A Pause in the Refreshment

A Pause in the Refreshment was Originally Posted on August 1, 2007 by lavarock

It amazes me how some companies are really stupid – the Coca Cola company for example. They have this My Coke Rewards site where you buy enormous amounts of Coke products and get chintzy prizes. They don’t let you accumulate points from their products and enter them all at one time; rather you are limited in how many numbers you can enter at a time. So you have to log on constantly to enter the damn codes.

Then if you live at the end of the earth, like I do, the time convenient for you to log in to enter said codes, the system is down for maintenance.

Then they force you to have flash, so you can watch the stupid ads and flashy crap on the site. Many of us hate flash and only have it on certain computers. That computer is not always powered up here.

So I have some number of points and I am almost ready to be able to ash them in, and the site says that I have not been back in a while and they deleted all my points! Now I am sitting here with a few 24 packs of codes and I have nothing to add them to.

I send a message to “the powers that be” on their website and ask how I can recover these points. They do not respond while I wait days and days.

Well, the story can now be told. I do not forget! I get even! I will not buy Coke products again. It is not a hollow threat, just a fact. As proof, years ago I was looking for my first credit card and I applied at Sears. They turned me down because I had no credit history. Montgomery Ward immediately gave me a card and just two weeks later I get a call from Sears Credit. It appears that since NOW that I have a credit card with Montgomery Ward, they will now “allow” me to hold a Sears card. I told them I would never have a Sears card because it appears I was not good enough for them. In the decades since (too many that I care to admit to), I have NEVER purchased anything from Sears! As I say, I don’t forget!

So in my own small way, Coke thinks they won when they took my points away minutes before I got my free liter of Coke. They appear to no want my business, so I’ll take it to the competition.

Thanks for nothing! And people wonder why I left Atlanta…