New Netflix series: Pepsi, Where's My Jet
Oct. 26th, 2022 09:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneThis ought to be fun!
It started in 1996, here's John Scalzi's original column from when he was a newspaper writer: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2022/10/26/pepsi-points-and-the-jet-a-column-from-1996/. Kid sees this ad on TV that you can get a Harrier Jump Jet for 7,000,000 points. Then he sees a shortcut: you can buy Pepsi tabs straight from Pepsi for $0.10 each. $700,000. He gets some wealthy people to back him.
Pepsi laughs at him and refuses to give him the jet because they don't have one.
He takes them to court.
I remember hearing about this a few years ago, I do not remember the outcome. I look forward to watching this!
