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From: custead@sask.UUCP (Der cuss)
Newsgroups: net.misc.coke
Subject: Re: Re: This had to be a pre-planned trick
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Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 15:12:22 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 18 15:12:22 1985
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>> I think the phone # was a ploy.

I am sure that the phone number in Canada is a ploy.  AFTER
Coca-Cola U.S. announced that old coke was coming back,
Coca-Cola Canada said they would install a toll-free line
for 3 weeks to allow people to vote for the old coke.
If there was enough demand Canadians would get it too.
Sure, but you can only vote *for* the old coke, (the line
is just a recording).  so how many calls are enough?
however many they get, I bet.  After 3 weeks Coke can issue
a press release saying that so many thousand calls were
received, and that old coke is coming back, all of which
will be reported as news.  I suggest that this voting business
is pure marketing/ p.r., and that Coke has already decided
to market Classic Coke in Canada.

So there.

			- Canadian Coke Consumer