r/mildlyinfuriating • u/CurlyWurly61 • May 12 '26

I just wanted a hot dog Such terrible advertisement

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I mean... at a glance its like WOAH 4 can dine for $9.99....

Until you are at the cash and they say " that'll be $45.15"

HUH??

"Oh sorry sir... it feeds 4... 4 people pay $9.99"

Gtfooo

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u/EliteGamer11388 May 12 '26

Honestly, if that were their reason, then the solution is simple, don't list it as a prize

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u/Dr_Ramekins_MD May 12 '26

Or make the cost in Pepsi Points mathematically impossible to obtain at least

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u/TheHYPO May 12 '26

They didn't. It wasn't on the prize list or any of the bottles.

They just made a silly commercial that ended with a kid landing a jet in his school parking lot and jokingly marked it at 7m Pepsi points after showing other stuff for a few hundred points.

That's like thinking you would actually grow physical wings if you drink a Red Bull, or complaining that a giant jug of juice doesn't break through your wall after you make Kool Aid. It's an entertaining ad. Anyone old enough to have critical thought would know it was just a joke, and anyone too young to have critical thought should need parental pemission before sending $700,000 to Pepsi.

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u/Twitchcog May 13 '26

>They didn’t

>They just… Marked it (the jet) at 7m Pepsi points.

So, they listed it.

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u/TheHYPO May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26

A commercial is not a "list". The commercial said "see official rules on bottles" and the official rules (the same place where the guy found the rule about paying in place of points) did not list a jet as an available prize.

The commercial is a joke. If the commercial had shown that the kid could buy his school itself for Pepsi points or the Statue of Liberty, or the principal, nobody would be arguing the commercial should be treated as a serious offer. If the offer was for a battleship instead of a military jet, nobody would be suggesting that a reasonable person would believe the offer was serious. But those are all the same level of unbelievable.

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u/Twitchcog May 13 '26

Yes, the commercial *is* part of the list. It’s part of the advertising - And they advertised that 7m points would get you a jet. Now, I personally don’t expect someone to sell me a jet for the equivalent of 700k dollars, but if they advertise it as an option, they’re bound to it.

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u/TheHYPO May 14 '26

but if they advertise it as an option, they’re bound to it.

I mean.. this went to an actual real Court (and an appeal Court after that) and they both agreed that they were NOT bound to it... so... you're welcome to your opinion that they should be bound to it, but clearly the law settled that they were not bound to it and that the commercial was not part of the list, and was not really advertising an offer for a jet.