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I’m quite sure that the title and my repeated mentions of the word “Coke” are going to be enough to add drug addicts to my usual oddball crowd of visitors via El Goog (yes, that’s Google spelled backwards).  On the other hand, it’ll be fun to have something other than a few suicidals showing up in my statistics for a change.

People who have known me for any length of time already know that I’m a habitual Coca-Cola drinker.

One of the cool things about drinking so much Coke is that it affords you a plentiful number of caps to enter on their reward website, where things like headphones and thumbdrives can be mine for the low, low price of…several hundred bottle caps?  Combine my caps with those contributed to me by my friends, and you’ll find that I have quite the cache of points waiting to be entered.

Of course, these could be entered at a reasonable rate of ten codes per day, which explains why I haven’t already purchased everything Coke has to offer on that dinky rewards site of theirs.  Each cap is considered to be worth three points, so three points times ten caps is thirty points per day.  If I remember to enter codes every day of the week, that’s 210 points.

Of course, that’s going to be a thing of the past starting later this month.  Coke circulated an e-mail earlier today announcing that they were changing their point entry policy.

To quickly recap (pardon the pun?) in case you don’t want to read the e-mail (that last link), Coke has decided that they’re replacing the per-day code limit with a 120-point-per-week ceiling.  While this sounds awesome, let’s do some simple math.

Like I said above, the current situation allows 210 points (assuming only caps are entered; there are other codes that can be entered) per week.  The new limit of 120 points means that I can cram four days worth of work into one, then take a week-long vacation while the ceiling gets reset, all the while getting 90 points per week less than I was before.

Combine this with the ever-increasing “prices” on everything, and you’ll find that My Coke Rewards is quickly becoming more of a pain-in-the-butt than a useful waste of time.

If this trend continues, I might as well stop entering codes and share the wealth with the people who still think it’s worth their while.  Does anybody have a use for my codes?

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