Nov 17, 2005

Yes, that’s true! The deal is this, you buy 1000 bottles of pepsi, and finnish pepsi company will give you a Sony Vaio Notebook (don’t know the model). It would cost around 1500 euros, considering that a sony’s notebook would cost around 2000 euros, its a great deal, and you will stil have a bunch of pepsi to drink, or sell for a cheaper price.

Sounds crazy, but many people in Finland have done it.
I’ve researched some websites, and found some pics of people who have actually bought 1000 pepsi bottles and put it in the living room. Actually there is a friend of my friend (wierd hu?) who had bought it. And he started selling bottles for 1,20e, or if you buy 50 bottles, it will get for 1e each.

The boring part of it, is that, in each bottle of pepsi, there is a sticker on it with a code. You have to enter the 1000 codes in the website. But I think its worth.

If you want to know more about it, you can go to the website of finnish pepsi and click on the christmas promotion.

Here are the link to some crazy guys who made it, amazing pictures by the way:
http://www.decem.org/pepsi/
http://kanava.org/~janoks/1000plo_pepsii_jkl/
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~qbot/pepsi-2005-11-09/

9 Comments

Rui Moura November 18, 2005 at 2:10 pm

Here in Portugal, 1 bottle = 1 Euro ( /-) . 1000 would be 1000 Euros. The cheapest Vaio laptop here costs around 1350 Euros, so it would be a great deal

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Pasteler0 November 18, 2005 at 3:10 pm

I wish there would be something here in Brazil! 1 Bottle of 2L is about 0,90c of euro. So 900euros. But sony vaio here is preatty expencive!! Like 2500e or more.

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finDevil November 21, 2005 at 12:26 pm

http://jyka.sytes.net/pepsi/

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Mathboy November 29, 2005 at 11:42 am

Actually the cost of the laptop will be way less than that. Two big supermarket chains sell Pepsi (1,5l bottles with 40 cent bottle deposit each) for 1,25e or as low as 1e a bottle (when bought in 2-packs or 4-packs).

This means a cost of 1000 * 1,25e = 1250e (or even as low as 1000e) and when you take the bottles back to any store you get 1000 * 0,4e back => laptop will cost 850e even if you pour all the 1,5 cubic metres of pepsi in the toilet!

Now, if you are smart enough to sell most of the Pepsi… well, I sold 900, kept 100 bottles and at the end am getting the Vaio laptop for 450 euros AND getting 150 litres of Pepsi on top of that.

A fair deal, I would say

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Pasteler0 November 29, 2005 at 12:35 pm

Totally fair deal man!!! Congrats, too sad there isn’t something like this here in Brazil. :/

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Mathboy November 29, 2005 at 4:05 pm

Thanks Pasteler0 – I will however wait until I actually have the laptop in my hands before opening the champagne… Seeing is believing.

It was pretty rough work for a few days (considering I do work as well, couldn’t spend all day with this) but personally I did it for the challenge (perhaps the dumbest thing I’ve done in the past ten years… excluding my youth). I already got a laptop for work purposes, but this one goes to the wife so she stops hogging my computer

Best regards to Brazil from 0′C Finland!

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Pasteler0 November 29, 2005 at 4:14 pm

Mathboy, do you know when will you receive the laptop? And wich model will it be?
I wish I could have one laptop now, but I belive that someday I’ll have one, hehehe.
Please, let me know when you receive it!!!
By the way, I lived in finland one year, in one small town called Kurikka, near Sein�joki. Spend a great time there. Where are you from?

Regards from 30′C Brazil.

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Mathboy November 29, 2005 at 4:48 pm

Yep will let you know when I get it… I live in Helsinki but am familiar with the Sein�joki region as well. Kurikka – isn’t that where the Nokia CEO Jorma Ollila is from originally? Think it is.

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Pasteler0 November 29, 2005 at 5:40 pm

I’m not sure, I think Jorma Ollila was born in sein�joki, not sure!

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