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Pepsi and iTunes Promotion
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Re: Re: No Purchase Necessary?
I don't get it. ClimbingTheLog asks a question about the legality of a contest where you have to make a purchase in order to win, and you respond by jumping down his throat and explaining the process, beginning with buying a bottle...
That was not the question.
I don't get it. ClimbingTheLog asks a question about the legality of a contest where you have to make a purchase in order to win, and you respond by jumping down his throat and explaining the process, beginning with buying a bottle...
That was not the question.
A statement made by the head of the RIAA last week specifically mentioned the Pepsi/iTunes and Napster/McDonalds deals. However, I am unaware of any such Napster deal, and if it is true I haven't seen the announcement. Perhaps they were just confused.
If you really want to save money, buy more iTunes music and get your caffeine fix as well.
Drink Iced Tea.
It boosts your immune system 5x over coffee, you can sweeten it to your tastes, you can make it at home for pennies a glass, it has more caffeine than coffee and most soda's and it won't eat holes in your stomach like coffee and soda does.
And you won't go broke supporting your habit.
Take the money you save and buy iTunes music.
Drink Iced Tea.
It boosts your immune system 5x over coffee, you can sweeten it to your tastes, you can make it at home for pennies a glass, it has more caffeine than coffee and most soda's and it won't eat holes in your stomach like coffee and soda does.
And you won't go broke supporting your habit.
Take the money you save and buy iTunes music.
Groovy. I'm happy about this promotion (on a personal level--big marketing = good for Apple regardless) because my mom drinks absolutely vast quantities of diet Pepsi to satiate her caffiene addiction. I figure I can't go wrong bumming free iTMS credits off her, since she's bound to win a heap. She does little different (hopefully) in terms of buying--just a different kind of bottle than usual--and I get stuff for free. Cool.
Personally, I don't much like Coke or Pepsi--when I drink soda, I almost always go for a high-end vanilla creme or root beer, like the tasty ones from Stewarts or Henry Weinhard (or their new, exceedingly good Cherry Creme Soda). If I do drink cheap fizzy, it's iether Dr Pepper, Mr. Pibb, or 7up. Sierra Mist actually isn't bad either, though.
Personally, I don't much like Coke or Pepsi--when I drink soda, I almost always go for a high-end vanilla creme or root beer, like the tasty ones from Stewarts or Henry Weinhard (or their new, exceedingly good Cherry Creme Soda). If I do drink cheap fizzy, it's iether Dr Pepper, Mr. Pibb, or 7up. Sierra Mist actually isn't bad either, though.
Is this what's suppose to happen:
1. Pepsi / Apple start promo
2. Kids buy Pepsi in hopes of getting a cap with a number they don't understand.
-----Let's say they understand
3. Go to website to check winner.
4. If winner they download itunes and free song.
5. Love service so much they go out and buy an iPod.
Going from 4 to 5 is a big stretch and that is where Apple will make money.
1. Pepsi / Apple start promo
2. Kids buy Pepsi in hopes of getting a cap with a number they don't understand.
-----Let's say they understand
3. Go to website to check winner.
4. If winner they download itunes and free song.
5. Love service so much they go out and buy an iPod.
Going from 4 to 5 is a big stretch and that is where Apple will make money.
Re: slightly off topic
Grace: That's not fair.
Will: Life's not fair, Grace. Grow up.
Grace: Did you just tell me to 'grow up'?
Will: Yes. And when you grow up, you'll understand.
You can get Glad in the same pants you got Mad in.
From TVs Will & Grace...
Grace: That's not fair.
Will: Life's not fair, Grace. Grow up.
Grace: Did you just tell me to 'grow up'?
Will: Yes. And when you grow up, you'll understand.
You can get Glad in the same pants you got Mad in.
Official Rules
http://www.apple.com/itunes/pepsi/rules.html
99% of all the questions here are in the quite lengthy official rules:
Of note:
The iTunes promotion period begins 12:00:00 a.m. EST 2/1/04 and ends 11:59:59 p.m. EST on 3/31/04, or when supplies of specially marked packages have been exhausted, whichever comes first (the Promotion Period)
20 oz. and 1 liter bottles of Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Sierra Mist and under the rim of specially marked 32 oz. fountain cups available at participating 7-11 convenience store.
