I have been doing Coke Rewards since almost the begin and it seems to get worse each year. The last 2 years I have given most points to charity but wonder If it is really getting to the charity. I have supposedly won prizes but never receive them. Contacting them is hit and miss.
Coke has recently been pushing the app but it has more bugs than previous releases. Then I have discovered that not all contest are open to all Rewards members. How do they choose what members are eligible for certain contest.
The new program offers nothing except 1 in a million chance to win raffles for items I wouldn't want. Not worth it to save codes and definitely detracts from fun of being a faithful coke drinker. Did anyone else notice they also didn't announce with any or much notice to enter code prior to March... they didn't allow enough time to actually enter codes that you may have had sitting around given the limitations on how many you could enter it once. I'm going to stop drinking the product.
I've been with Coke rewards thru its many iterations over the past 12+ yrs and loved it till this last move. Huge variety of partners, cool items with a HUGE range of points redemption... the list now is pathetic and most touts "... enter for a chance to..." i. E. easily lose countless points for zero 'reward'. An insult to injury is regardless of single bottle cap, 12pk, 24 pk... are ALL same # of points.
The clearest message - actively (and effectively) decrease fan interest by watering down the program to no rewards and eventual demise.
Such a shame what you have done! I enjoyed saving the reward points and made sure I only bought coke products. Not anymore! Have switched to diet A&W cream soda. Who ever came up with lame idea to change the rewards program is an idiot. For every one of use who takes time to voice out opinion, there are many, many more that are quiet. It was fun to gather the pionts and redeem them. Why?
Well, Coke. You've failed miserably with this farce of a rewards program. I haven't read one positive thing about it online. I have hundreds of codes awaiting your reversion back to an incentivized promo. Like all huge companies, you don't listen to your customers. It's your way or no way in order to save a buck. You're too big to fail. You have good products, and your company doesn't owe us promos; however, rotten rewards programs do not enhance your image. It's obvious that you have produced a crappy program on purpose for whatever selfish reasons you may have. If you're trying to save face, do so by entirely dropping what you call rewards. I'd respect you far more if you'd simply quit.
I have stacks of codes because your last program would only let me enter so many a week. Now they will sit and collect dust because there is nothing worth using them on. This was definitely a downgrade to MYcoke rewards. Whoever came up with this bright idea should be fired. Go back to being an actual "rewards" program. There is nothing rewarding about your revamp.
The new program is no good. For a minute they had Amazon gift certificates (with a max of 2 per person), but at least it was something! The Walmart chance to win g. C. Makes me feel like I am just tossing the points away.
As a past MCR sweepstakes winner (3 day Busch Gardens all expenses paid trip a few years ago), I am grateful for the former program, but think this new version needs to be changed.
MCR has been on a downhill slide since they quit giving rewards for bottle cap code redemptions. Just a waste of time now. Even stopped drinking Coke for that reason!
The old site took forever to get a decent reward like a gift card or a product, but now you can't even get those. You enter codes for sweepstakes entries or something like a song download from a band you've never heard of. Not worth the time and effort of going to the site and entering the code, let alone being an incentive to purchase from them. They might as well not even have the codes anymore.
New program is AWFUL... Glad we are shifting to water and tea. The old system was better, I used it with my kids to clean parks and places we went to to clear liter. They got stuff and enjoyed but also realized they had to work for it. Now its all pot luck... any code can win... seems socialistic to me... everyone has a chance and here is your participation ribbon...
I am a Senior citizen and the new coke program is to technical for me... I ''won'' teddy bear and movie ticket but cannot figure out how to claim them... come on coke if you are going to change the program at least make it where we older people can figure it out
No more saving up codes for free item coupons, just tons and tons of sweepstakes. As a mom, entering the codes to earn soda coupons was the thing that keep me interested in the first place. If they don't offer something in addition to the sweepstakes soon, I won't have any interest in participating in the program again.
I'm not sure what the masterminds at Coke were thinking when they redesigned their Coke Rewards website, but I can guarantee you, they were not thinking of the customer. I find the new site cumbersome to use, and more effort than it is worth. It appears that I am not alone in my evaluation. So let's see Coke: Are you going to put the site back the way it was or lose a lot of customers? Your response will let us know how you feel about people who have been loyal for years (in my case 51 years!)
I entered the codes for the $5 Amazon gift card. I called customer service with no resolution. I was told to copy and paste the email verification which did not work. This is not right. Coke rewards program is a joke.
I've been drinking Coke for close to 60 years with all the changes you've made to "Better" the taste of Coke. Now you've screwed with Coke Zero... Yuk. Who ever the taste-testers were, you could have hired a bunch of chimps to do a better job because the new flavor tastes like WATERED DOWN PEPSI! Those taste-testers must have been eating onions right before they tasted the new product! All I taste is carbonated water and the fake sugar flavor of Aspartame. As for the new way to use our codes... that stinks too. Why change a good thing like rewarding us great folks with the ability to spend our points on free coupons for coke... I guess the owners aren't making enough profit. Ha!
The old rewards program required a lot of customer effort to enter codes and so forth but it was worth it in the long run. The new "program" is not fun, not interesting and certainly not worth the effort. Coke follows the suit of Kelloggs who totally destroyed their rewards program, which was also fun, a couple years ago. I stopped participating in it and now it is time to stop being a Coke loyalist too. Very sad. Who makes these horrible decisions?
Guess what?. As if MCR couldnt get any worse,... lol it has. The codes on caps and 12 packs has an expiration date, I've saved up thousands of caps and stopped using them until this new site starts and give it a chance before it disappoints me but now all those caps i have are trash (2 trash bags full). I don't know who or what caused coke to do this?. Is it a sociological experiment to enrage thousands. Lol
Yes the old system could be time consuming. But at least there were tons of options. I was a big user of Shutterfly rewards. Now there are only a handful of "chances to win" options, not really rewards... and they seem to be mostly sports related or promoting Coke products. I'm a huge loyal fan of Coca Cola... but as others have said, the rewards aren't worth the effort. Very sad about the change. Hope there are lots of reviews like mine... and maybe Coke will listen and make some changes.
Many years ago Coke decided that they wanted to tinker with the original coke formula and came out with the "New Coke." It was a disaster. Now Coke has done it again. What a bunch of dummies. Coke execs are you listening. "'Pepsi Please"
Constantly reducing the number of points you can enter. Constantly increasing the points to get rewards. Programming in a nagging urge for me to patronize social web sites I am not interested in and generally wasting my time of 3 minutes just to get signed into the site.
Program bugs also delay or stop me from entering more than one code.
Coke you need to hire some good programmers to alleviate the agony of MCR!
Answer: I still buy Coke products... but I've starting buying other brands and now split my Coke product purchases by 50%! If more customers did that, maybe Coke will wonder where their fizz went.
Answer: I'm not sure. I know prior to the change I was getting a lot of emails announcing they were updating the program with new rewards, etc. it seems like they either upped the points on my favorite rewards and/or put more restrictions on point submissions. "Update" seemed to actually mean "downgrade" the program.
Answer: They're arrogant and think that they are too big to fail.
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