Sunday, May 29, 2011

Protecting the innocent

Just got up and went to the corner store to fetch my coffee, got home and saw this in my email

 

Yes I did a little editing (erasing the name on the email), but byou get the idea.  Congrats again.

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  1. Sharon DMay 29, 2011 at 11:01 AM

    This is very nice. It was a cool gesture.

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  2. matt prittMay 29, 2011 at 12:22 PM

    It has been a while since I last did a giveaway, the last one I remember was giving away a free year of Pogo.com. Since the number of entries was relatively small then, I gave the winner of the challenge (guess the change meter total on a given date was the challenge) the free year, and still had enough Coke points to hand out a few three month subscriptions to those that also entered.

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  3. Sharon DMay 29, 2011 at 1:12 PM

    That is really nice. Glad I'm getting to know you. You seem like a good person to get to know

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  4. matt prittMay 29, 2011 at 2:26 PM

    Most f the stuff I give away on here is free, stuff that I have gotten online through one means or another, I am way to far off of being independently wealthy enough to just go out and buy prizes. The Coke stuff is easy because so few people actually do it, usually if there is a bottle cap on the ground it has a code on it that someone didn't bother to redeem, so I gladly pick them up and take them home and add them to my account (I am actually a Pepsi guy, Coke would be my third choice behind RC Cola), so the actual money I have spent on Coke over the years of the mycokerewards promotion has been very small, I might buy one or two bottles for every 1000 pts I collect.

    Now my Amazon gifts cards (from either Swagbucks or MySurvey) I almost always keep, just because Amazon allows you to actually build an account out of your gift cards as opposed to most online retailers who only allow one gift card per order and having that extra money laying around helps with my bad habit of reading. It's nice to be able to hop online, pick out three or four books and know they didn't cost anything. I have a little over $50 in the bank over there now (with another $10 gift card pending), so if I ever get about finishing the last two books I bought, I should have enough money to get some more goodies.

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  5. Sharon DMay 29, 2011 at 3:32 PM

    I saw the Shelfari account on the side. I haven't updated mine in a while. I am guilty of having a couple books in the trunk of my car in case I need them. I do Amazon now and then. I'm looking forward to a used book sale next weekend where I work. They see it as a fundraiser. I see it as more books. Never enough books. I have never done the coke awards. I rarely drink coke and you know southern girl so I'm the Pepsi, Dr Pepper, Mt Dew kind. I do think it's very cool you do this.

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  6. matt prittMay 29, 2011 at 4:10 PM

    They have been doing the promotion since 2006, though they have been weak in promoting it beyond the notification on the bottles and cases. So far I have gotten the following for free from them

    Pirates of the Carribbean Wallpaper - June 2007
    12 Rhapsody Music downloads - Feb 2008
    1 Rhapsody Music download - April 2008
    1 Rhapsody Music download - May 2008
    30 free digital prints from Snapfish - May 2008
    $2 Subway gift card - Aug 2008
    Gamefly 30 day gift certificate - Sept 2008*
    16" x 20" Collage poster from Snapfish - Nov 2008*
    2 One month access to Pogo.com passes - Dec 2008
    30 free digital prints from Snapfish - Feb 2009*
    1 year subscription to Esquire - March 2009
    Papa John's/Coke Zero $9.99 Meal Coupon - March 2009
    1 Rhapsody Music download - March 2009
    $1 Rhapsody Music store credit - April 2009
    1 Three month access to Pogo.com pass - April 2009
    1 One month access to Pogo.com pass - May 2009*
    Full version game from RealArcade - June 2009
    1 One month access to Pogo.com pass - July 2009
    1 year subscription to Esquire - July 2009*
    $5 Campusfood cash - Aug 2009
    1 One month access to Pogo.com pass - Sept 2009
    Blockbuster Night Coupon (free video rental, popcorn and two Cokes from Blockbuster video) - Nov 2009*
    1 Twelve month access to Pogo.com pass - Dec 2009
    3 Three month access to Pogo.com passes - Aug 2010*
    1 Twelve month access to Pogo.com pass - Aug 2010*
    The League: Season One DVD - Sept 2010
    1 Twelve month access to Pogo.com pass - Sept 2010
    The Cleveland Show Season One DVD - Nov 2010
    Coca Cola Plush Teddy Bear - Nov 2010
    1 One month access to Pogo.com pass - Dec 2010
    Mobile phone wallpaper - March 2011
    2 NCAA Coke Zero T Shirts (Southern Methodist, Idaho State) - April 2011
    Mini Webcam - May 2011*

    * indicates I gave the prize away on either this blog or the old Yahoo 360 blog.

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  7. matt prittMay 29, 2011 at 4:11 PM

    And all of that cost me practically nothing.

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  8. Sharon DMay 29, 2011 at 5:11 PM

    Wow I had no idea about this.

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  9. matt prittMay 29, 2011 at 5:28 PM

    It's my mini version of dumpster diving, any time I see a Coke (or Coke related product, like Powerade or Minute Maid), I go ahead and pick up the cap. Pittsburgh is a Pepsi town though (they outsell Coke here by 2 to 1), so I am sure if there were anyone out there like me in a more Coke dominated market, they could probably do very well doing what I am doing.

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  10. Sharon DMay 29, 2011 at 6:04 PM

    I have dumpster dove for some great stuff. There is no shame in dumpster diving.

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  11. matt prittMay 29, 2011 at 6:59 PM

    Here it is mandatory, especially when the college kids leave for summer, they just are too lazy to pack anything.

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  12. Sharon DMay 29, 2011 at 7:06 PM

    Oh I haven't thought of that! College kids throw a lot of great stuff away. We have a furniture Liquidator across the street from the gym. If they can't sell something in 6 months they throw it away. I have a $3,000 cherry executive desk with matching credenza in my office at the club from that place. You should have seen us getting the marble top conference table out of that dumpster! Took 5 of us to get it in a truck and back across the street to the gym.

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  13. matt prittMay 29, 2011 at 7:51 PM

    Nice. My friend Rich and I went scouring a couple of years ago the week after the kids left but before the garbage man came and we were able to pull a 17" flat panel monitor for his computer, just because someone was too lazy to pack it up and take it home.

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  14. Sharon DMay 29, 2011 at 7:54 PM

    Nice. So have you ever been to a hamfest? You would not believe the electronics that are left behind because people don't feel like packing it back up and taking it home.

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  15. matt prittMay 29, 2011 at 9:11 PM

    No I haven't, not that I am a huge techie guy, I stay well behind the curve on such things, both my desktop and laptop are refurbished models, I got the desktop for $130 and the laptop for $250 and while neither is great by newest version standards, they both do my evil bidding quite nicely.

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  16. Sharon DMay 29, 2011 at 9:25 PM

    I'm a nomad so I don't even have a desk top. I'm a laptop where ever I have internet. Yes, I am one of those internet cafe people. I have even written in a book store. Meanwhile, never see me on a day of battery failure. My laptop, cellphone or iPod. Not a good thing to have battery failure.

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