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Originally posted by evildick
Reminds me of that Adam Sandler movie where he buys hundreds of cans of pudding just to get airmiles.
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Punch Drunk Love? Yeah..
Actually that story was real. (The pudding that is).
Claim: A clever consumer earned a lifetime of free air travel by taking advantage of a Healthy Choice pudding promotion.
Status: True.
http://www.snopes.com/business/deals/pudding.asp
"David Phillips, a civil engineer at UC-Davis, has become a cult hero in the obsessive subculture of people who collect frequent-flier miles by converting $3,150 worth of pudding into 1.2 million miles. Oh, yeah-he's also going to claim an $815 tax hahahahaha-off.
Last May, Phillips was pushing his shopping cart down the frozen-food aisle of his local supermarket when a promotion on a Healthy Choice frozen entrée caught his eye: He could earn 500 miles for every 10 Universal Product Codes (bar codes) from Healthy Choice products he sent to the company by Dec 31. Even better: Any Healthy Choice bar codes mailed by the end of the month would rack up double the mileage, or 1,000 miles for every 10 labels. "