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1) Pepsi Spell Your Name Contest

The contest was simple, open a pepsi, keep the cap that had a letter. Spell your last name out and get $5! The catch was vowels were very difficult to find.

However someone short-sighted person thought about trying this contest in areas outside of the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng_(name)

Whoopsie-doodle.

2) Best Buy

"Do you price match the internet?" the dreaded sales question that 99% of the time leads to a 'no'.

Best Buy decided to take the challenge... by making an altered website in their store. If a customer accessed the site to look at online prices in the store, they would be different than looking at the site from home. So they could price match, just not honestly :)

You may hear stories of other big companies doing the same, but I need to find better sources to verify.

3) Paperwork

Cards Against Humanity had a PR stunt where you could buy a square foot of land on a Maine Island. The campaign was very successful, but what they learned was how tied up the state got with paperwork, having to manage and process info for every single land owner.

CAH put this test to practice even more last year as an attempt to slow down the "wall" being built by getting as many people to buy a square foot of land on the southern US/Mexican border. Despite the government being able to just claim land as it needs, it would still theoretically take a long ass time for the governement to work through all the bureaucracy and paperwork costing much more than you can imagine.