Pepsi ran this commercial in 1995 to promote their Pepsi points catalog. The problem was that someone actually thought amassing 7,000,000 Pepsi points would buy him a real-life Harrier. After calculating that it would take drinking over 190 Pepsi bottles a day for the next 100 years, John Leonard came up with a plan. Pepsi points could be purchased for 10 cents a point. Ignoring the instructions claiming that only the items available on the official order form were for sale, Leonard wrote in Harrier under the item column and included a check for $700,008.50. When Pepsi pointed out that they do not actually sell Harrier jets for $700,000, Leonard sued the company. Ultimately he lost the case, and his dignity, for being stupid enough to think he could buy a 23 million dollar piece of military hardware with Pepsi points.
http://faculty.law.pitt.edu/madison/contracts/supplement/leonard_v_pepsico.pdf
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gwiz665Well, it certainly is misleading.
MarineGunrock"and his dignity, for being stupid enough to think he could buy a 23 million dollar piece of military hardware with Pepsi points."
That, sir, gets my upvote.
RaigenI had those Pepsi Shades, and the Pepsi Dog Tags in the mid-nineties. My mother worked at a community center that ordered large cases of Pepsi to fill their drink machines and sell at events, so she took all the Pepsi points and gave them to my sister and I. We only accumulated enough for two pairs of killer blue shades and the dog tags.
Yeah, you can laugh now. I still cry on the inside.
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