Did anyone catch the recent documentary on Netflix I believe it was? (I know, I know... many have stopped paying and caring due to the woke trash... she wants to keep it, so I fight other battles 🤣🤣)
Title was: Dear Pepsi, Where's My Jet?
It was a very interesting story surrounding one of the numerous oddball situations that arose out of the contests and games that many consumer product and fast food chains ran in the 90s. This was the 'Pepsi points challenge' where a commercial ran with an unbelievable prize shown and, amazingly, no disclaimer message at the bottom of the screen!
The commercial showed a student getting ready for class, putting on various things like jacket and sunglasses that could be obtained by redeeming Pepsi points and then filling out a catalog order form and sending along to the wonderfully named Young America, Minnesota. The clearing house and catalog fulfillment capitol of these United States as we all know 😁🤪
Long story short, these Pepsi marketing geniuses put a Harrier Jet in the commercial and an absurd point total in the captions as the "cost": 7 million points. Well, someone did the math. 2.1 million bucks of Pepsi for a $30-35 million aircraft was a heck of a deal!
Of course the advertisers now claim it was all a joke not meant to be taken seriously but if that were true, why did they change the commercial twice after someone sent in the value of the points required?? Of course, it wasn't ACTUALLY in the catalog but hey, it said it on my TV and there was NO DISCLAIMER.
Long story short, the MAJOR PLOT TWIST COMES WHEN IT'S REVEALED THAT A VERY YOUNG MICHAEL AVENATTI WAS INVOLVED!
Still working and attending night school for his law license, Avenatti helped the young guy who built the one man campaign to get the jet! Even then Avenatti was a crude guy and used media and negative PR against Pepsi to try and sell the story of the case to America at large.
Eventually the young guy's backer and Avenatti don't see eye to eye because of this reckless and mean-spirited tactics and there's a split. Avenatti worked with this for little $ but had bigger dreams even then.
The documentary was filmed very recently. At the time Avenatti was serving his house arrest at his residence in California.
Anyways, FLY JOHNNY FLY = Avenatti = Pepsi Jet??? The Pepsi Jet saga almost seemed to be Aventi's first real public life appearance, if you can imagine that. That's some weird stuff eh??
If it DIDN'T have anything to do with that, the second guess I would wager is Avenatti possibly having been on the Lolita Express? (Jeffrey Epsteins plane) Not sure if Avenatti was on the flight logs though.
That pepsi case is in every contracts textbook around. But until this documentary, I had no idea that Avenatti had anything to do with it. Truth be told, its very complicated, but ultimately I think the court was correct. This isn't an offer. And you can go through a lot of other things that also are not "offers" that you can accept.
For example: ever buy something online only to find out they don't have it? Can't sue them to enforce the deal. Obviously they gotta refund your money. But you can't force them to sell you what you ordered. There was another case somewhat similar to this where people were buying those commemorative gold coins that you see advertised on tv. I want to say this also had some affiliation with the US mint. But that might be a mistaken recollection. Anyway, a bunch of people sued over having sent a check + their form to buy these coins, and they got their check sent back with a letter saying that all of the supplies are gone. Sorry. And they lost.
If you get down to the basics, you can't have an offer that is possible to accept if there are too many key details necessary to the deal. Like (1) which model harrier; (2) when will it be delivered; (3) where will it be delivered; (4) is it airworthy or not; and so on. Prior to this case, there were ample numbers of cases of people sending in order forms from the back of magazines and getting told they can't get this particular item. Whether it was discontinued, or it was out of stock or whatever. And people could not force this deal because it simply was not an offer that could be accepted. It was an invitation for further negotiation basically. Subject to a number of factors like availability etc.
Did anyone catch the recent documentary on Netflix I believe it was? (I know, I know... many have stopped paying and caring due to the woke trash... she wants to keep it, so I fight other battles 🤣🤣)
Title was: Dear Pepsi, Where's My Jet?
It was a very interesting story surrounding one of the numerous oddball situations that arose out of the contests and games that many consumer product and fast food chains ran in the 90s. This was the 'Pepsi points challenge' where a commercial ran with an unbelievable prize shown and, amazingly, no disclaimer message at the bottom of the screen!
The commercial showed a student getting ready for class, putting on various things like jacket and sunglasses that could be obtained by redeeming Pepsi points and then filling out a catalog order form and sending along to the wonderfully named Young America, Minnesota. The clearing house and catalog fulfillment capitol of these United States as we all know 😁🤪
Long story short, these Pepsi marketing geniuses put a Harrier Jet in the commercial and an absurd point total in the captions as the "cost": 7 million points. Well, someone did the math. 2.1 million bucks of Pepsi for a $30-35 million aircraft was a heck of a deal!
Of course the advertisers now claim it was all a joke not meant to be taken seriously but if that were true, why did they change the commercial twice after someone sent in the value of the points required?? Of course, it wasn't ACTUALLY in the catalog but hey, it said it on my TV and there was NO DISCLAIMER.
Long story short, the MAJOR PLOT TWIST COMES WHEN IT'S REVEALED THAT A VERY YOUNG MICHAEL AVENATTI WAS INVOLVED!
Still working and attending night school for his law license, Avenatti helped the young guy who built the one man campaign to get the jet! Even then Avenatti was a crude guy and used media and negative PR against Pepsi to try and sell the story of the case to America at large.
Eventually the young guy's backer and Avenatti don't see eye to eye because of this reckless and mean-spirited tactics and there's a split. Avenatti worked with this for little $ but had bigger dreams even then.
The documentary was filmed very recently. At the time Avenatti was serving his house arrest at his residence in California.
Anyways, FLY JOHNNY FLY = Avenatti = Pepsi Jet??? The Pepsi Jet saga almost seemed to be Aventi's first real public life appearance, if you can imagine that. That's some weird stuff eh??
If it DIDN'T have anything to do with that, the second guess I would wager is Avenatti possibly having been on the Lolita Express? (Jeffrey Epsteins plane) Not sure if Avenatti was on the flight logs though.
That pepsi case is in every contracts textbook around. But until this documentary, I had no idea that Avenatti had anything to do with it. Truth be told, its very complicated, but ultimately I think the court was correct. This isn't an offer. And you can go through a lot of other things that also are not "offers" that you can accept.
For example: ever buy something online only to find out they don't have it? Can't sue them to enforce the deal. Obviously they gotta refund your money. But you can't force them to sell you what you ordered. There was another case somewhat similar to this where people were buying those commemorative gold coins that you see advertised on tv. I want to say this also had some affiliation with the US mint. But that might be a mistaken recollection. Anyway, a bunch of people sued over having sent a check + their form to buy these coins, and they got their check sent back with a letter saying that all of the supplies are gone. Sorry. And they lost.
If you get down to the basics, you can't have an offer that is possible to accept if there are too many key details necessary to the deal. Like (1) which model harrier; (2) when will it be delivered; (3) where will it be delivered; (4) is it airworthy or not; and so on. Prior to this case, there were ample numbers of cases of people sending in order forms from the back of magazines and getting told they can't get this particular item. Whether it was discontinued, or it was out of stock or whatever. And people could not force this deal because it simply was not an offer that could be accepted. It was an invitation for further negotiation basically. Subject to a number of factors like availability etc.
Interesting info! Thanks