Xbox360 Giveaway

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Erasmus354

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For those of you who haven't heard, pepsi is doing a Xbox Giveaway. They give away one xbox360 every ten minutes for 9 weeks. You also get a free game. I know I didn't hear about this until a few days ago. Right now the drawings seem to have about 400-500 codes entered by the time they draw, I expect the longer the contest goes the more codes there will be in each drawing.

So if you happen to drink pepsi products, go get a couple of the ones with the codes and enter into the early ones. A one in 500 chance to win an Xbox360 seems pretty good to me. Better chances than winning the lottery by far.

Also, they are guaranteed to get the Xbox360 to you BEFORE it is commercially released. So you can be playing your Xbox360 before anyone else, a nice bonus.

I just thought I would let the rest of the people on the [H]ard|Forums know in case you haven't already heard.

www.everytenminutes.com
 
I have been looking forward to this contest for the past few months. Think I will buy a Mountain Dew every other day. :cool:
 
wow, nice. I want one, but this isn't really a deal, it's more like 'free stuff' isn't it?
 
I have no chance at this, in that Coke contest where you have a "1 in 12" chance of winning I've bought over 200 Cokes over the past 2 years and not won once :(
 
for those that are interested, supposedly you can use this website to get a free code.

link

they say you can just enter in bogus info in the "your name" and "your email address" and then put your email addy in the "friends" section.

Warning: Obviously this will likely sign you up for lots of email spam, so use a junk account you don't care about.

Only 1 code per email addy, but if you have a bunch of junk emails, you can accumulate codes to get their promo stuff for "free" (have to pay shipping and handling)
 
You can always get a free code. that's why you always hear the "no purchase required" discalimer. If you had to buy something to enter the drawing, that constitutes gambling. gambling is still illegal in most states. here is pepsi's official method of obtaining a free code...

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. To receive one free Code and copy of Official Rules without purchase, while supplies last, send a self-addressed stamped envelope postmarked by 10/10/05 (to be received by 10/15/05) to "Every 10 Minutes" Request, P.O. Box 3330, Young America, MN 55558-3330. Limit one free Code per request per stamped outer envelope.
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full directions...
http://pepsi.yahoo.com/everyten/official_rules.php
 
You can also get a free code if you have yahoo messenger, you click on a link somewhere on that page (forgot where) and you will get an IM from pepsi with a free code in it. Although my free code didn't work for some reason, maybe because I didn't finish what I had to do....meh I'll just buy a couple of mountain dews and give them to my roomie. Personally I dont feel that things like this are worth going out of your way to buy more of their product. I think that you should get a few maybe just to get a chance of winning.....but is a 50 in 500 chance really worth the extra money over a 5 in 500 chance?
 
This is one hell of a contest... look at all the winners so far. I would like to enter, but it seems that all of the Pepsi products I have seen recently don't have the caps. I guess I'll keep looking.
 
Too bad I dont drink soda anymore...but I never drank pepsi because it might as well be poison. At least that's what I thought it tasted like. Plus it gave me one hell of a migraine.
 
Ive looked at 10 Stoes around here in Barengat NJ and I have YET to see a x360 bottle. Bummer they can advertise it so well yet not have the products out.
 
Hmm chances are if you were to buy 240 of these at a 1.25 you still come out ahead... (if you win that is :p)

I might consider it.... I wish pepsi would implement this for their water too... I don't like sodas too much.
 
I found a gas station near me that had the participating Mountain Dew bottles. It's too bad I hate Mountain Dew with a passion otherwise I would have bought more than 1. I'm hoping I can find some other Pepsi products with the caps instead. :p

It seems that the average odds of winning are ~800:1. Obviously that depends on how many times you enter each time slot.
 
