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ohlookitspaul
04/16/04, 08:32 PM
all right, everyone here has to check this out. see, at usc, we are forced to buy meal plans...we have 2 options, one that gives us too few "dining dollars" and one that gives us way too many. dining dollars are spendable only at usc, on food items, and so generally everyone gets the way-too-many plan and then has hundreds and hundreds of extra dining dollars at the end of the semester which, after the end of the semester, just disappear. my friend, john, however, has come up with a brilliant idea. he bought every pepsi on campus (we're sponsored by pepsi unfortunately) and got shitloads of free iTunes songs with that promotion.

he made a website about it and he put it up yesterday morning. since then, it has had over 13000 hits, has been linked to by www.ipodlounge.com and plenty of other mac and itunes-oriented fansites, and has been viewed in over 30 countries. we're sending it to everyone we know so it'll be like the next big internet thing like hamster dance...i mean, EVERYONE has seen hamster dance, and it's just a random site.

www-scf.usc.edu/~jgillila

enjoy and tell me what you think.

ohlookitspaul
04/16/04, 08:36 PM
oh and btw, ipodlounge.com has made an interesting claim about his purchase which would be pretty cool...

"Most iTunes-Pepsi bottles purchased at one time?
Tilt. Twist. Redeem. A USC freshman takes the iTunes-Pepsi tilt to heart. "As a USC freshman, I am forced to have a meal plan. This plan gives me $2500 "dining dollars" to spend over the semester. Given that it is incredibly difficult to purchase $2500 worth of food in such a short time, I realized I could turn this "money" into free songs on iTunes by purchasing Pepsi." This person may hold the record for most iTunes-Pepsi bottles purchased at one time for a chance to win music. "

MrChainsaw389
04/16/04, 08:38 PM
hahah!! that's awesome.

BigD
04/17/04, 10:31 AM
brilliant

ohlookitspaul
04/17/04, 11:01 AM
ok so i never realized how many assholes there were out in the world, i think. on ipodlounge.com, they have a comments section in which people left comments about john's website. some of these people are hardcore douche-bags, i don't know if it's their job or something. i've been arguing with this one guy a couple times:

http://www.ipodlounge.com/ipodnews_comments.php?id=3616_0_7_0 _C

*sigh* definite douche bag.

ohlookitspaul
04/17/04, 02:27 PM
well, john's website has now been put in www.collegehumor.com's list of hotlinks...hell yeah, people!

it's under "my friend and his itunes pepsi scam..."

StartingLine182
04/17/04, 03:53 PM
Nice. How many bottles did he actually buy?

ohlookitspaul
04/17/04, 04:03 PM
Nice. How many bottles did he actually buy?

no clue, haha. take a look at those pictures of the bottle caps and guess...doesn't pepsi say 1/3 of all pepsi bottles have one? i dunno...

ohlookitspaul
04/17/04, 06:30 PM
just to update a little more...

type in "tilt twist" to google. see what ya get.

i love google.