mcdonald's made a classic sales promotion blunder with its heavily advertised 25th anniversary offer. the company expected to sell one million burgers a day when its offered two big macs for the price of one. demand was so great that customers had to queue for more than an hour. two drive-through restaurants , where too many cars turned up, were closed on police advice.certainly mcdonald's is not going to suffer any long-term damage - unlike the company which led the most disastrous sales promotion of them all: hoover. although it is hard to believe, hoover offered two free flights to the us, which were worth 400, to customers who spent over 100 on its products. hoover should have realized that this was a recipe for disaster. over 300,000 people claimed free flights and there were numerous court cases. overall the promotion cost 50m and the heads of hoover's top executives, whose jobs were lost. last year, as a gimmick, pepsi jokingly offered a military jet to any customer who could save enough tokens. however, extra tokens were available for ten cents each. they hadn't counted on a sharp-eyed student, who worked out he could buy the jet for 450,000, which was a tenth of its real price. he formed a consortium which bought the tokens and he claimed his price. at this point pepsi went to court. clearly, pepsi shouldn't have indulged its sense of humor. in fact pepsi ought to have known better after a previous fiasco. in the philippines in 1993, it announced that anyone who found pepsi bottle tops with the number 349 could claim a 30,000 prize. a mess-up in production meant there were 800,000 bottle tops which had the winning number and pepsi paid out more than five times its budget before it stopped paying out prize money. this angered the public, who set fire to the company's offices and lorries
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