[SGVLUG] Fun Mystery Puzzle for the weekend!

[matti]

So during this promotion the employees of the store started to accuse
customers of using "fradulent" coupons after the legitimate coupon
published by the company ( Petco ) went viral. What an interesting story
on a unexpectedly too successful viral marketing campaign.

http://consumerist.com/2012/09/petco-releases-coupon-on-internet-forgets-how-internet-works.html
[ check out the comment from MutantMonkey.. Sourthern Also has a good one.. ]

Petco claims coupon fake???
http://www.hotcouponworld.com/2012/09/petco-coupon-posted-earlier-today-possible-fraud/

Here's a good one about the actual cost, Petco may not actually have lost money..
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=53252516&postcount=1404




________________________________
 From: matti <mathew_2000 at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] Fun Mystery Puzzle for the weekend!
 



Yeah I know it's a difficult puzzle.

Oddly the store had a very popular day yesterday,
wildly popular actually with many more customers
than they expected. You can probably guess which
coupon of the 4 was most popular.



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 From: Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com>
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Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] Fun Mystery Puzzle for the weekend!
 
um...

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 9:10 AM, matti <mathew_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi! This is a fun little one for you! - Matti
>
>
> Puzzle:
>
> Crazy Sat promotion
>
> A company's marketing executive ( for a Brick and Mortar )
> wants to have a "mystery coupon" promotion.
>
> So, they create 4 coupons which they
> will put on their website.
>
> Coupons are for % off total purchase,
> no limit. 10%, 15%, 25%, 50%
>
> They then email a link to the coupons on their
> website to their email list of subscribers.
>
> Coupons say
> "Mystery savings Saturday!
> Saving Revealed at Checkout"
>
> Then one of 4 barcodes and one of the
> following associated numbers
>
> 8400000052001012259000009
>
 8400000052001512259000004
> 8400000052002512259000001
> 8400000052005012259000007
>
> Can you guess which coupons are what % off?
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