So. Yeah. Coca Cola is doing a contest to win stuff. Entering codes via text or the website enters you into a draw. Every minute they give away 15 iTunes song credits, and every hour they give away an 80GB iPod from Apple, and you get entered into both draws automatically.
I like Coke, funnily enough, so I just bought the smaller bottles instead of the larger ones, not only for more entries due to liquid volumes, but also because the smaller bottles had 2 entries each. I’ve tried a few times between 2am and 3am (partly because I have late shifts at the moment, partly because I doubted that many people would be awake or bother to put codes in at that time), entering a few labels to see what the wins to labels ratio is. In total, I had 104 entries (52 labels, half are me, half are picked up from friend’s bottles whom didn’t bother with the contest. At least I didn’t scavenge the bins at all…) winning me 96 song credits. That is an admirable ratio, with 9/10ths of the time getting a song.
However.
Last night, I decided to go a bit overboard, and bought 10 bottles from Tesco, because they were on some 2 for £1.40 offer. 10 Labels, plus an extra 6 I had sitting here anyway, making 16 labels, 32 entries.
Last night, I won 31 songs. I was a bit bummed out from missing that one song.
Until I got an e-mail at 3:01am.
From Coca-Cola Music.
Subject Line: “Great News – an 80GB iPod is yours”
…
My immediate thought was “…Wha? Really? I didn’t think many were entering at that time, but that few for me to actually win the iPod?!”. Closely followed by “…this claim form on this website is a bit of a pain to fill in. How do you click that Submit button?” (because it took me 5 attempts, on both my Mac and my PC, using multiple browsers. Eventually did it by tabbing down to the button and hitting Return)
So. Yes. It appears I now have an 80GB iPod coming. I can now replace my fairly crappy 1GB MP3 player with something that more than does the job.
Next question: How do you fill up those 80GB?
Related posts:
If you would like to make a comment, please fill out the form below.
Gametactics
have u actually recieved anything about this ipod, because i did this last week and i havent heard anything of yet??
x
It’s almost a fortnight into waiting. Some people online have had them in 2 weeks, but I’m going to hold out for 28 days, just in case.
Oh, and thanks to some of my help, other people I know have won. Thanks in part to the en-masse methodology…
Song credits are now over 250 too. When will I stop?
after doing some more searches on the internet i found a blog that some guy had wrote saying: he rang coca cola and they said he would recieve it in 28 days and that they didnt send out confirmations or anything and he recieved it finally after 25 days!! so fingers crossed it happens like that cos then i can sell my nano to my dad hehehe
thanks x
[...] thanks to that Coke/iTunes contest, winning an iPod and then going nuts helping other people get iPods too, I’ve managed to amass a large amount [...]
Nice one, I have just won my 4th iPod, won one at 6am today and one at 7am!!! Currently racked up over 400 iTunes won. I tend to hit the 5am-6am time slot, though today I did drift through until 6:05am. This comp is just too easy, so far I have only missed 12 iTunes off the maximum possible I could win!!!
finally got mine on friday!! im quite happy with one, dont need 4!! dont really know how to work the one ive got!!!
but im eternally grateful1!!!!!