Night Fox said:
I found a gas station near me that had the participating Mountain Dew bottles. It's too bad I hate Mountain Dew with a passion otherwise I would have bought more than 1. I'm hoping I can find some other Pepsi products with the caps instead. :p

It seems that the average odds of winning are ~800:1. Obviously that depends on how many times you enter each time slot.
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This morning (the early like 6am ones) were about 500:1 (I was checking the ones that were drawing in like 2 mins) Currently the mid afternoon/early evening ones are drawing at about 1000:1 - 1200:1. I think your odds all matter on when you apply your codes to, and like I said the longer the contest goes on the less the odds of winning will be I expect. I would not be surprised to see 3-5k to 1 odds in a week or two.
 
HiJon89 said:
I have no chance at this, in that Coke contest where you have a "1 in 12" chance of winning I've bought over 200 Cokes over the past 2 years and not won once :(
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That is because each time you played(per can/bottle), you played the odds of 1 in 12. Buying more than one does not increase your chances.
 
himmy said:
That is because each time you played(per can/bottle), you played the odds of 1 in 12. Buying more than one does not increase your chances.
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uhh..
 
If you go to a WAWA say. You buy 12 soda. Your more then likly to win. The odds of that are 1:12 so basically you win.
 
Here's one for the math wizards on this forum... if you have 10 codes, would it be more effective to enter them into one drawing or enter 1 in 10 drawings?
 
Night Fox said:
Here's one for the math wizards on this forum... if you have 10 codes, would it be more effective to enter them into one drawing or enter 1 in 10 drawings?
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If you know the distribution of entries to drawings, you could optimize your chances by using them all in a low-entry drawing (say, staying up at 3 a.m. when most people aren't awake, and slamming all your codes in). Surely, however, they have thought of some way to minimize the impact of such a scenario, aside from the fact that anyone who's bought enough Dew to try to influence their odds is likely to be awake (not necessarily by choice) at 3 a.m. anyway.

So, do what you want, as there's not enough information for you to optimize your chances by distributing your codes. Or, go find a high-risk, short-term investment, and put in all the cash you would have spent on sugar water. (Disclaimer: my office has a bottomless fridge of Dew, so its value is nil to me, tasty as it may be.)
 
unreal said:
any codes?
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I don't think people are as willing to give up a chance to win a $400 console + game as they are to give up a free download to a DRM'ed audio file. ;)
 
Kevin Lowe said:
If you know the distribution of entries to drawings, you could optimize your chances by using them all in a low-entry drawing (say, staying up at 3 a.m. when most people aren't awake, and slamming all your codes in). Surely, however, they have thought of some way to minimize the impact of such a scenario, aside from the fact that anyone who's bought enough Dew to try to influence their odds is likely to be awake (not necessarily by choice) at 3 a.m. anyway.

So, do what you want, as there's not enough information for you to optimize your chances by distributing your codes. Or, go find a high-risk, short-term investment, and put in all the cash you would have spent on sugar water. (Disclaimer: my office has a bottomless fridge of Dew, so its value is nil to me, tasty as it may be.)
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They have found a way around that by letting you put your codes into any time slot for the next 72 hours or so. However I still think that many people are of the "I want it now persuasion" and enter their codes for the drawing happening when they are on, so therefore it should still be better to enter your codes at the early morning hours IMO.
 
Your able to pass along a "FREE starter code" via email. I just got a email saying I can forward the message they sent me to others so they can have a chance at also winning.

If you want a pass leave your email in the thread and I will email you the message so you can have your own code. I can only send 5 invites so those who post first gets it and lets keep it up if they say you can also send out invites out. :)
 
It really sucks living in south jersey....Pepsi deliverers are on strike at the local bottling plant and I haven't seen a bottle of pepsi for about a week know in some local food marts.
 
LiquidX said:
Your able to pass along a "FREE starter code" via email. I just got a email saying I can forward the message they sent me to others so they can have a chance at also winning.

If you want a pass leave your email in the thread and I will email you the message so you can have your own code. I can only send 5 invites so those who post first gets it and lets keep it up if they say you can also send out invites out. :)
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zero002021@hotmail.com

thanks in advance
 
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