Jeheh · 7301 points · Posted at 00:52:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This was back when you actually needed long distance phone service to call beyond the city limits. I received a letter in the mail from one of the companies for $100 if I changed my service. I didn't make calls so it didn't matter so I switched. About a month later my old company offers me $100 to switch back and since there are went any limitations I switched back. A month later the other company offers me another $100 to switch back to them so I did and about 2 months after that the original company offers me another $100 to go back to them. In about 6 months I made $400 and never made a single long distance call.
and i dont have to take my pants off, you sir are a great negotiator, did you go to trump university by any chance
pierreor · 239 points · Posted at 04:46:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sounds like a Costanza and Kramer-centric episode idea. I can even hear Jerry asking what the deal is with phone companies playing fast and loose with their money when it comes to attracting long distance callers.
"No, long distance callers are a special breed, Jerry. They are the premium, platinum! Card carrying members of a very exclusive congregation. Just look at George. He's a thoroughbred long distance man, Jerry!"
"Now why would a junior high school wanna screw with my head?"
"...well why does Radio Shack ask for your phone number when you buy batteries? I don't know!"
Media and information, transportation, food, utilities, electronics... At the beginning of any given market there is always an initial boom where many different companies compete, then competition decreases over time until it's either a monopoly or an oligopoly. This is true for literally any market that has existed for 10+ years that you can think of.
The process by which competition decreases over time is mergers and acquisitions, where large companies buy out the smaller ones. Marx called it concentration and centralization of capital.
Oh, I'm sorry. I think this might have sound harsh towards you but I was actually trying to highlight the irony in people believing that free market makes a working economy when it obviously doesn't and there is even a game called MONOPOLY which was created to educate on the matter; further supporting you point. ;)
At what point has any part of the food industry had anti competitive practices? Grocery stores all operate on volume, not margin. Fast food prices have stayed down or moved up with inflation. Restaurants vary in pricing a lot depending on the availability of the food you're eating (lobster is much cheaper in Nova Scotia for example) and the level of service.
There's been a huge concentration in the food industry in the last decades and especially in the last 20 years. There has also been huge inflation in all food markets.
"Along with Domino's Pizza ( DPZ ),Yum Brands ' ( YUM ) Pizza Hut, and Little Caesars, Papa John's is one of a small number of chains that dominate a highly fragmented market…More mom and pops are going out of business, so you're seeing more market share gains by the big chains, especially Domino's and Papa John's."
So 4 brands... plus a bunch of regional brands and boutique chains you don't mention... and of course the mom and pops that every town has a dozen of.... nice try.
The point is these large brands (primarily Dominos and Pizza Hut) are killing all other competition world wide. Yes there are some smaller companies of course but the global pizza market as I said is completely dominated by these few giant companies.
Oh lord... you are dense. The only relevant number I could find in one of those articles - just one number - was that chains account for 61% of the pizza market. So that's split over the "chains" - which that article fails to define, but that's at least 4 big players, could include more like Godfathers or Pizzeria Uno. So there clearly isn't one company that dominates anything, esp. if all that chains together still leaves 40% of the market to small time owners.
The market shares in the pizza market are increasingly concentrated, like someone else already pointed out. The trend is just slower for pizza than for other markets, because the costs and barriers to entry for local pizza are relatively low.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 05:53:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Media and information, transportation, food, utilities, electronics... At the beginning of any given market there is always an initial boom where many different companies compete, then competition decreases over time until it's either a monopoly or an oligopoly. This is true for literally any market that has existed for 10+ years that you can think of.
Oh, do you have some proof for that or are you just going to keep spouting off communist platitudes ignoring all facts? Last time I checked food, electronics, and information were not monopolized and in fact hundreds if not thousands of companies are competing in these fields as we speak.
The process by which competition decreases over time is mergers and acquisitions, where large companies buy out the smaller ones. Marx called it concentration and centralization of capital.
Nice job quoting one of Marx's pseudo-science long debunked theories. You realize that no economist takes Marxian economics seriously, right? You quoting anything Marx said in a economic discussion is me is akin to me quoting Bernie Madoff about investing.
Over time, the number of companies competing decrease and the market shares become increasingly concentrated. If a particular market isn't an oligopoly yet, just give it more time. If you think I am ignoring all facts about that, maybe you can show me some facts.
Marx's observations on concentration and centralization of capital are consistent with the patterns we can see across all industries.
Dr_CSS · 1 points · Posted at 07:19:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How does it feel to be assblasted 4 times?
RZRtv · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure phone service is a natural monopoly or duopoly in most places, considering its not that easy to build infrastructure for it.
So no. Not the free market, just competition.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 05:43:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Natural monopolies do exist within a market but they can only really last a certain amount of time due to the possibility of competition and technological advancements.
Pardon my ignorance but don't cellphone companies still do this? If I switch to T-Mobile and get a few hundred bucks or whatever they're offering can I switch back to my old carrier and get their reward offer as well?
2scared · 7 points · Posted at 04:51:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Man I hate you for putting that @ in there. I searched for way more minutes than I needed to trying to find a story between a Twitter user called jeheh and a mobile company, before realizing you actually meant /u/jeheh.
What a coincidence. I was fired for coming up with that marketing tactic.
wdn · 4 points · Posted at 04:42:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I lived in NYC in the mid-nineties and phone companies would mail you a check for some $50 or so, just out of the blue, where to endorse it on the back, you were signing that you would switch phone (edit: long distance) companies. I had a lock on the long distance service (so the switch wouldn't happen unless I first called Nynex and removed the lock) and just deposited the check without signing.
Yeah. I can remember my folks always nagging me to keep calls short.
When I lived there, NY Tel gave you a monthly allowance of "message credits" or "message units" I think they were called. A call in your own zone close to your house was a one unit. Outside that area, local calls cost either a certain number of units up front, or per minute, or both.
Basically, it was really convoluted and confusing--almost certainly by design.
My family does something similar currently with Satellite providers. They refuse to lower your bill or upgrade your package as a current customer so they'll switch to the rival company and ride out the low price and package benefits and then switch back to the former for essentially the same thing and so on.
In the early 2000's, J & J put out a coupon for $1 off any first aid product, which they ran in the weekly Sunday coupon inserts every week for months. At the same time, our local Walmart was had entire first aid kits (bandaids, antibiotic ointment, etc., in a nice little plastic box) on clearance for $.99 After I used the coupon to get the first one free, I started hitting up all my friends and family to save the J & J coupons for me & eventually scored over 100 first aid kits....which I then turned around and listed on ebay. The entire lot was purchased by a boy scout troop, who was more than happy to pay $3 apiece for them.
I used to work in a call center selling long distance plans. This was an extremely common thing to see. I'm surprised how long it took the companies to catch on.
Sounds like the MCI AT&T battles of the mid-2000. I was a front line phone jock back in those days and used to hand these babies out like candies to any poor civi who got tempted to the other side and needed a reminder of why AT&T was the true king of long distance. Got a nice bonus every time one of those lost souls came home. Good days.
Way back in the early days of Chipotle, they teamed up with my local movie theatre and anytime you went to a movie and brought the ticket to the Chiptolte, then boom. Free burrito.
Well me and my shithead friends jumped on this almost immediately. We hounded the people who left the movie theatres for their used tickets; we looked on the ground outside the theatre; we even looked through the (top layer of the) trash.
For like 4 months, I ate Chipotle every damn meal, and for free.
The day after Chipotle was closed for E.Coli or ebola or whatever, I went to get my free burrito (it was the company's "apology" for the inconvenience of being closed the day prior). Well, there was a fucking metal staple in my burrito. I brought it up with the staff, and the owner apologized and gave me cards for five free burritos. I filled out an incident report, and got a call from corporate later that day. They sent me another 5 vouchers for free burritos. Not really a loophole, but I got 10 free burritos because there was a staple in my free burrito.
Edit: wow, this blew up overnight. A lot of commenters are correctly pointing out that I could have gotten much more out of the incident. The staff were very nice, and shit happens. I was fortunate to not injure myself when I bit into the staple, but I believe it was an honest accident.
I found a rivet in my frozen pizza once. Reported it to the manufacturer, they freaked the fuck out, asked me to send it in, sent a bunch of coupons for frozen pizza, redeemable at my local grocery store. Presumably they had their engineering crews pull the line apart to figure out where the rivet came from.
Anyway, about a week after I got the vouchers, I redeemed one, took it home, heated it up, all set for some fresh hot pizza...Got out the pizza roller knife thing, and the handle fell apart when I went to make the first cut.
Lol you basically played yourself. Did you tell them? I'm guessing the Engineering team would've figured that the rivet if you sent it to them isn't even one of the parts from any of their machines
It was still in the handle, so it all kind of pivoted around the one remaining rivet - the one that was left behind acted as a sort of joint for the hinge, so the rolly bit kind of turned around itself instead of cutting into the pizza.
That's godawful. I used to work with a guy who claimed he once got 2 tacos from Jack in the Box and when he bit in to the first one, there was a penny in it
Edit: The twist? It turns out that in 1988, the Undertaker threw Mankind off of Hell in a Cell and he plummeted 16ft through an announcer's table!
Damn that's fucked. One time my mom made a burrito and had trouble preventing it from falling apart. So naturally, she TAPED it, and neglected to tell me.
JTtheLAR · 16 points · Posted at 05:34:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You should have called her out. That's gotta be like 10-15 good boy points easily.
ryeyun · 8 points · Posted at 05:34:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It seems like you didn't care at all about E coli or staples being in your burritos so long as you got more burritos. I respect that.
him999 · 8 points · Posted at 05:48:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got 50 containers of Ragu pasta sauce because there was a piece of glass in my plastic bottle of sauce. My brother was the unlucky bastard to bite into it. He broke his tooth. They also OFFERED to pay for all the dental bills. Fixed tooth and 50 vouchers, a free cooler, mug, 2 glasses, and some pens later i still eat the sauce. I'm definitely out of vouchers but lemme tell yah, they did a great job on the damage control. They shut down the full line that bottle came from and couldnt for the life of them find where the glass came from. It wasnt in the same line as the glass bottles at all.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:15:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why did u cap offered? That implies that you didn't take them up on it or something
him999 · 3 points · Posted at 06:29:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nononono, normally if something like that happens I've never heard of the company just offering to pay for the bill to fix it. Similar things have happened before but it shocked me they actually were up front about it. I know many companies who wouldnt do it if they arent asked.
Though on second thought, my company fronted the $25,000 bill for surgery on a boys hand that was slammed in the door of our bathroom by his older brother so i'm not sure why it surprises me at this point.
Nice! I'd probably take down a staple for 10 burritos...you didn't even have to eat it!
I felt like the whole "e. Coli" thing was a huge the world providing me a huge benefit for free because I love chipotle so much that I would have eaten it anyways. The health scare made lines so much better...so I feel like I was scammin'.
My guess is that some ingredients come in stapled plastic bags, normally the staple is removed carefully, or just naturally falls to the side of the bag when opened, but this time it went into the bag
Rammite · 3 points · Posted at 05:58:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can't imagine any properly packaged food comes with staples or anything that could fragment - for that exact reason.
Then again, that all relies on it being properly packaged.
I mean, that staple could have seriously fucked up your digestive system and required some pretty serious surgery. $70 or so of burritos is the least they could do.
I hope the PR guy responisble for this is an redditor. Will make a nice "bestof" to see someone post "I was able to settle a PR nightmare and save this company millions in lost revenue offering 10 free burritos"
Yeah, they asked me if I had any pictures. They were afraid of it blowing up on social media. I am sure I could have played it up for many more free burritos, but the staff were super nice and idk, shit happens. We all put a staple in a burrito once in a while.
Damn. I found a piece of wire in a moe's burrito bowl once and just got $10 in "Moe's bucks." I wasn't mad, shit happens and I didn't get hurt even though it went in my mouth. But I should have gotten more.
I bought a bag of Jack Links beef jerky and after getting it home it was pretty moldy. Now I've worked retail before so I know this can happen with any brand of beef jerky so I wasn't angry I just wasn't going to pay for moldy beef jerky. Normally I would just exchange it at the store but I've always heard all these stories about people getting stacks of coupons for this sort of thing. So I went on their website and filled out a report with a lot number and all that stuff. 3 weeks later I get an envelope and I'm expecting all kinds of free jerky in my future. They sent me a coupon for one bag of beef jerky. I waited 3 weeks to exhange my single 4 dollar bag of jerky. This is the one and only time I've ever complained, now I just exchange the product at the store.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got food poisoning from there twice in a row. I don't know if that's a loophole but definitely a personal record.
When I was a kid a metal screw or something like that broke my mom's tooth at a taco place. They told her to give them the screw and they'd help her pay for it. They didn't, they just acted like they never knew what happened and basically told her to fuck off.
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 05:04:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Your asshole must have looked like a bike tire that got pinched.
shif · 3 points · Posted at 06:21:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
he could ask the guy that bought 300 patch kits from sears
Last year I lived in an apt building when Chipotle sent out the "Sorry about the food poisoning" free meal coupons. A bunch of people either didn't read their mail or didn't like Chipotle, so they threw them out. Happened to see them laying on top of the trash can and got 20 free meals.
I dig through the trash when Chipotle sends those out.
Those fools are throwing away food.
unrly · 8 points · Posted at 05:14:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One of my uncle's customers works for Qdoba corporate. For several years, they would send me stacks of free entree coupons that he'd get from the customer. Qdoba has basically gone defunct in that city so he never used them. I haven't paid for Qdoba in 10+ years.
I was at chipotle when a storm rolled in. The gusts of wind picked up their outside umbrellas and tossed one into my truck breaking my mirror off. Chipotle paid three times the damage out to keep us happy.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:25:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Toronto Blue Jays had a promotion like this where if the pitcher got 9 strike outs, you could trade in your ticket for a free slice. We would find lots of tickets around the stadium after games and eat like kings for a week.
kmora94 · 2 points · Posted at 05:26:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I somewhat did the same. The theatre is next to a Moes. And when the Moes opened up, they ran a deal for a Buy One Get One if you brought in a ticket stub.
Well... I work at that movie theatre. You bet I was eating Moes every shift and every day after that shift.
Not necessarily a loophole, but this works at most Chipotle restaurants:
When you want double meat in your burrito, start by asking just one scoop. Once the scoop is dished out, say you changed you mind and you would like a second one.
This way you end up with a TON of meat, whereas if you ask for double the meat right away, the cook usually dishes out small scoops.
LOSS35 · 2 points · Posted at 06:19:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We went to the first Chipotle to open in Atlanta back in the day and the manager offered my buddy and I free burrito coupons if we could pronounce the name right. Friend nailed it; he gave us a whole book of coupons and told us to give them out to our friends.
I used to work as a porter for an upscale car dealer in Houston. Every once in awhile local business (usually restaurants) would offer free stuff to us. Managers gave them to people as a thank you gesture to customers or rarely, employees. One day he comes in and gives me a stack of vouchers for free burritos at Freebirds. Me, the cheap student I was, and unaware of the greatness that is Freebirds, went to check the joint out only to find out they were amazing (Chipolte-esk) burritos. The next day I asked if he had any more because I had given all of mine away. He told me to check some drawer because they opened a new location near us and had invited the employees to come over and check it out while they trained their staff. I found and opened said drawer, jaw agape. In front of me were over 200+ vouchers with no expiration, no location or ingredient restrictions, nada. I ate there for over 3 months straight, only paying for a drink of i got one. When I used my last voucher, I bought a T-shirt from them, half out of guilt and half because they were/are amazing burritos.
Interesting enough, I still have that shirt 10 years later, and when Freebirds opened a new location where I live now, I wore it to the grand opening. The store manager noticed it and commented, ..."Since it's our opening day the burrito's free!". I said it's my 201st, but I don't think he got it...
I'll jump in on this chipotle thread with my little trick. Walk in order your bowl or burrito. Instead of ordering double meat or half and half. Just say "Oh I'll take chicken please" after they give you the max they can "Hmm actually I think I'll do half and half with steak" extra protein for free!
When I was a kid, hostess snack cakes (and fruit pies) had a promotion where every game piece that came with them was a potential winner. You had to scratch off three of the six spots and get three that were winners. Three were winners and the other three were xxxvoidxxx.
I figured out if you held the game piece up to a bright light bulb you could tell which ones had x's. And I'd scratch off the ones that didnt. I ate sooooooo many free fruit pies that summer.
Edit: I will just add to this another, more recent thing (probably 4 years ago). A certain battery manufacturer would stick these little stickers on the outside of their packages that allowed you to get a rebate if you collected so many of them (entering the codes in a website). All you had to do was peel the stickers off the battery packs in the store. They had several different types of these promotions at different times. Some offered rebates, some offered gift cards, etc etc... I made a couple hundred bucks doing that. They finally started putting the stickers on the inside of the packages to prevent what I (and others) were doing.
Note: I really disliked pealing the stickers off in the store, so I started buying them, taking them home, taking the stickers off and then returning them to the store for a refund. Was a lot less risky.
edit: another one. Arby's and a couple other fast food places would have these surveys on the back of the receipts. If you did them (via phone or computer) you got a code that would give you a free food item (arby's roast beef). Well, you could get a lot of free ones with just one purchase. You buy a roast beef sandwich, use the receipt to get a free one later... and they would give you another receipt (which showed you paid nothing for the sandwich) which allowed you to get another roast beef sandwich.... and on and on and on. They eventually caught on and changed it to where you had to buy something in order to get the free item.
Steak n shake had a good one where if you did the survey you got $2 off your next order. I LOVED these! You know since I stopped at steak n shake once a week anyway... so why not? Saved me some money. I had an employee who would set some aside to give me when i stopped by.
Sometime in the late 90s Gatorade, when they had glass bottles, had a competition with winning stuff written under the cap. We found out that the lemon flavour was seethrough enough that you could see the bottom of the cap. Now, you couldn't read the cap, but all the "sorry, you're not a winner" caps were obvious and the "YOU WIN" ones even more so, so you could easily spot em. Hauled in so many of those over the summer.
Shardok · 15 points · Posted at 04:51:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Used to do this one by angling the bottle just right.
I doubt it. I'd wager that the codes are to get you into their website. They can monitor how many codes are associated with your account, try to get you to buy more of their product and can also hit you with adds along the way.
By the end of the contest I had recieved 8 tshirts, 2 hats, a duffle bag, a baketball, a cooler, 4 water bottles, a different kind of cooler like you see them dumping on coaches, a poster of Michael Jordan, a visor, cards autographed by Michael Jordan (it was printed on but 8 year old me didn't know that), and 20+ additional jugs of Gatorade
My fiance won the Gatorade sweepstakes from bottle caps in the 90s. He won a shit ton of Gatorade and all sorts of cool merch. We're 30 and he still uses the duffle bag he won, even on flights for work travel.
I used to do this during the same time period ('96-'98) with the plastic 20oz. bottles of Mountain Dew that gave you a free 20oz. with winning cap. Just tilt the bottle correctly and bam! Free sodee-pop all damn summer. It was glorious. Used to do it every other day with a couple of friends. Required 3 trips in and out of the convenience store, though...
When my coke rewards started out I used to work for a business that sold cokes to snooty clientele. The type of people who wouldnt participate in contests like that. Each day I'd go through the wastebaskets with latex gloves and collect all the bottle caps. I then started going through all the unopened bottles of coke, using a flashlight on top of the cap and looking through the side of the bottle to see under the cap. And wrote down all the codes. It was a grind, tedious, but I had a lot of downtime to fill anyway.
I had so many points to use that it was becoming hard to find things on the coke reward site worth spending the points on (that I could actually use). And really sought after items like gift cards to best buy went really quick. It became a pain in the ass. I got maybe $250 in best buy gift cards, a really nice table top radio like this one but white instead of woodgrain, TONS of free blockbuster movie rentals. I'm sure I got some other stuff, but dont remember. The table top radio I just bought to cash out (use the rest of my points) because it all became such a pain in the ass anymore. It resides in my bathroom.
Note: mycokerewards started out great. They offered nice things you could buy with the points. Then they started offering just crap items. Then they got REALLY bad and changed everything. Now I hear it is finally ending in a few months. I'm glad I got out when I did.
Edit: another thing I would do....
At my workplace we had several employees who were just lottery scratch off junkies. And they made good money too in their jobs (good pay). Well, they'd throw the nonwinning ones away and I'd snatch em from their wastepaper baskets and enter them in teh lottery website for points to redeem for prizes. I have yet to redeem any of the points for prizes, because you need a TON of them for any of the good merchandise. But, as a side benefit some of the ones they threw away were actual winners. I made $20 in cash. Those employees no longer work there so the gravy train is prettymuch over. Every now and then I find a couple of lottery tickets but not nearly the same amount as before. So... the point-accumulation is at a crawl. I am just waiting to cash out at this point on one decent item.
I miss Gatorade's glass bottles. I was still young when they were around so I don't remember them having a smiliar promotion in our region, but what you did was awesome.
tank2kw · 1202 points · Posted at 03:18:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My brother worked as a manager at a KFC. One day he brought home about a thousand of these scratch off tickets. We started peeling them one by one but eventually found the "light trick." We ate free chicken for like 6 months, and decided to give all the bad stickers (a couple hundred at least) to our friend as a practical joke. He opened all of them!
carmium · 29 points · Posted at 05:39:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Early on, those "scratch only three boxes" promotions were popular, and while most weren't visible with a bulb, a particular cigarette (Sportsman, IIRC) promo had another flaw. In a small Canadian town, one guy collected every losing ticket from every smoker in town, scratched them all and realized there were a limited number of grid patterns of prizes, and all were potential winners. Moreover, each pattern related to the code number on the card! He called a meeting and explained to the smokers which dots to scratch if the serial number ended in 6, which three would win you a boat if it ended in 7, etc., or something to that effect. The little town won scores of big prizes before the tobacco folks realized something was up and the promo was canceled.
Depends. I was a GM at a Taco Bell that was both corporate and franchise at one time. I never paid for food, and neither did my management staff. It comes down to your district manager and your store numbers.
If you're doing well, they don't mind a certain amount of "employee" meals (half price) and "manager" meals (free). If you are in the shitter, however, with a lot of waste and high food cost, they will tell you not to do it. Taco Bell oscillated between "allowing" and "disallowing" it. But the official policy was that all employees should pay half price.
However I have yet to meet a general manager in fast food or more upscale or chain restaurants that actually pays for their food. It's a shitty, brutal grind of a job, and I would be goddamned if I came out of pocket for food. Lord knows you already do as a GM for a host of various other things.
Don't most of those fast food type contest say employees and family of employees can't win? It would seem a little strange if a manager or his brother turned in something like that.
UUD-40 · 13 points · Posted at 05:43:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The mcdonalds monopoly has that rule, but that's because you can win big money. I don't think they would care much if you just won some free chicken.
One of my family members worked where they used to create the McDonalds monopoly food and drink containers. He told me once the stations were in a super secured back area of the plant, and every employee was searched as they left for the day.
I don't know. I wasn't there to witness the searches, and I have no reason to doubt. I've always assumed they were searching for containers, or the sticker cards that are stuck on the containers.
He made is sound like he won 6 months of free chicken with 1 game piece, not 100's of game pieces for a single item. Seems like a lot of work when his brother was a manager and could just give him free food to start with.
Yeah, they usually do. But, if you go to a different store, chances are that no one is going to know. I imagine that with prizes other than food, they would actually check into it.
When I worked at BK, we did a prize peel on every cup. Every single night, the prize cups were counted and compared to sales.
tank2kw · 1 points · Posted at 04:40:17 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
It wasn't prize money or anything, just free chicken. My brother (Manager) got the tickets from the General Manager with explicit instructions not to use the tickets at his store.
I had a roommate in college who worked at another apartment complex. They had a summer promotion where if you came and toured the apartments you'd get a coupon for a free chick fil a sandwich. One day he brought home a stack of like 100 of them and we ate free chick fil a all summer
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 05:55:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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tank2kw · 2 points · Posted at 04:48:26 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
We asked him about it later (we gave it a couple days at least), and he seemed a bit depressed... until we told him. He took it pretty well... considering we gave him all the free chicken he wanted!
Munby · 2 points · Posted at 05:27:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
McDonald's had a trivia game with scratch off answers. Went to the library, checked out the three books they took the questions from, ate free for the next three weeks, three meals a day. They gave you another scratch off when you redeemed one.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 04:41:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yup. Would have been spring break of 1980. At first we just went around and collected all of the scratcher tickets where the wrong answer was scratched and scratched all of them to find the correct answer. They only used about 30 questions and just rotated through. So when you had all 30 answers, you were set.
Then one day about 5 days in, they started sending out all new game pieces every couple of days. So we went to the library and discovered all the questions from both series had been lifted out of 3 books, and the campus library had all 3. So we checked them out and just brought them every time.
Did the same thing in the early 90s with some scratch off competition run by Topps baseball cards. Got way more winners than I think they wanted people to get
Came here to post the exact same thing! So many cards. They put "winner" on them in gold foil and it actually made the cards worth less money as a result though. But yeah, i figured out my desk lamp allowed me to see thru the scratchoffs.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 05:05:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Comcast had a scratch-off contest for Wii's in my college town one year. A club I was part of got the job handing out all of the contest flyers.
The light trick ensured that all of the Wii's were won by my friends.
Xaxxon · 2 points · Posted at 06:07:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had the same thing with mountain dew caps.. if you tilted it just right you could see enough under the cap to know if it won.
shrk352 · 2 points · Posted at 06:08:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a promotion on 20oz pop bottles where under the cap you could win a free pop. Once you knew what a winner and looser looked like you could see just enough of the bottom side of the cap if you tilted the bottle to see if it was a winner. I would go find one, walk up to the register. Unscrew the cap and hand it to the cashier then walk away with my free pop.
Worked at Kohl's a few years back. There were scratch-off cards that came in denominations of 15%, 20%, and 30%. Whatever company printed the cards didn't align something correctly, so for a while all the 30% off cards had a slight defect that made them identifiable.
Most employees who worked the registers had a stack of 30% off cards to the side that they gave to friends, family, or customers they liked.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:05:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's why I started buying them! (then returning them). ALso, there was another version where the stickers were in the packages but the codes could be read through the packages with a strong flashlight put up next to the stickers. I returned those too! :D
When I was a kid we went on a field trip to the local amusement park. There was a particular carnival game (the kind where you have to guide a bowling ball down metal rails) that worked on the (then, brand new) Sacajewea gold dollar coins. They had a change machine right there to help you change your dollars for them...
Well, the machine was clearly a converted machine that used to change dollar bills for quarters because for every one dollar bill you put in, it spat out 4 dollar coins. I put every dollar I had in it, then I went to get change for my larger bills. When I got back there was an older man doing the same thing. He tried to shoo me away, but I told him if he didn't share the wealth I'd report him, so he let me get some more.
I probably made about 60 bucks, which for a 15 year old at the amusement Park is a fortune.
[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 05:32:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hey, you're both stealing, so there's nothing wrong with a little extortion to beat down that guy's greed. You two went from average Joe's to the beginnings of your own Mafia in a matter of minutes. I salute your quick problem resolution skills.
Yeah, context is everything. As a young kid, exploit it for every dollar because you'll appreciate it more.
As an adult, you're a piece of shit trying to hoard it. Get a burger for yourself and your girlfriend then share the wealth. It's not like that old piece of crap can legitimately get thousands from that one little machine.
A) You're trying to deny your little scam to someone who, by age, obviously has fewer 'legit' means available to them than you do - to make an amount of money that in your place in life should be fairly insignificant (unless you just happened to have hundreds of coins on hand), while obviously being more significant to someone who can't work. That's pretty sad.
b) It's only 'free' money if you consider your time to have no value. Even ignoring the morality of this scenario, going scrounging for coins - returning to the machine and slotting them in, waiting for the change to roll out, collect repeat ... is work. And honestly, it only really seems worth it for people of limited financial means or those who just happen to carry vast amounts of coins on them.
As a teenager; decent time -> effort -> money investment.
As an adult? I'd rather enjoy the park and work in my day job.
I get what you're saying with point A, but what do you mean by taking the time to scrounge for coins in point B? It's a machine that originally would give you 4 tokens/quarters for a dollar bill, but instead of tokens/quarters it gave dollar coins. So you would just put in a dollar bill and get 4 dollars out, at a carnival/fair usually you need to carry cash for the games and tickets for rides and stuff anyway, not sure how it would take a ton of time, even if you did only have larger bills, getting some ones would only take a few minutes in that place.
Yeah, it's a fair point. I did some quick guesstimating that could be /way/ off the mark when I made that post. I assumed 4 trades a minute, or ( 16 - 4) 12 USD profit a minute.
You'd stand to gain a quick 720 dollars but then I figured you'd need to get 240 bills to make that figure a reality - which is a chore I believe would easily take an hour or more (how many shops are really willing to part with all their bills? How many random people will carry large amounts?
So now you're making 360 USD / hour. That's pretty good, but then you compound for risk... the machine probably doesn't have thousands of coins in it, and regular joes will want to use it and will queue behind you and see what you're doing.
If one of them reports you, you'll likely end up having to explain yourself and risk the park deciding to get the cops involved.
Not really breaking any laws, you can decide to risk it, but talking to the police would take even more time, and your deal just gets less and less good from there.
On the whole - while you're right, the money's not half bad;
But me, as an adult with a decent job, simply wouldn't bother doing more than the bills I happened to have on me (morality notwithstanding,in reality, I'd report it) as I simply value my free time. Seeing another adult keep kids with less opportunities from exploiting this for selfish reasons ... sad to me.
Oh, I wasn't disagreeing, really, just was wondering what you meant, and yeah, if you wanted to drain the whole machine, it wouldn't be worth it (well, depends on how broke/poor you are, I guess). Either way, we can agree that shooing a kid away from it is a dick move.
Maybe that was your time traveling future self and he/you made a couple hundred bucks. It always bothered you/him that you didn't empty out the machine from the get go, so he/you came back the first chance you/he got with a big old stack of bills, and they were exchanged with future dollars that were worth less than past dollars so double bonus.
ItsDomKu · -2 points · Posted at 05:13:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Change that greedy to ambitious and you'll be an entrepreneur
Sunfried · 13 points · Posted at 05:20:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That old man was an example of a defector who leads to the Tragedy of the Commons, and OP's move of "Share or I'll fuck this up for both of us" is a good way to deal with defectors from the social contract.
Similar happened to me at an Ikea! I put in a dollar at a vending machine only to realize that i didnt have enough. So I clicked the change button and it gave me 4 Sacajewea coins in return. I did this 3 times before my mom rushed me away from it. I told her the deal but she wasnt in the mood to listen that day :(
Not money but I ended up at a vending machine that served soda. It spit out 4 every time. Walked away with about 24 cans for a few bucks (Walmart so cheap).
there was a soda vending machine outside of an albertsons right by my college house, and it would spit out mountain dews after you put in a coin...any single coin. but only mountain dew. all other sodas required the full amount of money. then i realized, after you put in your coin (usually a nickel for me), if you just kept pressing the mountain dew button, it would keep dispensing mountain dews. i'd go get 10-15 mountain dews for 5 cents every few days when they would refill the machine. no one was ever suspicious when i'd walk up to the vending machine with a duffel bag.
javafern · 143 points · Posted at 04:44:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wow that's crazy. You'd think the person who went to the trouble to get all those gold dollars would at least make sure the machine only spit out one coin at a time! Especially if they knew the machine used to give quarters!
sovamind · 34 points · Posted at 05:21:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My guess is that the old machines had four columns that each drop one coin for each dollar. When the machine was purchased and installed this was known and they only filled ONE of the three columns of coins. Someplace down the road new employee is hired and goes to fill the machine and fills all the columns creating the issue.
tl;dr - when a procedure is costly to not follow, really train your employees on how to follow it and explain the consequences.
I have a salary now. It's pretty awesome, I can drop 60 without much thought as long as I don't make a habit of it. I ordered a $40 box of chocolates last night after a few drinks, didn't even remember til I was reading my email this morning, lol
I had something similar. I went to the state Fair after work one day and tried my hand at the coin pusher games. You drop in quarters and it pushes off quarters and dollar coins. Siting on top of the coins were 5, and 10 dollar bills. I, since I just got off my job at Chuck E Cheese, had a ton of left over tokens in my pocket. Used them to win real money. Walked away with like 30 some bucks. Those damn tokens work on a surprising number of things.
I had a similar experience but on a smaller scale.
I went on a school trip to a theme park when I was 11 (here in the UK it is the last year of primary school). Towards the end of the day I ended up in the arcade where there are what we call 2p machines. It involves putting a 2p coin into a slot, it landing on a moving shelf and possibly getting more 2p coins back.
Anyway the change machine seemed to be having trouble telling the difference between a 10p coin and a 2p coin. So you could put a 10p coin in and get 2x2p coins and 3x10p coins back, for example. You were only limited by the size of your pockets and the weight of the coins.
A queue did develop for this change machine as word got around. One of the parents accompanying us decided to inform one of the staff. The teen she approached basically shrugged and went on his way.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:39:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You should have gone to a shop or stall and asked to switch out some of the coins for bills because 'they are too heavy in your pocket and you dont want to lose your money on a roller coaster'.
I remember my parents wanted a newspaper once and gave me some quarters to get one. I put the quarters in and tried opening the door, but it wouldn't budge. I kept yanking on the handle and quarters started falling out of the coin return. I got about $2 out of it.
This wasn't at Geauga Lake, was it? Because I was at the chili cheese fry stand doing the exact same thing to the cashier. They rolled out that day! We also had those new quarters for each state going on, so you know there were a lot of folks screwing up their tills everywhere! Man I wish I'd had more than just a twenty that day. After my fries, I got around forty bucks in gold dollars.
I discovered once that Philippine pesos, worth 2 cents at the time, could be used as quarters in laundry machines. As a poor university student, I took advantage
Same exact thing happened at my high school and I found out. Immediately borrowed $1's from my friends to clear it out. 3 machines, took a week to correct.
I went to an arcade with my fiends and one of the machine freaked out on me and started spitting out tickets. I didn't even put a coin in the machine I just pushed it a tiny little bit it kept spitting out tickets Non-Stop. My firends saw this and were smart enough to realize that if any of the employees, who were walking around on the floor, saw this they would probably take all my tickets away. So they distracted them and kept them away from the area until machine ran out of every single last ticket. We've then split them up evenly and got a bunch of prizes.
Same. School trip to a rundown bowling alley. I figured it out but then the bigger kids saw me and took all my money. So, net loss. Learned a few things that day.
E06SP · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This didn't happen to me but a kid I knew did this. Back in the day, the penny arcade machines in TD used to read Chuck E Cheese coins as Sacajawea coins because apparently they were the exact same weight. For one dollar, you got 4 coins. He did this and even timed it so he knew not to fill up the bags and get caught. He hit up tons of TD banks in our area.
I'm 90% sure he got caught eventually and went to jail, but I believe he roughly made $20,000 before getting caught.
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 05:39:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
R u racist? U type like a racist person
Mogetfog · 2291 points · Posted at 01:44:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
All of the vending machines where I worked were the fancy refrigerated, touch screen, serve entire meals type of vending machine. I discovered one specific machine had a glitch where if you punched in A4 when A4 was out of stock, but still tried to pay, it would spit your money back out and let you order again without charging. So every month I would spend about $10 over a few days to make A4 run out, then enjoy free food for the rest of the month.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:05:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
On a biscuit??? What?
zss_94 · 4 points · Posted at 06:31:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
*American biscuit. As in, a fluffy breakfast pastry. The sausage being a small, thin patty like a burger.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:35:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
wow that sounds really cool, love to try one one day
Shunto · 14 points · Posted at 05:23:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sausage biscuits and gravy sounds horrible
Edit: I get downvoted rather than shown the apparent light. Why not educate me instead! I've grown up exclusively calling these "biscuits". Now imagine making them with sausage and putting gravy on them....
It is an American "Southern food" breakfast dish that is popular at western style breakfast cafes. Buttermilk biscuits (Think of a scone that has a baby with a dinner roll) with white sausage gravy on top.
Unfortunately, the internet cannot show you the light... Only a diner can. You've gotta make your way to the closest greasy spoon that specializes in breakfast, and get yourself some ASAP.
Shunto · 3 points · Posted at 05:56:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've never seen them in Aus. I could be wrong though - any other Aussies, or even Kiwis seen this before?
American biscuits are very easy to make. They are a staple of the south. You eat then with honey for desert. You eat them with dinner. You eat them for breakfast as a sandwich, with bacon or sausage and egg. Or you cover it in white peppered gravy cooked with chunks of breakfast sausage.
It doesn't taste like one. No sugar in a biscuit. I'm not sure if that's the only difference. Biscuits are not usually made with butter. They are made with heavier fats, like lard or Crisco (hydrogenated vegetable oil.) Also, biscuits have a hard exterior and are light, fluffy, and completely dry on the inside if done right. I believe scones are more moist and have a more consistent texture. I do not know where that difference stems from.
this the good ones are not crunchy. They are light and fluffy. Pour a little bit of sausage gravy over them and it is the most amazing breakfast in the world.
What type of vending machines were these? Sounds interesting
Mogetfog · 31 points · Posted at 04:26:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They were refrigerated and had microwave meals. My job was out in the middle of nowhere so leaving for lunch breaks was not really an option. This left the two cafeterias on each end of the facility (that were only open in the day, so evening and night shift were screwed) brining your own lunch, and the vending machines. They had stuff that could be microwaved easily like burritos, burgers, corn dogs, and other cheap stuff, and had fancy touch screen displays for ordering.
You know, honestly they were not that bad. Better than any McDonald's burger I have had. The bad stuff was the fish.
Condawg · 2 points · Posted at 08:17:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you have McDonalds' angus burgers? They unfortunately had a pretty short run, but they were so good! It was like a real burger! I love their quarter pounders now and then, tastes better than their regular doubles or whatever, but man, that angus burger was somethin else.
Not really related, just drunk and now craving McDonalds. Vending machine microwavable fish sound goddamned demonic, but I have a pretty major distaste for seafood in any form.
I used to work this really boring desk job and there was a vending machine around the corner, but it was really hidden away so not a lot of people went there. Once I bought a package of cookies (everything cost $1) and instead of giving me 1 they gave me 3, and refunded my dollar. So I bought something else and turns out everything in the vending machine would get refunded and I'd get 3.
Eventually they fixed the vending machine. That was a good month.
a whole month? they waited a whole entire month to restock the food in the vending machine? if the food in there was real food for actual meals, that seems pretty gross
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:45:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Frozen burritos in a freezer will last way more than a month.
nodiso · 3 points · Posted at 05:37:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Couldn't they easily find out that their vending machine was being robbed? You payed for $10 worth of food but $60 is missing?
Being robbed is one thing. Finding how it happened is another thing especially if nothing seems fishy code wise (not triggering any flags in the system). It was a very specific condition (needed A4 to be out of stock) to even be exploited. OP even said free food for a month, implying minimal servicing/restocking schedule there.
Trying to debug/reproduce the exploit might be hard, especially when they realized it, most of the items were already out of stock (hard to find the trigger condition for the exploit).
Kyle292 · 3 points · Posted at 05:53:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I read this whole thing in Kevin's voice from the office
I tried it with several other machines to see if it worked on them but the closest thing I ever got was one machine that would occationaly drop double of whatever you picked, but never consistently.
We had some old ones in college that had large circular system and then a plastic slide door. If you did it right you could get 2 meals for cost of 1. Many late nights in the library we fueled this way.
Did something similar with a drink machine that drops the bottle down the front. If you held the bottom door open the bottle couldn't fall all the way through so the purchase didn't register. Just keep the door open and keep getting drinks until you let all the bottles through. N for the price of one. I'll never forget going downstairs one day and the vending machine tech was there diagnosing the machine trying to figure out what was wrong. Felt bad for briefly but hey, rewards for intelligence shouldn't be a bad thing. Was really sad when they gave up and just replaced the machine with a different kind we couldn't bamboozle.
When I was in college, my buddies and I happened upon a vending machine which had been smashed open. Just straight-up shattered glass and a gaping hole. To a bunch of drunk college kids, this was a fucking godsend. I think we each made off with eight or ten snacks a piece.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:04:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sure thing, just give me your bank account number, pin and mother's maiden name, I will have the money to you in no time.
y2k890 · 2 points · Posted at 06:06:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I gotta try this with a machine one day.
Jasonrj · 2 points · Posted at 06:09:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haha I'm imagining some analyst is trying to explain to the executives that whatever is in A4 immediately becomes a best seller and always sells out. Maybe the lighting in that picture is better, maybe the location of the vending machine and height of A4 on the screen catches people's eye first? Whatever is the cause of A4's success must be replicated. He spends his entire career unable to properly account and solve for A4's success.
You used to be able to buy Runescape membership with your mobile phone, I don't know if you still can. So I would go to an AT&T store at the mall, use their phone to buy 3 or 4 memberships, and trade the confirmation code for in game currency.
EDIT: For those asking, you would text "SUBSCRIBE" (or something) to a certain number, it would ask you to confirm. Once you did, it'd give you a confirmation code that you could redeem on the website for membership. You would be billed on your mobile service plan (similar to texting "DONATE" to Red Cross). So basically charging AT&T.
[deleted] · 1344 points · Posted at 02:31:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to go to the AT&T store at my mall and max out the $110 monthly limit set on the phones, For 3 months I was rich as hell on runescape, I had all the coins I could ever need on Habbo Hotel, Until one day I went into the store and all the employees looked at me, I tried using the phone but they caught onto me and blocked purchases from cell phones.
EDIT : I still play habbo for maybe an hour every week, just talking with users, I've played since I was 7 years old. 10 years of habbo....
I no longer play runescape much, my original account o created when I was 6 got banned when I was a freshman in high school and I never felt the need to spend years to create a new account and get my skills up, I did end up with another account but it was never as good as my original.
Wow, this is another one of my Reddit comments that seemed to blow up, y'all seem to love the shit I did as a kid.
You can buy bonds in game now that will give you membership. I haven't paid real money for Runescape membership in 2 years, and I've already got my next year paid for as well.
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 04:18:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I saw that when I started playing again a few months ago. I've played 10yrs I don't play much anymore.
I play much more now than I did 10 years ago. I'm getting very close to max cape
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:20:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lost the account I made in kindergarten my freshman year of high school and never really got into it again
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 05:16:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Ryuubu · 2 points · Posted at 06:30:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
... It was always like this
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:58:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If your f2p, its like 10 hours of grinding best method for one tho
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:23:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Exactly, I can pay the $$ for member if I wanted it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:24:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can't ;(
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:34:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
PM me tomorrow I'll buy you a month.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I cant accept that, espically since I rarely play it now. If I had any source of income, and was able to get months all the time, I'd probably play a lot
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:42:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Alrighty.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:41:20 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Its just the fact that I get attached to things, and will miss them when theyre gone. Kinda why I disliked membership as a kid.
It's literally an entirely different game now. Depending on exactly when you quit the game, in that time Runescape has gone through 1-2 iterations that basically redid the groundwork and they're now on "RS3" on the main game, although you can play Oldschool Runescape that's permanently frozen in an '07 style for older fans like yourself.
If you were to hop in now you would probably barely recognize most locales and have to re-learn pretty much everything from scratch.
Sure does. I'd recommend you to try both games and not listen to what the community says. You're only going to get biased opinions because the rivalry between the two games is - sadly enough - enourmous. Both games have about equal sized player bases at this moment.
What does it cost per week or month or whatever of membership doing it that way? Back when I had a membership for a year or so it was like $9 (NZD) a month or something, currently it's $12 for a single month. Still less than I pay for Netflix, my mobile phone, PS+... I'd probably rather just pay
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 05:35:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was like 12 years old. Where was I going to get the money??
I was 11 or 12 when I got my membership as well, I used to mow my grandma's lawns every week and she would pay for it
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:57:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got my grandma to buy me one month of runescape membership, but she clicked on recurring membership so I got like a year of member before she noticed
One bond will get you 14 days, 3 will get you 45. I went with 20 bonds for a full year of "premium membership", but this option is not always available. Bond prices change in game as with any item on the market, but typically run at about 12m a piece, which is not at all difficult to get in a 14 day time span.
I felt like that for a while. Eventually I found a good item to flip, and most recently, I got a third age dye which I sold for 2525M. So I don't really have to worry about making money anymore.
You're saying I shouldn't have to pay money to stand in front of a virtual bank and fletch 7,000 mage longbows per day over a 2 month period nonstop? Hah. This guy. You can't get prime time entertainment like that for free.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:21:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think it's a little shitty to do things like that. People lose jobs and livelihood on stores like that closing and stealing from them isn't helping the cause
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
AT&T isn't going to go out of business anytime soon, The same store that I did this at is still fucking open and they just renovated.
He flew too close to the sun. Melted wax, wings ruined, very bad.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
whoops
-Gaka- · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Careful, Icarus.
lexery · 6 points · Posted at 03:38:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
i was thinking that if i had known this back in 2007, i would've been a god on Habbo
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 03:40:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This was in 2010 or so, I was a god on habbo. I used my stolen habbo coins to scam other habbos into giving me their habbo coins. I was a scam god.
Looking back I feel kind of bad for all the scamming I did on habbo, but I had an amazing team helping me scam and it was alot of fun.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:55:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I made one of those fake free coins websites that said "put your email and pass here and receive free coins!" It actually worked and I took a lot of stuff from people, looking back I feel like a dick for doing that lol
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:22:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a gang of people that helped me scam, me and my brother also used to make those websites. I ran a habbo retro for awhile and you'd be surprised how many people used their actual habbo info. I was a scam bag.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:42:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't recall that, I played on habbo.com and the username of one of the big hackers was Finch
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:44:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I started playing in 2006.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:56:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The game was fun until they took away casinos, now they just try and get you to pay for every little thing.
I know when I used to run my own habbo sever I used a program called Debbo, not sure if it's still around.
Oh man,I remember when every Habbo was scared to death of getting hacked by finch (myself included) ahhh those were the days! I also remember the times before the merge! Habbo was the bobba!
Habbo, runescape. Feeling the feels man. Thank you
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:32:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I miss the good 'ol days of Habbo and Runescape, every few months I will play them again for a few weeks until I realize I'm an adult and I don't have time to waste anymore like when I was 12.
Oh the Habbo days. Cozzie changing and HC only parties and for some reason the community always stayed small and there was like ten super popular habbos everyone always knew lmaoo
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:40:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was amazing at CC back in the day. You weren't cool unless you had HC.
Yoo shout out to habbo hotel! I remember this one time I had a friend who was a HC member (I think that's what it's called) and he hooked me up w furniture to sell for profit and I was a Member myself for like a month or so. Best damn month of my 13-14 yr old life
Nothing like your old Habbo Hotel friends. I remember I use to tell people I was like 16 when I was actually like 10 and they believed me. I stopped playing after some girl tried to meet me in person. 10 year old me said a swift N.O and didn't log on again. I miss some of those weirdos...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I made some really good friends on habbo, some that I still talk to today. 10 years later.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:58:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This was the only store that it worked at around me.
Exious · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I still play habbo for maybe an hour every week,
yo me too lol what's your username? I used to do the same thing. When credits were purchasable through texting the code for it, I used to do it like 15 times or w/e the max was and get like 200c each time, and it only cost me about $3 (or whatever was left from paying my $16 phone bill on pay as you go) monthly lol. I hate that they changed the system :(
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:58:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Habbo. Man I raked it in on that game. A supplier here had a prepaid offer of pay an amount and get almost 10x the amount in calls. They didn't realize the amount could be used almost as real money and not as calls so once I put $200 into credit and got $2500 to spend.
Jesus that was 10 years ago. Runescape almost 15 years ago. Didn't expect this thread to be so nostalgic.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:59:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was a huge scammer on habbo. Made 200c in an hour scamming. Just about every day
Ok I always hear this joke, maybe I'm dumb, but what does it mean? Does one actually trim armor in that game? It's not a term I've ever heard of historically concerning armor.
It was a common scam in runescape because there was a limited edition version of the armor that people used with gold trim. It was rather rare and worth a lot of in game currency and it off game currency. New players who didn't know that it wasn't possible to trim armor would give their less valuable but still valuable armor to the scammer to be trimmed and they would log off to another server.
Here's the thing: you can actually give armor a silver or gold trim in RuneScape, but it took skill and resources. People would constantly offer to do it for free so that noobs would give away their armor to get "trimmed," then the command absconds with the free armor.
Edit: OK I haven't played in a while apparently you can't, people just plain run off with your armor, but now I don't know how one ever got trimmed armor now anyway.
There is a small chance when you kill something, it'll drop a clue scroll that starts you on a quest and one of the rewards is gold or white trimmed armor. Been that way since the beginning. Also I think that's how people got trimmed Mage gear aswell.
Unless things have changed recently, no you can't.
[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 03:25:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My favorite was house party gambling. Get 99 construction, let people use your alter, start playing flower games (~50/50 chance to win double or lose your $$), trade your friends some really expensive stuff like "omg I just lost a santa!! Congrats!!), and then log out once the high rollers start losing.
get 99 construction on june 6 2006 and kick everyone out while theyre in the combat ring so the players who were in there could massacre everyone in falador
wilu · 22 points · Posted at 03:58:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a variant of this that actually worked for a good while later. As a player died in the combat ring they would change the permissions of the PoH to friends or private, which would boot out the dying player. That play would then die right at the entrance to the PoH where collaborators would be waiting to nab your loot if you failed to retrieve it in time.
It was actually great. Put me ahead of all my classmates when large numbers were involved.. since I could easily figure out what 258327 was (for example).
Also introduced me into the world of wholesale LOL.. I would buy a bunch of shit from people for cheap, and then sell it off in smaller quantities, but for more GP.
Good times..
It's also probably illegal and seeing as an AT&T would have security cameras, really it's really risky and stupid.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I mean, if AT&T has a sign that says "test out phones" and lets you try out the new phones, I don't see whats wrong with it. I was using the phones features to maximum.
[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 04:46:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My friends did the same thing with league of legends RP. He went to multiple malls and stores though. Looked a lot more shady though since you had to request a code through the phone and have someone at home put the code for you in so he had to talk to him on his own phone as well. He got banned eventually though.
Friends and I did this for maplestory and riot points lol.
dan_buh · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You used to be able to call certain numbers from skype and get codes for free that were good for about 15 mins, i used like 10 on myself and sold a bunch for in game items and real money. Was legit
deecaf · 1 points · Posted at 06:11:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So, how exactly did this work? I'm a little confused about the process of how exactly you'd use a phone to buy memberships - wouldn't you need to provide currency of some kind? Or was it simply that your phone bill would get charged for buying the membership?
My old job was supposed to be salaried but HR made a mistake and made me an hourly with 40 hour week. My old job required a lot of work and a lot of overtime during Q1 and holiday season. During that time I would do 70+ hours of overtime for weeks at a time. 40-50 was 1.5x 50-60 was 2x and 60+ was 2.5x my hourly.
I was supposed to make $55k-$58k like my peers, I ended up with $90k+
I don't work salary any more because I've never met a salary manager who accepts "I've done 40 hours, I'm going home"
On my last salary job I was working out of state - flew out Monday morning, back Friday night. After a year of this my manager told me I was going to have to be on site 9-5 M-F, so fly out Sunday night and home late Friday or Saturday morning. I noted this made my work week 20% longer and would I be getting a bump in pay?
He said "No," I posted my resume, and got to give two weeks' notice two days later. (New job was a contract job, paid hourly - I made 40% more the first year)
Spara38 · 69 points · Posted at 05:11:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol same. I worked a job where the "understanding was that full time is 45 hours+" (direct quote from my boss). They cut 2/3 of my co-workers 3 years into me working there and expected 60-80hr weeks for the same pay after that. I quit and now I'm paid hourly, making almost double what I used to make and only working 42 hrs/ week. Lol joke's on them.
JDdoc · 10 points · Posted at 05:47:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What about health insurance/401k? This is the big reason I never went contract.
just factor that into your contract price. You have to. Then it's the same thing. If you can't get that much on contract, then it's not worth it.
Spara38 · 1 points · Posted at 11:45:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My health insurance premiums are paid for 100% by my current employer (old company it was $300/month), deductible is $1500 (was $3k), max out of pocket is $3k (was $6500).
401k match at a rate almost double my old employer too. And, whatever company manages their funds does an awesome job! Got 21% return last year.
I'm not contact, though. Full time hourly in a technical field, vs my previous job was an engineer w supervisory responsibilities.
Spara38 · 1 points · Posted at 11:59:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'll just say it's engineering related, that's what my degree is in and that's why I was hired for it.
hab1b · 23 points · Posted at 05:25:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I feel so fortunate. I work for a small company, I am salaried with great benefits and perks. I also barely work 40 hours a week. And rarely ever more. We always shut down the office at 3pm on Fridays.
My job is kinda weird* but salaried with benefits, and yet I still get paid overtime if I go over the usual expected amount of hours. It's pretty great.
*It's not an office job. I work 2 days on, 4 off. Those 2 on are ON - so for those 48 I'm owned by the company. Worth it for having 4 straight days off. Anything over 10 hours time on task is OT.
Near the end of an epic 48hrs its pretty rough, but I would never switch back to a regular monsat-friday gig. Only 2 days off for the weekend? Hell no.
hab1b · 8 points · Posted at 06:25:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I agree, five day work weeks are bogus. Fortunately our vacation policy essentially boils down to "Don't abuse, make sure your work is done, don't be gone for long times during busy quarters.
So typically I get one 3 day weekend a month, the summer is slow for us so I take a week off each month because I like taking motorcycle trips, camping, etc. Our vacation hours are not tracked. It would only be an issue if I was gone a lot and my work was suffering.
EDIT: I did use to work 4 10's at a previous job. Damn, I miss working monday-thursday.
Dude, that makes two of us. I make near $70k less than a year out of grad school and roll into work just before 10am most days. Granted, I sometimes have to work a bit in the evenings, but I love the subject matter so I'm pretty chuffed with the whole arrangement.
hab1b · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nice! I just don't understand the mindset that you have to be at work for 8 hours straight in order to be productive.
IDK what sector you work in but I know a lot of people who would sacrifice that 40% extra for the job security a full-time, permanent salary job provides. There are a lot of sectors that would grant you that bonus in pay for the contract work but aren't guaranteed another contract with the same company or elsewhere when that one ends.
This is one of the biggest fucking lies in existence.
As a contractor, I survived three rounds of layoffs at one company. At another the full-time, salaried employee sitting next to me was called to HR and never came back.
"Salary = job security" belonged to the era of unions. With right-to-work, unions are dead, as is that job security.
I've flipped back and forth between salary and hourly/contract, and the only difference I've ever seen is that on contract I get paid more.
As a contractor, I survived three rounds of layoffs at one company. At another the full-time, salaried employee sitting next to me was called to HR and never came back.
That's an interesting anecdote but I think you'll find it's the exception to the rule. When layoffs happen at a company, in most cases, they try and protect their full-time, permanent employees before their contractors.
And your line about unions would heavily depend on what country you work in. I know in Australia, in most sectors you are more secure as a permanent, full-time employee than you are as a contractor, but perhaps our unions have a stronger say than yours and that's why.
Yeah, I saw that happen at my job. Old dude was a really good programmer. The problem is that he has little patience. Fast forward, he started yelling at this quality guy in a code review. Rumor has it management gave him a warning and told him to attend some emotional intelligence course. He just resigned. He was working at other company the following week.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 05:48:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My wife has done this twice already. Who knew qualified preschool teachers were in such high demand.
I'd get an alternative job before I "Fuck You'd" out of there.
Jumaai · 7 points · Posted at 05:06:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Exactly. A poor person would stay there and be miserable.
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[deleted] · 19 points · Posted at 05:38:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This exactly. I always gave 2 weeks, because sometimes they just paid you and let you leave. I worked in some sensitive IT positions where an unhappy employee could wreak havoc on their system, so it was better to just pay you off and give you a 2 week vacation than risk you leaving with a little parting software gift.
My old boss easily pulled 70 hours + per week. I worked four nights a week at around 32 hours. Our pay checks were usually the same. Some shifts I'd just openly laugh at him. I only made ten an hour, so what they were doing was totally illegal, but he was kept so busy that he never noticed he was being taken for a ride. Poor guy. I told him to lawyer up the day I peeped his check. He stayed at that job two days longer than me(guy they hired to fill in for me made 11 an hour). That poor SOB.
I "some what" work at a high school. We have an auditorium that is and is not part of the district. So doing anything is always fun. Anyways, after 15 years the SAU finally let us get a full time position for a tech at the auditorium. I couldn't get it because they wanted someone with a teachers cert just in case they want to turn it into a teaching position as well (it won't happen). The full time gets 40 hours a week. And that's it. They fucking called her and said "You have done 40 hours. Clock out now and go home."
She does ~30hrs a week with just events alone. Sometimes more. And they might want her to also teach classes during the week? She won't have time for events which, in a sense, makes the auditorium lose the full time tech we need.
I rambled but yeah. They have called her during an event and demanded she went home. Lovely.
Old company let analysts work 40 hrs. They'd all hit that mark and leave. Technicians were hourly and usually put in extra work. Analysts were supposed to pick up the slack, they did maybe 4% of the time. Deadlines came and went. They were paid $12k more annually. Got a new job making that 12k more.
I left a job that paid me hourly for one that worked on a base + overtime format. What that essentially meant was that every hour of over time my wage was divided by the total hours I worked. I worked 111 hours the first week, and realized that I was making something like 4.50 an hour in overtime by the end.
In my prior job I made less per hour but worked similar hours with a regular 40 + overtime format. I was losing thousands. My boss was cool and gave me a raise that at least made it to where I was making a comparable wage until I was at 20 hours of overtime, but it still hit my wallet hard.
I'm a school counselor and I really do 40 hrs a week, but I don't get paid well, so that's not a great example. I'm thankful that my husband works for a small company whose owner understands work/life balance. Unless my husband is out of town for a job, he gets to work at 8 and leaves at 5 and takes an hour for lunch every day. And if for some reason that can't happen, he gets paid overtime on top of his salary.
Probably depends on the industry. I work 9-5 salaried with benefits and I get quarterly bonuses. Never have to work overtime, the work is satisfying, and it's a hell of a lot better than when I was getting paid hourly to work as a bartender.
i'm a data analyst at a large tech company (salaried). when i started, i'd generally work 60-70 hours. this happened for a few months, while about half of my time i spent automating tasks. now i generally work around 30 hours a week. as long as i get my work done, my boss doesn't care how long i'm actually in the office. every once in a while shit hits the fan and i have to work more, but for the most part, it's pretty laid back and i rarely hit 40 hours in the office. automation is a glorious thing.
pcx226 · 1 points · Posted at 08:11:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've worked over 40 hours exactly 1 week in the last year. Many weeks I've worked less than 40. Am salaried. Pretty sure it depends on how much your company cares about work life balance. One of the BIG things at my company. Huge company too. 100K+ employees.
BGYeti · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think it largely had to do with the sector as well
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Plumbers. My uncle has been a salaried plumber for nearly 40 years. He's home by 4 every day.
On the flip side of that in management consultancy I've never met a manager who cares about how long my ass is in the seat, so long as I'm achieving outcomes.
Ah I was curious. My last job was an ERP staffing firm before I was let go for their forced cold call only strategy not working. I always told some of our unhappy potential candidates how much happier our contractors were after making the switch from perm.
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I fly weekly as well right now on a contract job, they don't count the travel hours as work hours, so it's nice being limited to 40 per week + travel. The pay reflects the extra time consistently.
lynn · 1 points · Posted at 07:53:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My boss at my first (and only) salaried job occasionally said something about how "this is not a 40-hour-a-week job," sometimes with a little chuckle. Well I never did work more than 45 hours in a week, usually 40-42 hours. I did a terrible job too because I have ADHD and was unmedicated at the time and I couldn't focus on the work at all -- I'd start working and then discover I was playing a stupid little online game or something, and had been for an hour or more.
The thing is, they never fired anybody. It was a tiny operation, no more than 5 employees, though the company had been around for over 10 years. The same day my boss mentioned that they'd never fired anybody, I went to lunch with him and a coworker and they regaled me with tales of previous employees who barely did any work. So I never worried about my job security.
I left when I had my first baby -- I had to go on maternity leave, and I'd saved up extra money so I could take a nice long one. We all said I'd call when I was ready to go back to work, or they'd call when they had a new project, but obviously they weren't going to have me back. And my first was planned but we didn't plan very well; daycare would have eaten up the vast majority of my pay.
Anyway I had a part-time job for a few months (family provided free childcare but only part-time, and we were of course very grateful) and then my husband got an internship that became a very well-paying career and we moved across the country permanently. About 2 years later, my old boss called me wanting me to do one of the most tedious tasks from that job, and I barely kept from laughing as I told him no thanks. It would have been torture.
pcx226 · 1 points · Posted at 08:08:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Jeez...where did you work? I ask so I can avoid those places....
I'm salaried. I average like 38 hours/week over the last year or so.
Not even close. Marginal tax rates mean you only pay higher taxes on the amount earned within that specified bracket, not on everything you've earned before that. Healthcare costs can be lower with higher paying jobs due to improved benefits. I hate that argument you made - I call whole ohhhh I don't work OT since it isn't really worth it in the end (financially) argument a cop-out for mediocrity.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:45:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're overlooking expenses/writeoffs available to contractors, which are not available to employees. To say contractors pay more taxes is a sweeping, uneducated statement to make. You might pay more for employment insurance, but less for income tax. Then we get into the whole issue of being a sole proprietor vs. incorporating.... which leads into salary vs. dividends, which is a whole other discussion. But honestly, this is all basic tax 101 that should be, in my opinion, as a basic part of all high school ciriculums.
In a right to work state it's practically the same. Often times in high tech only employees can own company shares which can be worth something. Otherwise it's possible to be salaried, get paid for 40, and work 20-30.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:39:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is not always the case, though. Sometimes the layoffs are for salaried employees who are replaced with higher paid contractors, because of total compensation packages. Stuff like PTO counts as debts on your balance sheets, etc, and contractors can be fired later one the quarterly/yearly reports are out.
It's a big juggling game when you work for Fortune 500 companies, honestly. My dad used to work for those companies. Get laid off, get a huge severance package, come back 3 months later as a contractor with a massive pay raise, work a year, get contract cancelled, get hired on as staff, rinse and repeat.
Agree completely. Contractors are not the first to go - it's dependent on the company and on the industry. In my experience, contractors are the last to go - they're infinitely cheaper - maybe not on a straight per hour basis, but factor in pension, holidays, bonuses, mat leave, etc. and contractors are typically much more financially attractive.
Source: Am oil and gas corporate contractor - much busier since the downturn.
"Eaten up by taxes" is another lie spread by management who like saving money on salaried employees.
The tax difference is about $8k/year at $100k. If you're making 8% more on hourly, then the "tax difference" is a wash.
Also, depending on the company, buying your own healthcare can give you more options. My company wanted a contribution of $400/month for healthcare, I pay $1600/month. $1200/month = $7.5/hour. I make $17/hr more at my lowest contract rate, and of course once I start working overtime, that's "free money."
I'm not saying there aren't times that salary may make more sense. I'm saying don't rely on empty sound bites like "pay your own taxes" or "job security" - make sure you know the variables and do the math.
...seriously? I thought it was one of those universal things. But with peanut allergies these days Australia wouldn't be the same without one more thing that could kill you.
And don't forget about your delivery drivers! It's baffling how many people think a $2 or $3 tip is appropriate no matter how big their bill/order is or how far away they live.
Put in 40 hours, stop working extra. I work 50+ hour weeks, but it is balanced by the 30- hour weeks. Which is what it is supposed to be. They give me my vacation in hours, I am paid for 40hr weeks (per my paystub) if they want more they have to pay for it. Salary isn't free extra 10+ hours a week, its an acknowledgment that some weeks there will be more work and some weeks there will be less.
Absolutely. I have always been very careful to work approximately 40 hours per week on salary.
Because fuck any other scenario.
You don't think I'm loyal? Fuck you. Pay me.
I've never "had a job that I loved so much that I'd do it for free, I'm so lucky that they pay me." No. Fuck you. Pay me. I ain't doin' shit for free. My car payments don't pay themselves.
You don't know that his employer sucks. He could be compensated well over the industry average. Or maybe he's really slow at what he does... Maybe you or I could do the job in 40hrs but he can't.
Don't presume
ktwarda · 9 points · Posted at 04:22:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thanks, friend. I meant the response to be somewhat light-hearted, but everyone is taking it too seriously. I actually have a great employer, make over industry standard, and even love what I do. It's just a high stress industry, with narrow margins (meaning heavier work load), and I sometimes field emergencies on the weekend.
Classic Reddit.
We're a bunch of savage assholes.
No joking allowed here
Edit: am joking
jeufie · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you're hiring a bunch of people that can't do their required work in 40 hours, you're either hiring bad employees or have bad processes. Both of which fall on the employer. And paying people extra to work more time is also shitty, imo.
The service industry is the worst place to be salary
kellyj6 · 2 points · Posted at 06:11:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just spent my Saturday and Sunday traveling to Zambia. I will work in this shit hole all week, fly home Saturday, get home Sunday at 10 am. Then I have to be at work Monday morning.
You do know salary doesn't mean they don't owe you for the extra hours you work over your designated work week right? You are salaried for a set number of hours per week and are elligible for overtime for any hours you work beyond that. If they don't pay you then just don't work the extra hours and if they fire you for that you have a valid wage theft case against your employer.
It's a joke. People tend to say "I hate you" when the other person is going through something ridiculously good. It's supposed to be mockingly congratulating, like "damn, I wish I was you right now".
ktwarda · 4 points · Posted at 04:25:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That was my intent but hot damn people are real fast to react
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BGYeti · -1 points · Posted at 18:52:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah fuck off with your bullshit, if you want to be a corporate bitch and not be paid your worth by all means go for it but don't try and belittle those who actually want to be paid their worth and understand their personal time is more valuable than working extra hours for free
Meh, I browse reddit or play Minecraft or something when I have nothing to do but still have to sit around the office.
Not a huge deal. I'd rather be salaried and still get paid for those hours rather than just go home and browse reddit or play something only slightly less obvious.
WTF, I have a computer science degree and years of experience and can't get any job yet all these people seem to be getting paid to do nothing. What are you all doing?
Nope. Just in the Computer Science field. We work in 2 week sprints and only estimate about 45 hours of work for 2 weeks. Add time for meetings on top of that and I come under 40 hours almost every week. There is the occasional 60 hour week every few months but I am definitely getting the better end of the deal.
Work from home Systems Administrator for Point of Sale Systems here. Can confirm, 35 hours a week and 3 on 4 off every week is amazing, even if its under 50k/yr right now. Sure I start work at midnight, but fuck it, Im home and off before the shit its the fan every day, even with working 13 hours a day.
taifoid · 1 points · Posted at 06:22:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep, me too. 25 hours a week, 40 weeks a year, 90k
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 04:26:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some companies are run by decent people who have set goals which, if achieved, no longer require employees to stick around.
I'm salaried, am supposed to work 38 hours a week, but usually work 34/35, have never once been asked to stay late or work a weekend, and they are extremely happy with me as an employee, because everything they expect from me gets done.
An hourly job where it's up to me to earn as much as I want would be terrible, because I have little to no inclination to work long hours.
[deleted] · 272 points · Posted at 01:39:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah but that isn't a reality in a lot of industries. That's why I work for the government now, we're all hourly.
Edit: We are all hourly in my agency specifically, but not government employees in general.
911 dispatcher here. The pay's salaried, but we get overtime pay all the time (and it's almost always voluntary). And that's in addition to vacation, comp time, holiday time, sick time, retirement, and all the other benefits. We have something like 12 holidays a year. We have the option to take them off if there's coverage, but I like banking up holiday-days to use later. I already have something like 20 total vacation days saved up since last year.
Not to mention there's plenty of downtime depending on your shift (even days can be slow if it's a weekend). Pay isn't the only factor when looking for a job. If a job pays $200,000 a year with no vacation, it's not worth it.
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[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 04:10:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What the fuck? How do you get into that sort of thing?
If you can average just a 4% return on $1.3 million, you're making $52,000 a year on interest alone every year without ever losing money.
If you could get it to 8%, which is a little less than the annualized rate of return for the Dow Jones industrial average over the last century, you would be making $108,000 a year on interest alone.
And every dollar you don't spend gets compounded.
Short answer, it's possible but it will take discipline. It's easier to spend a million dollars than people realize.
oozles · 2 points · Posted at 06:23:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't forget that withdrawing a fixed amount of money each year means you're losing purchasing power each year. A nest egg has to continue to grow with the rate of inflation on top of withdrawing your living expenses.
Nmaka · 1 points · Posted at 04:40:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I didn't really remember how to put it, but yeah, that
Archsys · 2 points · Posted at 05:06:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Depends on where your expenses, and, in turn, largely where you're living.
I know a couple guys living somewhere in SEA on half a million dollars of mixed investments, and they haven't had jobs/incomes since the early 90s...
Trauma calls are most often caused by traffic accidents or falls. Most accidents happen during workdays 8AM-6PM, and especially during rush hour. People fall all the time (usually elderly), but that's more spread out throughout the day.
During the weekdays, people are more active and have a higher chance of needing police/fire/medical assistance. Saturdays are still pretty busy, but Sundays are notoriously slow (unless a special event is going on). Your typical American family goes to church on Sunday and then stays at home for the most part.
Also, we get about 1 phone call per hour from 1AM-6AM, and our county has over 100,000 residents. The drunks are home or in jail by 1 most of the time, and most people don't wake up until 6AM to find their cars broken into, etc.
No. I forgot to mention the pay is OK, it's about $40,000 a year before tax. That's enough for a mid-sized house payment and enough to support a small family here. The $200,000 was just for comparison. If a job pays a huge amount, you're likely trading off something else.
Okay. I was about to flip the table. "You get paid THAT MUCH for that perfectly timed tone right after I take one bite of food!?"
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:15:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have to work long hours for part of the year now but since I'm hourly I get to amass a large comp time bank that I get to burn through in our off season. Or I can just take those hours as overtime pay. It's a good work life balance for me, much better than the private sector offered.
Would you be paying yourself with the taxes you paid the ~government~
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:44:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I hate the government but god damn do I love working for it. God damn is it nice to never be fucked over by hours. My ass has to out the door as soon as 3:57 strikes.
Not in the Navy. With "duty days" where we have to be onboard for 24 hours at a time, too often every 3rd day, 100 hour work weeks are normal. Then, factor in how small our paychecks are and figure out the hourly rate - way below minimum wage. #slavelabor
Seriously, if you paid the military by the hour, 1/2 of the shit we did wouldn't be deemed necessary, a lot less of us would have mental and physical health issues, and there wouldn't be so many damn DUIs, domestic violence cases, mental health issues, etc.
Just gotta be better than everyone. I'm salary and been working 9-4 with an hour lunch.
They keep assigning my projects that are supposed to take X amount of hours. I can do them in X*.67 hours...
I still get more done than any of the other analysts so no one knows any better.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:54:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
To me though, a work day is a work day and an off day is an off day. I don't really care if I work 7 hours or 10 on a work day, I just want to get more full days off. This job allows me to do that because I get comp time which lets me turn overtime into off days. If I worked as a salaried civil engineer I would still be expected to work like 45-50 hours a week but with no benefit to me or just "but your bonus will be bigger if we do better," which is bullshit to me.
Fair enough. I worked a state job out of college and got comp time instead of OT. Was pretty cool. We were ridiculously understaffed for a while so after only 18 months I ended up having over 35 days of vacation time. (On top of normal Holidays we got.)
Was actually a nice structure for me since I'm the type of guy to piss away extra income.
The 10 vs 7 hour day thing though... I dunno. That extra hour of sleep and getting home when it's still light out is damn nice for me.
Many salary jobs still require you to clock in, and if you clock less than 40, they'll treat you like hourly on the paycheck or automatically take those hours in vacation.
I was salaried my entire career until I became a contractor. Became a contractor because if they're going to treat me like hourly regardless, then they better give me $50 an hour and pay me for my overtime.
Sumif · 1 points · Posted at 06:40:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
But then you pay much more in tax so depending on your tax bracket and deductions then you are taking home about $30/hour. That obviously overstates and simplifies things but I worked as a contractor for a few months and like 30something percent was taken out in taxes.
30/hr is still higher than the pre-tax rate of my last direct job. But I'm not a 1099 contractor. I have representation, so I don't pay employer contributions for taxes.
I also work more than 75 miles from "home," (in quotes because I don't have a family to settle down with anyway, so I use my parents house as a permanent address and just move wherever the work is), so just over half my income is declared by my employer as non-taxable per-diem. The split right now for me is 24.45/25.55, but it's going to get even better in April when the IRS increases the allowed rate for my metro. Right now my effective total tax rate is 12% on the first 40 hours, so my take home rate for the first 40 hours is 44/hr. After 40 hours I no longer get per diem, but I'm making time and a half, so my take home rate increases to 46/hr. It decreases a bit more after I hit 64 hours because I hit the next tax bracket on the Circular E tables, but you get the picture.
Hell I don't even know how many hours I work in a given week. I tend to be in the office 5 - 6 hours a day and might do a little work in the evening if I'm feeling like I want to make more progress on something. But I'm never in the office later than 6 or earlier than 9 or 10.
I think this is a reasonable amount of time to work. For most jobs, there are probably periods of more intense work interspersed, but overall I could see spending that much time in the office. However, it seems like many jobs have a culture where you are looked down upon for not being there X number of hours. Even if some of that time is spent idle...
rblue · 1 points · Posted at 04:01:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
37.5 here. And if I do go over, I get overtime pay or comp time. Not sure how it's salaried, but I rarely ever break 38 hours per week.
midri · 1 points · Posted at 04:05:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Exactly!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:07:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah I get kind of irked at how low I'm paid until I realize that I work from home 3 days a week and also put in a solid 8-10 hours of work the entire week for full benefits. The secret is just being content doing what you're doing. It's easier than it looks.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:22:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Im salaried with overtime after 40 - best of both worlds.
Not for those of us that regularly work less than 40 hours.
When I worked for a guy hourly eventually he offered me salary, claiming same hours, better pay, likely even fewer hours on average. When we actually transitioned to the salary he acted funny, like he realized he offered me something better than he wanted to like he'd offered it when he was drunk or something it made no sense to him then, and started talking about needing to bump my hours up, to make it make sense financially to him, until my outlook was exact same pay, way more hours, no overtime.
I thought I was gonna be one of you. Turns out I just got fucked instead, but I didn't stick around for that.
Depends on your industry. I work in biotech and almost no one in the labs works a full 40 hour week. If you get your work done, you can leave whenever.
I have the best of both worlds, I frequently only work about 4 hours a day, am hourly, and I often stay clocked in late because I'll have a user with a quasi emergency at the end of the day.
My dad recently agreed to take more vacation instead of a pay raise when his company was doing cutbacks. Between that and his 4-day workweek he did the math and works approximately 30 weeks a year. If that's not gaming the system I don't know what is.
hab1b · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
same here. we shut down the office at 3 pm on Fridays. I work 38 hours a week, good benefits, 401k matching, and they pay for my cell phone bill.
The problem is not the concept of Salaries. The problem is shitting business taking advantage of workers.
The scam is that very few people actually classify as salary exempt. Unless you spend more than half your time doing administration, are an executive, a state certified professional, or a computer programmer you likely should be getting overtime.
That a subpar pay bump for passing the PE. I'll be taking it this year but most of my friends that passed recently got between 10 and 20, about half got a promotion as well.
yeah... mine was a messy one. I basically got the typical yearly raise + some more at the year end review, signed the paper, just wait for the vacation to start, then the PE score came out a week after.....then I had to re-negotiate my wage again now with a PE.
My Title did moved up O.o, but still does the same old shit. =__=
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dang. But you'll be a lead engineer at some point, right? I'm on my way to getting PE. I'd hoped it was better than a 5k bump...
yeah, I'm looking at staying for another year or two, maybe pick up one or two other certification while at it, then most to a leading engineer position.
_101010_ · 50 points · Posted at 03:56:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
yeah right. someone please answer. why not programmers???
joewith · 30 points · Posted at 04:07:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
All I know is I work more than 40 hours and don't get paid overtime.
To be fair, it would be easy to take it slow and be paid more because of overtime than if I worked at a reasonable pace. That's the price to pay to not be micromanaged.
I literally learned what "salary exempt" means today, but my best guess might be that computer workers are often expected to do things like make sure servers are working 24/7.
I don't know, why don't you pay managers and administrators for their additional hours either?
I don't know why they decided this was the way to go, but it seems like it's jobs that fall under the category of, "if you go home at 2 on Friday because you hit 40 hours and the shit you are responsible for breaks at 2:15, no one else can do anything until you come in again Monday morning because you're the only one with the power to fix it and we are all collectively fucked". "Shit" here may refer to people in the case of managers and administrators.
Because people like consistency in pay, and this is a benefit for both the employer and the employee. I like to know I'm making exactly $X on every single paycheck, regardless of how many features we're cramming to get pushed out in the next month, regardless of whether or not my workflow is blocked by waiting on the other group to get their work in.
I've had to stay late a handful of times and I've worked a weekend ONCE. If that was a regular occurrence then I would either leave or negotiate hourly pay, but for most people working a salaried position it's actually really nice.
Ask Congress. Guessing because they consider it a white collar profession like being an executive (also exempt)
pelijr · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
See my reply to OP above for info on the actual law in question.
makuto9 · 8 points · Posted at 05:23:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not programmers because programmers spend less then 50% of their time typing, so the rest of the time is considered some form of management. That's their explanation.
Yea well your company clearly isn't a coding sweat shop like most.
makuto9 · 2 points · Posted at 06:25:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm a game programmer and have gone through some crunch, but the company is fairly good at keeping it the exception to the rule.
Programming is mostly thinking, interacting with others, and debugging with the minority of time spent typing in my experience, to be fair to the law. Now, not getting paid for overtime for that is still bullshit imo
CSPshala · 14 points · Posted at 04:34:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cause fuck the brick layers said the brick layer company owner.
buge · 2 points · Posted at 05:30:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How is making computer programmers salary, and brick layers hourly bad for the brick layers?
pelijr · 7 points · Posted at 05:30:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The actual law:
However, Section 13(a)(1) and Section 13(a)(17) of the FLSA provide an exemption from both minimum wage
and overtime pay for computer systems analysts, computer programmers, software engineers, and other
similarly skilled workers in the computer field who meet certain tests regarding their job duties and who are
paid at least $455 per week on a salary basis or paid on an hourly basis, at a rate not less than $27.63 an hour.
Emphasis mine.
Computer Employee Exemption
To qualify for the computer employee exemption, the following tests must be met:
The employee must be compensated either on a salary or fee basis at a rate not less than $455 per week
or, if compensated on an hourly basis, at a rate not less than $27.63 an hour;
The employee must be employed as a computer systems analyst, computer programmer, software
engineer or other similarly skilled worker in the computer field performing the duties described below;
The employee’s primary duty must consist of:
1) The application of systems analysis techniques and procedures, including consulting with users, to
determine hardware, software or system functional specifications;
2) The design, development, documentation, analysis, creation, testing or modification of computer
systems or programs, including prototypes, based on and related to user or system design
specifications;
3) The design, documentation, testing, creation or modification of computer programs related to
machine operating systems; or
4) A combination of the aforementioned duties, the performance of which requires the same level of
skills.
The computer employee exemption does not include employees engaged in the manufacture or repair of
computer hardware and related equipment. Employees whose work is highly dependent upon, or facilitated by, the use of computers and computer software programs (e.g., engineers, drafters and others skilled in computer-
aided design software), but who are not primarily engaged in computer systems analysis and programming or
other similarly skilled computer-related occupations identified in the primary duties test described above, are
also not exempt under the computer employee exemption.
The law is more complex than that. The line is supposed to be something like "knowledge worker" vs button pusher. Had it explained to me by HR when they had to convert one of my staff to hourly. I told them to exploit it and submit her overtime because we both knew they were underpaid but I had policy caps on what raises I could offer.
In CA computer workers making over 100k and meeting a few other requirements can be paid as salary exempt. There are a few reasons why it makes sense in CA. At that salary you can negotiate certain terms of your employment. The time you work in the office is not really related to how much productive work you can do. So the idea is that you are not paid just for the time you are working
ca990 · 13 points · Posted at 03:46:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My work recently reclassified me as salary no -exempt. Initially I was annoyed that I had to start using a timeclock again for the first time in 9 years. The I realized how much overtime pay I was getting. Pretty much the greatest thing ever.
You forgot to include management. It's not just administration, it's administration plus supervising. If you are on salary, make more than about 24k per year, supervise 2 or more employees, management as primary duty and have input on hiring, discipline and firing, you are considered exempt.
A1A5KAN · 9 points · Posted at 04:21:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
law changed to something like 53k a year i believe. Will probably be revoked soon by republicans.
Managers are administrators. The supervisor/manager thing is nonsense. If what you are doing is making the company money more than half the time you are working you are not exempt from overtime pay. My last employer did this to me for 7 years and it was totally illegal. Calling someone a manager doesn't make them an administrator.
Salary exempt in the us is really low. Thats why the law that was delayed last year was a big deal... They wanted to raise it which would raise exemption and cost companies a ton. Salary is exempt right now is really low, under 30k a year i believe by current US law
digicow · 4 points · Posted at 04:27:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the space of 3 years, my company decided my department's members were not computer programmers (and thus non-exempt) and then reversed that decision. I racked up OT at every opportunity I could in between.
Why should computer programmers be exempt...Or the others you mention...Shouldn't it just be executives and administrators?
Archsys · 2 points · Posted at 05:07:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Contrarily, forcing your workplace to accept that you are salary exempt. Family Dollar has had lawsuits in just about every state they operate in over this shit, for example...
I wish I knew this at my last job. I made to the dollar the amount that California decided was the cutoff for overtime exemption, but I still should have qualified.
This is one thing that I have never understood. How are we protected? My supervisor has told me and other workers that we are salary and we have to work whenever is required for us. We are not administration at all, not executives, not state certified professionals, not a computer programmer although we do work in IT.
Jasonrj · 1 points · Posted at 06:13:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Good news! In 2014 or 2015 Obama asked the Department of Labor to pass new rules that would double the salary threshold you must be paid in order to be OT exempt. This would either cause people who were making very little to be pushed into overtime and increase their wages, or be sent home at 40 hours so they wouldn't have to work as much, or be raised to the new salary minimum for OT exempt employees.
Bad news! Unfortunately it was set to go into effect December 1st 2016 but was put on hold by a Texas judge and now the rule's fate is unknown with Trump in office. So instead of good news this is probably bad news because the rule is likely destined to be wiped out.
I dunno man. This is my first job as a salary employee and i am really happy. No worrying about how long my lunch breaks are, not worrying about ever getting to work late, take a half day if i need it without losing pay, I KNOW exactly what my pay check will be so financial planning is good.
Oh look, 3 day weekend and hourly doesnt get paid for those days but we do. The company is closing for a week for the holidays? Sweet free PTO!
Also, I work in sales and I LOVE yhat I van add commission with no cap on that.
No worrying about how long my lunch breaks are, not worrying about ever getting to work late, take a half day if i need it without losing pay
Yeah, that has more to do with working a salary job at a good company than the usual experience :) Most places where I've worked salary care very much about how much time you spend on your lunch break or how late you are, and when you leave. In fact many track it electronically: they don't pay you more if you go over 40, but they definitely care if you work less than 40.
Hobothug · 12 points · Posted at 04:03:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I graduated college, my parents were disappointed that I didn't land a salaried job. I could not, for the life of me, understand why. My hourly job pays just as much, if not more - because of the OT situation.
And then there's a paid holiday situation, where make 8 hours worth for the holiday, and then 1.5X if I actually work that day.
And bonuses are greater because they're a percentage of my pay, which is already greater because of all of the above, so that's great.
And yet, there's this fabulous stigma that the hourly workers are not to be bothered outside of working hours - so... when I leave, it's really not my problem (even though it sot of is). So great.
Xardrix · 18 points · Posted at 03:59:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thinking from incentive, I like salary. You get paid the same no matter how long it takes you to get the work done. So there is incentive to bust ass and get out. Hourly work just incentivizes people to take as long as their bosses allow short of disciplinary action.
Never met a lawyer? Almost exclusively hourly and they usually bill around $500/hr for a decent one. Good ones can be a couple grand.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:44:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And if you are not a partner in the firm...odds are you're going to be salaried. Sure, your firm will BILL hourly on your behalf, but you're gonna get paid whatever they pay you. Law isn't like it was even 10 years ago.
JimmyRat · -1 points · Posted at 05:42:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thanks for listing a single profession that is an exception.
Pipes32 · 1 points · Posted at 15:00:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eh, we've got plenty of hourly employees in our sales department (all the folks who work 100% virtually, aka from home) and they are all making 6 figures. It's rare though, I agree.
I left my "cushy" salary position making just under 50k. I was working 60-70 hours a week in a factory as a supervisor but the turnover and employment pool wasn't there. I was on the floor 12-14 hours a day doing the production jobs and covering our shortages. Yeah fuck salary.
When I graduated college, my parents were disappointed that I didn't land a salaried job. I could not, for the life of me, understand why. My hourly job pays just as much, if not more - because of the OT situation.
And then there's a paid holiday situation, where make 8 hours worth for the holiday, and then 1.5X if I actually work that day.
And bonuses are greater because they're a percentage of my pay, which is already greater because of all of the above, so that's great.
And yet, there's this fabulous stigma that the hourly workers are not to be bothered outside of working hours - so... when I leave, it's really not my problem (even though it sot of is). So great.
One of my coworkers just became my boss. She obviously became a salaried person. She now arrives at 9am and leaves at 5pm. Period.
Becoming salaried will change your life sometimes. I remember when I was salaried at my first job and wanted to remote in and work on something. My boss nearly threw me out the window. The audacity of working more than I needed to!!!!
Salary employment is one of the biggest scams there is.
Who the hell told you that ? Maybe this is true for low income jobs, but everyone I know that makes over 200K+ a year is a salary job.
I'm a pediatrician, I'm absolutely glad I have a salary job that allows me to do my work and not have to focus on how many hours I'm putting in. In addition to that I get a production bonus.
A lot of people expect you to stay past 5 if youre salaried. I use to live with a lady that literally never came home at 5. It was always 9-10 at night, and back to work in the morning. Shes stupid crazy though cuase thats all her life is, work.
I guess, I'm salary and I make sure I don't work more than 40 hours a week, average 30-36. Occasionally I go over for deadlines and such, but I've been at my company for 3 years and the scale is heavily in my favor.
moratnz · 1 points · Posted at 04:58:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I find the US style of salaried employment (at least as depicted on here) to be weird as fuck. I'm salaried, and my contract sets out my expected hours of work; if I have to deviate from them unreasonably, my employer needs to recompense me for this somehow.
The fact that I'm salaried means that we don't need to micro manage things; if I work a few extra hours one week and a miss a few the next, we don't need to dick with my pay, as we would if I were an hourly worker. But if my employer tried to get me to work 50 hours a week on average, they'd be just as in breach of my contract as if I stoped showing up on Tuesdays.
If you actually land good benifits with it, not always. My dad is a salary man. And although he definitely works more than 40 hours a week a majority of the time, he also has good healthcare, great prescription drug coverage, a pension that he doesn't have to pay into in any way, a 401k on top of it with employee matching, more or less a guaranteed raise every year based on performance, a good amount of vacation, flexible work hours, and the possibility to work from home at least once a week.
Although he sometimes gets late night calls to fix things, has to work weekends 4 times a year, and works insane hours when there is a serious issue, he definitely seems happy with what he has.
If anyone is curious, he's 22 years in at a company that develops and produces prescription drugs as a systems analyst at the highest level he can go outside of management.
Where I work, we're not taking any overtime, ever. If there's really a need to do overtime, the extra hours are claimed as free time later on. Each employee can only have 40 hours of flex time surplus. It's pretty nice and ensures that no one is overworked.
cqm · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eh I fair worse off with hourly work for the most part.
Unlimited vacation, being basically paid to learn, 35 hour weeks mostly beats contract work where im pretty much bringing a stagnating skillset to a job and get hit with self employment taxes on top of it
I have other sources of self employment income where I can rack up the tax deductions
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not for everyone. I work 40 a week and go home after 8 every day and make 80k.
HoPMiX · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah I worked freelance for most of my life.
When it was good. It was good. Work was coming in your bank account is fat. Make a big day rate. But the problem is after you experience a slow down and tough times, it sticks with you. So you learn to keep the iron hot. You take anything and everything and never say no. You end up working crazy amounts of hours to stay ahead. In my industry we go off day rates. That's 12 hours on. Burn out is real and you have to take time off. You don't make anything when you take time off and even two weeks off will slow down your demand. After 10 years of the hustle I finally burned out. I took a salary position with fantastic insurance. I roll in around 10. Leave around 6-7. pretty laid back with occasional moments of panic. I enjoy it mainly because I enjoy working hard and at a frantic pace. When it's time to work I work. On the flip, when I burn out I shut down completely. Like fuck off, turn off my
Phone, don't answer emails fuck off.. When I freelanced I would never relax and enjoy my days off because I was worried about my accounts or someone would call and I would feel anxiety for missing the opportunity. On salary, I know that check is coming whether I'm checked out or not. It gives me a peace of mind. I know when I need out my company supports it. Yeah I may work a 70 hour week here and there. There are plenty where I work 10 also. I still have to be there so technically I'm working, but I show face at 10 and then at lunch an hit the bar down the street and get shit faced. Show back up and 6 and wave to my boss. Some times she goes and gets hammered with me. Plus not dealing with the health exchange and horrible insurance is a blessing. So maybe I am fortunate to have a job I don't mind and a company that supports mental health days. I'm sure there are a shit ton of horrible salary jobs. I had the call center jobs in college. Fucking kill me. My point is salary jobs don't always suck. I don't feel scammed at all.
It depends. If you have a job that currently pays about $40k but limits you to 40 hours, while you have 50 hours a week to give, you're missing out on potential income. Especially if a comparable salaried position only requires 50 hours but pays almost twice as much.
This is of course considering that the vast majority of employers quite simply won't allow overtime. So there is no overtime pay.
If you have the choice between $20/hr with average 5 hr/wk overtime vs $50k/yr salary, choose the hourly rate unless other benefits are different. The average is close to the same, but the hourly job will always pay more if you're willing to pick up extra hours.
Not punching a time clock or worrying about tracking my hours is pretty awesome. If your employer isn't a scumbag and pays you commensurately with the work expected of you, being able to come and go as needed provided you meet all your deadlines is great.
lol..hahahah. you are a fucking moron. hahahah...im sorry...let me calm down....so...yiu know all those people in life who are more succesful than you? they all work for a salary. you know all those people who are more rich than you? they all work for salary too. you know all those people who do highy technical and highly demanded work for large companies? they all work for salary...abd it isnt because they are being duped...i promise.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 04:15:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pretty sure they're still obligated to pay for overtime. Check your laws. There are a few professions that are exempt from this like teachers (which is bullshit).
Had a similar situation when management refused to promote to a job I was already doing leaving me as hourly. I was the only one in the position supporting my piece of the pie which means I was on call 24/7 for 2 years straight. So on top of the OT I ate up I was paid an additional $4 an hour when I was off the clock and time and a half when I got after hours tickets. Was suppose to be making about $40 and ended up bringing home aground 80.... all because they refused to promote me and pay me a competitive fair salary.
tbp0701 · 6 points · Posted at 04:31:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dude. As a one time salary employee who worked well over 70 hours a week I commend you.
Man that job sucked. And after a couple years my entire group was laid off, and I realized I'd lost touch with nearly everyone I knew outside of that job. Vowed not to neglect friendships over a job again.
I exploited a pay loophole when I worked at Kroger. The way the union contract was, anything 40 hours and under was regular and we also received 6th day pay. My off days were every other Sunday and Tuesday and Thursday on the weeks I worked Sunday. If I worked Sunday I would come in on Tuesday around 1 am, clock-in and write our delivery order for the next truck. It would take usually a couple hours and I would spend a half hour bullshitting with people and then I would clock-out and go home and continue my evening. I was usually around 21-22 hours at this point. I would then work 9 hours my next two shifts on Wednesday and Friday and put myself near 40 hours. On Saturday I would show up at 7 am and work until 5 and the entire day was not only time and a half, but double time due to being sixth day. I was getting nearly $27 an hour to stock shelves and deal with idiots. On weeks I was covering for a manager, I got their pay and would pull my normal hours and make $35 an hour.
Fun story, in the US salaried employees get overtime just like everyone else. It's a great prank the businesses played on employees convincing them if they're salaried they can't be paid overtime.
Seriously, look it up. Spread the word. Whether you want to fight it or not is up to you, but I think it's funny how your "loophole" was just your legal right to be paid fairly.
E: just to clarify, not ALL salaried employees get overtime, there are obviously still exemptions, but it has nothing to do with whether you're salaried or not
rydan · 7 points · Posted at 02:38:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My first internship was supposed to be salaried but a recent law change made it hourly. So we weren't allowed to do overtime without permission or risk firing.
That's how my current job is, too. I worked 50-60hr weeks when I was salaried and now am supposed to carry the same workload in 40hrs. Not surprisingly, there are now many projects that I am months behind on or which will simply not get done. On the up side, my work-life balance is now much improved!
Same happened to me. Salary was $45,000 and supposed to be overtime exempt but nope. Several big projects came through and I averaged 60 hours a week for a year. That was a nice year.
You have got to be American. I've never met anyone from anywhere but the US that would see working 70+ hours per week for weeks at a time not just as a positive thing, but as something that's to be bragged about as being too good to be true. Pretty much any other nationality would see that as either exploitation (anywhere but east Asia) or theft (Japan, South Korea, maybe Canada).
Note: I'm American. No hate intended. We just have a fucked up national mindset as to our collective ideas of work/life balance.
Not something at all to brag about (maybe the glorification of busy is popular in some circles, but neither my buds in the US or my friends here think its funny), but it is a norm and your bosses aren't sorry (-greetings from Canada)
They can try, but they will fail. Once that money's in your account, it's yours. OP did have a duty to report the error, but they can't make him return the money.
Even if his employment contract said so, contracts usually don't override federal law.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 03:56:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just because an employer makes you sign something doesn't always mean it's legal. Sure, they can use contracts to enforce some policies, but they can't override existing laws.
Case in point: Many employers make you sign something saying you won't discuss wages with other coworkers. That is prohibited by the FLSA (fair labor standards act). If your coworkers are willing to, you're legally allowed to discuss wages, regardless of company policy.
It's like putting "We'll kill you if your performance drops" on a contract. Just because it's signed doesn't make it legal if it breaks another law.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 19:04:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My dads job is typically salaried but he said he would only take wage pay knowing that there was a good chance of having to do overtime.
They gave it to him figuring he'd do a regular 40 hour work week or something but his department was very lazy so he often came in to pick up the slack making about double what he was "supposed" to make. I'm sure they'd try changing it but he would probably quit and his department is very lazy..
anustat · 2 points · Posted at 05:03:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was actually just contacted by an old employer who was reviewing books and said that they owed me prevailing wage for some of the projects I worked on. While I'm familiar with which projects required prevailing wage, I was an exempt salary employee at the time, which is not subject to prevailing wage AFAIK. Unless the state requires exempt positions to get an hourly rate at prevailing wage on public works projects, I'm not sure the company owes me anything. This will either be free money or a moral dilemma.
OMG, this. I was brought in as an hourly contractor for a project, but still subject to overtime rules. The director of my department seemed to forget that when she promised a VP that we could get our month-scheduled project done in two weeks. In the last week, we were working 16 hour days to meet the stupid artificial deadline.
Guess which person in a room surrounded by salaried coworkers was grinning like an idiot at 11:30PM on a Saturday night? The same guy who clocked 101 hours (before counting time-and-half), that's who. I made over $8,000 that week. Monday's donuts were on me.
PS: Oh, sure, the VP lost his mind when he saw payroll that week, but the director was the one who set the schedule and got yelled at. I got praised for my dedication. Turns out, I can be bought.
I'm in a similar situation now. Others in my role are salarised. I was promoted june last year from a wage position. Have asked multiple times about transferring to salaried, but nothing has happened. I have already overtaken the salary my peers are on, and financial year is open until end of June.
Old wage position was set assuming 78hrs a fortnight. New position finds me nearly 70hrs a week.
I'm surprised HR didn't ask for the money back. I've had bonuses given to me by mistake at two large companies. Months later they asked for the money back as it was given to me in error. I don't work for large companies anymore.
am0x · 1 points · Posted at 04:57:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've only had hourly gigs and I love them. Older people scoff when I say that I'm not salary, but when I am making $20k (after taxes) more than my salaried peers a year because of overtime alone, I could care less what they think.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:00:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Id love to have that much of an increase lol
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:01:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Man , good for you. I understand salary usually means some unpaid overtime. But 20 hours or more? Forget it. I work a step down from my old position , and make more now because of time and a half. It makes a big difference.
During that time I was working 6 days a week up to 16 hours a day. It was usually from November till mid February, too cold to do anything fun anyway so I didn't mind it.
Earn as much money as possible for summer was my goal.
I did a similar thing when I worked at a gym. I would clock in the usual 9-6 and then I'd work out 6-8 but I clock out only at 8pm so my overtime was actually me just working out.
Ordering online from a certain pizza place, they added a feature to their website of "Repeat a past order". Well, remember that one time they had a special of $7 for a Large that normally cost $14? Yeah, I repeated that past order for about two years, $7 every time. They've now fixed it so special deals don't continue to apply.
The papa john's near me had a coupon code for $10 on any pizza, but it was only supposed to work Monday-Wednesday. I decided to try it on Friday once and it worked. Turned out they forgot to program in the days it was valid, so I had $10 everything pizzas for a year before they fixed it.
rydan · 706 points · Posted at 02:41:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I bought so much pizza in my 20s that I have a ton of free pizza rewards. Turns out it is just cheaper to buy from Dominos at full price with free delivery than to get a free Papa John's pizza and pay for delivery.
It was for dominos, for like 6 or 7 years with shoprunner, and shoprunner kept extending its free trial by 3 months as long as I used it 3 times in 3 months, which was easy ordering pizzas. Dominos dropped shoprunner though last year
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:17:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've been seeing dominos vehicles all over the place where I live recently.
I don't think anyone can really be considered a "Dominoes fan". Some of us are just more tolerant than others.
Endulos · 23 points · Posted at 03:59:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hi, Dominoes fan here!
I will defend Dominoes to the death because I know for a fact there are WORSE pizza places that exist.
I know of 2 local places that make hands down the WORST pizza on the face of this earth.
Dominoes may not be the best pizza ever, but compared to those local places, it's GOLD.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 04:08:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Endulos · 10 points · Posted at 04:21:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't know what Aldis is.
But, they're bad. The one is fucking horrid.
The tomato sauce tastes like they're dumped several cups of sugar into it.
They use WAY too much sauce
They use bologna sized disks of pepperoni that they place UNDER the cheese, so it never cooks.
They never fully cook the pizzas through
The cheese has a stale, old flavor to it.
Despite never being fully cooked through, the bottom is charred
They use the same tomato sauce for their pasta dishes
Their lasagna doesn't have cheese on it.
Their spaghetti has cheese on it.
The pasta is overcooked, tastes old and chewy.
You'd think "Wow, if the pizza is that bad, how are they open? Heck? When did they open?"
THEY OPENED IN 197FUCKING7. They have been open for 40 years now and they're still not closed. What's worse is people eat there and say it's the best fucking pizza they've ever had! THAT SHIT IS NO FUCKING WHERE NEAR AS GOOD AS EVEN DOMINOES OR PIZZA HUT.
Dominoes and Pizza Hut are SUPPOSED to be the shitty pizza places of the world and they're leagues and miles ahead of them.
The OTHER pizza place just tastes... Stale. They must cook with old ingredients because everything has a stale crappy taste to it. It's another place people eat and say "Mmmm... This pizza is soooo good!".
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:23:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's one of those in my hometown of 2000. An ice cream place that I only saw open one time in my life and all they had was chocolate vanilla and strawberry. I just tried looking them up and there's no trace of them on the internet.
You're in Detroit, aren't you? We're all friends here, you can admit it.
Jonas42 · 1 points · Posted at 03:03:56 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
But what are you wearing?
jk. Just interesting to me to hear about chains being better than local places. Here in New Jersey (with a giant Italian-American population), it's almost always the opposite.
I believe you. I lived in the Washington D.C. Area for about a year and despite my best efforts I could NOT find a decent slice of pizza. (Well by best efforts I mean what I could get delivered) I think subconsciously that was one reason I moved back to central pa. Surprisingly good slices
I worked at PJs for a couple years. The pizza to me was okay, but it smacked of being not too anything. Not very Italian, just sort of bland -- And FFS, they put the pepperonis under the cheese, a goddamned abomination.
And FFS, they put the pepperonis under the cheese, a goddamned abomination.
Why do they fucking do that? I once got a pizza from them and asked for bacon. Under the cheese it was nothing but bacon fat. Chewy slimy looking bacon fat.
True talk. Their sauce is a travesty. It shouldn't even be called sauce. The rest is good though. I would order there more of they fixed the sauce problem.
burf · 1 points · Posted at 06:33:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't agree at all. Dominos is garbage (was garbage, and is now slightly less bad garbage), Pizza Hut is just grease soaked bread, and I have no idea what other (presumably) American chains you've got, but I'd be very surprised if Papa Johns was legit the blandest thing around.
Order the hand tossed crust. It really makes all the difference.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:24:23 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dominos has some dope crust. Papa Johns crust is pretty bland, but you can pile on toppings if you want since they don't charge based on topping count.
I know, but like hell I'm paying $18 for an everything pizza. $10 is a good deal, and you get the rewards points on top of it. I also remember they had the "pay with visa checkout, get a free pizza" deal.
I have a voucher that pizza hut put out on social media years ago. It did not have an end date on the promotion. I will use it till the day I die (Australia, everything has an end date printed on it).
At a papa johns near me, I found a loophole where I would order online and ask to have it square cut. They kept on forgetting to cut the pizza this way and each time they gave me a free pizza.
In highschool we ended up with some coupon cards for free breadsticks from papajohns, used them for YEARS and they never asked for the coupon when they'd show up.
Same thing with the Papa John's by my college. There's a 50% off coupon thats supposed to only work after the basketball team wins a home game, but it always works.
demoux · 2 points · Posted at 04:13:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In college, I lived off campus and had a Papa John's near me that had a good deal on a large pizza with valid student ID.
One week before I graduated, I got my ID reissued by the school. I just told the bored security student worker I had lost mine. It was printed with "issued on [that days date]".
I milked student discounts for another five years. Not just with Papa John's, but anywhere that had them.
Yes, but that only applies to full price items and can't be combined. If you're getting anything other than a plain cheese pizza, you're best off using a different coupon.
A few weeks ago I found a deal on Papa John's that allowed 2$ pizza's until they fixed it. I could get a pizza delivered for less than the same amount of food at mcdonalds.
What's with all the papa johns hate? I know it's not gourmet, but it's "I have $10 and want some greasy pizza to stuff in my fat face" food. You're like someone who complains that Taco Bell isn't Mexican food. Who gives a shit?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah man, I love Taco Bell, and I love pizza. I just think papa johns tastes like shit compared to every other pizza chain. Definitely worse than dominos or Pizza Hut, probably even worse than little Caesars.
Haha, joke's on you every time you ordered pizza from them they still made money and you spent way more on pizza than if you just ordered once or twice at regular price.
You bet! I was delivering them since store open today and finally got to go home lol. It's a one week deal which ends tomorrow I think, so it's been a busy but good week.
If you are a Hut Lovers member and opted to get emails about specials, etc., you should have got it. Otherwise its a on a big banner ad thing on the top of the site.
edit: They should have ran some commercials on tv.
Barely even worth it to do that, though. Just abuse the survery system, you can do it twice a week and you get a $10 off a $20 order coupon every time.
They've patched it several times but they never get rid of the core concept, so I don't think this'll ever not be worth it unless they remove it entirely. I don't object to doing it too much since, at least locally, they keep raising prices.
Another tip: A lot of their receipts have a promo where you do the survey on the back and your next order of $20 or more will have $10 taken off.
I may have used this a f--k ton back in my lifeguarding days. Still managed to drop a couple hundred on pizza in a season so I think they won in the end.
Somewhat related, I found that the Dominos coupon codes followed a simple 4 number pattern, for example: coupon code 9801 might give you 2 mediums for X dollars, and 9806 might give you some other discount. So I tested different numbers and found 1 code for free cinnamon sticks and 1 code for free cheese bread. Turns out they're reuseable too, so for the next few years every time I ordered from Dominos I got free cinnamon sticks and cheese bread.
I've moved cities since then and it seems like the coupon codes are tied to a specific restaurant (or city) and my new local Dominos doesn't have any codes for free things like that.
A pizza place near me is set up in such a way that they can't add the price of additional toppings if you have your cookies disabled. Been ordering online this way for years
ELI5 please, /u/shelsilverstain I understand cookies on the computer and I understand ordering pizza but can you please explain how the two effect each other in this regard?
bsep1 · 1 points · Posted at 04:59:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When you customize the pizza, the website probably stores your custom pizza as a cookie until you go to check-out. The ID of each topping would be added to the cookie I assume. For some reason, the place doesn't sync prices from the server side, but from client side. Really awkward system.
(This is just my guess, IDK what site OP is talking about)
A friend of mine ordered a groupon for her local pizza joint that was similar in price, they never redeemed it so she would order delivery from them a couple times a month using the same coupon over and over.
I think some places allow "loop holes" like that for competitive business. If you keep using the deal at least you are still ordering from them. Pizza Hut has a similar trick. You can get a $10 off $20 or more for doing their survey on a receipt. Well if you always get their $20 box deal and use the coupon then you get a receipt and can do that next time. It's way cheaper than any other pizza place around us so it's hard to justify getting pizza somewhere else.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:57:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a programmer, this is one of the many things we tend to forget that the lazy testers marked as passed. :(
My Pizza *Hut code reduced the order to £0. I actually got free pizza. I tried to pay but they said they have no way to charge me if the total is zero.
Pizza Hutt does the opposite. They always have a "Two medium pizzas for $6.99" deal that me and my fiancé like to use, but if we try to do the reorder thing, it charges full price.
wwlink1 · 1 points · Posted at 04:03:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My exploit was from a pizza place. Here in the Maritimes we have lots of Grecco Pizza places. Well I live about 20 minutes away from one and they don't deliver to my area code. I live in a very rural area in Nova Scotia. But you can order and request delivery online. They had a system that checked your address and if you're on the list where delivery is available. Well my house in my subdivision was the only one where it said delivery available. Everytime they come with pizza they give the same speech every time how they don't deliver out here and that my online account will be put on a blocked list..... I've made over 20 different accounts with the same address. And they still bring pizza.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:09:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have a coupon for buy one get one free large pizzas. I just go in and show them ge coupon but I never let them take it
Had a code for free large pizza from papa johns on your first online order, I now have dozens of papa john accounts. Paid 3.50 for delivery and tipped well.
I've been getting an extra large two topping pizza for $10 for the last two years thanks to repeat last order. That's the regular menu price of a medium for like twice as much pizza.
syon_r · 1 points · Posted at 04:45:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I am still able to do this with Pizza Hut
Bdub421 · 1 points · Posted at 05:00:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pizza 73 emailed me a short survey that will generate a code for 3 free pops. Been using that email for awhile and still worked last time I tried.
I got about $250 of free appetizers and discounts from Boston Pizza. If you ordered a certain number of times online (and one your first order) you got free food and a discount code. Once you used them there were greyed out. So every time after that I just typed the codes in manually. After a while the driver started asking me how I was doing this. I just started ordering from there less. They never caught on somehow.
DoxBox · 1 points · Posted at 06:13:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Heck I used the "repeat last order" to get things that weren't even current items. Pizza Pizza used to have an apple crumble cheesecake, and for a while after it was off the menu I'd still get it with the "repeat last order" part of their online ordering. Guess they still had some in the freezers or something.
I havent paid full price for Papa johns in years. They CONSTANTLY have promos, especially living in Phoenix where every sports teams have promos associated with them. Also check out Hungry howies, you can stack coupons.
Why aren't you naming it if they've already stopped it?
riali29 · 1 points · Posted at 03:26:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Papa John's near my university's campus had a 50% off your order deal once, and the coupon code for online ordering never expired. We all got 50% off for several months past the intended expiry date.
Did something similar with a pizza shop who happened to print coupons in the local paper. This was in the late 90s, so newspapers were starting to also put their crap online. I discovered that the coupons were on their website, which meant that I could print out as many as I wanted.
This pizza joint in particular had a pizza meal with two big slices, a soda, and a cookie, for normally like $5, but with coupon it was $3.50. They also had whole pizzas for like $8 after coupon, normally $10.I edited the specific coupons so that I could print like a dozen of it on one piece of paper. Then I'd print them out, trim out the individual coupons, and gave them to all my friends.
After a few months, the pizza place started getting annoyed. Apparently the coupons had spread, college kids had been copying them, and it was costing the shop a bit of money. So they updated the coupons in the paper to have less of a discount, and to also have an expiration date (the previous ones didn't).
Well, thankfully I'd saved the images of the coupons to my computer's hard drive, so we kept using them for at least a year. I moved away shortly after, but last I heard, folks kept using them for quite a while. Makes me wonder just how many thousands of dollars I cost that poor little pizza shop.
Maybe I completely misread it because I thought he said he paid 14.99 for the kits and got 30 in credit.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 06:08:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My dad moved into a house maybe twelve years ago. Out of curiosity he hooked up the cable line to a tv and sure enough he went years with basic cable and never got a single bill. That also ended with digital conversion.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 05:09:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Worked at a cable company for 5 years before Ethernet digital switch in rural areas when people would disconnect Thier advances stuff many techs would just out cancel codes on boxes and not send a tech because this reduced handle times so if people hooks up coax they could get cable without the extra shot free.
You apparently didn't make the switch, then, because in reading the black make the shot hook free
Nymall · 5 points · Posted at 06:34:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The people would get internet through Coax cable, but it would also natively have cable running through it. So, if they hooked it up to their TV, free cable.
JAJA128 · 2 points · Posted at 13:37:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cox? Or Coax?
Nymall · 4 points · Posted at 15:52:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Coaxial cable. You know, the cable that has the screwy bit on the end.
JAJA128 · 2 points · Posted at 17:15:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ah thank you was confused for a bit there.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 06:32:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I worked at a cable company during the digital conversion. We'd get a couple phone calls a day from people who lucked out for years getting free cable.
They were pissed they weren't getting it for free and would expect me to turn it back on for free and be compensated in some way.... How about no.
My brother and I had free cable for a year. When we moved into the apartment, the cable company just never disconnected cable from that address when the previous tenant moved. For all I know, whoever lives there now (5 years later) might still be getting free cable.
ty88 · 2 points · Posted at 05:58:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
About 13 years ago in a city where apartments turn over fairly frequently, this was the norm. We'd move into a new apartment, hook up the cable to the wall, and ~50% of the time the cable company wouldn't have turned off the service from the previous tenant.
One time a friend didn't have service on move-in, but signed up for a cable TV + internet deal, cancelled the TV part after the promo expired, and continued getting service anyway.
This was during a transition to digital when you could still opt for non-digital basic cable. I guess the companies just couldn't be bothered. A few years later digital was mandatory and the jig was up.
jecowa · 1 points · Posted at 06:38:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If they were still offering analogue tv service, they probably weren't able to give him cable internet without also giving him all the channels that didn't require a cable tv box.
That's awesome. My dad told me in the 80s he used to live right next to my grandparents. Apparently the inside of an extension cord was the same as a coax at the time, so he just ran one from their house to his.
ah analog cable, the company i used to work at would send techs out put in moca filters to stop the analog stations when someone disconnected. with digital cable only time tech needs to go out is if a physical connection needs to be provided
We pay for basic cable, but for some reason are able to get all of the channels. We don't have the big fancy cable box, just the small one, so we don't have on demand or anything, but still it's cool nonetheless.
Happened to me at a old house. We canceled the cable but the tech cut only one cable. The cable he cut was to my room only. So every person in my house had cable for free except for me.
[deleted] · 114 points · Posted at 01:32:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Depending on who you have the service through they may bill it back to you if they find out you have the service without paying, even if you tried to cancel. Just a heads up.
If its comcast, it should stop working about a year after you canceled your subscription. Happened to me, I was able to use anything that required a cable login, hbo, fx, adultswim. Stop working a year later to the month.
Same thing happened to me. I called them 3 times and told them I had canceled but it was still working. Then I just said screw it. I felt I had gone overboard to try not to cheat them. My conscience was clear.
My parents haven't paid their trash bill in the better half of two decades after a similar situation. They just stopped getting charged, and made multiple calls to the company to fix it. They kept getting the whole "thanks for calling, we'll look into it" line but nothing ever changed. They finally just kind of said "eh fuck it, we tried. Free trash service I guess"
tL1ght · 27 points · Posted at 03:58:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This happened with Hulu Plus for me a few years back. I cancelled after a trial but was still able to use it until they caught on about a year and a half later.
This has been happening to me with amazing prime for years. My old card expired and it just auto renews everytime. I am to scared to ask amazon about it.
Is it showing up on your statement for your credit card that replaced the expired one? Sometimes credit card companies will continue to charge the new card if the previous card had recurring payments set up.
I have something similar to this going on. Scheduled payment keeps being authorized on my card every month but never gets charged because the expiration / code changed. Oops.
I don't know if mine is a glitch or what, but I get Game of Thrones on Xfinity's On Demand for free. It might just be something Comcast offers to one-up DirectTV or whatever, but I'm not about to call them and let them know haha.
I currently have a similar bonus happening right now. I'm in Aus and recently started using a VPN. Since I am always logged in to Netflix on my browser, when my VPN is active and I set it to somewhere in the US it sends me to the US Netflix. My entertainment options opened right up!
My mom called to complain to Comcast about something last year so the customer retention people lowered their bill by $15, doubled their internet speed, and gave them free HBO and Starz. I I live 400 miles away but I still have access to my parents email address and an Xbox One. I don't pay for cable this year but I do have the Xbox One app for NBC, NBC sports, ESPN, HBO, and of course my parents Netflix account. It's a pretty common thing for college kids to do but I'm so happy my mom called to complain that day. They weren't even go to switch providers because Comcast is the only cable provider in our area that offers CBC and we have to have Hockey Night In Canada.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:39:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Worked in cable before. You would be shocked at the number of people getting free cable who called in to complain that it was not working. If they were bitchy, they got a free truck roll to fix the mistake.
We got the Disney Channel and HBO like this for nearly 4 years. They game us a 3 month promo once and never turned it off. Never charged us for it and we got free channels. As a kid it was awesome.
I have the same thing but with Amazon Prime. I'm sure my mom's credit card that I originally signed up with is cancelled now, but I still have Prime! Either that or my mom keeps paying it every year and just not mention it to me.
Same thing for me. I forgot to cancel after trial and called and got it refunded. Like a month later I realized I still had prime and had free prime for a year. But it kinda worked in their favor because I loved it so much, I renewed my account and have been paying for it for a few years now!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:32:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Want to throw that out there. I work at an apartment community and at one point during management company take over a few residents stopped getting charged their monthly pet fee. It is still in their lease and they still owed it 10 months later. Different situation but make sure you are 100% sure you aren't legally owing anything
I have HBO for free for the same reason, except I cancelled it after signing up because I can't watch it in my country (they helpfully didn't tell me that until after I signed up) so I have an ongoing free HBO subscription that I can't actually watch
I've got all of you beat. I signed up for Hulu Plus, EA Access, and Xbox Live. I lost my card and had to replace it about six months ago. The only thing I had to sign up for again and pay for is EA Access. Hulu and Live think they're getting money from my cancelled card, but they never come out of my account.
Back in high school, one of my close friends worked at Harris Teeter. He found out that the store had 2 deals going on simultaneously for the same product, and we took full advatage of them:
Poptarts normally cost $1.98 per box. They were $1 off, now making them 98 cents per box.
All Kellogg's products were buy 10, get $10 off.
Do the math.
The system obviously wouldn't allow for us to get the boxes for free, and defaulted to 15 cents per 10 boxes. We bought over 2500 boxes in 2 days. We cleared out every store within 20 miles and spent under $40.
Edit: Added pics. Keep in mind this was quite a while ago, so the camera quality isn't the greatest. I wish I had documented it more.
Yes, that is a 7 x 16 x 10 block, minus a few
Edit 2: Okay this blew up. We sold them at high school football games for $1 per box. They went bad after about a year and were thrown out. One of my deepest regrets is that we did not donate any of the boxes. If I ever do something like this again, I'll be donating most of the product.
Edit 3: No diabetes. And why did we do this? For the same reason I do just about everything: For the story.
magnora7 · 29 points · Posted at 05:38:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Man that second picture made me laugh. How long do they keep for? Are you going to be able to eat them all? Do you give some away? Did you find a way to sell them?
I worked at a Food Lion where we had a somewhat similar deal. There was a list of products that were associated the sale were "Buy 10 get $5 off, buy 15 get $10 off." Powerade was one of the items during the promotion and one week they lined up to around 89 cents a bottle. A bunch of us bought case after case of them at around $3.50 for 15. I think I bought over a hundred of them before they quietly took Powerade off the deal at our store and not so quietly chastised us all for "taking advantage."
I got a better deal another time but that was a computer problem. When we had goods from the Bakery that were seasonal themed still around after the holidays they would often have them marked down to get them to move. After Christmas we had a fuckton of christmas themed sugar cookies and stuff still around that just wouldn't sell. After a week they set them down to 75% off. The display was in the front by my register and I finally got a lady to buy a pack. I swung them and they came up 50 cents. I was confused since this was a platter of cookies normally around $8 so after she checked out I brought it up to my manager. I told him it looked like what was happening was that the computer had changed the price manually to 75% off the base price and then additionally reduced it by 75% for it being a "holiday reduced" item. He decided that it it wasn't important enough to fix that night and that he would wait until the sales rolled over to have someone fix it. He wouldn't even pull them from the display since he didn't fell like doing it and refused to let me do it. So when I got off work I looked at the display and was shocked. Not only had he not taken them off, he had the Bakery add more to it!
I filled an entire cart and a half with all of the cookies and bought them. Ended up getting hundreds of dollars in baked cookies for around $10.
I think I remember something similar happening when I went to high school! I remember logging into Facebook and seeing rows of pop tarts, I was so confused. I think someone told me that they went to multiple Harris Teeters and cleaned out all the local supply of pop tarts. Imagine craving some pop tarts and seeing empty shelves at every HT 😂
Why though? Even if someone said I could take all the poptarts I wanted from the poptarts warehouse, I'd take like 5 boxes. Who wants 800 million poptarts?
I went for lunch, took me ten minutes to get silverware, ten more to see my waitress to order a drink, another long time to place my order which was a cold sandwich, 45 minutes to get my sandwich out to me... Guy at another table got meatloaf or something and their was white powder all over his plate, and he said it was cold. The waitress informed him it was powdered sugar and couldn't understand why he wanted to send it back and acted like powdered sugar on beef was a normal thing... Had to ask three different people for my check, the list goes on
I thought my friend came up with this idea there, that bastard.
zamfire · 2 points · Posted at 06:06:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Someone needs to open a brothel with a great salad bar called Eat n' Pork
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:16:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to go to Eat n' Park every day after work with my buddies, always around midnight. Chocolate milkshake and Waffle Smile was the go to. I miss that place so much, I can still remember biting the eyes off of smiley cookies first as a kid.
Midgers · 2 points · Posted at 06:17:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I moved away a long time ago and miss that restaurant so much. I don't even know why!
At ikea they sell 4 piece chicken fingers with fries for $5.99. The childrens chicken fingers meal includes 2 pieces with fries for 2.50. So I just buy 2 childrens meals for myself, get a bigger amount of fries and save $1. Now, the kids meal is supposed to be 450 calories and the adult meal is 1200 calories. This would mean the adult meal is designed to have more than double the fries of the kids meal, but the employees always put a portion on the kids meal almost as big as the adult meal.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:42:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The UK IKEA hotdogs are like this (until recently when prices hanged). Regular hotdog was 45p, large was £1. But the large was only about 1/3 longer.
When I was in high school Wendy's had a salad bar. I think they called it the "super bar". Anyway, when you ordered it they gave you a big plastic plate you were supposed to give back. We just kept the plates, washed them and stuck them back in our backpacks. Then order whatever and head up to the super bar. We got away with it for an obscenely long time.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 05:40:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Milo359 · 5 points · Posted at 06:10:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At a summer camp, there was this ice cream machine, and you would have to buy a cup from an employee to use it. I reused my cup. Was disappointed when the machine was gone next summer.
Back when Golden Corral had a menu it was much the same thing. Cheaper to order the burger with all you could eat food bar than just the all you can eat alone. Them paying me to take a burger home was awesome.
Highlet · 8834 points · Posted at 01:43:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I received a coupon from Papa Johns in the mail that said something along the lines of "Sorry you weren't happy with your last experience with us. Please use the attached coupon for a free large 1-topping on us." I didn't file any complaints and had no idea where this thing came from but the place I was living had no decent pizza delivery options so I did occasionally order from Papa Johns. I figured it was just a promo or a mistake but whatever, free pizza is free pizza.
I ordered on the phone, told them I had a coupon and got my free pizza but they never took the coupon. For about 3 months I ordered a large pepperoni once or twice a week, told them I had a coupon and got the pizza for free without ever having to actually present a coupon.
Finally on like the twenty-something free pizza they had written in giant black sharpie on the pizza box, "GET COUPON", so I gave the guy my golden pizza ticket coupon and thought well damn, no more free pizza. The very next day I got another coupon in the mail which also worked for another 2 months before they finally remembered to take it.
tldr; Got free pizza coupon with no expiration, used it for months for free pizza before they finally took the coupon.
quedra · 2763 points · Posted at 02:26:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can explain that for you, having worked for PJs 18 years. The postcard is automatically generated when your delivery time is 35 mins or more. It states "your last order did not meet our timely standards". Then it's mailed out by the marketing department. There's a one time use code on there for online orders, too.
Eventually, someone at the store will notice and put a note on your account for "no more free, get coupon" and your free ride is over.
Edit : keep in mind that coupons, promotions, prices and customer retention programs vary by market. There are corporate stores and franchises and they don't always co-operate.
Do you mean time out the door to the address is 35 minutes? Because I don't think I've ever had a Papa John's pizza delivered within 35 minutes of ordering.
It's 35 minutes from when I grab the food and put it in my bag.
EDIT: I forgot that this subreddit is full of people who type before they think out their responses sometimes, so.
No, I do not literally take 35 minutes to deliver food every time it is ordered. 35 minutes from me picking it up to me dropping it off to you is the maximum amount of time I get before the restaurant considers it sub-par service. Unless you're ordering on a Friday night or during some huge event, it's not going to take that long for you to get your food.
That's ridiculous. Just this past Friday I placed an order for delivery. When I ordered it, the estimated time was 35-45 minutes. It took 82 minutes from the time I placed my order until it arrived (and it was the wrong pizza). So even though it took nearly twice as long to get a large cheese pizza, since the delivery time was ~10 minutes, it doesn't count?
I'm sticking with Pizza Hut even though it is more expensive. I can order it online and it will be ready in 20 minutes.
[deleted] · 109 points · Posted at 04:30:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Call and complain and you'll probably get a free pizza. When I used to work at Papa Johns that was pretty much our solution to every complaint.
[deleted] · 62 points · Posted at 04:47:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
according to this story, you'll probably get about 40 free pizzas!
[deleted] · 62 points · Posted at 04:58:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Totally true. My last day at Papa Johns I delivered to this lady who had a free order. There was a comment on her account that said "always free." I asked my gm about it and she said that the lady called, complained, and demanded a free pizza every time she ordered. So instead of telling her to fuck off she just gives this lady free pizzas whenever she wants so she won't complain. If you want free pizza just call and complain and don't stop complaining until they give you a free pizza.
teefour · 38 points · Posted at 05:03:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why not just blacklist her and block the number?
[deleted] · 58 points · Posted at 05:06:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That would require Papa Johns to hire and promote intelligent and capable people.
Because the manager doesn't pay for the pizza, it gets promo'd out (promotional) which is the code used for remakes, mistakes, charity (like someone dropped their food right by the counter), making customers happy after a complaint, etc. This promo food is listed under waste with it's to-make cost (so like $2 on a pizza) rather than the retail cost (which may be $15 a pizza) so the store just eating the cost is very low. Promo food is often given so that someone doesn't complain, too.
On the other hand, if your store is franchise (owned by an individual who is allowed to use the name/marketing) then placing a call to corporate (the actual owner of the copyright who can shut down the franchise location) can get corporate to put a LOT of pressure on the franchise owner. A lot of delivery services do bonus checks for managers who've done well during a certain period, especially football season. So you call corporate to complain about a bad meal, corporate tells the franchise owner they're on thin ice, franchise owner tells their manager "you're not getting your bonus check because someone complained" and now the manager is out a few hundred dollars.
OR the manager promos out a single pizza once a week, which gets rolled into business loss margins, and no one calls corporate.
I agree with most of this, but I work at pizza hut and after a handful of calls we refer the person to corporate a d explain the situation to the corporate office. Have had the president of our state wide franchise call the person and say if you are always unsatisfied with our service, we can no longer provide you service.
Then pizza hut is doing good. Jimmy Johns was 100% how I described, and it's sandwiches not pizza but it's almost identical, from everything I talked with other drivers.
I wish I could say they were doing good. We still have way more shitty customers than we should, but so does every business. Luckily my GM has my back most of the time. Hope you can get out of your situation sooner than later, if you're genuinely unhappy with their policies. We need more people like you in the service sector.
jarfil · 7 points · Posted at 05:15:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"The customer is always right"... even when he isn't. Why? Because something something corporate slogan.
Caybris · 4 points · Posted at 04:57:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Like he said, it's all automated, I would have called and complained. I had the same exact thing happen not too long ago, we're at the edge of the delivery zone, they had the wrong pizza, took 2 hours. Got a free 2 liter... yeah.
bsep1 · 9 points · Posted at 04:55:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Yeah it's illegal to do that in the US now. Causes unsafe driving habits and all that fun shit. Of course the driver's still get in trouble if they're out for more than 35 minutes (c.2011 @Dominos), but they can't promise a specific time to customers.
I'm not sure what you mean. They can't advertise delivery in X minutes or we'll do Y for you, but driver's still got in trouble for being out on a delivery too long. If your times add up it shows your productivity dropping, management will find some way to get you canned, regardless of circumstance. It was lots of number crunching with no room for nuance. Hell, you could get in trouble for taking faster back roads if at the end of the day your reported miles were X% higher than whatever the computer said you should have driven.
You would think. All but one of my previous employers had a "strict" "ABSOLUTELY NO WORKING OFF THE CLOCK" rule to meet labor regulations, but then they would also give 3x as much work as can be done in a day.
You say the three chains suck ass and then you say you'd rather go to little Caesars?
Marketing is marketing man, there's not a product out there that doesn't try to sell you their product. If you feel personally attacked by pizza hut's marketing campaign then I think you're looking into things a bit too far
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I am not a huge fan of the sauce they use, but other than that, it isn't terrible. I mean, nothing beats a New York pie, or one of Gus's back in my old college town, but honestly, if PapaJohns is all you had, you'd be fine.
Living in Portland, all those places look so unappealing that I've never bothered to try it, and I have never before heard anybody say anything positive about them. They're actually good?
Round Table is insanely good. They use beer in the dough, so it has a really rich flavor to the crust. The sauce is tart and delicious, too. Round Table is the tits.
I don't think they are in midwest or at least the part I'm in.
My location has Domino's, PH, PJ, Deeks (for the drunk college student), 1000 degrees, spicy pie, rhombus guys, marco's and that barely goes into the list really.
Can confirm, placed an order for a large pepperoni one time last year and after two hours it hadn't even gone out the door. We haven't ordered from Papa John's since.
Yeah I don't know what kind of godly pizza you must eat regularly, but Papa John's is pretty damn good.
Spk4420 · 2 points · Posted at 04:58:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Damn, I wish the Pizza Hut was that quick where I'm at. Just ordered this past Fiday, took about as long as your Papa Johns. I have a Domino's, Pizza Hut, and Papa Johns near me, Domino's is the quickest.
I should have specified, it's 35 minutes under normal circumstances (IE whatever the expected volume is for that particular time of day). If there's such a surge of calls that the restaurant is warning you of unusually long wait times, you can count on it taking longer than expected.
90% of the time it's not even the restaurant's fault. Drivers take more than one order at a time with them, and if the guy right before you takes forever to answer their door then that's just more waiting you have to do.
The driver could have just left when you ordered and they didn't make the pizza until he got back because lazy/reasons and so it took 80 min but not more than 35 from when he picked up the pie
Ah... I hadn't thought about that. Maybe they didn't have all the drivers that night that they usually do and so we had to wait for the driver to return from other deliveries before our pizza was made.
Okay but that's retarded, why the fuck do I care when the driver picks up the pizza? I give a fuck when I'm actually getting the pizza. If the driver decided to take a smoke break and fall asleep between finishing his last order and picking up mine doesn't mean I'll be ok since when he finally got back from his 40 minute break he delivered my pizza in 32 minutes...
Oh they can. And they will. And they won't care that the dumb drunk asshole before them slurred their street, said the wrong number, fell asleep, and couldn't find their money, or that the one before decided last second to pay with a credit card and was astounded you didn't have a POS terminal in your 95 Honda Civic so you had to wait around for 10 minutes while they called the shop and get the credit card sorted.
They also won't care that its a fucking Saturday night, there's a basketball game on, and every other entitled piece of shit also ordered food at the same time and expected it to be done in twenty minutes so the kitchen is super backed up.
And they certainly won't care that you got tripple trained at the railroad tracks before their house, and it isn't their fault they don't have a number on their house or any lights on, or a car in their driveway and didn't answer their phone cause they didn't recognize their number. And you obviously should have figured out that they were actually around back in the garage in the woods even though they never told you that.
But don't worry its totally all your fault so its only fair that they stiff you.
this brought back a lot of emotions from when i delivered pizza. every one of those things seemed to happen to me at least once every week (except for the train thing, my city only had a few crossings).
also sucks when your manager sucks and at 7:00 says 'okay it's a slow night. jack, bill, you can go home. jimbelushiapplesauce, you're closing alone.' and then at 7:45 you get 3 orders at once to 3 different sides of town, meaning you have to take all three at once and be out for over an hour dealing with pissed off people and cold pizzas for no tip. then you come back to an order that's been sitting on the counter for 45 minutes waiting for you to get back.
jarfil · 1 points · Posted at 05:23:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
why the fuck do I care when the driver picks up the pizza?
Your first and foremost concern should be whether the pizza is cold and hard as a stone when you get it. That means you really want the travel time to be less than 35 min, the shorter the better.
Of course waiting 70+10 minutes for a pizza also sucks, but that's a secondary concern. Worst case scenario, the pizza should still be edible.
Yea actually that makes sense, but I still don't want to be waiting long to get the pizza. Usually they have it in a pretty good bag that insulates the heat from most places that I've ordered pizza from, so the difference in 30 min delivery time and 40 probably isn't too big of a deal. I feel like there should be more guarantees on the time it takes to actually get me the pizza from the time I ordered, rather than just the delivery guy driving it to me.
It's absurd that they messed up your order, but really pizza hut?
Really though, I would go with the other guys recommendation to call and complain. They should be more than happy to give you a free pizza for the mistake. I'm not justifying the long time, but there can be a lot of factors to consider to that wait time. Personally, if it's a busy day, I would try and pick the pizza up to save time. Then again, I have four pizza locations in a three mile radius.
In my area it's the opposite for papa johns and Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut puts almost no cheese on their pizzas (unless you get a specialty poss like stuffed crust) and it takes them at least an hour each time I order, usually closer to 1.5 hours. The reason is because my road name is labeled "x lane" while there's also an "x road." They always think it's "x road" and never bother to update their gps or map or whatever they use.
Meanwhile papa johns takes less than 30 minutes to get to my house every time I order and they never get my road confused with the other. They're also less than a mile from my house so I usually just pick up cause it's quicker and I don't have to tip.
you're choosing between pj and pizza hut? damn son rough life.
K242 · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Last time I ordered from Papa John's I had a 50% off coupon (thanks Atlanta Hawks) so I splurged and got myself a buffalo chicken pizza. Estimated delivery time was 35-40 minutes.
Hour and a half later I get my pizza. There's no buffalo sauce. Or chicken.
Now I just go to Walmart or something and grab myself a frozen pizza (Walmart marketplace pizza is surprisingly good). Much cheaper, tastes fine, no bullshit.
Man, I live in a small town in Iowa, and that sounds glorious.
I once ordered a pizza for my wife and I. A close friend of ours owned the place we ordered it from (not Papa Johns). After 60 minutes, we called the store and they said they weren't sure why we hadn't gotten our pizza, but that their driver hadn't returned yet, either.
It turned out that their driver, out with two pizzas, had put the delivery vehicle into a river while texting and driving.
I called my friends and told them not to worry about the pizza. We figured something else out for dinner. It remains a legend. That taco pizza wasn't meant for us, it seems.
Jesus Christ, your only two options are Papa John's and Pizza Hut? That is horrible. That's like choosing between garbage can scrapings and dumpster juice.
Where do you live where pizza hut is more expensive. Pizza hut has an $11 any (online only) coupon. Papa johns is like $15-20 every time i order it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're "sticking with Pizza Hut" AND IT'S MORE EXPENSIVE?!? Dude, there's gotta be a cliff high enough to jump off near you to not torture yourself anymore. I'm pretty open minded come religion/politics/sexuality/whatever, but pizza, Papa Johns is like mid range at best depending on where I am locally, Pizza Hut is like, I'm gonna need a lot of alcohol and weed to get this down, and I'll be throwing up all day tomorrow.
I'll give an hour of my time to wait for the Papa over the Hut any day, or I'll just go fucking pick it up. Or just call your local Papa and bitch until they send you some coupons or you can save the money with no tip if they're really fucking you over. I just can't find a reason I'd need pizza that badly to choose greasy slop over slightly greasy slop with better tasting ingredients but have to wait longer.
I work at a different pizza chain but if they do it anything like us (they probably do), if theyre busy enough that the pizza wont be going out for until 35 minutes after ordered they delay cooking the pizza so itll be fresh out of the oven before it leaves. The limiting factor on delivery times is usually too many deliveries being ordered for the drivers to handle.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:37:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do you like their food or are you sick to death of the smell of it?
I'm actually a 3rd party driver (I work for a company that supplies drivers to restaurants that don't get enough delivery orders in a day to warrant paying for their own delivery drivers), so there's enough variety that I don't ever get sick of the smells. I love it when I get an order for a local cupcake/cookie shop though, the owner likes me because I always do his deliveries really quick. Sometimes he gives me the day-old cookies that he can't legally sell anymore.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:19:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's a pretty good deal. If I delivered for a cupcake shop, I think I'd have to buy a cupcake when I did the pickup to prevent myself eating the delivery. :o
That is garbage level service. I've managed at places that do delivery, 35 minutes door to door should pretty much never happen. From this thread and my own experience it somehow seems like this is the norm at papa johns.
Let's be generous and say my pizza only sat for 10 minutes before you left with it. My pizza has to be sitting out of the oven for almost 45 minutes before it's considered subpar service on your end? What a shit way to run a delivery service.
1: 35 minutes is the maximum amount of time we're allowed, and that's to account for traffic, multiple deliveries, and unexpected problems (like not being able to find your house because you didn't turn on your porch light and I can't read the house number). Of course it doesn't usually take that long, turn down your salt.
2: The oven bags we have will keep your food hot and fresh for over two hours. Your pizza is not going to be harmed by sitting for 30 minutes in my car, because it is in an oven bag.
It's literally never not taken that long for me, and apparently many others by the look of the thread.
You misunderstand what fresh means if you think a pizza is "fresh" after sitting in one of those bags for half an hour, and out on a heating rack before that for who knows how long while you're out on your hour long runs.
No need to talk to me like an uneducated customer. I told you I have plenty of experience running these businesses.
Just saying if these are really your service standards it's no wonder why the rep isn't that great. No one is blaming you so how about you turn down the salt because I didn't force you into being a delivery boy at a shitty business, kiddo.
They probably live outside of the delivery radius. The absolute farthest I go takes 12 minutes one-way to get there.
nosajx7 · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Used to work at Papa John's, it didn't work like that because they only tracked time driver was out of the store, not time from store to customer. The coupon was based on time it took from taking the order to time it left the store on delivery. Any more than 35 minutes, it assumes it's over 45 minutes, and generates the postcard.
I am reasonably sure that the restaurant would remake the pizza if it had been sitting for an hour. They just don't split hairs over me picking it up 1 minute after it comes out of the oven vs 10 minutes after it comes out of the oven.
quedra · 1 points · Posted at 06:54:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not quite. The company standard is 35 mins from the time the order comes in, then adds time based on how far the address is from the store, how many destinations that particular driver is going to, which order the orders are dropped off...etc. the sector mapping isn't always accurate though.
Example: if a driver takes a single, csc(customer service compliance) says that the oldest the order can be is 27 mins from placement to otd (out the door) + 8 mins to the door=35 mins. For a double it's otd+8+5=35 for 2nd order and a triple is otd+8+5+5=35 for third order.
Most of the time the system gets cheated because the driver checks out on an order before it is actually ready to leave, in order to keep otd low(manager wants their bonus). So your order arrives late but the computer thinks it was on time.
Really? Huh, that's so weird. The timer on our app (we have an app for smartphones that we use for delivery) gives us a countdown to 35, which starts when we hit the button that says we picked up the order. I figured that was how it always worked.
quedra · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The store's csc is still calculated the way I described above. It breaks it down into sales periods by the hour and day part ie, lunch, dinner, etc.
The driver dispatch(dd) screen in the store gives the driver x amount of time to return to the store based on the number of deliveries in the run. If a driver exceeds that amount of time, it calculates that into the store's overall service data. Supposed to help the management figure out scheduling needs and appropriate quote times.
I'm not familiar with the app you're describing (we didn't have that feature at my stores), but it sounds like it's the same as what the dd is calculating. So you're still correct in the way it counts down when you check out, but that "timer" is used for a different purpose.
A typical store is supposed to have 1 driver for every 3 deliveries per hour (give or take for higher/lower volume stores) and one or two instores per 4 orders per hour. But we've all seen how the store is staffed when the bottom line becomes more important than maintaining good service.
jebu · 1 points · Posted at 07:44:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You've already gotten a lot of responses, but I just want to say if you haven't yet I highly recommend you read Snowcrash. At least the first few chapters as they pertain to a delivery driver in a near future dystopia.
when I ran Za for father jonathan there was no hard 35 minute rule. We quoted you a time estimate before we hung up and we'd try our darndest to get it to you within that time frame
If the Deliverator is too late, the customer gets a personal apology from Uncle Enzio himself, gets an all-expenses paid trip to headquarters, gets wined and dined and at the end of the whole thing leaves with the feeling that somehow they owe Papa John's a favor.
Wow....when I left Dominos they wanted the pizza out the door in under 15 minutes from order. Didn't usually take more than 5-10 minutes to get to the farthest reaches of town.
Obviously more densely populated areas means more stoplights and longer times....but still.
How's a guy supposed to sell weed with policies like that?
Richeh · 2 points · Posted at 04:43:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is one part of American culture that I do wish would make the hop across the pond. In the UK in most places it's 45 minutes to an hour quoted for takeaway every time, and if it's an hour and a half and you mention it you just get an "Oh. Sorry."
That's not to say that the service is bad, or that they should pretend to give a shit if they don't; the American tipping culture in the service industry as a whole can stay the fuck where it is, thanks. But there's a unilateral lack of hustle to the deliveries, by comparison.
Greflin · 1 points · Posted at 04:51:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If tipping wasn't a thing I imagine pizzas would take a lot longer to get to us.
Richeh · 2 points · Posted at 05:02:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ah, see, popular misconception: tipping is a thing in the UK. Probably not as much as it is in the US, but I know I always try to give a quid or two on a £15 delivery, and if you're in a group of people splitting a bill there's always a good 10-15% tip thrown in, depending on how good the service actually was.
The difference is that the servers are also paid a good minimum wage, and it's absolutely unheard of for management to even get involved with tips to my knowledge; although some places do pool tips so the non-serving staff get a look in.
The really good pizza for me still takes 45 minutes to an hour and a half. But I can get Papa John's or Dominos in 30 minutes if I want, and it's cheaper.
I'm often surprised by the lack of effective communication between the person taking the order and the delivery driver. I've been having problems with my front door (now fixed), and for a few weeks I'd order pizza and say, "Tell the driver to come through the gate to the side door." Multiple times from multiple places, and not a single one of them received that message.
quedra · 2 points · Posted at 18:22:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, that sucks. It happens mostly because the csr was overwhelmed and forgot. Or they didn't have enough room in the remarks field to fit all directions. Or not enough training before they were thrown under the bus.
I hand write some things on the tag or put a note to "see quedra before leaving" so I can forward info.
Another thing that happens is someone orders online and asks for something that the makeline can't see while making the order ie, uncooked tomatoes (which we're NOT supposed to do) or asks for a saleable item but didn't actually order and therefore pay for(I know, it's just an extra pizza sauce cup, but dammit, they cost something).
I can definitely believe that, especially if it's the kind of franchise that has a call centre instead of customers calling the individual stores directly. I've been a delivery driver myself for both kinds of places, funnily enough. It's definitely a lot easier when the person taking the order can hang up the phone and go "Hey Leaky, go to the side door on this one."
Also...some people put raw tomatoes on their pizza...? ...Ew...
quedra · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh yes. Raw diced fresh tomatoes on, say, the taco pizza or the Greek one, yummy! I hate cooked tomatoes on pizza, it's like, hey there's already tomatoes in the sauce, right?
Wait a minute, why do they even have to get the coupon? All they need to do is a have a code on the coupon that is quoted over the phone that is also one-time.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah. With the current way it's set up, you can use the coupon at least twice. Once for the online order using the code, and the second time you had the coupon to delivery guy.
Noodles and Company sent a happy birthday free meal coupon to my email. They never scanned it or even asked to see my ID to verify it was my bday. After many many free noodles and cookies, I felt guilty and deleted it. They didn't do that same promotion the following year.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
quedra · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, I worked for a very LARGE franchise (100+ stores). Held every position at the store level and was in every store in my state at one time or another.
You need to read the first bit of the "Snow Crash". It's sort of a distopian cyberpunk book, the first chapter is about this dude in his job as a pizza delivery man and about how America has the best at pizza delivery.
quedra · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I actually quote from that at the beginning of every store meeting.
"Now, let's all jump into our (color) chariots of pepperoni fire and keep slinging that 'za!"
Do you have any idea why they didn't just say, "We already have a record of you receiving your free pizza, this delivery will be (whatever price)."
quedra · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes. No one wants to get yelled at for refusing to accept a discount. We may seethe inside and feel like we're being taken advantage of, but that's better than having your night wrecked by a loud, angry, belligerent person on the phone. The psychology of pizza is pretty ruthless.
It's always struck me as a shame that so many companies forbid their employees to just hang up on belligerent customers when it's simply the easiest way to avoid these scenarios in the first place. I mean I get WHY they don't allow it, it just sucks to be stripped of your own agency and forced to cater to screaming toddlers.
quedra · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If someone is cussing or being abusive then I give them 3 warnings. "Sir, I understand that you're upset, but please don't use that kind of language. Now, how can I help you?" "I apologize that I am unable to assist you any further, I will have to terminate the call if you continue to swear at me." Click.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I guess I need to start ordering PJs over Domino's to test this.
I am just curious since I order pizza fairly often from a place down the street. Don't the employees recognize repeat customers? Or do all the addresses sound the same and high turnover rates for delivery drivers? I always tip $5 I was hoping I had a good rep there
quedra · 2 points · Posted at 18:02:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh yes, the drivers remember particular customers, for sure.
They remember the guy who tips good and the guy who never does. They remember the lady who makes them wait 15 min(only allowed 5) to come down from her office and sign for it(and no tip). They remember the gross drunk guy that hits on them and offers a different kind of tip(my poor husband😂). They remember the sweet old lady who gives them snickers bars EVERY TIME. They remember the house where the dog lunges out of the shadows because the owner didn't lock them up (thought I was going to lose my face that night).
You, btw, are probably one of the best tippers, so they definitely remember you. And drivers will fight over your order. They'll even race each other back to the store in order to get you.
Ok cool thanks for the feedback. I was hoping it was a good tip especially for a $20 order. My brother delivered pizzas for like 10 years I always think of him when I order
quedra · 1 points · Posted at 22:46:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The sad part is that the best tippers are broke, too. Rich people don't tip for shit but people who are working class or have family that struggle always seem to be more generous.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:25:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't get it, so you tell them over the phone that you have a coupon, and they'll take your word for it? And then forget to check let alone get it? Regularly?
I rode this wave for about 2 years. Probably 2-3 times a month. Sometimes more. This was back in 1996-1998. They just never asked for the coupon and we always tipped like $3-4.
My wife was 7 months pregnant... she had to pee. I wanted to order 2 large pizzas and the girl at the counter said "sorry, you can't use our bathroom".... we left, i never paid for the pizzas, and i haven't gotten a Poppa John's pizza for 15 years because she make my wife suffer. If she had let her use the rest room, i'd have ordered weekly. Instead, I make it a point to get everyone I know to order from a non PJ location, I would never order from one, and I tell the story about how PJ refused a very pregnant woman a bathroom to use.
quedra · 2 points · Posted at 07:03:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That policy is because of liability reasons. No non-employees behind the counter. They could slip and fall, burn themselves on the oven, all kinds of things, not to mention making an employee nervous thinking that there could be a robbery going on.
Paplexa · 3 points · Posted at 04:36:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You realize that was just one employee at one franchise out of thousands of locations, right? What you're doing makes no sense, especially if you never actually complained to the company. Change your ways. Do better.
"Lord, you said once I decided to follow you,
You'd walk with me all the way.
But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life,
there was only one set of footprints.
I don't understand why, when I needed You the most, You would leave me."
He whispered, "My precious child, I love you and will never leave you
Never, ever, during your trials and testings.
When you saw only one set of footprints,
It was then that I went and got the free Papa John's pizza for you so that you wouldn't have to worry about paying a tip to the delivery driver."
I can just imagine that people start catching on to what you're doing pretty quickly, but, for whatever reason, 3-stooges-level hijinks or sitcom moments ensue, and they constantly forget to take the coupon from you. Like, one day they spend so much time telling the pizza delivery guy to make sure to get it that it ends up being late and they decide to just comp you on it instead, or that they just hired ten new people and each new person has only picked up the phone when you called like once or twice each but the manager is there every time and is blaming the delivery driver's fuckup when it's also the phone guy's fuckup, or just stupid stuff like that.
Then you get a second coupon because they spent so long using a permanent marker to write "get coupon" on the delivery driver's pizza box/forehead that it took too long and they had to comp you, and two days later you phone in again and say you have a coupon, and the manager just breaks down in tears
Something similar happened to me with dominos. Was mailed a magnet with a free cheesy bread promo on it. After about 5 free cheesy breads, the delivery guy wanted to take the magnet. I refused on the grounds that it was holding shit to my fridge. He agreed that he shouldn't take the magnet, but he said no more cheesy bread :(
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:04:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I refused on the grounds that it was holding shit to my fridge
LOL
bg-j38 · 5 points · Posted at 04:38:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in college in the 90s there was a Gumby's pizza on campus that we constantly ordered from. They'd hand out lots of coupons in the dorms at the beginning of the semester. It was sort of like a lottery in that you could find all sorts from $1 off to $5 off. Every freshman learned really quickly that none of the delivery people (who were also college kids) ever bothered to collect the coupons. So we figured out you could call up and just say you had a coupon for some reasonable amount off and they'd just do it. Pretty sure they worked that into their business model, but it was convenient.
Caybris · 5 points · Posted at 04:46:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you at least tip the driver every time? I wouldn't have the balls to not unless you live out of the states.
Highlet · 3 points · Posted at 04:56:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep, tipped 20% of what the purchase price would have been. It was pretty much easy money for any driver because the location I ordered from was only like 4 blocks away (less than a mile).
The Dollar Tree near my apartment sells bags of the most delicious kettle-cooked jalapeno chips for $1. Retail price is a few bucks, so that's already a steal. But one day I noticed a coupon on the back of the bag that gives you $1 off your next bag. Surely they won't let me use the coupon, I thought, but I tried it anyway. It worked! I have discovered infinite free food.
As of right now I have paid for 2 bags of chips (so I can have 2 at a time) and have consumed well over 50. Workers know me by now, but they don't care.
Everything else in my life may be going to shit right now, but I have kettle-cooked jalapeno chips, and that's usually enough.
The manufacturer reimburses them for it anyway, so they probably don't give a shit.
Jbau01 · 3 points · Posted at 04:30:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
TL;DR: Got free pizza coupon with no expiration, used it for months for free pizza before they finally took the coupon. got another coupon the next day that worked for 2 months.
Papa John's was our go to place in college. I dated a guy who worked there and he gave my roommates me coupons like that.
We would order pizzas, they would be late to deliver or mess up the order (it wasn't the best papa John's) and then they would give us another card to apologize for it. We milked this for most of junior year ordering pizza a few times a month.
similar thing happened to me but with movie theater tickets. my friends were at a movie and something went wrong with the projector so the manager initialed everyone's ticket stub so they could come back and see another movie for free. except when they went back the employees who tear the tickets just handed them back to my friends, i suppose because they are trained to always hand back the torn half of the ticket (which was all that was left of it). when they realized this they started going back until about the 4th time the employees kept the ticket. but by then we had all figured out what the manager's initials looked like, so we would just find ticket stubs in the trash or on the floor and initial them ourselves. free movies for all my friends for months. (im not condoning any of these, we were 13)
I was a valet in college, if we got enough people get pizzas delivered to the hotel, the staff would get free pizzas. They wouldn't always take the proof so once we got a week of free pizza day after day.
I did this with free movie tickets. They were a like a gift card but for movies at a theater I would frequent. I had two, and I would go up to the counter usually with more than one friend. So I would say I had two gift tickets and then buy the rest of them. They just kept forgetting to rip the ends off invalidating them. I used them at least a dozen times.
I had a similar experience were my friend had s coupon for a BOGO large pizza any topping to Papa Johns. They never collected or even asked for it when we payed for pick-up. Sadly it expired at the beginning of this month. I say we got at least 30 free pizzas out of that coupon.
This happened to me recently but it was for a free large pizza at pizza hut :D
Nvidiuh · 2 points · Posted at 04:46:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
From about 1999 through 2003 my family actually had a booklet of buy one get one free pizza coupons for Pizza Hut which also included any two liter you wanted. In the nearly five years we had that booklet, the pizza guy took maybe 5 or 6 of them. One day they finally stopped taking them. The booklet had 80 coupons, so math dictates that had the track record actually carried on, we would have been saving hella money on Pizza for about 65-70 more years. Essentially, an entire lifetime of half priced pizza and free drinks.
My cousin did the same thing with Domino's for months. She had a coupon for BOGO medium pizza and they never asked her for a coupon. Later, the Domino's in her area closed down.
am0x · 2 points · Posted at 04:58:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Funny. There is a 50% Papa John's coupon code that I have and works every time.
Papa Johns was great for that. In 2004/2005 I ordered Papa Johns pretty often. At some point my friends and I realized that they never checked the coupons, and we started making up our own coupons for better and better deals. I'd assume they're not so lenient these days.
to piggy back on what Quedra said, as an old PJ driver we're not held responsible to collect coupons on our run so it becomes trash the moment we collect them from you. Unless specifically told to collect it, there's no reason/gain to be found in collecting the free coupons from you
yakri · 2 points · Posted at 05:14:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
just gotta make a good photo copy.
Also, ever get one of those coupons for free something by email that always has an expiration date or similar if you sign up for a mailing list? Many companies send those as html and you can just inspect the page and edit the offer to say whatever you want.... As long as you keep the major details the same no one will notice. And suddenly your coupon works at the location actually closest to you and with not expiration.
Of course this is predicated by the company doing stupid shit like not including one time codes or anything, but it's amazingly common that they don't.
I would do the same thing with Arbys. They give me coupons never ask for them and I would get half priced food. Eventually they caught on. One time I didn't have a coupon but tried to pull the same trick and they waited for about 3 minutes while I frantically searched for a coupon as if I had just dropped it knowing full well that wasn't there before letting me know next time they wouldn't honor the coupon without the coupon.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:22:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
11/10
Reznoob · 2 points · Posted at 05:26:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had something like this going on at a couple nightclubs. They told me and three friends that by paying 25 bucks we'd all get in and they'd give us a free champagne inside. Thing is they gave us a ticket that was used to get us inside, where you were supposed to trade it for the champagne. But if you didn't want the champagne, you could just use the ticket every other day
This was in a city in my country's coast during January, which is summer vacations here, so clubs were open every day. And I was there for two weeks in which I had a free pass to three nightclubs. Cheapest vacations ever
lexgrub · 2 points · Posted at 05:34:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At the retail store I work at my boss makes us honor all coupons even if the customer is supposed to use it only once...Etc. Had one lady who didn't even have an coupons demand I find her a $20 off of $50 coupon and then do 5 different transactions with it. Three of which were order on the computer and we waived the shipping for. She then had the audacity to act like she didn't get enough savings. Like bitch u just got 100 in free coupons.
Had the same thing happen with toppers. Don't remember why,but they ended up giving us 2 coupons for free pizzas. Every time we called I would inform them of my coupon. Every time they showed up I would have the coupon in my pocket....but they never asked for it. I don't know how many months we got free pizza for until they actually asked for the coupon. Even then,we still had another coupon so we continued on until we moved out of the delivery area.
Sort of related
I've been doing this for a while. Got a coupon from Dominoes saying "We miss you!" because I hadn't ordered pizza in a long time.
It was a coupon for a large pizza with as many toppings as you want for $9.99.
I use the code on that coupon every so often, despite the fact that it expired a year ago, and they haven't once requested to take it from me.
Fuck it, call and tell them they fucked up your pizza, tip well, nobody gives a shit. Papa John is an asshole, but I'm poor and living on the sob right now.
Years ago when Papa John's first set up their website to order online (in Arizona) they had a coupon button online for a couple days that read "Large Pizza for $0.00". At the same time my little brother was in town visiting and we ordered 10 large pizzas under that coupon, checked out online with no charge and when the delivery driver got there he handed us the 10 pizzas, looked at the receipt and said "uhmm, that will be....nothing...???" I don't remember exactly but I think we gave him $30 or so for a tip.
bent42 · 2 points · Posted at 04:58:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So that prick is ok with giving out months of free pizzas, but pitches a fit because health insurance for his employees will cost $0.11 per pie?
100292 · 1 points · Posted at 04:28:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can also explain:
If you tipped the delivery driver everytime, he's gonna keep letting you get free pizzad
Highlet · 1 points · Posted at 04:29:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well yeah, but I always tip 20% unless the service is bad. I worked in the service industry for a while and it's a miserable unappreciated job most of the time.
Oh my gosh. 15 years ago in college there was a rumor that this one dude gotva free pizza for him and his roomate every Friday from papa johns because he claimed to have a free pizza coupon. We didnt think it would be true because what company would give free coupons? Well. I guess papa johns. Thx for helping me remember this.
Twons · 5544 points · Posted at 23:30:53 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ninth grade science class. We had a contest to build a device in which you could place an egg to protect it during a fall. Scores were evaluated based on size and how well the egg survived. I believe the formula was Intactness of Egg (scale of one to ten) divided by the size of the device's longest side measured in meters. Most people built elaborate devices that net scores around 100. The number two winner was 112.
I took a tiny piece of tape and stuck it to the egg. I scored 12000.
The next year they changed it so the egg's integrity was calculated on a scale starting with zero.
Edit: Huh. So that's how it feels when your inbox blows up.
To be clear, the egg broke. Completely shattered. The tape did zilch to protect the egg. But the scoring system meant that by using an absurdly small contraption, a shattered egg wouldn't be a problem at all.
Similar story. In sixth grade we took a trip to Catalina island off the coast of California where we learned about marine life and all that. They had a competition where they gave you a piece of silly puddy iirc that was supposed to simulate plankton, and the rules were to form it in such a way that it would take the longest time to sink to the bottom of a large tank of water. Everyone else flattened theirs out and did other things like that, I just folded it in on itself and made an air bubble and it just floated indefinitely at the top.
I was disqualified since plankton that couldn't sink would die in the sun or something. I'm still kind of salty about that one.
Nope, it was actually a trip to celebrate graduating from elementary school, which went up through 6th grade where I lived. Bonita Canyon Elementary if I recall correctly
Gastropod molluscs create a float of air bubbles with their mucus to crawl along the bottom of the water surface. They are plankton! Plankton just describes organisms living in the water column that are too small to be able to swim counter to typical ocean currents.
aoskunk · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had something like that happen to me. I was doing a ice breaker/group challenge at my school during resident assistant training. We had a big metal ring with 5 cords attached to it and each person grabbed one cord and had to run from one place to the next with a big bouncy ball on top. If the ball fell, you had to restart. So I thought to pull the cords over the ball evenly making it impossible to move. Judges didn't like that and stopped it. I thought it was clever and showed that critical thinking was valued. Guess not...
I did the same field trip and competition too!! I remember having the same thought you had, about trying to form an air bubble in my clay, but unfortunately it didn't work out for me. I can't believe I found your comment!!
-Sarek- · 1 points · Posted at 08:03:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was once short of winning some homeless can food contest by two cans. The kicker, I used $5 of my can food contest to buy a homeless guy a burrito earlier that day. dammit, I coulda won.
[deleted] · 34 points · Posted at 05:04:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Happened in a writing class in college. Paper was out of 500 and I got a decent score. She entered it into the system as 400/100 and didn't notice for the rest of the year.
Once there was a girl in one of my classes who accrued so much extra credit that she would've needed a -400% on the final to not get >100% in the class. The teacher was retiring that year, knew the student was absurdly competent anyway, and just gave her all that extra credit instead of fixing the formula for calculating it.
In junior high they had a can drive contest and the winning grade won a dance. At that school 6th got no dances, 7th one and 8th two normally. An industrious 6th grader realized it was more about aluminum than cans. He raided a scrap yard and single handedly won a dance for the 6th grade.
This essentially happened to me in 8th grade English. The teacher gave extra credit based on taking quizzes on books you had read. As an avid reader who had read hundreds of books that were in the quiz bank (a program on the library computers.) I took a hundred or so of the quizzes at 10 questions each, got my grade percentage up to like 450% and then did nothing for the rest of the year...got a 212% final grade.
On a semi related note I also scammed my 7th grade Spanish class. I went to a charter school for 6th 7th and part of 8th (then transferred to a public school with the quiz teacher) and in 6th grade one of my friends took Spanish online because our teacher sucked. I told my mom I wanted to do that next year and she said sure, told all the teachers and admin staff that I was going to be doing it, then got halfway through the process of signing me up and getting everything in order and ended up not doing it and told me to just suck it up and take it at school. So, the school thought I was taking Spanish at home, my mom thought I was taking it at school, and I really was playing computer games on the school laptops every Spanish period. Also the Spanish teacher must not have known what to do when she was giving out grades so she just entered a 100% for mine.
Edit* -Just because a lot of people are throwing out names of programs, I really don't remember the name of it. It had orange UI elements....that's all I remember.
Nolanova · 35 points · Posted at 05:06:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't remember honestly. It was pretty much just a search bar, you typed in the name of the book and clicked on it. And then there was a 10 question quiz and it recorded your score. I do remember that there were a ton of books that I had read that weren't in the database.
yup i remember it took abridged versions of the book as well. i did a ~30-50 page summary of war of the worlds and was able to take the test for the full version and got massive pts.
I found a few books that were vastly miss-categorized as far as grade level goes. For example, The Little Prince was labeled at a 7th or 8th grade level.
After a few of those, the teacher made me get approval before taking the tests...
When I was in elementary school, Accelerated Reader labeled the Captain Underpants books at a 4th grade level.
Matriss · 5 points · Posted at 05:36:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't know about the person you're replying to but i did almost exactly this with accelerated reader in 8th grade. "almost" because the teacher didn't fully count AR points into grades so i still had to do classwork but i was still sitting pretty.
We had AR. My middle school English grades were sky-high because a few of my friends and I exploited this loophole. I feel like it's not the worst thing we could have done though, because you did have to have enough knowledge of the book to pass the quiz.
Haha accelerated reader was abused hard at my school. All you had to do was watch the pride and prejudice movie and be done for a quarter. Next quarter? One kid reads a book and takes the test for everyone :P
A few years ago, I was a network engineer for a school system, and had to deploy a server / client install of AR at 30 elementary schools. Sure enough, I made all the shortcuts "AR Reader" on 4000+ computes. Was not my proudest moment.
Well, honestly, in 8th grade english.... if youre an avid reader, youre already leagues ahead of your peers. My english teacher in middle school knew this... if you were reading at any time, he wouldnt mess with you, even while he was lecturing, or you were suppoesed to be doing something else. I spent many of his class periods reading, and made an A. Im fairly certain I didnt pay attention to half his lessons.
So quick back story, when it came to reading I was a late bloomer. Had to go summer school and almost repeated first grade. Once I learned to read I got really good and was ahead of my classmates in reading level. I read War and Peace in third grade for example. Understood most of it too and completed at state level spelling be with fourth and fifth graders. Plus my teacher told me that if I stopped reading I would lose my ability to read, so I began reading books like crazy. Bow on to my story.
When I got to sixth grade there was a literacy program, read a certain number of book, take a test, get a voucher redeemable for cash. I had read so many books I was able to complete a bunch of the tests off memory alone. Once I went through every book I could remember I realized the pattern of the quizzes and started just skimming books for relevant information. Then I realized I could go through lower level books faster and get more points that way. The first and second grade books were worth slightly less points than the 5th and 6th grade level, but the system didn't match your grade level to the book's level since the whole point was to get kids who were bad at reading to read more. Eventually I made close to $200 dollars. I could have made more, but I had to slow down when I realized I was at $50 and the next highest kid was an 8th grader and he was around $20. I should have kept going though. I found out later I wasn't even near the top earner in our district.
Oh man, 8th grade English also here. We were still doing spelling tests then, and of course I'd ace every one. If you did, you'd get a certificate for "One Free Homework Assignment" - a get-out-of-homework-card. No expiration date.
I just saved them all up until the end of the year and the last two weeks or so before graduation I basically kicked back and did what I wanted. I would have been ok if I had to do the work, but it was so sweet not having to and still passing.
My 11th grade English teacher accused me of cheating on a easy vocabulary test because I got 100% and turned it in first... so I challenged her, in front of the class, to give me a test from any section of the year and I'd finish it just as fast and get a 90+.
She flips to the back of a binder, gives me a test, and I fill it in at her desk, and watch her face as she realizes I got another 100%, before most of the other kids have even finished the first test.
I got to read novels and even nap the rest of the year :D
I had that same program at my school! We had to read fifty points worth of books (each book was worth anywhere from 5 to 100ish for Atlas Shrugged as the highest) every point after 50 was supposed to be an extra credit point but when I racked up over 600 points my teacher capped the bonus points at a letter grade.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My senior year in high school I had a pretty cool history teacher. The week before finals he basically just had a "quiz bowl" refresher of the materials we covered that year.. each correct answer got you a point towards your final...
I answered 105 questions in 5 days...
I never turned in a homework assignment, except for papers I wanted to write, but I always listened and participated in class, and would usually ace tests so I basically coasted by on a C-
Dude looked me out though because I didn't have to take my final and got an B+ for the year
We used to watch a kids news program in about grade 3/4. You had to take notes and scored one point for every true/valid statement you wrote up. Seeing as it was note-taking, you were expected to write up a neat final copy as homework.
Of course, I worked out the VCR timer at home, recorded the show, then rewatched, pausing after almost every sentence.
Smashed the leaderboard for the whole semester in about 3 weeks.
PolyUre · 3 points · Posted at 05:24:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Course is graded on a curve, everyone else fails the course.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:27:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
doesn't need to worry about class work for the rest of OP's life
Reminds me of my Chemistry class. Everyone else were terrible students who took advantage of a new teacher who constantly gave out extra credit whenever she was asked, and of course, she was asked a lot. I did my homework and the extra credit, which all that practice helped me do well on the tests and quizzes.
For the final, she told you the score you'd need to pass the class. Instead, she told me the score I'd need to retain an A because she gave out so much extra credit that I had gotten a 116%. I think I just had to get a not failing grade, and I don't think it was possible to fail.
Kered13 · 2 points · Posted at 06:33:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had a project in 7th grade science class to create a Rubegoldbergian balloon popper with ample room for extra credit. It was also a large part of that quarter's grade for the class. Essentially everyone got 200+ on the assignment (some over 300) and an easy A for that quarter.
This assignment was done every year too, the grading was entirely by design.
mmmmm yeah u/Twons seems like a pretty sick guy to me, probably cut the tape to .00000000000000001m length with laserbeams from his eyeballs while he juggled eggs with his feet
Jbau01 · 161 points · Posted at 01:03:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You dropped a zero. 1 micrometer is .001 millimeter, so 17 um is .017mm, and 181 um is .181mm. Consider the size of 1.81mm. have you ever seen a hair that was 2 mm thick?
K20BB5 · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Uh, 1/12000 Meters is 1/12 mm. Yeah it's a small piece of tape but not at all impossible. Just snipping the corner of a piece off with an x-acto knife would do the trick.
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 03:29:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Would an ultra-fine point ink pen count? You'd end up with a protective layer of ink smaller than pinhole and coupled with the old 1-10 scale, earning obscene score that will never be topped again in the school's lifetime.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 04:25:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Good point. It'd have to be about 9 micrometers to score 12k.
BhMhWh · 516 points · Posted at 00:27:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can someone please explain this better because I don't get it at all.
dbmeach · 905 points · Posted at 00:38:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Since the scale was 1-10 for "intactness" and the piece of tape was 0.00008333 of a meter, his score equaled 1/0.00008333 or 12000.
The scoring is Intactness/length where the length is in meters. If your intactness score is 100 and your length is less than one meter, your final score is greater than 100.
No that's how thick the tape was. Changing the diameter of his egg by that amount. Didn't matter how long the piece of tape was as long as it didn't start to crumple up and add extra bulk. Just know that his idea works on that grading scale as long as he puts a piece of tape on the egg smaller than the surface area of the egg itself..
If it is measured after it it put on, the egg only increases by the thickness of the tape. The tape wraps around and matches the egg. If it is measured before, while the tape is "rigid" then it would be the side. Think of it as the size added to the egg. It depends on what axis measured and when it was measured
I've worked with devices that aligned to 0.005 +/- 0.001mm. If you gave me a piece of tape, that device, and scalpel I could probably cut a much smaller square.
OP likely meant 1200 points, but it's still possible to get that high or higher.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:13:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
OP likely meant 1200 points, but it's still possible to get that high or higher.
I would still be pretty amazed if a ninth grade was able to cut a piece of tape the longest side of which was about 0.8 millimeters without the aid of industrial equipment.
120 sounds like a plausible score in this scenario.
0.8mm is really easy to do. You could easily get half that just by taking scotch tape, ripping it off on those spikey things, and cutting off one of the jagged bits.
Getting 1/10th of that is where it's tricky without something like a $1000+ micrometre and scalpels.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 04:19:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm just amazed he was able to cut it to be a 12th of millimeter on each side.
Shnurbs · 463 points · Posted at 00:41:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How intact the egg was (1-10) / the size of the devices long side in meters
So if you had a device one meter long, and a fully intact egg, you'd get a final score of 10. If you built a device that got a 5 on how intact the egg was, and was 1/20 of a meter long on its longest side, you'd get a final score of 100.
Twons likely got a 1 on how in tact the egg was, but because the contraption holding it was such a small fraction of a meter, his final score was 12000.
BhMhWh · 132 points · Posted at 00:43:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
he cheated the formula because he had the smallest device. the egg was wrecked but the minimum score was a 1 for integrity. the formula then would have read 1/.0008m (length of tape, his "protective device"), giving an insanely high score because of how the math works out.
Kaddon · 4 points · Posted at 03:20:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Tape didn't need to hold it together, since the minimum for egg-intactness was a 1, and not a 0. So if the egg was completely destroyed, the formula would then be 1/(size-of-contraption). But dividing by a fraction like 0.0008 meters would cause the answer to go up, so his score was high in the end even though the egg was broken
The score takes an intactness rating and divides it by the longest side of the contraption as measured in meters. OP's scrap of tape was a fraction of a meter long. When you divide by a fraction, you actually multiply.
[deleted] · 462 points · Posted at 01:59:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, a lot of these loopholes in this thread were just corporate coupons/reward systems not being airtight, but this was one helluva loophole exploit.
Reminds me of the episode of Top Gear where the final category of points in the boys' competition was based off of how much they spent on the car, adding points for being under budget, subtracting for being over.
Clarkson bought his car for $1, and thus won the competition, even though he'd failed in every other category.
wmcduff · 2 points · Posted at 05:51:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of one of my science projects too. Design a cooler to keep a can of pop cold. Nothing frozen was allowed, so I poured salt in a bag of water until it didn't freeze anymore. My pop was -7 degrees when they took the temperature. The next year when my brother did it the rule was "no sub zero temperatures".
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 05:50:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why not? That was a pretty good idea and the teachers discouraged thinking outside the box. They must have thought a bunch of people would copy his design.
Well, yeah, without that rule eventually there'd be some fuckery with liquid nitrogen, someone would freeze an appendage and it'd shatter all over the floor like in the movies. And do you know how hard it is to clean that up once it melts?
[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 04:17:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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irlcake · 5 points · Posted at 04:46:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What
Edit. You didn't make a base out of straws, you just put straws on the table and put bricks on top?
He layed straws on the table, then pilled bricks on the straws, took the penalty for being to short, and the points from the bricks more than made up for it
Yeah, concrete bricks are like 5 pounds? Like 2000g. Easy win
brackh · 16 points · Posted at 04:35:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Similar experience in high school science class except we had to keep an egg safe while seeing how far we could launch it. People spent weeks working on it. I taped my egg to a frisbee about 30 seconds before my turn. Went the farthest in class and didn't break. Bitch gave me a 0 because she didn't like my attitude.
K20BB5 · 16 points · Posted at 02:52:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
probably added a few zeros to your score, 83 micrometers is about the thickness of a human hair
rydan · 10 points · Posted at 02:37:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why tape? Why not nothing? Then you'd have an infinite score.
We had something like this with distance plus how good the egg was. We just added weight (wrapped heaps or rubber bands around it) and launched it as far as we could our of the slingshot ramp thing and didn't worry about the egg. Did quite well. When it hit the ground and lot integrity the whole thing imploded.
RyanG7 · 5 points · Posted at 04:51:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a somewhat similar experience. When I was in 8th grade I had this "Tech Ed" course where throughout the semester, the class would design and build projects. We did the egg drop test, raced balsa wood dragsters with C02 cartidges, see which paper airplane design stayed in the air the longest, etc.
One time we were given 2 pieces of printer paper with half a bottle of Elmer's glue and were supposed to build a 5x4" platform that had to at least be 3" from the ground and would have to support as much weight as possible. I cut a couple sheets to make the bottom and top of my platform and used the rest of the paper to roll 5 support pillars. 4 for the corners and 1 for the middle. One thing I did, but noticed that my classmates didn't do, was coat the inside of each pillar to reinforce them. Once completed, we stacked textbooks on everyone's platform until it collapsed. The teacher told me that the previous record since he started doing the project was 27. We stacked books on my platform until we were unable to due to the books reaching the ceiling. The final count was 52 books. It was probably one of my favorite accomplishments in school and I even got my picture taken for the yearbook as I was stacking. Unfortunately my awesome accomplishment was short lived as when I looked up the picture in the yearbook at the end of the year, they had put someone else name under my picture. I still think about it every now and then to this day
We did this at my high school too, in physics class. The winner was the one who could drop it from the highest point without the egg breaking. Everyone else tried to keep the egg as far away from the ground as possible (by putting it on top of their apparatus). Their constructs always flipped over and went splat. I won by actually using the physics we were learning in the class, and made an apparatus shaped like the Eiffel Tower with the egg near the base on a cushion of straws (but above the legs). So it didn't flip because it was bottom heavy instead of top heavy. The egg didn't break each time and I was last egg standing.
I love the enginuity of working around the system. However, I would have complained about a task like this.
Any sort of "intactness" scale is subjective and pointless. A simple "Not Broken / Cracked / Broken" condition divided by the size of the device would have been fine.
I fucking hate when schools use subjective grading in maths and science. I'll accept writing essays/papers that rate your ability to write as well as the content, but most of the time answers should be black and white. It's high school not a theoretical physics course.
That's also why I think it's ridiculous that kids should be graded in artistic subjects.
I dunno how other countries do it but in Australia we have standardized testing at the end of high school, which determines whether or not you make it into Uni.
The arty subjects do usually require portfolios or something as well as a final grade, but it annoys me how much of the grading system depends on the teacher.
Stuff like music, art, dance etc... is so subjective, WTF does a score of 40/50 even mean?
We also did an egg drop test. The tower we dropped them from was near the school track, which had a long jump sand pit nearby. One of the kids in my class didn't build a device, but the rule was full credit if the egg didn't shatter, so he threw it over into the sand pit. It landed...intact.
burnzkid · 12 points · Posted at 04:28:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had something similar to this in middle school, except it specifically had to be polymers. Everyone else built elaborate encapsulations of bubble wrap and parachute devices. Me and my twin brother put the cup in a plastic egg and calculated the exact amount of helium it would take to give it just barely negative buoyancy. Well, a pair of douchebags stole the idea from us, failed miserable, and let loose a dozen or so balloons into the sky. Our environmentalist teacher was pissed, made them pick up litter as a punishment, and gave us an A without us ever dropping our egg out the window.
It doesn't have to. It can smash and still score higher because of the size of the tape.
pyr666 · 3 points · Posted at 04:41:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
it doesn't, but a smashed egg is still a 1. 1/(a really small number) can be a really big number. so he just used a tiny device and didnt care about the egg's intact-ness.
When my class did that we only got graded on the concept of the solution, not how well it actually worked. So this really cute Mormon girl I had a crush on and I got together and made a contraption of 3lbs of red Jello and a styrofoam to-go container. The egg didn't survive, but 3lbs of red jello dropped from 2 stories can paint a large amount of hallway.
Similar experience. I went to an event called Homeless for a Night where we built houses out of cardboard boxes. There was a really elaborate point system based on size, height, boxes used, and other factors, but one category was 10 points for each person that fit inside. So the Honors House squad had the brilliant idea to make essentially a huge cardboard tortilla, lay 7 people in it, and fold it up like a giant cardboard taco. We called it the Honors House Cardboard Taco.
twbrn · 3 points · Posted at 05:49:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of a story I heard once about a similar thing; the egg had to survive a drop from like 10 or 15 feet up.
The little brother of the guy telling the story won the contest by virtue of leaving the egg inside the chicken. Chicken flaps its way to the ground, pops out the egg a couple hours later.
MAK911 · 3 points · Posted at 05:55:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had the same thing about a month ago in Physics class. Everyone could pick about 30 straws or 2 pieces of paper. Well, everyone else constructed these masterpieces of straw ingenuity. I picked the two pieces of paper, turned it into a bowl shape, duct taped the egg in, and fucked off for the next 2-3 classes while people laughed at the idea of my shit stain of a project working. The day of the drop comes and only 2 projects survive the drop: My shite bowl of paper and some really complex straw thing I would never think of. The amount of smugness I had that day was too great for any normal person. Simplicity is key in design.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:56:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You have actually demonstrated a type of thinking that is akin to something profoundly interesting in a subfield that is adjacent to my own area of research. For a long time, people have focused on increasing the amplitudes of the electromagnetic fields for increasing intensity (something like the ratio of field amplitude to the duration of the field). That is, people have been working to make the egg very intact for a long fucking time, and that is hard work. More recently, some groups have been focusing on decreasing the duration of the field, ie. getting very, very short pulses for their lasers, which is the equivalent of using a tiny ass little device to game the system.
So you let the egg break but still won because the 'device' was so small?
Ah-Cool · 2 points · Posted at 04:47:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nice, in 4th grade my friend and I won 3rd place in our District's egg drop competition using a Kroger bag and floss. Kids cried and our teacher looked really embarrassed. We were just happy that we got to play Simpsons road rage after school every Wednesday while pretending to work on our parachute.
ebsac · 1 points · Posted at 06:26:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Floss?
Ah-Cool · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haha yeah the egg was in a Dixie cup and we had to design a parachute around it. We were too lazy to go get some string so we used dental floss to attach a Kroger bag to the cup. Here's the picture. Sorry for the weird format I'm on mobile and insta won't let me save it. http://i.imgur.com/PYFA5h2.jpg
ebsac · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Absolutely nothing. The problem was that the grade scale was flawed: It started at 1 instead of 0. So even though the egg completely shattered, the tiny piece of tape meant it still got points as-per the formula.
We had a similar project in my high-school's physics course. Ours was graded on the weight of the protection as well as the size. I built a cardboard cube and put the egg in a nylon sock. I tied knots on each side of the sock so the egg couldn't move, tied the the sock tight from corner to corner diagonally so the egg was suspended in the middle.
Drop. Egg bounces up and down in the box, and doesn't break. Entire thing weighed less and was smaller than everyone else so I won.
I was a sophomore and the class was only for seniors but I had taken/challenged all the other science classes. I also calculated the forces and speeds using calculus while the rest of the class counted squires under the curve on graph paper.
I hated high-school. Sadly, I was too poor to attend college early. I wouldn't make it to college until I was in my thirties (and now question the value / cost I paid for it).
haha I LOVED this competition when I was in school.
I filled a shoebox with dirt from my parents back yard and just put the egg in the middle so that it had equal amounts of dirt around it.
Principal is ontop of the Gym roof and picks up my box... "Hockeyjim07, you were supposed to take this seriously, this box is incredibly heavy, what were you thinking?!"
drops box, dirt puffs out when it contacts the concrete ground 30 feet below, I rush over to check........ egg still intact.
"I knew it would work sir, I packed it so tight that the dirt would take all the impact without crushing the egg because it was already under equal pressure on all sides"
If they egg breaks you get 1 for intactness out of 10. formula for score is intactness / longest side of device. He got 1(egg broke) / .00008333m(tape length) = 12000.
yaosio · 2 points · Posted at 05:05:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You should have used nothing and made them divide by zero.
If they egg breaks you get 1 for intactness out of 10. formula for score is intactness / longest side of device. He got 1(egg broke) / .00008333m(tape length) = 12000.
salty84 · 1 points · Posted at 04:27:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did a similar test. But the scorning system was much more basic due to the people in my class being a bunch of basic bitches. Anyways. I did a borax, white glue and water mixture. Put it in a sandwich bag threw the egg in with it. And was the only person in the class to have an intact egg. Legit these retards spent hours trying to figure out how to keep an egg in one piece.
Similar story except building a tower with some random materials (straws, sili-string, stuff like that). They also said we could use "found" materials since we were outside but they would only measure to the highest provided material. So while everyone is carefully propping up their straws with twigs and pebbles, I walk around, find some construction material lying in a ditch, grab a 10' section of drain pipe, tape a straw to one end, and stand it upright. Mine was, surprise, 10' 6" tall. The next highest was 2' tall.
I gnash my teeth when I think of that contest, all because I had an awesome idea for a solution to it, and did not get to do it.
So here I am, grade 7, and I and two other kids in the class are going to a science competition where we have to achieve a bunch of challenges. One of them was that, drop an egg off the roof and prevent it from breaking.
Everybody's going parachutes. It's parachutes this, parachutes that. Then I had an awesome idea on how to do it:
Fuck the parachute. What we'll do is take a long cardboard tube, like the kind that wrapping paper comes on, and line it with a big, thick, furry fabric. Then plug the bottom of it, and stuff a pile of soft padding into it - sponge, pillow stuffing, whatever. Maybe put a dead weight at the bottom and fins at the top to make sure it stays vertical. Then put the egg in the top and drop that fucker. The friction on the furry lining, combined with the shock absorption of the sponge should be enough to keep the egg safe.
So I suggested this, and the teacher at our school who was bringing us to this competition was all "ohhh, I don't know, I think they want you to use a parachute". As a result, my brilliant idea never came to fruition. Instead we used three shitty makeshift parachutes, and our precious cargo smashed upon the asphalt.
A quarter century later I still scowl when I think of that missed opportunity.
Kidtuf · 1 points · Posted at 05:56:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They should just add 'parachute' in the title of the event at that point.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:11:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had that at school. It would be hilarious to drop an egg and make a mess.
I also did that project, got an A with a cube stuffed w cotton (egg inside) suspended by rubber bands to a larger cube. Worked pretty good.
Also broke the school record for the rubber band car, flew off the end of the track and we had to go to the gym to test it. Turns out nobody figured out that when winding the band you should stretch the shit out of it while winding. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
When my 7th-grade science class had the typical paper-airplane contest, it was organized so your team of 3 people had a "budget," and any materials (excluding the original paper) you attached to your plane cost a certain amount. People were adding toothpicks and tape, creating extra fins, building entirely new planes, all costing "money." The final scores were based on how far your plane flew versus how much you spent on it.
My group got a dollar coin (we're Canadian) that cost $1 from the budget, and attached it to the front of the plane with a bit of tape ($0.25). That fucker hit the far gym wall every throw.
In my grade 7 Tech Ed class we had an assignment where we were given a marble, three sheets of paper, and ten centimetres of scotch tape. The goal was to use the tape and paper to make a "device" attached to the wall that would keep the marble off the ground for the longest amount of time without it stopping moving.
Most people got about 15 seconds. I got 8 minutes.
I stuck a corner of the tape to the wall and stuck the marble to the tape. Sloooooooowly rolled its way down.
him999 · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did an egg drop in physics one year. Scoring was not the same though... i won. I used expandable foam. It wasnt a big ball of it either. I just made two half spheres, cut an exact egg shape in it. From 3 stories the egg was okay being dropped. From 3 stories the egg being thrown down to allow for it to be ever so closer to terminal v it was fine. My teacher dropped a cinder block on it it was okay. Then hit it with a sledge hammer. All that, and the egg was nice and cool still. We cracked it open and the yolk was still okay too.
