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(Examiner) Followup Two people you don't wanna be today; Axl Rose & Dr Pepper's IT guy   (examiner.com) divider line 40
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Procedural Texture [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-11-23 05:14:32 PM  
Do what Fark does: just claim someone spilled beer pop on the servers again.

 
Mugato [TotalFark] 2008-11-23 05:47:35 PM  
In other news, free Milwaukee's Best upon the opening of Duke Nukem Forever.

 
SilentStrider [TotalFark] 2008-11-23 05:57:40 PM  
person number 3 you don't want to be today: Donovan McNabb.

 
Cameron_Talley 2008-11-23 06:53:00 PM  
Somebody is getting fired tomorrow.

I mean this is just ridiculous. The whole way they've gone about it is stupid. You can't just print a coupon. You have to wait 4-6 weeks until they send it to you in the mail.

Hell, I'll just drive to the Museum and get a Dublin. Worth the money....

 
skribble 2008-11-23 07:39:50 PM  
geez! i signed onto fark this morning, saw the GNR thread, then went right to the dr. pepper site. no prob.

wonder how much i'll get for it on ebay?

/seriously

 
SockMonkeyHolocaust 2008-11-23 07:46:04 PM  
Effers, the site is all screwed up and showing code. It won't let you register.

 
hbk72777 2008-11-23 07:52:03 PM  
If anyone spent more than 3 minutes trying to get a free .99 cent soda, then I understand why this country is in the economic mess it is.

 
Stay Cool Babylon 2008-11-23 07:54:01 PM  
Callers waiting for hours? It's not 12oz of Knob Creek, folks.

 
Great_Milenko 2008-11-23 08:05:14 PM  
Not giving them all that info just for a free Dr. Pepper.

/Would do it for a free Mr. Pibb though

 
Tavillion [TotalFark] 2008-11-23 08:09:37 PM  
Got it at 1:00 AM today, so I'm getting a kick...

 
GimpyNip 2008-11-23 09:09:19 PM  
Why would you sepnd more than a minute trying to get a coupon for an 89 cent soda?

 
mekkab [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-11-23 09:31:56 PM  
Cameron_Talley: Somebody is getting fired tomorrow.

Really?! Doubtful, at best.


Someone is getting cheated out of a good raise (Which will also be blamed on the economy), but that's about it.

 
ass2mouth 2008-11-23 09:56:27 PM  
Mugato: In other news, free Milwaukee's Best upon the opening of Duke Nukem Forever.

Fark I wish

 
Goonie_Goo_Goo 2008-11-23 10:04:19 PM  
A brilliant public relations scheme killed by techies.

 
ukparrothead 2008-11-23 10:24:38 PM  
This is gonna end up like "Where's my free Guinness towel?" if mailed?

\But for the record I did get mine.

 
Bindyree 2008-11-23 10:33:36 PM  
You know, ever since they made that stupid bet, the Doctor Pepper heads had time to devise a marketing strategy and arrange to have their servers tested. I bet a halfpenny farthing to a pound of dried bananas that they never talked to a load tester, who would have told them in no uncertain terms that a single-day promotion for a freebie requiring the demographic info of the people who wanted it was NOT the best of ideas.

To quote Austen's 'Emma' -- VERY badly done.

 
Endzone108 2008-11-23 10:34:37 PM  
man, that Duke Nukem joke is getting really old...

 
the_nascent 2008-11-23 11:09:25 PM  
Ducke Who? I remember GNR but what the fark is a Duke Nukem... was that on colecovision? darn this brian of mine.

 
starchild 2008-11-23 11:21:03 PM  
Fark Dr. Pepper. They said originally that theey would mail a Dr. Pepper to EVERY American except for Slash and Buckethead. Now they can't even send coupons to everyone. Lazy jerks. I do think Chinese Democracy is good, however.

 
DKinMN 2008-11-24 12:22:58 AM  
What an astonishing failure this was.

Great idea, and the exposure is probably welcome for the company (as well as the GNR camp), but this is ridiculous. I feel like we got jerked around. If Dr. Pepper wasn't so delicious, I would encourage a boycott.

