Would you trade your PS3 for a lifetime of Tacos?
By Paul Miller 
posted Nov 20th 2006 9:15PM
posted Nov 20th 2006 9:15PM
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Total crap. Why doesn't taco bell just donate $12,500 to the B&G club and they can get an XBox 360 now. This is freaking ridiculous.
They get a lot more coverage with this than they'd get by just *donating* the money.
I'll tell you why. Because 12,500 bell bucks to us is $12,500. To them, it's more like giving away $2,000 if I had to guess.
hahaha thats hilarious, i would probably do that if i had a ps3, but damn that 20gb ps3 looks ugly
I love the idea. If I had a PS3, I'd run to Taco Bell and do it. Tacos are forever, PS3 will eventually be toast. ;)
Well, if the PS3 will be toast, sign me up. I love me some toast in the morning. Especially with jam!
Maybe for some In-n-out, but no way in hell for the McDonald's of Mexican food. Blech!
you can get 20 gig ps3's for like $900 on ebay.......hmmmmmm. I bet someone has already done it but that is really tempting
Best idea ever. You can get a lifetime of tacos. 20 years down the road sell it off. People would pay a killing for a lifetime worth of tacos - 20 yrs. How can you lose. The answer is you can't.
How many Taco Bell Bucks are my playstations, 3 of them, worth?
Maybe if it was McDs (choose any meal for a lifetime) then I'll sacrifice my life for a PS3.
The Irony of this is, You're in essence killing yourself when you go get yourself a lifetime's worth of grease..at least you don't die when you're playing (too much) on the PS3 ;)
Swoop down on that one. Cuz you'll STILL be munchin down tasty tacos when the ps4, ps5, and and eh, what the heck, ps6 have come and gone.
Hum I think I would just rather sell my PS3 on e-bay. I don't really eat fast food too much so I would not get enough use out of this. I can't remember the last time I went to Taco Bell. I do find it interesting that Taco Bell has to go through this whole scheme when they could just donate 12,500 to the Boys & Girls club. I mean really what good is one PS3 going to do a club that has maybe a couple hundred kids. The money would go a lot farther than one PS3, although just donating the money wouldn't have got them as much media exposure as this does.
Possible fake/hoax? Check Taco Bell's website. You'd think this would be on the front page or in the Press Release section but to no avail. I totally agree with KTC about just giving money to the Boys & Girls club. ....from a simple google search..."...Taco Bell is donating $300 to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver for every field goal scored during the Denver Broncos regular season...." Seems like they give money....not a single PS3. A game console doesn't "help" children.
Bleh. A life time of the squits and lousy food.
I don't think we're looking at that big picture.
1. Your friends will love you for life for all the free food you give them.
2. No matter how down on your luck you are, you will never go hungry.
3. I know I'm being silly here, and I'm sure taco bell has some restrictions (I would assume) but you could stand around at a taco bell having people pay you and then translate that into free food and buy another ps3 when they're not in such short supply.
hell yes. if i had $600 to spare id do it just for the tacos...
Ooooh, a lifetime of the WORSE Mexican food on Earth!
Sell that PS3, come to Southern California (no further north than San Diego), and try some really good Mexican Food.
Roberto's
Alberto's
Filiberto's (yeah, I'm serious)
Fidel's (Solana Beach)
Crap even chains like...
El Torito
Tio Leo's
Heck, just bring your PS3 with you, I'll buy it AND drive you to all the best Mexican eateries in town!
-Pie
Psh, San Diego's cool n' all, but the Central Valley, Stockton specifically, is the northern cutoff for fantastic Mexican food.
And so what, I still like Taco Bell.
-A Mexican
dude Filiberto's is so good. i moved from AZ to orangew county and i was sad to find i had to drive to san diego to get some. its the best drunk food. ever.
xoxo
"Total crap. Why doesn't taco bell just donate $12,500 to the B&G club and they can get an XBox 360 now. "
Here's a hint dude, and be sure you don't give away the big secret of the fast food business:
it doesn't actually cost them $12,500 to make $12,500 worth of tacos.
It probably costs them about fifty bucks in cheap crap ingredients. At most, it costs them approximately the same amount as a PS3. And that's spread out over a *lifetime*, so basically from their perspective you're giving them a PS3 for about a buck a year.
And hey, ever consider that maybe the B&G club actually *wants* a PS3? The Xbox 360 has been out for a year - you don't think *somebody* hasn't donated one by now? No, these kids know the PS3 is the hot new thing, and they're gonna ask for it. You can't sub out gifts; if your kid asks you for a PS3 for Christmas, you don't give him an Xbox 360 instead. You either give him what he wants so he doesn't think you don't give a rat's ass, or you get him something else entirely and teach him the value of delayed gratification. You don't buy substitutes.
tacos give me gas...sure?
