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Pepsi, Where's My Jet Netflix doc
Posted on 11/18/22 at 11:42 am
Posted on 11/18/22 at 11:42 am
Story of the time Pepsi "offered" a Harrier jet in a points for merch giveaway in 1995. I haven't watched yet but the actual story is interesting and made a bit of contract law.
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Posted on 11/18/22 at 12:22 pm to Obtuse1
Pepsi has done some weird shite. At one point in the last 50 years they owned the 6th largest military navy in the world.
Posted on 11/18/22 at 12:41 pm to Obtuse1
Only an inferior cola would stoop to such cringe-y gimmicks.
Also, the Pepsi Challenge was bullshite too.
Also, the Pepsi Challenge was bullshite too.
Posted on 11/18/22 at 12:47 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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Only an inferior cola would stoop to such cringe-y gimmicks.
New Coke was a rip off of Pepsi. Coke bosses thought it tasted better.
Posted on 11/18/22 at 12:51 pm to uscpuke
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New Coke was a rip off of Pepsi. Coke bosses thought it tasted better.
Coke had the superior product; it was the mere panic to introduce New Coke. They should have weathered the 80s. Eventually, no one would care that Madonna and Michael Jackson endorsed Pepsi.
Posted on 11/18/22 at 1:49 pm to Obtuse1
I don't know the full details of the story, BIREC, Pepsi jokingly offered a VTOL jet in an ad, and some enterprising individuals actually called them out on it, and acquired the points necessary to purchase.
Is the doc out now?
Is the doc out now?
Posted on 11/18/22 at 2:13 pm to RoyalAir
Posted on 11/18/22 at 3:10 pm to OldHickory
Started watching it last night and the beginning of it looked great for nostalgic reasons but it was late and I dosed off in the middle.. will hopefully get through the 1st episode tonight
Posted on 11/18/22 at 4:30 pm to uscpuke
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New Coke was a rip off of Pepsi. Coke bosses thought it tasted better.
Coke needed a way to cover the transition from cane sugar to high fructose corn syrup, too.
Posted on 11/18/22 at 4:39 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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Also, the Pepsi Challenge was bullshite too.
"Which cola tastes sweeter?"
"Which cola tastes lighter?"
MORE PEOPLE CHOSE PEPSI!
Posted on 11/18/22 at 6:55 pm to Obtuse1
Want to watch it. Reminds of of the Atari sword quest contest from the sound of it.
Posted on 11/18/22 at 7:25 pm to LEASTBAY
The bad thing is that this wasn't the only contest grand prize where Pepsi stepped on their own dicks.
There was one promo where they were supposed to give away 5 Dodge Ram pickup trucks and the winners got to drive a lap on the Daytona Motor Speedway. IIRC, they printed 50 winning bottle caps instead.
There was one promo where they were supposed to give away 5 Dodge Ram pickup trucks and the winners got to drive a lap on the Daytona Motor Speedway. IIRC, they printed 50 winning bottle caps instead.
Posted on 11/18/22 at 8:05 pm to Obtuse1
Watched the entire thing. It was great.
Pepsi was a bunch of huge dicks in this case. It really pissed me off how it turned out.
Pepsi was a bunch of huge dicks in this case. It really pissed me off how it turned out.
Posted on 11/18/22 at 9:03 pm to Obtuse1
90s advertising was so damn good
Posted on 11/20/22 at 7:51 am to Carnifex
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Pepsi was a bunch of huge dicks in this case. It really pissed me off how it turned out.
Posted on 11/23/22 at 10:14 pm to BilJ
The 90s was the last good decade. I was a little kid band biased but it gave me the nostalgia feels.
Liked the story and the kid deserved the jet, or settlement in lieu of. They made contract law literally in response to it.
Liked the story and the kid deserved the jet, or settlement in lieu of. They made contract law literally in response to it.
Posted on 11/23/22 at 11:29 pm to Obtuse1
Man what a shitty ending. I was expecting him to at least get some money. 20 year old me would have taken that million in a heart beat. I mean did he ever even say what he was going to do with the jet? Don’t get me wrong I was rooting for him but it Seemed weird that he was so passionate about acquiring something that he didn’t even know how to use
Posted on 11/24/22 at 12:29 am to cfish140
Pepsi is nasty and they should have been forced to give him the jet they offered.
Posted on 11/24/22 at 7:20 am to cfish140
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Man what a shitty ending. I was expecting him to at least get some money.
frick that judge. Them not being allowed to depose witnesses was bullshite, clearly bought and paid for.
Posted on 11/24/22 at 7:03 pm to cfish140
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did he ever even say what he was going to do with the jet? Don’t get me wrong I was rooting for him but it Seemed weird that he was so passionate about acquiring something that he didn’t even know how to use
Sell it, that’s how he got it investors, it was worth way more than how much it cost to buy the points and he didn’t have the money, so he got investors to help him buy the points.
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