My teacher banned expandable foam the next year :(
Had this same contest in 8th grade, but without the scoring system. It was simply if you can land your egg without breaking it.
Like yours, most built very interesting contraptions. But, like in every class, there's the slacker that didnt put any work into this project and did it all last second. What what his device you ask? A piece of printer paper rolled into a cone and taped.
Everyone laughed their ass off at the kid as clearly he put no effort into the project. They get around to dropping his project off the roof the school and guess what? Yep, his egg survived completely with no cracks. His project fared better than others who spent much more time lmao...
Haha I did that in 6th grade. Some kid stuck his in some 80 pound steel canister. Not only did it cause the ground to vibrate when it landed (we were outside, the canister fell 50 feet) the canister's top blew off and the egg flew up.
I had a similar project where we had to make the egg survive being launched via bottle rocket. The project was centered around making a parachute and every group was given the same 10-15 supplies. My group decided to not even make the parachute but instead wrap the egg with everything. We didn't do well in terms of grading but our egg survived!
g-mode · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Are you TheRealDonald?
Arplate · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do you have a pic of how that looked? I'm having a hard time figuring out how a piece of tape can keep an egg safe
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Measured in meters? Do you mean centimeters, or were you building NASA return shuttles for these eggs?
57ARK · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
my high school did the same thing in 9th grade. Was it physics class for you?
Parrra · 1 points · Posted at 06:16:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had a similar situation to this. Had an assignment for science to make a paper plane. We were judged and graded based on how far it flew. I asked the teacher a few times if there were any restrictions for the design and was told no. To clarify even further I asked if this means I could use tape, staples and/or rocks. After a bit of a laugh when I said rocks she agreed and said I could use anything.
So I went outside and found a rock about the size of a tennis ball. I wrapped the paper around it and used sticky tape to make it tightly secured. Needless to say my creation flew the furthest.
I was disqualified for "going against the spirit of the competition."
My freshman year at engineering school we had a 1 semester "introduction to engineering" course. One of the projects was to design a small catapult, and would be scored on function of accuracy and materials cost (they set up a "store" where you could "buy" parts, you didn't actually spend any money though). You'd also get bonus points if you didn't have to touch the catapult as it was firing.
Not me, but 1 kid in the class bought a plastic spoon and just hurled his ping pong ball at the targets.
By the scoring system he demolished everyone because the price was a much bigger part of the grade than accuracy. But, the professor decided that it wasn't "in the spirit of the assignment" and I think he had to retake the class because he got a 0 on the project.
We did one where we would drop it from higher and higher. Mine was second to the guys with the parachutes. The only reason I failed was because the latch on mine opened and the egg rolled out and cracked open. :(
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 01:52:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
@Twons do you have a picture of how it worked? I'm confused on how the tape was placed.
To clarify, the tape did nothing. The egg was totally smashed. But since the minimum score was 1, and dividing by a positive number less than 1 increases the value (eg 1 divided by 1/2 is the same as 1 times 2), he got a great score thanks to the power of math.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:18:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Ireland you used to be able to drive unaccompanied on your second provisional licence (basically a learners permit)
I failed my driving test, then my dad told me about the loophole and I didn't bother taking the test again and just drove around for years with L stickers up.
They closed that loophole a few years ago but lots of people still do it, especially out in the country.
I have since passed my test.
[deleted] · 747 points · Posted at 00:48:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
the best driving lesson i learned was when the lady infront of me hit black ice, going around 25, now being from new england, i found tapping your brakes and feeling if you have a control is the best way to manage to stop, but this curve was all ice, i ended up drifting, and didnt hit shit, drifting on a curve with black ice is one of those things i look back at like, holy shit i can't believe i made that. The lady infront didnt understand that brakes dont work on ice, she decided to panic/was ignorant of the situation and slammed on them, she proceeded to hit a guardrail, then a telephone pole, and came to a complete stop t boning a jeep, basically doing 2 90 degree turns; she was fine, but that was one of the moments i realized exactly how dangerous driving was, she got out without any injuries, but she fucked up everything she hit, her car, and the air bag deployed... i still can't believe i didnt see someone die that day, but i never drove the same again
Mine was always that the car smelled weird. I could never figure out exactly what it was other than "really bad old people smell" because my instructor was about 70. He also had bad teeth and one of his front ones was broken off and it was all I could stare at while he was talking. I have no memory of that driving course other than when he told the story about a girl who accidentally hit a bird and then spent the next few lessons crying from the time she got into the car until they dropped her off after the lesson.
My instructor was a really cool guy. He would always tease you when you screw things up. One time when I got home after school, we both walked out of our garages at the same time, he was my neighbor. He calls me over and asks me if I'm alright with his teasing because he is a good guy but a joker. I told him I don't care at all and he always did it.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:15:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That girl was either really into birds or the kind of person that probably shouldn't be driving.
She was like sixteen and was distraught over killing an animal. Same girl also got out of the car at a stop light to ask the pizza delivery driver behind us if she could have some pizza. Those lessons were an interesting time.
The company's car I had to use always smelled like horses. Not manure or hay but the actually animal itself. It always wigged me out but no one else seemed to notice.
My mom's company car smelled like frogs because one time she pulled an Oregon Trail and tried to fjord a flooded bridge (in her defense, she watched someone else do it without a problem, she just overestimated how tall her car was). She got stuck, crawled out through the window and into the roof, flagged down a guy in a pickup truck to drive her back to her parents' house, and my grandpa drove her back to the bridge in his truck, put on his waders, hitched up the car with a bit of chain, and pulled her out. She left the car to dry out over the weekend and told no one until the day she left the company, when she told a friend of hers who would always ask about the smell. The car apparently went to the CEO of the company because it was a newer make. She's still laughing about that to this day.
He got weirded out when I made a comment about dancing naked in the woods under the harvest moon, but that might have just been a cover-up for his nefarious pigeon eating.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 01:36:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was insanely confused as to how fat your instructor had to be for you to brush up against their right leg while changing gears and then I realized that you're probably just not from America and don't sit on the left to drive
Yeah, when I was learning one of the instructors would keep his legs spread out while he was in the passenger seat, and he was also infamous for always wearing shorts.
I don't want to have to touch your hairy leg every time I go to shift, dude.
Dude, it's gonna be a fact of life if you drive a manual. Any girl that sits with her legs crossed in the front seat gets in the way of the shifter, really annoying.
DubPwNz · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My instructor was a fucking asshole who screamed at me for doing something wrong. He was near retirement and had his own tiny driving school so I couldn't change instructors. It was fucking hell and took me so long to finally get the license. First time driving alone felt so relieving and 100000x easier.
One thing I had to learn the hard way was that your instructor may (I'm using may here because not all instructors are shitty) tell you the wrong things. Study your local laws and driving rule book(s) and go out with an experienced driver for practice.
Best driving tip I ever got was from my father. When I was learning I wanted to look directly at the road in front of my car, he told me to look further out (think several cars to dozens of cars ahead, depending on if you're on a straight or curvy road).
my hand brushes past his right leg when I'm changing gear
So... basically the UK, former UK colony, or Japan... I'm not really sure if I could change gears with my left hand. Not yet tried that experience.
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 04:21:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 05:40:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Either those legs are VERY fat, or you're in one of the countries where people drive on the wrong side.
Why are you learning to drive on a manual? It seems like a rather hard way to do it. It is safer to learn on an automatic, then get some hours on the road, until the steering, braking, and situational awareness factors are well-learned. Then add in the whole have-to-shift thing.
I'm a hang glider pilot. We start out on simple-to-fly gliders doing simple things. Once we can do more complex things on simple gliders, we work on situational awareness. Then after you have some amount of air-sense accumulated, you get a more complicated glider (one that either requires active aerodynamic control, like flaps or variable-geometry, or is less forgiving in stall conditions).
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 03:57:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Ontario if you don't get your full license 5 years after getting your G1/learners permit you have to start from the beginning again. Is it like that in BC to?
Though one convenience is the waiting periods don't apply. My G2 expired while I was in University + I got my G2 back relatively quickly once I had access to a car again.
Mate from America grew up in Aus during teenage years and got his licence here. When we went back to the states went for the driving test over there. Failed. 'Ok, thanks' gets in car and drives back home. (Aus licences work for up to 3 months over there I think).
calmelb · 5 points · Posted at 05:22:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They fixed that here in Australia (at least in Victoria) if you have one of the licences that can't be converted directly (aka you need to sit a test) and you fail the test then your foreign licence is invalid throughout Victoria
My dad rode his motorcycle for years and years on just a permit (he just kept renewing it) finally the DMV caught on and he was told that he had to take the test.
I've been doing this in the US with my Motorcycle permit for the last ten years at least, I just renew it ever couple years. Apparently it's so common that they have signs up in the DMV telling motorcyclists just to get a license already.
Trenthw · 2 points · Posted at 05:15:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You just took the L
Lovehat · 2 points · Posted at 05:15:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They had something similar here for motorcycle licenses.
It used to be that to ride for 2months you'd only had to pass the written. After the 2months you'd have to write the written test again. It was just as good as the full license except you could carry a passenger.
At the end of the riding season you'd let your license lapse until the next year.
It was a lame exploit but the evaluators were notoriously evil when it came to doing the driving test for a motorcycle. They would find any possible excuse to fail you.
Written test cost $10 and was good for 2months
Riding test was $150 and was almost a guaranteed fail.
After reading pages and pages and pages, yours is the only one I've seen that is actually a loophole. Apparently most people don't know what the word means...
This wasn't my first time doing this, but in 2014 sears/Kmart had a patch kit you could buy online, for 15 dollars, but gave you 30 dollars back in points. After you had points you could pay for another with all but 1 penny in points and get another 30 dollars in points. You could also by multiples at once
Over 10,000 dollars in patch kits later, I had a 2 new TV's, a full new electric tool set, and about 3,000 in tablets I sold to pay for an awesome christmas for my family.
I called it the great sears heist of 2014. Sears has somewhat caught on to these things now, so you can't do it anymore, but what a crazy 2-3 years it was...
By the way, I also got around 500 patch kits in the mail..... couldn't believe they actually shipped all of them, was hilarious
BeeGravy · 1042 points · Posted at 03:34:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Am I the only idiot who doesn't know what the fuck a "patch kit" is?
It's a bucket with plaster in it, sandpaper, sanding block and all the stuff needed to fix a hole in the wall after you punched a hole in it in your anger.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:28:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Have you ever owned a bicycle or a car, or a pair of pants or jacket? It's a kit, that patches things. Usually some kind of material, with attached or applicable adhesive (glue).
It's for bike tires, consists of some type of glue, sandpaper, the likes.
ShyKat · 2 points · Posted at 04:07:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I assume it's a kit that includes all the supplies you need to patch things i.e. Jeans, tents, jackets, or maybe a water bed depending on the specific type of patch.
From reading the replies it seems that most are in agreement that it might be a patch kit of some type.
Maybe for tires. Maybe for a tent. But certainly it is in kit format.
[deleted] · 722 points · Posted at 01:39:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is some Soprano type shit here. A scam like this would buy you a cameo in 1, maybe 2 episodes.
Jackie Aprile Jr. would shake you down for a piece of the action, and tell you that if you keep paying, he will introduce you to Tony. After about 5 payments, you would get impatient and visit Tony's strip club, which you knew about because Jackie mentioned it once.
You see him walk in and follow him to the back, but he's never heard of you, and Paulie grabs you to take you outside. Once outside, Paulie asks for details of the scam, and then tells you he wants 10 points and a new TV, or he's gona break your legs.
The next time Jackie shows up to collect, you tell him to fuck off because Tony has never even heard of you, and they beat you up and take your wallet.
Then Sears catches on, and you can't pay Paulie, so he starts grabbing a bunch of tablets to take as payment, but your cousin Carmine comes home early and gets pissed when he sees what's happening, so Paulie shoots him. You panic, but now that you've witnessed a murder, Paulie has to clip you too.
hicow · 11 points · Posted at 04:52:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
But Paulie doesn't do it right and you scamper off into the woods, never to be seen again.
mako591 · 4 points · Posted at 05:05:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is the one loose end that bothers me to this day. Why didn't the guy show up again? Why didn't the Russians become a problem? Why leave the plot line open but never return to it?
He died is the easiest solution. Sure he ran for a bit, and lost them, but he's dead.
mako591 · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Agreed, but I think if that's what they intended, we should have seen it. Have Paulie and Silvio find him at the end. It just felt sloppy to have such a huge loose end that we never saw again.
After a few weeks, sears caught on, but could not actually charge me the amount of all the patch kits, so they gave me -10,000,000 points on my account and to this day the account cannot successfully order anything anymore.....worth it..
Wow lol you must have never been to a hospital. A Patch kit contains a happy doctor who later commits suicide and makes the whole world a little more depressing.
Used to work at a Kmart and did similar things with what I saw from ads and stuff. Got fired for it but it was a nasty place anyways.
-Wesley- · 14 points · Posted at 04:20:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't get the net gain? $10k spent on kits and only received $4-6k back in merchandise?
CrzyJek · 26 points · Posted at 04:40:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Spent $15 on a kit. Got $30 in points. Spent $14.99 in points and 1 additional penny from his pocket for a second patch kit. Got another $30 in points. Now he spent $15.01 from his pocket but has $45 total in points. Rinse repeat.
Daamus · -1 points · Posted at 16:56:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
ok, but what did he do with the hundreds of patch kits!?
CrzyJek · 2 points · Posted at 16:59:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well he either sold them cheap for extra cash or just stuck them somewhere...No clue. All that matters is that he most likely spent around $20...And maybe shipping costs....But had a net profit of THOUSANDS. It really was a legal heist lol.
I lived with my roommate at the time who HATED tons of stuff lying around, so I gave them to a local car shop, they thought I was a criminal of some kind, but they took them, probably tossed them all eventually.
Jay9313 · 17 points · Posted at 04:44:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
He didn't spend $10k on patch kits. He purchased 1 for $15, then each successive one costed him $0.01. Each time he spent a penny, he got $15 in points back.
He spent roughly $22 on the patch kits, but they are worth over $10,000, plus he also got the electronics in the process
He buys a $15 dollar patch kit, and gets $30 worth of points back. Then he used $14.99 of those points, and one penny of his actual money, to buy another patch kit. He gets another $30 dollars worth of points back, now he has $45.01 worth of points. He keeps repeating this until he has about $10,000 in points, and basically only had to pay for the first patch kit. Then he can redeem those points for other things Sears offers.
So the first one is $15 and you get $30 to spend at Sears, you now have a patch kit and $30 credit.
Then you buy another patch kit for $15 using $14.99 of Sears credit plus 1 penny of your own money (their terms apparently?). You get another patch kit plus $30 Sears credit, your total Sears credit is now $45.01 and you have spent $15.01 of your own money.
Now buy another patch kit for $15 using $14.99 of Sears credit plus 1 penny, you receive another patch kit plus $30, your total Sears credit is now $60.02 and you have spent $15.02 of your own money.
Now instead of buying one patch kit, you can buy four with your $60.02 of credit and 4 of your own pennies, you'll get $120 in Sears credit. Now you can buy 8 for 8 pennies + Sears credit, then 16 for 16 pennies + Sears credit and so on and so on, rising exponentially because Sears.com allowed multiple orders of the same item to accrue twice the Sears credit that they cost.
Sears probably figured it wouldn't matter because the customer was spending that $15 on their website anyway, and would likely purchase items for a lot more than $15 but failed to account for the loophole that would generate $15 of credit for 1 penny which I think is around a 99.96% discount of a full priced item.
So the net gain is 99.96% discount on anything on Sears.com, plus a shipment of 500+ patch kits.
Because to sears/kmart at the time, getting immediate payment for something is worth more than offering you 30 dollars in "fake" money, its also the idea behind rebates (80% of people never file a rebate, therefore the company has made extra money off of you)
Yeah, it just seems a crazy amount to give away. Like even if they gave you $15 as points for every 15 you spend on certain products, you would have a decent incentive to shop there but it wouldn't self replicate, and you would have to keep spending money to rack up those $15s into something good. But with 15/30 it just seems like they are giving away an obvious loop. Whoever thought that up and whoever agreed to it, should really not be in business!
from what Google says, it should be a tube repair kit of bike tire repair kit
tL1ght · 10 points · Posted at 03:52:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One year 06/07ish Sears/K-Mart made the mistake and anyone that applied for a credit card got approved.
Like everyone nationwide on Black Friday got approved for a Sears card....
right before the housing bubble popped....
right before the economy crashed.....
This is why Sears and Kmart are both going out of business.
I used to work at a sears and a good chunk of our orientation into the job was learning the different ways people try to scam our points system and how to try and prevent it. They really have a broken and easily manipulated setup.
Sears actually was partially smart about that, if you returned items that gave points, but the points were already redeemed, you SOMETIMES were given a credit back MINUS the points used, so it was a wash if you returned the items.
So you really only paid full price for one kit and then 1penny for each thereafter? And it was free shipping too? Did you figure out this scheme yourself, or do you think Sears lost significant $$$ on this stupid deal? The points could only be spent on certain items, though? (Flipping 100 tablets is probably not worth the effort for me, maybe.)
I actually have been a slickdeals member for years (where someone mentioned it in a thread), but the thread was not about the patch kits at all, it was hidden on the last page someone had found it out. Once I made 1 order of like 5, I kept going bigger until I bought everything I wanted from their website basically.
I'm sure people have done crazier things than me, so I doubt they lost THAT much money. And no the points could be used on ANYTHING.
Nowhere near the same level, but I did something similar with Discover and Barnes & Noble.
Around 2012-ish, Discover would let you buy Barnes & Noble gift cards at a 10% discount ($45 gets you $50) using your cashback rewards. And then they'd run a 10% cashback promo on anything bought at Barns & Noble. The thing is, the cashback applied as long as the default payment instrument on your account was your Discover card, even if you didn't actually use it. So I'd use my Discover card normally, get cashback, turn the cashback into BN gift cards at a 10% discount, and then buy Nook books from BN.com using only the gift card money and get another 10% cashback. I didn't pay for books with real money for several years.
As a bonus, Nook books had easily cracked DRM and were otherwise industry-standard epubs. So I'd get high quality epub books I could crack and put on my phone rather than having to use the terrible Nook app.
The crazy thing with kmart/Sears? For years you could buy things with all but 1 penny in points from the discover portal, and you would get the full % back on the entire purchase price, for another deal with bluetooth speakers at the end of 2014 I was MAKING money and getting free points at sears hahaha
I came here to post this. I think we both wrecked it. I got around five thousand dollars in tools. UPS was showing up at my house with 75 packages a day. The driver was so upset.
The funny apart about mine is that I never had to spend any money. They sent me the free points through my email to entice me to spend money. I just rolled that into more points and it just snowballed.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:35:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I once had a guy use a loophole in a gift card promotion to get a new fridge for $129 when the original price was closer to $1199. He would have gotten it for free but he ended up getting the service agreement. I still got full commission, so it was cool with me.
HOW
Seriously, how did he do that?
Daamus · 2 points · Posted at 16:58:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
fuck I need to know about things like this when they are still available, is there a subreddit or website to find these types of things out!?!?
Gave em to a local car shop, not sure what they did with them. I had absolutely zero use for them, and wasn't interested in shipping boxes of them around.
I think he spent $15 on the very first kit, but only 1 penny for every subsequent kit. So $10k in patch kits means he spent $15 on the first one, and $7~ for the others I think
I was 25 at the time, new tools, new TV, some walking around cash with about 10-15 tablet purchases I sold. I already felt like I was a greedy monster haha.
wighty · 0 points · Posted at 05:49:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I am semi calling BS. Even as far back as 2013 Sears was not allowing "rolling" of points -- ie whatever amount of points you use directly decreases the amount of points you would receive.
Spending $15 should have netted you the initial $30 in points, and then POTENTIALLY you should have only been getting a free patch kit for each purchase in points you made.
Then again Sears is pretty idiotic so if you show some proof I'd believe you that their system was broken and allowed you to do what you shouldn't have been able to do.
Incorrect, this was not the last time, but my best time ever doing this, in 2014 later in the year, they did the same thing with 32" LED TV's (100 dollars for the TV, 100 dollars back in points, and it rolled), feel free to look up some old threads on slickdeals, you are mistaken on rolling points, they have rolled probably since mid-2015.
wighty · 1 points · Posted at 04:28:25 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
free to look up some old threads on slickdeals
I've likely looked at 90% of them already.
they have rolled probably since mid-2015
And here is where you are so wrong. It is highly unusual for points to roll since like 2013.
Verizon had a deal where if you switch over a line from another carrier, and give them you smart phone you get 2 additional GB of data per line and a smartphone. All 4 of my family members had newer iPhones, but instead of trading those in we went to Walmart and bought 4 "smart phones" for 30$ each and traded those in without even taking them out of the packaging. Saved a bunch of money, kept our nice phones, got 8GB of free data, and got 4 new smart phones for free.
When i worked at metro pcs we had a deal where you'd get a pretty good smartphone for free if you switched from another carrier. We were actually encouraged to tell people to go to Walmart or the dollar tree, buy the 20 dollar trac phone, activate it, then switch that number to our service to get the discount.
[deleted] · 85 points · Posted at 04:21:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Most businesses have a level of complexity that develops over time, wherein operational disconnects / inconsistencies arise and present the opportunity for exploitation. This isn't the origin of the issue (or financial justification for a Loss Prevention Department) - that is Human Nature.
I wish it were that simple though; That we could create a perfect system (business plan, laws, etc) to guard against unethical action. That's been an endeavor pursued over centuries, a philosophical debate that has yet to produce such a perfect solution. Critical contributing factors being:
Humans are imperfect and cunning,
Any solution presumably requires adoption / participation by us (it could be debated we could design around this, but how does one control freewill, and should we if we could?)
The underlying structure that the system (business plan, laws, etc) intends to address is organic
I have no definite answer in this regard. Greater minds than mine have attempted to address this and weren't successful.
Condawg · 1 points · Posted at 07:17:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How's it unfortunate? I mean, people finding loopholes and getting good deals is awesome, but obviously the companies should work to prevent it.
Unfortunate in that people will exploit loopholes for their personal benefit at the detriment of their organization. I should have been clearer on this point - I agree with you here.
I have friends that work for a Verizon store and the store is a franchise that gets paid from Verizon by their metrics. The managers there teach and encourage all kinds of crazy use and abuse of loopholes because they pay their sales people according to the same structure that Verizon pays them.
Confirmed. My manager used to use a service to generate cell numbers, and we would use those numbers for ports and offer a "free phone if you sign up on the [expensive] plan, and but two accessories"
The incentives for a manager free of morals that just wants sales commissions is to do exactly this. And even if they don't say it, customers are still incentivized to do it.
The contract is worth more than the free phone. Business is fickle and the outcome isn't always obvious. If the customer thinks they're getting something for cheap, especially if they think they cheated the system, they'll keep coming back.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:47:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
depends on the phone. lowest quality iphone or samsung/lg/htc phone is $650, metro pcs is like 30 a month. so 2 years of that doesn't even cover the phone. sometimes you actually are just cheating the system.
this is also why almost no cell companies do service contracts anymore. because phones cost so much now.
That actually depends on how you crunch the numbers. If you compare retail price, maybe, that's a $650 phone for a $300 contract doesn't meet up. But stores never buy at retail, especially if it's an iphone you know there's a huge markup from production cost. Expect half on most retail goods, so ~$300 for the wholesale cost of the phone, but the phone only comes if you get the deluxe package, which you think 'that's great because I saved so much on the phone I can splurge on a better package' and now instead of $30 you're up to $70 a month. So now you've basically halved the phone cost and doubled the contract cost, and that's before you get nitpicky with things like replacement insurance, data overages, multiple lines, etc...
There's also gonna be some people who do get out cheaper, and game the system to their advantage. But there's also a lot of people who don't. If you make one losing sale to a guy, and he tells his 5 friends what a great deal he got, and those 5 go get a contract but they aren't as thrifty, and they get the expensive bells and whistles and the company does make money off them, then that means the company took one small hit to make 5 more good deals. Super saving works only because most people don't.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:22:18 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is terrible for the environment and creates the worst kind of e-waste, unused products that go directly into the trash.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 03:47:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You frequent Slickdeals.net, don't you?
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 04:39:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When Sprint started their iPhone forever plan. There was a promo for a $200 guaranteed trade in of an iPhone 5, and a $7 month discount for trading in any phone ($84 assuming you upgraded 12 months later). I don't believe you were supposed to be able to do both. It was meant to give anyone a trade in bonus no matter what. If a customer came in with an iPhone 5 I'd trade it in for $200, then use $20 of that to buy another phone and trade that in also to save them another $84. Not bad for an aging phone that would have been difficult to resell.
Att did a promotion where almost any smart phone trade in netted you $100 in credits. I bought about 10 old droid pros on eBay for $30 each and netted about $700 in att bill credits.
When? I've seen this deal a bunch of times, they take your smartphone and give you credit towards a new model. They'd never trade 1 for 1 based on it being a "smartphone".
We just did a similar thing on telus through best buy. Best buy has a deal where if you give them "a phone" to be recycled, they give you $50 off the price of the upfront cost of the phone. It also just so happened that tells had s7's on for $50 dollars when you sign on for a two year contract. The contract was already the same price as it was before so we went to the recycling place and grabbed 4 phones ills old flip phones for free. One of them was snapped in half. Best buy had no issues taking them as they were cell phones. We then sold our 4 old samsung s4 mini's for a total of $550.
Haha nice. I worked at Verizon and if people were kind I'd send them over to Goodwill or Value Village to pickup a shitty phone for 5 bucks. Usually they'd bring back an old school Blackberry and they'd end up bringing me a Starbucks card occasionally. It felt nice helping people save money and they were usually very appreciative.
I did that with Verizon. I bought a $30 smart phone at Best Buy and got "$200 for any trade it" for it. Actually Verizon gave me $10, and some promotions company mailed me a check for $190.
jblv · 2 points · Posted at 07:14:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did this when I switched from AT&T to T-Mobile a couple years ago. I believe the deal was that they paid your early termination fee when you traded in your old phone.
Confirmed with a T-Mobile store employee that it didn't have to be the phone registered to the number I was porting, then went next door to Best Buy and bought the cheapest GoPhone (AT&T's prepaid service) for $30 or something to get my $200+ ETF paid.
There was this vending machine at my school that made hot coco. I was bored at pressed every button on it. Apparently one button worked without paying. So every morning I went to school and pressed the button. It worked from last year till now. Some people notices it and also took advantage. So it was finally repaired
Sieje · 445 points · Posted at 02:23:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My school had a vending machine which could accept 5 cent coins but not refund them. Instead it would give out a 10 cent, so you could just save up a dollar or so in 5 cents and double your money. Lasted a couple of years before the school realised what was happening.
my school has a vending machine just like this, except with candy/chips. If you pressed one particular button, not only would it give you the food in that slot, but it would also drop a couple dimes into the "change" slot. They just fixed it a couple months ago. Such a depressing day in my life.
Nalowale · 614 points · Posted at 03:53:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I once owned a large vending machine. I would put candy/chips that had reached their expiration date or ones that would reach it before I would restock it again in a free slot. I didn't announce that the slot was free. In the state I had the vending machine in you're not legally allowed to sell expired candy. So, I gave it away rather than eat it myself. People knew about and shared the 'secret' of the vending machine. But, because of it I made more money than I lost; and eventually had no use for the expired candy row. Because the machine had become so popular around the office building.
madhi19 · 137 points · Posted at 04:28:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a marketing scheme you might be on to something.
Once you already walk over to the machine with the thought of free candy dancing in your mind, if the row is empty you aren't going to just walk away with no candy when a measly dollar is all that separates you from what you want.
forresja · 25 points · Posted at 05:09:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's basically a loss leader, definitely not a new concept.
oh man, that really is slick. The best part for you is that they have already made the trip to the vending machine, so even if there isn't any free stuff, you have them in your vending grips
Nice, don't see how this could be taken as bad as everyone seems to win. People get free stuff, you unload stock that you don't need/want for free without it having to go to waste and the news of it brings you more customers.
We had a vending machine in my freshman dorm that gave out free stuff, but only when the drunk kid from my hallway smashed the glass open with a golf club, something he did twice before they expelled him.
At our school, there was a vending machine for gatorades, there was a loophole where you would get multiple bottles if you mashed the button while insert the last coin to reach the price. You had a few seconds to spam that shit.
On good days, I would get 3 for 1, and resell the other two for half price. So mine cost nothing and 2 people got theirs at 50%.
The vending machine at my school had a sensor to tell if the food dropped into the bin, and if it didn't it would push out the slot 3 or so times before locking down that slot
So what would happen is sometimes chips would get stuck on the way down and it would drop another one, that second one would dislodge the first and you'd get two for the price of one
I haven't seen it happen much since then (mainly because laws prevent vending machines from operating during lunch now) so I am not sure if they fixed it or not
We had a soda vending machine that if you clicked any button quickly enough it would give you two instead of one each time you paid.
So that was pretty cool.
-Sarek- · 1 points · Posted at 08:10:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At my school, I found out if you pressed the button twice at the right intervals or in the correct time-frame (I don't really remember), you'd get 2 sodas for the price of one. That's all I got :/
one time i was at a hotel and went to get a snack from the vending machine. I put in i think 2$. It gave me my candy and 4$ back. I decided to buy another candy, put 2$ in, got 4$ back and my candy again. Tried it a third time, just got my candy. But hey, I basically got 3 candybars for no money
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 04:12:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This just happened to me today, but with $1 in quarters and chips instead of $4 and candy. I wonder why the third time it decided to ruin my dreams,
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 03:57:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had one similar where when you put a 5 in and pressed return it would spit out the original 5 and 5 in coins. I probably made 150 bucks off that over the weeks til they fixed it
The soda machine in the teachers lounge at my high school used to do that. Students weren't supposed to go into the teachers lounge, but free soda is free soda.
[deleted] · 191 points · Posted at 00:46:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Jbau01 · 134 points · Posted at 00:52:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
they watched probably. you just don't throw away free coffee
The rink where I did figure skating lessons as a kid had something similar to this. Every time you ordered a cappuccino, it would say "winner!" and give it to you for free. Didn't work with any other drink though, so that's how I learned to like coffee.
One time I tried to buy a bag of doritos from the vending machine at college but they had accentally set the price to 100 instead of 1.00. Too rich for my blood.
In university we had a coffee machine like this. If you selected a mocha and pressed just below the button, it would cost you a dime instead of $1.50. This went on for years and most night owls and smokers knew the mocha trick
kathios · 4 points · Posted at 03:51:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had this happen at work with reese's peanut butter cups. Worked for months until some moron got a box and took all of them at once. Fixed on the next restock.
Not quite the same, but I went to a combined middle school/high school.
When I started, I noticed that the seniors were messing with the little cat flap on the change slot but thought nothing of it, until my change got stuck in the cat flap.
Turned out the big kids were jamming coins in that cat flap every day so it would catch any change before it would hit the bottom. Robin Hood that I am, my friends and I got free gummi bears for months before the vending machines were phased out (healthy eating BS)
One of my high schools had one of those rotating vending machines where you slide the slot to access the food. One of the positions let you access two slots with a single door. I got bogo muffins for two months before I moved.
We had a vending machine that must have had a poorly placed drop sensor.
If you held open the flap you grab the pop out of when you made the choice it would fall and be caught by the theft protection shield. You could then hit the coin change and then let the pop fall the rest of the way.
Our school had a vending machine with one of the early card readers on it. It was so primitive that it would accept most cards with a magnetic strip on the back. So for a while I was getting free food using my library card. After a year and a half of this I told someone in the year below me as I was about to graduate. Within two days the machine was empty and it was carted away by the end of the week.
Some people notices it and also took advantage. So it was finally repaired
I hate people who can't show discretion enough to keep the free ride from ending.
nyccfan · 3 points · Posted at 04:34:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This was about 15 years ago. My college dorm had vending machines that you could use your student ID to deduct from funds you added at the beginning of the semester to pay for things on campus. The order went: swipe card, item drops, card is charged. Until they fixed it I would just unplug the machine right after the item dropped. Got free snacks for a semester until too many people figured it out and they fixed it.
We discovered the vending machine in my year 8 dorm would take two 5c pieces glued together as $2 coins. We cleaned that baby out. Then they took it away.
I bought some food from a machine at the airport and paid using my credit card, then promptly forgot about it. When I got back from holiday I saw the charge from a company in a part of the city I never go to and complained to the bank, saying I couldn't have made the purchase because I was at the airport, getting on a plane. They refunded my money.
Later, I remembered what I bought and realised that the machine is registered to the company and says the purchase was made at the company's address, even though the machine is actually at the airport.
Geez everyone here seems to have had cool vending machines. The best I had paying for a Gatorade but pressing the button twice quickly to get two bottles for the price of one
I had this vending machine in community college with a conveyor belt that I could get 2 energy drinks out of if I held the door thingy shut and then it would also give me $2 back in quarters. I was broke as shit while going there, so it helped me take the bus home and have something to drink all day.
We had vending machines in my highschool that consisted of 1 snack machine and 1 drink machine on the main level at the top of the stairs that went to the lower level. The drink machine on the upper level only sold like fruit drinks, water and juices. On the lower level was another snack machine and drink machine, however this drink machine had the good stuff like Mr. Pibb, Pepsi, Coca Cola and Sprite. So of course that was my favorite as well as many others.
For some unknown stupid reason they would turn the machines on lock mode during lunch time so you couldn't buy any snacks or drinks and be forced to get milk or pay more for the same exact fruit flavored drinks if you bought one from the lunch line (they only sold fruit flavored drinks in the lunch line as they deemed it "healthier" just because it said fruit in the name). Anyways, everyone knew this so they would either buy their drinks the class period before lunch or bring their own.
My dad is a maintenance man who worked at GE on the night shift and he was responsible for repairing the assembly line machines if they broke down, because he needed access to different areas and multiple locks and mechanisms he was given the master key set to everything, this included like 3 universal keys that fit all drink and snack machines, and for the ones that were in the break room at his work. When I told him the deal with the school turning off the vending machines during lunch, he brought me 1 of those extra universal keys and told me to take it to school and see if it worked to turn the machines back on.
Of course it did, so every day at lunch I would slip downstairs, turn the machine off lock mode, get my Pibb, return it to lock mode and proceed to lunch. I let my closest friends in on my little hack of sorts and they too were soon enjoying a nice cold drink of their choice during lunch. They best out of all of this is when the so called popular kids and jocks found out, the same ones that would torment and torture me and my friends and even bully the kids with Down's syndrome, they would ask me to use it for them so they could get thier snacks and drinks too. Ummmm, HELL NO!!, and it felt so good to tell them that to, they looked at me like, but I'm the head cheerleader or I'm the teams captain you need to do this, and I'm over here like, BYE FELICIA. Maybe they'll remember that next time before they treat someone like crap, they may actually need them one day!
Did something like this in middle school with a vending machine. Ducking around I found the "code" to get a free drink. Now my memories hazy on the but I can't remember if it gave me an extra drink or if hitting the return money button initiated it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My school used to have a vending machine that would serve 6 Gatorades for the price of 1. $10 in Gatorades was how I made $60.
At my school for the longest time if you pressed the 2 Pepsi buttons at once, it'd spit out 2, maybe 3 cans for the price of one.
Xaxxon · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At work there was a vending machine where the drink would get stuck as it tried to fall. There was a optical sensor that would detect if anything fell and if it didn't, it would give you your money back.
A swift kick to the side of the machine after the money was refunded would drop the drink.
In middle school, there was a vending machine outside the teacher's lobby. If you inserted your money, and rapidly pressed the button for a drink, you would get as many drinks as button presses before the first drink rolled out.
So if you hit the button twice, two drinks for the price of one. Best we managed was 8 drinks at a time.
AAA1374 · 1 points · Posted at 08:15:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is why I'm so proactive in telling people about loopholes.
See, it's the opposite of what you'd expect. You tell people, you control the spread. Make sure you explain out, "Hey, don't abuse this or make it obvious that we're doing this or it'll get noticed. Be discreet."
Worked 80% of the time. The other 20% was usually just some random asshole fucking it all up, but most things tended to stay around as long as I had involvement in them.
Papa johns website used to let you stack coupons. They had a coupon - 3 mediums for 21$. They also had 5 off 20, 4 off 16, and 3 off 12 coupons. As long as you applied them in the right order you could get 3 mediums for 9$. I probably shouldn't think too much about how many times I used that.
I'm reading so many papa johns loopholes in this post. They really need to hire better tech guys.
[deleted] · 55 points · Posted at 05:11:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's probably the only way they can get people to eat their pizzas tbh.
fco83 · 17 points · Posted at 05:25:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, if you're paying full price for their pizzas, you're overpaying. Its not bad pizza, i like papa johns more than the other chains, but its still overpriced.
There is never a time you cannot get at least a 40% off code.
chewyxc · 1 points · Posted at 22:39:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I honestly think they do have better toppings and sauce than the other two major chains but I usually can't justify spending double the amount for a large when I can carry out one somewhere else for half that. College student priorities. Quantity over quality
Is Papa John's considered a shit pizza place in the US? I have to say, I only just recently found out that they have stores in the UK but I (and most people I know) consider it really good pizza and it's my entire house's go-to pizza place.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 05:37:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They're pretty good for a chain, but in a lot of areas you can do better with local places. There may also be some differences between them in the US and the UK, that happens sometimes.
Archsys · 2 points · Posted at 05:21:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eh; they're one of the few major franchises that doesn't use Milk in their crust, so there's that...
Yeah they really do. I worked there for a year and a half, will work there once in a while, and the back end is awful too. Everything is so slow and unintuitive and just a pain in the ass.
Boy it was a sad day when I realized I couldn't stack coupons anymore. The delivery guys used to think I had some relationship with management because I always got so much shit for so cheap.
gensouj · 9 points · Posted at 05:07:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Papa johns gave out free pizzas evertime you paid with visa checkout. So starting with a free.pizza coupon i just added a topping and did visa checkout. Ended up with dozens of 2 dollars 2 topping large pizzas.
Back when they first started their "point" system where 25 points gets you a free pizza, to actually get the pizza you had to click "redeem" and it would give you the code to put in. The code was "papa25" and after I earned my first free pizza and knew what the code was, I just kept reusing the code every week because they didn't check to see if you had enough points. So I had free pizza for a couple of months.
There was a vending machine in our dorms where you could select an option put in a dollar unplug the machine and get your item and dollar back. We used that most every day until a kid with morals told our live in professor about the loophole
EDIT: So apparently barely anyone got that I was trying to make a joke, and actually /u/PRW56 pointed out below what I was getting at. There are constant TILs and other reddit posts about how Satanism is about respecting everyone, how no one should approach someone for sex without their consent, etc. I was not in fact trying to say Satanists don't have morals, just thought it was a funny statement, because I think often times people don't think "someone with morals" and their first thought is Satanists.
PRW56 · 4 points · Posted at 06:03:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Satanists seem like pretty good people, so you might be right. From the satanic temple website:
There are seven fundamental tenets.
One should strive to act with compassion and empathy towards all creatures in accordance with reason.
The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo your own.
Beliefs should conform to our best scientific understanding of the world. We should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit our beliefs.
People are fallible. If we make a mistake, we should do our best to rectify it and resolve any harm that may have been caused.
Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word
At my mate's uni they had a vending machine that did not keep the drinks very cold so they pulled the back off and turned up the thermostat. Unfortunately they overdid it and the cans froze and started exploding.
The owner was understandably pissed off so came in to take the machine away. Unfortunately the building had been remodelled since it was put in and it no longer fit down the new stairs.
The man gave up and left it so the (engineering) students drilled the lock off the front, brought in their own drinks, and essentially used it as a fridge
fb39ca4 · 92 points · Posted at 04:47:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Engineering students can get very creative with vending machines.
Professor then proceeds to exploit the loophole himself.
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'Okay. Sent from iPhone."
"Why'd you say that out loud?"
"Oh my bad. Reflex."
kblaney · 7 points · Posted at 05:34:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can confirm that this is exactly what I have done.
"I'll tell someone about that," comes with an unspoken, "if I don't forget by the time this conversation is over," which comes with a tacit, "I'm going to forget this by the time this conversation is over."
I have one of these at work that does that. I don't feel bad either because that thing ate my money so many times.
Smgt90 · 4 points · Posted at 04:43:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In our dorms there was a vending machine that for a strange reason would take all coins normally but not the nickels. If you used a nickel, it would count it but give it back to you. So, you just had to keep inserting the same nickel over and over again until you reached the desired amount. It got fixed eventually.
My first dorm room was directly across from an elevator area, which contained the only vending machine in the whole building. Well, the flap that the drinks come through that prevent people from reaching up into the machine had broken, leaving my skinny arm able to reach in there and pull drinks out. The problem was that once I pulled a drink out of a slot, the only way to refill it was to pay for another drink. This meant that I could pull all the available drinks, chill in my dorm room with the door open, and wait for some unsuspecting patron to come along and put a buck in for a tasty refreshment. I enjoyed listening to them get frustrated as the machine "ate their dollar." Then they would inevitably walk off without trying again, and I would go and pull the drink. Did this for months until the flap was finally fixed.
There's a broken vending machine next to our digital arts lab that dispenses anywhere from 1 to 4 of whatever you chose. 4 full bottles of cold water for $1 is like a jackpot to an overworked design student, let me tell you.
reminds me of an arcade we'd visit. If you brought a screwdriver with you, you could just 'pop' the arcade joystick shelving off and press the credit button 50 times with your finger. Boom. Instant 50 games of Mortal Kombat III for an hour for nothing. Use that money you saved for weed, cigarettes, and beer.
Bonus if you steal weed, cigarettes, and beer.
Then you spend that money on Taco Bell cheesoritos.
Nertez · 0 points · Posted at 04:58:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
unplug the machine
That's not a loophole, that's literally stealing.
"Hey, I found this loophole where you send officially looking e-mails to many people and some of them will put their bank account logins and passwords in it and then you can use them to take all their money! But then, this motherfucker with morals said we shouldn't do it! What an asshole!"
Similar to this a company I may or may not still work for once had the "latch" break on the vending machine (the part that drops down when the door opens so you cant get into the products. Well me being 10stone soaking wet with long skinny arms one day figured out I could bend my elbow in the drawer amd reach into the machine. Five deep on the bottom row, 3 deep on the second up and if i really stretched two deep on the third row. I must have taken that vending machine for at least £200 a month for 4-5 months before they fixed it. I'd get the chocolate for free and then either eat it or sell it to my colleagues at a discount price. Win win.
Something similar happened my freshman year of high school. One of the vending machines had a certain button that you could just press without having to put any money in and it would dispense a candy bar (Twix) for free. My friend group were the first ones to find out, and tried to keep it on the hush hush. This went on for 3 or 4 days until other people started to catch on, and eventually it got fixed. But I will never forget that week where every morning before class, I would get like 6 free Twix's.
Uber shouldnt get to do shit without paying taxes lol
RE5TE · 0 points · Posted at 02:31:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That does take money out of the pocket of an Uber driver. This mfer is why you need to tip.
rydan · -2 points · Posted at 02:39:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can't tip since the app doesn't support it and I'm not about to participate in tax avoidance. This is why you should use Lyft instead. They are like Uber but without the evil stuff.
Crasken · 9 points · Posted at 02:57:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Tips are considered as income and are taxed as such; usually jobs "require" cash tips to be reported as well, but almost nobody actually reports all their cash tips, while credit card tips are automatically reported.
Any money you make where no one can verify you made it shouldn't be reported, and any money you make that can be taxed but is under standard reporting thresholds shouldn't be reported either.
It's their job to catch you, and the IRS is woefully underfunded - while the odds of you getting caught aren't zero, they're so low that it makes more sense to roll the dice on some things.
I'll always tip in cash to help someone who feels the same way.
So where does this stop? Do I go around tipping bus drivers too everytime I take a bus? What about metro drivers?
I tip at places where I am expected to tip and I tip atleast 20% (its easier to calculate). But for a business that claims to run on not requiring the tip I wont go out of my way and tip. Also, doesn't uber generally have a surcharge on night trips?( Im not sure as I use it only for groceries and never used it in the night).
RE5TE · 3 points · Posted at 06:09:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They are lying about the tip. If you have groceries in the back of someone's car, you definitely need to tip. That is extra.
A buck won't kill you, right?
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If you were making less than $7.25/hr after tips, you must have either not been charging enough, or you didn't have enough customers. Was this your own business or were you a contractor?
rydan · -2 points · Posted at 03:15:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Actually Uber claims the tip is part of the fare. They explicitly say this even though it is a lie.
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RE5TE · 2 points · Posted at 06:29:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I just keep up with the industry. You don't know the current tipping status because Uber has not fulfilled it's part of a settlement from a big lawsuit last year.
They originally lied and said drivers could not accept tips, which makes no sense if drivers are really contractors. Then, after being sued, they tried your position: "tips are not necessary." They were sued again and lost last year.
Finally, tipping helps you. If you don't tip the bad drivers are paid the same as the good ones. Remember your worst ride ever? That guy got paid the same as your best ride. This race to the bottom only rewards the worst drivers with the cheapest cars because their costs are the lowest.
Finally, Uber will make it clear to riders that tips are not included in Uber’s fares. Drivers will be permitted to solicit tips from passengers -- a policy that competitor Lyft has long offered. Unlike Lyft, Uber will not be adding a tipping feature to its app.
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RE5TE · 2 points · Posted at 15:11:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah. They can easily add the tip line to their app. They don't because of people who don't want to tip.
Uber wants to attract those people by assuaging their guilt (over not tipping). Adding an OPTION subtracts nothing from Uber's bottom line. But it makes a few cheapskates feel a little worse.
Use LYFT. They've taken the opposite approach. It sorta makes sense to me that the tip withholders at Uber are also the most sued private tech company. Most recently for a culture of sexual harassment.
I think you're thinking of a merge! A surge is a sudden powerful forward or upward movement, especially by a crowd or by a natural force such as the waves or tide.
More like Government regulation bugged, Uber allowed to enter regulated market without boss battle, everyone who isn't Uber gets fucked, business press praises cheater for creativity, liberal capitalism instructs us this is good and not bad.
When there are not enough drivers, the price goes up to entice more to start ubering. When the imbalance gets crazy out of whack it can cost a lot to get an uber.
Also, besides encouraging drivers, it also discourages some people from using Uber due to the surge so in the end, if you really need to get somewhere you can. Personally, I will catch a tram or whatever if it's say 2.0x or more.
I put my referral code on the reviews of the Uber app and said it was worth $50 so everyone used mine. I got like 500 free rides. I think Uber caught on and expired them all pretty quick.
The one thing you gotta keep in mind is that the drivers give passengers reviews too, and if your cabbie catches on to you evading the bonus fare that to be honest, he deserves (the surges are graded on the required amount of drivers. The less available, the higher it'll be), he could report you or give you shit review which means you might have trouble getting picked up on occasion.
Merakel · 11 points · Posted at 04:52:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If it makes you feel better, google is about to fuck uber really hard, with no lube.
A guy from Uber stole some of Googles self driving cars information and designs. They're pretty serious allegations and some people might face jail time as a result
Merakel · 7 points · Posted at 05:41:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Aye, it's gonna be good. Uber provides a cool service, but they are totally douchebags about it.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 06:06:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yup. People act like it's something on part with tesla or Google. They're just taxi drivers with an app, and all the vehicle maintenance on their dime
Merakel · 4 points · Posted at 06:09:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The vehicle maintenance is the real kicker - if you add that into your calculations for how much money you are actually making... well you find out just how bad you are getting fucked.
I suppose it's easy to be critical sitting in my ivory tower though.
used to walk a .75 mile to lunch, order, eat, and a .75 mile back in 30 min...
google calculates it as .9 miles, but that's going a little longer way... 5 years of being on a big ten campus teaches you to walk fast to get from one end of campus to the other.
author screwed up, it's always been 0.1 miles (not 0.1 km); we don't really use the SI system for roads/distances here in the US. That's why a lot of what it talks about above is acreage size.
Lyft has something similar. If you need a car during surge, cancel your ride and choose "it's too expensive." Wait a few minutes and call another ride. It's almost always a few dollars cheaper. They just want your business.
It was during rush hour in Chicago, surge pricing lasts quite awhile. I tested it two different occasions and it seemed to work, so whatever it is I'll keep doing it.
I hate how unethical and merciless uber is in my city... But at the same time the local cabbies are just the fucking worst. They protested uber's unfair practices by congesting an arterial road on a weekday and driving like 5km/h for a solid couple hours.
So my choices are a wholly evil corporation that does everything they can, including breaking the law, to kill the competition and establish market dominance so they can jack the price up and sell for an above "market rate"... or legal companies that have rock bottom standards on smell, service, hospitality, and community engagement, not to mention are primarily owned by an oligarchy of shitheads that conspired to manipulate the market price of a taxi medallion so they could line their pockets off the backs of people who weren't fortunate enough to have been born at the right time and place to get in at the ground floor.
Is it really too much to ask for a company that sells me something at a fair market rate without exploiting anyone to make an honest buck within the bounds of the law?
I don't know how this even happened. It was a Sunday afternoon right after we finished our brunch so I doubt there was a surcharge. We had 5 people, therefore we had to request the more expensive SUV rides. We traveled ~15 miles within Orange County, and the total was 88 dollars. I was the least drunk of our party, and making conversation with the driver, he told me to use 3 different codes. I always thought you couldn't use them all at once, but for some miracle the app let m applied all the codes at once and ended up paying only 8 dollars.
They must have fixed whatever glitch they had soon after, because the next weekend I tried to add more codes, but it would only discount 5 dollars per ride.
Oh maybe that is what is going on for me. I have only looked a couple of times and it costs me more to take an uber 10 minutes to the airport than to park for 5 days. My dad on the other hand has taken a Uber 45 minutes for less than the price of my two 10 minute drives. I couldn't figure out why anyone uses Uber.
Another uber exploit that usually works but can be slightly risky: you and 3 friends need an uber downtown ? Each call for an uberpool, since you're all starting and ending in the same place, very likely you'll be grouped together and just pay less. Pretend not to know eachother for the ride though
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:35:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My dad drives Uber as a side job and made $1,240 during a 10x surge.
I've gotten out of concerts and there's a 10x surge
It can go that high? From what I've seen it maxed out at 3x or maybe a little higher (back when it actually displayed the surge multiplier, now it just gives you a fare estimate without actually saying what the surge is) even when coming out of concerts etc.
I should have posted screenshots. During a subway fire in my city the surge was like 5-8x depending on where you were. After a Beyoncé show it was 15x near the arena. In bad part of town where not many normal cabs exist.
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Cabs were utter shit and always wayyy over priced.
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thats unique. Many cities like my own cabs were utter garbage and still are.
When this occurred for me while I lived in Austin, TX (awhile back), I would compare lift and Uber and usually I could get past surge charges between the two options.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Uber has both regular and surge rates for their ride pricing. Surge rates are applied under certain conditions, when the demand for rides gets high enough. Examples of when surge rates might apply include: the bar district on st patrick's, any city on new year's eve, at a stadium as a playoff game is letting out, etc. Does that make sense?
So a few years back, when I was moving into my house, I was looking for furniture. I'm on wayfair looking at tables, and they have all these sets so I start playing around with what I wanted to get. At some point I take the coffee table off and somehow that turns the end tables and sofa tables in $0. I'm like this can't be right, screw it I'll order like 15 each and sell them, expecting to get billed or contacted at some point about it. Within a week, 30 end tables and sofa tables arrive at my house which cost me nothing, and I sold them on Craigslist over the next couple weeks. Tried to go on to order more but they fixed the issue by then.
Hah. Ok so bear in mind i work with a supplier i don't work at wayfair. They straight up don't care about us most of the time. Its not at Amazon levels of fuck you but unlike Amazon they don't give us a style guide or real guidelines. Whenever i submit a batch of product I resign myself to having to submit it two or three times before it's onsite and mostly correct.
Let's say I'm submitting a batch of accent throw pillows. Let's say they are made of a burlap cover with some cotton embroidery and filled with goosedown. I have all that listed in the description sections, i have every box filled out stating what the materials are. So the batch is submitted. Different pillows all alike except in color and design. My batch gets approved a week later, i go to finish the submission and make them live onsite.... half the batch will proudly say they are 100% cotton cover pillows. The descriptions will be changed. All items are now advertised as being hypoallergenic. The ones not advertised as being cotton in their titles have now all been shoved into one listing despite not being the same pillow because they have the same earth tone colors written in the description section. Instead of reading as rust-olive-navy those earth tones now read as red-green-black. My photos have been cropped or discarded in some cases. One random pillow is listed as Navajo design, which is a trademark. The pillow does not resemble a Navajo design.
So now I have some major corrections to make! But I expected this. I open a ticket. I am forced to type out each of the supplier skus in the correct field, separated by a comma, because that is the only accepted format. In the main field I cover every problem, state my desired change, and let the team know they can refer to my original upload of these items if there is any confusion about what needs doing. A week later I am told my ticket has been addressed. I view the items - most of them have the correct photos now. Dimensions have been changed and are now incorrect. They're still listed as being cotton and hypoallergenic despite all being made of burlap and stuffed with feathers. I reply to the ticket again requesting the rest be corrected. A week and a half later when no corrections have been made I reach out to the team and am told that because they closed out the ticket they never got an update to it and it has not been addressed. I open a new ticket. I refer to the old ticket number and request changes to the titles and descriptions. I explicitly write out what each has to be.
Keep that going for another few weeks until most of the listings are correct. Expect arguing about what the colors actually are and learn that they were originally changed bc thats what the person reviewing the item thought it was, despite my carefully listed colors that were drafted from viewing the items IRL and our three warnings about monitor color differences. I ask for a style guide, they tell me that one does not exist and their team knows what it is doing and this is why they oversee the process.
The "Navajo" pillow never gets fixed.
EDIT: Added more, this is why I despise wayfair, at least fucking Amazon gives us semi free rein as they try to drag us into the dirt
him999 · 15 points · Posted at 05:50:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a person who fulfills orders i see this stuff often. It is always too late to do it myself :( I once saw a $300 power tool accidentally went on sale for $3. Someone ordered 10... we sent them 10. The error was fixed almost immediately
Yeah, the funny thing is that I work in retail so if they called and was like "we're gonna have to charge you" I would have just cancelled the order no problem
This happens more than you think, it's a stupid typo. Not false advertising, not a way to get some traffic, no we're not going to honor it, and sites definitely don't have to honor it despite how many legal experts there are in the world.
It makes you look like a bunch of idiots when you fuck up on the pricing, and it makes you look like an asshole when you pull people's orders off the trucks.
What metric are you using to evaluate "good PR"? The term we typically use is "Brand Good Will" in these sorts of situations. Companies hand out pens, buy lunches, sponsor events. That's typically how a company generates "Brand Good Will".
Taking what would likely have been a several hundred thousand dollar loss not only does not generate goodwill, it has no other marketing value what-so-ever. It's also a quick way to end up on the street. It's a terrible business decision, but these decisions are not made by Product Managers or Purchasers. The issue is escalated and decision made by executive management. A smaller mistake on a high margin item might ride. A big mistake on a low margin item is getting cancelled, especially when the company is publically traded.
I can assure you the person who made that mistake felt like a complete idiot for several weeks and triple checked their work to the point of them being relatively ineffective for several months.
Management handled it like a champ. Shit happens, don't do it again.
LOX95 · 1529 points · Posted at 23:40:36 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
The guys at 7/11 near my college in NYC don't understand how the coffee app works. Basically they scan it every time you get a coffee and every 7 you get a free one of any size. However, multiple workers at this partlicular location are completely oblivious to this and give me a free one every single time they scan it. I do this multiple days in a row sometimes multiple times a day.
This. My uh... friend.... worked at one and they gave free coffee to police officers (and anyone else who was just rad essentially got rang up as a police officer too.)
Suffca · 30 points · Posted at 05:03:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Owner looks over the logs..."Man, how many cops came in today?!"
Mred12 · 44 points · Posted at 05:07:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Owner looks over the logs..."Man, how many cops... actually I don't give a shit."
Condawg · 7 points · Posted at 07:14:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I worked at a Wawa. We did the "free coffee for cops" thing, too (which makes sense, it kept them coming back pretty frequently), and I'd ring up homeless folks as cops sometimes. Regular rad folks had to pay their way, but Jerry was covered.
Unrelated, but one time I walked in the bathroom (for context, I worked third shift, this was like 3 in the morning so not a high-traffic time) and there were four homeless dudes in there. Three sitting on their backpacks around the toilet, the fourth on the toilet reading scripture.
It was nice. Little hobo church, on a cold-ass night.
I was in the 7/11 by my college when two police officers walk in having a conversation, make coffees and walk out without acknowledging anyone working for 7/11. The cashier looks at me and says something along the lines of "they could at least thank us for the fucking coffee. They act like their the owners"
Coffee is nearly free. When you start working on commercial scale, each cup of coffee comes to like 1-2 cents. If you buy a donut and a cup of coffee, and get the coffee for free, then you've already gone 800% profit on the cost of the donut.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 05:10:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think every 7-11 gives free coffee to cops. By every one, I mean the two I've worked near in the past.
rareas · -3 points · Posted at 05:27:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The register had a button for "police"? I guess "graft and corruption" wouldn't fit.
At some point the owner decided to do it, no way he was pressured. And not to push the stereotype but I'm guessing donuts also made the difference. There's also the added perk of having cops in and out of your store all day, which is a drama and crime deterent.
Yup. 7-11 changed to Macs where im from. I used to work midnight shift. Can confirm. Did not give a shit. I straight up saw guys steal before but didn't do anything. Was actually scared for my safety on 2 occasions. My favourite tho was to mess with the obviously underage kids trying to buy smokes. One kid wore his hat real low on his head like they he thought I couldn't tell. Id go and grab his pack from the wall and go to ring it up on the til and would be like "that would be 8.50 please" and then he'd start to hand me his money and I could see this look on his face as if he thinks he fooled me.. but at the last second Id say "oh wait a sec. Could I see some ID first?" Ya I loved messing with people back then. Had a lot of weirdos come into the store on those midnight shifts.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 05:15:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Aha exactly, in Canada we have a coffee chain called Tim Hortons (in some Northern states as well) and every year they do a promotion where you can win free coffee or donuts from coffee cups. I worked there in HS and every year you get assholes thinking that they're clever, either by asking to get their drinks double cupped (so they get twice the chance to win) or they just tear off losing stubs and submit them at the cashier. They think that cashiers don't notice when you submit losing stubs. It's quite possible some dont, but in the mornings it gets really busy and most would rather you just take the coffee and fuck off than start a fight and have to deal with your bullshit.
Yeah, that's why I don't eat anything from a gas station like 7-11 off of the grill. I used to work there and me and others wouldn't give a shit about cleaning anything properly.
camlop · 11 points · Posted at 03:30:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
For me, I just go in whenever there's a free coffee Wednesday or free small Slurpee Saturday. They aren't supposed to count those towards the "Buy 7" thing, but they do and I can get a giant free Slurpee :D
I had a similar experience when Subway was offering "Deluxe" footlongs for like $1 more. It was supposed to be 50% more meat but the guys gave 150% more meat. The whole time, the two workers were saying how it was such an amazing deal. Never had I had a Subway sandwich with so much meat.
whtsnk · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Possibly. I know those guys are exactly this level of apathetic.
LOX95 · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Baruch
Razvee · 2 points · Posted at 05:36:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I work at a 7-11... We scan the app on your phone and then the register tells us if it's free or not. Not sure how it's showing up as free all the time. But that sounds like a problem for somebody of a different pay grade.
Sinjos · 2 points · Posted at 05:39:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Worked at 7-11 for a short time.
You're not getting away with anything. They can tell when you get a free one or not. The thing is, coffee isn't counted. Same with slurpees and fountain drinks.
probably didn't care enough. Many places that sell brewed coffee (with the exception of coffee places like starbucks or dunken) Don't specifically track inventory of coffee. It's more along the lines of "Oh, need to order more cups/grounds/filters"
This kind of thing happened with my friend with the McDonalds app where if you download it from Facebook you get a free big Mac well this was a pretty new thing so when he went to get his free big mac the girl didn't know to scan it so he still had a free big mac left after.
Mike_S_ · 1 points · Posted at 03:54:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
yooo, im going to college in NYC next year where this shop at
Few years ago (long before steam market), Steam started selling games to poor countries like Russia with a big discount and no gifting/activation restrictions. Meaning, you could theoretically buy games for cheap, trade them for TF2 hats, sell hats for paypal and then use paypal to buy more games to trade for more hats, getting like, ~40% pure profit per game.
I didn't exploited in too much, just traded bunch of games for bunch of hats, no potentially scammy paypal business. But yeah, soon Valve closed it up, no more gifting of AAA games, activation restricted to CIS countries and in some retarded cases even language itself is locked to either Russian or Chinese.
So basically you can log into steam with a vpn and then activate games in that region and then they'd still work in your original first world region?
I just got fucked in the latest humble bundle by accidentally buying the pack over VPN and they didn't work in my steam account. This may be the solution to my woes.
THOSE WERE GREAT TIMES!
i had like 5 different guys from russia in friendlist that i contactrd whenever i wanted something and i used to pay the latest game for a bunch of euros. When they introduced region locked games they all just disappered. they faded away. I still have them in friendlist. Miss them everyday.
sky_blu · 4 points · Posted at 04:28:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When the market was added Russia actually purchased keys to launder money lmao
Which, incidentally, sucked royal balls for those of us who actually had Western Payment methods linked to their account but did legitimately live and operate in Russia.
I remember when they changed it, I was completely unable to buy games unless I used a 'kiosk' - which was a 2 week struggle with valve to change my payment info and unlink my Western card.
Then shortly after I jumped through all those hoops, I ended up moving out of Russia and all my recent games were blocked, because they had been gifts from my girlfriend (with my money, simply because I had set her account up to be able to use kiosks).
It was ridiculous. I see how I looked like a scammer from Valve's perspective - but after I'd sent their customer service PASSPORT SCANS proving my identity and being in the country, it still took over a month for them to unblock these games on my account.
Ludicrous.
All because people like you wanted TF2 hats!
10art1 · 2 points · Posted at 05:23:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I was trying to get in on that with my Russian friends but it was patched as soon as we attempted
That probably explains the rumors of some sort of massive Russian underground trading ring where lots of stolen credit cards and such were being laundered through Steam. From what I heard, a group was purchasing massive amounts of game codes and TF2 crate keys and then immediately sold them at a significant loss on 3rd party websites to cash out as quickly as possible. It supposedly went on for a while before Valve had to answer for so much money being laundered through their platform.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:36:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is there some secret meaning to the word "hats" in your story? Cuz otherwise it's reading very strange to me....
Back in college, I lived in an off-campus community that was still under campus jurisdiction. Meaning, they could enforce campus policy, such as parking. They sure did love their hundreds of thousands of dollars of free money every yea. But, I digress.
If you lived out there, you got a special pass that stuck to your inside windshield (and is impossible to completely remove, much to my chagrin). Everyone else could not park in the community area overnight. They sent out campus PD every. Single. Night. One officer I talked to said they could rake in as many as 200 parking tickets a night from the off campus housing alone. At $45 apiece, that's quite a haul. The only exception being if a resident printed you out a parking pass.
Now, each resident was only allowed to print off 1 pass per night. You did so through your campus profile, and it tracked how many times you printed the page. each page had the date and time and a QR code generated on it.
Now, being the computer science student that I was, I opened up this page in inspector, and used my phone to read the QR code. Turns out, the QR code was also just the date and time of printing. So, I ripped the HTML of the page, made my own little QR code generator, and printed out a shit ton of those passes for my friends who crashed at my place over night, family, or people that may or may not have been unlawfully subletting.
Saved my friends thousands over all.
[deleted] · 34 points · Posted at 05:55:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Now, being the computer science student that I was,
If you were a business student, you woulda sold em.
Nah, the goal here was that a bunch of people would get drunk, and not want to pay 45$ to crash at a friends place. Sometimes they took their chances. I submitted a complaint that the ticketing system disincentivizes safe driving but I got no response. So, I thought this was the next best thing.
ben7005 · -15 points · Posted at 06:21:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I opened up this page in inspector, and used my phone to read the QR code. Turns out, the QR code was also just the date and time of printing. So, I ripped the HTML of the page, made my own little QR code generator
Wow, the most insanely complex Hax0r skills I've ever seen. Definitely requires elite computer science education; le non-CS majors could never get to this level! /s
The only way it would occur to a non-CS major to do that is if they were self taught.
ben7005 · -4 points · Posted at 06:33:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I guess, but that's kinda like saying "the only way a non-math major could know how to take a derivative is if they were self-taught"
Well, of course, because those are the two possible ways of being taught something: it's either taught to you or you teach yourself. I'm just saying that teaching yourself enough to do this is trivial, and OP stating their major was irrelevant to the story.
I thought it was humorous. This was about 7 years ago, and I'm actually a senior web dev now. I know exactly how trivial hitting f12 was back then. That's kind of the joke...
ben7005 · 0 points · Posted at 17:12:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh, I didn't realize it was a joke, my bad. Although it seems others didn't either.
Well, the date and time mostly. I used a pseudo randomizer in case Campus PD got suspicious. It'd look really weird to have a bunch of permits all with the same time stamp.
This is why security by obfuscation never works. Someone is going to pull back Oz's curtain and figure out just how everything works.
Medarco · 3 points · Posted at 06:24:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Similar story regarding parking. Our university has the inside windshield stickers that never come off cleanly. I just decided not to remove mine from last year because it's a pain. It looks exactly like the sticker for this year, and no campus parking officer is going to squint to see whether it says "15-16" or "16-17".
Alternatively, there are 20-30 visitor spots at the student center, and they're like right outside the door, as opposed to the student parking spots which are a couple hundred feet. One of my buddies freshman year decided not to renew his parking permit and just removed his sticker and parked in visitor spots for the rest of the year. They couldn't ticket him if he wasn't a part of their system, so he just used the best parking spots for free for the year.
They couldn't ticket him if he wasn't a part of their system
Back in school, I found out that the campus parking enforcement wasn't actually affiliated with the municipality, so parking tickets were only valid on campus. If you had any, they would hold your class registration and everything until they were paid, but since it wasn't done through campus PD or anything, they couldn't run tags. I used this and just never got a parking pass. If I had, I would have had to register my car with the school and they would have had my information, but since it had never been in their system, it was just a random car on campus that they couldn't tie to a specific student. Made it all the way through school with probably 100 tickets a year, but nothing they could do about it.
Looking back, they probably could have towed my car if they'd gotten wise, but it wasn't something they ever did as long as you were in marked spots. They relied on the tickets holding up registration as the threat. I work with the campus police now, and have shared the story with a few select friends in the PD. Turns out a few other people were aware of the loophole too, so campus PD took on the parking enforcement duties and can run tags now. Since it's done through the PD now too, the tickets hold the weight of an actual parking ticket as well.
It's quite possible, almost even likely, that I wasn't specifically talking about you. I just said you were right, then made a sarcastic off-hand comment about them being down-voted. My apologies for trying to be funny on the internet.
Sincerely,
cynical dickhead,
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The way it was worded, it seemed as though you meant that passive-aggressively towards me.
The greggs rewards app allowed you to make multiple accounts without verifying your emails or addresses. From September to December me and my housmates abused this by getting 4 free(because we had 4 greggs in walking distance of each other in the city centre): sausauge rolls, doughnuts, hot chocolates, and lucozade sports ... EVERY SINGLE DAY. Come December the greggs workers were giving us some real suspicous looks as we came in every day to scan the app.
EDIT: free sausage rolls were from a student promotional code that kept working for 2 months after the expiry date, and the doughnuts were because i was the birthday boy every day ;)
TL DR: Free Greggs on the daily
[deleted] · 209 points · Posted at 22:37:18 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
I saw some people literally filling up a duffel bag with food at a hotel breakfast buffet and the waiters were RIGHT THERE! Not worth the hassle at that pay grade.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:04:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Honestly though, making an account every time sounds like more hassle than it's worth.
carl0071 · 452 points · Posted at 01:47:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
About 10 years ago, here in the UK, Lucozade ran a campaign called "Get Your Edge Back". If you created an online account on their website, they emailed you a voucher to receive a free bottle of Lucozade from any number of supermarkets. Each bottle had two barcodes on it. One for the retailer to scan, and a 2D barcode which I assume contained your email address and contact details, which would be scanned once the vouchers were returned to Lucozade. They claimed that if you used the same voucher more than once, they would bill you for any subsequent bottles you claimed for free. I simply edited the 2D code so that it became un-scannable, but to the human eye it looked unchanged.
I ended up with so many free bottles of Lucozade that summer that I got sick of looking at them.
We give it as medicine. Hypoglycaemia. We have a little box in our nurse's station that's for low blood sugar and it's a bottle of lucozade and a cup.
EDIT: nurses call it the hypo box. I think there's a technical name for it but I forget also there's a gross paste in a tube called Glucogen or something like that. I had to get it once but the pt was clearly a code so I just dumped it on the side table and called a code blue, and the bright orange lucozade bottle just sat there looking stupid the entire time like a clown that's turned up to a funeral. I've never actually tried it, tbh. Also the pt died from complications that I forget.
These threads make me feel really stupid because I never understand what you people are talking about. You keep explaining it like we were there when it happened. What is Lucozade? What's a 2D barcode?
My loophole: At work there was a fax machine with two serial outlets, one of which ran to the lunch room and back. By cutting it with a scissor in the plug and putting the call on hold, you could collect all the incoming traffic through the third serial! I got free lunches for like 2 years before I got caught on.
jecowa · 5 points · Posted at 17:22:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Was the lunch room faxing their meals out?
aleco247 · 3102 points · Posted at 21:55:39 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
If any class has homework that involves watching a documentary online and then answering questions about it. You can probably find the script online and then just CTRL+F to search through the script to find your questions.
For one of my college classes, every week we had to watch one or two documentaries that were normally about an hour long. Aint nobody got time for that.
[deleted] · 730 points · Posted at 22:30:23 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
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aleco247 · 729 points · Posted at 22:51:17 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yea, the questions were worded exactly like how they said it in the film. Even if they aren't worded word for word, I'm sure you could still find keywords.
[deleted] · 112 points · Posted at 01:01:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a Hamilton fan, and an non-Arsenal-hating Everton fan, solid choice.
ecraaa · 4 points · Posted at 05:14:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"I've been on Reddit all night and have noticed you on Reddit all night also, get off Reddit."
Sielle · 3 points · Posted at 04:32:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why can't someone be lazy and successful? Granted I could probably be a lot more successful but I'd have to stop being lazy. :p
adain · 3 points · Posted at 05:48:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Give me a lazy bastard with a good work ethic any day of the week. It's crazy how creative and efficient people can be when they don't want to do work .
[deleted] · -10 points · Posted at 01:09:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Sweet! People will think I'm way more educated than I really am. That'll show em."
aleco247 · 18 points · Posted at 01:37:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Always work smart, not hard.
Konebred · 12 points · Posted at 02:16:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Learning how to efficiently deal with bullshit is a pretty useful skill.
Correct. You're more apt to remember parts the assignment deems important if you're not filing your brain with the useless filler information in the rest of the documentary
And this is why I'm generally of the opinion that video is a poor format for writing guides of any form, and that you should not turn everything into "infographics". The ability to search plain text is so damn useful.
stmasc · 2 points · Posted at 05:16:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd be careful doing this though. The clss that I TA for sometimes has students write summaries based on TED talks for extra credit and we can tell when they don't actually watch the video and are told to take off points for it. Although, I don't really agree with this practice as you're still getting most of the info in the talk...
How do you tell? Unless it's a trick question somehow, I guess.
My major issue with TEDTalks is that I don't have the patience for them so nine times out of ten I just read the script and skip to the relevant part of the video if there's a visual.
We have to take continuing education and they want you to watch a 2 hour video then take a quiz. Except you can skip past the video and take the quiz as many times as it takes to pass. They use the same questions every time and give you the correct answers if you miss it so just write them down and a 2.5 hour class takes 15 minutes.
my political science class had quizzes for the semester, except it was 10 question chosen from a pool of about 15. They also told you which ones were wrong and could take it multiple times through the piece of shit educational service called Blackboard.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 03:18:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So the video that shows you how to do the latest and greatest in your profession you just skipped? Or did you skip some compliance video your company paid you to watch?
Ditto. I did an 8 hour CE credit last week in 30 min.
Katanae · 53 points · Posted at 01:20:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The fuck kind of college do you go to?
aleco247 · 38 points · Posted at 01:33:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Have you never had an assignment to watch something before?
[deleted] · 27 points · Posted at 02:49:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes but the test is the application of the information learned in the video, not which word did the narrator use at minute 9.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 03:28:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 20 points · Posted at 03:57:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The point of the question above mine was that the sort of question you just mentioned has no place in college level coursework.
An example would be something like write a few paragraphs contrasting lion hunting techniques with the hunting techniques of cheetahs.
College courses shouldn't be asking you something that you can crtl-f for, literally 8 year olds can do that, or maybe more importantly computers can do that themselves.
Zarokima · 18 points · Posted at 04:31:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You are drastically overestimating certain college courses. I would not be surprised at all to see "what do lions eat?" as a homework question in the biology course for non-science majors. Even major freshman courses can be a total cakewalk if you're halfway competent.
I would be surprised. A more likely question is, "Explain the diet of lions" with a several-sentence paragraph expected for an answer. Caveat: I never took biology.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 06:36:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Have you taken any college courses? Many classes have multiple choice question quizzes that dont involve writing paragraphs.
Yeah it completely depends on the class because I have had both. Some classes are basic look up the answer and some are more in depth where you have to actually know the subject to answer it.
Exactly. "Watching a documentary online and then answering questions about it", at the level you can Ctrl+F for, is called busywork. That's for high school, not college.
But more than a few redditors (and people at large) seem to think that getting the highest possible score with the least possible work is the goal of college. And this is why I hear hiring managers at companies complaining about college graduates seemingly not having learned anything.
It just depends, like for me I don't care about doing that for my history, english, basically any generic classes. If it's specific to my major I put in way more effort because it's stuff I actually want to know.
I'm guessing it wouldn't work so well if it was for something like math or physics where you would need to learn the concepts and how to do stuff instead of just straight up facts
Tip: search 'subtitles' if 'script' doesn't turn anything up. Subtitle .srt files are just plain text files you can open in Notepad or whatever. They won't tell you who's speaking, but they'll have a full transcript of the video with timestamps for everything, and subtitles are much more frequently available than scripts/transcripts. There are a bunch of websites dedicated to offering subtitles for shows, movies, news reports, everything.
Even if you actually watch the documentary/video/lecture, getting the subtitles can be really helpful -- much easier to skim a text file to remember a detail, and if you keep them all in a folder you can run a text search in six months when you forgot something but know it was in a video you saw. Subtitle files are like 50 KB/hour so it's nothing to save them all, where saving all the videos would get hefty pretty quick.
I don't have time to watch all these documentaries! Switches to Netflix...
SilasX · 6 points · Posted at 05:21:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol! The "loophole" is realizing how inefficient video is as a means of communicating information!
A lesson Redditors still need to learn when they keep demanding I wait for a three minute video and ad to load so they can tell me something that takes a sentence.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:02:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Works with a lot of military courses too. Tis a beautiful thing.
This works for a lot of homework assignments- colleges often use the same text and and post the answers. So if you just google part of your accounting problem you can often find use answers online.
How the fuck did I not think of this? My circle of friends hated history classes, and watching the same damn holocaust documentaries that we watched every damn year... shit I should have thought of that.
I did the exact same thing except it was using a YouTube subs download tool. Had to watch like 30 videos on engineering safety, ain't nobody wanna watch how India got it wrong 100 times.
Dahvood · 2 points · Posted at 06:07:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We did something similar for a Japanese class.
The teacher would post a song online (without title/artist) and we were meant to transcribe the lyrics. We would google the first line, and then copy paste the rest of the song. Saved us a lot of time.
mada447 · 2 points · Posted at 06:08:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm doing something similar in one of my classes. We have 5 question quizzes online each week so I google every question and they are show up on Quizlet or something word for word.
My university uses a third party service for course management, accessing grades etc. They used to use it for online quizzes, until some of us figured out if you looked in the html/css you could see the correct answers to all the questions.
It's 3 hours of work, tops. Every college kid has time for that. Don't get me wrong, that's a great loophole and I would've used it too, but that's a lame justification.
This class was a gen-ed. I prioritized the classes in my specific program more than most gen-eds. Plus that class had not only the documentaries every week, but at least 2 reports and and a reading portion.
Well I had to take this gen-ed in order to graduate from my program. I really didn't like that class and most students didn't like it either. Plus the documentaries were on stupid shit that I have no need for in the real world or my job.
Why should I know about the stages of cognitive development in the early years of a child when I'm majoring in graphic design?
Not a documentary but for my AP science class (12th grade) we have our regular tests every once in a while. Well I took a test one day and I remembered a question on it. I looked up the question because I wanted to see if I got it right. Turns out the whole test was online and I still study off that. If I ever get caught I can make a case that I technically am using it to study for the test. In fact the website says test "preparation" not answers. Also I don't just memorize the answers. I genuinely take the test prep first (I actually do well) and then I memorize the answers. Plus there are some questions on the test that aren't on their because only multiple choice questions are on the test prep. I get those questions correct as well. I'd say I get around 102% on all my tests as an average (tests are worth 65% of my grade). Even if I didn't use it I'd still get around a 95% so it's not like I'm too dependent on it. I do it for one reason. So that I don't have to do all the HW I get in the class (HW is worth 15%) and can enjoy my free time since I have all AP classes and I play sports.
In a similar vein, I had a history class in college that taught the Civil War based on the novel "Killer Angels." Somehow, I made the connection that "Killer Angels" was the source material for the movie "Gettysburg". So I just watched the movie. Got an A in the class, but never ended up graduating.
I went through and have an engineering degree. For those those classes I was forced to take, I found ones that were of interest to me. Crap like history of Iran. Pointless, but I found it an interesting subject.
You can do the same thing with Autozone car battery warranties. Get the $10 more expensive battery, comes with a 3 year instead of 2 year warranty. In Arizona, batteries last about 2 years due to the heat, and because this is just some blanket warranty system that Autozone has for the whole country, they don't bother making an Arizona exception.
[deleted] · 26 points · Posted at 02:34:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Arizona, batteries last about 2 years due to the heat
I find this strange, 2 years ago I bought a truck from Arizona and shipped it to Illinois. The battery was bought in 2012 and It was in Arizona for 2yrs with extreme heat, and it's gone through 2 years of Illinois winters, It still starts my truck no problem.
Truck batteries are often oversized cause they know people like adding a winch or a million lights. They'll still crank the engine years after they no longer meet their rated CCA numbers.
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 03:33:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Good to know. I don't have a million lights or anything on my truck so maybe it'll last me even longer.
You can do the same thing with brakes. All Duralast (AutoZone brand) brake pads have a lifetime warranty, no questions asked. When you wear out a set of pads, bring it to any AutoZone, give them the number you registered the warranty with, and you'll be able to get a new set of pads, no questions asked.
With a lot of things, actually! You just reminded me of my loophole!
I have an old truck. A 1986 Ford F-150. I don't use it much, my motorcycles are my main transportation. But anyway, sometime in the truck's past life, it was rear ended (probably a few times). From what I can tell, it looks like it kind of messed up how the transmission is seated. This is a theory, as it could be any number of reasons, but basically the Flywheel is misalligned. So it chews up my starters! The grind, since they're at an angle, and the starters basically get the grated cheese treatment Everytime I start it.
So... I, two years ago, bought the AutoZone remanufactured starter with the lifetime warranty! So, every time the starter gives out, I take it off and replace it with a new, free one! Did it two weeks ago!
Shim the starter? I'm not familiar with that, actually.
Honestly, it's a second vehicle, barely used. I plan to sell it in a few months in pursuit of a hot hatch. I don't do any maintenance that I don't have to.
Well, that's interesting. I suppose I could. Would definitely grant me piece of mind, that's for sure. I feel like every truck I've owned, I've swapped the starter at least once! (Ford, Chevy, Ford)
him999 · 3 points · Posted at 05:58:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had an EGR that would explode on my Mazda Tribute because of filled cats. They were $30 a piece. I went through about 20 of them before the transmission died in it. Then ford gave me $2000 as a trade-in to get me my new car. I'm sure it's sitting in a junkyard at this point :( poor thing. It was a great car until it decided it was done with that life.
Ahhh, silly Ford. They always have the weirdest little inconvenient problems. Otherwise reliable, though, but with any vehicle it's the engine that counts. What engine did you have in your Tribute - the I4 or the 3L V6?
him999 · 1 points · Posted at 14:00:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
3.0L V6. Was a nice engine besides the shitty EGR. It was a 2003. I've saved a lot of people a lot of money in garage repairs. My buddy works at Autozone and the garages are always dumbfounded when a vehicle comes in with an EGR torn to shreads. When i figured it out my buddy started telling the garages. Sure enough each vehicle had a leaking rear mainseal and full cats. None of them could figure out how he knew and respect the heck out of him now for it! Haha!
I own a 2006 Mazda Tribute (only fwd though :( i had 4x4 on my 2003) that i got for free (2003 was also free! I keep geting free tributes! Cant get enough of it!!!!) This one ran BEAUTIFULLY until my mother coasted into a telephone pole. Will be about $1000 in parts to fix the rad, trans cooler, all 3 rad supports, engine mount support, ac parts that broke and the rad fans. Thankfully the transmission on this one works wonderful and they redesigned the whole EGR system on it.
Edit, the 2006 also has the V6. Both have great power for what they are imo... though i wish it had a 6 speed.
Damn, that's crazy! I'm kinda jealous. I tried to get a close friend of mine to buy a 2003 Tribute the other day, but it was sadly sold before we could attain the money we needed. It was perfect. And, of course, with the good 3L Duratec and AWD. Sadly, we had to settle for a Subaru - crossing fingers it's good to her
him999 · 2 points · Posted at 15:17:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Early 2000's subarus are pretty great from what i know. I had a friend who had a manual legacy iirc, maybe 1999 or something close. Anyway, 300k miles the only thing to go was i think a water pump. Had the original clutch at 310k miles. They had it changed as preventative. Not usual but it still blowssssss my mind. It's a shame she couldnt get it. If i woulda fix it when it started having issues i coulda sold it for 2k in profit. When i traded it in it has 112k miles and was worth about $1000 with a good transmission. At that point it would have needed a whole new transmission. (i got it at 60k miles, at 86k miles the transmission started going. Woulda cost $700 for a rebuild kit wouldnt have been my first trans rebuild i did myself. The other one i did is still alive and well)
Edit: i now have a 2014 Ford Focus SE hatchback. I thought about buying a Focus RS but decided not to for some reason. Has the 201a package i think with the performance, lowered front for some reason, leather interior. Bought it for 14k when it was worth about 18k. Had 28k miles on it when i got it. Clutch started to slip a little at 34k miles (was shifting with too high of a discrepancy in RPMs or something odd). Got it replaced and havent had a problem with it since beside one of the windshield side trim pieces breaking which was also fixed under warranty.
That's what I'm hoping :/ I appreciate the encouraging words. I'm worried about the Head Gasket and Timing Belt, mostly, haha.
Dannnngg, well there you go. I'm trying to get a Focus ST myself. Love those cars!You seem to have a gotten a nice one. Love the little Focus's.
him999 · 2 points · Posted at 15:46:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I shoulda gotten an ST. I like performance and upgrading of stock parts. Focus's dont have an aftermarket for their non performance cars really. Best you can do is squeeze i think 60- 75hp out with a K&H typhoon CAI and a 2.5in exhaust change ($700 in parts). You could squeeze more out with a set of headers but they arent manufactured for the engine so it is rough getting them to line up. There is definitely enough room for a turbo but at that point might as well have bought the ST (though the automanual trans is nice on the standard mk3 focus line it is a dry CVT iirc).
That generation focus actually has a flawed CVT transmission, I'd be wary. They're known to prematurely fail! With no fix as far as I know.
It's good to know there is such aftermarket available for the regular Focai, haha. But hey, yeah, might as well get the ST. But oh well, they're still being made, there is always time.
him999 · 2 points · Posted at 16:01:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
From what i can gather half the time it is the PCM (which now has a 150k mile warranty or something like that) the other half there isnt too much wrong with it. People dont drive them properly. To drive them like a normal auto is gonna ruin it. You have to drive it kinda like you would a manual transmission if you know what i mean. I hate the thing in stop and go traffic. They literally tell you to not stop and go. You want to leave enough room to engage your clutch every time you move forward otherwise you are just killing it slowly. It's a bad design. Theoretically i'll trade it in at some point for a used RS or ST but that'll be maybe 4 years or so.
That's an interesting point. But yet, Honda's CVT's have had no subsequent issues.
The problem is, even if you're correct, the hardest thing to do is educate consumers. It's difficult to get them to do anything out of the ordinary. That's why a lot of vehicles have to be designed around human stupidity, unfortunately. Because people don't care.
him999 · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It isnt the CVT part that fails iirc, more the other parts. Still poor design. You hit the nail on the head though. You cant completely change something to work exactly like a manual without a clutch pedal and expect people to understand, especially when they never have driven manual. It provides an increase in fuel economy but really, at what cost? I so far like and hope and pray i dont get a lemon transmission but only time will tell! So far, as i said, only the clutch wore and it was ever so slightly. Most wouldnt notice it but it was in that dang stop and go traffic i could feel the shuttering people complain about.
Also, iirc it is CVT and Dual clutch (the clutches being dry) making shifts butter smooth past first into second. That one is very rough for me.
Autozone offers some outstanding warranties. I exclusively go there for breakpads because they have a lifetime warranty. You splurge one time for top of the line pads. They wont even check to make sure they're the same brand pads, so if you need any additional break work done you can use the replacements to get new pads as well as the actual pads the warranty is for. I have an additional free set of pads always on hand.
carmium · 2 points · Posted at 05:57:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Got something going on like that with the warranty on my brake pads. You bring in the cores and they give you brand new pads. Have a pair of used cores tucked in with my spare, free brakes for life. 👍
I work at O'Reilly, not Autozone, but we do the same thing. If it's a 2nd replacement in the warranty period (that goes from the original purchase date) it gets prorated as well. I don't know what Autozone these people are going to.
Duralast Gold (their premium house brand) has the extended warranties. My dad, uncle and I haven't paid for brake pads in quite a while, only at the outset of getting a new car. See the warranty covers the brake pads being worn. So you can replace your worn brake pads under warranty for free.
Yeah, I know a guy in Arizona had to start his motor home using some kind of chemical getup that generated electricity. This was out in the desert too.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:28:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're my new hero <3
GRZMNKY · 0 points · Posted at 06:02:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I bought a Optima battery through Autozone and it came with a 3 year warranty. I had a friend that needed to warranty out a cheaper battery, so I took it in for him. They looked up my info and warrantied out their cheap battery for another Optima $250 battery.
I tried to explain to the guy what he was doing... And he said that since I had an optima on my account, he had to swap it out for one. I decided to try again the next day with another cheap dead battery. The manager at the same store swapped it out for another optima.
We tried at a few other stores and they turned us down. In the end, I had 3 spare batteries and ended up selling 2 on CL for $200 each
[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 01:16:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
dicks had this for a year and it was a as long as you brought it back with in the yea you were good and then it reset the year so I went through 4 pairs of shoes that year (am a runner) and then they realized how dumb this was
My husband does this at Best buy with headphones. Initially spent $100 and around month 10 or 11 he takes them in saying they broke, picks a brand new pair out, pays ~$10 for the new warranty and goes on his way.
tamatsu · 1 points · Posted at 04:50:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My salesman told me about this when I got my router from them
My boyfriend bought a replacement warranty thru Best Buy on a set of bluetooth headphones, that he wears at work and they end up not working every 5-6 months. His $20 warranty has gotten him 4 new, free pairs so far.
You can do the same thing at cabelas. Any cabelas brand product carries a lifetime satisfaction guarantee. So at anytime you can bring back a cabelas brand item and get it refunded or replaced.
I have heard of guys who do it on a yearly basis and get new hunting gear each year.
Bass Pro as well. My buddy has gotten so many $20 fishing poles b/c you just have to purchase a new warranty each time. They don't ask for the old pole.
Can do this at best buy. Get the accidental warranty on your laptop, break it after you back it up, the model will have been replaced by this time, you get to pick the new one. Get warranty on new one for same $99
Costco is still in business. Granted they changed their policy to prevent people returning their TVs every year. I still have friends who buy the giant floats for the summer and they cut them with a knife and return them at the end of the summer. I told them they don't need to destroy the products to return then but they want to be on the safe side.
They could keep the floats until next year but they don't have anywhere to store them
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 23:57:36 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
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ishk · 7 points · Posted at 05:17:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep, I appreciate rock solid warranties from certain companies that are willing to stand by their products but it grinds my gears when people just systematically abuse it to get a free lifetime supply.
natetan · 6 points · Posted at 04:33:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're being down voted but you're absolutely right.
Staples employee here, I 100% support every single consumer buying any accidental + incidental damage coverage plan on anything they can ONLY IF they can intentionally break it (or "engineer its incidental destruction" if you're pedantic) to get their money back. The intent of a warranty is not to "protect your product against damage" for the company; on our part, we want your product to live, and we want to pocket the proceeds for every single plan, and then we want your printer to break at three years, one day exactly so we can sell you this seasons models.
If you want to be an empowered consumer, you need to fight the company, never defend it, because it's not a person; it's a corporation that specifically wants profit margins. Don't worry about the company; they're making enough off of the other sucker, and if they're not (like SA here) then they'll go under and BAM! They don't get your money, just like this ploy is meant to guarantee.
Granted, if you want to make this easier, just make it so you never pay for anything; individual retail locations for greater than or equal to 20 (30? 40? All of the?) major retail supply chains dispose of mass quantities of non-perishable items such as sneakers, sticky notes, and scotch tape, so you could just get the shit they're throwing out for free.
But eh, if you want, don't do it and let big everything take your money. That's their job, and it seems to be the expectation of many.
They offered this with pellet guns too, and never took back the old one. I had five generations of gamo big cat air guns that I rarely used and eventually sold for $100 a piece last year, along with various other bb and pellet guns when I was a kid and made a good bit of money from it.
Did you have to buy the warranty on the "free shoes"? Because if so, you're just paying $30 for shoes every year.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Exactly, it was $30 for the pair of shoes each year. I had (well still have) foot problems so I needed the really good shoes for the support. It wasn't totally free each time, but saved me $60-$70 each year which is still pretty good.
Harbor Freight Tools (a discount tool store) does the same thing with their warranties (dunno if they've changed it since.) Their tools never last very long, but with the warranty, you can just get an endless supply of the tool. I knew of a mechanic who never had to buy a new impact wrench again.
We did the same thing with Best Buy and printers. Got a printer, paid like $10 for the warranty. About a year later it crapped out on us, go to exchange it, but they don't sell that model anymore, so we get the newer model gratis. Paid the $10 warranty on that, and it crapped out after a couple years too. Repeated that cycle I think three times before they stopped letting you buy the extended warranty on a warranty exchange.
pecky5 · 2 points · Posted at 05:51:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's standard warranty law in Australia. I used to buy 3 sets of dirt cheap headphones and just bet that they would break within a year, endless free headphones. Ended up discontinuing them and I just got refunds for all 3 headphones. Good times.
A friend of mine did this with an external hard drive at Staples; kicker is that he called the number and said it broke and they just said 'okay we'll send you a new one.' No questions asked, and he didn't have to send the old one in, so 2 external hard drives for the price of one plus a warranty.
Our teacher gave us a timed take home test online and said we could use the internet because if we did we'd probably run out of time anyway, so I looked up the first question and lo and behold the entire test in the same exact order on Quizlet.
I almost cried.
Real talk. It also shows me how fucking lazy my professors are.
[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 05:41:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Most of them know and most of them don't give a shit. I went to a large Midwest university and my roomate was a TA for multiple professors. He said it's appalling how lazy they are.
I had to do a good amount of credit recovery because I blew off most of my homework and a lot of the online tests were on quizlet. A savior, that site.
focusyou · 791 points · Posted at 00:39:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
take home test
regardless if the internet was allowed or not, you should look it up anyways.
No you shouldn't. The reason why I say this is because that's how you get easy timed take home tests banned for everyone. I had a huge lecture class of like 100 people, don't remember what subject anymore. The first major test was a timed one online. Internet use was allowed, working with others was not.
A bunch of people decided that they were gonna "use their resources" and work together as a group. One person submitted the test, looked at what questions they got wrong, and told the group who proceeded to then get 100%.
The massive amount of 100%'s tipped of the professors, they caught wind of what happened, and now everyone has to come in outside of class time in the evening to take the test in person.
Moral of the story, don't cheat when you get a nice easy take home test or you'll be the asshole who ruins it for everyone.
The way I see it. If the teacher copied and pasted the test from another teach literally word for word so that I can find it on a Quizlet. Why shouldn't I be expected to put in the same amount of effort.
Because you need to actually now that information to pass. The teacher doesn't need to create original tests to keep their job.
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qroshan · 29 points · Posted at 05:01:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Isn't the entire thread full of that. Cheating Papa Johns of revenue (affecting someone's livelihood), Cheating Train Fares (job cuts again).
In fact, of all the cheating that has happened in this thread, test cheating is the most benign as you are only hurting yourself
fco83 · 7 points · Posted at 05:29:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
as you are only hurting yourself
Not necessarily, especially if things are curved. I mean, i remember tests where the teacher took the top score, made it 100, and raised everyone else moved up the same amount. So what happens if the top 'legit' score is 85, but someone else gets 100 thanks to cheating? The person who would have gotten 100 now gets 85.
Someone's going to do it. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
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qroshan · 1 points · Posted at 14:26:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, Papa Johns weren't being incompetent. They just expected their customers to have at least a little bit of integrity.
If I steal item from Walmart and not get caught? Do you blame Walmart for being incompetent?
If I don't pay the 25c for my coffee at work, Do you blame my Co-workers for being incompetent (After all according to your logic, It is their fucking fault to not install a security camera and a key mechanism to not distribute coffee if you don't pay 25c)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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qroshan · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I agree with your framework, except mine is more simple.
If your action hurts someone in any way, then it is cheating.
I'm not OK with stealing with Papa Johns (because it is almost always owned by a small business owner).
Type I, but I'm not OK
Hacking a large monopolist phone carrier to making long distance calls because of their exorbitant monopolistic pricing.
Type II, but I'm OK
If you are poor and cheating public transportation to go to your destination
Type II, but I'm OK (public transportation should be free anyway)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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qroshan · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes, you can down this rabbit hole forever exploring all the gradients of cheating.
It goes back to the same sliding scale. Is stealing 1p ok? How about 2p? How about 10p? all the way to infinity.
A walmart customer is a walmart customer. He is never going to buy from mom and pop.
However, a Papa Johns customer most likely likes Papa Johns Pizza and he cheated them out of probably $500+ of (guaranteed) revenue. (Not the 2 or 3% gross margin in your mom and pop example), but actual $500 revenue.
Well if it's for an elective what does it matter. Everyone knows you take an elective because it's interesting and a GPA booster. Unethical? Sure but you won't get me to take an assignment for an elective seriously when I have an essay for my major due next day.
Sqrlchez · 11 points · Posted at 04:52:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Look, there is no way a professor gave someone a take-home test that they didn't expect people to look up answers for.
There's a reason some classes have proctored exams. Those are important things, with high levels of cheating, so they have proctored exams even for the online class.
My chemistry class has proctored exams. Most math classes.
However, I paid a nice chunk of change to take one single class at the only school I know of that has non-proctored statistics. I currently have an A in the class.
Do I feel bad? Nope. Want to know why? Because it's completely fucking irrelevant to my program, and I'm not having my future put on hold by some stupid state requirements that aren't even applicable. For my classes that I actually need, I'll study. I won't cheat. But fuck statistics. I killed myself to scrape through intermediate algebra with a C. I'm not losing my future career over one class.
I'm also pretty sure this school charges so much because it doesn't have proctored exams. It's a tradeoff.
Yep, throwaway, because of judgemental people like you.
[deleted] · 25 points · Posted at 03:25:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I took an online art history course where if you saved the pictures used in the test, the answer would be in the name of the file
wolferoo · 23 points · Posted at 04:07:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The art history class I took in college was too easy to need to cheat. It was multiple choice questions like
The art history class I took in college gave us 15 random "pieces" out of a possible 35-40 that we went over in class. These pieces were displayed an an overhead projector one at a time and you had to know the name of the piece, era, date, and write 2 paragraphs about the piece's meaning, importance, etc. You had 3 minutes to do each one before the next slide would come up. There was no going back to a previous slide, but you could omit 3 pieces.
I actually enjoyed the art up until everything started to be basically, "Here's another picture of Jesus.", but it was a required course for my STEM program and it was despised by most of my classmates.
STEM major here too. I looked up the different art history teachers and picked the one whose reviews said the course was easy so those just doing it for the credit wouldn't have to attend class, and the lecture was devoted to those who were interested in learning about art. Win-win. I attended 3 days - first day, midterm, final.
Several of my hardest classes were the "core credits" I think they called them. The stuff outside of engineering/math/science. I liked my Brit Lit class though. You could pass the tests on the cliff notes, and the lecture was about all the sex jokes in Canterbury Tales or Shakespeare.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:46:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My friend and I were in the same science course in high school. It was just an absurd amount of busy work. My friend's mom happened to be a teacher at a different school. We registered her online as a teacher of this course and a few weeks later got the teacher's manual which had every answer to every question.
dawrina · 5 points · Posted at 04:35:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I took a networking course in college and all of the exams were online. The final exam was also online. Unfortunately, the final exam was an in-class exam so instead of using ctrl+F for the answers, I had to memorize over 150 questions and answers to take the final (The final was 50 questions out of a pool of about 150 potential questions)
It paid off though because I took the 2 hour final in 15 minutes and got an 87. I did this two years in a row (Networking 1&2)
For some reason no one else in my class knew about this and I guess had to read through all of the course material my professor never taught during class...
Teacher here...love Quizlet as a former student. hate Quizlet as it encourages thinking memorizing facts is thinking. Love Quizlet as it makes me teach thinking rather than memorizing facts. Students.. use Quizlet until it pushes your profs to actually teach you.
Online school K12 reuses the same assignments every year. I found a folder on Quizlet which contained every single assignment for 3 of my classes for the whole semester.
If you're out there kid who organized these, thank you. Thank you so much.
I've done something similar with a Kahoot at school. I did a quick search and managed to find the quiz ending with me getting every question right the moment I could answer.
I'm cyberschooled (senior in high school) and I find this a lot! I'm allowed to use the internet for all my tests (except French) and many times if I search one answer a whole quizlet comes up. Sometimes I can even search the class and the name of my school and find them haha
I never understood why professors do this. You found and copied the test from somewhere online, so why wouldn't the student be able to find and copy the answers from the same document?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:51:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I heard of a story where a teacher made a fake quizlet with all of the wrong answers just to trick people who did that.
bxblox · 1 points · Posted at 05:42:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Similar but worse...
Everyone in the comp sci department had space on the Linux server where you would practice coding and other crap. The professors also had the same type of space. Anyone could read anyone else's share unless you specifically changed permissions on the directory.
Professor created their own test app for exams and would post the test when class started. But they also did a test run of the exam with all the exam answers in which the results ended up in an unprotected directory the night before.
Leocunn · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My entire history class is based off of a Milwaukee school district's quizlets, Helps a lot.
My teacher gave us an option to do take-home online or in person. Of course she left all the powerpoints on blackboard.
I think like 2 people really wanted to fucking come in that day. This lady was the coolest. Would ask us whether we wanted to come in to watch the film or just do it from home.
bestem · 1 points · Posted at 15:02:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Neither is something you sign up for, both are things the school signs up for and provides to its students. In this case, when I log in to the student section of the website, there's a place I can access the Google Apps the school has signed up for (Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and Sites). And if I sign into Office with the same Gmail account, I have Office 365.
I'm a student and didn't know free unlimited Drive is a thing? Where do I do this?
bestem · 2 points · Posted at 14:51:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If your school uses Google Apps, they may have it. It not something you can sign up for, it's something your school signs up for, and everyone with a sub-account gets. It's managed by the school, so it can go away without warning at any time, especially if they realize you're storing terabytes of of data and haven't taken any classes.
[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 04:54:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Try contacting dome and ask if you can get an email address there. .Edu domains will be accepted at more places while lesser-known colleges are more likely to give you one.
Also, usually someone is selling an .Edu email on fiverr.
eeedlef · 9 points · Posted at 05:14:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
dellaint · 488 points · Posted at 01:07:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
On Webkinz there was a minigame that accidentally rewarded money when you quit out of it. I downloaded a macro program, and joined and quit the game all day for 2 days, probably around 30,000 times. About a week later all the stuff I bought was gone and there was a bulletin on the front page of Webkinz news saying it's wrong to hack the game or something...
I remember there was a glitch for a mini game that I abused that when you finished a game it gave you a reward and you had to click on the reward to accept it. If you spammed the refresh button or something like that it would lag up the page and take a while to old up so you kept on hitting the button for the reward. For every time you hit it you got the full reward so i racked up so much money from that and never got caught.
hes earning the points by doing things like buying pudding for the promo and "spending" far less points on flying or whatever else the particular program allows you to cash in points on, if you just earned points by flying (for every mile you fly you get x points) you wouldn't even come close to that level of earning
There was a great Paul Anderson movie afterward in which the main character, played by Adam Sandler, did this very same pudding scheme. It was a different role for him, not the usual nonsense, and the movie got good reviews. Emily Watson was in it too, and Philip Seymour Hoffman . . . Punch Drunk Love
I dunno, there is a dude in this threat who bought 10,000 worth of bike tire patch kits and got a two brand new TV's, a full tool set, and $3,000 worth of tablets. I'd say that's comparable.
To put it in perspective for you. He got 1.25 million frequent flyer miles. If you book a flight in advance enough, say three months. It will cost you roughly 40,000 frequent flyer miles to fly one way from the USA to Europe. You can find one way tickets if you're lucky for about 600$. But that's a very lucky find. Average plane tickets are $1,000-$1,500 USD for economy/coach. Even on the low end of $1,000 that's still $30,000 worth of plane flights for overseas. It's worth less domestic but it's a hell of a deal. Even accounting for the $300 tax that places like England charge you it's a bit better than the other guys patch kit.
It's completely dependent on locations, destination, time, and stops. LAX I believe has better options. You can get a 400$ flight and it may be direct from LAX. But randomly searching from like Austin, Detroit, and others. Most days you can find literally one flight around $500 with two stops and a travel time of 16+ hours. And the second recommended is $1200+. You can do it. Not saying you can't. But the average is a grand.
ZE_R0 · 0 points · Posted at 07:28:53 on March 9, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just booked tickets RT from Austin to Barcelona. $400 cash, RT per person with a 2 hour layover in Atlanta. Used 20k AmEx MR for each ticket. Bottom line - you don't know how to book airline tickets.
My dad does this. Not with pudding but with credit cards and hotel deals. We never pay for hotel rooms or plane upgrades - first class and 4-star hotels in Japan, England, and Hawaii on a yearly family trip. He always has like thirty credit cards rolling for our family (immediate plus grandparents). It works out because he knows which places maximized points and rewards. If you're spending the money might as well make it count. Got lots of points for my college tuition and new car.
Because I have good credit and because I have a college fund that was invested when I was born. The money doesn't appear out of nowhere. Plus I've still had a job since I was 15 to help pay for that car. Just because I said we used those credit cards for points doesn't mean we just spend willy-nilly. It's about planning payments and spending only what you were going to spend anyways. Not like we bought a new car on a whim, my last one was a hand-me-down from my grandparents with 130k miles and my dad wanted me to make sure I had a safe car when I moved away. His car was a 95 corolla without a clock but with roll up windows for the longest time. He's not rich. He's practical and knows how to invest both his money and his time.
No he just knows how to invest and get miles like crazy. I had a college fund they started when I was born and attended a cheap college. We're really not that rich. We're middle class really. They have a 3-bedroom house with an old jeep and a Camry from my dad's parents. My car was only because we got a good deal and they wanted a good car for me (AWD) with the prospect of moving to a mountainous area, plus I paid for part of it. They're smart, practical parents who help me with practical stuff but they're far from rich.
I get where you're coming from. You definitely don't have to be rich to churn, but you do have to be privileged. The majority of the world's population is never going to have the privilege to churn. Let's just ignore the rest of the world and look at Americans. We have a good bit of Americans living in "deep poverty." That's about one half or one third of the Federal Povery Level, which is hilariously low, currently $981.00 gross monthly for a household of 1. If your income is so low all you can do is pay for rent and bills, and you buy food with food stamps, it's gonna be hard to churn unless your landlord takes credit cards. If you were a kid who was raised in a cycle of poverty, you're much less likely to learn how personal finance works at home nor at school than a kid not in poverty. Many of these kids blow their credit scores before they become adults (emotionally not legally), if their parents don't steal credit from their SSN first. I'm telling you man, you're lucky to come from a 3-bd house with a Jeep and a Camry. I've seen too many kids who don't know where they will be sleeping tonight, in America. I don't even want to think about other countries, it crushes me. How are you supposed to study personal finance when you're worried about survival? You don't. Some will break through the cycle of deep poverty, most don't.
Oh I recognize it. I don't flaunt it - I fully understand that I have privilege and I use it not to just be like "oh I'm in Japan this is awesome lemme take a selfie" - our parents understand that we should have experiences like this and we go to places like temples in Kyoto and Hiroshima to Ground Zero.
Plus my dad is super involved in Haiti so we know what extreme poverty looks like. And no we don't go just to be like white people helping poor Haitians, we help run a free clinic and help out with the local churches in Cite Soleil. We've all gone down at some point to help, even before the earthquake. It always hurt to leave and feel like I didn't make a difference because all we did was give out some meds and put new roofs on a couple houses when there are so many shacks with no roofs at all.
And I mean I'm on my own now completely with a salary that's just enough to keep me paying rent, bills, food, and invest - my parents have taught me how to keep my money so that I will be able to spend later. I might not have much money now (they're not paying for stuff now so it's not like I'm getting a free ride) but I'm starting from somewhere. I know not everyone can do this and that's something our country desperately needs to work on, since I do understand poverty is a cyclical problem that is impossible to get out of in most cases.
But I get that I'm privileged. I get it. And I'll be damned if I'm not going to enjoy it because it's there because that's a once a year thing for me, still more than other people but still something for me to look forward to.
The story, for those that haven't heard. It's not exactly a loophole- just one of those stories where someone was a bit more enthusiastic about a promotion than usual.
You can view as many articles as you want in news websites with article view limits (e.g. NY Times) by using incognito/private mode in your browsers. NY Times limits you to ten articles, but once if you reach that amount, just close and open again in incognito.
These news websites tally the number of articles you've read with cookies, which is why incognito mode works: it deletes cookies when you close the incognito window.
You don't need to use incognito. You can just manually delete the cookies, or use a cookie browser-add-on (like Self-Destructing Cookies, which deletes cookies when you close a tab).
KmKiero · 4 points · Posted at 05:59:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Akinator somehow manages to block private browser mode from working (on mobile it limits your amount of plays (to like once a day, fuck off akinator)) unless you download the app.
Small rant that has nothing to do with the thread, but I fucking hate that apps exist. Tumblr mobile? Fuck off you're not allowed to like shit unless you have our app. Facebook? Fuck off you're not allowed to message (the only thing most people use it for) without the app. And akinator? Fuck off from playing the game until you get bored and never play again unless you get our app.
At least with Facebook you can still work around it by requesting the desktop site. Annoying, but like hell am I downloading their bloated garbage app.
Condawg · 2 points · Posted at 07:09:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
or use a cookie browser-add-on (like Self-Destructing Cookies, which deletes cookies when you close a tab).
I like the idea of that, but I also like convenience. How much does it affect your browsing?
It affects my browsing not at all. How many cookies do you really want to keep? For me, it's just a few, and I put them on the add-on's whitelist, so they are not deleted. Every other cookie gets deleted when I close the tab that downloaded the cookie (if you have multiple tabs that use the same cookie, then the cookie is deleted when you close the last of those tabs).
When you close the browser, all cookies are deleted.
Sure, you can do a couple of extra mouseclicks to open an incognito window, or no extra mouseclicks with self-destructing cookies. The difference is minor, but the incognito window is less convenient.
I used to do this too but now I subscribe to support the NYT.
GulfAg · 2 points · Posted at 05:41:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A different method works for the WSJ. For any of their articles that are locked for members only: copy the title of the article, paste into google (add "WSJ" if it's a super non-unique name), and the top search result will take you right back to WSJ.com without the article locked.
Some websites have other silly ways to get around paywalls as well. I opened one on mobile the other day and it brought up a thing saying I had to pay to access the site, but I could still see some text in the gap below it so I just read the whole article by scrolling and reading through the gap. That often happens with sites telling you to turn adblock off as well, you can still see the article in the background or sometimes even just close the window and carry on
I agree with you, however I pay for a yearly subscription to the NYT Crossword app, but they still limit me from reading the wordplay blog more than 10x a month (which I just go around). Like, I already paid! Let me get some crossword hints!
This is why there is fake news. People stopped paying for paper news, so news sources go to online articles, and now they write for clicks and not "real" journalism. I'm not saying you should stop what you are doing, but on the larger scale this has grave effects in our political system and why I choose to pay for new sites I believe work hard to provide real news.
I do this for all the Herald Sun articles in Australia. if you click on the link it takes you to 'subscribe for more' page but if you copy and paste the link into an incognito...BAM! Free news
I know they are leaning liberal which isn't terribly bad (leaning any way is bad) but as soon as they publicly supported a candidate:(Clinton), their credibility dropped a lot for me yet people continue to say they are real news. They used to be real news but they changed and spout fake news with the trust that they are still the reliable news they once were. At least they have the balls to let people know they were for Clinton instead of pretending they weren't while they brainwash with propoganda. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/opinion/sunday/hillary-clinton-for-president.html?_r=0
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 05:53:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I worked in fast food, I discovered that if you super-sized a soda but not the fry, it was the same price as if you got the regular size.
Being the keener, I told the GM and he was like "Huh, weird. Just don't tell anyone."
He turned out to be a huge dickweed so I let every customer in on the secret and started exploiting it as much as I could. I even got repeat customers doing it without being prompted.
I left, a few years later I went through the drive-thru and tried it: Didn't work.
Soda is almost free for fast food places to buy
acpc2203 · 16 points · Posted at 05:28:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mcdonald's was like this for awhile since any size soft drink was $1 and the system prorated the price of the meal by $1 and then charged you whatever the drink cost.
There was this one vending machine at school that sold these drinks called Mr.Flav for $1.50. Well a few of my friends found out if we spam a bunch of the buttons while it was dispensing the drink, it would give like 2 or 3 extra drinks.
Not as good as some other things people posted but hey, extra drinks.
You ever see those Coca-Cola vending machines with the conveyor belt? I figured out when I was in high school, that if you held the door shut where the drink was dispensed, the system would eventually spit your money back out. The drink would still be on the conveyor belt though, so if you put your money in and selected another drink further from the door, you could get a two for one deal.
With 16oz cans, I was able to get three for one pretty consistently. The only problem was that each item slot that you abused would be labeled empty by the machine, so the vending machine would be bunk for a few days before someone came to service it.
my high school had a vending machine with a similar problem. If you held down a few numbers on the selection pad after you made your selection, but before it started dispensing, the conveyor arm would collect your drink, sit next to the dispenser for a bit, give your money back and then dispense the drink for free
When I was in elementary school there was a soda machine near my house that was slightly broken. If you pushed the Arizona Tea button, it'd give you two of them. Also, the walmart brand soda machine was broken too. If you pushed the coke button you'd get between 3 and 4 for the price of one.
Rav99 · 646 points · Posted at 00:38:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
SOJ arbitrage back in the day - Diablo 2.
For those that don't know, there was this ring everyone wanted called SOJ (Stone of Jordan) that was basically the currency of the game. It was accepted in trade for pretty much anything you wanted to buy.
The only way to get it besides trading for it with another player, was to find it or gamble for it in game. But there was a catch. You had to get two other rings first - Manald and Nagel. Those rings, if you wanted to trade for em, went for 1 SoJ for the pair.
Now enter eBay. On eBay SOJ sold for 10 bucks at the time. But the pair of Manald and Nagel went for 20-25.
So... When I got my first pair of MnN I didn't start gambling SOJs like everyone else. I sold em and used the money to buy 2 SOJ. I then traded one for a new Manald and nagel and kept the other as pure profit.
How I miss the glory days of Diablo 2. I picked up a copy like a year ago looking to get back into it on battle.net. I log onto battle.net only to find it completely overrun by gold sellers and botters. There are barely any live players anymore. Such a shame. I didn't even play it.
ShumaG · 21 points · Posted at 04:26:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You should check out Path of Exile. It has its own subreddit here. A new league is about to start and a big expansion drops in a few months.
Just want to second PoE. It is the spiritual successor to D2 and has so much more in terms of skill flexibility. Really well-designed game, in my opinion.
I played on slash for a while, but the lack of pvp kills it for me. The whole idea on trading and working towards good gear, for me at least, was to be able to properly gear a character to go into pub duel games and fuck shit up.
diablo trading was scam city... You see one guy trading shako for runes, then in the game below you see the same guy in a smurf account trading less runes for another shako.
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 05:48:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The one where you would agree to trade your Shako for 1 HR and "accidentally" close the trade window instead of complete and then "accidentally" swap your Shako for a gemmed Leather Cap.
yeah, when annihilus charm couldn't be traded in the menu. I'm definitely guilty of using one way walls to grab their charm or items and leave the game. Act 5 town in particular
i had a guy say he was going to race me for items, then he turned on a bot that auto-picked up everything on the map and quit the game in 0.0001 seconds...
probably the first scam in my entire life, poor pre-teen me
Diabolo 2? We used to get two clients up, throw our loot on the ground- save and exit, then replace the log files with a back-up, log back in and have double currency and items after you picked everything up off the ground from the first client. This was not difficult, so I would imagine you could have gotten rich off those rings- I was unaware of out-of-game money changing hands, darn it!
Rav99 · 43 points · Posted at 03:41:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back up file? No that's offline mode there was no money in that, anyone could dupe or hack items. I am talking about battle.net where your character was saved server side not client. (edit for clarification).
That said, duping was still pretty rampant even on bnet which ruined the economy and made a lot of hackers a good deal of money.
_Noise · 8 points · Posted at 04:37:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
HOW SWAY? 12 year old me NEEDS to know how the cool kids were duping.
[deleted] · 20 points · Posted at 05:51:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Stay a while, and listen
I remember the throw item on the ground, walk a few steps, click to pick item up, when you were about 1 pixel away click on a potion in your belt and the potion would convert to the item. This also worked for gold.
I know it worked in Diablo 1 and I think it worked in 2.
At one point duping involved using a necromancer to cause massive amounts of server side lag. That's all I remember because I was into botting and not duping.
nethaka · 2 points · Posted at 06:30:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One method was I think with a sorceress and necromancer, the necro casting a bunch of bonewalls In a1 outside the town in blood moor, and the sorceress casting like meteor or something? Just to make the game lag a lot (on battle.Net) the necro would hold an insight (weapon that provides mana Regen for the bonewall) and when game was getting close to dropping someone sitting in town would drop items and leave/game drops and when they can reconnect they have the items in their inventory and still on the ground
Dude this is some baader mainhof shit, I played the shit out of D2 back inthe early 2000s but I haven't touched the game in over a decade
Just the other day a YouTuber who makes Diablo 2 videos (think he's called Xtimus) popped up in my recommended feed and this is now the third reference to the game I've seen since
This reminds me of a little exploit in SCM where if you looked at certain marketable TF2 items, you could buy two items that could be merged into one (IE Strange Weapon + a Specialized/Professional Killstreak Kit), merge the two items, and resell it for a higher price than the original (only if the merged item was already selling at a price that made it possible.)
Similar to yours, I used to do a bit of farming back in the day. Shortly after one of the first ladder resets I had found my first IST. The next morning a dupe came out, and I found some random guy in chat that would team up on the dupe. We started duping and merging (I had a ton of jewels too), and made it all the way through zods, perming each one. I think I ended up with a few hundred high runes in an hour (at the cost of having to call in sick that morning).
Then, I took all the ladder runes, and traded for NL SoJs, knowing that they were about to launch the expansion and SoJs would go up in value due to selling to spawn Clone. I ended up with at least 30 or 40 accounts full of chars full of SoJs. Once Clone came out, I and a few others ran an IRC where we would get 30 or more games connected on one IP, and then one of us would sell stones to spawn Clone, send a loaded up Pally game to game to kill Clone and harvest all the annis, and repeat. Someone even wrote a bot to track how many SoJs had been sold on each IP so we knew which were primed to pop.
I must have sold a thousand annis in the end. Those were the days.
*for those curious, the dupe was super easy to do. I don't remember the details, but I think one person ran an app that somehow messed with the local game instance, then that person kept selling items to (Akara?) in act 1, and they also stayed in inventory. So they could sell the same IST 100x while I sat there buying them all, perming them by upgrading in cube with a gem, and once we had enough of that HR we would do the same with the next. I actually ran out of gold repeatedly and cleaned out full accounts of gems in the process.
Not sure how popular this opinion is, but hot damn I wish the auction house was still in D3. What cracks me up is how Blizzard removes the AH (because of the real money portion, but still) then starts adding all these features like Kadala, the cube etc that are designed to help you get your hands on a specific legendary, when that feature was already shipped on launch day to begin with.
I'm genuinely curious - what's the difference between farming Shards for Kadala, or cache mats for Kanai's, as opposed to farming raw gold to buy exactly what you want off the AH?
Unfortunately when there's P2P trading in any sense in an arpg, playing the trade game is always going to net you more currency than actually playing. Path of Exile for example doesn't have an AH (despite the community demanding it for however long, even if it won't necessarily be good for the game overall) and the richest people are the people who flip currency/items.
Rav99 · 2 points · Posted at 13:15:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm in the minority too, they should have left the GAH for lower level items. When they raised the level cap they could have just made the new level 63+ gear not sellable on the GAH. As usual, the game focused on players at the level cap and lowbies get screwed. There was nothing wrong with buying low level items on the GAH in fact it was nice. Sometimes you just didn't find the right item for your class.
Edit: D3 also had other problems with itemization that everyone just blamed on the AH. The lack of true variety on the items means you needed gear with your primary stat on it or it was worthless to you. This made us dependent on the AH for most of our gear since finding it was such a crap shoot. To me, the AH was a symptom not the root cause which was crappy itemization and lack of an item sink ( IE a way to remove items from the economy).
This graphic sums up the d2 vs d3 itemization issues pretty well.
A few years ago you could enter a code found on your Bath and Body Works receipt into their app. Each time you entered the code it gave you say, 250 points. You could eventually trade in your points for store items. I found that I could copy and paste the receipt code, and just change the last few digits consecutively and it would register and a correct code. I spent a few hours doing this until I had enough points for the "grand" prize. I redeemed it for a full size body spray in all 25 of their scents.
I was taking a Finance class in college and the teacher was a Phd. Student. His thesis required a lot of data to be retrieved. He offered his class 1/4 point on their final grade for each survey we turned in on his website, as long as it had our name in one of the questions (who led you to this survey?).
I dropped $20 into mTurk and offered 2 cents for each person who took the survey and put my name in. I also dropped another $10 and offered a penny for each one.
I then posted it to /r/HitsWorthTurkingFor. All my $30 was gone in about 35 minutes. I ended the class with a crazy high score and got an A+ boost to my GPA.
rab777hp · 325 points · Posted at 04:22:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Seems like a win win.
You got your credit, and the professor got everyone's 2 cents
There was an AMA not too long ago from a professor that ran a website that would match your essay/thesis/report/academic anything with another professor that would write it for you. Can't remember the name though :/
Amazon Mechanical Turk. It's a service where people can do menial repetitive tasks for pennies in Amazon credit.
For example, I've helped thousands of captchas become. Ore accurate by identifying all the boats in a set of photos . I essentially was the control, and I made 5cents a shot.
I know a lot of it is typing data from a picture. I once did hundreds of street signs for a penny each, I can only assume google was the financier and I was helping maps label things correctly.
Meaningless tasks for pennies. What a time to be alive
jared555 · 22 points · Posted at 05:00:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I always assumed that the mturk captcha hits were people running bots and paying people to help them spam.
Not like that, he added 1/4 point to our final average for each survey. If you got 12 surveys your final average went up by 3 points. If you chose not to participate your grade was what it was.
There's a grocery store/ cafe that I get coffee from every morning. Around Christmas there was a special where if you buy a $100 gift card, they give you a $20 one for free. Then you can use the $100 gift card to buy another $100 gift card and get $20 free. I got 18 free $20 gift cards ($360 total) before they caught on. Still drinking free coffee.
anytime someone uses card to buy card (pre-paid credit or gift card) the cashier should start calling for management... thats some basic level thinking right there XD
So many scams involve people buying pre-paid visa on credit or gift cards from credit, or pre-paid visa from gift card etc
[deleted] · 36 points · Posted at 05:27:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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jkj3i98j · 19 points · Posted at 06:28:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A lady I know buying herself gift cards to restaurants she likes, gas cards, etc. to get grocery purchase points. No activation charge you sometimes find on those pre-paid cards.
ZE_R0 · 1 points · Posted at 07:45:04 on March 9, 2017 · (Permalink)
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 05:19:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Children's Place used to allow buying gift cards with gift cards when I worked there a few years ago. Tried that trick a few months ago and no-go. I even asked to see where it says that I can't do so, and they brought out Terms and Conditions book for me where it was highlighted that no gift cards can be bought with gift cards. Bummer.
If I come across a deal like this I might try it, but to avoid the card loop, I'd sell the $100 cards for $95 cash, and the $20 cards for $15, and earn $10 profit each time. People will be getting free money, and I will be earning a profit. Assuming I could get buyers that is.
gumnos · 3 points · Posted at 11:23:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nice. Had a similar one here at a smoothie store that gave a free smoothie with the purchase of a $25 gift card. "Yeah, I'd like a $25 gift card and the free smoothie; here, I've got a $25 gift card to pay for it." Not quite as nice a deal as what you got, but my own little loophole contribution to the thread.
At a a now defunct funfair called Metroland they had a machine where you could exchange £1 for five 20 pence pieces, or a 20 pence piece for 10 two pence pieces, these machines were used so that one could play the coin slot machines. However, my brothers and I noticed a flaw in which instead of putting in a 20 pence piece to receive 10 two pence pieces, it spat out five 20 pence pieces. This would mean an 80p profit on each 20p. Naturally my brothers and I exploited this till the machine ran dry, all in all the final total came to about £40 worth of 20 pence pieces.
We used that money to buy the whole family a macdonalds. Not a huge loophole but younger us thought it was brilliant.
st_owly · 2 points · Posted at 13:35:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A friend did this at McDs by her house. Had endless nuggets until they asked her to stop. We were in a different city for a few days. Survey pops up on receipt and she's finished it before food arrives. Guess where we ate again?
JPWRana · 3 points · Posted at 14:28:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you phone dominoes and tell them you have a code for 50% off when you spend £40 but it's not working online, they apply your discount at the till and don't ask for the code. £40 of pizza for £20, every single time
The in the US you can get a Little Caesar's pizza which is superior quality to Domino's for about £4.50. a really amazing pizza from a local place might run you £12.
To be honest, any nearly plausible coupon, we can just enter in at the store. "I've got a coupon for a large specialty pizza for $12.99" "what's the coupon code?" "Oh it doesn't have one" "Oh that's okay then, I'll just enter it in. Just give the driver the coupon"
There was this Cumberland Farms gas station near my house that had a faulty pump. It would fill your car with gas no matter what. Only me and my friend knew, and we would consistently get 5 dollars of gas, only to have our car fill up. We probably saved around 400-500 dollars each before it was figured out and fixed.
A gas station near my house one time accidentally typed in their fuel price as something like 93 cents. At that time gas was more like $3.93. Pretty soon the road had a major traffic jam of people waiting in line for their discounted fuel. It surprisingly took them several hours to figure out why they were suddenly so popular.
Medarco · 3 points · Posted at 06:28:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had this happen in my hometown. Funniest thing. There would be 4 cars in line for that pump, with 3 other pumps wide open. Amazed it took the owners that long to figure it out.
That's how pumps are supposed to be. In many places you can still just pump gas and pay afterward.
If you prepay there should be that set limit, so that part was broken. But you're still expected to pay any additional gas you pump. There's a gauge on the pump for a reason.
You ever drive by the gas station a few times until your pump was free? lmao
mrminty · 2 points · Posted at 07:23:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I found something similar when I realized that the 7/11 that i used to live across the street from had a badly calibrated pump that would dispense 3 cents of gas extra if you prepaid. Filled up my car there for the whole summer. Of course I drive a Honda Civic and I filled up once every two weeks. But I'm laughing all the way to the bank.
One summer when I was in high school, my local Blockbuster had a promotion where if you buy a gumball from their gumball machine and got the "color of the day", you'd get a free rental. Rentals were like 5 bucks, so I dumped $3 into the machine until I got the color for that day. When I went to the counter with the rental and handed over my gumball, the guy behind the counter told me to keep the gumball. I then realized I had all 7 colors in my pocket from my previous attempts. I went in there every day that summer and presented whatever color ball was on the sign for my free rental.
They didn't run that promotion the following summer.
Probably had a limit of 1. They were probably banking on parents renting a movie and even if junior got a gumball and a free rental, the fact the parents paid for 1 made it worth it.
Attracts attention, just like any other promotion. I actually remember this gumball machine promotion more than anything else at blockbuster when I was a kid
Found I could dial all the numbers but one on a business phone ( four lines at the frat) and then put it on hold. Did this with all four lines. When the radio station said 6th caller gets the concert tickets, hit the flasher and dial last number. Rang right through. So, I tied up ATT computers and won a bunch of prizes that year
Once, about 15 years ago, I won concert tickets from the local jazz station because the dj forgot to say their phone number when he started the contest. I just looked it up online, then started calling. The 5th caller was supposed to win. I was the first caller, the second caller, and the third caller. The dj asked why I was the only one calling, and I told him that he never gave the phone number. At that point, he just gave me the tickets.
Many many years ago I was working at a food joint alone, bored off my ass. Then I was like "I should turn the radio on and why not I should call and request a song since I have never done that." So i call, goes through on the first try and the DJ picks up. "Congratulations you won tickets to see cold play!!!!" I was just stunned and all I could muster was. "Oh... I Just called to request a song"
haha, in high school I was listening to the local college station and ended up being caller 1-9. I was the only one calling in to win the tickets.
fsjja1 · 0 points · Posted at 04:06:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This username... Just... Mwha!
xyfcacct · 15 points · Posted at 02:58:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did a morning show for my college's radio station on Saturday mornings, and we were giving away tickets to some really obscure show. 7th caller was supposed to win, but only one guy kept calling - after the 4th time I just gave him the tickets.
In college, I had 2 lines at my work. I'd predial the number on both lines, and just call and call and call. I too, was usually callers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and on and on.
In a span of a few months, I won:
A ring from a jeweller
An ipod
gift certificates (4 or 5 of them)
Concert tickets
clothing
cd's
day trip/tours
The station got tired of me winning all the time, so they changed it to winning once every 6 months.
Hahaha, I sometimes forget to say the station phone number too. We have 6-7 call in contests a day. Because of that I think half the town has us on speed dial, so it doesn't matter much anyway.
lexgrub · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My friend was runner up to winning the grand prize of this radio station. The prize was to have yellowcard play a private show in his living room for him and 12 friends. This was over 10 years ago btw. Anyway the person who did won didn't seem excited so my friend called in and complained that he was a bigger fan. They gave him the prize because I guess off the air the person who won backed out.
I got to go to the show it was awesome still can't believe that he somehow won that.
I called in once to win some tickets to something. I think it was supposed to be the 9th caller or whatever, but I called and asked if I was number nine, and the guy just said that I could be if I wanted to
They would also go through the lines, say hello and if someone sounded even half way excited... " congrats you're number 6!" Mumbled bored people suck on air!
Also there's often not really an all request lunch hour. Often they have songs the PD says they have to play. Which means "Jim says on the text line he wants to hear some Taylor Swift" isn't actually Jim.
[deleted] · 41 points · Posted at 04:20:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You'll often get a mix of actual requests and songs that the station is promoting. Depending on the volume of calls you can often find enough people to get through a premade playlist all with live people, not that they are all from a playlist.
If you want to get a song on that's not in the current top 40, pick something that was really popular that everyone will know even if it's old. Like Nirvana or Garth Brooks. And be excited when you call in.
Shit like this is why I love my local rock station so much. As long as it's rock that's come out in the last 30-40 years, and it can by some definition be defined as rock, they'll play it. One night it went from Nirvana to Kiss to fucking A Devil Wears Prada and then straight into freaking Muse. I love that station.
And since I know someone will ask, it's X97.3 The Bird out of Terre Haute.
You'll often get a mix of actual requests and songs that the station is promoting.
Thank you for not continuing the "none of the requests are real" thing I always see in TIL and the like. I worked in a gas station for a year or so and got bored as SHIT, so I spent a decent amount of time testing how extensive the local hip-hop station's library was.
Also happens they will go though a few people and tend to pick the one that will sound the best on air, most phone calls in my experience are prerecorded and then put to air, so you can edit out swearing etc
Most request shows I have seen are real, there is set music it's all on a pc and all scheduled in advance, however during request shows the DJ has a chance to change it.
Sure sometimes it can be slow and they can make the odd request up and there is also a station format so say on a top 40 station if someone requests thrash metal it isn't gonna get played
My favourite station had a DJ who would refuse to take requests, unless you requested the song he was about to play anyway. He'd usually say what the song was, then someone would call and ask for it, and he'd play it for them.
I worked in radio for several years. You are dead wrong. First of all, we couldn't fuck around when it came to contests because we have to answer to the FCC and they don't mess around. Secondly, it's easy: Just go down the row of flashing lights (phone lines) and say, "You're caller one. Try again. You're caller two, try again". And so forth, until you get the winner. It's not rocket science, and it's not fake.
This guy radios. I've entered many and won two call in contests, and I've been on the receiving end of "You're caller number X, try again" multiple times. Sometimes you get a busy tone, but I assume that happens when you're caller 10+ when caller 9 wins.
I also won 2 tickets to the Indy 500 in a go cart race for people that were at least 6'6" tall or over 300 pounds that was broadcast on the local country station. I'm 6'5” 230 lbs, but they measured me in shoes and I wore cowboy boots, the carts were slow as all hell, we were encouraged to wreck each other, I finished 2nd by purposefully not wrecking anyone. The race was the Friday before the 500 so I had to scramble to make plans to attend. The seats weren't great, they were in the infield between 1 & 2 so you couldn't see much. An Asian family sat it front of us, and when Takuma Sato crashed on the 40 somethingth lap they got up and left looking really pissed off. The crowd really wanted Tony Kanaan to win, but Juan Pablo Montoya ended up drinking the milk.
I won a pair of movie tickets on a radio show contest, mid week in the middle of the night. Caller 10 wins. I called in repeatedly and was caller 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. I figure it was me and one other guy.
I still work at a radio station as a broadcast engineer, FCC don't give a shit what we do since we arnt American. Also there is no flashing lights. It's all computerised and we have 30 lines. Check out an application called phone box and you'll get the idea of the interface
Actually, they had a four line phone. If I was first and they wanted the fifth, I would stay on as they moved down the line. When they got back to "1" I was the fifth and won. Used to take the computer about 15 seconds to disconnect so I never was. Drove them crazy how they could say 55th caller and I still would win.
jdr393 · 28 points · Posted at 03:27:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
All the radio station promos around me - you can only win once per year.
Mine was once every 30 days and I knew to always call before a break because whomever made the next song suggestion by their choice of phone, Facebook, or text would win the tickets. However they did phone over half the time
Because I'm a broadcast engineer..... mostly. When people dial in it comes up on a screen generally able to show the first 8 active calls people dial in and drop quickly is regular if you don't pick up straight away you could have had 10 plus calls cycle round just by the time you make it to the phones.
They just pick up the receiver and put it back down five times(or high-tech equivalent), then actually answer the sixth. I've called into radio shows before, and while 90% of the time you just get a busy signal, sometimes it sounds like you've connected but you never actually hear anything, and then the line drops a second later.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 04:21:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Have 6 lines
Line one call forward busy to 2, cfb to 3, etc
Answer "line 6"
That's the sixth call
Unless I know the DID of your line6, in which case I'm calling line 6 directly haha
I won tickets once from a text line. They went to the 104th text sent. I sent about 10 of the same text in the span of 5 seconds and got 9 error messages before they finally told me I won. Something tells me they had an automated system set up to detect message 104, but who knows.
Lol I heard this from old radio guys and it never occurred to me that they could just pick a random caller, no matter who they said would win, and no one would know.
I haven't done it in a few years, but 98 Rock in Baltimore would give the prize to the xth caller they picked up on. You would call in, and they'd tell you you're caller number whatever. They would usually have a little chat with you too, so it would take forever to get to the right number caller.
I used to assume that the contest was basically over after a few seconds, but they wouldn't get to the tenth caller for like 5 minutes
Also radio guy, hi :) maybe the rules are stricter in American for that sort of thing but it's fairly normal here. A lot of the stations use their frequencies say if they are 108.2 "if your caller 108 you win!"
My father works for Telstra and he mainly works on the phone lines. There was a contest to win Dolly Parton tickets and my mother really wanted them so he cut the phonelines for a moment and called up using an emergency phone (in case stuff like that happens). As predicted, he won the tickets.
rydan · 3 points · Posted at 02:44:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have five phone lines. Not sure why I haven't thought of this. Then I remembered I don't have a radio.
I work in radio now, we have a program that we input listener information. We need name, birthday, address. If you won in the last 30 days it red flags the winner. If you use a fake name you still have to show your ID when you pick up the prize.
Not exactly a loophole, but still wanted to share.
My husband and I have date night at an arcade about once a month and spend $20-$40. One time we started playing one of those games where timing the coin right and getting it in the hole drops coins into a pile and once there's enough they get pushed off the edge and you get tickets for them. We got kind of addicted to it and it's super cheap to play but rewards a TON of tickets if you have the timing right. It stopped working and it turns out the coin tank was full and when the kid fixed it our credit and tickets went way up. It said we had like 100 plays left. We ended up winning so many tickets that night, but I also saw how small the tank is underneath. This is a very popular arcade in a total tourist town, so it fills up OFTEN.
I have another arcade story from when I was in high school. I was at the bowling alley with my friends and little sister. To keep her out of my hair I gave her a few quarters and she went to win toys. She comes back with her hands full of the toys, but I hadn't given her that much money. She also reached into her pocket and handed me the quarters back. The machine kept giving her the toy AND her quarter so she used it to clean out the entire machine. She asked to put them in my purse and went back to the machine, by the end of the night my purse was entirely filled with plastic dogs and ocean animals. When we were leaving I noticed two of the machines were completely empty.
jerisad · 16 points · Posted at 05:18:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh you reminded me of the time the skeeball machine kept giving me free games after I'd paid for like 3. I skeeballed so hard I was sweating like mad, I got so many tickets, so many bouncey balls.
I played an arcade version of temple run that was supposed to be timed, but somehow I got it to keep going indefinitely. My score kept racking up as long as I stayed alive, and by the time i finally lost, i ended up earning hundreds of tickets.
Admittedly, it's a fine line between taking advantage of a legal method to receive an unanticipated gain, and outright getting something without paying for it. But it is definitely a line.
I'd say if the problem is on their end (spits money out with what you buy, without you modifying the machine) then it isn't stealing, they just did a shit job on their end
There are machines at my arcade where you drop a coin into a slot and it lands in the middle of a rotating disc. It then gets pushed slowly to the edge where there are different prizes depending on where it ends up. Some careful watching and about 5-10 coins practice and you can nail the jackpot every time. Each coin played would bump up the jackpot until it was won, even if you won a smaller prize.
I'd wait until the jackpot was high and win it every time.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 06:06:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dude...date night at an arcade. You and your husband are doing things right. What a fun ass relationship.
There used to be a vending machine at my local skatepark that would read your quarters as you put it in but would spit it tight back out. Literally stood there buying everyone stuff until the machine was emptied out
That's less than $10 of play that we get for free. That doesn't even happen every time we go and we only go once a month. We spend more than that and I doubt they will be going out of business. They must be doing very well considering how often they get new games. This is a large arcade on a small island just off of the mainland. The island is completely full of tourists and the arcade is crowded every night of the week. They'll be fine.
Not me but I've seen people go to Walmart to buy those giant pools at the beginning of summer and then proceed to return it at the end of the summer.
[deleted] · 185 points · Posted at 01:03:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When ever one of my friends come visits me from out of town, almost always he buys an inflatable bed from Walmart when he gets in town, and on the last day he's here, he would return it.
They don't allowed air mattresses to be returned now. Told me friend to try this and there is a sign posted near that that says we no longer except returns on air mattresses.
I still feel guilty for returning a 2 year old sofa to Costco for a full refund..... but then again if that's their policy then who's fault is it really?!!
Honestly, we hated it. Very uncomfortable. We should have returned it sooner but life got in the way and we didn't get around to it so we had resorted to keeping it. Then we were moving to a different state and didn't want to take it with us so we had a lot of people telling us to return it and when we called and asked if they would they said it would be ok to return so we did it.
If the sign is worded exactly as you wrote it, you could argue that they'd have to allow it. If they "no longer except" a return, that means they don't treat it differently from other returns, so they do accept it.
I've had to do that once when we were in a move and forgot our air mattress. I felt so guilty doing it but also like I didn't have much of a financial choice lol
The Home Depot used to accept returns on pretty much anything. People would literally return Easter lilies after Easter was over and they'd be fully refunded.
[deleted] · 25 points · Posted at 04:14:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Confession: Sometimes I treat Home Depot as free rental for tools.
Needed an obscure drill bit for a job and the guy at Lowes said "just buy this one and return when you're done" and handed me a super mangled package. Said everyone does it because you'd never need the tool more than once.
Got me to thinking that they really should just rent it out, along with other obscure things. I didn't want to pay $15 but it But would have rented it for $5.
thel3l · 0 points · Posted at 07:57:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 02:45:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some people refer to REI as Return Every Item. I think they updated their return policy recently, but there was a time you could get some camping gear from a second hand store, then return it to REI, didn't even matter if they sold it, they would give you back the original price.
VROF · 9 points · Posted at 04:06:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The real benefit of this policy was the REI yard sales full of hardly used gear for super cheap. We used to get some GREAT shit at those.
How does that even happen without a sku or upc? Original price or second hand store price? Could I have returned a 10 year old tent at REI for a full refund of the original purchase price no matter where it was originally purchased from?
shrk352 · 3 points · Posted at 05:00:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My family did that with a blow up water trampoline. It sat in the lake all summer then one part sprung a leak. So we returned it to Sam's under the warranty for a full refund. Next summer did the same thing.
I knew a person who would buy all sorts of pricey party supplies (think stereos, etc) and then return them after the party was over. Helped I'm sure that she was the customer service manager, so she knew about the loophole.
Absolutely! She did too. I made it sound like it was a bad thing what she did, but honestly when you work retail, that's the kind of stuff you gotta do sometimes.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:17:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's a shit ton of people that do this with camping gear for Coachella at the Indio Walmart.
Related story. Few friends of mine did the same with bikes they bought at Walmart for college. Bought it at the beginning of fall semester and returned it before winter kicked in, in time for the 100 day return policy.
Me and a buddy were on TDY orders for the military for a month. We were put in a hotel that the Army paid for, and had brought an Xbox, but the tv was old, this was pre play panel tvs, and didn't have the connections for the Xbox, so we went to Walmart and dropped 200 for a decent tv, at the end of the orders, I took it to a different Walmart and returned it, essentially renting it for free minus gas, which the Army paid for.
Then the entrepreneurs turn around and buy that returned shit for 15 cents on dollar and open a truckload liquidation store selling shit for 60 cents on dollar.
asciisii · 193 points · Posted at 02:51:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In junior high our local pizza place had a gumball machine, and if you popped a black gumball you got a free whole pizza. A Vietnamese restaurant around a 5 minute drive away had a gumball machine except they only gave the exact same black gumballs. You can tell what my friends and I did for three years!
vacax · 12 points · Posted at 06:21:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A lot of people are confusing loopholes with scams.
Aye I understand that it was a dick move. Not trying to make excuses but we ended up only doing that once a year, but doesn't discount the fact that we were junior high assholes :(
Stau0237 · 602 points · Posted at 01:19:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in college and I procrastinated a paper or something that had to be emailed to the professor, I would send them an email, saying the assignment was attached but didn't attach anything.
By the time the professor emailed me back saying it wasn't attached, I had time to finish the assignment and wouldn't get a deduction for it being late as it was "an honest mistake".
Only used it a few times, but it really saved my ass a few times.
I'm a teacher assistant in our local university (grad student looking for money and helping profs grade student assignments). We use an online classroom for our students too.
I still get at least a few students per assignment that either upload a corrupt file or "failed to upload and sent an email with attachment that wasn't there". Most of the time there's no penalty, as per the professor's instructions.
He doesn't care, we don't care. The deadline is there mostly to make most people submit it on time - if you have half of an excuse, most profs will let it slide (especially if you contacted them before the deadline).
This is one reason I don't accept emailed work. Everything has to be submitted on Blackboard or a hard copy in class. I straight up tell students that it's an automatic zero if I can't open their files, and it's pretty easy to convince them that I know how to use a computer well enough to catch their bullshit. In reality I'm more lenient (I accept late work for reduced credit and as long as you get it to me before I'm done grading everything else, which is usually about two days, I won't even consider it late... it's really just about keeping things organized).
Plus, keeping track of emails and opening attachments is just inconvenient. And Blackboard/physical paper makes it easier to directly provide feedback on assignments (as opposed to having to email back a Word document with tracked changes or printing something extra out).
Oreo_ · 34 points · Posted at 03:10:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah the hardest professors don't really play that game anymore. You don't submit it on time you're late. Should have printed it and brought it in if you didn't check to make sure it was attached
That's your mistake, what college student actually CHECKS the email they sent. And if they were that kind of person why would they wait hours to check it.
You wait for the professor to send back "can't see your shit, son" and THEN you send the assignment.
I had to turn in this huge paper with a video component. The video was at least half the work but I didn't do it. I knew, however, that with the paper being so long he wouldn't get around to reading it for at least a week so I setup a shared Google Drive folder and just put the link to the folder and put the link to the folder on the paper. Turned it in, used a week of complete free time to do the video component, dropped it in the folder, changed the date. Everything worked out perfectly. Realistically there was no way of knowing unless he managed to get to the link before I uploaded because using Google Apps Script you can edit all the file attributes.
Moral of the story, papers with digital components means extra time.
Sorry, looks like I was wrong about the bulletproofness of this.It turns out I changed the last modified date and misremembered it as changing the raw upload date which is in fact immutable. By default the file inspector side panel doesn't show (and if it does, it's set to activity by default). By setting last modified to before the due date that's what he likely saw on the file list if he even bothered to look. If you give no reason to be suspicious, they won't bother to check anyways.
Canada4 · 9 points · Posted at 06:18:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I ended up having to retake a course because of an honest mistake, it was a mandatory advanced stats course. We worked in groups of 3 to "help develop team work like we would have to do in the field" luckily I had 2 friends in the class.
We always divided the questions evenly as possible making sure on average it was always even. We had a 2-2-1 split one day that was worth 15% of our final grade and I was in charge of compiling the answers into one document. I compile all them together to submit the next morning. Then I get a message at around 11:30pm that one of my team mates noticed a mistake in his answer so he sends a file with the fix. I input the fix into the file and save a new copy of our assignment.
Two weeks later we get out grades back, a measly 1%. I think this must be an error so I downloaded the graded assignment. The file I submitted was just the fix, not our full assignment. Both files had the same name. In a panic I email the Professor and explain what happened with an attachment of the completed assignment. She said after grading that she cannot re grade the assignment. It dropped my average just enough that I didn't qualify for a mandatory 4th year course needed to graduate.
One time I actually created a document (word or printed pdf, cant remember), made sure the file size looked legit, then opened the file in a hex editor and spammed on the keyboard. This corrupted the file and made it throw an error while opening.
By the time the professor tries to open the file and sees the error, I had the actual paper finished and just "re-saved" it and sent it.
I used something similar when I got in over-my-head in an online Spanish class. I only took the class because it was "recommended", but I really don't have a head for languages. Plus, the course was built kind of shit to start with.
Anyway, at the time I took the class I had the shittiest of the shit old desktop that would bluescreen about once every two days on Windows XP. It also had RAM errors so that anything in the last ~200mb of RAM would get corrupt at random. Our internet was ALSO shit, tended to lose about 5-8% of all packets and ran at near-dialup speeds for weeks at a time. I abused all of these situations, since both my parents and my teacher knew of the situation, by getting into a couple online tests that I knew I had no chance of answering and spamming random altcodes to fill the submission form with gibberish. Blame the computer or internet, bam easy 80% (since that was my teacher's default grade for technical issues).
57stout · 9 points · Posted at 03:45:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Works better if you open the file in notepad and remove some of the text, then resave it. The link looks good but it corrupts the file
Spart33 · 5 points · Posted at 03:17:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did something similar, I would edit my half finished files and corrupt them and upload them. Gave me an extra week or two before they would ask me to reupload my assignment.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:50:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was the tech kid in high school and I corrupted the file and sent it. I then blamed the shitty school ICT.
On the first physics lab I had this semester, the copy I sent didn't have my student number attached to it. The bastard TA didn't even bother to tell me there was an issue.
One time I was taking a test through blackboard, but this was like... 2004? So early days of blackboard. It was mostly multiple choice and then an essay. I was bombing the essay hard and ended up submitting it late, with the essay not in great shape. The professor came up to me in class the next day and told me blackboard said I hadn't submitted, that I was still taking it. I told him I had submitted it. He had IT or someone fish it out and it came out with the essay totally garbled, bt by that point it had been a few days and this was a summer term course so it was three weeks long. So he ended up grading me on the multiple choice only, giving me a 96% where if the essay had gone through I probably wouldn't have gotten better than 75%.
There were two labs due on the same day, one at 8am and the other at 1pm. The lab reports had to be physically written out in standard hardcover A90 lab books and deposited into the corresponding professor’s drop box outside their office by the deadline. As of 6am my afternoon report was finished but I realized I needed more time on the morning one.
So at quarter to eight, I put the afternoon lab book into the drop box for the course that was due at 8, and went off to a lounge to complete the (now overdue) writeup.
At noon I went to the professor’s office with my late lab book in hand and a sob story about mixing them up. “I was up all night finishing them... they’re so similar... I must have gotten them backwards… was on my way to drop this one off but it’s for your class, you must have my book for the other class in your pile there…” and so on.
I think he was suspicious but he bought it and let me exchange books so I could run off and get the other lab submitted on time.
Twocann · 3 points · Posted at 07:23:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haha reminds me of my buddy. Day of turning in a paper, he'd go " oh it's on my floppy disc, just let me print it" and he'd friggin snap the thing and go "oops it broke in my bag". Not like there was anything in it to begin with, but the look of the teachers face literally watching him try to hide breaking the damn thing was hilarious.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 03:48:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can't you change the file extension on a picture to .doc so it looks like it's corrupted and then email it in? I remember reading that somewhere
This is dangerous because not all software will pay attention to the extension. If you sent an image like that to me, my OS would open it as an image rather than a word document regardless of the extension.
toric5 · 5 points · Posted at 05:24:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
yup. thats why you open a hex editor and mess around with as many lines as you can.
To tag off of this, if you ever want to get away with it. You can take a picture, rename it to YourTitleName.docx (renaming the extension from .jpg to .docx) and it would basically be a bunch of gibberish on a document. Upload and submit it. When your teacher confronts you, say you have no idea what happened and must have messed up when uploading and give them the real document (by that time you'll be able to finish it).
jerog1 · 5 points · Posted at 05:45:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
make the original jpg a picture of you shrugging playfully just in case they catch on and switch it back
tssop · 2 points · Posted at 05:32:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've been known to email in a paper - by taking a random word doc, opening it in Notepad++, and removing some random pieces.
Professor tries to open it and is greeted by a "corrupted file" error.
"Sorry, my bad. Something must have happened with the email".
Fun fact, if you open a word document in notepad and delete a few of the seemingly random characters, it totally fucks the word document up. I have done that a few times, and when I get the invariable reply of "your file got corrupted!" I'll send a real version in.
I managed to convince one English professor that it was just plain incompatible from PC to Mac by opening "the same file" on my laptop infront of her. Doing that got me off the hook for papers for quite some time, as she would "just grade it on her PC at home". Bitch, I know that paper wasn't worth 98%, it was a file that I corrupted that only read "lolfreepoints".
I've done that but feel so dang guilty I only do it when I'm desperate. What's better too is my computer sometimes randomly has this glitch where it sometimes can't upload things to the internet, including attaching files to an email. I can get around with the windows mail which acts differently for whatever reason, but I don't when I need more time. I can then "prove" to my teacher the next day I couldn't email it and then just bring it in on paper. It's awesome.
I was a shameless teenager and tried that, my teacher essentially said "It's your responsibility to make sure you send the assignment properly" and he was right. In my case I didn't get shit but if you have a really nice teacher they might accept it with a 10-30% late deduction, and if they accept it with no punishment they are straight up pussies because I and others like me needed to be put in our place. Start earlier, or if you truly deserve more time be honest and ask for more time, be willing to compromise on the final grade.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:27:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've never done it, but I think a tactic at my school is to fudge something up with the file so it doesn't open right. That way it looks like an error when the teacher attempts to view the work and they just ask the student to resubmit it without penalty. Not your fault that the file somehow got corrupted. That or the teacher will get an email from the student the day following the deadline exclaiming the fact that they'd uploaded the rough draft version and not the final version, oops! Here's the correct one. Some teachers will accept that thinking it was just an honest mistake.
A guy I work with was telling me about the time he did something similar to this with a paper he had assigned. He knew he'd need more time so sent the professor a file named whatever the paper was on and sized the right amount, but then he corrupted the file so it didn't open anything. By the time someone got to opening it he had the paper done and sent them it with the same name as the other corrupted file.
I once turned in a floppy with my "essay" on it. It was some sound or graphic file renamed with .doc and it somehow crashed my teacher's school computer when she tried to open it. She couldn't enter grades for about a week, so all of her classes got A's on our progress reports.
I do this at work sometimes! Super handy for meeting deadlines on reports and stuff. Can't abuse it though or they'll start to think you're a moron.
Slutfur · 2 points · Posted at 19:40:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some jackasses in a college class of mine went full lazy and decided to corrupt their PDFs of their papers, thinking they could get away with never having to do it cause their "source file was ruined"
Honestly if you are a hard working student and have tons going on, lots of professors are surprisingly ok with granting an extension to hard working students if you ask about 1-2 days in advance.
Really? I used to do that, but now I just go into notepad and corrupt the file, works better, especially if your teachers don't think you know anything about technology.
I've sent attachments that somehow didn't get received even though it looked all good from my end. Tried to explain, still got docked. Depends on the professor I presume.
notdanb · 1 points · Posted at 14:42:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
By accident, I made the default boot on the laptop I'd used in college lead to a crash screen (you had to open the boot menu to get to the actual OS). I would tell professors that my computer crashed all the time, and I'd almost always get an extension.
Also--size 14 periods make any page requirement paper a joke.
A lot of profs won't give you the benefit of the doubt and will dock your grade, you got lucky
Saemika · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've definitely abused the "oh god, I'm so sorry" line in college. Most professors are people too, and if you're polite they tend to give a handful of get out of jail free cards.
cndman · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did something similar. Saved an mp3 or something as a docx file. Obviously it wouldn't open. Bought myself some more time.
Somehow we triggered some sort of glitch on our vending machine by pressing all the buttons at once a few times. Not quite sure how it worked, but it caused the money display to go haywire and start counting up in intervals of 10 cents up to about $8.00, then it would suddenly crash back down to $0.00 then to $1.00 before counting back up again. If you hit a selection button at that exact moment it would spit out a free pop.
Picture if you will a crowd of about 20 thoroughly entertained people standing around the machine furiously jabbing buttons until the principal put a stop to it.
My highschool pop machine was glitchy too. One day I couldn't make up my mind between coke and rootbeer so I hit both ... and both came out. This would work about 75% of the time.
I was really bummed when they replaced the machine :(
Good on you for putting them back into the machine. A lesser man would have just pocketed them.
[deleted] · 221 points · Posted at 03:04:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in middle school our sex ed class made us take home these baby dolls that would cry at random times in the middle of the night. When they cried, we had to turn a key in their backs and hold it there until they stopped crying, which could be as long as 90 minutes. The teacher could download a grade from the baby when we brought it back to school. It was basically to show us what it was like to have a new baby and scare us out of having kids.
Anyway, I found that if I took a hair tie and twisted it around the baby's neck, I could get enough tension to hold the key in place when it was crying. So it would start crying, I would turn the key once and toss it back in the closet. I ended up getting a full night's rest and an A.
Needless to say, I'm 30 and married and we are not planning on having kids like ever.
We had those too but the key was on what looked like a hospital bracelet attached to your wrist and if you cut it off, you automatically failed. And if the baby sensed that it was upside down you failed too, so you had to contort your wrist to actually turn the key in the baby's back.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 14:05:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sounds like the parenting philosophy I developed when I dated a girl who had two kids: "The problem isn't that the baby is crying; the problem is that I can hear the baby crying. If I turn off the baby monitor, the problem is solved."
In our Home Ec class, we also had to take home a baby. There were sensors in the neck that would record how many times you let the neck fall all the way back. There were also magnetic sensors on the mouth and on the butt. A diaper and a bottle both had magnets in them that had to line up so it would recognize that we changed the diaper and fed it. Well, we discovered that if you put the diaper over the babies head, it activated the magnet for eating. Combine this with a rope going from the babies neck to the babies feet to prevent head tilt, we really just gained experience on how to torture a baby.
Holy shit my ex had to do one of those fake baby doll things back in high school. My best friend and I would punt it around at a park when we were bored, We'd play football with it as the ball, dropkicking, just stupid shit like that. Somehow she still passed with like an A or some shit.
We had kind of the same electronic babies. I found out that if you put it in your trunk next to your subs, it completely erases all the saved info. I was sure i was going to fail because i just didn't care. Teacher gave me an A because the data was gone
Milo359 · 2 points · Posted at 07:41:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is this the South?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No. it was the northeast
Milo359 · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Holy shit what.
What state?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:36:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
New Jersey. But I'm pretty sure they do that project in a bunch of different states.
I've never heard of that and it sounds pretty fucking stupid to be honest.
"Hey, lets teach kids to wear protection by making them think kids are the devil so they don't repopulate and the human race dies off."
Medarco · 2 points · Posted at 06:32:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's pretty good at getting stupid high school kids to realize what a huge fucking commitment another human being is. You bet they're gonna wrap it up if they understand even a part of what real parenthood is like.
But as you can see from the original post it's not something that only affects the teenagers and then they magically forgot when they are at an age and time where they feel like they want a baby.
This happened to a friend of mine, and was 10+ years ago, so bear with me on the details.
2005, McDonald's teamed with Best Buy for their annual McDonald's monopoly game. The promo was, for every large fries or pop, you'd get a coupon for two dollars off a Best Buy purchase. If you wrote to McDonald's and requested a game piece, and sent them an SASE (self addressed stamped envelope), they'd mail you some game pieces, including a two dollar Best Buy coupon.
My friend read the rules, and then researched state laws regarding promotions like this, and he discovered that Vermont (or maybe it was New Hampshire) has a law that forbids companies from requiring you to send in an SASE. So what he did is he set up a UPS drop box in Vermont (we live in a state 1500 miles away), and proceeded to send in 5000 letters to McDonald's, asking for game pieces to be sent to his UPS box.
Once they were all delivered, my friend paid UPS to box em up, and deliver them. Total investment was about 50 bucks in envelopes, 2000 dollars in postage, and 100 bucks delivery cost.
Once he got the pieces, he wrote down all the codes off them, and stored them in an excel file for use later on. So now he has 5000 game pieces worth 10k dollars. You think that the story ends there, right? Nope.
He decided he was going to try redeem some at the local Best Buy, so he went there with like 150 of em to buy an ipod (again, this was 2005ish). It worked, and he noticed they didn't even scan the codes or anything, they simply counted them out, and applied them to his total.
So what he did was went to various Best Buys in the area, doing the same thing. Buying ipods with the intention of selling them on ebay, since they go for almost full value and were easy to sell. Finally, one store actually did ban him since they thought he stole the coupons, but he was able to use them all, and obtained 10000 dollars in ipods.
But remember the excel file he had? Since the stores weren't scanning the coupons, he was still able to use all 5000 codes on the Best Buy website to buy even more ipods.
Altogether he ended up with 20k dollars worth of ipods for about a 2100 dollar initial investment.
I did this same thing, on a smaller scale and I had to send the SASE. I invested about $800 and made $2-3K easy. I knew right away that the next year I was going to go so big into it. , but sadly they didn't do the Best Buy half again.
I had a friend do something very similar, but with the Victoria's Secret promo cards. Turns out, you can just send in the SASE and get a card that could be worth somewhere between like $5 and $500. You're not supposed to be able to tell what the value is until use... Unless you just go to the website, add one item to your cart, apply the code, but never complete the transaction.
He sells them to friends for a 2:1 ratio. He made like $800 profit last time he did it. For an afternoon or two of mindless repetition, it's not a bad return on investment.
By law if you send a cease and desist to a bill collector they have to stop calling you. They owe you 500 dollars for each call they send out after the cease and desist is given.
A bill collector robocalling system didnt stop calling me if I had the phone off and no voicemail service was configured.
I had a lawyer send a cease and desist at 5:29 pm on a friday of a 3 day weekend via fax, and turned my brand new no voicemail configured phone off.
How did you determine that they'd called you with the phone off and no voicemail configured? To my knowledge, my phone won't show me a log of who called at what time while the phone is switched off.
I'm gonna try now, actually!
edit -- yeah.... no. It doesn't show up in the Logs as a received call when the phone is off for me. Maybe it's different where you're from. I'm in the US on AT&T.
You were able to access the call records from the Provider side??? Is this something anyone can do, or only because you were working for the major telcom???
I'm not calling bullshit, I'm curious how it works...
gabeech · 32 points · Posted at 05:01:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Two ways:
Look at your DETAILED bill. Some carriers will show failed calls.
Hire a lawyer to subeona the Call Detail Records (CDRs).
The records exist on the carrier side even if the call doesnt connect to your phone.
No my lawyer did it. I have no idea how he got the phone records. I was the one that figured out how the robocalling bug worked since I had encountered the same bug.
Archsys · 12 points · Posted at 05:23:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can subpoena call records, certainly... you can usually just request them from your service, though, for incoming calls...
yeah i second that, would love to know how this works
[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 04:34:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you have sprint call logs are in the bill pdf.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 04:13:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can see call records from my wireless provider
yakri · 3 points · Posted at 05:44:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure about the specifics, and it may vary by state, but ofc your provider has all this information and can be required to hand it over given the correct legal situation. Probably his lawyer filled out some kind of request for the data. I doubt they're too tight asked about customers requesting their own info anyway.
Seyon · 2 points · Posted at 08:54:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can log-on to my carriers website and see call and text history for every phone in my plan...
Explaining in very broad layperson terms, but ... Basically the lawyer says "yo, this is my client's information and you need to provide XYZ info for these dates." The phone company says "neener neener, prove it."
The lawyer either submits an authorization from the client (much like the ones you fill out in new paperwork at doctor's offices so they can see your old paperwork from other doctors) or else asks the court to issue an official request (a subpoena). When you send a request for records by subpoena, the other side may have a chance to say "no you can't have that, it's stupid and irrelevant" or the phone company may say "omg, that's too much work and we don't keep that info for more than a ridiculously short period." Ideally they just hand over the documents as requested, though. If they drag their feet too long, the lawyers send them some nastygrams and eventually they may be called to testify officially at a deposition or in court if they still don't answer.
Phone records take about 2-6 months of bureaucracy to get hold of in my experience. I worked in legal records for a while, so there you go: crash course in what it takes to get hold of records.
2-6 months? Were you subpoenaing a specific business' phone records, or just going straight to the telco? The telco wouldn't likely argue a valid subpoena, and would just provide a CDR report detailing the information. If a dollar sign is attached, it would take longer, but for a request like OP where they're asking for number of calls from "organization" to a specific number, it wouldn't take longer than a month...two at most.
This was while I was working for a records company and generally the Telcos are really backed up with requests. It might have been less time, but I remember that we had to really jump on phone records between short retention and long turnaround and long response time it was a tricky set of records. 6 months would be the outlier, but it certainly wasn't uncommon for it to take 2 months.
Well, don't know where you live, but I live in one of European countries and if my phone is turned off and someone calls after I turn it on I get a text message with times when I was called.
I'm a law student and this definitely sparked my interest. I have access to all state and federal laws, regulations, cases, etc., and I found the statute referencing communication [15 U.S.C.A. § 1692c(c)] but nothing on remedies. Was the $500 a state law thing, or did you have to go to court/settle for it? I can't imagine the debt collector company not challenging that amount of fees, or at least looking into it.
Update: Fair Debt Collection Practice Act [15 U.S.C.A. § 1692k] has amount of damages laid out:
"(2)(A) in the case of any action by an individual, such additional damages as the court may allow, but not exceeding $1,000"
You must have had a kickass attorney to get you enough to pay off your student loans. Just curious as to how that happened. Not trying to be an ass - but if it's possible, I definitely plan on taking advantage of it in the future, but I don't want to even try if your situation was an anomale.
OK this is blowing up and keep in mind I am not a lawyer and this was a few years ago.
It was settled by a judge and I didn't have to go to court, lawyer did it in some sorta hearing thing. It is a matter of public record however which I am not particularly happy about it. My lawyer was not in the same state as me and he did it on his end, not sure if that matters. He specializes in suing collectors for this stuff and on his website there are a lot of people with testimonies like mine, except they didn't seem to know that disconnect phone trick. I never told him that. I think (and this is from memory so I might be wrong) the 500 dollar thing came from the settlement to avoid real court. I know at one point he told me X if it went to full court but it would be half of X if it did not and said I should take the deal.
Okay, that makes more sense, esp. with a settlement - even that amount of money they are paying you would be cheaper than them going to court and paying their attorney fees + whatever damages they end up owing to you. Thank you!
FTFY. This is just completely false. Not only would every lawyer in the country have a commercial on tv advertising the hell out of this to get a cut, but how in the hell could this ever be proven in court? A call from their number to your phone? Not good enough. Unless you had a recorded phone conversation with them, every time, you'd have no proof. No proof anywhere on the internet thatI could find mentions anything about $500 per phone call.
-Cromm- · 3 points · Posted at 06:03:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Agreed. It's all too neat, isn't it? "how did you gain access to the calls?." "Well, i was an automation engineer so I knew how it worked and I had access to the call logs." "er, i gained access to the call log because my lawyer gave me a spreadsheet." It doesn't take an engineer to explain how it worked. I was a collections officer in another life and sometimes we would get put on the "dialer". It's just a piece of software running on a computer that goes through your WIP (I don't remember what that stands for) and calls the phone numbers in order until someone answers or the voicemail picks up. I find it highly unlikely that it would call a person more than once per day, so even if everything else he claims is true, that's only $1500.
edit: added further detail, already have 0 karma. you people are fucking idiots.
Did you see the Notes of Decision to check how such damages got awarded? Under those facts, I kind of doubt a court would really give monetary damages.
I doubted that too - but read his reply he just posted. Makes more sense now, esp. with an attorney who specializes in debt collection and probably had quite a few of these stacking up against the company. Otherwise, the company probably would've tried to prove they didn't communicate with him knowing he had sent a cease & desist, since the fax was sent right at closing and it was an automated calling service.
Send me a pm and I will put you in touch with my lawyer. I doubt this is going to work as well as it did for me but who knows. They must have fixed this bug already.
Straight up, in the US its cause were greedy. That's it. People don't want to pay for someone else. We're all rah rah USA until it comes to actually taking care of the citizens.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 22:57:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Right because the rich are so poor for paying taxes. You're obviously someone who doesn't understand how people are taxed. If you don't want to pay taxes, leave the country. My taxes go to roads in NY that i'll never drive on. They go to bridges ill never cross. They go to all sorts of shit that i'll never use. But keeping someone else alive? You're right thats where ill draw the line. Stop being a greedy little fuck and be a god damn citizen. You're living in a society, not on your own, fuckin act like it.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 04:01:26 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not where I went and when I was looking at schools it was on the low end. This is assuming you are living in dorms as well. It was a bit under 10k a semester for all tuition, fees, books, and dorm expenses.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:12:53 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
You were replying to a chain talking about tuition, books, and fees. The state school I went to which had a well regarded engineering program ran me 30k in loans and 10k in payments, including 2 years of dorm living. Purely school related, I spent about 2.5k a term (quarter system) on classes, labs, books, and other fees. About to start a CS degree that runs 1.5k a term, though that's only accounting for credits.
I was in state. I lived in the dorms for two years, I'll say tuition in this comment as referring to dorms, dorm cafeteria meal plan (the middle one not the best possible), books and of course the classes. My tuition each semester for those two years was 9-15k depending on the course load I took (~15hrs/semester). My school was in Texas and at the time about middle of the pack as far as cost.
Also, debt collectors can't repetitively call you. They all know that, and they'd be out of business if they did. So at absolute worst, they called you like 4 times. And even so, they're legally allowed you contact you once more to set up their next plan of action. Even if they do keep calling, it isn't $500 a pop.
-Cromm- · 1 points · Posted at 06:25:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
While I agree, OP is completely full of shit, collectors will call you as many times as they think they can get away with it. A automated dialer, though, unless there really was a glitch, isn't likely to.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:42:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They were calling me before I did and I figured out the software bug because a. I had seen it with the software I was using at work and b. I had disconnected it by accident a few days before and when I turned it on it instantly rang which seemed like too much of a coincidence so I reasoned out they had the same problem it kept on trying when it saw this problem.
Lawyer got the phone records. I have no idea how.
-Cromm- · 1 points · Posted at 06:18:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
wait, now there's a software bug? how convenient.
4kVHS · 2 points · Posted at 04:54:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
FatMug · 1804 points · Posted at 21:54:18 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Sweden you can masturbate in public so long as you don't specifically do it 'At' someone. So long as you look down you can do it happily without issue.
I was trying to come up with something witty. Either "tanning myself" or "getting sun-kissed where she rarely shines". Most tan their people leather in the sun, right?
FatMug · 2 points · Posted at 08:17:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh god yeah definitely. You've got this Manleather, don't doubt yourself. Haters will come but you just beat them off
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 01:14:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was gona say there's easier ways to do get this done, but then thought for a second, and nope. Jerking off excesively is probably the literal easiest way.
I used to go to a school that put up memorial benches named for kids who killed themselves. The other students used to joke whenever there wasn't anywhere to sit during lunch about how that one depressed kid should off himself so we could get some more seating.
Akmuq · 4 points · Posted at 04:45:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The bench is elevated so even when he looks down he is looking at people and there is nothing they can do about it.
In many U.S. states [citation needed] it's illegal for a man to expose his erection in public or to display "a noticeably erect penis beneath his clothes." So it's technically illegal to get a boner in public. 13-year-old me would have been constantly panicking had I known that.
So after skimming the intro for a few minutes out of morbid curiosity, it's this method of masturbation where you cause yourself not to ejaculate, but instead release your fluids into the bladder. And doing so brings about some questionable benefits.
Take that with a grain of salt, I stopped after seeing the drawn pictures indicating where to press to do this The "manual" way.
Safe to say I will not be continuing this research. Good luck.
akbort · 1 points · Posted at 07:18:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did this the first time I masturbated as a child. I received poor sex education so I was pretty much on my own in figuring out how to deal with the urges.
Anyways the first time it happened I didn't expect it to come (heh) and I thought I was about to piss myself so I held it with all my might.
But honestly it got way better when I just decided to release so I can't imagine doing this intentionally. It's like the orgasm doesn't happen.
Me too, they just dont give a fuck after 9pm in my city, so i wait around for 15 mins to get the next train, and its free. I also heavily abuse this to be a but nocturnal and get shit done around the city at night. Not too often though, i can see myslef getting stabbed one day. I also told this homeless guy about it and he sleeps on the overnight train for free as it circles the city and there is nothing they can do as long as he gets on after 9pm and gets off before 6am
it must be a well kept secret, or maybe most people arent ready to risk being out in the city at night? is basically dead, you can hear a pin drop outside. it is a very dangerous city to be fair, and im a big guy who wears black so im a bit more menacing than a short young woman with a baby.
[deleted] · 202 points · Posted at 22:23:47 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
But always for the love of god break one law at a time. You can talk your way out of that but anymore and you're screwed.
Oi-Oi · 9 points · Posted at 02:28:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a broke student it was either pay for a weekly pass or have enough cash for a few beers and a pizza on friday night. In two years I got busted 4 times paying a £30 fine each time. Probs saved close to £1000. The annoying things was they put the price up for a weekly pass so much you were only saving about £2 over not just buying tickets on the day.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:10:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Where is this? Where I'm from, the buse fare doesn't depend on the distance you travel.
I use to do this back in Melbourne, they had some company guideline where inspectors couldn't check tickets after 9pm, since a lot of my shifts finished after 9 I just never bought a ticket.
I didn't feel guilty because the train service was bad.
I'm not that ballsy, but back when we had prepaid tickets (now we have tap on/tap off cards that are loaded with a certain amount, and the fare is deducted until you reach $0, then you have to reload the card) I would just buy a one stop ticket for my 45 minute journey home. if I ever saw the ticket inspectors hop on the train, I'd pretend I was asleep, then just act panicked like I'd missed my stop, and hop off at the next statiom to catch the train the opposite way. once they were gone, I'd continue in my original direction home/to school
the train i take to school has an app to buy tickets and they only come by to check them maybe twice a month, so when i was more poor i would just pretend like i forgot to buy one and quickly buy it on the app. a monthly was 200 dollars, and doing this was 14 dollars tops. i don't do it anymore because i can afford to not and i think public transportation needs more funds and deserves my money, but when i was poorer it was a lifesaver
Terkan · 3 points · Posted at 02:43:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was on a train ride home one day, after riding for 7 months, and at the last 3 stops and the end of the line, there were blue flashing lights and cops waiting, checking everyone for a ticket. No escaping, no hiding.
Granted the fee I think would have been "only" $75?, but I'm positive that would go on a criminal record.
I catch public transit to work 10 times a week, my ticket is checked 2 to 3 times a year. It costs me $7 a day ($35 a week), the fine for fare evasion is "up to $200"
If I work 50 weeks in a year, I spend ~$1,750 in public transit fees annually.
Realistically I would need to be caught nine times and pay the maximum fine every time in a single year to make it cheaper to pay every time.
There's nothing that forces you to pay because we use electronic ticketing, but I dutifully pay for every single trip as a positive contributor to society.
I don't think it's any worse than a parking ticket, actually. Husband got one when he was riding without a ticket because all of the machines were out of order at his stop so he was physically unable to purchase a ticket. You can hop off at the next stop to buy a ticket (which is what they tell you to do), but then you have to wait 10 minutes for the next train. Not really viable.
He did manage to get it cut down to half after mailing a letter that showed exactly how often he purchases tickets (a lot) and stating that he planned to purchase an all-day pass on the way home. It should have been thrown out, but whatever.
But it's never come up since.
Idahno · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A few years ago when I was still in school I was given a bus pass for free travel on weekdays to get to and from school (imagine a Nintendo DS with the top screen being a valid from-to date on a piece of paper, and the bottom screen being an ID card) you were supposed to show the bus driver the whole pass as you walked on to the bus, but i realised a few years in to using it that the driver only ever really looked at the card on the bottom for the photo, on the rare occasion that i need to get a bus i do it for free by flashing my half-a-decade old school bus card, just with the date part folded back and out of view (if they ever change the design i'm screwed though) haven't paid for a bus journey in a long time
bxblox · 3 points · Posted at 05:23:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hell I spend about 500 per month on train fares... knowing other people in this city do too, there's no way people aren't making fake ticket apps now that you can just show a Mobile ticket in your phone. (Nyc)
There's also this really cool loop hole I found where you can walk into any bank and as long as you are holding a gun, they will give you whatever you ask for! Crazy right!? You have to try it yourself, I couldn't believe it either. Totally gaming the system dude 😂
ezuF · 110 points · Posted at 04:36:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
[deleted] · 56 points · Posted at 02:17:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bar in my town decided to make a phone app. If you downloaded it, you got a coupon for a free draft beer. I decided to delete it and re download and see if I got the coupon. I did. Everytime I went for like a year, I got a free beer. I don't feel bad.
JakalDX · 51 points · Posted at 04:29:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was working at Comcast, I noticed something about the way calls were recorded and monitored. Basically, we'd have a few calls every month we'd review with our manager, but I noticed they were selective about which ones to monitor. When you have to review calls with every person on your team, sometimes 15 or 20 people, you're not looking to deal with the 20, 30, 40 minute slogs where you're waiting for people to reset their computers or check connections. They'd almost invariably pick calls that were right around the 10 minute mark.
There were also times when you'd send someone to disconnect or reconnect things, and they'd put the phone down, and you were left sitting there til they got back.
Once I realized this, I had an epiphany. On occasion, customers would call and when I finished the call, they wouldn't hang up. I was on speaker or something and they'd just set the phone down. I could hear talking off in the distance, but they wouldn't realize.
So I'd just sit on that call in silence for another 30-40 minutes or until they realized and hung up, just surfing the web. Since the call was so long it'd never get reviewed, and if a manager asked what was going on, why they weren't talking, I could say they were going to find a serial number or were resetting connections.
Fucking hated that job.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:16:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Work for a telco would log into the switch and disconnect the line from There to hang up on ride customers no hang ups from me on the hang up report. Also we had router access if it was a Ekta modem combo quick reboot and call bye-bye
JakalDX · 1 points · Posted at 06:56:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh yeah, rebooting their phone modem was a pretty classic one.
My favorite thing was calling comcast, having them keep me on the line for an hour without actually fixing my issue and when I get to the end and they would ask "Would you like to fill out a survey?" Id say like "Oh yaaa totally. Id love to review how well you helped me!"... go to fill it out... No internet connection.
Fuckers.
BeauDog · 142 points · Posted at 04:22:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My story is kind of silly, but I'm still proud of finding it. I work in biomedical research. Animals not being used solely for the purpose of research are forbidden in the facility. I found, by some fluke chance, that fish were not on the restriction list. I confirmed with my director that this was the case. Though she was utterly baffled how this was overlooked, she confirmed there was no restriction.
A friend of mine would park once in a spot that he'd get a ticket. Then he'd keep the ticket that he never intended to pay, putting it under his windshield every day when he parked. Never got more tickets - and the policy of our school was to not tow your car, but to revoke your parking privileges if you didn't pay your fines.
If you didn't have parking privileges, they would ticket you for parking there. It was a pretty hilarious cycle until the school sold the parking to a private company to manage.
I tried that when I was at college.... Turns out they had the same parking Nazis patrolling every area every day. So the fuckers caught on super fast and piled them on anyway.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:33:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There are many many parking options usually a little walk away from something....
I always did the same at a plaza down the hill from my college. I was technically a customer at the LAN center in said plaza after I'd get out of class so I wasn't really breaking any rules. Still free parking all year.
[deleted] · 45 points · Posted at 03:18:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I once got a post card in the mail that said something like "If you DON'T want a subscription to Play Boy, mail this postcard back." I thought, "Yeah, that's legally binding" and threw it in the trash. 4 years later of just throwing everything they sent me (that wasn't a magazine) in the trash, they canceled my subscription.
So if my friend is posting me something and he accidentally puts my name with my neighbours address on it, my neighbour can keep what he is sent? That would be theft if he kept it.
I wonder if this is why my husband started getting Playboy at his moms about 2 years ago. Lol he used to live w/ his brother so he never changed his address until we got married. One day his mom calls him and she's so upset. And she's going on about why would you have this magazine sent here and on and on. He's like what are you talking about? He doesn't subscribe to any magazine. She tells him she got a Playboy addressed to him. She mails us his mail that still comes there about once a month and she includes them lol. We've told her to just throw them away. We've also had a few Maxims and Glamours show up too.
crusoe · 8 points · Posted at 03:54:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
All they shit they sent unwanted was yours free and clear according to postal regs.
[deleted] · 49 points · Posted at 04:42:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
back in the late 90's, my bank would give you a $5 credit into your account if you waited for more than 5 minutes in line at their branch. back in my very broke days, I'd go in at the most busy time of day, get my credit, and withdraw the previous day's credit. the bus to work was $2 each way. i'd do this a few times a week and have enough to make it until (very meagre) pay day. a year later they stopped this policy, probably because of people like me. but really back then it's the only way I actually could keep my job so it was a lifesaver.
My company had a matching gift program up to $5k. My son was in private school. I paid his tuition to a non-profit that just sent the money to the school. My company matched the "gift" and effectively paid the other half of his tuition. And this "gift" was tax deductible.
Single mommas gotta hustle.
EDIT: please note that I had to pull him out of public school in 8th grade. The private school was necessary to help him, improve his mental and physical health, avoid him becoming a drop-out etc.... I couldn't afford it but I had to do it. Explained in comments. This decision changed everything for him.
EDIT 2: Damn, I had no idea this would get so much response. The funny thing is that I'm not one to look for loopholes. My (now) husband makes fun of me for getting scared/upset at any hint of bending rules.
I didn't set out to game anything. When the idea hit, it was out of pure desperation to do what I needed to do for my son. It may have been unethical, I know.
If it makes you feel any better, this company ruined a lot of people's lives not long after this. The school continues to improve lives.
The school was very small and run/owned by this very wealthy lady. Most of the kids who attended were on scholarships of some sort. Very few actually paid full or any tuition. I had to pay full tuition because of my income. But it was still way too expensive for me.
One day, I got an email telling us that my company had doubled the max matching gift. Something dinged in my head and I decided to call the school to see if they were a non-profit. They were not. I explained what I was trying to accomplish and was told they had a sister organization that handled their scholarships. Since they really wanted my cash, they called the lady at the non-profit org and set it up for me.
Sounds like that could be construed as fraud, you may want to delete your comments and never speak of it again- at least not until tuition is due again next year ;)
This was several years ago. My son is now an adult and I no longer work for the company. I wouldn't have posted this back then.
Merad · 16 points · Posted at 04:49:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Still might want to delete this. Assuming you took full advantage and also deducted the "gift" from your taxes, you were probably committing tax fraud. IIRC there is no statute of limitations on civil tax fraud.
[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 04:15:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
it's just a timeline for when you can't be tried for a crime you may have committed this prevents evidence (eyewitness, DNA, etc.) from being deteriorated as courts want convictions based on evidence not the he said she said bullshit crap.
Murder does not have a time limit to when charges must be brought against you and sex crimes have a long time as well. It also varies state to state for the crimes.
How is that a bogus non-profit? It's a legitimate non-profit. She donated money to the non-profit, the non-profit sponsored her son in a way that is basically a scholarship, and then her company matched it. It's some real Joanne the Scammer shit but it doesn't seem like fraud.
keplar · 64 points · Posted at 04:28:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was not a donation and a scholarship - it was money laundering (disguising the source of the money in order to deceive the employer). It isn't a charitable donation to hand money to a 501(c)3 with the prearranged understanding and knowledge that it will be used for your benefit - that's pretty much the opposite of what charitable donation is. This was purchasing something, and pretending it was a donation in order to get somebody else to give them money. Very illegal.
I'm not judging here - not enough information, and not my place to do so - but it definitely was fraud.
None of that justifies calling it a bogus non-profit. I know you didn't, but the comment you replied to literally asked how it was a bogus non-profit. You rambled on and on but never actually answered the question.
Of course, nobody asked you anyway.
rareas · 14 points · Posted at 05:20:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Keplar is doing a terrible job explaining. The only problem is OP is receiving a service for the money put out. That's no longer a charitable donation for her or her employer.
On the other hand, the employer should have paid more attention.
It's a very awkward situation when she donated the money and the company matches it. THat's lying, but she may not be legally in trouble. The only group she's lying to is the company.
Deducting it from her taxes makes it pretty illegal. It's just money laundering at that point.
The company still loses more money than they get back from deducting it...
If they donate $5k, they subtract $5k from the profit when they're calculating their taxes. They gain back the ~30-50% or whatever the tax rate is ($2.5k) but lose 5k. if they kept the $5k, they'd pay the taxes on it but still make more money.
That matching program was more PR than tax deductions.
Matching programs are both PR and tax deductions. You can put in your Corporate Social Responsibility report to shareholders that you paid $x for charitable causes, and claim 35% (corporate tax rate) of that to offset against profits. You still pay a net 65%, but you make your employees feel good, your shareholders feel good, and contribute to society and occasionally get a little influence and invitations to events due to your charitable organisation.
(Usually companies cap the total charitable donations to some unannounced limit, but it's rare that employees push it and hit that limit.)
The issue here is that the company could be seen as complicit in OP's fraud, that they were helping her rort the system, and be subject to charges themselves, so you bet they'd sue her ass...
Bogus non profit? It's the scholarship foundation that assists students at their school. That's a legitimate organization.
How is it fraud? She donated money to a real non profit organization that paid out real scholarships for students' tuitions, one of which happened to be her own son.
If anything, the scholarship organization was the party acting unethically by approving a scholarship for her son that matched the amount she donated.
If they were doing anything illegal, why would the school and the scholarship organization put their entire reputation on the line for a single student?
cbs5090 · 2 points · Posted at 04:33:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some churches do this, even though it might not be the situation that OP is talking about. My sons go to an Episcopal school. You can either pay the church directly or pay the school. It really didn't matter.
It violated the letter as well, because she received a tangible benefit in return for the "donation." It's not a donation if you get something from it.
