Thursday, January 17, 2008
Coke calc..., yes I am a nerd.
Looking at the Coke rewards site, and they have mostly boring prizes at the high levels, like T-shirts and crap. But the highest level stuff is cool:
A 19" flat panel HD LCD TV: 11250 points
A HD DVD player 13125 pts
Anyway, the TV looks cool, thoa on second thought its about the size of my mother-in-law's new Dell monitor, so maybe its not THAT cool. And the HD DVD player, well, I wouldn't want, as the tide seems to have shifted to Blu-Ray now that Warner Bros has switched to that standard exclusively. (Sony invented it, and Disney and Fox went along with them, initially.) Besides, Blu-Ray has bigger capacity (25 GB).
Anyway, I wanted to know how I could get up to the max prizes quickly, so I needed to know the efficiency of each product. It turns out, the best one to buy is the 20 oz bottles. Add in the fact that you can only enter 10 codes per day, then you will want to buy 8 packs for 24 pts each. Given that, you would need to buy 469 of them to get the 11250 pt HD TV! Also, it would take you 47 days of entering codes to qualify. Oh, and you might want to save the packaging, since Coke reserves the right to inspect all the codes you entered!
Hmm.. I think I will keep going with the 100pt cupon for a free 12 pack of coke. Besides, you can still enter the code for the free 12 pack. ;)