Maximum number of valid Codes per email address/person that can be entered at the Web Site is 10 per day and 200 total throughout the Promotion Period
http://www.apple.com/itunes/pepsi/rules.html
99% of all the questions here are in the quite lengthy official rules:
Of note:
The iTunes promotion period begins 12:00:00 a.m. EST 2/1/04 and ends 11:59:59 p.m. EST on 3/31/04, or when supplies of specially marked packages have been exhausted, whichever comes first (the Promotion Period)
20 oz. and 1 liter bottles of Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Sierra Mist and under the rim of specially marked 32 oz. fountain cups available at participating 7-11 convenience store.
Maximum number of valid Codes per email address/person that can be entered at the Web Site is 10 per day and 200 total throughout the Promotion Period
Re: Re: Re: No Purchase Necessary?
Please correct me if I am wrong, but punctuation like commas and periods should never lie outside of a quotation mark. As long as we're correcting folks, I thought I'd throw in my two cents.
Originally posted by billyboy
Sorry to be boring, but, punctuation is everything!The words "and yet", in the sense of "however", should be followed by a comma.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but punctuation like commas and periods should never lie outside of a quotation mark. As long as we're correcting folks, I thought I'd throw in my two cents.
Trivial Pursuit gets stuff wrong all of the time. I was playing this weekend and the questions was: "What McDonald's hamburger do the French call Le Royale?"
The answer is a Quarter-Pounder but according to Trivial Pusuit, it was a Big Mac, which is just wrong.
Sorry for being way, way off topic.
autrefois
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Re: No Purchase Necessary?
It doesn't look like anyone answered you (if they did, then sorry), but yes they do have to offer a free game piece upon request, and it is mentioned in the official rules:
As you suggested though, in this case it wouldn't be worth doing except for fun, since there's a 1 in 3 chance, and three stamps cost more than the 99 cent prize.
[EDIT to clarify, anticipating future posts] I am aware it is statistically possible that you could win 3 times if you sent in 3 requests and make money on the deal, or win 0 times and get nothing back at all, etc. My point was just that the odds are you would lose money in the long run if you kept doing this.[/EDIT]
It doesn't look like anyone answered you (if they did, then sorry), but yes they do have to offer a free game piece upon request, and it is mentioned in the official rules:
As you suggested though, in this case it wouldn't be worth doing except for fun, since there's a 1 in 3 chance, and three stamps cost more than the 99 cent prize.
[EDIT to clarify, anticipating future posts
] I am aware it is statistically possible that you could win 3 times if you sent in 3 requests and make money on the deal, or win 0 times and get nothing back at all, etc. My point was just that the odds are you would lose money in the long run if you kept doing this.[/EDIT]I think the idea is..
Get people to go to the ITMS to pick out thier free song.. where they'll find more than one song they want, so they'll get thier free songs and probably buy a couple over the length of the promotion.
So now people have a collection of AAC files on thier Windows machine forcing them to use iTunes.. and when you are using iTunes the ITMS is always there waiting for more 99c... where the collection of AAC grows.
Eventually people want to have these files on a portable music player.. so they are stuck and they have to go out and buy an iPod.
Then they discover just how badly the iPod clashes with there crappy beige or black PeeCee and have to go out and buy a shiny iBook.
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-autrefois
since you need to include a self addressed stamped envelope doesn't that mean the price of 6 stamps is less than the 99c prize?
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Get people to go to the ITMS to pick out thier free song.. where they'll find more than one song they want, so they'll get thier free songs and probably buy a couple over the length of the promotion.
So now people have a collection of AAC files on thier Windows machine forcing them to use iTunes.. and when you are using iTunes the ITMS is always there waiting for more 99c... where the collection of AAC grows.
Eventually people want to have these files on a portable music player.. so they are stuck and they have to go out and buy an iPod.
Then they discover just how badly the iPod clashes with there crappy beige or black PeeCee and have to go out and buy a shiny iBook.
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-autrefois
since you need to include a self addressed stamped envelope doesn't that mean the price of 6 stamps is less than the 99c prize?
]
Re: Official Rules
Nice, that answered my question about which bottles. Also of note:
Hmm, does that mean the rules are invalid??
Nice, that answered my question about which bottles. Also of note:
Hmm, does that mean the rules are invalid??
Re: Re: Re: No Purchase Necessary?
Its amazing how far people will go NOT to read what people write and respond to it anyway...
Its amazing how far people will go NOT to read what people write and respond to it anyway...