Garden NC instead of Victoria BC.
Unfortunately you can't buy anything from the iTMS up here yet... HOWEVER I've been given a few codes from the caps from American online acquaintances and I purchased songs with them... of course I had to falsify my information for my iTunes account. If anyone asks I live in Pleasant Garden NC instead of Victoria BC.
mproud said:
Yep. Others have already mentioned the Lakers promo in this thread. As a Clipper fan, it just gives me one more reason to hate the Lakers.
I did notice on those bottles that the promo ended on Feb 29, so I figured the earliest we would see iTunes bottles would be mid March. I haven't seen any yet, but then I haven't looked much recently.I did play the 7-Eleven cups for the first few weeks of February. I figured I was spending about the same amount of money on soda (2 cups a day at 64 oz ($2), as opposed to 2 12-oz cans ($1) + a 20-oz drink at lunch ($1)) so what could I lose? I ended up going 14 for 41 - just one cup better than the odds. I was actually 13 for 29 after an amazing stretch of 7 for 8, but then the iTunes gods frowned upon me and I went 0 for the next 11!
At that point I had realized that even though I was spending the same amount, the extra soda was getting to me. I was feeling too jittery and not in a good way. So I just wanted to get one more song to complete this album (a steal at just $3.96!) but it took forever! Now I'm just drinking water and saving the money to buy even more music instead. I feel much better, and not so upset about the Laker thing...
prutz11 said:They are still no where to be found in Orlando... Though Sam's has them in the 12oz bottles. 7 11 does have the special big gulp gulps... I've been drinking a lot of em... full of coke though
Where do you live? I am at 59 and counting. Every 7-11 in Orlando is carrying the bottles. They are even in the Pepsi machine at work, so all my co-workers give me their caps
I think you need to stop eyeballing the big gulp cups and glazed doughnutz and take a stroll to the drink case.Do what I do for a free song:
Step 1: Walk into your local store with the iTunes Pepsi bottles.
Step 2: Using the tilt cheat, pick a winner.
Step 3: Unscrew the cap, put it in your pocket
Step 4: Put the soda back in the freezer
Step 5: Walk out!
Step 6: There is no Step 6.
Step 1: Walk into your local store with the iTunes Pepsi bottles.
Step 2: Using the tilt cheat, pick a winner.
Step 3: Unscrew the cap, put it in your pocket
Step 4: Put the soda back in the freezer
Step 5: Walk out!
Step 6: There is no Step 6.
Hotsoup said:
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step 6: answer to the attendent why you put back a topless Pepsi bottle in the freezer when he catches you. He'll want you to pay. I'm sorry, but you will be caught on camera, then you will have a felony on your hands if you didn't pay.
Hotsoup said:
so bad!
and just as your name implies, that's what you'll be in if anyone sees you (can you say security camera?) lol