A student who sued a soft drink giant for a $23M fighter jet
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But that's not how it went down. Matt Parker actually did a good write-up on this case in his book -- he talks primarily about the foolishness of asking only 7,000,000 points for the jet -- a way-too-attainable number for a prize that "good". They did eventually rewrite the ads to use a much, much higher number of points required to push the jet farther out of the realm of reason.
“The Hoover free flights promotion was a marketing promotion run by the British division of the Hoover Company in late 1992. The promotion, aiming to boost sales during the global recession of the early 1990s, offered two complimentary round-trip plane tickets to the United States, worth about £600, to any customer purchasing at least £100 in Hoover products.” [1]
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_free_flights_promotio...