Hey, America, Win Ten More Free Tacos!
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by Roblefko
The folks at Taco Bell offered a free taco to America if a player stole a base during the entire World Series. Jacob Ellsbury stole a base during the second game, so between 2-5 pm on October 30th, anyone can go and redeem a free taco.
I found this article, where the author predicts how many free tacos will be redeemed based on the percentage of people that likely knew about the promotion, knew that a base was stolen, knew what date the free taco could be redeemed, and would be able to leave work to redeem the taco. His conclusion:
"How many people do I predict will redeem a free taco? 33,750 people. Or .01 percent of America. That’s got to be one of the reasons why Taco Bell isn’t taking out insurance. If my numbers are right, that’s only $26,000 in retail costs being exposed (it’s 77 cents a taco) and probably closer to $4,000 on gross costs. That’s why if I’m a stockholder of Yum Brands, parent company of Taco Bell, I love this promotion. It’s creative, it gets attention, but the marketing cost is meager."
We (DNL and I) here at the ArmchairGM offices (office) also thought this was a great idea by Taco Bell, but we decided that you shouldn't be forced to leave work early (we want you hanging around your office so you can waste time on ArmchairGM). So here's our promotion.
Whoever (in the comments below) comes the closest to predicting how many tacos are redeemed tomorrow gets one free taco on us (DNL), redeemable anytime. Further, for every 5,000 pageviews this article gets, we (DNL) will give away one free taco to that person. So if you are the closest to predicting how many tacos are redeemed, and this pages get 100,000 views, you get 21 free tacos (on DNL).
We're serious. So make your predictions below, and start sending around this article so the page views are increased. The number of page views will be determined at October 31, 11:59 PM Pacific Time. Predictions made after October 30, 5:00 PM Eastern Time won't count.
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