There was a discussion similar to this during Trump's presidential campaign due to his use of foundation funds for dubious purchases.
keplar · 6 points · Posted at 04:38:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Purchasing something is not the same as donating. If you buy a car, you did not "donate" the price of the car to the dealership - you paid it in exchange for a vehicle. If you pay school tuition, you are not "donating" money to the school, you are purchasing their services. Handing the money to somebody else to hand to the end recipient doesn't change anything about that process, regardless of whether that somebody else was a non-profit. It was prearranged, and was a purchase - nothing was donated.
A donation is something given without receiving something of financial value in return (any "incentives" or "gifts" that come with a donation are subtracted from the creditable donation value). The fact that the money given was earmarked for her son's tuition means it was not a donation at all, and claiming it as such is fraud. Using it to get the company to match it and give even more is bigger fraud.
Almost certainly the company's matching program disallows matching of a "donation" for which the recipient received a benefit. Those kinds of "donations" are not considered donations under US tax code.
That just makes her smart. Youre just bad a making deals. Thats why you arent winning. No winning. Let me tell you. You think non-profits are so innocent? Killers. They come in and give out money its terrible. And they dont send their best. Just awful. But no more. No more folks. We are gonna start making good deals again.
If your contribution entitles you to merchandise, goods, or services, including admission to a charity ball, banquet, theatrical performance, or sporting event, you can deduct only the amount that exceeds the fair market value of the benefit received.
Well she definitely shouldn't have taken the deduction. Internal Revenue Code Section 170 allows a deduction for charitable contributions, but Regulation Section 1.170A-1 (h) states:
(1) Burden on taxpayer to show that all or part of payment is a charitable contribution or gift. No part of a payment that a taxpayer makes to or for the use of an organization described in section 170(c) that is in consideration for (as defined in §1.170A-13(f)(6)) goods or services (as defined in §1.170A-13(f)(5)) is a contribution or gift within the meaning of section 170(c) unless the taxpayer—
(i) Intends to make a payment in an amount that exceeds the fair market value of the goods or services; and
(ii) Makes a payment in an amount that exceeds the fair market value of the goods or services.
IRS Revenue Ruling 76-175 also confirms that if the donor has reasonable expectation that they will receive a benefit in return for the “donation”, the taxpayer cannot take a deduction.
So it's obvious the deduction was not allowed. I don't know whether she committed tax evasion, because it's hard to tell whether she knew she shouldn't have taken the deduction (IRC Sec. 7201 requires intent).
I would imagine there are also legal consequences of lying to your employer and telling them you're making a donation (when really you're just paying your child's tuition) to get them to pay a donation that is really for your benefit. I would think you could fit this under the definition of embezzlement, but I don't want to venture too far out of my expertise, lest I be deemed an "armchair fuck."
Qluma · 1 points · Posted at 07:45:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How is this post not deleted yet?
You can't just trick your employer into paying your kid's tuition, laundering it all through a non-profit, claim it all again on your taxes for the double dip, then brag about it. I've been lurking on this thread a while now and I'm still kind of mindblown.
yakri · 6 points · Posted at 05:19:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eh, fraud, loophole. It's the thought that counts.
Qluma · 1 points · Posted at 06:03:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There is no question here. OP doesn't know what the word loophole means, causing her to accidentally confess to criminal fraud and tax fraud, maybe even money laundering. Not that big of a deal, but also I'm not the one who is confessing to criminal acts so what do I know.
Gifts are not tax deductible if they benefit you directly. Worse still, you should have paid income tax on the matched contribution as well. Fortunetely there is a statute of limitation of three years for the IRS to audit your tax payments. Hopefully you're in the clear.
Qluma · 3 points · Posted at 06:10:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is categorically untrue. There is a 3 yr. limitation on audit. No limitation applies if the IRS can establish you willfully committed fraud. You'd have better luck staying out of a courtroom selling drugs door-to-door than trying to not pay Uncle Sam.
That is AWESOME and very illegal. You better hope this account is totally secure and not linkable to you, or sorry to say, delete your comment and hope nobody checks a reddit aggregator( of which there are many)
tomz17 · 4 points · Posted at 05:48:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is not a loophole. This is both fraud and tax evasion! Both are fairly serious crimes in the United States.
Fraud : You defrauded your employer by taking advantage of their matching program under false pretense. That program ostensibly exists for charitable contributions (not the personal financial enrichment of employees). In your situation, you willingly used the program to misdirect company funds for your own personal benefit. Given the circumstances you described above, this would be an absolute slam-dunk case against you for any prosecutor.
Tax evasion: Your son's tuition would normally be paid out of post-tax earnings. You are NOT allowed to claim a charitable deduction for something which you received a tangible benefit for! (in fact, anytime I've made a charitable contribution, I get an acknowledgement letter indicating that I received no direct benefit for IRS purposes). Knowingly laundering your son's tuition money money through a nonprofit to avoid paying taxes on it could land you in prison if/when you are audited.
First bullet: the company also gained
Second bullet: statute of limitations
tomz17 · 1 points · Posted at 21:21:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
First bullet: the company also gained
Even if that were true (not likely, since I see no possible way in which a company "gains" from matching a deceptive charitable contribution on your behalf), it's STILL fraud.
Second bullet: statute of limitations
There is none on filing fraudulent returns or tax evasion in the United States.
That's pretty sweet that it worked for you. That is a common thing that is thought about and sometimes attempted with religious schools (e.g. Church Schools that are ran by or closely affiliated with a church). Since any donation to the church (assuming it's a non-profit, which is normal) is tax deductible since all you receive are believes or support or whatever, nothing tangible. However, tuition to the school is paying (as other have said) for something tangible, the education. Most churches in this arrangement do pay a large portion of the school's budget, sometimes putting money directly to specific kid's tuition (often times a anonymous type of thing called 'worthy student fund' or something is created to make it seem vague). So, while there isn't supposed to be any connection between a legitimate church donation and money coming off a kid's tuition, it certainly can and does still happen. As long as it's not planned out ahead of time or orchestrated then it's perfectly legal. I've been involved with church schools for 20+ years and have seen many old timers write donation checks to churches with a post-it note on them saying "For Steve Waters at Bob's Faith School" (made up name of course) but basically a wink-wink, nod-nod to take the 'donation' through the church then transfer the money internally to friggen Steve's tuition bill. They know it's shady as that's why it's not written on the check..just a post-it note along side the check. In some cases you could achieve the same thing in legal fashion by just knowing the circumstances. For example if you are closely affiliated with a school ran by the church. If you know that most of the kids at the school are from well off families and likely do not need tuition help...but then you donate to the church to help the school and specifically say your donation is for "any families needing financial help for their tuition", which is a perfectly fine and very common thing for people to donate money to...but all students except family X are easily paying their bills...so your donation would effectively be going to pay the tuition for kids from family X which you may have already known ahead of time, but doing it as a donation is better tax-wise for you, versus just paying money directly to the tuition for family X...is that bad, eh, not sure.
I like this and am happy for you but you should definitely delete.
Xaxxon · 2 points · Posted at 06:01:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I paid his tuition to a non-profit that just sent the money to the school.
This is almost certainly illegal. You received a service with a value - that is not tax deductible for the value of the service your received - only any overpayment you may have made (which sounds like 0)
Also the non-profit was likely fraudulent as well, if this is true.
Fair question. My son is very bright but always hated school. When he got to middle school he fell apart. He was failing everything and we were fighting all the time. I had him checked out by a psychologist and was told he's fine but needed a different learning environment. He just wasn't suited for public school. He told me about this school. The moment I visited I knew it was the right place for him.
He thrived in the new school! He skipped a grade he previously failed. He graduated as Salutatorian. It changed our lives.
I took loans the first two years to offset the cost. Then I figured this scheme out and well, it worked.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 03:25:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would think it is highly probable that IRS workers browse reddit, not necessarily to catch fraud but for the same reason most people do. But if fraud pops up in the post they just so happen to be looking at. . .
Qluma · 2 points · Posted at 06:20:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It isn't prosecutors you have to worry about. It is 5-10 people who saw this post, printed it out in hard-copy and mailed it directly to the IRS office. Those IRS guys love a mystery, and the great VonMishka case is afoot!
Qluma · 0 points · Posted at 06:21:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some people just get a hard on for Justice.
Fnar_ · 3 points · Posted at 06:10:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've known parents who've taken their kids to homeless shelters for a few nights to get section 8 housing when they had all the means to find a place on their own.
I've seen parents con churches into giving them money for "rent" that they blow on goodies and other completely useless crap.
Literally. A person advised me to do that.
"You can get like $500! Just tell them you're late on rent and facing eviction!"
And didn't understand when I visibly looked disgusted at them.
I've seen a lot of parents pull some fucked up con artistry shit that just blows my mind when I think about it. What an example they are setting for their children.
This isn't one of them. You got your child through private school as a single mother. That's damn near applaudable.
Don't let the bitchy comments get to you.
People on here like to think they know something everyone else doesn't.
Thank you so much for this comment. I didn't do any of the things you described. I could've legitimately taken advantage of services but I didn't. In my mind, I played the corporate game. I'm sure I'm not the first to do so. My kid was first and foremost.
Fnar_ · 1 points · Posted at 06:29:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Definitely!
As a fellow single (but soon to be wed) mother, I see absolutely nothing wrong with this.
People have done way more shady stuff to give their children far less in life.
Putting your kid through private school is something to be be proud of.
You are a hero girl!
Qluma · 2 points · Posted at 06:44:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There is nothing wrong with strong motherly instincts. But not skirting your taxes is one of the most unpatriotic things you can do. As a fellow single mother you may see nothing wrong with this, but you also probably have an extremely similar perspective and/or lens in which you live your life as op. You probably "resonate" with a lot of what op says. You are probably helping her confirm her own bias. I'm not saying any of these 100 comments are right or wrong, I'm just saying there are glimmers of truth in all of them. All perspectives have value.
Qluma · 3 points · Posted at 06:45:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Also lets not toss the term hero around like that, it is offensive.
Fnar_ · 1 points · Posted at 06:59:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Offensive to you maybe.
Fnar_ · 2 points · Posted at 06:58:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
People on here like to think they know something everyone else doesn't.
Qluma · 0 points · Posted at 07:43:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Putting your kid through prove school is something to be be proud of.
You are a hero girl!
Fnar_ · 1 points · Posted at 07:45:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And this comment is supposed to mean what exactly?
Qluma · 0 points · Posted at 15:47:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It means you obviously know something I don't.
Fnar_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I also forgot to add that when he hit middle school, it was very crowded and they turned a blind eye to serious bullying. Lots of shitty kids from messed up homes. Getting him out of there was crucial to his mental and physical health.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:29:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'll add that my company pretty much helped ruin the economy thereafter. The matching gift increase was for their benefit.
iRasha · 3 points · Posted at 04:32:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Youre defending yourself and your sons education to a bunch of strangers on the internet that either have no kids or no real life experience. You did what you did and good for you when it comes to the quality of education your son needs. You dont have to explain yourself to anyone, hustle away
Anyone saying you committed fraud is full of shit. First off, you donated to a non-profit, and your employer donated to a non-profit. You're clean. Now, the non-profit spent that money for your child, so if there's any fraud committed here it's on them. It won't be though, because they received money and spent it how they like.
It sounds like fraud, it feels like fraud, but it's not legally fraud. Not a single person that has replied to you thus far has given a single legal reason for it being fraud, because it's not. Rich people do this shit all the time. They start a non-profit, donate to it, and then do whatever the hell they want. There's little oversight on what non-profits can do with their money.
Most single mother hustle usually don't involve struggling to send their children to private school. I wouldn't be bragging about abusing this loophole.
I raised my son completely alone. I had him at 20. Got my college degree. His father ghosted. I never received child support. My family lived in another state. I struggled and made a good life for him.
But I can see why you'd think that. I edited and commented to clarify why I put him in the private school. I had to.
Fair point, I didnt mean to judge harshly sorry. I have two sisters who are single mothers. One was a single mother at 17. The other recently single mother of 5 due to the father being deported. Ive seen the struggles of single mothers since I was 15 (now 30). I've had to help take care of nieces and nephews as well as financially at times. But at least my sisters have had some family nearby for the most part. You did not. Good luck with everything.
There was some mmo I played years ago, don't remember which, but people regularly sold things on an auction house thing and would try to undercut each other by a few dollars/coins/credits/whatever. There were a couple of items that were really common as drops so there were a lot of them on the auction house at low prices. One day I was checking prices for selling my loot to an npc and noticed that those items literally went for more money to the npc than they were sometimes sold on the auction house for. So I spent a few hours buying any that were underpriced on the auction house and then going and selling them to the npc for a tiny profit. Made money faster doing that during peak hours (when more people were getting more drops and thus competing on price more) than actually playing the game. During lulls it was faster to just play so thats what I did.
This makes me remember back in vanilla wow I was on a new server. There was a 50 something level quest where you needed to turn in an item to complete that I found out about. Well I was a 30 something but engineering was high enough I could make said item. Since I was too low to gather the components I bought out the auction houses entire supply of the rarest component and equal amount of all the rest. And then started slowly putting the item up for ridiculous prices. No one else had caught on and I manufactured rarity by trickling them in. It was an otherwise useless component so it took a couple weeks for anyone else to catch on and in that time my low level character made a huge profit.
I did something similar and it got me a 3-day ban for manipulating the market. I was pretty pissed as it was just me manipulating supply and demand, not hacking or botting. In case anyone wants to know, just had a really efficient route of all the copper for mining. So I ran around for a day and significantly upped me stock of ore. Smelted it down to bars, then just bought out all the auctions for cheap, and replaced them at a higher price (from like 20 silver to 1g a stack).
That reminds of of the times when I would sit in the hub in Spiral Knights buying and selling Steam during High and Low times on the "Offers to Buy and Offers to Sell" Page.
There was a daily cap of 100 regenerating steam, so after I'd used that actually playing the freaking game I sat around all day making 3-4 steam each resell.
Literally free money, but as a 15 year old kid it was probably the least exciting use of my time.
I did something like this too, there was a shop that would reset its inventory whenever the server would go down for maintenance. When it came up it had full inventory (no restock except for maintenance) so I would buy the things it sold and sell them for $$.
When I was in the Air Force it was discovered that the Motorola radios, when held up to a Pepsi machine's can drop, would activate something or scramble the electronics or something because if you keyed the mic it would release one can of soda and a dollar fifty in change. It was discovered because a vendor found an empty machine with no money in it and many people got in trouble, some demoted and kicked out. Also, in England it was discovered that a nickel rang up as 20p in pay phones and vending machines. People were going to the bank on base and getting tons of nickels to make cheap calls home.
KaiFoxy · 779 points · Posted at 23:02:00 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in middle school, I used to sell candies for $1 a pop. At the local HEB (grocery store in Texas) candy was often 2 for $1, so I would buy it at HEB then sell it at school for 100% profit. I built up from $2 worth of candies up to $50 over time, before my candy was confiscated. The people working the office to my school ate it all :I
Regulatory capture would be if he became the school admin.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm assuming that the school has vending machines or snacks in the cafeteria. If so, then the school has an incentive to reduce competition; that is a form of regulatory capture.
666666t · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:24 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
but they didn't throw it out, they ate it....
[deleted] · -7 points · Posted at 04:40:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well they don't have to return it.
jd530 · 13 points · Posted at 05:43:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's a students personal property, yes, they do
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:43:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When have you all last been in school? Teachers do this stuff and it's not exactly outrageous.
jd530 · 2 points · Posted at 14:37:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've never had a teacher take my property and not-return it. Even the most egregious violations ended with you can get it back if a parent comes with you
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 04:02:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Note that's not tax. Tax is designed for a payment to the government for enforcing the laws of the country and providing you the environment and opportunity to do business. The above is civil forfeiture, where assets are seized on accusation of wrongdoing.
Yeah, way back in middle school where they had those "here's a booklet sell stuff from it" competition.
I had a cool teacher that year who would have impromptu pizza parties anyway and since the prize for that year was a pizza party I came up with the idea of just blowing everyone else out of the water and making a bundle too.
Bought $1,500 in chocolate candies from my buddy in another class, so obviously he wins and so his class wins the party.
I take the candy, doctor up some real nice looking UNICEF stuff and then went around town selling the candy for triple what each box was worth. Boom, $1500 into $4500 and I'm 12 years old.
I agree, especially due to schools overcharging for everything (similar the theaters) or just not selling it (Ex. School only has 'healthy' food in machines)
[deleted] · 326 points · Posted at 23:07:21 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to get atomic warheads for a nickel & sell them for a quarter. I got called out for selling them in class and the teacher told me: If you don't have enough for everyone, then give them all to me. Everyone in class got one that day & I still broke even after selling the rest of my stash.
Buy a case of soft drink/pop cans. Like $12 for a case of 24. Sell the cans for $2 each. School only sold the sugar free soft drinks which taste like rubbish. Lasted for a couple of weeks before the school cracked down.
I did this too. Just took food from home for "lunch" and sold it to kids in my class, put up posters above the cubbies and everything. Made enough for a sweet yu-gi-oh duel disk before my parents caught on.
A friend and I did this all the time in Highschool. We would get huge amounts of candy, easily $100 worth, and sell it all for $1 each, making $200-250, depending on bow much we ate.
The school security took all the candy we had and money we made (that we had on us, including in our cars). We complained, talked to the principle (who was really cool and had no idea they took it) who got the police to get them to give us back our stuff. We got a referral (which did nothing since they didn't keep a copy of it) and were told not to do it again.
Then we just sold it from our cars before/after school and at breaks (lunch/passing periods).
Step it up when I was in middle acc oil I would buy 2 bags of 20 Carmel apple pops for 3.75 at the cvs on my walk to school then sell them for 1$ each to the kids at my school everyday for a long while before getting suspended for it. I think I made a few hundred bucks off that one.
I did the same thing in highschool! At my school they got rid of all the pop vending machines and replaced them with juice and water vending machines. I would go to Wal Mart and buy a 24 pack of pop for $5, then sell each can for $1. Teachers never stopped me and I made enough money to buy about 4 video games before I stopped because I couldn't be arsed to go through that effort.
When I was in middle school me and two friends started an operation where we would loan out money to the other kids at lunch if they wanted to buy food but didn't have enough money. We tracked all of our loans on a ledger which was just a piece of printer paper. We then got the idea to start charging them interest on what they owed us, I think it was like 25% per day. We got shut down when the principal stopped us and told us what loan sharking was.
I had a classmate do something similar to this. We lived near/within a few Amish communities, and they ran a few general stores where the items were a fraction of normal prices. So he bought all their chocolate bars and would sell them for a killer profit at school until the school noticed there weren't any fundraisers going on involving chocolate and shut him down.
I used to do this same thing but with Lemonheads and Atomic Fireballs. Got them from the box store in big plastic buckets and sold them from my locker for a quarter a piece. Good times!
xxaaoo · 1 points · Posted at 04:33:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
HairE Butts
I'm sorry, but I'm immature and since I moved to Texas and found out what it stood for I find it hard to resist.
I did this exact thing for a bit as well. I saved my fundraiser candy box and just kept restocking with my own that i bought to make more money.
agzz21 · 1 points · Posted at 05:09:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did the same but with gum. Bought the 3 packs of gum for like $2. HEB always had the deal where if you buy 2 of those 3 packs of gum you get the other free. Would sell the packs in high school for a dollar. Turned $4 to $9.
At my school one of my friends would sell mountain dew. He even got other people to sell mountain dew for him (I was one of these people) and we made a profit too. There was a rule that you weren't allowed to sell anything at school but it was a while before he got in trouble.
ajt666 · 1 points · Posted at 05:18:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I did the same thing in HS with sodas. The locker next to mine was empty so I put a small lunch cooler in it to keep the pop cold and we'd sell them for 2 dollars a bottle when we could get six packs of 24oz bottles for 6 bucks at the store up the street from my house. Made enough for us each to buy a copy of borderlands 2 when it first came out.
Common thing that happens. Guy in my grade did it our junior year. He would buy it in cases and carry it around in this cool plastic see through briefcase.
School politely asked him to stop and he did, being a pretty good kid overall. A year later the whole district implemented a policy that any fundraisers, vending machines, or selling of food in general that was related to the school had to be healthy food only.
There was a kid in my high school that would buy a ton of 12 packs of every flavor of mountain dew when they went on sale and then sell them of at $1/can at school. Everybody knew that they were being swindled but I guess that the kid cashed in on their laziness. After a few months every single trash bin was completely full of empty cans so the school management shut it down, which I'm still mad about. That kid was smart.
I also managed to con away every can I ever got from him, never paid a cent. Good times.
I used to buy bags of candy and sell each piece to kids for 25 cents. It worked for a couple of weeks and I was raking in the money. Then some asshole teacher made me stop.
I did this buying bulk 'pixie stick' candy from the outlet store by my house, something like 1,000 for $3. then sell them at school for 5 cents each. Worked pretty well for a few weeks.
When I was in middle school I broke into the student store over the weekend, stole all the candy, chips and soda, and snuck over to the highschool down the street at lunch at sell it at 100% profit.
Ended up making $400.00 from an investment of $0.00. Thats an infinity profit.
cinnaboo · 481 points · Posted at 23:31:49 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
In high school, my friend and I found out that some of the school lunch ladies when operating money card scanner (instead of real money we had cards that were like debt cards) didn't press the "finalize" button because idk. So instead of manually ending that transaction, the next card swiped would start a new one transaction for that account, rinse and repeat. Once we found that out we got extra snacks, drinks, food and it even worked at the supply office. We did this for 4 years without telling another person, and after each year whatever money was left over you would receive in a form of cash or check. We also did this to help our friends and some other good people if they were in a pinch for food or supplies. Never got caught but did get alot of weird looks, but from what I heard after I left someone spoke up and it was fixed and people got fired.
If I got it right, OP used a blank card/ wiped their own card so that when it was swiped through, it wouldn't register and the previous person would end up paying for their meal.
There is a lot of places (especially in the rural US) where the majority or at least a sizable portion of students get free or reduced cost lunch, so I don't think there is any way to justify what amounts to stealing from people who might be hardly able to afford their OWN lunch.
Pretty sure my school scanned IDs for all lunches too. It kept people from going through the line multiple times. Most of the good food would still be gone by the time my lunch period started (I just wanted the damn soup!), and people probably would have bought food for their friends if they could go through again and get the same deal.
Also, pretty sure the school got reimbursed by the government but still had to pay up-front for the food. There were some weird shenanigans about how it all worked though.
On the bright side, the government provided free breakfast for everyone, which I never knew was weird until I heard they took it away after I graduated.
I could be wrong but if the first transaction didn't finalize then they're still only being charged once (until they (the loopholers) started adding on snacks and stuff I guess)
Actually no lost money, it was accounted as a clerical error, and the school saw no real waste they threw out ton of food and the supplies were all bought with government money
So you just went through the line and the cook/cashier didn't press 'finalize'? If this is the case, then you and every other student in the school did not have to pay for a lunch...something that would be detected well before 4 years.
I think what really happened was pressing the "finalize" button charges money, and since they never pressed the button OP was never charged money. It's kinda like if you create a new file and do stuff with it but you don't save; it's like you've never touched it.
No.. it sounds like since the first step in the process is to swipe the card, the next person swiping their card before you ever finalize your transaction would just forget your purchase entirely. But since you swiped, the cashier won't notice the difference.
cinnaboo · 74 points · Posted at 02:05:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh my apologizes. I have no excuse for my confusing english. Long story short, Ladies being lazy, they wouldn't charge and close out the transaction in between students. Thus S1 gets lunch and swipes card, S2 swipes card and starting new transaction and S1 accounts gets billed, ect ect. My loop how is S1 gets lunch and swipe, S2 swipe a dead card same kind of lunch card but no account tied to and S1 account is charged for a second lunch, S3 gets lunch, swipes, closes out S1 transaction of Lunch x2, new transaction begins. I aplogize again for my poor english
[deleted] · 44 points · Posted at 04:41:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So you stole a bunch of money from other kids. I'm all for sticking it to the man, but all you did was pass the bill to other kids. And to top it off, you added extra shit to your order.
Actually no lost money, it was accounted as a clerical error, and the school saw no real waste they threw out ton of food and the supplies were all bought with government money
chewyxc · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I mean it fits the thread question. He never said they had to be ethical loopholes.
I don't think any money was stolen. If I'm understanding correctly, neither S1 or S2 are charged anything and I assume they are the two who are in on it. When S3, who I do not think is part of the scam, makes his order the previous order is wiped out. So they did not make anyone else pay for their food, no one paid for the food
I believe the S1 account just had the charges of S1 and S2 on the screen but it wasn't sent through because the cashier didn't press authorize. When S3 swipes their card, S1 and S2's order for cancelled.
Condawg · 1 points · Posted at 10:07:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
S3 gets lunch, swipes, closes out S1 transaction of Lunch x2, new transaction begins.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 05:11:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
AOEUD · 5 points · Posted at 04:59:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Okay, this isn't a loophole, this is theft. And not the good kind of "fuck the system!" theft, the kind where you stole from other kids. Does that make you a bully?
No one got charged, it's as if you creat a word document write in it, the close it without saving
AOEUD · 1 points · Posted at 14:02:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
S1 account is charged for a second lunch
eKap · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah, it was confusing. Thanks for asking, I understand it now too
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:15:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
From what I interpret
Lets say a student swipes their card. A transaction is created, but doesn't go through because the lady didnt hit the finalize button. The lady swipes another students card, creating another transaction, but deleting the previous one.
Correct somewhat, when another card is swiped the previous transaction is finalized and is "paid" while bring up the newest card swipers account. I am sorry my English is terrible
Actually no lost money, it was accounted as a clerical error, and the school saw no real waste they threw out ton of food and the supplies were all bought with government money. I spread wealth as I saw fit with those I felt needed help, bad day, or just shit the fan. As for those who got fired, there a set SOP when using the POS, they weren't doing their job the correct way and took the lazy way instead of the correct way. I know all this is because I did volunteer hours in the cafeteria for a social studies requirement
lol government money isn't real money? What if the "error" as you eloquently put it wasn't reported by whoever was unfortunate enough to follow you in line? Likely then that person paid for your stuff without realizing it, and I'm sorry but your attempts at justification sound lame. You're describing theft not a loophole, and it's worse that people lost jobs they probably needed badly. Maybe they wouldn't have been fired if you hadn't exploited their oversight so unscrupulously?
Dress code at work says men can't wear shorts. Dress code at work allows women to wear skirts. When it's hot as balls outside, I wear a kilt to work. Bosses at work are too afraid of sexual discrimination charges to say a God. Damn. Thing.
I just got a new job at my university. Asked my boss if i was allowed to wear shorts when it was hot out. She said no, but I would be able to wear a kilt. Jokes on her when I actually do it.
I kind of feel like it probably isn't fear. It's probably a case of "I don't really enjoy that it's my job to enforce this anyway, so this is my easy out for having to do anything or have an awkward conversation - especially since this guy seems like he's already being a dick about it."
Redkg · 7 points · Posted at 07:01:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well to be fair, I'm union, so it's kinda complicated. My direct supervisor is actually completely cool with it, but she's told me that others in the building have expressed concerns over how it would even be possible to stop anyone else from doing it.
Of course I've said several times how to stop other guys wearing kilts: let us wear shorts dammit.
Yemto · 164 points · Posted at 21:57:51 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
Along time ago, before smart phones. I found a service that let you download 3 games each month/week for a cost. But they didn't properly check how much money that was left on the phone, so if it was even a cent left, you could sign up, download the games and cancel, without any bad consequences. So I did that every time I was low on money on my phone.
Like Jamster or some shit? Haha fuuuuck those services man, nice one for exploiting that system
Vouros · 3 points · Posted at 09:31:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Jamster once sent us text message bill for well over a trillion dollars, i dont understand it, and i chalk it up to some kind of glitch, and they never went after us again, but it was worded very threatningly (legal action wise)
Dtree11 · 32 points · Posted at 03:06:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was in car sales for 5 years and when someone would call in to ask for pricing they would page "new car sales". We would race to dial 101 or 102 depending on the line. I paid 5 bucks online to get the commercial programming guide for our commercial phone system and programmed a single button to instant pick up 101 or 102. I did this for years until another sales person stole my phone knowing I did something to it.
AppQ · 3 points · Posted at 12:09:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What happened when the other employee discovered it?
Dtree11 · 2 points · Posted at 13:05:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I reset that phone to the normal setting, but he then learned how to reprogram the phone. The idiot must have shown someone else how to do it because a couple months later a bunch of guys had done it. Because we are sales people, he probably programmed their phones for a fee.
College class registration system: Randomly discovered that from 12:00-12:01AM the system was wide open during registration for next semester (it was intended to be segmented in days/# of completed credit hours ~seniors/juniors etc). Came in nice when previously popular classes/professors/time slots would always fill up by the time you could register. Worked for the years I used it. I only let a few people know about too; never heard of anyone else exploiting it.
[deleted] · 37 points · Posted at 03:22:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
College dorm Internet. So the college itself had unlimited Internet, but you couldn't easily pirate on it and because it was a govornment connection it wasn't allowed in the dorms. There was a different private company that took care of that, like $20 for 5GB, $30 for 10GB, and this was only a few years ago. Of course everyone blew threw it and was constantly sharing their last few MBs for assignments, and the gamers couldn't download GTA V, it was just terrible. But I'm a very heavy downloader, I like all my files huge and to download them fast. I discovered a loophole in the system. If you were in the middle of a download the system wouldn't cut you off in the middle of it, it'd leave your entire connection unshaped until the download you were in the middle of stopped. But I discovered if you never ever stop downloading then the system never ever cuts your connection when you reach your limit. Meaning I could buy the cheapest monthly data package they offered, like 1GB a month, and I'd just be constantly downloading and would end up downloading multiple terabytes a month, all at really high speed so it didn't affect things like gaming for me or downloading academic papers and such. I kept looking at the usage charts on my account page and the numbers kept getting bigger, the bar charts would generate so big and tall that they wouldn't even fit on the screen, they never accounted for a user using that much and they never caught me.
Medarco · 10 points · Posted at 06:46:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That sounds kind of like my brother in law. He had a very old verizon plan that had actually unlimited data. He set up his phone as a hotspot and used it as his family internet service in his home. When they went in to upgrade one of the phones on the contract, the staff was pretty baffled by the amount of data he used on his "phone".
I worked at Dunkin' Donuts. I wasn't allowed to say the food wasn't fresh even if I knew it wasn't. So I simply said "I wouldn't eat it. Neither should you. Order something else." I couldn't get in trouble for it.
Crazy. At my DD the sandwiches are literally hotter than the sun 100% of the time. I can get a sandwich, finish my drive to work, park, walk about a quarter mile to my office and it's about the perfect temperature at that point finally.
Just don't get sandwiches. Everything that goes in there is frozen. I spent many evening slamming the frozen together sausage patties and eggs against the counter to separate them.
Let's be honest, everything that goes anywhere is frozen.
I'll grab Dunkin on my way to work, and I watch them piece together my meal during the mornings. I've been to Dunkin 100's of times over the past few years, never felt anything remotely cold in my sandwich or otherwise.
Some Dunkin' Donuts bake their donuts. Most do not. It gets shipped every morning from some factory. At my store, they kept the muffins for at least a day before throwing them. I would recommend not getting them unless you ask "are they still warm?". If the worker says no, that means it probably isn't fresh. It is almost like a code. Just don't be an ass when asking. The only thing that would be the most guarantee to be fresh was bagels and croissants which were baked every morning, but the baking starts at around 4, sometimes even 3, so if you're there at night, chances are they aren't that great. Though, some extra busy stores would start their baking at night and then keep them covered for morning shift.
TL;DR Donuts are made somewhere else, muffins are usually stale, and bagels and croissants are baked daily. Ask the worker what they would recommend. Do it nicely, though.
h0rn37 · 5 points · Posted at 03:59:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The baker at the store I worked at used to come in at 8 pm to start baking and the first things done were always muffins and bagels. Like, he had zero concept of the fact that they'd be stale by 4pm.
gumnos · 1 points · Posted at 11:11:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
that the donuts wouldn't be made fresh daily; the whole "time to make the donuts" thing is a lie. My world has been unsettled. :-/
Just ask the person "hey what's the freshest donut right now?" Pretty easy.
gumnos · 1 points · Posted at 11:14:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sadly, I have a whole hierarchy of donut preference, so I'd have to hand them the in-order list and request the first thing on the list that's fresh :-)
'Cuz even if the pink-frosted-with-sprinkles are the most fresh, I still would sooner go without.
At my work we do throw out bad food but most of our stuff has a few day shelf life and we have to either say it is "fresh this morning" if it hasn't passed the shelf life and "from yesterday" if it expired yesterday and we were specialing it (only for one day, everything was still fine). I couldn't tell people if stuff had come in that morning because fair enough people refused to take it otherwise.
I used to do that in a deli I worked for a bit. We would be required to leave fried stuff under the heat light until it sold. Regularly turned people away from it.
I don't know if it works anymore but you basically created a new account every time you need a ride. You needed a phone number generator app. Every time you created an account you would link your main one and get a free ride on both accounts. Pretty awesome. Probably used it about 150 times before I no longer lived in a city which has uber
furedad · 54 points · Posted at 03:06:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Any recommended phone generator apps....obviously for unrelated reasons.
maxk1236 · 18 points · Posted at 04:27:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You could just keep making Google accounts with google voice
Most providers don't give you the same IP the whole time you are paying. Most ISP routers don't request a static IP and so after a while it releases the address back into the pool and gets a new one. Static vs DHCP based addressing.
There are so many better ways to get phone numbers like TextPlus on the appstore. Google gives a shit, these sketchy dinky companies really don't care and if you get IP banned nobody will care.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:20:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Does Google Voice even have phone numbers left? I was trying to get a second one a couple years back and there were like two left in the entire country that I could see.
Doesn't uber/lyft now require you to add credit card information to stop this from happening? Only way I could see around this is visa gift cards (if those even work with it).
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 07:13:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They also check device info and the first ride discounts seem to be something like $5 off for 5 rides instead of a $25 credit.
Even if it doesn't work, you can still find free ride codes online. Uber just knows that most people don't go through the effort and just pay up. It's also the reason why five star hotels charge $100 for wifi, they know that it'll be covered as a company expense.
From the Uber website- "To see your invite code, tap FREE RIDES in the app menu. When a friend signs up with your invite code, they’ll receive a free first ride." Sounds like he would use his own share code to create a new account and earn a free ride.
This doesn't work though. First off the new account would need to have an associated credit card (which can only be used for one Uber account) and then also before he could get a free ride, he would have to use his new account for a ride.
My frugal friend used the same card on two accounts. I can't remember at what point you use the code but the referral code gives both accounts a free ride up to $20.
EDIT: Just want to put a disclaimer that I've not tried it myself.
For existing users? No. The only ride codes available for Uber are when you sign up as a new user. Which is what he was talking about doing (make a new account and use his original account code to sign up and get double free rides)
This state I live in or at least within 100 miles of where I live, don't have Uber. I've been thinking about becoming the first Uber driver but thought twice against it due to high drug usage in my area (heroin is the most abused drug here and I don't want any strung out users in my vehicle).
Haha nice. I heard someone did the same thing but instead of using Über they actually picked up the drives as well as their others and basically never completed them.
someone who only goes to Kohl's when they have the 30%-off coupon
Which is really the only way to shop at Kohl's. I never really shopped there before (and neither did my parents), so I didn't really know how it worked. When I got my first apartment, I got a bunch of coupons in the mail from USPS because I told them I was moving and to forward my mail. One of them was a 30% off coupon to Kohl's, and I knew they sold housewares, so I thought I could get some stuff there at a good discount. Once I got there, I figured out the pricing and realized they just mark everything up 30% so after the discount, it's the same price at any other store.
Of course it works, you just have to spend a bunch of money to get the rewards. The people who get free trips or 1000's back a year spend thousands. For me I'll never get that type of return because I don't spend thousands a month. My credit card bill is like 200-300 a month with me paying everything I can off with the card, that's every bill possible, gas, good, whatever that doesn't charge extra for paying with a credit card.. I'd love to see how that will somehow translate into me making 1000's back a year in rewards. In reality it can't.
Most jobs that require money handling. I think I was given one before being hired by a concierge agency because one of my duties was receiving and holding packages, and everyone in my mom's office gets one because they make budgets and there's concern that they might budget themselves in there, so to speak.
Many employers do, especially if there's any relation to finance. It's viewed as an indicator of responsibility and likelihood to steal. Desperate times, desperate measures and such.
Honestly I don't know. Most of the jobs I've heard of doing it are ones that require money handling, which makes sense. Depends on the job level, though - when I was a lowly Starbucks peon I didn't need one but I think the managers did if they were hired for the position instead of promoted.
It depends if it's a "hard" or "soft" inquiry. A soft inquiry won't impact your score at all, but many lenders do a hard inquiry because it is more detailed. A hard inquiry will lower your score by a small amount, but as long as you pay your balances on time, the inquiry will fall off within 2 years (often sooner).
Another concern is age of accounts. Issuers often look at the average account age as a factor in credit score. It isn't a huge factor, but worth considering.
EDIT: Soft and hard inquiries both show the same information, but a hard inquiry is generally used for requesting a new line of credit. Soft inquiries are used for background checks or to verify identities.
I recently found out there IS a limit... I applied for another card, like I usually do when a new trip is coming up, and they told me I had too many new accounts to be accepted for the latest/greatest. I just applied for another and got that one, but there apparently is some theoretical limit for some of the banks.
I think they're aware that some of us are churning their rewards without spending money on their services, and they're pushing back.
Well.... I assumed it wasn't some Quantum State where checking would ruin the conditions. I just meant that I hadn't seen the limits, nor run into them after extended usage... and I'm prone to flowery language.
Yes, but having a boatload of hard pulls won't make a big difference as long as you keep paying everything on time. Having numerous credit accounts (as long as they remain in good standing) can actually improve your credit.
So, hard inquiries and opening accounts affects your credit score... for a couple months. It's not lasting. You can literally not worry about it and then stop opening accounts a few months before you get a mortgage or car loan.
mwwalk · -2 points · Posted at 02:51:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In general, doing this will actually increase your credit as long as you don't carry a balance and pay on time. I've opened dozens of credit cards per year for the past five years for my wife and I. Check out /r/churning sometime.
opening and closing credit cards doesn't look good for your credit. It isn't going to destroy your credit and if you don't need to use it for anything. Many people get along without ever using credit for anything more than a mortgage.
I'm doing that now. I travel a good bit and opened a new card for every adventure. By funneling all of my expenses through a single card for a few weeks, it doesn't take long to hit whatever spending minimums they have for the Rewards to kick in.
Basically, XYZ Bank is paying for half of my plane expenses every time I take a major trip. Having good credit makes money so cheap. I wish I'd learned these lessons early...
joehx · 6 points · Posted at 04:04:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So do that, and then get a job that you drive a company car, and you pay for gas, parking, maintenance, etc, and get reimbursed. Just in car related stuff I get reimbursed for I put 1000 to 1500 a month on credit.
Oh for sure. I love doing that. I always offer to put things on my card when family & friends want to split the bill. My mom doesn't use credit cards so I've had her book flights on mine. Love that cash back.
I have a friend who flies internationally for business. He uses his millage points from this to fly first class to drink in a different country a few times per week
Beyond churning, I have some friends that manufacture spending and have made TONS of money off of it. They have this math down to a science, but essentially what they do is..
1) Use CC with a 5% cash back at certain places (usually grocery and/or drug stores)
2) Get about $20,000 in Visa gift cards on CC
3) Take gift cards and buy money orders
4) Deposit money orders into bank and pay off CC
Spending without spending. Seriously. One guy hasn't had a job in 3 years and makes 6 figures tax-free, easily. It's not illegal, but banks/CC companies obviously don't like it. They're tightening up and it's getting tougher to do it. But damn if he didn't live like a king for a while.
Yeah I make about $3,000/year doing these things. There was once an unlimited promo on Amazon gift cards, $45 for $50. I bought 60 of them. Instant $300 and I shop there all the time anyway. Plus I got 3% cash on that $3000, another $90.
Chase Freedom, BP, Amazon Visa... all give you 5% back. My grocery store has a 3% cash back card, CitiBank is 2% on everything else. I pay all my bills with that card, all except my mortgage. I never use cash. Ever. Basically just quarters to wash my car. Everything else is on rewards-earning cards.
But the account bonuses are the fun ones. $500 for 30 minutes at the bank. Easy money.
Not sure how your friend makes six figures doing this, though. Unless he has millions to spend in the first place. To get new account rewards you usually need direct deposit (and he isn't working). The rest requires spending. Getting 5% means you're only paying 95% for things, which is nice and better than 100%, but where's the money for the 95% coming from without a job?
You're right though, they are cracking down a little. Some rewards programs have caps. Like Chase gives you 5% on particular categories but only on the first $1500 in purchases, so you max out at $75 there.
I don't remember the exact details or numbers, but he was using a Wells Fargo card that was 5% cash back. He would MS $25,000 spend on the cards about 4-5 times a week. He knew the exact turnaround time on when payments would clear into the account and had a circuit of stores he would go to in order to liquidate the gift cards into money orders. The guy had it down to an absolute science.
He had a few cards he was able to do it on. He and his wife both had one, and it had gotten to the point where he had family members open one up and add him as an authorized user, and he would do the work and pay them a percentage of his take for letting him use their card.
But WF tightened up and canceled his accounts. CC and bank. It took them about five years though.
I know for a fact he bought and paid off a house, and neither he or his wife had jobs for a couple years.
He wasn't churning in that he wasn't opening accounts for sign up bonuses. He was just taking advantage of card rewards.
He still takes advantage of rewards but it's mostly travel now. One time he took two round trips to Argentina because he had to hit a certain qualifying distance to trigger some benefit package. Never even left the airport. Two RTs in about 48 hours. He's committed to the game.
Yeah that's a very high level of commitment. 🙂 I'm not that hardcore. My fear is that they'd end the promotion while I was in between a deal. When I bought $3000 in Amazon gift cards once I paused and worried I might not need to spend that much there for a long time.
It was nuts watching this guy. He'd walk out of Walgreens with 10-20k of visa gift cards in his pocket. I would be a wreck with that much. It became a full time job for him.
I've churned some - got the companion pass on Southwest and now have over 200,000 miles. Bonuses and travel points. But I could never dedicate like some people do.
dnbroo · 7 points · Posted at 02:25:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ah welcome to r/churning , the potential to make a lot of free money is there without affecting your credit!
I flew with Spirit last thanksgiving, and it was fucking terrible. They wouldn't let me check in .5 minutes late and charged me $100 to rebook over 24 hours later, forcing me to get a hotel room for the night.
But on the flight they were offering a chance to apply for a World MasterCard free for one year, and you got 5,000 bonus miles just for applying. Then when you activated the card and made a purchase you got 15,000 miles, plus 2 miles on the dollar for the purchase itself. I found myself in a jam recently where I needed to make a $600 purchase immediately and I wouldn't have the cash to cover it until payday. I whipped out my Spirit card, got almost 30,000 miles and earned at least one free flight before I cancel the card and avoid the $59 annual fee.
Fuck Spirit.
zsphere · 2 points · Posted at 06:04:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've thought that briefly as well but when I think it through, it's not that much time or stress for that payout. For my job, I would have to work 16 hours overtime to get $500 post-tax extra on a check. Doing the Chase stuff, at worst, is two hours of my life. Totally worth it. What else am I going to do with those two hours? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
gdq0 · 2 points · Posted at 11:11:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The $500 is pre-tax from Chase. You'll get a 1099-INT in the mail for the money, and the $15,000 investment for 3 months can be better spent elsewhere.
gdq0 · 2 points · Posted at 11:09:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
$1 million/year is $500/hour assuming a 40 hour work week, and that can drive up the price for doing something else. Also consider that once you're making that much money, $500 is a pittance and you'll make a lot more money worrying about investments than signup bonuses.
What, how? The best I've seen from Chase is $300, and it requires you to hold $15,000 in a savings account for something like 6 months. Which granted, that's effectively a 4% interest rate, but having to (like you said) waste time, as well as fret over the fine print which says among other things that if they decide to close your account for any reason (churning?) they can take back the bonus.
Just look. They're usually advertising them on signs on the door. Chase sends out mailers. Banks in grocery stores usually have a banner advertising the current deal. The banks' website homepages usually list them.
The banks want to hook you. They get credit for signing up new customers. So this isn't like a secret trick. Usually it's front and center. Check out credit unions too. They tend to be as generous but have a little more conditions (e.g. you must do 4 debit card transactions a month).
What sorcery is this? Around here count yourself lucky f you can open an account t without some fee added! Where does one find these accounts that give you money?
Every single bank around me offers one of some kind or another. I live in mid-Michigan. In January and February there was $300-$500 at Chase, $200 at KeyBank, $250-$500 at PNC, $125 at TCF, $150 at Huntington Bank, $200 at Financial Plus Credit Union, and $100 at Flagstar.
I've been trying to convince my partner to open a Chase account for this exact reason. If he has his paycheck deposited into it for a few months, then he gets to keep the reward and doesn't get a fee.
He's really short on cash right now and needs a brand new set of tires. And $300 is a lot towards new tires.
Is this strictly certain banks or all banks in general? How long do you keep the accounts open? Do you just have the bare minimum in the account that they require to have the accounts?
A buddy of mine used to work at Applebee's and they had this deal where you got extra money on gift cards, so he'd go to one he didn't work at and buy a bunch of cards with his tip money and whenever someone would pay with cash he'd pocket the cash and use the gift cards he bought to pay for the meal.
He'd probably have gotten fired if he got caught but he never did; made a bunch of extra money during that promotion.
Found out when I used to hitch-hike that , if you came across a Flying J gas station, they'd let you spend the night in their trucker's lounge, and usually offer you free food, as they have to change out their snack counter every few hours.
True though. Worked for one. We did in fact let homeless people stay in the lounge and eat the 30 minute old expired food. It only ever got bad when one homeless guy started writing really creepy notes on napkins and giving them to us.
The one that made us call the cops was
'must eliminate the Jewish. I am the lion. Do not fuck with the lion. DONT FUCK WITH THE LION
I honestly don't know... we were sort of horrified for our lives at that point, although only one of us was Jewish and he wasn't working that night.
So we fucked with the lion. I assume he's in jail or a homeless shelter now?
This reminds me of a roommate I had that got VERY drunk/high one night. I left to go out with our other roommate and we got dragged onto a lesbian party bus (different story).
At one point during the night, drunk/high friend at home texts me, "I AM THE AZURE PANTHER".
When I got home, he's passed out sitting at a desk with a computer and a trashbag next to him, wearing a suit. I also think he put a tie (like a neck tie) around my door. None of it made any sense.
[deleted] · -5 points · Posted at 05:44:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Flying J's always make me nostalgic. My grandad was a trucker and my mother and I would meet him at truck stops locally, and chat and drink coffee for hours. God bless those truck stops, and the nice folks that work there.
Nice. A lot of places that have trucker lounges will actually let you hang out in them for a while, as long as you're not an asshole. I know I spent a few rainy nights/days in them back when I was hitching.
Nosiege · 32 points · Posted at 02:54:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In a private server of a game, there was a NPC who sold Blue Herbs which restored SP/Mana, which was an addition to their server not normally in the game.
They tried to balance this by removing the Empty Bottle seller, so you couldn't just make Blue Potions, bu thad to farm Empty Bottles, but they forgot the NPC which trades bottles for another purchasable item.
So my friends and I made a racket to stockpile bottles, turn them into Blue Potions, and sell them at profit to the NPC.
We flooded the market with money, but not the goods, so we broke the economy. The game got wiped.
We got back on and did it again, before they realized what we were doing to cause it.
This isn't an extreme one, like some others in the thread, but it's pretty satisfying.
I had a Global History teacher in high school that would give out star stickers each time you did well enough on a quiz or a test. Those stickers could be redeemed on any quiz or test for 5 bonus points.
I saved each and every sticker I got for the whole year. I didn't even try that hard in the class, I just was a stickler about using my bonus points.
Last week of school, we took a final exam that counted as 20% of our final grade. I handed in all of my stickers and skipped it. 0 points on the actual test, but 105 bonus points from stickers. Felt good.
mgoulart · 22 points · Posted at 06:38:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
For a moment, I thought you were going to say you found a site selling the same stickers.
If it's a total points grade though shouldn't matter. When I was in high school I remember most classes you didn't have to take the final if you had As every quarter and on the midterm
When I was a kid, we used pay phones. So instead of dropping a quarter to call home when we were done, we would place a collect call and you had about 3 seconds to leave a message in where the name is supposed to go.
Fun fact: In Massachusetts, if your car is too crappy to pass inspection, you can drive it on an "R" sticker forever without even paying the $35 fee until it passes. Just keep bringing it back to the same shop to fail inspection over and over again for free and it stays road legal.
When you get a rejection sticker in MA that is for non safety reasons, you have 60 days to fix it and you can bring it back to the same place that inspected it the first time to get the inspection sticker for free if it passes. Basically you just go back before the 60 days are up without doing any repairs and they'll fail you again but you get a new rejection sticker and reset the 60 days. So you just keep doing that without fixing anything and you won't get a ticket for the sticker. It's possible for you to get pulled over because of it though but you just show the officer the paper from the shop with the date the rejection expires.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 04:04:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I haven't had a car in a while but this was pretty standard growing up. Buy a $500 beater and run it into the ground with a rejection sticker the whole time lol.
eeedlef · 9 points · Posted at 04:48:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Who has time to schedule an appt every two months just to keep driving?
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 06:07:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You don't schedule it you just stop in before the 2 months is up whenever you get a chance.
J_Wilb · 2 points · Posted at 02:37:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Generally, you have a month to fix any issues and return for a reinspection for no additional fee, but for that month you get a pass so you can drive it to a garage to fix the issues.
Red R stickers are illegal to drive on. Green R ones are not. Really depends on the sticker. Red means it isn't road safe, green means you failed your emissions.
Your car emissions. The smoke that comes out of your tail pipe, are called just simply, emissions. They are greenhouse gasses however but rarely called or referred to as that here for some reason. Likely because it's called an emissions test, people call it just that.
Milo359 · 1 points · Posted at 12:24:42 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, then you probably shouldn't drive even if you only failed an emissions test. That's just my view tho.
I believe this only works for the black "R" stickers. If you get a red "R," then it's not actually driveable. This would be for things like not having brakes. But this absolutely works for more minor things.
I think every state should have mandatory vehicle inspections, but just basic stuff to make sure the car is road safe.
I also think there should be a "fast lane" on the interstates that has a 10 MPH faster speed limit, but requires a more in-depth inspection and additional driver certification.
Yea but no state should have the crap version that Massachusetts has. I forgot to get my completely safe car inspected and it is a $55 ticket that added 2 points to my otherwise spotless records which ultimately is going to cost me a little over $1200 over the next 6 years in additional insurance premiums.
Praying that I can have them remove the points in a hearing since it passed an inspection less than 2 hours after the ticket. It's bs. Did you fight it at all?
Yes but I shouldn't have to pay a nonrefundable $25 and take an afternoon off of work for a chance to get out of the insurance part of this penalty. But most people don't know that the ticket comes with points and they will just pay it.
Pennsylvania vehicle inspections are ridiculous. I have a 2006 Pontiac GTO which passes in every way, except one. The hood release spring gets jammed regularly to the effect that you can't get the hood open. Ended up replacing the system with hood pins, as they are much more reliable and even safer as a mechanism to keep the hood closed. Yet, because I modified the factory system, my car fails inspection. So, every year, I have to "install" the old system, pull out one of the front grills in case it gets stuck so that I can open the hood, then take it out after it passes.
If a car or driver isn't capable of going 10 over the speed limit, they should just be off the road entirely. There's really not much difference between 70mph and 80mph.
On the other hand, I could envision a future where a fast lane allows you to travel way over the speed limit, like 100mph+, but only if your car is self-driving...
That's unfortunate, but I also think that cars should have to pass a basic safety test before they go on the road. Just because you're poor doesn't mean you should be allowed to drive a dangerous car on the road and put others at risk.
KiloLee · 2 points · Posted at 05:59:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
VA State Inspector here: Can't do that here. We get 14 days to drive with the sticker, BUT it's only valid to be driven back to the inspection station, and the driver is still subject to citations due to whatever the vehicle failed for.
Also, the first step in the inspection process is to scrape of and destroy the existing sticker, no matter if it's a good or failed sticker. After that, no rejection sticker will be issued again. (Pass or nothing.)
Not totally true. There are 2 kinds of inspection stickers. A black R and a red R. The Black are works as described but if you live in a small town the cops will catch on and give you a ticket.
The red R is a safety rejection and they will tow your car if they see it driving.
The SCP wiki has a feature where if you try to access the random SCP/tale link more than once a minute, it won't work, so with some quick JS, I made a bookmarklet that bypasses that.
EDIT: I will update you with the re-written script at around 1 PM EST today, I seem to have deleted the original script.
EDIT 2: Here's the bookmarklet, create a new page in your bookmarks and put the following code in the URL:
It won't take you to joke SCPs (ex 789-j), but adding that functionality is next to impossible since the joke SCPs are not consecutively numbered. Also they are trash anyway.
I'm pretty sure the server generates the “random” page number once a minute, and just serves that page to all requesters until the next page number generation. Just tested this by clicking the random button from two separate computers with different IP addresses (via remote login) and it seems to be the case.
If I had to guess, I would say it's a likely misguided attempt at conserving server resources by not going to to the computational expense of dynamically generating a page every time someone clicks the random button.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I read every single one on that site in order from start to finish.
Is it strange that I slept soundly after doing so.
I love the Infinite Stairwell and the Mountain of Pipes one. Oh and the Colored Mirror Series. Ooooh, and the infinitely shifting "theres something in here" tool cupboard NO DON"T CLOSE THE DOOOOOOOR!
It is a supernatural/lovecraftian/sci-fi site that for the most part uses a particular writing style with all of the content being user generated and other users able to tap into and link with the other lore already present on the site. This is the second most visited site for me outside of reddit and I have killed many of hours reading through it, highly recommended, this is the SCP that really hooked me:
Make sure to read all of the "tests" as that is where the real meat of that story is. And don't stop there, click the top rated pages and become the best 0-5 you can be, because this reality depends upon it.
erindes · 2 points · Posted at 19:43:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was in a candy store with my SO a few months back and I really wanted cherry rings. I was going to buy them anyway, but I figured if I was paying $13.99/lb, that I deserved a free one or two.
While no one was looking, I popped one of those sugary MF-ers in my mouth. I chewed with haste, and swallowed.
Except, in my rush to destroy the evidence, the ring was not chewed up enough and got stuck in my throat. I cough, and somehow manage to quietly free the candy from my throat, undetected.
Then my SO looks over at me and says "I know what you did, and that was the universe punishing you."
10/10 would consume "stolen" candy again though. Shit's expensive, and the thrill of being caught makes them taste better.
bilymays · 211 points · Posted at 00:53:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One time I was waiting for class and there was a vending machine near the classroom so I went up to it and entered a random combination of numbers followed by the pound sign. A weird screen popped up so I just hit "1" and it gave me a bag of skittles. I got a free bag of skittles everyday until they realized what was going on.
Nymall · 191 points · Posted at 01:43:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You entered the maintenance mode for the machine. Congratulations!
turlian · 19 points · Posted at 05:40:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The code is usually 4231, but the maintenance mode has to be unsecured as well for any free product. Otherwise you are limited to just displaying sales and temp data.
Is there any website that has a database of vending machince maintenace codes? shows a pic of the vending machine, find a few that look similar, enter the codes for said machines, and whichever one is right, unless it's randomly generated
Nymall · 8 points · Posted at 06:17:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can easily find the service manuals for most machines online. Many different vendors will not change the code from factory default, but be aware - it can be changed.
If you can't find it on a website, try looking for a torrent.
Amex platinum and centurion, for example, have return protection. You buy something, the retailer won't take it back, and AMEX will reimburse you the price you paid... and usually not ask for the item back. Same deal if the item is LOST or stolen. Now I'm not sure what the threshold is for asking for an item back or more proof of loss, but I have heard it's around $100. My item was just at $150, and they never asked for it back. Sure, if you don't actually meet the requirements for having the item reimbursed and you are lying, it is fraud, and I would never condone that. Never actually did that myself, but I could see where it would be possible.
Things to keep in mind. The platinum card has a steep annual fee at $495. The return protection benefit is available on the other amex products, but the limits are lower. No accidental loss protection on the lower cards, though.
No doubt. It's a sweet and legitimate perk to be refunded by amex when my irresponsible self loses somethinf or when I buy something I regret and the store wont take it back.
The extended warranties at Best Buy/Future Shop that they always try to upsell you on. I think I went a good six years without paying for video cards. Mine would occasionally die after a while... usually when only newer models were available as a replacement. Weird how that worked.
I work for an online retailer. Very recently a marketing staffer fucked up when creating a coupon code. It was supposed to be $10 off an order with a minimum threshold of $50.
They swapped the dollar off and the threshold, so the coupon ended up being $50 off an order with a minimum threshold of $10.
We gave out $50k in free orders before a customer service team member caught the error.
Here's proof for this story.. My CAG username is "kunai." You can just follow from that page and also see other crazy epic scores I've made. (Like the insane "Get any 5 games for $5 each" Blockbuster promo).
Back in the day (2007/2008) I found a major flaw in the POS at Blockbuster
Their system would update overnight, but only certain parts, and these parts were on different days of the week. Their new item prices would update on Thursday, their used prices would update on Friday- BUT their trade-in values would update after closing on Sunday.
This meant if a game dropped in MSRP, it's new version would first lower on Thursday morning ($49.99 to $19.99) and be cheaper than the used version. The next day, on Friday morning, its used version would be lowered ($47.99 to $17.99).
The trade-in value would still be the same- usually $30-$35, even though you could pull the game off the rack, buy it for $20, then trade in back without leaving the line.
I did this a few times and felt bad so I emailed corporate to let them know about the loophole. They told me they didn't take in information/suggestions from outside parties, essentially because they had that set up as part of their "business strategy."
I then proceeded to assist them in their endeavors by buying 25+ copies of Beowulf from Best Buy for $9.99 ($19.99-$10 coupon) and trading them in for ~$800 in store credit.
Then I repurchased all 25 copies with the store credit for ~$500.
Then I traded them in again.
Then I bought them again.
I did this a few times over the weekend and ended up with $1200 in store credit from $250 cash.
Then I found a few games GameStop gave good money for and traded them in over there for store credit. I made some preorders for Street Fighter IV and eventually canceled them and requested cash back for the deposit. Then I got shitfaced at Almost Acoustic Christmas to celebrate.
I eventually got a letter from Blockbuster banning me from trading, but it had the wrong date (post dated for the next year) and I kept trading.
I think I remember reading this one in another "How you broke the system thread". Nice to reread it, and well done with blockbuster. I like the part where corporate told you to screw off, invigorating you break the system more.
Signing up for Subway's SMS coupons program with different apps.
So, if you sign up for their program, you get a coupon for a free 6 inch w/ purchase of a drink. I did this with my phone #, then unsubscribed because the coupons were never for anything I liked. I tried later with my Google Voice number, and it worked fine. (some services won't work with VOIP numbers.) Now I do it over and over with different texting apps in the Play Store.
Just make sure that the location you're going to accepts the coupon, because some don't. For some reason, my local one did, then later (the 2nd time like 2 months later. Not like I'm doing this every day), said they didn't accept them, so I had to pay for the sandwich :(. I like Subway, but not enough to actually pay for anything there
Eating it regularly is no way to live, but the occasional sandwich is alright with me.
It's basically the same as a sandwich I would bring from home.
The only difference is it's on a gigantic piece of terrible bread, and the meat isn't as nearly as good as the stuff from a deli, and all the vegetables are soggy and especially the tomatoes have been destroyed by extreme refrigeration, and the only options for mayo are none at all or an entire jar no matter how much you beg the "sandwich artist" to split the difference, and eating it at your desk makes you question all of your life choices thus far.
Theres a subway like 50 meters from my house, and multiple times a year the company will do ad campaigns in the mail, only problem is 99% of neighbourhoods do not allow advertizements in the mail so they just dump all the flyers into the post offices. Lucky me and my part time job, i get infinite subway coupons. 2 for 1 sandwiches all day every day.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 03:27:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So after eating that much Subway, when did the paedophilia set in?
13Deth13 · 69 points · Posted at 04:09:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Delivered pizza in high school, (back when speeding tickets were hand written). I had a Chrysler intrepid, but I scraped the Chrysler logo off the back and replaced it with Dodge letters from a parts car I had. Got off on 7/8 of the speeding tickets I got in that car when I showed my ownership to the judge and the cop had written the wrong make of car on the ticket.
Viatical · 16 points · Posted at 06:38:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What about the 8th time?
discipl · 1 points · Posted at 13:26:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Used to deliver pizzas as well. Everytime i got pulled over for speeding the cop let me off with warnings. Maybe 3 times over 5 years. Lived in a small town, and i always was the driver when the cops in town ordered pizza.
I like to think it was so they didnt get cold pizza next time.
jecowa · 8 points · Posted at 07:17:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You don't cause problems for the people in charge of your food.
I bought a house. One day I look out the window and some guy is cutting my lawn. I go out and ask him, he says he's from a service. The previous owners had an account. I tell him him that I'm not being billed, I don't know anything about it. He says the address is still on his route, but he'll talk to his boss about it.
For the five years I owned that I owned that house, someone cut my lawn every week. I never got anything in mail about it. I never paid a dime. Hopefully, they're still doing it for free for whoever owns it now.
there was an old EB Games or Gamestop promotion where you could trade in any five old games for any new game of the same console or something like that. This was a bit after the ps2/gamecube/xbox generation was introduced so you could actually find some old games for pretty cheap. My older brother and i went to a near by record exchange (which sells older systems, used games, music, and shit) and we bought five games for about $5 apiece then went over and traded them in for a new $50 or $60 game. IT WORKED! So the next day we bought like 25-30 old games. basically whatever they had that was cheapest. We then redeemed all of our new used games for 5-6 new games. They said we couldn't do it anymore. We kind of wanted to fight it but were out of money anyway, and pretty satisfied with our haul.
Reminds me of when Blockbuster paid out $8 in store credit for ANY DVD with a barcode on it, regardless of what it was. So my local convenience store had their own movie rental section (hard to believe it ever existed) which they were trying to liquidate. I bought basically all 250 DVDs that they had left for maybe $50 total. I brought them all into Blockbuster and got like $2000 in credit, which I then used to buy basically every Criterion DVD that they sold.
Yep, because at least on iOS there is no public API apps can use to identify your device across installs. Using a private API will prevent the app from entering the app store.
A long time ago I used plentyoffish.com to meet people online. As with most dating sites, men tend to get far less traffic than women.
With P.O.F. though, I noticed that the suggested profiles that show up on the main page were sorted by how recently they logged in.
To take advantage of that I wrote a script on my computer that would automatically log in to the page every few minutes. When I wanted to meet someone, I'd turn the script on, and within a day I'll have been approached by two or three ladies.
remember when the Treasury was trying to get $1 coins to be adopted? They would sell them at cost on their website and have free shipping. Well people would buy the maximum amount on their credit card, then just go to the bank and deposit them when they were delivered. People got those credit card reward points at the expense of the federal gov't...
Ok so this got me thinking, if he paid off $2.4 million in credit card debt on time, is his credit like amazing?
Netwinn · 135 points · Posted at 00:07:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
With any Toy-to-life game, mainly Disney Infinity, Amiibos and Skylanders, you can buy the characters and use them while still in the packaging. So you can use them and get whatever unlockbales they have, then return them after the fact. No spending hundreds of dollars on little plastic figurines.
I don't know about the rest but the packaging for the Amiibo figures specifically prevent you from doing this. If you go to the pre-owned section of GameStop though they sometimes have used Amiibo figures in plastic bags which you can scan in-store (sneakily) without buying.
This also works with NFC enabled Android devices that have a reader/cloner app. Then you do that have quite the conspicuous scene of gaming device and scanning. Just a person randomly looking at ammibo while holding their phone.
I think for amiibos (for the nintendo wii u) you have to put the figurine on the wii u controller which isn't mobile? So you buy it, bring it home, scan it, and return.
jesse9o3 · 12 points · Posted at 04:56:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Worked at a restaurant with these old Panasonic point of sale systems. On occasion management would hold contests such as, who can sell the most side salads or desserts. Winner would get a prize like a gift card or something (value $20-$25)
On the back end of the system they would assign said contest product to something called a "contest counter" and at the end of your shift when you cashed out, your report would show your total contest counters.
I accidentally found, through some completely random key presses, that you could add a contest counter to any of your table's bill and it wouldn't show up on the printout but it would count at the end of your shift on the report.
Needless to say I was the up sell king for a few of the contests. Just had to be careful to add enough not to look suspicious.
In Xcom 2, I think from reloading a save in quick succession, all the enemies stopped doing anything and would just stand in place no matter what I did. I played for quite a few hours and did really well! Perfect, dare I say.
Spart33 · 26 points · Posted at 03:20:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Where's the fun in playing a game with no challenge
Shlappz · 39 points · Posted at 04:09:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The part where you win and feel good about yourself
Hero32 · 11 points · Posted at 04:45:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"You dirty save scummer!"
He says, pressing f5 before any RNG determined event in any rpg ever.
In Star Trek the video game for pc, the original one, you could pause the game after firing torpedoes and it would reset your delay, so you could line up a bunch of shots and crush a Klingon vessel in one crazy volley.
g3istbot · 88 points · Posted at 02:23:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In January of 2006 Blizzard would release it's pach 1.9 for World of Warcraft. The patch was significant in that it released a new raid, and a mini (20 man) raid "Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj" and a full (40 man) raid "Temple of Ahn'Qiraj".
The most unique thing about this particular content release was that the raids were not immediately available. The instance portals were blocked off by large gates that would need to be opened. The server had to work as a whole to complete various events that were taking place in the game. Simultaneously some people had taken up the long and arduous task of completing a very long, very expensive, and very difficult quest, that once they completed they could ring the gong outside the gates, and open up the instances. They were rewarded with an exclusive mount for all their troubles. Technically multiple people also on the quest could ring it as well and get the mount, but the pool of people who were close to completing it were very small.
So they ring the gong, the gates open, and everything goes quiet - right? Nope, now we have the AQ event - honestly not sure what all was happening during that event. Why? I was too busy farming sweet sweet thorium and arcane crystals. See, the temple was in a zone called Silithus, and Silithus had a unique property in that it'd have these tunnels, filled with elites (stronger than normal enemies, very difficult to solo if at all). What were they guarding? Ooze-covered thorium veins, these veins produced extra thorium and extra arcane crystals. Arcane crystals are especially important, since they were kind of rare and needed for arcanite bars - a heavily sought and expensive resource. When the gates opened though, for what ever reason, all the mobs inside of those tunnels just up and vanished.
This meant that
A) I could go through the tunnels without fear of being killed by bug monsters
B) Everyone else was so busy doing the AQ event I had these tunnels all to myself.
AQ event lasted for I think 11-12 hours, and I spent every single minute of it farming those tunnels. By the end of it my bags were full, my bank was full, my alts bags and banks were full.
Ha! I used to go to Silithus as a rogue before there was any content to farm the ooze-covered thorium veins; certain veins were mineable if the elite mobs pathed far enough away. You could also blind, mine, and vanish to keep farming those arcane crystals... Ahh, epic mount!
Off the World of Warcraft topic , back in Mists of Pandaria there was a lot of duping of rare mounts . for those who don't know certain mounts can be sold and some come at a very high cost , and somehow people found a way to make copies of them. There were a few of them floating around but they were available and what let you know if they were duped or not was the price of the item. I've been farming gold since the beginning of expansion and was already started making my own mounts to increase my gold. The thing with the dupe mounts is it would not let you put them on the auction House so you had to sell them in person. I would buy every one I could get and try to off it as quickly as I could so it wouldn't be in my account for too long. I must have bought close to six or seven jeweled Panthers within the first month and made quite a large amount of change off selling them at regular retail price. I found I had much better luck selling them at a high price to make them look authentic then selling them at a low price and giving away the fact that they were duped
Go to gamestop after October 15th. Buy anything preowned. Beat the hell out of it then return before January 15th for full refund, sans Christmas policy. I used 15$ to get 70 platinum trophies on PS3 in 2013
Haven't been to gamestop in some time, but it used to say at the bottom of the receipt "return any time before January 15th!" as if every preowned item purchased was intended to be a gift from Oct15 - Jan15.
GameStop around here puts a sticker on preowned games so they know if you've played it. They won't accept an opened game now. I managed to get around this by playing the "I'm a girl clearly I don't know games" card and also the store I went to originally hadn't put the sticker on even though they were supposed to. It really depends on the cashier I suppose.
GameStop near me has a "return used game for any reason within 15 days for full refund" yes you could use this as a free rental but they will eventually backlist you according to the employees I asked about it.
I'm guessing the card worked similar to a gift-card where it would eventually be spent or had some limitation, but he abused the fact that they werent part of the program and they gave him more sandwiches than if he went somewhere that actually was
I suppose the card has a limit of rebate the user can get, but since this specific Subway didn't participate to the program, the sale wouldn't be associate with the card, making the card limitless.
Sounds like the card was only meant to be good for a set number of sandwiches, but since this location wasn't equipped to take it, they never scanned it or kept track of the number of times it was used.
Reyny · 2 points · Posted at 03:03:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I guess normally the card would be scanned and could only be used a couple times or so.
I guess he/she is trying to balance productivity and morale. Sure, use your phone every once in a while to keep your spirits up, but if you use it so much we catch ya, then your in trouble.
He is saying "At least don't do that shit in front of me man, if someone reports it I am going to be in trouble but I am too cool/too much of a bitch to say it."
If I had to guess it's probably a sign of the fact that he doesn't care if it's not causing a problem. But if he ever sees you doing it, he'll probably have to call you out on it for appearances sake.
Back in college, the (insert mega bank name here) was doing a special "keep the change" promotion for incoming freshman to encourage building a savings account if you opened a checking and savings together. This is a common practice actually, and whatever cent remainder (rounded up to the next whole dollar) was on every debit purchase, the bank would automatically withdraw from your checking to your savings. In essence, it was still your money, just moving around to make your savings grow incrementally.
The special promotion allowed all that "transferred" money to be matched at 100% by the bank, for the first 3 months after opening. Their mistake was not putting (or advertising) a cap on the amount that could be matched (they did in subsequent years). Needless to say, I found every cheap card transaction for $1.01 around town and swiped a lot. Made a nice chunk of matched funds from the bank.
TLDR- Took advantage of a checking account loophole and made a good amount of money.
I work retail, and of course we have to push numbers. The worst is getting people to sign up for credit cards. No one wants a new credit card, especially ones with shitty apr. So how do I "exploit" this? Most/all customers think you want them to put the entire $500 transaction on it, so I graciously point out the partial pay button. How many sign ups I've gotten now with "you get 15% off your purchase, you partial pay a dollar, and can pay how you originally planned on."
The store's bank might hate me but oh well corporate numbers.
Doritos had a special offer where you enter a code from the packet and play a game to win prizes. The game was basically just complete luck (kicking a ball in 6 predetermined spots and hoping the goalie doesn't block it). You only had one shot, and the chances of winning a prize were super low. I had bought a packet for me and a friend, and then we both played it. We both lost, but we realised that we hadn't actually used the second code, and that my friend had just used the same code that I used. It turns out that you could use the same code again and again as long as you used a different email. Bought a few more packets for about £2, and spent an hour grinding on the game, using a temporary email. If I lost, I would start again but create a new email to sign up with until I got to the £20 prize. Claimed it for all five of them and a week later got 5 £20 cheques in the mail. I probably could have gone for a lot more but I was worried that they might notice the same address being entered for about 200 accounts.
Our annual local fair/carnival used to pre-sell tickets for admission or ride tickets etc through the local drug stores the week leading up to the fair. So you'd go to the register at the drug store, say "can I get one admission" or "25 ride coupons" or whatever and they charge you, and print off a voucher in the form of a receipt, which you then present to a ticket booth at the actual fair who'd either give you a wristband or a sheet of ride tickets.
Me and all my buddies worked at grocery stores at the time so we had ample access to rolls of receipt paper so we went and bought one real version of each voucher and just straight up photocopied them onto the rolls of receipt paper. We would tape a length of it to a piece of printer paper so we could run it through our printers at home without jamming. The end product was virtually indistinguishable from the originals except for the fact that if the fakes got wet the ink would run.
So we made dozens of fake vouchers and hit the fair with essentially unlimited tickets. So we pretty much got into the fair for free, rode all the rides for free, and still had enough tickets left over to blow a ton over and over playing the games until my brother finally won a mini motorcycle. We flew too close to the sun and tried to exchange a fake while it was raining and the ink was running. Had to book it away from the ticket stand while the attendants called security.
We did it 2 or 3 years in a row before the fair wised up and introduced scannable barcodes onto the receipts.
I now work for the security company that is contracted to work the same fairgrounds which hosts a menagerie of events throughout the year. Don't know what I'd do if I was called for such a thing other than pat the kids on the back and say "I'm not even mad, that's amazing. You gotta leave the property but bravo dude."
Blanche- · 47 points · Posted at 02:09:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Amazon use to let you download music to "Amazon MP3" on your computer like a minute before the payment went through. I had a gift card and I decided to use the last dollar on a song just not to waste it. I discovered by accident that I could buy and download a song to my computer and then I would just get a notification saying my payment was declined.....But I already had the song on my computer.
"Bought" A LOT of music that night.
decnine · 1 points · Posted at 06:48:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used this to get prime shipping a few times after my card expired
In High School, my history teacher let us take one notecard in to take our tests. The catch was: it had to be hand-written. So, I used several different colors of pen, and used different colors of cellophane on my glasses so only specific colors would pop up and I could write on the same notecard 3 times (red, green, blue)
Turned out I didn't need my notecard even once, because it turned out that I memorized the material as I was preparing my notecard.
Are you Nicolas Cage and are you plotting on stealing the Declaration of Independence next? Lol.
M2MK · 1 points · Posted at 21:51:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I hadn't thought about the different colors! Classes where we could have a page of notes, though...my chemistry and statistics finals note sheets were works of art. I would write really small in pencil, photocopy occasionally throughout the process to prevent smudges. Probably could have spent that time studying instead of making a fine-print note page, but the amount of information I could include was huge.
In Australia paypal takes 3 days to take money from your bank.
When I'm a couple days away from payday I'll order a bunch of food online to tie me over til payday.
Oreo_ · 674 points · Posted at 03:42:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's not a loophole that's being poor
hicow · 32 points · Posted at 05:08:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not really a loophole haha, I like this though, used to do this with Contactless, grab some Maccies, put it back on payday, Contactless is cool if low on cash cos it takes up to 7 days to come out in England
Why not just use a credit card? Most credit cards don't charge interest for 21 days so why not just use it to buy stuff with it until payday, and pay it all off at once when you get paid? Not much of a loophole, you still pay for it either way...
Mred12 · 1 points · Posted at 06:05:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Also; if you're not over your limit by midday Friday (when the banks close) your card will be accepted, no matter what, until 9am Monday.
This worked when I was at Uni, not sure if it works now.
Really? Not even a low limit one? I got my credit card when I was 18, I was a student and worked a part time job that gave me maybe 15-20 hours a week max. The limit was $1,000, although I'd heard of other people getting ones that were only $500.
Currently job hunting, have been for 4 months since my old one made me work in a crowded town centre with children with obvious pneumonia. My bank won't let me while I am on centre link.
University degree. Looked through the course calender before starting first year and found a tiny box about "double degrees." Figured out that I could get two separate pieces of paper and degrees for taking nothing more than 5 more courses than an undergrad. So now I'm the proud owner of a degree is history and poli Sci.
Arg3nt · 7 points · Posted at 06:22:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So now I'm the proud owner of a degree is history and poli Sci.
"Would you like fries with that?"
Source: history major
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 05:10:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Found a loophole while working for Verizon Wireless. Certain customers who were still in their contract & on good standing with the company were eligible for an early upgrade but only for certain (crappy) devices which majority of customers denied and decided they would wait until their true renewal date. Found a way to trick the system into allowing me to upgrade the customer to literally any device they desired. Therefore = happy me & happy customer. That only lasted a couple short months unfortunately, but it was great while it lasted!
The Developers from the Facebook game "Game of Thrones Ascent" really had no idea what they were doing. Using Chrome's inspect elements, you could just change item names to craft or gift yourself any item you want, including premium/pay items.
One of the end-game goals of the game was to hatch a baby dragon through a long and tedious crafting process. My friend and I bypassed this process by entirely guessing what the baby dragon item name was, and sent ourselves a bunch of them through FB's gifting system. Fun times.
I hid mine, and just equipped them on my bannermen. My friend was an idiot and put the baby dragon on his public profile, and within 2 weeks he had his account entirely wiped.
Yea sadly I quit the game like one month after year 1 of 2 can't remember had like 8 ghorns and everything
Reason for me quiting I met a guy one day one and we basically did everything together on the game and I got tired of the game as I basically had everything I liked from the raids so I played crucible most of the time
Met a few new people a girl another guy girl turns on me most of my friends do the other guy turns then me N my first day friend r cool until he turns on me
I played crucible for a while rumble 21-0 or usually just 5 deaths and winter match I. Mins I said fuck it and said fuck games and shit n I only played it for time pass etc
Brother bought Xbox one bought destiny first off shitiest graphics ever compared to other said fuck it there then second the response time for me was horrible and I hated the new controller so much
I have burned two 75 inches tvs and two theater lamps about 3-4 Xbox 360s white red ring of death
I have around 15ish controllers or more 😅
4 blacks
7whites
2 reds
1 chrome red black on back
1 modded chrome blue
2-3 black slims
I wasted so much money and shit over games and got glasses
I found out I played games as it was time pass and smhhh I hate to admit it I wasn't really social IRL as everyone just ignored me as I didn't exist just bc I'm Indian and maybe it took me awhile to learn English but oh well
I quit playing games for about 3-4 years and now everyday I just lay on my bed on my phone or just stare at the ceiling
I'm 14 atm and still have no friends IRL 😂☠️☠️☠️ and ah I really don't care being alone is easier as u don't got to listen to anyone bullshit and u can do whatever u want to
As a kid in high school I took a public speaking class because I was absolutely terrified of it and wanted to get better. The teacher would essentially give us topics to talk about for a certain amount of time and we would give the talk in front of the class the next day. The thing is, the teacher never said we couldn't lie. So while the other kids were "ummming, uuuuuhhhhhing and liking" is was telling bad ass stories of hunting giant man eating spiders in Africa and how I was Spring Heeled Jack." I soon came to realize that public speaking isn't about conveying information as much as it is about conveying something with confidence. I am much better at "believing myself" when I lie on the spot than trying to remember facts I wrote down on index cards.
TL;DR I aced a public speaking class because there was no rule against lying.
One night I went back into the office to get some more work done. A colleague was buying Dell computers online and told me he got a code from a friend for $100 off but was actually giving 100% off!!!
He said wanna try? Have it and gave me a coupon code. I was skeptic but went ahead and ordered 8 fully loaded workstations with as much RAM, CPUs, and hardware, software and services that I could stuff into them 10 years ago. $28,000 - 100% off = $0.
Next day Dell calls my colleague, his friend and myself stating they made a mistake and the orders would all be cancelled. I received a cancellation for 7 computers. I called them and said I never got a cancellation for the eighth one. They said don't worry... you will.
A couple days later I get a call from another department at Dell stating my computer was built and would be shipped soon. I said no they are canceling it. They said.... hum, I'm not so sure, I think you're getting a computer.
Sure enough, I got an amazing computer with lots of memory, CPUs, white glove service, extended warranty, 5.1 surround sound speakers, All-in-wonder TV card, remote control, extra USB ports, two hard drives, CD-burner, windows media center edition, etc, etc, etc...
Around 2013, there was this website online where if you made a new account, you would get a $5 amazon gift card. So I bought 500 bulk order of email addresses and signed up a bunch of times.
Ended up getting about $1800 in amazon gift cards.
It was a website to teach teens to bank. I can't remember the name of it anymore but everytime you made an account, they gave you a $5 amazon gift card for free, no questions asked. So I kept making accounts. You only needed an email address so I had to buy some bulk ones to sign up. They stopped taking temporary email addresses like guerilla mail half way through.
The Cup OF Pork tRick. I would go to a BBQ place that had all you can eat pork. I'd ask for a To go cup, and stuff it full of pork. Drink from another cup. Leave with a cup full of sliced pork.
Yeah but you get a lot more than if you just ate what you could while you were there. If you don't like the idea of a cup, just get pants with cargo pockets and line the pockets with a plastic bag. That is called the Pocket of Pork trick.
This sounds like a perfect Sunny in Philadelphia episode
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 02:21:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:34:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Didn't realize Hungry Howies still existed - that was the cheap go-to for elementary school pizza parties. Last one near here closed by middle school.
Svarf · 12 points · Posted at 02:33:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the Campaign of the Game Dawn of War: Dark Crusade as Necrons you can kill a member of your Honor Guard units, replenish the unit and then let your Necronlord resurrect the fallen member. It becomes a whole new Unit without affecting the Unit cap, as it still is seen as a Honor Guard. Repeat to your liking and swarm the map with endless unkillable Terminators!
Doing this I got infinite Necron Warriors/ Immortals, and used my tomb spiders (in Titanium wars if not in vanilla), to eat the fallen Necron Warriors to get more of every other unit, and lagged the fuck out of my game, because I had 10 times the unit cap...
Arrow222 · 12 points · Posted at 04:21:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Facebook advertising, you are allowed to set a goal for your campaigns. Out of the choices "optimise for conversions" and "optimise for website clicks" worked the best for my online shop. Costed me $6-$12 to acquire a customer.
I found a loophole that allows me to optimise for both these objectives at the same time. My customer acquisition cost decreased 10x. In turn it allowed me to target 10s of millions rather than my usual 500k audience. Sales increased 5x during the few months of exploiting it. Life was good.
When I was about 12, in the early 80's I used to hang out at the arcade with my friends. I would spend my $2 allowance there in about 30 min. $2 was a lot of money back then and after it was spent I always felt sad and remorse.
Anyway, this particular arcade for some reason was carpeted. One day I walked up to a machine to drop a quarter in and as I was about to put my money in, I got a shock from the machine. I looked up and I had 3 credits on the machine, and I didn't even drop my quarter.
I realized that if I dragged my feet around the carpet I would generate enough static and when I touched the metal part of the machine where the quarter went, it would give me free credits. Sometimes 1 and sometimes up to 5 at a time.
It worked on about half the machines there. I never told anyone and as a 12 year old I walked around like I fucking owned the place. What a great summer.
Around 5 years ago I used to work as a Sales Rep at a cell phone booth. Every new smartphone that would be released, the wireless provider would usually send us a demo unit of that phone with a demo line. The demo line would have unlimited talk, text, and data but would deactivate after 2-3 months. This was so we could show customers how the phone works with all of its features.
One time we got a demo line that didn't expire after the 2-3 months. So my manager at the time told me to use it as my work line. I didn't want to carry two cell phones so I cancelled my personal line and used my work line as my personal too. Fast forward one year later, my manager is transferred to another store and we get a new manager. New manager has no idea about my work/personal line. I left the company 6 months later with my demo line and to this day I still use this demo line. Have not had a cell phone bill for over 5 years and counting.
TL;DR - Got a cell phone line that I have been using for free for over 5 years.
...I think that's the opposite of a loophole. That's understanding and acting upon something explicitly stated in a legal contract.
Good on you either way.
Arg3nt · 2 points · Posted at 06:21:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Unless he hadn't actually worked 25 hours to that point. I mean, depending on the job, they might not necessarily keep track. That's the only way I can see that it's a loophole, and even then, it's more just straight up lying than a true loophole.
you people read contracts? wow thats adulting done right. actually my manager is a moron and a bit of a pushover so he totally bought it. Im not guilty either because I worked for a widely known restaurant chain who made billions and paid me piss all
UtMed · 75 points · Posted at 22:37:30 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
Holy Fuck this liberating. When my work calls me up wanting me to work crazy hours and stupid overtime and I just tell them "nope! I got plans" (to sit at home and do nothing)
My buddy gets called for over time pretty frequently but every time he just said he's been drinking. They can't legally allow him to be on site if he has been drinking.
Sometimes they call at early in the morning and he uses the same line, I bet someone at his job worries about him.
ReiNGE · 6 points · Posted at 02:40:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a kid: there was a snapple machine that gave 3 cans of kiwi strawberry for 85 cents at my school for a little while. i only told a couple of people.
As an adult: Kodi and addons for amazon firestick.
Local arcade chain (of sorts) introduced this thing where you pay a set amount of money for (a card to play) unlimited games for an hour. Anyways, my friends and I found out that you could swipe the card once every minute (pretty much the only restriction on the unlimited games thing) to stock up on lots of in-game credits (to resume play should you die in-game)...
We found out about that exploit way too late though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
One of my teachers would assign homework via internet but wouldnt actually check the work just check to see if you submitted. So me being me I submitted blank papers under whatever the assignment name was.
I felt kinda bad because some people got detentions for not submitting but then i remembered they were cunts
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 04:41:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the 90's I had a decent paying job and good credit. One of my credit card companies kept on sending me credit card application even though i had a credit card with them with a $10,000 credit limit.
One day, I decided to fill out the form and applied for another credit card. So they sent me a credit card with about a $4,000 limit. I then called them up and asked to combine the accounts and the credit limit. Now my limit was up to $14,00.
I did this about 10 times and my credit card now had a limit of over $50,000. This was in the late 90's. I was making only about $60,000 annually.
In high school I got an A in a class I didn't attend. The grade was based on attendance, but I said I was dropping the class so they never marked me absent. Apparently I had perfect attendance.
linuxwes · 11 points · Posted at 04:49:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a Jeep Cherokee that had some engine problem that would have cost more than it was worth to fix. I discovered that the state of California would give you $1000 for a car that was a gross polluter, the only requirements was you could prove to the local junk yard that it failed smog and that it would drive for a block. It was barely running, so failing smog was easy, and I got $1000 bucks for it. Managed to also set my girlfriend up with the same deal on an old car she wrecked and totaled, and later another friend. All cars that were headed for the junk yard anyway, and were in no way worth $1k. Last I checked though that sweet deal had been discontinued.
I never actually did this but when Chevy was running their test drive for a month and bring it back no questions asked you could get a Volt. You could then return the Volt but still take the $7500 alternative fuel vehicle tax credit because you only had to show proof of purchase, not a length of time you owned it.
fco83 · 6 points · Posted at 05:36:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Are you sure you could actually do this?
Seems like what they would do for that would be a 1 month free lease.
My business teacher(B.T) told us a story about something like this once. He was a fresh university graduate and worked for some summer job at a company. After the summer, he was offered a job as the supervisor (forgot which position exactly. something like a supervisor) of the same summer program for the next year. Apparently it was a new position that they implemented.
Summertime came around and the company wasn't doing so well, so they canceled the program. But since it was a new position, somebody screwed up and my teacher went to work without finding out. The receptionist showed him to his office and left, saying that she'd be right back. He didn't know what he was supposed to be doing as nobody explained it to him, so he just sat there. Day ended, and he went home. He went back to work the next day, just sitting there waiting for instructions. Everybody he asked didn't know what he was supposed to do. So he just sat there for the next few days.
Eventually, it got to the point where he would just go buy a cup of coffee and leave it on his desk, put his blazer of his chair and leave to go home, so that everybody who walked by would just think he went to get or do something.
After the first week, he got an email saying something like "Approve B.T's paycheque for the week". B.T clicked approve. Then pops up "Rate B.T's work". He clicked "Exemplary". Then comes an email notifying him about his paycheque coming in and his "exemplary" work. Apparently, he became his own supervisor. He just sat around playing video games on his computer or getting online certifications or ditching work altogether for the rest of the summer. There's more to this, but it's already long enough.
deecaf · 1 points · Posted at 11:12:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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jmac8122 · 10 points · Posted at 02:59:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
GameStop used to give almost $30 trade in credit for Xbox 360 adapters. Those things could be bought for $10 a piece in bulk. My buddies and I probably made hundreds of dollars in credit before they lowered the credit. And don't get me started on those 50% bonus trade in weekends. Also, I used the credit to buy Amazon and eBay cards usually, so I wasn't just stuck with game credit
Daracaex · 11 points · Posted at 04:05:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was on a meal plan at my university. I decided I wanted to cook much of the time and only do quick lunches at the dining commons, so got the version where I only paid for X number of swipes to enter the dining commons instead of the "unlimited Monday through Friday" or similar ones. Turns out, they were doing something wrong and didn't process the swipes right about 75% of the time and my count wouldn't go down. So the next semester, I got the cheapest, minimum number of swipes plan and it lasted me the entire semester.
There was a couple months when Starbucks was promoting their app and would give all new users a $5 credit, but wouldn't need to verify the email before you got the credit. To make it even easier, you could send the money to other accounts via a digital gift card. My friend figured this out and we spent a month getting free Starbucks everyday. Eventually they figured it out and shut down our accounts, but the $100 of free drinks each was well worth it.
Not me, but someone I know. National Australia Bank, one of the large banks in Australia, had a special offer where you'd gain bonus frequent flyer points for every transaction made on one of their credit cards. This guy made 7000 $0.01 transactions, earning enough points for two business class round the world flights in addition to many many domestic flights, for just $70.
They discontinued the offer but did let him keep some of the points.
tssop · 10 points · Posted at 05:48:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Late to the party. But when I was in college, the bookstore was closing and going to a separate company.
They had a bunch of textbooks that, I assume, the distributor wouldn't take back or something. I walked by one day and saw a table in the middle with a sign saying the remaining books were being sold for $0.05 each. I confirmed the price with the clerk.
I gave this a few minutes of thought, and then proceeded to purchase pretty much every book on the table. Sometimes 20 new copies of the same book. Few of them were amazingly popular textbooks. I spent about $5.
For the last 3 or so years, I've been selling them on Amazon. The highest one sold for $60, and most of them are around $15 after fees and shipping. I've made at least $1k on this so far. Don't even think I've sold half of them.
apeliott · 106 points · Posted at 23:34:14 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I realised that uploading pirated games is illegal but downloading them isn't.
I spent months downloading tens of thousands of games for all sorts of systems. PC, Playstation, PSP, DS, SNES, Gameboy, GBA, arcade roms etc.
For about 3 months I downloaded around 80 Xbox games and burned them to disk.
Downloading a game you don't own is still piracy, but enforcement is much looser. Publishers focus on prosecuting the people distributing pirated games because there's typically less of them and in theory shutting them down would also stop the people who are just downloading the games.
Depends on the county, in Canada for a long time it was just a legal gray area in which was not illegal as long as it was not a torrent due to seeding. It was changed a year or 2 ago so that it is technically copy infringement with the risk of a small fine.
I am certain it isn't true at all based on copyright law.
eeedlef · 1 points · Posted at 04:51:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you download a car!?
Nymall · 0 points · Posted at 01:40:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's not true. By possesing the iso and not having a physical copy, you are voiding the EULA. TECHNICALLY just having the ISO isn't illegal - it becomes illegal the moment you install it however(or run for the first time).
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 04:02:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No. I used sites that were download only. Slower than torrents, but safer. And legal.
ipad_kid · -1 points · Posted at 02:05:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
DCMA overturned this about four years ago
crimeo · 33 points · Posted at 04:58:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
TIL 50-75% or so of people don't know the difference between the terms "loophole" and "fraud." To be a loophole, you have to be playing within the rules, but the rules are made poorly to let you gain a lot. If instead you are lying or cheating and simply not getting caught because the rules didn't allow for easy oversight, that's not a loophole, that's just a safe crime of convenience.
Lmao who say he hell cares if it's fraud one people can donate shit to the poor that government is not doing and two we pay extra money for shit then their regular price is lol more money again to spend on the poor and needing
Who would even bother to pay taxes for the government in USA or really anything country as all of them use their money for shit things
crimeo · 0 points · Posted at 08:19:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A couple summers back there was a gas station next to the pawn shop I worked at that had a pump that wouldn't shut off if you spent more than 17 dollars. Go inside, ask for 17 on the pump, fill up the truck I had that usually cost me about 90 bucks. Worked for about 5 months until they caught on.
I honestly have no idea what the program was but around Killeen, TX about 2 years ago you could sign up for this program where you peed in a cup and then they would give you a 20$ walmart gift card.
It was pretty much based on the honor system as you could only use it once a week. No one took IDs or anything and there was 3 different locations around the city. I hit every location every week. I hate walmart but I effectively did all of my grocery shopping for free for a year using only my pee.
aKingS · 1 points · Posted at 08:03:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was this toll exit that would for some odd reason release the quarters after throwing them in them.
I noticed one time when I went late at night and heard a lot of change jingle when my quarter came out.
I reached out and found like $5 worth of change.
I repeated this every night. I'd just drive there and get the quarters.
I think I was caught one time by the lady because like within a week some mechanical people were there working on the toll. And the next time I went that area was apparently being changed to an EZ Tag only. Bwhahahahaaa!!
It was fun. I don't do bad things so I felt taboo.
aKingS · 1 points · Posted at 07:56:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A major retailer defaults to a price of $1 for items they forget to price. They started carrying my favorite craft beer and someone forgot to price it. So it rang up $1. They put it in a weird spot, not where it should have been, and only got four six packs a month, so I must have been the only one buying it because no one else ever appeared to find it.
I bought it every week for three years before someone finally corrected it.
Brod24 · 10 points · Posted at 03:54:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Years ago i was on vacation with my family at some beach hotel. Beach hotel had a small convenience store. Store sold fruitopia for $1. Fruitopia had a coupon for $1 off your next fruitopia.
So i bought 1 fruitopia and went later with the coupon expecting them not to take it or give me 50% off. Nope, free fruitopia that came with another coupon.
I gave my coupon to my sister. She gave her coupon to some random new friend we made and so on. We ended up with 20 or so free drinks before they shut us down.
Found a basketball machine at Dave and Busters that hit jackpot every game when you made a basket - 500 tickets per game. Did some Christmas shopping that day.
There was one other machine a few down from me doing the same thing, and this kid would play it for a while then leave and go "buy" a video game. Had a bag with like 7 games in it.
I don't recieve a parking stipend and work in the city. As it is a part time job, I really can't afford parking.
I found out that the parking garage across the street only has one attendant and no cameras. He leaves at 1, so that's what I chose as my start time for work. Getting to the point, I found free parking.
Back when there was Blockbuster video, they had some sort of video game competition where if you won you could go on to regional and then national championships. One of the games was Clay Fighter for Super Nintendo. I figured out that Taffy could do an infinite combo by just pressing jab over and over, so I just cheesed everybody with that to make it to Regionals. Then I lost :(
After working at a mall, I learned that asking for a "Mall Discount" is hilariously easy no matter what mall you are at. I would often pick one of the bigger stores in the mall and say I was a "stock worker" or whatever to match my shitty pajama-wrapped appearance for the day. So far I have gotten a mall discount at no less than 4 malls in my area.
Ask for it, and if they don't give it to you, sound disappointed. They often find a way.
JasXD · 9 points · Posted at 05:02:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm gonna post this because today is the last day I need to use it.
Every Monday I have to take a train to work. Takes a little over two hours. I have to change trains and lines once, which means buying a second ticket. Round trip, it costs approx 25 dollars.
So I buy my first ticket for a dollar to the next station on the line but instead of getting off there, I ride the train all the way down to where I need to go. I then transfer over to the other line and buy my ticket in cash. When I finish work, I get back on the train and pay cash again. I transfer back to the other train and take that son of a bitch to exactly one station before mine and get off on the $1 ticket. My commute now costs about 5 dollars total. From there I can just casually walk home. Takes an extra 5 minutes.
My company reimburses me the full 25.
Jcapss1 · 9 points · Posted at 05:22:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A bit late, but here's mine:
When I was in college, I worked for the Business College's IT. I was also enrolled in the business college.
Worked there all 4 years and had great relationships with all of the professors because I was always fixing their shit and helping them out, teaching them about 'puters, etc.
Was able to glean a few answers to quizzes and exams with just a quick glance around their desks, or by grabbing the building master key and doing some lengthy updates on their machines when they were out teaching/left for the day.
Also, senior year came along and I didn't turn a single thing in on time, they didn't care at all. Full credit every time, even I knew the quality of my work was bullshit.
Associate Dean even placed me in a job as I graduated.
when i worked in retail there was a website I heard about that would send you free software to try out if you worked at certain stores. The only trick was you had to send in a copy of your pay stub to prove where you worked. I signed up but also photoshopped my pay stub as a fake name and would get a second copy of everything sent to a friends house. I would sell all of mine and sell all of his on eBay and gave him half of what I made for the software getting mailed to his place.
I have two from high school . One was for my Spanish class where my teacher said that if you were to get an A in the final you get an A in the class. Slept all throughout the semester and got 100% on my final. Ended the class with 100% the teacher hates me but I got an A so she can't complain.
Then there was one where my AP English Language teacher would make us use a website for grammar tests so we can add more notation into our essays. I did the ones I knew and the ones I didn't I ended up just looking at the code for the website and managed to obtain the correct answers.
Did something similar in my first year of college. Professor was teaching us the proper way to type on our PC's and gave us a challenge. Whoever could type 45 words per minute would get an automatic A in class but if you didn't you would get an F. I accepted the challenge and typed 46 words. She was pretty pissed.
My school makes us use a similar system that's honestly terrible. It makes you drag elements and lacks a mobile site and is rounded off with annoying as hell noises. I figured out that the word's example sentence could be copied from a word list instead of transcribed by sound. I also optimized my clicks and figured out a process to get through the fucking thing in 10 minutes or less.
We had this quiz website that made us match phrases with whatever we were doing. This was timed and the one with the best time received a 100% in the assignment.
I figured out that you can use keyboard inputs that lined up with their answers while looking at the code. Managed to get the high scores of the school in every subject (even one's I didn't have) for every class in under an hour. While everyone struggled to get under 10 seconds in a subject I managed to get under .5 in every subject.
School thought i was hacking the network and almost got expelled. Told them if the exploit and how to fix it.
Arcade42 · 19 points · Posted at 04:01:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Borderlands two has this thing called a "Badass Rank". Basically you complete challenges that translate to small bonuses or buffs.
Anyway buddy had a glitch that resulted him losing a significant portion of his rank so he emailed gearbox. Gearbox basically gave his profile the coins back along with fifty golden keys (special keys that open special chests for grade A loot). Only there was some kind of error and it gave him his coins and keys about 12 times resulting in a ridiculously high badass rank and all his character getting super buffs and a near infinite supply of keys. It was great for him in that he could dominate our run throughs and we had all the keys we could ever want.
There was a glitch where you could save the golden key count and then copy and paste down text to repeat that value but keep the loot. I don't remember the details but it was hella rad.
Evning · 0 points · Posted at 07:27:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
huh wtf? i just downloaded a trainer. is this not a client side multi player game?
i mostly played alone.
[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 04:37:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My student ID didn't state the year I graduate. So I just continued to use it for student discounts.
My college's ID was good for free rides on the local bus system just by showing the ID to the driver. They've changed this now, but I rode free for like 3 years after graduating.
When I was in high school I bought a purse from a "premium brand" outlet store while on vacation. It was my first big purchase and I was super excited. Fast forward one month later, and my purse was fraying at the handle which was unfortunate considering I thought it would last much longer.
I went to the retail store in town (no outlets near me) to see if they did repairs. They said it would have to be shipped to their facilities to be inspected but I would have to pay $20 to ship it. Having spent about $125 on the purse I balked a having to pay shipping. So the associate ended up waving the fee. Two weeks go by and I get a letter in the mail from the brand explaining they can't fix my purse but here is store credit for what it's worth. If you keep the credit, they would keep the damaged purse.
I received store credit for $500! I returned to the retail store and bought a new purse, shoes and earrings. Unfortunately the purses were always garbage so I would return them every two months and get another store credit. Never paid for shipping because there was a comment on my account that basically said "she causes scenes."
Did it for about a year and a half until I gave up on the brand. Just wasn't worth the hassle.
There was an electronic roulette machine at my local casino, brand new technology when it showed up. After spending 2 days enjoying free sodas and watching it work, I showed up with $20 dollars on the third day and walked out with $20,000.
It consistently fell into patterns, most easily recognizable with red/black. If a pattern repeated three things twice in a row, it would repeat a third time 97.25% of the time, so max betting for 3 bets usually resulted in 3 wins, although never less than 2.
Casino employees were impressed, but after 3 more days of me exploiting this, they were forced to replace the entire system with a real roulette wheel. On top of my winnings, I used my points card to rack up another $2,000 in comps.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 14:35:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nope. Random OLG casino in Ontario, Canada. OLG eventually had to replace their electronic wheels in all their casinos, as I pulled a copycat of this a few cities over, walking away with another $2,500 in money and comps. There was nothing they could do to prevent me from doing this, as I never cheated, so they had to simply change the game.
Electronic roulette, no matter how seemingly random, is never truly random. There will always be patterns, and if you can find them, you can exploit them. Real roulette has patterns as well, but it'd take months to find them, and they wouldn't likely wouldn't be frequent enough to take advantage of, plus there'd be no guarantee like when a computer program falls into a rhythm.
I've always been intrigued with numbers, math, and statistics, and excelled in those subjects in school. I was actively looking to see if it was possible to exploit, as no technology can ever be truly random.
Now, I didn't get to write anything down, I could have been kicked out of the casino had I done that. I simply sat back and made some "safe" bets while I studied, typically $1 on both red and black. I maybe lost $10 over the 2 days of studying the wheel due to green hits, but with all the soda I got free I considered that to even out.
Once I saw the pattern was consistent though, I struck. Building up my bankroll from $20 was a challenge, but I didn't have much disposable income either, so I could afford to lose it. But once I got rolling, it was impossible to stop me. When you win 9/10 bets you make at the max the table allows (my table was $100 on the outside), you still walk away with 9 times the initial amount bet.
Now, I would love to actively try to break two different casino games, roulette and craps. They're very much luck dependent, but also only pseudo-random, unlike slot machines which can be rigged against the player heavily. But these games have existed for a long, long time, I highly doubt that the base game could be broken, but online/electronic versions are a different story. You just need to know what to look for, and have a way to study the outcome for little or no actual cost. Because nothing would suck more than blowing a few thousand dollars in an attempt to find a pattern that might not exist.
_J_G_M_ · 15 points · Posted at 03:51:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My friend worked at a waste recycling place and sometimes see's cool stuff come down the picking line that he takes. This one particular day down comes a huge roll full of the McDonalds Monopoly stickers.
In the engineering building at my uni there was a vending machine that had this promotion going. The promo was something along the lines of 'create an account with us and get a free drink'. However, the registration didnt require anything but an email address. It didnt even have to be your student email. At this point you can probably see what happened. We created a shitload of fake accounts and cleared out the whole machine in a few hours, for free. This went on for about a week before they realised what they'd done and cancelled the promo. Good times
I used to live in a house on the corner of Pape Crescent and George Street. The driveway and front door were on Pape, but the address was 3055 George.
I would rotate through all of the pizza, Chinese, and other delivery food places that offered the food free if the delivery took too long.
I can't even count the number of times I got free food because the drivers couldn't find the house. Sometimes I would sit out front and watch them drive around.
I've since moved, but I told the new home owners. Ran into them not long ago, they're still doing the same thing.
At my summer camp when I was like 10 there was a new vending machine put in, and one day someone found out that if you put a $5 bill in, it would not only dispense your soda AND spit the 5 back out, it'd also give you $1 in change; basically paying you a dollar to have a soda. It lasted about a month and then they either replaced it or fixed it. It was a sad day when I had to pay for my vanilla coke again.
KNHaw · 8 points · Posted at 04:00:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This one had mixed results...
In the 1970's, there was an ice cream parlor in California named Farrell's (since gone bankrupt and then recently resurrected). You could get a free sundae on your birthday month if you filled out a card. Many kids at my school filled out 12 of them for a free one every month, but my Mom caught me filling out the cards and so I wasn't able to exploit it.
Fast forward to the mid-1980's when we all turned 18 and had to register for Selective Service - the US military draft agency. Little did we know that in order to crack down on people who didn't register, the government bought every mailing list they could find that included a date of birth: driver's license, the Playboy subscription list, and, yes, the Farrell's list. Queue many young men receiving one "Thank you for registering" post card and eleven "You are in violation of Federal Law" letters.
I still wish I'd gotten those free sundaes. It would've been worth it.
When Pepsi first did their free song with iTunes promotion about 12 years ago, you could tilt the bottle and look at the bottom of the cap just enough to see if you had a winner. I won a free song with my lunch just about every day for months.
I challenged classes in college. $50 to take the test vs $2500/class. I go to take the test and they leave me unattended in a room with a computer with internet access and never came to check on me. I challenged every class they would let me. Saved 10's of thousands of dollars and many semesters of my life.
I was in 7th grade and attending a paper airplane contest between a number of area middle schools. We had to stand at one side of a basketball court and throw our planes. Most made in about half way, a few planes made it further. The rules were simple, you could use a sheet of paper, tape and paperclips. My entry was a wad of a few hundred paperclips wrapped and paper and taped to form a ball. I easily threw the paper airplane ball to the other side of the gym. I unfortunately did not win, as they quickly decided it was "not in the spirit of the competition".
I was given a 'temporary' discount code on Reebok.com for a free TShirt for completing the CrossFit Level 1 course. The code was never removed and I got about 15 Tshirts for free before they finally caught it.
In the first Fable, some bosses (iirc) would give you trophies.
I found the trophy that was worth the most amount of gold. I'd buy a house, place that tophy in that house, which would raise the value of the house by the value of the trophy, and then I'd sell the house.
Then, I'd break into the house, steal the trophy, and now the value of the house is x gold less, where x is the value of the trophy.
Then I'd re-buy the house for the new lower price, place the trophy in it, re-sell it, and repeat.
:|
daveosf · 9 points · Posted at 05:08:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I went to get my learners permit, the DMV accidentally inputted my birth year as 1981 instead of 1982. So I was given a state issued fake ID. Could go to bars and buy booze at 20. Also didn't need to worry about the stupid junior operators laws for minors since when I turned 17, my ID said I was 18.
Corrected it when I was 24, thought it was going to be this huge deal or that perhaps I'd be in some sort of trouble but they didn't even blink an eye.
My undergraduate degree program was supposed to consist of 120 credits. However, I found out that things in my minor double counted as electives. Additionally, my major requirements were all written as "take 3-12 credits" of this.
I graduated a year early with only a handful of classes in my major and started grad school early. Then I joined the curriculum committee as the Masters member, and when I pointed out the loophole they said nobody else would figure it out. For $250, I would help any undergrad that wanted to to graduate early too.
n122333 · 8 points · Posted at 05:14:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a manufacturer coupon for $1 off a box of hamburger helper, and Kroger $1 off two boxes of hamburger helper. A single box cost $1.25. I bought 2, with two single coupons and a two coupon, costing $-.50
(1.25*2-3= $-.50)
The cashieer was really confused for a while before giving me my $.50 that I used to pulltab loto ticket, and won another dollar.
I ended up with two boxes of hamburger helper and $1.
It didn't actually happen, but almost did before a manager with half a brain saw what was happening
Out with friends at a small bar chain in town for beer and wings. Have a $50 gift card. Bar has some sort of promo like buy $50 gift card get $10 bonus gift card. When the server comes over as a joke I ask "can I buy a gift card using my gift card?" To which she replied with "I don't see why not".
After speaking with her for a few minutes I had almost convinced her into letting me purchases dozens of gift cards in a snowball type formation just acquiring those freebie $10 ones until her manager walked by and realized that she was not a smart girl and said no way not happening
I used to work tech support for hotel internet as a Tier 2 agent. Would maybe take 10-15 calls in an 8hr shift, making $12 an hour. I was promoted to working the command post (scheduling lunches, watching the queue, etc), which also bumped my pay to $14 and hour. I rarely had to take calls, but when I did, I used my supervisor phone login so I was on lowest priority. This meant that if I was in the queue, I would only take a call if nobody else was available to and if the call was sitting unanswered for 2min.
After a couple months I took myself off command post (scheduling issues) and went back to Tier 2 tech support. On my first day back as tech, I tried logging into my phone but it wasn't working. Spoke to IT and they said that my old login was being used by someone else, so just use my supervisor phone login for the time being.
Here's the thing, when I logged into my phone as supervisor, I was being paid at a command post rate ($14/hr) even though I was doing tech. Also, since I was low priority that meant I never took calls. I would go weeks without taking a call. I started working from home doing overnight support. I would set my phone ringer on high, login, and go to bed. I never woke up to a call. Took them 9 months to fix this 'issue'.
sfsdfd · 7 points · Posted at 06:21:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Way back in 1999, the dotcom bubble was in full swing. New etailers were popping up like crazy, all hopped up on infusions of crazy amounts of investor cash, and desperate to drive traffic by any means necessary - often including instant rebates.
One of those companies was vitamins.com, which offered an instant rebate for $10 off any order of $10.01 or more. Plus free shipping. And no sales tax. And no limits on uses.
This occurred during a point in my life when I had a lot of free time, so I decided to see just how much I could utilize this nonsensical set of conditions. If vitamins.com only sold vitamins, I wouldn't have even bothered - but it also sold some other things I might actually use, like fancy toothpaste, and sandalwood soap, and all-natural dog chews, and scented candles. And if you picked just the right combination, your basket came out to something like: $10.05, or $10.12, or $10.38.
So I decided to amuse myself by placing these orders... over and over again. I must've placed about 50 orders with combinations of stuff clocking in between $10.01 and $10.50. I mostly did it because I was bored and wanted to see what kind of message they would send me while canceling my orders.
Only... they didn't cancel my orders.
Instead, over the next week, I received about 50 boxes of stuff from vitamins.com. They dutifully shipped me about $500 worth of stuff... for about $20 charged to my credit card. And they covered all of the shipping.
My dog and I used that stuff as basic necessities for about three years. Fancy toothpaste and sandalwood soap by the boxload - I think it even made it through two apartment moves.
And a few years later, when I started running out of fancy toothpaste and sandalwood soap, I decided to do the righteous thing and reorder from vitamins.com. But I couldn't... because vitamins.com had gone out of business back in 2000. Something about an unsustainable business model and not meeting its profit margins.
I did this a few times. I'm a bit of a sneaker collector. I found out I could buy a shoe at an outlet mall for anywhere from 30 to 70 or even 80 percent off, then take the shoes I bought and return them at a regular store without a receipt and get store credit. This was in the middle 2000's and at the time they never asked me to sign anything other than the receipt. I probably spent 1000 dollars at the outlet stores and got back 8000 or so in store credit at retail stores it worked for me because I was going to buy shoes anyway so I was able to get alot of my shoes discounted because of that loophole.
I have two. Both were during high school. One, I realized that one of the vending machines at school could be gamed by inserting a dollar, ordering a soda, but then holding the vending flap closed when the machine attempted to dispense the goods. This 'tricked' the machine into thinking the slot was out of inventory and refunding the dollar. Then, simply re-insert the dollar and order another item. Two for the price of one! They fixed the machine about a month later after telling some other kids how to do it.
The second, I was a part of this webpage-based rpg game. You could buy power ups with with paypal. Thing was, the paypal buttons' embed source included the payment amount at the time in addition to the item code. So one could simply edit the page source in their browser to make the item cost 0.01$ and get the power ups for virtually free. This technique also worked on the prank dial website for basically unlimited calls.
In retrospect, I realized that both of these things were juvenile and unethical...
Askarus · 23 points · Posted at 04:55:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a teenager, this guy at the 7-11 would give you free cigarettes if you showed him your ass. Looking back, I guess that was kinda fucked up.
The fact that https:// can get you past the basic firewalls. I actually was considered a hacker by the staff at my high school threefold because of that trick. Then came the day they upgraded the firewall against YouTube...needless to say, I wasn't able to watch much YouTube during Spring Semester of my senior year.
Just download a VPN extension. There are free ones that work just fine. That's what got me called a hacker at my school....
that and making the chrome icon on people's (windows) laptops link to a batch file that just opens itself twice and then quits, basically crashing the computer.
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 05:02:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got two internal suspensions (one level below expulsion) for 'hacking'. If it wasn't for one of my IT professional parents yelling at the principal for hiring such incompetent workers, I probably would have been kicked out.
First time was using tor to get around their dopey firewall and the second was that I wanted some extra shortcuts on my desktop. For some reason group policy didn't allow that, so I mapped a network drive a few levels higher than where my files were stored (shouldn't have been able to do that) and made a shortcut in what I thought was my profile folder.
Nek minit, my login stops working and I get hauled off to the office because apparently the shortcut replicated to everyone's profile. So everyone in the school got a Google and School Email shortcut on their desktop.
I didn't mess with other people's files (intentionally), change tests or hack the pentagon but apparently that was enough to warrant an expulsion.
Edit: Grammars
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:39:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have very basic computer literacy, need help PLZ
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 03:52:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We just use VPN's these days. Barracuda was a waste of money.
Boxfigs · 6 points · Posted at 03:50:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My high school had YouTube blocked at one point and the video production class I was in used the same trick to get around it. Some of us used it for projects, which might have been part of the reason why it was eventually unblocked.
Yeah, it sucks. Used to be able to get onto Netflix and Facebook with that, too. Then they stopped that. Then they blocked the KProxy Chrome Extension. Youtube is coming soon. I can feel it.
I used to run a proxy from my home computer when I was in high school. Since it was a home line, my IP address would change every day usually. I would print off the new address, and charge $1 for the new address every day. I made some serious cash so that people could get on xanga in the school computer labs.
Depending on the time, using TLS 1.2/1.3 (which came out within the last year or two) can hide the URL of the website you're visiting. Only extremely advanced firewalls that would intercept the SSL certificate could block those sites.
He found a raffle competition (weirdly enough) for a Vespa motorcycle if he bought some kiwi fruit at the supermarket.
All the raffle tickets were just left there, on the kiwi fruit. So my mate bought a kiwi fruit and grabbed the tickets and entered all of them. Long story short, he got a free Vespa.
Not sure what happened, the competition clearly it wasn't vetted. Regardless - free bike!
Back in Neopets, they came out with the obelisk shrine that could be visited once a day for a random prize. I realized that after you reached the webpage which told you what you got, you could refresh it as many times as you liked and still get to keep each prize from every single page refresh. This allowed me to accumulate a ton of items easily and in a short period of time.
And that is how I became rich in Neopets.
SmurfyX · 5 points · Posted at 08:07:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
hoo boy. back before galleries were a thing, people would list items at an unbuyable price in their shops. You remember that? Someone messed up typing their price for a hypno helmet (i think called h4000 helmet now). Got it for 9,999 np.
One day in English I discovered my teacher just copy and pasted the test questions from Quizlet for every single test we had. Needless to say I had very good grades that year
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 04:47:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I lived in Chicago with my ex, we would go to bulls games here and there. They were running a promotion where you get a free Big Mac the day after if the bulls score over 100 and won the game. I used to get my coupon, plus my ex,who didn't eat beef, and I would jus pick up any coupons I saw floating around on the way out. I'd hit McDonald's all week just looking for someone older or who may not have watched the game. They just take the coupon and hand u a Big Mac
There was a pay phone at my high school. (Yes I'm that old. It was before cell phones). I have NO idea how I figured this out but the wires running to it were exposed. If you scraped 2 of them together you could "hotwire" the phone to make free calls. Local or long distance. I made SO many calls from that phone. I could never get that trick to work anywhere else. :(
nijpep · 14 points · Posted at 04:56:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't know if loophole or plain fraud, but it's a good story nonetheless. At my high school in the Netherlands there was a rolling cafeteria (they called it a soup cart) in the general schoolroom during breaks. There were always two people selling soup, candy, snacks, thinks like that. The biggest and most expensive item was a sausage roll. Costing 5 boxes (read on!) or 1,25 guilders.
You could only pay with a soup-cart-card. A paper card the size of a Creditcard with 10 or 20 boxes on the side. The people behind the cart punched holes in the boxes to make them invalid. I believe a card with 10 boxes used to cost 2,50 (guilders, it was in the pre-euro days) and a card with 20 boxes was 5. Serious money for a 13 year old. You could only buy them from the janitor, and the water-tight anti-fraud (oh so yeah, no loophole but fraud) mechanic was a janitors stamp at the back of each card.
I was one of those extra curricular kids who often stayed after school and was in almost every thinkable club possible. I just happened to like those things more than attending actual class. One of the perks of those things was that you often had to pick up a key for this or that at the janitors office. Most of the time he was there, but often he wasn't.
One day I picked up a key in an empty office and saw a piece of paper with 8 x 20-box soup cart-cards on it. Ready to be copied and cut. I took my chance and quickly placed it under the copier and put the copy in my back pocket. On my way home I bought coloured paper (that's where the original cards were printed on), went to the local copy shop and made 20 copies. I now had a potential 20x8=160 cards worth 5 guilders each. That's 800 guilders and I was only 13. The only thing left was to stamp the cards and cut them into smaller cards.
Next week I took a couple of sheets with me, talked myself into picking up a key, found the stamp and, sweating from fear, stamped the backside of the sheets. At home I took a scissor and super precisely cut the sheets into cards. The next day to school I took 1 card with me, bought 4 sausage rolls for me and a couple of friends and they took it! I was a rich man!
Next week I stamped the remainder of the cards. I kept a bunch, sold most of them for half the price and gave the rest of 'em away to friends. I can't remember if I ever made another batch, I don't think so because I was too afraid of going through it again but it was a huge thrill!
TL;DR I minted my own food-coupons at high school.
uber eats where given out free delivery up to £25. Plus £10 if someone used your promo code.
If you got a £1 sim(or already had one). you could send the referrals to each phone giving you £10 off each meal unlimted times. plus the original £25 promo code. so buy food from one place, dessert from another. this went on for about 2/3 weeks
Haven't actually done this, wonder if it would work. In MTG, you can trade in 1 card in each set online for 1 card in paper. The thing is online prices are cheaper. By quite a significant margin. You could do this, sell the set you got, buy another one, rinse and repeat and get more money/cards every time. Not sure if I'm missing something though.
I've thought the same things! Turns out Wizards of the Coast has a $25.00 redemption fee and you pay for shipping. In all sets but one this results in breaking even (if you're able to sell all the commons and uncommons for value). The one set that actually results in you making money is fate reforged! Ugin is a badass and makes up for it with the other rares.
i ahve a quite a few friends in the MTG community let me hit them up for you and see what they say, as they are Judges and they like for tournaments so they know the rules inside and out
I haven't run the math but i'm pretty confident you'd be losing money. I hope to be corrected by someone who had MTGO buy their house or whatever, but commence speculation:
Sure, the market on MTGO is pretty frictionless and large enough that you can get the set together reasonably easily, but the issues arise from selling paper cards, which will most likely be to physcial shops. There generally aren't more than a dozen or two cards in a set that shops will pay money to purchase specifically, rather than in lots of bulk commons and bulk uncommons.
You'd need to MTGO to be cheaper than paper by a wide enough margin to be able to eat the cost of ~200 odd specific commons, uncommons, and junk rares, as well as the margins that the LGS makes between buying and selling cards.
Ultimately, though, the main reason I'm skeptical about this being viable is the pretty-well-classical market that is MTG coupled with the kind of motivated, pedantic nerd so common in the hobby. With so responsive a market I would expect that if there were money to be made, someone would already be making it and in doing so narrowing the margins to be made.
Robocalls hang up after 4 rings or 20 seconds of silence. Actually, so do many live script-callers. They rarely require any interaction.
Mike2830 · 43 points · Posted at 01:08:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cool story. The rapper Akon realized that if you had the keys to a stolen car it was considered joy riding. He then paid valets to give him the keys to expensive cars and steal them. He cleaned the money he made through a music studio. Everyone recorded there for free. When he got locked up, he wrote a bunch of music. Then when he was released, he called everyone he recorded for free and asked they do songs with him. This is how he blew up.
buell500 · 11 points · Posted at 04:00:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
He also bought a diamond mine in Africa like 10 years ago.
Way back when, the local Toys R Us had sealed booster boxes of Magic cards. Just for fun, I had the cashier scan the box. Price of a single pack. They got cleaned out right then and there. 6 boxes.
Pmead47 · 11 points · Posted at 04:44:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In high school people started telling me I sounded like my dad. I began calling the attendance lady as my dad and saying that I was sick. I didn't go to class much my senior year.
My Physics II class had weekly online homework. Anything not handed in on time was docked 10% per day. The teacher posted the solutions the day after homework day every week. Guess who had a 90% homework average
So this might be frowned upon but who cares. I bought a laptop at the Exchange and bought the insurance on it. Now since I am not currently in the States they do not require items to be shipped back so about 3 months later I called the insurance company, told them it crashed, and a week later I had a check for the full amount. I feel bad but hell already had a spot for me long ago.
crankery · 22 points · Posted at 05:01:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is when I was a dumb religious teen and it can be considered a loophole. I was taught that it's a sin to merely have impure thoughts about girls, so I watched hentai. The girls don't really exist.
SmurfyX · 2 points · Posted at 07:29:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
lol this is the same reason that dude invented bubbling images.
tybo171 · 17 points · Posted at 04:23:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lil caesars has hot 'n ready pizza right? So they have to make pizzas all the time to make sure there's ones for when people come in. So sometimes pizzas sit and get old so they don't get sold cuz who wants a pizza that was in the warmer for a half hour when a fresh one just came out? So when the one by my college apartment closes at night we hit them up for leftover pizza. Sometimes it's a little old from being in the warmer but hey it's free and what else can you ask for in college?
Friends went the night of the super bowl and got 31 free pizzas. Check your local lil caesars and they might give you some free pizza!
Lovehat · 3 points · Posted at 05:52:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pizza is well known for being just as good, if not better later.
Traveler's Checks: Several decades ago I was travelling overseas and needed to show some countries proof of financial support. Before leaving I purchased a sum of travelers checks from the bank, ensuring I carried out cordial small talk with the teller so they would remember be. A short while after leaving the bank I'd return to the same teller telling them I had forgotten to take my checks with me. "No sir, you took them with you". Oh crap, I've been pickpocketed (or whatever), what do I do? Present the receipts and get replacement checks. Now with two sets I'd mark the first (cancelled) set so I would never accidentally spend them - they were always available to present to immigration etc to prove my financial soundness. End of the trip: Burned them.
I moved in to a new place. We never set up an electricity account. For 3 months they sent letters saying they would disconnect our power. One day they stopped the letters. It's been 5 more months and we still have power.
My mate who works for the power company says they are lazy as fuck it'll probably take a year to get done if ever.
Surffff · 34 points · Posted at 04:30:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Asked for a small share of money on kickstarter to buy ingredients for Potato salad. Made over 70k.
JAH1205 · 7 points · Posted at 03:19:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's essentially using the free bet offers from bookies to make guaranteed profit.
Initially placing a bet in order to get a free one, then using betting against it (laying) using the betfair exchange to reduce the money lost, then using the same technique but using the free bet rather than your money to guarantee profit which makes up for you initial bet
Probably haven't explained it well but it's completely legal and as long as you're willing to put some time into it it's guaranteed money. Here's the link for the basics, it's a bit long but a good read which makes it a lot more simple
Back in freshman year of high school, we had a vending machine that I would always go to. I would by a crunch bar, but it would always get stuck in there. The machine would then drop another one to release the original. I would sell the second one for a dollar, while keeping the first one. Candy only cost 75 cents, but yet, it would sell.
Womper1 · 5 points · Posted at 03:30:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in high school all of our vending machines had this amazing glitch where if you put in a 0.50 coin (they weren't in circulation in Canada however was still legal currency) and pressed the return button 4 quarters would come out.
I remember going to the bank at lunch and getting $200 worth of these coins telling them I was a magician and needed them for a trick.
Emptied out all those machines and made a $200 profit.
Got a free gym membership through my health insurance. Had to switch to a different insurance company/plan but my membership is still good. I hope it takes them a few more months to figure it out!
My local fast food joint used to be cheaper when ordering two orders of 10 fried chicken pieces than ordering 20. I did that for like two years until they augmented their prices across the board.
Years ago you could get a rodeo cheeseburger for 1 dollar at burger King. The cheese burger was like 1,50 or something, so you order a rodeo with no onion rings or bbq sauce and you get your cheeseburger!
Poor college student spending the summer at the beach. Grocery store near me has self-serve, walk in beer fridge. Randomly grab a 12 pack of 24 ounce Bud cans that I throw in my cart with some groceries. Total seems light. Check the receipt when I get home. Beer rang up as $1.99.
My assumption is they were supposed to be sold as singles and the upc code on the box was the same as on the individual can.
I still have unlimited data from Verizon. Haven't changed my contract since 2008. Only down side is that I have to pay for my phone outright. I figure since I use about 15-20g/month, it's still financially smart to do so.
I just transfer my free upgrade to a family member that doesn't have unlimited. They get the phone I want. Then we just ask the guy at Verizon to switch the numbers. The last two times they were more than willing to just put my number in right away. Instead of the assigning the correct number then deactivating the phone and assigning my number.
You can currently download the app "ACC 3-Point Challenge" and it comes with a code for a free small cheese pizza from Mellow Mushroom but the catch is that every time you delete the app and then re download it, you get a different code and therefore unlimited free pizza until it expires on 4/15.
When you send a postcard in Europe, just write "2FaBe" where the stamp usually goes. This will send you postcard for free. I don't know why but this worked for me maybe 100 times.
call and deactivate. They will tell you to turn it on for this bit, just lie and say "yeah it is on". They will then tell you they "see" the radio and will send the disconnect code. This is a lie, the system is not capable of such detection.
remove said radio from box 6 months later, deactivation code is no longer in the satellite queue
free XM sirius radio forever
shit is pimp
I moved to Guam a long time ago when I was in the Navy. I called XM radio to ask if it would work there. The rep told me yes everything would work fine. I arrive in Guam, receive my household goods and the XM radio did not work. I asked for a refund for the three months I had no service and they told me to pretty much piss off. I put the radio in a box and when I moved back to the mainland years later I turned it on and was going to reactivate it. Didn't need to though because it was still working fine and now I had more channels than ever. Turns out the satellites they use don't have enough bandwidth to constantly broadcast disconnect signals, they send out signal when you don't pay the bill ect, and the radio goes into showcase mode. So, don't turn on your radio for 5 or 6 months it will never receive the command to deactivate itself. Now that old radio of mine is my free for life garage XM/sirius radio. They shouldn't have lied to me, otherwise I would have reactivated it the normal way, they can suck a fart for lying to me. You can do this too, it just takes a while for the deactivate code to cycle out of the system.
Growing up, my parents password protected our computer. The sibs and I discovered that if we asked our mom what the password was when she was asleep, she would tell us and not remember doing so the next day. She would make us sit in the garage when she changed the password, convinced we had some elaborate system of mirrors and other trickery. Poor thing never figured out that we were just asking her for it.
So you walked to college to get the bike in the morning, only to have to wake up a few hours later to ride it? Why not just make that walk to school before classes....
They would probably all be taken in the morning. Or that's what I got out of it
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 03:08:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Having a heart transplant. Seriously, although it sucks and your life is never the same, you can get out of virtually anything you want to.
furedad · 3 points · Posted at 06:32:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm interested in learning more.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:40:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
From kids birthday parties to functions you'd rather not attend, having had a heart transplant gives you a get out of jail free card to skip these. It's true that I shouldn't be around large crowds because of germs and often I have bad days and feel like crap. So, if I'd rather not attend some boring or awkward situation, I can play my card.
My senior year in high school I was taking AP environmental science and one of the projects was to build a solar oven. The goal was to boil a small dish of water inside the oven which was made out of cardboard and aluminum foil so it would have been hard to do correctly. That's when my teacher told us if we managed to set our ovens on fire with the raw power of the sun we would get an A. So being the great student I was found a big ass magnifying glass one of the other kids had brought in then proceeded to burn the living hell out of my oven. That was the only A I got in his class that year.
Also in my senior year I went to school every other day, that was my schedule I had ab classes so every weekend I got a three day weekend. I managed it because I had essentially fulfilled my classes I needed to graduate I didn't need to take any more. It was awesome and my friends tried to jump on bored but the guidance office caught on and the principal shut it down after that.
Back in the iPod days I bought 1st gen 1/2gb iPod shuffle at Best Buy and got a 2year warranty on it for like $10. 1year and 10 months later I broke the headphone jack. Went in to replace it with my warranty. But they didn't have to 1st gen in stock anymore so they replaced it with the 1gb 2nd new version. $10 for the warranty on the new one. 1year 11months later. Time to upgrade I broke the headphone jack.(on purpose this time.) got the 3rd gen. I did this loophole and have the newest shuffle. Which I don't use cause I have Spotify and a smart phone.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 03:25:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mcdonalds free coffee. Order 3 smalls at a time and collect all the stickers
At my local car wash, in the manual wash stalls, when you turn the nob to the soapy brush it adds thirty seconds. If you switch to the brush and back to spray wand several times really fast it adds thirty seconds for every time you switched to the brush. I've spent a lot of time in the car wash getting my vehicles sparkly clean for the $2.50 it takes to turn the machine on.
A few years ago at Bed Bath and Beyond they had an offer to get a $50 gift card free with the purchase of a Dyson vacuum. The process for whatever reason included the gift card getting rung up separately, so it didn't appear on the same receipt as the Dyson. Return Dyson, keep the gift card. Rinse and repeat.
They've changed the process now to include the gift card on the receipt. If you return the Dyson, you can return the gift card too and get all your money back, or keep the gift card and they reduce the return amount to match.
I made about $600 before they closed that loophole.
I was ordering pizza online a few years ago, i was visiting my parents and my mom is a coupon hoarder, so she whips out a coupon for 15% off your entire order with a purchase of a 2 liter. So i punch in the coupon, hit apply, nothing happened, then i hit it again, and nothing and after 4 or 5 attempts it rang up 2 pizzas and a 2 liter to be almost $7. So i added a few more pizzas to the cart, put in the coupon a few more times and next thing you know im in the car going to get 12 signature pizzas and a 2 liter for $17. I walk in, pay cash and the look on the cashiers face was just confused and so i made up a story about how my mom works with the owners wife and my dad and him are good friends and they happened to be in town and i walked out no further questions.
It was not a small mom and pop shop i did this to, it was a large chain in the mid west and frankly charging $23 for a 14" specialty pizza is redamndiculous.
I used to live in a college dorm that used refillable Mac-Grey laundry cards. You would insert the card into a machine, put your cash in, and then it would put the money on the card. One day I went to put $10 on the card and the machine put $150 on instead, and a little message popped up on the screen saying "Congratations". I have no idea what happened.
Qender · 5 points · Posted at 03:15:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the 90s sprite had a promotion where you could get a message under the cap would give you another sprite for free.
I bought one bottle of sprite. I got about 20 free ones in a row. I'm pretty sure I came out ahead there.
Free amazon prime. The free trial is only linked to your email and not your credit/debit card so just use up the free trial then just keep creating throw away email accounts and then throw away amazon accounts. This is only really beneficial for the 2 day shipping aspect and not the other prime benefits such as music and movies.
This might still work,
a friend of mine gave me a life proof case and it broke so I used the code inside to get a new one through lifetime warranty.
One day I went online and tried to use the old code to get a new case in a different color, and it worked.
Then I tried getting multiple cases at once (three was the limit) and that worked as well.
Finally I tried getting LifeProof accessories and cases for phones I didn't even have and that worked as well... all using the initial code inside the first case.
All I had to do was pay $5 shipping and I received almost $300 worth of phone cases each time, I think I ordered about 30 cases and then eventually had too big of a pile in my room so I stopped
When I was 7, my mom and I were walking around downtown. I had saved up $4 for an ice cream cone at the local parlor. Mom waited outside the parlor because she found a table (it was really busy that day). It was around noon and she had to take her medication, so she told me to get her a cup of water from inside.
Well, when I ordered my cone I asked "Can I also have a cup of water so my mom can take her medicine?" The lady at the counter must have felt pity on me and didn't charge me anything for the cone.
The next week we walked by the same parlor, but I didn't have any money. It was around noon again so I ran inside to 'get mom some water for her medicine'. I got free ice cream again.
I only did this twice, but god damn, that was the best ice cream I ever had.
Back in college, I was living on a very limited budget but i really wanted a PS3 to play a newly released video game. I also had 3 Future Shop stores (aka Best Buy) around me and took advantage of their 30-day return policy. So in 3 months, I bought and returned 3 different PS3 systems just to play KZ2 multiplayer.
I eventually did buy a PS3 a couple months later when Uncharted 2 got released. I also did do this with a Wii console but got rid of it within a week because i didnt like it.
Brunswick bowling did this thing where if you signed up on their website with your email, they would send you an hour free bowling coupon to your email.
I made like 60 fake yahoo accounts and my friend and I bowled many free hours during the year of 2007.
vvsj · 5 points · Posted at 05:12:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Older vending machines were easy to trick. In high school, you could put a 5 dollar bill into the machine and yank it out just before it got completely pulled in. If you did it right, you'd have your five dollars but the machine would set the flag for 5 dollars of credit. Free money. I did this several times. Eventually, you had to put long clear tape on the bill. This way, it could go all the way in the machine and you could pull it out from inside using the tape. Same deal. This trick does not work on newer vending machines, as far as I know...
AOL free dial up internet in the late90s early 2000's.
My parents gave me my own land line in the basement for me and my sister to share. A teen phone. Pretty common back then, it was even in the phonebook as that. "Main line xxx-xxx-xxxx teen line xxx-xxx-xxxx"
Anyways, I wanted the internet for my computer to play diablo 2. I started up on a free AOL account, got 3 months free, then called to cancel when it was up and said "I'm just not sure if this is the right provider for me". So they offered another free 3 month trial.
I had free internet for 4 years doing that, till I went away to university.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 05:15:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the game, "inFamous," you play as a guy with the power to shoot and absorb electricity. You had a basic attack that was weak, but didn't cost any energy. Then there were special attacks and abilities that cost you energy. If you ran out of energy, then you had to leach it off of electrical equipment or people, if I remember correctly.
The loophole is that your basic attack, which is free, can charge up any metal object. So, if I needed some more energy for my abilities I would start shooting a trashcan with my basic attack, get it charged up as much as possible, then leach off of the energy I which I just created.
When Makerbot was selling their Cupcake 3D printers as kits, their price for an unassembled kit was $1100. Then they started offering a fully assembled and fine tuned version for $2400. I ended up buying a total of 16 kits, assembled/fine tuned them and resold them on ebay for about $2000. Being the middle man, I made some heafty profits and paid for my first car while I was in college.
Use Netflix for that special $7-$8 first month or so trial. Switch to Hulu for the same promotion when Netflix's promotion ends. After about 2-3 months, I switch back to Netflix because hey miss me and they will offer me a cheap month or so. Hulu follows suit.
Not sure anymore as I haven't watched anything on either in like 2 months, but yeah. After some time the competitor company sends me an email saying something like "come back to us and see what you're missing!" And I'll get at least a discount.
Easier and cheaper than having both accounts at once
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In a similar vein; necrophilia is not illegal in the US. Desecration of a corpse is however. Cannibalism also would not be illegal if someone consented to it, as there is no laws banning it.
I used to work for an institution that had a .edu domain. I also happened to work in IT, and had the ability to spawn email accounts. I had so many fake student accounts, that I've not yet paid for Amazon Prime because of the student promotion.
The worst part is when your main email won't let you verify more new emails and you have to start using one of your throw always to verify even more. Like acid trip into a mirror I say.
In university, we heard a legend that you could use coffee stir sticks to trick the laundry machines into thinking you had put coins in them. One guy on our floor figured it out and taught the rest of us - I never paid for laundry again, even when I moved to a nice building off campus.
I got a job with a city government right out of high school, worked for them for 30 year, and retired at 48 with a nice life-long pension that includes guaranteed yearly cost of living increases.
iIIest · 8 points · Posted at 04:47:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My fraternity learned of a new app called OPER in St. Louis, it had a promo where you sign up, and automatically get a certain amount of credit to buy a free meal. It had another code where if your friend signs up and buys something, both of you get 10$. Not only did we figure this out, but there was a glitch in the app to where you could change the email in your account and be able to reap the 10$ credit from that same friend. Rinse and repeat with 80 guys and that accounted to $1,000's of dollars of free food. The CEO even called us up and told us to stop, but legally they could not do anything against us. With the new app update, all of it was fixed but we ate like kings for weeks.
LAT3LY · 4 points · Posted at 02:37:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At Academy (the sporting store) they have this nice policy where if you don't like the shoes you've purchased, you have up until like 60 days or so to return them for a full refund, regardless of the quality.
I've had a brand new pair of shoes each month for about 6 months now. Do I feel bad? Nah
I was part of a marketing club in college and we tried to help a local pizza place market their business. They gave us hundreds of coupons for free medium pizzas, chicken tenders and other things. I ended up keeping about 40 coupons I couldn't give away. It lead to a lot of free stuff for friends.
If you go to a fast food place that has a receipt for an online survey that once completed will allow you some free food your next visit, you can just write in random numbers and letters and the cashier won't know or care. There you go with your extra chicken leg and biscuit at Church's chicken! :)
Not my loophole but my friend's. In Toronto Nestea had this promotion going on where if you bought a pack of Nestea you could get a coupon for a free pack. The thing is that the free pack also had the same coupon in it. So naturally he loaded up on Nestea. Shit lasted him two months
The poophole loophole.
If you want to have sex but retain your virginity, you are still free to explore your partner's cavernous anus.
The poophole loophole.
When I got into grad school my boyfriend sent me a flowers.com (or similar) arrangement that came with champagne. The flowers were wilted the first time so I emailed to complain. They sent over a replacement with even worse off roses that looked like they were sitting next to a heater for the last five hours. I called customer service and got sent another free replacement order. Boyfriend called that one in as ugly and wilted, too, and we finally got a beautiful arrangement redelivered.
In the end I had three bottles of champaign and 72 roses.
Buying stuff on eBay and using the local pick up option. I found that several pawn shops in my area would sell stuff at a very low price with a very high shipping charge. Almost all of the people bidding would be out of state and have to factor in the shipping charge whereas I could outbid them by a decent amount and still come out ahead. It only lasted for a little while but I got some damn good deals in the meantime. Pissing off the pawn shop guys was an added bonus.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 04:22:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I live in a smaller town that has a pretty popular state college. Most of the locally run stores and restaurants have some sort of student discount because our population increases significantly while school is in session and they want to attract those students as customers. I graduated from school a few years ago but still look pretty young so I can get away with showing my student ID to get the discount.
I just did it yesterday when I went out for breakfast. Saved $3. Totally worth it!
abiroo · 4 points · Posted at 04:26:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
when i was about 9 i figured out the candy machines in my dad's office would accept quarter-shaped pieces of cardboard. spent an afternoon cutting and tracing cardboard and went to town each time i went to my dad's office after that.
Vending machine in my college's humanities building. Every third Mountain Dew gives double. At one point, a professor told me in class that if I've started juggling my unopened cans, that's probably a sign that I've had enough.
One year when I was 13 or so I decided to be a broken change machine for Halloween. I spray-painted a box with silver paint, wrote on it with a sharpie marker, cut some holes, grabbed some quarters, and went to work. For every dollar I got folks to insert, I only returned 75 cents. I came home with a bunch of candy and a few dollars richer.
About a year ago, a vending machine at my high school got broken. I figured out that if I hit it in just the right way, coins would flood the coin return slot. Everyday after school I would come to get a few dollars. Keep in mind that 3 bucks a day is a lot for a high school without a car or job.
At my highschool there was a vending machine, and if you hit the vending machine hard enough in the right spot above the coin return it would drop quarters. Whenever I did this I was able to get $5—$10 worth of quarters each time. I did this every day for almost 2 months before they fixed it. A whole lot of weed and food was bought with that money. Good times.
Found out the test code for an automatic car wash. Free car washes every week for a year. Also, do Moes restaurant review on receipt, clear browser, do it again free burritos for days.
There was a smoothie place in my colleges food court that had punch cards for free smoothies. Buy ten get one free. They used star punches so I bought a star hole punch and got my smoothies free for a semester.
When I was a young teen, I visited my local Walmart to get those 85 cent two-liter soda frequently. Since they were relatively cheap, and I exercised often, I could afford to buy a lot of them.
One day however, they switched the shitty machines out with new, polished ones. The machines were the monotone creepy ones that has a voicebox.
I didn't think anything of it until a few months I noticed a trend. The last coin I put in wouldn't register properly, and would slide right through to the change deposit area. After some thinking, I wanted to test something out.
The next day I brought a dollar coin to the Walmart, and put it in the slot. Sure enough, it gave me my receipt, and the last coin I put in. Basically because of this system, I was getting two liter sodas once a week, for free. This went on for a whole summer, when eventually the Walmart realized it was losing money. They never found out that it was me, but they replaced the machines a week later
tl;dr: I cheated the Walmart machine into giving me my last coin pack, and got Two liter sodas for free.
When I was younger, my friends and I would always go to a bowling alley that was close by and play in their arcade. With this arcade, like most, if you did good in each game they would give you tickets. From these tickets you would go to the machine, insert the tickets, and it would count them automatically and give you a piece of paper with the ticket amount on it. You then would take this to an actual person at the counter where all the goods were. The catch was that the ticket counter was based on the holes punched between each pair of tickets. So in lieu of this newfound knowledge we went to a dollar store, bought a role of tickets and punched holes in them. We then went to the arcade and fed a full roll of tickets into the machine and took our unrealistic number of tickets to the counter where we purchased all the bouncy balls and a bunch of other items. Basically the toys that we got, which would have probably cost hundreds of dollars in arcade dollars, costed us a dollar and some time. Needless to say the next time we went back the machine was behind the counter and you had to give the person working your tickets for them to feed into the machine
Last year during the summer I was rebuilding my PC and I needed to get DDR4 ram. I wanted to get something like 32gb so it was never an issue. The cheapest place I found some was at Jet.com with each 8gb stick at a little more than 35 dollars each; note that I needed for. The going price for an 8gb stick of ram at the time was around 35ish dollars as well, however Jet had a signup deal where you could get $10 off your first 3 purchases. So I did 3 separate purchases of individual ram sticks each at around $25. Then I used a business/personal account to purchase the last ram stick. So, I was able to get 32gb of ddr4 ram for a few bucks more than $100, instead of $140ish. The going price of the same ram is around $115 for 2 sticks of ddr4 8gb for the same ram and speed.
I found a promo from a food delivery service that offered $20 of credit whenever you referred someone, and they also got $20 of credit. If you used another promo code you could get $10 off, meaning that people would be able to get a free ~$20 meal.
I posted this on Facebook and various reddits, and I got around $1000 of free food in 2015.
Service was TryCaviar, but the promotion has been reduced to $10 referral. There's a promo code of $5 off an order of $25, code is TWITCAV. Below is my referral link, but they no longer operate in my city (Probably because I got $1000 of free meals out of them), so I just use the credit I get from referrals in RandomActsOfPizza.
Search for the cheapest restaurants without delivery fees, cheapest being denoted by a single $, and try to get an order as close to $25 as possible, as that makes the deal "Better". The food is a bit pricier than getting it yourself, but you don't have to tip as its included in the price.
In the end, you should be able to get about $20 worth of food for about $10. Remember to put the code TWITCAV in at checkout by clicking the Promo Code box under your order, its easy to miss.
Current loophole that I'm exploiting at my new job where I don't have enough tenure to park in the senior employee and visitor's garage. I should be parking in the second garage a mile away and taking the shuttle into work.
If I pull up to the gate and swipe my badge, it won't open as expected. But if I take a visitor's ticket from the pay station, the gate opens up.
On my way out however, swiping my badge works and opens the exit gate. I should be paying $10 for my 8-hours of parking.
I figured this out when I was late for work one day and planned on paying to park on-campus.
Not sure if I should post this since it probably works but I received free Amazon prime shipping. You can buy your items, one of the options is to get prime if you don't have it while checking out. Get it and once your order is through just cancel prime immediately for a refund. Voila free shipping. A bit of work but if you're broke and need something badly I guess there's that.
A year ago or so, McDonald's had a thing where if you downloaded their app, you'd get a free premium sandwich (like Big Mac or something). You'd have to just use an email and password and it would immediately show the QR code for your free sandwich.
And then I discovered a temporary email generator site. It was here that my loophole exploiting came to my knowledge. I'd just create a new account every time I wanted a sandwich. They had the deal for a few months, and I was on the road a lot. Probably got thousands in McDonald's. Haven't eaten there since.
The food got gross enough eating it all the time for free that paying for it seemed outrageous.
There was an arcade I used to go to a lot with my friends inside this mall. They used a card system where you would load credits on it to play their games. You would insert the card in the arcade game you wanted to play and it showed you the credits you had on the card and needed to press start game to begin playing. Anyway, I noticed the credits would show right away once you inserted the card so I thought what if I attached a piece of tape at the end of the card and pull it out once the credits showed on the game. Turns out I was right and would just need to load $2 to play any game in that arcade to my hearts content. I kept this exploit to myself for a while before sharing it because I knew the staff would notice it once they see a bunch of kids staying in the arcade all day and barely going to the cash machine to load their cards for game credits. Within a few days of sharing my secret one kid got caught and then another one. They ended up changing their arcade games to accept tokens instead. Had fun while it lasted though.
Tldr: Attached a piece of tape at the end of a card with game credits to play unlimited games in an arcade. Fun times.
visit your local casino and see if they offer you match plays.
Here's how they work.
Normally at a casino, you bet $5 on a hand of blackjack (or your game of choice). If you win, you are now net +$5, if you lose you're net -$5. With a match play, you win double your typical amount when you win a hand. So +$10 for a win, -$5 for a loss.
You win just under 50% of the hands you play at any table game if you play it right, and it only takes a 33.3% success rate to break even. If you win over 33% of hands with matchplays, you will profit.
My local casino used to offer a daily $20 match play. I went to the casino every day for MONTHS, played one hand, and left. I was making $250-400/month. Every time you go, you will, on average, win just under $10.
I no longer live in the area, but if I did I would still be going to that casino on the daily. I would think of it as a part time job that I work at for 15 min everyday.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:23:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some of the casinos in my area changed the match play rules to prevent this. One place made you make a bet equal to the match play amount first, using no match play and at least a couple of others changed the rule to 1 match play per day per customer.
well that first condition is a drag, but I don't understand what the problem is with the second one, 1 match play per customer per day. That's what we've always had.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I probably misread your post. I thought you were saying to use match plays until you get ahead then leave the casino.
One of the casinos here used to give the player a match play every time you got a blackjack. You could come back later and use them all, but they eventually changed the policy to one per day. Another place advertised in the local paper (and had a cut out match play) and people were collecting them and coming in with a handful and they changed their policy also.
Now I don't even get match plays but instead free table play chips. Even better because you don't have to put any money with it but you have to play to get them.
Not me but me brother. Pepsi used to have a way you could get your next soda for free. You win by getting the special cap only visible from the bottom . My brother would put the soda up to the light at just the right angle and could tell whether it was a winning bottle. He said sometimes he would walk up to the cashier take the cap off the unpaid for soda give it to them and walk away. He got free soda for years off that.
When I was a sophomore in high school, we had this arbitrary computer class that tried to teach us Powerpoint formatting, typing, and basic HTML (which we all sorta know from MySpace). Near the end of the year, our bitchy teacher started a competition for extra credit in a class I was already terribly failing. She had this website for measuring typing speed and said that whoever could get the highest speed and accuracy per day would score points.
I type like shit. To this day, I still use only my index fingers. It's taken me 5 mins to get this far... It would take me about 30 mins at that age to type the paragraphs that the website offered. Until I found a "Finish" button at the top of the window. So I abused the holy hell out of it.
I found the paragraph with the easiest first word, which was "The". I would start that module, type one word, and hit "Finish". I registered at ~70 words per minute with 100% accuracy. I proceeded to do this every day for the rest of the semester and it saved my grade. Eat that, Ms. Sajid!
On one of those online learning sites, I figured out that it didn't matter if you got the questions right or not. All you had to do was open the console (F12, then escape) and type my_score=x, where x was the number of questions on the page, then submit. Made that class so much easier
one of my past jobs was delivering pizza in a rather rural area. they way their delivery system worked in-store was you checked out each order as a 'run', but you were only paid 'per-run', not per order/delivery. so this ended up with some really shitty runs taking me 20-30 miles as i would have to drive all over town to make 3 stops. after about 4 days i questioned the boss why i wasnt being paid per delivery when my stops would sometimes be 10 minutes apart, and that drivers were not being fairly paid for mileage driven (it wasnt my first rodeo as a delivery driver). they just said 'thats just how our system is, we cant fix it'. ok cool. from that day forward i just checked out each delivery as an individual run, but there was one minor, overlooked flaw in my plan which exposed me over time. all my run times sucked. food would look like it was being delivered 2 hours late sometimes, yet no complaints were ever made for 'late food'.
im not sure if they ever fixed it, but i exploited the shit out of that system to get my fair pay.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:17:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My ex boyfriend found out that a nickel was counted as a dime in a vending machine at the mall. I spent hours sitting while he brought a bag of nickels and exchanged them for dimes until the machine ran out. He would then buy me a soda and a pizza with all dimes. Eventually someone caught on and he was banned from the mall.
I imagine you being completely smitten with this boy, him asking for a ride to the mall, you agreeing, then he says we have to stop at the bank first. You're really excited at this point, but get a little quizzical when he walks out with a bag of coins.
Then as he is plunking in nickel after nickel, you slowly start to realize that he might not be all that..
Mat145 · 5 points · Posted at 05:23:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was 19 I was working at a supermarket.
We were in the process of moving to a newly created store in the same building.
They needed someone to stand by the door at the building site for the new store and make sure all staff signed in and out of a log book and the Store Manager asked me to do it.
I did this from 8am to 5pm for 4 days to Monday to Thursday and that was meant to be my total work hours.
When Friday came around, the old store had people call in sick and I was asked to cover their shift. I knew if I did over 40 hours the store would have to pay me 2.5x my rate for Friday, 3x for Saturday and 3.5x for Sunday.
I did another 3 8 hour shifts Friday to Sunday. I did this for 2 weeks. When pay day came, I got paid over $5,000 for 2 week of work (this is in Australian dollars).
I got a formal warning out of it because apparently I should have told my manager I'd already done 40 hours of work, but really, it wasn't my fault. I just did my job, worked my ass off and bought a PlayStation 2 later that month.
G36_FTW · 3 points · Posted at 05:23:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dang, probably too late but...
In Calculus 1 we had a absolutely horrible website we used for homework. It would want things formatted a certain way, the teacher didn't allow hints, took forever, and you would only have a few chances before you got zero credit.
Thus, towards the end of the semester, I wasn't doing a lot of the homework. However, many students were complaining about the homework scores, and one day towards the end of the semester our professor said he would open all of our homework assignments that evening and leave them open for a few weeks so that we could get credit.
Well, clever me went home as quickly as possible, opened all of the assignments and wrote down the answers (answers were given after the assignment was due). I then waited until they were open again and proceeded to receive credit for a weeks worth of work for about a half hour of writing down answers.
On the mobile twitch app, you can skip ads in channels by clicking the settings icon and selecting the 'audio only' option. It'll skip the ad straight to the channel's audio and then you can unselect it on the screen and yay, ad- free twitch viewing!
When my sisters and I got into Webkinz as kids my mom decided to sell rare items on eBay. She literally would gather rare items in this online game and post them on eBay. She made enough money to take our whole family on vacation.
Webkinz sent her a cease and desist a few months after this started
My dad told me that the year the Soviet Union boycotted the Olympics McDonald's ran a promotion where they had scratch tickets or something where you would scratch it and a sport would come up. If the US got a gold medal you would get a big mac, silver you would get fries and bronze a drink. The US was so dominant at that Olympics my dad and his friends had free meals at McDonald's for a month.
Once went to a public vending machine with no money, so I decided to smash all the buttons because why not.
Next thing I know, I see some text appear on the box
"Enter Price: " (or something along these lines). Of course, I set it to $0.00, and I enjoyed myself a nice, free Nestea.
In hindsight, I probably should have grabbed more, or tried to back-track to hopefully figure out what the "magic combo" was, but sadly I did not, and it was fixed a couple of days later.
Back in a small group communications class I took in college we were given a project where we had to present a product to the class to get investors (the investors being our classmates). The amount of money your group got in investments would determine your grade relative to the other groups, my group and I convinced the class to only invest a dollar for each product leaving everyone equal at the end. The teacher gave everyone an A but warned us not to pull something like that again.
On one of those coin rolling machines at arcades. If you a certain marker multiple times quickly it would just glitch and empty out non-stop. I pissed off the maintenance employee quite a bit to the point that he shut off the machine. It was either the bowling one or the one with the old guy holding a handful of tickets.
Back when I was little I found a porn site that would let me watch free videos even though I wasn't of legal age. Used it to the max till I became 18. Don't think they even ever found out :o
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 05:37:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Student exchange, one of our coins worked in their cigarette vending machines so we could buy a pack for 1/6 of the original price. All of us have lung cancer now.
evacu8 · 4 points · Posted at 05:38:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm probably way too late for this, but here I go. In college, each student received a free ticket to a concert (we will call it School-Spirit Fest) that is specifically for students.
A few months before a show in 2015, a friend told me that he paid $160 per ticket to see Twenty-One Pilots. Well, guess who was playing at School-Spirit Fest that year? Twenty-One Pilots.
I would ask if classmates and some random students were going to make it to the show. If not, I would ask if they could get a ticket for my "brother". Twenty-One Pilots quickly turned into nearly Twenty-One Hundred.
When Chipotle was relatively new they came to my town and mailed out postcards good for 3 free burritos. The postcards looked like spam mail so most people threw them in a trough under our mailboxes were stuff like that went (this was 2003? but still the whole trough idea for spam mail was probably horrifically bad,). I went through that trough for approximately 60 mailboxes and then walked around the complex and grabbed as many more as I could. had about 90 free burritos at one point. Had to give some away since I simply could not eat them all.
I had free xbox live on my ex-girlfriends 360. After trying to rent a movie, i noticed i couldn't make any purchases on my account. I had called customer support several times to resolve the issue but to no avail. I continued using the account for my online gaming and came to realize my monthly payments werent coming out of my account. I continued using this account for about a year and a half until we broke up.
At one point mcd monopoly came on the hash browns, one of the prizes was an egg McMuffin meal. ..which comes with a hashbrown. Odds of winning 1/4...Each hashbrown had two stickers...
In the days of dial up, there was an ISP that basically just resold AT&T internet access. They would mail out CD's with their connection software and rate plans. When you launched the software, it would initialize an internet connection.
The software would prompt you to login or signup for an account AFTER the connection was established. So all I had to do was leave the login window open in the background and use my own internet browser for free, unrestricted internet access.
I think I used this loophole for a year before the company caught on and started restricting traffic to their servers.
At my university everyone got $5 free printing credit each year, which was enough to print a dozen or so colour A4 pages, or about 50 in black and white. By chance I found that printing full colour A3 pages double sided (with a dot on the back) charged only a couple of cents instead $0.80 for single sided A3.
They fixed the prices eventually, but not before I'd plastered my walls in free colour prints. That was one colourful year indeed.
Anyone remember that stupid AppTrailers app? Watch ads, get points, redeem for abysmal rewards. Well, I was a nerdy 13 year old. If you had a jailbroken device you could change your iPod's ID and make a new account. You got a lot of points for referring new people, probably around $.40 or so. The whole process took less than a minute. Change the UDID, clear AppTrailers from the apps running in the background, start it up, enter referral code. I made like $400 that I put in my mom's PayPal. They stopped the referral service altogether after I had been doing it for a days.
Still bought my Wii and Excite Truck. Mom kept the rest.
Coke vending machine where you block the machine from vending the drink so it returns your money
Could do 2 for 1 or even 3 for 1
Ah the days of being a broke teenager...
91Bolt · 3 points · Posted at 05:45:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
On a carnival Cruise, the casino had a $5 match bet coupon for every signature cocktail you ordered. I had already gotten the all you can drink pass, which was 20 drinks a day, actually.
Saved them up for the last night, used them on roulette to get 2:1 pay off on black. Went on a streak, so I used the winnings to play some numbers and a few hit.
Paid for the whole cruise, a nice watch and sunglasses, some untaxed liquor, and still had pocket money to walk around with the next few months.
Went on another planning to do the same thing and... Wouldn't ya know, they don't do that anymore.
Signed up for some shitty credit cards at age 18, proceed to buy tons of 10$ Starbucks Giftcards, begin to return all for cash at nearest Starbucks, as long as they were 10 or under it was company policy to return for cash. They hated me.
When i was a kid there was a local video game place. there was a game where hologram necklaces were in little discs. when you put in your coin, you would hit a button and swing a lever to try and push a disc into the drawer where you could retrieve it. there were 4 levers and 4 stations. i learned that when you unplugged it and plugged it back in, all 4 levers would swing. so i loosely plugged it back in so i could interrupt the circuit with my foot on the plug. i would go in weekly and win everything and then sell the necklaces at school for 5 bucks a pop. big winner over here. 20 years later i work in a casino. makes sense.
When I was a kid a newspaper started in our city. They hired teens to go door to door offering a $10 - 36 week subscription. If we signed a new customer up we got $20 dollars.
The first day I sold a couple but not many. The second day I offered to pay for their subscription so it was free.
Instead of pocketing $20. I pocketed $10 and signed almost every person up. After 5 days and $2500 dollars they shut down the promo when a customer told them about my little racket.
In my school, you could just type random digits & press enter three times in the little help box to unlock any blocked website. I loved my computer class. It's patched now, so I need to use Tor...
Can't add extensions:( I already use one on my iPad & Phone, but ugh sucks that Tor loads pages so slowly, it kinda is a bummer when trying to do some graphic design. Loading high qual images take forever. I could always use a server connected to my iPad (SSH) like I do to transfer bigger files, but I don't want a shitload of random high qual pics on my iPad.
Back in college, in our student food court there was a place called burger studio. You would order your food, they would give you your receipt, and then give you your food in a to go bag. I would order the 2 dollar fries, then go and take two boxes of chick fil a nuggets and throw those in the bag. When I went to pay I would hand them my receipt, and end up paying 2 dollars for about 14 dollars worth of food.
Mawbey · 8 points · Posted at 03:00:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Maybe not a loophole. But when I was maybe 10-11 I went on holiday to a resort where they had PCs with on of the old battlefields on it I think 1942 but I remember jungles so it might have been a Vietnam one.
The machine broke and one coin got us unlimited goes. I made a friend while out there and we played it for about 8 hours that day. I can barely remember the holiday because I was young. But I still remember that.
At a certain cellphone company, a warranty came with iPhones that lasted a year, but it only covered if the phone itself failed, not water damage or anything. I broke my screen once and it wasn't covered, and I couldn't afford a new one, and the guy there pulled me aside and said "go to the service center... and just so you know, they can't call you a liar"... I caught his drift and went to the service center and said "yeah I left it on my nightstand, woke up in the morning, and it looked like this. It must have exploded or something. Thank god nobody got hurt"... they glared at me knowing exactly what I was doing, but the customer is always right. I just smashed my phone every 11 months or so to get a new phone to keep the warranty going. If it's anything other than water, just lie. Free replacements for my clumsy ass, or on one occasion, if I just got pissed and threw it at a wall
The 1L Dr. Pepper bottles had random free Dr Peppers printed on the underside of the cap. I figured out that if you hold it at the right angle you could see a little bit of the printing that said Free 1 Liter Dr Pepper. Bought one and went about 2 years without buying another until they finally got rid of that cap promotion.
I had a job that made it a point to give employees religious holidays off. My manager, who was a goant bitch, never gave anyone the day off except for this reason. So I converted and got ordained in Satanism so I could declare my own holidays then request them off.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 06:01:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
She gave me every day I took off then fired me as soon as she could for any reason.
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 04:33:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The poophole loophole. I had a girlfriend who wouldn't have sex with me because we weren't married, so I told her about the poophole loophole. I'm sure you can guess what it means but for you dimmer folk it means that if you do it in the butt it doesn't count in god's eyes. That got us by until we got married but now I put my penis in her vagina.
Not a loophole per se but i found many many years ago that 1-800 POO ON ME was a coldwell banker in Colorado. I'm a grown ass man and I still call them randomly.
Usually I call in as a customer wanting to get poo'ed on. Sometimes I pose as a guy in the phone sex industry and offer to buy their number. Other times I work my way up to the managers and break it to them when I can't keep the ruse up.
Local coffee store had punch cards you can take from the counter, and your 10th drink was any size, any coffee free. The punch was always a star shape.
Go to hobby lobby (craft store) buy same star punch and have at it. Used to give cards out for friends birthdays and stuff.
Next year, find out they give you the cards now, and your 10th drink is a free small coffee.
crusoe · 2 points · Posted at 03:45:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
this happens a lot at the dine-in places, which this reminded me of a jerk from a comments section or something, that threw a temper tantrum because people ordered of the kids meal. Not everyone wants to pay $15 for a plate of food when they won't eat any more than a $5 kids meal has
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 01:57:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do video games apply? There was this level in Rebelstar Tactical Command (strategy game) that forced you to get from point a to point b while keeping ALL characters alive. One big challenge was that there were dinosaurs guarding the exit, which killed my units every time I came across them. My solution was to use only two characters, equip them with anti gravity units, and let them cross a river to point b, therefore avoiding the dinos which were limited on land (the game doesn't say you can't use a different route).
I felt good about myself, lmao
[deleted] · 19 points · Posted at 03:58:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In college, there was a forgotten vending machine on the second floor of our student union. One night my roommate and I noticed that the piece of metal that pushes up when you reach in to get your snack was broken. So you could reach through and grab the snacks on the lowest rungs.
We cleared those out, and after consuming them, returned with a ruler to clear the next row. Then we taped two rulers together to get the next row and so on.
Wait, is this a loophole or my super villain origin story?
You are foggy on what constitutes loophole and theft. You were stealing not exploiting.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 02:40:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When ordering Burger King online, it's cheaper to purchase a cheeseburger and add another burger and slice of cheese than to order a double cheeseburger itself I do that shit all the damn time
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:41:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:43:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Chili's used to give you a coupon for a free Skillet queso if you signed up for their email list. I had a domain and I had a catch-all email address. My friends meet weekly at Chili's and I would always have a fresh coupon ready.
I also used the same loophole to sign up for the free trial of XM Radio on my phone about a hundred times before they change their system to require a credit card.
There used to be an online text-based mmo thing called Dark Age of Wythia. We played it in computers class in 7th grade after we were done with our assignments for the day. The premise of the game was to build up an army by purchasing a variety of units and battling opposing armies to gain items, currency, and more units.
I don't remember why it happened, maybe it was because I attacked him or maybe he was just having a bit of fun, but one of my classmates decided to report me in the game. After he reported me, he got back to doing his thing in-game and realized he was actually logged into my account.
Turns out this wasn't just a weird, one-time glitch. It was easily repeatable. When you reported someone through their report form you had to type in their username, and you ended up logged into their account afterwards. Because I was apparently a massive scumbag in middle school, I exploited the hell out of this when I got home that night. I would report players with a reasonably sized army (but not the top players), get into their account, and have them join my clan and dump their currency and items into my vault. Then boot them. Rinse and repeat.
There was a change machine at my work that I discovered would randomly mistake a 1 dollar bill as 5 dollars. I fed dollar bills into it like it was the best slot machine ever. The worst payout I could get was my money back in quarters. About every 3rd try it would pay out $5 in change. I emptied that machine out 3 times before it was finally repaired.
crusoe · 3 points · Posted at 03:51:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Soda machine at one job if you tapped the button real fast after putting in change it gave out a random number of sodas.
At another job the chips machine was next to a soda machine. Buying some chips would randomly spit out sodas sometimes.
As a teenager, I worked at an amusement park. Found out the plastic tokens used in one of the arcades registered as dollar coins in one of the vending machines in a break room. These plastic coins were everywhere. Put a coin in, push coin return, get 4 quarters. Drained the machine of money.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:30:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Way back when EA had a promotion buy 2 of their games get 3rd free.
Required the original receipt so after digging we found Sears allowed returns with a copy of the receipt.
We ended up with every game free at least 3x over for ourselves and then reselling to friends.....
This was the Sega Genesis days if I remember right....
Not sure if this is a loophole, but instead of paying for YouTube Red, I just use the Safari browser on my iPhone to multitask while listening to videos of YouTube. Pretty old, but recently I noticed it stopped working with the Chrome browser app.
I used the free 1-month trial of Audible and also used the 2 free tokens they give you to get a couple of audio books. 6 months into using Audible, and the free token each month to get a new book, I finally realize that an Audible account doesn't come with Amazon Prime and somehow I've been using it for free. I checksd my old email the account was registered to and found several emails warning me that I needed to pay or the service would stop. Still hasn't. It's been nearly a year and I've gotten at least a dozen free audio books from it.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:44:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In undergrad there was a soda machine that, once you put in money, would read however many button presses you could do before something stopped it. It was quick, but everyone got really good at double tapping for free drinks.
It lasted until some unknown time after I graduated.
Roughly 6 months ago we got this great coupon through Tmobile Tuesdays for like $7 off any purchase from Petsmart. My wife and I both got one.
So I get out of class at roughly 2pm and decided hey ill go use them and asked wifey to send me hers. Go to petsmart check out, asked the cashier if I could do two seperate orders and pay seperately and use different coupsons she said sure no problem. At the time my phones screen was broken so it was really hard to open stuff cause it was going crazy. When I got back to my car I felt like I used the same coupon twice so I double checked and low and behold both my coupon and my wifes coupon had the same code...It was a universal code.
We spent the next few hours driving between petsmarts both doing double transactions using the same coupons....
TLDR. Tmobile gave us $7 off universal code coupon to PetSmart. Used it lots of times to get food, toys, treats, shampoo you name it for about $30 total we got almost $200 worth of pet stuff. It was great.
That reminds me. I use beepngo (rewards card app) on my phone which uses the proximity sensors ir capabilities to blast the card. I made a typo when entering my rewards card and when I hit beam it took 50% off the most recent item at PetSmart. No longer works.
When they did the free Subway sandwich my wife and I drove to 4 different Subways collecting sandwiches. The cashier never told us to hit Redeem because she was ordering a veggie sub and the coupon was good for a free chicken sub.
Teachers, at least in my highschool, get 100% of Thier notes straight from the internet. I just googled the title of the note and did it in a fraction of the time
All of the Pepsi machines with the 4-digit padlocks around here (WNC) have the exact same combination: 8691. I got about 30 of them before i got bored.
My high school soda machines had a button combination to get into the system settings. As a kid who had an hour after school before sport practices, I learned my way around the setting menu. I changed one machine to sell soda for a quarter in the fringe area of the school. It stayed that way for about 3 months until people started getting wise to my scam.
This will be buried but I used to get free boxes of Reese's in the mail by complaining to the number on a vending machine at the car wash that my money got stuck in the machine. This literally went on until I got sick of Reese's.
Back in high school, I found an arcade machine where you had to launch tokens onto different prize platforms. It was programmed to give you a few tickets even if you didn't hit any of the targets, but if you didn't shoot your token far enough (i.e. if it "fell" off the launcher) it returned the coin.
I spent like 15 minutes racking up tickets with a single token and used them to buy candy for my friends and me.
BenTG · 3 points · Posted at 04:06:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Casey's Pizza has a promotion where you buy 10 large pizzas and then get 1 for free. Each time you get a large, there's a coupon on the box. Save up 10 and get the next large for free. EXCEPT...the free large also has a coupon on the box. So I get a free pizza after only buying 9.
I'm required to travel a lot for work, but my territory is small enough to not have to fly.
My employer pays mileage for wear and tear on my car, as well as gas.
I just rent a car and report the mileage as if they were in my personal car. I come out ahead if I'm travelling more than about 300 miles total, but it depends on how long I'll need the car. I just pocket the extra money.
I typically have enough of a margin I could rent a Cadillac or other luxury car and still be ahead, but I just stick with an Intermediate size.
There was thing new start up that delivered alcohol in my city. They had this promotion for a certain discount which basically made your order free. You could use the code as many times as you wanted for the first week it was a thing. They fixed it but my friends decided to try and get around it and to this day still figure a way to get the promotion to work.
Bc42727 · 3 points · Posted at 04:10:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can call basically any fast food joint and tell them they messed up your order and make up whatever you'd like to eat from the place and they'll replace it. Always works.
What are some that are still going on today? I thought I hit it big the other day when I got half off a large pizza at pizza hut and then joined their email club for free breadsticks, $25 worth of food for less than $10! Help a brother out
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:13:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Kids in the grade above me told us that the final exam at my school was the same as the pretest we took at the beginning of the year. You could review the answers to the pretest via an online test taking service called 'horizon ecart'. Some asswhole spilled the beans, so we all had to retake the test, this time it was different.
Back in the late nineties, I used to buy a CD at Sam Goodie, rip/encode mp3s and return them for a new CD. Yep. I'm partially responsible for A) why you can't return CDs anymore and B) the downfall of retail music stores.
Not really a loophole, but Duluth trading company has a no bull return policy. I buy a pair of pants from them, beat the piss out of them at work (construction) and then send them back for a full refund, which I use for a new pair of pants.
I had unlimited data from Verizon on a grandfathered plan long after they'd stopped offering it. As long as I continued paying my bill, I got to keep the plan. But it meant I had to pay for a new phone out of pocket ($650 for something "flagship") or give up my data package.
My old phone was coming up on three and a half years and starting to get buggy. There was ONE weekend when they were redoing their pricing structure (and introducing those EDGE plans, I think) where if you had unlimited data and you upgraded normally with the phone cost subsidy, their system was just letting you keep your grandfathered plan.
Worked for a local cable company and learned that they way they blocked channels before the digital conversion was just a small inline frequency blocker in the box with the coax splitter. I removed it for my parents who didn't want to pay for cable (i got it for free since I worked for the company) and they enjoyed it for a while until the cable guy showed up for something else and put it back on.
A while back Qdoba had a promotion where if you played a game you got a coupon it generated. Most of them sucked, but if you kept refreshing you'd get a different coupon. One of them was buy a soda, get a free burrito or quesadilla. Needless to say my brother and I went to Qdoba 4-5 times in that two week period.
First job in high school. Time clock let me clock in five minutes early. Then I could clock out ten minutes early.
Current job requires a 30 minute break but when I'm driving I don't need it. By the way DOT breaks up quarter hours I can log that break in 16 minutes. That will change when we go to electronic logs.
At some point, my high school began stocking their vending machines with only diet soda as part of some "get healthy" campaign. We had a contract with Pepsi to provide all of the sodas and machines in the building, but for whatever reason, there was also this lone Coke machine in the lower level of the school that would get stocked with regular soda about once a month.
Word would get around the school that the Coke machine had been refilled, and there would be a line in front of the machine between classes. The school had to have known because teachers sometimes used it too, but it stayed there for a couple years.
Not sure if this counts, but Operation Sugar Packet. Started as a joke with my Dad on vacation, he needed sugar to make coffee the next morning. So instead of buying sugar, we went to Burger King and conducted a sugar heist. We jokingly mention it pretty frequently, but I used the technique to get through the leaner days at college.
A guy in high school (1995) told us that he had a code you could enter into any payphone and then make any call you wanted to without paying. Of course it was bullshit, but my friend bought one anyway.
Turns out the code actually worked. You entered a series of numbers, and then it asked for your phone number (i'm guessing it wanted the number associated with a cell phone, which were rare in 95) We put in a random number, and then we had a dial tone. We called a 900 number from the school payphone, and it worked multiple times.
I work at a grocery store with a deli and salad bar area. Around Christmas as a give back to the employees, they discounted the salad bar more than 50% when we scanned our store card. That was supposed to run through the end of last year. It was never removed and now that's the only thing I eat while I'm at work.
Denny's used to give you a free grand slam when you signed up for their rewards card. To sign up, all you had to do was give your name and an email; they didn't even check your ID.
I probably got a couple dozen free grand slams out of them before they figured out what I was doing and changed their policy.
Pizza company in my town used to give out a free single order of cheese covered breadsticks (enough for a meal for yourself) if you filled out a survey online and brought the code back in. There was no other purchase necessary. Needless to say They knew me by name and I probably single handedly ruined that deal for everyone since the company changed it to "with a $$ purchase" about 6 months later.
I used to scam Winstar. Every Monday they had a "guys night". Once you built up 2pts on your players card, it would unlock $20 on the card to use in the slots. Over time I was able to get 7 guy friends players cards, which totaled $140 after the points were built. We would ask a random person to build up our first cards points so we never had to spend money. Paid my bills this way for months, then they caught on I guess. That was a sad day :(
Just over a year ago when McDonald's first came out with the McDonald's mobile app you could get any free sandwich. This could have been any sandwich so I would usually go for the most expensive one, the bacon clubhouse. Signing out and making another account refreshed that coupon so I did it somewhere around 100 times within the span of a month. Absolutely destroyed my health eating McDonald's two to three times a day driving between school and work and back home but I saved a lot of money and the bacon clubhouse is pretty good :)
I haven't eaten any McDonald's in months and kind of quit eating fast food in general so I'm getting sick just thinking about this... It was like $500 worth of McDs...
I'm a big meathead and on the road a lot. Just google "(city) gym trial membership" and there's almost always something. I've never missed a workout being on the road.
Bonus: call up the GNC in town and ask if they sell single-serving pre. They'll say no but typically offer a few free samples. If they don't offer just ask if they have any to spare.
Had a project back in college where you had to program one of those Lego Mindstorms robots to perform different tasks and the such. It was supposed to be autonomous, but you were allowed a sound sensor.
I controlled the robot by yelling at it and got full credit.
sylvar · 3 points · Posted at 04:32:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A restaurant had bags of coffee beans with labels that summed up the taste, like "in a word: bold" or "in a word: smooth". I suppose they meant to say that one blend went well with other tastes, but the label said "in a word: complimentary". I didn't hesitate, and they didn't object when I took a bag home without paying.
There's this guy who used to work at my store. All workers get an employee discount card that automatically stops working when they quit/get fired. This guy's card still works, and he quit over 7 months ago.
I met another woman who works there but at a different location. Our cards aren't supposed to let us use coupons if we use our discount, since that gives you too good of a deal. For some reason, her card lets her use them together, and she ended up saving so much money because of it.
Used to work for a company in sales. One day a laptop they offered was priced incorrectly for weeks, i used my employee discount and bought 5 laptops, which is the max you can buy in one order, for about $430 each, flipped them for 600 each. Another coupon code error got me a $1000 laptop for $300 resold for 800
Carl's junior had an app that gave 100 points each visit, and used GPS to verify you were there. I noticed if I click the check in while driving past a Carla jr, I still got the points. Every 1000 points (10 check ins) was a free $6 burger.
Now you only get a BOGO $6 burger but others this still works. I don't bother with it anymore since the burgers are no longer totally free
If you're tech literate, you could have faked your GPS too :)
Shardok · 3 points · Posted at 04:35:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So way back in like 2007 I found a cool trick in a browser mmorpg where you could create your own islands that other players could visit.
Simply put... If you set the level value to insanely high you xould have a player run in, open a chest and run out before dying and they would end up with a few billion gold inno time.
$5 could buy you an in game item that players would pay up to 35 or 40 million gold for.
I tricked this out, got a bunch of gold on a friend's account and had him hide the gold in several different ways including mailing it to friends, hiding it in holes on maps, in the player dungeon chests of other players who let him in, trading it directly and buying things and also hiding those things.
Totally cleaned out some old boy's of all their display piece items in their shops and then had them hidden in the clans banks.
Obviously the admins found me out somewhat. They banned the account that opened the chests and questioned me. I feigned stupidity and stated that I had no idea that my friend did this and wasn't aware that making a high level dungeon with chests would result in that.
They bought it and I did turn myself around and did a lot of great things in that game up until the servers for Nowhere Else and Beyond shutdown not too long ago.
But me and my friends kept the vast majority of our wealth and mostly just held onto it to play pranks with. Thankfully I had a great excuse for my vast wealth within a month as I put the game up on several referral vote websites and got it up high on the lists with the help of my clans. Referred over 500 players that hit level 10 via that which got me over $300 worth of those in game items I mentioned
Shardok · 2 points · Posted at 04:36:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm GraBug from NEaB if you were wondering, Shardok on their sister games like Baneworld and that StarPirates one.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:36:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was this vending machine at a local golf driving range that only took $1 bills or exact change. Naturally I didn't read this and I put $5 in the machine. I made my choice of drink and the machine spit out the $5, the drink, and 45 cents in change. So needless to say I got paid to drink soda for awhile.
I used to buy messenger bags from this company that would liquidate their old inventory by selling blind boxes of 3 bags for $10.
Nearly every blind box would contain at least 1 bag that I could sell to Buffalo Exchange for $25.
I bought so many bags. Made a couple thousand dollars in profit before I was banned from selling bags to all the Buffalo Exchanges in the Austin, Houston and Dallas locations. They thought I was a professional. I was just a hungry/poor college student
Back in 2004 AOL had a promotion where if you signed up for Dial-up, they would give you $100 in Amazon credit. You could only use your credit card once. I signed up for accounts on all 4 of my credit cards, right after the 4th one, they took the deal offline (because other people wrote scripts to exploit this and get $1,000s of dollars.
I set a reminder to cancel AOL before the end of the month... oh yeah, the first month was free.
Everyone I knew got good christmas presents from my broke ass that year.
Not sure of other states, but if you lose your driver's license you have to go in person to the DMV in Texas to get a replacement card. They'll give you a temp permit and charge you $25.
If you change your address through, you can do it online, and it's only $10, and they mail it to you. Sure you run the risk of getting pulled over without having a drivers license, but if you have a passport or some other form of photo ID. The officer can prove you are you, and look up your license status. You will still have to probably up to the court at that point to verify everything, but the chances of you getting pulled over are very slim.
So you save $15, and never even have to leave the house.
I currently live in my 3-bedroom house and my address on my license is "#### Street name Suite M"
The M stands for Master
3osh · 3 points · Posted at 04:37:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One day, I used the ATM at a nearby grocery store, and noticed that, on the back of the receipt, there was a coupon for a free fountain drink from the in-store food court. The ATM also gave out receipts for just checking your account balance, and the coupon was on those as well. Free drinks for quite a while, until someone realized what was going on.
Back in the dial-up BBS days, with limited phone lines, you often had a limit on how long you could stay online per day.
One I used had a 'gamble' feature, where you could bet N minutes for a 1 in 3 chance at N*2 minutes.
I gambled negative amounts; usually losing, subtracting negative time from my quota.
Then it went off the rails.
I went over 32,768 minutes, which overflowed the signed 16 bit integer for the number of minutes.
Which crashed the BBS software for that node.
Which dumped me into a remote command prompt.
Which allowed me access to the unencrypted password file.
Fortunately, I'm a nice guy, so I contacted the sysop and helped him fix the chain of bugs. So A) no more anti-gambling B) reboot the node on crash and C) used hashing on the passwords.
Well I need this medicine to get better but it costed $300, well turns out the doc has a coupon that makes it 4 bucks, turns out it still counts as $300 through the insurance deductible. We didn't get to exploit it to the max but it definitely put a hefty dent in the insurances high deductible.
Tezot · 3 points · Posted at 04:39:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a vending machine at my University were if you paid with card it would never fully charge you. I checked my bank account everyday to see when I will be charge and never did. So after a week I decided to go back and 'bought' like 10 packs of gum, 3 full racks of loony cookies and half a rack of trail mix... it was glorious. Then after a month they got rid of it :(
I was getting my master's degree, and for 3 years I had to drive to another city and take evening classes (I still taught full-time). At first I parked in a garage, until I could get down there on a day that Parking Services was open and I could get a permit to use their lots. The garage was about $8 for the length of my class, but permits were about $150 a semester, so that would've been the cheaper option.
But my class lasted until 8:00, and by the time I left nobody was manning the booth at the garage and the gate was open (it was an old-school garage and you had to pay the attendant). At first, the honest part of myself was uncomfortable just leaving, until I remembered how much I was paying them for getting my degree.
The rest of my time there I got free parking in that garage, and only occasionally had to pay for parking on days where I needed to go in earlier for a special workshop or something. If class was let out early, I'd hang out in my car for a bit until the attendant left.
I figure I saved about $900 on permits, plus I told some others about my secret and saved them some money too.
When I was a kid Reese's Peanut Butter Cups had a special that was '1 in ever 4 packs wins a free pack.' Since the odds were so high several packs in a box on the shelf were winners. The way the winners were printed on the sleeve inside you were able to see through the seam and read the code if you knew what you were looking for. Everyday after school a few friends and I would walk to the corner store and stock up on the free packs. Buy one, walk outside, go back in and repeat. We got so brazen we used to open packs in front of the cashiers who hated what we were doing but couldn't stop it. Eventually the giveaway campaign ran out and we were out of luck but it was a great few weeks.
Years ago Pepsi was having a look under the cap to win contest. The caps all had 1-6 lines printed on them. If you picked the one with six lines it was a winner every time. So much free Pepsi that summer.
I worked at a grocery store and they had a sale one week that if you bought 10 bottles of SOBE or Lipton iced tea you would get a $10 coupon. The bottles of SOBE were a dollar each. So I loaded up a cart and bought 150 or so bottles. I kept a few cases for myself and gave the extra to a local shelter.
Also, the shelter couldn't take one of the cases because the iced tea was apparently expired by a few days.
In grade 7, at the local convenience store, I figured out I could buy a certain amount of penny candies, without paying tax. So I would buy I believe 7 penny candies per transaction, without paying a penny tax. The guy behind the till couldn't stand me and my 10+ transactions, but there was really nothing he could do.
I worked at Blockbuster from 2007-2009, right around the time of Netflix's rise to popularity. They have their own online rental service, and we giving away two-week subscriptions.
Well, whoever was in charge of making the codes fucked up. You could keep reusing the codes. Our entire staff enjoyed even more free rentals for around four or five months, and I enjoyed seeing movies that I never would have otherwise.
