Do You Enter Codes Found Under Soda Caps?
 

Well, do you? You could win a car, free gas, an iPOD or whatever they are giving away, but most likely you'll win a lifetime of spam from the sponsor. Its a chance I always take. :thumbsup

sometimes I do when I have nothing better to do, but usually it's not worh the trouble, if you look closely you will see that chances of winning anything decent are like 1 in a million....

I always forget.
Hell I even forget to redem my winning soda caps for more soda.

Once in a blue moon..not very often though

it's usually never worth my time i'd rather a free soda than have sit there type in all my info enter the code only to find out i didn't win shit

My uncle found a few coke bottles on the ground, and on a hunch... picked them up, took off the labels and entered the codes in online.

One of them won him a 52" Sony LCD television.

in all honesty i find that most of the winners for almost all contests are the people that send in a s.a.s.e. and never even bought the product....

I only drink dr. pepper (over 8 cans a day everyday) and if there is a game on the 12pk box i'm in!

Nope, never did.

I used to do that when I was a kid, then I started to realize nobody really wins any shit

Watch that bro. I was in the same boat and then the kidney stones hit. :helpme

I always do when there is contest for it.
I figure why pass up a chance at getting something free.

In the US the prizes are won, just odds dictate it will not be you.
See they have these law things and also the ability for anyone to request a list of the winners.

is this like the morons at the mall that fill out the spam consent forms for absolutely no chance to win the shiny new car?

Ah, someone else in the know.

Brings back memories of last November when McDonalds was running the Monopoly Promotion and each SAE (no return stamp needed, rented a mail drop from The UPS Store in Vermont -- the only state where it is illegal for a sponsor to require that poistage be placed on the SASE) resulted in a Best Buy Buck good for $1 or $3 and the other little things that were good for free food or were spots on the board.

The gF and I together addressed some 5,000+ envelopes and sent them off. We both hate McDonalds food, so we sold the stamps for free food for $10 per 100 of a kind (i.e. 100 winners good for a free sandwhich) to friends and we made daily runs on Best Buy for shit to cash in the Best Buy Bucks. The killer was we got rebate checks on all kinds of shit and those more than paid for the postage and supplies, and we now have a lifetime supply of hard drives and other computer items.

Boy, the people at Best Buy hated to see me or my gF coming, 'cause they knew they were gonna be counting for a while. Hell, I even did that shit on the day after Thanksgiving and held up the line.

haha, that was fucking fun.

hmm, I don't get it, so you mailed 5k envelopes at ~40 cents each that's $2k.
You invested $2k in a McDonalds contest? And in any other state it would be $4k. What am I missing here?

"and each SAE (no return stamp needed, rented a mail drop from The UPS Store in Vermont -- the only state where it is illegal for a sponsor to require that poistage be placed on the SASE)"

not to mention, filling out envelopes also takes time, if for example you fill out 50 forms and evelopes per hour, that's 100 hours burned in this contest. So that's at least another $1k in burned time...(assuming you only make $10/hr) plus there is time spent selling the contest prizes, etc.... I can not visualize how you could have made money on this whole deal...

So that means no postage was paid? except some low flat fee to drop off those 5k mails?

sounds like to me he rented a p.o box for whatever that costs, couldnt be much and then bought 5k envelopes, adressed them, then drop them in the mail drop of box at the post office....if you cant do it in one box go to multiple drop boxes and spread the load (id imagine the post office would call that mass mailing if it is the same outgoing box)....no stamps so the investment cost sounds like 50 bucks and some time to print adresses to me:2 cents:

Yea same here

You only have to put a stamp on the envelope you use to send the SAE (which is inside of the enevelope you send, an envelope within an enevelope) to MCD. The SAE inside is addressed to the mail drop in Vermont (Cost: $60 for 3 months, plus postage to forward boxes of mail) and so it dosent need a stamp.

When each SAE came back, it had a free game piece in it. The game piece was guranteed to be a winner of at least a $1 gift certificate (Best Buy Buck) to be used at Best Buy, and about 30% of them were worth $3 each. The "money" was made when you went to Best Buy, bought shit that had big mail in rebates on them (like hard drives and APC BackUPS units) and sent them in. The checks came AND you got a bunch of merchandise. Only thing that sucked was a rule you couldnt redeem more than $300 in BBBs in the same day, so no HDTVs and stuff. The plan was orginally to eBay all the stuff and cash the rebate checks, but we eneded up liking the crap we got too much and kept it all.

That dosent even account for the other little stamps that were sometimes winners of free food or other crap. We didnt win any of the real prizes, although I figured with that many we'd at least pick up an iPOD or something. Didnt happen.

In summary: Each request costed $0.37 for a stamp (this was done pre-rate hike, mind you), the cost of two envelopes (boxes of 500 Office Depot store brand, $6 a box) and the time to address (we both had lots of time on our hands then, so time wasnt an issue) and was guranteed to be worth at least $1 in free shit at Best Buy.

Hellllll no!

I only thought about it because of this thread. Maybe the next time I buy a soda I'll check out the code

No, I don't give a damn on those kind of promos.

i never tried that... i never gave a damn to those numbers.

I think I've done it twice, from my Nestle coffee jars, they have these little round things that you have to hold against your coffee cup (or something warm) to see the number that you are suppose to SMS to

I tried once but then my older brother told me not to believe in those numbers.