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A belated billion.(Selling it: goofs / glitches / gotchas)(Pepsi's Play for a Billion Sweepstakes)(Brief Article)

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| November 01, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2004 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

A reader was pleased to see that he could win big bucks in Pepsi's recent Play for a Billion Sweepstakes. Then he found a gotcha. Deep in the Official Rules was this statement: "The Policy shall provide for payment of the One Billion Dollar Prize over 40 years pursuant to the following payment schedule: $5 million per year for each of ...

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