Selling water... seriously buy like 10 24 packs for like $5 bucks each and go around either to a festival or any outdoor large gathering of people, or even literally any busy store and say "I will be donating half of the funds to (some reputable charity)" and make a small sign if you want to so you seem more respectable and sell it for a $1 each. Seriously you would not believe how many people will give you a dollar for a crappy bottle of water especially in hot weather and it's an easy couple hundred bucks in an hour or so if you play your cards right - and if you offer to donate a portion to charity don't be a piece of **** and actually do it.
About a year ago, a vending machine at my high school got broken. I figured out that if I hit it in just the right way, coins would flood the coin return slot. Everyday after school I would come to get a few dollars. Keep in mind that 3 bucks a day is a lot for a high school without a car or job.
When I was in the 4th grade, we played heads up seven up. I used to always hide in the corner so if my side was picked, I quickly stepped over to the other side.
There is a wholesale store near me that sends out monthly coupon books. What they don't tell you is that you can use more than one coupon on the same item. You can also print their coupons out online. So before each trip I print a bunch of duplicates out and stack them up. Grocery items usually get close to or are free.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:59:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In HS we got free laptops but they were locked down, we could keep the.once we graduated and they would be unlocked
I found a loophole with swapping the sticky keys app with CMD so i could then go into CMD before i logged in so it would be full admin, them on made an admin account t and remove all the software that looked them fosn
gnugnus · 3 points · Posted at 04:50:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was 20 years old, state IDs in my state used to be just a laminated paper with some signatures and stamps on them, not the spiffy plastic things we have today. My birthday is in November. Turns out that one of those official stamps was over my birthday in such a way that it said I was born in January. So, for almost a year earlier than my 21st I was drinking and going to clubs "legally".
I think this is more of an unethical lifehack than a loophole, but I realized that car washes that have a bay code system, where you can purchase codes to punch in which buys time, have a huge flaw. All bay codes are pre-determined, and so there are tens of thousands of already existing codes, instead of a system that creates codes than activates that code. I used to wash my car about once a week just for the fuck of it, and never payed a dime, I would just punch in random codes until I hit a pre-existing code. One time I hit a code for a $90 car wash, I must've given a dozen people a free wash. I've never spent more than 2 minutes guessing codes.
You can actually do this now.
Ok, so, Raising Cane's has this thing where you can ask for a Cane's rewards card, go online, register it, and then in 2 days they load afree box combo(~8$ worth) on the card, and next time you go to the restaurant you have them scan the card and get a free box combo.
So, how do you abuse this?
Just buy something like a 1$ drink, get free card, register it(with fake info of course), and in 2 days you have free food. Rinse and repeat.
JPWRana · 2 points · Posted at 14:31:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is still going on? They just opened up one in my neighborhood.
Yeah, I haven't done it in like 2 months, but I imagine so.
I don't even really understand the point of it, you never get any actual free food again, except on your birthday, you only get dumb promos that aren't really worth the time,effort, or money, so they're practically asking to abuse the system.
JPWRana · 2 points · Posted at 19:26:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
KFC had this thing where if you gave the restaurant a rating using the code on a receipt you could get a free Go Cup. I was cool with the cashier so I bought a drink and he gave me a receipt, which I then filled out to get a free Go Cup that generated receipt which I then filled out to get a free Go Cup that generated - you get the idea. Did this every time my friend or I was hungry. Then a couple months later, they changed cashiers and the new guy wouldn't give me a receipt for the free Go Cup anymore. And now they require you to buy something to get it.
I work at a grocery store and there was a coupon for money off dog food. The specific brand happened to be on sale the same week that the coupon was valid. I printed a shit load of them, and got 400 lbs of dog food for absolutely nothing. My puppers don't eat the brand that was on sale, so a local no kill rescue got a delivery of 400lbs worth of food a couple days before Christmas.
I was a temporary meter reader for a local utility company. After 90 days, the company had to let me go, or hire me full time. They liked me so they tried to get me into another full time position but it didn't work out. But i worked for 4 months. I contacted HR they sent me the necessary paper work. I really thought i got them. But i got laid off anyway.
Or so i thought.
I keep getting checks like once every three months for a couple hundred bucks. This goes on from 2000-2009. In 2005 i became a contract lineman and in 2009 i re-hired back to the company. Human resources did not know what to think of me and my case. The lady said she couldn't hire me because i already worked there and have for 9 years. This qualified me for 4 weeks of vacation instead of the usual of week. I still dont know what those quarterly checks were for, but it pissed alot of the guys off that i walked in and had seniority over them.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 14:22:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have two to share, even though I am late to the party here.
Back when the Xbox 360 was launched Mountain Dew ran a 'Win an Xbox Every 10 Minutes' contest, where by drinking Mountain Dew and collecting the codes from a bottle cap entering into a limited drawing for a single timeslot to win an Xbox 360 before it was even released. Mountain Dew of course wanted to make everyone aware of said contest by providing a free code to anyone who signed up for their newsletter. Well once I found out, I did the next logical thing and made 1000 e-mail accounts. Now this is before I found tons of easier ways to get bulk e-mail, but the method worked if was slow. I did however make a script to log in and collect the code from each e-mail, eventually getting and then manually entering all of the codes into one contest with a drawing period of 4AM, I entered enough codes to make my odds a little better than 50/50 for that time period (because for some weird reason they decided it was a good idea to show the number of entrants per period), and I actually won. And because I now had an Xbox before launch, I did the next logical thing, which is sold it on eBay for a little over $1000. I used that money to get a new Xbox 360 a few weeks later, and a new TV.
TLDR: Mountain Dew ran a promotion that was easily exploited with a little effort, which I turned into $1000 profit.
Back when Blockbuster was still around and had gotten into the used games business, they were spectacularly bad at it. One such way was easily exploited by my teenage self. You see Gamestop would have a sale on a game, sometimes a new and poorly received game. Blockbuster accepted trade-ins at the time, and when a new game came out and was on sale, sometimes Blockbusters trade in value was higher than that of the sale price of the game from Gamestop. So the loop-hole worked like this:
Invest startup capital in bad games from Gamestop, get 5-10 copies. Combined with Gamestop's occasional B2G1 free sale, sometimes more.
Take said games to Blockbuster generating a net profit per game, sometimes as much as $15 per game, or higher if using B2G1 from Gamestop. $35 was Blockbusters highest payout for games, and on one or two occasions Gamestop would sell the game for $20.
Sadly payout was in store credit, so the goal then is to get the most valuable used games from Blockbuster and then pair it with trade in promotions at Gamestop. Ultimately it might mean closer to $20 of Gamestop credit profit on the original investment if I was lucky.
Over a period of a week I did enough cycles of this to generate around $900 in Blockbuster credit. Which I used on two PS3s which I then sold one and kept the other.
TLDR: Blockbuster was run poorly as a business.
JPWRana · 2 points · Posted at 14:19:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do you still run scripts? I need your help for deposits. I have no idea how to do them or even what program I should learn to do this. It appears your know what your are doing. How much time did you spend making 1000 emails?
Gamestop has this policy about used items that's really begging for abuse. you can return ANY used game with a receipt within 7 days, so you can basically "rent" whatever, play it, beat it, rip it, and then get your money back over and over
I don't know if it's a "loophole" but Totes used to have a lifetime warranty on their umbrellas. I'd buy the small umbrellas and they'd always break, turning inside-out in a storm. I kept returning them and getting a new one for years until they finally changed their policy.
I didn't do this, but the online grocery delivery service I work for has a promo where if you make a new account, you get free delivery and $10 off with order minimum of, you guessed it, $10. So we'd get multiple orders the same day from the same person at the same address. So we'd call and tell them its for new customers not new accounts. So then we get orders for a Larry, a Barry, a Gary, etc. And we couldn't do anything because they were technically different people.
e-rok85 · 3 points · Posted at 04:54:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Kroger by my house sold dragon's milk, a special beer that was $15.49 / 4 pk, but was included in the single beers to choose from for the $9.99 make your own 6 pk. Knowing I was saving 57% on the price per beer, I'd fill up the six packs with only dragons milk and kept purchasing them. Needless to say, that beer is no longer included in the make your own six pack to choose from.
When I used to work at Walgreens, we were doing a promotion where you could pick up a coupon in the candy aisle they gave you 2
Mars Candies (m&m's Milky Way bars, Twix, Snickers, ect) for the price of one. Which is a good deal. Well, the Walgreens I worked at commonly let you stack coupons on top of sales they were already having.
One common sale they would do is 2 candies for one dollar. So if you stack that coupon you get 2 candy bars for $.25. On top of my employee discount I could bring the price of 2 candies to $.11
I came home with 25 candies and gave them to my college mates. I exploited the shit out of that.
Burgerville, a slightly upscale burger joint here in Portland, offered a coupon for a free large milkshake for completing a survey. There wasn't a barcode or anything on the coupon preventing you from reusing it. I printed out dozens of those coupons, handed them out to my friends, and probably had about 20 free milkshakes that month.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:54:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Boyscout camping trip to sleep in the woods and watch a Navy football game. I bought a huge bucket (and it was indeed a bucket) of popcorn that was refillable for $40. I proceeded to give free popcorn to my troop for the entire football game, so much so that I had to stagger my trips so that each popcorn stand had a chance to refill their stock. I ended up refilling that bucket at least 60 times and we ate like kings.
Whenever cable TV was still the main way to watch television I remember once that our Charter cable got turned off remotely at the box because our bill was past due by like a month or two. Well, since streaming services like Netflix or Hulu wasn't a thing yet I was trying to figure out a way that we could at least watch SOMETHING until we could get the bill caught back up.
I read an article that basically explained that whenever cable companies shut off your cable remotely using their cable box it just doesn't allow the box to access the signal coming in from the lines outside. The information is still there they just block the box from doing anything with it. If I remember right you didn't get the features that the box offered of course (DVR, channel guide, etc.) but you box still got the channel information.
So if you were to simply bypass the box by hooking the coax cable directly to the television you could still get some of the channels for free until you paid your bill or until they sent a tech out to uninstall the cable/collect the equipment, whichever came first. I'm sure cable companies have done something to fix this, especially since more and more people are becoming "Cord Cutters" and doing away with cable all together.
TL:DR - Cable box got shut off, bypassed now disabled box by hooking the coax cord directly to the TV for free cable.
EDIT: Phrasing.
ride365 · 3 points · Posted at 04:57:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Germany you have to be 18 to drive. In the U.S., 16. I was able to get an International Driver's License from AAA at 16 and blew my German friends away when I rolled up in my uncle's BMW to take them for a ride!
Back before I had a credit I would make new Spotify accounts with an empty prepaid card to get the 3 month free trial. When that expired I would make a new account with a . in the Gmail address and then follow the old ones Playlist, and download it for offline listening. Rinse and repeat when necessary
Dominos used to have a coupon for buy one get one free Parmesan bread bites. In the cart the free bread bites were listed separately from the ones you had to pay for. If you clicked the quantity dropdown and selected the max quantity, you still got all of those for free.
I got somewhere around 300 bread bites for $10 with a pizza.
Then the coupon expired. :(
Sloathe · 3 points · Posted at 04:59:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It wasn't me, but my friends in high school. They found a glitch in the school's lunch account system and got about 2x what they were supposed to get for their money. What it was was they would buy lunch from another line and immediately buy a second lunch from another line. Somehow the money in their school accounts only charged them for one. I suspect it was designed to only charge once in a short period of time in case a cashier accidentally purchased the lunch twice instead of once or some other error.
Dunkin donuts gives a free coffee with every 150 or so points if you pay thru the app. It generates a QR code in the app and would also print one on the receipt for the order that got you the free coffee. If you used the receiot code first, the app QR code would still work, netting you 2 free coffees. Sadly they fixed that last year.
MNfolks · 3 points · Posted at 05:00:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A few years ago I could go to the night deposit box at my bank and "deposit" a check (empty envelope) for 200 bucks or however much my "check" was for and it would be deposited into my account. And then I could get back to the bank before they "cashed" my "check" and put money back into my account before the bank took they're money back so I wouldn't go into the negative. It was like a mini loan from my bank without the paper work. Needless to say they revised their ATMs
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:01:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Harris Teeter has a policy that says if a price rings up incorrectly at the register, the item is free. I get a free twelve pack a week because they don't check and I do.
We don't have cable TV. Don't want it. Except when the Olympics are on. I love me some Olympics. Winter, though. I don't really like the summer Olympics as much. So every four years, right around the time the Olympics are gearing up, I call the cable company and say "Hey there, cable company. Long time internet subscriber here. Say, I'd like to try out TV service. Can you offer me a free month with a DVR to see if I like it?" Like clockwork, every four years they come out, hook up the DVR, start the service. I record every event I can and spend the month watching what stores up on the DVR. Then I call them back and say, "Nah, I don't really dig it all that much, but thanks."
The app Spotify has a feature where you can't pick specific songs to play unless you're a premium member, we'll for some reason on one of my tablets I was able to pick any song anytime and listen to it even though I am not a premium member this exploit ONLY worked on that specific tablet, I tried it on other devices but to no avail, Ehhh was fun until that tablet broke
Using public transit as a teenager, I noticed one machine at a subway station ran out of ink and was spitting out paper transfers which prevented the date and time from being recorded.
Stood there for 10 minutes stockpiling them. Didn't have to pay a bus fare for about 3 years. Drivers would give me a hard time once in while but always let me on.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:03:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Collect calls, when you record your name you just say what you want really fast like 'momcomepickmeupfromsoccer' instead of your name.
vpl671 · 3 points · Posted at 05:03:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Grocery store (H-E-B) had a coupon for these adult lunchables that was supposed to be buy one get one free. My wife bought a few and noticed she was charged for just the first one, so we went back and "bought" a few more. We told the story to my mother-in-law who then looked at the receipt to confirm, but then pointed out that we actually didn't even get charged for the first one. We ended up getting over 100 of them over the course of several grocery store trips.
My last car came with Sirius satellite radio. I loved it, but I was poor and ~$30 a month was steep. I let it lapse. 2 weeks later then sent an offer of 6 months for $45. I took it and repeated the process every six months until I sold the car. Last I checked, my dad still does it
A year ago I took the Spotify premium 3 months for a dollar deal, and the credit card ended up being cancelled. They sent me a few notifications in the beginning but after that I've been riding free Spotify premium for a year
Safeway has a guarantee that if an item is mispriced and under $5, you get it free. I would find a bag of carrots, apples, or brussel sprouts that was under weight. Then when they would place it on the scanner, I would point out that weight reading was less than the weight the bag said. Free produce. Finally, after months of this, they told me I couldn't do it anymore. Now I just go to the safeway near my work instead of by my house.
SiriusXM has multiple links for a 30 day free trial, but one of them doesn't ask for a credit card. I have had SiriusXM free for 4+ years, all you do is use/make a different email after 30 days.
Hopefully not too late. As of right now, in the tampa bay area, if you download the McDonalds App, it gives you a free QPC or 10 piece, no purchase necessary. Once you use it you can log out, create a new account and wait about 10 minutes to receive a new coupon. This has been going on since the beginning of the year and ends at the end of march. I personally have gotten over 20 free meals from them so far, and I know my friends have been abusing it too. My friend actually lost his job and wasn't eating for like 2 days at a time so he could feed his kids. This literally saved his life.
In college we always got these giant coupon books on campus. The chickfila coupon was buy one get one free. If you ordered through the drive through and didn't offer the coupon, they usually didn't ask for it.
My roommates and i got like TONS of free sandwiches. I think the record was like 15 times in a row with the same sandwich coupon.
We were wild college kids.
hungs · 3 points · Posted at 05:06:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
About 2-3 years ago, I learned from a co-worker about a coupon code to PapaJohn's that would be 50% off entire order. This particular coupon would never expire and can be used anytime. Used it a ton for a good year or two till they updated their website increasing prices and updating codes.
Editing post to add more exploits.....
AT&T had a deal when Samsung Galaxy S5 were released, when you get the phone there was a American Express promotion where you had to sign up to an app literally called ISIS (before the world new about ISIS). I think this was to promote people to start using the NFC wallet transactions. Anyways, with this promo it said for any transaction you did using that app they would credit back $1 to the account. Well my work had a vending machine also with a NFC enabled payment reader had some items in there for $1. So I tested the app bought a $1 cookie, ate my lunch and cookie dessert. Every other day that $1 was replenished to my account. Yep, tons of cookies till they finally increased the prices.
Another exploit I know of still works to this day so I wont give out the name of this website, but it was used for online homework for a college class. Basically the student would have to buy a semester long access to log in and use the site. The class is generally a 2-semester class and the access lasted a little longer than semester so I continued to use it for the second part of the class. I logged on, registered my class into the site, and used it till my subscription expired. Once it expired if you log in, it tells you it's expired and takes you through steps to purchase a new subscription. Well I would go with all the steps up until the payment page, and then I would open a new tab go to the website and log in and close original tab. For some reason, the site thinks I bought the subscription and allows me to continue my work. Just rinse and repeat every time I had to log in and do my homework. Similarly if the subscription didn't come with an e-textbook and you need to purchase it, then it worked for that too.
RVinnyT · 3 points · Posted at 05:06:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a youngin and went to the arcade, they had ticket machines that would count all your tickets you won from the games. It would then give you a print out of the amount and you can get things with your tickets. I figured out that if you slide the ticket in the machine just enough it would count the ticket without actually taking the ticket. I would leave arcades a very happy kid :)
A few years back there was a leak of Reality Kings accounts, naturally they blocked them so they were pretty much useless after a couple days. That is unless you went on the mobile site, which worked just as well on PC as the desktop site did. Then you could log in and browse to your heart's content. Eventually they cottoned on to this and you couldn't watch vids anymore, you could log in but you couldn't watch videos. However if you right clicked on the vids you could open the vid in a new tab and it would still work. Again they eventually figured that out and you couldn't do that, but you could still right click "save file as" and download 1080p porn at very decent speeds. Sadly about a year after this all started they finally realised that maybe they should just not let canceled accounts log into the mobile site.
Being a teenaged boy at the time I definitely exploited that one.
So theres this clothing store in Australia called Tarocash. About 7 years ago they had this offer on their website where you put in your details and on your birthday they send you out a $50 voucher.... no ID required when putting in your details.... no ID required when redeeming said voucher at the store. This lasted a good year.
kiphinc · 3 points · Posted at 05:08:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pretty simple one here
Pepsi and Mountain Dew bottles used to have a "buy one get one free" thing going on every so often. The design of their bottles at the time made it possible for you to turn it to the side so you could clearly see whether you won or not.
This was probably back in the late 90s when I was a kid. I felt like a drug dealer because I always had a ton of those caps in my pocket and everyone knew it.
You needed a piece of clothing without a tag and wax paper, along with cash money.
Go to WalMart, find something you liked, and buy it with cash. Let's say it's one of these new fangled DVD players. So you walk out the door with your new DVD player and receipt, and put it in your vehicle.
Then, take a small piece of wax paper and stick it in your pocket alongside the receipt, and get your item of clothing. Take the clothing to return to the store, and back then a door person would put a small sticker onto the item that said it was a return along with the date and time.
Now is when the clock starts ticking.
Go past the return counter, and exit back to your car. Remove the sticker and put it on the wax paper, and go back into the store. Find the EXACT same DVD player (or other item) you previously purchased, walk towards the front with it, and put the return sticker on in while walking back. It will stick since the fabric didn't remove the glue, and the wax paper doesn't either. Looks like it was just put on brand new from the sticker gun at the front door.
Make sure you walk from near the garden section to circumvent explaining why you didn't come in the main doors. Once at the return counter simply wait in line and return the item with the receipt for the item you actually bought. Cash back in full.
Now you have a DVD player in your vehicle and the money back for it - and technically done all with a receipt just in case you get stopped.
If you need more than one DVD player, simply go back inside, find the same exact DVD player and walk out the door with it - you have the receipt for just a few minutes ago, although this only works for a period of 5-15 minutes, and only twice unless you time the con for shift change, in which it's around 4 times.
Then simply perform the refund con, and you now have 3-5 DVD players/any other item in your car alongside a full refund for the initial purchase.
If one was brave enough, they could also perform the act on more expensive items in cases such as hard drives, radios, and knives. Of course you also can wait for days or even weeks, since the receipt's timestamp doesn't matter - only the return stickers.
I paid for a cross country, 48 state vacation (as well as the vehicle itself) by simply doing this and pawning the items - with a receipt for proof I didn't steal it - in nearly every state. No idea how much I made from doing this, but I know it was at least $30,000 over the course of a year.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:08:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm the reason my local chick fil a doesn't give out free sandwiches for surveys anymore.
I would take a free sandwich survey card every time I went through checkout, and pay for my meal with- You guessed it- a free sandwich survey card.
Eventually they caught on and now they don't have those anymore.
I drive a scooter as my mode of transportation. There's plenty of space to drive out of a parking garage and go around the gate. Driving a scooter saves me A LOT of money.
There was a place that sent a coupon for a free smoothie the day after you signed up for their text messaging deals. I signed up and STOPed the deals a lot for a couple months.
When i was in college there was a blockbuster video and a family video right down the street from one another. Each place had a long running promotion where if you'd cut up a competitor's card you'd get any rental for free... i just went back and forth between the two getting new cards and free rentals until i graduated
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:09:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
On the previous version of the QuikTrip app after creating an account there was a deal where you got a free pizza and a 20 oz. coke as a reward for making an account and downloading the app. The app didn't have you verify your email account so you just had to delete the quik trip app and redownload it and create another account and get the same deal. You could do this as much as you wanted!
There's a website I visit occasionally that is behind a paywall. Subscriptions are a little overpriced to begin with; for how often I visit the site I definitely wouldn't buy a subscription. Turns out if you hit the stop loading page before the page has fully loaded the pop-up blocking the page and telling you to subscribe doesn't load. Still works to this day.
Over the summer, you could fill out an online survey and get a code for a 32oz slushy/drink from Sonic after buying something there. Chained like 8 within 3 weeks.
And back when Bing rewards was a thing, I got like $80 worth of credit on Xbox doing a few searches a day over a couple months.
You know those soda machines that has the little conveyer belt that your soda bottle would fall on and then conveyer belt over to a shoot where it'd fall down? I found that if you putting money and block the door from allowing the soda drop it'd have you reselect. So pick another soda and do the same thing. Then reselect. Then on the third one, if you're quick and pull the sodas out of the shoot quickly all 3 would drop for the price of one. Haven't used this in years, but used to do it when I was a broke college student.
Way back in the days of dialup when AOL billed hourly, I used to sign up for multiple accounts with the "x hours free" discs. They required a credit card number for this, but they only tested that the card number was valid according to the Luhn algorithm, not that it was an actual working account. I found a program that would generate valid numbers, and went to town.
I'd use up all but a tiny bit of the free hours, then have a marathon final session that went way over the free hour limit. They wouldn't disconnect you when you hit the limit, but after that session was over the account was useless. Rinse and repeat.
A couple months ago Papa John's had a deal where if you paid with visa checkout they would email you a coupon for a free large pizza. When I redeemed my pizza I ordered extra garlic butter do I ended up paying around $1.20. the next day I got another coupon. it turned out that so long as you paid at least $1 with visa checkout you could keep getting free pizza coupons. I ended up getting pizza every day for two weeks before I decided I was overdoing it so I passed the coupon on to a friend who ended up doing the same thing
I had free 30Mbps internet for 2 years, back when 1Mbps was considered "high speed."
When the small, local cable company got into the internet business around 2000ish, they started with a T1 connection and handed out surfboard modems for their 1Mbps service. Being me, I bought my own enterprise modem and router; more so to learn about networking than anything.
Later, the cable co/new ISP upgraded to T3 drops for their growing market, but they continued to offer 1Mbps service only- and left everyone using DOCSIS 1.0 modems on a DOCSIS 2.0 system. This is where my technical knowledge is a bit dim, but somehow, their lack of proper setup of the newer equipment allowed my modem to provision itself for both standards, then give me 30Mbps Upstream but only .5 down.
I called the ISP, told them everything that was going on, they pushed some keys and made some confused noised and then said everything should be sorted out... and indeed; it was. After hanging up, I spent the next two years paying $50 for 1Mbps service but enjoyed a rock solid 30/30 in a time when that was the stuff of gods.
Goddamn it, way too late to the game, but this was a good one, because it involved porn.
Way back in the day of the first satellite television (those huge, metal-mesh dishes that you needed to pour concrete to install), you could basically kind of "tune" those things like a radio receiver.
What I mean is that, sure, the receiver knew where the Spice channel was, but it wouldn't come in clearly if you didn't have a subscription. But if you knew how to work the, I guess what you would these days call the "admin controls", you could tell the dish to adjust its angle a cunt hair of a degree until, lo and behold, actual cunt hair! Wonderful, "crystal" clear, only occasionally skipping, sometimes oddly colored cunt hair!
And yes, you can bet that my 14 year old self exploited the shit out of that.
Domino's online has coupons based on the store you order it from rather than nationwide. My local store had a coupon for a particular pizza, XL, 1-topping, for $10.
But I found out if you add toppings it doesn't charge you for them.
So I would order triple cheese, extra sauce, cheddar, beef, philly steak, chicken, bacon, ham, salami, pepperoni, brooklyn pepperoni, and more bacon.
Regularly like $50, still got it for $10. The delivery people would always take it out and go "holy crap this is one heavy pizza" and then get the machine out and make this silly face as they realized how cheep it was.
That lasted for about 3 months before it got noticed. Then I found another coupon that did the same thing and used that for another 2 months. They seem to have gotten all of them now but I still regularly check.
To fund an expensive habit I have I found a non-fraudulant method to spend money I didn't have...opening multiple bank accounts and multiple Venmo (money transfer app) accounts all in my own name, taking advantage of Venmo's perk to overdraw if there's not enough in your account. So you'll owe Venmo the difference. But with these fresh bank accounts I could send myself money through the app and drive these accounts negative $600-700 at once while Venmo picks up the bill at the bank. Essentially instead of owing the bank I'd accrue debt to Venmo. These transactions were all done and money withdrawn before anyone at either company reviewed or declined what was going on. I accumulated a lot of debt in a very little amount of time...it was one of the dumbest things I've ever done but so was picking up a speedball habit. My credit score will haunt me for a long long time😕
My college required three courses of a second language. They also required everyone to take a test to determine the level of the language you would start at, and whether you would be able to take the classes pass fail or for a grade. I took this test right before computerized version were the only option. For reasons I can't remember, I took the version from a paper book. Luckily for me, who ever used the book last circled the answers but didn't do a good job erasing them. I knew enough Spanish to tell the answers seemed correct.
I was able to take three semesters of Spanish pass/fail. Made college a bit easier.
When i was around 14 years old, my local burger king had a Plinko-style coin catching game. I found that when 3 pennies were simply placed under the front right corner, I could drop in a quarter and win a free combo meal every time.
Amazon has a service where you can sell used items to Amazon and they will give you money for it. They had one weird CD, where the buying price was higher than the selling price, but only by 37 cents. So i bought 1000 of these CD's and sold them to make a profit of 370 dollars.
A friend of mine discovered that the penalty for abandoning the scene of an accident is lower than the penalty for dui. He's done that like 5 times. He's lucky he's not dead.
Local college bookstore would pay for trading in used textbooks. I would just take them off the shelf and give it to them and they would pay me for it. Figured they wouldve caught on after a while so i only did it twice with like 4 textbooks
For five years we stole internet from Comcast. We canceled our cable and they just stopped charging us for the internet.
Then my uncle screwed it up calling for a wi-fi issue and they locked us out.
SIM0NEY · 3 points · Posted at 05:30:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When my brother and I were kids, we found out that the soda machine between our house and the mall had a Lipton sweet tea button that dispensed for free. We drained that shit right after the soda guy filed it and left every time until he realized it and fixed it. That count?
him999 · 3 points · Posted at 05:30:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When spotify family plans first came out i added 5 people to my plan. It was suppose to charge me $5 extra for each if i remember correctly. ($15 for two, $20 for 3) my family all paid me their share....... only spotify never billed me correctly. I always paid $9 or so. When they changed their family plan up it fixed it though.
I work at Dunkin, at the end of each receipt there's a offer if you do the survey online you can get a free donut with a purchase of a med or larger beverage and you get a 5 digit validation code at the end of the receipt. We don't need the validation code to make the coupon work,you can put any 5 numbers and we don't even look at it. You can choose to abuse this or actually do the survey aND mention the crew members name in the what did you like best box. Our managers see the nice things you say about us and it makes our week :)
My college phone book had two BOGO coupons for a local pizza buffet. The coupons didn't have an expiration date on them so I grabbed every copy of the book I could find. I used those coupons for years. One day many years later, the owner was the one running the register I gave him one of the coupons and he laughed, called over the assistant manager and showed him the very first coupon he ever produced and mentioned how he forgot to put an expiration date on it. He honored the coupon but I threw away the rest.
In the mid 90s, when I missed the marks I needed to get into a somewhat prestigious Canadian university, I discovered there was no age, grade or experience stipulation for their adult learning courses which they were just commencing. I signed up for those which were all the 1st year general studies courses. I did this for 2 semesters and transferred in as a regular student at the same spot I would have been in. The adult learning courses were cheaper too!
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:40:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My ex used to work at a grocery store that would give you rewards points for every dollar spent. These points turned into coupons, especially if you spent a lot. Every time he would ring someone up who didn't have a store rewards card he would scan a rewards card registered to me. I would get the rewards coupons in the mail every month containing hundreds of dollars in free cleaning supplies and groceries.
I worked at a sporting goods store with a no questions asked return policy. At the start of the summer, 40-50 people would come in and buy large inflatable swimming pools. These things ran $500-$600. They'd use the pools all summer, then right before school started they would take a knife to the inflatable part and return the pool. If they kept the receipt they got their cash back. If they didn't, they got store credit which they usually used to by school clothes for their kids.
When I was in the 4th or 5th grade we had a computer class where we would do math problems. I sucked at math as a kid (still do) and was just not getting the problems to this test we were doing (believe it was divsion). Out of frustration I just started typing "0" for the answer and wouldn't you know it the computer marked my answer as "correct" I tried it again and it was correct again. At this point I'm like wtf? and just let it rip from there. I was more impressed that I had found and exploited a glitch that worked to my benifit and less excited about how well I did on the final test. Keep in mind this was early 90s on an inner city school PC so there's no telling how jacked up and cheap the program was that they were using. I missed those days, lol
When I went to Robotics Academy (like Space Camp but even nerdier), we had a challenge where had to build a "robot" to complete certain tasks in water. They only had really shitty PVC pipe and so we were kinda SOL trying to get a good buoyancy level and testing it, and so I got mad and started taking it apart and making a giant claw. I stood on the dock and completed every single one of the tasks from the dock with my mega-arm except for grabbing 1 thing that floated into the middle of the lake we were using. So that was pretty fun.
This was only a loophole because a big focus of camp discussion was that there was not a set definition for "robot", so what I had made counted.
I work in the restaurant industry. A while back I managed this upscale hipster burger joint with 20 taps loaded with all types of craft beer. One of breweries of said beer did a dinner with us and we featured them on tap for like a month after. They put in a standing order for a keg a week to us and the brew master was so happy with the dinner he sent out the first 2 free. Around the 2nd week in he retired after signing a deal with Miller/coors and the guy that took over the brewery must have just seen the standing order and let it ride. For 15 more weeks we got piss drunk for free of some dank Colorado IPA before they caught on. By week three we stopped selling it to the public, would close down every night and just have friends come in and get smashed.
I took my pre requisite course test for college on a computer to skip early into school. Apparently their software wasn't too good, even though they blocked every avenue of cheating..
They forgot to block the Windows key, which allowed me to use calculator and search anything I wanted. I searched all questions than cleared history afterwards.
I was never caught and it saved me almost 1 1/2 years of useless courses.
I dunno if it's a loophole, but I found a website where a case of Chimay Rouge was priced the same as a bottle ($15). Only bought 5 because I felt too guilty to try for more. It took me forever to drink it all.
One of my teachers is close to having a school years worth of sick days saved up. He plans on being "sick" for a whole school year, then retiring the next year.
milo0o · 3 points · Posted at 05:51:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Going through the self checkout at Walmart (or other applicable grocery store) and selecting bananas when you actually grabbed...motherfuckin honeycrisp apples
1-800-collect. When you heard the automated thing start asking a question to the person you were trying to call, just start talking. You could hear them over the automated BS, & could get your message through without having the person accept the call. Worked well when I needed to be picked up from the pool by my parents in the days before cell phones.
I had Sirius radio. Only used it in the winter when I snow plowed. Come spring, I unplugged the unit and cancelled my subscription. Next winter I plugged it I and it still worked. My assumption is that they send out disconnect codes over the air for a reasonable time period then stop. Worked again for almost 8 months before it stopped. I guess they send out the end codes a couple of times a year after the initial period.
stringg · 3 points · Posted at 06:26:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I work in a busy downtown and don't have a parking spot. There's a massive parking garage next door attached to a casino that charges $6 per hour. If you play at the casino you can get your parking validated. The minimum amount to get your parking validated is $50, presumably to prevent free parking. Usually I'd work 8 hour shifts, so if I paid to park it would cost $48.
So everyday after work now, I put $50 on red, and have a 48% of winning $50 AND having my parking validated. If I lose, It's only 2 more dollars than what I would have paid. I've been doing it for months and have won enough times that it's effectively nearly free parking in the long run.
20 plus years ago when I was at university, we had meal cards. You could get a monthly plan that gave you up to 3 meals a day. There were a couple cafeterias on campus that were normal buffet style, and one swipe = one meal. There was a quick stop cafeteria kiosk as well but it gave you 7 POINTS for a swipe, and you could use the points to get stuff like for a sack lunch, so there were bananas, granola bars, pop tarts microwave popcorn, cans of soda etc.
I figured out there was a way to time it so you could get the 7 points and a buffet style meal if you hit two cafeterias pretty quickly. I would stock up on soda and snacks and then go eat a hot meal for lunch. I don't remember the details but it was a little tricky but I had it down for a couple of semesters.
In my elementary school we had certain sites blocked on our internet. Like neopets and runescape etc. But you could go to 'My Computer' and then enter the http:// address at the top and viola, you're past the block.
deatoai · 3 points · Posted at 07:31:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not me, but an old boss of mine.
He found a glitch in an mmorpg where he could attempt to sell a highly valued item to an NPC, but close the trade window in a certain way where as he kept his item, got a duplicate of his item, and got the money for it. He then got a couple friends in on it and basically didn't sleep the whole weekend. By Monday, he amassed so much in game currency and rare items, he sold them for real money.
He then used that money to open his own business selling used electronics and knock-off China crap.
I used to work at Blockbuster Back when it was a thing. I ultimately quit upon finding a better job, but I didn't want that to stop me from enjoying all the free movies and games me and my roommate would enjoy. When you rent a game or movie from one location, you can technically return it to any location (even though they ask you to return it to the original store) and they will take it just fine. When you do this, the new store(1) calls the original store(2), tells them they work at said store (1) and reads them the sku number on the movie and it gets checked in from your account. All these checked in movies/games stack up in a huge pile in the back called wrong store pile until they are eventually driven or mailed back. Usually lost to the world. So after I quit I would rent movies or games every week from different stores, then call the store I rented them from acting like an employee at another store (since I knew all the surrounding store codes) and they would get checked in off my account and I would just keep them. Ended up with a massive movie and game collection, constantly trading the games into gamestop or selling to people online.
In Elite: Dangerous, if you have a big enough ship you may receive missions where you transport a large amount of cargo, usually 100+ tons, to another system.
There was one system on the outskirts of inhabited space that offered these "large haul" missions that rewarded a million or so credits to haul the cargo back to inhabited space. However, the cargo was usually illegal stuff like slaves which are worth a lot of money.
You could accept these missions, immediately abandon them, then sell the slaves to the black market at the station for a large amount of money. Then you could do it again. And again. And again. Eventually the faction giving missions will hate you for constantly abandoning and will stop giving them out, but by then you've made a few hundred million credits with next to zero effort.
A buddy of mine recently told me that he spends less money paying tickets for illegally parking at the university than he would for a parking spot. In two semesters, he's paid about 150$ rather than about 600$ per semester.
At 16 I worked at a gas station that has a points system, a few points for water or snacks, etc. after something crazy like 500,000 points, which I imagine only truckers and travelers could rack up, you could turn in your points for $100 gift card. We would scan your members card, hit redeem rewards, then pick up a small receipt that would deduct the hundred dollars off of the gas gift cards that you could buy. I noticed all the barcodes were the same on the little receipt. After you scan the barcode you were told to just take the receipt, crinkle it up and toss it in the trash, but I would instead stack them in the bottom of the till. At the end of the night I would take them home, hand them out to all my friends and we had free gas for the entire summer.
In my junior year of high school we did a 1920s stock market simulation. We got some starting money, could buy stocks in various companies in any combination, and could take out a loan equal to twice the cash we had on hand.
Each 'day' of the market I would sell off all the stocks I had, take out a loan equal to 2x current capital, pay off the previous loan, and then buy into stocks spaced evenly across the available companies.
It was the 1920s so I assumed everything would keep going up very quickly until some horrendous crash. Luckily, I had a friend who was a senior who had played this same game before and remembered that the crash happened on day ten.
So day nine comes around and I said to my group "why don't we just pay off the loan and hold onto the money?" and they went with it because we were so stupidly far ahead of every other group that it was fine.
The crash comes and the teacher asks for anyone with money left to tell him how much we have. I walk up with a shit eating grin and a note that says we have $10.35874 * 1023 in our account.
tl;dr Played a 20s stock market simulation in high school, ended up with about a mole of money and insider traded my way out of the crash.
When I was 15, I discovered that I could buy boxes of 100 DVDs off of ebay for $60, then sell them for $2-3 each at the local pawn shop for a profit of $140-240. Eventually they accused me of selling them fake DVDs, but I'm pretty sure they were just sick of me bringing them so many bad movies. I made about $1500 profit before it got to that point. Not bad for a 15 year old...
I was around 8 or 9 at a pizza joint that had these arcade games. I lost a token in one and when I told the cashier, he stuck a long metal tool into the coin slot and a bunch of tokens came out. He gave me one and kept the rest. The next time I lost a token I told him I lost 4; he was suspicious about my claim when only 2 popped out initially but he kept going and eventually, more than 4 popped out and he gave me 4. At this point, I realized that a butter knife would fit into the coin slot enough to give me all the tokens I could use for the evening. Free games!
crusoe · 10 points · Posted at 03:48:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So much theft in this thread.
sbashe5 · 7 points · Posted at 01:20:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I worked at my first fast food job, the sheet to request off started on a Sunday and ended on saturday. So I would only ask off on Saturday and Sunday, and would work all through the week. So basically I got every weekend off for around 4 months before the scheduling manager noticed. Fast food is full of loopholes
in gtav online when racing if you all place a wager on yourself and then dq a driver it would forfeit the race and award everyone maximum payout. We got tens of millions before they fixed it.
ccrexer · 5 points · Posted at 04:55:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A long time ago in a galaxy right here (Early '70s'), Dollar change machines were not very sophisticated. They just shined a light through the tray that you laid your dollar on, if it matched, you got your change. So, being the enterprising degenerate that I was, I went to my local drug store that had a copy machine that you could make a copy on 8.5X11 for .10 or 8.5X14 for .15. I laid dollar bills on the glass and made a shitload of $1 copies. Cut them to size and went to the local laundry-mat. I cleaned out the change machines, then went to the local do it yourself car wash and cleaned out that machine. BAM, instant free pinball! Yes, pinball, no vidya games yet. I ran this scam until someone a bit older than me explained that it was counterfeiting, a federal offense.
hab1b · 6 points · Posted at 05:22:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Costco has it written in their By Laws that if your dividend does not cover the cost of your next years membership then you didn't get legitimate value out of it. Thus they will cover the difference for the next membership.
A lot of the workers there do not know this, but every time I do it I just bring in a copy of their By Laws, they look it up on their own, and happily give me the membership for free less whatever my dividend was. EG: Last time my dividend was $17 so they took that money and comped the remaining $183 for me.
In call of duty modern warfare 3 (a video game), there was a glitch online where you could keep getting more prestige tokens. I kept exploiting the glitch and used the prestige tokens to unlock everything.
Juraraw · 6 points · Posted at 04:16:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At red Robin I've figured out how to order 8 boneless wings, bottomless fries and bottomless chips for 4.99.
Juraraw · 5 points · Posted at 05:40:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You order the small boneless wings appetizer and ask for fries instead of chips. Once you have fries on the table at red Robin they're automatically bottomless. And almost every time the server hasn't bothered to not bring out the chips which are the same deal.
The self-checkout line at my local Albertsons is fatally flawed. You take any item (oranges, steaks, string cheese, anything) and place it on the counter where you would usually scan or weigh the item, then instead of scanning it you go into the screen for items with no barcodes. You'll get a list of items like bananas and celery and whatever else from A to Z. I always select GARLIC (and this is the real loophole) because a prompt will come up that asks how many cloves am I getting and you enter it yourself. Basically what happens is you bypass the need to scan or weigh an item by substituting garlic and because we're user reporting the count, you can put anything and self-checkout will accept it, no problems. You'll only end up paying a couple bucks, walk out with a receipt and you can even ask an employee to help you out with your groceries.
I'm a college student without a steady income, so this little trick has saved me thousands of dollars in groceries over the years.
itsjero · 7 points · Posted at 04:43:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well prolly gonna bust myself out and ruin this exploit but it worked long enough for me.
Living in Washington state has it's ups and downs, and having Amazon is an upside for everyone but folks that live in this state. Gotta pay the man, so all orders from Amazon are taxed. My family lives in other states and doesn't have to pay tax on large items like tv's or anything else really. Very peanut butter and jelly.
So one holiday I got an Amazon gift card. Turns out if you use a gift card to pay no tax is added.
Well now anytime I want a big item I just go to the store, buy a gift card and they don't charge tax, then pay using said gift card.
Not a huge deal but on a big tv or expensive item, it can save hundreds.
furedad · 1 points · Posted at 06:23:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I wonder if you have to go to a store. Could you make an Amazon account in a state with no tax and buy gift cards online?
itsjero · 1 points · Posted at 08:23:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't know. If I pay with my credit card, I get taxed. Gift card, no tax. Don't even get taxed on gift card purchase at local store. Discovered it by mistake.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Loophole or theft? - but a woman in Australia - where supermarkets now have self serve checkouts - scanned and printed out her own sticky bar codes from cheap, instant noodles and stuck them over the higher priced items.
CCTV looked like she was scanning objects properly but they were priced at cheap noodle rates.
Supermarket found out when it was re-ordering shitloads of noodles that overflowed their storage area and shelves. No-one was buying that many noodles.
One time i bought all the stock at my school store and turned it into a monopoly with a turnover of 800% as i controlled all supply. Its nothing to the genius of some of you guys, but i was proud of that.
DomSP · 2 points · Posted at 02:47:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had to do an essay in college about 2 films and compare aspects of them for my course, but I couldn't be bothered watching the movies so what I did was read the synopsis of both the film's on IMDB and did my essay that way, nobody has time to watch films when it would be quicker to read a synopsis
ant2k15 · 2 points · Posted at 03:07:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Seamless. I found a way to keep getting coupons as if I'm a new user , and I just keep using them whenever they send them. Coupons range from 7 - 15 dollars off. And I've been doing this for 3 Years. Got me through undergrad and then some.
This was pre-cell phones. The lobby phone where I worked was normally restricted to in-building calls only. But, a certain 3-digit code connected to the full company phone network. Then, 9 got an outside line, and I could call anywhere.
I never abused it (no international calls, for example) but it was a great way to make calls without having to return to my office.
The old Dunkin Donuts app. At one point, they had a deal on the app where if you bought a medium hot coffee (or something), you got a free medium iced coffee. One of my friends was able to take a screenshot of this coupon, and use Snapchat (not even photoshop) to white-out the part that said the "with purchase of a medium hot coffee". All of sudden, we had a coupon that said "Free Iced Coffee" and a hot summer in New England ahead of us. You can imagine how that screenshot was utilized. We'd call it "running the gauntlet" and would use the same coupon at 4 or 5 different Dunkin Donuts in our neighboring towns in one trip. It was a sad, sad day when Dunkins updated their app, and made it impossible to take screenshots of deals and use them an infinite amount of times.
The coin op washers in my old apartments would get jammed all the time. Two quarters would get jammed in the return slot. Eventually the jammed up quarters would make it all the way up to the top and the machine would stop working. Someone in the office would tape up an "out of order" sign and call for repair. I figured out the issue and that a butter knife would free the jam. It was like like a slot machine. I didn't pay for laundry for two years.
We had a drink vending machine with the cool belt grabber. If your drink was on the belt and you hit the money return, the drink would still come your way and you'd get your money back.
I had a Groupon code for our local dominos pizza for $50.
Let's just say that dominos never bothered to take my code for a whole year. When the time finally came for them
To take it (I tipped the drivers regardless as I feel they bust their asses and deserve it anyways), there was already another Groupon code I got and just gave them that instead.
To this day I still use my $50 Groupon code that hasn't expired yet every now and then to order some pizza until they decide to take it from me lol.
I had a summer job and there was a pizza/sub place across the road that had a lunchtime guarantee that if your food wasn't ready fifteen minutes from when you order it your next lunch was free. My friend and I would go there every Friday just after noon and it would always take more than fifteen minutes because they were so busy so we only paid for lunch the first week.
When I was younger and payphones were still a thing, you used to be able to make free calls is you had a drinking straw and a 50c (or greater) coin.
You just needed to put the coin in the phone, then insert the flattened straw in a small gap at the top of the coin return flap. It would hit some sort of lever inside, and cause the coin to drop down into the return slot.
Just take the straw out, grab your coin back, then make your call.
I must have done that for a few years before the fixed that.
Paid 3 months gym membership upfront to try new gym out. Didn't check auto renew when I signed up. My membership card still scans at the front desk. Saved $50/month for like 7 months so far
In RuneScape, feathers sell for around 50 GP at the Grand exchange but you can buy them for 6 GP at fishing shops. So you buy 1000 feathers for 6 GP each, then sell them all for 50 GP each making around 44,000 in a minute or so.
Figured our how to put my college's vending machine into test mode and get as much free stuff from it as I wanted. That included sandwiches, books and even a calculator!
Did something similar with a pre pay electricity meter system when I was in college housing. It worked by punching a card so we opened it up and disabled the punch. We could reuse cards as much as we needed. We only used this occasionally as we didn't want to get caught though.
You can use that free scoop from Baskin Robbins coupon A LOT! It's supposed to be one scoop on your birthday. I printed out a bunch and had a free scoop almost every day for 2 weeks. Thanks guys!
for my AP science class (12th grade) we have our regular tests every once in a while. Well I took a test one day and I remembered a question on it. I looked up the question because I wanted to see if I got it right. Turns out the whole test was online and I still study off that. If I ever get caught I can make a case that I technically am using it to study for the test. In fact the website says test "preparation" not answers. Also I don't just memorize the answers. I genuinely take the test prep first (I actually do well) and then I memorize the answers. Plus there are some questions on the test that aren't on their because only multiple choice questions are on the test prep. I get those questions correct as well. I'd say I get around 102% on all my tests as an average (tests are worth 65% of my grade). Even if I didn't use it I'd still get around a 95% so it's not like I'm too dependent on it. I do it for one reason. So that I don't have to do all the HW I get in the class (HW is worth 15%) and can enjoy my free time since I have all AP classes and I play sports.
I found a glitch in a Minecraft server, back when I played it, which I could exploit to suddenly spawn thousands of entities in, lagging out the area and somewhat the server. I used this glitch to punish anyone that annoyed me or my friend. Good times.
In my high school senior year we had four 90 min classes but the handbook stated to be counted as present I only had to attend each class for 60 min. I only used this for my first class since I didn't want to ruin the exploit too soon. It was nice sleeping in every day.
Outback Steakhouse. Order water while I think of my meal, get a loaf of bread in the meantime and then decide I don't want to eat there. As a teenager I've done this plenty of times.
Worked at a Bertucci's. If you get a side order of meatballs it comes two in an order and is pretty cheap. Combine those meatballs with their amazing rolls and you got yourself some damn cheap and delicious meatball sliders.
Lynerd · 2 points · Posted at 03:59:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In December 2015 Starbucks had an offer of "get a free cup of our Christmas blend beans" if you showed the baristas your email. I went to 2 different Starbucks and got 2 free cups of beans.
My cable provider had a promo of 3 months free hbo and Cinemax. I'd call and add it then call in 3 months and cancel. The next day I'd call and add it on again. I did it for 3 years before I moved to an area that provider didn't cover.
jphive · 2 points · Posted at 04:06:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If i tell you, everyone will do it and then it will be fixed so it doesn't work any more.
I found out there was a Dominoes Pizza coupon for 1 large any number of toppings pizza for 8.99. It came with a coupon code you had to enter to use it online and the code itself seemed to be unique to my University. Found out a few things about it: 1. The coupon could be reused as many times as I wished. 2. The coupon could be used at ANY Dominoes location.
Result: Me, and my entire friend group (Some who live across country), got cheap 5 topping or more large pizzas for 9 bucks for 4 months before the promotion ended.
I stole a sim card out of a Verizon phone at the store one time and it worked for a little over two years, completely free texting, data, and calling.
t3hxman · 2 points · Posted at 04:08:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A bar I frequented in my late teens had a couple of pinball machines. One night a mate and I got there pretty early and it was kind of quiet so we decided to play pinball for a bit. On inserting a coin we heard a crash coming from the change return but the game fired up anyway. Found $8 in the change tray and played free pinball all night. It had been fixed by the time I went back though.
I've told this story before, but back in about 2000 Best Buy and Microsoft had a promotion where you could get a $300 Best buy shipping spree if you signed up for 3 years of service through Microsoft's dialup ISP. At $20/mo, bad deal, right?
The fine print? Service not cancelable except in California and Oregon.
I took my $300 of loot and called to cancel that week.
They had to shut down the promotion when they realized word got out.
Remember the Tupac lyric "1-800-skypage when you wanna see me"? Turns out that was a real service back before cell phones. You'd setup an account tied to a credit card and load money on your account. Then you could go to any pay phone, dial 1-800-skypage, put in your numerical pw and make free calls. We tried random number combinations until we got one that worked. We used it for about 6 months before it stopped working.
At church camp, we figured out that if you punched the side of the vending machine, two light would go on and give you a free credit. We ate like Kings!
Probably late to this but; shack shack has a free burger promotion for new accounts made on the mobile app which basically takes 5.50 off your order. I've been making new accounts for the past month and eating that for my lunch everyday with cheese fries. Offer ends on the 28th so I'm going to have to start paying for lunch. :(
jmanpc · 2 points · Posted at 04:12:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At Dave and Buster's, there was a game where you had to position and drop a hoop around a cylinder. If you lined it up just right, the hoop wouldn't touch the cylinder, and touch the bottom of the game and you'd win tickets.
Well this particular machine was set up so that if you just held the right button until it spotted moving, then dropped the hoop, you'd win 50 tickets every time. So I played until the machine was out of tickets, then waited for it to be refilled, then ran it out of tickets again. I guess an employee watched because the next time they moved the cylinder a smidge.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:12:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Taking a screenshot of a Dunkin Donuts e-coupon and getting free coffee daily.
shildot · 2 points · Posted at 04:14:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Iowa, there's video slot machines in most bars. One particular gambling machine I have figured out a system that I literally never lose. I don't abuse it to badly. Once a month nets around $50-200 depending on how it goes.
I used to work as a cashier at a local grocery store. As an incentive for us to encourage customers to take surveys, we would get a five dollar cash card (in store only). Two of the other cashiers would take tons of surveys for themselves. They would get like $150 dollars a week from that shit, until the store manager changed and put an end to that shit.
I worked at batteries plus a couple years ago. Particular batteries sold have a commission varying from 1 - 10 dollars per battery. We also build battery packs, weather for a power drill, electric razors, battery backups. One day a maintenance guy from a local apartment complex came in with a big order of emergency exit sign battery backups. He had to have brought in 60 or so batteries that I had to build manually. Noticing the batteries looked very similar to a cordless phone battery that had a dollar commission on it, rather than building every pack from scratch, I unpacked 60 of those batteries, spot welded the positive and negative leads where they had to go, and made myself an extra 60 bucks that day.
Found a HP part number for a Intel Enterprise grade SSD, only 10% the retail price. Let's just say we bought a pallet and sold them for half retail and made a chunk of money.
Missing Number cheat in the original Pokémon Red and Blue games. I was the first kid in my class to find out about it, so I'd charge 5 bucks to get someone's Charizard level 100 in a day. Once the rest of the class figured out what to do my monopoly fell apart. Made almost a hundred bucks as a 4th grader.
I found out that someone had registered the number 867-5309 (with a local area code) at Safeway. That number had $0.30 off the gallon's worth of fuel points and something like a 20% discount in store. I probably saved something like $50 before it stopped working.
during the school photos week they accedentaly printed out my ASB card with the staff format, including the internet access and a bar-code on the back that allows me into all vending machines, theater, lunch pay and a few others. i go to the theater with my bag of whatever i want to eat and drink and my school computer with now access to unblocked internet to watch Netflix during lunch
zoooN · 2 points · Posted at 04:20:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Earned money by buying certain pre owned games cheap and sell them back to GameStop for more money. Bug in their system and we worked with shitty pay.
When I was in college, I couldn't afford Amazon Prime, but really wanted it. I had a google business mail account from a blog I had, so I just kept creating new new email addresses on my domain and kept getting 30 day free trials of Prime. This went on for years until I could afford it and was tired of making new email addresses.
In high school we found this old vending machine upstairs (there was only one classroom upstairs.. It was a small high school), we could just stick our hands in and pull out cans of pop. They kept that thing stocked too. It was cool.
polio23 · 2 points · Posted at 04:21:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Idk if this works anymore but it was a fairly well known secret in gaming exploit communities but if you changed your default currency to Brazilian real on the blizzard site you could get basically any transaction for about half the price in terms of realm transfers, race changes, etc.
slelham · 2 points · Posted at 04:21:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
About 10 years ago in high school. Teachers had software to block our computers from going on the internet. I found out if I unplug my Ethernet and plug it back in I was getting a new ip which was then not in the list of IP's to block and allowing me to surf the web. I told one person and it spread like a wildfire. That year I graduated but I still had high school friends that told me that they changed their entire system
Exvaris · 2 points · Posted at 04:24:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when I had more time, I used to buy prepaid gift cards with my credit card, load the gift cards into an American Express Bluebird account, then transfer the funds back to my bank.
Was able to rack up hundreds of thousands of miles this way with minimal cost, although eventually the CC companies caught up and only allowed the gift cards to be purchased with cash.
Doesn't nearly compare to the old dollar coin days, but it was decent. Haven't done much churning nowadays though.
Exvaris · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've taken a peek in once or twice! I used to be on FlyerTalk a lot too, but nowadays I feel like I just don't have the time - working in management plus grad school in the evenings plus a new baby at home has made me not worry about manufactured spend.
I will probably think about getting back into it soonish. I remember being kind of put off by the sort of elitist / secret society feel from some people though. A lot of people want to protect their secrets.
There used to be a loophole with the old iphone 2g through at&t to get grandfathered into the unlimited data plan .
You would buy your phone, insert your SIM card, and sign up for the unlimited 2g data plan through iTunes. This would grandfather you into the unlimited data plan.
Several of my friends used that old phone to sign up for the plan until it sadly got patched in iTunes.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:25:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Free boxes from USPS back in the day. Sent hundreds of those to people I wanted to prank, or get back at.
I failed math in 8th grade and so I had to go to summer school. Thing is though, we were moving and switching school districts so I never actually had to go to Summer school.
Crxh22d · 2 points · Posted at 04:28:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sprite used to have 1 in 20 "free soda" written under their bottle caps. In the late 90s I was a bottle boy (stocked bottles at the local gas station) and I would hold the bottle up under the light and look for winners. I won so much sprite.
ToshieZ · 2 points · Posted at 04:29:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There used to be an Amazon Coin deal with 4 free games and the last being GTA: San Andreas. The 4 games all gave $4 worth of coins and GTA: SA costed $4. The catch was that GTA:SA gave you $20 for buying it off the Amazon Marketplace/App Store. I made a quick script that fetch random American addresses for the required info and started creating accounts.
Long story short, exploited Amazon coins worth $8000 and spent it all on some random game I was playing at the time.
Sybre · 2 points · Posted at 04:30:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in highschool, there were 4 vending machines. 2 that were normal, one extremely old, one brand new. Both the old one and new one I was able to exploit. The old one never worked properly. It didn't take bills, never gave back change, it was a hunk of junk. Well it turns out, while things were listed as like $.50 to $2.00, if you pressed the letter button first, put in any coin, then pressed the number button, it would vend anything.
The new vending machine was a bit different. It had a card reader on it, and was run by a raspberry pi (mini computer). Other members of our robotics team and I did some research and found out that the vending machine is connected to the wifi to do card charges. So we bought $5 gift cards, unplugged the wifi adapter from the ethernet port and do a charge. Turns out, when it has no ethernet connection, the charge fails but the machine vends. We practically lived off those machines considering we would stay at school until like 9:00pm working on our robot.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:31:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My university's housing is handled by a private company that also takes care of food. They charge us around $6.5 - $9.00 per dish, which is kinda expensive.
The loophole? The person in charge of handling prices is lazy. All side dishes are $1.5 in some tiny box that no one looks at, and often, not much thought is put into what is a "side dish". Almost everyday, something fancy like Au Gratin Potatoes or biscuits with mushroom gravy is served alongside some cheap salad, and the Au Gratin potatoes is labelled as $1.5 if I order it separately. I feast like a king on a paupers budget now and I don't plan on stopping.
Costco used to have a return policy on appliances that would not expire. Any appliance bought before April 2015 (I'm not sure of the date) could be brought back at any point for a full refund. Needless to say, a lot of people took advantage, and are still taking advantage of that.
If I prepaid for gas at a local gas station with my credit card, they would refund me with cash instead of back onto my card. I got 'cash advances' on it any time I wanted to buy marijuana in college. Maxed the card out real fast. Only took 4 about 4 years to pay that card off, but that was a fun year.
As an adult, I actually have actual money in the bank, and I can just buy it in a store.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At my school, you can charge lunch if you don't have cash on you. I used to always bring lunch but I didn't one day and had no money so I decided to charge lunch. I got a sandwich and went to charge and the lunch lady said that I'm "class B" or something, which never happened to me before. Keep In mind this is in the middle of the year. So she said I got it for free. I've been getting lunch for free all the time now. That was last year and it still works this year. And no, I'm not on financial aid with the school or anything. I don't want to ask why I've been getting free lunch because I'm afraid it will end. Lol maybe last day of senior year
When I worked for a phone provider in the mall they had a promotion where if you signed in with their free wifi you would get a free sub from subway. Everytime I activated a phone I used the wifi to get a free sub. I ate subway for like 4 months before they stopped.
With Amazon Prime, I used to be able to get a next day delivery package even if I did the two day delivery by ordering early in the morning. If there was something I wanted, I'd make sure to buy it at like, 7 AM and it would be shipped out and often in state by night time. It would then go out for delivery the next day. This was really handy for items where the next day shipping cost was high, since two day shipping is free. Amazon got wise to this because any time I've tried it since, the package ends up sitting in the distribution center for a day before going out for delivery.
I got a new credit card with a promo where you would get a $500 bonus for spending $1000 each month for 3 months or something like that. Each month I would buy an item like a TV from Costco, then return it a few days later. Most of the time companies will just credit the money back to the account it came from, but Costco would just give me cash which I would then use to pay off my credit card bill. In the end, I got the $500 bonus without spending a dime because the credit card company had no way of knowing the items had been returned.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How long ago was this? Does Costco let you do this.... Get the money back via cash? They always asked if I want it back in the CC. I would just say yes because I assumed they would only give me store credit.
This was a couple years ago. I haven't tried it with any big items since, but I returned a printer a couple months ago and they gave me back cash no problem even though I paid with a card.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hmm, I'll try this with their own version of go pro. It's like $400
When I was in middle school I was in an esteemed academic program in the school where we worked on projects and competed all the time, we started using it as an excuse to get out of class and the instructor didn't care so the only thing I would really do all day was mess around outside in the woods outside my school...I'm still surprised I even graduated middle school since the only class I regularly attended was math
Back when Borders operated in Australia, they used to send out discount coupons periodically for their mailing list members that weren't unique, meaning that you could print the same coupon out multiple times and use them all successfully.
They were also very generous, and vague. Often along the lines of 'Get 50% off any full priced item' and the like. I got countless books, box sets, expensive coffee table books etc at drastically reduced costs. Used to print the coupons out 50 times while at work and hand them out to colleagues, friends and family.
It's no surprise to me at all that they went out of business in Australia. These coupons were ridiculously generous, were sent out frequently, and free of restrictions.
We had a Happy Joe's (kids pizza and game place) I'm my town with ski ball machines. There is a button on top of the machines that releases more ski balls without ever putting in a token. I would win hundreds of tickets without spending a single cent
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:35:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is it only Google voice numbers where this isn't allowed?
A vegan food delivery service had a loophole on their ordering form. Apparently they had a groupon for a free 1 month supply of meals but on the website it just asked for you to "click here" if you'd bought the groupon. I clicked it. Three times. One for each address I had access to. Then did the same for my friends and coworkers. I ate well for months. The company eventually changed it.
When I moved in to my new rental property I transferred over all utilities including my Gas account. Well shortly after I had moved in somebody else accidentally used the same address as my new property when they switched their utilities over to their new address.
In Victoria, Australia (where this happened) the billing companies are often a separate company from the suppliers for power and gas, they also have a poorly thought out system with no safeguards in place to prevent this sort of thing happening.
After about 4-5 months I realised that I wasn't being billed for my gas. I called my gas company to figure out why and they told me I had transferred my gas to another billing company when I moved in to the new property. I called the other billing company, the one referred by my original biller, and they were unable to find me in their system as a customer.
After talking with a few reps from both companies I figured out that the mystery person who somehow accidentally listed my address as they changed gas billers had only half completed the migration process over the phone. The side-effect of this was that my property was receiving a gas supply but not listed in any customer directory for a billing company. It's the equivilent of best friends telling their parents they are both sleeping at each other's house for the night.
I did a bit more digging and discovered that gas companies can only enforce back payments for max 6 months under Australian law. So instead of jumping through a slew of red tape to get the property relisted for gas billing I just did nothing and waited for somebody to call me back... for 18 months.
Eventually I had to get the listing fixed before my supply was tapped off as the residence was declared officially abandoned by the utility company, but I had about $3,000 wiped off my billing back pay.
When using a soda/vending machine I typically hit the buttons of the items I can't decide between simultaneously. When I was a kid they installed a soda machine up the street from me. I found out if you pressed Cherry Coke and Mr. Pibb at the same time it would give you two Mr. Pibb. I drank a lot of Mr. Pibb growing up.
Restaurant by me has a pretty well appointed salad bar. $8.99. It also has lunch and dinner entree specials. You can add the salad bar for $2.99. So on Sunday order an entree, add salad bar option, eat salad bar, and entree goes directly in to-go box for lunch at work Monday.
You can get half price cinema tickets for a year in the UK by buying any kind of insurance from compare the market. I bought some £2.10 one day travel insurance. Pays for itself in one trip
I was in high school when I would do this. But I would buy games at Game Stop and would return it within the 7 days allotted, but play and pass it before then. So I would get the experience of the game, and not spend money. Eventually they caught on and I could only do it 3 times before I had to keep the game, but after that I would start a new cycle to essentially "rent" the game.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:37:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was this pizza place down at the beach that would give you a receipt with a survey on it. If you filled it out you got a slice of pizza for free...
which they gave you another receipt for.
Loken89 · 2 points · Posted at 04:38:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had Straight Talk and always waited for my subscription to be up before paying for the next month. Well, one month it just never went off. Checked my account, no money taken out, so I kept my mouth shut. After a year or so, my phone got messed up and I had to call, where they fixed the problem. 2 months later, the same thing happened. Had a free cell for about 2-3 years before I got a job that required a larger service area, I miss it. To my knowledge, it's a pretty well known glitch in their system, and it still happens today.
I remember in high school, me and my friends would go through a taco bell drive through in our area and order our food like normal. After getting through the drive through, we would park, go inside, and tell the cashier that they forgot one of our food items or drink. We would always just get it no questions asked.
We started escalating from fiesta potatoes or a taco to more expensive items or even multiple items. Never got caught, always got it no questions asked. Between the turnover being high and teenagers not giving a shit, we got tons of free taco bell by just stating it was forgotten in the drive through.
As a teenager I would pull up, grab food, drive forward 10 feet, place some food under driver seat, put car in reverse, and tell them they forgot some of my items.
I had an xbox 360 in high school. my dad let me skip a couple of days of class to try to flash the firmware on it. I figured it out on the start of the third day and i figured out how to play burned games. There was a video game rental chain (regional) in my town and if you went on their website, you could print off a rental for one free video game rental for one day. No limit apparently because I used a fuck ton of those coupons to copy the game, return it, rent another free one and copy that. Had probably around 150 copied xbox 360 games AND THEN I GOT THE RED RING A YEAR LATER );
TLDR; was able to play copied games on xbox 360, exploited 1 day rental coupon bc the store figured I would forget to return and pay late fees. didn't forget and wound up with over 150 copied xbox 360 games. then red ring
Don't know if this counts but in Ratchet and Clank 1 if you use the Robot Cloaking thing then you speak to the Blackwater Race Hostess you'll glitch and be walking from here you go to the final big jump with all the boxes get out the Taunter weapon hold O and it breaks the boxes while regenerating them. Best way to get the RYNO
I live on the Canadian American border which certain areas can turn to roaming- well I go to trips in America as far as Florida or as little as Detroit racking up my phone bill roaming charges in the hundreds ( highest I've had was 750$). I call them every time I do this and tell them " I live in a border city and my phone goes to roaming when I'm at work" no questions ask they credit the roaming amount. Honestly have done this for about 8 years. If they were smart and looked at where the roaming was coming from they wouldn't be crediting me over a grand a year off my bill
Chalico · 2 points · Posted at 04:40:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My jobs work week is Sat - Friday , I worked 6 nights.
Now I would do over night on Friday at clock in at 8 pm well I found out my hours I get into Friday will carry over till I clock out on Saturday. So I would stay on the clock for 20 hrs with out being there.
I averaged 20-30 hrs overtime a week doing this
jamthat · 2 points · Posted at 04:40:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not sure if this counts, but around 11 years ago I got a coupon code for a well know ski/snowboard company's website that was good for 75% off a single item, one time only. Got it from a friend who worked at a store that sold their gear.
Turns out it could be used for unlimited items, multiple times. I enjoyed my next few seasons
I found a loophole in a carpark once in New Zealand. You had to take your ticket from a machine, keep it with you, then put it into the auto pay machine when you were about to leave and pay your parking fee for the time you had been there. Except I discovered by accident that if you put the ticket into the auto machine right when you arrived, then it was free, because it assumed you had been there for less than an hour (which you had, because you just arrived). There was no other way for anyone to check how Long your car was actually sat there for, so it was brilliant, I got like a year's worth of free parking until they fixed it. Felt bad sometimes but then also fuck the parking rates in Auckland.
If you have an international flight that's delayed, complain! Airlines care a lot about international flights and there are laws, especially in the EU, on compensation for delays or cancellations. Do this especially if you are a frequent flier with that company.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm way late by now, but why not. I was in a fantasy football league (12 teams) with the weirdest reward system I've ever played. It was $300 buy in, and the winner of the whole league made something like $500. However, each week the top WR group (most yards total) and top Defensive group (most tackles total) each were rewarded $50 Well, my father (Co-Owner) and I threw the overall scoring out the window and focused exclusively on cycling WR's who averaged high yardage totals and defensive players who had a high number of tackles per game or played a heavy run team. We ended up winning something around $1,200 despite coming in near last place. We were not invited back the following year lmao.
This exploit involved two mods for Minecraft 1.7.10: Applied Energistics 2 and Extra Utilities. AE2 has this thing called a Formation Plane, it basically lets you either place blocks or spawn the item as an entity in the world. XU has a block called the Ender Collector, what it does is pick up item entities before they spawn in the world and place them in an adjacent inventory. The purpose of this is that it reduces the lag that mob grinders would make when mobs drop loot.
Now for the exploit. If you give the formation plane a very expensive item to spawn but have the ender collector nearby, the collector will pick up the item but the item that the formation plane has never gets consumed.
So you have a dupe bug that can't be fixed short of disabling the ender collector.
There was one time Best Buy had GTA V on sale for half off, so it was $30 +tax. The trade in value for GTA V was $30, but they had a 50% bonus so the trade in total was $45. Each copy of GTA V I bought that day made me $12.
That was a fun weekend. I think they realized what was up and now cut the trade in value when the game goes on sale.
I lived in a backpacker hostel for 9 months after moving to a new city. I paid $80/week for rent because I did menial maintenance when I knocked off work like silicone sinks, remove locks left on abandoned lockers, tighten bolts on the bunk beds etc. I had a master key to the whole building and access to find out which rooms were empty, but I digress.
On the balcony there was a coin operated pool table. It took $2 coins and the system was the kind where you place a coin in a slot then push a slide to deposit the money. Well, thanks to the combined stinginess that is backpackers and a kind fellow that showed us this trick, we played free pool every day.
Take a cotton ear bud and pull the cotton off one end. Put the bare end into the slot and wiggle it around a bit while slowly pushing the slide in. About 1/2 - 3/4 of the way in you'll feel the ear bud slip into a little notch. With a bit of minor adjusting of the slide you will get it to slide all the way in (about 10mm). When this happens, push the slide in the rest of the way. It'll chop off the end and register it as a coin.
Every time the guy came to collect the money from the machine he would bitch and complain to the front desk that he was being cheated out of money. Nobody cared, not even the owner, because he got fuck all from the payment for the table (10c from every $2 went to the hostel)..
I don't see why this system wouldn't work with other slide-style payment machines, but I haven't tried it on any.
Think I'm a bit late here but I managed to get 102 copies of The Legend of Zelda 4 game collector's disc for free from Nintendo. That marked the end of Nintendo running good promos, in favor of their Nintendo coin bullshit they're doing now.
Years ago, Nintendo offered a promotion where they gave away The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition disc for the Gamecube, in three different ways:
Purchasing a Nintendo Power subscription would get that as the free gift. This in and of itself was +EV, as the subscription was $20 and the game was eBaying for $30-35 at the time. This is probably why the rest of this went unnoticed for so long.
New GameCube systems being sold in the store that holiday season included the collector's edition disc as a pack-in.
Nintendo was marketing four new games at the time - 1080 Snowboarding, Mario Kart: Double Dash, Mario Party 5, and Mario + Luigi: Superstar Saga. If you purchased any two of these, took the included PINs included with the games, and registered those numbers on your My Nintendo account along with your GameCube serial number, this would qualify you to have a free copy of the collector's edition mailed to you.
Number 3 was exploitable in many, many ways:
-One person could have an unlimited number of MyNintendo accounts, even if the addresses matched, and the last names, so long as the first names were different. (Guessing this is because two siblings in the same household, roommates, etc. may want to have separate accounts.)
-You were able to use the same GameCube Serial # on a vast number of MyNintendo accounts; when this stopped working, I found that the GameCube Serial # pattern was the exact same pattern that is used for Delivery Confirmation numbers at the post office - seriously, if you have an old GameCube, take the number, and add 1, 6, 7, or 17 to the number, and one of those four results will conjure up another valid GC Serial.
-Game rental places, as well as some game stores like GameStop, would just take the discs out of the display boxes and keep them behind the counter, but would leave all other information in with the displays - including the PINs. (Yes, I realize this resulted in people buying a game from GameStop and being told their PIN was already used if they went to register. Odds are a call to Nintendo explaining the situation would get them a new PIN.)
-For some readson, adding 1 letter or number (turning A into B, or 4 into 5 for example) to a valid PIN conjured up one more valid PIN. Exceptions being J turned into 2 and Z turned into 9 for some odd reason. I never questioned it, trial and error just proved those to be the two exceptions.
So that holiday season, I made a mass run to all the game stores/rental places in the area, copied down all the PINs (and a few GC Serials from Best Buy for good measure) and got to work registering all this.
At one point I even had the gall to call up Nintendo because they sent me one less game than I had coming to me, the support person saw that I had all these accounts, I told them which games had come in and which one didn't, and no questions asked, was sent a copy of the game to cover the one that didn't arrive.
I ended up getting 102 copies of the game and was eBaying them at a pretty penny. Oddly enough, I found out that Nintendo had left my scam unchecked, but put the screws to people who were mass-subscribing people (and listing "Zelda game plus free Nintendo Power subscription" for $34.99 + shipping on eBay)...so someone who had been cut off and still had to supply customers ended up buying most of my remaining copies to fulfill orders Nintendo would no longer let them process.
Oddly enough, by doing all these registrations, I fond out six months after the fact that I had won a contest for a free GBA game that paid out one free game per every couple hundred people that registered their system. I guess Nintendo figured "Hey, he got all these games, why not one more?"
tl;dr; found several exploits in a free video game promotion, conned Nintendo into mailing me 102 copies of the game at no charge, made $3,000.
Way back when in high school my chemistry teacher was insane. All his tests eye multiple choice but he was a genius at making every answer plausible. If you could make one little mistake in a ten minute problem, that answer would be one of the choices.
He graded on a curve because he knew his tests were so hard. 40% would usually be an A. 25% would usually be a B or so.
It didn't take long for me to figure out that if I just guessed on every question, I'd get around a 25%. So...i could sit and take a 75 minute test during the last period of class or I could finish the test before the teacher was done handing them out and leave school grounds 73 minutes. Yeah. Easy call.
I got a B in the class. Didn't learn an ounce of chemistry but majored in accounting later.
My high school had a soda machine in the boys locker room. It was the only soda machine that wasn't programmed to be off until after school.
The locker room also had old showers that were never used so the lights were off in that area. I dropped a soda I bought from the machine and it rolled into the showers. I grabbed it and noticed there were stacks of something in the corner.
They kept all the back stock soda that didn't fit in the machine back there, I let all my friends know and we all unloaded our backpacks of books and filled them with bottles of soda. Hands down still my favorite day of school.
Mmfksn · 2 points · Posted at 04:45:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Used to buy thousands of currency from treasury on my credit
Card for the point. Free shipping.
Got a few free airline tickets and a bunch of gift cards
vqel · 2 points · Posted at 04:46:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A couple of years ago in TF2, I was really big into trading. At the time, the main currency of the game was the "key", an item used to inbox crates for more items. They were steadily raising in price and also had a range. I made a bot account that purchased keys from people for about 5% less than average, and then resold them for about 5% more. Eventually, I got to about 200 keys. Sold them for about $1.80 PayPal each, easy money since I only invested about 5 dollars into the game. Since then though people like me made the makeshift economy go to shit and nobody sells keys anymore. RIP.
Dk-79 · 2 points · Posted at 04:46:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a vending machine where I used to work that had a weird issue. If you put a twenty dollar bill in it the machine would read it as five dollars and then you could buy whatever you wanted. Then if you unplugged it and plugged it back in it would spit out the change from the "five" it thought you put in and give you your twenty back. Needless to say it was great. Who doesn't like free food and money?
Always let someone go to the top rope when you have a catch finisher. Most people don't realize it exists and hitting a Sweet Chin Music from mid air is quite nice.
About a year ago, a vending machine at my high school got broken. I figured out that if I hit it in just the right way, coins would flood the coin return slot. Everyday after school I would come to get a few dollars. Keep in mind that 3 bucks a day is a lot for a high school without a car or job.
93907 · 2 points · Posted at 04:49:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to play Minecraft. On one of the early servers, they had set up this economy system. You could buy and sell items from your inventory. Well if you got to the market at the right time, midnight I think, then you could sell an apple without it leaving your inventory. So you could sell this one apple over and over, $5 entering your account but no apple leaving. I went to the market, clicked on the sell button and left a weight on my mouse so it would click all night long. Woke up with over $150k in the account.
Use an empty visa gift card for "free 30 day trials" - "$19.99 charged after 30 day free trial". Every 30 days, I lose my membership because the card doesn't go through then make a new account.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 14:34:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can you elaborate a little further? I have tons of these empty cards.
Not really a loophole but falls under same category, i used to get a credit card that i can earn miles or points back etc and max out the card by buying coins from the mint, take them to my local coin shop to cash them in and then pay off the credit card. *edit before anyone tries i think the mint stopped you from being able to buy a certain amount with credit in like 2012
tjrl · 2 points · Posted at 04:50:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I decided to take a victory lap year in high school after learning that I could submit grades from different calendar years as long as they were at the 12th grade level. Universities in my province (at least at the time) required six grades to be submitted, so I tried hard in three classes each year and did minimal work in the others.
bb2003x · 2 points · Posted at 04:51:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mine was in an old computer RPG, "Ultima VII: the Black Gate".
Early in the game, you meet up with the head of the Fellowship, a religious cult akin to Scientology. Their leader, Batlin, has you do this rigged test that basically says you really need their 'guidance'. In reality, he just uses you to strong-arm dissidents and push their agenda.
Anyway, when you agree to join this cult (the plot requires it), he asks you to deliver a sealed package to a pair of operatives (assassins) in another town. If you say no, he'll just ask you later. Saying yes gives you a plot coupon and everyone gets 100 XP.
The thing is, if you say no, when you go back and say yes you can do so repeatedly. As long as you don't deliver the package, you can run this conversation over and over, getting XP every time.
But wait! There's more!
Once you've activated the infinite XP loop, go into a container -- a bag, barrel, someone's pack, whatever. Pick an item that's stored with a quantity. Arrows, money, reagents for spells, anything like that. Move it from that container to anywhere else -- what matters is making the 'how many?' dialog pop up.
After moving the item, talk to Batlin and accept the errand (again). Now look in the container again. The item you moved is copied back into it. (For instance, if you took 100 gold coins that were in a bag and dropped them on the ground, after the conversation you'd find 100 gold on the ground and 100 gold on the bag.)
You bet your ass I took advantage of it. I had barrels full of gold coins (they literally couldn't hold more). Enough spell reagents to cast every spell ten thousand times. Ten arrows for every living creature in Britannia. Enough food to feed the world. Six copies of every spell known to man. I would have bought Lord British's castle if they'd let me.
As far as I know, I was the first person to find this item-duplication glitch. None of the websites devoted to game cheats at the time had anything about it.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:51:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Made about $1000 bucks in a week with a mistake ad from Kmart putting a hot new electronic thing at -$200 the retail price. Screen grabbed it and took it to Store X which tends to hire the minimum of the min wage employee crop and also has a conveniently new price match policy. Took about 3 tries but once I convinced one of them to sell me the new electronic thing for the price of the coupon without checking it's legitimacy, I had a receipt from that store that said I bought it at that price. Took the receipt to every other store with a price match policy and bought more electronic new things. Sold them all for -$50 retail price. Fun times.
Way back in the day you used to be able to buy those cormenative coins with credit cards and get cash back. You would take the coins to the bank, deposit them and pay off your card, getting 1-3% cash back.
BKDX · 2 points · Posted at 04:51:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in September 2014, the mobile game company Kongregate had a thing where if you downloaded a game and made an account you would get a $5 Gamestop gift certificate.
Cue the ol' Gmail "period" trick, and I got four of those coupons. I then bought four $10 Nintendo eShop cards in separate transactions, and changed my in-game ZIP code to a tax-free one.
And that's how I got Smash Bros. for 3DS a few weeks later for $20.
Online betting company had a promo where if you placed a bet before certain sports games, you could also place a bet during the same game and be guaranteed to win money if the second bet was paying $2 or more, because if the second bet lost you'd get your money back up to $100.
So if your first bet was paying $1.30 and you put $100 on it and it won you'd get $130, and the second bet would be refunded.
If the first bet lost but the second won, you'd win at least $200, which covers the lost $100 from the first bet, the $100 you bet, and the rest was profit.
Easily made $1,000 in a couple weeks before they shut the promo down.
When in my office in Russia we needed to make international calls we would have to call a special telecom company, give our card number and they'd connect us. Once every few months we would receive a bill, check that calls listed were correct, have it signed and give to finance department to pay. We also had a fax machine in the office and it had its own card number. After certain time of sending faxes internationally we noticed that bills for that machine never came. So we figured that those calls were somehow going unregistered. This was early 2000s, international calls were expensive and Skype didn't exist. I was in a middle of very intense online affair so I'd stay late in the office and spent hours on the phone with a guy in USA and it lasted for good 6-8 months. Those calls would have costed ton of money. Not sure it ever got discovered, but our offices moved and I was separated with the fax machine.
flash40 · 2 points · Posted at 04:53:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In a typing class in high school I figured out when you finish a page if you hit the "next page" button repeatedly while it was loading, it would continuously skip pages. I was hundreds past all of the other students.
Akmuq · 2 points · Posted at 04:53:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One of the nightclubs in my city often team up with local business's to give away free food for attending on a particular night. I, and a few friends, happen to have free entry to this nightclub. We would turn up, not pay for a ticket, be given a voucher for burritos/pizza whatever, turn around and go for food.
Something I found out and do a lot of in an app, but won't go public with, because I think if enough people do it, then the developers will notice and fix it. Let's just say it's a way to get out of watching ads.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
bchafes · 2 points · Posted at 04:54:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Discovered that no matter when you leave (January or December), you can use your full healthcare Flex Spending Account. It doesn't matter if they haven't taken the full value you assigned for the year from your pay checks. So if you chose $1,000 for the year ($41.67 per paycheck), but quit in January and have only paid $41.67 towards that amount, you can still go out and use your FSA debit card for $1,000 worth of medical expenses. I bought new glasses AND a year's worth of contacts before leaving one job!
Exercise is not something I'm drawn to naturally. Sitting over standing, driving over walking, normal things, but also somewhat unusual in Colorado. Anyways, I bought a recumbent bike and then hooked the ps4 to it exclusively. The inherent action of gaming completely drowns out the discomfort of exercise, I don't feel guilty for gaming, and I get 45mins in daily. TV, ofcourse, is the other usual choice for this, but for me, it just isn't engaging enough to eliminate the pain of exercise.
The salad place i eat at occasionally, released a new app where you can make online orders. New sign ups gets $5 of loyalty credit for free. New accounts dont require email verification, so you can see this where i exploited the $5 off every single order i made, which i I did for several weeks. They added a new salad, as a 'special'. I discovered later that ordering just this salad did not deduct my loyalty credits, but I still accrued them. After about 6 of the same salad, i now only pay < $2 for the normally $12 salad. There are 3 locations within walking distance from my work that i rotate between.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:55:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was 14, I'd go to the Santa Monica pier and play the game where you have to knock down 3 milk bottles and get a prize. I realized the employees sucked at their job so I'd line up in front of a knocked down pile, where only two of the three are still standing. Knock down two and win a prize. I won 7 giant, bright iguanas that day.
PYJX · 2 points · Posted at 04:55:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When Murky in Heroes of the Storm got buffed and I played him every day for 2 weeks at 90% win rate (still am playing him)
At a drama course I did once, the vending machine in the rec room was broken. Broken as in every time you put in a twenty cent piece it came out the change slot but still giving you credit.
Would this be considered a loop hole? Oh well I played the original Pokémon Gold version and there is this cheat that lets you copy a pokemon. I would train my 'Feraligatr' to a high level and either give it a 'leftovers' or a 'rare candy'. I dont remember the cheat very well but it was along the lines of deposit pokemon into the 'P.C.' and as it was saying
"SAVING PLEASE DO NOT TURN OFF THE POWER..." i would turn off the game.
When i would turn it back on i would have a 'Feraligatr' in the 'P.C.' and my 'Party pokemon'. I ended up have 6 'Feraligatrs', 6 'ho-ohs' and a bunch of other shit.
dylzim · 2 points · Posted at 04:56:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So, we did this thing at school with Engineers Without Borders once, where we were supposed to use the instructions we were given to create a simple dirt/pebble water filter. To simulate countries in poorer parts of the world getting screwed, the worse off the country you were based in, the more of the instructions were just Wingdings. I was in the country that was all Wingdings.
We were supposed to beg and cajole with our limited resources to get the rest of the instructions, but I had been a huge code/spy dork when I was like 10, so I just used simple code-breaking techniques (look for double letters, single letter-words, etc) to crack the wingdings. The engineers said they'd never seen anyone do that before.
I can go to work 3 hours late and leave an hour early and no one says shit. I feel bad though.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:56:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
For a while when Krispy Kreme first came to my area they wouldn't accept any form of credit or debit. So we figured out that if you ordered a variety of donuts and attempted to pay for them with credit or debit, they would just give you the donuts for free. We enjoyed it very much.
Years ago Butterfingers had codes on the inside that you could redeem online. The codes valued at $.05, $0.10 all the way up to $5-$10 for some codes. Well they sold them at the dollar store for 4 for $1, so I bought like $10 worth because whatever, I loved Butterfingers. The money could be then used on half.com, CCS (skateboarding website) and a bunch of other places. You could enter in 10 codes per day, 2 accounts per household.
After entering in the codes, they sent me an email that said "Take this survey for a free code!" The survey only took about a minute to complete and I found out you could take the survey multiple times. I found that if you put your age as 14 or younger, the survey was shortened immensely and could be done in 10-15 seconds.
I made several accounts for my house and all my friends houses and was making like $30 a day between all my accounts for about 30 minutes of work each day. All I asked for from my friends was that I got one of the accounts, they got the other for letting me use their address. Ended up making like $700 during the time the codes were being accepted.
10 years ago or so, I was called out of town just after renting a movie from red box. I returned it about 1.5 hours after I rented it and was never charged for the rental. I never paid for a rental again as I would rent, go home and download onto my computer, and return it before 2 hours was up. Haven't done it in about 4 years so I can't say that will still work.
After moving to an old house, I noticed that the cable is still active. So I called the previous owner to cancel it. They said they cancelled it already. I then called the cable company to make sure to deactivate the cable, and they said they already did. But I can still watch all channels in my TV. Called them 3 times. We've lived in that house for 8 years.
I worked for a fly in fly out contract company in Saskatchewan, Canada. I noticed my first pay cheque was pretty great, I thought I was for sure making the big bucks now. The guys around me were telling me their pay cheque sizes and I was wondering why I was making so much more than them. I didn't say a word to any of them or the company because if anything I was getting more money than I should, and I didn't want to peak any awareness into somebody looking deep into that. Pay cheque after pay cheque they kept coming in, everything was ok, pay roll never said anything or HR.
Turns out after 8 months I was getting off a plane to go home, and I get a call from HR saying they made a big mistake on my pay cheques and they were going to have to get me to pay it back. Which I had to, all $10,000 or so dollars. They were adding 40% vacation to every cheque, which was only suppose to be 6%
Was nice spending it, until they started paying me less then I was making because of repayment.
Once my dorm's wifi went out and I still tried to click, "submit" for the question, and without internet being up it showed me the "correct" pre-loaded answer. Wifi came back up, I hit refresh... and the page didn't think I'd submitted an answer.
I had a lot of wifi troubles with my computer that class.
For about a year, xbox live gold was free for one month if you did not have an active xbox live gold membership. When it expired, i would go sign up for another month of xbox live. Got over a year of gold for free, not to mention all the games with gold I got
It was a small one, but me and some friends would go to cinnabun after junior lifeguard during one summer about once a week. One day they were all out and wrote a note that they'd give up free ones next time. We used that note every week for the rest of the summer.
Back in the day you could get these things on the power up rewards site called "steal of the week" and it would basically be "pay 2000" rewards points for an extra 10%-25% (depending on the promotion) towards (x new game coming out) pre-orders. Somehow they were stackable. If I redeemed 3 or something I would get 30%-75% extra credit.
I walked in there one time with 3 coupons, 6 bargain bin games I bought a couple weeks prior for dirt cheap at a buy 2 get one free sale. I walked out with a paid off copy of Crysis 3 for PS3 and $120 in credit.
After the points for the trade ins and the pre order by my account, I cancelled the pre-order and started stacking games to trade again.
Coke and Pepsi used to have contests where you could win stuff based on the bottle cap. If you titled the unopened bottle just right you could tell if it was a winner. I bought 1 coke and it paid for me cokes for like 6 months. I was 10 and that was the best thing in the world, especially since my parents didn't allow sodas in the house.
There was a time CSGO had these stickers of pro teams in crates (over whatever they have stickers in). For a short time the stickers were worth more than the crate and the key, so you could make 2 or 3 dollars every sticker and keep buying more and more. Think I made 50 bucks, but that was a lot for a 16 year old me.
Back in the days of dial-up internet, if you signed up with MSN on a two year contract through circuit city they'd give you a $200 gift card. To sign up I used a prepaid Visa card with about $10 on it, just enough for the first month's payment. I did that about 3 times but started feeling guilty and paranoid, so I stopped doing it.
Essentially got myself a $10k loan interest free (paid off over 2 yers) after a bit of screwing around.
I took out a line of credit to buy a car (Australia) and soon discovered there was one particular credit card that would allow balance transfer from my line of credit. The balance transfer offer was 2 years interest free, so i just figured out what i needed to pay per month to pay it off in time and thus pay zero interest, rather than the 5% i would have been paying on the original line of credit.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:43:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At my engineering school we had one of those vacuum hose ice cream dispensers. Well one day I discover that if you pushed hard enough with your foot in the lower right panel it would let you reprogram all the prices to a nickel. So we would do that and then switch it back so the price was normal when others used it.
There's a gas station in my area that must have a faulty pump or something because the $ amount on it never registers when it calculates your total. So the pump that should charge you $2.18 per gallon is only charging $0.18 per gallon.
Its always the same pump and it changes with the price adjustment of gas. Unfortunately my gas cap is on the wrong side to use it, unless I face on coming traffic which would be really weird at this station.
ABLA7 · 2 points · Posted at 05:44:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At outback online ordering they had the price set to $0.00 for a few items so I'd order like 1 steak and 4 shrimp cocktaiks and get all the shrimp free lol
Back in elementary school we had to take keyboard classes where we just learned how to type. You weren't allowed to use backspace during tests. I found out that you can highlight the word and press delete and it would wipe it out. I aced every test after that.
Went to buy a four pack of beer (4 x 500 mls) they were on sale for $8 or the same indivisible cans were sold individually for $2. I went to pay and the barcode for the four pack was tied to the $2 individual can price - so it rang up as only on deposit ($.20).
I then am able to get $0.80 back on my four empties.... 2L of beer for $1.40! I went back 10 times that day - over 80 cans of beer....
This was at a very small cafe I used to work at, but I think it's the only thing I exploited. We used to sell a grilled cheese, and a kid's grilled cheese. Of course the kid's grilled cheese was cheaper, and included fries. The catch? The grilled cheese's were the same size, and to get the adult's grilled cheese with fries, the fries would cost like, a dollar extra. So in total, adult grilled cheese and fries was about $6, while the kid's was $2.50. That, plus my employee discount, and I got Grilled Cheese and Fries, practically for free.
I need to learn how to exploit more things that just grilled cheese....
There's this broken vending machine on campus that gives you more than you paid for. For instance, 1 pack of Reese's cups costs about $0.75.
Threw in 75 cents and instead of 1 pack, I got 3. Not only did I get 2 extra, but it gave me 50 cents extra on top of that.
I thought someone must've left their change down at the bottom and didn't think much of it. Still, getting 3 instead of 1 confused me.
I decided to try it out the next day with something different so I ordered a pack of Orbitz gum that was 50 cents, and again, I shit you not, I got 2 extra as well as an extra 50 cents.
I hit the jackpot. This vending machine was like a free-flipping machine! The profit margin isn't much to work with since it only seems to work with the things that cost between 0.50 - 0.75 cents.
But to this day, at least 3 months later it still works, and I always head to the same vending machine if I'm in need of some extra change. Luckily it's on the 3rd floor of the math building, and there are 2-3 other vending machines on the same floor. The odds of someone finding out that machine is rigged are slim.
And if someone does manage to find out...
Bad things'll happen. No one gets between me and my little money-duper.
EDIT: slight correction on price*
me10 · 2 points · Posted at 05:54:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you're nice to people, generally they will be nice to you back. It's worked out pretty well and it seems like anyone can do it.
Back in high school, 2009-2013, my buddy and I would each pitch in half for a movie ticket and I'd go pay for it. After I would get settled in the movies I would leave the theater but make sure the guy at the ticket stand would notice me. I'd say hey I'll be right back I forgot something in the car, etc. I'd meet my buddy in the food court and hand him the ticket and wait about 10 mins. Come back(in hopes it was the same person) and usually I'd have no issue getting in. I'd wait by the bathrooms and about another 5 mins or so my buddy would walk up with the ticket I gave him and get in with no problem. But that's just the icing on the cake. After we were both in we would wait for people to exit their movie and throw their trash away. The trick was to grab a large bucket for popcorn and a large cup for soda. We would then go to the bathroom wash the cup(sometimes...) and since they're large we would get free refills. And viola, a movie, popcorn, and soda for about $5 each. Sometimes we would jump to another movie that was about to start when ours ended and so on. Our biggest movie streak was I believe 5 movies.
TL:DR; saw a few movies, got free refills on popcorn and pop at regal cinemas with my buddy for $5 each
EB games, if you purchase a brand new game you have 1 week to return it for a full refund, this 1 week resets every time you return a game, then purchase a new one, if you know the game is going to take you longer than a week to finish, second hand games have two weeks to return. I think my record was 51 games from $100aud
The workers are generally aware of the loophole and they don't care, Id just say "see you guys next week".
I wasn't the brightest kid when I was younger. I was at Mall of America and I needed change for a $20 that my dad gave me to play at the arcade. I asked around and no one could break it for me.
I found a machine that gave you game tokens for cash. Being the idiot I was, I saw the machine, didn't read the huge sign above it that had "TOKENS" plastered in bold, black print across it, and thought it would be able to break my $20. The exchange rate from USD to game tokens was listed. "$1 for 3, $5 for 18..." so on and so forth. I put my $20 in the machine and out comes 90 non-refundable game tokens. I frantically ran up to the cashier and asked her to make an exception but she said there was no way she could. Then she suggested I sell them to other people in the arcade. So I decided it was worth a try.
Seeing as it was listed at $5 for 18 coins, I went up to a few people, explained my dilemma and they happily paid me $5 for 18 coins. Then I realized that the more money you put in the machine, the less the coins cost. 90 is divisible by 18, 5 times.
Simple math tells you 5 groups of 18 tokens sold at $5 a group will get you $25. I eventually got my money back and kept remaining 18 tokens and essentially played all the games for free. I told my dad what happened and he was impressed enough to let me keep the $20 that I eventually earned back.
So no, I wasn't some genius who saw a loophole from the start but I sorta stumbled into it and got $20 out of it.
I already posted once in this thread, but I think all of you would like this one too: the story of how I got into a public university without ever applying.
I "dropped out" of high school after my junior year with only 2 required classes standing between me and a diploma. Without going into too much detail, I had worked out a deal with my high school and a public university to allow me to take college classes for dual enrollment credit. It was the opposite of how the program normally worked, and I had full approval from the superintendant of my public school system.
The university had never dealt with a situation like this, and after a few interviews and letters allowed me to be a full time student with 12 credit hours. I was issued a student ID and given access to their system to register for fall semester classes. Keep in mind that I was never required to fill out an application; we simply had a mutual agreement and I was entered into their system.
After one semester, my program ended and I received my high school diploma. I then applied out to other universities (not the one I had just attended) and within a few months was subsequently denied everywhere. Most schools didn't understand my path to graduation, and a few questioned if I was even a graduate. I was shit out of luck and my only option was community college.
Or so I thought.
Out of desperation, I went back to that public university in the summer and met with admissions about applying late since their fall acceptance letters had already been sent. They asked to see my student ID and ran me through their system.
"Hey paintdatank252, it says here that you've been a full time student taking classes since last fall, and that you are enrolled for the fall. What do you mean you want to apply?"
"Uhh idk but I think we are done here"
Turns out their system never removed my enrollment status or class registration abilities. 4 years later and I've got a degree and one hell of a story to tell.
TL;DR: I was accidentally accepted to a public university without ever applying.
McDonald's started delivering in Brisbane, AUSTRALIA. You ordered online, but we realised any extra piece of meat you put on the burger was not charged at all! So this allowed us to make a tower burger without any additional costs. The glitch was fixed about a month later, but we had fun while it lasted. They had to deliver our burgers in happy meal boxes.
http://imgur.com/a/MfCZn
Around the time Halo 4 came out there was the Double XP promo released by Dew and Doritos. I was shocked to see Doritos put the codes on the outside of the package. You could take pics of the codes at any store you went to and with how fast the stock went out it was pretty much an unlimited supply for the duration of the promo. I think they messed up like that for MW3 as well.
Flying a jet that with a pilot who had his single pilot waiver from the FAA. This means that as a co-pilot, I cannot log that flight time because I am not a technically required crew member. The catch is that the pilot needs to have that waiver with him on board in order to exercise those single-pilot privileges. So, when I fly with him, he just doesn't bring it and I become a required crew member, thus I can log the time legally.
Amazon had a deal a month and a bit ago where if you picked 3 movies from their 3 for 30 list, regardless of the cost of the order, an algorithm subtracted whatever it had to in order to make your order come to exactly $30. Thing was, the algorithm screwed up and applied the discount twice, every single time. So as long as your order from the 3 for 30 list was exactly $60 or more, the total always came to zero, with free shipping.
Of course, I would never partake in such a morally bankrupt practice. I only heard about it from a friend. Of course.
There was this particular vending machine in my university that kept giving you drinks when you've paid once and repetitively mash the button. However, there was a two to three second window for every $2 we put in. The folks who maintained the thing only fixed it in my last year of study.
The energy drinks consumed in those three years lay the foundation of the learned lad I am now.
I have good credit so I get mortgages on houses and other people work real jobs and give me their earnings to live in those houses while at home and read Reddit.
Several years ago there was a Coke/iTunes promotion where inside the lid there was either a code for a free song or a "too bad" message. Well, if the bottle had just the right amount of liquid in it you could sometimes well whether or not the lid had a winning code or not just by tipping the bottle and looking. You didn't have to open the soda. So I'd look in the bottle at the store looking for winning bottles and then just buy those.
nilok1 · 2 points · Posted at 06:03:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I didn't do this one but when the Treasury wanted to push dollar coins you could order them online and have them delivered to your home for free.
People would order hundreds of them and pay for them with a cc with reward points. Once they got the coins they'd merely deposit them in the bank and then pay off the card.
People racked up lots of points before they figured it out and cancelled the program.
Pipes32 · 2 points · Posted at 06:05:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was young, I attended summer camp at my elementary school (basically day care). Towards the end of the summer, we'd hold a "Summer Olympics". All the kids from all the different camps in the school district would get together and compete in different events. Think long jump, fastest sprint, furthest baseball / golf ball hit, those types of things. It was a big deal to win a medal for your camp.
I was not an athletic kid, but I wanted to win a medal so fucking badly. Well, one of the competitions was hula hooping (longest time). I realized there was NO rule about the hoop being around your waist. So I signed up for the event, practiced spinning the hoop on my arm (wayyyy easier than your waist) and competed that way. On competition day I spun it for almost an hour. Kids would walk up during their designated time slot, I'd be spinning the hoop on my arm, they'd look at me, then proceed to fail hard doing a traditional hula hoop. It blew my mind that none of them were like, "holy shit, this girl is hooping on her arm, so clearly I can do that as well". Nobody else! Finally the organizers told me to go away, and they'd call me if someone got close to my time.
Standing up there during the awards ceremony with my gold medal...it was just as awesome as I thought it would be.
They changed the rules next year.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:05:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
get paint mixed, don't buy paint, put on shelf, come next day, paint you mixed is on sale b/c its a random color no one asked for. purchase paint.
Alfheim · 2 points · Posted at 06:06:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
During the first Diance code giveaway for pokemon there were a few ways to get it. You could hope for a code from gamestop, or if you were in mexico you could sign up for some website. I found out how to exploit the website to produce unlimited codes. That morning my house had been robbed and I was kind of feeling my faith in humanity shaken so I decided to do something for other people. I did not know how long this would last so I produced a few hundred before starting up giveaway threads on some subredits. I got a lot of folks from the Philippines and a few other island nations that had no access to the codes so I started working with them to provide their communities with codes. I think I produced some 3000 codes that night for people who had no other access. Ended up spilling the secret of how to do it to 5 other people when I went to bed, but unsurprisingly it was fixed by time I woke up the next day. I still wonder if it would have been more effective to spill the secret sooner or if by keeping it quiet I was able to provide the largest amount of codes. To late to be seen but this is the first time I have told the whole story.
Cjh156 · 2 points · Posted at 06:06:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My university charges $500 a semester to park your car. With all that great income they have the new automatic license plate readers attached to cars that scan your plate and give you a ticket if you don't have a permit. Well $20 bucks later and one automatic license plate reader BLOCKER and I park closer than the dean everyday for free. I have been doing it for a year so net profit $980
I lived in an apartment which had absolutely terrible wifi. The hotspots were building-owned, and any time past 5 or so, when people started to get home, the internet would slow to sub-dialup speeds, and sometimes simply stop working all together. Each router also had it's own wifi network, so you'd see a list of several hundred networks named "APARTMENT-213", "APARTMENT-354" etc. They all had the same login, so people would just hop around to try and find a working network.
One day I tried opening the router page, as I would have back home, before remembering that I didn't have the username or password. I tried admin/admin, thinking "there's no way they forgot to change the defaults on this." But no, it logged me right in. I changed that single router to be a hidden network, and all of a sudden I was the only one on it, with fast internet.
A few years back Arby's had a thing where you could take a survey on your phone using a code on your receipt and get a coupon for a free regular roast beef. When you claimed the free roast beef you'd get another receipt with a $0 total but a code for a survey. I ate free roast beef sandwiches every day for over a year and spent $7
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:09:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Joe1972 · 2 points · Posted at 06:10:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a student a local pub started a "Post Exam Party" promo. If you brought in an exam question paper from an exam written earlier that day you could swop your paper for a free beer.
Many people caught on and would hound everyone else after the exam for their paper to get more than one free beer. But because so many begged, most people caught on to the fact that these had a value and almost no one gave it away for free.
I, on the other hand, had access to the department's photocopier...
I don't drink, so my aunt would always get me to go to the casino with her so she could get shitfaced on the free drinks and have a safe ride home. For my troubles, she would give me $100 to play with. I'd go from machine to machine, play a few bucks here and there, win a few, lose a few...but then on one trip I started playing on this one Pink Panther-themed machine. And I would win. And win. And win. I'd put in $5 and win $50. I'd put in $5 more and win $30. $5 more and $15. $5 more and $100. Literally everytime. I believe I made about $1800 off that machine before I eventually lost. I played it for a few more minutes but my streak was over so I counted my blessings (and money) and called it a night. The machine HAD to have been broken or malfunctioning or something, and I'm sure casinos keep checks and tabs on all or most of their machines. I kept waiting for Paul Blart the security guard to tap me on the shoulder, say the machine was not working right and the casino needed its money back, but it never happened.
During the time when coke had that 1 in X many cokes had a free coke under the lid a mate of mine figured out that there was a number on the side of the lids and all the ones that had 17 (from memory it was 17) were winners. So for a month or two while the promo was on I had free coke!
My friend's dad used to own a condo in Orlando and he'd do all of the Time share presentations for free tickets. Keep in mind this was in the 90's at the peak of the Timeshare craze and getting tickets to parks in Orlando or cash was common. So he'd do these every morning and then spend the rest of the day with his family. He found out that if he brought his young kids on these presentations he could make them go by sooo much faster. He'd tell my friend, "This is your time to act up, the only rule you have is that you can't go off to the kid room you have to stay with us." Apparently kids telling a ruthless salesman that his feet stink and that he's bald will end a 3 hour tour in about 30 minutes.
I haven't tested this because I don't have Mexican connections like my dad did, but he told me that when he was a kid he'd take shopping bags full of pesos into Chuck E Cheeses. He grew up in Texas and so when his friends came back from Texas they'd trade usd USD for Pesos (currently about 1 dollar for 20 pesos, compared to the House Of Mouse where you pay 1 dollar for like 4 or 5 tokens). Thing is, the pesos worked in the machines. My dad said he was never caught, but man they could just rule the machines at Cheesy Charlie's with basically 5x as many coins
A closed video game store chain back in the early 2000s had an odd, system glitch. You had to buy something, return it the next day and put the return money towards a pre-order. Wait a day or two, then cancel the pre-order, and ask for in-store credit as the refund. The in-store credit funds never depleted when used. We tested it at several locations over several days and walked away with a lot for a little.
Used to work at McDonalds and was able to take roughly 300 of those cards people put stickers on for free coffees. Every few days the people who would count the tills would tally them and throw them out. I just happened to get to them between being counted and being thrown out so when I moved cities, the new McDonalds doesn't know my history so I have a free coffee every day.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:18:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Working as a Production Assistant in Los Angeles one of the places I shopped regularly was Staples. Spent a shit ton of petty cash too.
So, naturally I get the Staples reward point card.
Points amount to dollars which can be spent in-store on anything except gift cards.
This is a restriction they did not make online.
Every time I got $100 worth of points I'd order a $100 Visa Gift Card on their website with my points. Week later it'd come and Staples would treat me and the roommate to a nice sushi dinner.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:23:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm late to the party, so this will probably get buried, but I washed my car for free for 4-5 years... There was this old self-wash place back where I grew up, and it was pretty typical; put quarters into the slot to add time, then turn the dial to different modes (power wash, foamy bubble brush, no streak, wax, etc). Apparently, when you put a quarter into the slot, the quarter would drop down and activate some sort of trigger mechanism or something, and it would add time to your wash. Well, turns out that if you swipe a strong enough magnet over the front of the slot, it would activate the mechanism inside the machine and add time for free.
So, I would swipe a magnet over it and rack up like 15-20 minutes worth of time on the machine and detail the shit out of my car every couple weeks. I'm not sure if management / owners ever actually found out about it, because I did it for years, and other people knew about the trick as well. The carwash is still there, but I'm pretty sure they've remodeled since then and put in new machines.
In high school I was anti-authoritarian to the extreme and I got detention constantly for being a shithead. My sophomore year I got real interested in passing classes, so I went (voluntarily) to study hall after school a few times. But I'm still kind of a dick, so I have all this detention too. And I realize in study hall, which is basically a quiet place to work on homework, there are a few kids serving detention. This is great news to me, because detention's like 4 hours on a Thursday night or a Saturday morning, and study hall is an hour 4 times a week. No more early weekend mornings or lost evenings. I ask to have my detentions (I had multiple at any one time) changed to study hall. And the counselor knew my grades were getting pretty good, so he thought it would help me.
So the sign-in sheet is computerized, and the system automatically signs you out at 4pm if you don't sign out. So I get greedy. For a week I show up early to sign-in and excuse myself to the bathroom, never to return. But there's no call into the office or any follow-up. Then it's 2 weeks and 3. I meet with the counselor to talk about my grades improving, and he's really happy I've been going to study hall, but sure wishes I'd stop getting into trouble. He's just glad my grades are solid really.
Eventually, during my senior year, I stopped getting into trouble. But it sure as shit wasn't from serving detention, because I avoided that shit for 2 years.
I had a teacher in high school that was really flighty and disorganized. I figured out pretty quickly that if I appeared engaged with class and the subject matter he would just assume that he had lost my assignments when they never appeared. Didn't do a damn thing all year. I ended up with a better grade than the class know-it-all. It was beautiful.
When Dr Pepper first came to Australia they had a promotion for a free can if you brought back 3 ring pulls from purchased cans. The ring pulls were a distinctive gold colour.
At the same time I went to a giant Blues festival where the beer being served had the same gold ring pulls. My friends and I ran around collecting all the empty beer can ring pulls and each had enough for about 20 free Dr Pepper cans each!
The only problem was we all realised we hated Dr Pepper after the first 2 cans :(
Aerukai · 2 points · Posted at 06:36:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Took a geology final in high school. My teacher had two policies which could be easily exploited. 1. As long as you attend the class and take the test, the minimum grade you could get was 50%, and 2. If you got every question wrong, you'd get 100% on the final. Since I had a high grade (like 99%) and I couldn't get below a 50%, I attempted to get every (multiple choice) question wrong. Since, statistically, it's easier to get more wrong than right on multiple choice, I went for it. Unfortunately, I got 4 questions right... but the teacher was soft and he gave me a B- on the final anyway. Easy A.
There was a circle k near my house, like a 7/11, that was open 24/7.
After a few long nights of drinking with friends, we would go to this circle k and pick up food. We noticed after doing this a few times, there was the same person working there every night. We started talking with him and made friends.
He was pretty happy because not many people were nice to him (think he was at a bad place in life or not many friends).
He told us that if we come in at 2 specific times, he can write a bunch of food off as "old" and we can get it for free. The food was still good. We did this for about a year until we all moved out. He would load us up with more food than we could stuff down.
Wasn't the best or nutritious food, but god it was good when you were drunk.
I had a teacher who didn't like to teach. So he had students do "extra credit" presentations, which meant that you would read a unit (17.1: marine life) and then give a short summary to the class. He didn't have to teach the unit, and the class still got the information. He also was very open about what your grade was. You could walk in and ask to see hot grades and he'd pull up the spreadsheet and show you a detailed list of your grade.
I figured out pretty early on in the year that he weighted the extra credit pretty heavily, assuming that nobody would take him up on it, and that it might boost your grade a little bit. I took it as a challenge and did three weeks worth of extra credit, boosting my grade to over 100%, and then didn't do a lick of work for the rest of the semester. No homework, projects, tests, essays, hell, I didn't even do the final, and I still got out with a 99%.
Tldr: lazy teacher plus extra credit equals easiest class ever.
During college, I had an assignment I was supposed to email but completely forgot about until after the deadline. I emailed my teacher saying I had tried sending it before the deadline but just noticed that it hadn't been sent. She asked me to resend the original email with the time stamp included to prove I wasn't lying. So I created a new email with the current time stamp on it and just manually changed the date and time. I got full credit on the assignment.
A few years ago i was very into the vaping(ecig) community. THey has these online shows people would run and they had sponsors that would give out free stuff to the viewers based on a random number generator. I had about 20 accounts over many vaping networks and i won most of these contests. I won hundreds of free bottles of ejuice, multiple devices, gift cards, mod skins. It was awesome not to have to pay for anything. I eventually stopped because I had too much vaping stuff and it was taking alot of my time.
We had a dominoes pizza coupon code for a regular pizza + drink for €5 that was only useable for like one semester 2 years ago.
When you use the coupon online however, it still works, sometimes the people at dominoes are confused why it says I ordered a drink with it for that price and then I just play dumb.
In 1999 Time magazine had an online poll to determine the publication's Person of the Century. This was in the earlier days of internet proliferation so print media was still king, but there was a growing online presence. The online poll for PotC was conducted in tandem with their own, traditional write up of a PotC story. The online poll was not frequented much when I happened upon it and I realized that the numbers for the top of the poll were not too high.
So every night for the next few weeks I would write in my own name and then continue to vote for myself for several hours each night. A few days later, I broke into the top ten. I was able to maintain my spot in the bottom of the top ten among some other notable write-in candidates such as Jesus Christ and Adolf Hitler.
I was the only unknown individual that was in the running.
Sadly, I woke up one morning to find that the votes for the no. ten candidate was now hundreds of thousands above my last self-voted total from when I went to bed. It would be impossible for me to catch up now that the poll had gained some traction and the votes for the other candidates were above the numbers I could generate.
I gave a brief concession speech and faded back into anonymity.
My dad is the one who started this one, but when Verizon first had their unlimited plan back in like, 2012 I think it was,my parents and I had gotten unlimited data on our lines, with no throttling or anything. When verizon got rid of the unlimited data, if you got an upgrade, they changed the amount of data you could use on that line. My dad figured out that if you just buy the phone at full retail value and not upgrade, you can keep the unlimited data and they can't force you to change your cell phone plan. Also, Verizon charges you if you want to be able to tether your phone, so your phone can be a wifi hotspot, but if you have the right phone, you can download an app where you can do it without going through the phone company, so you don't have to pay the amount to tether. My dad has been keeping this up for years. My dad, my mom, and I all use at least 15 gigs a month each on data because the internet where I live is horrible and the LTE speed is faster than the internet, and unlimited data. And, since my dad can be a hotspot, I get decent wifi to play on my laptop with.
In high school me and my friends would play magic the gathering. When shadows over inistrade came out I went into the city and bought a whole box of packs. I then whent a round to anyone that played and sold them at $5 a pack cheaper that the local Wal-Mart.
In the end I got 9 packs for free and the best part was finding a $60 foil card in my free packs. Second best part was the people saying how they hate me and saying "screw you" as they handed over there money for the cards.funny how angry some were yet I didn't force them to buy the Cards at a better price.
In high school our cafeteria had a back room that was used as the teachers break room/lunch lounge area. Because of all the stupid health crap the government passed we weren't allowed to buy soda from vending machines in school anymore but there was a vending machine in that back lounge that had soda. Instead of walking to QuickChek and spending $3 on a soda, we would sneak into the lounge once school was over and get the $1 soda from that machine. We did it for about a year before they started locking the lounge at the end of the lunch periods.
I used to work in a camera store. One of the top brands held a promotion that if you bought their new camera, you got a free bottle of 18 year old Chivas Regal. Just take the coupon to a particular bottle shop and redeem.
Only the coupon didn't require proof of purchase or record ID.
As the camera didn't sell too well, we waited until the 3 days before the promotion ended and divided up the coupons between the team, leaving one box just in case.
I got 7 bottles, just went to different bottle shops. Made for great presents to friends and family.
Hockey is a very uncommon sport where I live and most people know nothing about it. I went to a local general sports store and removed the stickers from the 5$ wooden street hockey sticks and stuck them onto the $200 carbon fiber ice hockey sticks and brought them up to the register. The cashiers had no sense of their value and rang us up for $30 for over $1000 of merchandise. My friends had to contain our laughter.
Jesus. As a Hockey fan I dont know if I should be mad at you or envy you. Are you sure they were carbon fiber and not fiber glass? (The same as fishing poles) a twig made of carbon fiber would not only be like hitting a puck with a steel pipe but carbon fiber is crazy expensive, more than 200$ sticks for sure
Maybe they were composite? Idk I haven't played anything but pickup in long time so I'm out of touch with new gear. I know they were between $180-$210 in 2010.
That's a nice twig, a senior/adult stick for sure. The reason I say fiber glass is ice hockey sticks flex like a fishing pole so when you shoot it pulls back on the ice then flings the puck. Street sticks are wood/composite and don't flex. In the 80s ice hockey sticks were wood. Either way nice grab.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 07:19:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when StarCraft 2 was new, I opened the first campaign level in the editor and made it so when the game started it would give the player every single achievement in the game at the time. I noticed that if it was just a custom map it wouldn't work, and if you saved this campaign map as just a custom map it wouldn't work, so instead I just saved it and replaced the map file in the game files with an MPQ editor and launched the campaign like I was playing it normally. And so I got all the achievements. And I was pretty paranoid I was going to get banned, but here we are almost 7 years later and my account's still good.
No idea if this still works with all the updates and expansions now. I never mentioned it so it wouldn't get noticed (until now that the game is dead).
I used to work at a marine retail store that will not be named because of the currently legal but questionably ethical scheme I've been running. They are fairly common across the United States in areas of boating. Well the company is smaller then its competitors but still applies the same customer benefits like "no hassle guarantees" and warranty plans they call "plus plans". Well the "plus plans" are extra special because corporate was so obsessed with customer satisfaction that these plans would cover any damage what so ever. That is important for later.
The plans themselves would be a percentage of however much the item they were protecting cost. The "plus plans" then had a tier system in which the price of the item determined whether it would be repaired or replaced. This cut off for immediate replacement is $400. One cent higher then the cost of the second to best GoPro.
I am a clever man but not necessarily a careful man. Which is why for the past three years my last three Gopros have received unfortunate luck when it comes to water damage. Lucky for me I never forget to buy my $29.99 "plus plan" that gets me a brand new GoPro every 364 days.
But not only does my $29.99 get me the new model GoPro, it also buys the silence and the cooperation of the cashiers. Because corporate puts so much emphasis on selling these "plus plans", the cashiers get a percentage of the money made for every one they sell and performance is based almost entirely on meeting warranty goals.
Corporate makes it's goals, Cashiers get their percentage, and I get my brand new GoPro.
This isn't really a loophole but my friend had a friend in accounting at an isp back in the early 2000s. Signing up for said ISP would net you a 200 or 400 dollar gift card at a large electronics retailer.
You then told my friend to tell his friend to make your account disappear after giving him your info. Well our group of mutual friends started going overboard and driving all around signing up at different store locations. I had friends who did it 2 or 3 times.
Eventually accounting guy goes "guys I can't thia is too fucking much" and stops canceling accounts. I was so glad I never got into it. I had a friend who ended up paying something like 60 or 70 dollars a month for 18 months for a total of i think 800 or 1000 dollars in gift cards.
To top it off they kept sending him letters askimg basically to talk to him about it. He just ignored the letters and paid his dues. Spider sense saved me from that one.
There was this home town breakfast thing in my home town. And the gave out coupons for a free stack of waffles with every receipt (the stack was like 3 waffles or pancakes can't remember )
Well I went to go buy breakfast from them and when I did I got a receipt with a coupon. So I used it then they gave me another coupon with that receipt .
Needless to say I had free breakfast for about 4 weeks before they stopped giving me the coupons lol
We moved into a new house and ordered internet with Telstra. Because of our house's location we had to use a special bundle and modem/router that we had to set up ourselves and didn't need a technician to install it.
After we installed it we plugged it in and the internet just worked! We called Telstra to tell them that we are set up and ready to go, but they said it wasn't connected, so we haven't don't it right and they will send out a technician to fix it.
We told them that it is working and we have high-speed Internet and using it currently but they didnt believe us, so we told them not to worry about the technician.
To this day we have yet to receive a bill for it and we have been getting free high-speed internet for almost a year now!
Saberaq · 2 points · Posted at 07:46:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
@gmail.com and @googlemail.com are interchangeable.
Why bother making a new email for your alt account? Better yet, on sites that ban your email instead of user, I used this all the time to raise twice the hell.
I remember a potato chip contest where in each bag was a tic-tac-toe contest. You had to scratch the correct sequence to win the prize. My shithead friends and I figured out that if we put a piece of scotch tape over the game board and then pulled it off it would still leave a bunch of the grey scratch & win stuff on the card. However, with a thinner layer of grey we could now put the game card over a bright light and see the game board, ensuring we would always scratch the winner. We slow played that one for the whole contest, slowly getting many bags of free chips and some pop using these. I even won a Walkman which I had to mail in for.
At my former job, my dumbass penny-pinching crook bosses hated the idea of paying $30 for a toner cartridge from Office Depot down the street so they decided to order toner from one of those shady refill outlets because they could get TWO for $30. Even though the lack of toner shuts down my entire office, they waited three weeks before actually ordering only for the toner cartridges from this to arrive empty and the ordering line number "mysteriously" disconnected.
The bosses were located three states away at corporate HQ and my immediate supervisor was literally a missing person, so I was in charge of the entire region. We were completely stalled, not one person could do any work without me generating authorizations and I couldn't do it without toner. So I decided eff this and gave everyone in the office a month off with pay until we could start back up again. I said they could feel free to come into the office if they wanted, but bring a book or laptop because there wasn't jack to do. I went into the office most days, but I spent it reading comic books, playing games, watching Netflix, and occasionally challenging my colleagues to broom swordfights if they decided to wander in.
This had happened the previous year, only it was no electricity for two weeks because the bosses hadn't paid the bill in three months. The year after the toner, it was five weeks of a shut down office because they hadn't paid the internet and phone bill.
tl;dr My corporate masters wanted to save $15 on toner so everyone in my office got a month off with pay.
There's a far, far larger story behind all of this that explains why I was to the point where I no longer cared that I was not working for wages, but that's a different thread. Considering the bosses were ripping off actual impoverished old ladies, people with mental illness, and poverty-stricken children, it was hard to GAF about their profit margins in the end.
I get Amazon prime though my college email still. I graduated two years ago. I keep canceling it and they keep offering me free trials every time I go to buy something.
Back when Game Stop was new, there was a competitor called Game Crazy. This particular one was right next to a Target. That Target had some Gameboy game on clearance for about $5. The trade in value for it was $15. I tried it with one cartridge at first, then confirmed with the employee that you could trade in more than one of the same game. I went back to Target, bought them out of the clearance game and traded it in. Used the profit to buy multiple new games.
Reeeally late to this thread. When Redbox first came out, in my small town, Walmart and McDonald's had the Redbox, but our grocery store had to have Blockbuster's box to compete, dumb, but whatever. Well Redbox promotions use individual use codes, or if they use a mass use code you couldn't use the same card or email. This is kind of a "Yeah, why wouldn't they?" Well, Blockbuster was losing big time, but their promotion codes for 1 free movie night on us, did not expire nor did they have a limit on uses. So me and my Dad would get 3 or 4 movies each night whenever we felt like it for a month or so, and then they patched it. That was fun and the Blockbuster box was gone by Christmas...
In my Principles of Engineering Class, we had to make a claw to save "ducks" from an "oil spill." The score was number of points scored (more points were awarded per duck, the farther away from the spill they were placed) divided by the time. My partner and I saved only 1 duck and placed it in the closest zone, for 10 points. We did it under a second and ended up getting first place before the teacher changed the formula.
Also, this year, my teacher for AP Spanish has us do assignments on VHL. She always gives us 2 chances, so I team up with my 2 friends. We all select one letter for all of them, and then afterwards we change the wrong ones to the right ones.
Not me but my friend rips the tags off stuff at Good Will and always gets a killer deal at the register. He saved $100 on some decent waders. Note: everything is donated to Good Will so any sale they make is profit regardless of item's value.
The Wings Up website glitched out so that everything I ordered cost nothing; naturally I ordered five pounds of wings, as well as some wedges and other shit.
For referece, three pounds of wings alone run about 40 bucks.
the best luck was I had managed to get the new delivery guy, and he didn't see any problem with all my food only costing fifteen bucks. Gave the poor guy a good tip though, considering he probably ended up paying for the fuck up
Lived in an old high rise in central west end of St. Louis that required an rfid keyfob to enter the front door. One day while drunkenly pushing the door box numbers like an idiot, I hit the combo *333 and the door just opened. Told all the other tenants about it and the whole building started using it. Turned out it was some glitch in the old system that couldn't be disabled. Management spent $6k to replace the whole access control system.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:08:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
From the age of 5-10 I lived in this neighborhood that had a community building with a clubhouse + swimming pool. Outside the pool was a vending machine that had 20 oz. Coca-Colas for $0.75. One time I noticed that if you held the button down for 5 or more seconds it would spit out two sodas consecutively, and then spit out your change. I took advantage of that for quite a while -- as a kid I'd gather up a whole bunch of sodas for later!
When we take a test on Chromebooks in math class, a bunch of people and I make a Google Doc and share it with each other, then go over all of the answers. The teacher is has no idea and I've aced all of the tests so far even though I don't know any of the material.
The current loophole with Xbox one lets you and 1 friend get each other's digitally bought games for free ( 2 copies for the price of 1 ), all you really have to do is set your account's Home Xbox to be your friends Xbox and your friend's account's home xbox to be your Xbox, then you can play all the games that each other has.
Red Robin's burgers all come with "bottomless" fries, which of course means that you essentially get free refills on fries. However, if you look at the sides on their menu, you can also do sweet potato fries, broccoli, or a side salad, all bottomless.
I like to get one of their cheaper burgers, usually around $7, and either fries or a salad. But when the food arrives, I simply put my burger in a to-go box and fill up on fries/salad. During the summer months, I can put away about 6 or 7 salads. What's even cooler, though, is that they don't mind if you want to take your last salad/batch of fries to-go, too.
The waitresses there love me because I tip well, so whenever I walk in the door, they immediately bring me like two salads. And they check back often to see when they should prepare a couple more. By the time I've gotten through a couple, they'll then tell the cook to throw the burger on the grill, and bring it out to me in a to-go container, with another to-go bowl full of salad.
So I take my burger home and eat it later, then maybe have the fries or salad for a midnight snack. Can often get two big meals or three small ones out of the whole thing. Occasionally I'll splurge and get one of their more expensive burgers, which are usually $10 to $12. But usually I just get the $7 burger. Either way, not bad for a couple of good meals.
Edit: They also have a rewards system, so after like 10 burgers, you get one free. And you also get a free burger anytime during the month of your birth. So if you eat there roughly once a week, which is about 50 times per year, 6 of those 50 times will be free burgers. So that's like a 12% discount on top of everything. And occasionally they'll have $25 gift cards go on sale for $20. So if you eat there a lot, stock up on them, which saves you even more.
Oh, and they have a pretty good allergen menu for those with food sensitivities. They'll even wrap your burger in lettuce, which I often do because since I take my burgers home, the bun will get soggy. So to reheat my burger, I simply take off the lettuce, cook the burger, reattach lettuce, and it's almost as good as it was fresh.
In college there's was a $1 slice pizza joint downtown where you could use your on-campus cash card. However, if that card was at $0 balance, it would swipe at this pizza shop as an approved transaction. I'll be taking that secret along with many free drunk pies to my grave
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well, it's no longer a secret... But I won't be using it.
Yualae · 3 points · Posted at 04:41:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There used to be a restaurant that had a special menu section that guaranteed to be ready in 15 minutes or less. If your whole party ordered from that menu and it was late then your meal was free. It was always late. So for 3 months a group of us would go there at least one a week , never paid one. Then they discontinued that menu.
When I was 17 I went with a couple of my older 18+ friends to a temp agency.. Nobody ever asked for i.d. (I have NO idea why) so I joined them and went thru the whole process.. Out of our group of 5, 3 of us got picked up to work at a D.H.L. package factory.. Long story short we all worked there for about 2 months then they asked me and another buddy of mine if we wanted to be hired on permanently, when we agreed they FINALLY asked for our i.d.'s and found out I was under 18 and told me I could no longer work there because I was underage.. but 17 year old me gave no fucks I already got 2 months pay at about $12 an hour working 8-10 hour shifts that was BIG MONEY to a 17 year old!
Can't remember what cod game it was but they offered 2xp if you bought either Doritos or a Mtn. Dew product. They were smart about the Mtn.Dew and put the code under the lids but they put the codes on the Doritos just on the bag. So one day I went to Walmart and took picture of all the Doritos bags and ended up with like a month or more of double xp.
Mine is from World of Warcraft. In WOW they have a system to distribute droped loot. Called DKP. There are many variations of DKP but back in vanilla my guild just did "for every boss kill u get x DKP" "if u want a piece of gear, bid and highest bidder wins". This worked fine for months. But some gear is restricted to each class. Hunters have hunter only gear, rogues have rogue only gear. And then there is cross class gear. Which is anyone can use.
So class restricted items would often go for like 50-100dkp. (10 dkp per boss kill or something), non restricted would often go for 200dkp.
I was the hunter class leader for my guild. so instead of sticking with the DKP system i came up with an excell spreadsheet. It made it so the hunters would get the item they needed most, and instead of bidding against each other. Every other hunter in the raid would pass. So hunters started to get set pieces for 10DKP, (min bid). Which allowed us to save insane amounts of DKP, which we would then use to outbid everyone else.
This went on for like a month before the other classes started to catch on, so finally everyone either had a spreadsheet or they were fucked on gear.
My guild leader finally had enough of it and had to create a whole new system. I felt rather proud. My job was to help the guild hunters and... i did that... but i kinda screwed over everyone else.
I had some friends that would go to the grocery store looking for expired foods. If you found expired food and told an employee, you could get a non-expired item of the same type for free. And that is how they were never hungry during college.
In college they had washing machines that you had to use a card loaded with money to wash your clothes. I would simply pry open the computer box and jump the wires that came from the machine I wanted to use. People from all over our building would come to me and ask could I get them a free wash and dry.
I have had to take multiple 3-12 hour online driving classes. Many of them make you wait a certain amount of time before you can go to the next section. I would use the google developer tool to find the timer count down and skip it to 0 so I could finish the course in like an hour.
I worked at a McDonalds in highschool as a cashier. When someone was paying in cash for I would put the order and and it Immediatly come on the kitchens screen. They make the order, then I cancel the order, and take the food and pocket the cash.
I once worked as a magazine telemarketer, but I got to work from home. They monitor your calls randomly so you can't just say you worked if you didn't. They also give you a response book of things you should say to sell the magazines. I recorded all of the responses and wrote some python scripts to play the recording based on what the person says. Voice recognition wasn't as good back then so it wasn't perfect but it worked pretty good and actually got as many sells as I did.
There used to be regular "Coupon" threads on 4Chan that would post fake coupons. I only did it once, but I got a PS3 for $99 when it was going for $299.
Sign up for college classes I'm Denver for $25, receive student bus pass that's good for 3 years, cancel classes, keep using pass.
$25/3 years vs $~100/month or 5.20/day. Fuck em
Also my job supplies two 10 minute paid breaks and one 30 minute unpaid. The 30 isn't mandatory so a lot of us just scarf some food during a 10 and wind up with 2.5 hours overtime each pay period.
I always asked my students to vote in groups. It gave them the false impression that they were making the decisions, while I was always able to gerrymander whatever outcome I wanted.
tckiely · 2 points · Posted at 05:22:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You found out that you can get karma by submitting old AskReddit questions.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 03:34:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The CIA contracted with me to build a massive laser weapon when I was a professor at Pacific Technical University. Instead I used the money to renovate my home while having my students, who are all real geniuses, build it for me. There was a minor popcorn situation but otherwise it worked flawlessly.
The point is now I have a lifetime supply of popcorn.
KB_112 · 2 points · Posted at 05:38:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did a similar thing, except I learned you could type rosebud;!;!(adding endless sets of ; and !) and each semicolon exclamation mark combo would input the code another time. Would just hit the character limit a few times and get massive amounts of money to build whatever I wanted
gandaar · 1 points · Posted at 14:26:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When the US Mint was pushing the $1 coin, they would allow you to purchase them with credit cards and ship them to you for free. People would use a credit card with rewards like free air-miles to purchase thousands of dollars worth of $1 coins, deposit the $1 coins to the bank, pay off said credit card, keep rewards from cards, rinse, repeat.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 22:52:07 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Talarn · 32 points · Posted at 00:08:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure I would consider theft to be a loophole...
iB3xx · 3 points · Posted at 04:46:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One time there was this new dating app, and everyone in town started using it.. I am not a very attractive guy so it was hard to find a good time.
There was this blonde girl who literally slept with me every time I messaged her on the app, even though she kept giving me 1 star after every hookup. She thought she was empowering herself by doing that and making me feel like shit, so I just went along with it.
We slept together about 8 times in one week, my rating went to shit but I didn't care, that was more nuts per week that I busted with a girl than ever in my life. After that, her brother had a big meltdown she stopped using the app. I miss that whore.
My local grocery store has a self checkout where you enter in how many of something that isn't prepackaged (fruit, vegetables, donuts ect.) So I usually get a dozen donuts and put in that I have 1 donut and get 12 for the price of 1.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
PM me the Dominios code... Please?
vldsa · 2 points · Posted at 04:48:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Makeup site that I frequent very regularly always has $5 off coupons if you sign up for their newsletter. Cue me going to a throwaway email site whenever I order from them so that I essentially get free shipping.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 14:36:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Which make up store us this? Ulta?
vldsa · 0 points · Posted at 15:23:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
to this day every time i break or wear out a ps3 or ps4 controller i buy a brand new one and return the old one int he new ones package after cleaning it up and say its broken. get store credit to buy some food for a few days or a new game. ive only even really paid for 2 controllers 1 extra with each my ps3 and 4 and i've probably broken or wore out over a dozen. thats a lot of cash still in my pocket or spent elsewhere over the years.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 02:32:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
ITT: Stealing from people.
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crimeo · 1 points · Posted at 04:57:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If they worded it as "everyONE" with an app, then that wasn't a loophole since you are only one person with an app. That was just lying and hoping not to get noticed.
I abused Target with video games. I would buy a game, play it, return it and say it broke so they let me exchange it for another one. Then a day or two later I'd return the sealed copy for a refund and buy a new game, play it, and return it. Rince and repeat.
Was just my own personal rental system, finally stopped doing it, played a bunch of games for free and got all my money back.
Buying discounted gift cards to a store that sold Paypal load cards, and allowed you to purchase them with the store gift cards, using my Paypal debit card.
I started with the free trial because I for my own phone line and needed my own AOL account. Decided to drop it and try people pc; when I told the operator that, they offered me 3 months of AOL free, I just had to make sure and cancel before the trial ran out.
Fast forward five years; either they finally caught on our it wasn't profitable to offer anyone free service, because they actually went through with cancellation.
It was a good ride while it lasted.
This happened sometime in the late 90's to early 2000's.
I found out my at my online college (its an online program for adult students at a university near me) that one of my instructors didn't really check work to grade shit so I have plagiarized some of my work from other students (not like papers, but in order to "stay engaged" the school requires a discussion board post every week; I've just copied and lasted someone else's then changed some words and sentences and gotten a 100 every time)
nicless · 1 points · Posted at 04:57:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is the least "ha ha!" moment... But I got a membership for Sam's Club. Didn't really shop there enough to be worth it but going there on my lunch was super awesome because it was a hot dog and a huge drink for $1.50. Well, you have to be a member to get in but the people working their cafe scanned a store card to ring up purchases. I didn't even realize my membership had lapsed for 6 months or so, I was still enjoying that cheap ass lunch.
I'm super late but those coin slots that had anywhere from a gumball to those small toys in a plastic container. You put the quarter in and turn the metal knob and out came your prize.
Well, I figured out that on packs of beer there were these small round cardboard pieces that you can punch out. I put these in the slots and turned and it accepted this cardboard circle as a quarter. I did it's every time I went to the grocery store until one day they took the machines out. This was about a 1 year operation I had going on. I was around 10 or 11 at the time. Witty lil kid ayye
syzergy · 1 points · Posted at 04:58:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Staples.com used to let you stack $25 off $75 coupons through their chat service. I would often buy expensive electronics and get them for 1/2 or 3/4 their retail price. I would buy coupons off ebay. I even had a coupon plug! Guy would sell me $25 off coupons for $3 each. I don't think they let you do coupon codes in chat now. Anyways I easily made $800 one summer just reselling the stuff I bought on ebay. It was great.
Another loophole I had on Staples.com was abusing their 110% price match promotion. They listed a $250 PC graphics card (a gtx 970 for those who want to know) for about $1600 on their site. I price matched this to another site and basically got the card for around $100 because of that extra 10% match. The CSRs were clueless as all hell. Such a fun time with staples! They've really stepped their game up unfortunately :/
In my high school, you could substitute a semester of Gym class for Scuba Diving. There was only one version of the scuba diving class, but it hosted all levels of certification, so I ended up taking scuba in place of Gym for four consecutive semesters, becoming a rescue diver and finishing a significant portion of my master diver certification. When my cousin took the class, I found out that after I left, you could no longer do that.
hokie18 · 1 points · Posted at 04:58:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a casino night being held by our Residence Hall Association a couple years ago, you got a small bag of chips when entering and could exchange chips for raffle tickets at the end of the night. After wandering around and playing cards for a little bit my friends and I found a vertical roulette game that was actually broken; you could play on black/red which gave you a 2:1 payout, but there was also a segment on the wheel labeled "black" and "red" which paid out 15:1. We physically couldn't lose, at all. Eventually the person running the table caught on to what we were doing (mainly after she ran out of large-denomination chips to give us) and put a limit on the amount we could bet at once (previously unlimited, we were playing almost $100k in chips per spin). It didn't stop us from getting over 500 tickets at the end of the night, which we put in for a GoPro and a small drone.
We won both of them.
pot8ers · 1 points · Posted at 04:58:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In my Engineering 1101 class my freshmen year, we had to build a vehicle that went up to a certain point and then come back to the starting line; it also had to be made up of 50% recyclable material. The score was broken down in a lot of different parts, which included: simply moving forward, moving backward, making it the end point, returning past the starting line, and the 50% recyclable material part. My team had attempted to build a vehicle but ended up falling short. So, on the day it was due, instead of using the vehicle we had attempted to build we used a roll of duct tape with a ball of crumbled up paper shoved in the middle and some cardboard attached to the sides.
It was able to move forward and backwards, and come back past the starting line (we folded up some duct tape so it would bounce off and come back). We ended up having one of the highest scores in the class.
When I was attending a military school there were pay phones that you could only use a phone card on. I learned from someone else that was a few months ahead of me a trick to place calls for free. You would cycle the cradle hookswitch rapidly for about 20 seconds until there was no dial tone. Then dial any 1-800 number, you would hear a dial tone, then dial the 10 digits you wanted to call for free. I have wondered if it still works. Off to find a pay phone.
When using the change machines that take 8 - 12% of your total, which can add up to quite a bit depending on how much change you have, we found a way to circumvent the charge. We would start the process like normal, but select to redeem the money as a gift card as it wont take a percent. Deposit our change and before finishing, disconnect the ethernet cable in back of the machine. When you try to cash out the machine tries to connect to the net to activate the card(but cannot), tells you the internet in down and gives cash for the same total. Not sure anyone else knew about this outside my group of freinds.
I had to do continuing education for my job, and I did it online because why sit in some boring classroom. I wondered if there was some way to speed things up to get to the end, but figured multiple tabs wouldn't work. I ended up with Internet Explorer (it's good for something!), Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera all running different sections of the program simultaneously. Did 32 hours of class stuff in about 14 hours.
An online community had a monthly giveaway based on how much time you spent on their site. I think the top 5 got something, but I could be wrong. This was in the time of dial up internet without any unlimited plans and were most people did not have internet. We figured out that we could go online unlimited by asking older people in the village if they had some of these AOL 2000 minutes internet for free promotion CDs, that were floating around at the time. That worked quite well, we just had to make new accounts every few weeks.
So, back to the giveaway: every night when we went to bed, we put a book on our keyboards, so it looked like we were typing all the time and it did not log us out of the session (which usually happened after 10 minutes of inactivity). My best friend, my classmate and me, who all lived in the same street were on top of that list for 6 months straight. I got a nice pair of Axion Shoes, a Powell Skateboard, Independent Trucks, several T-Shirts... After 6 months they realized that this probably can"t be real and stopped the whole thing.
My Girlfriend was pretty mad at me when I told her about it years later, because she also was on that site and tried to compete by actually STAYING UP ALL NIGHT and participating in the forums. We did not know each other at that time.
At university any copying of textbooks on the photocopier was 20c per sheet of paper but scanning any number of pages to a PDF and emailing it to yourself was free. I told this to a class of 30 people and we set up a mailing group where people would scan different sections of books and send them to the group. Not many of us bought textbooks or borrowed from the library after that.
Artphos · 1 points · Posted at 05:01:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My school had a small theatre(more like a conferance room), so we saw what the code for the room was and always watched netflix and played smash on the bigscreen. One time the principle came in with a high profiled politician and showed him around at school, so he even pretended that we were supposed to be there infront of him, instead of yelling at us.
Wanna play a single player game and think you can beat it in a week? Beat it, take it back on day 8 full refund no questions asked.
I've done this to so so so many games and just buy my "favorites" at midnight release (Nioh, Dark souls FF15) or games that favor MP component wait til they drop significantly and buy at 20$ in a couple months.
aa_ishi · 1 points · Posted at 05:01:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At qdoba you can get an entire bowl filled with chicken for roughly $8
Amazon offered free Prime membership for 30 days when you bought the Kindle Fire. (This was the original one.) One day I forgot to lock down the Kindle and my kid managed to find the factory reset. Turns out when you factory reset the device and set up your account on it again you get another 30 free days of Amazon Prime.
I may have hit the factory reset on the device once or twice whenever I shopped Amazon, saw a show they had I wanted to watch for free, or a book I wanted to borrow and read.
Stopped working a year or two ago. Someone finally fixed the code.
Not really a profitable one, but a convenience one: the apartments I've lived in only had pay laundry. When I was in school, I discovered that if I put a dollar in the Pepsi machines at school (which were more than a dollar for a bottle), it would give quarters out as change. As long as I had singles, I got my laundry change from there until I finished school and moved.
That isn't a problem now because my current place moved to stored value cards a few years ago for laundry (and finally gave us a non-crappy dryer during the conversion).
LmaoB0x · 1 points · Posted at 05:02:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in my high school... I was taking part of an online curriculum. Everything was done on online, everything. After submitting whatever assignment or project was due, you would receive instant feedback on what your grade was (Or if it was pending a grade), and the answer key. The full answer key, and if it was an essay or short answer, an example answer was given. Now, this website was a bit new, they used javascript for everything. Once a page was "submitted", it revealed a javascript code where you had buttons to "Show Answer". What I ended up doing was viewing the source code of that html page, copying the code, and used inspect element on all my other "un-submitted" assignments to paste in the show answer part. 100% on all my assignments, it was unheard of. Went on for about a year and a half before I was finally "caught." Good times...
Back at college, the school auditorium used to hand out free Chick-Fil-A sandwich coupons to freshman during orientation. Some friends worked there and had hundreds upon hundreds leftover. No one wanted them so they took them for themselves and to share with friends. And even though the coupons had expiration dates, Chick-Fil-A always took them.
We never paid for Chick Fil-A during those formative years and, as far as I know, they never caught on.
Radioshack had a promotion where you'd get 6 months of Netflix if you bought a prepaid phone. Initially they had a $5 prepaid phone available which stupidly ran at the same time as this promotion. I bought all I could, which was roughly 8 of them. It got to the point where Radioshack QUICKLY changed their promotion terms as I'm confident others were clearing out these $5 phones that Radioshack had.
Just a few months ago did I get a notice that I had to start paying for Netflix. Probably the funniest aspect to this is that for the years that I had free Netflix, I never watched it. Never.
I found that on the Kindle store you can buy a book then cancel the order for a full refund, but still read the entire book if you opened it before it got deleted off your device. I bought books to support more unpopular authors, but still probably saved hundreds if not thousands of dollars reading books without paying.
I believe they patched this recently, I'm surprised it took so long (I did it for years). I'm also a little surprised I never heard of anyone else figuring this out.
COLLEGE CAFETERIAS STRAIGHT UP - Since my buddy at the time lived in the dorms and had an unlimited meal plan he could just walk into the cafeteria and just eat anytime he wanted to...when me or a couple other of my buddies who did not live in the dorms needed food he would pile as much food as he could onto a plate, take it back to his backpack in the corner of the eating area and put it into A HILARIOUS AMOUNT of Tupperware. He would repeat this process multiple times and go to all of the food stations in the cafeteria not to seem suspicious... we all ate for free. If he ever got caught he would just say "oh I didn't know, I live in the farthest part away in the dorms and just like to keep the food in my dorm room fridge". Kind of a dbag move but if you're broke and hungry in college you gotta eat!
Tskear · 1 points · Posted at 05:03:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not me but my father uses a loophole when driving. If your driving in Ireland and get done speeding you pay a fine and get points on the license. X points equals suspended license. However because he doesn't have an Irish licence, but one from another country , all he can get is the fine and not the points, so speeding doest hurt as much when your going 40 over on the motor way.
In the game they so call, "Monopoly" you can collect $200 every time you make it around the board. So I grabbed all the money from the banker and took off to the other room. Now I have all the Monopoly money I'll ever need..
My school is pretty shitty by doing this but they would charge you $.50 for printing in color and $.30 for black and white. We have this main printing room where both teachers and students print things out. The teachers and teacher aides have a special account where the system knows you are a staff member and won't charge you for printing jobs. I went in line to print something and I saw that the person in front of me (a teacher) forgot to log out. I hopped on and went to see the credentials. I made a new account under as an aide and then made accounts to sell to people at a discount (accounts don't expire). So I made 15 or so "aide" accounts and sold them for $10-$15 to a freshman and I did this for 3 years until I graduated. It was good money.
There is this csgo website where you can do survey to make credits on the site and then u can use those credits to buy skins. For those who don't know csgo skins are items in the game that you can trade or sell them for paypal money. So me and my friends were bored during our computer class in high school so we start doing surveys, and when I fail survey, the failed survey link was something like www.yadihyadiyada.com/fail=0 , and I make it to /success=1 and it worked and now I have 1 dollar in credit on the website. I did this for about 5 months until the owner of the website contacted me and sad he would report me to fbi, lel I just blocked him and ran away with around 400 dollars profit
Used to do Pay per Visit/Click banners back in the early days of internet. Wrote a script that forced a click when someone came to the site. Started a Rom And emulator site. Got 1000 views a day and got 25 cents per click/viewer. Would get checks of like $5000 dollars sent to me in the mail. Lasted for about 8 months until company caught on and changed to pay per item bought.
REI has a one year return policy if you're not satisfied with an item. I get new shoes for free all the time. I've paid for three pairs total, so I always have three returns waiting for me. The trick is that the return past 30 days is if you're dissatisfied with the performance of the item and not for wear and tear. That is unless you tell them you're dissatisfied with the performance of the item based on the amount of wear and tear. Trust me when I say you will get looked at like you're a piece of shit, but you will get brand new shoes.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:04:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My high school had no actual penalty for amount of absences or tardiness, a fact that they made a concerted attempt to hide. When I found out through my guidance counselor, it began. If I needed an extra day on an assignment I stayed home. If I wanted a big breakfast, I'd skip first period. If I had a test in the afternoon, I'd sleep in and come to school after lunch. And after college acceptances came through, I stopped coming to school altogether on a whim if I didnt feel like it.
All and all, I missed over a months worth of classes, with absolutely no repercussions. Senior year was dope.
Back in vanilla wow I discovered an issue where Master Looting gear to someone that wasn't on your screen didn't show up in anyone's logs. Me and my Rogue cousin ran so much shit with me ML'ing where I'd tell him to run a few screens away from everyone when something good dropped (like world drops). Best thing we got was a Krol blade from an UBRS runs.
Gamestop way back when had a promotion where you could trade in your Sega Genesis and get like $50 for it. I read over all the rules and promptly found a pawn shop that sold me a pile of non working Segas for $40 and turned them in for $500 in store credit. It was double awesome because I worked there and got my employee discount when I bought anything. A couple weeks later Corporate added a bunch of new rules to the trade ins.
A while back at Best Buy they used to offer a Geeksquad warranty on console games that for $1 you could return a game if it were damaged, and get full store credit back. But they never actually checked the game, so I played through a bunch of Xbox 360 games for only a few dollars till they stopped doing the warranty and was left with a legitimately broken copy of Timeshift...
Not a loophole, exactly. In the early/mid 90s, when I was like 13, I realized I could buy Sega Genesis games that were marked down at K-B Toys for $9.99, then return them to the local department store (Venture, for you Chicagoans) where prices stayed at MSRP for way longer than they should have, for like $50. I did it more than a handful of times, getting either cash store credit for more toys. One time it was basically a straight-up trade for a case of Fleer X-Men Ultra trading cards. My mom helped me do it enough times until she started to feel bad, and then my swindle was over.
At my previous job as a cashier at a produce market, we often had lots of dumb little sales. One I remember in particular was on seed packets. The way our system was set up to do the discount, was it would ring up the price for all of the seeds, then remove the price to get it to the sale price. That's how the head manager decided to set that up.
Well one day they went on a bigger sale than usual. But the head manager didn't change it. I don't remember specifics, but it was something like half off of what they normally were.
So then the next manager changed it to show that. Except, he changed the price they rang up at, not what would be discounted. So normally they would take off about a dollar every 10 packs, bring the total down to about 90 cents from $1.90.
But the price was cut in half, and the discount was not take away. So it became 90 cents roughly for ten, then it would take away the dollar. Meaning, according to the system, we owed the customer money for buying seeds.
Now by exploiting to the max, I bought about 3 sodas before I told my manager how I was getting them for free. He was amused and then fixed it. Thanked me for catching it.
NBA Jam used to give you free games if you pressed down heaps of the buttons and do some joy stick stuff. Whenever I went to the shops I would tell my mum I was going there and make friends with people by saying I'll get us free games. It made going to the shops bearable
In University, it costs average 250$-400$ per textbook. However the max late penalty at the University library is only 25$ per book. So I'd pay 25$ and get a textbook for the whole semester. (still using the loophole)
I work 6 hours a day and I take a paid lunch cuz no one has asked me if I was clocked out yet. I also add like several minutes a day to my time card because no one ever checks them.
Carls app gave you 100 point ever time you checked in. Most were stupid coupon things like "buy a burger get a free soda with your 500 points" etc. but at 1000 points you got a free "six dollar burger" I had a paper route when the app came out. You could check in and get the points once every 3 hours. I passed by 1 Carl's Jr. at the beginning of my route and one towards the end. My route took a little over 3 hours. I was getting 200 points a night while working. I was getting a free burger a week, no other purchase necessary. I eventually found out that when you redeemed it, you would have 30 minutes to use it. So I would get a burger at the end of my shift and couple exits over was another Carl's Jr. would get a second burger and save it for lunch. At 4am there wasn't a line and all these Carl's Jr. we're on my route so it didn't even cost me much of my time. Eventually they changed it to "buy one get one free" for 1000 points
I went to Disneyland and my parents had one of those early am tickets for us kids (this is around 2000,not sure if they still do this) . My friend and my sister were into riding space mountain as much as possible, but when the ride finishes, the exit is far from the entrance and walking through the building takes a while.
As we were getting out there was a door open and we decided to check it out. Turns out it was the side entrance that leads right up to the last 10 feet or so of the line. The park was empty, so this didn't result in us cutting in line, but we were able to ride the ride more frequently since we didn't have to snake through the rest of the building. Eventually, they closed the door.
Using Incognito mode in Chrome to vote multiple times on contests that otherwise only allow you to vote once/once per day. Helped my previous job win one of those "Best of" contests this way.
If you buy real estate that barely covers it's own expenses, you'll never pay tax again due to depreciation.
ChefCs · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This was my 3rd year of highschool. My local fried chicken restaurant had a promotion where if you sign up for their membership program, you get a free combo meal (worth about $8). So my friends and I figured out as long as we could go inside and get the free membership cards, we could get a free meal. With our membership cards in hand, I would drive us to the restaurant and go through the drive thru, my two friends would hop out of the car, go inside and get the membership cards for tomorrow's lunch and I would place the order for all 3 of us and hand over the 3 membership cards. It got to the point where we did this every school day for a month and a half. We ended up getting $240 worth of food for free, each. Unfortunately, one of my friends had a big mouth and apparently the word spread to this kid named Micheal. Micheal's dad is in upper management for the chain, he heard about our shenanigans and thus ended the promotion.
Baja Fresh used to have gift cards that were printed on cardstock and had no barcode or redemption code. They were easy to replicate with a color xerox.
Black ops III. The default pistol (whatever it was called) practically had no cap on the fire rate, so I assigned a rapid left click macro on my mouse and dominated.... Until it got patched a few months later. Haven't played since.
My ex girlfriend's brother worked for caribou coffee. They had a buy 9 get one free sticker deal going on. His branch of caribou went out of business, so he took home a stack of the cards and a few rolls of the stickers...they gave me some and I got free coffee from caribou whenever I wanted, for like 3 months.
nancam9 · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Late to this, but ... it was the peak of my life.
Air Canada matched a deal that a (now defunct) airline offered - fly 42 segments (basically 21 round trips) is a 3 month window and get 2 Business Class tickets anywhere in the world that they flew, as well as all sorts of bonus miles, status, etc.
Really? I called several times and asked pointed questions about what fare classes were eligible (A: any), and so on. So I booked 21 return trips between Calgary and Edmonton, which is about a 30 minute flight. I got off the plane in Edmonton, cut through a side door, and got back on the same plane, in the same seat, about 20 minutes later. Total trip time was about 2 hours with some travel to and from the airport.
Each ticket was less than 100 dollars at the time (this was 1995/1995). A few flights were as cheap as $75 (before air navigation, fuel charges, security charges etc), a couple were about $120. Including parking charges at the airport, the odd meal and snack, etc. I spent a little less than $3000 all in for the trips.
I took my wife to visit her grandfather in South Africa. A trip that could not, would not, have happened at the time (new child, new house, etc.)
toufu6 · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hero's Quest 1 aka Quest for Glory 1. When creating a new character, you had like 20 points to add to an assortment of different base stats (throwing, climbing, magic, strength, etc.). Found out if you messed with adding and subtracting stat points you could make an individual stat go into negative amounts and add to the initial 20 points. Easy way to max out every stat except 1.
Bit of backstory first. In high school I did a lot of theatre, and often spent more time there than at my own home, the group of Thespians (theatre people) that also "lived" in the building would go to a pool a few hundred feed away from the building to by snacks, and drinks. I found the extension cord that powered all of the vending machines a few months later (cause I never really looked for it, and it was up against a wall pretty close), and flipped the switch, on and off. Not knowing what it would do, I went, swiped my card, and bought a drink, and left like normal. But then when I checked my online banking a few days later, I had not been charged for buying the drinks, after bringing it up to my friends they hadn't either. When the Coca-Cola truck came at the end of the month to restock the machine, they guy was probably informed to get the machine to start billing people again. We tried it, and of course it charged us. A week later, turned them all off, and back on and got a bunch of free snacks, and drinks. 3 years of Theatre, and we told nobody. When we were Seniors, we knew we had to tell somebody, so we told the people who we trusted the most... Our Technical Director, and he told only the people who he trusted. When I go back, I ask him who currently knows, and then ask them if they still use it. I am really surprised that after this long, it still is not fixed, and it's the same Coca-Cola Truck driving restocking dude.
The main downfall though, this was the beginning to my Mellow Yellow addiction...
Back when you used to be able to get free 20oz. caps off sodas if you titled the bottle you could see if it was a winner before using your free cap on it. I was a real rebel.
(Not me but one of my friends)
In seventh grade there was a science project where you had a shit ton of optional things you could do for extra credit, but the project was only out of 30 points. A friend of mine did every single extra credit option (which was an obscene amount of things) and ended up getting like a 700/30 on the assignment.
He didn't do a single thing the rest of the semester ended the class with a 200%
Our school vending machine used to cost 50p for a can. If you put I think a 2 euro coin (forget exactly which value it was) it would register as receiving a £1 coin plus spit out the 2 euro coin and 50p change and the can of juice. A couple of mates and I did this for about 2 years sparingly. Good thing is even if someone is watching you it's hard to notice you're cheating the machine as it looks like a legit purchase.
Back when the XBox One came out, they had a promo code that gave you $10 off of their online store. So you could get a $15 Microsoft Currency code for $5. Thing is, the promo code wouldn't stop working after use -- you could just use the same code over and over.
Sold MS Currency codes to friends for $7 (not a huge markup, but it kept them coming back and gave me a little extra $). Ended up spending about $600, which gave me $1800 in codes. Sold a huge chunk of them, but also used a lot on my personal account.
Whoever handles the digital transactions (I'm guessing Digital River) temporarily banned my account and I couldn't make any purchases on microsoftstore.com for about 8 to 9 months while logged into that account. It works fine now, though.
Being signed up for XBox Live Rewards also allowed me to earn points back on all of the digital purchases.
Only drawback is that I now have so much digital content on my XBox 360 that the thing is damn slow.
That old duplication glitch in Oblivion where you use a bow and arrow. I ended up with so many fucking poison apples from the dark brotherhood. Entire towns were ravaged by poison apple epidemics thanks to my pickpocket skill.
I was a very enterprising child who was also very into video games and very short on money, at some point in time I found out about Gamestop's return policy of returning a purchased used game within a week and getting all your money back. Cue literal years of me abusing the SHIT out of that policy and stretching birthday and Christmas money for months. My poor parents drove me there almost every weekend for years and those employees were completely in their rights to cut me off, but bless them they never did. Probably had to do with me being a little kid when I started doing it and at that point fuck it, I was a regular, it was what I did. I stopped sometime around when I was 15 or 16, I think. Probably a good thing too, they never seemed annoyed by it, but I'm sure the ice would've started wearing thin since I was getting older.
BBEKKS · 1 points · Posted at 05:11:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Local Smoothie King (chain that sells "healthy" smoothies) had a "buy a gift card, get a free smoothie" promo.
Step 1: buy gift card get free smoothie
Step 2: use gift card to buy gift card, get free smoothie
Step 3: repeat
I have a good one. In 2001 I was a power seller on ebay, and had a issue with a dell order. Anyway I talked to a manger about my order and he gave me a coupon code for 40% off my next purchase up to $150 off. I was able to stack multiple codes and on top of that stack the 40% off at the end to get some serious good deals. The coupon never maxed out at $150 and always went a full 40% off.
At one point my entire house was just stacked from the floor to ceiling with Laptops, desktops, LCD's ect. I ended up using this same code for almost 2 years before they caught on and easily made 250K. Those were the good days. Now I might sell on ebay 20-30 times a year due to their fees.
One part that really sucked about e-bay was 1 out of every 25 buyers would try to scam me. Either they wanted free stuff or make up something about a scratch on something that was NIB. I also had a guy send a laptop case back filled with rocks and I had to credit his money back.
That you can just walk out of stores with merchandise. I was such a sucker for thinking that you had to go through the check out line and pay for things.
I went to programming conference with my husband at this really nice resort. The programmers made rockets and had fun networking events; the spouses (read: "wives") were offered shopping and sightseeing trips. I just read and wrote by the pool, but they charged a lot of money if we wanted to join our programming halves at all-- even for meals and social events. I got to know some of the staff who worked at the resort and found out that not only were the people who planned the conference assholes to the staff, but they were vastly overcharging all the participants for things like food and space reservations. The staff were actually so horrified to learn how much we were being charged, they ended up helping me sneak into all the events and meals for free. This might not be some big "hack" or "loophole", but I made friends, got free food, got to hang out with my husband, and ripped off some assholes. Overall, great experience. :)
As a kid, there was an apartment complex across the street which I would go to. I was thirsty from the bike ride and summer heat, so naturally I went to the soda machine to grab something to drink, I had to pee really bad at the time so I started rapidly pushing the button repeatedly. and because of that 2 sodas fell out, long story short me and my friend we kept going there for sodas till they fixed it and a bunch of other kids in the neighborhood got free sodas.
At my old job I noticed that the software we used for clocking in and out rounded to the nearest quarter hour. I would clock in 7 minutes late and clock out 7 minutes early and it would register me as being on time. It took half a year for them to find out.
I was at a bar with a TiuchTunes Jukebox. They have an app and you can buy play credits and play songs from your phone. The Jukebox was offline, but the online service and app were ok. I submitted a song, my account was decremented by a play credit, and almost immediately the play credit was returned to my account because the attempt to play the song failed. I tried again, same result. I tried again, but on the third try I was awarded a "bonus credit" for having played three songs. Another bonus at five, ten, etc. I could have sat there all night requesting songs that wouldn't play while ratcheting up my balance of play credits.
I contacted their support because I thought it was a brutal logic bomb in their app if people could simply unplug the network cable from the Jukebox and rack up unlimited free plays.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Found one of those surveys that gave you a 5 dollar amazon gift card after completing it. It would just be the code. I did the survey, answered some 20 questions with 1 question a page so it took like 10 minutes start to finish. Well...the code worked to my surprise. I decided to do the survey again, only used a macro script and recorded my inputs. I did the survey another 24 times with the script and got 50 amazom bucks for free before the website said they ran out of gift cards.
I wasn't charged healthcare insurance for a FULL YEAR because the HR department failed to file my paperwork properly. This was approx 5-6 years ago. I had myself and my family in the plan.
There was windows store that opened up in the mall by my place in highschooland they were showing off their new windows phone. If you won in a challenge against it with your phone you'd get a 100$ gift card and a 20$ card if you lost. I made over 1000$ losing against them before management stepped in and told the employees that it was a once a day challenge and to keep me from doing it again. I had been going over 10 times a day between shift changes and with different sets of clothing.
A lot of you won't find this funny at all, but ms08-067.
So basically this is a Windows exploit. In a theoretical world where this isn't widely patched, you can sit in a coffee shop, and just about any windows device that pops on the network, you can just "point, click, hack."
No required vulnerable software, no pesky ASLR, just an easy ticket to a totally pwned machine.
I know a lot of vulnerability testers today who still swear by it.
back in the day before smart phones there used to be a store on your phone where you can buy wallpapers, games, ringtones etc. On wallpapers they were like $1.99 but if you go through it you can preview the wallpaper and through your settings you can save it. there was never a watermark or anything so i would always just save the wallpapers i wanted without having to pay for it.
My college charges ridiculous amounts of money for convenient parking so when I found out that there was this one obscure parking structure that was free on the weekends I paid minimal money for shitty parking a mile off campus and brought my car to the nearby one on Thursday or Friday, got a ticket to get in but because it was open on the weekends never had to actually pay to get it out when I wanted to use it.
I work from home and accidentally snatched the cord out of the phone base for my headset. I called in, pretending I had no idea what happened. They sent me a new one and the days off were excused because the equipment was theirs, and for hygienic purposes, they don't require the headsets to be sent back.
I've done this about 8 times over the past year, for about 2 weeks total in free, completely excused days off.
AT&T partnered with AmEx a few years back for the Isis (now Softcard, sold to Android pay I believe, name changed for obvious reasons) app and mobile pay. They had a deal where you could get a 1 dollar credit for every 1 dollar or more transaction, up to 30 credits a month. I used it at a vending machine that sold 16 ounce canned drinks for exactly 1 dollar. Free drinks. Cool, right? Gets better. The drink machines had a cash free loyalty program. Every fifth tap to pay purchase was free, up to 5 dollars. So every week I got 9 free cans of soda. I didn't drink that much, but my friends loved it.
The Chipotle near me had a problem at the register and couldn't charge gift cards for about 3 days straight after Christmas. I would order 2 burritos, chips and guacamole with a drink to keep it under 30 and never have to pay. I must have gone about 10 times in those 3 days. The gift that kept on giving.
About 5 years ago Netflix conducted a sort of market research where you had to be part of a fb group and answer questions weekly. I got invited and since I love complaining I will answer the questions every week with long essays about why everything is wrong.
Anyway, there were rewards for every month you spend in the research. I believe the first two months were 50 dollars amazon gift cards and the last one was a few months of Netflix free. Now this research was being done in both Mexico and Canada, and somehow my account appeared in both countries. I only got invited to one fb group, but the emails for the rewards arrived from two different persons! One from Mexico and other one for Canada. I brush up my Spanish and answer both. I got double rewards every month. I thought they will catch me in the last month since they will apply the special code to my account directly and see that someone else already applied the free months. apparently that did not riced a red flag, I think I got 10 free months instead of 5!
Back when Foursquare was a thing, a local bar that I walked passed everyday, gave out free Fish Bowls to the Mayor of their establishment on Foursquare. So I checked in everyday and became mayor and got about 4 free fishbowls before they changed that policy.
About 8 years ago a buddy and I found out that this certain type of preloaded gift card could be used over the limit when making purchases off the apple app store. By over the limit I mean you could easily get $250 off one $25 card. I think we ended up somewhere around 5 grand in free stuff off the app store.
Uber Eats and Door Dash. I got a 15$ credit for Door Dash in the mail one day, and I decided to try it out. Like a week later I decided to use it again, but I had deleted it and forgot my password so I made a new account with my school email. I log in and I see the offer again for a 15$ new user credit... So I started making new emails just to use for Door Dash and then later Uber Eats when it came out. I probably ordered 1,000$ worth of free food before they required a phone number and just started to kinda catch on. Worth the five minutes to make a new email lol
British Airways online check-in seat allocation used to not understand premium economy.
Regularly we used to book and check in online and pick seats as far forward as possible - resulting in a seat upgrade for economy tickets.
A few times we'd get questions from the various check-in staff but a printed ticket and a check on the system always showed we had that allocated ticket & seat.
I work for a food courier app (not uber eats) and when they expanded a zone they offered an hourly guarantee of 17$ per hour. I signed up for a six our shift in which I only had 3 orders. There weren't enough no restaurants in the zone and the word hadn't gotten out. I signed up for 50 more hours most of which I spent playing call of duty. Easiest money I'll ever make.
In a fit of frustration, I once typed "eggs" into sim-ant on a rainy day recess and found out that if you did that, the queen would lay tons of eggs around her. I spent uncountable hours taking over the yard and house after that. Nothing was safe; nothing was sacred.
When I was a kid I went to a Christian summer camp. We were required to memorize a Bible passage (John 3) one verse at a time and then repeat it to a counselor for points. The more of the passage you could say at a time, the more points, and then at the end of the week, you could redeem your points for prizes like candy. If you had a lot of points, during assembly you got to go on stage and pick out big prizes, like giant (3 foot tall) stuffed animals and other actually really cool stuff. They never changed the passage from summer to summer, and I was apparently like the only kid who went every summer, so by 5th or 6th grade, I could recite the entire thing start to finish from day one. I came home with a crap ton of giant stuffed animals and once an entire retail store box of packs of baseball cards. Those were some great summers.
Probably 2-3 years ago, I got a small Taco Bell gift card for my birthday. I went to my local Taco Bell and they said their scanner or whatever for gift cards was awaiting repair, so they had to give me my order for free. I went back once a week or so for a bit. I wanted to just use the gift card (I always use gift cards as quickly as possible), but I didn't want to be a jerk and go in every single day. Probably ended up getting $40-$50 out of a $15 gift card.
Restaurant near me had a 'text this number for a free dessert' it sent you the text, but it only starts to work the day after you send the text. There was only one code.
I sent this code the day before I went there, for a free dessert every time.
Basic but effective.
At a local movie theater, the arcade token machine took 25¢ per token. But if you put a dime in it'd give you 1 token, and if you inserts a nickel it'd give you two tokens. My friends and I would exploit it to the point where we wouldn't get caught. So we'd take turns "extracting" tokens and even come back with a roll of nickels.
Rufen · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
About ten years ago or so, I used to exploit those paid boxes for a newspaper.
Worked with a dime up to a quarter. Papers were fifty cents during weekdays and a dollar on weekends. I found out that if you pushed the white button to return the coin, as long as you put in the right amount it'd open up.
I was able to see movie's at a theater for only a dollar for two years because of a bugged app..
Long story short, I never update apps on my phone because I like to read the little synopsis of changes that were made. When purchasing movie tickets through the companies app it started only charging me a dollar. There was an update that fixed it but I never updated it. So I bought movie tickets like a mad man. The best part, you pick the seats. Star Wars? I bought the seats in front of me, behind me, and next to me and it still cost less than a full ticket. Friends wanted to go to the movies? I bought 17 tickets for a dollar each. We would go to the movies multiple times a week. Doesn't matter how bad of a movie, we would watch it. I did this for two years before the phone crashed and I had to restore it with the new app.
The vending machine at my school didn't have a very sophisticated mechanism for checking what coins it received (only checked the size). I realised that two 1p coins glued together were the exact same with of a £1 coin. I then sellotaped around the edges to get it to the same diameter, and I got free chocolate! As a 14 year old who never was given money to spend, this was a big deal.
There's this free YouTube downloader that can download video and audio, with a bunch of easy options. It's free because you're supposed to only get 20 downloads, but the counter has stopped at 16 and I have over 700 songs now.
This is really late and nowhere close to as cool as some of the stories but I wanted to share anyways. When I was about 7 or so I was at Discovery Zone (the indoor playground place) with my best friend and they had a claw machine that was filled with candy. The machine was rigged so that if you didn't get any candy on your first try you could keep going until you did. There was even a sign saying so. My friend and I noticed that most kids either couldn't read it or didn't read it so we hung out near the machine and everytime some kid would miss on the first try and leave we would swoop in and get tons of free candy.
Asterve · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is not so much a loophole, more an exploit. You see, in World of Warcraft there is a tag in order to reduce the amount of time doing grindy quests. It means that there will never not be a particular mob, or group of mobs. You can see this in action right now if you stand in the middle of the Maclure Vineyards and continually DoT all the boars around you. In moments you will be surrounded corpses that you can use to quickly level up skinning. So you can see how it could be useful beyond simply completing quests.
Anyway, at Sentinel Hill, Westfall, there were waves of Gnolls that were attacking. All had this tag, but this group of eight or so were particularly close together, and so anyone with a particularly effective AoE spell could easily farm these gnolls. Rain of Fire was instant cast at the time for Destruction Warlocks, and so you could kill this group several times over before it had completed its duration. A few minutes of afk farming and you had a full inventory of items, usually greys but a lot of greens and linen too. You could send the greens to alts for disenchantment, or sell on the auction house if they were particularly good. And use the linen to level up tailoring and first aid. After about an hour of afk farming and selling the useless items, I had enough linen to fill up an entire guild bank tab. Let's just say that I'm still making money from the linen.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Remember AR (accelerated reader) in reading class? Well, 8th grade me figured out you just have to read the last few pages of any book to get 10/10. Worked every single time.
At Boy Scout camp we took a long walk to the camp store nearby that had a vending machine. People would put a quarter in and it would go through and not work, but if you put it in a few times it would eventually register the coin (but still give it back). Once we figured that out we walked back and got our pillow cases, emptied the machine into them using about two dollars (every once in a while it would keep your quarter) and sold/traded the sodas to other campers as there was no other way to get any.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in college, Kohls would mail me a "coupon" that basically was "$10 off when you spend $10 or more!". It only worked on specific days (ex. 1/1-1/3), but I would always take it, and shop their clearance clothes for something as close to $10 as I could find. Practically built a wardrobe for under $1 per article of clothing.
McDonald's had a special offer in my country where they gave free nuggets if you ordered a meal on their website. I found out that the nuggets stayed even if you took the meal out of your basket. So I once got 6 boxes of nuggets and didn't pay anything
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:18:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm in high school and this happened at the beginning of the year. Due to some medical problems I was accidentally put into general english when I was supposed to be in enriched english. My school gives us summer reading assignments and of course I did mine in the last week of summer break. The general english teacher took the summer reading assignments two or three weeks after school started and didn't start grading them until the week after. Between those two weeks I was transferred to enriched english. The enriched english teacher took up the summer reading assignments in the first week of school. Due to this my crappy summer reading assignments were never graded.
TL:DR Due to a class switch I didn't have to have my crappy summer reading assignments be graded
FN-2197 · 1 points · Posted at 05:18:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had T-Mobile back around 2010-11, and only after I signed a two-year contract did I realize my house sat in a thick gray area where reception was almost nil. I dealt with it for a few months, but I got pretty pissed and looked for any way to get out of it without having to pay the early exit fee ($250 or so).
Turns out there was a clause in my contract stating that if I could prove I received no service at my house, they had to let me out of the contract for free. And since I found out I lived in a gray area using the map on their website, I left without paying a cent.
All it needed was a new email address. I have my own domain, so unlimited email aliases at that domain with literally no setup.
Mr Sandwich, a vietnamese sandwich / pho restaurant next to my office had such a deal. Every day I had fresh Pho for lunch, and a sandwich and another entree (fried rice, wings, etc, etc) for dinner. All for under $6 a day.
Amazon Prime. Get a visa giftcard and leave a dollar or less in it. Usually it last up to a good week until they cancel it. Wait a few days and bam you do it again. Same thing with any free trial service pretty much. Xbox live for free has been working out good. :)
When I was a freshman in high school, I didn't really have many friends. Well, I had none so I sat alone, which was fine, at the far end of the cafeteria, which was still about 50 feet from the vending machines. Anyways, my school had two or three vending machines that were nothing but Dr Pepper, then a couple drink machines with other choices, then the snacks. The first Dr Pepper machine would always sell out by first or second period, it was a rather big school with hundreds of students and I noticed early on that the coin return button was missing on that same machine, so people would come up and put a dollar in, hit every Dr Pepper button on the way down, get frustrated, and then try to get their money back, only to find that they couldn't. I also realized this missing coin return button was about the size of a pen. So every day at lunch, I would watch kids walk up, lose a dollar, get mad, and walk off. Then I would walk up, stick my pen in, and walk away one dollar richer.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:18:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So coco cola had one of those promotions where on the underside of the bottle cap you could win a free soda. Well I figured out that the sodas that were winners had a different colored bottle cap. I got 16 free sodas in a row. Don't know if they caught on or if the promo ended but it was one of the greatest discoveries as a kid.
I found a way on an online bitcoin betting site to skew the odds of a dice rolling gambling game so that the EV was slightly positive. Then I set up an autoclicking program and had it running 24/7 slowly making me money. I then used the winning from that to lose at the poker tables, all the while ignoring finals week entirely.
Xacto01 · 1 points · Posted at 05:19:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was an hourly employee, during a fiscal year we can only work 1040 hours, and more importantly, 1560 in a year and a half from the date of hire. After about 10 years of working as a manager, and becoming a very bitter employee towards my supervisors, I backed them into a corner finally.
If an employee works over the 1560, they are to be given back pay in benefits for all years previously worked as if they were a full time employee. For my case it would have been well over $100,000.
I had finally garnered enough loyalty from my coworkers to screw them over. I made sure to fly under the radar for the 1040 hours. That would have set warning bells off. The 1560 sneaks up on people. So as soon as my hours watch for the 1040 hours disappeared I began working the max 19hrs we were told we could work per week (subbing shifts, picking up shifts). One supervisor I liked started to catch on, but by that time it was too late. The other staff already had approved requests off. So they had an ultimatum, give me a full time position or give me my payout of over $100,000. Little did they know, I would end up getting both as I became a contracted employee only after I was beyond the 1560 hours due to a misplaced subform.
I live in a somewhat poor neighborhood. People working at the grocery store are uneducated teenagers. Once, there was a huge deal on beef. They were selling a complete filet for a great price. Since the deal was nice, none were left when we were there, so we took a raincheck. The cashier noted the price $/lb.
One week later, we come back. We take the beef and use our raincheck. On the package, price was in $/kg. Cashier got confused with maths. We don't know how she did it, but we got the 60$ piece of meat at 8$.
klampro · 1 points · Posted at 05:19:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I work at Moes and we have a $2.00 off survey at the bottom of all receipts so if you come in and buy a drink and do the survey on your phone it will get you a side of queso or quac or anything under two dollars and take that receipt and do the survey again and get unlimited sides of guac and queso and drinks for $2.50 just keep taking your receipts and doing surveys
Publix has/had a sample section in the candy isle, and the turtles cost about 4-5$ a pound, but near the end was a sample box saying Insert 25c for sample(2 pieces). So for 4 $ I could get 32 chocolate turtles, big fat nutty ones too.
Doing some quick math, we were able to get double the amount of chocolate turtles for the standard price by shoving dollar bills in the sample box and walking out with bags full of chocolate turtles. The first time we were holding bills up to the camera before shoving them in because we didnt know if the cashiers would let us leave without receipts or anything. They did.
Yes, we did talk to the employee's and they didn't mind since we were the only ones who did it. I'll have to check sometime if they still have that going.
I unexpectedly needed an extension cord to plug in a speaker at an outdoor event (the battery-powered one was broken). I was wracking my brains to see if there was anywhere on the college campus that loaned out or rented extension cords, and then I realized...
I went across the store to CVS and asked their return policy. They said they'd take anything back in working condition within 48 hours. That day I learned you can borrow things for free from CVS.
In cub scouts, we did pinewood derby. The wheels that come with the nails are a bit loose so they rattle. I applied graphic powder before each race and destroyed the competition.
A scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.
Ain't got nothin about not winning any way you can.
mmiloou · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Discovered that most supermarkets will rescan a product label. It only has to be within a very wide estimate weight limit. Would buy cheap products and then double side tape them when I went grocery shopping. $2 for Canadian Mapple syrup and organic everything from then on....Don't get me started on the bulk aisle 😂
Back in the 90's Gatorade did this check-under-the-cap contest for a bunch of memorabilia. At the time they had this lemonade flavor that was clear. I would go through every one flipping them over peering through to the caps and setting aside winners while my mom shopped. By the end of the contest I had recieved 8 tshirts, 2 hats, a duffle bag, a baketball, a cooler, 4 water bottles, a different kind of cooler like you see them dumping on coaches, a poster of Michael Jordan, a visor, cards autographed by Michael Jordan (it was printed on but 8 year old me didn't know that), and 20+ additional jugs of Gatorade.
I got free Internet from Comcast for over a year without them having a clue. It finally ended when a storm took out the power lines in front of my house and I couldn't get an IP address. Ended up just signing up again...sigh
There was a coupon code for half off your entire order at papa johns at a certain location from when they first opened that location. 2 years I used the crap out of that code before it stopped working.
When I was a kid we found it that the pop lid liners under the cap for perfectly into the bouncy ball vending machine at mall entrance. We exploited that so much, we went back to empty it a few days later only to be there the day the owner of the machine was emptying the coins only yo find out it was plastic soda lid liners. He was sooooo angry.
g2rade · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One of my jobs I was paid to monitor a lab of students, I realized after a month I wasn't being checked on so I stopped going to work but I'd still write in my hours online. I got paid for a year while I'd just sit at home and play video games or study. (This was only a part time job of 10 hours a week but still it was free cash)
Credit cards used to charge no fees for balance transfers with those checks back in the early to mid 1990s.
You can thank me for exploiting that loophole into oblivion by transferring my high % rate auto loan balance to my credit card at 0% with zero fees for one year. I now owned the car free and clear, got the pink slip then transferred that balance to another card and so on until I eventually paid the loan off with no interest.
Currently using a Total Wine coupon that lets you get any $10 or under bottle of wine for 1 cent. I've used it 6 times already and just keep printing new ones.
ohhpow · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a promo code for Marco's Pizza that freed out cheese sticks when you bought any large pizza. Instead of freeing out just the cheese sticks, it freed out the entire order. My roommates and I lived off Marco's pizza for about a 45 days, until they caught on and fixed the problem. I now can't stand Marco's because of how much I had it
I complained about an arcade game eating my coins (one of those ones that you pay for coins to use instead of using change) and the guy just sat there and pulled out every single stuck coin in the machine which was at least $50 worth. So when I used that up I complained about the rest of them, one at a time, and eventually ended up with $200 worth. I filled up 6 22 oz cups of the stuff.
Grubhub's universal "$10 off $15" coupons for new users. Right now, LOVEFOOD10 is one of them.
Any time my coworkers and I order lunch at work, we sign up with a fake name, a fake phone number, and a throwaway e-mail, and we group up our orders so that we have a bunch that are just over $15. The only things that have to be real are the payment info and the name of the "contact person," which is used to verify the payment info.
I go to a hotel I want to stay at after midnight and get a room and put my checkout day for the next day so I get two nights of sleep for the price of one. I have done it when I go to NYC and stay out for a while and if my schedule permits but it saves money and I like hotels.
When Uber first came out, all you had to do was make a fake number using Pinger, a random email, and a free ride promo code. Long story short, I abused this my last 2 months of high school almost everyday.
Spoffle · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sony did this Xperia Z promo about 5 years ago where they'd issue you a £22/€25/$30 Sony Entertainment Network vouchers if you installed a specific app onto an Xperia Z.
Well it was incredibly easy to exploit. You didn't even need an Xperia Z, and I ended up with about 200 of them. I didn't think it was right to sell them just in case they got revoked, so I bought everything I wanted from the PSN store as well as quite a few years worth of PS+.
They didn't get revoked.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I found out that my school's electronics policy left out a lot of "disruptive" tech. Because of this, I'd bring my laptop to school and play games after I finished classwork. The best part is that no teacher (even the ones that were gung-ho on electronics confiscation) tried to take away the laptop as long as I had its speakers muted.
Ts;dr: Brings laptop to school and plays Underground 2 in class.
There was a particular vending machine at my school that would give you snacks and money back if you knew how to do it. If you put a dollar in, and choose B10 (a pack of tiny doughnuts for $.90), it would drop three packs of the doughnuts and then spit out two dollars in change. It was near an 8 am class that semester, so i used the hell out of it. Right before finals though, it got changed to some awful chocolate creme bullshit and the trick no longer worked.
I was only able to do this once but Delta had a glitch in their system when booking a flight online. We were able to get 2 round trip tickets across the country to NYC for $80. We had first class on the way there as well.
When I was in elementary school, I had a few slightly older friends in junior high that let me know about the much stricter attendance policy. So, as a 6th grader, I skipped school on several occasions, and just came in the next day and said I was sick.
Free guitar controllers for Guitar Hero. I forget what the details were. You had to fill in an online form and send your guitar to them for RMA, except someone found out you didn't actually have to send them anything - just fill in the form and wait for your guitar to arrive. I got 6 for friends and 1 for myself for Xbox 360 and Wii
Back in the 90s, Gatorade would run those promotional things where you could win stuff under the cap (like many drink companies have done for a long time). Very conveniently, Gatorade produced some flavors that were clear in color. So my brother and I would just take the clear ones off the shelf, look through the bottle at the underside of the cap (as best we could), and only buy the ones that appeared to be winners. Most of the prizes were just more Gatorades, though.
Cloud8_ · 1 points · Posted at 05:22:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I never paid for a pizza my senior year of college. 100's for me and my roommates...
I was a Resident Assistant at Indiana University's largest dorm my junior year. I knew Pizza Express gave great coupons to freshmen and the new RAs would be pissed to learn they had to sort mail for 6 hours a week... On top of our actual jobs.
I started a revolution of, "Unless it has a specific name, it goes on the desk." And there were enough holdovers from last year to keep the tradition.
The coupon from Pizza Express was the best one of my four years. "$4 a Big Ten." Large one topping, sticks, sauce and two drinks for $11ish. So all we had to do was give 4 coupons per pizza and the tip was $5... Which was a great college tip.
We grabbed over 550 coupons from the front desk before the freshmen even showed up. Even got a sweet rubber band ball from our friends sitting behind it.
csono · 1 points · Posted at 05:22:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ordering from a website that offered a coupon code for free shipping to continental united states. That would normally not be good for me but it apparently worked for the non-continental US also. I probably saved hundreds in shipping until they finally caught on two or three years later.
gitobd · 1 points · Posted at 05:22:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A few years back JCPenney ran a Christmas promotion where they handed out little pins with codes on them. You took them home and entered the code online and you could win prizes like household items and gift cards for $10, $25, or $100. I have 3 JCP's close by, so almost everyday from Black Friday until Christmas Eve when they stopped handing out pins, me and my mom and sisters went to every store and each got pins. To make things even better, they had the pins to give out at every register. There's at least 5 registers in each store so by the time it ended we had hundreds of pins. Not every one was a winner but we got so many coupons for $10 off of a $10 purchase and $25 off of $25 that we had a great Christmas.
