What ever happen to that billion dollar pepsi give away

[mugs]

There was only a 1/1000 chance that they'd even give $1 billion away. (I recall it said so right in the rules)

 

[Alkesh]

 

[Alkesh]

I am Sparticus.

 

[darkswordsman17]

I think that even if you did win that they'd only pay you like 50 grand a year for like 49 years and then on the 50th year they'd pay you the remainder or something. Who know what a billion would be worth at that point in time.

They got sued over the harrier jet thing. Someone rich people bought enough Pepsi to get the number of points or whatever was needed and then tried to get it. Pepsi told them that it wasn't an actual prize. I don't even know if they got anything out of it, but Pepsi added that the Harrier wasn't an actual prize in the commercial.

 

[lrad50]

I am Jesus. Shove it, Sparticus.

 

[Shadowknight]

Yeah, the harrier people got some cash over it.

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: Shawn
those things are all scams. nobody ever wins.

It's not a scam, it's a calculated risk. Pepsi wasn't even responsible for paying out the $1,000,000,000. They farmed it out to an insurance company. The odds were 1 in 1000 that somebody would win. That averages out to $1,000,000 a play. Pepsi ended up paying an insurance company a few million and if somebody won the billion the insurance company would've been screwed. In the end they got to walk away with their fee.