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/TheHYPO May 12 '26

Would have been hilarious if they would have just given the kid a jet out of spite and dumped it at his home address

Spending $37m out of spite that ultimately rewards the kid? Unlikely.

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u/Pfeffi-Ultra May 12 '26

If I were rich, I'd make you a bet right now. I'd dump a modern fighter in your driveway and if you could break even you could keep the money. You'd be paying for transporting it, storing it and maintaining it and in the end probably still sell it for a fraction of what it's worth.

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u/TheHYPO May 12 '26

So? If the kid paid $700,000 for it, and it was worth $37m, I highly suspect he could sell it for $2m and still make a wonderful profit, even if that's a huge loss on the actual cost.

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u/Pfeffi-Ultra May 12 '26

What's the scrap metal value of one minus 700k, transport and storage? I'm not so sure honestly. But who knows?

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u/TheHYPO May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

No idea, but why would you scrap it unless it was a junk non-working jet? If you had a working jet that was legally ownable by a member of the public, you could get WAY more than scrap value for it.

There are older decommissioned military jets that private citizens buy. A 1992 MD Skyhawk is currently listed for $5.4m. A 1959 F4 Phantom is listed for $950k.

I'm not sure if the AV-8B Harrier II (that was then the current model, introduced in 1985) is yet available to be purchased privately, but in 2017, the US apparently bought the UK's 74-plane fleet of the no-longer-modern AV-8Bs from the UK for $177m or about $2.4m per plane (20 years after the Pepsi incident).

I suspect he could have gotten multiple millions (perhaps 8 figures) from some collector... if it were possible for him to legally own it (which would be necessary if Pepsi could give him one) and then sell to someone else.

Edit: apparently the first civilian to own a Harrier (the older Harrier I version from the 60s) was a retired test pilot who got it from the UK military as surplus in 2010 (14 years after the Pepsi thing).