My boyfriend, his family, and I went to a movie at a nearby theater. His sister saw one of those machines you put a quarter in and it gave you a cute donut keychain. Well she put a quarter in it and out popped 3 keychains. So now me, his mom, and his sister are digging through our purses to look for quarters to try and get all the donut keychains. We each walked away with probably half a dozen keychains each.
Way back when media play was open. You kids. If you traded in 5 ( I think ) video games you could get a new one for free. We used to hit up garage sales and such and get used games. We would spend around $5 and get brand new video games each week.
So as all of you know, you need PS Plus to play online now a days on the PS4, which is 50-60 dollars a year depending on where you live.
And well currently i'm not in the best financial state, nor do I have plenty of free time to play Online, so buying a year subscription of PS Plus seems like a waste of money to me...
So the exploit is, that Sony gives out a free 2 day subscription to any new account, so what I do whenever I want to play Online is, make a new account, get the free subscription, and set it to be my "Primary" account, and Boom, Free PS Plus on my real primary account, so whenever I run out, and want to play Online, I just repeat the process!...
(Sorry for bad english)
My local shopping centre where I work has ticketless parking. But I worked out that if I tailgate the guy in front of me on the way in the camera can't read my number plate so it doesn't charge me. I park in there every day for work, saves me $45 a week!
The policy for video game return wasn't exactly iron clad when Starcraft broodwar and diablo 2 lod were out. As long as the disc and the manuals and shit were in the box I didn't even need to buy it to open the package, use a pen and paper to record the cd key. I didn't need the cds or anything. I needed the keys.
Broken vending machine at my dad's work place, just insert your initial note, and as long as you held down the "buy" key, it would keep spitting out drinks. I did this for about a year every time I went to use their pool before they caught on and got a new machine. Good times.
When the iPod touch 2nd gen came out, I saved up enough money to buy one. I went to best buy, purchased it, and got the best buy warranty. It was a two year warranty that was good for anything except "acts of god" to my understanding. So, every year when the newest gen iPod touch came out, I would crash the software and take it to best buy to be replaced, but when I did so, they would no longer have the iPod gen I had, only the newest one, so they had to upgrade me. When they did, I had to purchase a new 2 year plan for about $50-$65, but had my device exchanged for free. Did this several times up until 2014-ish. I even got my 16gb upgraded to a 64gb at 4th gen because they didn't have any in stock and wouldn't for several weeks due to reserve orders. I wonder if I could still do this?
First day of summer a friend of mine and I went up to our local grocery store. We both came from very poor families and this was the early 90's when $0.25 pops still existed. We discovered that the pop machine outside of the store would give you a bunch of sodas depending on how long you could continually press the button after you put the quarter in. We took a cooler up there and just filled the thing full. People around us just watched and laughed, no one cared. Great start to our summer.
My freshman year of college I noticed that in one of my syllabi there was a process that would happen if you missed an exam. The syllabus stated that if you miss an exam, the next exam would count twice. Skipped my 2nd exam because I thought I wouldn't do as great as I would on the material for the 3rd exam, got a 96 on the 3rd exam that counted twice.
Ended up with an A.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Arby's once had this billboard that said "text tasty to 27299" or something and so I did, and they sent me a text that said I could show it to the cashier for a free roast beef sandwich. I did it once, and have now been forging these texts at some fast food restaurants to get any food I want for free.
My last job sucked. I love my work but my manager and cronies were just toxic people which made it so difficult to go to work every day. I would cry at night alot because I didn't want to go to work the next day so when I figuired out this loop hole, I didn't feel bad at all for exploiting it.
See I was on a salary. My work day was supposed to be 7.5 hours and work week 37.5. The problem is: I was good at my job. Very good. So good that my manager gave me the largest and most complex workload which involves hundreds of millions of dollars with of contracts and projects. He also had me reviewing all processes and procedures and submit rewrites which he would later take credit for. When he didn't have an answer for a coworker, he would refer them to me for help.
Anyway.. As I was saying, I was getting a salary for a certain amount of hours a week. Problem is, I was putting in 16 hours a day on a regular basis. No one else in my department was, just me. We weren't authorized overtime so, in lieu of overtime, we could "bank" vacation hours with a cap of 5 days. I would bank a day or two then take a few long weekends. Bank a few more, take some time off. Eventually work back up to 5 days and take a week off. I had a year where I never actually used any vacation days but took a lot of time off. The next year when I carried over my full allotment of vacation days, they clarified that you can only bank 5 days a year, total
The following year I was recruited by the firm that provides oversight to my previous company in their contracts. Needless to say, my previous manager and director are not happy they have to send their work into me for review. :)
The first week Uber Eats was up for service, you could just put in 0's for the credit card number. And your first time ordering with a new account is free. So for breakfast lunch and dinner for a week, I would simply create a new account each time using 0's as the credit card number. An entire week of hand delivered free meals. Perfect. That is until the fixed it and i had to resort to the grocery store again.
I remember in Xbox 360 back in 2012, you could make a new profile and you could switch your Xbox's location to Japan, download a Japanese exclusive game demo, which gave you a free 14 gold membership code, and use the code on your original profile. Had gold for almost 6 months and I didn't pay anything
Back when I was around 13 there was a game at an arcade where you entered a coin into a slot while the prize circle was spinning with different numbers and your coin would land into a number slot. There were two jackpot coin slots that your coin could land into while the prize circle was spinning. Some 8 year old girl was hustling on this machine winning the jackpot time after time, my dad and I went up to ask her how she was winning so much and then she showed us if you drop the coin when a certain part of the spinning circle was passing the top slot then you would win the jackpot every time. We totally banked on tickets that night, but eventually they caught on a month or so in and changed the speed randomness slightly, it was so amazing while it lasted.
I had a Best buy in my town that offered 2x value for in-store trade ins on Sundays for video games, so I would buy a newer game for $60 dollars. The base trade in for a new AAA title would be $40 so made $20 for each time I trade in the game.
At my college they used to have mediocre yet cheap pizza sold by the slice for about 2 bucks. You had to put it in a little box to carry it out. One day I wanted two slices and didn't want to waste a box so I just plopped them both in one. After checking out I realized I forgot to tell them I had two slices... Then I forgot to tell them I had two slices from them after, until they caught on to my scam months later. Apparently it was a popular loophole
Mac_DG · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A failed attempt at an automated vending machine. No door, so cold get my arm up to the elbow In. Took a good 8 months and they fixed it by removing products within arm's reach.
Also rage of bahamut, would go to the mall, walk into every store and sign the device up, had a username system with the same password and then traded the sign up rewards to my account along with using my referral code. Sold a $0 game for about $1200 when I bailed off the game.
In the fall of 2015, McDonalds had a promo on their app where, when you downloaded it, you would be eligible for a free sandwich from their extra value menu. Man, I lost count of how many times I entered fake email after fake email after fake email. Eventually, I think they made it where you had to verify it in your email. Good times.
tdmsbn · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Actually no lost money, it was accounted as a clerical error, and the school saw no real waste they threw out ton of food and the supplies were all bought with government money. And when given the chance I spread wealth to those who I thought were in actual need.
Every year at my middle/high school we had a spring fair to raise money for the school. It was actually really great, there was cotton candy, bounce houses, a dunk tank a few years, food vendors, games, etc.
However to keep all the money together kids exchanged their money for raffle tickets which they then spent on fun and an unruly amount of sugar.
In the sixth grade I realized a roll of raffle tickets cost about $5.
I lived like a king once a day every year for six years, and they didn't catch on till my senior year when the colors didn't match perfectly.
col_k · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They charged 50 Cents a page for Colour prints at my school via our Colour Laser printer, you had to send the file to the teacher to print to make sure we weren't using it without paying. I found out the USB port at the front of the printer could print pictures from a thumb drive. Soo... I was really into astronomy at the time, needless to say they went through an awful lot of Black and Colour toner when I printed out APOD pictures every day for a semester.
The time my group of friends became known as 'the RS dealers'
Every once in a while we would go watch a movie or do something at one of the 4 shopping centres the 6~ of us would separate and go to the telecom stores, and do the good old RS mobile purchase and rack up nearly 50 codes each time and then sell them at school at a 10% discount from retail did it for nearly a whole year and then everything changed when security upgraded...
When I was in college, there was a gas station that would give you a free 32oz drink for checking in there on FourSquare. I went every day I had class, and they started calling me FourSquare guy. Eventually they stopped that promotion, and I cried that I had to start paying 79 cents.
On some websites, when you first show up and start shopping, they give you a discount code or $X amount off your purchase. I sign up using that ten-minute email program and get perpetual codes and discounts on stuff.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:28:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Comcast Promos.
Digital Preferred (basically everything, 1 movie subscription e.g. HBO, minus the extra sports package)
Also Comcast Boost Internet I get 100 mbps down.
They do a promo where you get it all for $89.99 every now and then "Internet is 80 by itself", so I sign up.
When the Promo runs out, I call and cancel it, no questions asked, no negotiating, just cancel it cable and keep the internet and live off my rokus (netflix, crunchy roll, hulu, amazon prime, etc)
Then in a week or two I get another promo in the mail and I sign back up which basically gives me HBO for $7 a month so I can watch Game of Thrones.
I use all my own equipment, I don't even rent a cable box. I just use their online app and a rasberry pi on my TV and the XFinity App.
I used to own a car with a cassette player, and travelled between two towns for my job. So I went to the Wallmart in the town I worked at, and bought one of their cassette to phone jack conversions, which are $20. I used it all the time, and when it wore out, I'd go in and buy a new one at the one in the town I lived, and because of Wallmart's return policy of any store, I'd just swing by after work with my dead one, the packaging for the new one, and my day old reciept, and get my $20 back. Did this for 2 years before the car died. I mean, it had a cassette player in it, and this was only a few years ago.
I used to order 2$ bigmac sandwhiches when they were worth 4$ and change.
What I do is order a mcdounle(1.39$) have it made like a mac(30cents) and have it made on a bigmac bun(40cents).
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:29:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A million years ago, when I was broke and in college, some sort of muesli cereal had a coupon printed on the back of the box for a free box of the same cereal. I swear I ate hundreds of boxes of that cereal for the price of one box. Finally one day - new box design, no coupon.
When Coke was doing its itunes promotion way back when, sodas either had a code for a free song under the cap or a message saying "Sorry you are not a winner." I distinctly remember going into a Subway, angling each bottle they had so I could read the cap to find winners until everyone in my family got a free song. Man... who pays for music?
When I was in high school, I was late a lot due to staying up playing video games. After your first tardy, up to 10 minutes late you would get a detention for every one after. After ten minutes you get an unexcused absence for first hour resulting in a zero for that class. 30 minutes and you get unexcused absence for all classes that day. Well I had band 1st hour with no daily grade and I played drums so I would show up 20 minutes late everyday while everyone else was warming up and tuning their instruments. My instructor thought I was getting detention and the office thought I was failing a class, and I got off Scott free, late everyday.
Used to eat at a diner. Ice cream cone was 99c, mug of rootbeer was 99c, rootbeer float was $2.25. Because labor I figure. Whatever, order a cone and a mug and proceed to turn the cone upside down in the mug in front of the waitress. Fuck the police.
Anarchy aside, dipping an ice cream cone in a mug of rootbeer is pretty good in its own right and you should try it some time.
Not me, but a friend that lived in downtown SD got so many parking tickets that he discovered the 10 one didn't have to be paid. Apparently the system only showed the last digit of the amount of violations so number 10 would show as "0" and not have a fine. Not really a good deal, but more of a "buy 9 get 10th one free!" for parking tickets
I don't know if it's a loophole, but it was an opportunity I exploited to the max.
In the 3rd grade or so, I was at my elementary school fair of some sort, where we could play games and win tickets. Basically, they imported chuckie cheese to our gym. When I went to the table to turn in my tickets, the two or three old ladies working it were SLAMMED and moving as quick as possible, so I gave them my tickets and they hastily threw them to the floor and gave me my prize, or surmised ticket count. Well, they weren't paying attention, so I picked the tickets back up, and gave them over again. And again. And again. I easily quadrupled my actual tickets and they never seemed to notice. Won a ton of candy, couple gimmick toys, and a sweet blow up dinosaur which I played with for years.
When blockbuster was still around, if you told them you returned a movie, they'd go look it up on the shelf. If it was there, they wouldn't charge a late fee.
GKnives · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The standard vocabulary test that my school gave, and I had to take til junior yr of high school, could be solved by knowing only around three of the twenty definitions because no word was repeated more than once, and never within a section of the test. To the annoyance of my grade-conscious friend who studied furiously to be able to scrape an A-, I may have gotten below 100% twice.
I don't feel bad not telling her since now, her determination and excellent work ethic is her most marketable quality out of college. She's the type person with her nose to the grindstone making companies meet deadlines
I worked part time at a union job that contractually stipulated that working more than 4 hours per day was over time. I would work double and triple shifts. So I would make 8 hours of over time and 4 hours of regular pay. I was making more money than my friends who had graduated with college degrees. Eventually, the company caught on and when the contract was renegotiated, overtime was only granted if you worked more than 8 hours per day and double and triple shifts were rarely allowed anymore (due to the economic collapse).
Many years ago, while I was in the Navy, it was time to test to increase my rank. I passed the test which meant I needed a new military ID to reflect this rank change. I was 20 years old for this change in rank. When I received my new ID, it showed my birth year was wrong, making me 21 years old according to the new ID. The area surrounding the Navy base was accustomed to allowing the use of only the persons military id to buy alcohol, so I went wild getting alcohol for underage friends, myself and basically using the new ID to get whatever I could for someone 21 and over. It was a great year.
jk021 · 1 points · Posted at 05:32:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
From my high school days:
1) My school had temporary ID's given to anyone that forgot theirs. It was a sticker you put on for the day and by the end of the day it would get red lines across to invalidate it. By putting it in the freezer the red lines wouldn't go away...no more having to use our disgusting bright lanyards.
2) One of our vending machines would give 2 drinks if the button was pressed like a thousand times after putting the money in.
3) My gym teacher would let my friends and I cut class everyday as long as we brought him back coffee from Dunkin Donuts.
Enjoying free 3g unlimited since 2007 because my sim card is bugged and it never deducts money from Internet.
-Grant · 1 points · Posted at 05:32:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Our card reader locked doors on campus can be activated by any student no matter what major by swiping up instead of down. So a college of design student can get into the engineering building at 3 am if they really need to pee (me). But they've switched a lot to scanners now :(
figgs87 · 1 points · Posted at 05:32:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Years back I realized the computers at the Apple Store had full copies of all software such as final cut, after effects, Microsoft word, photoshop, etc (I forget specific ones but basically all the good ones) and I read somewhere that every night each computer gets wiped so the next day it would be fresh and clean, which would cover my tracks.
I set up an iPod in hard drive mode, with the cable snaked down my coat sleeve, plugged in the USB, and copied all the programs I wanted from the computer. Since no one could see the wire, it just looked like I was trying out the computer. I then went home and installed the software on my mac and it worked great. *ipod method was because thumb drives were expensive and not big enough to fit all the programs in mid 2000's when I did this, likely 2005 or 2006
To bypass school web blocks we would translate the entire page on Google translate and then click "view original." School caught on and eventually blocked "translate.google.com" but we still could use translate.google.as or any suffix other than ".com"
I didn't do this, but someone I went to university with did.
They worked in some office of the university dealing with scholarships, and could see all of the available scholarships and how nobody applied for many of them, so she'd apply for all of those ones, and being essentially the only applicant she would get most of them. Some of them are as simple as a 3 page essay for a couple thousand dollars.
Kind of a loophole to let a student have a job that gives them all the information about a bunch of scholarships, while most students apparently don't even know where to look for what's even available.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:32:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This isn't really a loophole but at a place I used to work, the vending machine option C9 was supposed to be 50 cents (.50) but some vending guy accidentally programmed it for 5 cents (.05). Most everybody knew about it and whatever was in space C9 was always empty.
I went to a Sonic restaurant once and bought some food and also bought several bananas (they used to sell bananas separately). They were supposed to be $1.00 but apparently had been programmed into their computer at -$1.00. I ordered $12 but it wound up being about $4. I asked about it because I thought the order was wrong and was told "Dat what the comprutah say." I used to go to this Sonic at least a couple of times each week and so I would always order a couple of bananas no matter what because each banana took money off the total, plus you got the banana.
My cousin and I once went to a post office kiosk and she needed change to buy stamps. There was a change machine and she put in a dollar bill and it gave her four quarters but also gave her back the dollar bill. She did this several times and got 5 or 6 dollars worth of quarters before it finally kept her dollar. This was in the 70s and $5 was a lot of money back then.
fco83 · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a parking ramp at my university that used to be un-staffed most nights after 10 or so. Many times i'd just leave my car there until after then (especially if i was leaving on a trip or something) and drive right out.
Unfortunately the last semester i was there they put in an automated system.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A little late to the party, but back when I was in college my dorm had a vending machine in the laundry room that no one ever really used. I had stayed at my dorm during Christmas break and pretty much had the building to myself. I spent this one night playing Socom 3 for hours and decided to run to the gas station for some snacks. I couldn't find my wallet anywhere. I only wound up finding about a dollar or so in quarters, so I said fuck it and went to the vending machine for a bag of chips. The machine took my money and I got my chips, but then the machine dispensed four more quarters. I repeated the process over and over. For that week I lived off of tiny bags of chips and candy.
Not me but a buddy of mine gamed' a bar VLT . It was a froggee style game that used a touch screen. A waitress tipped him off that if you run you fingerss up ether side instead of one side, it will move the frog for you safely.
He made $4000 and tipped the watress 200$.
He has a gambling addiction now
Used to go to one local supermarket that would pay me to take groceries away. If the coupons came out to more than the products, like a dollar off an item that was on sale for less than a dollar, the cashiers had no idea what to do and would just hand me the change left over as I wheeled out free shit.
Unfortunately, as you've probably already guessed, modern technology eliminated this. (It was decades ago.) It was also only one store where no one was on the ball. Any other supermarket, they'd call a manager and spend forever figuring it all out.
Xrathe · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mortal Kombat 2 arcade at our local pizza place didn't disable unlimited credit cheat so me and a couple of friends would play for hours on end for free after a paltry investment.
Manager got wise, would reset the game, and eventually had them disable the cheat. I was actually there when the service guy was going through the menu in the cabinet and disabled the cheat.
Crushed me as a kid and I hated the manager after that. 😂
petard · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Signed up for Comcast, they wanted to make me buy a self-activation kit for $15 even though I already had a modem, coax cable, and the apartment was wired. I said fine. Called back an hour later and asked to cancel the self-activation kit order and just asked for my new account number. This is because when you plug an unactivated modem in you get the activation page, and at the time you could simply enter an account number (and phone number I think) in to activate the modem.
I did this and the modem was activated. Sweet. Got around that $15 forced self-activation kit.
It gets better though. Apparently because I didn't activate normally I never got billed. My account stayed in pending activation status for months. Almost a year later it timed out and my modem got de-provisioned. I called up, feigning ignorance and asked why my internet stopped working. The rep was really confused as to the account's status. He could see that it was working for nearly a year but there were no payments. He corrected the account, took my billing info, and then service started normally. Got a free year of internet from Comcast!
There was a gas pump in my hometown that if you held the nozzle trigger just right, it wouldn't calculate the gas being pumped. It took forever, but I could get an entire tank of gas for just a few bucks.
In physics class my senior year of high school, we had a project to build a trebuchet that had to launch a projectile at least 10 ft. Every additional 5 ft it went, was 5 extra credit points towards the project. This being the teachers first year, she forgot to include a cap to the extra distance, and to the maximum counterweight mass. So instead of launching a ball 10 ft, my team launched the ball 117 ft for a solid 105 extra credit points. We aced the project, and the extra points let me coast the rest of the year without doing any homework assignments.
GameStop used to have a policy where new games could be returned for full price within 30 days (like $60 not their awful trade in values). My senior year of college (2014) I didn't have a lot of extra cash but loved playing video games with my girlfriend. Anyway, for trading in two old games plus about $30 I played every new title of 2014 for $30 that year.
They discontinued this policy and the manager always looked annoyed when I was trading something in here every week to three weeks depending on the game and never paying for brand new titles besides my original down payment on the first game. It was nice exploiting the shit out of that for a while but GameStop is the absolute worst with Trade ins and literally their whole business model so fuck em.
In Michigan, you get a 10 cent return on bottles and cans at the grocery store.
One of the machines at a grocery store broke in such a way that the can was rejected and returned to me but the machine registered it as ten more cents.
I abused that all the way up to the "relatively small" dollar limit, then called the store a few days later to inform them of the bug, but not my exploitation.
Coal909 · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid, back in the days before cell phones we would call collect to get my mom to pick us up. When calling collect it would ask for your name and the name then record it, we would quickly say our msg in the name part, so my mom would receive a call saying do you accept the charges from " Johnny pick me up at the park at 5" and she would refuse the charges and come pick us up
Not a great loop hole but saved us a couple quarters
There was this vending machine at work where it would dispense the entirety of one of the options. So I always made note of when they were refilling the machine and grabbed about $20 of soda for $1.
Back in TBC days of World of Warcraft, I tried to sell my account with a couple level 70s and a decent amount of gold (maybe 3-4k) and lots of gear, mostly just new high teir. So of course the sale was a scam and they took the $900 back on PayPal and jacked all my shit. Well they used my account as like a middle man account, sending a shit load of gold from other I'm guessing hacked accounts, same with gear and etc. So when I figure out this happened I call blizzard. They get my account back but I have no gear or gold on any character. So I call back. A few hours later they restored my stuff. And by restored my stuff, I mean I ended up with over 100k in gold and a ton of boe gear I never owned, and then of course all the stuff I did own. Basically they just restored everything my account came in possession of in the last 48 hours.
My college has a vending machines located everywhere, but there's one in particular that glitches out. I'm not sure how or why, but I noticed the pattern. Sometimes the machine won't accept your quarter, it will just eat it. You have to pay with dollars instead if you want it to work. I put in an actress dollar so I'll get some change back, but instead it empties out all the extra change that it contains, presumably from all the other unlucky customers who's change has become eaten. I've received over $20 in quarters and dimes from this machine.
I was a member of my local YMCA gym but when I moved for school I canceled my membership. I ended up working for a YMCA while in school and found out that a lot of people who travel for business have YMCA memberships and sign in as an "away member". When I moved back I lost my membership. So now I just walk in show them my old card and say "I'm an away member" and tell them my name. They write my name down and pretend to check to see if I'm actually a member, but no one actually does it. Been doing this for the past 5 months and seems to work like a charm :)
I haven't tried it at any other Y's, and the staff at this Y knows my face so it's easier to get by.
TL;DR: go to the local YMCA for free just by saying "I'm an away member" and showing them my old membership card.
There used to be a code for Dominos pizza called APT50 which took off 50% from any order. On top of that it could be added to any other coupon or special offer. That shit was magical. Got two large pizzas with 3 toppings for like 10 bucks multiple times a week until it finally became invalid. My roommate and I still joke about that, if we see something really expensive we jokingly say "no problem just APT50 that shit bro"
Jason's Deli used to have a "Kids eat free" night. So once a week our family went there so us kids could eat like kings. .... Yeah, my parents were really cheap.
Basically me and my college buddies found out about this company called Postmates, which delivers food to you for a price. They operate kind of like Uber and you wait for someone to go get food you ordered at a restaurant.
Turns out they had a promotion going on where if you signed up you'd get free food AND free delivery, AND you'd get freakin like $10 in Postmates credit. Well all we had to do was keep making different email accounts to get this promotion, the debit/credit cards we signed up with were never cross checked to make sure people didn't game the system. Anyways we ended up with hundreds of dollars of Postmates credit and about 50 free pizzas. To this day, if we're ever too wasted to drive somewhere to eat, we get Mexican food delivered to us for free at like 2am.
This is circa 2008 and redbox was pretty new. There were a lot of promotional codes and between my group of friends and myself we had plenty of credit cards to choose from. I bet we watched over 100 movies for free that year.
No one will probably see this BUT...Early 2000 me and some friends had a local hardcore metal band and there was a website called hardcoremp3.com that was like SoundCloud but old and ghetto ya know the early days of the internet. So me and my guitarist figured out how to embed a link from the site into MySpace comments so the song would play in the background silently on someone page and the link would be invisible. We then would post the comment/link on sat Tila tequilas page and on the hardcore site it would show us as literally the most played by far band on the whole site....like 10,000 plays a day and the second biggest band was less then a 1000. When we would go play shows people would come up to me and we're blown away how many plays we got and thought we were going to be huge. We were all cracking up.
There is this Nestea promotion that happens from time to time. You buy once case and it comes with a coupon to get another case for free. Except, the coupon was also valid for the same promo cases. So essentially, if you bought one case of Nestea, you could get as many free ones as you wanted (while supplies last).
There used to be a budget grocery store in my town that had a sign in the soda isle that stated, "Please place soda flats under the basket". Simple request and it was where the cheap store brand had four sixpacks of soda on a cardboard flat with a discount from buying them individually. It was even ok to mix and match your flavors so long as you stayed in the store brand.
At the register another sign stating, "Leave large items in the under carriage: soda, dog food, etc." Again a simple instruction so I did. It turns out they only charge you for the soda if you tell them it's down there. I now have type 2 diabetes, so karma I guess.
Sejmax · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Papa John's 50% off code used to be "sorry". I dunno if that counts as a loophole, but I DID abuse it for an extended period of time.
Me and my girlfriend go to the movies and pig out on popcorn for waaaay cheaper.
Costco offers a 25 dollar ticket that gives you 2 tickets, two medium drinks, and two medium popcorn. So already that's pretty good. We then upgrade our popcorn to larges for 50 cents each. It also just so happens that they let you get your popcorns refilled for free if they are larges. Not a huge exploit but we pay 26 dollars for 2 tickets (12.50 each) 2 medium drinks (4.00 dollars each) and four large bags of popcorn (8.50 each).
Not a huge exploit but we are huge popcorn and movie fans.
There was a particular starbucks on my college campus that only looked at your "free drink" reward coupon, without scanning it and using it up the way they're supposed to. So as long as the coupon was within the valid time frame, they would glance at it and hand you a free drink.
I got 36 free drinks in a month, and about 4 months after I started doing this they announced they wouldn't be accepting rewards stars anymore.
For a few months, Blockbuster had a promotion where you could trade in any two used games and get any other used game for only five dollars (minus the trade-in value). There were no exceptions to which games, other than they couldn't be really old versions of Madden. So, I would buy the two really cheap games and then trade them in for a used copy of a new game. I got some newly released games for around ten dollars or so.
A few times, I actually bought the games from Blockbuster, and then traded them in again right then and there, the cashier was surprisingly cool with it.
Had a Hulu subscription on autopay from a debit card. Switched banks, closed account and hadn't updated my payment info in Hulu do to the move and forgetting. For 2 years I had free Hulu Plus while I'm pretty sure they kept charging the old card/bank.
Few years later I finally got the dreaded "update your payment info".
Traw535 · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid I used gamefly and I would order a game and when it got to my house I'd tell them I didn't receive it and they'd send another for free. Then I'd send back one of them and have a $60 game for $8 or however much it used to be.
There was a chicken wing restaurant near me that had really good garlic parmesan fries, and you could get a free order with your meal if you filled out a survey on the receipt. Of course, you get another receipt with the meal you use it on, too. For about 3 years, we got free garlic parmesan fries every time we went. The people working there were super cool and knew we were going to redeem it every time we stopped by.
_scat · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At mcdonalds they had the this deal where if u downloaded their app u get a free large burger and so many kids i knew would abuse the fuck outta it and get like 6 burgers in one day
C-Love · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm looking into it still but I might be able to keep getting student tickets and a gym membership at the rec if I take a single class per semester after I graduate.
In highschool, I was late just about every day. At the last 5 weeks of school they finally caught me in class to be sent to the principal.
He gave me Saturday school for the last 5 weeks and Aldo said I would not graduate if I was late a single time for the rest of the year.
MY LOOPHOLE...
I continued to be late, but I wouldn't go check in at the tardy office, to get my pass to class.
My first bell teacher was so used to me being late, she would never even ask for the pass.
So basically. The school had me marked as absent.
But my classes had me marked as present.
- I continued to be late for 5 weeks. No problems, and graduated.
When I was young they still had nickel gum machines. My enterprising older brother and I figured out that if you used one nickel to buy gum, chewed it and stuck a piece on the second nickel it wouldn't drop in but would continue to churn out gumballs as you turned the handle. We even got free paper bags from inside the store as we "robbed" their machines on the outside.
I found out that at the vending machine at my school you could get change if you pressed the button right after you bought food. I must've made over $20 in quarters in a month
My loophole: That if you release a prisoner on parole, if you don't give him the papers in a language he can understand, you might have to acquit him if/when he fucks up. You're goddamned right I exploited that one, otherwise I may have gotten up to four years in prison for breach of probation ;)
I've lived in Quebec for about 21 years.
10 (19 years ago actually, it was in 1996..shit..) years ago, I got arrested for trafficking (PCP), managed to argue it down to simple possession. Got three weeks in prison and then was released with two years probation, sole condition was that I do not leave the province of Quebec.
Yeah, about that...
Ended up going out west to work in Alberta for two years, then came back home and was promptly arrested for "liberté illegale" (illegal liberty). How the law works is that I had been released early, but was still technically under their thumb. By leaving the province, I had "escaped prison", basically. Standard punishment for that is back to prison for double the time that you were on the lam, with no early releases.
I was looking at four years in prison.
Oops.
The prosecutor asked me why I did it.
I thought fast then gave him my best smile and said "Well, two years ago my French wasn't as good as it is now. You only gave me the papers in French so I didn't understand the conditions." (Total bullshit too, I had lived in Quebec for a decade by that time.)
Want to avoid a meeting with someone who is too busy to actually know you're supposed to be meeting them? When they send the meeting invite through Outlook, just decline, but don't send a response. It will just go away.
There was this vending machine in the field at my school that wouldn't take dollar coins. If you put a dollar coin in it would come back out the bottom and still say there was a dollar in there. I went all the time to use this exploit and put one dollar coin in and then pushed the refund button and voila I got more money plus you could buy infinite things
There was a glitch on the dominos website where they wouldn't charge for "double" toppings, which is one step above "extra" toppings. I got double pepperoni and double for those big sandwich style pepperonis that i think they don't have anymore for the price of two toppings. The manager new something was up because he was like "...man...... that's a lot of pepperoni." The glitch was fixed like a week later.
seembah · 1 points · Posted at 05:38:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cricket wireless had an "unlimited everything" plan back when I was about 18-19 (26 now) it was something like 45-50$ a month and to me working a part time job that wasn't bad. So I got the service and had my phone for a few months. Lost my job eventually and couldn't pay the bill. So I counted the days as my unlimited web data slowly was about to run out. No more 8 hour YouTube sessions. So it comes to be the day my phone is shut off and texts and calls aren't working. But guess what does? The web data. For 5 months after that my phone had free unlimited 4g or 3g data( can't remember which) so I downloaded a free text/call app and rode the free cell phone wave. The day they finally figured out the mistake was a very sad day for me. But it was good while it lasted. Thanks cricket! You saved me quite a bit of money.
Didn't exploit this to the max, but when chase bank first rolled out the feature to deposit a check with a photo from a smart phone, I decided to deposit one of my work checks this way and put the check in my wallet. A couple of months later, I found the check in my wallet and didn't remember whether I ever deposited it, so I took it to a bank and deposited the same check again at an ATM. Later I checked my bank statements and it turns out both deposits went through! Got myself a laptop with that sweet bonus!
I like to go skiing a lot and though I am very good at this point, I still think it's important to take lessons now and then to stay sharp and keep up with what's new in the skiing world. However, I have noticed that most people take lessons until they are good enough and then figure the rest out their own. I like to sign up for advanced/expert group lessons, and unsurprisingly I am always the only person in the lesson so I end up getting a private ski guide for a few hours. Usually the group lesson is about 60% the price of a private lesson, and a bit longer. Wins across the board.
nutsaur · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm currently playing Skyrim I found a companion that doesn't take damage. I assume I'm supposed to complete their quest and then they'll leave but until I do I'm not taking any damage.
Admittedly, the game alternates between fun and tedious now because of this.
Back when Alltel wireless was still a thing, they had a prepaid monthly plan you could buy at Walmart. Turns out when you ran out of money on your account they still gave you access to text. Had $0.01 in my account for a year and texted every day throughout Jr. High. Until that phone broke.
When I lived in my old apartment building, you buzzed in by putting in your number and it called the house phone of that unit to let you in.
Being between 10 and 12 during this, I didn't have my own phone to use. I ended up fiddling with the numbers and discovered the maintenance code. I inputted a friend's phone number into a phony apartment number so I'd just sit on the front porch and talk to him through the comm system whenever my mom told me to go play outside or when she was on the phone.
The local news channel near my town had a weekly event called "fan of the week." My really close friend managed to be video taped as "The Music Man" and on their website was a voting system to see which fan was the best. I recall having read somewhere that with certain voting website, if you change your cookies setting and make multiple tabs one could infinitely click the vote button and have it count. My WHOLE senior English class spent a period smashing that vote button till my friend had over 4,000 votes for him to win and we were in tears. Later that week, the local news station said they had no winners, and that they would appreciate hackers staying away from the website. Lame ending..
Kuuzie · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When Bing dropped they had games you could play to earn points to turn in for Microsoft products. One was a crossword where you could just guess every letter and eventually win the puzzle. Cue some glorious bastard making a mouse bot the just run through it all super quick. I got about 10 free xbox 360 controllers and a few Vista copies for eBay.
In highschool I lived in Michigan. MI has a 10c bottle deposit and our school had pop machines. Most teachers would have a separate box for pop bottles so they could get extra money. Whenever pepsi points came around I would raid every box for caps and get tons of free shit.
Used to be able to unplug the ethernet cord on Coinstar machines. So, unplug the cord, select Amazon gift card option. It could not connect online so it would just print out a cash ticket without deducting the 9.9% fee.
Also when I was dirt poor I found this one particular pump at the local gas station would turn back on after you reached your prepay limit. $5 prepay and the pump clicks off... squeeze the handle and it starts again! I feel shitty about that one but I was so poor at the time and it was a godsend for 2 months.
NJPeace · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well one time I got a free Romeos Pizza coupon. No strings attached, just a free medium one topping pizza. So I called to make the order and mentioned that I had the coupon. When I picked up the pizza they just handed it to me and said it was already paid for (because of the aforementioned coupon) BUT they didn't collect the coupon. This same scenario happened three more times and I got four free pizzas until they finally collected the coupon. That's a win in my book.
Before uber tracked credit card info/PayPal credentials; I just kept making new uber accounts using google voice numbers and referring myself to get the 25 dollar referral credit on the new account/old account so 50 bucks per number.
Then they started limiting how many times a card can be used on uber accounts and froze me. But I had managed getting around for free for at least 3 months.
The gas station near my house doesn't charge me anything other than the $1 authorization fee. It's been going on for 2 years now. I get all my receipts printed so I have proof if they ever try to come back. I think it doesn't recognize my debit card or something.
I don't abuse it, really. Just if I'm really strapped for cash and pay day isn't for another week, I'll use that card. I at least go in and get snacks sometimes so...
Years ago I was a wholesale wine salesman. You had to apply to your supervisor to be issued sample bottles to taste w/ wine store owners and restaurateurs (and to drink yourself). The boss would simply slash in half whatever request you ever made. So you just requested double whatever you wanted.
The "lucky 20" thing that pepsi or coke did probably in the late 90's where if you bought a 20oz soda you could win another free soda. The voucher was the cap and it would say if you won or not on the bottom of the cap. You could tip the bottle and usually read whether or not it was a winner. I probably paid for 1 out of every 10 sodas i had while that was going on.
If you call your cable provider and complain they'll give you HBO, Showtime, Starz and Cinemax for free.
Called once to complain about service cutting out. Given HBO for free for year. Called again with the same complaint: free HBO for as long as we get their service.
Wife called about the same exact thing asking to have our account terminated immediately, free Showtime for a year.
Months later our internet/wifi starts cutting out right around the time I get off work(2am) again. I go outside to make the call. I just worked 14 hours and I'm paying ~$200 a month for a service I can't use when I get off work? Fuck you! I'm done with this shit!
Oh, you say I can have all the top movie channels for free for life? Oh and this problem will never happen again? Screw it, you got a deal.
Not so much a loophole but when I was a kid Pepsi had a promotion where you could win a free bottle if you got a winning cap. All the caps had a series of numbers on the side and the ones that started with 10 (I may have that mistaken, it's been 30 years) were winners. I didn't much care for Pepsi but I drank a lot of it that summer.
js73905 · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to work at a Google customer support call center. All new agents there get a free Google Play Music subscription. Well, when I left there they forgot to cancel my subscription, so now I've had years of free music.
When I was in high school my counselor told me half way through my senior semester that I wasn't going to graduate, I was a math credit short. I figured out that if I became the math teachers TA I could get my math credit and graduate. I graduated on time with all my friends.
For one glorious summer the mug rootbeer machine outside our rural grocery store registered $0.10 every time you put a dime in & would return the dime to the change return slot.
Those old call of duty codes on dorito bags you would redeem for 2x exp for 15 minutes were at almost every store. I would take pictures of all of the codes without buying the dorito bag and ended up getting 15 hours of 2x exp. that's 900 codes and 900 different dorito bags. Yea I spent a full day doing this.
The grocery store I work at has a "hot bar", where they served hot, ready-to-go meals that you picked out, and there is a cold-bar where it has salads, potatoes, and other easily-reheatable foods. Both of them served Mac-N-Cheese(it is amazing) but the hot bar version was $6.99 and the cold bar version of $2.99, so I would tell all the customers and even myself occasionally to buy Mac-N-Cheese from the cold bar and just reheat it instead of buying the hot version for 2.0x+ the price. They changed the price of the Mac-N-Cheese but I still use the old price because the old Mac-N-Cheese code is still valid.
MFN_00 · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I hate to pay for printing at my university. You have to swipe your ID card at the printer to then get access to whatever you need to print and it charges your account.
Well I looked through the menu of the couple printers that I used the most and got their ip addresses and set up new wireless printers on my computer. It allows me to print strait through to the printer instead of going through the ID card system. Free prints.
The Pizza Hut here had a coupon code "FREESTIX" that worked to give you just that, free breadsticks. (They were building a new store and it was a promo to get people in the door)
Well they were for orders $10 or more and one day I tried getting cheese bread and it worked!
Now there's also a special online deal for $7.99 2 topping large, I decided to press my luck and see if the code worked for that as well. Turns out it does and I've been getting a 2 topping large pizza with cheese breadsticks for over a 2 years for a total of $8.43
We had a cold vending machine in my high school that dispensed frozen treats like ice cream sandwiches and chaco tacos. The top had generic ice cream sandwiches; five identical rows of your basic chocolate cookie and vanilla ice cream.
They all cost 50 cents EXCEPT for one of the middle rows which was only 5 cents. Clearly the vendor made a mistake when typing in prices.
Once people figured it out, that row would sell out in a day while all the others were untouched. I'm sure the guy who replaced them was confused why that specific row always had to be replaced. Shockingly, it lasted months before it got corrected.
I once got a "ticket to ride" on my local transit train system. I bought a ticket at the machine, it printed out blank so was had all the correct barcode, card, specs etc , first time I got asked for inspection of tickets I gave the inspector it and explained that the machine printed it that way and he gave me it back. At the time you had to put the ticket in to open the gate at the end of your journey and because it was a day pass I got it back again and again. I used that ticket to ride for about two years until it was so poor a condition that the barrier machine wouldn't accept it. I worked out to and from work for 2 years plus weeken travel as 1200 journeys at 2quid a pop. £2400 cha Ching
He's got a ticket to ride, he's got a ticket to ri-i-ride!
There was a parking garage right next to my building at my university that charged $5/day to park on the roof, paid on exiting. The parking pass for the rest of the garage/campus was something stupid like $350 a year. The garage was for a different zone than I would have qualified for, so if I had gotten a normal parking pass I would have had to park on the opposite side of campus, roughly a 15-20 min walk away.
But, if you stayed until after 5:30, the gates would open and you could leave for free
Needless to say I parked there every day for free for two years.
(Had 8 am classes anyway so getting there early wasn't an issue, and I had my last class ending at 3:30. So it was no issue to hang around and study for two hours before going home. Also missed traffic that way)
They may even still do this, but when I was in college Gamestop would give full refunds for used games returned within one week. We pretty much just made Gamestop our free game rental service.
my_myr · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The other day at McDonald's I was buying the 2 cheeseburger value meal and the medium was 40c cheaper than the small. I mean I still only bought one, but it came with the smug satisfaction that I was sticking it to the man.
I had a friend who worked at a major footwear company and they gave me an online discount code that was intended for friends and family. The discount was for 60-80% off all shoes and apparel. They quit shortly afterward, and I wondered if it would still work... it did. I used that code for nearly 10 years after they left. A few times a year, I would place orders for 5-10 pairs of shoes at a time, in all colors or styles. I'd have a basket of $1,200 in shoes, add the code, and the discount would bring it down to like $300 or so. Around Christmas time, I'd buy everyone a fresh set of kicks. I'd piggyback on "free shipping" promos so a giant box the size of a small appliance would appear on my doorstep a couple days later. Unfortunately, following a major site redesign, the code stopped working, but I can't be mad about it.
In Civ 5 for a very long time in multi player if someone offered you a trade you could 'modify trade' then accept your new offer without their consent. I played often with a friend of mine and exploited this repeatedly every game. Friendship, luxuries and all your gold per tern? why yes I think I will accept.
This is one of the few game exploits I've personally discovered.
Back in college in my American Studies class, we had to do a reading before each lecture and write a critique about it. Most of the readings had introductions or summaries that pretty much told me everything I needed to know to write the critique. Did that for 90% of the readings 10 mins before class, sometimes even in class since I had my tablet with me.
So this probably won't be seen since I'm a bit late but I'll write it out anyways. I was travelling as part of a group by plane outside if the US. When we landed in the airport we needed to take a train to get to where we were staying. We used a machine to buy the train tickets which were around $3-4 in US currency. We mainly had $20 bills since we were travelling and so we paid with that. The way the conversion worked out it and what we believe to be a lack of proper currency to return to us we got money back. But not just usual change, we got our $20 bill, a few coins and a train ticket. This worked for ~15 tickets so we not only got free rides to our hotel but also a few dollars on top of that.
As a poor college kid, I hated paying $15 per day to park where I worked. After losing my parking ticket one day, I learned I could just get a new ticket on my way to my car, and when I scanned it at the gate, it would open without payment.
Yeah, my first hour of work went to paying to park there. The worst.
RUN_B · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Used to work at Staples (shitty job, don't do it)
Sister's birthday was coming up, FUCK, forgot to buy a gift - quick, what's on sale?
Found this laptop on sale, was still a bit pricey - but found this interesting loophole in our system where I could stack my employee discount on the ORIGINAL price of the laptop, then added a coupon I found in our catalouge for a percentage of the ORIGINAL price AGAIN, and then the "Sale" of "X" amount of dollars off the laptop.
Walked out of work that day with an 75 dollar laptop, sister still uses it 3 years later.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I first got my 4K Smart TV, I binge watched shows on Hulu. At one point, I discovered that if you pause during the ads and adjust the video quality, it skips the ads completely. Not sure if that works with any other TV.
Earlier this year Uber had a promo code that was supposed to be for $100 credits towards helicopter rides in Vegas for CES or something but it worked for everything, including UberEats (food delivery service, for those who don't live in a city where it's offered). I added $105 worth of BBQ to my cart, hit order, took a Lyft home from work a few hours early (fuck Uber, lols) and ate/shat like a champ for a week.
In Albuquerque, the new local Target sent out coupons as an invitation to shop there with them.
They made absolutely no disclaimer as "one per person."
Well, come every week the trashbins by the mailboxes would be full of these things, thrown away probably because people took it as junkmail. Some of the coupons were for bread, some for eggs.
One week it was for 2 Liter Cokes. I pulled 45 of those coupons from the trash and went right to target.
Self checkouts at grocery stores can't determine the accuracy of the number of items per entry, or the accuracy of the variety for weighed items.
You can both low ball the amount of rolls in your bag and enter in the item code for those on sale apples when you really have those delicious $3/lbs organic Jazz apples and no one would ever know.
I should note that I don't do this because it's less of a loophole than it is flat out stealing, I just used to work at a grocery store.
If you go to sea world I'm San Diego there's a trick you can do with their 'all you can eat' passes. It's a piece of paper that has a bar code on it. If you head to your left and go to the first restaurant you can get food at, it's a cantina or something, they can't scan the bar codes at their registers. Every time I've gone they will tell me to throw it away and they will just give me the wristband for the all you can eat. I don't throw it away and give it to my BIL to use at the next restaurant. 2 for 1 all you can eat.
I guess you could Lee going to the same restaurant and just keep making it happen but that's just greedy. Sea world sucks anyway.
treytfd · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in the day when blockbusters were still open, if one of my video games broke I would immediately go to blockbuster and rent that game to swap out the disc.. never once got caught up and did it at least 10 times. When I was younger I was terrible at putting my discs away so they'd always end up unreadable
I got a 30 day free trial of audible and downloaded a book, after I listened to it, I refund for the credit back and get another one.
I found out that the book I refunded stays downloaded on my phone, so I would download a book, refund it, get another, download another one, and refund it.
I ended up listening to about 7 books before they cut me off. I recently got a new debit card so I need to get a new email and see if I can exploit it again. But to do this I need to unlink my Gmail from my phone, so it's almost more effort than it's worth
Back when McDonalds ran the Monopoly game with Best buy Bucks you could mail in a self-addressed stamped envelope and get at LEAST$1 in BBB as well as 4 monopoly pieces. Based on the distribution of $1, $3, and $5 coupons and the cost of stamps being like 34cents it cose 64cents to mail and returned at least $1.6 to Best Buy as well as free food with the monopoly pieces. AND you could play those game pieces in an online game and easily win 20 free snapfish photo prints.
I spent about $100 in stamps and got soemthing like $170 in BBB, 500 free prints with free shipping from snapfish, $200GC from the online game, and quite a bit of free food. I even sold some of the unopened stamps on Ebay.
I was in college, had little else to do. It was a blast.
In an online MMO I won't name, lower class toons were being issued a daily health and mana pot good for a ton of recovery. They also added an auto-grind feature letting you bot whatever is in a distance range of some starting point for a set time. The auto function would also let you cast a spell, repeating every few seconds to minutes.
My toon used animals to help hunt, and was low enough for the daily pots bonus. So, I found an area where the mobs dropped a very valuable item, but only about 1% of the time. Thanks to the pots, I could bot several hours and auto heal my pet, collecting hundreds of the items along with a ton of other junk.
The drops sold for about 500K coin for 20, and I made millions. This paid for all my other toon's gear and goodies for as long as it took them to turn off those drops. Ha!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was this RV park I used to stay at over the summer with a game room full of nothing but pinball and there was this Lord of the Rings themed one that for some reason didn't take money at all so I'd spend a lot of time in there just playing it. Didn't get me any money or anything, but it was fun because I loved hearing the horrible quality music and voices ripped from my favorite movie series.
Up until the grumpy old lady who worked there found out. >:U
At the restaurant I used to work at, we had Sweet Tater Fries as an appetizer. In the computer, we also had Sweet Taters Fries. No one every just ordered a side portion, so every time the cook saw "Sweet Tater Fries" he cooked up an appetizer portion. I paid $1.25 instead of $5 when I'd order on the clock, because I'd hit the "side" button instead of "appetizer". Mwuahahaha.
Back in the days of Diablo 2 my friends and I would play on LAN a lot, a few of us in my basement playing together. We eventually figured out we could copy the file of a character save to another folder, log into our characters, and dupe our loot. We then discovered that we could dupe our Stash, and all hell broke loose. We did it for hours, duping runes, gems, items, etc. It was fun.
I found how to softlock the tram ticket machine by accident. If you did press some buttons in a certain sequence, the machine would freeze. It used to work on all the machines in the city.
So instant of buying tickets, I used this trick and whenever there was a ticket check I would tell them I wasn't able to buy a ticket because the machine was broken. It took them 1+ year to patch this.
Back in the day I had AOL as my ISP. I got busted for porn one day. My bro-in-law setup the porn filter under that account, turns out if you login [new_user], that you don't need a password, also the porn filter is gone.
g-linc · 1 points · Posted at 05:48:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One of the gaming stores in Australia had this deal where you could buy a second hand console game and if you didn't like it you could return it and swap it for another game. The only catch was that you couldn't swap it for another game after a week or so.
So one of my mates would go in buy a game and finish it in one week and then go back and swap it and repeat this loop. In the end he had finished 20 games for the price of one.
A couple of years ago when I was in college, I used to shop a lot at a grocery store from a pretty large chain in SoCal. This was about the time when self-checkout was beginning to take bigger strides as a norm. Back in the day, I went to buy some avocados to make some guacamole for a party and when I used the self-checkout, it had automated selection choices as "Avocados, Small" and "Avocados, Large." I picked the correct selection and was prepared to enter the # of avocados I bought (~10) but it had already given me a price, $2.74. No questions asked. Seeing as it woulda costed me about $15 or so, I just took it as a win and went about my way. A week later or so, my roommates loved my guac that they basically paid me to make more so I went back to the store and bought 5 this time. Same procedure, same total, $2.74. The next day I decided to buy 20 avocados. $2.74. I just became this avocado fiend that just kept buying avocados every week for about a quarter, selling guacamole on the side to coworkers and other friends, giving it to my family when I went home on the weekends, or just enjoying some avocado toast every morning for breakfast. All my college friends would always be like WTF, how do you the funds to have so many avocados? It went pretty well, until a lady caught me with another 20 when she helped the self-checkout next to me with an error. It wasn't even a big deal too; she just was like oh you probably selected the wrong option...
Back in middle school, we had a vending machine where if you put in a $10 bill and hit one of the options and the refund button at the same time, you'd get the bill back and the drink. My friends and I had free drinks for the next 2 weeks until the guy who stocked it caught on and replaced the vending machine.
The fact that my gym is COMPLETELY empty for a half hour in the evening.This is the time I go beast mode - roaring,flexing unnecessarily,retarded facial expressions and the like.
Once,one of the guys came early during one of my 'posing' routines. Brotip : DO NOT perform Frank Zane poses,at least not when you're a skinny fat gym douche.:p
I don't know if it's a loop hole, but the Costco rental department (my term) return policy is so lax and if you push you get what you want. Hot tub return after 5 years? Here's your money. Purchase a snow blower for winter then bring it back in spring? All good. Electronics not so much but most other goods. Get on it people
Not really a loophole, but definitely exploited. Two summers ago a local grocery store had a special on Pure Leaf iced tea where if you bought 10 bottles, you got a mail-in voucher for a $25 ticket to Hershey Park, limited to two vouchers per person over 18. So naturally, my dad filled our cart with 40 bottles of Pure Leaf and got two $25 tickets for each of us. A while later he brought his fiancé and got 20 more bottles of tea and two more tickets. We took the whole family to Hershey twice that summer, and all it cost was $150 and five straight months of all of us drinking nothing but iced tea.
I remember one of the Launch games for the nintendo Ds was a car racing game... UrbanGT something. Anyways they messed up cause on of the cars could be bought for like 50,000 BUT THEN RESOLD at 55,000. Few minutes of BUY/SELL/BUY/SELL/BUY/SELL and next thing you know, I have every car unlocked hahaha!
Target had a thing where you could basically pre order a game for 1$ when you bought a pre order card, but when you bought the card you'd get a certain amount of money off a game (about 10-15) dollars I think. I ended up price matching with some cool guy there and he and I ended up price matching every game in existence while pre ordering every game multiple times to get some games for basically free. The system didn't really ever catch on so I got some games for dirt cheap back then thanks to amazon and Wal Mart having such cheap prices on games. Me and that employee stayed friends.
A door to door salesman came to my door selling Clearwire internet service. It was some kind of wireless provider that is now out of business (I think?). I was interested but I didn't have any money until I got paid on Friday. The salesman said that's okay, he can connect it for me now and come back on Friday for the payment!
He got me set up and I was online within 20 minutes. I didn't have to sign anything or even give him my name. I thought about it and I asked him what would happen if he 'forgot' to come back? He said that as far as he knew it would keep working like it was. I asked him if he could forget to come back for about $40 worth of weed that I had on hand. He accepted the offer and only said he couldn't guarantee it was going to work forever.
I had free unlimited internet access for about 4 years.
In my city, you can use your phone as bus fare. It is supposed to cost $1.25 for 2.5 Hrs, but because the ticket is stored on your phone and not their servers, you can just restore this over and over with a backup app like Titanium Backup, essentially getting free bus fare.
They had stopped giving me the daily code the drivers look for after about 6 months to a year, but they have since updated the app to store the ticket on their servers. However, for people with tickets still on their device, they allow uploading the tickets to the servers. So, the tickets that were being considered invalid are becoming completely valid fare, and I have been using this for about a year and a half, almost daily.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in December, McDonald's was giving away any sandwich for free if you downloaded the app and made an account. I downloaded it and would create a new account every McDonald's trip using 10minutemail. I had a lot of free quarter-pounders that month.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A while back a certain bank had a deal where if you open an account with them they give you X number of dollars for every 10k deposited but never put stipulations on how long you had to keep that account or how many times you could take advantage. I ferried my money back and forth between banks opening and closing accounts just to rack up tons of free money until they caught on and added several stipulations to their fine print.
When I was a youngster, my family didn't have much money. I had a paper route and worked odd jobs before being able to take a real job as a teenager.
I used to take a couple bucks worth of nickels and smash them into quarter sized metal discs. I literally would take a hammer with a buddy and pound them on my concrete driveway or right next to the bowling alley where we would use them.
Who knew nickels made a perfect place replacement for quarters when appropriately bashed. Nothing like 5 times the amount of plays!
I actually saw a sign saying please do not use slugs in our machines at the local bowling alley!
lmport · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a friend who worked at McDonalds, and during the monopoly thing, whenever so someone handed him a free burger coupon, he just slid it into his pocket and gave me and my friends a bunch of the coupons afterwards
At a Cineplex they had a free refill on a large bag of popcorn for a couple of years and when you got a free refill they would give you a new large bag and you could repeat and bring your bag home and get free popcorn every time you went to a movie. Lasted a lot longer then you would think
If I apologize and say I forgot to put my coat in the closet, my dad will always do it for me.
Straxex · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a mobile game that gave out free premium currency when you linked your Facebook account, but if you unlink it and then linked it again it still counts. So I was pretty much the richest player for that game since I had unlimited premium curruncy. Bought everything that was available then got bored and quit.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A vending machine at my high school use to give you the starbursts and then give your your money back if you pressed the Change Return button right before it dropped.
I got sick of eating a pack a day for a month I told my friends about it. After that there was never any starburst in that machine.
The only thing I got is this. At my place of work, there's a pop machine. Sometimes when people would try to buy a drink, it'd grab the drink, but wouldn't deposit it in the hole so the person that bought it could get it. So sometimes I'd go to the soda machine and find a soda just sitting in the grabber thing. I eventually found out that if I unplugged it and plugged it back in, it'd deposit the drink after it performed its tests. I've gotten several free drinks through this.
judoka_ · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in high school when Surge first came out, they put a machine in the cafeteria that was just 10 slots of Surge. Better yet, it was only $0.25. Well, through mindless fuckery, I figured out that if you held the third button in while you dropped your quarter, and then rapidly hit the buttons, it would give 5-8 Surge per quarter. I'd go in to school first thing, load the back pack up for $1.00 and then sell the Surges to people in class who didn't get a drink before hand. I made 5-10 bucks a day, plus all the Surge I wanted and Pizza for lunch.
its stupid but i found out that the old plastic toy coins worked on machines because they were almost exact replicas and you could get a pack of those with 8 quarters for 1 dollar.
So i would buy some and use them in the coin machines for thingies. then after a while they changed the coins to be a little thicker so it stopped working
Leocunn · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
About 2 years ago I used to go to online marketplaces, add a few items to my cart and use the coupon code "null". It seemed to work on a few places, giving me a basic 20% off or sometimes a full 100% off. My biggest score was Bass Pro Shops, bought a Tent, a Kayak, and a Sleeping bag for a grand total of $0. I then continued to purchase stuff for about 2 more days totaling around $500 (un-discounted) when they stopped allowing me to buy things using "null". It still works, but on a very very limited amount. Most sites have stopped coding in null items, or most have caught on. I used it with postmates about 2 months ago and it seemed to work.
So did this when I was in high school and had ALOT of free time. So I would go buy a used game from GameStop , play it up until 7 days and return it and restart the process for another game (at a different location so they wouldn't recognize me). Would usually beat the game within 7 days , kinda like free blockbuster. I was a scummy kid I know
Edit: just noticed someone above also loopholed gamestop during Christmas returns which I also did (lol), my strategy works all year long but they have a 7 days return policy on pre owned games, hence returning it before the 7th day.
A few years back JC Penney had a promotion with buttons in store for the holidays. You could enter a code online and you had a chance to get $5 towards your purchase, $10, etc
When you asked in store most employees usually let you take one or two, but sometimes they'd leave them out for customers to take or they'd give you a handful of them at a time.
Now the interesting part here is the coupons were good before taxes. So in this case, I'd you used the $10 coupon on something that was $9.99 you wouldn't have to pay anything. In fact the store technically owed you a penny.
I ended up scoring a massive amount of Skylanders using the $10 coupons since they were $9.99 each. Basically my entire Giants collection I got for free because of this.
A few years back JC Penney had a promotion with buttons in store for the holidays. You could enter a code online and you had a chance to get $5 towards your purchase, $10, etc
When you asked in store most employees usually let you take one or two, but sometimes they'd leave them out for customers to take or they'd give you a handful of them at a time.
Now the interesting part here is the coupons were good before taxes. So in this case, I'd you used the $10 coupon on something that was $9.99 you wouldn't have to pay anything. In fact the store technically owed you a penny.
I ended up scoring a massive amount of Skylanders using the $10 coupons since they were $9.99 each. Basically my entire Giants collection I got for free because of this.
Back in the late sixties, we were a pretty poor family and had an electric meter which took the large 50p coin. when times got tough my dad would make ice coins and buy us half a nights electricity, the whole meter was mechanical. every time the electrical company 'meter man' arrived, he would empty the contents and be on his way, this lasted a couple of years until one day he questioned the rust in the bottom of the tray and gave my mum a knowing glare. They stopped doing it after that.
Over the summer, a card of mine hit the max. What I didn't realize was that this card was what I had been using for Uber all along.
After a few free uber rides, I realized what was going on. They weren't charging my maxed card, and something wasn't hitting their system to reject the payment.
So I got about 3 months of Uber for free.
I didn't really exploit it too much, fearing getting a massive bill in the mail one day. But I probably got about $300 in free rides.
I'm on a fixed contract for a company that gets discounts for gym membership at a chain gym. Because I'm not a full time employee I'm not able to get the discount which is half full off regular membership. I found out that I could still get the discount by using my work email without having to go through the HR rep at the company.
kcasusi · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At the vending machine at my work, if you put in a shiny new quarter, the machine counts it but then drops it into the change dispenser.
The trick is to angle the quarter and force it in as fast as possible.
Endless cheetos and poptarts for a quarter. I live a dangerous life.
shelcod · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was 14, I found out the gas station down the street from me had a vending machine sitting outside that would give you your change back after it dispensed the pop.
The next weekend I went at night and emptied out the entire machine. The owner must have then noticed the problem and had it fixed.
So I've pretty much figured out how to college in the best way possible when it comes to getting good grades. First day of class I sit up front and within the first week I make some kind of personal connection. Just some small talk. Then for the rest of the semester I play the "quiet kid" role but always pretend to be super interested in the lectures. Because the teachers think I'm genuine and doing my best, they are always uber nice about due dates and are way more lax when it comes to grading papers and such. I haven't actually tried in a class in like 2 years but have maintained A's and B's. hellz yeah I'm gonna scam my way to a degree
KmKiero · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A friend and I found out a little trick with a vending machine at our school. Not a huge scam, but we got a free beverage every time out of it. When kickstart was first being sold, a machine in the school commons had both orange and cherry. He found out if you put the money in, and then rapidly tapped the button for one of the kickstarts in a specific corner of the button, it would give you two instead of one. No idea how it happened, probably the size of the fan or something, but I got free kickstarts for a few months so I never questioned it.
I purchased a cell phone at best buy a few years ago and it came with a $100 promo gift card on top of any trade credit, etc. The gift card was electronically generated and given at the time of sale, but able to be used in the same transaction. We used the amount to cover the tax on the phone and activation fee or something. All was good and I enjoyed my phone for a couple days until I had an issue that required it to be exchanged for the same phone. Upon exchange I was handed another $100 gift card. I asked if this was a mistake and the guy said "the computer generated it so it's yours."
Let's just say I had an odd run of malfunctioning phones for the next two weeks while that promo was running. Ended up with a Sony 4k TV, ps4, and some games (some of the money spent was legit $300 trade in credit.)
A friend and I used to take drinks from a vending machine in our break room for a little over a year, and would also get other coworkers drinks. So in total we were taking roughly between 8 - 12 drinks a week. The vending machine was the type you could put your hand/arm in. We learned that there was a small release lever underneath from were the drinks rested and managed to get up to the forth row with a thin metal rod. One of us kept a watch for people pretending we were on an important business call near the front of the break room. they started putting all diet drinks near the bottom, then eventually changed the machine out.
gags89 · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Get a metal cc (like chase sapphire) and then get money clip wallet where the clip is a magnet. Next time you go to a parking structure and print a ticket, keep it in your wallet - the metal and magnet will scramble the cheap parking ticket's barcode and you'll be able to blame the parking company for the faulty ticket and get free parking!
When uber eats just started to be a thing. You could get 20 dollars of food for referring somebody, but turns out you could make unlimited accounts by using another app that gives you a second temporary phone number. Ate free for a couple weeks until they caught on... Guess you could probably do this with a lot of those deals for random apps.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Online classes, lazy professors, and Google.
The university I go to offers online classes for many technical undergraduate degrees (actual uni's, not Uni of Phoenix, etc.) The online quizzes and exams that don't use calculations (true/false, multi-choice, closed-ended questions) seem to be collected from a variety of tests and quiz preps that are mostly posted online.
REAL college classes involved essay questions and discussions questions when I got my first degree. Now, an online class and Google seem to be all I need at my college. Very few of the questions are unavailable online word-for-word. Those that don't immediately appear are typically just altered slightly and easily found with some creative searches.
For as much as this is questionable, ethically, I feel no guilt due to the laziness on the part of the instructors. Before I learned of this trick, I was reading chapters and taking notes on key concepts. I'd take the quizzes and tests - but none of the concepts or key topics lined up exactly - even on open-note tests/quizzes. I later learned from a fellow student that the material quizzed and tested on isn't in the book. The concepts may be but the actual technical terms could vary wildly depending on the "test bank" used for that question and the source material that it was culled from.
And so, even in 400 level courses, I continue to do well on online quizzes and tests because the professors are too damned lazy to generate their own material based on the assigned text, nor do they take the time or patience to critically grade educational test output like discussion or essay questions.
I haven't had to pay for a replacement pair of shoes in almost two years. At Kohls their return policy allows anyone to return any product at any condition at any time for either a return or equivalent exchange. No questions asked. You don't even need a receipt, as long as you have the upc number you can return the item.
Now two years back I bought a pair of black vans, every couple of months or so (depending on wear and tear) I go in and do an even exchange and get a brand new pair of shoes for free. I even do this for pants or a shirt that has been worn out for a while.
At Busch Gardens, they charge 15 bucks to park. To avoid the charge, when you get the gate, say that you're either there to pick up (empty seats in car) or drop off (full car). They give you a sign to hang from your rearview mirror to hang up which tells the parking attendants around the corner to direct you to the drop off/pick up. Simply remove the sign from your rearview after you pull off and before the corner, and when the attendants don't see the sign, they wave you into the regular parking free of charge! I also have other BG "freebies" but that's more or less stealing (sort of like this one).
In 8th grade, my science class had a contest to see who could build the strongest bridge out of popsicle sticks and white glue. The bridges would be tested by hanging weights on them till they broke. Notably, they did not place limitations on design.
I mentioned the problem to my dad (an architect), who said "Well, why not a laminated beam?"
I basically built a solid I-beam out of popsicle sticks. Never did find out its capacity, as they ran out of weights before it broke.
In the 80's at the place I worked there were a couple of video games. Zaxxon, Spy Hunter, etc.
One afternoon on break, goofing off, while my buddy was playing his turn I inserted my home gate key into the lock on the Spy Hunter coin box. Was able to open the panel and ring up credits to play. That went on all summer - only worked on that 1 game's lock.
At 18 I wasn't going to get caught stealing coins from where I worked, but free credits were fine. Nothing to carry / be found.
What were the chances of finding a Master Lock that matched the one at home?
Kinda obscure. Really obscure, but something I enjoyed. This game I played, a browser empire game, based in space. You'd make ship designs, then build multiples of that design, and send them into combat. The trick was, when two fleets fought, it would apply damage to each stack of ships, per design. If you had 30 ships of 1 design and 1 ship of 1 design, then it would split the damage 50/50 between the two designs. If it dealt enough damage to destroy 51% of 1 ship, then the stack of 30 would decrease to 29. If it only did 50% damage, the stack of 30 would remain 30.
So the battle strategy was to build as many different designs as possible, with all of them maximum armor. Just giant indestructible bricks. The ONE design with maximum weapons. If you took a hit, the damage would be spread between each different design, so if you brought 9 armor and 1 gun, each ship would take 10% of the incoming fire. Since your armor ships would be so massive, it would take ENORMOUS firepower to reduce one below 50% life, and thus they very very rarely took losses. The split firepower also made your 1 gunship less likely to take damage because the firepower was spread so thinly across all the different designs.
The end result was a screen of armor in front of one artillery, which could easily take on fleets 10x larger, it would just take longer for the 1 artillery to deal damage, but since you never lost a ship it was just a matter of keeping the fight up to keep winning. The developer eventually changed it so that ships took incremental damage and needed to be repaired between fights, so the entire strategy became unviable.
GameFly.
Sign up for the free 30-day trial and then cancel. Change your shipping address on that account and then start a new trial with a different email. They track re-uses by shipping address and not by credit card number (you are only supposed to get one free trial per household). So yeah, free gaming.
nilok1 · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a text-based fantasy game a long time ago, don't remember the name. When dumping your gear, including gold, if you dumped a negative amount you had that amount added to your inventory. You had unlimited gear.
Our university requires that all freshmen have an "All Access Meal Plan." When I was a freshmen, I worked at the dining hall for a short time. During that time, I found all the secrets around the eatery.
After I quit the job, I started taking full bags of cereal, full cans of whip cream, full loafs of bread and bagels, and also washed an old milk carton and filled that to the brim with milk. All of this stuff went back to the dorm to make up for grocery shopping.
Some of my friends would fill old tubs of ice cream using the soft-serve machine, or fill their old 2-liter bottles with soda.
Every time we would do this and someone would look at as funny, we would just say "my all-access meal plan covers it."
This year, they started putting up signs saying don't take "full" items.
EDIT: The all-access meal plan allowed students to eat or take home as much as they wanted using one swipe.
Mandood · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Went to a friends neighborhood to go trick or treating. The neighbor across the street was giving out full size candy bars. My friend had a bunch of old costumes from previous years. We went back to the neighbors house over and over using old Halloween costumes to get as many full sized candy bars as possible. After we were caught my friend had to give back all of his full sized candy bars but I got to keep mine.
Zergged · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
MMORPG, game called RIFT. You could basically change around your talent points any which-way you wanted through various builds in the old days.
I was reading tooltips closely one day and there was this one Buff that when you hit one target, three other enemies would also be hit for a modest amount of damage. "Okay, cool" I thought and used it.
Then I realized when using a skill that hit multiple enemies, they died instantly. This was just a skill that hit 3 guys total by itself. 3 guys, each was hit, each applied that Buff's damage.
I started pulling big groups of enemies and started racking up easy kills in areas above my level, clearing large swathes. I stepped it up by using an ability that could hit 10 enemies at once. 30 strikes for the price of one, on top of spamming that one that only hit 3 enemies at a time.
It came to be known as the Duracell build until RIFT killed the system that allowed for it to be kitted out.
A local amusement park had a rapid river ride with water cannons for onlookers to make riders even more wet. It was a quarter for every shot of this big geiser. My buddy, earlier on the first day we figured this out, had been given a quarter with a sticker on it, making it a little thicker than usual. This somehow got the quarter stuck right where the machine noticed a coin got in. We replicated this for several quarters and destroyed people with water cannons for hours paying exactly one quarter each. If you slammed the machine, the coin fell through, which we always did before we'd go ride some rides. Fun was had.
Found a car wash that people had pre paid accounts on and figured out that all of the codes were just four numbers long, I would enter a random code until it worked and found several that gave me the highest level wash and had multiple uses on the account. I would remember these codes and use them at least once or twice a week for a free car wash.
When Halo 4 came out, Mountain Dew and Doritos offered game codes that gave you boosts in XP (experience points), which you'd have to enter yourself while in the game. The codes from Mountain Dew were located inside the caps of their 20 oz. bottles. I never used those. Doritos, on the other hand, had their codes on the outside of their bags. Clear as day. Initially, I thought you'd have to purchase the Doritos bag for the code to activate. Nope. All you had to do was write down the code for later, not pay for any Doritos bag, and you'd get free XP for the game. I ranked up rather quickly.
Back in the old day of BBS, telephone charges still applies if you dialed in somewhere that wasn't local. But there was a way to hop from BBS to BBS without making it a long distance.
My first time in Europe wasn't from the internet, it was from BBS and somehow I was able to end up a few thousands mile away without having huge phone bill.
I used to use one of those cashback sites a few years back. Netflix had an offer for 3 months free trial, if you did it through this cashback site you also got £25, seemed to good to be true but it worked so i signed everyone i knew up.
Back in about... the year 2000... there were internet companies that would pay you money to have their ads on your screen. The mouse had to be active for their timer to advance, so just had to download a program to keep the mouse moving. Made a couple accounts, for myself and some friends, and maxed them out each month (about $25). There is no way that company is still in business.
Here's a story from back when I used to play Neopets.
In Neopets you can read books to your pets to increase their intelligence, but their intelligence will only go up if it's a book they haven't read before. Originally books were actually books and you could read any one book to all of your pets. Eventually however they made it so that books became consumable items and would vanish after one use. This meant they became limited in quantity and certain books could only be obtained outside of the player market during specific events. Now one book could be bought for super cheap from the appropriate shop during a specific event and there was an unlimited quantity for as long as the event was active. Nobody bought them from shops because you could get them fr even cheaper by getting t from the event directly. So I took a bunch of these books and stocked them in my shop for super cheap, not to sell them, but to buy them. Other players who were trying to unload theirs had to mark theirs as cheaper than mine because they wouldn't disappear from the shop listing since I had so many in stock at once. So all I had to do was wait for theirs to appear in the shop search for super cheap and buy them up immediately. This went on until I had several hundred copies of the book. And then I waited until the event ended. As soon as the event ended the books were no longer obtainable from the event itself which meant the bottomless supply of books had disappear and there was now a finite amount of them available in game. I immediately went and bought every single book I possibly could from every shop listing before the owners could inflate the price to the new proper number and took all of mine out of my shop. I now had nearly total control of a massive but non renewable amount of books. Despite the fact that these books were only selling for around 100 or so points before, the remaining amount in the shops were floating around 7k in price. All I had to do then was wait for the remaining books to disappear naturally and I immediately dropped my several hundred books back into my own shop at the maximum shop price of 99k.
I got a temporary ban for manipulating the in game economy.
I was a camp counselor and the camp sold the freezie pops (otter pops?) for 25 cents each but if you bought 4 they would give you one free. You were supposed to bring the kids up individually so they could buy the pops but we said fuck that and we would make a list of all the kids orders.
We wouldn't tell the camp that each kid was buying one individual pop but instead we would order them all together. 20 kids each buying a pop = 20 pops. 20/4=5. 5 free ice pops for me and my assistant counselor.
Hhmmnn · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No Fear energy drink ran a promotion back in 2007 or 8: collect the tabs, enter the code from the tabs online and collect points. Use the points to get free stuff. At the time No Fear was my drink of choice already and I consumed 2-3 cans a day (gross, I know). I also worked at a big call center with a LOT of people who drank energy drinks and there were recycling bins for cans all over the place. I could pretty regularly collect 5-6 extra tabs a day. I racked up the points and got free shirts, towels, hats, stickers... all of it had that ugly no fear logo on it, but, hey, I was poor and it was free.
A super easy one. Print out MacDonalds vouchers and take them to the check out. 99% of peon employees aren't going to give a fuck and will give you a deals meal. Quarter pounder/big Mac and chips for 2quid every day for weeks.
I've got a premium Crunchyroll account but I haven't paid for it in almost a year. Has this happened to anyone else?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So many classic video games had "the spot" for fighting the bosses at the end of each level. For me the biggest loophole was when I sat in the corner and timed my jumps just right to beat the final boss on the last level of Super C. Probably the highlight of my life so far
burko81 · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I heard about a guy claiming petrol at work, not so much a loophole, more that he'd put £40 in his car, £20 in the work car, then hand in the £40 receipt in to accounts and drive the work car like a monk to keep the mileage fairly acceptable.
I would order vinyls not available in the states from Amazon UK for free with my USA based Prime membership. I was doing 3-5 orders every week before they finally closed that loophole.
fr4gge · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the game redbull flugthaug you had to tap left, right Quickly to build speed. I realized that if you held them down at the same time you got superspeed. I had the record for a week or something :D
There was a vending machine at a Best Western I visited twice in Fairfax, Virginia, which they had coupons for in their front lobby. Really useful coupons, for a dollar off any purchase, and they just had them laid out; you could take as many as you wanted.
Well, my family accidentally figured out (by taking too long to decide what to get) that when the machine timed out, it returned whatever credit you had put into it in the form of quarters. Even coupon credit, so you could make the machine give you money by inserting a coupon and waiting. I believe there was a timer that would only allow it to accept one coupon per fifteen minutes or so; it wasn't completely exploitable, but still a strange feature.
Being the nice people we are, my family only ever used it to obtain change for an adjacent drink machine that didn't accept the coupons itself. We didn't hang around the hotel grounds all day trying make money from this vending machine, although it might have been possible. It's been years since this happened and I'm sure they took action to prevent this exploit at some point. I'd be shocked if they didn't. Someone from Fairfax, let me know.
Like 16 years ago my boyfriend and I were buying some vanilla. It was expensive stuff, like Madagascar vanilla for $16.00 a tiny bottle. But when they ring it up it's $1.60. Tingling with silent excitement, we paid, left, and discussed how weird it would be to go in and buy more. So we go back in, trying to act all chill, and scoop up every goddamned bottle of Madagascar vanilla they had. We had Madagascar vanilla for like 6 years. When we moved to Japan we packed it up in a storage unit back home. Unpacking 4 years later it was like being back in the grocery store that very first time. What a rush!
Ok so then a decade later we go to buy some maple syrup. None of this Canadian bullshit. Vermont maple fucking syrup. They had like a half gallon for something like $38. Worth it. But the same thing happens - rings up at $3.80. Holy fucking hell!
McDonalds Monopoly - I won an attraction pass to a theme park. I registered and got a printable ticket. At the door the girl couldn't scan the barcode and another girl there said "The McDonalds barcodes don't scan with us so just take the printed ticket"
When I got home I printed a bunch more and went to the theme park over and over, sometimes taking as many as five extra friends with my extra print outs.
I won another attraction pass this year and did the same thing to another theme park. Good times!!!
After college while waiting for our friend to get out so we could carpool home, me and my brother would go to a nearby Subway for dinner. They have the survey on the receipts that you could fill out for a free cookie. I'd do it on my phone, get the code and we'd get a cookie. This free cookie came with a receipt with it's own code and we used a fake email each time.
We usually ate three free cookies each time. The girl working there couldn't care less and just laughed at the whole thing. We were only saving a couple of dollars, but both of us and the employees got a kick out of it.
I went to a Subway recently and tried, but they don't send the code until the next day now, so you might be able to still do it, but it isn't worth it for me now.
I used to own an Xbox when I was a kid and so did my older brother and later on my younger one. We all had turtlebeach headsets and every time they broke we went to a store where they selled them and we bought a new pair and switched them in. I swear we did this at least 3 times these things were so cheap ffs. I guess it's stealing but it was either this or we wouldn't have any more headsets so yeah. Sometimes even to this day I still use this with some of my atuff. Ps: sorry if I made some mistakes english isn't my first language.
Docterw · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have no idea why it's happened honestly but I haven't payed for Xbox live since I had a 360 however many years ago. Sold my 360 got the one and still haven't been charged or cut off for years now.
I went to a pawn shop that was trying to offload vacuum cleaners and had a sign out front that said all vacuums $9.99. I found a new iRoomba in the original box and plastic on a shelf in electronics with a 299.99 price sticker and exploited their signage to get it for 9.99.
Back when I was kid coke ran some sort of promotion for a chance to win golden yo-yo's if you punched in the code you could find on the bottle cap. The number was free to call.
Being a bright kid I called several times inputting random 6 number codes.
I ended up with 11 golden coca-cola yo-yo's and being the cool kid in class who had golden yo-yo's to do around the world with.
I used to have a serious issue with going through pairs of Apple EarPods like tissues. I did not treat them right. One day, I bought a pair at RadioShack and they offered a $5 warranty where they promised to replace the headphones no matter what the cause of destruction was. When replacing them, I discovered you could renew the plan and pay $5 in advance for your next pair
TL;DR - paid $5 for every pair of $20 headphones I got for quite a while
Ok,please excuse my moronic childish actions, I've definitely done some growing over the years... anyway when I was 16 and was constantly broke as hell I discovered that if you go through the
McDonald's drive through I lived close to and ordered a water, they would just say OK no worries just ask them at the next window and they will give you a water. The brilliant part was, that when I told the cashier I was just getting a water they said OK go ahead and then I would just grab the food they handed me at the next window and then just drove off. I had a lot of dishonest free meals in my youth that I feel guilty about and just felt it was time to get it off my chest.
bobfu · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My knowledge of bottled packaging led me to collect a number of $10 movie vouchers for Empire Theatres from 24s of Molson Canadian because they were glued inside the box just below where you're supposed to pick it up.
I'd fish them out before purchasing several Colt45s
Ok, so through my life I had exploited quite a few loopholes but the grandest one is free electricity. So I've got this loft type of place as my studio/workshop and as there are a bunch of these, let's say, rooms, every single one has their own meter inside and a fuse box above. So if I turn off my fuse box the meter doesn't run and all outlets stop working, all but few.
I quite hope that no one will figure it out, as I do use others, that are running on my grid, and use these for more heavy duty things.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Borderlands 2. I started up the game and noticed one day that I had a weapon I could have sworn I traded away, weird. It happened again so I had an idea and tested it. Ended up figuring out how to duplicate any piece of equipment in the game including money. Turns out when you're playing with friends the game doesn't save after every trade. So you trade away all of your money/valuable weapons and equipment and then dashboard or turn off your Xbox (I'm assuming it works for other platforms too, just have to end the game somehow without saving), then enter back into the game and you'll still have everything you traded away. My friends and I had all of the best gear and infinite money since we'd just duplicate anything good we found. Not sure if this was an intentional design aspect of the game or not and it's really not that hard to discover if you knew of a similar exploit, but it felt nice discovering an exploit for once rather than looking it up online.
My company was sold to a larger company. I reported taking 2 weeks of PTO in summer but there was a clerical error and I kept my vacation to my anniversary work date and a week carried over. Which was great because my son needed 10 days in NICU
I found out that if you lend money to people who can't afford to pay it back I will get bonus depending on the amount I lent then if the company loses money and is about to go bankrupt the government will bail the company out.
Whenever a landline was disconnected, there was a way to access the line by dialing 119 then the number. There never seemed to be any repercussions to doing this. I was able to talk to a friend when their parents forgot to pay the phone bill.
It was really fun to do and try to make it seem like a place is haunted.
In a videogame I played when I was young (on the game boy color), it was released early, and ended up not even having an area where a certain kind of creature spawns. It doesn't spawn at all in the game, and thus the only way to get its Dream Essence to make a ring to summon it was a Gameshark.
However, the creators seem to have compensated for this shortcoming by not realizing you could buy power gems for X amount of gold, but sell it back immediately for More Than X amount of gold.
The game is Magi Nation, an amazing open world free roaming game which has a combat system and puzzles in various corners of the world. No one I've ever mentioned it to has known it, and it's one of the only "indie" things I can say that I've played/had the pleasure of knowing. I really wish more people knew about it, this game was so amazing and challenging, even now.
At work we have those kinds of vending machines where you put a quarter in and it gave you candy. Well we figured out that if you put a quarter in the machine that gave out skittles it would give you like 7 skittles, we flattened those and we were able to insert them as coins and the machine would accept those too.
I convinced my mom to buy the $1 gold coins via infomercial.
Buy 100 for $100. They were initially offering no shipping and handling fee. You would use your credit card to order them, take them to the bank and lose no money. We would use CC1 to order them. CC1 had a points system where you could redeem them for things like booklights, appliances, plane and hotel tickets, etc. We them used CC2 to pay for CC1. CC1 had a cash rewards for like 2% on gas and groceries, and a 1% on everything else
We would order the coins and receive points, pay for them with the CC that earned cash back, deposit the coins to break even, and then pay for CC2 with the debit card associated with the account that deposited the coins. I remember one of the CCs had a stipulation that if the balance was paid before the end of the month, and the other card had a 0% interest rate for the first six months. She ended up making a sizable profit, enough skymiles for my whole family to fly to Disney World and back, and a TV for the den and our (me and my young bro) game room.
Something ended up happening, either with the credit cards or the people selling the coins because she couldn't keep doing it. I can't remember if there was an ordering limit established or they started charging shipping and handling fees or what. All I know is that our sweet sweet loophole ended up closing.😞😞😫😫😞😞
This website had a point system. Essentially 100 points equaled a $10 gift card. If your friend signed up with a referral from you, you got 100 points. It didn't require a purchase, just the free sign up. I used those dummy email account websites. Signed up 25 of my friends. Made 25 quick accounts over a 30 minute period and got $250 in gift certificates on my main account.
I made one purchase of like $245 to get their entire line up they had. It accepted it, then gave me a cancellation day or so later. I figured "Ahhh they caught me" So I just sent a polite email asking why my order was cancelled. The person apologized. Said they'd send it right away. But referrals from now on required purchase for the points. They accidentally cancelled mine automatically from an update they did. After the email I checked their website and they updated the terms saying it required purchase. I think I probably caused that.
When I was in college the local supermarket had a special that you got $2 off the price of an NFL ticket with every receipt over $20 and that you could combine receipts. We were and hour away from where the team played so one day a buddy and I went and stood outside the door of the supermarket and asked if we could have people's receipts. By the end of doing this a couple of days, we had enough receipts to buy box seat tickets to all 8 home games that year.
The chick-Fil-a I go to had survey papers you could take where you would get a free chicken sandwich if you filled out the online survey. I would fill the survey out and give them excellent ratings and while I got my free chicken sandwich I'd take more of those survey papers and got to the point where I was going in and getting four free chicken sandwiches a day. They were later removed cause they realized people abused the system but I just checked last week and they are back. I bet they have the best review in the state cause of me so it's a good trade off.
I used my airline mileage credit card to book the family spring break trip and my mom just reimbursed me for it. Got 3x the dollar amount in miles, so thats like 8000 miles or something.
First year university. One of the bursaries I was awarded from my high school was $400. The money is applied to a special cheque from the school fund that can only be applied to the university tuition here (Canada). Someone in the accounting department at the university added an extra 0 somewhere along the way. Walked out dumbfounded with the cheque for $4000. Accounting department called me 3 weeks later, admitted their fuck-up, and I got to keep the additional money as an additional "Entrance Award". Like winning the lottery, basically paid my first year and helped me carry over cash to 2nd year.
I've got two. In 10th grade my school made a new student handbook that addressed kids having phones in school. Problem was that they mentioned "wireless communication decides" being banned. It said nothing about other devices. So my best friend and I brought in our Gameboy colors and played OG Pokemon.
When halo 4 came out I worked at a gas station. They had a promotion where codes for double XP games were inside mountain dew bottles and large Doritos bags. But the codes were on the outside of the small Doritos bags. So the aforementioned best friend and I punched in every code in the store and ended up maxing out the possible number of entries. I still have some 2X XP games left I believe.
I was on the US school food stamp program in my freshman year of HS as my father was out of work for about a year and a half. It was a program which would renew every time you send another application in, or so it should be.
What happened was that even after my dad went back into work, without redoing the application, I still received both free breakfasts and free lunches for another two years. Hell, I even told my lunchladies about the issue, and it still didn't fix until the middle of my SENIOR year of HS.
TL:DR: Had free breakfast/lunches through food stamps due to father being out of work, still received free food for another 2 years even after telling the authorities about the problem. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
those little candy machines that cost a quarter for a handful of candy.
you buy skittles and put one on the ground under the heel of your shoe and spin in a 360 with all your weight on it; the result is a roughly quarter sized mass of sticky candy.
put your sugary counterfeit in the machine and spin, at worst it works once. but eventually it'll gum up the pins and the mechanism will fail and you can spin the whole thing empty.
12 year old me advises bringing a grocery bag and going to arenas when nobodys really playing a sport there.
BeXHero · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I worked in foodstore here in Norway some years ago. Coca-Cola had a campaign where you could collect 6 bottle caps and get a free cola. Here in Norway we return our bottles for a small payback. So I was standing in the storeroom and collect the caps from the return bottles. I drank so much cola that summer.
In 2012 I believe, Mountain Dew had a contest to win a copy of Halo 4 and special edition 360's. You got a code off a bottle, put it in their site and got an entry.
Somehow, using the same code over and over again got you one entry each time. Spammed it like hell. Got three copies of Halo 4.
Hitching a ride on the coupon gravy chain... I complained once about all my Pringles being smashed in the can. They sent me a $5 off coupon for any of their brand products (I forget who makes Pringles...) anywho ... turns out that coupon meant $5 off the total grocery bill whether or not you bought an applicable product. I re-used the coupon in the self-checkout lines at various grocery stores for a long time.
Eventually I got paranoid and threw it away.
Actually --- this works 90% of the time with any coupon. $1 off Pistachio nuts coupon will take $1 off your grocery bill whether or not you actually rung up Pistachio brand nuts.
Siraffe · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I only ever took a written driving test and only spent maybe 20 hours ever behind the wheel. I am a fully licensed driver.
Grew up in TX and started drivers Ed program at 17 where basically my dad had to give me instruction except that rarely happened and we kind of gave up on it. I turned 18 and TX doesn't do learners permits for people over 18, so they gave me a license with a restriction that I had to be with someone over 21 until I took the test.
I moved to Missouri and they don't do it that way, but I needed to establish my residency for school. So I was standing in line expecting to apply for a nondrivers license when I realized I had all the documents and it was cheaper to just transfer a license. So the clerk at the DMV looked at it and said "that's weird" and just waived the restriction. My record for owning a car is 8 hours.
clazaa · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
1) Got a phone plan that is significantly cheaper only in other areas of my country, and not where I live
2) There was a glitch in a gift-card system a while back for a coffee chain where it basically gave you $5 free (I can't remember the details). I spent about an hour doing this and got about $200 worth of free drinks.
I had a vending machine in my dorm building that would give you twice the amount of money back and whatever you got from the machine. I only spent a dollar for about 30 or 40 candy bars before the machine ran out of change. I ate so much candy I think I went into shock. I got so sick from all the candy I ended up eating but it was totally worth it.
thetaro · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I love abusing loopholes. There are just too many.
Amex reward points contest where you need to click a link at a specific time to buy a certain prize with heavily discounted points. I got close to 30k prize from it cause I figured out the link before it was available to public.
Amex wishlist contest where I also found the loophole on the page where I won a $15k vacation, MP3 player, Xbox, $2k jewelry...someone used the loophole to win a BMW.
McDonald monopoly contest where you can write in a letter to request a code which guarantees at least $1 in bestbuy gift card. I wrote one, scanned it and printed over thousand of copies. I won lots of food and couple thousands in bestbuy gift card.
An online game where I figured out a bug to duplicate inventory. I sold them for thousands of dollars.
Verizon trade in. I bought $10 phone traded to Verizon for $300 credit. They have a bug to keep sending you trade in code through SMS where you can continue to trade in shitty phone for $300 credit.
Dell and Staples coupon stacking back in 2000. Basically ecommerce back in the days was nothing but poor coding. There were so many price mistakes and coupon stacking. I made so much money from dell and staples which funded my college education.
There were tons of online contest back in the Web 1.0 days which were poorly programmed and designed.
You can go into the webpage code when on Pandora and use an easily noticeable link to download the song you're currently listening to. Takes a couple days to build up a totally free high quality library of music. Google it if you wanna figure out how.
This was in late 2015. The McDonald's mobile app gave you a free sandwich with a new account. When one of the guys in my a capella group discovered this, we all went to Mickey D's after rehearsal and had a free sandwich. The next week we discovered that we could get unlimited free sandwiches, because the app didn't require a confirmation code or email or anything like that. So we just put in some random email addresses to make new accounts for more free sandwiches. My buddy and I got a free Double Quarter Pounder at least once a week for about 3 months until the app was unfortunately fixed. A couple times we were still hungry after the first sandwich, so we drove to a different McD's to get another free sandwich!
Felt kinda bad exploiting it like that, but evidently not bad enough to stop!
At GameStop you can get the same amount in cash as you could in credit by buying a game that was the same price as what they gave you in credit then immediately return it for cash. I also abused the hell out of their seven day return policy for used games.
Well me and a friend found an exploit on our school servers where we could look up anyone's school number and for some reason they had all the school passwords as the same thing. But there was this asshole kid who always picked on me, so one day I logged on to his account and deleted all his files. I'm like 99%sure he had some projects due that day that where saved on there. Don't fuck with the nerdy kids.
In the 90's when the big soda / pop makers ran their promotions with twist and win prizes, we just tipped every bottle over just enough to read key letters or words written on the cap, then claim our prize, which was usually another pop.
In the late 90's, 7-11 ran a promo where they put stickers on the sides of the Big Gulp cups. They were those little squiggly pink and green lines that you look at through 3D glasses to see the picture. Each one had a prize on it that you could only get once you took the Big Gulp to the counter and the clerk read it with the glasses. The prizes were crap, except for the one where your Big Gulp was free. I memorized the pattern for the free Big Gulp. It was easy because it was visually different than the other ones. So, I would dig through the cups at the fountain until I found the right one, then, free Big Gulp. I didn't pay for soda pop for an entire two months.
I know it's not a big deal, but I thought I was so damned smart. I was in my early 20's and funds were seriously tight. Coca Cola was a luxury at that point in my life. Now I can afford it, but it's a luxury because my metabolism isn't what it was 20+ years ago. That shit = serious gym time!!!
You can cancel your HBO Go account and just keep watching... As long as you're watching at midnight, they extend your service for another day. Noticed it the first night, then binged through stuff for an extra week.
tbz709 · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Um.. I probably have a better story but this one came to mind first. Shortly after windows 8 cane out they offered free upgrade with media centre. I had faked a genuine copy of 8 but it was likely going to be discovered because I always download the windows updates. I'm handy enough to deal with the issue when it arrives. Anyways, the free upgrade came with a windows key but had to be applied while on Cairo time due to my false activation, scored a genuine copy of Windows! Later 10 came out for free, upgraded and still genuine.
Not a loophole, Microsoft announced they wanted everyone on Windows 10, and therefore illegal copies will be upgraded for free also. It's was for reasons they say help them financially.
tbz709 · 1 points · Posted at 11:52:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The first part was a loophole. Microsoft GAVE ME a key to patch my pirated Windows 8
I'm not proud of this. But many years ago, when self-checkouts were first installed (I'm talking, the first few months) at Wal-Mart, my friends and I would take the barcode stickers off of .69 cent plastic cups and stick them over DVD barcodes. We'd walk over, buy 4 or 5 DVDs or games, pay a few bucks, get a receipt, bag it and walk out.
We ended up getting caught but were able to play it off and walk out without any repercussions. We were all under 18 but that's definitely something I regret doing. Karma has since kicked my ass for that.
Back when Blockbusters were still open around every corner, they'd get new stocks of PS3 or 4 games in, and they'd be special ordered games that came with the bonus DLC codes for games inside the cases. The managers never thought to take the dlc codes out of the display cases, so every couple weeks when a new game came out, I'd go up and down the isles collecting all the codes and use them for myself or sell them to people on Craigslist.
No one ever caught onto what I was doing, but eventually the Blockbuster went under as expected and my fun ended.
I'm not sure if this was how it worked, but has been my theory. About 15 years ago, we listened to radio a lot, and occasionally would have "call in and win" promos. E.g. "caller #9 wins tickets to e-40," or what have you. Well, I called in one time and actually won the tix. I was stoked. So after I spoke with the DJ on the air, he told me to hang on the line to get info to pickup tix.
One thing to mention is that the radio station had 3 numbers you could call, suggesting that at any given time, 3 people could get through their open lines. I feel this is an important piece, as the exploit is coming.
Anyway, I'm on the line during the commercial break, and I am giving pertinent info such as name, phone #, etc. Well, wouldn't you know it, I was driving and my cell cut out and dropped the call. Sunnavabitch. Shitty, I just lost concert tickets! I exert a little rage, and continue my commute. Then my phone rings...Local number but not stored in my phone. I answer, and it is the radio guy! He called back, and I still won the tickets.
I saved the number as Radio Station.
On a promo later on, I called in to try to win. I used the number saved under Radio Station. Now for all you younger kids, when you try and call in to a station to win, you'll either get a busy signal or a ring, meaning you got through. With the original numbers, you'd get busy most of the time, as many other callers are bottlenecking for those three spots...But when I used the magic number, I got a ring every time. I had a direct line to be one of the 3 callers. Every. Time.
I won tickets. I won gift cards. I won shit just to win and never picked it up. I called in and won Linkin Park tix, knowing I wasn't able to go. For some reason, I didn't pick those up and try to sell them. There was a limit on only winning once every 30 days, so I gave friends and family names and numbers so as to not get caught.
I did this for months. And then one day, I called the number trying to win, and I had gotten the three tone melody...You know the sound. This number has been disconnected or changed. The jig was up. But it's cool. I won some stuff. Nothing major. They never gave away vacations or anything. But I do remember chatting with the desk guy at the station after a win pickup that be had seen me a lot, and I seemed to have been really lucky to have won multiple times.
Early 2009, I bought U.S. mint coins online (free shipping) with a rewards credit card. Then deposited those coins into the bank and paid off the same credit card. I earned over hundred thousands of frequent flier miles by doing this before it was cut off in 2011.
burko81 · 1 points · Posted at 06:03:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I use the McDonald's breakfast loophole, where by ordering a big breakfast on it's own and a sausage and egg Mcmuffin meal you get two hash browns rather than one if you ordered it the other way round.
There are code words to get past the regular lines into VIP access lines on the rides and some exhibits at Universal Studios. If you're charismatic enough, you can get the employees at each ride to give you the password. We figured this out one day, and we managed to get unlimited access to every ride that had one. They change every 24 hours though, or so we were told.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:03:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My buddies did a diaper drive one time to help people in my city who could not afford diapers for their babies. Well everyone who donated got a coupon for a pizza with any purchase at a local pizza place. When the diaper drive was over they still had hundreds of these coupons and gave them in stacks to some of their friends. We ate pizza every day for months. We would buy a drink and get a free pizza. Places started catching on so when one place banned us we would just go to the next. That was 4 years ago. I recently found like 15 of those coupons when cleaning out a drawer at my parents house.
Back in the early days of online shopping, Buy.com was getting off the ground. They offered $10 off your first purchase, as long as the purchase, including shipping, was over $10. They determined what your first purchase was based on email address. I had a domain, and the ability to set up email forwarding for any address on the domain, so I had unlimited email addresses, that were pretty easy to set up.
I bought a lot of cds, which cost about $12 with shipping at the time.
When Raising Cane's did this seasonal promotion where every drink cup had two peel-off stickers that always won you something, me and quite a few people from my dorm caught on and rolled up to Cane's to buy just the cups.
For $8 you got a stack of 24 or so cups, and WELL over $8 worth of food. At first, the managers started wondering, "why the fuck are all these kids buying these cups?" But it finally dawned on them when hordes of kids came in with boat loads of coupons to cash in on free food. They stopped selling cups with peel-off stickers, but by then, the damage had already been done.
I remember the day before the stickers' expiration date, me and my best friend at the time collected stickers that nobody had any use for, and we took them all to the Cane's by our campus and smacked em down on the cashier's counter and said, "we'd like to cash these all in."
The poor cashier had to call his manager who begrudgingly honored the sticker offers. To add insult to injury, for every sticker we used (must have been 30 or 40), the manager had to swipe his little card for his approval, each time his face fell just a little more.
I took online Psychology and Sociology through my local community college in high school. A bunch of us did it, so it was a full "class period" at my high school with a high school teacher who didn't know shit about Psych or Sociology. Well, turns out, all the answers to the quiz and midterm and final questions were on either Quizlet or other college practice websites. Word. For. Word. I finished my work for each entire semester in two weeks and spent the rest of the year playing games on Cool Math. My PhD student uncle helped me with the final papers.
My classmates were pissed all year that I could work so fast, because they worked themselves to the point of tears for this class, and I swear I saw some of them fuming when I got two medals at the end of year awards ceremony for "Highest Average" in each class. :)
On the MLA citation machine, I just took out UBlock and picked out the little area that complains if you use it ad-free for too long. BAM, no more ads.
Gaiaonline
You know how in free to play games if you do a survey or download something you get their premium cash?
Well when that started Gaia had an option to download a toolbar and it would get you enough Gaia cash to buy these eggs. And they would sell like 200k gold a pop.
Then 10 year old me thought why not just make billions of accounts to make millions of gold. Just had to uninstall the toolbar and reinstall(the damn addons where annoying tho).
I was rich, I had everything I wanted. My friends were wondering how the hell I was so well off in three days. Alot of people started asking for donations.
Like all Gaia stories I got hacked. I fell for social engineering where the form asked me for my password. Not my first time being gamboozled, but certainly not my last.
And yes I did get a virus. Yes my dad yelled at me for getting a virus, again.
My buddies and I used to loophole parties and events that used drink tickets.
One guy would go in, buy drink tickets, and take a picture to send to the other.
The other was waiting in a dollar store or party store, and bought a roll of that style/colour of ticket. Then he would come in with the whole roll and we and anyone we liked would drink free all night.
Those Chick-fil-A treat receipts. You get a free sandwich when you fill out their survey. They never check the code. You can literally put any variation of numbers and letters in and it works. My friend at work does it weekly.
About 5 years ago, a mate was looking online for flights to Rarotonga on Virgin's website. For some reason even though he had never flown with them, he signed up to their rewards program. After signing up and searching the flights again, the price was at $0 using his air points. So five of us proceeded to sign up for the air points (which was at a zero balance) and buy the flights using the redeem points option. Free weekend trip to Raro in premium economy! We were shitting our pants wondering if it was going to work when it came time to check in though. He then did the same for free flights for his family to Tonga.
Uphene · 1 points · Posted at 06:05:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eve-Online has a game mechanic where if you attack a player in high-security space without provocation the game's NPC police force will nearly instantly warp in and kill you. Found a loophole where if you could perform a minor infraction (stealing from a jettisoned cargo can of theirs) and get the person to attack you. At that moment the victim as allowed to attack you without interference from the game's police force. At that time you got a friend in a free rookie ship fly beside you and eject from his ship while you are still being attacked. After about 15-30 seconds that player can get back into another ship while still in space. So while you are under attack you eject from your ship and your friend boards your now-empty vessel while it is being attacked. Since this player had not been flagged the continued attack on the ship was considered a criminal act and was swiftly punished with the near instantaneous destruction of his ship. Your friend could then pick up the loot and would be free to leave to find the next victim.
After a few hours the GMs got wind of the assholery and told us to knock it the hell off or we'd be banned. As far as I know the loophole was patched the next update.
A Fallout 3 trick that let me sell armor to someone until I drained them of their supplies and caps. I controlled the economy of DC.
mitus87 · 1 points · Posted at 06:05:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A few years back when a bubble tea chain in Singapore paired up a promotion with a mobile app. You just need to show the cashier you downloaded that app and you get a free drink. Needless to say, I did that for a week (that promotion period) had 3 bubble tea by going 3 different shops a day to avoid the same staff from seeing me coming back twice in a day.
I was sugar high for that week. Absolutely worth it.
Ticket counting machine at our local arcade / games / tickets / prizes joint was calibrated wrong. You could put a string of tickets into it and then just pull it back out before you lost the end of it. It should be tough enough to not let that happen.
Basically by sitting there for a few minutes you could get a print out that was worth thousands of tickets even though you only had 20.
There was this old vending machine at my laundromat that charged $1 per can of soda. You could pay with a dollar, or use your laundry card to buy the soda. I didn't have a dollar, so I used my laundry card. It would spit out 2 sodas, and not charge the laundry card. I got 2 free sodas every time I did laundry, until the machine "broke down" a year later.
I ordered a large 1 topping pizza and 8 wings from pizza hut for $5.99. When you put the code 1y it automatically discounts the large pizza with one topping from $11-$12 to $5.99. Thats was a normal coupon. But one day I was in the mood for wings so I went to deals and added the spicy bbq wings but they came up as $0 every time they were added. I tried adding other flavors but only spicy bbq came up on the website as $0.00. There were times were i would put in 5 orders of wings and it would come up to $0. There was something broken with that specific flavor. I did this for about 6 months before they revamped the website and removed that flavor altogether.
Btw I've only tried this for carryout.
The 1y code still works for me and i still get a large 1 topping pan pizza for $5.99.
Back in the day, the Sonic drive in fast food restaurant had a deal where if you texted "SONICSA" to this certain number, youd receive deals and stuff like that. On the side you'd get a free route 44 sized drink of your choice. (For those who don't know, a Route 44 drink is 44 fluid ounces of liquid deliciousness)
I would literally go and get these drinks everyday after school because you could literally text "Stop" and then cancel the service and then text the code again to get another route 44 drink. This lasted about half the school year with me and a few other friends going everyday to either get soda flavored slushes or giant mega sodas. I probably got away with about a few hundred bucks worth of sodas and slushes from that place. The manager eventually caught on and we just wouldn't get served anymore since that manager along with all the other managers memorized my face.
They also changed the text deal to where you have to buy something to get the route 44 drink, so it wasn't completely free anymore. Though they changed it, it was a great time while it lasted.
I remember in the old plants vs zombies mobile game you could press the sleep button on your phone while in game and you would get a certain amount of coins. My zen garden looked really really good after that.
At work there was a vending machine that kept giving you more Mentos every time you pressed the button after putting in $.55. I would empty it out and store Mentos in my cubical drawer. Straight gangster.
Gehb_ · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm just a cheap fuck but my work (restaurant) wouldn't let us use our discount on chicken quesadillas, so I'd just get a cheese one and add chicken to it on the thing and it was hella cheap
I'm pathetic
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just yesterday. I found out that if you use the Postern app and a config file, you can exploit Globe (in the Philippines) for free internet. This also works on Smart and Sun.
Basically Globe gives you free access to Facebook, Wikipedia, and other selected sites (thanks to FreeBasics). What this app does, it fools Globe that you're visiting those free sites. When really it redirects your request to a server in Japan, Singapore, US, etc. In return, it brings you to the requested site.
The downsides are, let's say you get 20Mbps if you were to pay or use those free sites. With this exploit, you'll only get about 1-3Mbps. Still usable though.
The servers could go down in any minute, but usually not a problem as they have some working backup. And it's a bit wonky but usable. Some sites are really slow, some are fast like YouTube, Reddit, and Bing.
Do I feel bad? Fuck no, they cheated me with my money before.
CSMom74 · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lots of pizza loopholes in this thread!
meman30 · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There used to be a sandwich place near me with a survey link at the bottom of the receipt. You fill out the survey online and it gives you a code you write on the receipt and you get a free cookie.
The thing was, when you got your free cookie they gave you a receipt for it that had a cookie and then "Store Credit". The new receipt had the same survey link at the bottom.
Every day when I walked home from school I would stop in and get my free cookie. Eventually they fixed it, but I got a lot of free cookies.
When i was a kid, in Australia, Dr pepper came out and was instantly huge. One of the promotions were, at the time if you got 3 of the gold can lids you could trade them in for a free can.
I lived near a bottle shop/pub and realised on my way home from school that the beer " Hahn ice " had gold canned lids too. So i'd sneak out at night and raid the bottle shop/pub recycling bins and steal all the gold lids and got my self carton after carton of free Dr pepper.
Best Buy would give a $10 promotional code if you order a back ordered item that never ends up shipping.
So I identified some records on their site listed as back orders that I know are no longer in production.
You can use 40 codes at a time; I ended up with an iPad, ps4, android tablet and some smaller stuff before they changed the system.
I posted a different comment, but this one is IRL, rather than in a video game lol. I got a birthday email for a free one scoop sundae for Culver's, here in Wisconsin. Going through the drive-thru, you mention the coupon when ordering, show them the email (RATHER THAN CLICKING ON THE LIMITED USE LINK IN THE EMAIL), and profit! I used it at different Culver's a total of 8 or 9 different times, I didn't abuse it that hardcore though.
Back in high school, I was in the class that produced, shot, and (later in the day) would broadcast the daily announcements.
In an effort to keep all of the students in that class from filling up their passbook whenever a problem with the announcements came up (which was actually pretty rare), the school decided to print permanent passes on our ID's so that if we needed to help Mrs. Blahblah with some technical shizzle wizzle, we could just flash that and be on our way. They did make sure to tell us to only use it if we had HSTV business.
Sure.
Looking back on it, I kinda kick myself for not abusing this more, but holy fuck did I abuse it. Every single study hall and IRP (homeroom time) of my junior and senior year, I would just get out of class and do whatever. All I had to do was go to the announcements room, grab a camera, and nobody asked any questions as to what I was doing or where I was going or where I was supposed to be.
One semester I had study hall during a lunch period, which is basically a two hour period where you take a lunch break somewhere in that time for 30 minutes. At the start of the period, I would just flash my ID, go directly to the lunchroom and have a two hour lunch.
The last semester of my senior year, my study hall was last period. Every single day, I would just grab my personal camera from my locker, walk outside like I was about to film something, and then proceed to just leave. Never got called out. Never got caught.
TL;DR: My high school printed a permanent pass on my ID and told me not to abuse it. I abused it.
/r/sweden banned me for asking what's going on every time their post reach the front page. What they didn't realize is that the report function still works, even after being banned.
I report "Okay, /r/sweden. It's frontpaging. Explain yourselves" every time an /r/sweden post frontpages.
Just several days ago, my AT&T goPhone rate plan expired which should also take your ability to use data along with it. I couldn't text or call or receive them either but I still had data. Took advantage of it to be able to talk to my girlfriend.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the greatest loophole of them all back in the day.
AOL free cds. My dad would get one a month, ranging from 200 free hours to, like, 1000 free hours of AOL a month. He rarely used the internet, and I visited him every other weekend and was on it for 15 hours a day, so we never used the entire CD's worth. For close to two years or so, he'd call and complain if he ever saw a charge on his credit card and tell them he had a CD for free internet.
Of course, knowing AOL's retainment strategies, it's no surprise they were willing to keep him on board even for free. I think in total he paid something like 2 months cost of internet for 2 years worth before finally switching off AOL.
Ran out of money while in college and (long story) discovered by accident that, if I removed the ceramic fuse on the outside of a phone booth, the phone inside would "capture and hold" all coins deposited until such time as I would return and replace said fuse. The phone would then disgorge its entire stash of accumulated coins into its coin return. Having stumbled upon this curious flaw in the payphone machinery, I immediately mapped out every phonebooth in my town and established a daily route visiting each one in sequence, alternately removing and replacing my stash of "borrowed" fuses as I went. I still remember the snap of the fuse being recaptured by its clips followed seconds later by the glorious sound of coins spilling into the coin return hopper inside the booth.
HTX19D · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was given a pre-loaded Visa card for $50, somehow somewhere something was messed up. After finishing the $50 it would still allow sub $3 purchases at one specific self checkout machine at a local grocery chain. One summer of free coffee and candy bar breakfasts.
Me and a group of friends went to see the last full show of a movie in an annual film festival. We bought the last of the tickets but it was not enough--two of our friends didn't get any.
So the rest of us went into the theater. In this theater if you went out to use the toilet you had to show your ticket, and when you get back you have to present the ticket again. So I got two tickets from my friends who were already inside, went to the "toilet" but in truth I met my other two friends who didn't have tickets and gave them the ones I brought with me.
So we returned to the theater, presented our tickets, as if all three of us had just gone from the bathroom. We did that every year since.
Starbucks once had a promotion on its app where if you were to sign up, you would get $5 free or something like that. You could register under a fake email and still get the $5. Starbucks eventually caught on and took away the money from the fake accounts, but it was too late since I transferred it all to my real account and ended up around $230.
in my country, if you used over a set amount of money within a year for medical services like the doctor or prescription medicine. you get a card in the mail from the government that let you get those services for free the rest of the year. i used it to get my prescription pills even though i already had them. not so very awesome as the other stories here but its something.
When Chamber of Secrets was a new game. During the polyjuice potion mission (where you become goyle), then as you make your way to slytherin house there was prefects that would penalize you for being out past curfew. Getting caught would make your house lose points and I would keep getting caught and make slytherin lose all their points. Good job developers for making the first 2 games fun as fuck.
If you complain to the manager at a movie theater long enough. they will give you a free pass to a movie.. Always! They don't get paid enough to care about the literal book of free passes they're given to deal with people who complain.
Switch it up between theaters and you will literally have free movies for the rest of your life.
Ociris · 1 points · Posted at 06:09:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This was some years ago when soft drink vending machines started with the conveyor belt and dropped the can/bottle into the slot which pushes out to where you would grab the drink. If you would push your hand against the doorway where the drink eventually comes through and prevent it from falling into the pocket, the machine will eventually stop trying, and give you your money back with the soda still on the conveyor belt. Put the money back in, select another option, and let both drinks fall into the pocket.This trick worked for up to 3 drinks for the price of one.
There was a cute chick at work that i gave the extra drink to every day. Which resulted in a first date, and eventually I married her. Now she's snoring next to me as i write this. Thank you vending machine.
A moped is legally considered a bicycle with a helper motor in Ohio and only has a few regulations
has functioning pedals
<49cc motor
doesn't go above 20mph
Heres the loophole- mopeds don't require insurance, a drivers/motorcycle license (if your older than 14) or a helmet for those older than 16. AND i can park it at a bike rack or honestly just lock it up wherever i want. It costs $20 per year to register and get plates but you get 90+ mpg so the money you save in gas quickly turns into free money.
p.s. all the cool kids buy 70cc big bore kits and bigger carburetors/intakes/exhausts to make em go fasssst. were talkin 60+ mph fast.
When the McDonald's coupon app first came out I realized that you got a free sandwich every time you signed up, so I got on a ten minute email site and ate free for three months.
Ausfall · 1 points · Posted at 06:09:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In college the school used a special program to control how much people could print. You had an account with the school that you had to fill with money, and money would be deducted from the account based on how many pages you printed (5-10c per page). You also had to use a special piece of software in order to connect to the printer and print something.
The problem was, the software allowed you to input a negative value for how many pages you wanted printed. It also calculated the price based on this negative value. In other words, I could print a negative number of pages, and have funds added to my account. Never paid for that bullshit.
Of course the money in the printing account was non-refundable. Figures, you spend thousands of dollars to go to school and they nickel and dime the hell out of you.
you can probably still do this. Dropbox gives you an extra 250 MB or so of cloud storage for every person you refer to them who actually installs the app. So with my real account I sent invites to fake email addresses I had made, and through those referrals installed dropbox on a bunch of virtual desktops. Now I have maxed out my dropbox storage for free.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:09:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was younger I signed up for a lot of free trials. Amazon prime, spotify, etc. I wanted more free trials but they only give one free trial per person. I tried signing up with different emails, but they recognized my card number.
Every Christmas, I would get a bunch of preloaded visa cards from relatives. You know, the ones you can buy in line at the supermarket, that are like spend anywhere gift cards? I would spend those, but leave a little bit of money on them and use them to sign up for more free trials.
I stopped getting those cards and so I don't do this anymore.
Gambling online in 2001 when software was in early release and not well tested. Played video poker and found a bug where you could play two hands in different browser windows and software would deal the same hand on both windows. Play first hand normally and play second hand KNOWING WHAT THE CARDS ON THE FINAL DRAW WOULD BE. Took quite a while for casinos to discover error. Better, same software was being used by many casinos -- what a great loophole.
Late to the party here, but I used to TA in college for Computer Science. I usually TA'd the Intro to Computer Science class, but it was full one semester, so I ended up TA'ing for a slightly higher level class using the same language under the same professor. I hadn't taken the class since it wasn't required for CS majors. But it wasn't terribly difficult since I knew the language inside and out.
Now, the rule at my school (understandably) is that you cannot TA a class that you are actually enrolled in. However, there is no rule that says you can't take a class after you TA it. So my semester as a TA ends, I go back to my normal class, and I jokingly enroll in this higher level course I just finished teaching. Turns out that the enrollment system also doesn't check this scenario.
So, in my last semester, I ended up in a class that I used to teach and even wrote auto-graders for. Needless to say, I made an A in the class with minimal effort. Which was nice since my school was notoriously difficult, and I could use whatever GPA boost I could get.
My family home had a party line, in suburban Philadelphia. It was a legacy of the days when that area was mostly farms, but we kept it well into the 1970s. Nobody else was on the line, so it was as good as a private line, but cheaper. Every once in a while the telco would try to "upgrade" us, but we always pushed back and they legally couldn't do so without our permission. I think it went away during the Bell breakup and deregulation.
Might not technically be a loophole, but in highschool we would raid the dumpster of the potato chip distribution center every couple of months. We'd get unopened boxes of soon to expire chips. The dumpster was otherwise clean and the chips were just fine.
hoboa · 1 points · Posted at 06:11:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to live in a small apartment complex that had it's own laundry room with two washers and two dryers, all of them coin operated. I figured out that one of the dryers didn't need money to run. Since my apartment was literally next to the laundry room I would warm up my hoodie every morning before work. I'd also warm my pj pants and blankets before bed. I did this every day for months before someone told the super about the magic dryer and he fixed.
When I was 16 I got my learners permit in Washington state to drive a car. Fast forward 2 years and I am now living in California. I had not taken a driver's education class ever, but if you are 18 years of age, that requirement is removed; leaving only the driving hours (accompanied by someone else), written test, and drive test. So I turn 18, go in to the DMV, take my written test and pass. I go up to the counter and ask the employee if I can schedule my drive test, he asks for my permit and takes a look at it, says to me "see on the back of the card where it says 'Restrictions: Corrective Lenses'?", I reply "Yah, for my glasses", he says "Well, in California, our permits state under 'Restrictions' that you are required a licensed passenger above the age of blah blah blah in the front seat with you, yours does not have that. So, I am 99% certain this is just a difference of how they are printed in Washington, BUT, I am going to take this at face value and say this is a legal driver's license and just issue you your California driver's license".
TL;DR: I was issued a driver's license without ever taking driver's education or a drive test at the DMV due to learning permits looking different in different states
Many years ago when I still played Minecraft online I was on a server called SuperFunTime.
Like many servers they had a mod shop where server staff would buy and sell items for server economy currency.
They also disabled TNT.
Now this was shortly after TNT had become craft-able, prior to that it was rare dungeon loot.
The server, not wanting people to be mad that one of their rare items was essentially useless made TNT worth 10k at the mod shop.
However they forgot to change that after TNT became craft-able.
So you can see my plan was simple, obtain tons of sand and gunpowder, make tons of TNT, sell TNT, profit.
The sand was easy enough. Make several shovels, go to the desert, shovel until your inventory is full.
Gunpowder would have been more of a challenge if it hadnt been for the tendency of some members of the server to build ridculous monuements and buildings that end up unused beyond being art.
These massive buildings are always poorly lit, and filled with mobs, including creepers which drop gunpowder.
By exploiting these various loopholes I quickly became one of the top 10 richest players on the server. I bought a Villa, and commissioned a TNT statue to honor my fortune.
Within a week of me breaking the economy like that they dropped the price of TNT to 1k.
When Chick Fil a launched their app you got a free sandwich on your first order. It didnt require an email verification so I put in fake emails and was allowed to reuse the same credit card. Got close to 10 sammys
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:11:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Classic Skating in Orem, Utah had a claw machine. The machine was filled to the brim with candy. This had to be early 2000's. Somehow we figured out that the machine had a debug mode that you could activate by simply holding the controls in a certain configuration and double tapping the joystick as the claw came back. The mode would give you a free try. So one single quarter was all we needed to empty the machine of candy. We spent the night cleaning it out.
When I was in high school, I worked at an arcade that used flimsy credit cards instead of tokens. One of my coworkers figured that you could stick a card with a lot of credit into a game (like $100), turn it off , and then switch in an empty card, turn the game back on, and the game would credit the card the empty card with $100. We couldn't cash out and get real money but we handed out a ton of them to friends. Great summer job
My old university's cafeteria offers this card for 10 meals and stamped it everytime you used it. Every card has a unique number on it and after the last stamp they keep the card for accounting purposes I assume.
Well I bought one and used it twice when I realized this was super easy to duplicate. I promptly went to staples, bought the same paper they used and copied that card enough time to eat lunch for free my whole bachelor & master. I still have some copies left.
After the 9th meal I just threw the card in a garbage and continued with a new copy. I offered lunch to many of my friends yet they never got on to it. They just thought I was super generous.
Back in the day of "parked" domain names, you could reserve a domain for 90 days for free. I'd park 100s of domains and list on ebay, etc. these were the days of the Internet bubble so I off loaded a fair number didn't cost me hardly anything, just the ebay listing fee. I'd sell the domain, pay the registration fee and then transfer to new owner.
fuqers · 1 points · Posted at 06:12:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when I was about 13 (circa 2006), I collected Premier League football cards. I worked out that if you have an unopened pack and you hold it up to the light with the back of the pack facing down, you could see which pack had a shiny at the back.
I would just go into all the shops and buy all their shiny packs and then when I had managed to get all the shinies, I traded my doubles for all the other cards which I didn't already have. I ended up with a full collection quite quickly needless to say.
Not mine but a school class exploited the grading curve. No one took any test one day and everyone got a 0. And because 0 was the highest score, all kids who got 0 got an A automatically.
I would go to walmart and get one of those prepaid debit cards for $4, and load my weeks worth of grocery money and online bills for it. I would then go and sign up for netflix, hulu, wwe network etc. with a fake email account made on anymous email sites for their one month free trials. I would then cancel right before the end of the trial and then repeat with a new card/email.
Me my brother and my sister were at Dave and busters one time and one of those old arcade games you would shoot coins up and try to knock more coins off was there and broken. Every time we launched a coin it would count as some sort of bonus and give us an absurd amount of tickets. We kept doing this for a while until the machine ran out. Then we asked the worker to add more. And kept going. We only stopped once we decided we spent too much money. Then when we went to go cash in we only got small things like candy and whatever and couldn't decide what to spend the rest on. So we just gave it to some kid and he was so excited and his dad so happy. What a great memory.
This isn't really a loophole, but it was a damn good opportunity: In the summer of 2016 I was flying from London-Malaysia and they overbooked my 8pm flight due to administrative issues. They offered to bump me to the next morning's flight for €600 and a stay in a 4 star hotel. To date still the easiest €600 I ever made.
On the Magic The Gathering fat packs I could go into Walmart, take a gray sharpie and mark three lines on the barcode, take the stickers off of the display that showed the price (around 30-40$) and have the cashier next to the cards scan them and they wouldn't scan (because the three marks) and he would simply look over and see the price of 4$ for a pack and enter it in the computer. Needless to say on my birthday I went In Walmart with 50$ and walked out with 90 pcks of cards.
Dominos has a 30 minute delivery or free pizza deal so one night the guy comes right at the 25 minute mark. He tells me to call up his manager and tell the manager he was late, hence free pizza out of which the delivery guy takes home 50%. Did this for about 6 months after which my guy quit.
Back when Modern Warfare 2 (I think) came out, Doritos had a deal with Activision where they put double xp codes on the bag of the bags. I would go to the store, take pictures of all the codes, type them in on my Xbox and got 2 hours of double xp per code. I would then wait a week for all new Doritos bags in the store and repeat :D
I have a twin brother who is a quite successful doctor. During college he was a complete fuck up, still bright, but a fuck up. I was a neuroscience major but had no plans to pursue clinical medicine. I ended up taking his MCAT, going on his interviews, and got him accepted to a pretty good med school he would have otherwise definitely not been accepted to. This was 9 years ago. The understanding was that once he became a doctor he would pay me 50k over 10 years...so every Xmas I get a 5k check from the good doctor. This will continue until 2026.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:14:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In highschool, in our courtyard where we took our breaks we had change machines that would accept $1 and $5 bills. Im not sure who or how someone figured it out, but it would accept notebook paper that was cut into the shape of a bill. It only exchanged them as 4 quarters though. Only a few of our football team knew about it so we ate free for about 2 weeks. We didnt get greedy and try to take all the money out, but apparently the trick got out and someone did get all the money. The school being too cheap to fix it, instead placed a camcorder on the top of it. Panicked that we were on it we stole the tape out of it. The next day an announcement was made over homeroom that someone stole a camcorder from the courtyard. 7th period came around for athletics and the machines were gone and we never seen them again. Never knew if they replaced them, as it was end of the year and i was a senior.
My school had a photocopying machine which needed an e-card with money to work. My friends and I discovered this glitch where if you inserted and pulled the card out at the right time the machine would think the card was still there so you could basically print all your shit for free.
Long story short we charged a ton of guys in our class to help them photocopy exam papers. We made about $50 every exam. :)
Best part was when we were exploiting that glitch and there was this dude using another machine next to ours. He printed the wrong exam papers and had to pay $10 for that shit lmao
College roommate worked at a DirecTV call center. Call center offered free shipping (or 20% discount) on anything from the Panasonic website. One night he was drunk & browsing for a pedestal stand for our 42" plasma (sold out), but he noticed 70" pedestal stands were unusually priced @ $0.01, so he bought 30 of them for $0.30. After sobering up he forgets about the $0.30 withdrawal from his bank account.
Two weeks later we get a call from FedEx Freight asking if we have a truck & can meet in a parking lot nearby, as he can't get his freight truck down our street due to all the vehicles parked curbside. Totally confused we load up in the F150 and drive to a grocery store near by... Fedex guy then proceeds to unload 5 pallets worth of 70" TV pedestal stands into our truck and into the parking lot.
Took us 3 trips to get them all home. Mind you, 70" plasma TV's cost about $10K back then.
We sold ALL of those TV stands for $500-$600 each over the next few months and made out like bandits!!!
TL/DR: Bought a shit ton of stuff of Panasonic website for $0.01 then sold it for $500 a piece! CHA-CHING!!!
This was a couple years ago, my friend showed me a glitched promo code for HP that would give $XX dollars off your order of anything and was reusable.
He went for the big items like printers and I figured if I ordered smaller items they wouldn't notice as much..
I was right. I ordered multiple cartons of black/colored ink and they eventually arrived. On the contrary, everything my friend ordered was cancelled. :D
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:15:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I and 90% of my class mates got our cisco certification via looking up all the answers online.
When broadband cable modems were first becoming a thing in alabama in '99 i had just got my first apt. I ordered up some cable tv and internet through some company called @home. Well as a poor 20 year old i was barely making rejt and bills so i called and got my tv service stopped but kept internet. They came out and took the splitter off the line and took there cable box back. For shits and giggles i hooked the cable up to my tv just to get the 4 or so channels you could get for free back then and lo and behold i still had a shitload of channels. Went bought a cable splitter and ran that shit like that for years untill comcast bought everybody out and fixed it.
So this last summer Chipotle did a thing called Chiptopia rewards. Short version is if you bought 11 burritos (turned out to be really about 8 as they gave you free burritos for every 4 that counted towards the reward system as well), for the months of July, August, and September, you got a free catering meal that was valid until the end of March 2017.
I ordered the 20 burritos by the box from my nearby Chipotle using their catering hotline as I was instructed by the chiptopia rewards thing. Said nearby Chipotle did not know how to handle the chiptopia rewards. I got the catering comped, and they said HQ screwed up by letting me select their location for the reward. I figured I'd keep trying this until they told me no or the reward was correctly taken from my account. This took them 5 tries, so I turned what should have been ~$240 of free catering into just over ~$1,000 in free Chipotle burritos. They finally got it right this weekend and successfully registered me using the reward on my account.
Thanks Chipotle, for not knowing how to do your own reward system.
TL;DR I got about 100 free burritos from Chiptopia rewards.
I used to have a little punk rock gang back in the day. We had a squat and were all like, chainsmokers... so we'd go around the neighborhood looking in people's mailboxes for these coupons that basically got you a free pack or two of some cheap smokes. We each took a part of the neighborhood and canvassed as many mailboxes as we could get to without being reported to the police.
We got enough coupons to be able to go to the store about 4 abreast and all get free smokes. Which we did, each standing in line holding our coupons and looking up at the sky grinning at our good fortune to be showered with so many free coffin nails.
And that worked really well to distract the store clerk from the two who were raiding the beer cabinet of cases of Black Label. We generally got out with a case and a half. Give or take
Jfelt45 · 1 points · Posted at 06:17:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had to buy a bunch of rubbing alcohol, for cleaning reasons and got really tired of heading back to the store to buy more, and it was buy 2 get 1 free at $4 a piece. Well basically the cashier called me out in front of a bunch of people telling me I was wrong about the deal so I walked back snapped a picture of it and waited through the line again.
I was pretty fed up with her bs, being wrong and treating me like shit, so I walked up with the 24 containers of 99% rubbing alcohol, pointed out the sticker that said 4$ off anything if we get the price wrong. Basically got each for 15c, total of 24 boxes of rubbing alcohol for like 6 dollars. I still haven't run out and I got them last Christmas
I'm with virgin, and every month or so I get a promo for buy 1 get 1 free movie tickets, also my theater has a cheap day where all tickets on tuesdays are half price, my husband and I both get the text message offering the code so we each get a code and go on cheap day, we pick two movies we want to see and spend the day at the theater, we end up seeing two movies together for the price of 1 regular ticket.
When I was 10 (~14 years ago), I hung around the hockey arena while my brother played. There was an old school vending machine that was full of 1/4 sized cans of Pringles. The fuckers cost $1.25 (a loonie (canadian dollar coin) and a quarter). But I figured out that using a coffee stirrer folded in half, I could press down the mechanics in the coin slots and twist the dial. So I did that, and cleaned that bitch out and shared with all my friends at the arena. I repeated this every week for about a month until they realized we were stealing them. That machine disappeared pretty quick.
deecaf · 1 points · Posted at 06:18:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As anyone who's gone to a university knows, paying for printing is ridiculous with the tuition that you're paying. Well, one of my friends was very clever and decided to figure out a way around it.
Basically, in order to pay for printing you'd load money onto your student ID that had a built in microchip. You'd insert your card into a reader that would deduct the amount from your account as it read the chip. Well, in order to prevent people from pulling out their cards before the chip read them (and thus getting free printing), the device clamped down onto your card with a small metal pin near the edge of the card.
My friend realized that, hey, what if I punched a hole in the card where the pin clamps down, couldn't I just pull the card out whenever I wanted?
And that, my friends, is how he never paid for a single page of printing in his four years of university.
In high school on one of the pop vending machines if you hit some of the buttons in the right order you could change the price of the machine from $2.50 a bottle to 10 cents.
ryeyun · 1 points · Posted at 06:18:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My 12th grade English teacher offered extra credit on our midterm exam for every line we could recite from Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy. I have a great memory and knew this was my chance to make up for all the summer reading I didn't do. My teacher was stunned when I rattled off every single line in front of the entire class.
I don't think she expected anyone to get that far, but she promised 1/2pt per line and kept her word. Received an extra 16.5 points on the exam.
If you fill out a survey on your Subway receipt, you get a free cookie. When you give them your completed survey, they give you your cookie, with yet another receipt with a survey, which gets you another free cookie, which comes with another survey, and so on and so forth.
I got 5 cookies before they stopped giving me receipts.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:19:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Rather late to this but, a friend of a friend's mom worked at a Krispy Kreme. No matter what, they had to get rid of donuts that didn't sell that day as Krispy Kreme's biggest draw is, of course, fresh AF donuts. Instead of throwing them away she would bring them home for her kid and his friends. Imagine the vault scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, but instead of wood boxes it was boxes of Krispy Kremes.
On that note, a lot of fancy specialty bread/sandwich/deli places have the same rule, and if not daily, it will be on a Saturday or Sunday night. Show up an hour before they close. Those $7 sweet rolls and creme treats? $1. That big $20 loaf of super fancy bread? $5. Cakes, sandwiches, whatever. If you know where to go, you can raid those places like a Viking Berserker.
DoxBox · 1 points · Posted at 06:19:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in high school there was a soft drink machine in the cafeteria that I would use every day, as it was cheaper than getting stuff to drink elsewhere.
One day I noticed that, upon accidentally hitting two buttons for the same product, I got two cans. So the next day I tried it again.. it worked. I used this for the remaining 3 years of high school, every day. Probably several hundred dollars in scammed pop. Did it for other people all the time too.
I was on my way home from school one afternoon and decided to pick up a packet of chips from the vending machine at the train station. I selected the honey-soy-chicken flavoured bag of crisps and watched the price displayed on the screen. It read 0.05.. Huh? I assumed it was an error and as an attempt to humor myself I popped in a 5 cent coin and to my surprise out popped a fresh bag of chips. As you can guess I instinctively bought the whole lot and proceeded to mull over my new business plan. First item on the agenda? Figure out when they restock this machine. Monday mornings: check. I'll have to get the early train as my friends soon caught on. Second item: Marketing, undercut the school canteen: check. So now I had a business model.
I proceeded to sell chips for $1, @ slightly more than half the usual price. I sold 10 bags a week for roughly 6 months until someone at the vending company had figured out why one particular row of the machine was run empty every single week. It was good fun while it lasted and made me roughly $300
At McDonald's you can order a 2 for $3 make both items a 6 piece chicken nugget then order a large fry and a large drink, ends up cheaper then the chicken nugget meal that has 10 nuggets a medium fry and a medium drink, save money and get more food
cube44 · 1 points · Posted at 06:20:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My dad went to college on a full scholarship to play division 1 football. The scholarship also included the costs of his textbooks, which he got to keep. At the beginning of every quarter he signed up for all the hardest classes he could, had the school pay for his textbooks, drop the classes and sell the textbooks new. I think he made a thousand or so dollars doing this every quarter.
Jfelt45 · 1 points · Posted at 06:20:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had these weekly assignments for a class of mine where we had basically textbook pages printed out with various words blanked out and we had to go through OUR textbook to fill in the blanks.
I found the textbook online that was used for our assignments, and every week had almost no homework cause it took me 5 minutes to write down the exact same words that were written on my screen.
Coincidentally this worked for most of that teachers assignments. Even the final project was basically the same thing but like a book version that I was also able to find online.
gml1996 · 1 points · Posted at 06:20:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A couple years ago I had a screenshot of a Dunkin' Donuts coupon that was for $.99 medium hot or iced coffee. I used it 2-3 times a day for an entire summer even though it had expired like a year before. Don't know why I ever stopped and I don't have it anymore. :(
I'm sure this'll get lost by now, but before art college, I'd actually started in an IT job before going back to study. I get to art school and of course they're charging prohibitively high prices for printing. But they did have a decent A3 colour laser printer which was a godsend.
You had to print through one of the college computers and the system meant you had to buy credits on your account to print BUT you were allowed to setup your laptop on the college network of course.
I however knew you could print a test configuration page from the printer which gave you an IP address. You could then setup a direct IP connection to the printer on your own laptop...
And that's the story of how I got free printing (up to and including A3 colour laser) for three years.
I sometimes had to drop off leftover medications in the med drop box. If they were good I kept them. I then sold them to help pay the bills. 100℅ profit.
There are so many comments But I haven't seen if my exploit has been thrown out yet.
So about 5 years ago if you went to Arby's after ordering your food you would obviously get a receipt. one time I noticed the back of the receipt said "Call and do a 2 min survey and you will be awarded a free regular Arby's sandwich"
So I did and then after taking in my receipt with the claim code written down on the receipt as it told me to do, I received my sandwich but also they had thrown in another receipt with a 0.00 balance. Turned the receipt over boom. Another survey offer.
I just called again, new code, new sandy. Rinse and repeat.
I did this for months on months until I believe Arby's changed the policy because I had exploited it :) My last trip I flipped the receipt and instead of "regular sandwich" it read "small beverage"
There was a Taco Bell game where you could land a coin on a platform that was pretty easy to win every time if you shook it a bit. It was 10 cent tacos until they changed the rules on me.
I got to have Amazon Prime for free for 3 years thanks to my old university. I only went for the one semester, but happened to be there when they were switching to a new email system. Thanks to reasons, anyone who started classes during my first semester ended up with 3 different .edu email accounts (can probably see where this is going), anyone before then just had the one account switched over, and anyone after just had the new email.
Well, after the first year, all of the email accounts were still there in the University's system, and me and my friends realized Amazon didn't care about anything except the email address when signing up for Amazon Student (basically Amazon Prime), so we were able to use each of the accounts to get Amazon Prime free for a year.
I was really disappointed when I had to actually pay for Prime for the first time last year...
I used to work at Panera, when placing an order for someone realized it didn't charge for an additional topping if it was "on the side". Everyday for lunch I would order the cheapest thing on the menu, a plain cheese sandwhich, with turkey, bacon, avocado, ect on the side. Told potential snitches that I just liked making it myself. On cocky days I would make an entire salad or fruit bowl out of "on-the-side" items. Used it for a few years after anytime I went to Panera. Idk if they have caught on.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:22:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This actually works today considering I'm still a broke as hell student but when I'm in a bind, have no money in my bank account, no dedicated driver home, and am far away from my destination I'll still just call an uber. Uber will essentially pick up the tab temporarily until the next time you ride with them even if there's no money in your account. You guys don't know how many times I needed a dedicated driver and Uber was that one bro looking out for all of us.
png2jpg · 1 points · Posted at 06:22:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well this exploit wasnt found by me but everyone who knew used this pretty much all the time.
In our middle school, we had classes like "video production" and "digital tech" classes that utilized the computer rooms. Obviously everything was "restricted" so kids dont mess around. They blacklist all of the (major) flash games sites, forum sites etc. They also block any online VPN that theh find, so you had no guarantee that the website would work every time.
What someone found out was, that you could install chrome extensions. Of course, you couldnt install them manually and chrome store was blocked, but what you could do was install the extension on a non restricted computer, then using your account you could sync the extension on to the restricted computer.
Using this method you could install a Chrome VPN and basically get to any blocked sites which led to a bunch of kids in the back of the room just playing age of war and stuff.
Nike has a 2 year warranty on soccer cleats from the manufacturing date (not sure about other shoes). So I bought one pair of Nike Magistas which cost me around $300 maybe a bit more I'm not sure since I haven't bought shoes for 3 years now. So when the Magistas broke I sent them back to Nike. I went out to buy a temporary cleat to wear and ended up finding a brand new pair of Nike Hypervenoms on kijiji for $175 which retail for around $250. These Hypervenoms were still under warranty as the second year deadline was just coming up. These end up breaking just as I got a replacement from Nike on the Magistas. The thing is that Nike send back the same model or a different model of equal performance and price. So I ended up getting Superflys which retail for almost $400. I sent back the Hypervenoms and got a brand new pair of the new flyknit Hypervenoms, also retailing for around $300. So now I pretty much just kept sending back a shoe, using the second pair as a temporary shoe, getting back a replacement for the first shoe and sending in the second shoe. I saved well over $1500, and being a 17 year old this is significant money. Haven't bought a pair of soccer cleats in 3 years almost 4 now. A lot of my team mates do this too. Thanks Nike :D
Late to the game, in 2004 PartyPoker had a 300th Billion hand promotion. They started paying out 10-50k from 290 billion to 300 Billion. The winner would get half and the rest of the table would get half. To avoid paying rake (tax to the winner) my friend and I set up a private table and kept folding back and forth. Folding was the fastest and it avoided paying rake. We got lucky and landed on the 295 Billion hand and split $30,000 with my friend. Shortly after the win, PartyPoker changed their promotion rules to ban private tables and rake must have taken place on the hand.
Back in the early 2000s when I was in college, I use to eat at Subway a lot. If Jared could lose weight eating there, I bet I could too! Thankfully I didn't try to emulate any of his other habits. When you're a frequent customer somewhere, you tend to strike up a repore with the staff. I feel bad because I don't even remember her name but there was this little lady who looked a lot like Flavor Flav that use to work there almost everyday. She clearly hated her job and especially her boss. I would sympathize with her about how bosses can be terrible and how she deserved a raise. She took a liking to me and if there were no other customers in line, she would give me double meat on my sandwich for free while saying "fuck it, I don't care, I'll cost him every dime I can." I got free double meat sandwiches because she felt by doing so, she was sticking it to her boss. So being a broke college student who loved double meat on his sub sandwiches, everytime I would go in there, I'd bring up her boss before ordering to get her fired up, and without fail, double meat and sometimes free cookies.
Elementary accelerated reader program for our library. The usual read a book, take a computer quiz, get x amount of pts. depending on book difficulty. At end of year spend pts. on prizes. Most books a 3rd grader would read would be easy .5 or 1 pt books. Think easy 30 page kids books.
Most kids would spend 20-30 pts at the end of the year. Get pens, poker cards, toys
Not me, I took a 400 page Dr Doolittle book worth 150pts/ 20 question quiz. Same with The Secret Garden.
Next year I took the quizzes again and they went through.
Got a cd Walkman for free. Which if I remember correctly were expensive mid 90s.
-JXter- · 1 points · Posted at 06:24:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was more so my mom's cleverness.
We both needed our service chips for oir phones repaired or replaced, so we went to T-Mobile. Turns out that it was the day after the Galaxy S7 came out, T-Mobile had a pretty good deal - buy the S7, get a rebate on the next one, a year subscription to Netflix, and a GearVR.
In order to get the extra benefits or whatever, you had to put a special pin into the T-Mobile website and the GearVR would be sent off to your residency.
Now, since the deal gives you a rebate and not a "buy one get one free" kind of deal, we actually bought two S7s. We were only given one rebate though, but we used the second S7 to get a second GearVR and a second year of Netflix.
Jfelt45 · 1 points · Posted at 06:25:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My sister used to ask me to play club penguin for her and get her gold through mini games.
I actually had a lot of fun with the surfing one, I also found a spot right around the time the mini game came out where you could sit still and never lose speed or get hit by the glaciers. I left it there on my desktop for a long time, got her thousands of coins and to this day she still thinks I'm some sort of video game legend because she didn't realize how I got them.
I have two and both involve my school. They may be minor to you guys, but for a broke college student, they're a time/money saver.
There's vending machine at my school that if you pick a specific option, gives you two drinks instead of one. 100% of the time. Been abusing it for the past two years.
Second one is that the parking meters near my classes' building are broken. They don't display how much time is left anymore. I park there and save $200 on a parking sticker every semester.
This one was working until about 6 months ago. A friend at work at a bank account that awarded a certain number of frequent flyer points every time you paid a bill using their internet banking service. Figured out it even worked when you made a partial payment. So he configured a semi-supervised Auto IT script that would make a hundreds of one-cent bill payments off his cell phone account every day, up to some hard-coded limit.
Ran this for several years, always keeping the points balance low in case the points were confiscated. Took his family on regular interstate trips throughout the year all that time, all for free.
Last year the University of Oregon gave out Jack in the Box coupons that gave you 1 free Jumbo Jack with any order.
If the football team scored more than 30 or 40 points, they'd give out a coupon.
If the basketball team scored more than 60 points, they'd give out a coupon.
If the women's team scored more than 50, you'd get a coupon.
I forgot the rest of the teams' thresholds, but I basically got a coupon to every single sporting event I went to. I'm one of about 6 or 7 students who go to EVERY single home game a UofO team plays and so I got in the neighborhood of 70 coupons in a few months.
Jack in the Box used to have 2 tacos for 99 cents. I got 2 tacos and a jumbo jack for 99 cents a LOT.
They eventually increased the price to 1.19 for the tacos but it was still a sad day when the coupons expired, (I still had around 20-30 left).
Jack in the Box didn't renew that promotion this year.
At the university I went to, they had vending machines scattered around campus where you could add money onto the photo-copy cards (or buy a card if you didn't have one yet). The machines were prone to jamming though, and would semi-regularly jam when reading bills people put in. When this happened, the machine would light up an "out of order" light that was quite obvious, and return the copy card, but not return the money.
A friend of mine discovered that if the light was lit, you could unplug the machine and plug it back in, and it would spit out the stuck cash as part of its boot process. She made over $400 from that in about a year (mostly because her class schedule made it such that she had to walk past this machine often), I made about $50 in the same time period.
Pofesbe · 1 points · Posted at 06:31:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Public transport paper tickets. Photoshop skills. Winner winner chicken dinner.
During my sophomore year in high school, one of the vending machines in the school had a little problem with it where you could put in a nickel and push the coin return button thing and a quarter would come out. For a couple months I was getting 25 cent diet cokes a couple times a day but my biggest mistake was telling a couple friends of mine about it and then everybody knew and they fixed it. It also looked really weird because the vending machine was at the end of a hallway and anybody walking down the hallway would see me putting in one coin at a time and then pushing the button thing and then finally putting 6 coins in the end and getting a drink ;)
Many years ago my father gave me his old sim card. He was called a lot and activated an option which gave you 1 cent for every minute you have been called.
Fast forward a few years: the carrier now offers flatrates. So I had my father call me before going to bed.
Unfortunately the call time was locked to 2 hours, but it was enough for my teen years.
Coca-Cola was having some promotion back in the early 2000s where is you spelled certain words from letters found under the cap you won some massive prize (can't remember what it was now). You could also win instant prizes of more drinks. Because of drinking so many coke products I took all the bottles I ended up going to the bottle depot. At the bottle depot they removed all the lids of bottles before they recycled them. I noticed a giant bucket full of lids and could already see some letters I needed and instant winners. I asked the owners if I could take them and they said sure. I ended up going back every day for the next 5 or 6 days before the owners caught on to why I wanted them and told me I couldn't have them any more.
I ended up getting like 25 free bottles of pop. Never did find all the letters to win whatever the grand prize was.
Ajl1198 · 1 points · Posted at 06:34:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother switched the "The Duke" football from its original packging to the autograph version of the ball making it go from 100 to 35 dollars real quick.
A white-box retailer had a promotion where you gave them your mobile phone number plus email and they'd send you 2x $25 vouchers (after the 2nd and 5th weekly newsletter).
They sold $2 SIM cards, so you could sign up again. And again. And again.
Every year on Black Friday there's this Walmart near me that mislabels their video games with the DVD prices so that 50-60 dollar games are on sale for a few bucks each. The past three years I've been able to go in and buy a massive stack of 20 games for like $50 bucks total and resell them a little below retail for a nice profit. They've yet to catch on or change anything which is kind of surprising but fine with me.
Late to the party, but, when I was in preschool my aunt worked at the post office. Every other day she would pick us up in her mail truck and take us to the post office break room and we would have to stay there until she got off work. So of course we were hungry after school. There was a vending machine in there that had those big cookies that came with two cookies in the pack. My cousin and I had no money but figured out that our hands and arms were small enough to reach up into the machine and grab whatever we wanted. We always grabbed the cookies of course. This was in 1996. It worked solid for us for as long as we were in there. Now machines have the blocking door inside that won't allow you to reach your hand up there anymore.. but needless to say, it was a success.
Around early 2011 I needed earphones, something thats durable enough and cheap and I saw that skullcandy was selling their paramore riot on sale for $5. I ordered a pair and waited for delivery. It showed up and it was nothing special but I was happy with it and moved on with my life. The next 9-10 days were weird. I received 30 more pairs of the same model shipped separately on different envelops. So I called skullcandy and I was like what the fuck guys? Can I return all of these? I don't have another $150 to pay for all of these.
They said they do not see a problem with my order and it indicates that I only ordered one pair. After much digging we learned that since I have an Irish last name with an apostrophe, the apostrophe caused the program to put my order on repeat. Skullcandy told me to just keep all the pairs and I was never charged for them except for the original one. I sold about 28 of them for $20 bucks each and I still have 2 unopened ones in my drawer since I'm still using the first one.
Bachelor thesis time. We were writing and constructing the thing with long hours in the institute, which is very secluded - a bus goes to the city every hour if it's late evening or weekend, no food vendors/grocery stores in the radius of 1km. The only food source was this lonely vending machine on the ground floor and one of the items in there with decent price-per-amount ratio was this rissole/frikkadel/meat patty with a pack of god-awful mustard for 60ct. So we noticed that the numbering of the slots skipped a number and this patty was held by two spirals. We tried the number of the unlabeled spiral - and the machine wanted '5ct' :D I was surviving on these ground meat patties for the rest of the thesis. At some point after months they must have noticed and exchanged the whole machine.
I used to work at a theme park and I found 2 loopholes that I used for a while. 1) The cash registers in the employee cafeteria didn't properly charge Visa gift cards. I went in, bought my lunch, went back to work. By the time I got home I could check the card balance online and see that the lunch charge had declined after the cafeteria closed. I ate free until I had to use that gift card at another store. 2) There was a soda machine that after you put money in, if you rapidly hit the Coke button it would send 2-4 cans of Coke out. I abused that until it was fixed a couple of months later.
Really late to this but it still works. So Netflix has the promotion when you make a new account and link a new credit/debit card you get a free month. So every month I would go to my bank and ask for a new debit card and since it's a "debit visa " it works as a visa. So I get free Netflix and have been for at least a year.
Bit late to the party, but on delta flights to watch the in flight entertainment on a mobile device you are required to download a gogo app. To download the app you are given access to the in flight wifi for a short period. Once you visit the website and get redirected to download the app, you can exit the App Store and enjoy free wifi for about 15 minutes. Every 15 minutes you just visit the site again and redirect to the App Store. Easy way to enjoy free wifi on every flight.
Delta has since fixed this and only allows 3 download attempts, but that's still 45 minutes of free wifi which is better than nothing.
Lots of vending machine stories, so let's add mine.
At my old high school there was a vending machine purely for drinks. Soda, milk, water, etc. Found out one day during my freshman year that if you hit the side of the machine hard enough a drink from a certain spot would always fall out.
They never did figure it out. Abused it about three times a week.
Back in around 2010, the fancy coke vending machines were just created, with the moving horizontal and vertical axis and shit. So we git a brand new one in like 7th grade, and they didnt have the turny plastic thing, or the stopper, so if you shoved your hand in and kept it stuck for a few seconds, the machine would think it messed up your order, and give you another drink choice, but you were easily able to grab your drink out of the machine before it moved back, and gave you a drink on the house
When I was in college I noticed that a novel that was normally sold in the campus bookstore was required reading for a literature class. So it was sold upstairs in the "student store" section for one price and was sold downstairs in the "textbook" section for like $20 more. I went in every day for the first two weeks of the term (when you could return textbooks) and bought a copy upstairs only to walk downstairs and return it for a profit. I got my books and several cases of beer for free that term.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:58:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In downtown Phoenix, there are a few companies that own all the parking lots in the downtown area. One is really close to the college and I would park there everyday and just pay the minimum for 2 hours time instead of the max time which was what I actually needed. It saved me about $4 a day by doing this.
Well one day I get a ticket. The instructions say put $50 in the envelope they gave me the ticket in and send it back to this P.O. box in a different state and then I can park there again without being towed.
I don't like sending cash in the mail so I do some digging to find an office so I can pay in person. Well there is no office. There isn't an office phone either. The phone number you get when you look up the company is the cell number of an old dude that lives in another state that owns the company. So I called him. He told me I had to mail the cash. I told him no I need to pay another way so I don't get scammed. At this point he is livid. He tells me he is old, sick, and doesn't have time for this. He tells me to just not pay it as its too much of a hassle for him to go through the process of actually towing my car.
I park in the lot everyday and never pay. I get a ticket. I call up the old dude. He gets pissed, tells me not to pay, and angrily hangs up. I would feel bad but he's charging a ridiculous amount to park in a lot.
I do this all the time at my college. We have laundry room's that take cash or these special ID cards. I call them every two or so weeks and say the machine stole my money. They don't ask for proof, all you have to do is make sure the machine you talk about is out of service. And now I get around $10 more a month.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:01:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Almaty, Kazakhstan the bus ticket costs 80 tenge. Up until about two years ago, you would pay to a machine in the bus. My friends and I discovered that if you put in exactly 40 tenge and waited a few seconds, you'd get a half-priced ticket, and this glitch worked on most city busses. Unfortunately, those machines are gone, and you either pay to a designated person who wanders around the bus collecting fares, or you swipe one of those bus cards that you load with money in advance.
Back in high school we would go to the YMCA for gym class. Outside the YMCA was a newspaper box. The kind you'd drop a Loonie into and then push a button while you pull open the door. The kind where you're honour bound to only take one newspaper.
Well... Some days lunch was directly after gym, I dunno what compelled me to do it, but I pressed the button as I pulled on the door and it opened without a Loonie. So I took a newspaper.
Did that a few times through the school year.
Nearly 15 years later, it's still there... It still works.
i can't use this loophole at the moment; but there's a law in my state the exempts federal and local law enforcement officials, military personnel, and national guardsmen from gun carrying laws(concealed carry, open carry with a semi-automatic rifle is completely legal, but pistols aren't, nor are concealed carry permits easy to get) as long as their on official duty; now military personnel can't bring guns on base or into recruiters office, but i could use it to carry in my car to and from official duty; will i, probably not, but a cool gun loophole
I worked at Best Buy for 6 months when I was younger. They had a deal where you get 25% off Verizon Wireless service. Well that 25% off lasted me for years and years and years. Until they had an unlimited plan for $99 (fully unlimited, none of this pretend "unlimited*", but that was years ago).
Was at chuck e cheese, (kids pizza place/arcade). One of the games my token got stuck, so I banged on it and the token went in and I played the game. Put in another token, same thing but I realized there was a bunch of tokens stuck in there, kept banging on it and got like 10 free games + prize tickets to exchange for prizes, until all the stuck tokens were gone. Went to the ball pit for a while and came back to find it restocked with even more stuck tokens than before, played it out again, went away for a while and went back for an eagerly anticipated round three. Found a little girl at the machine crying because it ate her token. So I shared my secret. Then when I went to cash in my prize tickets I discovered I could reach under the counter to the garbage can they threw all the tickets in after they were redeemed. Never had to buy big league chew again.
9Solid · 1 points · Posted at 08:15:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm a 3d artist and use Maya LT. They have a subscription service where it costs 30 dollars a month. Well, after the second month they stopped charging me. I went to the renewal section of their website where it says when they'll charge you next in x amount of days. The amount of days was a negative number. I've been using it for about a year since.
taboo_ · 1 points · Posted at 08:42:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So all I've learned from this thread is never let vending machine engineers work at NASA.
Many restaurant chains (McDonald's, IHOP, Starbucks) give you something if you register your email with them. They don't account for people with multiple emails.
A very minor one but in the game MLB the show 15 you could quit a game in career mode and simulate the rest. If you, say, hit a fly ball that's about to be caught you can exit the game, simulate your at bat for a different result, then rejoin the game
Target sold shaving gift boxes for Christmas. They went on clearance when Christmas was over. For ten dollars I got a razor, shaving cream, lotion, aftershave and A 5 DOLLAR TARGET GIFTCARD.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:09:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when they first introduced the vending machines with a glass front that would drop bottles onto a conveyor belt you could trick the machine into thinking the slot was empty by holding the inside door closed, to prevent it from falling into the chute. The machine would then fetch another bottle for you. 2 for 1!
I bought a pretty powerful (and pricey) laptop from hp before I entered college. My dad insisted I get a 3 year extended warranty, and offered to cover the price of the warranty. I agreed. Because of that warranty, hp is buying me a computer now and loaned me two laptops in the meantime.
Well, fast forward just under 3 years and the wifi card is on the fritz. So I send the computer in. To my surprise I get a call from a Case Manager who tells me my computer has a battery issue and since they don't make the battery anymore they have to replace it.
There was a weird glitch on that laptop, that sometimes the beats volume rocker/button could get stuck and it wouldn't power on. You just had to press it and it would go back to normal. I think this happened and they assumed it was a battery issue. But I didn't tell them that.
Since I decked out that laptop, I paid around $400 for a 256gb ssd. In 2012 that was only on their top laptops, and in 2015 it was still only on their top laptops. So they could only offer me a couple things as replacement. I accepted an offer for a $1600 gaming laptop, which then had it's own 1 year warranty.
Well, the touch screen on that 2015 laptop never worked right. I sent it in 3 times on warranty to get repaired and they never could fix it. I got my problem elevated to a case manager who again was going to replace it. This time I just asked for hp credit so I could buy a desktop, and they agreed to $1100.
I sold that $1100 at a loss for $970 through a gift card website (I know nobody IRL who's in the market and I was too scared to sell on ebay). I'll be making a gtx 1070 rig soon.
This will probably kept buried but last year, United had a glitch where First Class and Business Class Tickets were 70 USD, but only from Hong Kong to North America. I'm usually based in Asia, where you can get a flight to Hong Kong on a budget carrier for next to nothing.
I flew 16 hours in First Class from Hong Kong to New York, and earned full mileage credit as well. My colleague flew his entire family on First Class from Hong Kong to Dallas.
I was at Dave and Buster's, and a technician must have left open the door to where the tickets were stored. I was trying to figure out how to take all the tickets, when nearby I saw a black lady with a baby stroller. She looked down at the ticket cabinet, then looked up at me, and I motioned for her to bring her stroller over.
I loaded up all the tickets into the bottom of the stroller and we split it 50/50 in the parking lot.
I had an LG Chocolate phone. It was an older phone with a wap browser. It's kinda like a text browser and very old school. Verizon checked your data usage by going through their proxy server first. The phones secret dev menu showed what page loaded when you tried to access the Internet. You couldnt edit because the fields were locked. Used a usb cable to download the dev configuration file. Change a zero to a 1 in a hex editor. The proxy address was now editable so I switched it to my own server. Free Internet. I mainly used it for getting movie times.
Theres was an exploit back in 2011-ish where microsoft would send out a promo code of 100 microsoft points to your email so that you could redeem it on your account.
Well in the email, the code wasn't in text rather an image and if you copied the image URL, pasted it in your browser and switched a couple characters around you have yourself a new image with a brand new code. It lasted around 24 hours before they closed the promo and put out a statement. I ended up with around 12000 Microsoft points but heard people who got up to 50k
I had an Xbox 360 that got the RRoD as they did. Went to Kmart and bought a brand new one on boxing day so it was cheap and I only had to wait a week. Got the new one set up, kept all the new stuff and put all the old stuff in the box. Took it back a week later asking for a refund because it got the RRoD after a day and I was not happy about it.
Got my money and a new console, didn't have to wait for Microsoft to send me a refurbished console.
This isn't a super great loophole, but it was actually done early February so you guys could probably try it.
My girlfriend and I got dairy Queen one day, and she wanted the blizzard of the month which was some extreme chocolate Royal Blizzard, the ones with golden spoons and a core. Well fast forward coming home and eating it she tries to dig into her Blizzard but never finds her core which she told me was the only part she looked forward to.
After leaving the blizzards in the freezer and trying to comfort my girlfriend while she threw a fit and actually wrote a complaint on their website, I convinced her to just eat it anyways as it was no big deal. Turns out the core was just a little too far down and she finds it after eating most of the blizzard.
Valentine's day rolls around and she gives me this gift which, among other things, contained a $5 gift card that dairy Queen sent her in response of her complaint.
Probably around 10 years ago I found something weird (can't remember what it was) in my TV dinner. Called the manufacturer and told them, they sent me 3 free TV dinner coupons. I noticed the barcode was the same on all of them so I made color copies and ended up getting around 20 free TV dinners.
Back in the day - when Pepsi would put prizes underneath the caps, I found that if I tilted the bottle 20 degrees, I could read the words under the cap. Cut to 10 year old me emptying entire coolers of Pepsi's at Cumberland Farms looking for free bottles. I think I bought one bottle and then stacked free ones for the rest of the summer.
Amazon return policy for the kindle book store, id buy a few comics read returm for instant refund repeat, they caught on and i can no longer return stuff on my kindle
Worked at a local pizza chain for about 6 months. Employees got a pretty good discount of 40% off. A couple months after I quit, I ordered from them and it turned out there was a permanent note on my account, directing in-store employees to give me my discount. I did this every other week for 3 years until they started requiring recent paycheck stubs for the discount.
Late to party.
In college on the first day of the semester they were handing out student guides. In them there was a flier for a free 7up at 7-11.
People were ignoring the handbooks so my gf and I just started pulling out the fliers. We grabbed a ton. They had no expiration date but honestly we drank 7up like 3 weeks before we got sick of it.
BART in the Bay Area used to have these old IBM made ticket machines. The machines would hold all the change put in them until a ticket selection was made and then the change would be dumped into the bank and issue the ticket. However, if you canceled your transaction it would return all your change. So basically, the machine had to hold the change in limbo until you either canceled or made your ticket selection.
A friend of mine and I figured out that if you put only nickles into the machines, they would credit you the coin but at some point the spring holding the tray for the temporary location would become overloaded and it would dump all your coins back to the return tray but NOT remove the credits the machine had already counted.
We used to carry around zip-locks full of nickles until they replaced all the old IBM machines.
I get student discount on everything for my student ID from 2003. It just so happens that the card doesn't have an expiration date printed on as a mistake when it was made, it only has the tag "valid for duration of enrollment". I don't look that much different since Uni. :)
In Story of Seasons, if you play on Beginner/Seedling mode, you can go to the Silk Country booth and buy them out of crystals, which cost 3700 but resell for 3900 due to an oversight. Repeat until they run out of crystals and then come back the next day.
In spanish class, we use a Super site for online activities. My teacher does not look at the scores for the supersite, but rather completion of writing down thenanswers. Whenever I don't feel like doing a supersite, I simply submit a blank page and accept the score. It then shows me the correct answers for every question. Easy peasy.
Another apple related scam. Back with songs on iTunes were 99cents. There was some time between when you purchase and download your MP3s and when actually charged your visa gift card. So we would get a new iTunes account drop $50 on early 2000s pop punk and then hit the town and spend the $50 on pizza and junk food.
Two problems. You couldn't do this scam twice on the same iTunes accounts. So we had like 20 different accounts. And we should have just used lime wire.
dondox · 1 points · Posted at 03:18:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you have trouble sleeping, have kids. You'll fall asleep so quickly every night.
Some of you may remember, or god forbid still play, on a game called Roblox. To put the story short and succinct, it's an online block-building game for kids. This game is extremely rancid in it's milking people of money; but I found out that if you managed to resend the verification for a purchase it would go through even if the purchase was already made. The result? Well, a set of 20 $20 purchases were made using $20.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:31:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when I first joined the Army I didn't have a driver's license. I got stationed in Kansas and went to get my permit so I could then take the test and get a license. Well Kansas likes to issue you am actual card permit instead of a paper copy like California(my home state) well drove around for a few months acting as it was a license and when I went home on leave I stopped by the DMV and said I wanted a California license instead since I'm a resident. Well they took my KS permit as a DL instead and had me take the written test not the practical and low and behold got a CA license with no practical test. I have only taken 1 "practical" test since then at the end of a motorcycle safety course to get my M1 endorsement and it's been over 10 years. Fuck parallel parking(which I can do fine now but back then was not easy in the boat of a car I drove).
In highschool, early 90s, our cafeteria got their first electronic fund accounts. You give them money and then draw off it for lunch, snacks, cookies, sweet tea, extra milk.. etc.
Well, I discovered (inadvertently)... I happen to press and hold the 9 key on the keypad as the lunch lay was entering in the few dollars I was trying to pay.
It overrode her entry and gave me a max balance of $999.99 and she didn't notice.
Hell, no one noticed for my entire junior and senior year of high school, my friends and I ate like kings.
I depleted the entire balance with only 3 days until graduation, never attempted the glitch again.. didn't need to lol.
When I was a youngan, about seven years old, I twisted the knob to the gumball machine at the laundromat (which at the time I pronounced "lawn-dree-mat), despite not having put a quarter to put in. To my great surprise, out came a perfect, shiny gumball. So I tried again, same result. I ate the first one, pocketed like three and brought my sisters each one. Not sure if actually ended up giving the gumballs to them or if they got lost somewhere along the way, but that was the intent at least.
SunTrust once had a delta miles deal where if you started a business account you would get 100k Mikes and 50k miles for each debit card you added, at $50 yearly charge per card, no limit on the number of cards.
Now, a debit card requires no credit check, just for the person to sign a sheet. My whole family and 20 of my friends each took advantage and got debit cards with each others new business account.
I think I spent about $1,200 or so for over a million delta miles. You can get domestic flights for 15k to 30k miles. This was 7 years ago and I still have 250k.
They didn't run that promotion again.
Tomloes · 1 points · Posted at 03:59:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's an automated wine dispensing machine at the bar near my house. You load money on a chip card and insert it and then select a wine and quantity.
If a wine runs out mid pour they charge you a fractional portion of the cost, or if you have insufficient funds, it will only pour what you can pay for. Sometimes you end up with a few cents left on a card.
The machine can't physically pour less than a quarter ounce at a time. So I save the 10 cent cards to get .25 oz of a 100 dollar bottle for basically pennies on the dollar.
Microsoft had a $1 for 1 month of Xbox Live Gold a couple years back, they had the special running for over 7 months. I would buy it and then cancel my auto renewal and then buy it again. I got 8 months of Xbox live gold for $8.
the BBQ place called Famous Dave's let you sign up for their birthday coupon with an email that lets you get random shit like free dessert or free app on your birthday. There is a rare chance that you can get the FAMOUS FEAST, which is a massive garbage lid full of ALL their different meats and sides.
All ya need to do is put your GMAIL in with periods in random places to create "new" addresses like Joe.Smith, Jo.eSmith ,J.OeSmith, and so on.
When your bday rolls around, your gmail gets 10 different coupons and one is ALWAYS THE FEAST.
My school has a fairly normal vending machine that gives 1 can of soda for 75 cents, but if you put in $1.50 and get a can of brisk it gives you two cans and gives you a full dollar back. My friends from quizbowl and I would do that all the time and then sell the second can for 50 cents or favors. Still works now actually but I'm not in gym this semester so I can't go to the vending machines
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:40:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At work, (I'm a grocery store cashier), I've noticed that when they put discount/clearance stickers on something to sell it quickly, and the product is already on sale, the computer will take the "sale price" off of an already discounted item. For example, on Fridays they put a box of 12 donuts on sale for $5, normally $6.99. When they don't sell well, they will put a "New price: $4" sticker on it. When it's scanned at the register, it will scan at $4, then the computer will realize oh hey, that's a box of donuts on sale for $5! And it will still take the $1.99 it's supposed to to take off of every other box of donuts, making them $2 and some. Not that big, but it's one of the only rewards I've gotten for paying so much attention to how our computer systems work. I've gotten steaks and other meat, other bakery goodies and even produce at really awesome prices because of this!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:05:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Canada we have Tim Horton's coffee as our national drink of choice, Tim Horton's does this promotion called roll up the rim to win. Where you buy coffee, roll up the weird rim thing around the coffee cup and it'll tell you if you won a free coffee or donut or whatever.
It turns out, that if you win a free coffee there is nothing stopping you from going in and ordering an extra large coffee with everything possible in it, and that coffee has a chance of winning as well. So every time roll up the win to rim comes around, I buy a small coffee every day, these cost like 75 cents so it really doesn't matter, and when I win a coffee I get the most expensive thing I can and ride that win for as long as I can.
Roll up the rim is happening right now so I've been drinking a lot of coffee
This is gonna get buried but what the hey.
A gas station next to my old apartment had a glitch in their register that would ring up a 4 pack of Stella Artois pint cans for $2.49 USD. I think the actuall price was like $8.99 of something. Rode that train every day for like 3 months until someone wised up.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:23:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This works at almost any retail store.
If you like their clothes and would be spending this type of money there anyway, it's an easy way to multiply your money.
Buy high ticket items that are 40-50% off (on promotion, not clearance... also, not non-returnable). Then, when they go back to full price return the item WITHOUT the receipt. They'll only give you store credit, but it will be at the current, newly restored, full price. And you like the stuff anyway. Need it explained more thoroughly or wondering how you'll pull it off? Keep reading you broke motherfucker.
Example... $500 jacket is $250 with a 50% coupon.
Get 2... 1 size bigger than you and 1 size smaller than you (more on that later). For now... if the cashier asks... you're not buying them for yourself... they're for your friends or your fat and skinny child, etc. Also, this ain't none of your business.
So far you've spent $500 and have 2 jackets.
Now, once they're full price again, take those 2 jackets to the same store at another mall. Return them for store credit, but full price. Now you have $1000 at a store you were gonna spend it at anyway. Go get a ton of those clearance items your broke ass was gonna get anyway.
Now... "Won't they catch on?" ... you're thinking... I like that. Here's how to prevent that.
If they ask, tell the returning cashier that your friend/parent/sugar significant other got it for you and you don't know any of the information and store credits fine with you. Now they can't look up the old transaction in their database and see your coupons were used.
So why one size bigger and smaller? Let's say you're a medium... well whoever bought it for you got you a small, medium and large because you never know which one will fit "ah... I hate how the sizing is never the same... any way the medium fit and now I've gotta return these". I'd recommend occasionally changing it up size wise. Sometimes return the medium and large and say the small fit... you get it. Really, they probably won't notice/care anyway (I just prefer being thorough). Why won't they notice/care? Because you're known in the store as that crazy guy/lady with a rich sugar-person that's always returning stuff AND giving that person $1000 toward their daily sales quota.
It helps to pretend to be stupid and drop shitty lines like "I guess he's not getting his money back... oh well, I woulda ended up spending it anyway. Hahaha lololol" or "Oh no... guess I have to spend his money now." Or "Shoot. More shopping."
And don't run straight to the clearance you chiseler. You're pretending to be rich for Gods sake! Toss in a few lower priced full price items... if the associate recommends something more expensive don't break down into poor person tears. Just pretend you already got or "It doesn't look as good on me as I thought." And once you've slowly worked your way to the promise land... don't forget the finishing touch... Be SHOCKED to find such great things on clearance. Omg... this and this and this!
Play a cunty angle (cunty to your significant other... not the associate), play the loud angle, play the fun loving angle, drunk angle... whatever... just typecast yourself with the associates and it gets easier over time.
Final question.... what if they don't offer full price? Just pretend to be a little bummed and tell them you're so sorry (not sarcastically). Then say that this is a lot of money so you're going to try to find the receipt and return it for full price. Go back to the original store and return it with the receipt. "Didn't fit the friends they were for" or "those bitches didn't like them."
Source: YEARS working in several retail stores... spent all day autistically playing with our return policies in my head, finding loopholes, and running them through far more scrutiny than the average minimum wage worker will... especially ones that like you.
I used to own a bank card with a magical glitch. Every once in a while, I would make a purchase somewhere & the money wouldn't leave my account. I wouldn't touch the $ in my account with the reasonable idea that someone at the bank would figure it out & eventually withdraw the money, but it never happened. As a starving student, I didn't volunteer the info since I seemed to be getting instant refunds. It was a sad day when I received a new card in the mail after a few years due to some kind of new design they were implementing.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in high school, a can of cola was like eighty-five cents. We figured a way to jam some paper in the coin return chute so that it kept all the coins. No one complained the machine was broken because it was only fifteen cents change. We used to let it add up for a few days and then buy fries with all the dimes and nickels that would pour out once we wriggled the paper around.
Another time when I was in grad school, I was an RA and to use the washers and dryers in the basement, you had to load your money on your student card. Eventually, someone figured out that if you entered cycle button but didn't hit the start button and then removed your card before hitting it, the machine would work but without deducting any money. Everyone in the whole rez complex (like ten buildings) used this exploit for months (and some people racked up hundreds of dollars letting their off campus friends do their laundry) before the morons at the card office realized they'd fucked up. They made everyone pay the difference back and then somehow deflected blame onto literally everyone but themselves even though someone definitely deserved to get fired for such a hilarious, monumental screw up. Because I worked for the school, I and all the other RAs that used this loophole had to go have a meeting with the housing manager, who was a miserable bitch on a good day. When she asked me why I did it, I nonchalantly said "What difference does it make? I didn't mess the system up. The card office did. I figured they'd get around to fixing it eventually." She wasn't too impressed with that answer. Years later, I heard she eventually got fired under mysterious circumstances, much to my delight.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:29:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Senior year of high school, I was a teacher's assistant for a lit class. This was my 1st class of the day. My 2nd class of the day was the same lit class, except I was actually a student. For an entire year, I graded the exams that I ended up taking an hour later. Easiest two A's of my academic career.
What? First off, you would say transgender person and second i (f) identify as a (m) makes no sense you are a transgender man, transgender woman, or gender fluid. Idk what I(f) identify as a (m) means.
Back around the turn of the century, my friend and I discovered a loophole in a very major auction site. We discovered that you could retract a bid literally seconds before the end of the auction.
So, using a few different accounts, we would bid on items we wanted that had no reserve (a set price that has to be reached before you could win the auction). For an item that would get on average $200, a bid would be made for $250. Because of how the bidding worked, the price would only go up a dollar or two. Then, we would make a second bid at $230 with another account, driving the price up to that amount.
Two mins before the auction would end, the second bidder would retract his bid, lowering the price back down to five bucks or some other crazy low amount with only a minute to go.
Over a couple weeks we got a bunch of computer stuff and Oakley sunglasses for an absolute steal. One guy got really pissed, and apparently contacted the site. About a month after we started this the auction site sent out an email to all its members informing of the new bid retraction policy. Now you couldn't retract a bid in the last 24 hours of the auction.
A few years ago, my mom sent my dad and I to the store for a few things and cigarettes. She gets 3-4 packs of her kind; dad buys his by the carton. Everything together should've been about $110. It came out to 60-ish. Dad knew it was off but couldn't place why. Didn't say anything. (Smart man.)
We got in the car. He handed me the receipt, asked if I can figure it out. The cashier didn't scan the carton. She'd gotten it off the shelf, set it down, and done something else. We debated going back, but hey, free stuff! Cigs ain't cheap.
So I have a mobile plan with unlimited data, however the mobile hotspot is not unlimited. For some reason, my phone does not tell my carrier that I am using a hotspot. So instead of paying for both internet and a data plan, I just regularly have over a hundred gigs of data worth a month on my phone, but 0 gigs on my mobile hotspot.
its not really a loop hole but it comes in handy on laundry day. I use my dimes and nickels in the nearby soda machine and when I hit a dollar I press the coin release and the machine drops out quarters. Really convenient when I dont want to break a dollar at the store.
For the last year or so, I've lived in a dormitory on a military base. Being that it's a secure installation, the base only allows one company to come on and provide internet/cable to all of the on-base housing, including the dorms. (A cable company in a position to be a monopoly? How unheard of!!!)
So I took the time to jailbreak my iPhone 5S (with an unlimited data plan from Sprint) and was able to reactivate the mobile HotSpot capability on the phone. Not only that, but the app hides the use of the HotSpot from the providers, so they just think I use a massive amount of data every month. Meanwhile, my computer, playstation, and apple TV all contribute to the average 400 Gb or so of data usage on my phone bill every month.
$74 every month on my phone bill. Saved over $1200 thus far.
Fuck you cable/internet providers.
Ajl1198 · 1 points · Posted at 06:34:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother switched the "The Duke" football from its original packging to the autograph version of the ball making it go from 100 to 35 dollars real quick.
Me and the gang devised this scheme where we took our bosses credit card, bought a bunch of airline miles, then used to airline miles to purchase 400 steaks.
After getting the steaks, we rubbed live chickens on the meat to contaminate then, repackaged the steaks, returned them and received cash back, thus exploiting a loophole in the current airline mile system.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sounds like Charlie work.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:53:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was about 15 years old, my friends girlfriend dad had a friend who was the boss of our city's Macdonald.
One time he gave her a coupon for a free menu. The coupon was just a piece of thick paper with a pic of the logo behind and a text written "free best of menu" on the front.
I had the genius idea of scanning it and printing like 20 of them on paper for photos (you know those thick papers). Because I was missing some blue ink or whatever and because it was completely misaligned it looked pretty fake, se we dumped all our free coupons and walked on them to make them looked used and hide the details.
Anyway we had like 40+ free menus like that. At some points all the cashiers were asking their manager if they can use the coupon and they always said yes.
When I first lived on my own, I was working at a grocery store, and I was pretty poor. I was living on ramen noodles, hot dogs, and cheap frozen burritos.
Well, our store had a special that summer where if you bought 10 boxes of ice cream, you got an 11th for free. All summer, I had to sit there and hand this little printed flyer about it to every customer, for every single transaction that came through my register, a hundred times a day.
Until that brand of ice cream went on sale for half off. So I bought 11 boxes of every single flavor I'd ever wanted to try, and got them all for the price of 5 boxes; roughly $12 to $15, IIRC.
I ferreted my frozen smorgasbord home at the end of my shift and stuffed our freezer full with pride. Such an amazing deal; I had enough ice cream to last me all year! Even if everything else in my life was hard, I'd at least have a special treat to come home to, now and then. Two weeks later, I came home after a rough shift to have my first taste of sweet, dairy deliciousness...
Only to find that one of my roommates, a real leech and a fatass of a person, had eaten all of them. She'd sat there with our third roommate and eaten them all over a few days. He got a box or two, she ate the rest. Then they threw all the boxes away, as if I wouldn't find out. I never got a single taste.
I have many more stories about this person. She crushed half my furniture and she's a burden on those closest to her, but somehow she keeps finding more people to mooch off of. To date, she's still the worst roommate I've ever had, and she remains one of the worst people I've ever known.
I'm super late but has anyone ever heard of Bangbros and Johnny1?
Well...Johnny1 was the Username and Password to an all-access account. My friends and I were like 16...needless to say we fapped and fapped and fapped...until they took it down of course. Then the streaming sites came into existence, and now we still fap.
Myzyri · 1 points · Posted at 14:22:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'll probably go unnoticed since I'm late, but here goes...
In high school, I had stayed late for one of my after school clubs. I ended up being the last person in the building (aside from the janitors) because my mom was late picking me up. Very late.
As I wait, I walk to the Pepsi machine. I put in a dollar, the Pepsi comes out. The change comes out... $1.25.
Hmm... I could swear I heard five distinct little plinks, but I assume someone else forgot their change. Just in case, I feed in another dollar.
plink plink plink plink plink
Yup, I was getting a drink, a refund, and 3 free quarters with every purchase (a can was only 50 cents back then). I just sat there feeding quarters back into the machine. When mom showed up, I had a mountain of various beverages and a backpack full of quarters.
She helped me load the drinks into the car.
It eventually ran out of quarters, but still dispensed the beverage and gave the refund, but no bonus. If I recall correctly, I had like $60 in quarters and almost 250 cans of various beverages.
I tried again the next day in every machine and they were all working correctly. I kick myself every time because I didn't try the other machines that night. I know my mother and I would have sat there all night just cleaning them out if they were all puking out soda and quarters...
Bought a $300 2part foam spray kit from home depot for work. Use it up completely (refoaming hot tubs) wait til next day. Buy another foam kit for $300, then return the first empty one with the last receipt and get a full refund saying the hardener was no good. They dont ask for proof and the tank is empty. Rinse & repeat. Done this 5 or 6 times and only ever spent the initial 300 bucks
Renting video games from RedBox (an electronic video game and movie dispensing machine) with a prepaid debit card so that i could not be charged for not returning the games and than selling the games to people for money.
You burned 5 hours farming a few thousand karma just to be able to post on some sub that you'll probably end up getting banned from again anyway. Lol really gaming the system there buddy.
Almost every time I logged into my PS4, I got $10 of PSN credit. I guess this was because I was supposedly buying a lot of dlcs for game, when simply I logged online and found vouchers for watch dogs dlc. So I ended up getting $20 for just logging into my ps4. I just used it on games and dlc.
xxaaoo · 0 points · Posted at 04:27:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Um... hope I don't get in trouble for this.... it was a LONG time ago (over 15 years and I was a minor).. but remember the old vending machines? Remember how you could go purchase play money at the dollar store? I was very young and hungry and it was one heck of a way to get goodies in school as a broke kid.
fen3 · 0 points · Posted at 04:28:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Every time I'm broke and need gas I go to the pump with anything more than $0.00 in my bank account and it lets you get about 12 dollars in gas before it stops. I have to pay for it with my next check when I go negative and get and overdraft fee but it's basically getting a loan for about 12 dollars and paying a ton of interest on it. Helps me out a ton when I'm too broke to get gas though.
So you end up paying like 37 dollars for 12 dollars in gas? No wonder you're broke. That's about as terrible of a financial decision as you can make.
fen3 · 1 points · Posted at 04:44:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I mean I'm broke cuz I'm a young kid and don't make a lot of money right now and like to spend money. But like I said ya I pay more money in the long run but when you need it, it's worth it. Rather pay 37 bucks for 5 gallons of gas then run out of gas on the road and have no money to do anything about it.
Not me but my younger brother. Years ago I celebrated my 21st birthday poolside at a local beach resort. Amazing place. After the party officially ended, some of us were invited by staff to hang around poolside for the rest of the day. My girlfriend and I left but a majority of my friends including my brother stayed. There were all given hotel key cards so that they could let themselves in and out of the area until a certain time (I think 7pm).
Anyway, later on when staff were all asking for the cards back, they completely overlook my brother. He walks out with the card. He then used that card for 2 straight years - using the gym, poolside, the tennis court, of this beach resort (who were kind of on their way to going bust, so it shows how well they were managed).
TL;DR - had party at beach resort, brother given full access card, kept card and used it for 2 years, accessing almost every part of the resort.
There's this website shutter that's like Netflix but it's all just horror movies. I discovered a glitch where if you unsubscribed to the site, you'd still have permanent, and free, access to all of the movies. I watched 1 movie and then notified support because I can't bring myself to exploit things like that T-T
A friend of mine is a sheriff, and will boot his own car and put a fake window sticker on to avoid paying at parking meters. I only do this when I need to park somewhere and I either: a, don't have time to pay, or b, didn't bring enough money to pay for the meter. He gave me a boot plus the removal tool, plus a fake sticker (it's reusable).
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 05:47:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bout 6 months or so? Ago, chick-fil-a had a promo where if you downloaded the app and created a new account, you got a free meal. That lasted for maybe a month I believe.
This also coincided with a brand new location opening up near me that was giving out free meal coupons for the first week or so, for anyone who ordered through the app.
For breakfast, lunch, and dinner (and a snack or two usually) monday-saturday, I ate nothing but chick fil a, completely free. A whole meal. For about a month. There was no verification needed, so i just typed in some random ass email, ordered my food and picked it up from the drive through (after they stopped giving the free meal cards away after the first week.)
Buying big items at Costco, emptying out the box, going back in with the box in the cart and filling it up with stuff. Buying another one while there and having my friend go in the return line with it while I go out with the hot box. Then return, etc.
The big items all fully returned and usually a fridge-sized box worth of free shit. Computers/sound bars/clothes/chocolates/wine.
I do it once or twice a month. $3k hauls usually.
I have some other ideas cooking too but this beautiful one works great.
Tralliz · 0 points · Posted at 06:11:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I actually have a decent one. I essentially get fries, 6 wings, and a large pizza for around $11. I'd say how, but they haven't fixed it yet... so I'm good.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 06:16:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
when i was in university, i lived in a hall of residence with maybe 500 other 19-25 year olds boys and girls. hall management brought in an MnM's vending machine one day for a good cause. if you put a dollar coin into the coin slot and twisted the lever/knob thingy clockwise about 90 degrees or so, you'd get a handful of candy, and some of the proceeds would go to a charity.
problem was, the knob mechanism was faulty - u could forcefully twist the knob in the wrong direction by maybe 5-10 degrees, then turn it in the correct direction 5-10 degrees until it was at its original resting position, and a little candy will drop out of the machine. not much, maybe 5-6 individual MnMs.
so everytime people walked by the machine, on their way to class, or on their way back from class, they'd do this to the machine and receive a small, free snack. and hall management didnt realise we were doing this until the candy level started dropping conspicuously (once more people caught on to the trick) without a single cent collected for charity, and removed it immediately.
My buddy worked as a cashier at a major retailer in high school. He found that you could take $20 for a gift card, 'accidentally' hit an extra 0 and boom, you have a $200 gift card. Among a lot of other shit, we got a PS2 and guitar hero when it first came out. The gift card trick worked for a few months, but he did it way too much for too many people and got caught. Got some badass games though. Fight night is the shit.
The fast food franchises at my University are 3rd party and are ran by University employees instead of franchise employee. Therefore, they don't follow 100% of the franchises' rules.
I figured out that the Subway there doesn't always label the sub you ordered (you had to take it to a common central cash register away from the place where they make your food).
So I always get free bacon my my sub since it never gets labeled so the common cash register never charges for it. Been doing this for two years now.
I have a couple decent ones.
First, at the advent of all of the self scan checkouts at grocery stores we realized that if you just rip part of the case and scan one can of beer it rings up as a 6 pack, well since they had to check your id, you just set it down and they always cleared the weight discrepancy when they entered your id etc. so that was cool.
then to take this further..we would go in really late...usually 11:45 and get a bunch of different beer and then stack cases on the bottom. Always 2/3 different people checking out but using one cart so it was a sort of mis-direction since we would all be walking up to show our ids at different times. We wouldn't ever ring up the 2,3,4 cases of beer at the bottom of the cart...i lived in what was essentially the "rocker kids" frat house. 4 dudes living in a fairly large 4bdrm house with a basement etc etc. we usually did a kroger run 5 nights a week...this went on for YEARS. Lets take bare minumums...2 cases per run, 4 nights a week, 52 weeks...
