PepsiStuffieThingies

[robotech_master]

I've just noticed that Pepsi is doing their PepsiStuff promotion again. This means that there's a ten letter code on the inside of Pepsi product bottle lids. You can redeem them for prizes: five for a free Amazon mp3, 60 for a CD, 90 for a DVD, etc.

This brings back memories. The last time they did a "stuff" promotion, I was at college—and it occurred to me that it was a Pepsi campus, with lots of 16 oz vending machines around in the various classroom buildings, and lots of wastebaskets…and unless there's some kind of instantly-redeemable prize under the lid (like a free drink), people tend to screw the bottle caps back onto the empty bottles and pitch them. So, you do the math.

I ended up with a number of goodies: DVDs of West Side Story and the Jackie Chan movie Gorgeous, a Mt. Dew micro-maglite (which I promptly lost), a Mt. Dew courier bag, and the big prize: a 16-megabyte RIO 600 mp3 player. That player cost 255 bottlecap codes, so you can see just how much effort I put into my trashcan-diving runs. Too bad they aren't giving away any of that kind of thing now.

I may eventually do a campus scavenge run or two for old time's sake, but I figured I might as well also ask here: if any of you are Pepsi drinkers who don't plan to bother with collecting codes, could you post your codes here instead? I'm thinking of saving up for a DVD or two…

(Comments screened so's I'm the only one who'll see any codes. :)

Comments

[foomf.livejournal.com]

Dude, think about it - if I am not bothering to save the codes, why would I bother to save them for someone else? :)

Yeah yeah yeah, I know, for the fun of giving, but really.

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

Well, you know. You might not drink enough Pepsi to think it's worth saving them up for yourself, but if you have a couple of codes you know you're never going to get the benefit out of, you might as well pass them on rather than just let them sit around not doing anything.