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iTunes/Pepsi promotion

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It took 7 bottles of Pepsi for me to win 1 song. I'm not too trusting of the "1 in 3 Wins a Free Song" printing on the label. Anyone else suffer from much worse odds then advertised?
 
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yeah, the odds are a lot worse this time around. last year, the promotion really was about 1 in 3, and usually i ended up with even better results than that. this time i keep getting "buy one get one free" bottles. i guess it's helping sell more pepsi that way.
 

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Maybe, someone kept swipping the third pepsi bottle from you. :)
 
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I bought 3 and one was a "try again", another was "buy 1 get 1 free" and the other was a free song. So those were right within the odds :) Plus you can still do the whole tilt and view method if you really wanted to, especially since Apple and Pepsi didn't comment and didn't care :)
 
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I bought 1 and got a free song.
 
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I haven't redeemed a song yet so I was wondering if I'm limited to a certain group of songs or a certain quality or can I pick pretty much anything they have up for sale?
 
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anything you want :)
 
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any song or whatever of equal value, just like if you were buying the song.
 

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Three out of five, here.
 
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I don't drink Pepsi, but if they say the odds are 1 out of 3, then thats what they are, I don't think they are going to lie about it.
 
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mynameis said:
I don't drink Pepsi, but if they say the odds are 1 out of 3, then thats what they are, I don't think they are going to lie about it.

oh i know, i wasn't implying that they were lying. i think i was just really lucky last time, so i guess i'm just bitter that i'm having worse luck this time. :mac:
 
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itloser said:
0 out of 5... I think my local 7-11 workers "are tilting" ... bums

I get my Pepsi from a vending machine at work. Perhaps the vending company and your 7-11 are working together. :blind:
 
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Okay, got another. Made a scene @ work yesterday when I got my first song and I come into the office this morning to find a winning cap on my desk! I guess that's only natural since 2 departments heard me exclaim my winning. ;)
 
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if it is 1 in 3 you can still buy 10 and never win

i dont drink soda usually, but maybe ill start tilting a few bottles and give the contents to some friends
-chris
 
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Yep you can still tilt and win. I tried it with the 3 that I purchased and sure enough it worked, not real easily, but it sure wasnt hard either.
 
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Murlyn said:
Yep you can still tilt and win. I tried it with the 3 that I purchased and sure enough it worked, not real easily, but it sure wasnt hard either.

True. I decided to give it a go with the last bottle I got from the vending machine. At just the right angle you can see it just fine.
 

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