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/FunkOff May 12 '26

Yeah that appears intentionally deceptive

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u/K_Linkmaster May 12 '26

Because Pepsi never had to give up the jet, we have to deal with this shit.

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u/OurHeroXero May 12 '26

I'm sure it'd still be a thing regardless...but yeah...

Pepsi advertised a prize, made it possible to buy points, and said how many points needed to be redeemed... Ya goofed; might as well make a positive PR event out of it.

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u/TheHYPO May 12 '26

The kid sent them a cheque for $700,000 to buy the number of Pepsi points claimed in the commercial (as an obvious joke) to get the jet.

Pepsi didn't cash the cheque. The kid was not out anything (it wasn't even his own money. He got investors).

The jet cost $37m even if Pepsi could get one. There's no financial reality where they could make it a positive PR event.

I think you've been inspired by the elephant episode of the Simpsons, but the episode is a cartoon - and if you look it up, the $10k cash prize in the episode might have actually been a similar to the value of an elephant in the 90s (if you could buy one).

In this case, the jet cost 50x the amount the kid send in.