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Welcome to the official SD Coca-Cola.com/offers / Formerly My Coke Rewards Discussion Thread, proud to talk rewards since 2006! (We often discuss Coke promotions, (texting games, sweepstakes, etc.), which use Coke/MCR/codes or membership info to signup.)

The promotions continue:

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Site: https://us.coca-cola.com/plusone

Scroll to the 2nd Wiki for Coke AMOE links!

A toast to My Coke Rewards, the Greatest Rewards Program in History! Applause

Coca-Cola.com Offers FAQ, (Formerly My Coke Rewards [MCR]):

- How may I contact them?- When does the promotion end?

There is no specific end date for the program.

- Inactivity

Each particular Coke promotion may have its own activity clause.

- Participating Products:
Barq's, Coke, Coke Zero, Dasani, Diet Coke, Fanta, Fresca, Mellow Yellow, Minute Maid Lemonade, Pibb, Sprite, Seagram's, Tab. (Powerade & Zero & Minute Maid Juices in the big black caps no longer have UTC codes.)

- Values:
Point values per code are no more, All codes are equal value, but check promotion. Check packaging for a MyCokeRewards Label! Not all Coke packages have the MCR logo, (i.e. 6-pack w/glass bottles).
However, in Coke's Give Program to schools, codes still have different values to school donations, see wiki below!

- List of Accepted MCR Letter & Number Code Characters & Character Substition

There are 25 total characters, (letters or numbers only), that are accepted in 14-character MCR codes, (out of 36 available, A-Z, and 1-0). Five of the characters may also be input as substitutions for other similar-looking characters. Either upper- or lower-case letters are accepted. The available characters are:

Letters: B F H J K L M N P R T V W X (No C D E G* I O* Q S* U* Y Z)
Numbers: 4 5 6 7 9 0 (No 1 2 3 8*)

* The five accepted substitute characters for similar-looking characters:
  • B = 8
  • V = U
  • 5 = S
  • 6 = G
  • 0 = O (Zero, '0', is the officially accepted character according to MCR error messages; letter 'O' is the substitute.)

- Where do you find all the codes?
Here are a few ways...
- drink soda
- participate/lurk on this board
- ask friends/family/neighbors/co-workers to save
- dumpster diving
- jumping out of cars upon seeing flaps on the side of the road
- referring a friend on the site
- ask Maids to save for those who travel
- ask recycling centers to save
- purchase on eBay
- sporting events, zoos, parks, etc
- make trades
- become buddies with vending machine stockers
- become the vending machine stocker

- Previous MCR threads:

The very first, one, true, original, readable, God-thread of Coke threads (Feb. 26, 2006 - Feb. 15, 2007)

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ccod5
12-06-2022 at 09:23 AM.
12-06-2022 at 09:23 AM.
Quote from magnest :
Yes, you can use multiple gift cards in 1 Target transaction.

As far as I know Target requires you to create an account to be able to check out online (i.e. they don't do "guest checkout"). Once you create your account ​you can add multiple gift cards to it (there's a "gift cards" option in the sign-in menu), then use that gift card balance to pay for your chekout.

As a heads up, the first gift card you add to your account becomes the "primary" card. Additional cards can be added as independent cards (but you probably wouldn't want to), or can be added so that they add to the value of the primary card (which is what you'd want). If you mistakenly add several cards as independent cards, it's still possible to "combine" them after the fact, so don't be too worried about having at it Smilie
Thanks for another great reply.
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Nerdbeard
12-06-2022 at 08:34 PM.
12-06-2022 at 08:34 PM.
Quote from magnest :
Best I know they don't -- not to the government in their tax reporting, and not to anybody else either :]



Hmm, we're definitely seeing things differently here: a "rounding up cents" type of giving is for small-fry like us, or at least like me, whose charitable contributions are measured on that scale. It's a "painless" way for individuals of my demographic to give to charity, and due sheer numbers, it adds up. Stores that do this are simply making an opportunity for church mice like me to donate.

High net worth individuals, and certainly corporations, use other mechanisms of gicing: walmart's big fuzzy feel good idea for itself, for instance, is community-based giving, and theitr 2022 charitable donation to it was ~ $1.5 billion.

