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CONTACT PEPSI! Tell them to drop their 6A sponsorship.

Please forgive the lack of an LJ-cut, but I want to get everyone's attention.  I'm sure you know about this by now:
http://news.livejournal.com/102286.html
(Make sure you've read the article on LJ-news before you do anything else.)  In response to the new Pepsi advertisements, V-gifts, and logos all over the place, in VIOLATION of LJ's customer contracts, I say we take a stand, and hit Six Apart where it counts.

I just got off the phone with Pepsi Customer Relations.  I told them, very politely, with utmost concern for their corporate image, that their logo is being used in advertisements by Six Apart on Livejournal Paid Accounts, in violation of customer contracts.  I explained how the good corporate image of Pepsi could be tarnished by their sponsorship of Six Apart.  I let them know that we, the customer base of Livejournal, are infuriated at Six Apart.  We're going to stop drinking Pepsi and purchasing Pepsi products.  We're going to avoid anything sponsored by Pepsi.  We're going to tell our local restaurants and retailers to stop carrying Pepsi.

I told the Pepsi representative that we're going to tell our friends.  And there are a LOT of us.  I used the estimate of 30,000 irritated fans, going by the number we got from Fandom Counts.  I hope you think that's a fair number for me to use.

Here's what I'm asking you to do:

CALL PEPSI.  Tell them what's happening with Six Apart.  Explain that 6A is violating customer contracts by placing advertisements in paid accounts.  Tell them that it will look bad for Pepsi, and that Pepsi should withdraw their corporate sponsorship for their own good.

I didn't call the customer service line directly because I couldn't find it at first, but I got connected through the vendor's number.  I think THIS is the Customer Service line: +1(800)433-2652
Or the basic phone number for the headquarters:  +1(914)253-2000 That should connect you to anybody at the Headquarters, and I'd recommend this number most. 

Here's the link to a page listing their entire roster of Corporate executives and offices:
http://www.pepsico.com/PEP_Company/OfficersDirectors/index.cfm

Here's their address:
Pepsi Customer Relations

Pepsico, Inc

700 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577

(OMG... [Bad username: evilimp , you and your friends from your college can go directly to the office!  DO IT!  Seriously, will you???) Also, for the UK: PepsiCo United Kingdom     1600 Arlington Business Park     Theale, Reading     Berkshire, RG7 4SA UK     44-118-930-6666     Salman Amin     President And most importantly... TELL YOUR F-LIST!  Feel free to copy/paste all of this information.  Pass it on.  Flood Pepsi with phone calls.  Hit Six Apart where it hurts the most.  They want to piss off their original source of income - their paying customers - so we'll remove their shiny new source of income.  Come on, we're fandom.  We can do anything.  Who's with me?]

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