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Possible Doritos and Mountain Dew scam - www.every2minutes.com For the www.every2minutes.com contest, the top auction bids on opening day were 70,000-80,000 points, and the median bids were, and still are, around 30,000. * 80,000 points is roughly equivalent to $866.48-$921.60 in Doritos and Mountain Dew products, based on their normal pricing * The 30,000 point bids are worth between $324.93-$345.60 People were allowed to bank points since September 30th. * The 30,000 point bidders, of which there are many, could have bought a 16 oz Mountain Dew and a 4 oz Doritos bag a little over 3 times a day in order to reach that goal. That is breakfast, lunch, dinner, or a group of 3 people pooling points * The 80,000 point bidders could have bought a 16oz Mountain Dew and a 4oz Doritos bag a little over 8 times a day since September 30th The Xbox One console is scheduled to retail for $499, and I'm assuming the games will retail for the standard $60. Analysis >> There are 5 possibilities: * Old fashioned scam artists are at play, jacking codes from people or creating fake accounts to bid below 40k and resell the Xbox Ones, netting a profit on each system. * Crazy couponers found some sick deals that drastically discounted the Doritos and Mountain Dew to $1.00 or free * Hackers with code generators * Or people love them some dew and Doritos EDIT: I forgot to add that the auctions would cost Pepsi close to $600 each, so another possibility is that they are jacking up the bids themselves, which would be illegal. I don't think a big company like that would risk it, but they could get a shell company to do it in a seemingly legitimate fashion. EDIT 2: There is a sweepstakes component that isn't tied to the auctions. That part of it seems legit. You get a sweepstakes token per product bought and use those on the various sweepstakes for Xbox Ones. It is just the auctions that look fishy.

Possible Doritos and Mountain Dew scam - www.every2minutes.com For the www.every2minutes.com contest, the top auction bids on opening day were 70,000-80,000 points, and the median bids were, and still are, around 30,000. * 80,000 points is roughly equivalent to $866.48-$921.60 in Doritos and Mountain Dew products, based on their normal pricing * The 30,000 point bids are worth between $324.93-$345.60 People were allowed to bank points since September 30th. * The 30,000 point bidders, of which there are many, could have bought a 16 oz Mountain Dew and a 4 oz Doritos bag a little over 3 times a day in order to reach that goal. That is breakfast, lunch, dinner, or a group of 3 people pooling points * The 80,000 point bidders could have bought a 16oz Mountain Dew and a 4oz Doritos bag a little over 8 times a day since September 30th The Xbox One console is scheduled to retail for $499, and I'm assuming the games will retail for the standard $60. Analysis >> There are 5 possibilities: * Old fashioned scam artists are at play, jacking codes from people or creating fake accounts to bid below 40k and resell the Xbox Ones, netting a profit on each system. * Crazy couponers found some sick deals that drastically discounted the Doritos and Mountain Dew to $1.00 or free * Hackers with code generators * Or people love them some dew and Doritos EDIT: I forgot to add that the auctions would cost Pepsi close to $600 each, so another possibility is that they are jacking up the bids themselves, which would be illegal. I don't think a big company like that would risk it, but they could get a shell company to do it in a seemingly legitimate fashion. EDIT 2: There is a sweepstakes component that isn't tied to the auctions. That part of it seems legit. You get a sweepstakes token per product bought and use those on the various sweepstakes for Xbox Ones. It is just the auctions that look fishy.