If it makes any of us feel better we could advise them to claim they came up with that number by rounding up cents on their sales registers :-D

Except, a statista blurb says "In fiscal year 2022, there were approximately 230 million customer visits each week to Walmart stores throughout the world". As a napkin calculation that makes 11.9 billion customer visits for the year; if we assume _all_ of them bought something, and _all_ of them contributed the max rounding amount, 9c, i.e. rounding up to the next multiple of 10c, that still comes out to only $1.1 billion https://static.slickdealscdn.com/ima...lies/smile.gif

(If I'm missing something obvious I must be just extra-slow today, sorry :} )

sidenote: here's a decent comparision between a million and a billion: a million seconds after conception (that's just conception, not even birth) you're still just a tiny cluster of cells ~ 10 days old; a billion seconds after conception, you're ~ 32 _years_ old :-)
Not sure if your math checks out there. I assume 230 million visits a week basically means 230 million receipts per week. On a scale that large, "rounding up" should work out to exactly 50 cents per receipt. Some would round up 1 cent, some would round up 99 cents, but at a scale of 230 million, it would level out. That means donating $115 million a week, which would be almost $6 billion a year. So it sounds like maybe they give 1/4 that much.
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12-07-2022 at 03:52 AM.
12-07-2022 at 03:52 AM.
Quote from Nerdland :
Not sure if your math checks out there. I assume 230 million visits a week basically means 230 million receipts per week. On a scale that large, "rounding up" should work out to exactly 50 cents per receipt. Some would round up 1 cent, some would round up 99 cents, but at a scale of 230 million, it would level out. That means donating $115 million a week, which would be almost $6 billion a year. So it sounds like maybe they give 1/4 that much.

People are far more likely to say Yes to rounding up if their total is $24.91 than if it is $25.04 though. So, even not factoring in the people who said no, the average round up will be much less than 50 cents.

as for any tax deduction implications, it isn't as if they are coming out ahead. If the total is $24.50 and you round up to $25 and they donate 50 cents, it isn't as if they are claiming a revenue of $24.50 and a tax donation of 50 cents. They are claiming a revenue of $25 with the 50 cent donation. so their taxable income on that transaction is going to be the same either way. $24.50
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12-07-2022 at 05:10 AM.
12-07-2022 at 05:10 AM.
Quote from Nerdland :
... I assume 230 million visits a week basically means 230 million receipts per week. On a scale that large, "rounding up" should work out to exactly 50 cents per receipt.
Dunno. I'd assumed "visits" meat that many people visiting stores, no matter whether they buy anything; plain ol' foot traffic matters to brick-and-mortar stores. Re the 50 cents, my mistake -- I was thinking rounding up to the nearest 10c rather than nearest $. Remember though, that 230 million was for stores worldwide -- that's 24 countries, with national currencies that are fractions of USD, and Walmart rounding up to the nearest MXN or JPY as its criteria for giving would likley yield even less than that $1.1 bn Smilie

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it isn't as if they are claiming a revenue of $24.50 and a tax donation of 50 cents. They are claiming a revenue of $25 with the 50 cent donation. so their taxable income on that transaction is going to be the same either way. $24.50
Oh, good grief, no -- a company cannot claim more revenue (monies earned for goods and services provided) than they actually received. There's no claiming that $25 "revenue" Smilie

BTW ... all this is ripe for an admin coming by and removing as off-topic, so I/we may as well save on wasted typing.

Good day, all, and good luck Smilie
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12-07-2022 at 08:47 AM.
12-07-2022 at 08:47 AM.
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Thanks and repped. Anybody try this yet? Anybody reach level 5 yet? I'm good enough to figure 80% chance to get through level 1. After that, I know the odds get worse fast. Need the Stats major to look this over.
I got a few level 5 entries, but I also didn't realize you can stop at any level, so probably should have tried for more lower level entries laugh out loud
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12-07-2022 at 12:09 PM.
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12-07-2022 at 02:29 PM.
12-07-2022 at 02:29 PM.
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Why is "their" in quotes? everything literally comes from Coke in this scenario. Haha. You didn't pay a cent.