2x4x52 = 416 CASES of beer per year...and this went on for well over 3 years. That is 1248 cases of beer that we walked out of the store with...and I need to stress...this is a VERY low ball estimate. We had to get a can smasher and we would easily fill the huge trash cans full of smashed empties in a couple weeks. Man...that house was so fun. So many parties, so many girls, so much crazy shit went down there. Oh yeah..we were good at beerpong...stupidly good.
Ok next one. I worked at a restaurant. This place had just opened so i was part of the opening crew. They opened a few months before christmas and it was the most popular joint in town. We were selling giftcards like crazy. Well for some reason some of the gift cards would error on when you went to load them so we just kinda threw the shitty ones out and kept going until we got a good one. Well one day on a slow shift i sold a few gift cards and went through like 10 of the "bad" ones. So they are just sitting there and i get the idea to try and use it for a tab. Boom. It works. Holy fuck. I was sitting on a stack of ten gift cards loaded with 100$ on them but that are not in the "system." This job just got infinitely better. 2 months to go until christmas...i started taking ALL of the day shifts so that i could sell a majority of the gift cards. I started giving away all of the ones under 50$ thats how many i fucking had. So christmas rolls around and then for the next 3-5 months any time a person would pay cash on my shift, i would get them their change but ring it up on the gift card so basically the cash for the tab went into my pocket. I would do this on solo shifts so the money would all go to me (i was a bartender). And sometimes on shifts with people i liked and we'd just make bank on a crappy morning. I would easily walk with 3-400 per 4-5hr solo shift. I also gave a bunch of the cards away but i made like 7-10k extra that year. Quit when the cards dried up as its hard to do something for less money than you previously did it for. I was insanely lucky also...right at this time bitcoin was going through its first real huge jump...i invested a huge chunk of cash (like 4k worth) in bitcoins..they went from like $80/ea to like $3/400 each. I cashed out, had my mother (financial planner) invest it wisely for me...i'm basically retired at age 30. I say basically because i dont have SUPER nice stuff..but i'm set as long as i keep my expenses under a certain amount.
badguys8 · -11 points · Posted at 01:21:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If I claim transgender and I take testosterone while still being female I can still play sports in competition with other females. Only issue is I'd have to become female in the first place.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 01:49:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well aware, was just using it from a humor standpoint. Many people that disagree with her choice to wrestle see it as a loophole. I for one don't have any quarrel with it.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 14:34:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can also be a man, claim you're "transgender", go into MMA, compete against helpless women and fucking destroy them while still being a man. You'll make shit-tons of money, and nobody will be allowed to complain because "transphobia".
Amazon return policy used to send you new products without receiving old one first. Off one XBox purchased I managed to get three consoles and my money back! Now they're way more strict because of people like me.
Take a case of bottled beer. Let's say Miller Lite. The type of case that looks like this;
Take all the empty bottles, fill them with water and put the caps back on and then put all the bottles back in the case. Take a glue-gun and glue the top flaps closed again so that it looks like a unopened 24 case of beer.
Go to the beer store with a buddy and have your buddy stand right outside the exit door with the case of water-beer while you walk in the entrance door.
Ask the clerk for a 24 case of Miller Lite. Pay for it and walk out the exit. Quickly swap the case with the one your buddy is holding outside, stop the exit door with your foot and walk straight back in and say; oh sorry, not Miller Lite. I meant Miler Genuine Draft MGD.
Hand the water-beer to the clerk and watch him go to the back and come back with a second case of beer for you.
I found an amazing loophole while working for the South African State Department. I had recently been promoted to Ambassador to the US and noticed that the price of gold coins was highly favorable before taxes and tariffs.
I did some research and found out that I had diplomatic immunity which meant I could smuggle the gold in, but the police couldn't do anything to me! I even could have people killed who got in my way! I've made millions with this trick.I just hope my diplomatic immunity doesn't ever get revoked.
[deleted] · -20 points · Posted at 22:34:28 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to work at Walmart, people used to do this BEFORE self checkouts. As a cashier, you'd have to keep on your toes to notice that stuff. They can easily deny that they did anything: "that sticker must have already been on there". Our AP dept. definitely caught people swapping stickers though.
cmelo321 · 18 points · Posted at 23:54:27 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
Stealing isn't a loophole it's a crime
mbinder · 19 points · Posted at 23:15:33 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's just plain stealing...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
right!? :-D
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 03:53:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Have any of you heard of Synthetic Cannabinoids? They were invented as a way of getting really high legally as the cannabinoids were not scheduled and rarely even fell under the Federal Anolouge act. Often it was sold at head shops and gas stations owned by immigrants. This was my main drug of choice in the Navy as they could not test for it(They can test for it now with about the same amount of resources it would take to test for acid but their are thousands of formulas and they do not have the resources to test for them all.) , it got me really high, and technically it was legal. In fact the formulas that were most used would change every few months to further foil the powers that could make something illegal in the first place.
Let's make a deal. You stop babbling about things you obviously don't know about, and I'll continue to berate the drug-using shitbag.
The policy for illegal drug usage in the military is zero tolerance. Spice is illegal. People are being kicked out for testing positive for it. Using synthetics or devices designed to circumvent the testing procedures is also punishable administratively.
Source: I know what I'm talking about.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:47:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm still laughing at your lame attempt to equate coffee to illegal spice.
Just showed your comment to a few colleagues. All laughing at the stupid man on the internet.
That's right, people are laughing at you.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:08:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Have you ever tried to explain photosynthesis to a tree? Explaining anything to you is much like that. Illustrating your ignorance to you could very well be impossible. Therefore I will not even try.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
this guy is fun at parties because all us real sailors are raping him in the closet! Your attitude and closed mind are the shame. You should be hung from the top mast. you foolish swabbie.
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Jeheh · 7301 points · Posted at 00:52:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This was back when you actually needed long distance phone service to call beyond the city limits. I received a letter in the mail from one of the companies for $100 if I changed my service. I didn't make calls so it didn't matter so I switched. About a month later my old company offers me $100 to switch back and since there are went any limitations I switched back. A month later the other company offers me another $100 to switch back to them so I did and about 2 months after that the original company offers me another $100 to go back to them. In about 6 months I made $400 and never made a single long distance call.
realblublu · 2921 points · Posted at 03:57:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Hello sir, would you like some free money?"
Grahamshabam · 859 points · Posted at 04:18:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sheeeeiiiiiiit I'll take any motherfuckers money if he givin' it away!
Raka_ · 78 points · Posted at 04:55:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Its all in the game though, right?
[deleted] · 18 points · Posted at 05:14:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase.
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 05:33:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Best line of the series right there.
JustTheTip___ · 6 points · Posted at 06:01:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"They shouldn't really call this a war."
"Why?"
"Wars end."
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 06:04:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And there's #2.
Grahamshabam · 4 points · Posted at 06:58:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"What are you doing?"
"I'm taking minutes"
"Is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?! The fuck is you thinking, man?"
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:47:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Every line of The Wire is the best line. It's 5 seasons of the best lines.
HeywoodUCuddlemee · 1 points · Posted at 05:54:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Anyone wanna help a dude out with the reference?
Grahamshabam · 5 points · Posted at 05:58:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Wire. If you haven't seen it you should
_FREE_HAT_ · 5 points · Posted at 05:59:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Wire I believe.
SlimlineVan · 7 points · Posted at 05:04:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's all in the type of faucet used, apparently
kiddo51 · 4 points · Posted at 05:28:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's all about the game. Do you know what I am saying?
karmagirl314 · 2 points · Posted at 06:12:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes, I know what you are saying, you don't have to keep asking.
andthendirksaid · 1 points · Posted at 06:25:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh indeed.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:40:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes, this is all a game. Nothing is real.
Oberon_Swanson · 23 points · Posted at 04:43:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiit*
Sorry to be a grammar neo-nazi
SnuffXP · 7 points · Posted at 04:36:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Son we gonna see about this!
kjax2288 · 13 points · Posted at 04:30:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
WHOA BLACK BETTY! GRAHAM SHABAM!
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 04:44:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
huh, I always wondered what he was saying there. is that actually it?
kjax2288 · 6 points · Posted at 04:48:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think it's a matter of perspective tbh
Grahamshabam · 7 points · Posted at 04:55:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Who are we to say, really?
Vague_Discomfort · 5 points · Posted at 05:15:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I always hear it as "Blam ba lamb."
Fistfullofdong · 3 points · Posted at 05:06:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You made my thank you!
muzzman32 · 3 points · Posted at 05:14:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I thought somebody else made your thank you?
infp01 · 2 points · Posted at 05:30:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Im glad i filled in your missing word its truly fascinating seriously
Gonzo_Rick · 1 points · Posted at 05:54:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think those are my house words.
dnicks2525 · 0 points · Posted at 06:04:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Definite white guy
Grahamshabam · 1 points · Posted at 06:09:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Google it
iamatrollifyousayiam · 1 points · Posted at 07:35:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
and i dont have to take my pants off, you sir are a great negotiator, did you go to trump university by any chance
pierreor · 239 points · Posted at 04:46:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sounds like a Costanza and Kramer-centric episode idea. I can even hear Jerry asking what the deal is with phone companies playing fast and loose with their money when it comes to attracting long distance callers.
"No, long distance callers are a special breed, Jerry. They are the premium, platinum! Card carrying members of a very exclusive congregation. Just look at George. He's a thoroughbred long distance man, Jerry!"
"I don't see it."
SpaceVamp · 16 points · Posted at 05:34:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
r/redditwritesseinfeld
boxsterguy · 6 points · Posted at 05:48:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Newman and Kramer collaborated on the crazy schemes. Costanza did his own Costanza thing.
falcoriscrying · 1 points · Posted at 08:32:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Definitely Newman and Cosmo schemin while Costanzo keeps getting screwed over by the phone company
HunterThompsonsentme · 3 points · Posted at 05:57:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Now why would a junior high school wanna screw with my head?" "...well why does Radio Shack ask for your phone number when you buy batteries? I don't know!"
reaperoftoes · -3 points · Posted at 05:54:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In my head this was in Rick's voice. I could see a Rick and Morty Verizon commercial going like this.
[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 04:33:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My roommates and I paid our rent this way for a couple months in 1999. There wasn't even a cooldown period, we were switching almost weekly.
BeagleWrangler · 3 points · Posted at 05:45:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I actually got offers to switch an old phone number that didn't even work anymore. I switched it a couple of times.
elementop · 193 points · Posted at 03:48:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Gotta love the free market.
[deleted] · 25 points · Posted at 04:28:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Hello, we see Google Fiber has you at 1gig for 60 a month, how would you like 2 and we'll mail you a $100 dollar amazon card if you switch to us?"
i wish.
user0621 · 6 points · Posted at 05:43:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As if a telecom has any kind of incentive to be anywhere near competitive.
embretr · 0 points · Posted at 05:53:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You could dig your own and get a free connection? Http://b4rn.org.uk
IsThatWhatSheSaidTho · 56 points · Posted at 04:20:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You have been banned from r/latestagecapitalism
feared_rear_admiral · 15 points · Posted at 04:58:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Which is not hard, they ban you for the slightest thing there.
AssCrackBanditHunter · 4 points · Posted at 05:08:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Banned from a novelty sub. Say it ain't so!
quantum-mechanic · 0 points · Posted at 05:24:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh a novelty. So like adults have "adult novelties".... I think /r/latestagecapitalism is the analog for children
TripperDay · 2 points · Posted at 05:42:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I like the content there, but hate the comments.
Matti_Matti_Matti · 10 points · Posted at 04:38:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Gotta love poorly thought out marketing schemes.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:08:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
These are utilities, so this is, unfortunately, a result of rent seeking.
VanFailin · 2 points · Posted at 05:14:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dumb companies, though. If you're going to buy your customers, you have to make sure they stay long enough to pay for themselves.
Goaty_McGoatface · 4 points · Posted at 04:24:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
FTFY.
[deleted] · 18 points · Posted at 04:31:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So... the free market?
CGRCC · 9 points · Posted at 04:37:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I believe he is implying that a free market devolves into anti-competitive practices
DankDialektiks · 7 points · Posted at 05:09:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It does, in all industries, ever.
Media and information, transportation, food, utilities, electronics... At the beginning of any given market there is always an initial boom where many different companies compete, then competition decreases over time until it's either a monopoly or an oligopoly. This is true for literally any market that has existed for 10+ years that you can think of.
The process by which competition decreases over time is mergers and acquisitions, where large companies buy out the smaller ones. Marx called it concentration and centralization of capital.
MuddyFinish · 4 points · Posted at 05:22:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Damn, I recall there is even a game dedicated to teach this principle to everyone, if only I could remember its name... /S
DankDialektiks · 1 points · Posted at 07:21:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't get it :/
MuddyFinish · 1 points · Posted at 08:26:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh, I'm sorry. I think this might have sound harsh towards you but I was actually trying to highlight the irony in people believing that free market makes a working economy when it obviously doesn't and there is even a game called MONOPOLY which was created to educate on the matter; further supporting you point. ;)
curryisforGs · 2 points · Posted at 05:23:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At what point has any part of the food industry had anti competitive practices? Grocery stores all operate on volume, not margin. Fast food prices have stayed down or moved up with inflation. Restaurants vary in pricing a lot depending on the availability of the food you're eating (lobster is much cheaper in Nova Scotia for example) and the level of service.
DankDialektiks · 1 points · Posted at 07:18:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's been a huge concentration in the food industry in the last decades and especially in the last 20 years. There has also been huge inflation in all food markets.
Here you can see data for market concentration for processed food : https://www.oecd.org/daf/competition/CompetitionIssuesintheFoodChainIndustry.pdf
Another one, which includes data for agriculture concentration as well. http://www.econexus.info/sites/econexus/files/Agropoly_Econexus_BerneDeclaration.pdf
quantum-mechanic · 0 points · Posted at 05:25:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My God you are so right. The local pizza market is just dominated by one or two colluding pizza giants.
Oh wait, that's totally not correct.
panameboss · 6 points · Posted at 05:37:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Tbf the global pizza market really is dominated by one or two organisations.
quantum-mechanic · -2 points · Posted at 05:57:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
<citation needed>
Enjoy - because that's not correct at all.
panameboss · 3 points · Posted at 06:08:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Along with Domino's Pizza ( DPZ ),Yum Brands ' ( YUM ) Pizza Hut, and Little Caesars, Papa John's is one of a small number of chains that dominate a highly fragmented market…More mom and pops are going out of business, so you're seeing more market share gains by the big chains, especially Domino's and Papa John's."
Source: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/papa-johns-eyes-bigger-slice-of-global-pizza-market-cm478962
See also:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/08/dominos-pizza-sales-up
https://yourstory.com/2015/10/dominos-pizza-technology/
https://www.franchisehelp.com/industry-reports/pizza-industry-report/
http://www.yum.com/annualreport/
quantum-mechanic · 1 points · Posted at 06:24:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So 4 brands... plus a bunch of regional brands and boutique chains you don't mention... and of course the mom and pops that every town has a dozen of.... nice try.
panameboss · 1 points · Posted at 06:27:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you read the sources I gave you or...?
The point is these large brands (primarily Dominos and Pizza Hut) are killing all other competition world wide. Yes there are some smaller companies of course but the global pizza market as I said is completely dominated by these few giant companies.
quantum-mechanic · 3 points · Posted at 12:12:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh lord... you are dense. The only relevant number I could find in one of those articles - just one number - was that chains account for 61% of the pizza market. So that's split over the "chains" - which that article fails to define, but that's at least 4 big players, could include more like Godfathers or Pizzeria Uno. So there clearly isn't one company that dominates anything, esp. if all that chains together still leaves 40% of the market to small time owners.
NamedomRan · 2 points · Posted at 05:58:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
TIL the world runs on a pizza-based economy
quantum-mechanic · -2 points · Posted at 06:03:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Didn't imply that. Merely provided a counterexample against the idiotic poster above me
DankDialektiks · 1 points · Posted at 07:04:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The market shares in the pizza market are increasingly concentrated, like someone else already pointed out. The trend is just slower for pizza than for other markets, because the costs and barriers to entry for local pizza are relatively low.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 05:53:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh, do you have some proof for that or are you just going to keep spouting off communist platitudes ignoring all facts? Last time I checked food, electronics, and information were not monopolized and in fact hundreds if not thousands of companies are competing in these fields as we speak.
Nice job quoting one of Marx's pseudo-science long debunked theories. You realize that no economist takes Marxian economics seriously, right? You quoting anything Marx said in a economic discussion is me is akin to me quoting Bernie Madoff about investing.
DankDialektiks · 2 points · Posted at 06:56:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Huh, sure.
Aviation : http://aviationweek.com/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2015/02/us%20major%20airlines%20merger%20chart%20pic%20REV%20B.jpeg
Media and information : http://www.thelampnyc.org/wp-content/uploads/IllusionofChoice-1.jpeg
Food : http://i.imgur.com/7VpQYDi.png, https://www.oecd.org/daf/competition/CompetitionIssuesintheFoodChainIndustry.pdf * (added in edit)
Banking : http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/finance/2014-06-30/96f4dab0-008f-11e4-8954-bdd30e1b8ab5_BigBankMergers.jpg
Over time, the number of companies competing decrease and the market shares become increasingly concentrated. If a particular market isn't an oligopoly yet, just give it more time. If you think I am ignoring all facts about that, maybe you can show me some facts.
Marx's observations on concentration and centralization of capital are consistent with the patterns we can see across all industries.
Dr_CSS · 1 points · Posted at 07:19:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How does it feel to be assblasted 4 times?
RZRtv · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure phone service is a natural monopoly or duopoly in most places, considering its not that easy to build infrastructure for it.
So no. Not the free market, just competition.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 05:43:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Natural monopolies do exist within a market but they can only really last a certain amount of time due to the possibility of competition and technological advancements.
SmokeyTheStonerBear · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Gulag for you capitalist pig dog
9999monkeys · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wasting money like that just drives up prices for the rest of us. The paying customers subsidized this guy's $400. It ain't right!
elementop · 1 points · Posted at 09:07:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah. They're already charging people as much as anyone's willing to pay. That money would have just gone into shareholder profits.
hitbyacar1 · 6 points · Posted at 04:07:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you have to change your number each time? I don't remember how landlines work, the last time I had one was probably ten years ago.
fnord_bronco · 2 points · Posted at 05:21:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If it was for long distance service, probably not. (I presume he's in the US or Canada).
The_One_True_Ewok · 1 points · Posted at 05:42:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the US carriers are required by law to offer a way to port your number
Jeheh · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was the US an no they just changed the service provider. Now I don't even have a land line. And when I did I didn't have long distance.
_Lady_Deadpool_ · 10 points · Posted at 04:51:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Now they charge you $100 each time
selahbrate · 7 points · Posted at 04:11:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pardon my ignorance but don't cellphone companies still do this? If I switch to T-Mobile and get a few hundred bucks or whatever they're offering can I switch back to my old carrier and get their reward offer as well?
chewburka · 14 points · Posted at 04:16:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do those deals require a longterm contract?
Vanchdit · 9 points · Posted at 04:22:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thanks to people like @jeheh they do now.
2scared · 7 points · Posted at 04:51:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Man I hate you for putting that @ in there. I searched for way more minutes than I needed to trying to find a story between a Twitter user called jeheh and a mobile company, before realizing you actually meant /u/jeheh.
TheShadowKick · 2 points · Posted at 05:13:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've started developing the habit because of Discord.
MagillaGorillasHat · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes. And the money back is generally paid as bill credits over time and doesn't start right away.
So, 90 days after you switch the first bill credit is applied.
sloaninator · 9 points · Posted at 04:16:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Usually you sign a contract with these deals.
Kageyn · 5 points · Posted at 04:20:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Usually the payout has a 90-180 waiting period to counteract that possibility as well as a contract or phone financing
agentages · 5 points · Posted at 04:40:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What a coincidence. I was fired for coming up with that marketing tactic.
wdn · 4 points · Posted at 04:42:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I lived in NYC in the mid-nineties and phone companies would mail you a check for some $50 or so, just out of the blue, where to endorse it on the back, you were signing that you would switch phone (edit: long distance) companies. I had a lock on the long distance service (so the switch wouldn't happen unless I first called Nynex and removed the lock) and just deposited the check without signing.
fnord_bronco · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I lived in NYC in the mid-80s and local calls were not free. Is this still the case?
wdn · 3 points · Posted at 05:40:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I lived there from 95 to 97 and local calls were about ten cents each.
fnord_bronco · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:40 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah. I can remember my folks always nagging me to keep calls short.
When I lived there, NY Tel gave you a monthly allowance of "message credits" or "message units" I think they were called. A call in your own zone close to your house was a one unit. Outside that area, local calls cost either a certain number of units up front, or per minute, or both.
Basically, it was really convoluted and confusing--almost certainly by design.
CrawdadMcCray · 2 points · Posted at 05:09:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My family does something similar currently with Satellite providers. They refuse to lower your bill or upgrade your package as a current customer so they'll switch to the rival company and ride out the low price and package benefits and then switch back to the former for essentially the same thing and so on.
CowardiceNSandwiches · 2 points · Posted at 05:43:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ah, the 90s. I paid rent with those checks more than once.
justhen7139 · 2 points · Posted at 05:56:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the early 2000's, J & J put out a coupon for $1 off any first aid product, which they ran in the weekly Sunday coupon inserts every week for months. At the same time, our local Walmart was had entire first aid kits (bandaids, antibiotic ointment, etc., in a nice little plastic box) on clearance for $.99 After I used the coupon to get the first one free, I started hitting up all my friends and family to save the J & J coupons for me & eventually scored over 100 first aid kits....which I then turned around and listed on ebay. The entire lot was purchased by a boy scout troop, who was more than happy to pay $3 apiece for them.
ChzzHedd · 1 points · Posted at 04:28:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why did it matter though? Its not like you had anyone you needed to buy a plane ticket to visit.
glitterypinknails · 1 points · Posted at 04:34:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Omg my parents did the exact same thing!
TheBoni · 1 points · Posted at 04:56:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm gonna guess this was around '95-ish? My roommate and I did this several times as well.
Jeheh · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A little latter I think but it's been a while.
Darwins_Dog · 1 points · Posted at 05:00:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to work in a call center selling long distance plans. This was an extremely common thing to see. I'm surprised how long it took the companies to catch on.
bewilderedshade · 1 points · Posted at 05:07:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because of you they started adding contingencies to that like you had to stay with them for a certain amount of time, or use the service etc.
Jeheh · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I changed the world booya. It's my only legacy.
thermal_shock · 1 points · Posted at 05:11:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mom did this religiously.
LittleSadEyes · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A teacher at my high school once told me he'd done this.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:15:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Corporate money-printing. I like this.
ironyfree · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sounds like the MCI AT&T battles of the mid-2000. I was a front line phone jock back in those days and used to hand these babies out like candies to any poor civi who got tempted to the other side and needed a reminder of why AT&T was the true king of long distance. Got a nice bonus every time one of those lost souls came home. Good days.
Badphish419 · 1 points · Posted at 06:05:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Same thing happened to me but, I only got $200.
The_Code_Hero · 2736 points · Posted at 02:05:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Way back in the early days of Chipotle, they teamed up with my local movie theatre and anytime you went to a movie and brought the ticket to the Chiptolte, then boom. Free burrito.
Well me and my shithead friends jumped on this almost immediately. We hounded the people who left the movie theatres for their used tickets; we looked on the ground outside the theatre; we even looked through the (top layer of the) trash.
For like 4 months, I ate Chipotle every damn meal, and for free.
NachoTheGreat · 1726 points · Posted at 04:03:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The day after Chipotle was closed for E.Coli or ebola or whatever, I went to get my free burrito (it was the company's "apology" for the inconvenience of being closed the day prior). Well, there was a fucking metal staple in my burrito. I brought it up with the staff, and the owner apologized and gave me cards for five free burritos. I filled out an incident report, and got a call from corporate later that day. They sent me another 5 vouchers for free burritos. Not really a loophole, but I got 10 free burritos because there was a staple in my free burrito.
Edit: wow, this blew up overnight. A lot of commenters are correctly pointing out that I could have gotten much more out of the incident. The staff were very nice, and shit happens. I was fortunate to not injure myself when I bit into the staple, but I believe it was an honest accident.
AFK_Siridar · 640 points · Posted at 05:48:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I found a rivet in my frozen pizza once. Reported it to the manufacturer, they freaked the fuck out, asked me to send it in, sent a bunch of coupons for frozen pizza, redeemable at my local grocery store. Presumably they had their engineering crews pull the line apart to figure out where the rivet came from.
Anyway, about a week after I got the vouchers, I redeemed one, took it home, heated it up, all set for some fresh hot pizza...Got out the pizza roller knife thing, and the handle fell apart when I went to make the first cut.
Turns out it was held together with rivets.
JustARichard · 35 points · Posted at 06:01:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol you basically played yourself. Did you tell them? I'm guessing the Engineering team would've figured that the rivet if you sent it to them isn't even one of the parts from any of their machines
AFK_Siridar · 39 points · Posted at 06:03:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What do you think?
Reddit_means_Porn · 13 points · Posted at 06:31:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They aren't going to do anything to you. And their records will look much better when they can put an end to the glaring quality control risk
uptokesforall · 14 points · Posted at 06:32:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ooooo a choose your own adventure
I chooose
Complained that frozen pizza broke your knife
AppleBerryPoo · 7 points · Posted at 06:06:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
...maybe?
dunemafia · 20 points · Posted at 06:02:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This was a riveting read.
MissAssippi · 2 points · Posted at 06:11:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Get out
internetzculture2 · 10 points · Posted at 06:07:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not to be an ass, but the decent thing to do would have been to call the pizza company. Some people might have lost their jobs that day because of you
AwesomelyHumble · -1 points · Posted at 07:22:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They wouldn't lose their jobs because of OP, they would lose their jobs because of their own doing.
Edit: "They would" -> "They wouldn't"
internetzculture2 · 1 points · Posted at 07:29:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wouldn't or would?
AwesomelyHumble · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oops, I meant wouldn't. Thanks for the head's up, I edited my comment.
Halluci · 5 points · Posted at 06:26:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I thought the last line was referring to the pizza; for a moment it still made sense to me
tehchoppers · 9 points · Posted at 05:58:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you give the coupons back?
Jasonrj · 14 points · Posted at 06:02:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm not OP but going out on a limb to say definitely not.
reverendsteveii · 1 points · Posted at 06:31:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I! PUT THE SCREW! IN THE TUNA!
Alyathea · 1 points · Posted at 14:51:02 on March 3, 2017 · (Permalink)
this.. reminds me of a parody I love so much for a game
unicornlocostacos · 1 points · Posted at 06:34:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hahaha I like this one
NicolasMage69 · 1 points · Posted at 08:40:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cue Curb your Enthusiasm music
A_Fabulous_Gay_Deer · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Great story.
eatmynasty · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So what happened to the second rivet?
AFK_Siridar · 4 points · Posted at 06:06:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was still in the handle, so it all kind of pivoted around the one remaining rivet - the one that was left behind acted as a sort of joint for the hinge, so the rolly bit kind of turned around itself instead of cutting into the pizza.
GrooveSyndicate · -3 points · Posted at 06:32:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's godawful. I used to work with a guy who claimed he once got 2 tacos from Jack in the Box and when he bit in to the first one, there was a penny in it
Edit: The twist? It turns out that in 1988, the Undertaker threw Mankind off of Hell in a Cell and he plummeted 16ft through an announcer's table!
AwesomelyHumble · 3 points · Posted at 07:24:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hey, you're an imposter. That happened in 1998, not 1988.
GrooveSyndicate · 1 points · Posted at 11:26:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
TWO WEEKS
achairaswell · -2 points · Posted at 06:15:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That story was riveting.
AFK_Siridar · 5 points · Posted at 06:17:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
/u/dunemafia beat you to the punch.
A-HuangSteakSauce · 371 points · Posted at 04:27:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Say burrito again.
Sariko69 · 62 points · Posted at 05:35:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Little donkey
wowjerrysuchtroll · 29 points · Posted at 05:40:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Technically correct!
Fionnlagh · 23 points · Posted at 05:47:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The best kind of correct.
HeywoodUCuddlemee · 2 points · Posted at 06:08:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm 40% correct. clunk clunk
Carakio · 37 points · Posted at 04:53:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
burrito
artanis00 · 29 points · Posted at 05:42:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This doesn't even look like a word anymore.
DMtheTerrible · 11 points · Posted at 05:53:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It doesn't even burrito anymore.
po43292 · 1 points · Posted at 06:28:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You are now tagged as a taco.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 06:00:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
[deleted]
LethamKen · 2 points · Posted at 06:03:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I DARE YOU, I DOUBLE-DARE YOU, MFER
ralevin · 2 points · Posted at 06:03:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is what I was looking for!
taenumbanine · 2 points · Posted at 06:04:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Burrito?
Manleather · 3 points · Posted at 06:00:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Stapleburrito.
Aw nuts, mail this guy ten more free burritos.
wonderbat3 · 2 points · Posted at 06:01:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker
forever_a_looney · 1 points · Posted at 06:05:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I dare you!
Christ_on_a_Crakker · 1 points · Posted at 06:05:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Say it again Pinky!
avsfan1933 · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
burrito again
Keralasys · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I dare you! I double dare you!
Reality_Sandwich · 1 points · Posted at 06:07:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
relevant http://imgur.com/a/qYAMr (Pulp Fiction content)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:10:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
mpersonally · 68 points · Posted at 05:29:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Technically you got 11 free burritos AND a free staple.
I_have_popcorn · 3 points · Posted at 10:40:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some people pay good money to have their stomach stapled.
joelfarris · 2 points · Posted at 18:08:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thus proving that Chipotle is, in point of fact, a staple food group.
InternetUser007 · 55 points · Posted at 04:15:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got 9 free burritos from that by using free phone numbers to get the texts. It was a very burrito filled 2 weeks.
untide · 10 points · Posted at 05:56:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Everyone here is going to jail for burrito fraud.
suddenly_summoned · 1 points · Posted at 05:54:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How do you get free phone numbers?
cityoflostwages · 2 points · Posted at 05:56:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I forget how it worked but I imagine you could use something like this to presumably get the codes sent to you?
https://smsreceivefree.com/
suddenly_summoned · 1 points · Posted at 06:07:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thanks!
Garandir · 1 points · Posted at 05:54:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I didn't think about that... Damn..
jkj3i98j · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Which app did you use? I tried to do that and none of them would receive texts from them.
ihatedogs2 · 16 points · Posted at 05:25:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Damn that's fucked. One time my mom made a burrito and had trouble preventing it from falling apart. So naturally, she TAPED it, and neglected to tell me.
JTtheLAR · 16 points · Posted at 05:34:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You should have called her out. That's gotta be like 10-15 good boy points easily.
TheMagicM · 5 points · Posted at 05:45:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/tendies
ryeyun · 8 points · Posted at 05:34:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It seems like you didn't care at all about E coli or staples being in your burritos so long as you got more burritos. I respect that.
him999 · 8 points · Posted at 05:48:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got 50 containers of Ragu pasta sauce because there was a piece of glass in my plastic bottle of sauce. My brother was the unlucky bastard to bite into it. He broke his tooth. They also OFFERED to pay for all the dental bills. Fixed tooth and 50 vouchers, a free cooler, mug, 2 glasses, and some pens later i still eat the sauce. I'm definitely out of vouchers but lemme tell yah, they did a great job on the damage control. They shut down the full line that bottle came from and couldnt for the life of them find where the glass came from. It wasnt in the same line as the glass bottles at all.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:15:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why did u cap offered? That implies that you didn't take them up on it or something
him999 · 3 points · Posted at 06:29:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nononono, normally if something like that happens I've never heard of the company just offering to pay for the bill to fix it. Similar things have happened before but it shocked me they actually were up front about it. I know many companies who wouldnt do it if they arent asked.
Though on second thought, my company fronted the $25,000 bill for surgery on a boys hand that was slammed in the door of our bathroom by his older brother so i'm not sure why it surprises me at this point.
locke_n_demosthenes · 15 points · Posted at 05:37:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Those are two very different things, my friend.
The_Code_Hero · 22 points · Posted at 04:12:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nice! I'd probably take down a staple for 10 burritos...you didn't even have to eat it!
I felt like the whole "e. Coli" thing was a huge the world providing me a huge benefit for free because I love chipotle so much that I would have eaten it anyways. The health scare made lines so much better...so I feel like I was scammin'.
AccountWasFound · 1 points · Posted at 12:37:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Chipotle is super popular at my school, literally no one cared about the ecoil thing, we all still eat there...
Rammite · 15 points · Posted at 05:18:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How the mother fucking christ does a staple but in a burrito
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 05:45:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Employee who got pissed off with more customers than normal
dunemafia · 1 points · Posted at 06:05:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wouldn't that mean more work for them preparing all the free burritos?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:17:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
To slip a staple into a burrito? No. Getting caught because they happened to be stupid enough to put a staple in a burrito? Yeah.
This is hypothetical btw.
FourthLife · 5 points · Posted at 05:51:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My guess is that some ingredients come in stapled plastic bags, normally the staple is removed carefully, or just naturally falls to the side of the bag when opened, but this time it went into the bag
Rammite · 3 points · Posted at 05:58:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can't imagine any properly packaged food comes with staples or anything that could fragment - for that exact reason.
Then again, that all relies on it being properly packaged.
screen317 · 10 points · Posted at 05:06:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
IIIII PUT THE SCREWWWWWWWWW IN THE TUNA
beckasaurus · 5 points · Posted at 05:56:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Solid kenan and kel reference
nupanick · 5 points · Posted at 05:30:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
and getting caught in the rain
callaghan87 · 4 points · Posted at 05:55:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah they were just like "HERE HERE TAKE THE FREE SHIT WE WANT NO TROUBLE"
thisdude415 · 3 points · Posted at 06:05:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Most people do not want 10 more burritos from the place who food poisoned people THEN gave you a burrito with a staple in it.
I eat chipotle now again but wow
NachoTheGreat · 1 points · Posted at 12:36:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've eaten enough Chipotle burritos that a staple was bound to be in one of them.
Letmefixthatforyouyo · 5 points · Posted at 06:30:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I mean, that staple could have seriously fucked up your digestive system and required some pretty serious surgery. $70 or so of burritos is the least they could do.
pottersquash · 7 points · Posted at 05:29:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I hope the PR guy responisble for this is an redditor. Will make a nice "bestof" to see someone post "I was able to settle a PR nightmare and save this company millions in lost revenue offering 10 free burritos"
NachoTheGreat · 1 points · Posted at 12:34:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, they asked me if I had any pictures. They were afraid of it blowing up on social media. I am sure I could have played it up for many more free burritos, but the staff were super nice and idk, shit happens. We all put a staple in a burrito once in a while.
Hiitsmike99 · 3 points · Posted at 05:39:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
oh my fuck.
suid · 3 points · Posted at 06:05:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So the burrito became a staple of your diet?
fakewallpaper · 3 points · Posted at 06:12:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ya know, I'm not sure 10 is enough... honestly, finding a staple in food is not like a small oopsie
unicornlocostacos · 3 points · Posted at 06:33:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
E. coli.. staples..they can keep the burritos.
brazendynamic · 2 points · Posted at 05:26:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Damn. I found a piece of wire in a moe's burrito bowl once and just got $10 in "Moe's bucks." I wasn't mad, shit happens and I didn't get hurt even though it went in my mouth. But I should have gotten more.
JustARichard · 5 points · Posted at 06:02:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Complain to corporate is the only way to get more free stuff
LaterGatorPlayer · 2 points · Posted at 05:31:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
who would staple a burrito
intimate_salsa · 3 points · Posted at 06:32:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How else do you keep it closed?
LaterGatorPlayer · 5 points · Posted at 06:35:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
wouldn't want to spill the beans
intimate_salsa · 3 points · Posted at 06:53:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're so cheesy.
Shaneisonfire · 2 points · Posted at 05:38:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How the hell does a staple even end up in a burrito lol
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:44:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My past supervisor found a rubber disposable glove in his burrito once. So apparently foreign objects in burritos is common.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:50:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Coulda sued and gotten free burittos for life
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:55:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Less of a loophole, more of a wormhole from the burrito galaxy where free burritos momentarily tumbled through into your hands.
LostGundyr · 2 points · Posted at 05:56:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Gonna have to break out the Chipotlaway for that many burritos.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:58:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You probably could have sued them and they would have settled.
jamesbrandenberger11 · 2 points · Posted at 06:06:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sounds like chipotle needs to get their shit together lol
tombflorist · 2 points · Posted at 06:29:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got a staple in my Chinese food and the manager got mad at me. Fuckin 1 star on yelp bitch, shut yo ass down!
Staple_Burrito · 2 points · Posted at 07:29:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm just here for upvotes.
Daitenchi · 2 points · Posted at 17:50:44 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
I bought a bag of Jack Links beef jerky and after getting it home it was pretty moldy. Now I've worked retail before so I know this can happen with any brand of beef jerky so I wasn't angry I just wasn't going to pay for moldy beef jerky. Normally I would just exchange it at the store but I've always heard all these stories about people getting stacks of coupons for this sort of thing. So I went on their website and filled out a report with a lot number and all that stuff. 3 weeks later I get an envelope and I'm expecting all kinds of free jerky in my future. They sent me a coupon for one bag of beef jerky. I waited 3 weeks to exhange my single 4 dollar bag of jerky. This is the one and only time I've ever complained, now I just exchange the product at the store.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got food poisoning from there twice in a row. I don't know if that's a loophole but definitely a personal record.
jmbtrooper · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did they hold back on the free stationery with the other ten burritos?
cardinals1996 · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's a huge fuck up hahaha.
lulz_seeker · 1 points · Posted at 05:54:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Chipotle doesn't franchise, so it might have been the manager?.
Frankie_T9000 · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You mean you got 11 free burritos and one free staple!
pattperin · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Now that's maximizing your burrito portfolio right there
fracto73 · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Also, a free staple!
Robotmassacre538 · 1 points · Posted at 05:58:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well looks like I'm taking my stapler to Chipotle now
ILoveToiletpaper · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just buy a few staples ans put them in yourself, thats how you generate free buritos
peacebuster · 1 points · Posted at 06:11:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So you got 11 staples, then?
alowester · 1 points · Posted at 06:37:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
honestly you should've got more then 10 burritos for that lol
thedellis · 1 points · Posted at 06:59:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I guess you could say...you were on a staple diet.
TotallyABot · 1 points · Posted at 09:07:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Now that's some staple food
nodnizzle · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid a metal screw or something like that broke my mom's tooth at a taco place. They told her to give them the screw and they'd help her pay for it. They didn't, they just acted like they never knew what happened and basically told her to fuck off.
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 05:04:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Your asshole must have looked like a bike tire that got pinched.
shif · 3 points · Posted at 06:21:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
he could ask the guy that bought 300 patch kits from sears
FoolishChemist · 9 points · Posted at 05:24:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Last year I lived in an apt building when Chipotle sent out the "Sorry about the food poisoning" free meal coupons. A bunch of people either didn't read their mail or didn't like Chipotle, so they threw them out. Happened to see them laying on top of the trash can and got 20 free meals.
anonymous_rhombus · 3 points · Posted at 05:56:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I dig through the trash when Chipotle sends those out.
Those fools are throwing away food.
unrly · 8 points · Posted at 05:14:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One of my uncle's customers works for Qdoba corporate. For several years, they would send me stacks of free entree coupons that he'd get from the customer. Qdoba has basically gone defunct in that city so he never used them. I haven't paid for Qdoba in 10+ years.
FuschiaFalcon · 8 points · Posted at 05:34:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was at chipotle when a storm rolled in. The gusts of wind picked up their outside umbrellas and tossed one into my truck breaking my mirror off. Chipotle paid three times the damage out to keep us happy.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:25:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Toronto Blue Jays had a promotion like this where if the pitcher got 9 strike outs, you could trade in your ticket for a free slice. We would find lots of tickets around the stadium after games and eat like kings for a week.
JimmyRat · 2 points · Posted at 04:46:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fucking smart
kmora94 · 2 points · Posted at 05:26:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I somewhat did the same. The theatre is next to a Moes. And when the Moes opened up, they ran a deal for a Buy One Get One if you brought in a ticket stub.
Well... I work at that movie theatre. You bet I was eating Moes every shift and every day after that shift.
iwharmow · 2 points · Posted at 06:10:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not necessarily a loophole, but this works at most Chipotle restaurants:
When you want double meat in your burrito, start by asking just one scoop. Once the scoop is dished out, say you changed you mind and you would like a second one.
This way you end up with a TON of meat, whereas if you ask for double the meat right away, the cook usually dishes out small scoops.
Yarnballprincess · 2 points · Posted at 06:19:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You are a true icon and my new hero
LOSS35 · 2 points · Posted at 06:19:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We went to the first Chipotle to open in Atlanta back in the day and the manager offered my buddy and I free burrito coupons if we could pronounce the name right. Friend nailed it; he gave us a whole book of coupons and told us to give them out to our friends.
We didn't. We just ate free burritos for years.
Lucias_D · 2 points · Posted at 06:24:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to work as a porter for an upscale car dealer in Houston. Every once in awhile local business (usually restaurants) would offer free stuff to us. Managers gave them to people as a thank you gesture to customers or rarely, employees. One day he comes in and gives me a stack of vouchers for free burritos at Freebirds. Me, the cheap student I was, and unaware of the greatness that is Freebirds, went to check the joint out only to find out they were amazing (Chipolte-esk) burritos. The next day I asked if he had any more because I had given all of mine away. He told me to check some drawer because they opened a new location near us and had invited the employees to come over and check it out while they trained their staff. I found and opened said drawer, jaw agape. In front of me were over 200+ vouchers with no expiration, no location or ingredient restrictions, nada. I ate there for over 3 months straight, only paying for a drink of i got one. When I used my last voucher, I bought a T-shirt from them, half out of guilt and half because they were/are amazing burritos. Interesting enough, I still have that shirt 10 years later, and when Freebirds opened a new location where I live now, I wore it to the grand opening. The store manager noticed it and commented, ..."Since it's our opening day the burrito's free!". I said it's my 201st, but I don't think he got it...
fruitcake11 · 1 points · Posted at 05:38:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
did you use chipotlaway?
PokerWithJoseAndRuth · 1 points · Posted at 05:42:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
WOT N' FOOD CONTAMINATION
Kryn3ar · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Was the movie theater Nova 8?
ewoolly271 · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Chiptolte
Walterod · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
But how did you deal with the unsightly bloodstains on your underwear?
TheGoodStuff87 · 1 points · Posted at 06:05:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'll jump in on this chipotle thread with my little trick. Walk in order your bowl or burrito. Instead of ordering double meat or half and half. Just say "Oh I'll take chicken please" after they give you the max they can "Hmm actually I think I'll do half and half with steak" extra protein for free!
buttcheeksontoast · 1 points · Posted at 06:43:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
damn, the people you asked for their tickets must have been confused as fuck
"You still have your movie ticket on you?"
looks around
realizes you're talking to him
"I, uh, it's probably in my pocket..."
"GIVE NOW"
"Oh god just don't kill me."
DoinItDirty · 1 points · Posted at 10:54:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Didn't people want to keep the tickets for their own free burritos? I'd probably tell someone to bug off. I love burritos.
dirtymoney · 2154 points · Posted at 01:49:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid, hostess snack cakes (and fruit pies) had a promotion where every game piece that came with them was a potential winner. You had to scratch off three of the six spots and get three that were winners. Three were winners and the other three were xxxvoidxxx.
I figured out if you held the game piece up to a bright light bulb you could tell which ones had x's. And I'd scratch off the ones that didnt. I ate sooooooo many free fruit pies that summer.
Edit: I will just add to this another, more recent thing (probably 4 years ago). A certain battery manufacturer would stick these little stickers on the outside of their packages that allowed you to get a rebate if you collected so many of them (entering the codes in a website). All you had to do was peel the stickers off the battery packs in the store. They had several different types of these promotions at different times. Some offered rebates, some offered gift cards, etc etc... I made a couple hundred bucks doing that. They finally started putting the stickers on the inside of the packages to prevent what I (and others) were doing.
Note: I really disliked pealing the stickers off in the store, so I started buying them, taking them home, taking the stickers off and then returning them to the store for a refund. Was a lot less risky.
edit: another one. Arby's and a couple other fast food places would have these surveys on the back of the receipts. If you did them (via phone or computer) you got a code that would give you a free food item (arby's roast beef). Well, you could get a lot of free ones with just one purchase. You buy a roast beef sandwich, use the receipt to get a free one later... and they would give you another receipt (which showed you paid nothing for the sandwich) which allowed you to get another roast beef sandwich.... and on and on and on. They eventually caught on and changed it to where you had to buy something in order to get the free item.
Steak n shake had a good one where if you did the survey you got $2 off your next order. I LOVED these! You know since I stopped at steak n shake once a week anyway... so why not? Saved me some money. I had an employee who would set some aside to give me when i stopped by.
Demderdemden · 385 points · Posted at 04:11:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sometime in the late 90s Gatorade, when they had glass bottles, had a competition with winning stuff written under the cap. We found out that the lemon flavour was seethrough enough that you could see the bottom of the cap. Now, you couldn't read the cap, but all the "sorry, you're not a winner" caps were obvious and the "YOU WIN" ones even more so, so you could easily spot em. Hauled in so many of those over the summer.
Shardok · 15 points · Posted at 04:51:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Used to do this one by angling the bottle just right.
HockeyFightsMumps · 20 points · Posted at 05:30:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yup, buy one Coke, drinks sugary beverages for free for months off of the winners.
The money I saved almost equalled enough to justify the permanent damage I was doing to my teeth. Almost.
Max_Trollbot_ · 11 points · Posted at 05:44:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Also diabetes.
Don't forget the diabetes.
Sorry if you actually have diabetes.
HockeyFightsMumps · 2 points · Posted at 20:39:04 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't, they stopped doing the free pop under the lid thing in time. Thanks, Coca-Cola for putting your customers' health first!
Bunnyhat · 2 points · Posted at 06:03:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I wonder if that is why they switched to those codes you have to enter into a website now.
BlackJackCompaq · 2 points · Posted at 12:58:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I doubt it. I'd wager that the codes are to get you into their website. They can monitor how many codes are associated with your account, try to get you to buy more of their product and can also hit you with adds along the way.
AnguishOfTheAlpacas · 13 points · Posted at 05:29:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
By the end of the contest I had recieved 8 tshirts, 2 hats, a duffle bag, a baketball, a cooler, 4 water bottles, a different kind of cooler like you see them dumping on coaches, a poster of Michael Jordan, a visor, cards autographed by Michael Jordan (it was printed on but 8 year old me didn't know that), and 20+ additional jugs of Gatorade
El_Fap_itan · 8 points · Posted at 08:19:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bro, do you have a fiancé? 'Cause I think they just discovered your alt. account.
MerWeenuh23 · 6 points · Posted at 06:06:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
MY FIANCE WON THE SAME STUFF!
elliot91 · 7 points · Posted at 05:25:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did this with Sprite in the late 90's too.
eatmynasty · 3 points · Posted at 06:06:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ditto, got free tickets to an NBA game.
MerWeenuh23 · 6 points · Posted at 06:03:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My fiance won the Gatorade sweepstakes from bottle caps in the 90s. He won a shit ton of Gatorade and all sorts of cool merch. We're 30 and he still uses the duffle bag he won, even on flights for work travel.
EDIT: one vs. won and grammar
Protocal_NGate · 3 points · Posted at 05:39:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep know that game, closest i have to contributing to this thread too
fenderguy94 · 3 points · Posted at 05:53:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did this with Sprite about 14 years ago. They ran this same promotion and since Sprite is so easy to see through I won a lot of free bottles.
BeowQuentin · 3 points · Posted at 06:51:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to do this during the same time period ('96-'98) with the plastic 20oz. bottles of Mountain Dew that gave you a free 20oz. with winning cap. Just tilt the bottle correctly and bam! Free sodee-pop all damn summer. It was glorious. Used to do it every other day with a couple of friends. Required 3 trips in and out of the convenience store, though...
dirtymoney · 3 points · Posted at 14:25:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When my coke rewards started out I used to work for a business that sold cokes to snooty clientele. The type of people who wouldnt participate in contests like that. Each day I'd go through the wastebaskets with latex gloves and collect all the bottle caps. I then started going through all the unopened bottles of coke, using a flashlight on top of the cap and looking through the side of the bottle to see under the cap. And wrote down all the codes. It was a grind, tedious, but I had a lot of downtime to fill anyway.
I had so many points to use that it was becoming hard to find things on the coke reward site worth spending the points on (that I could actually use). And really sought after items like gift cards to best buy went really quick. It became a pain in the ass. I got maybe $250 in best buy gift cards, a really nice table top radio like this one but white instead of woodgrain, TONS of free blockbuster movie rentals. I'm sure I got some other stuff, but dont remember. The table top radio I just bought to cash out (use the rest of my points) because it all became such a pain in the ass anymore. It resides in my bathroom.
Note: mycokerewards started out great. They offered nice things you could buy with the points. Then they started offering just crap items. Then they got REALLY bad and changed everything. Now I hear it is finally ending in a few months. I'm glad I got out when I did.
Edit: another thing I would do....
At my workplace we had several employees who were just lottery scratch off junkies. And they made good money too in their jobs (good pay). Well, they'd throw the nonwinning ones away and I'd snatch em from their wastepaper baskets and enter them in teh lottery website for points to redeem for prizes. I have yet to redeem any of the points for prizes, because you need a TON of them for any of the good merchandise. But, as a side benefit some of the ones they threw away were actual winners. I made $20 in cash. Those employees no longer work there so the gravy train is prettymuch over. Every now and then I find a couple of lottery tickets but not nearly the same amount as before. So... the point-accumulation is at a crawl. I am just waiting to cash out at this point on one decent item.
seyruh-nyan · 2 points · Posted at 05:39:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I miss Gatorade's glass bottles. I was still young when they were around so I don't remember them having a smiliar promotion in our region, but what you did was awesome.
JManRomania · 2 points · Posted at 16:49:07 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
man what
prancingElephant · 1 points · Posted at 14:44:05 on March 8, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had no idea
tank2kw · 1202 points · Posted at 03:18:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My brother worked as a manager at a KFC. One day he brought home about a thousand of these scratch off tickets. We started peeling them one by one but eventually found the "light trick." We ate free chicken for like 6 months, and decided to give all the bad stickers (a couple hundred at least) to our friend as a practical joke. He opened all of them!
Yellosnomonkee · 74 points · Posted at 04:24:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's pure evil. Haha
carmium · 29 points · Posted at 05:39:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Early on, those "scratch only three boxes" promotions were popular, and while most weren't visible with a bulb, a particular cigarette (Sportsman, IIRC) promo had another flaw. In a small Canadian town, one guy collected every losing ticket from every smoker in town, scratched them all and realized there were a limited number of grid patterns of prizes, and all were potential winners. Moreover, each pattern related to the code number on the card! He called a meeting and explained to the smokers which dots to scratch if the serial number ended in 6, which three would win you a boat if it ended in 7, etc., or something to that effect. The little town won scores of big prizes before the tobacco folks realized something was up and the promo was canceled.
dirtymoney · 3 points · Posted at 14:11:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Holy shit that is fucking awesome!
TurboChewy · 33 points · Posted at 04:44:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
He's a manager? He could probably get free fried chicken either way, what good are the scratchoffs?
brainiac2025 · 5 points · Posted at 06:42:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If the franchise owner, or corporately owned GM found out a store manager was eating every meal free at the restaurant, they would probably be fired.
Itr0llhoe · 6 points · Posted at 06:49:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Depends. I was a GM at a Taco Bell that was both corporate and franchise at one time. I never paid for food, and neither did my management staff. It comes down to your district manager and your store numbers.
If you're doing well, they don't mind a certain amount of "employee" meals (half price) and "manager" meals (free). If you are in the shitter, however, with a lot of waste and high food cost, they will tell you not to do it. Taco Bell oscillated between "allowing" and "disallowing" it. But the official policy was that all employees should pay half price.
However I have yet to meet a general manager in fast food or more upscale or chain restaurants that actually pays for their food. It's a shitty, brutal grind of a job, and I would be goddamned if I came out of pocket for food. Lord knows you already do as a GM for a host of various other things.
BoomBox206 · 9 points · Posted at 05:27:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't most of those fast food type contest say employees and family of employees can't win? It would seem a little strange if a manager or his brother turned in something like that.
UUD-40 · 13 points · Posted at 05:43:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The mcdonalds monopoly has that rule, but that's because you can win big money. I don't think they would care much if you just won some free chicken.
Shrimpables · 5 points · Posted at 05:53:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can confirm, worked at McDonalds and we could win small prizes like food, but definitely were exempt from the money or larger prizes.
I definitely got plenty of free food though because I would take any pieces I saw that were gonna get thrown away
intimate_salsa · 2 points · Posted at 06:45:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One of my family members worked where they used to create the McDonalds monopoly food and drink containers. He told me once the stations were in a super secured back area of the plant, and every employee was searched as they left for the day.
dirtymoney · 1 points · Posted at 14:13:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
how do you search someone for a postage stamp sized game piece?
Something that is so small it could be secreted practically anywhere?
intimate_salsa · 1 points · Posted at 14:23:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't know. I wasn't there to witness the searches, and I have no reason to doubt. I've always assumed they were searching for containers, or the sticker cards that are stuck on the containers.
BoomBox206 · 0 points · Posted at 06:25:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
He made is sound like he won 6 months of free chicken with 1 game piece, not 100's of game pieces for a single item. Seems like a lot of work when his brother was a manager and could just give him free food to start with.
bottlebowling · 2 points · Posted at 06:30:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's a sure-fire way to get fired.
MadMechromancer · 2 points · Posted at 05:58:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, they usually do. But, if you go to a different store, chances are that no one is going to know. I imagine that with prizes other than food, they would actually check into it.
When I worked at BK, we did a prize peel on every cup. Every single night, the prize cups were counted and compared to sales.
tank2kw · 1 points · Posted at 04:40:17 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
It wasn't prize money or anything, just free chicken. My brother (Manager) got the tickets from the General Manager with explicit instructions not to use the tickets at his store.
Invincible_Yoshi · 11 points · Posted at 04:56:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm sure you were in the fittest of health after all that KFC, lol.
Smaskifa · 8 points · Posted at 05:39:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd like to double down on my bathroom scale.
tomtheracecar · 5 points · Posted at 05:45:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a roommate in college who worked at another apartment complex. They had a summer promotion where if you came and toured the apartments you'd get a coupon for a free chick fil a sandwich. One day he brought home a stack of like 100 of them and we ate free chick fil a all summer
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 05:55:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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tank2kw · 2 points · Posted at 04:48:26 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
We asked him about it later (we gave it a couple days at least), and he seemed a bit depressed... until we told him. He took it pretty well... considering we gave him all the free chicken he wanted!
Munby · 2 points · Posted at 05:27:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cx
ThePhantomPooper · 2 points · Posted at 05:43:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Genius
xjayroox · 2 points · Posted at 05:57:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's a special place in hell for you
Also, since I'm probably going too, meet me there with some free chicken
Peace_Unleashed · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's so cruel! But even more hilarious
cheeseburgerwaffles · -14 points · Posted at 04:28:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Also known as "stealing"
laxation1 · 18 points · Posted at 04:59:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Loophole"
DuckChoyle · 9 points · Posted at 05:14:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Legal stealing, at most they would have to give back the money in small claims court
lexgrub · 4 points · Posted at 05:38:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Idk some retailers like Walmart prosecute their employees which could affect your job in the future.
peeves91 · 0 points · Posted at 05:57:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You beautiful cunt
grewapair · 28 points · Posted at 04:09:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
McDonald's had a trivia game with scratch off answers. Went to the library, checked out the three books they took the questions from, ate free for the next three weeks, three meals a day. They gave you another scratch off when you redeemed one.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 04:41:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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grewapair · 9 points · Posted at 04:50:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yup. Would have been spring break of 1980. At first we just went around and collected all of the scratcher tickets where the wrong answer was scratched and scratched all of them to find the correct answer. They only used about 30 questions and just rotated through. So when you had all 30 answers, you were set.
Then one day about 5 days in, they started sending out all new game pieces every couple of days. So we went to the library and discovered all the questions from both series had been lifted out of 3 books, and the campus library had all 3. So we checked them out and just brought them every time.
IHaarlem · 3 points · Posted at 05:34:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did the same thing in the early 90s with some scratch off competition run by Topps baseball cards. Got way more winners than I think they wanted people to get
thealmightybrush · 2 points · Posted at 05:59:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Came here to post the exact same thing! So many cards. They put "winner" on them in gold foil and it actually made the cards worth less money as a result though. But yeah, i figured out my desk lamp allowed me to see thru the scratchoffs.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 05:05:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Comcast had a scratch-off contest for Wii's in my college town one year. A club I was part of got the job handing out all of the contest flyers.
The light trick ensured that all of the Wii's were won by my friends.
Xaxxon · 2 points · Posted at 06:07:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had the same thing with mountain dew caps.. if you tilted it just right you could see enough under the cap to know if it won.
shrk352 · 2 points · Posted at 06:08:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a promotion on 20oz pop bottles where under the cap you could win a free pop. Once you knew what a winner and looser looked like you could see just enough of the bottom side of the cap if you tilted the bottle to see if it was a winner. I would go find one, walk up to the register. Unscrew the cap and hand it to the cashier then walk away with my free pop.
intimate_salsa · 0 points · Posted at 06:52:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Pop" There are like only three mid-west states where people call it this, I'm originally from one of them. Hello, neighbor!
I_like_boxes · 2 points · Posted at 08:11:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Worked at Kohl's a few years back. There were scratch-off cards that came in denominations of 15%, 20%, and 30%. Whatever company printed the cards didn't align something correctly, so for a while all the 30% off cards had a slight defect that made them identifiable.
Most employees who worked the registers had a stack of 30% off cards to the side that they gave to friends, family, or customers they liked.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:05:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Damn it, Bobby.
mironmouse · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
*Dang
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:48:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Man if only Bobby Hill had found out about this.
rodtrusty · 1 points · Posted at 05:48:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So you won diabetes?
intimate_salsa · 1 points · Posted at 06:54:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And tooth decay.
fatdjsin · 0 points · Posted at 05:06:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
chips bag had that here too for a while :) lots of free chips
chokingontheback · 0 points · Posted at 19:44:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Taking stickers off of items who hadn't bought. That's not a loop hole. That's literally stealing.
dirtymoney · 2 points · Posted at 19:50:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's why I started buying them! (then returning them). ALso, there was another version where the stickers were in the packages but the codes could be read through the packages with a strong flashlight put up next to the stickers. I returned those too! :D
You arent going to shame me. I'm shameless. ;)
dirtyshits · -3 points · Posted at 04:08:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
course_you_do · 4759 points · Posted at 01:24:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid we went on a field trip to the local amusement park. There was a particular carnival game (the kind where you have to guide a bowling ball down metal rails) that worked on the (then, brand new) Sacajewea gold dollar coins. They had a change machine right there to help you change your dollars for them...
Well, the machine was clearly a converted machine that used to change dollar bills for quarters because for every one dollar bill you put in, it spat out 4 dollar coins. I put every dollar I had in it, then I went to get change for my larger bills. When I got back there was an older man doing the same thing. He tried to shoo me away, but I told him if he didn't share the wealth I'd report him, so he let me get some more.
I probably made about 60 bucks, which for a 15 year old at the amusement Park is a fortune.
HateCopyPastComments · 2884 points · Posted at 04:40:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Good work
course_you_do · 750 points · Posted at 04:51:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was young and greedy what can I say.
[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 05:32:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hey, you're both stealing, so there's nothing wrong with a little extortion to beat down that guy's greed. You two went from average Joe's to the beginnings of your own Mafia in a matter of minutes. I salute your quick problem resolution skills.
Frankie_T9000 · 6 points · Posted at 05:45:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nice summary there!
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:35:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thank you sir!
Findanniin · 155 points · Posted at 04:57:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eh, as a 15 year old; 'hurray, free money'.
As an adult, shoo'ing a kid away to get petty cash out of a machine yourself? .. What a sad fucker.
honeybadger1984 · 35 points · Posted at 05:16:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, context is everything. As a young kid, exploit it for every dollar because you'll appreciate it more.
As an adult, you're a piece of shit trying to hoard it. Get a burger for yourself and your girlfriend then share the wealth. It's not like that old piece of crap can legitimately get thousands from that one little machine.
blackbirdsongs · 7 points · Posted at 05:36:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What?!? He's quadrupling his money! How is that sad?
[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 05:41:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Trying to chase off a kid from doing it was the sad part
For a kid, That kind of money is basically filthy rich. Anyone with Any kind of job, it's certainly nice but it's nothing crazy.
TurtleBanter · 7 points · Posted at 05:47:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd love an Amy kind of job!
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 05:52:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I heard Amy gives good job!
Findanniin · 6 points · Posted at 05:45:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Two trains of thought -
A) You're trying to deny your little scam to someone who, by age, obviously has fewer 'legit' means available to them than you do - to make an amount of money that in your place in life should be fairly insignificant (unless you just happened to have hundreds of coins on hand), while obviously being more significant to someone who can't work. That's pretty sad.
b) It's only 'free' money if you consider your time to have no value. Even ignoring the morality of this scenario, going scrounging for coins - returning to the machine and slotting them in, waiting for the change to roll out, collect repeat ... is work. And honestly, it only really seems worth it for people of limited financial means or those who just happen to carry vast amounts of coins on them.
As a teenager; decent time -> effort -> money investment. As an adult? I'd rather enjoy the park and work in my day job.
jwalker524 · 1 points · Posted at 07:05:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I get what you're saying with point A, but what do you mean by taking the time to scrounge for coins in point B? It's a machine that originally would give you 4 tokens/quarters for a dollar bill, but instead of tokens/quarters it gave dollar coins. So you would just put in a dollar bill and get 4 dollars out, at a carnival/fair usually you need to carry cash for the games and tickets for rides and stuff anyway, not sure how it would take a ton of time, even if you did only have larger bills, getting some ones would only take a few minutes in that place.
Findanniin · 1 points · Posted at 07:22:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, it's a fair point. I did some quick guesstimating that could be /way/ off the mark when I made that post. I assumed 4 trades a minute, or ( 16 - 4) 12 USD profit a minute.
You'd stand to gain a quick 720 dollars but then I figured you'd need to get 240 bills to make that figure a reality - which is a chore I believe would easily take an hour or more (how many shops are really willing to part with all their bills? How many random people will carry large amounts?
So now you're making 360 USD / hour. That's pretty good, but then you compound for risk... the machine probably doesn't have thousands of coins in it, and regular joes will want to use it and will queue behind you and see what you're doing. If one of them reports you, you'll likely end up having to explain yourself and risk the park deciding to get the cops involved.
Not really breaking any laws, you can decide to risk it, but talking to the police would take even more time, and your deal just gets less and less good from there.
On the whole - while you're right, the money's not half bad;
But me, as an adult with a decent job, simply wouldn't bother doing more than the bills I happened to have on me (morality notwithstanding,in reality, I'd report it) as I simply value my free time. Seeing another adult keep kids with less opportunities from exploiting this for selfish reasons ... sad to me.
jwalker524 · 1 points · Posted at 07:31:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh, I wasn't disagreeing, really, just was wondering what you meant, and yeah, if you wanted to drain the whole machine, it wouldn't be worth it (well, depends on how broke/poor you are, I guess). Either way, we can agree that shooing a kid away from it is a dick move.
Smegmarty · 3 points · Posted at 05:32:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The old dude had more time to earn the money.
Findanniin · 9 points · Posted at 05:35:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, like his entire working career?
Tsar_Romanov · 9 points · Posted at 04:56:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And smart
howfastisgodspeed · 8 points · Posted at 04:59:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And a cheeky little cunt to boot
rileyk · 3 points · Posted at 05:03:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
GordonGecko.gif
hezdokwow · 2 points · Posted at 05:13:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Greedisgood
hablomuchoingles · 2 points · Posted at 05:27:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
He was old and greedy
_stupid_hair_cut_ · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You figured out life at a pretty young age bro
LostGundyr · 1 points · Posted at 05:58:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eh, that guy was a piece of shit. Trying to hog all the free cash for himself.
anomanopia · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Proud of you
Archardy · 1 points · Posted at 06:05:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Maybe that was your time traveling future self and he/you made a couple hundred bucks. It always bothered you/him that you didn't empty out the machine from the get go, so he/you came back the first chance you/he got with a big old stack of bills, and they were exchanged with future dollars that were worth less than past dollars so double bonus.
Queencitybeer · 1 points · Posted at 08:40:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Was it Dennis from Always Sunny?
ChateauPicard · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nope, you did the right thing, my friend. Fuck that greedy old bastard.
DrunkenGolfer · 0 points · Posted at 05:16:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was young and greedy I would have rolled him into the bushes and taken his wallet.
FrobozzMagic · 0 points · Posted at 19:25:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is that a Zork reference in your username?
course_you_do · 0 points · Posted at 19:36:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes! Yes! You win the grand prize! You're the first person to ever get the reference!
Edit: Want some gold?
FrobozzMagic · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nice, I played Return to Zork when I was a little kid. It was my first computer game. My username is also a Zork reference.
course_you_do · 1 points · Posted at 23:16:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I noticed! Frobozz magic company!
FrobozzMagic · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Rye is better, but...'course I do!
Thanks!
ItsDomKu · -2 points · Posted at 05:13:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Change that greedy to ambitious and you'll be an entrepreneur
Sunfried · 13 points · Posted at 05:20:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That old man was an example of a defector who leads to the Tragedy of the Commons, and OP's move of "Share or I'll fuck this up for both of us" is a good way to deal with defectors from the social contract.
bruhvevo · 3 points · Posted at 05:03:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
r/unexpectedhueyplong
shaikhme · 3 points · Posted at 05:34:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fantastic work I must say
hughmungusIII · 2 points · Posted at 04:56:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Something smells like communism.
blueblast88 · 254 points · Posted at 04:50:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Similar happened to me at an Ikea! I put in a dollar at a vending machine only to realize that i didnt have enough. So I clicked the change button and it gave me 4 Sacajewea coins in return. I did this 3 times before my mom rushed me away from it. I told her the deal but she wasnt in the mood to listen that day :(
misterspokes · 33 points · Posted at 05:49:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"But moooooom I could have gotten you a TRAJÄR"
robot641 · 3 points · Posted at 06:09:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"But moooooom I could have paid for someone to assemble our TRAJÄR for us" FTFY
DMKavidelly · 8 points · Posted at 06:04:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not money but I ended up at a vending machine that served soda. It spit out 4 every time. Walked away with about 24 cans for a few bucks (Walmart so cheap).
mcfly357 · 4 points · Posted at 06:31:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
there was a soda vending machine outside of an albertsons right by my college house, and it would spit out mountain dews after you put in a coin...any single coin. but only mountain dew. all other sodas required the full amount of money. then i realized, after you put in your coin (usually a nickel for me), if you just kept pressing the mountain dew button, it would keep dispensing mountain dews. i'd go get 10-15 mountain dews for 5 cents every few days when they would refill the machine. no one was ever suspicious when i'd walk up to the vending machine with a duffel bag.
Wait__Whut · 6 points · Posted at 06:05:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How did you do it three times if you didn't have enough to get something from the vending machine?
blueblast88 · 3 points · Posted at 15:38:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used the coins recieved
pm_me_ur_wet_pants · 1 points · Posted at 12:14:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Maybe what he wanted was more than $4?
javafern · 143 points · Posted at 04:44:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wow that's crazy. You'd think the person who went to the trouble to get all those gold dollars would at least make sure the machine only spit out one coin at a time! Especially if they knew the machine used to give quarters!
sovamind · 34 points · Posted at 05:21:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My guess is that the old machines had four columns that each drop one coin for each dollar. When the machine was purchased and installed this was known and they only filled ONE of the three columns of coins. Someplace down the road new employee is hired and goes to fill the machine and fills all the columns creating the issue.
tl;dr - when a procedure is costly to not follow, really train your employees on how to follow it and explain the consequences.
abolish_karma · 5 points · Posted at 06:01:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Either that, or you tape shut the 3 surplus coloumns. Poko-yoke!
course_you_do · 21 points · Posted at 04:50:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, even now I have trouble figuring out how it could have happened.
Superpickle18 · 23 points · Posted at 05:03:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Meh, noone will notice and they'll just throw it back into our rigged games. it'll be fine!"
Letmefixthatforyouyo · 27 points · Posted at 05:16:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
sounds more like prime /r/NotMyJob territory.
"You want me to load this old quarter machine with dollar coins? Sure boss."
2C2U · 3 points · Posted at 05:28:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm sure the person filling the machine didn't give a shit.
JManRomania · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:09 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, somebody fucked up.
Fuck_Alice · 18 points · Posted at 04:53:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm just imagining a 15 year old wearing cargo shorts stuffed with coins having his pants sag where ever he walked.
course_you_do · 11 points · Posted at 04:54:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's basically how it went. I felt like a pirate with all that 'gold'.
BlindxHopper · 18 points · Posted at 04:52:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Shit man I'm am 18 year old in university and 60 bucks is still a fortune
1niquity · 11 points · Posted at 05:35:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm 28 and I spent $60 on Liquor last night.
lowbike1 · 2 points · Posted at 05:50:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm 38, father of 2, I'd be pretty happy to get an extra $60
D3ATHSTR0KE · 2 points · Posted at 05:59:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
lol it's not like there's a huge age difference between 15 and 18.
course_you_do · 5 points · Posted at 04:56:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have a salary now. It's pretty awesome, I can drop 60 without much thought as long as I don't make a habit of it. I ordered a $40 box of chocolates last night after a few drinks, didn't even remember til I was reading my email this morning, lol
edit: typos
110011001100 · 2 points · Posted at 05:23:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I work at <big software company> and $60 is 2 weeks rent!
Changoleo · 8 points · Posted at 04:38:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Jackpot!!!
DucksMahoney · 6 points · Posted at 04:59:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had something similar. I went to the state Fair after work one day and tried my hand at the coin pusher games. You drop in quarters and it pushes off quarters and dollar coins. Siting on top of the coins were 5, and 10 dollar bills. I, since I just got off my job at Chuck E Cheese, had a ton of left over tokens in my pocket. Used them to win real money. Walked away with like 30 some bucks. Those damn tokens work on a surprising number of things.
_skull_kid_ · 5 points · Posted at 04:48:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's Dr. Steve Brule's favorite game.
elvismcvegas · 2 points · Posted at 06:08:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
1 of paper equals 4 of coin.
RedDwarf17 · 3 points · Posted at 04:59:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a similar experience but on a smaller scale.
I went on a school trip to a theme park when I was 11 (here in the UK it is the last year of primary school). Towards the end of the day I ended up in the arcade where there are what we call 2p machines. It involves putting a 2p coin into a slot, it landing on a moving shelf and possibly getting more 2p coins back.
Anyway the change machine seemed to be having trouble telling the difference between a 10p coin and a 2p coin. So you could put a 10p coin in and get 2x2p coins and 3x10p coins back, for example. You were only limited by the size of your pockets and the weight of the coins.
A queue did develop for this change machine as word got around. One of the parents accompanying us decided to inform one of the staff. The teen she approached basically shrugged and went on his way.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:39:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You should have gone to a shop or stall and asked to switch out some of the coins for bills because 'they are too heavy in your pocket and you dont want to lose your money on a roller coaster'.
fatkev_42 · 2 points · Posted at 05:16:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dennis Reynolds would be proud
SmokeyTheStonerBear · 2 points · Posted at 05:32:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Good job comrade ☭
disneyfacts · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I remember my parents wanted a newspaper once and gave me some quarters to get one. I put the quarters in and tried opening the door, but it wouldn't budge. I kept yanking on the handle and quarters started falling out of the coin return. I got about $2 out of it.
tember_sep_venth_ele · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This wasn't at Geauga Lake, was it? Because I was at the chili cheese fry stand doing the exact same thing to the cashier. They rolled out that day! We also had those new quarters for each state going on, so you know there were a lot of folks screwing up their tills everywhere! Man I wish I'd had more than just a twenty that day. After my fries, I got around forty bucks in gold dollars.
BoredAtHomeMom · 1 points · Posted at 05:23:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I discovered once that Philippine pesos, worth 2 cents at the time, could be used as quarters in laundry machines. As a poor university student, I took advantage
crypticXJ88 · 1 points · Posted at 05:29:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh man, all it takes is flipping a couple of tiny switches to fix that.
noprotein · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Same exact thing happened at my high school and I found out. Immediately borrowed $1's from my friends to clear it out. 3 machines, took a week to correct.
coolkid1717 · 1 points · Posted at 05:37:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I went to an arcade with my fiends and one of the machine freaked out on me and started spitting out tickets. I didn't even put a coin in the machine I just pushed it a tiny little bit it kept spitting out tickets Non-Stop. My firends saw this and were smart enough to realize that if any of the employees, who were walking around on the floor, saw this they would probably take all my tickets away. So they distracted them and kept them away from the area until machine ran out of every single last ticket. We've then split them up evenly and got a bunch of prizes.
TheRealDonSwanson · 1 points · Posted at 05:38:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Same. School trip to a rundown bowling alley. I figured it out but then the bigger kids saw me and took all my money. So, net loss. Learned a few things that day.
E06SP · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Are there legal repercussions for doing that?
MagiKarpeDiem · 1 points · Posted at 05:45:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Happened to me at a rest stop/travel center in Missouri about 9 years ago.
Viltris · 1 points · Posted at 05:54:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Blackmail!
Volcano_Onaclov · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm 27 and $60 is still a fortune :/
_Something_Classy · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd be down for $60 right now and I'm in college! then again... I'm in college... every penny counts =(
Sharksandcali · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This didn't happen to me but a kid I knew did this. Back in the day, the penny arcade machines in TD used to read Chuck E Cheese coins as Sacajawea coins because apparently they were the exact same weight. For one dollar, you got 4 coins. He did this and even timed it so he knew not to fill up the bags and get caught. He hit up tons of TD banks in our area.
I'm 90% sure he got caught eventually and went to jail, but I believe he roughly made $20,000 before getting caught.
spawberries · 1 points · Posted at 06:11:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I remember doing this. I made a parachute with a little basket to hold the egg. It worked surprisingly well.
Flatezer · 0 points · Posted at 05:09:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a machine just like this at my grade school, vending machine that I exploited a bunch
steely_phil_shortman · -14 points · Posted at 05:27:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
R u black? U type like a black person
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 05:39:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
R u racist? U type like a racist person
Mogetfog · 2291 points · Posted at 01:44:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
All of the vending machines where I worked were the fancy refrigerated, touch screen, serve entire meals type of vending machine. I discovered one specific machine had a glitch where if you punched in A4 when A4 was out of stock, but still tried to pay, it would spit your money back out and let you order again without charging. So every month I would spend about $10 over a few days to make A4 run out, then enjoy free food for the rest of the month.
TheInternetShill · 574 points · Posted at 04:04:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What was in A4?
Mogetfog · 856 points · Posted at 04:06:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Usually some type of microwave burrito, or sausage biscuits and gravy.
Penis-Butt · 87 points · Posted at 04:55:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Score.
Roadfly · 23 points · Posted at 05:21:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you eat A4?
zdominator86 · 14 points · Posted at 05:29:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well A1 isn't for me, doesn't taste right. A4 must be great if you skipped A2 and A3.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 05:53:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Mechanists · 5 points · Posted at 05:59:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Animals...
DemiGod9 · 2 points · Posted at 06:24:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That would be me
dragon50305 · 2 points · Posted at 06:48:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Those people are called degenerates.
smazzin · -3 points · Posted at 05:37:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A1 steak sauce...
MacyL · 13 points · Posted at 05:51:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Welcome to the joke. It's nice to have you.
livefreak · 2 points · Posted at 08:11:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It is only half as filling as A3 but twice the size of A5.
Forgotmylemons · 12 points · Posted at 05:28:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They must have been wondering why a4 was so popular
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 05:45:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
p_a_schal · 3 points · Posted at 05:53:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A sausage patty on a biscuit.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:05:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
On a biscuit??? What?
zss_94 · 4 points · Posted at 06:31:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
*American biscuit. As in, a fluffy breakfast pastry. The sausage being a small, thin patty like a burger.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:35:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
wow that sounds really cool, love to try one one day
Shunto · 14 points · Posted at 05:23:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sausage biscuits and gravy sounds horrible
Edit: I get downvoted rather than shown the apparent light. Why not educate me instead! I've grown up exclusively calling these "biscuits". Now imagine making them with sausage and putting gravy on them....
PM_ME_ADEQUATE_BOOBS · 16 points · Posted at 05:49:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I pity those poor sobs who have never had biscuits and gravy.
Shunto · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What is it?
For the record, this is what I think when you say 'biscuit'
cityoflostwages · 9 points · Posted at 06:00:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It is an American "Southern food" breakfast dish that is popular at western style breakfast cafes. Buttermilk biscuits (Think of a scone that has a baby with a dinner roll) with white sausage gravy on top.
Buttermilk biscuits by themselves are popular as a side dish with southern cooking. People will generally just slice them in half and put butter on them or perhaps some honey as such: http://www.highheelsandgrills.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Pumpkin-Biscuits-Labeled-3.png
Lastly, they are famously used in American breakfast sandwiches, as made popular by McDonald's with their Bacon Egg and Cheese breakfast sandwich: https://www.mcdonalds.com/content/dam/usa/nutrition/items/regular/mobile/t-mcdonalds-Bacon-Egg-Cheese-Biscuit-Regular-Size-Biscuit.png
PM_ME_ADEQUATE_BOOBS · 3 points · Posted at 06:03:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
BEHOLD THE FREEDOM BISCUIT!
Biscuits and gravy are biscuits topped with a sausage gravy.
[deleted] · 26 points · Posted at 05:35:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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upthelolpunks · 3 points · Posted at 05:55:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Unfortunately, the internet cannot show you the light... Only a diner can. You've gotta make your way to the closest greasy spoon that specializes in breakfast, and get yourself some ASAP.
Shunto · 3 points · Posted at 05:56:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've never seen them in Aus. I could be wrong though - any other Aussies, or even Kiwis seen this before?
Ordinary_Fella · 2 points · Posted at 06:03:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
American biscuits are very easy to make. They are a staple of the south. You eat then with honey for desert. You eat them with dinner. You eat them for breakfast as a sandwich, with bacon or sausage and egg. Or you cover it in white peppered gravy cooked with chunks of breakfast sausage.
upthelolpunks · 2 points · Posted at 06:47:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh, that makes a lot of sense, then. We call your biscuits 'cookies', and our biscuits are more like a flaky, buttery scone.
As someone else mentioned, they're relatively simple to make. This recipe is easy to follow.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:53:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wow, you're a horrible piece of shit
edit: okay so I'm just kidding, just hopping on that bandwagon.
Basically, biscuits and gravy are this: this
Your 'biscuits' are what Americans would call cookies. Biscuits in America are this.
Now put gravy on that shit.
Shunto · 2 points · Posted at 05:54:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
D:
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 05:55:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol, see the edit :)
Shunto · 0 points · Posted at 05:57:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That looks like a scone
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:58:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're right. Scones aren't too far off.
Rookwood · 1 points · Posted at 06:17:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It doesn't taste like one. No sugar in a biscuit. I'm not sure if that's the only difference. Biscuits are not usually made with butter. They are made with heavier fats, like lard or Crisco (hydrogenated vegetable oil.) Also, biscuits have a hard exterior and are light, fluffy, and completely dry on the inside if done right. I believe scones are more moist and have a more consistent texture. I do not know where that difference stems from.
MichiganMan12 · -1 points · Posted at 05:51:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You sound like you have horrible taste in food
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:54:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
perfect
DaPome · 2 points · Posted at 07:25:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What exactly is a biscuit? Is it like a crunchy English muffin?
Mogetfog · 2 points · Posted at 08:07:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
this the good ones are not crunchy. They are light and fluffy. Pour a little bit of sausage gravy over them and it is the most amazing breakfast in the world.
Danbabler · 2 points · Posted at 07:50:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Gross, but not that gross.
Chocolate_Slug · 3 points · Posted at 06:06:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
say burrito again
Forgotmylemons · 4 points · Posted at 05:28:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They must have been wondering why a4 was so popular
SundanceA · 4 points · Posted at 05:29:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cuddle fish and Asparagus
skyler_on_the_moon · 5 points · Posted at 05:43:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Printer paper.
songoku9001 · 3 points · Posted at 05:59:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
29.7 cm by 21 cm printer paper I guess??
Earl_Shagwood · 1 points · Posted at 06:25:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Someone is asking the real questions?
rocketmonkeys · 20 points · Posted at 04:15:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What type of vending machines were these? Sounds interesting
Mogetfog · 31 points · Posted at 04:26:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They were refrigerated and had microwave meals. My job was out in the middle of nowhere so leaving for lunch breaks was not really an option. This left the two cafeterias on each end of the facility (that were only open in the day, so evening and night shift were screwed) brining your own lunch, and the vending machines. They had stuff that could be microwaved easily like burritos, burgers, corn dogs, and other cheap stuff, and had fancy touch screen displays for ordering.
picatdim · 6 points · Posted at 05:31:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Love how this still makes sense even with the typo :)
Condawg · 2 points · Posted at 06:54:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh man, microwavable burgers? That must have been awful.
Mogetfog · 1 points · Posted at 08:14:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You know, honestly they were not that bad. Better than any McDonald's burger I have had. The bad stuff was the fish.
Condawg · 2 points · Posted at 08:17:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you have McDonalds' angus burgers? They unfortunately had a pretty short run, but they were so good! It was like a real burger! I love their quarter pounders now and then, tastes better than their regular doubles or whatever, but man, that angus burger was somethin else.
Not really related, just drunk and now craving McDonalds. Vending machine microwavable fish sound goddamned demonic, but I have a pretty major distaste for seafood in any form.
topdeck55 · 2 points · Posted at 05:31:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's called an Automat
Paiste402 · 10 points · Posted at 05:13:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Primitive form of investing
Sploxy · 7 points · Posted at 05:22:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How on earth did you discover this?
coolkid1717 · 3 points · Posted at 05:40:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dumb luck usually.
Mogetfog · 1 points · Posted at 06:13:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep. Meant to get A3 clicked 4 by accident, the rest is history
EmpororPenguin · 7 points · Posted at 05:37:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to work this really boring desk job and there was a vending machine around the corner, but it was really hidden away so not a lot of people went there. Once I bought a package of cookies (everything cost $1) and instead of giving me 1 they gave me 3, and refunded my dollar. So I bought something else and turns out everything in the vending machine would get refunded and I'd get 3.
Eventually they fixed the vending machine. That was a good month.
danielkmathers · 4 points · Posted at 05:26:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You would've had to order from that empty A4 to discover this glitch, so why were you ordering from an empty slot in the first place?
Max_Trollbot_ · 3 points · Posted at 05:41:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's the kind of mistake made my a man ordering from the slot next to A4.
Deathly13 · 4 points · Posted at 05:27:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
a whole month? they waited a whole entire month to restock the food in the vending machine? if the food in there was real food for actual meals, that seems pretty gross
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:45:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Frozen burritos in a freezer will last way more than a month.
nodiso · 3 points · Posted at 05:37:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Couldn't they easily find out that their vending machine was being robbed? You payed for $10 worth of food but $60 is missing?
blitzvictory · 5 points · Posted at 06:00:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Being robbed is one thing. Finding how it happened is another thing especially if nothing seems fishy code wise (not triggering any flags in the system). It was a very specific condition (needed A4 to be out of stock) to even be exploited. OP even said free food for a month, implying minimal servicing/restocking schedule there. Trying to debug/reproduce the exploit might be hard, especially when they realized it, most of the items were already out of stock (hard to find the trigger condition for the exploit).
Kyle292 · 3 points · Posted at 05:53:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I read this whole thing in Kevin's voice from the office
coolkid1717 · 2 points · Posted at 05:40:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you ever try it out with other selections when they ran out? Or was it only A4 that worked?
Mogetfog · 1 points · Posted at 11:05:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I tried it with several other machines to see if it worked on them but the closest thing I ever got was one machine that would occationaly drop double of whatever you picked, but never consistently.
VisualBasic · 2 points · Posted at 05:46:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What did you eat B4 you ate A4?
Nikoli_Delphinki · 2 points · Posted at 05:55:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had some old ones in college that had large circular system and then a plastic slide door. If you did it right you could get 2 meals for cost of 1. Many late nights in the library we fueled this way.
echisholm · 2 points · Posted at 05:57:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ah, wheel of death exploits. I used the half-open turn exploit to eat for free back in Nuke school.
WasThatARocketShip · 2 points · Posted at 05:57:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did something similar with a drink machine that drops the bottle down the front. If you held the bottom door open the bottle couldn't fall all the way through so the purchase didn't register. Just keep the door open and keep getting drinks until you let all the bottles through. N for the price of one. I'll never forget going downstairs one day and the vending machine tech was there diagnosing the machine trying to figure out what was wrong. Felt bad for briefly but hey, rewards for intelligence shouldn't be a bad thing. Was really sad when they gave up and just replaced the machine with a different kind we couldn't bamboozle.
HunterThompsonsentme · 2 points · Posted at 05:59:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in college, my buddies and I happened upon a vending machine which had been smashed open. Just straight-up shattered glass and a gaping hole. To a bunch of drunk college kids, this was a fucking godsend. I think we each made off with eight or ten snacks a piece.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:04:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Mogetfog · 1 points · Posted at 11:04:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sure thing, just give me your bank account number, pin and mother's maiden name, I will have the money to you in no time.
y2k890 · 2 points · Posted at 06:06:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I gotta try this with a machine one day.
Jasonrj · 2 points · Posted at 06:09:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haha I'm imagining some analyst is trying to explain to the executives that whatever is in A4 immediately becomes a best seller and always sells out. Maybe the lighting in that picture is better, maybe the location of the vending machine and height of A4 on the screen catches people's eye first? Whatever is the cause of A4's success must be replicated. He spends his entire career unable to properly account and solve for A4's success.
Pope_Beenadick · -17 points · Posted at 04:54:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Must be rough going for you if you're only buying $10 dollars worth of vending machine condoms a month...
pleaseholdmybeer · 3234 points · Posted at 00:15:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You used to be able to buy Runescape membership with your mobile phone, I don't know if you still can. So I would go to an AT&T store at the mall, use their phone to buy 3 or 4 memberships, and trade the confirmation code for in game currency.
EDIT: For those asking, you would text "SUBSCRIBE" (or something) to a certain number, it would ask you to confirm. Once you did, it'd give you a confirmation code that you could redeem on the website for membership. You would be billed on your mobile service plan (similar to texting "DONATE" to Red Cross). So basically charging AT&T.
[deleted] · 1344 points · Posted at 02:31:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to go to the AT&T store at my mall and max out the $110 monthly limit set on the phones, For 3 months I was rich as hell on runescape, I had all the coins I could ever need on Habbo Hotel, Until one day I went into the store and all the employees looked at me, I tried using the phone but they caught onto me and blocked purchases from cell phones.
EDIT : I still play habbo for maybe an hour every week, just talking with users, I've played since I was 7 years old. 10 years of habbo....
I no longer play runescape much, my original account o created when I was 6 got banned when I was a freshman in high school and I never felt the need to spend years to create a new account and get my skills up, I did end up with another account but it was never as good as my original.
Wow, this is another one of my Reddit comments that seemed to blow up, y'all seem to love the shit I did as a kid.
pleaseholdmybeer · 1316 points · Posted at 02:32:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You flew too close to the sun, comrade.
[deleted] · 512 points · Posted at 02:44:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was doing gods work, Nobody should have to pay for runescape membership.
blizzardki · 58 points · Posted at 03:23:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They still paid for it. Just to you not to runescape lol
Bleda412 · 3 points · Posted at 05:43:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
AT&T isn't a person.
meme-com-poop · 6 points · Posted at 06:27:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haven't you heard? Corporations are people.
recklessrider · 1 points · Posted at 13:35:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They paid with ingame currency instead of actual monies
rangkloic · 15 points · Posted at 04:15:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can buy bonds in game now that will give you membership. I haven't paid real money for Runescape membership in 2 years, and I've already got my next year paid for as well.
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 04:18:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I saw that when I started playing again a few months ago. I've played 10yrs I don't play much anymore.
rangkloic · 5 points · Posted at 04:33:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I play much more now than I did 10 years ago. I'm getting very close to max cape
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:20:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lost the account I made in kindergarten my freshman year of high school and never really got into it again
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 05:16:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Ryuubu · 2 points · Posted at 06:30:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
... It was always like this
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:58:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If your f2p, its like 10 hours of grinding best method for one tho
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:23:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Exactly, I can pay the $$ for member if I wanted it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:24:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can't ;(
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:34:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
PM me tomorrow I'll buy you a month.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I cant accept that, espically since I rarely play it now. If I had any source of income, and was able to get months all the time, I'd probably play a lot
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:42:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Alrighty.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:41:20 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Its just the fact that I get attached to things, and will miss them when theyre gone. Kinda why I disliked membership as a kid.
TheHolyHerb · 2 points · Posted at 05:26:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is this still worth playing? It's been like 7-10 years since I tried to play.
Deathmask97 · 1 points · Posted at 05:45:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's literally an entirely different game now. Depending on exactly when you quit the game, in that time Runescape has gone through 1-2 iterations that basically redid the groundwork and they're now on "RS3" on the main game, although you can play Oldschool Runescape that's permanently frozen in an '07 style for older fans like yourself.
If you were to hop in now you would probably barely recognize most locales and have to re-learn pretty much everything from scratch.
rangkloic · 5 points · Posted at 08:07:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
OSRS isn't even the 07 version cuz they've added a crapton of updates to that, too.
throwawaymmw2 · 3 points · Posted at 05:57:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
rs3 fuck no
osrs yes.
Deservate · 1 points · Posted at 06:09:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sure does. I'd recommend you to try both games and not listen to what the community says. You're only going to get biased opinions because the rivalry between the two games is - sadly enough - enourmous. Both games have about equal sized player bases at this moment.
rangkloic · 0 points · Posted at 08:07:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No. It's a shit game, always has been a shit game, and likely always will be. I plan to quit once I max.
KingGumboot · 1 points · Posted at 05:30:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What does it cost per week or month or whatever of membership doing it that way? Back when I had a membership for a year or so it was like $9 (NZD) a month or something, currently it's $12 for a single month. Still less than I pay for Netflix, my mobile phone, PS+... I'd probably rather just pay
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 05:35:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was like 12 years old. Where was I going to get the money??
KingGumboot · 1 points · Posted at 06:17:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was 11 or 12 when I got my membership as well, I used to mow my grandma's lawns every week and she would pay for it
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:57:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got my grandma to buy me one month of runescape membership, but she clicked on recurring membership so I got like a year of member before she noticed
rangkloic · 2 points · Posted at 08:11:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One bond will get you 14 days, 3 will get you 45. I went with 20 bonds for a full year of "premium membership", but this option is not always available. Bond prices change in game as with any item on the market, but typically run at about 12m a piece, which is not at all difficult to get in a 14 day time span.
KingGumboot · 2 points · Posted at 10:03:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hmm, that's not too difficult to get but I would feel I was constantly just working to keep the membership instead of doing what I wanted
rangkloic · 1 points · Posted at 22:11:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I felt like that for a while. Eventually I found a good item to flip, and most recently, I got a third age dye which I sold for 2525M. So I don't really have to worry about making money anymore.
Bloodmark3 · 13 points · Posted at 04:48:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're saying I shouldn't have to pay money to stand in front of a virtual bank and fletch 7,000 mage longbows per day over a 2 month period nonstop? Hah. This guy. You can't get prime time entertainment like that for free.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:21:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Top notch entertainment.
MichaelGFox · 18 points · Posted at 03:56:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Except for the at&t store apparently
[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 04:10:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Look at it this way, they learned a life lesson.
Porkfloss_2 · 2 points · Posted at 05:34:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Life lesson no.1) life is not fair
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
More like, don't forget to turn off the billing features off on the display phones.
MichaelGFox · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fuck yourself
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why are you upset??
MichaelGFox · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think it's a little shitty to do things like that. People lose jobs and livelihood on stores like that closing and stealing from them isn't helping the cause
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
AT&T isn't going to go out of business anytime soon, The same store that I did this at is still fucking open and they just renovated.
KILLSBITCHES · 3 points · Posted at 04:49:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
AT&T happily screws people over so I don't feel bad for them. You're doing gods work for sure.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:25:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't tell, but I have a phone with AT&T. They probably want their money back.
altiuscitiusfortius · 2 points · Posted at 05:21:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not even AT&T?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:27:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Phone companies fuck the consumer over constantly, payback is best served in multiple bills for runescape membership and habbo coins.
Lawbringer7 · 2 points · Posted at 05:27:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Careful, Icarus!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
who the fuck is icarus
Lawbringer7 · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
He flew too close to the sun. Melted wax, wings ruined, very bad.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
whoops
-Gaka- · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Careful, Icarus.
lexery · 6 points · Posted at 03:38:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
i was thinking that if i had known this back in 2007, i would've been a god on Habbo
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 03:40:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This was in 2010 or so, I was a god on habbo. I used my stolen habbo coins to scam other habbos into giving me their habbo coins. I was a scam god.
Looking back I feel kind of bad for all the scamming I did on habbo, but I had an amazing team helping me scam and it was alot of fun.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:55:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I made one of those fake free coins websites that said "put your email and pass here and receive free coins!" It actually worked and I took a lot of stuff from people, looking back I feel like a dick for doing that lol
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:22:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a gang of people that helped me scam, me and my brother also used to make those websites. I ran a habbo retro for awhile and you'd be surprised how many people used their actual habbo info. I was a scam bag.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:42:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't recall that, I played on habbo.com and the username of one of the big hackers was Finch
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:44:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I started playing in 2006.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:56:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The game was fun until they took away casinos, now they just try and get you to pay for every little thing.
I know when I used to run my own habbo sever I used a program called Debbo, not sure if it's still around.
BigBunnyButts · 1 points · Posted at 06:03:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh man,I remember when every Habbo was scared to death of getting hacked by finch (myself included) ahhh those were the days! I also remember the times before the merge! Habbo was the bobba!
Kungfu_McNugget · 1 points · Posted at 05:23:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think you maybe have posted this before? I remember someone mentioning having stolen a lot of people's furniture on Habbo.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't recall posting this before, It might have happened. I post a lot of things.
Kungfu_McNugget · 1 points · Posted at 07:04:51 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol, I replied to the other guy.
Hellorachiee · 5 points · Posted at 04:49:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
HABBO HOTEL HOLY SHIT FLASHBACK
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:24:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've played habbo for 10 years. Fml
Owattrtrotn · 2 points · Posted at 03:24:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Habbo, runescape. Feeling the feels man. Thank you
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:32:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I miss the good 'ol days of Habbo and Runescape, every few months I will play them again for a few weeks until I realize I'm an adult and I don't have time to waste anymore like when I was 12.
Owattrtrotn · 3 points · Posted at 03:57:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Man getting some credits for pictures or something. That was the life
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 04:09:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used the credits to scam other habbos out of credits.
Owattrtrotn · 3 points · Posted at 04:16:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was such a poor and naive habbo'r. I was a sheep not a wolf
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:21:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to be like that.
Tulipeater · 2 points · Posted at 05:38:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh the Habbo days. Cozzie changing and HC only parties and for some reason the community always stayed small and there was like ten super popular habbos everyone always knew lmaoo
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:40:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was amazing at CC back in the day. You weren't cool unless you had HC.
vintagestyles · 2 points · Posted at 06:03:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pools closed bitches
aahayhay · 2 points · Posted at 06:15:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yoo shout out to habbo hotel! I remember this one time I had a friend who was a HC member (I think that's what it's called) and he hooked me up w furniture to sell for profit and I was a Member myself for like a month or so. Best damn month of my 13-14 yr old life
oblivion1112001 · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nothing like your old Habbo Hotel friends. I remember I use to tell people I was like 16 when I was actually like 10 and they believed me. I stopped playing after some girl tried to meet me in person. 10 year old me said a swift N.O and didn't log on again. I miss some of those weirdos...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I made some really good friends on habbo, some that I still talk to today. 10 years later.
ExynosHD · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's when you go to a different store.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:58:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This was the only store that it worked at around me.
Exious · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
yo me too lol what's your username? I used to do the same thing. When credits were purchasable through texting the code for it, I used to do it like 15 times or w/e the max was and get like 200c each time, and it only cost me about $3 (or whatever was left from paying my $16 phone bill on pay as you go) monthly lol. I hate that they changed the system :(
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:58:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
ZachSafety is the account I currently play on
TheAdmiralCrunch · 1 points · Posted at 09:00:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just don't go into the pool
sphinctaur · 1 points · Posted at 09:04:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Habbo. Man I raked it in on that game. A supplier here had a prepaid offer of pay an amount and get almost 10x the amount in calls. They didn't realize the amount could be used almost as real money and not as calls so once I put $200 into credit and got $2500 to spend.
Jesus that was 10 years ago. Runescape almost 15 years ago. Didn't expect this thread to be so nostalgic.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:59:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was a huge scammer on habbo. Made 200c in an hour scamming. Just about every day
barrydiesel · 1 points · Posted at 06:10:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
you're only 17 and you played runescape? why hahaha
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:57:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
18, I've played since I was 6
[deleted] · 763 points · Posted at 01:39:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fuck me that's pretty genius.
[deleted] · 736 points · Posted at 02:32:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Runescape really DOES bring out the best scams in people.
littleski5 · 58 points · Posted at 02:56:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Like armor trimming?
VelociraptorVacation · 22 points · Posted at 03:57:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ok I always hear this joke, maybe I'm dumb, but what does it mean? Does one actually trim armor in that game? It's not a term I've ever heard of historically concerning armor.
psychicsword · 37 points · Posted at 04:01:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was a common scam in runescape because there was a limited edition version of the armor that people used with gold trim. It was rather rare and worth a lot of in game currency and it off game currency. New players who didn't know that it wasn't possible to trim armor would give their less valuable but still valuable armor to the scammer to be trimmed and they would log off to another server.
KingGumboot · 13 points · Posted at 05:33:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Or literally just walk away and go about their business. Once you've handed over some items to a scammer there's not a lot you can do about it :P
psychicsword · 2 points · Posted at 12:04:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yea but the scam doesn't work as well when there is someone saying you are a scammer right there.
_Lady_Deadpool_ · 3 points · Posted at 05:02:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You could also buy white trimmed armor iirc from a guild
[deleted] · -5 points · Posted at 04:01:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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itsdaboclock3 · 5 points · Posted at 04:56:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
no
trimmed armor was a special drop from an activity you cant make trimmed armor
Promanguy · 23 points · Posted at 05:05:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes you can. I'll show you how just give me your full rune bruh
littleski5 · -8 points · Posted at 04:33:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Here's the thing: you can actually give armor a silver or gold trim in RuneScape, but it took skill and resources. People would constantly offer to do it for free so that noobs would give away their armor to get "trimmed," then the command absconds with the free armor.
Edit: OK I haven't played in a while apparently you can't, people just plain run off with your armor, but now I don't know how one ever got trimmed armor now anyway.
totallynotmikey · 6 points · Posted at 05:36:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No you couldn't stop spreading your filthy scammer lies
knifeparty808 · 6 points · Posted at 06:13:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There is a small chance when you kill something, it'll drop a clue scroll that starts you on a quest and one of the rewards is gold or white trimmed armor. Been that way since the beginning. Also I think that's how people got trimmed Mage gear aswell.
KingGumboot · 3 points · Posted at 05:32:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Unless things have changed recently, no you can't.
[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 03:25:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My favorite was house party gambling. Get 99 construction, let people use your alter, start playing flower games (~50/50 chance to win double or lose your $$), trade your friends some really expensive stuff like "omg I just lost a santa!! Congrats!!), and then log out once the high rollers start losing.
trulyascumbag · 47 points · Posted at 03:42:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
get 99 construction on june 6 2006 and kick everyone out while theyre in the combat ring so the players who were in there could massacre everyone in falador
wilu · 22 points · Posted at 03:58:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
never forget
Stop_Being_Ignant · 4 points · Posted at 05:16:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh the Fally massacre. Runescapes deadliest day.
stfucupcake · 4 points · Posted at 05:57:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was there!!
Sean-Benn_Must-die · 3 points · Posted at 04:24:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's fucked up, any video evidence I could look for?
Celestu · 15 points · Posted at 04:32:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Falador Massacre in 2006. If I remember correctly, a lot of people lost some really expensive items in the chaos (party hats, santa hats.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0y2huQoOnw
Edit: Here's an interview with the guy who started it as well. https://www.tip.it/runescape/pages/view/durial321_interview.htm
BloodyLlama · 2 points · Posted at 06:03:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a variant of this that actually worked for a good while later. As a player died in the combat ring they would change the permissions of the PoH to friends or private, which would boot out the dying player. That play would then die right at the entrance to the PoH where collaborators would be waiting to nab your loot if you failed to retrieve it in time.
damboy99 · 9 points · Posted at 04:26:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wave:Cyan:Armour Trimming 80K + Give Me Your Armour!
NoFriends_IWonderWhy · 3 points · Posted at 04:23:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
hunter2
David367th · 2 points · Posted at 04:45:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hey you got any armor I can trim? 100m per set.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:32:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hahaha.
yakri · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's basically the real tutorial for EVE.
retrojacket · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was actually great. Put me ahead of all my classmates when large numbers were involved.. since I could easily figure out what 258327 was (for example).
Also introduced me into the world of wholesale LOL.. I would buy a bunch of shit from people for cheap, and then sell it off in smaller quantities, but for more GP. Good times..
_errer1001_ · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Runescam
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Come with me to wildy. I want to show you something.
Ima_PenGuinn · 1 points · Posted at 07:35:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'll trim your rune armor for free.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep, Runescape taught me how to get by in life by being a scammer.
informat2 · 2 points · Posted at 05:15:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's also probably illegal and seeing as an AT&T would have security cameras, really it's really risky and stupid.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I mean, if AT&T has a sign that says "test out phones" and lets you try out the new phones, I don't see whats wrong with it. I was using the phones features to maximum.
[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 04:46:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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pleaseholdmybeer · 8 points · Posted at 04:55:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That is a bold as fuck move.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
AT&T could have charged back and I would have lost the items in game and gotten banned, But that never happened.
JumpSlashShoot · 13 points · Posted at 03:59:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My friends did the same thing with league of legends RP. He went to multiple malls and stores though. Looked a lot more shady though since you had to request a code through the phone and have someone at home put the code for you in so he had to talk to him on his own phone as well. He got banned eventually though.
Usernameisntthatlong · 2 points · Posted at 04:49:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Was just gonna mention this. My friends did it a lot. I didn't have the balls to come with them and do it
ChrisRunsTheWorld · 8 points · Posted at 05:03:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure that's just stealing.
pleaseholdmybeer · 9 points · Posted at 05:12:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm positive it's just stealing, but 13yr old me saw it as a victimless crime.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is it stealing if you're using all the phones features? 12yr old me figured if they didn't want use to do it they would have turned it off.
Pm_Me_Your_Tax_Plan · 3 points · Posted at 03:42:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Does anyone know if this still works?
DrDan21 · 13 points · Posted at 04:08:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If they every dispute the charge you will be permaa banned
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:15:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you're lucky, I haven't tried in years now.
BoltWire · 6 points · Posted at 04:28:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
fuckin habbo
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:13:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
God dang. 12 year old me should've realized this....now I feel so stupid!
Gregpik · 3 points · Posted at 05:18:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How exactly would one do this?(For scientific purposes) How can you buy membership using a store's phone?
zalemam · 2 points · Posted at 04:42:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My friend an I did this for Habbo hotel, I had HC for years. Just went from phone to phone getting codes for Habbo Coins.
Beareh · 2 points · Posted at 04:49:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to do the exact same thing with Habbo Hotel!
DIYdie · 2 points · Posted at 05:08:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was waiting for the runescape exploits. It's better than I expected.
Deathwatch72 · 2 points · Posted at 05:22:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Holy shit that's pretty genius not gonna lie. Kinda scummy but I see it as pre emptive karma for the hell that is their billing on data
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:25:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did this exact same thing with Spotify Premium for a good 10 months until the store replaced their phones.
AdilB101 · 2 points · Posted at 05:36:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How'd you use the phone to get a membership though? Did you have to text a number?
pleaseholdmybeer · 2 points · Posted at 05:39:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep.
Buhnanah · 4 points · Posted at 05:45:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
But how are you making the payment?
pleaseholdmybeer · 4 points · Posted at 05:49:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's like when you text to donate to red cross. It bills you via your service provider.
Buhnanah · 2 points · Posted at 06:03:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Woooooow... so smart.
AdilB101 · 1 points · Posted at 06:19:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I wish I was that smart
nestorishere · 1 points · Posted at 04:54:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Friends and I did this for maplestory and riot points lol.
dan_buh · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You used to be able to call certain numbers from skype and get codes for free that were good for about 15 mins, i used like 10 on myself and sold a bunch for in game items and real money. Was legit
exogreek · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did the exact same thing, made all of the gps.
DFrostedWangsAccount · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to use an old GSM/2G phone to get internet back before most places realized they could charge for it. We had AT&T, I think.
I would use the phone as a bluetooth modem to dial out (*9***1# iirc) and connect to the internet.
I played runescape at ~15kb/s and probably 300ms ping, but man those were the days.
gkonn · 1 points · Posted at 06:00:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
OMFG why didnt i think of that!
GummyKibble · 1 points · Posted at 06:09:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You have been made moderator of /r/eve.
deecaf · 1 points · Posted at 06:11:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So, how exactly did this work? I'm a little confused about the process of how exactly you'd use a phone to buy memberships - wouldn't you need to provide currency of some kind? Or was it simply that your phone bill would get charged for buying the membership?
pleaseholdmybeer · 2 points · Posted at 06:14:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
See my edit
Ch3wwy · 1 points · Posted at 13:39:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pretty sure stores take out the SIM cards to prevent that now lol
pleaseholdmybeer · 1 points · Posted at 13:44:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I wouldn't be surprised.
crazywhiteb0y · 7972 points · Posted at 23:05:08 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
My old job was supposed to be salaried but HR made a mistake and made me an hourly with 40 hour week. My old job required a lot of work and a lot of overtime during Q1 and holiday season. During that time I would do 70+ hours of overtime for weeks at a time. 40-50 was 1.5x 50-60 was 2x and 60+ was 2.5x my hourly.
I was supposed to make $55k-$58k like my peers, I ended up with $90k+
DonLaFontainesGhost · 1222 points · Posted at 03:41:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't work salary any more because I've never met a salary manager who accepts "I've done 40 hours, I'm going home"
On my last salary job I was working out of state - flew out Monday morning, back Friday night. After a year of this my manager told me I was going to have to be on site 9-5 M-F, so fly out Sunday night and home late Friday or Saturday morning. I noted this made my work week 20% longer and would I be getting a bump in pay?
He said "No," I posted my resume, and got to give two weeks' notice two days later. (New job was a contract job, paid hourly - I made 40% more the first year)
Spara38 · 69 points · Posted at 05:11:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol same. I worked a job where the "understanding was that full time is 45 hours+" (direct quote from my boss). They cut 2/3 of my co-workers 3 years into me working there and expected 60-80hr weeks for the same pay after that. I quit and now I'm paid hourly, making almost double what I used to make and only working 42 hrs/ week. Lol joke's on them.
JDdoc · 10 points · Posted at 05:47:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What about health insurance/401k? This is the big reason I never went contract.
charlie_pony · 13 points · Posted at 06:13:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
just factor that into your contract price. You have to. Then it's the same thing. If you can't get that much on contract, then it's not worth it.
Spara38 · 1 points · Posted at 11:45:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My health insurance premiums are paid for 100% by my current employer (old company it was $300/month), deductible is $1500 (was $3k), max out of pocket is $3k (was $6500).
401k match at a rate almost double my old employer too. And, whatever company manages their funds does an awesome job! Got 21% return last year.
I'm not contact, though. Full time hourly in a technical field, vs my previous job was an engineer w supervisory responsibilities.
spacejockey8 · 3 points · Posted at 06:00:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What kind of job?
Spara38 · 1 points · Posted at 11:59:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'll just say it's engineering related, that's what my degree is in and that's why I was hired for it.
hab1b · 23 points · Posted at 05:25:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I feel so fortunate. I work for a small company, I am salaried with great benefits and perks. I also barely work 40 hours a week. And rarely ever more. We always shut down the office at 3pm on Fridays.
hippocratical · 10 points · Posted at 06:14:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My job is kinda weird* but salaried with benefits, and yet I still get paid overtime if I go over the usual expected amount of hours. It's pretty great.
*It's not an office job. I work 2 days on, 4 off. Those 2 on are ON - so for those 48 I'm owned by the company. Worth it for having 4 straight days off. Anything over 10 hours time on task is OT.
Near the end of an epic 48hrs its pretty rough, but I would never switch back to a regular monsat-friday gig. Only 2 days off for the weekend? Hell no.
hab1b · 8 points · Posted at 06:25:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I agree, five day work weeks are bogus. Fortunately our vacation policy essentially boils down to "Don't abuse, make sure your work is done, don't be gone for long times during busy quarters.
So typically I get one 3 day weekend a month, the summer is slow for us so I take a week off each month because I like taking motorcycle trips, camping, etc. Our vacation hours are not tracked. It would only be an issue if I was gone a lot and my work was suffering.
EDIT: I did use to work 4 10's at a previous job. Damn, I miss working monday-thursday.
occupykony · 1 points · Posted at 07:12:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dude, that makes two of us. I make near $70k less than a year out of grad school and roll into work just before 10am most days. Granted, I sometimes have to work a bit in the evenings, but I love the subject matter so I'm pretty chuffed with the whole arrangement.
hab1b · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nice! I just don't understand the mindset that you have to be at work for 8 hours straight in order to be productive.
djchozen91 · 11 points · Posted at 05:30:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
IDK what sector you work in but I know a lot of people who would sacrifice that 40% extra for the job security a full-time, permanent salary job provides. There are a lot of sectors that would grant you that bonus in pay for the contract work but aren't guaranteed another contract with the same company or elsewhere when that one ends.
DonLaFontainesGhost · 13 points · Posted at 05:58:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is one of the biggest fucking lies in existence.
As a contractor, I survived three rounds of layoffs at one company. At another the full-time, salaried employee sitting next to me was called to HR and never came back.
"Salary = job security" belonged to the era of unions. With right-to-work, unions are dead, as is that job security.
I've flipped back and forth between salary and hourly/contract, and the only difference I've ever seen is that on contract I get paid more.
djchozen91 · 8 points · Posted at 06:03:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's an interesting anecdote but I think you'll find it's the exception to the rule. When layoffs happen at a company, in most cases, they try and protect their full-time, permanent employees before their contractors.
And your line about unions would heavily depend on what country you work in. I know in Australia, in most sectors you are more secure as a permanent, full-time employee than you are as a contractor, but perhaps our unions have a stronger say than yours and that's why.
DonLaFontainesGhost · -2 points · Posted at 06:06:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've been working in this industry for twenty years, and nope - when the company is done with you, they ball you up and throw you in the trash.
Whoops - forgot about another company where, as a contractor, I survived a huge round of layoffs.
GermanDungeonPrawn · 0 points · Posted at 02:57:35 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Salary exists to make you the slave of the company.
TheObstruction · 72 points · Posted at 04:49:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think I would have laughed right in his face and written out a resignation letter while he was standing right there.
MuphynManOG · 105 points · Posted at 04:56:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They have names for people who do this.
"Poor"
thorscope · 77 points · Posted at 05:01:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd say that's more for people who can't do this.
Anyone pulling a move like this is in a very smart financial situation, or a fucking idiot. Not much in between.
thomasbomb45 · 31 points · Posted at 05:12:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You still need a plan B before you burn your bridges...
PMmeuroneweirdtrick · 10 points · Posted at 05:44:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Unless you are really good at your job and known in the industry them you can YOLO out of there and have a job the next day somewhere else.
NotASpanishSpeaker · 11 points · Posted at 05:50:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I saw that happen at my job. Old dude was a really good programmer. The problem is that he has little patience. Fast forward, he started yelling at this quality guy in a code review. Rumor has it management gave him a warning and told him to attend some emotional intelligence course. He just resigned. He was working at other company the following week.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 05:48:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My wife has done this twice already. Who knew qualified preschool teachers were in such high demand.
elronHubert · 4 points · Posted at 06:14:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
she drop-kicked a toddler off a bridge: now this is happening
ThePunisher56 · 25 points · Posted at 05:06:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd get an alternative job before I "Fuck You'd" out of there.
Jumaai · 7 points · Posted at 05:06:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Exactly. A poor person would stay there and be miserable.
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 05:22:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 19 points · Posted at 05:38:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This exactly. I always gave 2 weeks, because sometimes they just paid you and let you leave. I worked in some sensitive IT positions where an unhappy employee could wreak havoc on their system, so it was better to just pay you off and give you a 2 week vacation than risk you leaving with a little parting software gift.
elronHubert · 4 points · Posted at 06:15:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
wrong. you have to sharpen your fuck-you attitude constantly. Don't let it get dull while you wait around like a stooge. Fuck. You.
DonLaFontainesGhost · 3 points · Posted at 06:03:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Honestly, I was in shock - it was like a "did that really just happen?" moment.
tember_sep_venth_ele · 8 points · Posted at 05:32:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My old boss easily pulled 70 hours + per week. I worked four nights a week at around 32 hours. Our pay checks were usually the same. Some shifts I'd just openly laugh at him. I only made ten an hour, so what they were doing was totally illegal, but he was kept so busy that he never noticed he was being taken for a ride. Poor guy. I told him to lawyer up the day I peeped his check. He stayed at that job two days longer than me(guy they hired to fill in for me made 11 an hour). That poor SOB.
Dark_Azazel · 26 points · Posted at 05:05:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I "some what" work at a high school. We have an auditorium that is and is not part of the district. So doing anything is always fun. Anyways, after 15 years the SAU finally let us get a full time position for a tech at the auditorium. I couldn't get it because they wanted someone with a teachers cert just in case they want to turn it into a teaching position as well (it won't happen). The full time gets 40 hours a week. And that's it. They fucking called her and said "You have done 40 hours. Clock out now and go home."
She does ~30hrs a week with just events alone. Sometimes more. And they might want her to also teach classes during the week? She won't have time for events which, in a sense, makes the auditorium lose the full time tech we need.
I rambled but yeah. They have called her during an event and demanded she went home. Lovely.
LucyLilium92 · 2 points · Posted at 05:22:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What's SAU?
Civilvanquisher96 · 2 points · Posted at 05:39:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
South Australian Uni?
Lentil-Soup · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
[Something] Area Unit
charlie_pony · 1 points · Posted at 06:15:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Saucy ass unit
Dark_Azazel · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
School Administrative Unit.
Not sure about the rest of the USA but in New Hampshire it's how the School Administrative are split up per school district.
This-Is-Not-A-Drill · 2 points · Posted at 05:40:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Allen?
doingthehokeypokey · 5 points · Posted at 05:20:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Old company let analysts work 40 hrs. They'd all hit that mark and leave. Technicians were hourly and usually put in extra work. Analysts were supposed to pick up the slack, they did maybe 4% of the time. Deadlines came and went. They were paid $12k more annually. Got a new job making that 12k more.
habitual_viking · 4 points · Posted at 06:05:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm always flabbergasted whenever I hear about the working conditions in the US, I can for the life of me not fathom why workers put up with that.
I'm so fucking glad my mom and dad was with the 60's movements that ensured good unions in Denmark and great working conditions today.
TOP_REPOST_BOT · 3 points · Posted at 05:36:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I left a job that paid me hourly for one that worked on a base + overtime format. What that essentially meant was that every hour of over time my wage was divided by the total hours I worked. I worked 111 hours the first week, and realized that I was making something like 4.50 an hour in overtime by the end.
In my prior job I made less per hour but worked similar hours with a regular 40 + overtime format. I was losing thousands. My boss was cool and gave me a raise that at least made it to where I was making a comparable wage until I was at 20 hours of overtime, but it still hit my wallet hard.
I do not do that job any longer.
crypticXJ88 · 6 points · Posted at 05:33:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Salary is for suckers. I've never ever seen a salaried position that was actually a 40 hour per week job, generally 60 hours minimum.
professor_rumbleroar · 4 points · Posted at 05:45:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm a school counselor and I really do 40 hrs a week, but I don't get paid well, so that's not a great example. I'm thankful that my husband works for a small company whose owner understands work/life balance. Unless my husband is out of town for a job, he gets to work at 8 and leaves at 5 and takes an hour for lunch every day. And if for some reason that can't happen, he gets paid overtime on top of his salary.
nonononononononoon · 4 points · Posted at 06:00:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My brother is a psychiatrist. Works for Kaiser. 8-4, 275k salary.
theAndrewWiggins · 3 points · Posted at 05:53:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not true in general though, I work 9-5 with an hour of lunch and am salaried.
wellboys · 2 points · Posted at 06:00:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Probably depends on the industry. I work 9-5 salaried with benefits and I get quarterly bonuses. Never have to work overtime, the work is satisfying, and it's a hell of a lot better than when I was getting paid hourly to work as a bartender.
mcfly357 · 2 points · Posted at 06:44:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
i'm a data analyst at a large tech company (salaried). when i started, i'd generally work 60-70 hours. this happened for a few months, while about half of my time i spent automating tasks. now i generally work around 30 hours a week. as long as i get my work done, my boss doesn't care how long i'm actually in the office. every once in a while shit hits the fan and i have to work more, but for the most part, it's pretty laid back and i rarely hit 40 hours in the office. automation is a glorious thing.
pcx226 · 1 points · Posted at 08:11:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've worked over 40 hours exactly 1 week in the last year. Many weeks I've worked less than 40. Am salaried. Pretty sure it depends on how much your company cares about work life balance. One of the BIG things at my company. Huge company too. 100K+ employees.
BGYeti · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think it largely had to do with the sector as well
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Plumbers. My uncle has been a salaried plumber for nearly 40 years. He's home by 4 every day.
noOneCaresOnTheWeb · 2 points · Posted at 05:40:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm lucky then, my company does. If you do work OT you get paid what your hourly rate would be and can bank that as PTO or get the extra money.
GlasgowSciFi · 2 points · Posted at 05:48:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
On the flip side of that in management consultancy I've never met a manager who cares about how long my ass is in the seat, so long as I'm achieving outcomes.
theAndrewWiggins · 2 points · Posted at 05:51:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This isn't true in general though, I'm salaried, and always work 9-5 with an hour of lunchbreak. It really depends on the company culture.
EffrumScufflegrit · 2 points · Posted at 05:59:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do you by chance do IT work, specifically with ERP?
DonLaFontainesGhost · 2 points · Posted at 06:07:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
IT - yes. Software architecture. Currently SharePoint, trying to move to web services / big data.
EffrumScufflegrit · 2 points · Posted at 06:10:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ah I was curious. My last job was an ERP staffing firm before I was let go for their forced cold call only strategy not working. I always told some of our unhappy potential candidates how much happier our contractors were after making the switch from perm.
ScrithWire · 4 points · Posted at 05:57:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Salaried should be illegal if you're forced to work more than 40 hrs.
I'm hourly. I made 132 hours last pay period. It was glorious
spacejockey8 · 1 points · Posted at 06:00:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What kind of job?
DonLaFontainesGhost · 2 points · Posted at 06:07:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Software architect.
IronicBionic · 1 points · Posted at 06:15:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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haganbmj · 1 points · Posted at 06:23:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I fly weekly as well right now on a contract job, they don't count the travel hours as work hours, so it's nice being limited to 40 per week + travel. The pay reflects the extra time consistently.
lynn · 1 points · Posted at 07:53:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My boss at my first (and only) salaried job occasionally said something about how "this is not a 40-hour-a-week job," sometimes with a little chuckle. Well I never did work more than 45 hours in a week, usually 40-42 hours. I did a terrible job too because I have ADHD and was unmedicated at the time and I couldn't focus on the work at all -- I'd start working and then discover I was playing a stupid little online game or something, and had been for an hour or more.
The thing is, they never fired anybody. It was a tiny operation, no more than 5 employees, though the company had been around for over 10 years. The same day my boss mentioned that they'd never fired anybody, I went to lunch with him and a coworker and they regaled me with tales of previous employees who barely did any work. So I never worried about my job security.
I left when I had my first baby -- I had to go on maternity leave, and I'd saved up extra money so I could take a nice long one. We all said I'd call when I was ready to go back to work, or they'd call when they had a new project, but obviously they weren't going to have me back. And my first was planned but we didn't plan very well; daycare would have eaten up the vast majority of my pay.
Anyway I had a part-time job for a few months (family provided free childcare but only part-time, and we were of course very grateful) and then my husband got an internship that became a very well-paying career and we moved across the country permanently. About 2 years later, my old boss called me wanting me to do one of the most tedious tasks from that job, and I barely kept from laughing as I told him no thanks. It would have been torture.
pcx226 · 1 points · Posted at 08:08:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Jeez...where did you work? I ask so I can avoid those places....
I'm salaried. I average like 38 hours/week over the last year or so.
IamaBlackKorean · -4 points · Posted at 04:52:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Typically that difference gets eaten up by taxes and having to buy your own healthcare.
EatPearsandShit · 13 points · Posted at 05:07:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not even close. Marginal tax rates mean you only pay higher taxes on the amount earned within that specified bracket, not on everything you've earned before that. Healthcare costs can be lower with higher paying jobs due to improved benefits. I hate that argument you made - I call whole ohhhh I don't work OT since it isn't really worth it in the end (financially) argument a cop-out for mediocrity.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:45:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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EatPearsandShit · 1 points · Posted at 05:00:05 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're overlooking expenses/writeoffs available to contractors, which are not available to employees. To say contractors pay more taxes is a sweeping, uneducated statement to make. You might pay more for employment insurance, but less for income tax. Then we get into the whole issue of being a sole proprietor vs. incorporating.... which leads into salary vs. dividends, which is a whole other discussion. But honestly, this is all basic tax 101 that should be, in my opinion, as a basic part of all high school ciriculums.
IamaBlackKorean · -1 points · Posted at 05:09:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ok how about in the case of industry contraction or company layoffs, contractors are typically the first to go?
If the economics were so straightforward, why wouldn't everyone be contractors?
orlinsky · 5 points · Posted at 05:16:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In a right to work state it's practically the same. Often times in high tech only employees can own company shares which can be worth something. Otherwise it's possible to be salaried, get paid for 40, and work 20-30.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:39:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is not always the case, though. Sometimes the layoffs are for salaried employees who are replaced with higher paid contractors, because of total compensation packages. Stuff like PTO counts as debts on your balance sheets, etc, and contractors can be fired later one the quarterly/yearly reports are out.
It's a big juggling game when you work for Fortune 500 companies, honestly. My dad used to work for those companies. Get laid off, get a huge severance package, come back 3 months later as a contractor with a massive pay raise, work a year, get contract cancelled, get hired on as staff, rinse and repeat.
EatPearsandShit · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:37 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Agree completely. Contractors are not the first to go - it's dependent on the company and on the industry. In my experience, contractors are the last to go - they're infinitely cheaper - maybe not on a straight per hour basis, but factor in pension, holidays, bonuses, mat leave, etc. and contractors are typically much more financially attractive.
Source: Am oil and gas corporate contractor - much busier since the downturn.
DonLaFontainesGhost · 1 points · Posted at 06:03:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Eaten up by taxes" is another lie spread by management who like saving money on salaried employees.
The tax difference is about $8k/year at $100k. If you're making 8% more on hourly, then the "tax difference" is a wash.
Also, depending on the company, buying your own healthcare can give you more options. My company wanted a contribution of $400/month for healthcare, I pay $1600/month. $1200/month = $7.5/hour. I make $17/hr more at my lowest contract rate, and of course once I start working overtime, that's "free money."
I'm not saying there aren't times that salary may make more sense. I'm saying don't rely on empty sound bites like "pay your own taxes" or "job security" - make sure you know the variables and do the math.
SupersuMC · 1179 points · Posted at 00:05:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mah man!
funkychicken99 · 332 points · Posted at 02:39:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
looking good!
LRN42 · 117 points · Posted at 03:41:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Slow down!
phi11ipus · 73 points · Posted at 03:58:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
snaps yes!
hashtagwindbag · 36 points · Posted at 05:00:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And now here's... human music.
[deleted] · 19 points · Posted at 05:02:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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banjowashisnameo · 12 points · Posted at 05:24:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Human music. I like it!
TOP_REPOST_BOT · 9 points · Posted at 05:29:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hungry for apples?
spiralout1123 · 2 points · Posted at 05:26:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
(Said Cyril)
-Gwynbleidd · 7 points · Posted at 05:00:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mah man!
Argon0503 · 15 points · Posted at 03:10:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nice!
Quest4Queso · 9 points · Posted at 04:03:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Slow down!
bubadmt · 5 points · Posted at 04:39:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes
Comet5050 · 3 points · Posted at 06:56:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Suck a dick
GreenLightKilla45 · 12 points · Posted at 00:19:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mah man!
Greenmoldycows · 4 points · Posted at 04:47:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
snaps fingers Yes!
SquanchyMike · 3 points · Posted at 04:59:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Slow down!
brun862 · 2308 points · Posted at 01:02:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nice. Salary employment is one of the biggest scams there is.
theneedfull · 3436 points · Posted at 01:32:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not for those of us that regularly work less than 40 hours. Salary is awesome for me.
kdeaton06 · 1383 points · Posted at 02:25:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can confirm. I'm salary and rarely work over 35 hours a week.
ktwarda · 1187 points · Posted at 03:51:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can confirm, I work 50+ hour work weeks regularly, am salaried, and I hate you.
BKTribe · 66 points · Posted at 04:20:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can confirm. I'm salaried and work 200 hours and I'm a liar
winterborne1 · 65 points · Posted at 04:57:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can confirm. I'm celery and you should try eating me with peanut butter.
stabbyezio · 2 points · Posted at 05:28:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Non-American here, peanut butter isn't really a thing where I live. Are you serious? Should I actually try that?
millergenuine50 · 9 points · Posted at 05:31:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes. Yes you should
sphinctaur · 3 points · Posted at 05:39:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Non-American here.
...seriously? I thought it was one of those universal things. But with peanut allergies these days Australia wouldn't be the same without one more thing that could kill you.
stabbyezio · 2 points · Posted at 05:48:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah, I'm from Bumfuck, Eastern Europe. You can buy it here, but it's not really A Thing.
Bigdata9000 · 3 points · Posted at 05:41:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Canadian here. Sorry to interrupt. Try cheese wiz
stabbyezio · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have no idea what that is. Filthy Eastern European here
Arttherapist · 2 points · Posted at 06:04:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
processed cheese spread
y0shman · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Artificial cheese stuff.
stabbyezio · 2 points · Posted at 06:02:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So why not just use cheese?
mrpoodles11 · 2 points · Posted at 06:07:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It tastes... different. Addictive (it's like nacho cheese) also it comes in a spray can like whip cream!
stabbyezio · 2 points · Posted at 06:09:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I mean... cheese spray. That's amazing.
mrpoodles11 · 2 points · Posted at 06:25:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We also have spray pancakes.
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine-archive/july-2009/food/spray-on-pancakes/overview/spray-on-pancakes-ov.htm
stabbyezio · 2 points · Posted at 06:29:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes, please.
GachiGachiFireBall · 2 points · Posted at 05:45:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I personally dislike the bitterness of peanut butter
questionable_plays · 4 points · Posted at 05:05:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The peanut butter cartel strikes again.
KNBeaArthur · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can confirm. Am ant on a log.
the_eric · 37 points · Posted at 04:36:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm a server and all of you can suck my fucking dick.
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 05:12:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I work in a kitchen at least you make fucking tips
the_eric · 3 points · Posted at 05:13:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, that's all we make.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:19:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sounds awesome. But I'm a con man at heart.
mrpoodles11 · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This guys being a little bitch I make $23/hr as a server with tips and my small hourly combined. I'm not gonna complain I started BOH.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:20:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dayummm. Same though actually. My plan is to work my way to the front of house
mrpoodles11 · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do it the money is way better.
bsouth16 · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
But cooking food is dope bro :) I'm in the same boat as you
Xbmlew · 0 points · Posted at 05:32:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Omfg!! Yes! Thank you! Someone said it!
scotty269 · 43 points · Posted at 04:49:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Windows, OSX, or a Linux variant?
the_eric · 14 points · Posted at 04:50:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It took me longer than I'm proud of to realize "oh, he's not asking about what POS we use"
Nalortebi · 1 points · Posted at 01:34:08 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Took me a second to realize you weren't joking about being a server working 24x7 because of constant uptime, and instead work bringing food to people.
Lanxy · 3 points · Posted at 04:59:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Symbian, now stfu!
StabbyPants · 3 points · Posted at 05:01:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pfft, OS X servers don't exist
Aitocir · 6 points · Posted at 05:11:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You've obviously led a peaceful life. Keep it that way.
sephresx · 2 points · Posted at 05:42:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They do. I've never seen one, but they do (maybe)
StabbyPants · 1 points · Posted at 06:32:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
can't get the server version of osx, or supported server hardware = don't exist
ktwarda · 13 points · Posted at 04:40:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is the most valid hostile response yet. I appreciate the alcohol you supply me with and solemnly swear to always tip 20%+.
iaspeegizzydeefrent · 1 points · Posted at 12:10:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And don't forget about your delivery drivers! It's baffling how many people think a $2 or $3 tip is appropriate no matter how big their bill/order is or how far away they live.
Flederman64 · 13 points · Posted at 05:03:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Put in 40 hours, stop working extra. I work 50+ hour weeks, but it is balanced by the 30- hour weeks. Which is what it is supposed to be. They give me my vacation in hours, I am paid for 40hr weeks (per my paystub) if they want more they have to pay for it. Salary isn't free extra 10+ hours a week, its an acknowledgment that some weeks there will be more work and some weeks there will be less.
charlie_pony · 3 points · Posted at 05:51:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Absolutely. I have always been very careful to work approximately 40 hours per week on salary.
Because fuck any other scenario.
You don't think I'm loyal? Fuck you. Pay me.
I've never "had a job that I loved so much that I'd do it for free, I'm so lucky that they pay me." No. Fuck you. Pay me. I ain't doin' shit for free. My car payments don't pay themselves.
KellynHeller · 3 points · Posted at 05:23:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I work like 80. I'm salary. #military
Snuffy1717 · 5 points · Posted at 04:37:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As an educator, I feel your pain...
Twist161 · 7 points · Posted at 04:30:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can confirm salary is so-so. Source am celery
ImperviousAssgasm · 2 points · Posted at 04:47:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm ranch.
jeufie · 13 points · Posted at 03:59:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You hate that guy because your employer sucks?
ktwarda · 28 points · Posted at 04:14:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I hate the theory of him because I work in an industry with low margins and high stress.
Kapp_E_Tan · 9 points · Posted at 04:17:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You don't know that his employer sucks. He could be compensated well over the industry average. Or maybe he's really slow at what he does... Maybe you or I could do the job in 40hrs but he can't.
Don't presume
ktwarda · 9 points · Posted at 04:22:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thanks, friend. I meant the response to be somewhat light-hearted, but everyone is taking it too seriously. I actually have a great employer, make over industry standard, and even love what I do. It's just a high stress industry, with narrow margins (meaning heavier work load), and I sometimes field emergencies on the weekend.
bsouth16 · 2 points · Posted at 05:27:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Classic Reddit. We're a bunch of savage assholes. No joking allowed here
Edit: am joking
jeufie · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you're hiring a bunch of people that can't do their required work in 40 hours, you're either hiring bad employees or have bad processes. Both of which fall on the employer. And paying people extra to work more time is also shitty, imo.
ThetaDee · 2 points · Posted at 05:06:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can confirm I work 50+ hours in the service industry and even I know salary sucks.
artyomivich · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The service industry is the worst place to be salary
kellyj6 · 2 points · Posted at 06:11:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just spent my Saturday and Sunday traveling to Zambia. I will work in this shit hole all week, fly home Saturday, get home Sunday at 10 am. Then I have to be at work Monday morning.
Not a single extra dime.
unicornlocostacos · 2 points · Posted at 06:22:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yea I've never seen a salaried position the company didn't wring out for everyone scrap of soul.
sargeas · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You may hate me too, i am salary but also get laid ovetime if i go over the 40 hours. I usually oy work about 38 though
Arttherapist · 1 points · Posted at 06:03:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You do know salary doesn't mean they don't owe you for the extra hours you work over your designated work week right? You are salaried for a set number of hours per week and are elligible for overtime for any hours you work beyond that. If they don't pay you then just don't work the extra hours and if they fire you for that you have a valid wage theft case against your employer.
Nalortebi · 1 points · Posted at 01:32:56 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Gotta find the right team, bro.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 04:05:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Loken89 · 11 points · Posted at 04:17:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Jealousy is one of the main reasons for hate.
willygmcd · 8 points · Posted at 04:24:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I hate everyone, no jealousy required.
PrincePoppy · 1 points · Posted at 05:06:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Exactly what he was saying.
Amerphose · 6 points · Posted at 04:24:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's a joke. People tend to say "I hate you" when the other person is going through something ridiculously good. It's supposed to be mockingly congratulating, like "damn, I wish I was you right now".
ktwarda · 4 points · Posted at 04:25:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That was my intent but hot damn people are real fast to react
Leetwheats · 3 points · Posted at 04:28:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
People will bite your head off for the smallest perceived slights. Its pretty silly.
bsouth16 · 1 points · Posted at 05:29:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Congratulatory
faaltek · 2 points · Posted at 04:20:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Envy, not jealousy.
Jealousy is the fear of losing something. Envy is the desire for what another has.
RealmsofLegend · 2 points · Posted at 04:11:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What universe so you live in?
dickbuttscompanion · 4 points · Posted at 04:16:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Envy**
Aitocir · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes, but it leads to anger, which in turn leads to hate.
Exastiken · 0 points · Posted at 04:15:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Are you actively in hate with him/her?
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 05:56:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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BGYeti · -1 points · Posted at 18:52:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah fuck off with your bullshit, if you want to be a corporate bitch and not be paid your worth by all means go for it but don't try and belittle those who actually want to be paid their worth and understand their personal time is more valuable than working extra hours for free
Datmexicanguy · 3 points · Posted at 04:40:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just sucks when they expect you to keep a seat warm for at least 40 a week even if you don't have anything to do.
Roboticide · 2 points · Posted at 06:21:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Meh, I browse reddit or play Minecraft or something when I have nothing to do but still have to sit around the office.
Not a huge deal. I'd rather be salaried and still get paid for those hours rather than just go home and browse reddit or play something only slightly less obvious.
rogercopernicus · 6 points · Posted at 04:30:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In at 830, out by 330 everyday with a long lunch
hellosexynerds · 1 points · Posted at 06:16:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
WTF, I have a computer science degree and years of experience and can't get any job yet all these people seem to be getting paid to do nothing. What are you all doing?
HangNailed · 1 points · Posted at 14:03:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Government jobs
rogercopernicus · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Biological science. There is only so much as I can do in a day. A lot of incubations. In the time I am there I work my ass off to get it done.
Goofy_Garcon · 3 points · Posted at 04:24:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What job do you have?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:24:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What industry do you work in?
yay8653576 · 4 points · Posted at 03:54:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nice to meet you, Salary.
Professor_pranks · 4 points · Posted at 03:59:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hey dad when are you coming back from the store?
thratty · 1 points · Posted at 04:44:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm dad
ripvannwinkler · 1 points · Posted at 04:23:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Double confirming here. I rarely work more than 5 hours a day. Same pay check either way.
gdq0 · 1 points · Posted at 11:19:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Same, but 1 hour a day. Yay IT where if it isn't broken I don't fix it.
GustheGuru · 1 points · Posted at 04:38:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Let me tell ya about a farmer
thedonutman · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Salaried IT guy here. As long as muh servas aren't broken and VoIP system is up, being salaried is a gift.
hellosexynerds · 1 points · Posted at 06:16:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You only come in to work when there is a problem?
thedonutman · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No I'm here about 32 hours a week. But half of that I'm just killing time
Trebek007 · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Amateur.
fuckswithyourhead · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Salaried, I work a solid 40 hour work week, and go home.
ExynosHD · 1 points · Posted at 05:24:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can confirm. I'm not salary and I work 31 hours a week. Can hardly afford rent.
FalseFactFabricator · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What is it that you do if you don't mind me asking?
ThetaTheory · 0 points · Posted at 05:36:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They're all entry level. No role with great pay on salary works less than 40. Just doesn't happen.
gdq0 · 2 points · Posted at 11:21:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It does in IT. A lot. Have you seen the HBO show Silicon Valley?
SnatchAddict · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We're in a transition phase and I work 9 - 4 with a one hour lunch. I make roughly $60 an hour doing jack shit some days.
AllEncompassingThey · 1 points · Posted at 05:30:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What line of work are you in?
ThetaTheory · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ah entry level salary. Those were the days.
kdeaton06 · 1 points · Posted at 21:03:55 on March 2, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nope. Just in the Computer Science field. We work in 2 week sprints and only estimate about 45 hours of work for 2 weeks. Add time for meetings on top of that and I come under 40 hours almost every week. There is the occasional 60 hour week every few months but I am definitely getting the better end of the deal.
NomNomNommy · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm salary and rarely work over 5 hours a week when not in peak. When in peak tho, can easily be 12 hours.
SpaceChief · 1 points · Posted at 05:56:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Work from home Systems Administrator for Point of Sale Systems here. Can confirm, 35 hours a week and 3 on 4 off every week is amazing, even if its under 50k/yr right now. Sure I start work at midnight, but fuck it, Im home and off before the shit its the fan every day, even with working 13 hours a day.
taifoid · 1 points · Posted at 06:22:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep, me too. 25 hours a week, 40 weeks a year, 90k
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Vinnie_Vegas · 3 points · Posted at 05:15:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some companies are run by decent people who have set goals which, if achieved, no longer require employees to stick around.
I'm salaried, am supposed to work 38 hours a week, but usually work 34/35, have never once been asked to stay late or work a weekend, and they are extremely happy with me as an employee, because everything they expect from me gets done.
An hourly job where it's up to me to earn as much as I want would be terrible, because I have little to no inclination to work long hours.
[deleted] · 272 points · Posted at 01:39:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah but that isn't a reality in a lot of industries. That's why I work for the government now, we're all hourly.
Edit: We are all hourly in my agency specifically, but not government employees in general.
theneedfull · 112 points · Posted at 01:53:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I also work in government. You just have to find the right one.
911ChickenMan · 10 points · Posted at 02:36:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
911 dispatcher here. The pay's salaried, but we get overtime pay all the time (and it's almost always voluntary). And that's in addition to vacation, comp time, holiday time, sick time, retirement, and all the other benefits. We have something like 12 holidays a year. We have the option to take them off if there's coverage, but I like banking up holiday-days to use later. I already have something like 20 total vacation days saved up since last year.
Not to mention there's plenty of downtime depending on your shift (even days can be slow if it's a weekend). Pay isn't the only factor when looking for a job. If a job pays $200,000 a year with no vacation, it's not worth it.
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 03:04:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 04:10:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What the fuck? How do you get into that sort of thing?
Max_Trollbot_ · 5 points · Posted at 05:37:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Honestly, it's like pulling teeth.
Nmaka · 8 points · Posted at 04:02:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Work for ten years, live on 65-70 thousand, live off of 1.3 million for the rest of my life if i can get some nice long term investments
911ChickenMan · 2 points · Posted at 05:40:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Work for ten years without any vacation days? Fuck that, I'd rather work for 20 if I got 2 weeks vacation each year.
Letty_Whiterock · 2 points · Posted at 04:28:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Assuming you're 30 at the youngest when you do that, you're not going to be able to live semi-comfortably off of 1.3 million for 70 years.
melikeybouncy · 6 points · Posted at 04:36:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you can average just a 4% return on $1.3 million, you're making $52,000 a year on interest alone every year without ever losing money.
If you could get it to 8%, which is a little less than the annualized rate of return for the Dow Jones industrial average over the last century, you would be making $108,000 a year on interest alone.
And every dollar you don't spend gets compounded.
Short answer, it's possible but it will take discipline. It's easier to spend a million dollars than people realize.
oozles · 2 points · Posted at 06:23:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't forget that withdrawing a fixed amount of money each year means you're losing purchasing power each year. A nest egg has to continue to grow with the rate of inflation on top of withdrawing your living expenses.
Nmaka · 1 points · Posted at 04:40:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I didn't really remember how to put it, but yeah, that
Archsys · 2 points · Posted at 05:06:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Depends on where your expenses, and, in turn, largely where you're living.
I know a couple guys living somewhere in SEA on half a million dollars of mixed investments, and they haven't had jobs/incomes since the early 90s...
sveitthrone · 2 points · Posted at 04:38:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So, what time of day do people normally hurt themselves? Evenings on the weekend?
911ChickenMan · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Trauma calls are most often caused by traffic accidents or falls. Most accidents happen during workdays 8AM-6PM, and especially during rush hour. People fall all the time (usually elderly), but that's more spread out throughout the day.
During the weekdays, people are more active and have a higher chance of needing police/fire/medical assistance. Saturdays are still pretty busy, but Sundays are notoriously slow (unless a special event is going on). Your typical American family goes to church on Sunday and then stays at home for the most part.
Also, we get about 1 phone call per hour from 1AM-6AM, and our county has over 100,000 residents. The drunks are home or in jail by 1 most of the time, and most people don't wake up until 6AM to find their cars broken into, etc.
Renovatio_ · 2 points · Posted at 04:52:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wait, you're a 6 figure dispatcher?
911ChickenMan · 1 points · Posted at 05:28:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No. I forgot to mention the pay is OK, it's about $40,000 a year before tax. That's enough for a mid-sized house payment and enough to support a small family here. The $200,000 was just for comparison. If a job pays a huge amount, you're likely trading off something else.
Renovatio_ · 2 points · Posted at 05:37:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Okay. I was about to flip the table. "You get paid THAT MUCH for that perfectly timed tone right after I take one bite of food!?"
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:15:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have to work long hours for part of the year now but since I'm hourly I get to amass a large comp time bank that I get to burn through in our off season. Or I can just take those hours as overtime pay. It's a good work life balance for me, much better than the private sector offered.
Ol_Whats_His_Tits · 2 points · Posted at 04:30:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The right government eh? Which government would you recommend ?
NoNickname90 · 1 points · Posted at 03:41:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is true. As an IT worker I was banking the contract life. I'm going back to the hourly.
stolen_me_mes · 1 points · Posted at 05:09:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Would you be paying yourself with the taxes you paid the ~government~
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:44:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I hate the government but god damn do I love working for it. God damn is it nice to never be fucked over by hours. My ass has to out the door as soon as 3:57 strikes.
TheMegaZord · 3 points · Posted at 03:21:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I work for my municipal government and it is just the greatest.
byrdan · 2 points · Posted at 04:26:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
wait what? no we aren't. I work for a city government and review job postings as part of my job. the vast majority are salaried.
of course things vary but there's no way that all or close to all government workers are hourly
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:39:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not all government, I meant everyone in my agency specifically.
onetimeuse789456 · 2 points · Posted at 04:29:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I work for the federal government and we're salaried. Pretty much all of the "professional" jobs with the federal government are salaried.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:41:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm a state employee. In my agency, only the highest ranking officals are salary, even the "professional" jobs are hourly.
oss_spy · 1 points · Posted at 04:18:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm in the army and I'm always doing 10-12 hour days. Sure, work doesn't start till 930, but try telling me that when I'm up at 450 and at work by 545
Pako21green · 1 points · Posted at 04:30:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not in the Navy. With "duty days" where we have to be onboard for 24 hours at a time, too often every 3rd day, 100 hour work weeks are normal. Then, factor in how small our paychecks are and figure out the hourly rate - way below minimum wage. #slavelabor
Seriously, if you paid the military by the hour, 1/2 of the shit we did wouldn't be deemed necessary, a lot less of us would have mental and physical health issues, and there wouldn't be so many damn DUIs, domestic violence cases, mental health issues, etc.
SardinesGivePower · -1 points · Posted at 03:33:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just gotta be better than everyone. I'm salary and been working 9-4 with an hour lunch.
They keep assigning my projects that are supposed to take X amount of hours. I can do them in X*.67 hours...
I still get more done than any of the other analysts so no one knows any better.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:54:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
To me though, a work day is a work day and an off day is an off day. I don't really care if I work 7 hours or 10 on a work day, I just want to get more full days off. This job allows me to do that because I get comp time which lets me turn overtime into off days. If I worked as a salaried civil engineer I would still be expected to work like 45-50 hours a week but with no benefit to me or just "but your bonus will be bigger if we do better," which is bullshit to me.
SardinesGivePower · 1 points · Posted at 03:57:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fair enough. I worked a state job out of college and got comp time instead of OT. Was pretty cool. We were ridiculously understaffed for a while so after only 18 months I ended up having over 35 days of vacation time. (On top of normal Holidays we got.)
Was actually a nice structure for me since I'm the type of guy to piss away extra income.
The 10 vs 7 hour day thing though... I dunno. That extra hour of sleep and getting home when it's still light out is damn nice for me.
VarietiesOfStupid · 8 points · Posted at 04:08:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Many salary jobs still require you to clock in, and if you clock less than 40, they'll treat you like hourly on the paycheck or automatically take those hours in vacation.
I was salaried my entire career until I became a contractor. Became a contractor because if they're going to treat me like hourly regardless, then they better give me $50 an hour and pay me for my overtime.
Sumif · 1 points · Posted at 06:40:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
But then you pay much more in tax so depending on your tax bracket and deductions then you are taking home about $30/hour. That obviously overstates and simplifies things but I worked as a contractor for a few months and like 30something percent was taken out in taxes.
VarietiesOfStupid · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
30/hr is still higher than the pre-tax rate of my last direct job. But I'm not a 1099 contractor. I have representation, so I don't pay employer contributions for taxes.
I also work more than 75 miles from "home," (in quotes because I don't have a family to settle down with anyway, so I use my parents house as a permanent address and just move wherever the work is), so just over half my income is declared by my employer as non-taxable per-diem. The split right now for me is 24.45/25.55, but it's going to get even better in April when the IRS increases the allowed rate for my metro. Right now my effective total tax rate is 12% on the first 40 hours, so my take home rate for the first 40 hours is 44/hr. After 40 hours I no longer get per diem, but I'm making time and a half, so my take home rate increases to 46/hr. It decreases a bit more after I hit 64 hours because I hit the next tax bracket on the Circular E tables, but you get the picture.
Incidentally, none of this is based on loopholes.
valarmorghulis · 2 points · Posted at 04:30:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Or for those that manage the glorious non-exempt salary position.
Kolipe · 1 points · Posted at 03:33:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I haven't worked an 8 hour work day in almost a year. 20 hour work weeks on a 40 hour salary. It's dope
whalesauce · 1 points · Posted at 03:43:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cam confirm, am salary employee. Work considerably less than 40 hours a week
Sector_Corrupt · 2 points · Posted at 05:29:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hell I don't even know how many hours I work in a given week. I tend to be in the office 5 - 6 hours a day and might do a little work in the evening if I'm feeling like I want to make more progress on something. But I'm never in the office later than 6 or earlier than 9 or 10.
pottedspiderplant · 1 points · Posted at 05:45:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think this is a reasonable amount of time to work. For most jobs, there are probably periods of more intense work interspersed, but overall I could see spending that much time in the office. However, it seems like many jobs have a culture where you are looked down upon for not being there X number of hours. Even if some of that time is spent idle...
rblue · 1 points · Posted at 04:01:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
37.5 here. And if I do go over, I get overtime pay or comp time. Not sure how it's salaried, but I rarely ever break 38 hours per week.
midri · 1 points · Posted at 04:05:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Exactly!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:07:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah I get kind of irked at how low I'm paid until I realize that I work from home 3 days a week and also put in a solid 8-10 hours of work the entire week for full benefits. The secret is just being content doing what you're doing. It's easier than it looks.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:22:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Im salaried with overtime after 40 - best of both worlds.
monsantobreath · 1 points · Posted at 04:27:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I worked for a guy hourly eventually he offered me salary, claiming same hours, better pay, likely even fewer hours on average. When we actually transitioned to the salary he acted funny, like he realized he offered me something better than he wanted to like he'd offered it when he was drunk or something it made no sense to him then, and started talking about needing to bump my hours up, to make it make sense financially to him, until my outlook was exact same pay, way more hours, no overtime.
I thought I was gonna be one of you. Turns out I just got fucked instead, but I didn't stick around for that.
yfwdbwdso · 1 points · Posted at 04:42:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can confirm, work for the Feds
LemLuthor · 1 points · Posted at 04:44:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
His comment still stands. But this time, we're doing the scamming.
GibsysAces · 1 points · Posted at 04:49:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Am salaried. I worked 3 hours today
Illusions_not_Tricks · 1 points · Posted at 04:57:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah but that just isn't how salary is commonly used nowadays. In lots of industries it's basically a way to avoid paying overtime.
You're presenting the exception as the rule. Even most employers who don't expect overtime will expect you to put in 40 hours if you're salaried.
yoitsthatoneguy · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Depends on your industry. I work in biotech and almost no one in the labs works a full 40 hour week. If you get your work done, you can leave whenever.
Starkravingmad7 · 1 points · Posted at 04:59:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have the best of both worlds, I frequently only work about 4 hours a day, am hourly, and I often stay clocked in late because I'll have a user with a quasi emergency at the end of the day.
beephstewart · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Amen, Roll in between 9 and 9:30. Chill at the desk for a couple hours. Lunch from 11:30 to 1:30, do some more work until 4 and then head home.
I should have just stayed at that place, but wanted to try something new. Now I'm expected to be at my desk most of the time.
mmm_creamy_beige · 1 points · Posted at 05:19:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My dad recently agreed to take more vacation instead of a pay raise when his company was doing cutbacks. Between that and his 4-day workweek he did the math and works approximately 30 weeks a year. If that's not gaming the system I don't know what is.
hab1b · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
same here. we shut down the office at 3 pm on Fridays. I work 38 hours a week, good benefits, 401k matching, and they pay for my cell phone bill.
The problem is not the concept of Salaries. The problem is shitting business taking advantage of workers.
dirtrox44 · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
hmm my job has me as salary but also has the stipulation that I must work at least 40 hours per week. Am i being duped? (California)
sephresx · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Same here! Did to be 8 to 5. I always waltz in about 9ish, out the door, latest at 430. Usually about 4ish.
doublegloved · 1 points · Posted at 05:45:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah was gonna say this. I can get most of my work done in 5-6 hours per day, so being salaried rocks.
fullmoonsession · 309 points · Posted at 02:00:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The scam is that very few people actually classify as salary exempt. Unless you spend more than half your time doing administration, are an executive, a state certified professional, or a computer programmer you likely should be getting overtime.
911ChickenMan · 168 points · Posted at 02:38:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Good news! We're sending you to be certified so
we don't need to pay overtimeyou get a 5% pay raise!"teh_maxh · 46 points · Posted at 03:49:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
State certified. There are very few (if any) fields in which one can get a state certification that don't require it in the first place.
jewhealer · 11 points · Posted at 04:19:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At my company, engineers are encouraged to be licensed, but it isn't required unless you're a lead engineer.
Innosint · 2 points · Posted at 05:13:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Meh.. my PE only got me a 5k raise as none lead engineer =__=
gulbronson · 2 points · Posted at 05:48:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That a subpar pay bump for passing the PE. I'll be taking it this year but most of my friends that passed recently got between 10 and 20, about half got a promotion as well.
Innosint · 1 points · Posted at 06:51:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
yeah... mine was a messy one. I basically got the typical yearly raise + some more at the year end review, signed the paper, just wait for the vacation to start, then the PE score came out a week after.....then I had to re-negotiate my wage again now with a PE.
My Title did moved up O.o, but still does the same old shit. =__=
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dang. But you'll be a lead engineer at some point, right? I'm on my way to getting PE. I'd hoped it was better than a 5k bump...
Innosint · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
yeah, I'm looking at staying for another year or two, maybe pick up one or two other certification while at it, then most to a leading engineer position.
_101010_ · 50 points · Posted at 03:56:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why not programmers?
IKn0wKnothingAMA · 38 points · Posted at 04:05:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
yeah right. someone please answer. why not programmers???
joewith · 30 points · Posted at 04:07:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
All I know is I work more than 40 hours and don't get paid overtime.
To be fair, it would be easy to take it slow and be paid more because of overtime than if I worked at a reasonable pace. That's the price to pay to not be micromanaged.
prefix_postfix · 3 points · Posted at 04:59:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I literally learned what "salary exempt" means today, but my best guess might be that computer workers are often expected to do things like make sure servers are working 24/7.
IKn0wKnothingAMA · 1 points · Posted at 13:37:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So? why not pay them for the additional hours that they put to "make sure servers are working 24/7"?
prefix_postfix · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't know, why don't you pay managers and administrators for their additional hours either?
I don't know why they decided this was the way to go, but it seems like it's jobs that fall under the category of, "if you go home at 2 on Friday because you hit 40 hours and the shit you are responsible for breaks at 2:15, no one else can do anything until you come in again Monday morning because you're the only one with the power to fix it and we are all collectively fucked". "Shit" here may refer to people in the case of managers and administrators.
Vidyogamasta · 1 points · Posted at 02:08:29 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because people like consistency in pay, and this is a benefit for both the employer and the employee. I like to know I'm making exactly $X on every single paycheck, regardless of how many features we're cramming to get pushed out in the next month, regardless of whether or not my workflow is blocked by waiting on the other group to get their work in.
I've had to stay late a handful of times and I've worked a weekend ONCE. If that was a regular occurrence then I would either leave or negotiate hourly pay, but for most people working a salaried position it's actually really nice.
bananahead · 7 points · Posted at 04:37:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because the law specifically says so
chrisalexbrock · 7 points · Posted at 04:49:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why?
bananahead · 1 points · Posted at 13:16:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ask Congress. Guessing because they consider it a white collar profession like being an executive (also exempt)
pelijr · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
See my reply to OP above for info on the actual law in question.
makuto9 · 8 points · Posted at 05:23:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not programmers because programmers spend less then 50% of their time typing, so the rest of the time is considered some form of management. That's their explanation.
Source: salaried programmer in California.
vecowski · 2 points · Posted at 05:45:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yea well your company clearly isn't a coding sweat shop like most.
makuto9 · 2 points · Posted at 06:25:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm a game programmer and have gone through some crunch, but the company is fairly good at keeping it the exception to the rule.
Programming is mostly thinking, interacting with others, and debugging with the minority of time spent typing in my experience, to be fair to the law. Now, not getting paid for overtime for that is still bullshit imo
CSPshala · 14 points · Posted at 04:34:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cause fuck the brick layers said the brick layer company owner.
buge · 2 points · Posted at 05:30:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How is making computer programmers salary, and brick layers hourly bad for the brick layers?
pelijr · 7 points · Posted at 05:30:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The actual law:
Emphasis mine.
Blog_Pope · 4 points · Posted at 05:11:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The law is more complex than that. The line is supposed to be something like "knowledge worker" vs button pusher. Had it explained to me by HR when they had to convert one of my staff to hourly. I told them to exploit it and submit her overtime because we both knew they were underpaid but I had policy caps on what raises I could offer.
ElectronicDrug · 2 points · Posted at 05:09:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's not programmers, it's computer professionals or something like that. In Kansas anyway.
gnopgnip · 3 points · Posted at 04:54:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In CA computer workers making over 100k and meeting a few other requirements can be paid as salary exempt. There are a few reasons why it makes sense in CA. At that salary you can negotiate certain terms of your employment. The time you work in the office is not really related to how much productive work you can do. So the idea is that you are not paid just for the time you are working
ca990 · 13 points · Posted at 03:46:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My work recently reclassified me as salary no -exempt. Initially I was annoyed that I had to start using a timeclock again for the first time in 9 years. The I realized how much overtime pay I was getting. Pretty much the greatest thing ever.
godaiyuhsaku · 9 points · Posted at 03:54:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fucking "professional exemption" code monkeys don't get to make critical decisions.
sumptin_wierd · 15 points · Posted at 03:07:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You forgot to include management. It's not just administration, it's administration plus supervising. If you are on salary, make more than about 24k per year, supervise 2 or more employees, management as primary duty and have input on hiring, discipline and firing, you are considered exempt.
A1A5KAN · 9 points · Posted at 04:21:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
law changed to something like 53k a year i believe. Will probably be revoked soon by republicans.
badmoney16 · 4 points · Posted at 04:25:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It didnt pass, it was delayed
bananahead · 4 points · Posted at 04:37:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It passed but was delayed by a judge
sumptin_wierd · 1 points · Posted at 07:44:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Change was blocked by a judge
fullmoonsession · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Managers are administrators. The supervisor/manager thing is nonsense. If what you are doing is making the company money more than half the time you are working you are not exempt from overtime pay. My last employer did this to me for 7 years and it was totally illegal. Calling someone a manager doesn't make them an administrator.
FuzzySAM · 4 points · Posted at 04:06:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You missed classroom teachers.
xingped · 12 points · Posted at 03:44:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Shit makes me so angry.
badmoney16 · 5 points · Posted at 04:25:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Salary exempt in the us is really low. Thats why the law that was delayed last year was a big deal... They wanted to raise it which would raise exemption and cost companies a ton. Salary is exempt right now is really low, under 30k a year i believe by current US law
digicow · 4 points · Posted at 04:27:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the space of 3 years, my company decided my department's members were not computer programmers (and thus non-exempt) and then reversed that decision. I racked up OT at every opportunity I could in between.
bongggblue · 3 points · Posted at 04:24:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Damn.. computer programmers :\
yulbrynnersmokes · 3 points · Posted at 04:52:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah cause may as well stiff the programmers. Serves them right for being smart and shit.
gnopgnip · 2 points · Posted at 04:52:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And if your a computer programmer in CA you have to make 100k to be exempt.
waslookoutforchris · 2 points · Posted at 04:59:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Are there income limits on those exemptions? I'm trying to figure out how this applies to engineers.
SoylentRox · 2 points · Posted at 04:59:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why should computer programmers be exempt...Or the others you mention...Shouldn't it just be executives and administrators?
Archsys · 2 points · Posted at 05:07:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Contrarily, forcing your workplace to accept that you are salary exempt. Family Dollar has had lawsuits in just about every state they operate in over this shit, for example...
Innosint · 2 points · Posted at 05:10:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
isn't the current salary exempt is set at 50k?
You don't have to be that high up in the office to make 50k a year. most engineers I know do.
mmm_creamy_beige · 2 points · Posted at 05:20:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I wish I knew this at my last job. I made to the dollar the amount that California decided was the cutoff for overtime exemption, but I still should have qualified.
kymmenentuhatta · 2 points · Posted at 04:41:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
salary here work overtime no ot pay
el_monstruo · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is one thing that I have never understood. How are we protected? My supervisor has told me and other workers that we are salary and we have to work whenever is required for us. We are not administration at all, not executives, not state certified professionals, not a computer programmer although we do work in IT.
lucasgorski99 · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
programmers don't deserve overtime
Jasonrj · 1 points · Posted at 06:13:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Good news! In 2014 or 2015 Obama asked the Department of Labor to pass new rules that would double the salary threshold you must be paid in order to be OT exempt. This would either cause people who were making very little to be pushed into overtime and increase their wages, or be sent home at 40 hours so they wouldn't have to work as much, or be raised to the new salary minimum for OT exempt employees.
Bad news! Unfortunately it was set to go into effect December 1st 2016 but was put on hold by a Texas judge and now the rule's fate is unknown with Trump in office. So instead of good news this is probably bad news because the rule is likely destined to be wiped out.
CalculatedPerversion · 1 points · Posted at 06:22:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Define "doing administration"
DarkOmen597 · 31 points · Posted at 03:59:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I dunno man. This is my first job as a salary employee and i am really happy. No worrying about how long my lunch breaks are, not worrying about ever getting to work late, take a half day if i need it without losing pay, I KNOW exactly what my pay check will be so financial planning is good.
Oh look, 3 day weekend and hourly doesnt get paid for those days but we do. The company is closing for a week for the holidays? Sweet free PTO!
Also, I work in sales and I LOVE yhat I van add commission with no cap on that.
Apprentice57 · 6 points · Posted at 05:11:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sounds like you work for a nice company :).
DarkOmen597 · 2 points · Posted at 05:48:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thankfully, yes! Finally, TBH.
I've been in some pretty crappy places and I am very grateful to be where I am now.
DaystarEld · 2 points · Posted at 06:08:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, that has more to do with working a salary job at a good company than the usual experience :) Most places where I've worked salary care very much about how much time you spend on your lunch break or how late you are, and when you leave. In fact many track it electronically: they don't pay you more if you go over 40, but they definitely care if you work less than 40.
GDSGFT2SCKCHSRS · -1 points · Posted at 05:04:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Come again? Was that you love Adivan in baby talk or something?
DarkOmen597 · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't know what that is.
GDSGFT2SCKCHSRS · 1 points · Posted at 06:10:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ativan.
Hobothug · 12 points · Posted at 04:03:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I graduated college, my parents were disappointed that I didn't land a salaried job. I could not, for the life of me, understand why. My hourly job pays just as much, if not more - because of the OT situation.
And then there's a paid holiday situation, where make 8 hours worth for the holiday, and then 1.5X if I actually work that day.
And bonuses are greater because they're a percentage of my pay, which is already greater because of all of the above, so that's great.
And yet, there's this fabulous stigma that the hourly workers are not to be bothered outside of working hours - so... when I leave, it's really not my problem (even though it sot of is). So great.
Xardrix · 18 points · Posted at 03:59:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thinking from incentive, I like salary. You get paid the same no matter how long it takes you to get the work done. So there is incentive to bust ass and get out. Hourly work just incentivizes people to take as long as their bosses allow short of disciplinary action.
DarkOmen597 · 4 points · Posted at 04:13:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yup. I remember at my first agency getting the days work done in about 4 hours and having to stay the full 8 just because.
Now my work load is larger so I work a solid 6-7 hours a day, but once I am done, I am done and can go home.
BongLifts5X5 · 6 points · Posted at 04:28:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Worked for a major game company. Hired me full time, telling me how lucky I should feel. Salary.
Had me working 60 hour weeks.
I felt worse for the contracted guys working day rates. They'd get 125 a day but that day could be 18 hours.
Have a complaint? GFY, there's a line of people who would suck a satchel full of cocks for your job.
1ndigoo · 1 points · Posted at 07:36:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
125/day is a terrible rate for a contractor, even at 8 hours per day.
BongLifts5X5 · 2 points · Posted at 08:12:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Talk to people who have worked for Rockstar Games.
Inquisitorsz · 4 points · Posted at 04:27:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Salary is awesome when your work load is what it's supposed to be.
JimmyRat · 9 points · Posted at 04:12:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One of the only ways you'll ever make big money though. No job is going to pay you $125 an hour, but $250K salaries exist.
honeybadger1984 · 4 points · Posted at 05:23:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You don't know consulting. I know scientists and phds who bill at $125 - $300 an hour. They send invoices for five figures monthly.
So yeah, they work less hours for a lot more pay than most salaried workers. Nice work if you can get it.
JimmyRat · -2 points · Posted at 05:42:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thanks for giving me anecdotal evidence.
coop_stain · 4 points · Posted at 05:36:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Never met a lawyer? Almost exclusively hourly and they usually bill around $500/hr for a decent one. Good ones can be a couple grand.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:44:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And if you are not a partner in the firm...odds are you're going to be salaried. Sure, your firm will BILL hourly on your behalf, but you're gonna get paid whatever they pay you. Law isn't like it was even 10 years ago.
JimmyRat · -1 points · Posted at 05:42:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thanks for listing a single profession that is an exception.
Pipes32 · 1 points · Posted at 15:00:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eh, we've got plenty of hourly employees in our sales department (all the folks who work 100% virtually, aka from home) and they are all making 6 figures. It's rare though, I agree.
JimmyRat · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What person in sales makes hourly? Sales is typically commission.
Pipes32 · 1 points · Posted at 04:39:02 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
The base pay is hourly, although we make commission as well; mine is 60/40 (base pay / commission).
JimmyRat · 1 points · Posted at 05:19:38 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's dope.
StrangeCharmVote · 2 points · Posted at 03:47:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not if you always nock off as soon as the clock ticks over...
I don't start before 9 and I don't work past 5. You want me outside of those 8 hours, you pay me a call-out fee, and overtime.
Deanmachine444 · 2 points · Posted at 04:34:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I left my "cushy" salary position making just under 50k. I was working 60-70 hours a week in a factory as a supervisor but the turnover and employment pool wasn't there. I was on the floor 12-14 hours a day doing the production jobs and covering our shortages. Yeah fuck salary.
Hobothug · 1 points · Posted at 04:03:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I graduated college, my parents were disappointed that I didn't land a salaried job. I could not, for the life of me, understand why. My hourly job pays just as much, if not more - because of the OT situation.
And then there's a paid holiday situation, where make 8 hours worth for the holiday, and then 1.5X if I actually work that day.
And bonuses are greater because they're a percentage of my pay, which is already greater because of all of the above, so that's great.
And yet, there's this fabulous stigma that the hourly workers are not to be bothered outside of working hours - so... when I leave, it's really not my problem (even though it sot of is). So great.
Letty_Whiterock · 1 points · Posted at 04:25:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Depends on where you work. Most of the time, it's pretty great.
Spaztic_monkey · 1 points · Posted at 04:27:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm salaried and work about 13 hours a week. Very very happy about it!
makenzie71 · 1 points · Posted at 04:33:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fuck that. I did a legitimate 18 hours of work the week before last and got my full 40.
Salary positions can be bad for a person, but they are not bad by design.
pyr666 · 1 points · Posted at 04:36:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
it depends on work flow.
thereddaikon · 1 points · Posted at 04:37:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Depends on the job really. There's also a difference between exempt and non exempt salary.
blacksoxing · 1 points · Posted at 04:55:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One of my coworkers just became my boss. She obviously became a salaried person. She now arrives at 9am and leaves at 5pm. Period.
Becoming salaried will change your life sometimes. I remember when I was salaried at my first job and wanted to remote in and work on something. My boss nearly threw me out the window. The audacity of working more than I needed to!!!!
Shenaniganz08 · 1 points · Posted at 04:56:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Who the hell told you that ? Maybe this is true for low income jobs, but everyone I know that makes over 200K+ a year is a salary job.
I'm a pediatrician, I'm absolutely glad I have a salary job that allows me to do my work and not have to focus on how many hours I'm putting in. In addition to that I get a production bonus.
SomeOtherCollegeGuy · 0 points · Posted at 06:32:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A lot of people expect you to stay past 5 if youre salaried. I use to live with a lady that literally never came home at 5. It was always 9-10 at night, and back to work in the morning. Shes stupid crazy though cuase thats all her life is, work.
Tyler1986 · 1 points · Posted at 04:57:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I guess, I'm salary and I make sure I don't work more than 40 hours a week, average 30-36. Occasionally I go over for deadlines and such, but I've been at my company for 3 years and the scale is heavily in my favor.
moratnz · 1 points · Posted at 04:58:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I find the US style of salaried employment (at least as depicted on here) to be weird as fuck. I'm salaried, and my contract sets out my expected hours of work; if I have to deviate from them unreasonably, my employer needs to recompense me for this somehow.
The fact that I'm salaried means that we don't need to micro manage things; if I work a few extra hours one week and a miss a few the next, we don't need to dick with my pay, as we would if I were an hourly worker. But if my employer tried to get me to work 50 hours a week on average, they'd be just as in breach of my contract as if I stoped showing up on Tuesdays.
Slacker5001 · 1 points · Posted at 04:59:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you actually land good benifits with it, not always. My dad is a salary man. And although he definitely works more than 40 hours a week a majority of the time, he also has good healthcare, great prescription drug coverage, a pension that he doesn't have to pay into in any way, a 401k on top of it with employee matching, more or less a guaranteed raise every year based on performance, a good amount of vacation, flexible work hours, and the possibility to work from home at least once a week.
Although he sometimes gets late night calls to fix things, has to work weekends 4 times a year, and works insane hours when there is a serious issue, he definitely seems happy with what he has.
If anyone is curious, he's 22 years in at a company that develops and produces prescription drugs as a systems analyst at the highest level he can go outside of management.
Antinode_ · 1 points · Posted at 05:01:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Unless you work under than 40 hours a week of course
lizzistardust · 1 points · Posted at 05:03:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I whole-heartedly agree. Hours worked should equal hours paid.
CFODad · 1 points · Posted at 05:04:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It usually works against us, the small employer. Salary means average hours drop precipitously initially, then level off at less than 40.
-manabreak · 1 points · Posted at 05:05:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Where I work, we're not taking any overtime, ever. If there's really a need to do overtime, the extra hours are claimed as free time later on. Each employee can only have 40 hours of flex time surplus. It's pretty nice and ensures that no one is overworked.
cqm · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eh I fair worse off with hourly work for the most part.
Unlimited vacation, being basically paid to learn, 35 hour weeks mostly beats contract work where im pretty much bringing a stagnating skillset to a job and get hit with self employment taxes on top of it
I have other sources of self employment income where I can rack up the tax deductions
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not for everyone. I work 40 a week and go home after 8 every day and make 80k.
HoPMiX · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah I worked freelance for most of my life.
When it was good. It was good. Work was coming in your bank account is fat. Make a big day rate. But the problem is after you experience a slow down and tough times, it sticks with you. So you learn to keep the iron hot. You take anything and everything and never say no. You end up working crazy amounts of hours to stay ahead. In my industry we go off day rates. That's 12 hours on. Burn out is real and you have to take time off. You don't make anything when you take time off and even two weeks off will slow down your demand. After 10 years of the hustle I finally burned out. I took a salary position with fantastic insurance. I roll in around 10. Leave around 6-7. pretty laid back with occasional moments of panic. I enjoy it mainly because I enjoy working hard and at a frantic pace. When it's time to work I work. On the flip, when I burn out I shut down completely. Like fuck off, turn off my Phone, don't answer emails fuck off.. When I freelanced I would never relax and enjoy my days off because I was worried about my accounts or someone would call and I would feel anxiety for missing the opportunity. On salary, I know that check is coming whether I'm checked out or not. It gives me a peace of mind. I know when I need out my company supports it. Yeah I may work a 70 hour week here and there. There are plenty where I work 10 also. I still have to be there so technically I'm working, but I show face at 10 and then at lunch an hit the bar down the street and get shit faced. Show back up and 6 and wave to my boss. Some times she goes and gets hammered with me. Plus not dealing with the health exchange and horrible insurance is a blessing. So maybe I am fortunate to have a job I don't mind and a company that supports mental health days. I'm sure there are a shit ton of horrible salary jobs. I had the call center jobs in college. Fucking kill me. My point is salary jobs don't always suck. I don't feel scammed at all.
Givemeawayoutofhere · 1 points · Posted at 05:30:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It depends. If you have a job that currently pays about $40k but limits you to 40 hours, while you have 50 hours a week to give, you're missing out on potential income. Especially if a comparable salaried position only requires 50 hours but pays almost twice as much.
This is of course considering that the vast majority of employers quite simply won't allow overtime. So there is no overtime pay.
If you have the choice between $20/hr with average 5 hr/wk overtime vs $50k/yr salary, choose the hourly rate unless other benefits are different. The average is close to the same, but the hourly job will always pay more if you're willing to pick up extra hours.
OnTheEveOfWar · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What? No it isn't. I make good money on salary and work less than 40 hrs per week
pdeluc99 · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Depending on if you do overtime.
FunkyMacGroovin · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not punching a time clock or worrying about tracking my hours is pretty awesome. If your employer isn't a scumbag and pays you commensurately with the work expected of you, being able to come and go as needed provided you meet all your deadlines is great.
AstroPhysician · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah, i work 34 hr weeks
ABLA7 · 1 points · Posted at 05:45:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
chuckles as he walks out of the office at 2pm on friday..
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've never had that impression of salaried positions.
anomanopia · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Like most things in life, it depends.
Viked31 · 1 points · Posted at 09:25:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not for my wife. Makes 86/hour salary if you count for 2080 hours a year. Some days longer. Some days less. And unlimited sick time.
megthekittenhoarder · 1 points · Posted at 04:13:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can confirm. Am teacher.
flyingcircusdog · 0 points · Posted at 02:35:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Unless you work less than 40 hours normally and get OT for working extra.
LukeInDenver · -3 points · Posted at 04:30:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
lol..hahahah. you are a fucking moron. hahahah...im sorry...let me calm down....so...yiu know all those people in life who are more succesful than you? they all work for a salary. you know all those people who are more rich than you? they all work for salary too. you know all those people who do highy technical and highly demanded work for large companies? they all work for salary...abd it isnt because they are being duped...i promise.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 04:15:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pretty sure they're still obligated to pay for overtime. Check your laws. There are a few professions that are exempt from this like teachers (which is bullshit).
scottyperry · 10 points · Posted at 04:01:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had a similar situation when management refused to promote to a job I was already doing leaving me as hourly. I was the only one in the position supporting my piece of the pie which means I was on call 24/7 for 2 years straight. So on top of the OT I ate up I was paid an additional $4 an hour when I was off the clock and time and a half when I got after hours tickets. Was suppose to be making about $40 and ended up bringing home aground 80.... all because they refused to promote me and pay me a competitive fair salary.
tbp0701 · 6 points · Posted at 04:31:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dude. As a one time salary employee who worked well over 70 hours a week I commend you.
Man that job sucked. And after a couple years my entire group was laid off, and I realized I'd lost touch with nearly everyone I knew outside of that job. Vowed not to neglect friendships over a job again.
unioncast · 16 points · Posted at 03:46:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nobody should ever work hours they are not paid for.
fightinscot · 12 points · Posted at 04:36:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I exploited a pay loophole when I worked at Kroger. The way the union contract was, anything 40 hours and under was regular and we also received 6th day pay. My off days were every other Sunday and Tuesday and Thursday on the weeks I worked Sunday. If I worked Sunday I would come in on Tuesday around 1 am, clock-in and write our delivery order for the next truck. It would take usually a couple hours and I would spend a half hour bullshitting with people and then I would clock-out and go home and continue my evening. I was usually around 21-22 hours at this point. I would then work 9 hours my next two shifts on Wednesday and Friday and put myself near 40 hours. On Saturday I would show up at 7 am and work until 5 and the entire day was not only time and a half, but double time due to being sixth day. I was getting nearly $27 an hour to stock shelves and deal with idiots. On weeks I was covering for a manager, I got their pay and would pull my normal hours and make $35 an hour.
LaDresdenMonkey · 4 points · Posted at 03:10:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're amazing
sonofaresiii · 4 points · Posted at 05:15:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fun story, in the US salaried employees get overtime just like everyone else. It's a great prank the businesses played on employees convincing them if they're salaried they can't be paid overtime.
Seriously, look it up. Spread the word. Whether you want to fight it or not is up to you, but I think it's funny how your "loophole" was just your legal right to be paid fairly.
E: just to clarify, not ALL salaried employees get overtime, there are obviously still exemptions, but it has nothing to do with whether you're salaried or not
rydan · 7 points · Posted at 02:38:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My first internship was supposed to be salaried but a recent law change made it hourly. So we weren't allowed to do overtime without permission or risk firing.
RachAitch · 8 points · Posted at 04:54:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's how my current job is, too. I worked 50-60hr weeks when I was salaried and now am supposed to carry the same workload in 40hrs. Not surprisingly, there are now many projects that I am months behind on or which will simply not get done. On the up side, my work-life balance is now much improved!
starcherj · 3 points · Posted at 03:56:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Same happened to me. Salary was $45,000 and supposed to be overtime exempt but nope. Several big projects came through and I averaged 60 hours a week for a year. That was a nice year.
AndrewNeo · 3 points · Posted at 04:23:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Non-exempt salary is a thing, you can actually make OT on salary. Most positions are handled as exempt, though.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 00:50:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
what job was this?
whistleridge · 7 points · Posted at 04:49:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You have got to be American. I've never met anyone from anywhere but the US that would see working 70+ hours per week for weeks at a time not just as a positive thing, but as something that's to be bragged about as being too good to be true. Pretty much any other nationality would see that as either exploitation (anywhere but east Asia) or theft (Japan, South Korea, maybe Canada).
Note: I'm American. No hate intended. We just have a fucked up national mindset as to our collective ideas of work/life balance.
unhelpfulandangry · 0 points · Posted at 05:36:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not something at all to brag about (maybe the glorification of busy is popular in some circles, but neither my buds in the US or my friends here think its funny), but it is a norm and your bosses aren't sorry (-greetings from Canada)
skydivingdutch · 12 points · Posted at 00:43:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They might make you pay it back....
[deleted] · 82 points · Posted at 01:06:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 49 points · Posted at 03:19:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
First to be laid off? Hmmm....I wonder why?
[deleted] · 40 points · Posted at 03:23:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Maybe because you were costing them more than they originally thought you were worth.
chromiselda · 26 points · Posted at 00:54:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Feign ignorance.
machingunwhhore · 6 points · Posted at 01:06:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This post will not help
Sandwich____ · 8 points · Posted at 01:33:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Virtually 0 chance they find his Reddit account
CharmyFrog · 6 points · Posted at 02:20:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hi, it's me. Your old boss.
Sandwich____ · 6 points · Posted at 03:25:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I fucked your daughter
throwaway_ghast · 0 points · Posted at 04:11:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
hey its me ur boss
911ChickenMan · 8 points · Posted at 02:40:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They can try, but they will fail. Once that money's in your account, it's yours. OP did have a duty to report the error, but they can't make him return the money.
Even if his employment contract said so, contracts usually don't override federal law.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 03:56:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
deleted What is this?
911ChickenMan · 2 points · Posted at 05:43:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just because an employer makes you sign something doesn't always mean it's legal. Sure, they can use contracts to enforce some policies, but they can't override existing laws.
Case in point: Many employers make you sign something saying you won't discuss wages with other coworkers. That is prohibited by the FLSA (fair labor standards act). If your coworkers are willing to, you're legally allowed to discuss wages, regardless of company policy.
It's like putting "We'll kill you if your performance drops" on a contract. Just because it's signed doesn't make it legal if it breaks another law.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 19:04:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
deleted What is this?
call_911_to_diddle · 3 points · Posted at 05:02:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And that's why I am a prostitute at night now...
911ChickenMan · 3 points · Posted at 05:25:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Four. Four times I've ran into you this month.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:37:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Are you sure? A lot of jobs have sign-on bonuses that you have to pay back if you leave within X amount of time. Can you really just not pay it back?
911ChickenMan · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This wasn't a sign on bonus though. They could go after OP for not reporting the error, but ultimately it's on them.
Arcade42 · 2 points · Posted at 03:53:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My dads job is typically salaried but he said he would only take wage pay knowing that there was a good chance of having to do overtime.
They gave it to him figuring he'd do a regular 40 hour work week or something but his department was very lazy so he often came in to pick up the slack making about double what he was "supposed" to make. I'm sure they'd try changing it but he would probably quit and his department is very lazy..
anustat · 2 points · Posted at 05:03:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was actually just contacted by an old employer who was reviewing books and said that they owed me prevailing wage for some of the projects I worked on. While I'm familiar with which projects required prevailing wage, I was an exempt salary employee at the time, which is not subject to prevailing wage AFAIK. Unless the state requires exempt positions to get an hourly rate at prevailing wage on public works projects, I'm not sure the company owes me anything. This will either be free money or a moral dilemma.
GummyKibble · 2 points · Posted at 06:18:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
OMG, this. I was brought in as an hourly contractor for a project, but still subject to overtime rules. The director of my department seemed to forget that when she promised a VP that we could get our month-scheduled project done in two weeks. In the last week, we were working 16 hour days to meet the stupid artificial deadline.
Guess which person in a room surrounded by salaried coworkers was grinning like an idiot at 11:30PM on a Saturday night? The same guy who clocked 101 hours (before counting time-and-half), that's who. I made over $8,000 that week. Monday's donuts were on me.
PS: Oh, sure, the VP lost his mind when he saw payroll that week, but the director was the one who set the schedule and got yelled at. I got praised for my dedication. Turns out, I can be bought.
Sellout2014 · 1 points · Posted at 04:34:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm in a similar situation now. Others in my role are salarised. I was promoted june last year from a wage position. Have asked multiple times about transferring to salaried, but nothing has happened. I have already overtaken the salary my peers are on, and financial year is open until end of June.
Old wage position was set assuming 78hrs a fortnight. New position finds me nearly 70hrs a week.
I'm going to be upset when the catch on...
mitso6989 · 1 points · Posted at 04:37:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm surprised HR didn't ask for the money back. I've had bonuses given to me by mistake at two large companies. Months later they asked for the money back as it was given to me in error. I don't work for large companies anymore.
Clavo_PR · 1 points · Posted at 04:45:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One reason to never accept a salary job.
fishwaters · 1 points · Posted at 04:46:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's awesome, why is it your old job now?
chhaperwal · 1 points · Posted at 04:54:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bwahh gaawd!!
am0x · 1 points · Posted at 04:57:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've only had hourly gigs and I love them. Older people scoff when I say that I'm not salary, but when I am making $20k (after taxes) more than my salaried peers a year because of overtime alone, I could care less what they think.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:00:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Id love to have that much of an increase lol
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:01:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do you work for B.A.R.T ?
bewilderedshade · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I bet someone got fired for that.
The_Kronorium · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Anything happen after they found out?
cafebrad · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Man , good for you. I understand salary usually means some unpaid overtime. But 20 hours or more? Forget it. I work a step down from my old position , and make more now because of time and a half. It makes a big difference.