Id do it nothing can get me from free tacos except sex...
Who wants to eat tacos everyday for life? crazy people, I saw this today "Taco Bell Offers to Trade Your PlayStation 3 for Lifetime Taco Supply" at http://blog.americasnewstoday.com/2006/11/20/taco-bell-offers-to-trade-your-playstation-3-for-lifetime-taco-supply.aspx
""The tacos will be awarded in the form of $12,500 in TACO BELL Bucks ($12,500 will get you around 20,000 of Taco Bell's basic tacos, or about a taco a day for the next 55 years)""
Crazy.
""The tacos will be awarded in the form of $12,500 in TACO BELL Bucks ($12,500 will get you around 20,000 of Taco Bell's basic tacos, or about a taco a day for the next 55 years)""
since when do taco bell tacos cost .63 cents?
um...NEVER!
and one a day? sheesh, those tacos barely fill me up at all, one! SHEESH!
more like 5 a day, so 5 a day for a 1 divided by 12,500
it would last roughly 7 years, which i suppose would be a lifetime
cause if you eat 5 tacobell tacos everyday for 7 years your gonna die
I am prepared to make a similar, but slightly better offer. I will offer anyone with a new 20 or 60 gb ps3 or playstations, 3 of them- a lifetime supply of free diarrhea as well as $20 cash money. This deal is exactly $20 better then the Taco Bell offer.
If you are interested, hit me up at freediarrhea@mudbutt.com
wow i cant believe people are passing this offer by.
Think about the exposure you will get out of this-media will want to cover you and pay you to interview ,it will be the biggest news story of the season "Person turn in their ps3 for a lifetime of tacos, donates his beloved gaming system to help the B & G CLUB" with the xposure you will get money will flow in because you can charge for your appearance no matter how stupid the publicity is its still exposure.
with the money you get you can most likely buy not 1 but 2,3,4 ps3's and still have a lifetime of free tacos.
Shit i need to buy me ps3 and juice this oppurtunity but dammit i hate fame all i want is the ca$hing.
whos with me? we can do a buddy joint venture on this.
THNK ABOUT IT
By the way this idea is patent pending.
i'd do it for a lifetime supply of chipotle burritos
Don't forget to add in the approx $3000+ in taxes you would owe.
Think of the army of homeless you could command with $12,000 dollars worth of tacos, they could do my laundry, my homework, wash my car and all you have to do is pay them with taco vouchers
give me the tacos!!!! extra hot
taco bell ceo's son wants a ps3 so he gets this donation thingy going, only good for the first taker.. they just take the 2nd taker secretly, keep the ps3 for the ceo's sone while no one is the wiser!
HA i sent them an email like 4 hours ago about that!
the PS3 isnt as tight as i thought, and so i decided to donate it! i hope i win!
Well I do love tacos
So how many tacos could I get for "Sony PlayStations, 3 of them"?
Cant wait until this is on Oprah i will give them three of those stupid ps3s and then i can get tacos for me and my friends,
since when is 12,500 dollars worth of 1 dollar tacos
a lifetime supply?
12,500 tacos? that would last a LOT less than a lifetime
I think that the kids would rather enjoy the Wii, but that's just my opinion. Come on, it's Boys & Girls Club! Mine only had a Galaxian machine...
i would so have waited in line to get a PS3 for this reason. Damn, 20/20 hindsight sucks.
>> Total crap. Why doesn't taco bell just donate $12,500 to the B&G club and they can get an XBox 360 now. This is freaking ridiculous.
They're probably counting on either you growing sick of tacos every day, or grow sick from tacos every day :P
Yes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_9zdrcyqAM
New video of PS3 line Mob..
The only problem is that PS3s arent going for 10-20grand on ebay right now. Theyre topping out at around $1500. So actually, you stand to gain quite a bit by buying one on ebay then exchanging it for taco bell for "life*"
*your life may vary, taco bell and its subsidiaries not responsible for premature termination of life.
Start eating Taco Smell every day and I'm sure you won't live too long.
The PS3 can be snagged on ebay now for 800 to 1500 bucks this is a steel!
I emailed last night about 10pm eastern when I saw it come across... still no word yet from the Tbell.
Yo quiero taco bell
I could eat way more than $12K worth of tacos in my lifetime.
DON'T SELL YOURSELVES SHORT!
I would do it in a heart beat.. I mean, it's a life time supply of food. Well, as long as taco bell doesn't go out of business. But, with that new Crunch Wrap Supreme, I doubt that would ever happen.
The small print at the bottom reads, "Coupon expires 1/1/07."