I liked the pepsi promotion back in the 80s, when you opened a bottle(glass back then), they had cash values you won. Word was some guy had some weird Asian name with no vowels and tried to clean up as there was no limit, but they tried to and IIRC did stiff him. ![]() People sold them in pennysaver papers for $5-10. Later they had a "name game" where you spelled your last name and got $5 per letter, vowels held back. One guy sent his mother a short letter and got upset when her bottler would not cash it. In some areas they held back the "E" and in others the "T." It was bottler by bottler, and you could not use "foreign" letters. Pepsi had a game back in the 1980s where you had to spell "Pepsi Spirit" to win I forget how much, maybe $5,000 then. From a legal standpoint though, I can see why they would do it that way. ![]() They would be writing off the expense either way, the tax implications are a net zero difference.
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