Redfandango7 · 1 points · Posted at 05:24:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's a big jump from some free pizza.. damn
AdilB101 · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Holy shitsnacks
Sonicman1223 · 1 points · Posted at 05:38:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Were you ever not working? You essentially doubled an average work week.
crazywhiteb0y · 1 points · Posted at 10:14:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
During that time I was working 6 days a week up to 16 hours a day. It was usually from November till mid February, too cold to do anything fun anyway so I didn't mind it.
Earn as much money as possible for summer was my goal.
Dr_Marxist · 1 points · Posted at 05:38:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And that, folks is why either you should get a union, or never work salary.
Mexkimo · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's such bullshit about salary positions. They pay people for 40 hours but then seem to just expect people to work all sorts of hours for free.
NicolasMage69 · 1 points · Posted at 11:01:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So...you actually got paid for the work you put in? What a treasure!
shadedclan · -4 points · Posted at 03:56:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did a similar thing when I worked at a gym. I would clock in the usual 9-6 and then I'd work out 6-8 but I clock out only at 8pm so my overtime was actually me just working out.
Not_floridaman · 10 points · Posted at 04:32:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't think that's the same.
RudeDude88 · 2 points · Posted at 05:50:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
yea....thats fraud actually
schlauncha · 6093 points · Posted at 23:41:18 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ordering online from a certain pizza place, they added a feature to their website of "Repeat a past order". Well, remember that one time they had a special of $7 for a Large that normally cost $14? Yeah, I repeated that past order for about two years, $7 every time. They've now fixed it so special deals don't continue to apply.
911ChickenMan · 1725 points · Posted at 02:30:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The papa john's near me had a coupon code for $10 on any pizza, but it was only supposed to work Monday-Wednesday. I decided to try it on Friday once and it worked. Turned out they forgot to program in the days it was valid, so I had $10 everything pizzas for a year before they fixed it.
rydan · 706 points · Posted at 02:41:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I bought so much pizza in my 20s that I have a ton of free pizza rewards. Turns out it is just cheaper to buy from Dominos at full price with free delivery than to get a free Papa John's pizza and pay for delivery.
another_programmer · 189 points · Posted at 03:43:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
But dominos hasn't done free delivery for like half a year
HrBingR · 17 points · Posted at 04:38:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They do free delivery here. And in the U.K.
light24bulbs · 45 points · Posted at 05:08:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How could the reader know where "here" is?
ApexRedditr · 42 points · Posted at 05:22:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well we've eliminated the UK!
ChrisHutch90 · 14 points · Posted at 05:46:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
must be Guam, thats just my best guess from context clues
concrete_isnt_cement · 5 points · Posted at 06:08:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Google says that there are in fact three Dominos in Guam.
I'd assume since it's a US territory, it'd have the same delivery rules as the rest of the country.
Ballad-of-the-Cats · 4 points · Posted at 05:34:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I always just assume America.
light24bulbs · -5 points · Posted at 06:06:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Anyone that ethnocentric would have to be
Smaskifa · 2 points · Posted at 05:41:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dude it's right there!
HrBingR · 2 points · Posted at 06:22:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol, fair point. South Africa. My bad.
ChrisRunsTheWorld · 8 points · Posted at 04:49:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
He's probably not in his 20s anymore.
poboy030 · 0 points · Posted at 06:14:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Underrated comment
Bear_Cop · 3 points · Posted at 04:58:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Domino's delivery has always been pretty cheap for me. like $3 at most.
TokinStrokin · 1 points · Posted at 05:54:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Papa John's is the same though, at least where im at.
TokinStrokin · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Delivery is also like $2.50.
unicornlocostacos · 1 points · Posted at 06:25:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And let's face it, delivery is never free.
another_programmer · 3 points · Posted at 06:57:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was for dominos, for like 6 or 7 years with shoprunner, and shoprunner kept extending its free trial by 3 months as long as I used it 3 times in 3 months, which was easy ordering pizzas. Dominos dropped shoprunner though last year
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:17:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've been seeing dominos vehicles all over the place where I live recently.
g-g-g-g-ghost · 1 points · Posted at 12:43:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Worked for Domino's 5 years ago, we didn't do free delivery then either
another_programmer · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
okay, guess i just imagined not paying a delivery fee for 5.5 years https://www.internetretailer.com/2011/03/31/dominos-delivers-members-free-shipping-service
g-g-g-g-ghost · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Still not free delivery, they paid the fee. You might not have, but someone did.
another_programmer · 2 points · Posted at 19:17:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Maybe, but during college with no car, it was the difference between the driver getting a 50 cent tip, vs 2 bucks and change.
Now I just go pick it up
iamthejef · -14 points · Posted at 04:53:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Also dominoes pizza tastes like crap
st_gulik · 26 points · Posted at 04:59:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's better than that sugary papa johns crap.
ChaosPheonix11 · 1 points · Posted at 07:40:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A few years ago I might have agreed, but they have massively stepped up their gam in the last few years.
SpazzyBaby · 4 points · Posted at 04:07:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's really hard to actually pay full price for Dominos. At least in the UK.
moofishies · 5 points · Posted at 03:30:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah but Papa Johns is way better
virus_ridden · 55 points · Posted at 03:38:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ahhh I see you're a flavorless cardboard enthusiast.
Captain1upper · 19 points · Posted at 03:41:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Says the Dominoes fan.
ExtraSmooth · 27 points · Posted at 03:53:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't think anyone can really be considered a "Dominoes fan". Some of us are just more tolerant than others.
Endulos · 23 points · Posted at 03:59:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hi, Dominoes fan here!
I will defend Dominoes to the death because I know for a fact there are WORSE pizza places that exist.
I know of 2 local places that make hands down the WORST pizza on the face of this earth.
Dominoes may not be the best pizza ever, but compared to those local places, it's GOLD.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 04:08:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Endulos · 10 points · Posted at 04:21:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't know what Aldis is.
But, they're bad. The one is fucking horrid.
You'd think "Wow, if the pizza is that bad, how are they open? Heck? When did they open?"
THEY OPENED IN 197FUCKING7. They have been open for 40 years now and they're still not closed. What's worse is people eat there and say it's the best fucking pizza they've ever had! THAT SHIT IS NO FUCKING WHERE NEAR AS GOOD AS EVEN DOMINOES OR PIZZA HUT.
Dominoes and Pizza Hut are SUPPOSED to be the shitty pizza places of the world and they're leagues and miles ahead of them.
The OTHER pizza place just tastes... Stale. They must cook with old ingredients because everything has a stale crappy taste to it. It's another place people eat and say "Mmmm... This pizza is soooo good!".
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:23:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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afakefox · 2 points · Posted at 04:53:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's one of those in my hometown of 2000. An ice cream place that I only saw open one time in my life and all they had was chocolate vanilla and strawberry. I just tried looking them up and there's no trace of them on the internet.
prancingElephant · 2 points · Posted at 15:21:00 on March 8, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sounds like a front for money laundering.
rklamer · 8 points · Posted at 04:13:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You know you're in a bad place when your fans defend you with "there are worse places to eat!" :P
ChrisRunsTheWorld · 4 points · Posted at 04:51:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And those places are hands down the WORTS pizza on the face of this earth.
Salivanth · 1 points · Posted at 05:11:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dominoes: There are worse places. I mean, if you look hard enough.
Alt_dimension_visitr · 3 points · Posted at 04:14:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
FOr a chain, its gold.
Jonas42 · 1 points · Posted at 04:49:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Where do you live?
Endulos · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Southern Ontario, but I'd rather not get more specific than that.
nerbovig · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're in Detroit, aren't you? We're all friends here, you can admit it.
Jonas42 · 1 points · Posted at 03:03:56 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
But what are you wearing?
jk. Just interesting to me to hear about chains being better than local places. Here in New Jersey (with a giant Italian-American population), it's almost always the opposite.
IAmMelonLord · 1 points · Posted at 06:10:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I believe you. I lived in the Washington D.C. Area for about a year and despite my best efforts I could NOT find a decent slice of pizza. (Well by best efforts I mean what I could get delivered) I think subconsciously that was one reason I moved back to central pa. Surprisingly good slices
Smash_4dams · 1 points · Posted at 05:15:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Domino's wins at crust, but Papa Johns wins on toppings. Plus Papa Johns has way better garlic knots (better than some "real" pizza restaurants imo)
blondjokes · 1 points · Posted at 06:15:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wait I'm confused, how is a $10 pizza with $0 delivery cheaper than a $0 pizza with $2.50 delivery?
Itr0llhoe · 1 points · Posted at 06:56:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I grew up with Round Table and a few local places.
I can't do Dominos, Little Caesar's, or Pizza Hut. I really just can't. The cheap, instant pizza taste is too much for me.
rydan · 1 points · Posted at 07:51:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Little Caesar's is the worst. It is cheap but terrible. I remember loving it as a kid though.
Itr0llhoe · 1 points · Posted at 08:57:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There is so much food you love as a kid that you grow up and you're like Jesus this is foul!
erichw23 · 1 points · Posted at 10:58:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dominoes has never had free delivery in my area that i can remember
MrScaryDude · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah but Domino's tastes like ASS.
siegewolf · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I tried to do PJ multiple times and Domino's is always significantly cheaper.
NIPPLE_POOP · 276 points · Posted at 03:05:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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911ChickenMan · 23 points · Posted at 03:09:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I go to retailmenot for coupon codes, it works pretty good.
NIPPLE_POOP · 34 points · Posted at 03:31:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Alt_dimension_visitr · 3 points · Posted at 04:15:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
thats LPT material right there.
glovesoff11 · 3 points · Posted at 04:33:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
pizzacodes.com just goes to retailmenot.
minnia · 9 points · Posted at 03:45:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mmm, fluffy puffy pizza cakes...
M3g4d37h · 3 points · Posted at 05:21:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I worked at PJs for a couple years. The pizza to me was okay, but it smacked of being not too anything. Not very Italian, just sort of bland -- And FFS, they put the pepperonis under the cheese, a goddamned abomination.
The_Rick_Sanchez · 2 points · Posted at 06:35:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why do they fucking do that? I once got a pizza from them and asked for bacon. Under the cheese it was nothing but bacon fat. Chewy slimy looking bacon fat.
M3g4d37h · 2 points · Posted at 06:48:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I suspect that John Schnatter has no idea wth a pizza even is.
mwilkens · 14 points · Posted at 03:41:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Papa Johns has the worst pizza of any major chain. It just tastes bland like they don't use any seasoning in the sauce.
jnordwick · 2 points · Posted at 05:31:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
True talk. Their sauce is a travesty. It shouldn't even be called sauce. The rest is good though. I would order there more of they fixed the sauce problem.
burf · 1 points · Posted at 06:33:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't agree at all. Dominos is garbage (was garbage, and is now slightly less bad garbage), Pizza Hut is just grease soaked bread, and I have no idea what other (presumably) American chains you've got, but I'd be very surprised if Papa Johns was legit the blandest thing around.
PurpleVoltage · 1 points · Posted at 11:56:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Order the hand tossed crust. It really makes all the difference.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:24:23 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dominos has some dope crust. Papa Johns crust is pretty bland, but you can pile on toppings if you want since they don't charge based on topping count.
Pizza Hut is ass-tier.
wolferoo · 5 points · Posted at 03:44:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to go there pretty much every weekend to order Papa John's with the best deal. A lot of coupons could even be combined.
Then I stopped being broke and started ordering pizza that has flavor from a local non-chain.
Letty_Whiterock · 4 points · Posted at 04:32:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well, yeah. What, you want pizza made on a cracker or something?
Nihongeaux · 4 points · Posted at 04:36:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Papa John's is the first pizza place I think of when you say "fluffy puffy pizza cakes". Not to be contradictory, that's just my honest opinion.
burf · 1 points · Posted at 06:32:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Their outer crust is certainly puffier. I do see how the inner crust is relatively flat compared to, say, Pizza Hut, though.
AdilB101 · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That must've been one hell of a site.
Hydris · 1 points · Posted at 05:45:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I really miss pizzacodes.com. I used it so much before is stopped working
Poopy_Dildo · 40 points · Posted at 03:01:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, but then you had to eat Papa Johns.
911ChickenMan · 5 points · Posted at 03:10:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't judge me!
Magnatross · 1 points · Posted at 07:17:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was gonna say that Papa John was pulling out the gambits
Noisetorm_ · 1 points · Posted at 03:21:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pizza is pizza.
TheMy5teryMan · 0 points · Posted at 03:27:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
papa johns deep dish is really good though
Poopy_Dildo · -1 points · Posted at 03:36:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I hate to break it to you, but no chain pizza place is good pizza.
VpCharles · 0 points · Posted at 03:33:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hahaha good one
BeardedForMyPleasure · 3 points · Posted at 05:16:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Jokes on you! They still made money hand over fist at that price!
911ChickenMan · 2 points · Posted at 05:24:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I know, but like hell I'm paying $18 for an everything pizza. $10 is a good deal, and you get the rewards points on top of it. I also remember they had the "pay with visa checkout, get a free pizza" deal.
FireLucid · 2 points · Posted at 03:55:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have a voucher that pizza hut put out on social media years ago. It did not have an end date on the promotion. I will use it till the day I die (Australia, everything has an end date printed on it).
therealskankhunt42 · 2 points · Posted at 04:17:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
But it was from Papa John's so it's kind of a push.
911ChickenMan · 1 points · Posted at 05:38:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The one in my town is pretty good, but I've heard it's hit-and-miss depending on where you go.
Gypsy_Cowboy · 2 points · Posted at 05:15:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just to let you know, it not a bug. They got you to order from them for a tear avd nit the other guy. It worked.
911ChickenMan · 2 points · Posted at 05:25:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
But I normally order from them anyway, and that's still the best price in my area for an everything pizza.
Blawill5500 · 2 points · Posted at 06:21:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At a papa johns near me, I found a loophole where I would order online and ask to have it square cut. They kept on forgetting to cut the pizza this way and each time they gave me a free pizza.
911ChickenMan · 1 points · Posted at 06:28:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I love it square cut but I'm afraid that it will be an extra hassle. Do any pizza guys here know how much extra work it takes?
Sometimes I'll also get it uncut and rip it apart like a barbarian.
dgibbons0 · 2 points · Posted at 06:31:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In highschool we ended up with some coupon cards for free breadsticks from papajohns, used them for YEARS and they never asked for the coupon when they'd show up.
IDrinkUrMilksteak · 4 points · Posted at 03:17:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
$10. Papa Johns. You were overcharged.
911ChickenMan · 1 points · Posted at 03:24:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Maybe if it was a plain cheese pizza, but I loaded them up with 6 and 7 toppings.
loganv870 · 2 points · Posted at 03:40:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Same thing with the Papa John's by my college. There's a 50% off coupon thats supposed to only work after the basketball team wins a home game, but it always works.
demoux · 2 points · Posted at 04:13:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In college, I lived off campus and had a Papa John's near me that had a good deal on a large pizza with valid student ID.
One week before I graduated, I got my ID reissued by the school. I just told the bored security student worker I had lost mine. It was printed with "issued on [that days date]".
I milked student discounts for another five years. Not just with Papa John's, but anywhere that had them.
nononopotato · 1 points · Posted at 03:48:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Papa johns also hasn't stopped the "25OFF" promo code that gets you 25% off your entire order (I only ever order from there now)
911ChickenMan · 1 points · Posted at 05:44:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes, but that only applies to full price items and can't be combined. If you're getting anything other than a plain cheese pizza, you're best off using a different coupon.
DerekAllenDean · 1 points · Posted at 04:07:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
999ewm. It makes a large pizza $10 Monday - Wednesday.
911ChickenMan · 1 points · Posted at 05:38:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep. That's the one I used, but it used to work all the time.
orlandodad · 1 points · Posted at 04:31:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have a slackbot that will track all the local teams that have Papa John's deals and post in the promo code for the next day if they won.
De-Chubasco · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Feels more like, They abused the loophole ,not you .
Doctursea · 1 points · Posted at 05:37:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A few weeks ago I found a deal on Papa John's that allowed 2$ pizza's until they fixed it. I could get a pizza delivered for less than the same amount of food at mcdonalds.
ninjacapo · 0 points · Posted at 04:18:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You pay more than $10 for pizza? Coupon codes my dude. It's almost always at least 40% off
911ChickenMan · 1 points · Posted at 05:37:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, it's 40% off a full priced pizza. A large cheese pizza is regularly priced $13 at my local papa johns. Toppings are $1.50 each.
Extra cheese, bacon, onions, peppers, sausage, pepperoni. That's 9 dollars just in toppings (I usually get more toppings, too).
That's $22 for a full priced everything pizza. 60% of that would be $13.20. I'm better off using the $10 for any pizza, any toppings deal.
ninjacapo · 2 points · Posted at 13:24:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hmm usually only costs me 9.30 to get a large. Maybe the papa johns near my campus has different pricing?
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 05:50:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, but you had to eat papa johns...
911ChickenMan · 2 points · Posted at 06:02:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What's with all the papa johns hate? I know it's not gourmet, but it's "I have $10 and want some greasy pizza to stuff in my fat face" food. You're like someone who complains that Taco Bell isn't Mexican food. Who gives a shit?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah man, I love Taco Bell, and I love pizza. I just think papa johns tastes like shit compared to every other pizza chain. Definitely worse than dominos or Pizza Hut, probably even worse than little Caesars.
GenocideSolution · 0 points · Posted at 05:57:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haha, joke's on you every time you ordered pizza from them they still made money and you spent way more on pizza than if you just ordered once or twice at regular price.
bentheawesome69 · 48 points · Posted at 00:56:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dominos?
Tesser4ct · 54 points · Posted at 02:10:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Could be Pizza Hut too. In fact, they have 50% off pizzas for online orders right now.
Mrzeldaootfan · 28 points · Posted at 02:21:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
thanks for telling us this, ik what im doing for dinner now
Tesser4ct · 2 points · Posted at 02:29:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You bet! I was delivering them since store open today and finally got to go home lol. It's a one week deal which ends tomorrow I think, so it's been a busy but good week.
Mrzeldaootfan · 1 points · Posted at 02:32:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
i got no emails about this, i hope i have some money left after spendingg so much at my 1k pokemom tcg tournament
Tesser4ct · 2 points · Posted at 02:45:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you are a Hut Lovers member and opted to get emails about specials, etc., you should have got it. Otherwise its a on a big banner ad thing on the top of the site.
edit: They should have ran some commercials on tv.
Mrzeldaootfan · 1 points · Posted at 03:14:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
then i wouldnt have seen it then, been out all week for pokemon
Splodgerydoo · 1 points · Posted at 03:05:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm a delivery driver for Pizza Hut but I haven't heard this offer. Granted, I live in Canada, probably different
Tesser4ct · 1 points · Posted at 03:14:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah I doubt it's the same between countries. I don't even know for sure if it's everywhere in the US.
AssCrackSnort · 1 points · Posted at 03:03:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Shitting your pants?
MewtwoStruckBack · 2 points · Posted at 04:58:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If he ate Pizza Hut that's probably a pretty good guess.
meme-com-poop · 2 points · Posted at 03:58:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I just wish their breadsticks didn't suck or I'd get Pizza Hut a lot more often.
LemonJongie23 · 1 points · Posted at 04:26:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You shut your fucking mouth
meme-com-poop · 2 points · Posted at 05:37:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Maybe they're different where you live. All of mine are some flat, cardboard texture crap.
CodeMonkeys · 2 points · Posted at 04:46:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Barely even worth it to do that, though. Just abuse the survery system, you can do it twice a week and you get a $10 off a $20 order coupon every time.
They've patched it several times but they never get rid of the core concept, so I don't think this'll ever not be worth it unless they remove it entirely. I don't object to doing it too much since, at least locally, they keep raising prices.
just_let_him_finish · 2 points · Posted at 02:57:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nice try, Pizza Hut.
Tesser4ct · 2 points · Posted at 03:00:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I mean I've worked there for like 4 months but I just work there. (I am not Pizza Hut.)
Not_floridaman · 3 points · Posted at 04:41:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thou doth protest too much?
FPSXpert · 1 points · Posted at 06:13:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Another tip: A lot of their receipts have a promo where you do the survey on the back and your next order of $20 or more will have $10 taken off.
I may have used this a f--k ton back in my lifeguarding days. Still managed to drop a couple hundred on pizza in a season so I think they won in the end.
beepbloopbloop · 0 points · Posted at 04:00:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This comment provided to you by your local Pizza Hut!
black_brotha · -1 points · Posted at 03:03:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
yeah...there's absolutely no way you could be a pizza hut shill...
its not like we all know corporations exploit reddit to their benefit.
Tesser4ct · 3 points · Posted at 03:13:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I know they do and I hate it too. I seriously just work there though.
SirRogers · 1 points · Posted at 04:41:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A while back I used a Buy One Get One Free coupon code for about a year. I couldn't even believe it. Man that was a good year.
speedtouch · 1 points · Posted at 05:05:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Somewhat related, I found that the Dominos coupon codes followed a simple 4 number pattern, for example: coupon code 9801 might give you 2 mediums for X dollars, and 9806 might give you some other discount. So I tested different numbers and found 1 code for free cinnamon sticks and 1 code for free cheese bread. Turns out they're reuseable too, so for the next few years every time I ordered from Dominos I got free cinnamon sticks and cheese bread.
I've moved cities since then and it seems like the coupon codes are tied to a specific restaurant (or city) and my new local Dominos doesn't have any codes for free things like that.
ShelSilverstain · 5 points · Posted at 03:55:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A pizza place near me is set up in such a way that they can't add the price of additional toppings if you have your cookies disabled. Been ordering online this way for years
Not_floridaman · 0 points · Posted at 04:47:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
ELI5 please, /u/shelsilverstain I understand cookies on the computer and I understand ordering pizza but can you please explain how the two effect each other in this regard?
ShelSilverstain · 2 points · Posted at 04:52:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hell if I know, I ain't computer good. I just noticed it one day
OneTwoILoveRedditToo · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lmao
bsep1 · 1 points · Posted at 04:59:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When you customize the pizza, the website probably stores your custom pizza as a cookie until you go to check-out. The ID of each topping would be added to the cookie I assume. For some reason, the place doesn't sync prices from the server side, but from client side. Really awkward system.
(This is just my guess, IDK what site OP is talking about)
meat_tunnel · 3 points · Posted at 03:28:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine ordered a groupon for her local pizza joint that was similar in price, they never redeemed it so she would order delivery from them a couple times a month using the same coupon over and over.
duk3nuk3m · 2 points · Posted at 04:51:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think some places allow "loop holes" like that for competitive business. If you keep using the deal at least you are still ordering from them. Pizza Hut has a similar trick. You can get a $10 off $20 or more for doing their survey on a receipt. Well if you always get their $20 box deal and use the coupon then you get a receipt and can do that next time. It's way cheaper than any other pizza place around us so it's hard to justify getting pizza somewhere else.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:57:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a programmer, this is one of the many things we tend to forget that the lazy testers marked as passed. :(
apjashley1 · 1 points · Posted at 03:29:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My Pizza *Hut code reduced the order to £0. I actually got free pizza. I tried to pay but they said they have no way to charge me if the total is zero.
TheAndrewBrown · 1 points · Posted at 03:49:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pizza Hutt does the opposite. They always have a "Two medium pizzas for $6.99" deal that me and my fiancé like to use, but if we try to do the reorder thing, it charges full price.
wwlink1 · 1 points · Posted at 04:03:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My exploit was from a pizza place. Here in the Maritimes we have lots of Grecco Pizza places. Well I live about 20 minutes away from one and they don't deliver to my area code. I live in a very rural area in Nova Scotia. But you can order and request delivery online. They had a system that checked your address and if you're on the list where delivery is available. Well my house in my subdivision was the only one where it said delivery available. Everytime they come with pizza they give the same speech every time how they don't deliver out here and that my online account will be put on a blocked list..... I've made over 20 different accounts with the same address. And they still bring pizza.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:09:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have a coupon for buy one get one free large pizzas. I just go in and show them ge coupon but I never let them take it
SomeRandomOtherGuy · 1 points · Posted at 04:17:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had a code for free large pizza from papa johns on your first online order, I now have dozens of papa john accounts. Paid 3.50 for delivery and tipped well.
ChzzHedd · 1 points · Posted at 04:30:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Anyone who ever pays full price for delivery pizza is a sucker.
needzmoarlow · 1 points · Posted at 04:32:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've been getting an extra large two topping pizza for $10 for the last two years thanks to repeat last order. That's the regular menu price of a medium for like twice as much pizza.
syon_r · 1 points · Posted at 04:45:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I am still able to do this with Pizza Hut
Bdub421 · 1 points · Posted at 05:00:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pizza 73 emailed me a short survey that will generate a code for 3 free pops. Been using that email for awhile and still worked last time I tried.
awesometographer · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ordered a pizza today from Pizza Hut. 50% off any menu item. Large super supreme for $8. they have a 'repeat order' option. let's see next week...
scrapitcleveland · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have a $7.99 large 3 topping for Hungry Howies coupon code I've been exploiting for about a year.
yo_kirito · 1 points · Posted at 06:12:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got about $250 of free appetizers and discounts from Boston Pizza. If you ordered a certain number of times online (and one your first order) you got free food and a discount code. Once you used them there were greyed out. So every time after that I just typed the codes in manually. After a while the driver started asking me how I was doing this. I just started ordering from there less. They never caught on somehow.
DoxBox · 1 points · Posted at 06:13:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Heck I used the "repeat last order" to get things that weren't even current items. Pizza Pizza used to have an apple crumble cheesecake, and for a while after it was off the menu I'd still get it with the "repeat last order" part of their online ordering. Guess they still had some in the freezers or something.
adamfrost01 · 1 points · Posted at 06:19:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I havent paid full price for Papa johns in years. They CONSTANTLY have promos, especially living in Phoenix where every sports teams have promos associated with them. Also check out Hungry howies, you can stack coupons.
reverendsteveii · 1 points · Posted at 08:04:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
For my fellow delivery pizza friends, retailmenot almost always has a bogo coupon for big chains if you order online
Mouse-Keyboard · 1 points · Posted at 02:53:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why aren't you naming it if they've already stopped it?
riali29 · 1 points · Posted at 03:26:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Papa John's near my university's campus had a 50% off your order deal once, and the coupon code for online ordering never expired. We all got 50% off for several months past the intended expiry date.
In_Yo_Mouf · 1 points · Posted at 03:33:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah..but now you're fat...worth it?....totally
pancakesandspam · 0 points · Posted at 03:51:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did something similar with a pizza shop who happened to print coupons in the local paper. This was in the late 90s, so newspapers were starting to also put their crap online. I discovered that the coupons were on their website, which meant that I could print out as many as I wanted.
This pizza joint in particular had a pizza meal with two big slices, a soda, and a cookie, for normally like $5, but with coupon it was $3.50. They also had whole pizzas for like $8 after coupon, normally $10.I edited the specific coupons so that I could print like a dozen of it on one piece of paper. Then I'd print them out, trim out the individual coupons, and gave them to all my friends.
After a few months, the pizza place started getting annoyed. Apparently the coupons had spread, college kids had been copying them, and it was costing the shop a bit of money. So they updated the coupons in the paper to have less of a discount, and to also have an expiration date (the previous ones didn't).
Well, thankfully I'd saved the images of the coupons to my computer's hard drive, so we kept using them for at least a year. I moved away shortly after, but last I heard, folks kept using them for quite a while. Makes me wonder just how many thousands of dollars I cost that poor little pizza shop.
__PM__ME__NUDES__ · 1126 points · Posted at 01:29:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I accidentally have HBO now for free. I canceled my subscription, they stopped taking money but it still works.
you_made_me_do_this · 849 points · Posted at 03:36:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My grandparents did this with cable for 38 years. It stayed on until the the digital conversion.
Daniel15 · 826 points · Posted at 04:54:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
38 years of free cable? I think they win this thread.
MactheDog · 38 points · Posted at 05:50:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't know Dan, did you read about the guy with the patch kits?
scrooge_mc · 2 points · Posted at 10:20:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That was a great deal if he already planned on spending a huge amount since he still spent $7,500.
MactheDog · 2 points · Posted at 16:23:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You sure? He said he bought each additional patch kit for 1 penny and $14.99 of the credit that he earned from the first kit.
scrooge_mc · 1 points · Posted at 14:19:11 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Maybe I completely misread it because I thought he said he paid 14.99 for the kits and got 30 in credit.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 06:08:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My dad moved into a house maybe twelve years ago. Out of curiosity he hooked up the cable line to a tv and sure enough he went years with basic cable and never got a single bill. That also ended with digital conversion.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 05:09:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Worked at a cable company for 5 years before Ethernet digital switch in rural areas when people would disconnect Thier advances stuff many techs would just out cancel codes on boxes and not send a tech because this reduced handle times so if people hooks up coax they could get cable without the extra shot free.
Keepitreal46 · 33 points · Posted at 05:48:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I read that twice and I don't understand any of the last sentence
BarryManpeach · 47 points · Posted at 05:51:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't understand any of the only sentence
Six_String_Reshi · 8 points · Posted at 06:22:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You apparently didn't make the switch, then, because in reading the black make the shot hook free
Nymall · 5 points · Posted at 06:34:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The people would get internet through Coax cable, but it would also natively have cable running through it. So, if they hooked it up to their TV, free cable.
JAJA128 · 2 points · Posted at 13:37:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cox? Or Coax?
Nymall · 4 points · Posted at 15:52:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Coaxial cable. You know, the cable that has the screwy bit on the end.
JAJA128 · 2 points · Posted at 17:15:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ah thank you was confused for a bit there.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 06:32:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You mean the first sentence?
jujukamoo · 8 points · Posted at 05:46:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I worked at a cable company during the digital conversion. We'd get a couple phone calls a day from people who lucked out for years getting free cable. They were pissed they weren't getting it for free and would expect me to turn it back on for free and be compensated in some way.... How about no.
GirlWhoWrites2 · 3 points · Posted at 05:50:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My brother and I had free cable for a year. When we moved into the apartment, the cable company just never disconnected cable from that address when the previous tenant moved. For all I know, whoever lives there now (5 years later) might still be getting free cable.
ty88 · 2 points · Posted at 05:58:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
About 13 years ago in a city where apartments turn over fairly frequently, this was the norm. We'd move into a new apartment, hook up the cable to the wall, and ~50% of the time the cable company wouldn't have turned off the service from the previous tenant.
One time a friend didn't have service on move-in, but signed up for a cable TV + internet deal, cancelled the TV part after the promo expired, and continued getting service anyway.
This was during a transition to digital when you could still opt for non-digital basic cable. I guess the companies just couldn't be bothered. A few years later digital was mandatory and the jig was up.
jecowa · 1 points · Posted at 06:38:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If they were still offering analogue tv service, they probably weren't able to give him cable internet without also giving him all the channels that didn't require a cable tv box.
fenderguy94 · 1 points · Posted at 06:05:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's awesome. My dad told me in the 80s he used to live right next to my grandparents. Apparently the inside of an extension cord was the same as a coax at the time, so he just ran one from their house to his.
blueberry-yum-yum · 1 points · Posted at 06:15:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
ah analog cable, the company i used to work at would send techs out put in moca filters to stop the analog stations when someone disconnected. with digital cable only time tech needs to go out is if a physical connection needs to be provided
YogiNurse · 1 points · Posted at 09:56:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We pay for basic cable, but for some reason are able to get all of the channels. We don't have the big fancy cable box, just the small one, so we don't have on demand or anything, but still it's cool nonetheless.
Cmonster9 · 1 points · Posted at 02:00:34 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Happened to me at a old house. We canceled the cable but the tech cut only one cable. The cable he cut was to my room only. So every person in my house had cable for free except for me.
[deleted] · 114 points · Posted at 01:32:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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__PM__ME__NUDES__ · 126 points · Posted at 01:37:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah it was months ago.
naatkins · 23 points · Posted at 03:55:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had Hulu plus like that for about two years before it stopped.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 04:32:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Likewise my Tello phone plan, 2 free months.
LunarProphet · 15 points · Posted at 04:45:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Brazzers, about 3 months.
tallstoner · 5 points · Posted at 05:00:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We have a winner, ladies and gents!
LaterGatorPlayer · 5 points · Posted at 05:27:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hulu plus without paying for Hulu plus is the only way I'd go back to watching commercials.
naatkins · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah - we started paying for it again when it stopped being free, but as soon as they had the no commercial option we went to that.
LaterGatorPlayer · 1 points · Posted at 14:56:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's my understanding that Hulu does not have a 'no commercial' option. Only less-commercial option
naatkins · 2 points · Posted at 16:33:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah - there's a few channels that still have them, but for the most part, I don't see any.
BbbbbbbDUBS177 · 3 points · Posted at 05:21:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I still had Amazon Prime video for about two months after the trial period ended
Fashion_Hunter · 2 points · Posted at 05:24:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Depending on who you have the service through they may bill it back to you if they find out you have the service without paying, even if you tried to cancel. Just a heads up.
admirablefox · 1 points · Posted at 06:33:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had the same thing for about 6 months or so. It eventually stopped about 6 or 7 months ago, and I've not been charged. I think he's safe.
Doesnt_Draw_Anything · 1 points · Posted at 06:30:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If its comcast, it should stop working about a year after you canceled your subscription. Happened to me, I was able to use anything that required a cable login, hbo, fx, adultswim. Stop working a year later to the month.
Forvalaka · 10 points · Posted at 04:48:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Same thing happened to me. I called them 3 times and told them I had canceled but it was still working. Then I just said screw it. I felt I had gone overboard to try not to cheat them. My conscience was clear.
SoundOstrich · 10 points · Posted at 05:12:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My parents haven't paid their trash bill in the better half of two decades after a similar situation. They just stopped getting charged, and made multiple calls to the company to fix it. They kept getting the whole "thanks for calling, we'll look into it" line but nothing ever changed. They finally just kind of said "eh fuck it, we tried. Free trash service I guess"
tL1ght · 27 points · Posted at 03:58:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
PM_Me_your_log_in
dbzgtfan4ever · 3 points · Posted at 05:53:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
PM sent.
Redderact42 · 2 points · Posted at 06:05:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Imposter!
JetAirliner1 · 8 points · Posted at 03:22:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have HBO that I do not pay for, and a subscription to Sunset magazine...
Dowisetrepla · 8 points · Posted at 03:44:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This happened with Hulu Plus for me a few years back. I cancelled after a trial but was still able to use it until they caught on about a year and a half later.
quietly47 · 4 points · Posted at 04:57:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This has been happening to me with amazing prime for years. My old card expired and it just auto renews everytime. I am to scared to ask amazon about it.
coonwhiz · 3 points · Posted at 05:34:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is it showing up on your statement for your credit card that replaced the expired one? Sometimes credit card companies will continue to charge the new card if the previous card had recurring payments set up.
CalculatedPerversion · 1 points · Posted at 06:50:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have something similar to this going on. Scheduled payment keeps being authorized on my card every month but never gets charged because the expiration / code changed. Oops.
maekkell · 3 points · Posted at 05:32:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't know if mine is a glitch or what, but I get Game of Thrones on Xfinity's On Demand for free. It might just be something Comcast offers to one-up DirectTV or whatever, but I'm not about to call them and let them know haha.
chrismaxx · 3 points · Posted at 06:01:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I currently have a similar bonus happening right now. I'm in Aus and recently started using a VPN. Since I am always logged in to Netflix on my browser, when my VPN is active and I set it to somewhere in the US it sends me to the US Netflix. My entertainment options opened right up!
ivanwarrior · 3 points · Posted at 16:37:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My mom called to complain to Comcast about something last year so the customer retention people lowered their bill by $15, doubled their internet speed, and gave them free HBO and Starz. I I live 400 miles away but I still have access to my parents email address and an Xbox One. I don't pay for cable this year but I do have the Xbox One app for NBC, NBC sports, ESPN, HBO, and of course my parents Netflix account. It's a pretty common thing for college kids to do but I'm so happy my mom called to complain that day. They weren't even go to switch providers because Comcast is the only cable provider in our area that offers CBC and we have to have Hockey Night In Canada.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:39:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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coonwhiz · 2 points · Posted at 05:33:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep, same here. I'm tempted to try it again once Game of Thrones starts up again, and if I end up paying for a couple months oh well...
Meta2048 · 2 points · Posted at 05:05:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Worked in cable before. You would be shocked at the number of people getting free cable who called in to complain that it was not working. If they were bitchy, they got a free truck roll to fix the mistake.
TheMcSqueeze · 2 points · Posted at 05:44:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We got the Disney Channel and HBO like this for nearly 4 years. They game us a 3 month promo once and never turned it off. Never charged us for it and we got free channels. As a kid it was awesome.
Uzikriaz · 2 points · Posted at 06:05:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Similar thing happened for me, but it was amazon prime. I had free shipping on basically everything for 4 years.
ryoe123 · 2 points · Posted at 08:09:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I cancelled my subscription months ago as well when I was watching Westworld. The app still lets me use it as if I have a sub still.
kittykatinabag · 1 points · Posted at 04:49:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have the same thing but with Amazon Prime. I'm sure my mom's credit card that I originally signed up with is cancelled now, but I still have Prime! Either that or my mom keeps paying it every year and just not mention it to me.
mlacuna96 · 2 points · Posted at 05:36:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Same thing for me. I forgot to cancel after trial and called and got it refunded. Like a month later I realized I still had prime and had free prime for a year. But it kinda worked in their favor because I loved it so much, I renewed my account and have been paying for it for a few years now!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:32:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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CalculatedPerversion · 1 points · Posted at 06:51:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You would have to give them the new info though.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm doing that with Groove Music.
prowlin · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah it'll still work until Season 7 Episode 1 of GOT comes, that'll be the day it cancels.
Woodshadow · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Want to throw that out there. I work at an apartment community and at one point during management company take over a few residents stopped getting charged their monthly pet fee. It is still in their lease and they still owed it 10 months later. Different situation but make sure you are 100% sure you aren't legally owing anything
KingGumboot · 1 points · Posted at 05:56:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have HBO for free for the same reason, except I cancelled it after signing up because I can't watch it in my country (they helpfully didn't tell me that until after I signed up) so I have an ongoing free HBO subscription that I can't actually watch
prancingElephant · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:19 on March 8, 2017 · (Permalink)
You should sell it to an American
idontevenarse · 1 points · Posted at 06:10:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My cable is just like that. Cancelled subscription, but they never cut the feed. Their loss.
FeralMuse · 1 points · Posted at 06:10:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
National geographic did this to me, too. Cancelled subscription, still get magazines in the mail.
BigSteffen · 1 points · Posted at 06:13:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have a similar thing going: when we moved into our new flat some jears ago, we plugged the TV into the cable-plug and it worked.
Since then, we have even switched our ISP (in germany ISPs deliver cable TV too), can still watch TV and still have no cable TV subscription.
REDDITATO_ · 1 points · Posted at 06:30:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've got all of you beat. I signed up for Hulu Plus, EA Access, and Xbox Live. I lost my card and had to replace it about six months ago. The only thing I had to sign up for again and pay for is EA Access. Hulu and Live think they're getting money from my cancelled card, but they never come out of my account.
EtcEtcWhateva · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This happened to me too, but it didn't last forever.
VisualBasic · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've alerted the proper authorities.
paintdatank252 · 1062 points · Posted at 04:24:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in high school, one of my close friends worked at Harris Teeter. He found out that the store had 2 deals going on simultaneously for the same product, and we took full advatage of them:
Do the math.
The system obviously wouldn't allow for us to get the boxes for free, and defaulted to 15 cents per 10 boxes. We bought over 2500 boxes in 2 days. We cleared out every store within 20 miles and spent under $40.
If this blows up, I have pictures.
https://imgur.com/a/8imDT
[1]Edit: Added pics. Keep in mind this was quite a while ago, so the camera quality isn't the greatest. I wish I had documented it more.
Yes, that is a 7 x 16 x 10 block, minus a few
Edit 2: Okay this blew up. We sold them at high school football games for $1 per box. They went bad after about a year and were thrown out. One of my deepest regrets is that we did not donate any of the boxes. If I ever do something like this again, I'll be donating most of the product.
Edit 3: No diabetes. And why did we do this? For the same reason I do just about everything: For the story.
[1]
My half of our Poptart haul
chriss1111 · 299 points · Posted at 05:10:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Good fucking god man. Great work.
This looks like one of those pictures that the DEA takes of all the drug money after a bust.
Redxmirage · 13 points · Posted at 06:29:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Where were you during the pop tart heist?"
magnora7 · 29 points · Posted at 05:38:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Man that second picture made me laugh. How long do they keep for? Are you going to be able to eat them all? Do you give some away? Did you find a way to sell them?
uptokesforall · 5 points · Posted at 06:54:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
All those questions are answered in his post
Apparently they're only good for like a year
IHavetwoNipples · 20 points · Posted at 04:49:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I want pictures of this majestic thing
Orangecountykid · 10 points · Posted at 05:02:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep pictures please
judge2020 · 9 points · Posted at 05:18:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They have since been added
anschelsc · 20 points · Posted at 05:30:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This deserves to be at the top of the thread.
judge2020 · 15 points · Posted at 05:18:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What in the world
ComeOnSans · 28 points · Posted at 05:52:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wot n ternation
wowjerrysuchtroll · 37 points · Posted at 06:07:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
tartnation*
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 05:37:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Now you can take a poptart from one package and put it in another one every day for infinite karma!
vodkaflavorednoodles · 5 points · Posted at 05:55:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do you have diabetes now? I mean I'm just as amazed as everyone here, but what the fuck did you do with all those poptarts?
zee_spirit · 5 points · Posted at 06:25:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
MAKE ME
Brainiac_Outcast · 3 points · Posted at 05:50:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
dude how long did those last you, or did you go selling em off yourself somehow?
Hi_ItsPaul · 5 points · Posted at 06:06:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is by far my favorite one. People here are paying of student loans and bankrupting companies, then there's you. The poptart king supreme.
AGiantRoach · 3 points · Posted at 06:41:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I worked at a Food Lion where we had a somewhat similar deal. There was a list of products that were associated the sale were "Buy 10 get $5 off, buy 15 get $10 off." Powerade was one of the items during the promotion and one week they lined up to around 89 cents a bottle. A bunch of us bought case after case of them at around $3.50 for 15. I think I bought over a hundred of them before they quietly took Powerade off the deal at our store and not so quietly chastised us all for "taking advantage."
I got a better deal another time but that was a computer problem. When we had goods from the Bakery that were seasonal themed still around after the holidays they would often have them marked down to get them to move. After Christmas we had a fuckton of christmas themed sugar cookies and stuff still around that just wouldn't sell. After a week they set them down to 75% off. The display was in the front by my register and I finally got a lady to buy a pack. I swung them and they came up 50 cents. I was confused since this was a platter of cookies normally around $8 so after she checked out I brought it up to my manager. I told him it looked like what was happening was that the computer had changed the price manually to 75% off the base price and then additionally reduced it by 75% for it being a "holiday reduced" item. He decided that it it wasn't important enough to fix that night and that he would wait until the sales rolled over to have someone fix it. He wouldn't even pull them from the display since he didn't fell like doing it and refused to let me do it. So when I got off work I looked at the display and was shocked. Not only had he not taken them off, he had the Bakery add more to it!
I filled an entire cart and a half with all of the cookies and bought them. Ended up getting hundreds of dollars in baked cookies for around $10.
pineapple13v2 · 3 points · Posted at 05:51:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Holy fuck. What did you do with all those pop tarts?
Archardy · 3 points · Posted at 06:34:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You must not have kids in high school. They ate them all!
TestZero · 3 points · Posted at 06:15:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ever seen the show Extreme Couponing? They basically do this with about 50 different products. They get like $6000 worth of groceries for $100.
blockanton · 3 points · Posted at 06:19:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eat about 10 boxes, get sick of the so you never want to eat them again, and sell them all. You could probably make a quick thousand bucks.
CrypticKoala23 · 6 points · Posted at 06:04:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You are the person we learn about in our math classes.
MoaJake · 2 points · Posted at 06:06:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Congrats on the exploit.... but why the hell do you need/want that many pop Tarts?
pyroSeven · 3 points · Posted at 08:26:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because.
DroppedTehBass · 2 points · Posted at 06:07:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Holy shit!
AdvicePerson · 2 points · Posted at 06:08:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, but then you have all those worthless pop-tarts.
TheAwesomeButler · 2 points · Posted at 06:11:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wow
-Isaac · 2 points · Posted at 06:13:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
this fucking wins Reddit man. what the hell did you do with all of the Poptarts!
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:14:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Jesus, you actually posted pics. This must be the one legitimate story in this thread.
BOOSKI_BEAR · 2 points · Posted at 06:39:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think I remember something similar happening when I went to high school! I remember logging into Facebook and seeing rows of pop tarts, I was so confused. I think someone told me that they went to multiple Harris Teeters and cleaned out all the local supply of pop tarts. Imagine craving some pop tarts and seeing empty shelves at every HT 😂
paintdatank252 · 1 points · Posted at 06:41:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
well if you're from the DC area, it was me and my friends!
BOOSKI_BEAR · 1 points · Posted at 06:50:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Omg it was you guys then! Hilarious. Did you guys really go to multiple Harris Teeters?
paintdatank252 · 1 points · Posted at 06:55:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
About 20 of them I'd say
Etharos · 2 points · Posted at 07:08:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Breaking Poptart
JPAchilles · 2 points · Posted at 06:22:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
TIL Poptarts are Kelloggs products
nitnall · 2 points · Posted at 07:24:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've never laughed this hard at a comment. As soon as I clicked the picture it had me wheezing.
LordRahl1986 · 1 points · Posted at 07:31:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I bet you hate pop tarts now right
wut_r_u_doin_friend · 1 points · Posted at 08:15:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pls explain wut u did w/ 20k + of pop tarts
wut r u doin friend
sphinctaur · 1 points · Posted at 09:08:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Australia here. At today's prices you had about $17 grand of pop tarts.
I say Australia as they're a bit novelty here.
Timmay13 · 1 points · Posted at 10:04:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Upvote for Edit 3!
drjams · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Unbelievable, this is the stuff of high school legend
sixblackgeese · 1 points · Posted at 06:22:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why though? Even if someone said I could take all the poptarts I wanted from the poptarts warehouse, I'd take like 5 boxes. Who wants 800 million poptarts?
bby_baek · 1 points · Posted at 06:18:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Jesus you're one of the guys we learn about in math problems
Siouxicide_ · 1 points · Posted at 06:22:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're the stuff that high school math problems are made after.
WerTicusness · 1 points · Posted at 06:28:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
you must really like pop tarts. how's the diabetes?
nerbovig · 1 points · Posted at 07:24:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It may not have blown up on reddit, but it blew up in my heart.
bman_152 · 2304 points · Posted at 00:44:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A restaurant near me has a salad bar.. I like eating off the salad bar, unfortunately it costs $11 with a beverage..
The same restaurant also has their own version of a Big Mac & sells it as a combo (1 side, 1 beverage, 1 sandwich) for like $8..
The restaurant allows you to substitute a side dish for the salad bar for $2..
Overall, I save a dollar by adding a burger to my order.. Usually I just take the burger home & eat it later.
jivetones · 446 points · Posted at 01:46:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eat n' Park?
bman_152 · 57 points · Posted at 03:36:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep!
cunninglinguist32557 · 10 points · Posted at 05:00:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Damn, I miss that place. Their brunch buffet was unbeatable.
Mjolnr66 · 10 points · Posted at 05:10:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just don't go to the waterfront location
isellchickens · 3 points · Posted at 05:59:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You would think this would be the best one since their corporate hq is right down the road.
DylanBob1991 · 3 points · Posted at 06:05:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What's wrong with the waterfront one? Never been and probably never will but it's close and I'm curious.
Mjolnr66 · 3 points · Posted at 12:22:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I went for lunch, took me ten minutes to get silverware, ten more to see my waitress to order a drink, another long time to place my order which was a cold sandwich, 45 minutes to get my sandwich out to me... Guy at another table got meatloaf or something and their was white powder all over his plate, and he said it was cold. The waitress informed him it was powdered sugar and couldn't understand why he wanted to send it back and acted like powdered sugar on beef was a normal thing... Had to ask three different people for my check, the list goes on
worstnameIeverheard · 183 points · Posted at 02:35:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The place for smiles!
owllicksroadya · 30 points · Posted at 04:53:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Found some Pittsburgh love pretty deep on this thread!
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 05:35:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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jivetones · 2 points · Posted at 15:13:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
SmileY cookies.
snkeolr · 4 points · Posted at 05:31:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Love the potato soup!
fwfwfadsfdffwwww · 26 points · Posted at 03:09:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hell, they used to pay you 1 cent to buy a grilled cheese with salad bar (8 alone, 7.99 together).
EvrythingISayIsRight · 6 points · Posted at 05:30:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
wow is that the actual name? It sounds so American!
bman_152 · 1 points · Posted at 14:16:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep! Its a very good diner restaurant :)
Here is some history on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat'n_Park
nerbovig · 3 points · Posted at 05:41:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Shouldn't you park first?
AnAbundanceOfCatPics · 2 points · Posted at 05:38:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I thought my friend came up with this idea there, that bastard.
zamfire · 2 points · Posted at 06:06:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Someone needs to open a brothel with a great salad bar called Eat n' Pork
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:16:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to go to Eat n' Park every day after work with my buddies, always around midnight. Chocolate milkshake and Waffle Smile was the go to. I miss that place so much, I can still remember biting the eyes off of smiley cookies first as a kid.
Midgers · 2 points · Posted at 06:17:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I moved away a long time ago and miss that restaurant so much. I don't even know why!
Bezzle59 · 1 points · Posted at 03:15:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was thinking Big Boy
delmonte-juice · 1 points · Posted at 03:47:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Imma go with Big Boy
jackflash223 · 0 points · Posted at 06:33:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Place is disgusting
rerdioherd · 16 points · Posted at 04:41:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At ikea they sell 4 piece chicken fingers with fries for $5.99. The childrens chicken fingers meal includes 2 pieces with fries for 2.50. So I just buy 2 childrens meals for myself, get a bigger amount of fries and save $1. Now, the kids meal is supposed to be 450 calories and the adult meal is 1200 calories. This would mean the adult meal is designed to have more than double the fries of the kids meal, but the employees always put a portion on the kids meal almost as big as the adult meal.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:42:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The UK IKEA hotdogs are like this (until recently when prices hanged). Regular hotdog was 45p, large was £1. But the large was only about 1/3 longer.
OpticGenocide · 9 points · Posted at 03:06:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Are you talking about Big Boy?
bman_152 · 21 points · Posted at 03:36:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nope, Eat N Park..
Though technically, Eat N Park did start off as a rogue Big Boy if I remember correctly..
ickybus · 9 points · Posted at 04:50:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If by 'rogue' you mean '25 year agreement to operate Big Boy in pittsburgh under the name "eat'n'park" then yes...
RubberSoul73 · 7 points · Posted at 04:42:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in high school Wendy's had a salad bar. I think they called it the "super bar". Anyway, when you ordered it they gave you a big plastic plate you were supposed to give back. We just kept the plates, washed them and stuck them back in our backpacks. Then order whatever and head up to the super bar. We got away with it for an obscenely long time.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 05:40:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Milo359 · 5 points · Posted at 06:10:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At a summer camp, there was this ice cream machine, and you would have to buy a cup from an employee to use it. I reused my cup. Was disappointed when the machine was gone next summer.
Lucas_Rennie · 5 points · Posted at 05:07:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pittsburgh represent!
sahmeiraa · 4 points · Posted at 05:13:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Western PA area, perchance? I love Eat'n Park
dobis11 · 4 points · Posted at 03:27:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm a big boy.
dirtgrub87 · 3 points · Posted at 03:08:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sounds like Big Boy!
HYPErBOLiCWONdEr · 3 points · Posted at 05:10:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I do this all the time!!
ThatGuyWhoEngineers · 2 points · Posted at 03:54:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They've got the Big Mac, I've got the Big Mic.
KindlyGoFuckYouself · 2 points · Posted at 05:51:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when Golden Corral had a menu it was much the same thing. Cheaper to order the burger with all you could eat food bar than just the all you can eat alone. Them paying me to take a burger home was awesome.
AtticusFinchOG · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Big Boy?
Edit: Nope: /
[deleted] · -7 points · Posted at 04:19:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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glovesoff11 · 23 points · Posted at 04:40:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
why do you hate people for ordering the burger to substitute and eat the salad bar to save a dollar
djchozen91 · 0 points · Posted at 05:51:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You disgust me.
Highlet · 8834 points · Posted at 01:43:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I received a coupon from Papa Johns in the mail that said something along the lines of "Sorry you weren't happy with your last experience with us. Please use the attached coupon for a free large 1-topping on us." I didn't file any complaints and had no idea where this thing came from but the place I was living had no decent pizza delivery options so I did occasionally order from Papa Johns. I figured it was just a promo or a mistake but whatever, free pizza is free pizza.
I ordered on the phone, told them I had a coupon and got my free pizza but they never took the coupon. For about 3 months I ordered a large pepperoni once or twice a week, told them I had a coupon and got the pizza for free without ever having to actually present a coupon.
Finally on like the twenty-something free pizza they had written in giant black sharpie on the pizza box, "GET COUPON", so I gave the guy my golden pizza ticket coupon and thought well damn, no more free pizza. The very next day I got another coupon in the mail which also worked for another 2 months before they finally remembered to take it.
tldr; Got free pizza coupon with no expiration, used it for months for free pizza before they finally took the coupon.
quedra · 2763 points · Posted at 02:26:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can explain that for you, having worked for PJs 18 years. The postcard is automatically generated when your delivery time is 35 mins or more. It states "your last order did not meet our timely standards". Then it's mailed out by the marketing department. There's a one time use code on there for online orders, too.
Eventually, someone at the store will notice and put a note on your account for "no more free, get coupon" and your free ride is over.
Edit : keep in mind that coupons, promotions, prices and customer retention programs vary by market. There are corporate stores and franchises and they don't always co-operate.
BEEFTANK_Jr · 911 points · Posted at 03:39:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do you mean time out the door to the address is 35 minutes? Because I don't think I've ever had a Papa John's pizza delivered within 35 minutes of ordering.
partofbreakfast · 1145 points · Posted at 03:42:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Delivery driver here.
It's 35 minutes from when I grab the food and put it in my bag.
EDIT: I forgot that this subreddit is full of people who type before they think out their responses sometimes, so.
No, I do not literally take 35 minutes to deliver food every time it is ordered. 35 minutes from me picking it up to me dropping it off to you is the maximum amount of time I get before the restaurant considers it sub-par service. Unless you're ordering on a Friday night or during some huge event, it's not going to take that long for you to get your food.
art-educator · 186 points · Posted at 03:56:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's ridiculous. Just this past Friday I placed an order for delivery. When I ordered it, the estimated time was 35-45 minutes. It took 82 minutes from the time I placed my order until it arrived (and it was the wrong pizza). So even though it took nearly twice as long to get a large cheese pizza, since the delivery time was ~10 minutes, it doesn't count?
I'm sticking with Pizza Hut even though it is more expensive. I can order it online and it will be ready in 20 minutes.
[deleted] · 109 points · Posted at 04:30:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Call and complain and you'll probably get a free pizza. When I used to work at Papa Johns that was pretty much our solution to every complaint.
[deleted] · 62 points · Posted at 04:47:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
according to this story, you'll probably get about 40 free pizzas!
[deleted] · 62 points · Posted at 04:58:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Totally true. My last day at Papa Johns I delivered to this lady who had a free order. There was a comment on her account that said "always free." I asked my gm about it and she said that the lady called, complained, and demanded a free pizza every time she ordered. So instead of telling her to fuck off she just gives this lady free pizzas whenever she wants so she won't complain. If you want free pizza just call and complain and don't stop complaining until they give you a free pizza.
teefour · 38 points · Posted at 05:03:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why not just blacklist her and block the number?
[deleted] · 58 points · Posted at 05:06:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That would require Papa Johns to hire and promote intelligent and capable people.
XeroMCMXC · 7 points · Posted at 05:14:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pew pew pew
Girlinhat · 13 points · Posted at 06:07:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because the manager doesn't pay for the pizza, it gets promo'd out (promotional) which is the code used for remakes, mistakes, charity (like someone dropped their food right by the counter), making customers happy after a complaint, etc. This promo food is listed under waste with it's to-make cost (so like $2 on a pizza) rather than the retail cost (which may be $15 a pizza) so the store just eating the cost is very low. Promo food is often given so that someone doesn't complain, too.
On the other hand, if your store is franchise (owned by an individual who is allowed to use the name/marketing) then placing a call to corporate (the actual owner of the copyright who can shut down the franchise location) can get corporate to put a LOT of pressure on the franchise owner. A lot of delivery services do bonus checks for managers who've done well during a certain period, especially football season. So you call corporate to complain about a bad meal, corporate tells the franchise owner they're on thin ice, franchise owner tells their manager "you're not getting your bonus check because someone complained" and now the manager is out a few hundred dollars.
OR the manager promos out a single pizza once a week, which gets rolled into business loss margins, and no one calls corporate.
iaspeegizzydeefrent · 1 points · Posted at 12:21:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I agree with most of this, but I work at pizza hut and after a handful of calls we refer the person to corporate a d explain the situation to the corporate office. Have had the president of our state wide franchise call the person and say if you are always unsatisfied with our service, we can no longer provide you service.
Girlinhat · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Then pizza hut is doing good. Jimmy Johns was 100% how I described, and it's sandwiches not pizza but it's almost identical, from everything I talked with other drivers.
iaspeegizzydeefrent · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:34 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
I wish I could say they were doing good. We still have way more shitty customers than we should, but so does every business. Luckily my GM has my back most of the time. Hope you can get out of your situation sooner than later, if you're genuinely unhappy with their policies. We need more people like you in the service sector.
jarfil · 7 points · Posted at 05:15:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"The customer is always right"... even when he isn't. Why? Because something something corporate slogan.
PhantomHunter01 · 8 points · Posted at 04:59:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
assholery, but awesome at the same time.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:57:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
WOW. if I were that business, that lady would be on a short list of "banned customers"
popokangaroo · 3 points · Posted at 05:00:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I read "GM" I thought "game master" it took me a few seconds to realize what you meant
gn0xious · 1 points · Posted at 07:06:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Gary, I don't know man... just roll for perception already."
popokangaroo · 1 points · Posted at 07:28:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol "keep calm as a minor action"
mikethemofo · 3 points · Posted at 04:57:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Like most any pizza joint
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:56:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Most of them probably but I've worked at couple that would tell them to fuck off, sometimes literally sometimes figuratively.
CallMeJeeJ · 5 points · Posted at 04:52:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh shit.
Papa J, you just got called out
Caybris · 4 points · Posted at 04:57:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Like he said, it's all automated, I would have called and complained. I had the same exact thing happen not too long ago, we're at the edge of the delivery zone, they had the wrong pizza, took 2 hours. Got a free 2 liter... yeah.
bsep1 · 9 points · Posted at 04:55:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Here's something you might like!
You can use this link to get unlimited $10 off $20 or more coupons for Pizzahut. Simply fill out the 2 minute survey, and clear your cookies when doing it again.
I end up with a large pizza/side/dessert for $13 :)
http://www.tellpizzahut.com/
110011001100 · 3 points · Posted at 05:14:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Move to India.. Dominos guarantees delivery in 30 minutes (from the time you place your order), and if it gets delayed you get a refund
JamesGoodall · 5 points · Posted at 05:20:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah it's illegal to do that in the US now. Causes unsafe driving habits and all that fun shit. Of course the driver's still get in trouble if they're out for more than 35 minutes (c.2011 @Dominos), but they can't promise a specific time to customers.
110011001100 · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hmm.. cant dominos make a policy saying that unsafe driving is not allowed to work around the govt ban?
JamesGoodall · 2 points · Posted at 05:45:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure what you mean. They can't advertise delivery in X minutes or we'll do Y for you, but driver's still got in trouble for being out on a delivery too long. If your times add up it shows your productivity dropping, management will find some way to get you canned, regardless of circumstance. It was lots of number crunching with no room for nuance. Hell, you could get in trouble for taking faster back roads if at the end of the day your reported miles were X% higher than whatever the computer said you should have driven.
Butthole__Pleasures · 2 points · Posted at 06:25:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You would think. All but one of my previous employers had a "strict" "ABSOLUTELY NO WORKING OFF THE CLOCK" rule to meet labor regulations, but then they would also give 3x as much work as can be done in a day.
NovaNardis · 8 points · Posted at 04:27:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Plus Papa John's sucks.
thechilipepper0 · 5 points · Posted at 04:46:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And Papa John, himself, sucks as well
madamlazonga · 3 points · Posted at 05:00:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Papa bless
cardinalfan828 · 3 points · Posted at 05:04:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
BO IS IN THE HOUSE
flamingmaiden · 2 points · Posted at 05:05:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can confirm. Once lived where he lives.
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Guriinwoodo · 2 points · Posted at 12:32:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You say the three chains suck ass and then you say you'd rather go to little Caesars?
Marketing is marketing man, there's not a product out there that doesn't try to sell you their product. If you feel personally attacked by pizza hut's marketing campaign then I think you're looking into things a bit too far
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I am not a huge fan of the sauce they use, but other than that, it isn't terrible. I mean, nothing beats a New York pie, or one of Gus's back in my old college town, but honestly, if PapaJohns is all you had, you'd be fine.
dsbarraz · 1 points · Posted at 06:37:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Papa Murphys has a Chicago style pizza, it's daaaannk!
GuiltySpark343i · 5 points · Posted at 04:41:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Marco's Pizza is where it's at buddy.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:45:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Round Table fam.
Butthole__Pleasures · 1 points · Posted at 06:23:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Finally some fucking reason in this thread! (Sorry to anyone that's not on the west coast)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:36:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's expensive but one of the few pizzas that is worth it.
And yes, I've had East Coast stuff and while it's good, it really doesn't compare.
Butthole__Pleasures · 1 points · Posted at 07:09:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I drove seven hours round-trip to get my wife some Round Table for her birthday. It really is that good.
FrobozzMagic · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Living in Portland, all those places look so unappealing that I've never bothered to try it, and I have never before heard anybody say anything positive about them. They're actually good?
Butthole__Pleasures · 1 points · Posted at 01:57:26 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Round Table is insanely good. They use beer in the dough, so it has a really rich flavor to the crust. The sauce is tart and delicious, too. Round Table is the tits.
EsQuiteMexican · 4 points · Posted at 04:59:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Little Ceasar's Master Race
FabulousDavid · 6 points · Posted at 05:32:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No. Get out.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 06:02:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would but that $5 price is soooo tempting when my pocket book is running low.
CptComet · 3 points · Posted at 06:06:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Then you get it home and wonder why you paid $5 for a box with 2 layers of cardboard on the bottom.
Butthole__Pleasures · 2 points · Posted at 06:21:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Little Caesar's is better than PJ's and Pizza Hut, but have some respect, man. People can read this.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:52:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You have never had Blaze Pizza?
GuiltySpark343i · 2 points · Posted at 15:42:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't think they are in midwest or at least the part I'm in.
My location has Domino's, PH, PJ, Deeks (for the drunk college student), 1000 degrees, spicy pie, rhombus guys, marco's and that barely goes into the list really.
The_Caelondian · 3 points · Posted at 04:52:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can confirm, placed an order for a large pepperoni one time last year and after two hours it hadn't even gone out the door. We haven't ordered from Papa John's since.
Chris2112 · 3 points · Posted at 05:19:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Most chain brand pizza sucks (source: from New Jersey)
Tyler1986 · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah I don't know what kind of godly pizza you must eat regularly, but Papa John's is pretty damn good.
Spk4420 · 2 points · Posted at 04:58:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Damn, I wish the Pizza Hut was that quick where I'm at. Just ordered this past Fiday, took about as long as your Papa Johns. I have a Domino's, Pizza Hut, and Papa Johns near me, Domino's is the quickest.
ManBearPig92 · 2 points · Posted at 05:46:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Except Pizza Hut tastes like salty cardboard.
partofbreakfast · 2 points · Posted at 05:51:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I should have specified, it's 35 minutes under normal circumstances (IE whatever the expected volume is for that particular time of day). If there's such a surge of calls that the restaurant is warning you of unusually long wait times, you can count on it taking longer than expected.
90% of the time it's not even the restaurant's fault. Drivers take more than one order at a time with them, and if the guy right before you takes forever to answer their door then that's just more waiting you have to do.
mrdotkom · 2 points · Posted at 04:13:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The driver could have just left when you ordered and they didn't make the pizza until he got back because lazy/reasons and so it took 80 min but not more than 35 from when he picked up the pie
art-educator · 7 points · Posted at 04:24:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ah... I hadn't thought about that. Maybe they didn't have all the drivers that night that they usually do and so we had to wait for the driver to return from other deliveries before our pizza was made.
Thanks for adding your thoughts.
kursdragon · 1 points · Posted at 04:22:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Okay but that's retarded, why the fuck do I care when the driver picks up the pizza? I give a fuck when I'm actually getting the pizza. If the driver decided to take a smoke break and fall asleep between finishing his last order and picking up mine doesn't mean I'll be ok since when he finally got back from his 40 minute break he delivered my pizza in 32 minutes...
mrdotkom · 9 points · Posted at 04:22:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm just giving you a plausible explanation. If you feel 82 minutes was too long to wait you have every right to complain.
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mrdotkom · 4 points · Posted at 04:52:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Depends on a lot of factors. 6pm-8pm on a weekend in a college town? Yeah pretty reasonable. You can't assume you're the only person ordering pizza
GeorgeAmberson63 · 5 points · Posted at 05:20:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh they can. And they will. And they won't care that the dumb drunk asshole before them slurred their street, said the wrong number, fell asleep, and couldn't find their money, or that the one before decided last second to pay with a credit card and was astounded you didn't have a POS terminal in your 95 Honda Civic so you had to wait around for 10 minutes while they called the shop and get the credit card sorted.
They also won't care that its a fucking Saturday night, there's a basketball game on, and every other entitled piece of shit also ordered food at the same time and expected it to be done in twenty minutes so the kitchen is super backed up.
And they certainly won't care that you got tripple trained at the railroad tracks before their house, and it isn't their fault they don't have a number on their house or any lights on, or a car in their driveway and didn't answer their phone cause they didn't recognize their number. And you obviously should have figured out that they were actually around back in the garage in the woods even though they never told you that.
But don't worry its totally all your fault so its only fair that they stiff you.
jimbelushiapplesauce · 3 points · Posted at 05:51:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
this brought back a lot of emotions from when i delivered pizza. every one of those things seemed to happen to me at least once every week (except for the train thing, my city only had a few crossings).
also sucks when your manager sucks and at 7:00 says 'okay it's a slow night. jack, bill, you can go home. jimbelushiapplesauce, you're closing alone.' and then at 7:45 you get 3 orders at once to 3 different sides of town, meaning you have to take all three at once and be out for over an hour dealing with pissed off people and cold pizzas for no tip. then you come back to an order that's been sitting on the counter for 45 minutes waiting for you to get back.
jarfil · 1 points · Posted at 05:23:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Your first and foremost concern should be whether the pizza is cold and hard as a stone when you get it. That means you really want the travel time to be less than 35 min, the shorter the better.
Of course waiting 70+10 minutes for a pizza also sucks, but that's a secondary concern. Worst case scenario, the pizza should still be edible.
kursdragon · 1 points · Posted at 06:15:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yea actually that makes sense, but I still don't want to be waiting long to get the pizza. Usually they have it in a pretty good bag that insulates the heat from most places that I've ordered pizza from, so the difference in 30 min delivery time and 40 probably isn't too big of a deal. I feel like there should be more guarantees on the time it takes to actually get me the pizza from the time I ordered, rather than just the delivery guy driving it to me.
xChris777 · 1 points · Posted at 04:58:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah that is the dumbest policy in the world.
DerpyZebra · 1 points · Posted at 05:00:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's absurd that they messed up your order, but really pizza hut? Really though, I would go with the other guys recommendation to call and complain. They should be more than happy to give you a free pizza for the mistake. I'm not justifying the long time, but there can be a lot of factors to consider to that wait time. Personally, if it's a busy day, I would try and pick the pizza up to save time. Then again, I have four pizza locations in a three mile radius.
Dirte_Joe · 1 points · Posted at 05:04:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In my area it's the opposite for papa johns and Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut puts almost no cheese on their pizzas (unless you get a specialty poss like stuffed crust) and it takes them at least an hour each time I order, usually closer to 1.5 hours. The reason is because my road name is labeled "x lane" while there's also an "x road." They always think it's "x road" and never bother to update their gps or map or whatever they use.
Meanwhile papa johns takes less than 30 minutes to get to my house every time I order and they never get my road confused with the other. They're also less than a mile from my house so I usually just pick up cause it's quicker and I don't have to tip.
light24bulbs · 1 points · Posted at 05:07:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm curious if there was a local pizza joint you can support
thedonutman · 1 points · Posted at 05:11:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Buy a Pizza Pizzaz and a few Home Run Inn frozen pizzas and this isn't a problem. The big 3 pizza joints are shit.
random_nightmare · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Since when is Pizza Hut more expensive? That definitely isn't true where I'm at.
Tyler1986 · 3 points · Posted at 05:37:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Prices vary by area/region? Who'd of thunk it?
OneTwoILoveRedditToo · 2 points · Posted at 06:11:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
thunk?
Tyler1986 · 2 points · Posted at 06:33:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm drunk, give me a break.
OneTwoILoveRedditToo · 2 points · Posted at 06:51:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Here http://imgur.com/y6m4uPr
Tyler1986 · 2 points · Posted at 06:53:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ba dum tsss.
random_nightmare · 2 points · Posted at 15:22:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd expect each place to vary though so I didn't think which one was cheaper would change.
Tyler1986 · 2 points · Posted at 16:44:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fair assumption but Im not sure if it holds up or not.
quantum-mechanic · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can probably get it quick from Pizza Hut because its not as popular as the other place that was backed up and busy making pies.
ghostpoopftw · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
you're choosing between pj and pizza hut? damn son rough life.
K242 · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Last time I ordered from Papa John's I had a 50% off coupon (thanks Atlanta Hawks) so I splurged and got myself a buffalo chicken pizza. Estimated delivery time was 35-40 minutes.
Hour and a half later I get my pizza. There's no buffalo sauce. Or chicken.
Now I just go to Walmart or something and grab myself a frozen pizza (Walmart marketplace pizza is surprisingly good). Much cheaper, tastes fine, no bullshit.
aoethrowaway · 1 points · Posted at 06:00:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Google Express from the grocery store is faster than pizza delivery near me. It's crazy.
JungleLegs · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Man I love the different crust toppings you can get at Pizza Hut. It's a damn game changer.
nihirist · 1 points · Posted at 05:42:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can't order papa Johns or domino's online? Last I checked that was pretty universal now.
thatdude52 · 1 points · Posted at 05:44:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
yeah but then you get diarrhea
anomanopia · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Should we tell him there's more to life out there?
Monkeymonkey27 · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At least pizza hut doesnt taste like microwaved Digornio
kylemech · 1 points · Posted at 05:56:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Man, I live in a small town in Iowa, and that sounds glorious.
I once ordered a pizza for my wife and I. A close friend of ours owned the place we ordered it from (not Papa Johns). After 60 minutes, we called the store and they said they weren't sure why we hadn't gotten our pizza, but that their driver hadn't returned yet, either.
It turned out that their driver, out with two pizzas, had put the delivery vehicle into a river while texting and driving.
I called my friends and told them not to worry about the pizza. We figured something else out for dinner. It remains a legend. That taco pizza wasn't meant for us, it seems.
AnusHoldus · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Papa John's always shows up at my house in about 20 minutes.
charlie_pony · 1 points · Posted at 06:10:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hey, look!!! It's the Pizza Hut marketing department posting on reddit!!!!
Butthole__Pleasures · 1 points · Posted at 06:19:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Jesus Christ, your only two options are Papa John's and Pizza Hut? That is horrible. That's like choosing between garbage can scrapings and dumpster juice.
Theopneusty · 1 points · Posted at 07:10:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Where do you live where pizza hut is more expensive. Pizza hut has an $11 any (online only) coupon. Papa johns is like $15-20 every time i order it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're "sticking with Pizza Hut" AND IT'S MORE EXPENSIVE?!? Dude, there's gotta be a cliff high enough to jump off near you to not torture yourself anymore. I'm pretty open minded come religion/politics/sexuality/whatever, but pizza, Papa Johns is like mid range at best depending on where I am locally, Pizza Hut is like, I'm gonna need a lot of alcohol and weed to get this down, and I'll be throwing up all day tomorrow.
I'll give an hour of my time to wait for the Papa over the Hut any day, or I'll just go fucking pick it up. Or just call your local Papa and bitch until they send you some coupons or you can save the money with no tip if they're really fucking you over. I just can't find a reason I'd need pizza that badly to choose greasy slop over slightly greasy slop with better tasting ingredients but have to wait longer.
broznusfrog69 · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
too bad pizza hut only sells hot circles of garbage
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 04:23:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Which is why I don't do delivery. Having to wait an hour for the food when I can just go get it in 10 is stupid.
ajax6677 · 12 points · Posted at 04:40:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
But that requires pants and I'll be dammed if I'm putting those fuckers back on after I'm already comfy.
napoleonpp · 1 points · Posted at 05:01:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
For freaking real
SarahBitchMob · 4 points · Posted at 04:49:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You must not live in Los Angeles...
fbholyclock · 1 points · Posted at 05:00:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Damn, as a delivery driver hearing about drivers who take more than 15 minutes to get from the store to the customers door is maddening.
My store doesn't take that shit and we will fuck you up if your times are bad. (I work for one of the bigger chains)
presidentme1 · 4 points · Posted at 04:38:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I love hearing about pizza
whuttupfoo · 1 points · Posted at 04:59:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Let me put this pizza in yo ear
presidentme1 · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm listening
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:24:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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partofbreakfast · 2 points · Posted at 06:02:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's the delivery window, not the actual delivery time. Delivery time depends on how busy it is and how far away from the restaurant you live.
ElectricFirex · 1 points · Posted at 13:52:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I work at a different pizza chain but if they do it anything like us (they probably do), if theyre busy enough that the pizza wont be going out for until 35 minutes after ordered they delay cooking the pizza so itll be fresh out of the oven before it leaves. The limiting factor on delivery times is usually too many deliveries being ordered for the drivers to handle.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:37:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do you like their food or are you sick to death of the smell of it?
partofbreakfast · 4 points · Posted at 05:54:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm actually a 3rd party driver (I work for a company that supplies drivers to restaurants that don't get enough delivery orders in a day to warrant paying for their own delivery drivers), so there's enough variety that I don't ever get sick of the smells. I love it when I get an order for a local cupcake/cookie shop though, the owner likes me because I always do his deliveries really quick. Sometimes he gives me the day-old cookies that he can't legally sell anymore.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:19:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's a pretty good deal. If I delivered for a cupcake shop, I think I'd have to buy a cupcake when I did the pickup to prevent myself eating the delivery. :o
partofbreakfast · 2 points · Posted at 08:16:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did that a few times, but then I noticed that it was eating through my tips very quickly.
NoahsArcade84 · 1 points · Posted at 04:43:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Really? I used to work for Pizza Hut and it was pretty normal to get pizzas delivered less than 30 minutes after we hang up the phone.
partofbreakfast · 1 points · Posted at 05:56:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
35 minutes is the maximum time. It almost never takes me that long, unless I'm running a triple.
Illusions_not_Tricks · 1 points · Posted at 05:03:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That is garbage level service. I've managed at places that do delivery, 35 minutes door to door should pretty much never happen. From this thread and my own experience it somehow seems like this is the norm at papa johns.
Let's be generous and say my pizza only sat for 10 minutes before you left with it. My pizza has to be sitting out of the oven for almost 45 minutes before it's considered subpar service on your end? What a shit way to run a delivery service.
partofbreakfast · 1 points · Posted at 05:58:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
1: 35 minutes is the maximum amount of time we're allowed, and that's to account for traffic, multiple deliveries, and unexpected problems (like not being able to find your house because you didn't turn on your porch light and I can't read the house number). Of course it doesn't usually take that long, turn down your salt.
2: The oven bags we have will keep your food hot and fresh for over two hours. Your pizza is not going to be harmed by sitting for 30 minutes in my car, because it is in an oven bag.
Illusions_not_Tricks · 1 points · Posted at 08:00:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's literally never not taken that long for me, and apparently many others by the look of the thread.
You misunderstand what fresh means if you think a pizza is "fresh" after sitting in one of those bags for half an hour, and out on a heating rack before that for who knows how long while you're out on your hour long runs.
No need to talk to me like an uneducated customer. I told you I have plenty of experience running these businesses.
Just saying if these are really your service standards it's no wonder why the rep isn't that great. No one is blaming you so how about you turn down the salt because I didn't force you into being a delivery boy at a shitty business, kiddo.
Large_Dr_Pepper · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What if someone orders a pizza and they live 40 minutes away?
partofbreakfast · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They probably live outside of the delivery radius. The absolute farthest I go takes 12 minutes one-way to get there.
nosajx7 · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Used to work at Papa John's, it didn't work like that because they only tracked time driver was out of the store, not time from store to customer. The coupon was based on time it took from taking the order to time it left the store on delivery. Any more than 35 minutes, it assumes it's over 45 minutes, and generates the postcard.
tomytronics · 1 points · Posted at 06:00:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So it's still "OK" if you let that pizza wait an hour before you grabbed it and started 35 minutes or less run?
partofbreakfast · 0 points · Posted at 06:04:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I am reasonably sure that the restaurant would remake the pizza if it had been sitting for an hour. They just don't split hairs over me picking it up 1 minute after it comes out of the oven vs 10 minutes after it comes out of the oven.
quedra · 1 points · Posted at 06:54:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not quite. The company standard is 35 mins from the time the order comes in, then adds time based on how far the address is from the store, how many destinations that particular driver is going to, which order the orders are dropped off...etc. the sector mapping isn't always accurate though.
Example: if a driver takes a single, csc(customer service compliance) says that the oldest the order can be is 27 mins from placement to otd (out the door) + 8 mins to the door=35 mins. For a double it's otd+8+5=35 for 2nd order and a triple is otd+8+5+5=35 for third order.
Most of the time the system gets cheated because the driver checks out on an order before it is actually ready to leave, in order to keep otd low(manager wants their bonus). So your order arrives late but the computer thinks it was on time.
partofbreakfast · 1 points · Posted at 08:17:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Really? Huh, that's so weird. The timer on our app (we have an app for smartphones that we use for delivery) gives us a countdown to 35, which starts when we hit the button that says we picked up the order. I figured that was how it always worked.
quedra · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The store's csc is still calculated the way I described above. It breaks it down into sales periods by the hour and day part ie, lunch, dinner, etc.
The driver dispatch(dd) screen in the store gives the driver x amount of time to return to the store based on the number of deliveries in the run. If a driver exceeds that amount of time, it calculates that into the store's overall service data. Supposed to help the management figure out scheduling needs and appropriate quote times.
I'm not familiar with the app you're describing (we didn't have that feature at my stores), but it sounds like it's the same as what the dd is calculating. So you're still correct in the way it counts down when you check out, but that "timer" is used for a different purpose.
A typical store is supposed to have 1 driver for every 3 deliveries per hour (give or take for higher/lower volume stores) and one or two instores per 4 orders per hour. But we've all seen how the store is staffed when the bottom line becomes more important than maintaining good service.
jebu · 1 points · Posted at 07:44:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You've already gotten a lot of responses, but I just want to say if you haven't yet I highly recommend you read Snowcrash. At least the first few chapters as they pertain to a delivery driver in a near future dystopia.
RyghtHandMan · 2 points · Posted at 04:30:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
when I ran Za for father jonathan there was no hard 35 minute rule. We quoted you a time estimate before we hung up and we'd try our darndest to get it to you within that time frame
Chairboy · 2 points · Posted at 04:53:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If the Deliverator is too late, the customer gets a personal apology from Uncle Enzio himself, gets an all-expenses paid trip to headquarters, gets wined and dined and at the end of the whole thing leaves with the feeling that somehow they owe Papa John's a favor.
So it's best that the Deliverator isn't late.
Chrispymuffinbutt · 1 points · Posted at 05:03:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
right? I'm lucky if I get it within an hour
Chinch335 · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It ain't rocket science.
It ain't physics.
nontechnicalbowler · 1 points · Posted at 04:34:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wow....when I left Dominos they wanted the pizza out the door in under 15 minutes from order. Didn't usually take more than 5-10 minutes to get to the farthest reaches of town.
Obviously more densely populated areas means more stoplights and longer times....but still.
EclecticultourMe · 2 points · Posted at 04:26:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How's a guy supposed to sell weed with policies like that?
Richeh · 2 points · Posted at 04:43:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is one part of American culture that I do wish would make the hop across the pond. In the UK in most places it's 45 minutes to an hour quoted for takeaway every time, and if it's an hour and a half and you mention it you just get an "Oh. Sorry."
That's not to say that the service is bad, or that they should pretend to give a shit if they don't; the American tipping culture in the service industry as a whole can stay the fuck where it is, thanks. But there's a unilateral lack of hustle to the deliveries, by comparison.
Greflin · 1 points · Posted at 04:51:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If tipping wasn't a thing I imagine pizzas would take a lot longer to get to us.
Richeh · 2 points · Posted at 05:02:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ah, see, popular misconception: tipping is a thing in the UK. Probably not as much as it is in the US, but I know I always try to give a quid or two on a £15 delivery, and if you're in a group of people splitting a bill there's always a good 10-15% tip thrown in, depending on how good the service actually was.
The difference is that the servers are also paid a good minimum wage, and it's absolutely unheard of for management to even get involved with tips to my knowledge; although some places do pool tips so the non-serving staff get a look in.
WeAreAllApes · 1 points · Posted at 04:54:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The really good pizza for me still takes 45 minutes to an hour and a half. But I can get Papa John's or Dominos in 30 minutes if I want, and it's cheaper.
DoesntCheckOutUname · 2 points · Posted at 04:52:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well, I waited 45 mins for my order last week. I'm better to go check mails tomorrow.
LeakyLycanthrope · 2 points · Posted at 05:07:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm often surprised by the lack of effective communication between the person taking the order and the delivery driver. I've been having problems with my front door (now fixed), and for a few weeks I'd order pizza and say, "Tell the driver to come through the gate to the side door." Multiple times from multiple places, and not a single one of them received that message.
quedra · 2 points · Posted at 18:22:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, that sucks. It happens mostly because the csr was overwhelmed and forgot. Or they didn't have enough room in the remarks field to fit all directions. Or not enough training before they were thrown under the bus.
I hand write some things on the tag or put a note to "see quedra before leaving" so I can forward info.
Another thing that happens is someone orders online and asks for something that the makeline can't see while making the order ie, uncooked tomatoes (which we're NOT supposed to do) or asks for a saleable item but didn't actually order and therefore pay for(I know, it's just an extra pizza sauce cup, but dammit, they cost something).
LeakyLycanthrope · 1 points · Posted at 23:00:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can definitely believe that, especially if it's the kind of franchise that has a call centre instead of customers calling the individual stores directly. I've been a delivery driver myself for both kinds of places, funnily enough. It's definitely a lot easier when the person taking the order can hang up the phone and go "Hey Leaky, go to the side door on this one."
Also...some people put raw tomatoes on their pizza...? ...Ew...
quedra · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh yes. Raw diced fresh tomatoes on, say, the taco pizza or the Greek one, yummy! I hate cooked tomatoes on pizza, it's like, hey there's already tomatoes in the sauce, right?
PJs only uses fresh tomatoes anyway.
djchozen91 · 2 points · Posted at 05:37:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wait a minute, why do they even have to get the coupon? All they need to do is a have a code on the coupon that is quoted over the phone that is also one-time.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah. With the current way it's set up, you can use the coupon at least twice. Once for the online order using the code, and the second time you had the coupon to delivery guy.
djchozen91 · 1 points · Posted at 00:46:28 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeh I got that. I just don't understand why they didn't make a code for phone orders as well.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:52:44 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah that was my first thought as well.
zxc3af3adf4ds7f4df7d · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Your story made me smile.
Noodles and Company sent a happy birthday free meal coupon to my email. They never scanned it or even asked to see my ID to verify it was my bday. After many many free noodles and cookies, I felt guilty and deleted it. They didn't do that same promotion the following year.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ive never gotten papa johns in 35 minutes.
Never gotten a coupon.
ihatedogs2 · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's when you make a new account and get a new address.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:22:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So what you're saying is that if I'm lucky enough to get a slow delivery driver for whatever reason, I can get free pizza for a while?
pouncer11 · 1 points · Posted at 05:29:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you work at corporate?
quedra · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, I worked for a very LARGE franchise (100+ stores). Held every position at the store level and was in every store in my state at one time or another.
DinoBurner · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You need to read the first bit of the "Snow Crash". It's sort of a distopian cyberpunk book, the first chapter is about this dude in his job as a pizza delivery man and about how America has the best at pizza delivery.
quedra · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I actually quote from that at the beginning of every store meeting.
"Now, let's all jump into our (color) chariots of pepperoni fire and keep slinging that 'za!"
Strawberrycocoa · 1 points · Posted at 05:44:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do you have any idea why they didn't just say, "We already have a record of you receiving your free pizza, this delivery will be (whatever price)."
quedra · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes. No one wants to get yelled at for refusing to accept a discount. We may seethe inside and feel like we're being taken advantage of, but that's better than having your night wrecked by a loud, angry, belligerent person on the phone. The psychology of pizza is pretty ruthless.
Strawberrycocoa · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's always struck me as a shame that so many companies forbid their employees to just hang up on belligerent customers when it's simply the easiest way to avoid these scenarios in the first place. I mean I get WHY they don't allow it, it just sucks to be stripped of your own agency and forced to cater to screaming toddlers.
quedra · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If someone is cussing or being abusive then I give them 3 warnings. "Sir, I understand that you're upset, but please don't use that kind of language. Now, how can I help you?" "I apologize that I am unable to assist you any further, I will have to terminate the call if you continue to swear at me." Click.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I guess I need to start ordering PJs over Domino's to test this.
Archardy · 1 points · Posted at 06:17:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I am just curious since I order pizza fairly often from a place down the street. Don't the employees recognize repeat customers? Or do all the addresses sound the same and high turnover rates for delivery drivers? I always tip $5 I was hoping I had a good rep there
quedra · 2 points · Posted at 18:02:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh yes, the drivers remember particular customers, for sure.
They remember the guy who tips good and the guy who never does. They remember the lady who makes them wait 15 min(only allowed 5) to come down from her office and sign for it(and no tip). They remember the gross drunk guy that hits on them and offers a different kind of tip(my poor husband😂). They remember the sweet old lady who gives them snickers bars EVERY TIME. They remember the house where the dog lunges out of the shadows because the owner didn't lock them up (thought I was going to lose my face that night).
You, btw, are probably one of the best tippers, so they definitely remember you. And drivers will fight over your order. They'll even race each other back to the store in order to get you.
Archardy · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ok cool thanks for the feedback. I was hoping it was a good tip especially for a $20 order. My brother delivered pizzas for like 10 years I always think of him when I order
quedra · 1 points · Posted at 22:46:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The sad part is that the best tippers are broke, too. Rich people don't tip for shit but people who are working class or have family that struggle always seem to be more generous.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:25:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't get it, so you tell them over the phone that you have a coupon, and they'll take your word for it? And then forget to check let alone get it? Regularly?
Queencitybeer · 1 points · Posted at 08:50:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I rode this wave for about 2 years. Probably 2-3 times a month. Sometimes more. This was back in 1996-1998. They just never asked for the coupon and we always tipped like $3-4.
tommytwotats · -2 points · Posted at 04:05:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My wife was 7 months pregnant... she had to pee. I wanted to order 2 large pizzas and the girl at the counter said "sorry, you can't use our bathroom".... we left, i never paid for the pizzas, and i haven't gotten a Poppa John's pizza for 15 years because she make my wife suffer. If she had let her use the rest room, i'd have ordered weekly. Instead, I make it a point to get everyone I know to order from a non PJ location, I would never order from one, and I tell the story about how PJ refused a very pregnant woman a bathroom to use.
quedra · 2 points · Posted at 07:03:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That policy is because of liability reasons. No non-employees behind the counter. They could slip and fall, burn themselves on the oven, all kinds of things, not to mention making an employee nervous thinking that there could be a robbery going on.
Paplexa · 3 points · Posted at 04:36:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You realize that was just one employee at one franchise out of thousands of locations, right? What you're doing makes no sense, especially if you never actually complained to the company. Change your ways. Do better.
pwilliams58 · 714 points · Posted at 02:18:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Papa bless 🙌
Silent-G · 15 points · Posted at 04:44:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bo is in the house!
dtom_ · 5 points · Posted at 05:03:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I, ah, I tipped already
Mr_Bright5ide · 13 points · Posted at 04:51:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cuppla sodie pops
thewildnath · 16 points · Posted at 03:04:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
He literally got Papa blessed!
011000110111001001 · 4 points · Posted at 05:27:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Great moves, /u/pwilliams58, keep it up!
peeves91 · 1 points · Posted at 06:24:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Proud of you!
Corn89 · 4 points · Posted at 04:41:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ey b0ss
weekendwarrior72 · 3 points · Posted at 05:11:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Give the pussi pls
sfitzer · 5 points · Posted at 04:56:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Could have ordered his pizza with A Ring.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:03:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't have the weird euro-robot voice though. . .
lighting_lightning · 2 points · Posted at 04:59:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bo's in the house! 🙌
JackLyo17 · 2 points · Posted at 05:01:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Papa Jay's favorite pizza
eatmynasty · 1 points · Posted at 06:11:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Lord, you said once I decided to follow you,
You'd walk with me all the way.
But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life,
there was only one set of footprints.
I don't understand why, when I needed You the most, You would leave me."
He whispered, "My precious child, I love you and will never leave you Never, ever, during your trials and testings.
When you saw only one set of footprints,
It was then that I went and got the free Papa John's pizza for you so that you wouldn't have to worry about paying a tip to the delivery driver."
SqueakyDoIphin · 11 points · Posted at 04:22:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can just imagine that people start catching on to what you're doing pretty quickly, but, for whatever reason, 3-stooges-level hijinks or sitcom moments ensue, and they constantly forget to take the coupon from you. Like, one day they spend so much time telling the pizza delivery guy to make sure to get it that it ends up being late and they decide to just comp you on it instead, or that they just hired ten new people and each new person has only picked up the phone when you called like once or twice each but the manager is there every time and is blaming the delivery driver's fuckup when it's also the phone guy's fuckup, or just stupid stuff like that.
Then you get a second coupon because they spent so long using a permanent marker to write "get coupon" on the delivery driver's pizza box/forehead that it took too long and they had to comp you, and two days later you phone in again and say you have a coupon, and the manager just breaks down in tears
g-g-g-g-ghost · 1 points · Posted at 12:23:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is exactly how it happens
DroopyMcCool · 7 points · Posted at 04:46:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Something similar happened to me with dominos. Was mailed a magnet with a free cheesy bread promo on it. After about 5 free cheesy breads, the delivery guy wanted to take the magnet. I refused on the grounds that it was holding shit to my fridge. He agreed that he shouldn't take the magnet, but he said no more cheesy bread :(
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:04:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
LOL
bg-j38 · 5 points · Posted at 04:38:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in college in the 90s there was a Gumby's pizza on campus that we constantly ordered from. They'd hand out lots of coupons in the dorms at the beginning of the semester. It was sort of like a lottery in that you could find all sorts from $1 off to $5 off. Every freshman learned really quickly that none of the delivery people (who were also college kids) ever bothered to collect the coupons. So we figured out you could call up and just say you had a coupon for some reasonable amount off and they'd just do it. Pretty sure they worked that into their business model, but it was convenient.
Caybris · 5 points · Posted at 04:46:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you at least tip the driver every time? I wouldn't have the balls to not unless you live out of the states.
Highlet · 3 points · Posted at 04:56:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep, tipped 20% of what the purchase price would have been. It was pretty much easy money for any driver because the location I ordered from was only like 4 blocks away (less than a mile).
Todash_Traveller · 5 points · Posted at 05:21:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Gonna tack mine on here because it's similar.
The Dollar Tree near my apartment sells bags of the most delicious kettle-cooked jalapeno chips for $1. Retail price is a few bucks, so that's already a steal. But one day I noticed a coupon on the back of the bag that gives you $1 off your next bag. Surely they won't let me use the coupon, I thought, but I tried it anyway. It worked! I have discovered infinite free food. As of right now I have paid for 2 bags of chips (so I can have 2 at a time) and have consumed well over 50. Workers know me by now, but they don't care.
Everything else in my life may be going to shit right now, but I have kettle-cooked jalapeno chips, and that's usually enough.
bagboyrebel · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The manufacturer reimburses them for it anyway, so they probably don't give a shit.
Jbau01 · 3 points · Posted at 04:30:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
FTFY
ThisHatefulGirl · 3 points · Posted at 05:11:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Papa John's was our go to place in college. I dated a guy who worked there and he gave my roommates me coupons like that.
We would order pizzas, they would be late to deliver or mess up the order (it wasn't the best papa John's) and then they would give us another card to apologize for it. We milked this for most of junior year ordering pizza a few times a month.
badgramajama · 3 points · Posted at 05:21:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
similar thing happened to me but with movie theater tickets. my friends were at a movie and something went wrong with the projector so the manager initialed everyone's ticket stub so they could come back and see another movie for free. except when they went back the employees who tear the tickets just handed them back to my friends, i suppose because they are trained to always hand back the torn half of the ticket (which was all that was left of it). when they realized this they started going back until about the 4th time the employees kept the ticket. but by then we had all figured out what the manager's initials looked like, so we would just find ticket stubs in the trash or on the floor and initial them ourselves. free movies for all my friends for months. (im not condoning any of these, we were 13)
Yoohoo3131 · 3 points · Posted at 05:25:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I feel like I read my story...I did the same thing.
EscobarATM · 3 points · Posted at 05:37:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bos in the house
ant2k15 · 6 points · Posted at 03:29:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lmaoooo this is hilarious.
richernate · 2 points · Posted at 04:13:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was a valet in college, if we got enough people get pizzas delivered to the hotel, the staff would get free pizzas. They wouldn't always take the proof so once we got a week of free pizza day after day.
dot-pixis · 2 points · Posted at 04:24:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sorry you weren't happy with your last experience with us.
Management made us take the coupon.
ladyfireflyx · 2 points · Posted at 04:35:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did this with free movie tickets. They were a like a gift card but for movies at a theater I would frequent. I had two, and I would go up to the counter usually with more than one friend. So I would say I had two gift tickets and then buy the rest of them. They just kept forgetting to rip the ends off invalidating them. I used them at least a dozen times.
Grayslake_Gisox · 2 points · Posted at 04:36:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a similar experience were my friend had s coupon for a BOGO large pizza any topping to Papa Johns. They never collected or even asked for it when we payed for pick-up. Sadly it expired at the beginning of this month. I say we got at least 30 free pizzas out of that coupon.
LemonJongie23 · 2 points · Posted at 04:41:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This happened to me recently but it was for a free large pizza at pizza hut :D
Nvidiuh · 2 points · Posted at 04:46:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
From about 1999 through 2003 my family actually had a booklet of buy one get one free pizza coupons for Pizza Hut which also included any two liter you wanted. In the nearly five years we had that booklet, the pizza guy took maybe 5 or 6 of them. One day they finally stopped taking them. The booklet had 80 coupons, so math dictates that had the track record actually carried on, we would have been saving hella money on Pizza for about 65-70 more years. Essentially, an entire lifetime of half priced pizza and free drinks.
batmanzazzles · 2 points · Posted at 04:55:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My cousin did the same thing with Domino's for months. She had a coupon for BOGO medium pizza and they never asked her for a coupon. Later, the Domino's in her area closed down.
am0x · 2 points · Posted at 04:58:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Funny. There is a 50% Papa John's coupon code that I have and works every time.
debtmethrowaway8 · 1 points · Posted at 06:20:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
PM me? :)
messedfrombirth · 2 points · Posted at 05:06:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're bound to get it again, are you married? If not...
elijahtkitty · 2 points · Posted at 05:07:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Papa Johns was great for that. In 2004/2005 I ordered Papa Johns pretty often. At some point my friends and I realized that they never checked the coupons, and we started making up our own coupons for better and better deals. I'd assume they're not so lenient these days.
shlomo_baggins · 2 points · Posted at 05:11:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
to piggy back on what Quedra said, as an old PJ driver we're not held responsible to collect coupons on our run so it becomes trash the moment we collect them from you. Unless specifically told to collect it, there's no reason/gain to be found in collecting the free coupons from you
Montigue · 2 points · Posted at 05:13:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As long as I was delivering I wouldn't give a shit if I got tipped $5 every time
f1flaherty · 2 points · Posted at 05:13:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is by far the best one.
yakri · 2 points · Posted at 05:14:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
just gotta make a good photo copy.
Also, ever get one of those coupons for free something by email that always has an expiration date or similar if you sign up for a mailing list? Many companies send those as html and you can just inspect the page and edit the offer to say whatever you want.... As long as you keep the major details the same no one will notice. And suddenly your coupon works at the location actually closest to you and with not expiration.
Of course this is predicated by the company doing stupid shit like not including one time codes or anything, but it's amazingly common that they don't.
Woodshadow · 2 points · Posted at 05:20:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would do the same thing with Arbys. They give me coupons never ask for them and I would get half priced food. Eventually they caught on. One time I didn't have a coupon but tried to pull the same trick and they waited for about 3 minutes while I frantically searched for a coupon as if I had just dropped it knowing full well that wasn't there before letting me know next time they wouldn't honor the coupon without the coupon.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:22:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
11/10
Reznoob · 2 points · Posted at 05:26:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had something like this going on at a couple nightclubs. They told me and three friends that by paying 25 bucks we'd all get in and they'd give us a free champagne inside. Thing is they gave us a ticket that was used to get us inside, where you were supposed to trade it for the champagne. But if you didn't want the champagne, you could just use the ticket every other day
This was in a city in my country's coast during January, which is summer vacations here, so clubs were open every day. And I was there for two weeks in which I had a free pass to three nightclubs. Cheapest vacations ever
lexgrub · 2 points · Posted at 05:34:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At the retail store I work at my boss makes us honor all coupons even if the customer is supposed to use it only once...Etc. Had one lady who didn't even have an coupons demand I find her a $20 off of $50 coupon and then do 5 different transactions with it. Three of which were order on the computer and we waived the shipping for. She then had the audacity to act like she didn't get enough savings. Like bitch u just got 100 in free coupons.
getsome13 · 2 points · Posted at 05:36:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had the same thing happen with toppers. Don't remember why,but they ended up giving us 2 coupons for free pizzas. Every time we called I would inform them of my coupon. Every time they showed up I would have the coupon in my pocket....but they never asked for it. I don't know how many months we got free pizza for until they actually asked for the coupon. Even then,we still had another coupon so we continued on until we moved out of the delivery area.
Trevrawrrr · 2 points · Posted at 05:36:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sort of related I've been doing this for a while. Got a coupon from Dominoes saying "We miss you!" because I hadn't ordered pizza in a long time. It was a coupon for a large pizza with as many toppings as you want for $9.99. I use the code on that coupon every so often, despite the fact that it expired a year ago, and they haven't once requested to take it from me.
HermioneGangster · 2 points · Posted at 05:43:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did the same with Pizza Hut. Lasted about 9 months before they actually took the coupon.
I_Dionysus · 2 points · Posted at 05:55:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fuck it, call and tell them they fucked up your pizza, tip well, nobody gives a shit. Papa John is an asshole, but I'm poor and living on the sob right now.
CarlosFer2201 · 2 points · Posted at 05:59:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're the reason half the coupon stories exist in r/talesfromretail
lol
smryan8076 · 2 points · Posted at 06:04:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Years ago when Papa John's first set up their website to order online (in Arizona) they had a coupon button online for a couple days that read "Large Pizza for $0.00". At the same time my little brother was in town visiting and we ordered 10 large pizzas under that coupon, checked out online with no charge and when the delivery driver got there he handed us the 10 pizzas, looked at the receipt and said "uhmm, that will be....nothing...???" I don't remember exactly but I think we gave him $30 or so for a tip.
samantha740 · 2 points · Posted at 06:47:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh Papi 😍
Qnavry_Zvyyre · 2 points · Posted at 03:50:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thank you for the laugh, thats pretty awesome
bent42 · 2 points · Posted at 04:58:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So that prick is ok with giving out months of free pizzas, but pitches a fit because health insurance for his employees will cost $0.11 per pie?
100292 · 1 points · Posted at 04:28:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can also explain:
If you tipped the delivery driver everytime, he's gonna keep letting you get free pizzad
Highlet · 1 points · Posted at 04:29:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well yeah, but I always tip 20% unless the service is bad. I worked in the service industry for a while and it's a miserable unappreciated job most of the time.
what_it_dude · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
you must have gotten fat
Highlet · 2 points · Posted at 11:52:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think you mean fatter.
skivian · 1 points · Posted at 03:53:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I do that all the time with fast food coupons. Especially tim drive through. They never took my free coffee rollup thing.
Storm137 · 1 points · Posted at 04:31:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dude I think you win the thread.
judashpeters · 1 points · Posted at 04:39:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh my gosh. 15 years ago in college there was a rumor that this one dude gotva free pizza for him and his roomate every Friday from papa johns because he claimed to have a free pizza coupon. We didnt think it would be true because what company would give free coupons? Well. I guess papa johns. Thx for helping me remember this.
Twons · 5544 points · Posted at 23:30:53 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ninth grade science class. We had a contest to build a device in which you could place an egg to protect it during a fall. Scores were evaluated based on size and how well the egg survived. I believe the formula was Intactness of Egg (scale of one to ten) divided by the size of the device's longest side measured in meters. Most people built elaborate devices that net scores around 100. The number two winner was 112.
I took a tiny piece of tape and stuck it to the egg. I scored 12000.
The next year they changed it so the egg's integrity was calculated on a scale starting with zero.
Edit: Huh. So that's how it feels when your inbox blows up.
To be clear, the egg broke. Completely shattered. The tape did zilch to protect the egg. But the scoring system meant that by using an absurdly small contraption, a shattered egg wouldn't be a problem at all.
CroatianBison · 1041 points · Posted at 03:55:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Similar story. In sixth grade we took a trip to Catalina island off the coast of California where we learned about marine life and all that. They had a competition where they gave you a piece of silly puddy iirc that was supposed to simulate plankton, and the rules were to form it in such a way that it would take the longest time to sink to the bottom of a large tank of water. Everyone else flattened theirs out and did other things like that, I just folded it in on itself and made an air bubble and it just floated indefinitely at the top.
I was disqualified since plankton that couldn't sink would die in the sun or something. I'm still kind of salty about that one.
Matti_Matti_Matti · 535 points · Posted at 04:31:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They taught you an important lesson about how pissing off the judges will land you in the shitter even if you're technically correct. :)
smarterthanyoda · 58 points · Posted at 05:00:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The contest was to sink in the longest time. If it didn't sink at all he didn't meet the first part of the challenge.
The judges were even more technically correct than him.
Frenchschool · 47 points · Posted at 05:09:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Who says it wouldn't eventually sink?
LevelSevenLaserLotus · 39 points · Posted at 05:19:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thanks to ever growing entropy, everything will sink. Checkmate judges.
Greenleaf208 · 8 points · Posted at 05:29:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eventually the water would have to evaporate.
procrasticooker · 15 points · Posted at 04:56:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
But technically correct IS the best kind of correct...
ViridianDuck · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is there even any other kind?
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 06:16:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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ppp475 · 1 points · Posted at 21:21:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cgp grey did not come up with that saying. That's been around for far longer than he has been.
Ytrignu · 4 points · Posted at 05:39:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
the lesson to learn here: request the rules in written form.
Matti_Matti_Matti · 1 points · Posted at 11:52:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And if you're going to be a smartarse, request a written judgement in advance!
ThaDilemma · 3 points · Posted at 06:08:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So like .. does this apply to the Orthodox Jews and their wire around New York City so they can do stuff on Sunday? Do they piss God off?
Matti_Matti_Matti · 1 points · Posted at 11:51:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We won't know until the end of daysTM.
prancingElephant · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:56 on March 8, 2017 · (Permalink)
Saturday, not Sunday
pyroSeven · 2 points · Posted at 07:00:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
But that's the best kind of correct.
shalo62 · 4 points · Posted at 05:41:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Technically correct is best correct.
PandasakiPokono · 22 points · Posted at 04:55:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Phytoplankton thrive off of sunlight and live at the top of the water column as far down as light penetrates. Your teacher was/is an idiot.
brycedriesenga · 7 points · Posted at 04:47:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Of course you're salty -- the ocean isn't freshwater.
DrunkenBadgerface · 11 points · Posted at 05:07:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Something something, fucking Catalina Wine Mixer...
Yuno_00 · 3 points · Posted at 05:28:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
POW!!!
707RiverRat · 2 points · Posted at 05:50:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
-Not- the fucking Catalina wine mixer.
Chiptehubah · 6 points · Posted at 04:56:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I always consider stumping the rules a win. Technically you won but they didnt want to admit their rules were flawed for not omitting that.
mork0rk · 3 points · Posted at 05:10:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
CIMI was some of the most fun I've had. Those tunnels were the best.
CroatianBison · 1 points · Posted at 06:44:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yessssss I loved those damn tunnels. I forgot about the name of the program until now, but yep Catalina Island Marine Institute
Eagle_Potato · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Your school in Aliso Viejo?
CroatianBison · 1 points · Posted at 06:43:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nope, Irvine
Luna_One · 1 points · Posted at 05:29:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
my school had that trip as well, i didn't get to take it for some dumb reason i cant remember.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:30:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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CroatianBison · 1 points · Posted at 06:43:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nope, it was actually a trip to celebrate graduating from elementary school, which went up through 6th grade where I lived. Bonita Canyon Elementary if I recall correctly
shots-the-fuck-up · 1 points · Posted at 05:30:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Gastropod molluscs create a float of air bubbles with their mucus to crawl along the bottom of the water surface. They are plankton! Plankton just describes organisms living in the water column that are too small to be able to swim counter to typical ocean currents.
aoskunk · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Should of poked a small hole in it.
pedroff_1 · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
but isn't plankton classified for the fact that it doesn't sink to the bottom of the sea?
Tu_mama_me_ama_mucho · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You should've filled it partially with water.
Ajlee209 · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had something like that happen to me. I was doing a ice breaker/group challenge at my school during resident assistant training. We had a big metal ring with 5 cords attached to it and each person grabbed one cord and had to run from one place to the next with a big bouncy ball on top. If the ball fell, you had to restart. So I thought to pull the cords over the ball evenly making it impossible to move. Judges didn't like that and stopped it. I thought it was clever and showed that critical thinking was valued. Guess not...
20_Menthol_Cigarette · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
should have put a tiny hole on the top.
sydnaaayy · 1 points · Posted at 07:34:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did the same field trip and competition too!! I remember having the same thought you had, about trying to form an air bubble in my clay, but unfortunately it didn't work out for me. I can't believe I found your comment!!
-Sarek- · 1 points · Posted at 08:03:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd be salty too.
StarWarsfan11 · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Catalina fucking wine mixer
SupersuMC · 2633 points · Posted at 00:14:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
scores 12000 on Egg Drop assignment
doesn't need to worry about class work for the rest of the grading period
JManRomania · 559 points · Posted at 03:23:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
this happened in my math class, but with a can drive
TheStonedHat · 230 points · Posted at 04:21:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was this kid....thank you momma
Alt_dimension_visitr · 32 points · Posted at 04:46:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was once short of winning some homeless can food contest by two cans. The kicker, I used $5 of my can food contest to buy a homeless guy a burrito earlier that day. dammit, I coulda won.
[deleted] · 34 points · Posted at 05:04:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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LevelSevenLaserLotus · 15 points · Posted at 05:18:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh so he went to Taco Bell?
Buzzdanume · 7 points · Posted at 05:59:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was the kid those cans went to... thank you other kid's momma
ScrithWire · 2 points · Posted at 06:12:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
All PBR cans. Every. Single. One.
MySemanticSatiation · 7 points · Posted at 05:32:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I asked my son this year, during one of those drives, if were essentially buying grades. He said "yes," I said "get a bag, we're filling it."
_Lady_Deadpool_ · 6 points · Posted at 05:10:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Happened in a writing class in college. Paper was out of 500 and I got a decent score. She entered it into the system as 400/100 and didn't notice for the rest of the year.
purplekiren · 7 points · Posted at 05:10:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Once there was a girl in one of my classes who accrued so much extra credit that she would've needed a -400% on the final to not get >100% in the class. The teacher was retiring that year, knew the student was absurdly competent anyway, and just gave her all that extra credit instead of fixing the formula for calculating it.
WasThatARocketShip · 4 points · Posted at 06:08:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In junior high they had a can drive contest and the winning grade won a dance. At that school 6th got no dances, 7th one and 8th two normally. An industrious 6th grader realized it was more about aluminum than cans. He raided a scrap yard and single handedly won a dance for the 6th grade.
SupersuMC · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That is awesome. XD
WildGalaxy · 2 points · Posted at 05:46:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So it's pay to win but for math class?
Selraroot · 592 points · Posted at 04:27:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This essentially happened to me in 8th grade English. The teacher gave extra credit based on taking quizzes on books you had read. As an avid reader who had read hundreds of books that were in the quiz bank (a program on the library computers.) I took a hundred or so of the quizzes at 10 questions each, got my grade percentage up to like 450% and then did nothing for the rest of the year...got a 212% final grade.
On a semi related note I also scammed my 7th grade Spanish class. I went to a charter school for 6th 7th and part of 8th (then transferred to a public school with the quiz teacher) and in 6th grade one of my friends took Spanish online because our teacher sucked. I told my mom I wanted to do that next year and she said sure, told all the teachers and admin staff that I was going to be doing it, then got halfway through the process of signing me up and getting everything in order and ended up not doing it and told me to just suck it up and take it at school. So, the school thought I was taking Spanish at home, my mom thought I was taking it at school, and I really was playing computer games on the school laptops every Spanish period. Also the Spanish teacher must not have known what to do when she was giving out grades so she just entered a 100% for mine.
Edit* -Just because a lot of people are throwing out names of programs, I really don't remember the name of it. It had orange UI elements....that's all I remember.
Nolanova · 35 points · Posted at 05:06:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Accelerated Reader?
Selraroot · 13 points · Posted at 05:08:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't remember honestly. It was pretty much just a search bar, you typed in the name of the book and clicked on it. And then there was a 10 question quiz and it recorded your score. I do remember that there were a ton of books that I had read that weren't in the database.
Nolanova · 4 points · Posted at 07:09:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sounds like Accelerated Reader then haha. I remember doing that in elementary school
flaker111 · 9 points · Posted at 05:15:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
yup i remember it took abridged versions of the book as well. i did a ~30-50 page summary of war of the worlds and was able to take the test for the full version and got massive pts.
IHappenToBeARobot · 3 points · Posted at 06:55:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I found a few books that were vastly miss-categorized as far as grade level goes. For example, The Little Prince was labeled at a 7th or 8th grade level.
After a few of those, the teacher made me get approval before taking the tests...
The_Shrimp52 · 5 points · Posted at 07:04:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in elementary school, Accelerated Reader labeled the Captain Underpants books at a 4th grade level.
Matriss · 5 points · Posted at 05:36:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't know about the person you're replying to but i did almost exactly this with accelerated reader in 8th grade. "almost" because the teacher didn't fully count AR points into grades so i still had to do classwork but i was still sitting pretty.
Nolanova · 2 points · Posted at 07:12:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I wish my teachers had counted AR as part of a grade. It was just something we did for fun
saudade_xo · 6 points · Posted at 05:51:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had AR. My middle school English grades were sky-high because a few of my friends and I exploited this loophole. I feel like it's not the worst thing we could have done though, because you did have to have enough knowledge of the book to pass the quiz.
El_chica_gato · 3 points · Posted at 05:16:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Gotta get those sweet, sweet dog tags
WalkingFumble · 2 points · Posted at 05:54:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
AR used to be mostly white and blue and STAR was almost all blue...12 years ago. I'm leaning towards Orchard.
Nolanova · 2 points · Posted at 07:11:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I remember AR being like weird yellow and blue, but maybe that was just the old Macs we had at my elementary school
WalkingFumble · 2 points · Posted at 08:19:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What years? I worked with it from 2002-2008.
Nolanova · 2 points · Posted at 08:28:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Around that time period
Deaf_Pickle · 2 points · Posted at 06:44:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haha accelerated reader was abused hard at my school. All you had to do was watch the pride and prejudice movie and be done for a quarter. Next quarter? One kid reads a book and takes the test for everyone :P
Nolanova · 2 points · Posted at 07:10:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would always take quizzes for books I didn't think I'd ever read and just guess, trying to get those points.
And then 2 years later, I'd actually read the book and be locked out of the quiz :/
Deaf_Pickle · 2 points · Posted at 07:18:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ahahaha I did that too when I began to get desperate. Also screwed myself over like you :P
jarfil · 9 points · Posted at 05:38:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So you ended up not learning Spanish? I think you cheated yourself.
_jrmint · 3 points · Posted at 05:59:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Even if you study hard, you aren't gonna remember shit after just 1 Spanish class.
Selraroot · 2 points · Posted at 05:56:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I mean, I missed one semester of middle school Spanish that I knew most of already.
Timmytanks40 · 3 points · Posted at 05:12:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol AR Reader?
purplepenguin4163 · 7 points · Posted at 05:36:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Accelerated Reader Reader
WalkingFumble · 3 points · Posted at 06:02:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A few years ago, I was a network engineer for a school system, and had to deploy a server / client install of AR at 30 elementary schools. Sure enough, I made all the shortcuts "AR Reader" on 4000+ computes. Was not my proudest moment.
roboticWanderor · 3 points · Posted at 05:29:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well, honestly, in 8th grade english.... if youre an avid reader, youre already leagues ahead of your peers. My english teacher in middle school knew this... if you were reading at any time, he wouldnt mess with you, even while he was lecturing, or you were suppoesed to be doing something else. I spent many of his class periods reading, and made an A. Im fairly certain I didnt pay attention to half his lessons.
Cha-Le-Gai · 2 points · Posted at 05:58:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So quick back story, when it came to reading I was a late bloomer. Had to go summer school and almost repeated first grade. Once I learned to read I got really good and was ahead of my classmates in reading level. I read War and Peace in third grade for example. Understood most of it too and completed at state level spelling be with fourth and fifth graders. Plus my teacher told me that if I stopped reading I would lose my ability to read, so I began reading books like crazy. Bow on to my story.
When I got to sixth grade there was a literacy program, read a certain number of book, take a test, get a voucher redeemable for cash. I had read so many books I was able to complete a bunch of the tests off memory alone. Once I went through every book I could remember I realized the pattern of the quizzes and started just skimming books for relevant information. Then I realized I could go through lower level books faster and get more points that way. The first and second grade books were worth slightly less points than the 5th and 6th grade level, but the system didn't match your grade level to the book's level since the whole point was to get kids who were bad at reading to read more. Eventually I made close to $200 dollars. I could have made more, but I had to slow down when I realized I was at $50 and the next highest kid was an 8th grader and he was around $20. I should have kept going though. I found out later I wasn't even near the top earner in our district.
Selraroot · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Damn that's awesome, I wish I had earned cash instead of extra credit.
HoodieGalore · 2 points · Posted at 06:01:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh man, 8th grade English also here. We were still doing spelling tests then, and of course I'd ace every one. If you did, you'd get a certificate for "One Free Homework Assignment" - a get-out-of-homework-card. No expiration date.
I just saved them all up until the end of the year and the last two weeks or so before graduation I basically kicked back and did what I wanted. I would have been ok if I had to do the work, but it was so sweet not having to and still passing.
Erisianistic · 2 points · Posted at 07:03:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My 11th grade English teacher accused me of cheating on a easy vocabulary test because I got 100% and turned it in first... so I challenged her, in front of the class, to give me a test from any section of the year and I'd finish it just as fast and get a 90+.
She flips to the back of a binder, gives me a test, and I fill it in at her desk, and watch her face as she realizes I got another 100%, before most of the other kids have even finished the first test.
I got to read novels and even nap the rest of the year :D
Just_For_Da_Lulz · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
For the English class, was that Book-It? I loved that thing!
TheSuperPoo · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wasn't that program called AR, or something like that? I think I had that in elementary school.
Zabiool · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Were the Spanish made to pay for it?
SuperDuperCoolDude · 1 points · Posted at 05:42:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had that same program at my school! We had to read fifty points worth of books (each book was worth anywhere from 5 to 100ish for Atlas Shrugged as the highest) every point after 50 was supposed to be an extra credit point but when I racked up over 600 points my teacher capped the bonus points at a letter grade.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Selraroot · 2 points · Posted at 05:57:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah, Tigers.
bongggblue · 29 points · Posted at 04:30:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My senior year in high school I had a pretty cool history teacher. The week before finals he basically just had a "quiz bowl" refresher of the materials we covered that year.. each correct answer got you a point towards your final...
I answered 105 questions in 5 days... I never turned in a homework assignment, except for papers I wanted to write, but I always listened and participated in class, and would usually ace tests so I basically coasted by on a C-
Dude looked me out though because I didn't have to take my final and got an B+ for the year
SirCarboy · 5 points · Posted at 05:28:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We used to watch a kids news program in about grade 3/4. You had to take notes and scored one point for every true/valid statement you wrote up. Seeing as it was note-taking, you were expected to write up a neat final copy as homework. Of course, I worked out the VCR timer at home, recorded the show, then rewatched, pausing after almost every sentence. Smashed the leaderboard for the whole semester in about 3 weeks.
PolyUre · 3 points · Posted at 05:24:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Course is graded on a curve, everyone else fails the course.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:27:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
FTFY
ArcboundChampion · 3 points · Posted at 05:29:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of my Chemistry class. Everyone else were terrible students who took advantage of a new teacher who constantly gave out extra credit whenever she was asked, and of course, she was asked a lot. I did my homework and the extra credit, which all that practice helped me do well on the tests and quizzes.
For the final, she told you the score you'd need to pass the class. Instead, she told me the score I'd need to retain an A because she gave out so much extra credit that I had gotten a 116%. I think I just had to get a not failing grade, and I don't think it was possible to fail.
Kered13 · 2 points · Posted at 06:33:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had a project in 7th grade science class to create a Rubegoldbergian balloon popper with ample room for extra credit. It was also a large part of that quarter's grade for the class. Essentially everyone got 200+ on the assignment (some over 300) and an easy A for that quarter.
This assignment was done every year too, the grading was entirely by design.
infinitim · 959 points · Posted at 00:14:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
by far the best one. however I think you scored 1200 as 12000 would require a tiny, tiny piece of tape...
Jbau01 · 736 points · Posted at 00:57:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
you underestimate his power
infinitim · 385 points · Posted at 01:00:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
mmmmm yeah u/Twons seems like a pretty sick guy to me, probably cut the tape to .00000000000000001m length with laserbeams from his eyeballs while he juggled eggs with his feet
Jbau01 · 161 points · Posted at 01:03:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
you ever heard of scissors, bud?
ThingsUponMyHead · 19 points · Posted at 02:40:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, what're those?
tabarra · 11 points · Posted at 04:02:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hmm how can we start? Have you ever heard about potatoes?
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 04:13:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Never. Is it what they use to make rice?
Limekilnlake · 6 points · Posted at 04:21:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hmmmmm, have you heard of the color brown? How about circles?
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 04:30:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Colors? yes. brown? I have now!
udderlymoovelous · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cool! Do you know what circles are? How about squares?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is getting complicated
udderlymoovelous · 1 points · Posted at 05:42:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I know
Redebo · 1 points · Posted at 06:14:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A fine substitute for laser beam eyeballs when it comes to cutting tape.
SpellingIsAhful · 8 points · Posted at 04:18:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How would shooting scissors from his eyes help?
udderlymoovelous · 2 points · Posted at 05:22:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They don't do anything. They just go right through the egg, not just the tape.
SIR_VELOCIRAPTOR · 6 points · Posted at 05:06:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
considering the egg only scored a 1 (unless a miracle happened), a 1x1 millimetre piece if tape still only nets 1000 points.
Do know of any scissors that can cut on the micrometres?
udderlymoovelous · 3 points · Posted at 05:23:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes, micro-scissors
Canadian_Invader · 2 points · Posted at 04:29:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Laser scissors?
Comrade_Snarky8 · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do I use those for running?
I_AmA_Zebra · 5 points · Posted at 02:30:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's actually more like 0.8mm for its longest side? So it's not impossible with scissors...
K20BB5 · 1 points · Posted at 02:54:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
that's about the width of a human hair. that's pretty hard to achieve with scissors, and would be even harder to measure
im_ultracrepidarious · 4 points · Posted at 04:43:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A human hair would be closer to .08mm.
.8mm is definitely possible with just scissors, but you would be getting close to the smallest you could reasonably cut a piece of tape.
K20BB5 · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
width range of human hair is 17 um (.17 mm) to 181 um (1.81 mm)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(length)
im_ultracrepidarious · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You dropped a zero. 1 micrometer is .001 millimeter, so 17 um is .017mm, and 181 um is .181mm. Consider the size of 1.81mm. have you ever seen a hair that was 2 mm thick?
K20BB5 · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
whoops, you're right. My mistake
starsyph · 4 points · Posted at 04:45:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Assume x is the length of the tape
1/x = 12000
1/12000 = x
x = .000083m
= .0083cm
= .083mm
Well shit.
Scusii · 1 points · Posted at 03:36:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's actually a really long piece of tape when you put it that way
bradorsomething · 1 points · Posted at 04:47:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's graphene tape.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:50:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
more comments like this in the world please
MSgtGunny · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I mean if you don't use any tape, you would score infinite.
TurboChewy · 1 points · Posted at 04:21:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Uh, 1/12000 Meters is 1/12 mm. Yeah it's a small piece of tape but not at all impossible. Just snipping the corner of a piece off with an x-acto knife would do the trick.
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 03:29:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The teacher has the high ground, it's over
VpCharles · 8 points · Posted at 03:35:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't try it
DieSinner · 1 points · Posted at 03:59:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Jumps an GETS FUCKIN REKT
jbondyoda · 1 points · Posted at 04:19:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Overwhelming autistic egg dropping
homiej420 · 5 points · Posted at 02:03:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have the high ground
macrocephale · 3 points · Posted at 04:43:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is it possible to learn this power?
Airforce987 · 4 points · Posted at 04:55:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not from a physics teacher.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
He had the high ground.
AOEUD · 3 points · Posted at 04:07:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
0.08 mm. If you stuck it on and took an exacto knife to it, maybe.
PM_ME_CUTE_BABY_PICS · 2 points · Posted at 04:41:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You would have to do it both ways also
Boloar · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
i find your lack of
faithtape disturbingmeme-com-poop · 1 points · Posted at 06:00:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not really. He said it was measured along the longest edge, in meters, so he could use scotch tape with the width as the widest part.
tomytronics · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Would an ultra-fine point ink pen count? You'd end up with a protective layer of ink smaller than pinhole and coupled with the old 1-10 scale, earning obscene score that will never be topped again in the school's lifetime.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 04:25:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Good point. It'd have to be about 9 micrometers to score 12k.
BhMhWh · 516 points · Posted at 00:27:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can someone please explain this better because I don't get it at all.
dbmeach · 905 points · Posted at 00:38:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Since the scale was 1-10 for "intactness" and the piece of tape was 0.00008333 of a meter, his score equaled 1/0.00008333 or 12000.
vulcanfury12 · 645 points · Posted at 01:20:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Since the intactness score starts at 1, he gets full marks and more, even if the egg breaks.
Edit: Aaaaand now my top comment is about how dividing something will make it bigger. What a time to be alive!
PotatoMushroomSoup · 5 points · Posted at 05:18:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
i dont think this was out of 100
vulcanfury12 · 8 points · Posted at 05:22:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The scoring is Intactness/length where the length is in meters. If your intactness score is 100 and your length is less than one meter, your final score is greater than 100.
tomytronics · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And since the scale was changed to start at 0 next year, if the egg is completely smashed he'd get a zero. zero / any number is always zero.
Wrapping the egg in duct tape is probably now the smallest way to protect egg and not get a zero.
sovamind · 1 points · Posted at 06:18:04 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Obviously the instructor wasn't a mathematician or computer science major in school. These people know that you always begin counting from zero.
ModsDontLift · 29 points · Posted at 03:41:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
so he was able to cut a piece of tape to 0.08333 millimeters.
Seems legit.
SlaughterHouze · 38 points · Posted at 03:58:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No that's how thick the tape was. Changing the diameter of his egg by that amount. Didn't matter how long the piece of tape was as long as it didn't start to crumple up and add extra bulk. Just know that his idea works on that grading scale as long as he puts a piece of tape on the egg smaller than the surface area of the egg itself..
ModsDontLift · 30 points · Posted at 04:00:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
it's 1 divided by the LONGEST side of the device added to the egg.
Caves_Caves · 12 points · Posted at 04:28:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If this was measured after it was put on the egg then it would just be the thickness. Otherwise you are correct
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:21:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I didn't understand that reply in the slightest
Caves_Caves · 1 points · Posted at 14:41:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If it is measured after it it put on, the egg only increases by the thickness of the tape. The tape wraps around and matches the egg. If it is measured before, while the tape is "rigid" then it would be the side. Think of it as the size added to the egg. It depends on what axis measured and when it was measured
Matti_Matti_Matti · 7 points · Posted at 04:28:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cutting it to that size isn't the hard part, getting a measurement that precise is.
Kvothealar · 1 points · Posted at 05:30:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've worked with devices that aligned to 0.005 +/- 0.001mm. If you gave me a piece of tape, that device, and scalpel I could probably cut a much smaller square.
OP likely meant 1200 points, but it's still possible to get that high or higher.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:13:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would still be pretty amazed if a ninth grade was able to cut a piece of tape the longest side of which was about 0.8 millimeters without the aid of industrial equipment.
120 sounds like a plausible score in this scenario.
Kvothealar · 2 points · Posted at 09:21:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
0.8mm is really easy to do. You could easily get half that just by taking scotch tape, ripping it off on those spikey things, and cutting off one of the jagged bits.
Getting 1/10th of that is where it's tricky without something like a $1000+ micrometre and scalpels.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 04:19:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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LunaFalls · 0 points · Posted at 04:46:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's the width of the tape
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 06:18:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
His story said the longest side of the device was measured for the score.
BhMhWh · 6 points · Posted at 00:42:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Makes sense.
Your_daily_fix · 3 points · Posted at 03:56:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I just got on the calculator and figured that out before I saw your comment. Also this is not exact his score was rounded.
yetanotherAZN · 2 points · Posted at 04:10:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How did you find the length of the tape?
pm_me_emu_facts · 5 points · Posted at 05:07:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
1/score=length
Cisiowian · 1 points · Posted at 05:15:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That measurement is unrealistic.
sdmitch16 · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm just amazed he was able to cut it to be a 12th of millimeter on each side.
Shnurbs · 463 points · Posted at 00:41:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How intact the egg was (1-10) / the size of the devices long side in meters
So if you had a device one meter long, and a fully intact egg, you'd get a final score of 10. If you built a device that got a 5 on how intact the egg was, and was 1/20 of a meter long on its longest side, you'd get a final score of 100.
Twons likely got a 1 on how in tact the egg was, but because the contraption holding it was such a small fraction of a meter, his final score was 12000.
BhMhWh · 132 points · Posted at 00:43:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Makes complete sense. Thanks bro.
BlueDragon101 · 57 points · Posted at 01:40:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Holding it together" seems generous. it was probably a fingernail sized piece of duct tape stuck to the egg.
Matti_Matti_Matti · 6 points · Posted at 04:30:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The problem was that the lowest intactness score you could get was a 1, so even if you broke it down into its constituent atoms, you'd still score 1.
EsQuiteMexican · 3 points · Posted at 05:05:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That would be really cool though.
solepsis · 1 points · Posted at 06:09:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just wrapping the whole egg in tape would keep it intact and still only be worth a few centimeters.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:31:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
wait...So did the egg break??
FM2163 · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
But how can you grade an egg on how intact it is? Isn't it either broken or not broken?
sdmitch16 · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm just amazed he was able to cut it to be a 12th of millimeter on each side.
Xaxxon · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Except it's very difficult to get a piece of tape with its longest side as .0833 millimeters. score was probably closer to 1200.
BabyNinjaJesus · 1 points · Posted at 06:10:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
LOL
infinitim · 14 points · Posted at 00:31:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
1/.001m (1mm) = 1000/1 = 1000. If his tape was .8mm he would score roughly 1200. 1 is 1000 times greater than .001. ask if you still don't get it.
BhMhWh · 2 points · Posted at 00:33:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Seriouslt? Cmon dude.
infinitim · 13 points · Posted at 00:35:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
is that a "still dont get it"
BhMhWh · 1 points · Posted at 00:38:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Was the egg supposed to be dropped from somewhere ? How did the tape hold it together.
infinitim · 15 points · Posted at 00:40:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
he cheated the formula because he had the smallest device. the egg was wrecked but the minimum score was a 1 for integrity. the formula then would have read 1/.0008m (length of tape, his "protective device"), giving an insanely high score because of how the math works out.
Kaddon · 4 points · Posted at 03:20:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Tape didn't need to hold it together, since the minimum for egg-intactness was a 1, and not a 0. So if the egg was completely destroyed, the formula would then be 1/(size-of-contraption). But dividing by a fraction like 0.0008 meters would cause the answer to go up, so his score was high in the end even though the egg was broken
CrackedGoggles · 1 points · Posted at 06:11:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The score takes an intactness rating and divides it by the longest side of the contraption as measured in meters. OP's scrap of tape was a fraction of a meter long. When you divide by a fraction, you actually multiply.
[deleted] · 462 points · Posted at 01:59:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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buttcheeksontoast · 3 points · Posted at 06:50:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, a lot of these loopholes in this thread were just corporate coupons/reward systems not being airtight, but this was one helluva loophole exploit.
ferricshoulder · 26 points · Posted at 04:09:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of the episode of Top Gear where the final category of points in the boys' competition was based off of how much they spent on the car, adding points for being under budget, subtracting for being over.
Clarkson bought his car for $1, and thus won the competition, even though he'd failed in every other category.
wmcduff · 2 points · Posted at 05:51:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Series 4, Episode 3, £100 car challenge. :)
names_are_for_losers · 25 points · Posted at 04:20:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of one of my science projects too. Design a cooler to keep a can of pop cold. Nothing frozen was allowed, so I poured salt in a bag of water until it didn't freeze anymore. My pop was -7 degrees when they took the temperature. The next year when my brother did it the rule was "no sub zero temperatures".
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 05:50:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why not? That was a pretty good idea and the teachers discouraged thinking outside the box. They must have thought a bunch of people would copy his design.
names_are_for_losers · 2 points · Posted at 08:16:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah basically they thought people would just copy it and get a good mark (based on the temperature of the drink) for no work.
skalpelis · 5 points · Posted at 06:06:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well, yeah, without that rule eventually there'd be some fuckery with liquid nitrogen, someone would freeze an appendage and it'd shatter all over the floor like in the movies. And do you know how hard it is to clean that up once it melts?
[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 04:17:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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irlcake · 5 points · Posted at 04:46:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What
Edit. You didn't make a base out of straws, you just put straws on the table and put bricks on top?
AccountWasFound · 8 points · Posted at 04:52:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
He layed straws on the table, then pilled bricks on the straws, took the penalty for being to short, and the points from the bricks more than made up for it
whatyaworkinwith · 4 points · Posted at 04:52:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
-300 points for height, idk how many grams brick are but basically more than 300 works into positive
Gaylien28 · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, concrete bricks are like 5 pounds? Like 2000g. Easy win
brackh · 16 points · Posted at 04:35:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Similar experience in high school science class except we had to keep an egg safe while seeing how far we could launch it. People spent weeks working on it. I taped my egg to a frisbee about 30 seconds before my turn. Went the farthest in class and didn't break. Bitch gave me a 0 because she didn't like my attitude.
K20BB5 · 16 points · Posted at 02:52:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
probably added a few zeros to your score, 83 micrometers is about the thickness of a human hair
rydan · 10 points · Posted at 02:37:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why tape? Why not nothing? Then you'd have an infinite score.
LunarRocketeer · 20 points · Posted at 04:21:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well, you'd have an undefined score. I'm not sure what that means on a report card, but it's probably not anything good.
Matti_Matti_Matti · 6 points · Posted at 04:33:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nothing would have a measurement of zero. Also, you have to build a device so you'd fail the test no matter what the score you achieved.
rydan · 2 points · Posted at 09:48:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When you divide by 0 you don't get 0. You get infinity. Graph it out.
Matti_Matti_Matti · 1 points · Posted at 10:23:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can't divide by zero. It's undefined.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_zero
GrimResistance · 1 points · Posted at 00:50:15 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
What is 1 divided by 0?
FireLucid · 5 points · Posted at 03:59:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had something like this with distance plus how good the egg was. We just added weight (wrapped heaps or rubber bands around it) and launched it as far as we could our of the slingshot ramp thing and didn't worry about the egg. Did quite well. When it hit the ground and lot integrity the whole thing imploded.
RyanG7 · 5 points · Posted at 04:51:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a somewhat similar experience. When I was in 8th grade I had this "Tech Ed" course where throughout the semester, the class would design and build projects. We did the egg drop test, raced balsa wood dragsters with C02 cartidges, see which paper airplane design stayed in the air the longest, etc.
One time we were given 2 pieces of printer paper with half a bottle of Elmer's glue and were supposed to build a 5x4" platform that had to at least be 3" from the ground and would have to support as much weight as possible. I cut a couple sheets to make the bottom and top of my platform and used the rest of the paper to roll 5 support pillars. 4 for the corners and 1 for the middle. One thing I did, but noticed that my classmates didn't do, was coat the inside of each pillar to reinforce them. Once completed, we stacked textbooks on everyone's platform until it collapsed. The teacher told me that the previous record since he started doing the project was 27. We stacked books on my platform until we were unable to due to the books reaching the ceiling. The final count was 52 books. It was probably one of my favorite accomplishments in school and I even got my picture taken for the yearbook as I was stacking. Unfortunately my awesome accomplishment was short lived as when I looked up the picture in the yearbook at the end of the year, they had put someone else name under my picture. I still think about it every now and then to this day
NoNickname90 · 6 points · Posted at 03:45:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I thought like that in school but I was always afraid of getting in trouble.
You go you rebel you!! Be the rebel I could have become!!
arquebus_x · 5 points · Posted at 04:21:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We did this at my high school too, in physics class. The winner was the one who could drop it from the highest point without the egg breaking. Everyone else tried to keep the egg as far away from the ground as possible (by putting it on top of their apparatus). Their constructs always flipped over and went splat. I won by actually using the physics we were learning in the class, and made an apparatus shaped like the Eiffel Tower with the egg near the base on a cushion of straws (but above the legs). So it didn't flip because it was bottom heavy instead of top heavy. The egg didn't break each time and I was last egg standing.
Random-Miser · 5 points · Posted at 04:26:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I just coated my egg in a shell of hot glue, was able to throw it like a baseball and it still held together.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I want to try this.
Inquisitorsz · 4 points · Posted at 04:36:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I love the enginuity of working around the system. However, I would have complained about a task like this.
Any sort of "intactness" scale is subjective and pointless. A simple "Not Broken / Cracked / Broken" condition divided by the size of the device would have been fine.
I fucking hate when schools use subjective grading in maths and science. I'll accept writing essays/papers that rate your ability to write as well as the content, but most of the time answers should be black and white. It's high school not a theoretical physics course.
That's also why I think it's ridiculous that kids should be graded in artistic subjects.
I dunno how other countries do it but in Australia we have standardized testing at the end of high school, which determines whether or not you make it into Uni.
The arty subjects do usually require portfolios or something as well as a final grade, but it annoys me how much of the grading system depends on the teacher.
Stuff like music, art, dance etc... is so subjective, WTF does a score of 40/50 even mean?
sydshamino · 5 points · Posted at 05:14:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We also did an egg drop test. The tower we dropped them from was near the school track, which had a long jump sand pit nearby. One of the kids in my class didn't build a device, but the rule was full credit if the egg didn't shatter, so he threw it over into the sand pit. It landed...intact.
burnzkid · 12 points · Posted at 04:28:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had something similar to this in middle school, except it specifically had to be polymers. Everyone else built elaborate encapsulations of bubble wrap and parachute devices. Me and my twin brother put the cup in a plastic egg and calculated the exact amount of helium it would take to give it just barely negative buoyancy. Well, a pair of douchebags stole the idea from us, failed miserable, and let loose a dozen or so balloons into the sky. Our environmentalist teacher was pissed, made them pick up litter as a punishment, and gave us an A without us ever dropping our egg out the window.
I_love_pillows · 20 points · Posted at 02:12:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can't visualise. How can a piece of tape protect egg from fall.
Ryvaeus · 91 points · Posted at 02:19:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It didn't, the egg broke completely. However because of the scoring system, OP still won.
Tamparockout17 · 4 points · Posted at 04:40:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ooooooooohhh...
tahlyn · 17 points · Posted at 02:41:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It doesn't. 1 (egg breaks) / 0.00008333 of a meter piece of tape (a very tiny piece of tape stuck to the egg) = 12000 score.
He exploited the way the scoring was done.
ImZeGerman · 12 points · Posted at 02:20:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It didnt. But because it was so tiny the overall maths turned out to be in his favour.
A_Gigantic_Potato · 10 points · Posted at 02:21:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It doesn't have to. It can smash and still score higher because of the size of the tape.
pyr666 · 3 points · Posted at 04:41:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
it doesn't, but a smashed egg is still a 1. 1/(a really small number) can be a really big number. so he just used a tiny device and didnt care about the egg's intact-ness.
EclecticultourMe · 2 points · Posted at 04:17:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It didn't. It doesn't have to.
whatsdup · 5 points · Posted at 03:52:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Teachers hate him.
agent22922 · 3 points · Posted at 03:42:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
For that kind of thinking I think you deserve that score
csl512 · 3 points · Posted at 03:47:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Another one I've heard is using the tape to lower the egg gently, but this beats that, as well as cements the "gaming for the metric" method as bunk.
AccountWasFound · 0 points · Posted at 04:54:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Guy in my class did the lower the egg thing, he got in a fair bit of trouble...
Slammed_Droid · 3 points · Posted at 04:41:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When my class did that we only got graded on the concept of the solution, not how well it actually worked. So this really cute Mormon girl I had a crush on and I got together and made a contraption of 3lbs of red Jello and a styrofoam to-go container. The egg didn't survive, but 3lbs of red jello dropped from 2 stories can paint a large amount of hallway.
cunninglinguist32557 · 3 points · Posted at 04:50:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Similar experience. I went to an event called Homeless for a Night where we built houses out of cardboard boxes. There was a really elaborate point system based on size, height, boxes used, and other factors, but one category was 10 points for each person that fit inside. So the Honors House squad had the brilliant idea to make essentially a huge cardboard tortilla, lay 7 people in it, and fold it up like a giant cardboard taco. We called it the Honors House Cardboard Taco.
twbrn · 3 points · Posted at 05:49:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of a story I heard once about a similar thing; the egg had to survive a drop from like 10 or 15 feet up.
The little brother of the guy telling the story won the contest by virtue of leaving the egg inside the chicken. Chicken flaps its way to the ground, pops out the egg a couple hours later.
MAK911 · 3 points · Posted at 05:55:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had the same thing about a month ago in Physics class. Everyone could pick about 30 straws or 2 pieces of paper. Well, everyone else constructed these masterpieces of straw ingenuity. I picked the two pieces of paper, turned it into a bowl shape, duct taped the egg in, and fucked off for the next 2-3 classes while people laughed at the idea of my shit stain of a project working. The day of the drop comes and only 2 projects survive the drop: My shite bowl of paper and some really complex straw thing I would never think of. The amount of smugness I had that day was too great for any normal person. Simplicity is key in design.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:56:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You have actually demonstrated a type of thinking that is akin to something profoundly interesting in a subfield that is adjacent to my own area of research. For a long time, people have focused on increasing the amplitudes of the electromagnetic fields for increasing intensity (something like the ratio of field amplitude to the duration of the field). That is, people have been working to make the egg very intact for a long fucking time, and that is hard work. More recently, some groups have been focusing on decreasing the duration of the field, ie. getting very, very short pulses for their lasers, which is the equivalent of using a tiny ass little device to game the system.
Keep on being brilliant!
HateCopyPastComments · 2 points · Posted at 04:32:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So you let the egg break but still won because the 'device' was so small?
Ah-Cool · 2 points · Posted at 04:47:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nice, in 4th grade my friend and I won 3rd place in our District's egg drop competition using a Kroger bag and floss. Kids cried and our teacher looked really embarrassed. We were just happy that we got to play Simpsons road rage after school every Wednesday while pretending to work on our parachute.
ebsac · 1 points · Posted at 06:26:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Floss?
Ah-Cool · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haha yeah the egg was in a Dixie cup and we had to design a parachute around it. We were too lazy to go get some string so we used dental floss to attach a Kroger bag to the cup. Here's the picture. Sorry for the weird format I'm on mobile and insta won't let me save it. http://i.imgur.com/PYFA5h2.jpg
ebsac · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ohhhhh dental floss ok
mcmanybucks · 2 points · Posted at 05:50:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What did the tape do?
no-running · 1 points · Posted at 06:35:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Absolutely nothing. The problem was that the grade scale was flawed: It started at 1 instead of 0. So even though the egg completely shattered, the tiny piece of tape meant it still got points as-per the formula.
mcmanybucks · 1 points · Posted at 06:41:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Im sorry, my english is flawed. I completely fail to see the tapes role in any of this o.O
sovamind · 2 points · Posted at 06:15:41 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had a similar project in my high-school's physics course. Ours was graded on the weight of the protection as well as the size. I built a cardboard cube and put the egg in a nylon sock. I tied knots on each side of the sock so the egg couldn't move, tied the the sock tight from corner to corner diagonally so the egg was suspended in the middle.
Drop. Egg bounces up and down in the box, and doesn't break. Entire thing weighed less and was smaller than everyone else so I won.
I was a sophomore and the class was only for seniors but I had taken/challenged all the other science classes. I also calculated the forces and speeds using calculus while the rest of the class counted squires under the curve on graph paper.
I hated high-school. Sadly, I was too poor to attend college early. I wouldn't make it to college until I was in my thirties (and now question the value / cost I paid for it).
hockeyjim07 · 4 points · Posted at 04:43:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
haha I LOVED this competition when I was in school.
I filled a shoebox with dirt from my parents back yard and just put the egg in the middle so that it had equal amounts of dirt around it.
Principal is ontop of the Gym roof and picks up my box... "Hockeyjim07, you were supposed to take this seriously, this box is incredibly heavy, what were you thinking?!"
drops box, dirt puffs out when it contacts the concrete ground 30 feet below, I rush over to check........ egg still intact.
"I knew it would work sir, I packed it so tight that the dirt would take all the impact without crushing the egg because it was already under equal pressure on all sides"
backtotheburgh · 2 points · Posted at 03:40:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I fully expected you to tell us how you dropped a live chicken that then laid a perfect egg.
fptp01 · 2 points · Posted at 04:13:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm so confused how did you get 12000? I'm so confused.
tyktranquilizer · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If they egg breaks you get 1 for intactness out of 10. formula for score is intactness / longest side of device. He got 1(egg broke) / .00008333m(tape length) = 12000.
yaosio · 2 points · Posted at 05:05:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You should have used nothing and made them divide by zero.
NovaMAXIM · 2 points · Posted at 05:09:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't understand, wouldn't the egg have broken and thus given you a tiny score? ELI5 pls
tyktranquilizer · 2 points · Posted at 06:01:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If they egg breaks you get 1 for intactness out of 10. formula for score is intactness / longest side of device. He got 1(egg broke) / .00008333m(tape length) = 12000.
NovaMAXIM · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Gotcha
Luvs_to_splooge_ · 1 points · Posted at 02:02:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You should have frozen it.
raptor102888 · 3 points · Posted at 03:48:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Freezing an egg breaks it anyway.
BlatantConservative · 1 points · Posted at 04:08:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Was this FCPS? Fuck, wish Id thought of that
jhar23 · 1 points · Posted at 04:09:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You deserve to win at that point
photinakis · 1 points · Posted at 04:23:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This guy maths.
salty84 · 1 points · Posted at 04:27:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did a similar test. But the scorning system was much more basic due to the people in my class being a bunch of basic bitches. Anyways. I did a borax, white glue and water mixture. Put it in a sandwich bag threw the egg in with it. And was the only person in the class to have an intact egg. Legit these retards spent hours trying to figure out how to keep an egg in one piece.
unvizible · 1 points · Posted at 04:29:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This actually made me laugh.
dexfagcasul · 1 points · Posted at 04:45:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wait what?
ViralPoseidon · 1 points · Posted at 04:46:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had this challenge in my class too, lol'd when the teacher told me and my partner that our construction would fail then got 1st place with it.
PandasakiPokono · 1 points · Posted at 04:51:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did anyone of your class mates have enough interest to ask how you managed to score so high despite completely wrecking your egg?
TheObstruction · 1 points · Posted at 04:53:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think you just Kobayashi Maru'd that test.
95percentconfident · 1 points · Posted at 04:55:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Similar story except building a tower with some random materials (straws, sili-string, stuff like that). They also said we could use "found" materials since we were outside but they would only measure to the highest provided material. So while everyone is carefully propping up their straws with twigs and pebbles, I walk around, find some construction material lying in a ditch, grab a 10' section of drain pipe, tape a straw to one end, and stand it upright. Mine was, surprise, 10' 6" tall. The next highest was 2' tall.
Syndweller · 1 points · Posted at 05:00:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Are you an engineer?
CultistLemming · 1 points · Posted at 05:00:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I coated my egg with nail polish when I did this assignment to harden it, made the egg like 4X harder to crack
antidense · 1 points · Posted at 05:02:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They could have just used 0-9
andrewpurpleworm · 1 points · Posted at 05:03:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Explain how it worked, this is interesting
jacob_ewing · 1 points · Posted at 05:03:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not related to op's question, but:
I gnash my teeth when I think of that contest, all because I had an awesome idea for a solution to it, and did not get to do it.
So here I am, grade 7, and I and two other kids in the class are going to a science competition where we have to achieve a bunch of challenges. One of them was that, drop an egg off the roof and prevent it from breaking.
Everybody's going parachutes. It's parachutes this, parachutes that. Then I had an awesome idea on how to do it:
Fuck the parachute. What we'll do is take a long cardboard tube, like the kind that wrapping paper comes on, and line it with a big, thick, furry fabric. Then plug the bottom of it, and stuff a pile of soft padding into it - sponge, pillow stuffing, whatever. Maybe put a dead weight at the bottom and fins at the top to make sure it stays vertical. Then put the egg in the top and drop that fucker. The friction on the furry lining, combined with the shock absorption of the sponge should be enough to keep the egg safe.
So I suggested this, and the teacher at our school who was bringing us to this competition was all "ohhh, I don't know, I think they want you to use a parachute". As a result, my brilliant idea never came to fruition. Instead we used three shitty makeshift parachutes, and our precious cargo smashed upon the asphalt.
A quarter century later I still scowl when I think of that missed opportunity.
Kidtuf · 1 points · Posted at 05:56:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They should just add 'parachute' in the title of the event at that point.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:11:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had that at school. It would be hilarious to drop an egg and make a mess.
wolfmann · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
next year: zero to ten
for those who missed it... so first year 1/.00012 = 12000; second year it would have been 0/.00012 = 0; because his egg broke.
Theonetruebrian · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I also did that project, got an A with a cube stuffed w cotton (egg inside) suspended by rubber bands to a larger cube. Worked pretty good.
Also broke the school record for the rubber band car, flew off the end of the track and we had to go to the gym to test it. Turns out nobody figured out that when winding the band you should stretch the shit out of it while winding. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Good times.
JumpedAShark · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When my 7th-grade science class had the typical paper-airplane contest, it was organized so your team of 3 people had a "budget," and any materials (excluding the original paper) you attached to your plane cost a certain amount. People were adding toothpicks and tape, creating extra fins, building entirely new planes, all costing "money." The final scores were based on how far your plane flew versus how much you spent on it.
My group got a dollar coin (we're Canadian) that cost $1 from the budget, and attached it to the front of the plane with a bit of tape ($0.25). That fucker hit the far gym wall every throw.
FoolishChemist · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Put nothing on the egg, divide by zero, break the entire system.
GeneralConfusion · 1 points · Posted at 05:15:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In my grade 7 Tech Ed class we had an assignment where we were given a marble, three sheets of paper, and ten centimetres of scotch tape. The goal was to use the tape and paper to make a "device" attached to the wall that would keep the marble off the ground for the longest amount of time without it stopping moving.
Most people got about 15 seconds. I got 8 minutes.
I stuck a corner of the tape to the wall and stuck the marble to the tape. Sloooooooowly rolled its way down.
him999 · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did an egg drop in physics one year. Scoring was not the same though... i won. I used expandable foam. It wasnt a big ball of it either. I just made two half spheres, cut an exact egg shape in it. From 3 stories the egg was okay being dropped. From 3 stories the egg being thrown down to allow for it to be ever so closer to terminal v it was fine. My teacher dropped a cinder block on it it was okay. Then hit it with a sledge hammer. All that, and the egg was nice and cool still. We cracked it open and the yolk was still okay too.
My teacher banned expandable foam the next year :(
ThomasMaker · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How does a tiny piece of tape keep an egg from breaking at impact from a fall?
.... Never mind I need to got to bed now as I just got it...
Timeshot · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had this same contest in 8th grade, but without the scoring system. It was simply if you can land your egg without breaking it. Like yours, most built very interesting contraptions. But, like in every class, there's the slacker that didnt put any work into this project and did it all last second. What what his device you ask? A piece of printer paper rolled into a cone and taped.
Everyone laughed their ass off at the kid as clearly he put no effort into the project. They get around to dropping his project off the roof the school and guess what? Yep, his egg survived completely with no cracks. His project fared better than others who spent much more time lmao...
udderlymoovelous · 1 points · Posted at 05:19:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haha I did that in 6th grade. Some kid stuck his in some 80 pound steel canister. Not only did it cause the ground to vibrate when it landed (we were outside, the canister fell 50 feet) the canister's top blew off and the egg flew up.
starting-a-new-life · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'll be damned if this story is true. Well played. My mind is blown.
Flightyler · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In 8th grade band we got extra points for practicing longer than we were supposed to so one quarter I got a 148% in band
Remember_Nombre · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a similar project where we had to make the egg survive being launched via bottle rocket. The project was centered around making a parachute and every group was given the same 10-15 supplies. My group decided to not even make the parachute but instead wrap the egg with everything. We didn't do well in terms of grading but our egg survived!
FoolOnThePlanet91 · 1 points · Posted at 05:37:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't get it, did your egg not break?
g-mode · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Are you TheRealDonald?
Arplate · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do you have a pic of how that looked? I'm having a hard time figuring out how a piece of tape can keep an egg safe
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Measured in meters? Do you mean centimeters, or were you building NASA return shuttles for these eggs?
57ARK · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
my high school did the same thing in 9th grade. Was it physics class for you?
Parrra · 1 points · Posted at 06:16:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had a similar situation to this. Had an assignment for science to make a paper plane. We were judged and graded based on how far it flew. I asked the teacher a few times if there were any restrictions for the design and was told no. To clarify even further I asked if this means I could use tape, staples and/or rocks. After a bit of a laugh when I said rocks she agreed and said I could use anything.
So I went outside and found a rock about the size of a tennis ball. I wrapped the paper around it and used sticky tape to make it tightly secured. Needless to say my creation flew the furthest.
I was disqualified for "going against the spirit of the competition."
Knightified · 1 points · Posted at 06:18:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is basically how standardized testing works. But props to you for thinking outside the box.
DownGoesGoodman · 1 points · Posted at 06:23:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My freshman year at engineering school we had a 1 semester "introduction to engineering" course. One of the projects was to design a small catapult, and would be scored on function of accuracy and materials cost (they set up a "store" where you could "buy" parts, you didn't actually spend any money though). You'd also get bonus points if you didn't have to touch the catapult as it was firing.
Not me, but 1 kid in the class bought a plastic spoon and just hurled his ping pong ball at the targets.
By the scoring system he demolished everyone because the price was a much bigger part of the grade than accuracy. But, the professor decided that it wasn't "in the spirit of the assignment" and I think he had to retake the class because he got a 0 on the project.
TheAdmiralCrunch · 1 points · Posted at 09:05:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My protection scheme was a small box of shredded paper.
And that my eggs were coated in superglue
KellynHeller · 1 points · Posted at 03:09:25 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
We did one where we would drop it from higher and higher. Mine was second to the guys with the parachutes. The only reason I failed was because the latch on mine opened and the egg rolled out and cracked open. :(
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 01:52:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
@Twons do you have a picture of how it worked? I'm confused on how the tape was placed.
aaronwhines · 16 points · Posted at 02:03:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
To clarify, the tape did nothing. The egg was totally smashed. But since the minimum score was 1, and dividing by a positive number less than 1 increases the value (eg 1 divided by 1/2 is the same as 1 times 2), he got a great score thanks to the power of math.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:18:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
ooo thankss
forgot_her_password · 1919 points · Posted at 22:14:03 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Ireland you used to be able to drive unaccompanied on your second provisional licence (basically a learners permit)
I failed my driving test, then my dad told me about the loophole and I didn't bother taking the test again and just drove around for years with L stickers up.
They closed that loophole a few years ago but lots of people still do it, especially out in the country.
I have since passed my test.
[deleted] · 747 points · Posted at 00:48:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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forgot_her_password · 214 points · Posted at 01:06:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I only did a few lessons with an instructor. Learned mostly by driving around with my parents or friends.
Your instructor must be really fat or that's a little small car :)
Good luck with it!
Theoluky55 · 9 points · Posted at 05:22:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At least where I'm from, doing hours with an instructor (12 in my case) is a requirement to get your license.
nerbovig · 5 points · Posted at 05:40:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Depends on the model of the car, too. I always brush up against whoever's riding with me. Real awkward.
Belwrath · 3 points · Posted at 06:08:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Most likely fat and a small car. That's usually how these things go.
iamatrollifyousayiam · 2 points · Posted at 07:45:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
the best driving lesson i learned was when the lady infront of me hit black ice, going around 25, now being from new england, i found tapping your brakes and feeling if you have a control is the best way to manage to stop, but this curve was all ice, i ended up drifting, and didnt hit shit, drifting on a curve with black ice is one of those things i look back at like, holy shit i can't believe i made that. The lady infront didnt understand that brakes dont work on ice, she decided to panic/was ignorant of the situation and slammed on them, she proceeded to hit a guardrail, then a telephone pole, and came to a complete stop t boning a jeep, basically doing 2 90 degree turns; she was fine, but that was one of the moments i realized exactly how dangerous driving was, she got out without any injuries, but she fucked up everything she hit, her car, and the air bag deployed... i still can't believe i didnt see someone die that day, but i never drove the same again
shiguywhy · 86 points · Posted at 01:16:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mine was always that the car smelled weird. I could never figure out exactly what it was other than "really bad old people smell" because my instructor was about 70. He also had bad teeth and one of his front ones was broken off and it was all I could stare at while he was talking. I have no memory of that driving course other than when he told the story about a girl who accidentally hit a bird and then spent the next few lessons crying from the time she got into the car until they dropped her off after the lesson.
TheDudeWeapon · 7 points · Posted at 04:49:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My instructor was a really cool guy. He would always tease you when you screw things up. One time when I got home after school, we both walked out of our garages at the same time, he was my neighbor. He calls me over and asks me if I'm alright with his teasing because he is a good guy but a joker. I told him I don't care at all and he always did it.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:15:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That girl was either really into birds or the kind of person that probably shouldn't be driving.
shiguywhy · 3 points · Posted at 05:25:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
She was like sixteen and was distraught over killing an animal. Same girl also got out of the car at a stop light to ask the pizza delivery driver behind us if she could have some pizza. Those lessons were an interesting time.
KingJonathan · 3 points · Posted at 05:38:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mine smelled weird because he wore a colostomy bag.
bexmouse · 2 points · Posted at 05:39:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The company's car I had to use always smelled like horses. Not manure or hay but the actually animal itself. It always wigged me out but no one else seemed to notice.
shiguywhy · 4 points · Posted at 05:50:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My mom's company car smelled like frogs because one time she pulled an Oregon Trail and tried to fjord a flooded bridge (in her defense, she watched someone else do it without a problem, she just overestimated how tall her car was). She got stuck, crawled out through the window and into the roof, flagged down a guy in a pickup truck to drive her back to her parents' house, and my grandpa drove her back to the bridge in his truck, put on his waders, hitched up the car with a bit of chain, and pulled her out. She left the car to dry out over the weekend and told no one until the day she left the company, when she told a friend of hers who would always ask about the smell. The car apparently went to the CEO of the company because it was a newer make. She's still laughing about that to this day.
So. Did any horses ever get trapped in your car?
Bleda412 · 1 points · Posted at 05:44:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That dude probably ate live pigeons with his fucked up teeth.
shiguywhy · 2 points · Posted at 05:52:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
He got weirded out when I made a comment about dancing naked in the woods under the harvest moon, but that might have just been a cover-up for his nefarious pigeon eating.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 01:36:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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GrillPenetrationUnit · 9 points · Posted at 01:47:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What you said here could easily be taken out of context or misconstrued to make it sound like your dad is a terrible person...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:42:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Epic_Mind_Blow · 3 points · Posted at 04:06:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As someone in a Left hand drive dominant market, that really confused me for a second.
MyIQis76 · 2 points · Posted at 04:25:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you live in the US, you can do that with motorcycles.
Can't ride at night or on the freeway though.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:13:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They do that intentionally
SluttyBanana12 · 1 points · Posted at 04:37:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wow that's sexy. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
PM_ME_UR_4E55444553 · 1 points · Posted at 04:37:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
( ͡o ͜ʖ ͡o)
aj_robinson26 · 1 points · Posted at 04:51:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Makes me glad i just finished my last drive on Thursday.
dominator_dwarf · 1 points · Posted at 04:52:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was insanely confused as to how fat your instructor had to be for you to brush up against their right leg while changing gears and then I realized that you're probably just not from America and don't sit on the left to drive
pizzahut91 · 1 points · Posted at 04:56:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, when I was learning one of the instructors would keep his legs spread out while he was in the passenger seat, and he was also infamous for always wearing shorts.
I don't want to have to touch your hairy leg every time I go to shift, dude.
draginator · 1 points · Posted at 04:58:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dude, it's gonna be a fact of life if you drive a manual. Any girl that sits with her legs crossed in the front seat gets in the way of the shifter, really annoying.
Twelvety · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
PM_ME_UR_4E55444553 · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
( ͡o ͜ʖ ͡o)
Fuqasshole · 1 points · Posted at 05:19:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fat people in small car problems
WeaponsHot · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Plot twist: It's a left hand drive car.
fruitcake11 · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
i feel your pain. mine instructor is a spreader
DubPwNz · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My instructor was a fucking asshole who screamed at me for doing something wrong. He was near retirement and had his own tiny driving school so I couldn't change instructors. It was fucking hell and took me so long to finally get the license. First time driving alone felt so relieving and 100000x easier.
Noctis_Lightning · 1 points · Posted at 05:56:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One thing I had to learn the hard way was that your instructor may (I'm using may here because not all instructors are shitty) tell you the wrong things. Study your local laws and driving rule book(s) and go out with an experienced driver for practice.
MattOnCybertron · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
don't get the fat guy!
zamfire · 1 points · Posted at 06:10:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is he sitting in your lap?
ConManJonMan · 1 points · Posted at 06:11:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As an American... The right leg part freaked me out. Like he can't be THAT big can he?! But then I realized not everybody drives on the left side...
canIpleasehavepizza · 1 points · Posted at 06:12:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
thats a huge bitch
constellationofsuns · 1 points · Posted at 06:20:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Same. I wonder if we have the same teacher? 😂
i_killed_hitler · 1 points · Posted at 06:21:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Best driving tip I ever got was from my father. When I was learning I wanted to look directly at the road in front of my car, he told me to look further out (think several cars to dozens of cars ahead, depending on if you're on a straight or curvy road).
Best of luck to you.
Itr0llhoe · 1 points · Posted at 06:51:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Found the non-American. Hand should brush left leg.
drumstickwarlord · 1 points · Posted at 09:24:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Also learning to drive here. My instructors ok, although he dresses like he plays golf and smells like he drinks bourbon.
sovamind · 1 points · Posted at 06:25:20 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
So... basically the UK, former UK colony, or Japan... I'm not really sure if I could change gears with my left hand. Not yet tried that experience.
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 04:21:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 05:40:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Either those legs are VERY fat, or you're in one of the countries where people drive on the wrong side.
Why are you learning to drive on a manual? It seems like a rather hard way to do it. It is safer to learn on an automatic, then get some hours on the road, until the steering, braking, and situational awareness factors are well-learned. Then add in the whole have-to-shift thing.
I'm a hang glider pilot. We start out on simple-to-fly gliders doing simple things. Once we can do more complex things on simple gliders, we work on situational awareness. Then after you have some amount of air-sense accumulated, you get a more complicated glider (one that either requires active aerodynamic control, like flaps or variable-geometry, or is less forgiving in stall conditions).
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 03:57:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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ProperrGeezer · 2 points · Posted at 03:59:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You share a lot of journeys with fat men then?
psychicsword · 6 points · Posted at 04:29:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I am an American. I am a fat man.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah but automatics are for disabled people.
DelayedEntry · 8 points · Posted at 03:22:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Same in BC, but with N stickers.
Lots of people decide not to take the second road test for this reason, especially immigrants.
Check out this UBC (University of British Columbia/University of Beautiful Cars) page and you'll see a bunch of N stickers on...interesting cars.
kronik658 · 5 points · Posted at 05:31:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Ontario if you don't get your full license 5 years after getting your G1/learners permit you have to start from the beginning again. Is it like that in BC to?
Sector_Corrupt · 2 points · Posted at 05:41:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Though one convenience is the waiting periods don't apply. My G2 expired while I was in University + I got my G2 back relatively quickly once I had access to a car again.
FireLucid · 8 points · Posted at 04:06:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mate from America grew up in Aus during teenage years and got his licence here. When we went back to the states went for the driving test over there. Failed. 'Ok, thanks' gets in car and drives back home. (Aus licences work for up to 3 months over there I think).
calmelb · 5 points · Posted at 05:22:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They fixed that here in Australia (at least in Victoria) if you have one of the licences that can't be converted directly (aka you need to sit a test) and you fail the test then your foreign licence is invalid throughout Victoria
FireLucid · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wife from the US showed her US licence, paid the fee and got an Australian licence easy, even though she couldn't drive a manual. Tasmania.
earlybird94 · 3 points · Posted at 05:00:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My dad rode his motorcycle for years and years on just a permit (he just kept renewing it) finally the DMV caught on and he was told that he had to take the test.
gnopgnip · 2 points · Posted at 05:04:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do they not charge you way more for insurance if you don't have your full license?
forgot_her_password · 2 points · Posted at 20:04:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was insured on my parents policy, so it wasn't too bad. My insurance actually went up when I eventually passed the test :(
YellowishWhite · 2 points · Posted at 05:12:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do your learners not expire? In Ontario, Canada, you get two years to pass or you have to revert to the supervised-only license.
BuildingComp01 · 2 points · Posted at 05:12:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've been doing this in the US with my Motorcycle permit for the last ten years at least, I just renew it ever couple years. Apparently it's so common that they have signs up in the DMV telling motorcyclists just to get a license already.
Trenthw · 2 points · Posted at 05:15:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You just took the L
Lovehat · 2 points · Posted at 05:15:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is it just one big party down there?
jasiskool12 · 2 points · Posted at 05:49:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You are lucky. In Australia I passed my driving test and have to wait 6 months till I can do a written test to get my P plates. It is fucking annoying
FuegoPrincess · 2 points · Posted at 06:09:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As someone who is a good driver but terrified of taking the test ad failing (again...) this sounds positively amazing.
Sarcast1c_Duck · 2 points · Posted at 06:31:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How is driving in Ireland? I've been considering moving there for a while and traffic/drivers are the only thing i hadnt considered until now.
forgot_her_password · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's fine. Amongst the safest in Europe.
You'll still get the odd idiot but mostly the standard of driving here is quite good.
Sarcast1c_Duck · 2 points · Posted at 21:17:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Word! Thanks!
aussydog · 2 points · Posted at 06:59:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They had something similar here for motorcycle licenses.
It used to be that to ride for 2months you'd only had to pass the written. After the 2months you'd have to write the written test again. It was just as good as the full license except you could carry a passenger.
At the end of the riding season you'd let your license lapse until the next year.
It was a lame exploit but the evaluators were notoriously evil when it came to doing the driving test for a motorcycle. They would find any possible excuse to fail you.
Written test cost $10 and was good for 2months
Riding test was $150 and was almost a guaranteed fail.
Easy choice to make.
Donnadre · 1 points · Posted at 06:09:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
After reading pages and pages and pages, yours is the only one I've seen that is actually a loophole. Apparently most people don't know what the word means...
Bloodpainter482 · 3639 points · Posted at 23:57:18 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
This wasn't my first time doing this, but in 2014 sears/Kmart had a patch kit you could buy online, for 15 dollars, but gave you 30 dollars back in points. After you had points you could pay for another with all but 1 penny in points and get another 30 dollars in points. You could also by multiples at once
Over 10,000 dollars in patch kits later, I had a 2 new TV's, a full new electric tool set, and about 3,000 in tablets I sold to pay for an awesome christmas for my family.
I called it the great sears heist of 2014. Sears has somewhat caught on to these things now, so you can't do it anymore, but what a crazy 2-3 years it was...
By the way, I also got around 500 patch kits in the mail..... couldn't believe they actually shipped all of them, was hilarious
BeeGravy · 1042 points · Posted at 03:34:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Am I the only idiot who doesn't know what the fuck a "patch kit" is?
grewapair · 375 points · Posted at 04:02:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It patches bicycle tires
brillbison · 28 points · Posted at 05:25:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
OP should donate them to their local university outdoor program
saadakhtar · 3 points · Posted at 05:41:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That link opened a "shopping tourism" page of Sears. Am outside USA.
grewapair · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just some tools, patches and rubber cement you'd use to remove and patch a bike tire.
FireLucid · 18 points · Posted at 04:04:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's a bucket with plaster in it, sandpaper, sanding block and all the stuff needed to fix a hole in the wall after you punched a hole in it in your anger.
ItsSomethingLikeThat · 23 points · Posted at 03:51:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Maybe it's like a tyre repair thing? Or patches for repairing clothing? I dunno.
itssnowinggg · 3 points · Posted at 04:23:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Google's telling me it's a bike tire repair kit or a tube repair kit
gypsycabcompany · 3 points · Posted at 04:48:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm assuming a tire patch kit
FoldingUnder · 9 points · Posted at 04:07:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You ever see a patch, mister?
It's a kit for that.
viperex · 1 points · Posted at 06:07:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh, we got a wiseguy here
godaiyuhsaku · 2 points · Posted at 04:17:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Either something to fix a tire or something inflatable or something leather or vinyl.
It's usually a square of material and some adhesive.
4kVHS · 2 points · Posted at 04:36:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My guess is something that fixes a flat tire?
KILLSBITCHES · 2 points · Posted at 04:43:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm assuming a patch kit for car or bicycle tires.
missbateman · 2 points · Posted at 05:22:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's a patch that kits.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:28:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Have you ever owned a bicycle or a car, or a pair of pants or jacket? It's a kit, that patches things. Usually some kind of material, with attached or applicable adhesive (glue).
Derpywhaleshark7 · 2 points · Posted at 04:15:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's for bike tires, consists of some type of glue, sandpaper, the likes.
ShyKat · 2 points · Posted at 04:07:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I assume it's a kit that includes all the supplies you need to patch things i.e. Jeans, tents, jackets, or maybe a water bed depending on the specific type of patch.
BeeGravy · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:12 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
From reading the replies it seems that most are in agreement that it might be a patch kit of some type.
Maybe for tires. Maybe for a tent. But certainly it is in kit format.
[deleted] · 722 points · Posted at 01:39:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is some Soprano type shit here. A scam like this would buy you a cameo in 1, maybe 2 episodes.
Jackie Aprile Jr. would shake you down for a piece of the action, and tell you that if you keep paying, he will introduce you to Tony. After about 5 payments, you would get impatient and visit Tony's strip club, which you knew about because Jackie mentioned it once.
You see him walk in and follow him to the back, but he's never heard of you, and Paulie grabs you to take you outside. Once outside, Paulie asks for details of the scam, and then tells you he wants 10 points and a new TV, or he's gona break your legs.
The next time Jackie shows up to collect, you tell him to fuck off because Tony has never even heard of you, and they beat you up and take your wallet.
Then Sears catches on, and you can't pay Paulie, so he starts grabbing a bunch of tablets to take as payment, but your cousin Carmine comes home early and gets pissed when he sees what's happening, so Paulie shoots him. You panic, but now that you've witnessed a murder, Paulie has to clip you too.
Demderdemden · 89 points · Posted at 03:52:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Alright, you're officially hired to write the ending of the Sopranos.
paiaw · 7 points · Posted at 06:38:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The ending was perfect, you barbarian.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 06:49:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I agree.
krom_bom · 4 points · Posted at 05:41:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Tony get's killed.
hicow · 11 points · Posted at 04:52:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
But Paulie doesn't do it right and you scamper off into the woods, never to be seen again.
mako591 · 4 points · Posted at 05:05:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is the one loose end that bothers me to this day. Why didn't the guy show up again? Why didn't the Russians become a problem? Why leave the plot line open but never return to it?
Bob_Jonez · 3 points · Posted at 05:32:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
He died is the easiest solution. Sure he ran for a bit, and lost them, but he's dead.
mako591 · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Agreed, but I think if that's what they intended, we should have seen it. Have Paulie and Silvio find him at the end. It just felt sloppy to have such a huge loose end that we never saw again.
twishart · 3 points · Posted at 05:04:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fuck I thought this was going to be the Undertaker thing
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:52:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
r/sopranos
Malthur · 1 points · Posted at 06:43:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Damn, for a second I thought this was an actual summary of a storyline.
Taygr · 1 points · Posted at 04:54:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Are you David Chase?
011000110111001001 · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't even know who these characters are, but I got perfect images in my head of this scenario. Well done.
Lovehat · 0 points · Posted at 05:12:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
heeey pauuliiee git tha fuck outa heeeyr
ItsSchmidttsontits · 0 points · Posted at 06:34:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Time to watch the sopranos
KezzaJones · -23 points · Posted at 02:10:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And then Jon snow comes in and cuts Paulies head off!
MacDerfus · 21 points · Posted at 02:48:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And then the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme starts playing
udderlymoovelous · 0 points · Posted at 05:27:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Or the Seinfeld theme
MacDerfus · 5 points · Posted at 05:53:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's not HBO tho
Unusualmann · 86 points · Posted at 01:06:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
holy crap that's awesome
NingunIdea · 36 points · Posted at 03:18:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No wonder Sears is going out of business, holy hell.
quiet_locomotion · 15 points · Posted at 03:08:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did sears ever go wtf and try and stop you?
Bloodpainter482 · 1 points · Posted at 02:56:49 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
After a few weeks, sears caught on, but could not actually charge me the amount of all the patch kits, so they gave me -10,000,000 points on my account and to this day the account cannot successfully order anything anymore.....worth it..
KikiSparklexx · 73 points · Posted at 03:39:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sorry to be stupid but what is a patch kit?
itssnowinggg · 6 points · Posted at 04:24:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
from what I googled it seems to be a bike tire repair kit/tube repair kit
ubertraquer · 3 points · Posted at 04:47:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fixes tires.
emagdnim29 · 2 points · Posted at 04:35:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A kit that patches holes?
4kVHS · 1 points · Posted at 04:37:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Maybe something that old people use to repair a hole in their pants?
canuck123456 · 2 points · Posted at 05:57:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
specifically old people. No young people allowed
4kVHS · 1 points · Posted at 12:33:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Young people don't have the patience to sew patches on their clothes, nor do they want to be seen like that as its not the style.
KikiSparklexx · 1 points · Posted at 12:58:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's what I thought but it didn't really make sense in the story. They're usually much cheaper than $15.
And not just old people! I just started hand sewing clothes and I'm young!
Bloodpainter482 · 1 points · Posted at 03:00:05 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
They were all kinds of patch kits (to my memory they sold like 3 kinds, I looked up in my order history from years ago and here: http://www.sears.com/heads-up-canvas-fabric-rip-repair-kit/p-02814862000P)
[deleted] · -28 points · Posted at 04:18:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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matane · 13 points · Posted at 04:56:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wow lol you must have never ridden a bike. A patch kit fixes bike holes
ishk · 10 points · Posted at 05:04:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wow lol you must have never spent summers as a teenager repairing pools with vinyl siding. A patch kit fixes holes in the siding.
FerusGrim · 14 points · Posted at 05:05:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wow lol you must have never been to a hospital. A Patch kit contains a happy doctor who later commits suicide and makes the whole world a little more depressing.
JasonYaya · 3 points · Posted at 06:03:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wow lol you must have never been in a cabbage patch. A patch kit contains cabbage seeds.
Porttheone · 14 points · Posted at 01:30:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Used to work at a Kmart and did similar things with what I saw from ads and stuff. Got fired for it but it was a nasty place anyways.
-Wesley- · 14 points · Posted at 04:20:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't get the net gain? $10k spent on kits and only received $4-6k back in merchandise?
CrzyJek · 26 points · Posted at 04:40:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Spent $15 on a kit. Got $30 in points. Spent $14.99 in points and 1 additional penny from his pocket for a second patch kit. Got another $30 in points. Now he spent $15.01 from his pocket but has $45 total in points. Rinse repeat.
Daamus · -1 points · Posted at 16:56:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
ok, but what did he do with the hundreds of patch kits!?
CrzyJek · 2 points · Posted at 16:59:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well he either sold them cheap for extra cash or just stuck them somewhere...No clue. All that matters is that he most likely spent around $20...And maybe shipping costs....But had a net profit of THOUSANDS. It really was a legal heist lol.
Bloodpainter482 · 1 points · Posted at 03:03:10 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
I lived with my roommate at the time who HATED tons of stuff lying around, so I gave them to a local car shop, they thought I was a criminal of some kind, but they took them, probably tossed them all eventually.
Jay9313 · 17 points · Posted at 04:44:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
He didn't spend $10k on patch kits. He purchased 1 for $15, then each successive one costed him $0.01. Each time he spent a penny, he got $15 in points back.
He spent roughly $22 on the patch kits, but they are worth over $10,000, plus he also got the electronics in the process
Saffrin-chan · 11 points · Posted at 04:42:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
He buys a $15 dollar patch kit, and gets $30 worth of points back. Then he used $14.99 of those points, and one penny of his actual money, to buy another patch kit. He gets another $30 dollars worth of points back, now he has $45.01 worth of points. He keeps repeating this until he has about $10,000 in points, and basically only had to pay for the first patch kit. Then he can redeem those points for other things Sears offers.
GisingGising · 8 points · Posted at 04:48:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So the first one is $15 and you get $30 to spend at Sears, you now have a patch kit and $30 credit.
Then you buy another patch kit for $15 using $14.99 of Sears credit plus 1 penny of your own money (their terms apparently?). You get another patch kit plus $30 Sears credit, your total Sears credit is now $45.01 and you have spent $15.01 of your own money.
Now buy another patch kit for $15 using $14.99 of Sears credit plus 1 penny, you receive another patch kit plus $30, your total Sears credit is now $60.02 and you have spent $15.02 of your own money.
Now instead of buying one patch kit, you can buy four with your $60.02 of credit and 4 of your own pennies, you'll get $120 in Sears credit. Now you can buy 8 for 8 pennies + Sears credit, then 16 for 16 pennies + Sears credit and so on and so on, rising exponentially because Sears.com allowed multiple orders of the same item to accrue twice the Sears credit that they cost.
Sears probably figured it wouldn't matter because the customer was spending that $15 on their website anyway, and would likely purchase items for a lot more than $15 but failed to account for the loophole that would generate $15 of credit for 1 penny which I think is around a 99.96% discount of a full priced item.
So the net gain is 99.96% discount on anything on Sears.com, plus a shipment of 500+ patch kits.
Bloodpainter482 · 1 points · Posted at 03:03:33 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bingo, this guy gets it haha
hehaho · 1 points · Posted at 04:41:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Only the first kit cost you money since you pay with points from the 2nd kit and so on.
HateCopyPastComments · 7 points · Posted at 04:34:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wtf? Why would anyone agree to that?
Bloodpainter482 · 1 points · Posted at 03:04:37 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because to sears/kmart at the time, getting immediate payment for something is worth more than offering you 30 dollars in "fake" money, its also the idea behind rebates (80% of people never file a rebate, therefore the company has made extra money off of you)
HateCopyPastComments · 1 points · Posted at 03:46:30 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, it just seems a crazy amount to give away. Like even if they gave you $15 as points for every 15 you spend on certain products, you would have a decent incentive to shop there but it wouldn't self replicate, and you would have to keep spending money to rack up those $15s into something good. But with 15/30 it just seems like they are giving away an obvious loop. Whoever thought that up and whoever agreed to it, should really not be in business!
laxation1 · 7 points · Posted at 04:57:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What did you end up doing with all the patch kits?
The_Hood_Wizard · 12 points · Posted at 03:03:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Post pics of the patch kits.
Bloodpainter482 · 1 points · Posted at 03:05:46 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
They were cheap patch kits, so I do not have them anymore, I was going to post a pic of one of the 10+ transactions I made as proof, but I'll link one of the patch kits in question: http://www.sears.com/heads-up-canvas-fabric-rip-repair-kit/p-02814862000P
HalfDragonShiro · 6 points · Posted at 04:42:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You literally performed the irl version of an unlimited gold exploit. Amazing
B000B000 · 10 points · Posted at 03:53:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What is a patch kit?
itssnowinggg · 3 points · Posted at 04:24:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
from what Google says, it should be a tube repair kit of bike tire repair kit
tL1ght · 10 points · Posted at 03:52:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One year 06/07ish Sears/K-Mart made the mistake and anyone that applied for a credit card got approved.
Like everyone nationwide on Black Friday got approved for a Sears card.... right before the housing bubble popped.... right before the economy crashed.....
This is why Sears and Kmart are both going out of business.
ihatebengleib · 4 points · Posted at 05:35:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to work at a sears and a good chunk of our orientation into the job was learning the different ways people try to scam our points system and how to try and prevent it. They really have a broken and easily manipulated setup.
Myotherdumbname · 7 points · Posted at 04:01:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you return the kits to the store?
AccountWasFound · 5 points · Posted at 04:59:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That would mean you'd make so much money....
Bloodpainter482 · 2 points · Posted at 03:07:04 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sears actually was partially smart about that, if you returned items that gave points, but the points were already redeemed, you SOMETIMES were given a credit back MINUS the points used, so it was a wash if you returned the items.
NickMc53 · 3 points · Posted at 04:20:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Shop Your Way. What you did is called rolling.
bstones · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep, when Kmart would do video games theyd offer crazy points back on purchases.
somefuneh · 3 points · Posted at 05:08:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nice work! That reminds me of part of plot of Punch Drunk Love, which was based on the story of The Pudding Guy.
theroselife · 3 points · Posted at 05:37:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"I've got a tool to remove security tags, next Christmas is on me!"
Belllringer · 5 points · Posted at 04:26:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is the best one here bc it went on years and you flipped it for great shit! Kudos!
longtimegoneMTGO · 2 points · Posted at 04:51:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is a chicken and air mile steak scam now?
AnHonestDude · 2 points · Posted at 05:18:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is the best one in the thread. Damn. Nicely done.
nighthawk_md · 2 points · Posted at 05:43:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So you really only paid full price for one kit and then 1penny for each thereafter? And it was free shipping too? Did you figure out this scheme yourself, or do you think Sears lost significant $$$ on this stupid deal? The points could only be spent on certain items, though? (Flipping 100 tablets is probably not worth the effort for me, maybe.)
Bloodpainter482 · 1 points · Posted at 03:09:36 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
I actually have been a slickdeals member for years (where someone mentioned it in a thread), but the thread was not about the patch kits at all, it was hidden on the last page someone had found it out. Once I made 1 order of like 5, I kept going bigger until I bought everything I wanted from their website basically.
I'm sure people have done crazier things than me, so I doubt they lost THAT much money. And no the points could be used on ANYTHING.
PandaEatsRage · 2 points · Posted at 05:51:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lucy Ball did the same thing with baked beans.
boxsterguy · 2 points · Posted at 06:03:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nowhere near the same level, but I did something similar with Discover and Barnes & Noble.
Around 2012-ish, Discover would let you buy Barnes & Noble gift cards at a 10% discount ($45 gets you $50) using your cashback rewards. And then they'd run a 10% cashback promo on anything bought at Barns & Noble. The thing is, the cashback applied as long as the default payment instrument on your account was your Discover card, even if you didn't actually use it. So I'd use my Discover card normally, get cashback, turn the cashback into BN gift cards at a 10% discount, and then buy Nook books from BN.com using only the gift card money and get another 10% cashback. I didn't pay for books with real money for several years.
As a bonus, Nook books had easily cracked DRM and were otherwise industry-standard epubs. So I'd get high quality epub books I could crack and put on my phone rather than having to use the terrible Nook app.
Bloodpainter482 · 1 points · Posted at 03:17:11 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
The crazy thing with kmart/Sears? For years you could buy things with all but 1 penny in points from the discover portal, and you would get the full % back on the entire purchase price, for another deal with bluetooth speakers at the end of 2014 I was MAKING money and getting free points at sears hahaha
Tofu_Fried_Rice · 2 points · Posted at 06:09:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I also did this. Can confirm i have alot of patch kits
ZachSands · 2 points · Posted at 06:16:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I came here to post this. I think we both wrecked it. I got around five thousand dollars in tools. UPS was showing up at my house with 75 packages a day. The driver was so upset.