 
Easy Reader 2008-11-24 02:02:32 AM  
I'll put it with my Guinness towel.

 
ragnarqk 2008-11-24 03:20:09 AM  
Through a combination of coral cache, proxies, and text-only HTML I managed to get my free Dr Pepper ordered at about 12:10. Heck yes.

 
doctx 2008-11-24 05:45:51 AM  
hbk72777: If anyone spent more than 3 minutes trying to get a free .99 cent soda, then I understand why this country is in the economic mess it is.

I thought the same thing. People just go into your couch cushions for loose change for god's sake.

 
skribble 2008-11-24 07:16:45 AM  
drpepper.com is back online and extending the promotion.

/slurm

 
dstanley 2008-11-24 08:31:27 AM  
Loading...

 
taglius 2008-11-24 09:53:43 AM  
"I'm a crasher, you're a crasher, he's a crasher, she's a crasher, wouldn't ya like ta crash a server too"

//nuttin

 
Waldo Pepper 2008-11-24 10:20:51 AM  
I don't know but it seems to me a better marketing move to let your servers crash. it shows just how awesome our products is and gets free air time on our outstanding tv news. Of course being the great company dr. pepper they will extend the deadline for the free soda.

brilliant if you ask my opinion

 
shirtsbyeric 2008-11-24 12:26:41 PM  
Nice wig Axel!

 
AuxRSS 2008-11-24 01:01:48 PM  
<i>Two people you don't wanna be today; Axl Rose & Dr Pepper's IT guy </i>

Axl warned them:

"IT'S GONNA BRING YOU
DOWN
HUNNNHHHH!"

 
RabAmor 2008-11-24 01:25:13 PM  
I think Chinese Democracy is good, so I don't really understand why Buckethead doesn't get a free Dr. Pepper. He's on a bunch of songs on the album (and seems to influence the sound on quite a few of them as well).

Buckethead Fred, if you're reading this, you can have my Dr. Pepper.

 
Bondidude 2008-11-24 01:36:42 PM  
As an experiment, I tried loading the page after registering.

At the moment we're sitting at a couple of hours and still getting "waiting or drpepper.com"

What I can't wait for is the class action lawsuit that may come out of this.

 
Bigrip 2008-11-24 01:45:00 PM  
When it shows you the php code fail you have technically registered. Go back to the main page and sign in as a registered user it will give you the address prompt and there you go free soda. Worked for me.

 
PYROY 2008-11-24 01:56:26 PM  
Just imagine the enormous block party you could have with all that DP!

 
karmachameleon 2008-11-24 02:32:02 PM  
I get free pop at work, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.

/drinking a yummy Dr. Pep right now...

 
soakitincider 2008-11-24 03:49:23 PM  
DAMN THEIR BLOCKING/DEADLOCKING BULLSH*T


/not really

 
puckhead 2008-11-24 04:47:45 PM  
AuxRSS:
Axl warned them:

"IT'S GONNA BRING YOU
DOWN
HUNNNHHHH!"



*golf clap*

 
LemSkroob 2008-11-24 05:16:09 PM  
hmmm, trade a $1.00 can of soda for some nice spam for the next few years?

eh, no thanks.

 
erscott_420 2008-11-24 06:36:38 PM  
i tried to register for my free dr pepper starting at 4:20 pm.entered my info,clicked submit,and waited for the confirmation page to load...waited...waited.....while i waited i thought id look around to see if i could find the album to download.found it.downloaded it.listened to it.still waiting on confirmation page to load.one out of two aint bad i guess.

 
Fuggin Bizzy 2008-11-25 06:09:11 PM  
I wonder what demographic this promotion is targeting?

FTA: Even their toll free phone line was jammed, where callers were waiting for hours to get in on the free soda.

Ah. People with a lot of time on their hands and nothing better to do, apparently. "I had to wait on hold for three hours, but this pop was free, man!"

 
Satosuke [TotalFark] 2008-11-25 07:26:07 PM  
SilentStrider: person number 3 you don't want to be today: Donovan McNabb.

This implies that there are people who would actually want to be Donovan McNabb.

 
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