Crack the Pepsi iTunes Promo Code 594
An anonymous reader writes "Someone posted a technique to find a winner in the iTunes Pepsi promo giveaway." Next step: a Pepsi/iTMS winning number generator!
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Crack the Pepsi iTunes Promo Code
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Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some rays and became a tangent ?
a crack? hmm. (Score:5, Insightful)
I swear.... (Score:-1, Insightful)
It's pretty easy though, since you have to register through iTunes. Cheaters will be tracked down.
But whoever is doing this is a lowlife.
Re:Oh, come on! (Score:4, Insightful)
A bottle usually costs between $0.99 and $1.49, depending on where you buy it, so even if I'm a "winner" every time, I'm pretty much breaking even compared to just giving iTMS my credit card number and downloading whatever I like.
Hey, Steve... Is this what it has come to? You sell sugar water to children for a living now?
(I keed, I keed!)
Re:Great teach people that open source == cheaters (Score:2, Insightful)
I'm not sure I can afford to win... (Score:4, Insightful)
Happy Trails!
Erick
Re:wtf? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:I swear.... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:On Apple's behalf... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:And Apple just got back in the black (Score:5, Insightful)
The majority of Pepsi drinkers probably don't care about the promotion.
Those who do will win. Those who don't care won't win and won't care that they didn't win.
The tunes go to the people who want them, and more or less everyone is happy.
I'd say this would hold true if anywhere under 10% of Pepsi drinkers wanted the iTunes songs. Once you get past that, you wind up having massive inventories of losing bottles nobody wants and things turn ugly fast.
But if that's the case, it's Pepsi that loses, not Apple. Apple has no liability for Pepsi's inventory problems or lack of same.
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Re:Wow, mods are retarded. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:wtf? (Score:2, Insightful)
If by "screwing" you mean "buying their products" then yes, you are correct. You may be reselling the drinks so there is no cost to you, but there is still profit to the parties providing the goods.
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I don't understand (Score:2, Insightful)
It's NOT a crack...you still have to buy it! (Score:5, Insightful)
Ron
Re:Awesome! (Score:5, Insightful)
If you're a regular iTunes Music Store user, you're spending 21 on a Pepsi.
If you're an iTMS user and a Pepsi drinker, this whole thing is saving you 99 off your regular Pepsi/iTMS purchases.
If you're a cola drinker but not a Pepsi drinker, buying a Coke is really costing you $1.20 + 99 (99 for lost opportunity cost).
You really can't lose!
Never underestimate the stupidity of people in small numbers.
Re:On Apple's behalf... (Score:5, Insightful)
Great Way to Go Slahsdot Give into the Media Hype (Score:3, Insightful)
With that said, I understand this is somewhat news, but honestly your not really scamming or solving anything here. People are buying songs from itunes - good for them, people are downloading songs from itunes for free - GREAT you just made the powers that be "right" that music "Downloaders" are "teh d3v1l".
Congratz.
Re:I don't understand (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Oh, come on! (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:On Apple's behalf... (Score:5, Insightful)
I have no idea how the profits break down... But I seriously doubt that Pepsi is paying full price per song. I also have the feeling the record labels are getting paid all or near their usual fees. So I guess it boils down to who you want to screw over-- Pepsi and Apple by scamming the contest, or the RIAA by going back to Kazaa.
But the real question is, don't most of us have enough music yet? How many times have you listened to 99% of those 20, 40, even 100gb+ songs on your hard drive?
This is a good mirror, *NOT* Tubgirl - MOD UP! (Score:1, Insightful)
Best promotion (Score:5, Insightful)
1. To Pepsi - increased sales
2. To Apple - more people use and know about iTunes
3. To RIAA - people consider free music downloads a prize rather than taken for granted
Also, because it is so unique it recieves much more publicity than other promotions (such as this article).
Re:I know you were kidding but... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Awesome! (Score:2, Insightful)
Never underestimate the stupidity of people looking for snappy comebacks.
Re:so smart. (Score:2, Insightful)
The only difference might be in that the ODDS are that the person winning IS going to redeem it...
Re:It's NOT a crack...you still have to buy it! (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Oh, come on! (Score:5, Insightful)
Anyone who knows anything about iTMS would know that songs are only $.99 and would realize the futility of purchasing a more expensive product just for the less expensive free gift. There's also something to be said for generating hype over a product in general, like we are all doing right this second by reading this post.
