Domino's Accidentally Gives Away 11,000 Pizzas in Bailout Promotion
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Laura Northrup, 9:54 PM on Tue Mar 31 2009, 32,624 views

This morning, Rick Broida posted a great deal from ubiquitous pizza chain
Domino's at his
Cheapskate blog on CNET. Customers could get a free one-topping pizza (carryout only) by ordering online and using the coupon code "
BAILOUT."
The problem: It never was intended to be a real promotion.
The original coupon code was discovered by trial and error by one of Broida's readers. Eventually, individual franchises started canceling the Web orders, blaming the Web coupon's existence on hackers or a "computer glitch."
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