Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Coke Rewards



In Case you're not familiar with the Coke Rewards program, and you drink a lot of coke products then you may be interested in my post.

The Coca-Cola Company or Coke for short, has been throwing "codes" onto their caps and tear out sections of the cases of their ever so popular beverages. At first it was just on the classic Coca-Cola drinks and the diet version. But now it's pretty much on all the other sodas they produce as well. Some being Sprite, Barg's Root Beer, Pibb, Fresca, A&W Root Beer, Powerade, Vault, Crush, the list goes on and on, Including Dasani Water. Under these caps are "codes" that can be entered into their website and each one of these codes is equal to a certain amount of points. When you buy a Twelve or 24 pack, these codes are most commonly found under the tear out section of the cardboard. The caps are each worth three points. The twelve pack is 10 points and the twenty-four pack is 20points!
You can enter up to ten codes a day. ( So submitting ten, 20 point codes would give you 200 points right off the bat!)


What are the codes for? Well unlike Pepsi who also has a similar set up going, Coke allows you to build up points so that when you find a prize that you like you may turn in your points to redeem that reward. When the site was still young, they had plasma TVs available, but now those are featured as contest prizes. Basically like a raffle, the Prizes in the contests require a certain amount of points be submitted before you can be eligible to win that prize, however you can submit as many times as you like.

I'm at about 1245 coke points right now. I don't enter the contests because I have no luck in those things. This way I can save up and get whatever I chose. Hopefully they will put the plasmas back up in the "reward" section instead of in the "contest reward" section, but if not I have tons of other choices, including a year of blockbuster rentals, PlayStation and Xbox games, lots of Adidas clothing and sports wear, designer clothes, snowshoes, skis, they even have car rentals you can turn your points in for! You can also turn your points in for a charity. My personal favorite which I'm going to claim as Christmas gifts is a
Simon Gift Card that can be used for Internet and mail order/telephone purchases.

Some people complain that the rewards cost too much. That you'd have to drink A LOT of coke products to equal a 1/3 of the value of the product. But I see it as, "Hey, if I'm drinking it anyways, why not use the points?"

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