Easiest way to get free points is go to your local recycling center and cut them off the bottles. I got a leather jacket, sunglasses, a duffel bag and cd wallet during the last promotion. Might be a little dirty but hey, it's free.
Free Pepsi CD Points
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Pastfinder was referring to the Pepsi point promotions a few years back where you collected points to get stuff like leather jackets, duffel bags, etc.
Wasn't that the promotion where Pepsi did the commercial that had, as a joke, a fighter jet for 1,000,000 points and some guy actually got 1,000,000 points together with the help of a lot of friends and family. He ended up sueing Pepsi when they wouldn't cough up the jet. Not sure what the final outcome was.
John Leonard is the guy. He knew a lot of rich people. He didn't collect points, you could buy points for 10 cents a piece. So he raised 700,000 dollars from all of his rich friends. The actual jet was worth 23 million. As expected, the judge tossed his case. Check it out at http://www.newstribune.com/stories/080699/wor_0806990023.asp
He Lost on appeal.
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JOHN D.R. LEONARD, Plaintiff-Appellant, - v. - PEPSICO, INC., Defendant-Appellee.
Docket No. 99-9032
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT
210 F.3d 88; 2000 U.S. App. LEXIS 6855
March 21, 2000, Argued
April 17, 2000, Decided
PRIOR HISTORY: [**1] Appeal from a grant of summary judgment for Defendant in the Southern District of New York (Wood, J.) in an action seeking specific performance of an alleged offer of a Harrier Jet featured in a television advertisement.
DISPOSITION: Affirmed.
COUNSEL: DAVID E. NACHMAN, New York, NY (David N. Ellenhorn, Emily Stern, Solomon, Zauderer, Ellenhorn, Fischer & Sharp, New York, NY on the brief) for Plaintiff-Appellant.
CHARLES OSSOLA, New York, N.Y. (Arnold & Porter, Washington D.C., and Arent, Fox, Kitner, Plotkin & Kahn, New York, N.Y. on the brief) for Defendant-Appellee.
JUDGES: Before: FEINBERG, JACOBS and HALL, * Circuit Judges.
* The Honorable Cynthia Holcomb Hall, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, sitting by designation.
OPINION: [*89]
PER CURIAM:
In 1995, defendant-appellee Pepsico, Inc. conducted a promotion in which it offered merchandise in exchange for "points" earned by purchasing Pepsi Cola. A television commercial aired by Pepsico depicted a teenager gloating over various items of merchandise earned by Pepsi points, and culminated in the teenager arriving at high school in a Harrier Jet, a fighter aircraft of the United States Marine Corps. [**2] For each item of merchandise sported by the teenager (a T shirt, a jacket, sunglasses), the ad noted the number of Pepsi points needed to get it. When the teenager is shown in the jet, the ad prices it as 7 million points.
Plaintiff-appellant John D.R. Leonard alleges that the ad was an offer, that he accepted the offer by tendering the equivalent of 7 million points, and that Pepsico has breached its contract to deliver the Harrier jet. Pepsico characterizes the use of the Harrier jet in the ad as a hyperbolic joke ("zany humor"
, cites the ad's reference to offering details contained in the promotional catalog (which contains no Harrier fighter plane), and argues that no objective person would construe the ad as an offer for the Harrier jet.
The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Wood, J.) agreed with Pepsico and granted its motion for summary judgment on the grounds (1) that the commercial did not amount to an offer of goods; (2) that no objective person could reasonably have concluded that the commercial actually offered consumers a Harrier Jet; and (3) that the alleged contract could not satisfy the New York statute of frauds.
We affirm [**3] for substantially the reasons stated in Judge Wood's opinion. See F. Supp. 2d . 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11987 (S.D.N.Y. 1999).
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JOHN D.R. LEONARD, Plaintiff-Appellant, - v. - PEPSICO, INC., Defendant-Appellee.
Docket No. 99-9032
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT
210 F.3d 88; 2000 U.S. App. LEXIS 6855
March 21, 2000, Argued
April 17, 2000, Decided
PRIOR HISTORY: [**1] Appeal from a grant of summary judgment for Defendant in the Southern District of New York (Wood, J.) in an action seeking specific performance of an alleged offer of a Harrier Jet featured in a television advertisement.
DISPOSITION: Affirmed.
COUNSEL: DAVID E. NACHMAN, New York, NY (David N. Ellenhorn, Emily Stern, Solomon, Zauderer, Ellenhorn, Fischer & Sharp, New York, NY on the brief) for Plaintiff-Appellant.
CHARLES OSSOLA, New York, N.Y. (Arnold & Porter, Washington D.C., and Arent, Fox, Kitner, Plotkin & Kahn, New York, N.Y. on the brief) for Defendant-Appellee.
JUDGES: Before: FEINBERG, JACOBS and HALL, * Circuit Judges.
* The Honorable Cynthia Holcomb Hall, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, sitting by designation.
OPINION: [*89]
PER CURIAM:
In 1995, defendant-appellee Pepsico, Inc. conducted a promotion in which it offered merchandise in exchange for "points" earned by purchasing Pepsi Cola. A television commercial aired by Pepsico depicted a teenager gloating over various items of merchandise earned by Pepsi points, and culminated in the teenager arriving at high school in a Harrier Jet, a fighter aircraft of the United States Marine Corps. [**2] For each item of merchandise sported by the teenager (a T shirt, a jacket, sunglasses), the ad noted the number of Pepsi points needed to get it. When the teenager is shown in the jet, the ad prices it as 7 million points.
Plaintiff-appellant John D.R. Leonard alleges that the ad was an offer, that he accepted the offer by tendering the equivalent of 7 million points, and that Pepsico has breached its contract to deliver the Harrier jet. Pepsico characterizes the use of the Harrier jet in the ad as a hyperbolic joke ("zany humor"
, cites the ad's reference to offering details contained in the promotional catalog (which contains no Harrier fighter plane), and argues that no objective person would construe the ad as an offer for the Harrier jet. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Wood, J.) agreed with Pepsico and granted its motion for summary judgment on the grounds (1) that the commercial did not amount to an offer of goods; (2) that no objective person could reasonably have concluded that the commercial actually offered consumers a Harrier Jet; and (3) that the alleged contract could not satisfy the New York statute of frauds.
We affirm [**3] for substantially the reasons stated in Judge Wood's opinion. See F. Supp. 2d . 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11987 (S.D.N.Y. 1999).
Kind of a cool thread, with the article about the Jet buyer wannabe and his appeal all posted here. Now THAT would be a hot deal: a $23million Jet for $700,000.
Sure would speed up the work commute.
Sure would speed up the work commute.
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