So you don't like Pepsi, then don't buy one. If you want songs from iTMS then go directly to the source. Get over yourself.
Re:Oh, come on! (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Fatal flaw (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Oh, come on! (Score:3, Insightful)
I had a friend that worked at a gas station, and whenever there was a promotion, he would look as he stocked and put all the winners aside, whenever we came in he would just point to where they were and we would turn in the free coke/pepsi cap to him and keep the drink. I always thought that something like this was the reason they went to the promotions like basketball where you get a team, and it worked out somehow that way, Why is it always Basketball Crap? I hate sports, gimme something I can use, not something to make me watch a game and see if I might win if I STILL have the cap laying around.
Randomness not cheap! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Oh, come on! (Score:3, Insightful)
or they could just put a little bit more soda into the bottle.
Re:Oh, come on! (Score:4, Insightful)
In actuality, it's high fructose corn syrup water, which is much, much worse.
[Anti ADM / farm-subsidies rant ommited for the sake of staying on topic]
Oh, I can't help myself. They're spending tax dollars to subsidize giant agracorps to grow too much corn that they have to turn into sweetners and corn-fed beef to rot your teeth and give you mad cow disease!
ahem.....
Re:Famous Steve Jobs quote to Pepsi guy (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Famous Steve Jobs quote to Pepsi guy (Score:5, Insightful)
So, yeah, Sculley ruined Apple: he made it profitable and expanded the Mac user base. Such horrible crimes. Real Apple fans know the goal is to become an ever-shrinking demographic until the Mac is sitting on the same shelf as the Amiga, clung to in irrelevancy by rabid fans.
Re:And Apple just got back in the black (Score:3, Insightful)
But if that's the case, it's Pepsi that loses, not Apple. Apple has no liability for Pepsi's inventory problems or lack of same.
Well it's not like pepsi sales are gonna get lower than before the promotion after all the winning caps are gone. I'm at the very least there will be a moderate rise in consumption.. wether it's because of the promotion or growing worldwide addiction who knows.
Re:Famous Steve Jobs quote to Pepsi guy (Score:5, Insightful)
Jonathan Ive was more or less put on ice until Jobs discovered him working there. Jobs has otherwise done quite a job himself in turning the company around.
Besides - and this is the clincher - what if Sculley had been good for Apple? Just think how much better he would have been if he and his cohorts hadn't pocketed all that money Jobs speaks of? Just think how much better off Apple would have been!
Re:Oh, come on! (Score:4, Insightful)
The rest of your point is valid, however.
Re:Famous Steve Jobs quote to Pepsi guy (Score:2, Insightful)
Sales growth is not the be-all end-all of corporate performance. Me, I'm much happier that Apple is focusing on building superior machines than trying to be another crappy VAR.
Re:Famous Steve Jobs quote to Pepsi guy (Score:4, Insightful)
See, you hire someone, have them cut lots of fat out of the company, fire lots of folks, and consequently everyone hates them. Then you get rid of them and in swoops the savior to take control of a leaner, restructured company without any of the ill will because you just fired everyone's friends.
Re:Sculley: FEH. (Score:3, Insightful)
It must be hard to move to a business where you actually have to make the things you sell at a cost as opposed to just fill another bottle with sugar, spice and water and use all money on advertising.
Re:Oh, come on! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Oh, come on! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:On Apple's behalf... (Score:3, Insightful)
Did anyone else notice that the parent site [downhillbattle.org] of TuneRecycler.com [tunerecycler.com] seems to advocate vandalism of merchandise in retail stores? [downhillbattle.org]
We all may agree with their stand on the RIAA, but I for one cannot support their position of 'retail-terrorist'. To add insult to injury, they 'borrow' a new camera from Wal-Mart to photograph their little escapade, fully intending to return it after they're done! Reprehensible.
Re:On Apple's behalf... (Score:4, Insightful)
Then I guess you wouldn't mind me spray-painting a slogan on the side of your car, huh? I haven't destroyed anything, and you're going to throw the car away eventually anyhow, right?
From Merriam-Webster [m-w.com]:
The stickers constitute defacement, in my book. They diminish the value of the CD to the retailer - the message is repugnant, they're large, ugly, and cover the artwork, making customers less likely to purchase a CD (the whole point of their little vendetta).Protest outside the store legally; start a direct-mailing campaign; skywrite for all I care, but don't break the law to make your point!