<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><br>So during this promotion the employees of the store started to accuse<br>customers of using "fradulent" coupons after the legitimate coupon<br>published by the company ( Petco ) went viral. What an interesting story<br>on a unexpectedly too successful viral marketing campaign.<br><br><a href="http://consumerist.com/2012/09/petco-releases-coupon-on-internet-forgets-how-internet-works.html">http://consumerist.com/2012/09/petco-releases-coupon-on-internet-forgets-how-internet-works.html</a><br>[ check out the comment from MutantMonkey.. Sourthern Also has a good one.. ]<br><br>Petco claims coupon fake???<br><a href="http://www.hotcouponworld.com/2012/09/petco-coupon-posted-earlier-today-possible-fraud/">http://www.hotcouponworld.com/2012/09/petco-coupon-posted-earlier-today-possible-fraud/</a><br><br>Here's a good one about the
actual cost, Petco may not actually have lost money..<br><a href="http://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=53252516&postcount=1404">http://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=53252516&postcount=1404</a><br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> matti <mathew_2000@yahoo.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> SGVLUG Discussion List. <sgvlug@sgvlug.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, September 16, 2012 5:14 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [SGVLUG] Fun Mystery Puzzle for the weekend!<br> </font> </div> <br>
<meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="off"><div id="yiv71639804"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt;"><div><br><span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span>Yeah I know it's a difficult puzzle.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span>Oddly the store had a very popular day yesterday,</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times,
serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span>wildly popular actually with
many more customers</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span>than they expected. You can probably guess which</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span>coupon of the 4 was most popular.<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt;"> <div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> SGVLUG Discussion List. <sgvlug@sgvlug.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b>
Sunday, September 16, 2012 4:46 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [SGVLUG] Fun Mystery Puzzle for the weekend!<br> </font> </div> <br>
um...<br><br>On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 9:10 AM, matti <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:mathew_2000@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:mathew_2000@yahoo.com">mathew_2000@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> Hi! This is a fun little one for you! - Matti<br>><br>><br>> Puzzle:<br>><br>> Crazy Sat promotion<br>><br>> A company's marketing executive ( for a Brick and Mortar )<br>> wants to have a "mystery coupon" promotion.<br>><br>> So, they create 4 coupons which they<br>> will put on their website.<br>><br>> Coupons are for % off total purchase,<br>> no limit. 10%, 15%, 25%, 50%<br>><br>> They then email a link to the coupons on their<br>> website to their email list of subscribers.<br>><br>> Coupons say<br>> "Mystery savings Saturday!<br>> Saving Revealed at Checkout"<br>><br>> Then one of 4 barcodes and one of the<br>> following associated numbers<br>><br>>
8400000052001012259000009<br>>
8400000052001512259000004<br>> 8400000052002512259000001<br>> 8400000052005012259000007<br>><br>> Can you guess which coupons are what % off?<br><br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></div></div><meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="on"><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>