You know when companies ask if you want to round up at the register? THAT'S the real shady business. They take YOUR money and claim it as their own charitable donation.
Thank You! That's exactly how I see it! That's why I take all the gift cards/trading profits and spend it on socks and warm hats to the homeless shelter. Most bang for the buck. The rounding purchase things up to the next dollar is a disgrace because as you say they are taking credit for it. I can go into detail if I was allowed to.
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12-07-2022 at 06:52 PM.
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I just won $5 Walmart gift card today, yah~~~~
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12-07-2022 at 07:11 PM.
12-07-2022 at 07:11 PM.
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I just won $5 Walmart gift card today, yah~~~~
Congrats. And you must be spreading the luck because I just now got one myself -- first win in this promo ( _and_ I'm starting to be auto-logged in again, no sms-challenge, though who knows how long that lasts)
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12-07-2022 at 08:06 PM.
12-07-2022 at 08:06 PM.
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Congrats. And you must be spreading the luck because I just now got one myself -- first win in this promo ( _and_ I'm starting to be auto-logged in again, no sms-challenge, though who knows how long that lasts)
I did have to do texting confirm before the game but glad I won.
Congrats to you too
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12-07-2022 at 08:38 PM.
12-07-2022 at 08:38 PM.
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Congrats. And you must be spreading the luck because I just now got one myself -- first win in this promo ( _and_ I'm starting to be auto-logged in again, no sms-challenge, though who knows how long that lasts)
That's fantastic! Out of curiosity, what browser were you using? I quite loath the SMS
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12-08-2022 at 01:58 AM.
12-08-2022 at 01:58 AM.
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That's fantastic! Out of curiosity, what browser were you using? I quite loath the SMS
Latest Chrome. The following may be more painful detail than you want, but perhaps it helps.

I used Firefox w/ containers for years, didn't keep cookies, the browser autofilled my creds, and clicking "sign in" used to log me in.

Then sms starts, I don't want to give out my number, and use one of those "receive sms online" ones (though, best I can tell, it seems ok to give out number to coke). I change settings to keep cookies, select "keep me signed in", and after a couple weeks of that am being auto-logged-in (on Firefox).

Then bot checks start, and I get 'em every time

After several weeks of that I try the Brave browser, and same thing -- bot err.

Then I move to chrome w/ an mcr-specific profile, keep all cookies, select "keep me signed in", no longer get bot errs, do get sms, but after a couple weeks am being auto-logged-in as before.

Then chrome goes and updates (as ancientalien reported a week-some ago). That hoses the works: bot err every time.

After a week of that I delete the chrome profile, create a new one, try to sign in. Accept everything in the new cookie consent popup (though I doubt that matters). No bot err, but get sms challenge. Unfortunately by this time the online number I was using no longer exists, and I can't find a new one.

I try logging every few days, and still get sms challenge.

Then yesterday, boom, no sms, and logs in on clicking Sign In. What's more, thereafter auto-logs-in on closing/opening browser.

So, nothing specific that I did -- maybe some combination of IP + cookies + whatever browser fingerprint. More, seems like even if you get an sms challenge you could simply close shop, come back some time later, try again (and again and again) and you just may luck into a session w/o an sms challenge.

Of course, this is not the way to win prizes :-D

I've now turned off chrome updates.
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12-08-2022 at 03:17 PM.
12-08-2022 at 03:17 PM.
Quote from magnest :
Latest Chrome. The following may be more painful detail than you want, but perhaps it helps.

I used Firefox w/ containers for years, didn't keep cookies, the browser autofilled my creds, and clicking "sign in" used to log me in.

Then sms starts, I don't want to give out my number, and use one of those "receive sms online" ones (though, best I can tell, it seems ok to give out number to coke). I change settings to keep cookies, select "keep me signed in", and after a couple weeks of that am being auto-logged-in (on Firefox).

Then bot checks start, and I get 'em every time

After several weeks of that I try the Brave browser, and same thing -- bot err.

Then I move to chrome w/ an mcr-specific profile, keep all cookies, select "keep me signed in", no longer get bot errs, do get sms, but after a couple weeks am being auto-logged-in as before.

Then chrome goes and updates (as ancientalien reported a week-some ago). That hoses the works: bot err every time.

After a week of that I delete the chrome profile, create a new one, try to sign in. Accept everything in the new cookie consent popup (though I doubt that matters). No bot err, but get sms challenge. Unfortunately by this time the online number I was using no longer exists, and I can't find a new one.

I try logging every few days, and still get sms challenge.

Then yesterday, boom, no sms, and logs in on clicking Sign In. What's more, thereafter auto-logs-in on closing/opening browser.

So, nothing specific that I did -- maybe some combination of IP + cookies + whatever browser fingerprint. More, seems like even if you get an sms challenge you could simply close shop, come back some time later, try again (and again and again) and you just may luck into a session w/o an sms challenge.

Of course, this is not the way to win prizes :-D

I've now turned off chrome updates.
Wowski! Two account alerts does not work anymore so surprise!
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12-08-2022 at 03:23 PM.
12-08-2022 at 03:23 PM.
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Wowski! Two account alerts does not work anymore so surprise!
(Totally didn't get that -- come again, pls?)
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