Companies are really turning to Facebook more and more as a way to offer freebies and deals!
As a reminder, always make sure that you are logged in to your Facebook account before trying to access Facebook freebies!
Become a Fan of Texas Pete Hot Sauce and if they reach 100,000 Fans by November 15th, all their Fans will receive a coupon for a FREE Texas Pete Product! Update on 9/17: Texas Pete seems to have changed their mind about this mid-promotion. Instead of a FREE bottle, they are now offering only a BOGO coupon. I think that Mercedes said it best:
UPDATE: Texas Pete Hot Sauce clearly doesn’t understand customer service and social media efforts as they have changed their offer from a FREE coupon to a buy one get one FREE coupon. Don’t worry readers, you can get Frank’s Red Hot Sauce free after coupon very often.
(and I’d like to add that, if you became a fan in hopes of the freebie, you can always “de-Fan” them, It’s not that I’m being greedy…I don’t think I even “Fanned” them….it’s that I hate when companies change offers mid-campaign and then send me an email as if I had misinterpreted the original offer rather than them changing their mind. Sorry Texas Pete….big FAIL!)
Don’t forget to become a Fan of Moms Need To Know as well! I also always invite my readers to friend me on Facebook too (I use Facebook WAY more than Twitter, although I am working on getting on Twitter more!)
I noticed that yesterday but thought maybe I misread the original freebie post. Oh well.
This company is a mess! They keep updating their Facebook status message and making it sound like “we” don’t understand and there is “so” much confusion. And yes, it is obvious to everyone that has been following this from day one that THEY changed the terms in the middle of the offer. Forget them, we buy Frank’s Hot Sauce anyways and will continue to do so!
As I said on Facebook….
I think that they thought that there was NO WAY that they would reach 100,000 Fans by 11/15…
and when they got almost halfway there in 3 days they realized “wow – we’re actually going to have to give away 100,000 bottles of sauce! We can’t do that! We’ll just change the offer and hope we can convince the mommybloggers that they ALL got it wrong!”
Wrong-o!
It is utterly ridiculous that I know more about social media than some of these yahoos trying to jump on the band wagon. Seriously, why would you commit such a stupid PR blunder?
I de-fanned them.
I am not really sure where you guys are getting your information but it’s wrong.
Texas Pete in fact did give away over 10,000 samples via facebook, but you had to fill out your physical address to have it sent to you, that promotion is now over. Read the article: http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/09/16/texas-pete-looking-to-rustle-up-some-fans-with-free-hot-sauce/comment-page-1/#comment-39116
Texas Pete worked directly with Facebook to do this promotion, it is not fake or a scam.
The current promotion is a coupon for a BOGO offer if they reach 100,000 fans by November 15th.
I find it hard to believe that this man really thinks that an enormous number of bloggers “misunderstood” thier promotion. The majority of us bloggers always confirm our information BEFORE we post a blog. This man is so backtracking. Wish I had his email address. Maybe we should all contact Texas Pete via email and express our concerns about thier dishonesty. I plan to de-fan myself and post a comment on thier facebook. BAD Texas Pete!!
Mr. Helmstetler: Just in case you missed it in your quest to cut and paste the exact same reply to every site that is calling you on this botched campaign:
http://www.momsneedtoknow.com/2009/09/30/the-one-where-i-rant-about-a-certain-hot-sauce-company/