Once again, the Apple iTunes/Pepsi promotion has begun. Last year the promotion was a million song give-away with one out of three caps on specially marked bottles of Pepsi products being printed with a winning code for a free song download at the iTunes Music Store. This year there are two million caps in circulation AND with each code redeemed, you are entered in a sweepstakes to win an iPod mini. One iPod mini per hour will be given away during the promotion which lasts until April 11. Put your fingers down, your socks back on and put the calculators away - it's a total of 1,680 iPods up for grabs. You can only redeem 10 songs per day, but at that rate you'd have to drink enough soda that diabetes and a kidney transplant would most likely be in your future. But hey, it's your body. Who am I to stand in the way of a free Blue Merle download?
It remains to be seen if the codes will be available at 7-11 stores on the sides of Big Gulp cups like last year. The bonus at 7-11 is that you can get whatever kind of soda happens to tickle your tonsils instead of being limited to Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Mountain Dew and Sierra Mist.
Commence fizzy, sugary, tasty beverage consumption and let me know if you end up scoring an iPod mini. I'll keep you up to date on my progress as well.
Posted by todd at January 31, 2005 02:53 PM | Trackback
How convenient that this comes at a time when I am craving cola 24/7. Pepsi, would you like all of my dollars? Yes? Great. Here ya go.
Posted by: Mary on January 31, 2005 04:30 PMTodd, Big news in the Guardian this morning about BMW’s plans to expand the Oxford plant to produce more MINI’s. Go to www.guardian.co.uk and click on Business. Then scroll down until you find the article. If you have a problem I will copy and forward it to you if you give me your email address. If you scroll down a ways in my sparkpod blog you will find an entry about my recent visit to the Oxford factory. What a thrill. Also if you resurrect my blog entry for Dec.29 or 30, 2004 from the archive you will find a picture of my new yellow convertible.
I discovered while perusing your archives that we have something gruesome in common. Early in my inglorious career as a self-taught picture framer I removed the tip of my left thumb while cutting matboard with a utility knife. It was deja vu all over again reading your account. Cheers, Jack
i don’t have an ipod but i am willing to quess my pepsi consumption could make me at least a buck back per 3 bottles. 50 cents a song is half the price of a song, every three bottles two songs… Plus, where i work there are bottles all over the place. Free soda for me, half price songs for you..
Posted by: Daniel on February 4, 2005 04:33 PM