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KirbyKirbyKirby
01-28-2005, 09:48 PM
During the month of November, Pepsi Canada started a contest that allowed participants to win an iPod every hour on the hour. We discovered how easy it was to get No Purchase Necessary codes, so we started getting some.

My grandma is very tech-savvy for her age, so she also participated, as she takes long walks and wanted to have her iTunes library with her when they walk. The day she first entered the contest, she won an iPod.

There are contest mailing lists in the province, and my mom was accumulating No Purchase Necessary codes with her friends on the contest. I did too. Then, Pepsi did the unthinkable, they changed how to get No Purchase Necessary codes.

Before they changed, codes could be accumulated as fast as you could type. They turned the form into a survey of sorts that takes 5 minutes or more to answer per entry. Plus, the codes were associated email addresses. We gave up, but my mom's contest-addicted (no offense) friend kept going. A month passed. The week before Christmas, we got a phone call from her saying that she won an iPod, and for all the effort we put in it, she gave it to us.

Now, my grandparents and us each own 20GB iPods.

mahzorimipod
01-28-2005, 09:58 PM
sounds like fun, really. I got mine for my birthday, against the wishes of an anti-Mac dad.

Captain Dan
01-28-2005, 11:51 PM
Your Dad's OBVIOUSLY player-hating :p.

But I guess Mac users are player-haters because they hate my man Fresh Funk B. Gatez :cool:.

-Captain Dan

Kristiano
01-29-2005, 12:46 AM
Cool story mate ;)

Cdammen
01-29-2005, 10:15 AM
Ha ha, freakin' great story. Have fun with you iPod's :)

iPod Dance
01-30-2005, 01:38 AM
cool story!

Reminds me of the Heinlein Book "Have Space Suit, Will Travel," where the kid at the beginning sends in a thousand entrees into a contest to win a spacesuit.