The funny apart about mine is that I never had to spend any money. They sent me the free points through my email to entice me to spend money. I just rolled that into more points and it just snowballed.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:35:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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JManRomania · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:30 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
HOW
Seriously, how did he do that?
Daamus · 2 points · Posted at 16:58:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
fuck I need to know about things like this when they are still available, is there a subreddit or website to find these types of things out!?!?
sauerpatchkid · 2 points · Posted at 04:13:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol!! No wonder why they went under!
EWW3 · 3 points · Posted at 03:20:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sears closed down in my town in 2015.
simple_mech · 1 points · Posted at 04:35:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I read it as 'patch kids'. I was wondering if you bought the candy or cabbage patch kids.
MaestroSG · 1 points · Posted at 04:50:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Kmart or Sears?
GZerv · 1 points · Posted at 04:50:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What'd you do with all the patch kits?
DerpyZebra · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So it seems to have gone above others heads, but what did you do with all the patch kits?
Bloodpainter482 · 1 points · Posted at 03:11:14 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
Gave em to a local car shop, not sure what they did with them. I had absolutely zero use for them, and wasn't interested in shipping boxes of them around.
SamuelTheMuso · 1 points · Posted at 05:11:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
you bloody legend.
KlehmM · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What was your first time?
foofer1233 · 1 points · Posted at 06:07:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Holy shit!
UhOhPhysics · 1 points · Posted at 06:10:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So how much actual $ did you spend doing the great sears heist of 2014
Bloodpainter482 · 1 points · Posted at 03:11:46 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think in total around 30 bucks.
AGrazingAnonymoose · 1 points · Posted at 07:06:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I guess you could say they finally patched the bug.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ever wonder why all the Sears stores are closing up? It was probably your fault.
Bloodpainter482 · 1 points · Posted at 03:12:10 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
HAHA I doubt it, but I am not ashamed...
TheObstruction · 1 points · Posted at 04:55:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Now we know why Kmart is gone.
udderlymoovelous · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What did you use with those 500 kits? (or 499 if you used one) Sell on eBay?
BoyceKRP · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sears is going out of business, right?
Good job 👍🏼
da1nonlyoska · -1 points · Posted at 04:26:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So you spent $10k in total in exchange for about 20k of products?
chr1stmasiscancelled · 5 points · Posted at 04:44:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think he spent $15 on the very first kit, but only 1 penny for every subsequent kit. So $10k in patch kits means he spent $15 on the first one, and $7~ for the others I think
GisingGising · 3 points · Posted at 05:05:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's correct as far as my limited maths goes, $10,000 Sears.com credit costs;
$15 + ((9,985/15)*0.01)
$15 + $6.66 = $10,000 Sears.com credit for $21.66
bdonvr · 2 points · Posted at 05:26:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd have cleared them out, new tools new TV, PC, laptop, furniture. Get the lot.
Bloodpainter482 · 1 points · Posted at 03:13:24 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was 25 at the time, new tools, new TV, some walking around cash with about 10-15 tablet purchases I sold. I already felt like I was a greedy monster haha.
real-dreamer · 0 points · Posted at 05:05:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Kmart is where depression goes to die.
wighty · 0 points · Posted at 05:49:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I am semi calling BS. Even as far back as 2013 Sears was not allowing "rolling" of points -- ie whatever amount of points you use directly decreases the amount of points you would receive.
Spending $15 should have netted you the initial $30 in points, and then POTENTIALLY you should have only been getting a free patch kit for each purchase in points you made.
Then again Sears is pretty idiotic so if you show some proof I'd believe you that their system was broken and allowed you to do what you shouldn't have been able to do.
Bloodpainter482 · 0 points · Posted at 03:15:01 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
Incorrect, this was not the last time, but my best time ever doing this, in 2014 later in the year, they did the same thing with 32" LED TV's (100 dollars for the TV, 100 dollars back in points, and it rolled), feel free to look up some old threads on slickdeals, you are mistaken on rolling points, they have rolled probably since mid-2015.
wighty · 1 points · Posted at 04:28:25 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've likely looked at 90% of them already.
And here is where you are so wrong. It is highly unusual for points to roll since like 2013.
nehtlomkcaj · 1187 points · Posted at 00:18:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Verizon had a deal where if you switch over a line from another carrier, and give them you smart phone you get 2 additional GB of data per line and a smartphone. All 4 of my family members had newer iPhones, but instead of trading those in we went to Walmart and bought 4 "smart phones" for 30$ each and traded those in without even taking them out of the packaging. Saved a bunch of money, kept our nice phones, got 8GB of free data, and got 4 new smart phones for free.
Alarmed_Ferret · 437 points · Posted at 01:34:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When i worked at metro pcs we had a deal where you'd get a pretty good smartphone for free if you switched from another carrier. We were actually encouraged to tell people to go to Walmart or the dollar tree, buy the 20 dollar trac phone, activate it, then switch that number to our service to get the discount.
[deleted] · 85 points · Posted at 04:21:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Titan_757 · 17 points · Posted at 05:07:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is one of the reasons why Loss Prevention Departments exist (unfortunately).
[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 05:34:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Titan_757 · 1 points · Posted at 13:13:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Agreed. I should have been clearer in my comment (see my other response here).
Namenamenamenamena · -16 points · Posted at 06:12:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol where did this comment come from? You an insecure lp or something?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:30:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It seems like a better business plan would be a good replacement for a "Loss Prevention Department"
Titan_757 · 1 points · Posted at 13:11:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Most businesses have a level of complexity that develops over time, wherein operational disconnects / inconsistencies arise and present the opportunity for exploitation. This isn't the origin of the issue (or financial justification for a Loss Prevention Department) - that is Human Nature.
I wish it were that simple though; That we could create a perfect system (business plan, laws, etc) to guard against unethical action. That's been an endeavor pursued over centuries, a philosophical debate that has yet to produce such a perfect solution. Critical contributing factors being:
I have no definite answer in this regard. Greater minds than mine have attempted to address this and weren't successful.
Condawg · 1 points · Posted at 07:17:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How's it unfortunate? I mean, people finding loopholes and getting good deals is awesome, but obviously the companies should work to prevent it.
Titan_757 · 2 points · Posted at 12:55:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Unfortunate in that people will exploit loopholes for their personal benefit at the detriment of their organization. I should have been clearer on this point - I agree with you here.
JamesdfStudent · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have friends that work for a Verizon store and the store is a franchise that gets paid from Verizon by their metrics. The managers there teach and encourage all kinds of crazy use and abuse of loopholes because they pay their sales people according to the same structure that Verizon pays them.
Listen2DumpsterFire · 3 points · Posted at 05:57:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Confirmed. My manager used to use a service to generate cell numbers, and we would use those numbers for ports and offer a "free phone if you sign up on the [expensive] plan, and but two accessories"
creepy_doll · 3 points · Posted at 06:06:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is why you gotta consider the incentives.
The incentives for a manager free of morals that just wants sales commissions is to do exactly this. And even if they don't say it, customers are still incentivized to do it.
Stupid marketing campaign.
aaaaaaaarrrrrgh · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And this is what happens when you decide to manage by metrics. Every. Single. Time.
sudonem · 5 points · Posted at 05:04:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's some Wells Fargo shit right there.
Resevoir_Dog · 13 points · Posted at 05:22:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not really it seems this tactic benefitted the customer, kinda a reverse Wells Fargo
Girlinhat · 2 points · Posted at 06:15:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The contract is worth more than the free phone. Business is fickle and the outcome isn't always obvious. If the customer thinks they're getting something for cheap, especially if they think they cheated the system, they'll keep coming back.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:47:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
depends on the phone. lowest quality iphone or samsung/lg/htc phone is $650, metro pcs is like 30 a month. so 2 years of that doesn't even cover the phone. sometimes you actually are just cheating the system.
this is also why almost no cell companies do service contracts anymore. because phones cost so much now.
Girlinhat · 1 points · Posted at 08:20:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That actually depends on how you crunch the numbers. If you compare retail price, maybe, that's a $650 phone for a $300 contract doesn't meet up. But stores never buy at retail, especially if it's an iphone you know there's a huge markup from production cost. Expect half on most retail goods, so ~$300 for the wholesale cost of the phone, but the phone only comes if you get the deluxe package, which you think 'that's great because I saved so much on the phone I can splurge on a better package' and now instead of $30 you're up to $70 a month. So now you've basically halved the phone cost and doubled the contract cost, and that's before you get nitpicky with things like replacement insurance, data overages, multiple lines, etc...
There's also gonna be some people who do get out cheaper, and game the system to their advantage. But there's also a lot of people who don't. If you make one losing sale to a guy, and he tells his 5 friends what a great deal he got, and those 5 go get a contract but they aren't as thrifty, and they get the expensive bells and whistles and the company does make money off them, then that means the company took one small hit to make 5 more good deals. Super saving works only because most people don't.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:22:18 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
well said. i agree, some get out good, most dont
integra87 · 2 points · Posted at 06:24:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is terrible for the environment and creates the worst kind of e-waste, unused products that go directly into the trash.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 03:47:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You frequent Slickdeals.net, don't you?
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 04:39:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When Sprint started their iPhone forever plan. There was a promo for a $200 guaranteed trade in of an iPhone 5, and a $7 month discount for trading in any phone ($84 assuming you upgraded 12 months later). I don't believe you were supposed to be able to do both. It was meant to give anyone a trade in bonus no matter what. If a customer came in with an iPhone 5 I'd trade it in for $200, then use $20 of that to buy another phone and trade that in also to save them another $84. Not bad for an aging phone that would have been difficult to resell.
Mr88high · 3 points · Posted at 04:52:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They have since changed that but only accepting certain smartphones. Source: current Verizon employee
msftshill · 3 points · Posted at 05:35:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Att did a promotion where almost any smart phone trade in netted you $100 in credits. I bought about 10 old droid pros on eBay for $30 each and netted about $700 in att bill credits.
TurboChewy · 2 points · Posted at 04:46:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When? I've seen this deal a bunch of times, they take your smartphone and give you credit towards a new model. They'd never trade 1 for 1 based on it being a "smartphone".
stoutlegs · 2 points · Posted at 05:46:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We just did a similar thing on telus through best buy. Best buy has a deal where if you give them "a phone" to be recycled, they give you $50 off the price of the upfront cost of the phone. It also just so happened that tells had s7's on for $50 dollars when you sign on for a two year contract. The contract was already the same price as it was before so we went to the recycling place and grabbed 4 phones ills old flip phones for free. One of them was snapped in half. Best buy had no issues taking them as they were cell phones. We then sold our 4 old samsung s4 mini's for a total of $550.
Relapse84 · 2 points · Posted at 05:47:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haha nice. I worked at Verizon and if people were kind I'd send them over to Goodwill or Value Village to pickup a shitty phone for 5 bucks. Usually they'd bring back an old school Blackberry and they'd end up bringing me a Starbucks card occasionally. It felt nice helping people save money and they were usually very appreciative.
somedude456 · 2 points · Posted at 06:00:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did that with Verizon. I bought a $30 smart phone at Best Buy and got "$200 for any trade it" for it. Actually Verizon gave me $10, and some promotions company mailed me a check for $190.
jblv · 2 points · Posted at 07:14:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did this when I switched from AT&T to T-Mobile a couple years ago. I believe the deal was that they paid your early termination fee when you traded in your old phone.
Confirmed with a T-Mobile store employee that it didn't have to be the phone registered to the number I was porting, then went next door to Best Buy and bought the cheapest GoPhone (AT&T's prepaid service) for $30 or something to get my $200+ ETF paid.
gnopgnip · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The deal was you just had to have an active line with device payment to get the bonus 2gb.
feared_rear_admiral · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What a stupid deal on their part. What do they even want your phone for?
sixblackgeese · 1 points · Posted at 06:24:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You didn't scam them. They still got your business.
brutus499 · 2561 points · Posted at 22:22:43 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was this vending machine at my school that made hot coco. I was bored at pressed every button on it. Apparently one button worked without paying. So every morning I went to school and pressed the button. It worked from last year till now. Some people notices it and also took advantage. So it was finally repaired
Sieje · 445 points · Posted at 02:23:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My school had a vending machine which could accept 5 cent coins but not refund them. Instead it would give out a 10 cent, so you could just save up a dollar or so in 5 cents and double your money. Lasted a couple of years before the school realised what was happening.
Letty_Whiterock · 6 points · Posted at 04:37:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You need to clarify this, because wouldn't it just give back one dollar in dimes?
kuyote · 29 points · Posted at 04:53:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
put a nickel in, hit refund, out pops a dime. repeat until the machine is out of dimes
Sieje · 1 points · Posted at 01:02:14 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd put in a 5 cent coin, press the refund button and get 10 cents back. Repeat until either I or the machine is out of coins.
russellp1212 · 1036 points · Posted at 01:16:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
my school has a vending machine just like this, except with candy/chips. If you pressed one particular button, not only would it give you the food in that slot, but it would also drop a couple dimes into the "change" slot. They just fixed it a couple months ago. Such a depressing day in my life.
Nalowale · 614 points · Posted at 03:53:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I once owned a large vending machine. I would put candy/chips that had reached their expiration date or ones that would reach it before I would restock it again in a free slot. I didn't announce that the slot was free. In the state I had the vending machine in you're not legally allowed to sell expired candy. So, I gave it away rather than eat it myself. People knew about and shared the 'secret' of the vending machine. But, because of it I made more money than I lost; and eventually had no use for the expired candy row. Because the machine had become so popular around the office building.
madhi19 · 137 points · Posted at 04:28:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a marketing scheme you might be on to something.
longtimegoneMTGO · 119 points · Posted at 04:55:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No kidding.
Once you already walk over to the machine with the thought of free candy dancing in your mind, if the row is empty you aren't going to just walk away with no candy when a measly dollar is all that separates you from what you want.
forresja · 25 points · Posted at 05:09:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's basically a loss leader, definitely not a new concept.
Very effective though.
donuts42 · 5 points · Posted at 06:15:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Technically he isn't even taking a loss on it either, since he couldn't make any profit on expired candy
youre_being_creepy · 19 points · Posted at 04:51:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
oh man, that really is slick. The best part for you is that they have already made the trip to the vending machine, so even if there isn't any free stuff, you have them in your vending grips
PorkBellyFutures · 5 points · Posted at 05:02:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
that's fucking genius. well done.
crespoh69 · 2 points · Posted at 05:39:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nice, don't see how this could be taken as bad as everyone seems to win. People get free stuff, you unload stock that you don't need/want for free without it having to go to waste and the news of it brings you more customers.
Good for you!
legalizeshit · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That sir is called a loss leader and you should teach a fucking class on that!
IKn0wKnothingAMA · 1 points · Posted at 13:35:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Technically it's not a loss since he wouldn't have profited from those expired chips anyhow.
torribles · -2 points · Posted at 04:52:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's a good story mate, like some kind of fable
Rabidwalnut · 4 points · Posted at 02:54:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm going to try this with one of my school vending machines tomorrow.
wafflesareforever · 4 points · Posted at 04:23:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had a vending machine in my freshman dorm that gave out free stuff, but only when the drunk kid from my hallway smashed the glass open with a golf club, something he did twice before they expelled him.
Ballz2You · 2 points · Posted at 04:36:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At our school, there was a vending machine for gatorades, there was a loophole where you would get multiple bottles if you mashed the button while insert the last coin to reach the price. You had a few seconds to spam that shit.
On good days, I would get 3 for 1, and resell the other two for half price. So mine cost nothing and 2 people got theirs at 50%.
WolfeBane84 · 2 points · Posted at 05:20:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in highschool girl solved the problem of them fixing the machine by lineback-ing the machine.
Robotmassacre538 · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The vending machine at my school had a sensor to tell if the food dropped into the bin, and if it didn't it would push out the slot 3 or so times before locking down that slot
So what would happen is sometimes chips would get stuck on the way down and it would drop another one, that second one would dislodge the first and you'd get two for the price of one
I haven't seen it happen much since then (mainly because laws prevent vending machines from operating during lunch now) so I am not sure if they fixed it or not
haffbaked · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had a soda vending machine that if you clicked any button quickly enough it would give you two instead of one each time you paid.
So that was pretty cool.
-Sarek- · 1 points · Posted at 08:10:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At my school, I found out if you pressed the button twice at the right intervals or in the correct time-frame (I don't really remember), you'd get 2 sodas for the price of one. That's all I got :/
BlueShoeLover · 176 points · Posted at 02:06:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haha there used to be a Coke machine at my train station that would both register that you had put in a quarter, and return the quarter to you.
Barbieheels · 17 points · Posted at 03:38:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
one time i was at a hotel and went to get a snack from the vending machine. I put in i think 2$. It gave me my candy and 4$ back. I decided to buy another candy, put 2$ in, got 4$ back and my candy again. Tried it a third time, just got my candy. But hey, I basically got 3 candybars for no money
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 04:12:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This just happened to me today, but with $1 in quarters and chips instead of $4 and candy. I wonder why the third time it decided to ruin my dreams,
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 03:57:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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rbedolfe · 3 points · Posted at 04:17:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You must be Mr. Nick Papageorgiou
Matti_Matti_Matti · 4 points · Posted at 04:40:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Living the dream.
FrankyEaton · 5 points · Posted at 03:39:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had one similar where when you put a 5 in and pressed return it would spit out the original 5 and 5 in coins. I probably made 150 bucks off that over the weeks til they fixed it
bradorsomething · 3 points · Posted at 04:52:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I found a slot machine that did this with twenties.
Mr_Ibericus · 3 points · Posted at 06:40:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The soda machine in the teachers lounge at my high school used to do that. Students weren't supposed to go into the teachers lounge, but free soda is free soda.
[deleted] · 191 points · Posted at 00:46:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Jbau01 · 134 points · Posted at 00:52:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
they watched probably. you just don't throw away free coffee
notoneofyourfans · 0 points · Posted at 05:47:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a fellow Southerner, glad to be in the company of someone who understands that all buttons get "mashed".
FromFluffToBuff · 7 points · Posted at 03:24:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Same for my high school. E0 always dispensed a free item on my machine - got free white cheddar popcorn for a LONG time! So sad when it was fixed :(
walkthroughthefire · 7 points · Posted at 03:29:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The rink where I did figure skating lessons as a kid had something similar to this. Every time you ordered a cappuccino, it would say "winner!" and give it to you for free. Didn't work with any other drink though, so that's how I learned to like coffee.
nickasummers · 6 points · Posted at 03:58:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One time I tried to buy a bag of doritos from the vending machine at college but they had accentally set the price to 100 instead of 1.00. Too rich for my blood.
username_choose_you · 6 points · Posted at 03:52:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In university we had a coffee machine like this. If you selected a mocha and pressed just below the button, it would cost you a dime instead of $1.50. This went on for years and most night owls and smokers knew the mocha trick
kathios · 4 points · Posted at 03:51:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had this happen at work with reese's peanut butter cups. Worked for months until some moron got a box and took all of them at once. Fixed on the next restock.
dickbuttscompanion · 4 points · Posted at 04:23:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not quite the same, but I went to a combined middle school/high school.
When I started, I noticed that the seniors were messing with the little cat flap on the change slot but thought nothing of it, until my change got stuck in the cat flap.
Turned out the big kids were jamming coins in that cat flap every day so it would catch any change before it would hit the bottom. Robin Hood that I am, my friends and I got free gummi bears for months before the vending machines were phased out (healthy eating BS)
Meltingteeth · 3 points · Posted at 04:04:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One of my high schools had one of those rotating vending machines where you slide the slot to access the food. One of the positions let you access two slots with a single door. I got bogo muffins for two months before I moved.
godaiyuhsaku · 3 points · Posted at 04:14:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had a vending machine that must have had a poorly placed drop sensor.
If you held open the flap you grab the pop out of when you made the choice it would fall and be caught by the theft protection shield. You could then hit the coin change and then let the pop fall the rest of the way.
Free pop.
FifthMonk · 3 points · Posted at 04:19:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Our school had a vending machine with one of the early card readers on it. It was so primitive that it would accept most cards with a magnetic strip on the back. So for a while I was getting free food using my library card. After a year and a half of this I told someone in the year below me as I was about to graduate. Within two days the machine was empty and it was carted away by the end of the week.
monsantobreath · 3 points · Posted at 04:32:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I hate people who can't show discretion enough to keep the free ride from ending.
nyccfan · 3 points · Posted at 04:34:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This was about 15 years ago. My college dorm had vending machines that you could use your student ID to deduct from funds you added at the beginning of the semester to pay for things on campus. The order went: swipe card, item drops, card is charged. Until they fixed it I would just unplug the machine right after the item dropped. Got free snacks for a semester until too many people figured it out and they fixed it.
batfiend · 3 points · Posted at 04:44:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We discovered the vending machine in my year 8 dorm would take two 5c pieces glued together as $2 coins. We cleaned that baby out. Then they took it away.
Matti_Matti_Matti · 3 points · Posted at 04:44:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I bought some food from a machine at the airport and paid using my credit card, then promptly forgot about it. When I got back from holiday I saw the charge from a company in a part of the city I never go to and complained to the bank, saying I couldn't have made the purchase because I was at the airport, getting on a plane. They refunded my money.
Later, I remembered what I bought and realised that the machine is registered to the company and says the purchase was made at the company's address, even though the machine is actually at the airport.
Jah-Eazy · 2 points · Posted at 05:53:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Geez everyone here seems to have had cool vending machines. The best I had paying for a Gatorade but pressing the button twice quickly to get two bottles for the price of one
nodnizzle · 2 points · Posted at 06:07:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had this vending machine in community college with a conveyor belt that I could get 2 energy drinks out of if I held the door thingy shut and then it would also give me $2 back in quarters. I was broke as shit while going there, so it helped me take the bus home and have something to drink all day.
alwysonthatokiedokie · 2 points · Posted at 03:36:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Same experience happened at a casino but it was bingo dobbers. Hooray, I have several lime green bingo dobbers now!
mystikphish · 1 points · Posted at 04:20:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
*daubers
ibeabluedevil · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had vending machines in my highschool that consisted of 1 snack machine and 1 drink machine on the main level at the top of the stairs that went to the lower level. The drink machine on the upper level only sold like fruit drinks, water and juices. On the lower level was another snack machine and drink machine, however this drink machine had the good stuff like Mr. Pibb, Pepsi, Coca Cola and Sprite. So of course that was my favorite as well as many others.
For some unknown stupid reason they would turn the machines on lock mode during lunch time so you couldn't buy any snacks or drinks and be forced to get milk or pay more for the same exact fruit flavored drinks if you bought one from the lunch line (they only sold fruit flavored drinks in the lunch line as they deemed it "healthier" just because it said fruit in the name). Anyways, everyone knew this so they would either buy their drinks the class period before lunch or bring their own.
My dad is a maintenance man who worked at GE on the night shift and he was responsible for repairing the assembly line machines if they broke down, because he needed access to different areas and multiple locks and mechanisms he was given the master key set to everything, this included like 3 universal keys that fit all drink and snack machines, and for the ones that were in the break room at his work. When I told him the deal with the school turning off the vending machines during lunch, he brought me 1 of those extra universal keys and told me to take it to school and see if it worked to turn the machines back on.
Of course it did, so every day at lunch I would slip downstairs, turn the machine off lock mode, get my Pibb, return it to lock mode and proceed to lunch. I let my closest friends in on my little hack of sorts and they too were soon enjoying a nice cold drink of their choice during lunch. They best out of all of this is when the so called popular kids and jocks found out, the same ones that would torment and torture me and my friends and even bully the kids with Down's syndrome, they would ask me to use it for them so they could get thier snacks and drinks too. Ummmm, HELL NO!!, and it felt so good to tell them that to, they looked at me like, but I'm the head cheerleader or I'm the teams captain you need to do this, and I'm over here like, BYE FELICIA. Maybe they'll remember that next time before they treat someone like crap, they may actually need them one day!
Cautionzombie · 1 points · Posted at 05:29:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did something like this in middle school with a vending machine. Ducking around I found the "code" to get a free drink. Now my memories hazy on the but I can't remember if it gave me an extra drink or if hitting the return money button initiated it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My school used to have a vending machine that would serve 6 Gatorades for the price of 1. $10 in Gatorades was how I made $60.
creative_reddit_user · 1 points · Posted at 05:48:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At my school for the longest time if you pressed the 2 Pepsi buttons at once, it'd spit out 2, maybe 3 cans for the price of one.
Xaxxon · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At work there was a vending machine where the drink would get stuck as it tried to fall. There was a optical sensor that would detect if anything fell and if it didn't, it would give you your money back.
A swift kick to the side of the machine after the money was refunded would drop the drink.
Bunnyhat · 1 points · Posted at 06:10:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In middle school, there was a vending machine outside the teacher's lobby. If you inserted your money, and rapidly pressed the button for a drink, you would get as many drinks as button presses before the first drink rolled out.
So if you hit the button twice, two drinks for the price of one. Best we managed was 8 drinks at a time.
AAA1374 · 1 points · Posted at 08:15:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is why I'm so proactive in telling people about loopholes.
See, it's the opposite of what you'd expect. You tell people, you control the spread. Make sure you explain out, "Hey, don't abuse this or make it obvious that we're doing this or it'll get noticed. Be discreet."
Worked 80% of the time. The other 20% was usually just some random asshole fucking it all up, but most things tended to stay around as long as I had involvement in them.
parkerduh · 0 points · Posted at 04:47:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
1000th upvote! Wahoo
Big_daddy_c · 743 points · Posted at 00:58:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Papa johns website used to let you stack coupons. They had a coupon - 3 mediums for 21$. They also had 5 off 20, 4 off 16, and 3 off 12 coupons. As long as you applied them in the right order you could get 3 mediums for 9$. I probably shouldn't think too much about how many times I used that.
KingGorilla · 140 points · Posted at 04:37:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm reading so many papa johns loopholes in this post. They really need to hire better tech guys.
[deleted] · 55 points · Posted at 05:11:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's probably the only way they can get people to eat their pizzas tbh.
fco83 · 17 points · Posted at 05:25:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, if you're paying full price for their pizzas, you're overpaying. Its not bad pizza, i like papa johns more than the other chains, but its still overpriced.
There is never a time you cannot get at least a 40% off code.
kerochan88 · 24 points · Posted at 05:16:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Papa John's has great pizza! They use better ingredients that make better pizza. Says so on the commercials.
I do like them though, for reals.
ReluctantSniper · 2 points · Posted at 06:25:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It really depends on your location. Here in Vegas, Papa Johns is alright, better than Dominoes, worse than Pizza Hut, and NOTHING beats Hungry Howies.
Herb_Kazzaz · 3 points · Posted at 05:55:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
BBQ Chicken is fucking delicious
chewyxc · 1 points · Posted at 22:39:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I honestly think they do have better toppings and sauce than the other two major chains but I usually can't justify spending double the amount for a large when I can carry out one somewhere else for half that. College student priorities. Quantity over quality
kerochan88 · 2 points · Posted at 23:50:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Coupon code 25OFF is always active.
NoodleNonger · 5 points · Posted at 05:27:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is Papa John's considered a shit pizza place in the US? I have to say, I only just recently found out that they have stores in the UK but I (and most people I know) consider it really good pizza and it's my entire house's go-to pizza place.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 05:37:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They're pretty good for a chain, but in a lot of areas you can do better with local places. There may also be some differences between them in the US and the UK, that happens sometimes.
Archsys · 2 points · Posted at 05:21:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eh; they're one of the few major franchises that doesn't use Milk in their crust, so there's that...
streetsweepskeet · 4 points · Posted at 06:22:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Better loopholes, better prices, Papa Johns
JohnJaysOnMyFeet · 3 points · Posted at 05:54:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah they really do. I worked there for a year and a half, will work there once in a while, and the back end is awful too. Everything is so slow and unintuitive and just a pain in the ass.
Crazyhates · 150 points · Posted at 03:31:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Boy it was a sad day when I realized I couldn't stack coupons anymore. The delivery guys used to think I had some relationship with management because I always got so much shit for so cheap.
gensouj · 9 points · Posted at 05:07:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Papa johns gave out free pizzas evertime you paid with visa checkout. So starting with a free.pizza coupon i just added a topping and did visa checkout. Ended up with dozens of 2 dollars 2 topping large pizzas.
blondjokes · 4 points · Posted at 06:27:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when they first started their "point" system where 25 points gets you a free pizza, to actually get the pizza you had to click "redeem" and it would give you the code to put in. The code was "papa25" and after I earned my first free pizza and knew what the code was, I just kept reusing the code every week because they didn't check to see if you had enough points. So I had free pizza for a couple of months.
adamfrost01 · 3 points · Posted at 06:22:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hunrgy howies allows you to stack coupons
-Psychonautics- · 3 points · Posted at 16:23:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The most insane part is, it's so cheap for them to make a pizza, they still made money off you for 9 bucks.
all4hurricanes · 1999 points · Posted at 01:06:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a vending machine in our dorms where you could select an option put in a dollar unplug the machine and get your item and dollar back. We used that most every day until a kid with morals told our live in professor about the loophole
shelley-wretch · 1177 points · Posted at 03:28:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Damn those kids with morals
kMaiSmith · 6 points · Posted at 06:02:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to be one of those, but now that I'm an adult I realize why I didn't have many friends
call_911_to_diddle · 14 points · Posted at 05:10:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pieces of shit,that's what they are!
airportluvr416 · 7 points · Posted at 05:17:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
THE WORSTTTTT
shortyman93 · 3 points · Posted at 05:15:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bet he was a Satanist.
EDIT: So apparently barely anyone got that I was trying to make a joke, and actually /u/PRW56 pointed out below what I was getting at. There are constant TILs and other reddit posts about how Satanism is about respecting everyone, how no one should approach someone for sex without their consent, etc. I was not in fact trying to say Satanists don't have morals, just thought it was a funny statement, because I think often times people don't think "someone with morals" and their first thought is Satanists.
PRW56 · 4 points · Posted at 06:03:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Satanists seem like pretty good people, so you might be right. From the satanic temple website:
There are seven fundamental tenets.
Itr0llhoe · 2 points · Posted at 07:12:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Also, if someone challenges you in your own territory, destroy them. Lmao
shortyman93 · 1 points · Posted at 08:04:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thanks for the reply, I don't think people got I was trying to get at with my comment. Hopefully this clears it up for people.
Canadianxwild · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hi, I was that kid with morals.
valiantfreak · 394 points · Posted at 04:24:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At my mate's uni they had a vending machine that did not keep the drinks very cold so they pulled the back off and turned up the thermostat. Unfortunately they overdid it and the cans froze and started exploding.
The owner was understandably pissed off so came in to take the machine away. Unfortunately the building had been remodelled since it was put in and it no longer fit down the new stairs.
The man gave up and left it so the (engineering) students drilled the lock off the front, brought in their own drinks, and essentially used it as a fridge
fb39ca4 · 92 points · Posted at 04:47:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Engineering students can get very creative with vending machines.
EpicLegendX · 32 points · Posted at 05:10:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"People always underestimate the Engineers."
-Torbjorn
valiantfreak · 4 points · Posted at 21:34:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Anyone can build a bridge that doesn't fall down. It takes an engineer to build a bridge that ooooonly juuuust doesn't fall down
fastpropellershurt · 9 points · Posted at 05:45:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
-Toblerone*
FTFY
udderlymoovelous · 0 points · Posted at 05:31:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nice Overwatch reference
GuiltySpark343i · 8 points · Posted at 04:49:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
nice.
ChrisHutch90 · 2 points · Posted at 05:53:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"turned up the thermostat"
JeezyTwoHard · 591 points · Posted at 02:47:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's always one of em
dexfagcasul · 31 points · Posted at 04:46:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Like why the fuck would he tell them? Does he not like free snacks?
patb2015 · 14 points · Posted at 04:48:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Snitches get stitches
slightlysanesage · 3 points · Posted at 05:09:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's why you reroll as an Oath of Vengeance Paladin.
There's morals, but they're looser.
Andrenator · 3 points · Posted at 06:31:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Trigger-happy police officer of 5e
Demderdemden · 330 points · Posted at 04:14:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Oh no, I'l definitely tell someone about that." - Professor.
"What was that about?" - Other professor.
"Didn't really fucking care to pay enough attention to be honest with you." - Professor.
Lonely_Kobold · 31 points · Posted at 04:56:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Professor then proceeds to exploit the loophole himself.
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 05:04:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
'Okay. Sent from iPhone."
"Why'd you say that out loud?"
"Oh my bad. Reflex."
kblaney · 7 points · Posted at 05:34:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can confirm that this is exactly what I have done.
"I'll tell someone about that," comes with an unspoken, "if I don't forget by the time this conversation is over," which comes with a tacit, "I'm going to forget this by the time this conversation is over."
MeowsterOfCats · 10 points · Posted at 04:16:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've got morals, but even I would turn a blind eye to this. And probably exploit it, too.
yulbrynnersmokes · 3 points · Posted at 04:55:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Live in professor? Now there's a loophole!
BootHillExpress · 4 points · Posted at 04:30:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have one of these at work that does that. I don't feel bad either because that thing ate my money so many times.
Smgt90 · 4 points · Posted at 04:43:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In our dorms there was a vending machine that for a strange reason would take all coins normally but not the nickels. If you used a nickel, it would count it but give it back to you. So, you just had to keep inserting the same nickel over and over again until you reached the desired amount. It got fixed eventually.
Pnmorris513 · 5 points · Posted at 04:50:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Teacher, Teacher! You forgot to give us homework!"
bradorsomething · 2 points · Posted at 04:50:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Prof started emptying the machine every night after that?
SilasX · 2 points · Posted at 05:26:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Except that the professor was, himself, using a loophole to shack up with a dorm full of possible underage boys.
udderlymoovelous · 2 points · Posted at 05:30:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I hate them. HATE THEM!
Shinibisho · 2 points · Posted at 06:13:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My first dorm room was directly across from an elevator area, which contained the only vending machine in the whole building. Well, the flap that the drinks come through that prevent people from reaching up into the machine had broken, leaving my skinny arm able to reach in there and pull drinks out. The problem was that once I pulled a drink out of a slot, the only way to refill it was to pay for another drink. This meant that I could pull all the available drinks, chill in my dorm room with the door open, and wait for some unsuspecting patron to come along and put a buck in for a tasty refreshment. I enjoyed listening to them get frustrated as the machine "ate their dollar." Then they would inevitably walk off without trying again, and I would go and pull the drink. Did this for months until the flap was finally fixed.
I-EAT-FISHES · 2 points · Posted at 09:15:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That kid was definitely not a closer, very low energy.
ivanwarrior · 2 points · Posted at 16:41:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It costs $100,000 to get a degree, colleges can find another revenue stream instead of charging for pop and printing.
Myotherdumbname · 3 points · Posted at 04:56:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't think that's a loophole, I'm pretty sure thats just stealing
StatOne · 2 points · Posted at 04:51:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a machine like that in college too; the vending service guy finally figured that sequence out and built a special plug-in unit housing the cord.
Man, I had me so many Fanta sodas, my lips were stained orange.
cunninglinguist32557 · 2 points · Posted at 04:54:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's a broken vending machine next to our digital arts lab that dispenses anywhere from 1 to 4 of whatever you chose. 4 full bottles of cold water for $1 is like a jackpot to an overworked design student, let me tell you.
IranianTerrorist4Luv · 2 points · Posted at 04:54:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
reminds me of an arcade we'd visit. If you brought a screwdriver with you, you could just 'pop' the arcade joystick shelving off and press the credit button 50 times with your finger. Boom. Instant 50 games of Mortal Kombat III for an hour for nothing. Use that money you saved for weed, cigarettes, and beer.
Bonus if you steal weed, cigarettes, and beer.
Then you spend that money on Taco Bell cheesoritos.
golgol12 · 2 points · Posted at 04:55:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a long time lurker of /r/entrepreneur, I feel bad for the owner of that machine.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:54:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=snitch
Nertez · 0 points · Posted at 04:58:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's not a loophole, that's literally stealing.
"Hey, I found this loophole where you send officially looking e-mails to many people and some of them will put their bank account logins and passwords in it and then you can use them to take all their money! But then, this motherfucker with morals said we shouldn't do it! What an asshole!"
GuiltySpark343i · 1 points · Posted at 04:49:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'll admit I have morals but fuck that kid so much.
TerryTibbsTalkToMe · 1 points · Posted at 04:56:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Similar to this a company I may or may not still work for once had the "latch" break on the vending machine (the part that drops down when the door opens so you cant get into the products. Well me being 10stone soaking wet with long skinny arms one day figured out I could bend my elbow in the drawer amd reach into the machine. Five deep on the bottom row, 3 deep on the second up and if i really stretched two deep on the third row. I must have taken that vending machine for at least £200 a month for 4-5 months before they fixed it. I'd get the chocolate for free and then either eat it or sell it to my colleagues at a discount price. Win win.
DjentRiffication · 1 points · Posted at 04:56:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No doubt the same kid who raises his hand a minute before the bell rings or class ends to remind the instructor that there was an assignment due.
Dildo_Gagginss · 1 points · Posted at 05:05:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Something similar happened my freshman year of high school. One of the vending machines had a certain button that you could just press without having to put any money in and it would dispense a candy bar (Twix) for free. My friend group were the first ones to find out, and tried to keep it on the hush hush. This went on for 3 or 4 days until other people started to catch on, and eventually it got fixed. But I will never forget that week where every morning before class, I would get like 6 free Twix's.
altervista · 0 points · Posted at 04:48:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
please tell me you beat that little fucker's ass?
ammaslapyou · 0 points · Posted at 04:57:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you smash it open with a hammer too? That works well.
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BhMhWh · 1087 points · Posted at 00:24:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Uber drivers hate him.
GettingItDone087 · 375 points · Posted at 03:11:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Uber users want to be him.
missmalina · 1 points · Posted at 04:30:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, "hate" is pretty appropriate.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:15:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Me? I'm the bastard Uber Driver who shot him!
cheeseburgerwaffles · 3 points · Posted at 04:19:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Likely won't effect drivers. I used to drive and I believe it decides if the driver gets paid surge based on where you click "begin ride".
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:01:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
avoid surge fees using this one weird trick
mcmanybucks · 3 points · Posted at 05:54:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Uber shouldnt get to do shit without paying taxes lol
RE5TE · 0 points · Posted at 02:31:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That does take money out of the pocket of an Uber driver. This mfer is why you need to tip.
rydan · -2 points · Posted at 02:39:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can't tip since the app doesn't support it and I'm not about to participate in tax avoidance. This is why you should use Lyft instead. They are like Uber but without the evil stuff.
Rylentless · 15 points · Posted at 02:43:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Tax avoidance? Are you kidding me?
lumpybumpylumpybumps · 3 points · Posted at 02:52:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Are tips ever taxed ?
Crasken · 9 points · Posted at 02:57:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Tips are considered as income and are taxed as such; usually jobs "require" cash tips to be reported as well, but almost nobody actually reports all their cash tips, while credit card tips are automatically reported.
BiddyFoFiddy · 7 points · Posted at 03:01:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Legally, yes.
WhyAreYouPayingTaxes · 3 points · Posted at 04:53:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Get that tax shit out of here.
Any money you make where no one can verify you made it shouldn't be reported, and any money you make that can be taxed but is under standard reporting thresholds shouldn't be reported either.
It's their job to catch you, and the IRS is woefully underfunded - while the odds of you getting caught aren't zero, they're so low that it makes more sense to roll the dice on some things.
I'll always tip in cash to help someone who feels the same way.
BenDodson · 1 points · Posted at 03:33:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What evil stuff does Uber do? And why should you need to tip?
RE5TE · -11 points · Posted at 02:45:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't care how you do it, just tip. A buck will do.
mystery1411 · 12 points · Posted at 02:52:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The whole point of Uber is that you don't have to tip. The people who drive for Uber know that. So why should I tip?
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mystery1411 · 4 points · Posted at 05:03:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So where does this stop? Do I go around tipping bus drivers too everytime I take a bus? What about metro drivers?
I tip at places where I am expected to tip and I tip atleast 20% (its easier to calculate). But for a business that claims to run on not requiring the tip I wont go out of my way and tip. Also, doesn't uber generally have a surcharge on night trips?( Im not sure as I use it only for groceries and never used it in the night).
RE5TE · 3 points · Posted at 06:09:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They are lying about the tip. If you have groceries in the back of someone's car, you definitely need to tip. That is extra.
A buck won't kill you, right?
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We_HaveThe_BestMemes · 1 points · Posted at 07:35:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you were making less than $7.25/hr after tips, you must have either not been charging enough, or you didn't have enough customers. Was this your own business or were you a contractor?
rydan · -2 points · Posted at 03:15:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Actually Uber claims the tip is part of the fare. They explicitly say this even though it is a lie.
sometimesremember · 3 points · Posted at 03:21:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Where do they explicitly say this?
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RE5TE · 2 points · Posted at 06:29:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I just keep up with the industry. You don't know the current tipping status because Uber has not fulfilled it's part of a settlement from a big lawsuit last year.
They originally lied and said drivers could not accept tips, which makes no sense if drivers are really contractors. Then, after being sued, they tried your position: "tips are not necessary." They were sued again and lost last year.
Finally, tipping helps you. If you don't tip the bad drivers are paid the same as the good ones. Remember your worst ride ever? That guy got paid the same as your best ride. This race to the bottom only rewards the worst drivers with the cheapest cars because their costs are the lowest.
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-0422-uber-settlement-story.html
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RE5TE · 2 points · Posted at 15:11:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah. They can easily add the tip line to their app. They don't because of people who don't want to tip.
Uber wants to attract those people by assuaging their guilt (over not tipping). Adding an OPTION subtracts nothing from Uber's bottom line. But it makes a few cheapskates feel a little worse.
Use LYFT. They've taken the opposite approach. It sorta makes sense to me that the tip withholders at Uber are also the most sued private tech company. Most recently for a culture of sexual harassment.
BACEXXXXXX · 104 points · Posted at 03:10:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Never used Uber in my life. What is the surge?
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utspg1980 · 253 points · Posted at 03:46:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No that's not it. The surge is this once a year event where you can go out and kill anybody you want without punishment.
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BrowsOfSteel · 52 points · Posted at 04:05:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, that’s a splurge.
The surge is when you have an uncontrollable desire to do something.
realblublu · 51 points · Posted at 04:06:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You must be thinking about an urge. The surge is a road feature where two or more lanes gradually become just one lane.
supermegameat · 38 points · Posted at 04:13:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
no that's a merge.
A surge is a very sad song or melody, usually sung in mourning or about the deceased.
eye_luge420 · 36 points · Posted at 04:16:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Actually, that's a dirge.
A surge is a limit beyond which something happens or changes
milesfortuneteller · 28 points · Posted at 04:22:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think you're thinking of a verge! A surge is having the confidence and will to do something heroic.
st33l3rsfan43 · 9 points · Posted at 04:57:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No no that's courage. A surge is a person or thing that causes great suffering
Jackpot777 · 8 points · Posted at 04:28:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Actually, that's the nerve!
A surge is the historic term for a whip used to punish people.
NealCruco · 5 points · Posted at 04:33:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Actually, that's a scourge. A surge is an event in which two objects become one.
PM_ME_CUTE_BABY_PICS · 5 points · Posted at 04:51:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think you're thinking of a merge! A surge is a sudden powerful forward or upward movement, especially by a crowd or by a natural force such as the waves or tide.
NealCruco · 4 points · Posted at 06:28:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
...You killed the thread.
TechnoCowboy · 2 points · Posted at 05:25:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I went to one place where they just called it murder night.
Garibond · 1 points · Posted at 04:41:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, the Surge is a convention held in Burbank California where thousands of attendees come dressed up like Superhero Static Shock
BaByJeZuZ012 · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No that's the purge. The surge is when you go to a store and spend a lot of money on things you don't really need.
covercash · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No that's not it. The surge is a technology news/media network founded by Joshua Topolsky.
Douteux · 1 points · Posted at 06:05:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No that's not it. The surge is an act performed while driving where two lanes of traffic fit together into a single lane.
HamStomach · 1 points · Posted at 06:12:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No that's a purge. This is a somber song or lament expressing mourning or grief.
typhyr · 1 points · Posted at 07:36:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, you're thinking of the Purge. A surge is a quick way to refer to a drill sargeant.
HurricaneHugo · 8 points · Posted at 03:41:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At times it can cost 5x-10x than normal
Superhero1582 · 14 points · Posted at 03:49:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Where I am the gov't imposed a 2x surge cap so now we frequently get "no cars available" lol
UndomestlcatedEqulne · 7 points · Posted at 04:27:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Government regulation op, pls nerf
monsantobreath · -3 points · Posted at 04:35:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
More like Government regulation bugged, Uber allowed to enter regulated market without boss battle, everyone who isn't Uber gets fucked, business press praises cheater for creativity, liberal capitalism instructs us this is good and not bad.
Wrang-Wrang · 2 points · Posted at 06:51:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're really confused
Loken89 · 3 points · Posted at 04:24:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Seriously. My ride to the club on New Year's way $4.50. Trying to get an Uber back would have been $42-something. Fuck that.
FireLucid · 3 points · Posted at 03:56:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When there are not enough drivers, the price goes up to entice more to start ubering. When the imbalance gets crazy out of whack it can cost a lot to get an uber.
SharksCantSwim · 1 points · Posted at 04:38:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Also, besides encouraging drivers, it also discourages some people from using Uber due to the surge so in the end, if you really need to get somewhere you can. Personally, I will catch a tram or whatever if it's say 2.0x or more.
RedHerringxx · 3 points · Posted at 05:25:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
For one night a year, all crime is legal for Uber users.
Cohn-Jandy · 1 points · Posted at 04:29:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I believe it refers to the revised U.S. counter-insurgency strategy in the Iraq War
tinykeyboard · 0 points · Posted at 04:18:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
friend got charged 200 dollars for a ride one night. it's ridiculous.
ElectronicDrug · 10 points · Posted at 05:23:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I put my referral code on the reviews of the Uber app and said it was worth $50 so everyone used mine. I got like 500 free rides. I think Uber caught on and expired them all pretty quick.
Here's a screenshot from my email https://i.imgur.com/0eJWkOQ.png
GetOutOfBox · 7 points · Posted at 05:36:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The one thing you gotta keep in mind is that the drivers give passengers reviews too, and if your cabbie catches on to you evading the bonus fare that to be honest, he deserves (the surges are graded on the required amount of drivers. The less available, the higher it'll be), he could report you or give you shit review which means you might have trouble getting picked up on occasion.
Merakel · 11 points · Posted at 04:52:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If it makes you feel better, google is about to fuck uber really hard, with no lube.
kronik658 · 11 points · Posted at 05:34:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A guy from Uber stole some of Googles self driving cars information and designs. They're pretty serious allegations and some people might face jail time as a result
Merakel · 7 points · Posted at 05:41:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Aye, it's gonna be good. Uber provides a cool service, but they are totally douchebags about it.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 06:06:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yup. People act like it's something on part with tesla or Google. They're just taxi drivers with an app, and all the vehicle maintenance on their dime
Merakel · 4 points · Posted at 06:09:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The vehicle maintenance is the real kicker - if you add that into your calculations for how much money you are actually making... well you find out just how bad you are getting fucked.
I suppose it's easy to be critical sitting in my ivory tower though.
toasty-bacon · 5 points · Posted at 05:20:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
how so, I'm curious...
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 05:24:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
http://heatst.com/tech/uber-under-fire-again-this-time-for-stealing-technology-from-google/
http://m.economictimes.com/news/international/business/googles-waymo-sues-uber-over-theft-of-self-driving-technology/articleshow/57337560.cms
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/22/googles-waze-carpool-service--an-uber-rival--is-expanding.html
wolfmann · 5 points · Posted at 05:15:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd walk... that's only 1.1 miles or about 10-12 minutes.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 05:53:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You are not walking 6 mph. More like 3-4. So a 20 min walk. In the cold, I'd dislike that too.
wolfmann · 2 points · Posted at 19:54:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
used to walk a .75 mile to lunch, order, eat, and a .75 mile back in 30 min...
google calculates it as .9 miles, but that's going a little longer way... 5 years of being on a big ten campus teaches you to walk fast to get from one end of campus to the other.
paulcole710 · 4 points · Posted at 05:54:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Depends on the block. North to South in NYC (for example) it's a bit over .5 miles.
wolfmann · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
standard city blocks are 0.1 miles long.
paulcole710 · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
lol, no they aren't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_block
wolfmann · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:26 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_block#As_a_unit_of_distance
author screwed up, it's always been 0.1 miles (not 0.1 km); we don't really use the SI system for roads/distances here in the US. That's why a lot of what it talks about above is acreage size.
bmoviescreamqueen · 8 points · Posted at 04:08:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lyft has something similar. If you need a car during surge, cancel your ride and choose "it's too expensive." Wait a few minutes and call another ride. It's almost always a few dollars cheaper. They just want your business.
AndrewNeo · 14 points · Posted at 04:32:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was probably cheaper because surge pricing fell, not because you canceled the first one.
bmoviescreamqueen · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was during rush hour in Chicago, surge pricing lasts quite awhile. I tested it two different occasions and it seemed to work, so whatever it is I'll keep doing it.
funkme1ster · 6 points · Posted at 04:54:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I hate how unethical and merciless uber is in my city... But at the same time the local cabbies are just the fucking worst. They protested uber's unfair practices by congesting an arterial road on a weekday and driving like 5km/h for a solid couple hours.
So my choices are a wholly evil corporation that does everything they can, including breaking the law, to kill the competition and establish market dominance so they can jack the price up and sell for an above "market rate"... or legal companies that have rock bottom standards on smell, service, hospitality, and community engagement, not to mention are primarily owned by an oligarchy of shitheads that conspired to manipulate the market price of a taxi medallion so they could line their pockets off the backs of people who weren't fortunate enough to have been born at the right time and place to get in at the ground floor.
Is it really too much to ask for a company that sells me something at a fair market rate without exploiting anyone to make an honest buck within the bounds of the law?
TheTastefulCanadian · 1 points · Posted at 05:23:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Montreal? Sounds like Montreal.
MiddleBodyInjury · 2 points · Posted at 04:24:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Uber drivers hate this one weird trick...
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:05:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's funny Uber I don't even think exists yet in my town of over 100 000 people
ApplesAreRed18 · 2 points · Posted at 05:13:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't know how this even happened. It was a Sunday afternoon right after we finished our brunch so I doubt there was a surcharge. We had 5 people, therefore we had to request the more expensive SUV rides. We traveled ~15 miles within Orange County, and the total was 88 dollars. I was the least drunk of our party, and making conversation with the driver, he told me to use 3 different codes. I always thought you couldn't use them all at once, but for some miracle the app let m applied all the codes at once and ended up paying only 8 dollars.
They must have fixed whatever glitch they had soon after, because the next weekend I tried to add more codes, but it would only discount 5 dollars per ride.
Woodshadow · 2 points · Posted at 05:30:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh maybe that is what is going on for me. I have only looked a couple of times and it costs me more to take an uber 10 minutes to the airport than to park for 5 days. My dad on the other hand has taken a Uber 45 minutes for less than the price of my two 10 minute drives. I couldn't figure out why anyone uses Uber.
BetterThanOP · 2 points · Posted at 05:33:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Another uber exploit that usually works but can be slightly risky: you and 3 friends need an uber downtown ? Each call for an uberpool, since you're all starting and ending in the same place, very likely you'll be grouped together and just pay less. Pretend not to know eachother for the ride though
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:35:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My dad drives Uber as a side job and made $1,240 during a 10x surge.
KingGumboot · 2 points · Posted at 05:53:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It can go that high? From what I've seen it maxed out at 3x or maybe a little higher (back when it actually displayed the surge multiplier, now it just gives you a fare estimate without actually saying what the surge is) even when coming out of concerts etc.
Zomgpewpew · 2 points · Posted at 16:19:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I should have posted screenshots. During a subway fire in my city the surge was like 5-8x depending on where you were. After a Beyoncé show it was 15x near the arena. In bad part of town where not many normal cabs exist.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:27:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cabs were utter shit and always wayyy over priced.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:26:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:08:33 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
thats unique. Many cities like my own cabs were utter garbage and still are.
Engagethedawn · 1 points · Posted at 05:00:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When this occurred for me while I lived in Austin, TX (awhile back), I would compare lift and Uber and usually I could get past surge charges between the two options.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Alaira314 · 1 points · Posted at 05:56:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Uber has both regular and surge rates for their ride pricing. Surge rates are applied under certain conditions, when the demand for rides gets high enough. Examples of when surge rates might apply include: the bar district on st patrick's, any city on new year's eve, at a stadium as a playoff game is letting out, etc. Does that make sense?
I_am_jacks_reddit · 1 points · Posted at 06:35:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Or you could just walk the 11 blocks. It's not going to kill you. Imo those drivers deserve the money.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 05:40:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd rather pay the $50 or so for a towncar. It's worth the extra money in my book to get a consistent price with no bullshit.
paulcole710 · 0 points · Posted at 05:53:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nobody gonna call you out for taking an Uber 11 blocks? This is the kind of shit my grandparents rant about.
mistakeshappen1 · 756 points · Posted at 02:09:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So a few years back, when I was moving into my house, I was looking for furniture. I'm on wayfair looking at tables, and they have all these sets so I start playing around with what I wanted to get. At some point I take the coffee table off and somehow that turns the end tables and sofa tables in $0. I'm like this can't be right, screw it I'll order like 15 each and sell them, expecting to get billed or contacted at some point about it. Within a week, 30 end tables and sofa tables arrive at my house which cost me nothing, and I sold them on Craigslist over the next couple weeks. Tried to go on to order more but they fixed the issue by then.
GreenPirateLight · 126 points · Posted at 04:39:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How much did you make?
ASAP_Zoidferg · 32 points · Posted at 05:31:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Asking the real questions.
dcbrah · 11 points · Posted at 05:56:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
please op
MSgtGunny · 33 points · Posted at 05:46:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
$3.50
ChrisHutch90 · 18 points · Posted at 05:56:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
about tree fiddy
mistakeshappen1 · 6 points · Posted at 12:50:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I read can't remember now, they were crappy particle board things so I think I sold end tables for like 50 and the sofa tables for 100, so alot
whereyouwalkin · 5 points · Posted at 05:58:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
About tree fiddy
Zesparia · 52 points · Posted at 05:29:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As someone who works with Wayfair I am so pleased by this happening to them
mistakeshappen1 · 1 points · Posted at 12:52:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I want to hear the story behind that??
Zesparia · 5 points · Posted at 13:41:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hah. Ok so bear in mind i work with a supplier i don't work at wayfair. They straight up don't care about us most of the time. Its not at Amazon levels of fuck you but unlike Amazon they don't give us a style guide or real guidelines. Whenever i submit a batch of product I resign myself to having to submit it two or three times before it's onsite and mostly correct.
Let's say I'm submitting a batch of accent throw pillows. Let's say they are made of a burlap cover with some cotton embroidery and filled with goosedown. I have all that listed in the description sections, i have every box filled out stating what the materials are. So the batch is submitted. Different pillows all alike except in color and design. My batch gets approved a week later, i go to finish the submission and make them live onsite.... half the batch will proudly say they are 100% cotton cover pillows. The descriptions will be changed. All items are now advertised as being hypoallergenic. The ones not advertised as being cotton in their titles have now all been shoved into one listing despite not being the same pillow because they have the same earth tone colors written in the description section. Instead of reading as rust-olive-navy those earth tones now read as red-green-black. My photos have been cropped or discarded in some cases. One random pillow is listed as Navajo design, which is a trademark. The pillow does not resemble a Navajo design.
So now I have some major corrections to make! But I expected this. I open a ticket. I am forced to type out each of the supplier skus in the correct field, separated by a comma, because that is the only accepted format. In the main field I cover every problem, state my desired change, and let the team know they can refer to my original upload of these items if there is any confusion about what needs doing. A week later I am told my ticket has been addressed. I view the items - most of them have the correct photos now. Dimensions have been changed and are now incorrect. They're still listed as being cotton and hypoallergenic despite all being made of burlap and stuffed with feathers. I reply to the ticket again requesting the rest be corrected. A week and a half later when no corrections have been made I reach out to the team and am told that because they closed out the ticket they never got an update to it and it has not been addressed. I open a new ticket. I refer to the old ticket number and request changes to the titles and descriptions. I explicitly write out what each has to be.
Keep that going for another few weeks until most of the listings are correct. Expect arguing about what the colors actually are and learn that they were originally changed bc thats what the person reviewing the item thought it was, despite my carefully listed colors that were drafted from viewing the items IRL and our three warnings about monitor color differences. I ask for a style guide, they tell me that one does not exist and their team knows what it is doing and this is why they oversee the process.
The "Navajo" pillow never gets fixed.
EDIT: Added more, this is why I despise wayfair, at least fucking Amazon gives us semi free rein as they try to drag us into the dirt
skelebone · 21 points · Posted at 05:12:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not as good of a error exploit, but I bought a sectional couch on Wayfair for 1/2 price because they had only listed the price for one section.
rottingtrain · 3 points · Posted at 07:11:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's the small things
him999 · 15 points · Posted at 05:50:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a person who fulfills orders i see this stuff often. It is always too late to do it myself :( I once saw a $300 power tool accidentally went on sale for $3. Someone ordered 10... we sent them 10. The error was fixed almost immediately
KeaPatera · 5 points · Posted at 05:53:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I ordered a metal bed frame and there was rust so they refunded me and let me keep it
KingGumboot · 2 points · Posted at 06:12:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When things like this happen you always regret not doing 10 times as much while the exploit was working
deecaf · 2 points · Posted at 06:32:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
that's...incredible. Way to go.
samm_t · 2 points · Posted at 05:22:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How much money did you make?
cbslinger · 11 points · Posted at 05:51:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Probably not that much. Furniture, even new-in-packaging furniture, is not a very liquid asset.
zamoose · 87 points · Posted at 05:59:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It is if it's a waterbed.
MidnightRanger_ · 15 points · Posted at 06:05:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Shut the fuck up
(That was honestly pretty good)
blitzvictory · -6 points · Posted at 06:57:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm glad to stumble upon the ol' Reddit liquid-a-roo
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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mistakeshappen1 · 1 points · Posted at 12:51:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, the funny thing is that I work in retail so if they called and was like "we're gonna have to charge you" I would have just cancelled the order no problem
JManRomania · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:35 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
It makes you look like a bunch of idiots when you fuck up on the pricing, and it makes you look like an asshole when you pull people's orders off the trucks.
honoring those shipping requests is good PR
evildoer993 · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:18 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
What metric are you using to evaluate "good PR"? The term we typically use is "Brand Good Will" in these sorts of situations. Companies hand out pens, buy lunches, sponsor events. That's typically how a company generates "Brand Good Will".
Taking what would likely have been a several hundred thousand dollar loss not only does not generate goodwill, it has no other marketing value what-so-ever. It's also a quick way to end up on the street. It's a terrible business decision, but these decisions are not made by Product Managers or Purchasers. The issue is escalated and decision made by executive management. A smaller mistake on a high margin item might ride. A big mistake on a low margin item is getting cancelled, especially when the company is publically traded.
I can assure you the person who made that mistake felt like a complete idiot for several weeks and triple checked their work to the point of them being relatively ineffective for several months.
Management handled it like a champ. Shit happens, don't do it again.
LOX95 · 1529 points · Posted at 23:40:36 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
The guys at 7/11 near my college in NYC don't understand how the coffee app works. Basically they scan it every time you get a coffee and every 7 you get a free one of any size. However, multiple workers at this partlicular location are completely oblivious to this and give me a free one every single time they scan it. I do this multiple days in a row sometimes multiple times a day.
psinguine · 1499 points · Posted at 02:10:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They work at a 7-11 by a college. It's not that they don't know. They just don't give a shit.
Demderdemden · 360 points · Posted at 03:58:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This. My uh... friend.... worked at one and they gave free coffee to police officers (and anyone else who was just rad essentially got rang up as a police officer too.)
Suffca · 30 points · Posted at 05:03:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Owner looks over the logs..."Man, how many cops came in today?!"
Mred12 · 44 points · Posted at 05:07:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Owner looks over the logs..."Man, how many cops... actually I don't give a shit."
CaptchaInTheRye · 5 points · Posted at 09:30:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The owners would care. The profit margin of owning a 7-Eleven franchise is not that big and a lot of them are scraping by.
The guy running the counter, not so much.
Max_Trollbot_ · 8 points · Posted at 06:01:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just one... but he came in like, a lot
Just_For_Da_Lulz · 11 points · Posted at 05:23:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
John: "Hey Dave, look at this. It looks like 742 police officers got coffee last month."
Dave: "Wow. How many donuts did we sell?"
John: "13."
Dave: "Oh. John, I hate my life."
alsignssayno · 1 points · Posted at 07:14:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hey, I know Dave! I wonder if he wants to get a beer...
ConfessionCareBear · 2 points · Posted at 07:35:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dave's not here, man.
Who_Cares99 · 1 points · Posted at 08:11:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Who's that dude standing next to Dave?
Condawg · 7 points · Posted at 07:14:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I worked at a Wawa. We did the "free coffee for cops" thing, too (which makes sense, it kept them coming back pretty frequently), and I'd ring up homeless folks as cops sometimes. Regular rad folks had to pay their way, but Jerry was covered.
Unrelated, but one time I walked in the bathroom (for context, I worked third shift, this was like 3 in the morning so not a high-traffic time) and there were four homeless dudes in there. Three sitting on their backpacks around the toilet, the fourth on the toilet reading scripture.
It was nice. Little hobo church, on a cold-ass night.
TheOnlyUsernameLeft_ · 5 points · Posted at 06:20:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was in the 7/11 by my college when two police officers walk in having a conversation, make coffees and walk out without acknowledging anyone working for 7/11. The cashier looks at me and says something along the lines of "they could at least thank us for the fucking coffee. They act like their the owners"
DuckChoyle · 4 points · Posted at 05:08:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Good shit my friend
Highlydoubtthattoo · 6 points · Posted at 05:09:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What if you were tubular? Did you also get the rad discount?
LazyHazy · 5 points · Posted at 05:15:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Rad is not really a dated word in the way that tubular is.
Rad is literally everywhere, and has made a huge comeback. Tubular is pretty regional and I don't think ever was commonly used past tropes.
RyghtHandMan · 4 points · Posted at 05:34:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The last time I heard someone say tubular sincerely was in an episode of Out Of The Box
LaterGatorPlayer · 7 points · Posted at 05:17:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
that's totally tubular
Demderdemden · 7 points · Posted at 05:27:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cowabunga coffee, dude
Girlinhat · 3 points · Posted at 06:18:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Coffee is nearly free. When you start working on commercial scale, each cup of coffee comes to like 1-2 cents. If you buy a donut and a cup of coffee, and get the coffee for free, then you've already gone 800% profit on the cost of the donut.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 05:10:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think every 7-11 gives free coffee to cops. By every one, I mean the two I've worked near in the past.
rareas · -3 points · Posted at 05:27:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The register had a button for "police"? I guess "graft and corruption" wouldn't fit.
WhatADan · 3 points · Posted at 06:49:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At some point the owner decided to do it, no way he was pressured. And not to push the stereotype but I'm guessing donuts also made the difference. There's also the added perk of having cops in and out of your store all day, which is a drama and crime deterent.
thecheat420 · 21 points · Posted at 04:22:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Worked at 7-11 for 3 years, can confirm.
balloonman_magee · 27 points · Posted at 04:37:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yup. 7-11 changed to Macs where im from. I used to work midnight shift. Can confirm. Did not give a shit. I straight up saw guys steal before but didn't do anything. Was actually scared for my safety on 2 occasions. My favourite tho was to mess with the obviously underage kids trying to buy smokes. One kid wore his hat real low on his head like they he thought I couldn't tell. Id go and grab his pack from the wall and go to ring it up on the til and would be like "that would be 8.50 please" and then he'd start to hand me his money and I could see this look on his face as if he thinks he fooled me.. but at the last second Id say "oh wait a sec. Could I see some ID first?" Ya I loved messing with people back then. Had a lot of weirdos come into the store on those midnight shifts.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 05:15:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Aha exactly, in Canada we have a coffee chain called Tim Hortons (in some Northern states as well) and every year they do a promotion where you can win free coffee or donuts from coffee cups. I worked there in HS and every year you get assholes thinking that they're clever, either by asking to get their drinks double cupped (so they get twice the chance to win) or they just tear off losing stubs and submit them at the cashier. They think that cashiers don't notice when you submit losing stubs. It's quite possible some dont, but in the mornings it gets really busy and most would rather you just take the coffee and fuck off than start a fight and have to deal with your bullshit.
nodnizzle · 2 points · Posted at 15:49:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, that's why I don't eat anything from a gas station like 7-11 off of the grill. I used to work there and me and others wouldn't give a shit about cleaning anything properly.
camlop · 11 points · Posted at 03:30:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
For me, I just go in whenever there's a free coffee Wednesday or free small Slurpee Saturday. They aren't supposed to count those towards the "Buy 7" thing, but they do and I can get a giant free Slurpee :D
handlesscombo · 1 points · Posted at 04:25:18 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
i believe they have to cause they have to scan the app for you to get the coffee, each scan nets a star towards your 7th free
notacrook · 19 points · Posted at 02:49:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sounds like the one on W4 by NYU (can confirm, workers just do not give a shit).
losangelesvideoguy · 7 points · Posted at 04:14:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I dunno man, I've had the coffee at 7-Eleven and this one seems more like they're scamming you.
theferriswheel · 4 points · Posted at 04:21:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a similar experience when Subway was offering "Deluxe" footlongs for like $1 more. It was supposed to be 50% more meat but the guys gave 150% more meat. The whole time, the two workers were saying how it was such an amazing deal. Never had I had a Subway sandwich with so much meat.
palindromic · 5 points · Posted at 04:44:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, but you're drinking 7/11 coffee..
MFPxNEONxNINJA · 3 points · Posted at 04:55:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What is the location of this 7/11? I want to go check it out
TonySoprano420 · 2 points · Posted at 03:48:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
St. John’s?
whtsnk · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Possibly. I know those guys are exactly this level of apathetic.
LOX95 · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Baruch
Razvee · 2 points · Posted at 05:36:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I work at a 7-11... We scan the app on your phone and then the register tells us if it's free or not. Not sure how it's showing up as free all the time. But that sounds like a problem for somebody of a different pay grade.
Sinjos · 2 points · Posted at 05:39:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Worked at 7-11 for a short time.
You're not getting away with anything. They can tell when you get a free one or not. The thing is, coffee isn't counted. Same with slurpees and fountain drinks.
Oops_my_hammer · 2 points · Posted at 05:41:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
probably didn't care enough. Many places that sell brewed coffee (with the exception of coffee places like starbucks or dunken) Don't specifically track inventory of coffee. It's more along the lines of "Oh, need to order more cups/grounds/filters"
SonnyJoon · 2 points · Posted at 07:23:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This kind of thing happened with my friend with the McDonalds app where if you download it from Facebook you get a free big Mac well this was a pretty new thing so when he went to get his free big mac the girl didn't know to scan it so he still had a free big mac left after.
Mike_S_ · 1 points · Posted at 03:54:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
yooo, im going to college in NYC next year where this shop at
Nerovinsar · 811 points · Posted at 23:05:48 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
Few years ago (long before steam market), Steam started selling games to poor countries like Russia with a big discount and no gifting/activation restrictions. Meaning, you could theoretically buy games for cheap, trade them for TF2 hats, sell hats for paypal and then use paypal to buy more games to trade for more hats, getting like, ~40% pure profit per game.
I didn't exploited in too much, just traded bunch of games for bunch of hats, no potentially scammy paypal business. But yeah, soon Valve closed it up, no more gifting of AAA games, activation restricted to CIS countries and in some retarded cases even language itself is locked to either Russian or Chinese.
Derpywhaleshark7 · 389 points · Posted at 02:43:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
nerfpirate · 71 points · Posted at 03:05:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
ИДИ НАХУЙ СУКА
watkykjynaaier · 9 points · Posted at 05:01:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
СЕКСИ ДЕВУШКА НА ВЕБКУ
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 05:34:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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shevtsov200 · 5 points · Posted at 05:35:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Вебка is slang for webcam.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:53:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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shevtsov200 · 3 points · Posted at 13:01:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Reddit - education you haven't asked for.
Moonguide · 2 points · Posted at 08:04:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
А ну, чики-брики и в дамки!
profoundWHALE · 3 points · Posted at 05:38:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Proves that it wasn't Google translate at least
watkykjynaaier · 2 points · Posted at 08:08:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Please forgive me, all of my Russian comes from porn titles.
Oxideist · 4 points · Posted at 05:17:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Сука
mastermind04 · 2 points · Posted at 06:08:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
комуністична сука
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cyka is a bad word, no?
quiet_locomotion · 11 points · Posted at 03:14:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bylat!
ExtraShard · 2 points · Posted at 05:13:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's pretty much already a prerequisite for any multiplayer valve game.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:39:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Derpywhaleshark7 · 1 points · Posted at 04:41:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's a joke, bud.
Herb_Kazzaz · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
CYKA BLYAT
Douteux · 1 points · Posted at 06:15:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Сука блять?
ArcherDadCSGO · 19 points · Posted at 03:04:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can still exploit this by just activating the game on a Russian VPN. I get most of my games 50% off from Russia by doing this.
kharliah · 5 points · Posted at 04:27:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Last time I tried this the game required I be in Russia to actually load the game. I can't be bothered starting a VPN just to launch a game.
Ended up removing the game from my steam library and getting the proper version for my country.
ArcherDadCSGO · 2 points · Posted at 05:03:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
All you have to do is activate it on the VPN. Afterwards you should be able to play fine. At least I never have issues with it.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 05:38:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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mastermind04 · -1 points · Posted at 06:10:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Make a new account
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 07:24:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
if you're going to make a new account for every game, you might aswell pirate the games
DisIsSparda · 2 points · Posted at 04:16:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What are you using for the vpn? Am unsure what free tools are decent.
ArcherDadCSGO · 4 points · Posted at 05:04:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I just use NordVPN personally, so I can't really help you for free tools.
PM_ME_DICK_PICTURES · 3 points · Posted at 05:04:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/vpn
__spice · 3 points · Posted at 05:23:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
For some reason I never thought to check reddit for vpn resources…I feel dumb
minastirith1 · 1 points · Posted at 09:17:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What.... please explain further.
So basically you can log into steam with a vpn and then activate games in that region and then they'd still work in your original first world region?
I just got fucked in the latest humble bundle by accidentally buying the pack over VPN and they didn't work in my steam account. This may be the solution to my woes.
Frost_mourne · 11 points · Posted at 03:54:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
THOSE WERE GREAT TIMES! i had like 5 different guys from russia in friendlist that i contactrd whenever i wanted something and i used to pay the latest game for a bunch of euros. When they introduced region locked games they all just disappered. they faded away. I still have them in friendlist. Miss them everyday.
sky_blu · 4 points · Posted at 04:28:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When the market was added Russia actually purchased keys to launder money lmao
kharliah · 3 points · Posted at 04:26:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If anyone is interested: this still works for DLC.
Even though games are region locked, DLC and cash shops are not.
For example I bought the Battlerite Ultimate Founders pack for around $7 Australian, rather than the $30 usd it usually is.
The cash shop in game was also significantly cheaper.
Exploiting this would probably result in a steam ban so I only bought 200 or so chests and called it a day.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:09:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I remember that. Managed to snag Shadow of Morder for 40% off at release just before they shut it down. Good times.
Findanniin · 2 points · Posted at 05:22:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Which, incidentally, sucked royal balls for those of us who actually had Western Payment methods linked to their account but did legitimately live and operate in Russia.
I remember when they changed it, I was completely unable to buy games unless I used a 'kiosk' - which was a 2 week struggle with valve to change my payment info and unlink my Western card.
Then shortly after I jumped through all those hoops, I ended up moving out of Russia and all my recent games were blocked, because they had been gifts from my girlfriend (with my money, simply because I had set her account up to be able to use kiosks).
It was ridiculous. I see how I looked like a scammer from Valve's perspective - but after I'd sent their customer service PASSPORT SCANS proving my identity and being in the country, it still took over a month for them to unblock these games on my account.
Ludicrous.
All because people like you wanted TF2 hats!
10art1 · 2 points · Posted at 05:23:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I was trying to get in on that with my Russian friends but it was patched as soon as we attempted
Deathmask97 · 1 points · Posted at 06:16:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That probably explains the rumors of some sort of massive Russian underground trading ring where lots of stolen credit cards and such were being laundered through Steam. From what I heard, a group was purchasing massive amounts of game codes and TF2 crate keys and then immediately sold them at a significant loss on 3rd party websites to cash out as quickly as possible. It supposedly went on for a while before Valve had to answer for so much money being laundered through their platform.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:36:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is there some secret meaning to the word "hats" in your story? Cuz otherwise it's reading very strange to me....
Nerovinsar · 1 points · Posted at 14:01:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Team Fortress 2 cosmetic items.
prospectre · 792 points · Posted at 03:26:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A bit late to the party...
Back in college, I lived in an off-campus community that was still under campus jurisdiction. Meaning, they could enforce campus policy, such as parking. They sure did love their hundreds of thousands of dollars of free money every yea. But, I digress.
If you lived out there, you got a special pass that stuck to your inside windshield (and is impossible to completely remove, much to my chagrin). Everyone else could not park in the community area overnight. They sent out campus PD every. Single. Night. One officer I talked to said they could rake in as many as 200 parking tickets a night from the off campus housing alone. At $45 apiece, that's quite a haul. The only exception being if a resident printed you out a parking pass.
Now, each resident was only allowed to print off 1 pass per night. You did so through your campus profile, and it tracked how many times you printed the page. each page had the date and time and a QR code generated on it.
Now, being the computer science student that I was, I opened up this page in inspector, and used my phone to read the QR code. Turns out, the QR code was also just the date and time of printing. So, I ripped the HTML of the page, made my own little QR code generator, and printed out a shit ton of those passes for my friends who crashed at my place over night, family, or people that may or may not have been unlawfully subletting.
Saved my friends thousands over all.
[deleted] · 34 points · Posted at 05:55:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you were a business student, you woulda sold em.
prospectre · 7 points · Posted at 17:03:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah, the goal here was that a bunch of people would get drunk, and not want to pay 45$ to crash at a friends place. Sometimes they took their chances. I submitted a complaint that the ticketing system disincentivizes safe driving but I got no response. So, I thought this was the next best thing.
VictrolaBK · 66 points · Posted at 05:07:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Computer Science ftw 👌
EnumaFaker · 8 points · Posted at 06:07:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a developer, I agree
Comet5050 · 3 points · Posted at 07:09:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cool
ben7005 · -15 points · Posted at 06:21:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wow, the most insanely complex Hax0r skills I've ever seen. Definitely requires elite computer science education; le non-CS majors could never get to this level! /s
Xenophyophore · 11 points · Posted at 06:28:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The only way it would occur to a non-CS major to do that is if they were self taught.
ben7005 · -4 points · Posted at 06:33:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I guess, but that's kinda like saying "the only way a non-math major could know how to take a derivative is if they were self-taught"
Well, of course, because those are the two possible ways of being taught something: it's either taught to you or you teach yourself. I'm just saying that teaching yourself enough to do this is trivial, and OP stating their major was irrelevant to the story.
prospectre · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I thought it was humorous. This was about 7 years ago, and I'm actually a senior web dev now. I know exactly how trivial hitting f12 was back then. That's kind of the joke...
ben7005 · 0 points · Posted at 17:12:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh, I didn't realize it was a joke, my bad. Although it seems others didn't either.
prospectre · 2 points · Posted at 17:13:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
But to people who aren't familiar with inspector it's still informative.
the_onetwo · 17 points · Posted at 05:18:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I like this one a lot, nicely done.
listoparanada · 17 points · Posted at 05:38:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I like that you exploited it for the benefit of others. A true Robin Hood!
prospectre · 2 points · Posted at 17:04:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I try ;D
sassybutclassylassie · 7 points · Posted at 06:11:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What would stop someone from just making copies with a copier?
prospectre · 3 points · Posted at 17:01:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well, the date and time mostly. I used a pseudo randomizer in case Campus PD got suspicious. It'd look really weird to have a bunch of permits all with the same time stamp.
sassybutclassylassie · 2 points · Posted at 00:26:10 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Makes sense - I knew it was something I missed in there haha
Mr_Smooooth · 5 points · Posted at 06:47:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is why security by obfuscation never works. Someone is going to pull back Oz's curtain and figure out just how everything works.
Medarco · 3 points · Posted at 06:24:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Similar story regarding parking. Our university has the inside windshield stickers that never come off cleanly. I just decided not to remove mine from last year because it's a pain. It looks exactly like the sticker for this year, and no campus parking officer is going to squint to see whether it says "15-16" or "16-17".
Alternatively, there are 20-30 visitor spots at the student center, and they're like right outside the door, as opposed to the student parking spots which are a couple hundred feet. One of my buddies freshman year decided not to renew his parking permit and just removed his sticker and parked in visitor spots for the rest of the year. They couldn't ticket him if he wasn't a part of their system, so he just used the best parking spots for free for the year.
helloiisclay · 3 points · Posted at 08:46:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in school, I found out that the campus parking enforcement wasn't actually affiliated with the municipality, so parking tickets were only valid on campus. If you had any, they would hold your class registration and everything until they were paid, but since it wasn't done through campus PD or anything, they couldn't run tags. I used this and just never got a parking pass. If I had, I would have had to register my car with the school and they would have had my information, but since it had never been in their system, it was just a random car on campus that they couldn't tie to a specific student. Made it all the way through school with probably 100 tickets a year, but nothing they could do about it.
Looking back, they probably could have towed my car if they'd gotten wise, but it wasn't something they ever did as long as you were in marked spots. They relied on the tickets holding up registration as the threat. I work with the campus police now, and have shared the story with a few select friends in the PD. Turns out a few other people were aware of the loophole too, so campus PD took on the parking enforcement duties and can run tags now. Since it's done through the PD now too, the tickets hold the weight of an actual parking ticket as well.
Ariel7heMermaid · 3 points · Posted at 09:27:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did this as well. For 6 years! Tons of tickets never caught!
TheDetective13 · 4 points · Posted at 06:07:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
chagrin
sykotyctendencies · 3 points · Posted at 06:23:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Way to go! It's good seeing people screw over college parking policies. Never met a more greedy bunch of assholes
teh_maxh · 2 points · Posted at 05:43:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Were one-night passes available to people without a long-term pass?
prospectre · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah. Your profile had all of that kind of stuff logged. They even tracked how many times you used the printer at the library. Pretty harsh stuff.
TheWho22 · 2 points · Posted at 06:13:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you make any money off of the "may or may not have been unlawfully subletting"ers?
prospectre · 2 points · Posted at 17:00:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well, they may or may not have been paying rent... But I didn't charge for any of the permits.
Moridin_Naeblis · 2 points · Posted at 13:51:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is quality stuff
drjams · 2 points · Posted at 18:42:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Brilliant, love it
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:18:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 05:47:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Double post.
peejster21 · 8 points · Posted at 06:34:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
you're right! let's down-vote them for a computer glitch that probably wasn't their fault?
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 21:20:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I didn't Down vote then. I merely alerted them to the issue. Stop being a cynical dickhead,
peejster21 · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's quite possible, almost even likely, that I wasn't specifically talking about you. I just said you were right, then made a sarcastic off-hand comment about them being down-voted. My apologies for trying to be funny on the internet.
Sincerely, cynical dickhead,
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The way it was worded, it seemed as though you meant that passive-aggressively towards me.
the_onetwo · 1 points · Posted at 13:16:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
On mobile in dodgy service. Sorry.
Skree-Skree · 783 points · Posted at 22:36:13 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
The greggs rewards app allowed you to make multiple accounts without verifying your emails or addresses. From September to December me and my housmates abused this by getting 4 free(because we had 4 greggs in walking distance of each other in the city centre): sausauge rolls, doughnuts, hot chocolates, and lucozade sports ... EVERY SINGLE DAY. Come December the greggs workers were giving us some real suspicous looks as we came in every day to scan the app.
EDIT: free sausage rolls were from a student promotional code that kept working for 2 months after the expiry date, and the doughnuts were because i was the birthday boy every day ;)
TL DR: Free Greggs on the daily
[deleted] · 209 points · Posted at 22:37:18 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
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GarnersLight · 114 points · Posted at 23:45:42 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's the coke deal at the moment though! You could exploit that I guess.
hicow · 6 points · Posted at 04:59:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Exploiting coke deals is a good way to get hung, headless, from a bridge in Mexico.
ReiNGE · 4 points · Posted at 02:41:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
what is this deal you speak of
Wyattkins193 · 1 points · Posted at 04:21:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah I'd love to know also
samocamo123 · 0 points · Posted at 06:36:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What coke deal?
DJDomTom · 0 points · Posted at 07:17:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What's the deal
GarnersLight · 1 points · Posted at 08:50:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Free bottle of coke if you sign up for something. Stacks up
911ChickenMan · 5 points · Posted at 02:58:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Heads up: the workers don't give a shit. It's not coming out of their paycheck.
Slamduck · 4 points · Posted at 03:18:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cost of sales stresses management who take that out on workers though
Cohn-Jandy · 4 points · Posted at 04:39:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Innit.
I saw some people literally filling up a duffel bag with food at a hotel breakfast buffet and the waiters were RIGHT THERE! Not worth the hassle at that pay grade.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:04:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Honestly though, making an account every time sounds like more hassle than it's worth.
gemaliasthe1st · 2 points · Posted at 05:22:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I shall call you The Ambassador of Steak Bakes
Stumpledumpus · 2 points · Posted at 06:08:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not 1, not 2, not 3, not 5, 4 GREGGS
carl0071 · 452 points · Posted at 01:47:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
About 10 years ago, here in the UK, Lucozade ran a campaign called "Get Your Edge Back". If you created an online account on their website, they emailed you a voucher to receive a free bottle of Lucozade from any number of supermarkets. Each bottle had two barcodes on it. One for the retailer to scan, and a 2D barcode which I assume contained your email address and contact details, which would be scanned once the vouchers were returned to Lucozade. They claimed that if you used the same voucher more than once, they would bill you for any subsequent bottles you claimed for free. I simply edited the 2D code so that it became un-scannable, but to the human eye it looked unchanged. I ended up with so many free bottles of Lucozade that summer that I got sick of looking at them.
rmbarrett · 94 points · Posted at 04:39:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Like, they were going to send you a bill in the mail and expect you to pay it?
DefinitelyNotATaco · 9 points · Posted at 06:52:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"oh yeah, the letter saying I have to pay $800.00? No, never seen it before... Must have gotten lost in the mail"
While the letter is in plain sight.
pingasthrowaway · 18 points · Posted at 05:37:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why the fuck would they name it Lucozade? It sounds like medicine.
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 06:01:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Tastes like it too.
Sebbatt · 5 points · Posted at 06:33:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wait i thought it was medicine
Helmacron · 5 points · Posted at 06:47:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We give it as medicine. Hypoglycaemia. We have a little box in our nurse's station that's for low blood sugar and it's a bottle of lucozade and a cup.
EDIT: nurses call it the hypo box. I think there's a technical name for it but I forget also there's a gross paste in a tube called Glucogen or something like that. I had to get it once but the pt was clearly a code so I just dumped it on the side table and called a code blue, and the bright orange lucozade bottle just sat there looking stupid the entire time like a clown that's turned up to a funeral. I've never actually tried it, tbh. Also the pt died from complications that I forget.
leteegra · 2 points · Posted at 07:17:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Glucozade" kind of originally was
TheXeroes · 7 points · Posted at 04:51:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If I dare, what is Lucozade? I would google it but... Yeah.
Penis-Butt · 25 points · Posted at 05:04:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's a sports drink or energy drink. I Googled it.
TheXeroes · 3 points · Posted at 17:13:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was suspecting that cause it sounded like Gatorade... Thanks
lagerdalek · 1 points · Posted at 21:47:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sweeter and (lightly) fizzier from memory
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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BeautyAndGlamour · 0 points · Posted at 06:05:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
These threads make me feel really stupid because I never understand what you people are talking about. You keep explaining it like we were there when it happened. What is Lucozade? What's a 2D barcode?
My loophole: At work there was a fax machine with two serial outlets, one of which ran to the lunch room and back. By cutting it with a scissor in the plug and putting the call on hold, you could collect all the incoming traffic through the third serial! I got free lunches for like 2 years before I got caught on.
jecowa · 5 points · Posted at 17:22:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Was the lunch room faxing their meals out?
aleco247 · 3102 points · Posted at 21:55:39 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
If any class has homework that involves watching a documentary online and then answering questions about it. You can probably find the script online and then just CTRL+F to search through the script to find your questions.
For one of my college classes, every week we had to watch one or two documentaries that were normally about an hour long. Aint nobody got time for that.
[deleted] · 730 points · Posted at 22:30:23 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
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aleco247 · 729 points · Posted at 22:51:17 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yea, the questions were worded exactly like how they said it in the film. Even if they aren't worded word for word, I'm sure you could still find keywords.
[deleted] · 112 points · Posted at 01:01:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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deathchimp · 15 points · Posted at 03:53:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I learned REGEX in my first networking class. REGEX wasn't one of the topics, I used it to pull answers out of the book.
qrystalballer · 11 points · Posted at 04:57:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Meta class. You learned a useful thing to not learn another thing!
TheGeezerrr · 25 points · Posted at 01:22:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fucking hell I've seen you everywhere tonight.. get a job.
[deleted] · 31 points · Posted at 01:26:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Weirder_weird · 22 points · Posted at 02:21:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So is Arsenal.
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 02:22:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Weirder_weird · 3 points · Posted at 02:56:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
:)
theconfuserx2 · 2 points · Posted at 03:11:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
:D
Matti_Matti_Matti · 2 points · Posted at 04:36:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The trouble is you always try to walk it in.
Everton_11 · 0 points · Posted at 02:14:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Your username, sir, football & formula 1?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:15:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Everton_11 · 2 points · Posted at 03:31:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a Hamilton fan, and an non-Arsenal-hating Everton fan, solid choice.
ecraaa · 4 points · Posted at 05:14:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"I've been on Reddit all night and have noticed you on Reddit all night also, get off Reddit."
Sielle · 3 points · Posted at 04:32:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why can't someone be lazy and successful? Granted I could probably be a lot more successful but I'd have to stop being lazy. :p
adain · 3 points · Posted at 05:48:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Give me a lazy bastard with a good work ethic any day of the week. It's crazy how creative and efficient people can be when they don't want to do work .
[deleted] · -10 points · Posted at 01:09:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Sweet! People will think I'm way more educated than I really am. That'll show em."
aleco247 · 18 points · Posted at 01:37:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Always work smart, not hard.
Konebred · 12 points · Posted at 02:16:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Learning how to efficiently deal with bullshit is a pretty useful skill.
Rude_Information · 10 points · Posted at 02:40:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Being able to effectively locate information is a way more valuable skill than just knowing junk.
Not_floridaman · 3 points · Posted at 05:31:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Correct. You're more apt to remember parts the assignment deems important if you're not filing your brain with the useless filler information in the rest of the documentary
creepy_doll · 5 points · Posted at 06:00:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And this is why I'm generally of the opinion that video is a poor format for writing guides of any form, and that you should not turn everything into "infographics". The ability to search plain text is so damn useful.
Moist_When_It_Counts · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's some lazy-ass "teaching"
aleco247 · 2 points · Posted at 05:33:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Gen-eds are either a hit or miss at least were I am.
CitizenCold · 1 points · Posted at 13:29:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why did they delete it?
shiguywhy · 139 points · Posted at 01:10:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Also works for TEDTalks!
The4Kast · 7 points · Posted at 04:34:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sweet, I have to watch a TEDTalk for a paper
stmasc · 2 points · Posted at 05:16:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd be careful doing this though. The clss that I TA for sometimes has students write summaries based on TED talks for extra credit and we can tell when they don't actually watch the video and are told to take off points for it. Although, I don't really agree with this practice as you're still getting most of the info in the talk...
shiguywhy · 5 points · Posted at 05:23:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How do you tell? Unless it's a trick question somehow, I guess.
My major issue with TEDTalks is that I don't have the patience for them so nine times out of ten I just read the script and skip to the relevant part of the video if there's a visual.
Geekyisland · 2 points · Posted at 05:54:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah TED talks have an interactive transcript so you can watch random parts of the video too and make it seem like you know your shit
[deleted] · 101 points · Posted at 00:26:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I do this for my professional continuing education
ZebraJockey2 · 8 points · Posted at 02:41:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We have to take continuing education and they want you to watch a 2 hour video then take a quiz. Except you can skip past the video and take the quiz as many times as it takes to pass. They use the same questions every time and give you the correct answers if you miss it so just write them down and a 2.5 hour class takes 15 minutes.
GuiltySpark343i · 2 points · Posted at 04:55:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
my political science class had quizzes for the semester, except it was 10 question chosen from a pool of about 15. They also told you which ones were wrong and could take it multiple times through the piece of shit educational service called Blackboard.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 03:18:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So the video that shows you how to do the latest and greatest in your profession you just skipped? Or did you skip some compliance video your company paid you to watch?
Farqueue- · 3 points · Posted at 05:48:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If it's what we used to have it's compliance stuff. Like anti money laundering and how to keep your data secure on your work laptop.
westhoff0407 · 2 points · Posted at 04:55:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ditto. I did an 8 hour CE credit last week in 30 min.
Katanae · 53 points · Posted at 01:20:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The fuck kind of college do you go to?
aleco247 · 38 points · Posted at 01:33:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Have you never had an assignment to watch something before?
[deleted] · 27 points · Posted at 02:49:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes but the test is the application of the information learned in the video, not which word did the narrator use at minute 9.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 03:28:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 20 points · Posted at 03:57:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The point of the question above mine was that the sort of question you just mentioned has no place in college level coursework.
An example would be something like write a few paragraphs contrasting lion hunting techniques with the hunting techniques of cheetahs.
College courses shouldn't be asking you something that you can crtl-f for, literally 8 year olds can do that, or maybe more importantly computers can do that themselves.
Zarokima · 18 points · Posted at 04:31:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You are drastically overestimating certain college courses. I would not be surprised at all to see "what do lions eat?" as a homework question in the biology course for non-science majors. Even major freshman courses can be a total cakewalk if you're halfway competent.
anonymous_subroutine · 4 points · Posted at 05:34:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would be surprised. A more likely question is, "Explain the diet of lions" with a several-sentence paragraph expected for an answer. Caveat: I never took biology.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 06:36:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Have you taken any college courses? Many classes have multiple choice question quizzes that dont involve writing paragraphs.
anonymous_subroutine · 1 points · Posted at 06:39:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dude I graduated a long time ago. And no maybe 1 in 10 classes had a multiple choice test.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:48:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hm, with the advent of a lot of classes having parts of it taken online, I've found a lot of classes have a weekly multiple choice quiz thrown up.
mlacuna96 · 2 points · Posted at 05:14:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah it completely depends on the class because I have had both. Some classes are basic look up the answer and some are more in depth where you have to actually know the subject to answer it.
wayne-scales · 1 points · Posted at 06:28:24 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
anonymous_subroutine · 4 points · Posted at 05:08:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Exactly. "Watching a documentary online and then answering questions about it", at the level you can Ctrl+F for, is called busywork. That's for high school, not college.
But more than a few redditors (and people at large) seem to think that getting the highest possible score with the least possible work is the goal of college. And this is why I hear hiring managers at companies complaining about college graduates seemingly not having learned anything.
mlacuna96 · 1 points · Posted at 05:15:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It just depends, like for me I don't care about doing that for my history, english, basically any generic classes. If it's specific to my major I put in way more effort because it's stuff I actually want to know.
WeTheBold · 2 points · Posted at 03:37:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm guessing it wouldn't work so well if it was for something like math or physics where you would need to learn the concepts and how to do stuff instead of just straight up facts
Britney_Spearzz · 5 points · Posted at 03:52:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No shit
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 03:04:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 03:06:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That made no sense in regards to the above conversation.
Isolatedwoods19 · 3 points · Posted at 03:27:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you live in a glass house don't sink ships
aleco247 · 1 points · Posted at 03:33:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yea lol kind of doesn't make sense.
ThanklessTask · 3 points · Posted at 05:18:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did agriculture. Some of the stuff we had to watch would be classified, but is "educational".
Watching some fit girl wanking off a boar was somewhat disturbing.
goblingonewrong · 4 points · Posted at 04:07:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
in a public high school... not at an institution I'm paying $10000+ to a year
AOEUD · 1 points · Posted at 03:46:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, literally never.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 03:24:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
command+F got me through college and it's getting me through life
sparkalus · 7 points · Posted at 03:27:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Tip: search 'subtitles' if 'script' doesn't turn anything up. Subtitle
.srtfiles are just plain text files you can open in Notepad or whatever. They won't tell you who's speaking, but they'll have a full transcript of the video with timestamps for everything, and subtitles are much more frequently available than scripts/transcripts. There are a bunch of websites dedicated to offering subtitles for shows, movies, news reports, everything.Even if you actually watch the documentary/video/lecture, getting the subtitles can be really helpful -- much easier to skim a text file to remember a detail, and if you keep them all in a folder you can run a text search in six months when you forgot something but know it was in a video you saw. Subtitle files are like 50 KB/hour so it's nothing to save them all, where saving all the videos would get hefty pretty quick.
fricks_and_stones · 6 points · Posted at 04:12:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Homework is "watch TV".
Still cheats.
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 01:05:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thank you so much. I hope you realise how much time you've saved me.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 02:35:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Also, chrome has a playback speed extension for videos. I use this all the time for trying to get through lecture videos. 1.75x is where it's at!
coolguyJustin · 5 points · Posted at 03:36:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't have time to watch all these documentaries! Switches to Netflix...
SilasX · 6 points · Posted at 05:21:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol! The "loophole" is realizing how inefficient video is as a means of communicating information!
A lesson Redditors still need to learn when they keep demanding I wait for a three minute video and ad to load so they can tell me something that takes a sentence.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:02:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Works with a lot of military courses too. Tis a beautiful thing.
rejectedcorpsebaby · 2 points · Posted at 02:57:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
dude so gonna use this highschool is gonna be way easier thanks dude
camlop · 2 points · Posted at 03:18:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I do this, too. I am not spending more than an hour a week on one class.
FireLucid · 2 points · Posted at 04:01:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fucking compliance shit at work. Do the same thing. Info on on page, second screen has the quiz. Ctrl+F when I get stuck.
GingerCookie · 2 points · Posted at 04:20:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This works for a lot of homework assignments- colleges often use the same text and and post the answers. So if you just google part of your accounting problem you can often find use answers online.
damboy99 · 2 points · Posted at 04:22:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How the fuck did I not think of this? My circle of friends hated history classes, and watching the same damn holocaust documentaries that we watched every damn year... shit I should have thought of that.
buttaholic · 2 points · Posted at 04:35:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Watching a documentary would be like the one assignment I'd enjoy doing. It's like a break from real assignments!
aleco247 · 2 points · Posted at 04:40:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I watched one and it was actually pretty good. But a lot were boring and I am already doing hours of homework for other classes anyway.
BombedLemon46 · 2 points · Posted at 04:48:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did the exact same thing. But with books instead.
GuiltySpark343i · 2 points · Posted at 04:52:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
you have no idea how many assignments for a computer science major can be found online. Sometimes it's word for word to.
wallawallaby · 2 points · Posted at 04:55:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How I survived almost all of my non-major classes.
SirDuckingtonI · 2 points · Posted at 04:58:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
CTRL + F is the best thing for pdf or online assignments. Also search terms
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:36:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd only watch them if they were in 1080p or 4k.
Snow_Wonder · 2 points · Posted at 05:45:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did that for a paper this week. Documentaries have shit tons of info. Ctrl+f to the relevant info.
djchozen91 · 2 points · Posted at 05:55:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is it actually that easy to find scripts for documentaries online?
aleco247 · 1 points · Posted at 06:17:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can find scripts for almost anything online. Some are harder than others however.
Dolphin_sandwhich · 2 points · Posted at 05:56:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did the exact same thing except it was using a YouTube subs download tool. Had to watch like 30 videos on engineering safety, ain't nobody wanna watch how India got it wrong 100 times.
Dahvood · 2 points · Posted at 06:07:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We did something similar for a Japanese class.
The teacher would post a song online (without title/artist) and we were meant to transcribe the lyrics. We would google the first line, and then copy paste the rest of the song. Saved us a lot of time.
mada447 · 2 points · Posted at 06:08:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm doing something similar in one of my classes. We have 5 question quizzes online each week so I google every question and they are show up on Quizlet or something word for word.
thegreatsynan · 2 points · Posted at 06:28:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I just download the videos then play it at double speed in vlc. Musicals are amazing this way.
Heineken008 · 2 points · Posted at 17:55:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My university uses a third party service for course management, accessing grades etc. They used to use it for online quizzes, until some of us figured out if you looked in the html/css you could see the correct answers to all the questions.
lizard_overlady · 3 points · Posted at 01:24:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lmao I never actually thought of this as a loophole or cheating. Whoops. I still used it all the time in high school, though. Saved hours.
LT_Rager · 1 points · Posted at 04:08:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dang that's lame. Would've LOVED to have a class that encouraged real-life learning and creativity. You blew it!
aleco247 · 1 points · Posted at 04:09:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was a sociology class on a Friday, so no one liked it.
26_Charlie · 1 points · Posted at 04:29:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ah, yes. Undercutting your education is the best and most victimless crimes.
slake_thirst · 1 points · Posted at 04:40:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's 3 hours of work, tops. Every college kid has time for that. Don't get me wrong, that's a great loophole and I would've used it too, but that's a lame justification.
aleco247 · 3 points · Posted at 04:42:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This class was a gen-ed. I prioritized the classes in my specific program more than most gen-eds. Plus that class had not only the documentaries every week, but at least 2 reports and and a reading portion.
Adornolicious · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
so the loophole allows you to get away with paying them for not studying? good one
aleco247 · 1 points · Posted at 06:15:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well I had to take this gen-ed in order to graduate from my program. I really didn't like that class and most students didn't like it either. Plus the documentaries were on stupid shit that I have no need for in the real world or my job.
Why should I know about the stages of cognitive development in the early years of a child when I'm majoring in graphic design?
white_trash_hero · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got bronchitis.
_Pornosonic_ · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did 6 years in college. Never watched a single documentary. What did u major in?
aleco247 · 1 points · Posted at 06:12:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Major is graphic design, but this class was sociology, just a regular gen-ed that no one liked.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:09:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Buddy what class you gotta take where they let you watch movies?
aleco247 · 1 points · Posted at 06:11:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's a sociology class. They weren't movies, but documentaries, mostly pretty boring.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:19:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How do you find the script?
aleco247 · 2 points · Posted at 17:05:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can just simply Google search the name of the film and put script after it. It's normally one of the first couple suggestions.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:46:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thank you.
GOATPROPHET22 · 1 points · Posted at 03:52:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not a documentary but for my AP science class (12th grade) we have our regular tests every once in a while. Well I took a test one day and I remembered a question on it. I looked up the question because I wanted to see if I got it right. Turns out the whole test was online and I still study off that. If I ever get caught I can make a case that I technically am using it to study for the test. In fact the website says test "preparation" not answers. Also I don't just memorize the answers. I genuinely take the test prep first (I actually do well) and then I memorize the answers. Plus there are some questions on the test that aren't on their because only multiple choice questions are on the test prep. I get those questions correct as well. I'd say I get around 102% on all my tests as an average (tests are worth 65% of my grade). Even if I didn't use it I'd still get around a 95% so it's not like I'm too dependent on it. I do it for one reason. So that I don't have to do all the HW I get in the class (HW is worth 15%) and can enjoy my free time since I have all AP classes and I play sports.
TheSturdyBisexual · 1 points · Posted at 04:13:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In a similar vein, I had a history class in college that taught the Civil War based on the novel "Killer Angels." Somehow, I made the connection that "Killer Angels" was the source material for the movie "Gettysburg". So I just watched the movie. Got an A in the class, but never ended up graduating.
defroach84 · 0 points · Posted at 04:36:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What's the point of paying for college if you try to avoid learning anything?
aleco247 · 3 points · Posted at 04:39:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Shitty gen-eds that no one likes. In this case, it was a sociology class. Please tell me how that would benefit a graphic designer.
defroach84 · 1 points · Posted at 04:46:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I went through and have an engineering degree. For those those classes I was forced to take, I found ones that were of interest to me. Crap like history of Iran. Pointless, but I found it an interesting subject.
Stealth528 · 2 points · Posted at 05:36:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Gets me a degree which gets me sweet $$$$$. I didn't attend college to learn bullshit in gen eds.
[deleted] · 1404 points · Posted at 22:22:55 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
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skydivingdutch · 526 points · Posted at 00:45:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can do the same thing with Autozone car battery warranties. Get the $10 more expensive battery, comes with a 3 year instead of 2 year warranty. In Arizona, batteries last about 2 years due to the heat, and because this is just some blanket warranty system that Autozone has for the whole country, they don't bother making an Arizona exception.
[deleted] · 26 points · Posted at 02:34:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I find this strange, 2 years ago I bought a truck from Arizona and shipped it to Illinois. The battery was bought in 2012 and It was in Arizona for 2yrs with extreme heat, and it's gone through 2 years of Illinois winters, It still starts my truck no problem.
Philip_De_Bowl · 35 points · Posted at 03:11:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Truck batteries are often oversized cause they know people like adding a winch or a million lights. They'll still crank the engine years after they no longer meet their rated CCA numbers.
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 03:33:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Good to know. I don't have a million lights or anything on my truck so maybe it'll last me even longer.
Philip_De_Bowl · 1 points · Posted at 13:34:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Quality batteries also have about a five year life. I pushed mine about 8 years, cause of mild weather and an oversize battery.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:41:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Its not even a name brand battery, I believe it is a store brand.
Philip_De_Bowl · 1 points · Posted at 01:47:27 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's the warranty on the battery. The longer the warranty, the longer the battery lasts (funny how that works).
Only a few companies make batteries. A lot of companies just slap their sticker on a battery. I buy from Costco and don't worry about it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:54:50 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've bought batterys from Sams club in the past, they are just as good as name brand
Philip_De_Bowl · 1 points · Posted at 01:59:02 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's another good source. The membership stores usually only carry top tier batteries. One year batteries are absolutely garbage.
skydivingdutch · 7 points · Posted at 02:46:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a optima redtop that seemed immune, but plenty of others that croaked.
Nalortebi · 1 points · Posted at 02:41:27 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's a shame about those optimas nowadays. Many people won't know how good they used to be now that they're MiM and cost even more.
skydivingdutch · 1 points · Posted at 03:00:47 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, another nice product that was ruined by greed.
seaishriver · 7 points · Posted at 05:00:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Obviously the cold balances out the heat
burnzkid · 7 points · Posted at 04:39:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can do the same thing with brakes. All Duralast (AutoZone brand) brake pads have a lifetime warranty, no questions asked. When you wear out a set of pads, bring it to any AutoZone, give them the number you registered the warranty with, and you'll be able to get a new set of pads, no questions asked.
DrRazmataz · 23 points · Posted at 02:53:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
With a lot of things, actually! You just reminded me of my loophole!
I have an old truck. A 1986 Ford F-150. I don't use it much, my motorcycles are my main transportation. But anyway, sometime in the truck's past life, it was rear ended (probably a few times). From what I can tell, it looks like it kind of messed up how the transmission is seated. This is a theory, as it could be any number of reasons, but basically the Flywheel is misalligned. So it chews up my starters! The grind, since they're at an angle, and the starters basically get the grated cheese treatment Everytime I start it.
So... I, two years ago, bought the AutoZone remanufactured starter with the lifetime warranty! So, every time the starter gives out, I take it off and replace it with a new, free one! Did it two weeks ago!
adderalpowered · 17 points · Posted at 04:37:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dude, have you tried to shim the starter? That's usually how you fix that forever.
DrRazmataz · 6 points · Posted at 04:48:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Shim the starter? I'm not familiar with that, actually.
Honestly, it's a second vehicle, barely used. I plan to sell it in a few months in pursuit of a hot hatch. I don't do any maintenance that I don't have to.
adderalpowered · 6 points · Posted at 04:59:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you have to change the starter again you can adjust it by putting spacers (shims) between the starter and what it bolts to. This is Chevy, but there are others. https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwibzOT6vq_SAhUPiX4KHRH4DyIYABAJGgJwYw&ohost=www.google.com&cid=CAESIuD21p821HrSsmIqAlCuOgjNwRhhlE-AgwzOKfPc3h82oR8&sig=AOD64_3PMM347RXR4ln4ljyC9j8bu4ULfQ&ctype=5&q=&ved=0ahUKEwiFjN_6vq_SAhWijFQKHci1CKAQwg8IJQ&adurl=
DrRazmataz · 0 points · Posted at 13:11:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well, that's interesting. I suppose I could. Would definitely grant me piece of mind, that's for sure. I feel like every truck I've owned, I've swapped the starter at least once! (Ford, Chevy, Ford)
him999 · 3 points · Posted at 05:58:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had an EGR that would explode on my Mazda Tribute because of filled cats. They were $30 a piece. I went through about 20 of them before the transmission died in it. Then ford gave me $2000 as a trade-in to get me my new car. I'm sure it's sitting in a junkyard at this point :( poor thing. It was a great car until it decided it was done with that life.
DrRazmataz · 2 points · Posted at 13:13:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ahhh, silly Ford. They always have the weirdest little inconvenient problems. Otherwise reliable, though, but with any vehicle it's the engine that counts. What engine did you have in your Tribute - the I4 or the 3L V6?
him999 · 1 points · Posted at 14:00:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
3.0L V6. Was a nice engine besides the shitty EGR. It was a 2003. I've saved a lot of people a lot of money in garage repairs. My buddy works at Autozone and the garages are always dumbfounded when a vehicle comes in with an EGR torn to shreads. When i figured it out my buddy started telling the garages. Sure enough each vehicle had a leaking rear mainseal and full cats. None of them could figure out how he knew and respect the heck out of him now for it! Haha!
I own a 2006 Mazda Tribute (only fwd though :( i had 4x4 on my 2003) that i got for free (2003 was also free! I keep geting free tributes! Cant get enough of it!!!!) This one ran BEAUTIFULLY until my mother coasted into a telephone pole. Will be about $1000 in parts to fix the rad, trans cooler, all 3 rad supports, engine mount support, ac parts that broke and the rad fans. Thankfully the transmission on this one works wonderful and they redesigned the whole EGR system on it.
Edit, the 2006 also has the V6. Both have great power for what they are imo... though i wish it had a 6 speed.
DrRazmataz · 2 points · Posted at 14:21:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Damn, that's crazy! I'm kinda jealous. I tried to get a close friend of mine to buy a 2003 Tribute the other day, but it was sadly sold before we could attain the money we needed. It was perfect. And, of course, with the good 3L Duratec and AWD. Sadly, we had to settle for a Subaru - crossing fingers it's good to her
him999 · 2 points · Posted at 15:17:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Early 2000's subarus are pretty great from what i know. I had a friend who had a manual legacy iirc, maybe 1999 or something close. Anyway, 300k miles the only thing to go was i think a water pump. Had the original clutch at 310k miles. They had it changed as preventative. Not usual but it still blowssssss my mind. It's a shame she couldnt get it. If i woulda fix it when it started having issues i coulda sold it for 2k in profit. When i traded it in it has 112k miles and was worth about $1000 with a good transmission. At that point it would have needed a whole new transmission. (i got it at 60k miles, at 86k miles the transmission started going. Woulda cost $700 for a rebuild kit wouldnt have been my first trans rebuild i did myself. The other one i did is still alive and well)
Edit: i now have a 2014 Ford Focus SE hatchback. I thought about buying a Focus RS but decided not to for some reason. Has the 201a package i think with the performance, lowered front for some reason, leather interior. Bought it for 14k when it was worth about 18k. Had 28k miles on it when i got it. Clutch started to slip a little at 34k miles (was shifting with too high of a discrepancy in RPMs or something odd). Got it replaced and havent had a problem with it since beside one of the windshield side trim pieces breaking which was also fixed under warranty.
DrRazmataz · 2 points · Posted at 15:39:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's what I'm hoping :/ I appreciate the encouraging words. I'm worried about the Head Gasket and Timing Belt, mostly, haha.
Dannnngg, well there you go. I'm trying to get a Focus ST myself. Love those cars!You seem to have a gotten a nice one. Love the little Focus's.
him999 · 2 points · Posted at 15:46:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I shoulda gotten an ST. I like performance and upgrading of stock parts. Focus's dont have an aftermarket for their non performance cars really. Best you can do is squeeze i think 60- 75hp out with a K&H typhoon CAI and a 2.5in exhaust change ($700 in parts). You could squeeze more out with a set of headers but they arent manufactured for the engine so it is rough getting them to line up. There is definitely enough room for a turbo but at that point might as well have bought the ST (though the automanual trans is nice on the standard mk3 focus line it is a dry CVT iirc).
DrRazmataz · 2 points · Posted at 15:48:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That generation focus actually has a flawed CVT transmission, I'd be wary. They're known to prematurely fail! With no fix as far as I know.
It's good to know there is such aftermarket available for the regular Focai, haha. But hey, yeah, might as well get the ST. But oh well, they're still being made, there is always time.
him999 · 2 points · Posted at 16:01:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
From what i can gather half the time it is the PCM (which now has a 150k mile warranty or something like that) the other half there isnt too much wrong with it. People dont drive them properly. To drive them like a normal auto is gonna ruin it. You have to drive it kinda like you would a manual transmission if you know what i mean. I hate the thing in stop and go traffic. They literally tell you to not stop and go. You want to leave enough room to engage your clutch every time you move forward otherwise you are just killing it slowly. It's a bad design. Theoretically i'll trade it in at some point for a used RS or ST but that'll be maybe 4 years or so.
DrRazmataz · 2 points · Posted at 16:12:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's an interesting point. But yet, Honda's CVT's have had no subsequent issues.
The problem is, even if you're correct, the hardest thing to do is educate consumers. It's difficult to get them to do anything out of the ordinary. That's why a lot of vehicles have to be designed around human stupidity, unfortunately. Because people don't care.
him999 · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It isnt the CVT part that fails iirc, more the other parts. Still poor design. You hit the nail on the head though. You cant completely change something to work exactly like a manual without a clutch pedal and expect people to understand, especially when they never have driven manual. It provides an increase in fuel economy but really, at what cost? I so far like and hope and pray i dont get a lemon transmission but only time will tell! So far, as i said, only the clutch wore and it was ever so slightly. Most wouldnt notice it but it was in that dang stop and go traffic i could feel the shuttering people complain about.
Also, iirc it is CVT and Dual clutch (the clutches being dry) making shifts butter smooth past first into second. That one is very rough for me.
rustinthewind · 10 points · Posted at 03:56:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Autozone offers some outstanding warranties. I exclusively go there for breakpads because they have a lifetime warranty. You splurge one time for top of the line pads. They wont even check to make sure they're the same brand pads, so if you need any additional break work done you can use the replacements to get new pads as well as the actual pads the warranty is for. I have an additional free set of pads always on hand.
carmium · 2 points · Posted at 05:57:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Brakes, man, brakes!! 8-D
BeelzebubsBoyToy · 3 points · Posted at 04:33:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Got something going on like that with the warranty on my brake pads. You bring in the cores and they give you brand new pads. Have a pair of used cores tucked in with my spare, free brakes for life. 👍
sheaness · 4 points · Posted at 05:19:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I live in AZ and I know a guy who hasn't bought a battery for his truck in 10 years because of this.
shrekerecker97 · 2 points · Posted at 05:08:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Live in Arizona - I do this all the time. I've bought 2 batteries in 12 years.
Endersgame88 · 2 points · Posted at 05:22:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nope, When we warranty the battery it remains the warranty period from the original date of purchase.
Captain_Cunder_Thunt · 2 points · Posted at 06:25:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I work at O'Reilly, not Autozone, but we do the same thing. If it's a 2nd replacement in the warranty period (that goes from the original purchase date) it gets prorated as well. I don't know what Autozone these people are going to.
ponderthisbitch2 · 2 points · Posted at 05:57:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I just changed my car battery for the first time last month, 10 hot summers and 130,000 miles later. The guy at the store couldn't believe it.
stickler_Meseeks · 2 points · Posted at 04:44:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Duralast Gold (their premium house brand) has the extended warranties. My dad, uncle and I haven't paid for brake pads in quite a while, only at the outset of getting a new car. See the warranty covers the brake pads being worn. So you can replace your worn brake pads under warranty for free.
WeAreIrelephant · 3 points · Posted at 03:33:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Arizona Exception is a great name for a band
somedude456 · 1 points · Posted at 05:58:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm a car guy with project cars. They often sit. I buy the 5 year warranty as I always kill the batteries. Thanks AutoZone!
baryonyxer · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can do this at Microcenter with graphics cards
9999monkeys · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I know a guy in Arizona had to start his motor home using some kind of chemical getup that generated electricity. This was out in the desert too.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:28:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're my new hero <3
GRZMNKY · 0 points · Posted at 06:02:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I bought a Optima battery through Autozone and it came with a 3 year warranty. I had a friend that needed to warranty out a cheaper battery, so I took it in for him. They looked up my info and warrantied out their cheap battery for another Optima $250 battery.
I tried to explain to the guy what he was doing... And he said that since I had an optima on my account, he had to swap it out for one. I decided to try again the next day with another cheap dead battery. The manager at the same store swapped it out for another optima.
We tried at a few other stores and they turned us down. In the end, I had 3 spare batteries and ended up selling 2 on CL for $200 each
[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 01:16:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
dicks had this for a year and it was a as long as you brought it back with in the yea you were good and then it reset the year so I went through 4 pairs of shoes that year (am a runner) and then they realized how dumb this was
Downvoterofall · 3 points · Posted at 04:48:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I worked there during that time. I felt so stupid offering warranties on shoes. I don't understand why corporate thought was a good idea
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:21:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm really bad about replacing my footwear. Really wish I had known about this.
Gmcrzynrd · 39 points · Posted at 22:55:29 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
There is one in my town. I will have to look into that. Thank you.
Sandwich____ · 78 points · Posted at 01:40:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
lol sports authority went out of business last summer
Gmcrzynrd · 23 points · Posted at 02:10:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not here in North Dakota
airyn1 · 3 points · Posted at 15:11:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
North Dakota is always at least 20 years behind everywhere else. I go to my hometown and it still feels like the late 90's.
jacktheBOSS · 22 points · Posted at 02:59:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Filed bankruptcy. They're still in business.
dirtyshits · 3 points · Posted at 04:11:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They just closed a bunch of stores.
Flavius_Odovacer · 2 points · Posted at 04:54:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
NAPA has a similar warranty, but it's a five year, and I usually get 3-4 years out of their batteries in AZ. I highly recommend going with NAPA.
J0h9 · 5 points · Posted at 23:43:14 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
sorry bud
PeopleCallMeDave · 3 points · Posted at 03:14:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That article says that only a third of them are closing which is still pretty bad, but maybe the one near him stayed open.
meat_tunnel · 9 points · Posted at 03:42:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My husband does this at Best buy with headphones. Initially spent $100 and around month 10 or 11 he takes them in saying they broke, picks a brand new pair out, pays ~$10 for the new warranty and goes on his way.
tamatsu · 1 points · Posted at 04:50:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My salesman told me about this when I got my router from them
candygirl5134 · 5 points · Posted at 04:06:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My boyfriend bought a replacement warranty thru Best Buy on a set of bluetooth headphones, that he wears at work and they end up not working every 5-6 months. His $20 warranty has gotten him 4 new, free pairs so far.
getsome13 · 6 points · Posted at 05:47:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can do the same thing at cabelas. Any cabelas brand product carries a lifetime satisfaction guarantee. So at anytime you can bring back a cabelas brand item and get it refunded or replaced.
I have heard of guys who do it on a yearly basis and get new hunting gear each year.
BearcatInTheBurbs · 1 points · Posted at 06:22:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bass Pro as well. My buddy has gotten so many $20 fishing poles b/c you just have to purchase a new warranty each time. They don't ask for the old pole.
jacquarrius · 3 points · Posted at 04:52:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
RadioShack's warranty got me a new pair of headphones every year for about five years. They had the same fate as Sports Authority...
andyman171 · 3 points · Posted at 04:58:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I worked at dicks they did that with backpacks.
cunninglinguist32557 · 3 points · Posted at 05:05:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Real life infinite shoe glitch
tweedchemtrailblazer · 3 points · Posted at 05:11:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I bought some $600 ski boots there that were marked down to like $200. They broke right away and I took them in and they gave me $600 in store credit.
thermal_shock · 3 points · Posted at 05:31:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can do this at best buy. Get the accidental warranty on your laptop, break it after you back it up, the model will have been replaced by this time, you get to pick the new one. Get warranty on new one for same $99
pineapple13v2 · 3 points · Posted at 05:35:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can also do stuff like that at REI. I had a friend who got his tent replaced with a new one 10 years later.
Woodshadow · 3 points · Posted at 05:42:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Costco is still in business. Granted they changed their policy to prevent people returning their TVs every year. I still have friends who buy the giant floats for the summer and they cut them with a knife and return them at the end of the summer. I told them they don't need to destroy the products to return then but they want to be on the safe side. They could keep the floats until next year but they don't have anywhere to store them
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 23:57:36 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
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ishk · 7 points · Posted at 05:17:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep, I appreciate rock solid warranties from certain companies that are willing to stand by their products but it grinds my gears when people just systematically abuse it to get a free lifetime supply.
natetan · 6 points · Posted at 04:33:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're being down voted but you're absolutely right.
megamanv3 · 2 points · Posted at 06:50:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Staples employee here, I 100% support every single consumer buying any accidental + incidental damage coverage plan on anything they can ONLY IF they can intentionally break it (or "engineer its incidental destruction" if you're pedantic) to get their money back. The intent of a warranty is not to "protect your product against damage" for the company; on our part, we want your product to live, and we want to pocket the proceeds for every single plan, and then we want your printer to break at three years, one day exactly so we can sell you this seasons models.
If you want to be an empowered consumer, you need to fight the company, never defend it, because it's not a person; it's a corporation that specifically wants profit margins. Don't worry about the company; they're making enough off of the other sucker, and if they're not (like SA here) then they'll go under and BAM! They don't get your money, just like this ploy is meant to guarantee.
Granted, if you want to make this easier, just make it so you never pay for anything; individual retail locations for greater than or equal to 20 (30? 40? All of the?) major retail supply chains dispose of mass quantities of non-perishable items such as sneakers, sticky notes, and scotch tape, so you could just get the shit they're throwing out for free.
But eh, if you want, don't do it and let big everything take your money. That's their job, and it seems to be the expectation of many.
Fuckyeah7734 · 2 points · Posted at 04:05:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They offered this with pellet guns too, and never took back the old one. I had five generations of gamo big cat air guns that I rarely used and eventually sold for $100 a piece last year, along with various other bb and pellet guns when I was a kid and made a good bit of money from it.
RyMarquez5 · 2 points · Posted at 04:45:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did that with my baseball bags
RahvinDragand · 2 points · Posted at 05:36:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you have to buy the warranty on the "free shoes"? Because if so, you're just paying $30 for shoes every year.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Exactly, it was $30 for the pair of shoes each year. I had (well still have) foot problems so I needed the really good shoes for the support. It wasn't totally free each time, but saved me $60-$70 each year which is still pretty good.
random_nightmare · 2 points · Posted at 05:38:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Zappos also has a 1 year return policy on shoes.
JTtornado · 2 points · Posted at 05:39:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Harbor Freight Tools (a discount tool store) does the same thing with their warranties (dunno if they've changed it since.) Their tools never last very long, but with the warranty, you can just get an endless supply of the tool. I knew of a mechanic who never had to buy a new impact wrench again.
Naznarreb · 2 points · Posted at 05:49:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We did the same thing with Best Buy and printers. Got a printer, paid like $10 for the warranty. About a year later it crapped out on us, go to exchange it, but they don't sell that model anymore, so we get the newer model gratis. Paid the $10 warranty on that, and it crapped out after a couple years too. Repeated that cycle I think three times before they stopped letting you buy the extended warranty on a warranty exchange.
pecky5 · 2 points · Posted at 05:51:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's standard warranty law in Australia. I used to buy 3 sets of dirt cheap headphones and just bet that they would break within a year, endless free headphones. Ended up discontinuing them and I just got refunds for all 3 headphones. Good times.
justcurious12345 · 2 points · Posted at 05:54:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I do that with laptops at best buy.
deltarefund · 2 points · Posted at 06:03:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Are there any sporting goods stores open any more??
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dicks is still open, they're pretty good
nomnomnompizza · 2 points · Posted at 06:07:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you continuously get the newest model of shoe?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:25:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes
Bravely_Default · 4 points · Posted at 03:32:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine did this with an external hard drive at Staples; kicker is that he called the number and said it broke and they just said 'okay we'll send you a new one.' No questions asked, and he didn't have to send the old one in, so 2 external hard drives for the price of one plus a warranty.
SashaTheFireGypsy · 2 points · Posted at 04:16:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
LL Bean does this and it doesn't cost extra.
chicagowheres · -3 points · Posted at 00:55:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 05:39:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
New kicks for every Yeezy Season. Nice.
TylerMcFluffBut · 1831 points · Posted at 23:57:59 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
Our teacher gave us a timed take home test online and said we could use the internet because if we did we'd probably run out of time anyway, so I looked up the first question and lo and behold the entire test in the same exact order on Quizlet.
I almost cried.
PM_ME_LEGAL_PAPERS · 488 points · Posted at 02:59:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yup. Quizlet has saved me from many, many stressful nights.
LunarProphet · 40 points · Posted at 04:39:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Real talk. It also shows me how fucking lazy my professors are.
[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 05:41:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Most of them know and most of them don't give a shit. I went to a large Midwest university and my roomate was a TA for multiple professors. He said it's appalling how lazy they are.
TheFightingMasons · 5 points · Posted at 06:11:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Exactly.
If you found answers on Quizlet it's only because your professor literally copied another test word for word.
VROF · 16 points · Posted at 03:59:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do you make your own Quizlets and share them?
luispg34 · 45 points · Posted at 04:03:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hahaha make your own, no you mooch off of past students who made the quizlet cards
no-running · 7 points · Posted at 06:56:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Those people are the real MVPs, those who took the time to create the Quizlet cards for countless future students to use.
Crypton365 · 8 points · Posted at 04:50:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had to do a good amount of credit recovery because I blew off most of my homework and a lot of the online tests were on quizlet. A savior, that site.
focusyou · 791 points · Posted at 00:39:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
regardless if the internet was allowed or not, you should look it up anyways.
vonmonologue · 19 points · Posted at 05:31:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Seriously. Since when is a take home test anything other than open book?
Slacker5001 · 14 points · Posted at 05:17:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No you shouldn't. The reason why I say this is because that's how you get easy timed take home tests banned for everyone. I had a huge lecture class of like 100 people, don't remember what subject anymore. The first major test was a timed one online. Internet use was allowed, working with others was not.
A bunch of people decided that they were gonna "use their resources" and work together as a group. One person submitted the test, looked at what questions they got wrong, and told the group who proceeded to then get 100%.
The massive amount of 100%'s tipped of the professors, they caught wind of what happened, and now everyone has to come in outside of class time in the evening to take the test in person.
Moral of the story, don't cheat when you get a nice easy take home test or you'll be the asshole who ruins it for everyone.
TheFightingMasons · 24 points · Posted at 06:08:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Moral of the story is that if your gonna cheat you don't shoot for the 100.
Helios093 · 6 points · Posted at 06:38:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Right! You have to make it believable.
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TheFightingMasons · 7 points · Posted at 06:10:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The way I see it. If the teacher copied and pasted the test from another teach literally word for word so that I can find it on a Quizlet. Why shouldn't I be expected to put in the same amount of effort.
REDDITATO_ · 2 points · Posted at 08:00:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because you need to actually now that information to pass. The teacher doesn't need to create original tests to keep their job.
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qroshan · 29 points · Posted at 05:01:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Isn't the entire thread full of that. Cheating Papa Johns of revenue (affecting someone's livelihood), Cheating Train Fares (job cuts again).
In fact, of all the cheating that has happened in this thread, test cheating is the most benign as you are only hurting yourself
fco83 · 7 points · Posted at 05:29:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not necessarily, especially if things are curved. I mean, i remember tests where the teacher took the top score, made it 100, and raised everyone else moved up the same amount. So what happens if the top 'legit' score is 85, but someone else gets 100 thanks to cheating? The person who would have gotten 100 now gets 85.
LastStar007 · 3 points · Posted at 05:44:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Someone's going to do it. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 06:08:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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qroshan · 1 points · Posted at 14:26:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, Papa Johns weren't being incompetent. They just expected their customers to have at least a little bit of integrity.
If I steal item from Walmart and not get caught? Do you blame Walmart for being incompetent?
If I don't pay the 25c for my coffee at work, Do you blame my Co-workers for being incompetent (After all according to your logic, It is their fucking fault to not install a security camera and a key mechanism to not distribute coffee if you don't pay 25c)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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qroshan · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I agree with your framework, except mine is more simple.
If your action hurts someone in any way, then it is cheating.
I'm not OK with stealing with Papa Johns (because it is almost always owned by a small business owner).
Hacking a large monopolist phone carrier to making long distance calls because of their exorbitant monopolistic pricing.
If you are poor and cheating public transportation to go to your destination
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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qroshan · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes, you can down this rabbit hole forever exploring all the gradients of cheating.
It goes back to the same sliding scale. Is stealing 1p ok? How about 2p? How about 10p? all the way to infinity.
A walmart customer is a walmart customer. He is never going to buy from mom and pop.
However, a Papa Johns customer most likely likes Papa Johns Pizza and he cheated them out of probably $500+ of (guaranteed) revenue. (Not the 2 or 3% gross margin in your mom and pop example), but actual $500 revenue.
That's a huge sum for a small business
GuiltySpark343i · 7 points · Posted at 05:13:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
well to be fair, when you have 4-5 assignments all due on the same day with 2 tests also on the same day. You do what you got to do sometimes.
PrinceOfSomalia · 1 points · Posted at 07:38:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well if it's for an elective what does it matter. Everyone knows you take an elective because it's interesting and a GPA booster. Unethical? Sure but you won't get me to take an assignment for an elective seriously when I have an essay for my major due next day.
Sqrlchez · 11 points · Posted at 04:52:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nope, cheating is recommended.
Throwaway9162359 · 0 points · Posted at 06:04:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Look, there is no way a professor gave someone a take-home test that they didn't expect people to look up answers for.
There's a reason some classes have proctored exams. Those are important things, with high levels of cheating, so they have proctored exams even for the online class.
My chemistry class has proctored exams. Most math classes.
However, I paid a nice chunk of change to take one single class at the only school I know of that has non-proctored statistics. I currently have an A in the class.
Do I feel bad? Nope. Want to know why? Because it's completely fucking irrelevant to my program, and I'm not having my future put on hold by some stupid state requirements that aren't even applicable. For my classes that I actually need, I'll study. I won't cheat. But fuck statistics. I killed myself to scrape through intermediate algebra with a C. I'm not losing my future career over one class.
I'm also pretty sure this school charges so much because it doesn't have proctored exams. It's a tradeoff.
Yep, throwaway, because of judgemental people like you.
[deleted] · 25 points · Posted at 03:25:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I took an online art history course where if you saved the pictures used in the test, the answer would be in the name of the file
wolferoo · 23 points · Posted at 04:07:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The art history class I took in college was too easy to need to cheat. It was multiple choice questions like
"Who painted the Mona Lisa?"
IndigoMoss · 14 points · Posted at 04:53:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's crazy.
The art history class I took in college gave us 15 random "pieces" out of a possible 35-40 that we went over in class. These pieces were displayed an an overhead projector one at a time and you had to know the name of the piece, era, date, and write 2 paragraphs about the piece's meaning, importance, etc. You had 3 minutes to do each one before the next slide would come up. There was no going back to a previous slide, but you could omit 3 pieces.
I actually enjoyed the art up until everything started to be basically, "Here's another picture of Jesus.", but it was a required course for my STEM program and it was despised by most of my classmates.
wolferoo · 6 points · Posted at 05:03:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
STEM major here too. I looked up the different art history teachers and picked the one whose reviews said the course was easy so those just doing it for the credit wouldn't have to attend class, and the lecture was devoted to those who were interested in learning about art. Win-win. I attended 3 days - first day, midterm, final.
Several of my hardest classes were the "core credits" I think they called them. The stuff outside of engineering/math/science. I liked my Brit Lit class though. You could pass the tests on the cliff notes, and the lecture was about all the sex jokes in Canterbury Tales or Shakespeare.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:46:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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wolferoo · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have a feeling you didn't do well in school
baciodolce · 1 points · Posted at 06:07:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
OMG same. I remember that for my Contemporary Art history class. Thank God the mid-term and final were take home or I definitely wouldn't have passed.
Bandeezy · 5 points · Posted at 03:42:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My friend and I were in the same science course in high school. It was just an absurd amount of busy work. My friend's mom happened to be a teacher at a different school. We registered her online as a teacher of this course and a few weeks later got the teacher's manual which had every answer to every question.
damboy99 · 7 points · Posted at 04:36:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Even if they said no, why the fuck would you not use the internet?
noirgoddess · 18 points · Posted at 02:42:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And that's how I passed medical terminology!
Pyro9966 · 7 points · Posted at 03:45:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did this for my sociology course in college. Never ended up buying the book for that class.
Thank you Quizlet!
PuddinTater69 · 4 points · Posted at 03:57:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bless those people
dawrina · 5 points · Posted at 04:35:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I took a networking course in college and all of the exams were online. The final exam was also online. Unfortunately, the final exam was an in-class exam so instead of using ctrl+F for the answers, I had to memorize over 150 questions and answers to take the final (The final was 50 questions out of a pool of about 150 potential questions)
It paid off though because I took the 2 hour final in 15 minutes and got an 87. I did this two years in a row (Networking 1&2)
For some reason no one else in my class knew about this and I guess had to read through all of the course material my professor never taught during class...
treeclimbingfish · 5 points · Posted at 04:36:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Teacher here...love Quizlet as a former student. hate Quizlet as it encourages thinking memorizing facts is thinking. Love Quizlet as it makes me teach thinking rather than memorizing facts. Students.. use Quizlet until it pushes your profs to actually teach you.
judge2020 · 3 points · Posted at 04:46:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Online school K12 reuses the same assignments every year. I found a folder on Quizlet which contained every single assignment for 3 of my classes for the whole semester.
If you're out there kid who organized these, thank you. Thank you so much.
Ricelyfe · 2 points · Posted at 03:51:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I always found my bio and ap bio worksheets on quizlet by googling 1 or 2 questions
bull961 · 2 points · Posted at 04:26:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A couple of my classes did this exact thing and they're college professors. They should know better, but at least I got great marks in those classes.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:41:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've been using Quizlet on my online college courses all year. Shit, I did it twice today.
iLikeQuotes · 2 points · Posted at 04:42:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've done something similar with a Kahoot at school. I did a quick search and managed to find the quiz ending with me getting every question right the moment I could answer.
OnlyMath · 2 points · Posted at 04:45:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The teacher knew he/she just didn't give a shit lol
wallawallaby · 2 points · Posted at 04:58:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Quizlet was part of the reason I finished undergrad.
shellderp · 2 points · Posted at 05:03:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've had this in university online courses. Full paragraphs of questions copied from publicly available google docs with answers.
shoutfromtheruthtop · 2 points · Posted at 05:08:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is how I passed HAP. Praise our lord and saviour quizlet.
theskepticalsquid · 2 points · Posted at 05:08:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm cyberschooled (senior in high school) and I find this a lot! I'm allowed to use the internet for all my tests (except French) and many times if I search one answer a whole quizlet comes up. Sometimes I can even search the class and the name of my school and find them haha
not_mantiteo · 2 points · Posted at 05:24:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Shhhh you'll give it away!
hagamablabla · 2 points · Posted at 05:27:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I never understood why professors do this. You found and copied the test from somewhere online, so why wouldn't the student be able to find and copy the answers from the same document?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:51:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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DownvoteIfYoureHorny · 2 points · Posted at 05:28:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Quizlet: Exposing lazy professors while letting students graduate without learning a thing!
Appetite4destruction · 2 points · Posted at 05:32:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I aced an entire online earth science class in college doing that. Fucking awesome.
mermaideve · 2 points · Posted at 05:35:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
my online sociology tests questions/answers are all online too. the internet is a blessing
Butterballl · 2 points · Posted at 05:36:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did this with two of my classes last semester. Didn't even buy the book and got an A in both of them.
niodo · 2 points · Posted at 06:00:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
QuizLIT!
ColonalQball · 1 points · Posted at 05:23:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I heard of a story where a teacher made a fake quizlet with all of the wrong answers just to trick people who did that.
bxblox · 1 points · Posted at 05:42:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Similar but worse...
Everyone in the comp sci department had space on the Linux server where you would practice coding and other crap. The professors also had the same type of space. Anyone could read anyone else's share unless you specifically changed permissions on the directory.
Professor created their own test app for exams and would post the test when class started. But they also did a test run of the exam with all the exam answers in which the results ended up in an unprotected directory the night before.
Leocunn · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My entire history class is based off of a Milwaukee school district's quizlets, Helps a lot.
SadSniper · 1 points · Posted at 06:18:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My teacher gave us an option to do take-home online or in person. Of course she left all the powerpoints on blackboard.
I think like 2 people really wanted to fucking come in that day. This lady was the coolest. Would ask us whether we wanted to come in to watch the film or just do it from home.
Femmengineer · 1 points · Posted at 06:29:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hahahaha sounds like your teacher was kind of a twit
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:53:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This exact same thing happened to me. But I was in a group doing the quiz. Everyone was happy
prodiver · 236 points · Posted at 02:49:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Most community colleges have no application fees, and assign you a .edu email address when you apply.
I've been out of college almost 10 years, but use those .edu addresses to get student discounts.
bestem · 10 points · Posted at 05:51:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some do even better.
I managed to get a free unlimited Google Drive, and Microsoft Office 365 from a local one, without doing anything but the application.
iamdorkette · 2 points · Posted at 06:55:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Are those still valid?
bestem · 1 points · Posted at 15:02:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Neither is something you sign up for, both are things the school signs up for and provides to its students. In this case, when I log in to the student section of the website, there's a place I can access the Google Apps the school has signed up for (Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and Sites). And if I sign into Office with the same Gmail account, I have Office 365.
iamdorkette · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ah,got it. Thanks!
noblesse-oblige- · 2 points · Posted at 07:27:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm a student and didn't know free unlimited Drive is a thing? Where do I do this?
bestem · 2 points · Posted at 14:51:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If your school uses Google Apps, they may have it. It not something you can sign up for, it's something your school signs up for, and everyone with a sub-account gets. It's managed by the school, so it can go away without warning at any time, especially if they realize you're storing terabytes of of data and haven't taken any classes.
[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 04:54:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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judge2020 · 30 points · Posted at 05:09:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A good list of accepted colleges that do this is at https://github.com/JetBrains/swot/tree/master/lib/domains . The file directory structure should be easy enough to figure out .
Try contacting dome and ask if you can get an email address there. .Edu domains will be accepted at more places while lesser-known colleges are more likely to give you one.
Also, usually someone is selling an .Edu email on fiverr.
eeedlef · 9 points · Posted at 05:14:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cornell
sodaextraiceplease · 29 points · Posted at 05:38:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Never heard of it.
Matrim__Cauthon · 5 points · Posted at 05:59:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
well crap, this helps since MY college email ends in @gmail
rab777hp · 5 points · Posted at 13:15:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Trump University?
rumphy · 4 points · Posted at 06:27:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Half price Amazon prime, and the student version gets video now too.
yepitsdefinitelyme · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Discounts?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This. I still have mine from when I was 18.
zushiba · 1 points · Posted at 11:03:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got a job at a college. I have a permanent.edu address. I use it for student discounts all the time.
reverendsteveii · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I do the same w my expired student id
dellaint · 488 points · Posted at 01:07:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
On Webkinz there was a minigame that accidentally rewarded money when you quit out of it. I downloaded a macro program, and joined and quit the game all day for 2 days, probably around 30,000 times. About a week later all the stuff I bought was gone and there was a bulletin on the front page of Webkinz news saying it's wrong to hack the game or something...
Erunamo99 · 206 points · Posted at 04:08:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Might I ask how old you were when you were playing webkinz AND knowledgeable of macro programs?
dellaint · 102 points · Posted at 04:11:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was in 5th grade at the time. Webkinz was huge, everyone played it where I was.
LaterGatorPlayer · 65 points · Posted at 05:30:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
are you the hacker known as 4chan?
FaxCelestis · 9 points · Posted at 05:58:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
WhoIsThisFourChan.gif
Luczrio · 1 points · Posted at 06:07:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was yesterday...
TheWho22 · 3 points · Posted at 06:16:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do kids still do Webkinz? I feel like that's a pretty long time for a little internet fad to remain popular if so
Luczrio · 1 points · Posted at 06:22:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There are tens of us
I've never played it idk
devestations · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:05 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/neopets
FluffySharkBird · 17 points · Posted at 04:36:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This one is the most immoral of them all
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 05:15:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's a little TOO far, don't you think?
walkthemoonband · 2 points · Posted at 05:22:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
what was the mini game omg
ripndipp · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm praying for you
mercy_x_lambo · 1 points · Posted at 06:23:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I remember there was a glitch for a mini game that I abused that when you finished a game it gave you a reward and you had to click on the reward to accept it. If you spammed the refresh button or something like that it would lag up the page and take a while to old up so you kept on hitting the button for the reward. For every time you hit it you got the full reward so i racked up so much money from that and never got caught.
Skippythestuntbaby · 548 points · Posted at 02:53:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nothing mentioned in this thread will ever compare to the guy who bought $3000 worth of pudding and got a lifetime of airline miles.
[deleted] · 101 points · Posted at 05:20:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And got a tax write-off, since he donated all the pudding.
Cobbleking32486 · 3 points · Posted at 02:37:41 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Meanwhile, at the homeless shelter........
"What's for dinner?"
"MORE FUCKING PUDDING."
[deleted] · 50 points · Posted at 02:54:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Skippythestuntbaby · 75 points · Posted at 04:27:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Phillips_(entrepreneur)
Runlikefedor · 111 points · Posted at 05:04:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"In order to divert attention, he claimed he was stocking up for Y2K." let me hide in my bunker with 12k puddings.
cunninglinguist32557 · 29 points · Posted at 05:43:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"entrepreneur"
sdmitch16 · 6 points · Posted at 06:22:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How does he earn 5 times as fast as he spends? I don't understand frequent flyer programs as I've never been on an airplane or to an airport.
fury-s12 · 6 points · Posted at 06:31:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
hes earning the points by doing things like buying pudding for the promo and "spending" far less points on flying or whatever else the particular program allows you to cash in points on, if you just earned points by flying (for every mile you fly you get x points) you wouldn't even come close to that level of earning
NealCruco · 2 points · Posted at 06:22:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5wcopp/what_is_a_loophole_you_found_out_and_exploited_to/de9m7db/
skyler_on_the_moon · 13 points · Posted at 05:54:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's also the guy who started with one red paperclip, and in fourteen trades, traded it for a house.
Kaiser-Saucier · 5 points · Posted at 12:18:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
To be fair, some of those trades were far from "even" and only happened because people wanted to participate in the man's project.
MrsTurtlebones · 23 points · Posted at 05:18:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a great Paul Anderson movie afterward in which the main character, played by Adam Sandler, did this very same pudding scheme. It was a different role for him, not the usual nonsense, and the movie got good reviews. Emily Watson was in it too, and Philip Seymour Hoffman . . . Punch Drunk Love
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch-Drunk_Love
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 05:52:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That was a great movie.
hydrowifehydrokids · 4 points · Posted at 05:53:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I love that movie!
tenjuu · 2 points · Posted at 08:08:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
By far my favorite Sandler movie!
Slacker5001 · 13 points · Posted at 05:37:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I dunno, there is a dude in this threat who bought 10,000 worth of bike tire patch kits and got a two brand new TV's, a full tool set, and $3,000 worth of tablets. I'd say that's comparable.
PandaEatsRage · 11 points · Posted at 06:25:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
To put it in perspective for you. He got 1.25 million frequent flyer miles. If you book a flight in advance enough, say three months. It will cost you roughly 40,000 frequent flyer miles to fly one way from the USA to Europe. You can find one way tickets if you're lucky for about 600$. But that's a very lucky find. Average plane tickets are $1,000-$1,500 USD for economy/coach. Even on the low end of $1,000 that's still $30,000 worth of plane flights for overseas. It's worth less domestic but it's a hell of a deal. Even accounting for the $300 tax that places like England charge you it's a bit better than the other guys patch kit.
gordie44 · 7 points · Posted at 07:19:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Uhh, I like miles and points too, but tickets to Europe are not that expensive. $383 LAX-CDG direct one way (May 27)
PandaEatsRage · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's completely dependent on locations, destination, time, and stops. LAX I believe has better options. You can get a 400$ flight and it may be direct from LAX. But randomly searching from like Austin, Detroit, and others. Most days you can find literally one flight around $500 with two stops and a travel time of 16+ hours. And the second recommended is $1200+. You can do it. Not saying you can't. But the average is a grand.
Edit: link to give an idea http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7191422
ZE_R0 · 0 points · Posted at 07:28:53 on March 9, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just booked tickets RT from Austin to Barcelona. $400 cash, RT per person with a 2 hour layover in Atlanta. Used 20k AmEx MR for each ticket. Bottom line - you don't know how to book airline tickets.
stumpdawg · 5 points · Posted at 06:18:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Brad Wilson founder of Brads Deals racked up 4mil flyer miles buying nearly 3mil in free cost, free shipping coins from the Mint
tachycardicIVu · 20 points · Posted at 05:26:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My dad does this. Not with pudding but with credit cards and hotel deals. We never pay for hotel rooms or plane upgrades - first class and 4-star hotels in Japan, England, and Hawaii on a yearly family trip. He always has like thirty credit cards rolling for our family (immediate plus grandparents). It works out because he knows which places maximized points and rewards. If you're spending the money might as well make it count. Got lots of points for my college tuition and new car.
whitemeatlover · 15 points · Posted at 06:22:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Uhm your family sounds rich OP. Yearly family trips are a luxury.
emt139 · 8 points · Posted at 06:26:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You don't need to be rich to churn miles. You just need a good credit score.
whitemeatlover · 7 points · Posted at 06:34:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have a good credit score, but I mean trips consist of things other than flying everywhere.
rab777hp · -3 points · Posted at 13:19:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah but OP also has his own new car and daddy pays his college tuition
tachycardicIVu · 3 points · Posted at 13:46:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because I have good credit and because I have a college fund that was invested when I was born. The money doesn't appear out of nowhere. Plus I've still had a job since I was 15 to help pay for that car. Just because I said we used those credit cards for points doesn't mean we just spend willy-nilly. It's about planning payments and spending only what you were going to spend anyways. Not like we bought a new car on a whim, my last one was a hand-me-down from my grandparents with 130k miles and my dad wanted me to make sure I had a safe car when I moved away. His car was a 95 corolla without a clock but with roll up windows for the longest time. He's not rich. He's practical and knows how to invest both his money and his time.
tachycardicIVu · 0 points · Posted at 13:41:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No he just knows how to invest and get miles like crazy. I had a college fund they started when I was born and attended a cheap college. We're really not that rich. We're middle class really. They have a 3-bedroom house with an old jeep and a Camry from my dad's parents. My car was only because we got a good deal and they wanted a good car for me (AWD) with the prospect of moving to a mountainous area, plus I paid for part of it. They're smart, practical parents who help me with practical stuff but they're far from rich.
Texas_wildflower · 4 points · Posted at 15:20:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I get where you're coming from. You definitely don't have to be rich to churn, but you do have to be privileged. The majority of the world's population is never going to have the privilege to churn. Let's just ignore the rest of the world and look at Americans. We have a good bit of Americans living in "deep poverty." That's about one half or one third of the Federal Povery Level, which is hilariously low, currently $981.00 gross monthly for a household of 1. If your income is so low all you can do is pay for rent and bills, and you buy food with food stamps, it's gonna be hard to churn unless your landlord takes credit cards. If you were a kid who was raised in a cycle of poverty, you're much less likely to learn how personal finance works at home nor at school than a kid not in poverty. Many of these kids blow their credit scores before they become adults (emotionally not legally), if their parents don't steal credit from their SSN first. I'm telling you man, you're lucky to come from a 3-bd house with a Jeep and a Camry. I've seen too many kids who don't know where they will be sleeping tonight, in America. I don't even want to think about other countries, it crushes me. How are you supposed to study personal finance when you're worried about survival? You don't. Some will break through the cycle of deep poverty, most don't.
tachycardicIVu · 2 points · Posted at 15:39:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh I recognize it. I don't flaunt it - I fully understand that I have privilege and I use it not to just be like "oh I'm in Japan this is awesome lemme take a selfie" - our parents understand that we should have experiences like this and we go to places like temples in Kyoto and Hiroshima to Ground Zero. Plus my dad is super involved in Haiti so we know what extreme poverty looks like. And no we don't go just to be like white people helping poor Haitians, we help run a free clinic and help out with the local churches in Cite Soleil. We've all gone down at some point to help, even before the earthquake. It always hurt to leave and feel like I didn't make a difference because all we did was give out some meds and put new roofs on a couple houses when there are so many shacks with no roofs at all. And I mean I'm on my own now completely with a salary that's just enough to keep me paying rent, bills, food, and invest - my parents have taught me how to keep my money so that I will be able to spend later. I might not have much money now (they're not paying for stuff now so it's not like I'm getting a free ride) but I'm starting from somewhere. I know not everyone can do this and that's something our country desperately needs to work on, since I do understand poverty is a cyclical problem that is impossible to get out of in most cases. But I get that I'm privileged. I get it. And I'll be damned if I'm not going to enjoy it because it's there because that's a once a year thing for me, still more than other people but still something for me to look forward to.
Texas_wildflower · 2 points · Posted at 16:47:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep. My dad always said, take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves to you. Enjoy your next trip!
sdmitch16 · 3 points · Posted at 06:23:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How does he earn 5 times as fast as he spends? I don't understand frequent flyer programs as I've never been on an airplane
NealCruco · 4 points · Posted at 06:21:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The story, for those that haven't heard. It's not exactly a loophole- just one of those stories where someone was a bit more enthusiastic about a promotion than usual.
http://gizmodo.com/how-an-engineer-earned-1-25-million-air-miles-by-buying-1339646546
xsandied · 2 points · Posted at 06:30:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Tell me more
Danjcb · 2 points · Posted at 06:40:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I came here just to find this one...
RogueDevlin · 7 points · Posted at 03:51:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That seems awfully insufficient information of such a story!
NealCruco · 2 points · Posted at 06:22:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5wcopp/what_is_a_loophole_you_found_out_and_exploited_to/de9m7db/
Saemika · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Link? That sounds like s great story!
Skippythestuntbaby · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I left one a few responses down.
YaDunGoofed · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:24 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
How about $20 mil?
Intl_shoe · 562 points · Posted at 01:43:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can view as many articles as you want in news websites with article view limits (e.g. NY Times) by using incognito/private mode in your browsers. NY Times limits you to ten articles, but once if you reach that amount, just close and open again in incognito.
nonsequitrist · 132 points · Posted at 03:36:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
These news websites tally the number of articles you've read with cookies, which is why incognito mode works: it deletes cookies when you close the incognito window.
You don't need to use incognito. You can just manually delete the cookies, or use a cookie browser-add-on (like Self-Destructing Cookies, which deletes cookies when you close a tab).
KmKiero · 4 points · Posted at 05:59:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Akinator somehow manages to block private browser mode from working (on mobile it limits your amount of plays (to like once a day, fuck off akinator)) unless you download the app.
Small rant that has nothing to do with the thread, but I fucking hate that apps exist. Tumblr mobile? Fuck off you're not allowed to like shit unless you have our app. Facebook? Fuck off you're not allowed to message (the only thing most people use it for) without the app. And akinator? Fuck off from playing the game until you get bored and never play again unless you get our app.
I_like_boxes · 2 points · Posted at 09:05:23 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
At least with Facebook you can still work around it by requesting the desktop site. Annoying, but like hell am I downloading their bloated garbage app.
Condawg · 2 points · Posted at 07:09:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I like the idea of that, but I also like convenience. How much does it affect your browsing?
nonsequitrist · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It affects my browsing not at all. How many cookies do you really want to keep? For me, it's just a few, and I put them on the add-on's whitelist, so they are not deleted. Every other cookie gets deleted when I close the tab that downloaded the cookie (if you have multiple tabs that use the same cookie, then the cookie is deleted when you close the last of those tabs).
When you close the browser, all cookies are deleted.
Sure, you can do a couple of extra mouseclicks to open an incognito window, or no extra mouseclicks with self-destructing cookies. The difference is minor, but the incognito window is less convenient.
SirBoris · 1 points · Posted at 09:36:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Using incognito sounds a lot easier
[deleted] · -5 points · Posted at 04:45:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 04:51:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What do you do that gets banned may I ask...?
AnthraxCat · 11 points · Posted at 05:01:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
He is a Trump shill, so probably for that reason.
SerenasHairyBalls · 0 points · Posted at 05:17:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What? No I'm not. That's also not a bannable thing you silly fuck
AnthraxCat · 9 points · Posted at 05:19:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dude, your comment history.
And sure it is.
thehighground · 0 points · Posted at 05:21:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Only for pathetic subs
AnthraxCat · 3 points · Posted at 05:27:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, didn't say they were good subs.
SerenasHairyBalls · -2 points · Posted at 05:20:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My comment history doesn't say I'm a Trump shill. You're nuts.
And no it isn't.
AnthraxCat · 6 points · Posted at 05:27:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Alternative comments.
SerenasHairyBalls · 0 points · Posted at 05:30:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Okay bro. Good talk. Keep battling those shills; that's a great use of your time
AnthraxCat · 2 points · Posted at 05:35:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thanks, buddy, you keep supporting a man who wants to grab your pussy.
SerenasHairyBalls · 2 points · Posted at 05:43:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Idk who that guy is. The guy I support is the future winner of the 2020 Presidential election
AnthraxCat · 0 points · Posted at 05:45:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So, Kanye West?
SerenasHairyBalls · 2 points · Posted at 05:45:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Help admins, ban this shill
AnthraxCat · 0 points · Posted at 05:47:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Aww, poor snowflake.
SerenasHairyBalls · 1 points · Posted at 07:14:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Speaking of snowflakes and comment histories, hoooly shit. You're a wacky feminazi fuckbag.
Say it with me: your problems are your own fault. The patriarchy doesn't exist.
AnthraxCat · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Your problems are your own fault. The patriarchy does exist, and causes unequal outcomes for equal effort.
SerenasHairyBalls · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Uh. No. Doesn't exist but in the fevered delusions of losers. Just like institutional racism and rape culture. Lies spun for fragile minds.
America is a meritocracy. If you're losing, you earned it. Sounds like you have.
See ya chump!
AnthraxCat · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well aren't you adorable. Bye bye, tough guy.
AutVeniam · 0 points · Posted at 05:42:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Keep fighting the good fight
Yogurt_Ph1r3 · -6 points · Posted at 05:25:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can confirm. Source: He is just someone who actually cares about facts.
SerenasHairyBalls · -3 points · Posted at 05:09:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just fucking around with the admins. Honestly it's always completely harmless. They're very sensitive people.
AutVeniam · 1 points · Posted at 05:42:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah bruh u fucked up
SerenasHairyBalls · 0 points · Posted at 05:44:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Okay. How so
surprisedbutexcited · 13 points · Posted at 05:16:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to do this too but now I subscribe to support the NYT.
GulfAg · 2 points · Posted at 05:41:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A different method works for the WSJ. For any of their articles that are locked for members only: copy the title of the article, paste into google (add "WSJ" if it's a super non-unique name), and the top search result will take you right back to WSJ.com without the article locked.
KingGumboot · 2 points · Posted at 05:59:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some websites have other silly ways to get around paywalls as well. I opened one on mobile the other day and it brought up a thing saying I had to pay to access the site, but I could still see some text in the gap below it so I just read the whole article by scrolling and reading through the gap. That often happens with sites telling you to turn adblock off as well, you can still see the article in the background or sometimes even just close the window and carry on
Heyoceama · 2 points · Posted at 06:44:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Same thing works for songs on bandcamp.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 05:29:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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arsenicandoldspice · 2 points · Posted at 15:50:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I agree with you, however I pay for a yearly subscription to the NYT Crossword app, but they still limit me from reading the wordplay blog more than 10x a month (which I just go around). Like, I already paid! Let me get some crossword hints!
IncroyablePilote · 2 points · Posted at 05:39:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is why there is fake news. People stopped paying for paper news, so news sources go to online articles, and now they write for clicks and not "real" journalism. I'm not saying you should stop what you are doing, but on the larger scale this has grave effects in our political system and why I choose to pay for new sites I believe work hard to provide real news.
Mrcoyote3083 · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I just clear my history to accomplish the same thing
SundanceA · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Got a workaround for WSJ?
kyametaka · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I do this for all the Herald Sun articles in Australia. if you click on the link it takes you to 'subscribe for more' page but if you copy and paste the link into an incognito...BAM! Free news
pineapple13v2 · 1 points · Posted at 05:29:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I use this almost on a daily basis
I_made_grave_mistake · -7 points · Posted at 04:48:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The NY Times is fake news tho
pineapple13v2 · 0 points · Posted at 05:30:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The New York Times is failing.
CNN is (very) fake news
At least according to trump
I_made_grave_mistake · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sad!
Remi_The_master · 0 points · Posted at 07:11:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I know they are leaning liberal which isn't terribly bad (leaning any way is bad) but as soon as they publicly supported a candidate:(Clinton), their credibility dropped a lot for me yet people continue to say they are real news. They used to be real news but they changed and spout fake news with the trust that they are still the reliable news they once were. At least they have the balls to let people know they were for Clinton instead of pretending they weren't while they brainwash with propoganda. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/opinion/sunday/hillary-clinton-for-president.html?_r=0
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 05:53:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah but who the hell wants to read NYT?
TheBlackestLotus · 94 points · Posted at 01:55:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
With my old flip Tracfone, if I pressed the volume up button after getting a text, I could read it without paying minutes. I saved so much.
JustRiedy · 6 points · Posted at 08:17:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
America so crazy, charging to receive a text.
jeffgordon24 · 2 points · Posted at 07:40:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think we had the same phone, that trick was amazing!
Jov_West · 95 points · Posted at 04:42:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I didn't exploit it to the max, but 11 year old me discovered that the first generation of recycling machines would pay cash for rocks.
inprobitatem · 13 points · Posted at 06:00:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is the funniest hack
AcrolloPeed · 4 points · Posted at 07:16:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Holy shit hahahahahahahaha!
This is buried way too deep; that's a shame, because this is the best one on the thread.
totesseriousacct · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There are recycling machines that pay you?
Jov_West · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:46 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
That was back in '96 or '97.
[deleted] · 262 points · Posted at 01:39:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Demderdemden · 30 points · Posted at 04:59:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Super sized soda and fries"
"No super sized fries, only the soda."
"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
UndomestlcatedEqulne · 24 points · Posted at 05:02:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Soda is almost free for fast food places to buy
acpc2203 · 16 points · Posted at 05:28:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That likely cost the franchise a dollar or two.
Christian_Akacro · 2 points · Posted at 07:39:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In profits, not costs though. The repeat business is worth it.
buge · 1 points · Posted at 06:14:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We're having a special, I supersized you at no charge
Cmonster9 · 1 points · Posted at 02:12:47 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mcdonald's was like this for awhile since any size soft drink was $1 and the system prorated the price of the meal by $1 and then charged you whatever the drink cost.
Thomestillsson · 182 points · Posted at 02:02:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was this one vending machine at school that sold these drinks called Mr.Flav for $1.50. Well a few of my friends found out if we spam a bunch of the buttons while it was dispensing the drink, it would give like 2 or 3 extra drinks.
Not as good as some other things people posted but hey, extra drinks.
stoprockandrollkids · 8 points · Posted at 04:20:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dude same thing went on at my middle school and at the time I felt like John fucking Dillinger
darkstarohio · 2 points · Posted at 06:31:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You ever see those Coca-Cola vending machines with the conveyor belt? I figured out when I was in high school, that if you held the door shut where the drink was dispensed, the system would eventually spit your money back out. The drink would still be on the conveyor belt though, so if you put your money in and selected another drink further from the door, you could get a two for one deal.
With 16oz cans, I was able to get three for one pretty consistently. The only problem was that each item slot that you abused would be labeled empty by the machine, so the vending machine would be bunk for a few days before someone came to service it.
BobbyRobertson · 2 points · Posted at 06:56:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
my high school had a vending machine with a similar problem. If you held down a few numbers on the selection pad after you made your selection, but before it started dispensing, the conveyor arm would collect your drink, sit next to the dispenser for a bit, give your money back and then dispense the drink for free
I had so many free Izzes
GirlWhoWrites2 · 2 points · Posted at 07:13:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in elementary school there was a soda machine near my house that was slightly broken. If you pushed the Arizona Tea button, it'd give you two of them. Also, the walmart brand soda machine was broken too. If you pushed the coke button you'd get between 3 and 4 for the price of one.
TheNessLink · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
so 3.5 cokes?
GirlWhoWrites2 · 2 points · Posted at 22:39:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The 1/2 coke was the real issue.
Rav99 · 646 points · Posted at 00:38:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
SOJ arbitrage back in the day - Diablo 2.
For those that don't know, there was this ring everyone wanted called SOJ (Stone of Jordan) that was basically the currency of the game. It was accepted in trade for pretty much anything you wanted to buy.
The only way to get it besides trading for it with another player, was to find it or gamble for it in game. But there was a catch. You had to get two other rings first - Manald and Nagel. Those rings, if you wanted to trade for em, went for 1 SoJ for the pair.
Now enter eBay. On eBay SOJ sold for 10 bucks at the time. But the pair of Manald and Nagel went for 20-25.
So... When I got my first pair of MnN I didn't start gambling SOJs like everyone else. I sold em and used the money to buy 2 SOJ. I then traded one for a new Manald and nagel and kept the other as pure profit.
This continued for a while.
KoreanBard · 53 points · Posted at 03:16:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ah.. good ol D2. I used to write articles about Item hunting, treasure class, rarity etc.. Epic games, so much memories.
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 06:18:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Stay a while and listen!
Bleed_The_Fifth · 22 points · Posted at 04:15:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How I miss the glory days of Diablo 2. I picked up a copy like a year ago looking to get back into it on battle.net. I log onto battle.net only to find it completely overrun by gold sellers and botters. There are barely any live players anymore. Such a shame. I didn't even play it.
ShumaG · 21 points · Posted at 04:26:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You should check out Path of Exile. It has its own subreddit here. A new league is about to start and a big expansion drops in a few months.
Bleed_The_Fifth · 3 points · Posted at 04:45:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hmm. I'll have to check it out. Thanks!
HeavenlyColor · 1 points · Posted at 13:06:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just want to second PoE. It is the spiritual successor to D2 and has so much more in terms of skill flexibility. Really well-designed game, in my opinion.
NeverStopWondering · 1 points · Posted at 04:33:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/slashdiablo
Bleed_The_Fifth · 11 points · Posted at 04:45:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I played on slash for a while, but the lack of pvp kills it for me. The whole idea on trading and working towards good gear, for me at least, was to be able to properly gear a character to go into pub duel games and fuck shit up.
NeverStopWondering · 1 points · Posted at 07:29:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think there was rumblings of getting a PvP thing set up, but yeah, I just wanted to make people aware if they weren't already.
KingSmizzy · 33 points · Posted at 03:17:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
diablo trading was scam city... You see one guy trading shako for runes, then in the game below you see the same guy in a smurf account trading less runes for another shako.
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 05:48:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The one where you would agree to trade your Shako for 1 HR and "accidentally" close the trade window instead of complete and then "accidentally" swap your Shako for a gemmed Leather Cap.
idontevenarse · 13 points · Posted at 06:06:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's... called trading.
staleBear · 3 points · Posted at 05:23:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
yeah, when annihilus charm couldn't be traded in the menu. I'm definitely guilty of using one way walls to grab their charm or items and leave the game. Act 5 town in particular
KingSmizzy · 5 points · Posted at 05:52:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
i had a guy say he was going to race me for items, then he turned on a bot that auto-picked up everything on the map and quit the game in 0.0001 seconds...
probably the first scam in my entire life, poor pre-teen me
domuseid · 1 points · Posted at 07:15:48 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep, and the wall in the camp too. Damn telekinesis
kelvinzpy · 1 points · Posted at 09:59:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
STOUT SHAKO FOR 2 REFINED
JetAirliner1 · 24 points · Posted at 03:26:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Diabolo 2? We used to get two clients up, throw our loot on the ground- save and exit, then replace the log files with a back-up, log back in and have double currency and items after you picked everything up off the ground from the first client. This was not difficult, so I would imagine you could have gotten rich off those rings- I was unaware of out-of-game money changing hands, darn it!
Rav99 · 43 points · Posted at 03:41:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back up file? No that's offline mode there was no money in that, anyone could dupe or hack items. I am talking about battle.net where your character was saved server side not client. (edit for clarification).
That said, duping was still pretty rampant even on bnet which ruined the economy and made a lot of hackers a good deal of money.
_Noise · 8 points · Posted at 04:37:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
HOW SWAY? 12 year old me NEEDS to know how the cool kids were duping.
[deleted] · 20 points · Posted at 05:51:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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LIVERLIPS69 · 3 points · Posted at 06:28:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Coolest thing in the thread tbh. Couldn't you trade with a partner right before you logged out to stop the duped items from "disappearing" ?
BabyNinjaJesus · 2 points · Posted at 06:26:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
literally the exact same way everyone else was doing it, the lag dupe is notorious as fuck
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 08:01:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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BabyNinjaJesus · 2 points · Posted at 08:02:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
i dont need too, you just did
Lonely_Kobold · 9 points · Posted at 05:17:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Stay a while, and listen
I remember the throw item on the ground, walk a few steps, click to pick item up, when you were about 1 pixel away click on a potion in your belt and the potion would convert to the item. This also worked for gold.
I know it worked in Diablo 1 and I think it worked in 2.
Farqueue- · 2 points · Posted at 06:11:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep - that's how everyone ended up with godly plate of the whale
heshopolis · 2 points · Posted at 05:42:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At one point duping involved using a necromancer to cause massive amounts of server side lag. That's all I remember because I was into botting and not duping.
nethaka · 2 points · Posted at 06:30:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One method was I think with a sorceress and necromancer, the necro casting a bunch of bonewalls In a1 outside the town in blood moor, and the sorceress casting like meteor or something? Just to make the game lag a lot (on battle.Net) the necro would hold an insight (weapon that provides mana Regen for the bonewall) and when game was getting close to dropping someone sitting in town would drop items and leave/game drops and when they can reconnect they have the items in their inventory and still on the ground
Navy_Pheonix · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
He ain't got the answers.
artanis00 · -2 points · Posted at 05:55:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Duping items? Hacking items? How small scale.
I was making my own armor sets.
AppleShampew · 9 points · Posted at 05:00:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
got this far before I upvoted your comment
MayHaker · 4 points · Posted at 05:08:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dude this is some baader mainhof shit, I played the shit out of D2 back inthe early 2000s but I haven't touched the game in over a decade
Just the other day a YouTuber who makes Diablo 2 videos (think he's called Xtimus) popped up in my recommended feed and this is now the third reference to the game I've seen since
damboy99 · 3 points · Posted at 04:33:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Playing market is the greatest way to make money, it's pretty much legal gambling, and if you know what you are doing, you will never lose.
TheAdmiralCrunch · 2 points · Posted at 09:13:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You invented blizzards current business model
EpicLegendX · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of a little exploit in SCM where if you looked at certain marketable TF2 items, you could buy two items that could be merged into one (IE Strange Weapon + a Specialized/Professional Killstreak Kit), merge the two items, and resell it for a higher price than the original (only if the merged item was already selling at a price that made it possible.)
edlin303 · 1 points · Posted at 07:30:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Similar to yours, I used to do a bit of farming back in the day. Shortly after one of the first ladder resets I had found my first IST. The next morning a dupe came out, and I found some random guy in chat that would team up on the dupe. We started duping and merging (I had a ton of jewels too), and made it all the way through zods, perming each one. I think I ended up with a few hundred high runes in an hour (at the cost of having to call in sick that morning).
Then, I took all the ladder runes, and traded for NL SoJs, knowing that they were about to launch the expansion and SoJs would go up in value due to selling to spawn Clone. I ended up with at least 30 or 40 accounts full of chars full of SoJs. Once Clone came out, I and a few others ran an IRC where we would get 30 or more games connected on one IP, and then one of us would sell stones to spawn Clone, send a loaded up Pally game to game to kill Clone and harvest all the annis, and repeat. Someone even wrote a bot to track how many SoJs had been sold on each IP so we knew which were primed to pop.
I must have sold a thousand annis in the end. Those were the days.
*for those curious, the dupe was super easy to do. I don't remember the details, but I think one person ran an app that somehow messed with the local game instance, then that person kept selling items to (Akara?) in act 1, and they also stayed in inventory. So they could sell the same IST 100x while I sat there buying them all, perming them by upgrading in cube with a gem, and once we had enough of that HR we would do the same with the next. I actually ran out of gold repeatedly and cleaned out full accounts of gems in the process.
Lemona1d_Lady · 1 points · Posted at 05:23:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not sure how popular this opinion is, but hot damn I wish the auction house was still in D3. What cracks me up is how Blizzard removes the AH (because of the real money portion, but still) then starts adding all these features like Kadala, the cube etc that are designed to help you get your hands on a specific legendary, when that feature was already shipped on launch day to begin with.
BretticusWins · 2 points · Posted at 06:14:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fuck the auction house, even the gold one. The game was balanced around the existence of it, it was terrible.
Lemona1d_Lady · 1 points · Posted at 06:21:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm genuinely curious - what's the difference between farming Shards for Kadala, or cache mats for Kanai's, as opposed to farming raw gold to buy exactly what you want off the AH?
BabyNinjaJesus · 1 points · Posted at 06:27:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
one was playing the game
one was playing the auction house
the best way to make gold when the auction house existed was to literally never play the actual game.
CyanPhoenix42 · 1 points · Posted at 08:44:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Unfortunately when there's P2P trading in any sense in an arpg, playing the trade game is always going to net you more currency than actually playing. Path of Exile for example doesn't have an AH (despite the community demanding it for however long, even if it won't necessarily be good for the game overall) and the richest people are the people who flip currency/items.
BabyNinjaJesus · 1 points · Posted at 08:48:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
really
BretticusWins · 0 points · Posted at 06:22:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The amount of time it took and the consistency.
Rav99 · 2 points · Posted at 13:15:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm in the minority too, they should have left the GAH for lower level items. When they raised the level cap they could have just made the new level 63+ gear not sellable on the GAH. As usual, the game focused on players at the level cap and lowbies get screwed. There was nothing wrong with buying low level items on the GAH in fact it was nice. Sometimes you just didn't find the right item for your class.
Edit: D3 also had other problems with itemization that everyone just blamed on the AH. The lack of true variety on the items means you needed gear with your primary stat on it or it was worthless to you. This made us dependent on the AH for most of our gear since finding it was such a crap shoot. To me, the AH was a symptom not the root cause which was crappy itemization and lack of an item sink ( IE a way to remove items from the economy).
This graphic sums up the d2 vs d3 itemization issues pretty well.
Augusta13 · 319 points · Posted at 02:27:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A few years ago you could enter a code found on your Bath and Body Works receipt into their app. Each time you entered the code it gave you say, 250 points. You could eventually trade in your points for store items. I found that I could copy and paste the receipt code, and just change the last few digits consecutively and it would register and a correct code. I spent a few hours doing this until I had enough points for the "grand" prize. I redeemed it for a full size body spray in all 25 of their scents.
pingasthrowaway · 46 points · Posted at 05:59:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wonder how many people got a code that didn't work.
judge2020 · 31 points · Posted at 05:05:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nice. With enough js you could automate it with random time intervals
Comet5050 · 0 points · Posted at 07:14:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ya
peeves91 · 9 points · Posted at 06:48:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So that's why my code didn't work. I was always a little salty about that.
loimprevisto · 7 points · Posted at 07:29:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Now I'm imagining legions of heartbroken Bath and Body Works customers trying to enter their coupon code and receiving error messages.
You monster.
JC_Frost · 1 points · Posted at 06:21:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Damn, this is slick. Good on you
NutShellB · 605 points · Posted at 02:13:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My time to shine!
I was taking a Finance class in college and the teacher was a Phd. Student. His thesis required a lot of data to be retrieved. He offered his class 1/4 point on their final grade for each survey we turned in on his website, as long as it had our name in one of the questions (who led you to this survey?).
I dropped $20 into mTurk and offered 2 cents for each person who took the survey and put my name in. I also dropped another $10 and offered a penny for each one.
I then posted it to /r/HitsWorthTurkingFor. All my $30 was gone in about 35 minutes. I ended the class with a crazy high score and got an A+ boost to my GPA.
rab777hp · 325 points · Posted at 04:22:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Seems like a win win.
You got your credit, and the professor got everyone's 2 cents
NutShellB · 164 points · Posted at 04:28:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I mean, I probably ruined his data. ಠ_ಠ
Hyperdistortia · 22 points · Posted at 05:16:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hey, is there like a subreddit for people to trade homework assigments or offer money for people to do them for you?
tallstoner · 15 points · Posted at 05:41:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was an AMA not too long ago from a professor that ran a website that would match your essay/thesis/report/academic anything with another professor that would write it for you. Can't remember the name though :/
pineapple13v2 · 23 points · Posted at 05:42:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
iirc it was something like unemployedprofessors.com
tallstoner · 5 points · Posted at 05:47:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's the one!
louisi_animal · 10 points · Posted at 05:26:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Probably not. PhD students use mTurk all the time
throwawayshooting · 5 points · Posted at 05:21:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
hahaahahhaahahaha
Gars0n · 5 points · Posted at 06:29:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well even if paying for it "tainted" that data all those entries have your name on them. It shouldn't be that hard to sort out.
Saemika · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You ruined his life.
AdvicePerson · 0 points · Posted at 06:10:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Groan.
JunkGod · 35 points · Posted at 04:09:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's something about this being a finance class that makes it all the more glorious
NutShellB · 13 points · Posted at 04:28:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I know, it still feels good all these years later. I would have passed the class either way, but it still felt good.
RobwasHere_lol · 16 points · Posted at 04:22:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What is mturk?
NutShellB · 59 points · Posted at 04:28:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Amazon Mechanical Turk. It's a service where people can do menial repetitive tasks for pennies in Amazon credit.
For example, I've helped thousands of captchas become. Ore accurate by identifying all the boats in a set of photos . I essentially was the control, and I made 5cents a shot.
I know a lot of it is typing data from a picture. I once did hundreds of street signs for a penny each, I can only assume google was the financier and I was helping maps label things correctly.
Meaningless tasks for pennies. What a time to be alive
jared555 · 22 points · Posted at 05:00:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I always assumed that the mturk captcha hits were people running bots and paying people to help them spam.
NutShellB · 14 points · Posted at 05:39:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Could be. I prefer to believe I was helping them identify rather than helping the spammers bypass.
Either way I got my money.
AnxietyAttack2013 · 2 points · Posted at 06:29:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is there a specific site or is it directly from amazon?
NutShellB · 1 points · Posted at 15:03:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Directly from amazon.
My_Name_Is_Declan · 0 points · Posted at 05:50:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Surely you could spend the time doing the captcha 's coding a robot that can scan a picture and click it for you.
foltaggio · 2 points · Posted at 05:57:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wow, you would think that he would put a limit on the points you could earn. That's crazy.
Kamdiere · 3 points · Posted at 06:36:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Work smarter, not harder. Good man.
Rolie1980 · 2 points · Posted at 06:42:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Amazing how many hidden gems Reddit has Also A+ for finding that subreddit
Heineken008 · 2 points · Posted at 17:58:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If I'm interpreting this correctly then you could have accomplished the same thing for $8.
NutShellB · 1 points · Posted at 04:03:29 on March 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was years ago, I know that spent about $30. My counts may be off.
chupagatos · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure your teacher would be in huge trouble if the head of the department found out.
NutShellB · 2 points · Posted at 15:23:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I mean, this was 5 years ago, hopefully he has his Phd now and it doing well!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Also fucked up all his data for his thesis. Kind of a dick move.
DelayedEntry · 2 points · Posted at 06:28:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eh, if he really cared, he could use the name field to filter out all the surveys referred from NutShellB.
europeanCigar · 0 points · Posted at 06:21:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Isnt this blackmailing, if you dont help me finish my thesis you wont get 1/4th of your grade?
zUzaque · 3 points · Posted at 06:35:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
1/4 of a point (likely out of a hundred)
NutShellB · 1 points · Posted at 15:03:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not like that, he added 1/4 point to our final average for each survey. If you got 12 surveys your final average went up by 3 points. If you chose not to participate your grade was what it was.
WandaSykesOfficial · 357 points · Posted at 02:07:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's a grocery store/ cafe that I get coffee from every morning. Around Christmas there was a special where if you buy a $100 gift card, they give you a $20 one for free. Then you can use the $100 gift card to buy another $100 gift card and get $20 free. I got 18 free $20 gift cards ($360 total) before they caught on. Still drinking free coffee.
KingSmizzy · 66 points · Posted at 03:30:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
anytime someone uses card to buy card (pre-paid credit or gift card) the cashier should start calling for management... thats some basic level thinking right there XD
So many scams involve people buying pre-paid visa on credit or gift cards from credit, or pre-paid visa from gift card etc
[deleted] · 36 points · Posted at 05:27:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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jkj3i98j · 19 points · Posted at 06:28:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't forget to factor in the activation fee.
cuterus-uterus · 3 points · Posted at 08:31:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A lady I know buying herself gift cards to restaurants she likes, gas cards, etc. to get grocery purchase points. No activation charge you sometimes find on those pre-paid cards.
ZE_R0 · 1 points · Posted at 07:45:04 on March 9, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/churning buddy :)
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 05:19:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Children's Place used to allow buying gift cards with gift cards when I worked there a few years ago. Tried that trick a few months ago and no-go. I even asked to see where it says that I can't do so, and they brought out Terms and Conditions book for me where it was highlighted that no gift cards can be bought with gift cards. Bummer.
TheGreyHorn · 3 points · Posted at 09:27:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If I come across a deal like this I might try it, but to avoid the card loop, I'd sell the $100 cards for $95 cash, and the $20 cards for $15, and earn $10 profit each time. People will be getting free money, and I will be earning a profit. Assuming I could get buyers that is.
gumnos · 3 points · Posted at 11:23:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nice. Had a similar one here at a smoothie store that gave a free smoothie with the purchase of a $25 gift card. "Yeah, I'd like a $25 gift card and the free smoothie; here, I've got a $25 gift card to pay for it." Not quite as nice a deal as what you got, but my own little loophole contribution to the thread.
Fellidae · 1 points · Posted at 01:14:59 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
THAT WAS YOU
UhOhPhysics · 1 points · Posted at 06:31:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
but does that mean you used $1800 of your own money though?
ConchobarMacNess · 7 points · Posted at 07:15:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
He bought a single 100 dollar card which he used to buy a different 100 dollar card. He would do this repeatedly earning a 20 dollar card each time.
RepC · -25 points · Posted at 02:51:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
People like you ruin shit for others
WandaSykesOfficial · 31 points · Posted at 03:16:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's me!
SandalsMan · 11 points · Posted at 03:33:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
RepC just jealous lmao
lone_star_dietz · 1 points · Posted at 06:25:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cue the Larry David Theme.
sergeantjobangles · 159 points · Posted at 02:07:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At a a now defunct funfair called Metroland they had a machine where you could exchange £1 for five 20 pence pieces, or a 20 pence piece for 10 two pence pieces, these machines were used so that one could play the coin slot machines. However, my brothers and I noticed a flaw in which instead of putting in a 20 pence piece to receive 10 two pence pieces, it spat out five 20 pence pieces. This would mean an 80p profit on each 20p. Naturally my brothers and I exploited this till the machine ran dry, all in all the final total came to about £40 worth of 20 pence pieces. We used that money to buy the whole family a macdonalds. Not a huge loophole but younger us thought it was brilliant.
st_owly · 2 points · Posted at 13:35:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Upvote for Metroland!
WhatADan · 2 points · Posted at 06:54:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What is a fun fair? It's called a carnival, Niko.
friendlyanimalbaby · 1 points · Posted at 13:10:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I didn't read this because you're talking about funny money
[deleted] · 77 points · Posted at 02:12:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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gpia7r · 78 points · Posted at 04:51:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A while back, Arby's gave a free Beef 'n Cheddar if you filled out the survey on the back of the receipt.
I filled it out. They gave me a free Beef 'n Cheddar. The free Beef 'n Cheddar came with another receipt, with the pre-printed survey on the back.
I had free Beef 'n Cheddar for 2 and a half years.
I also gained about 75 pounds around this time. Possibly related.
walker-nomad · 5 points · Posted at 07:46:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A friend did this at McDs by her house. Had endless nuggets until they asked her to stop. We were in a different city for a few days. Survey pops up on receipt and she's finished it before food arrives. Guess where we ate again?
JPWRana · 3 points · Posted at 14:28:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I do this with chic fil a and panda express.
ThomasWasSlain · 280 points · Posted at 01:42:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you phone dominoes and tell them you have a code for 50% off when you spend £40 but it's not working online, they apply your discount at the till and don't ask for the code. £40 of pizza for £20, every single time
FigFrontflip · 30 points · Posted at 03:57:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just put STUDENT in the discount section. They never ask
dr___seusss · 4 points · Posted at 06:24:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Use UNIBOGOF in the UK for buy one get one free, works always throughout the year, means it is a reasonable price at least, only works on pizzas btw
[deleted] · 45 points · Posted at 03:51:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
£40 of Domino's pizza? Are you one of those Catholics that torture yourself to avoid purgatory?
ipullout2L8 · 16 points · Posted at 05:05:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How much are you paying for a pizza?!? As I understand it 40 pounds equals about 50 USD
FriendlyCows · 11 points · Posted at 05:20:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Jesus man... you can get 2 pizzas + a drink + bread/salad for like $22 with the delivery charge!
Mred12 · 12 points · Posted at 06:01:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Domino's UK is very expensive, it's like £25 for a single large pizza - £40 for two pizzas isn't unbelievable.
That said, local pizza places are much better and a fraction of the price.
BuscameEnGoogle · 4 points · Posted at 06:12:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Holy shit I live in Uruguay and you can get a meter long pizza + 2 portions of fainá for 15$. How big are pizzas in the US?
TexMarshfellow · 3 points · Posted at 06:46:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
16" diameter iirc
jacob_ewing · 3 points · Posted at 05:48:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Even for an extra-large specialty pizza from a more expensive shop here, I'd pay maybe 30CAD. That'd be about 18GBP.
MidSneeze · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's the standard here too..
ivanwarrior · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The in the US you can get a Little Caesar's pizza which is superior quality to Domino's for about £4.50. a really amazing pizza from a local place might run you £12.
Tehgumchum · 15 points · Posted at 02:13:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dominoes also has that thing where they take your money but don't deliver your pizza
captbrad88 · 8 points · Posted at 05:03:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I find hat online dominos you can choose a coupon and they haven't asked for it yet at the door.
Fellidae · 1 points · Posted at 01:17:40 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
To be honest, any nearly plausible coupon, we can just enter in at the store. "I've got a coupon for a large specialty pizza for $12.99" "what's the coupon code?" "Oh it doesn't have one" "Oh that's okay then, I'll just enter it in. Just give the driver the coupon"
Protip: us drivers rarely care about the coupon.
ThomasWasSlain · 1 points · Posted at 01:18:52 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ma man
UnclesOatmeal · 210 points · Posted at 02:08:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was this Cumberland Farms gas station near my house that had a faulty pump. It would fill your car with gas no matter what. Only me and my friend knew, and we would consistently get 5 dollars of gas, only to have our car fill up. We probably saved around 400-500 dollars each before it was figured out and fixed.
LeopardTwins · 25 points · Posted at 05:10:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A gas station near my house one time accidentally typed in their fuel price as something like 93 cents. At that time gas was more like $3.93. Pretty soon the road had a major traffic jam of people waiting in line for their discounted fuel. It surprisingly took them several hours to figure out why they were suddenly so popular.
DandyBanana · 11 points · Posted at 04:50:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wasn't Cumberland Farms the guy in Sherlock?
bonusblend · 11 points · Posted at 05:59:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah, you're thinking of Bandersnatch Cummerbund.
xParaDoXie · 5 points · Posted at 05:04:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cumberland Farms fountain drinks coupons.
I abuse the fuck out of those.
itsnotuncommon · 3 points · Posted at 04:59:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Comes by with 20 - 50 gallon drums
Medarco · 3 points · Posted at 06:28:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had this happen in my hometown. Funniest thing. There would be 4 cars in line for that pump, with 3 other pumps wide open. Amazed it took the owners that long to figure it out.
Kiss_My_Wookiee · 3 points · Posted at 06:05:37 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's how pumps are supposed to be. In many places you can still just pump gas and pay afterward.
If you prepay there should be that set limit, so that part was broken. But you're still expected to pay any additional gas you pump. There's a gauge on the pump for a reason.
PhillipJGuy · 2 points · Posted at 05:10:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You ever drive by the gas station a few times until your pump was free? lmao
mrminty · 2 points · Posted at 07:23:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I found something similar when I realized that the 7/11 that i used to live across the street from had a badly calibrated pump that would dispense 3 cents of gas extra if you prepaid. Filled up my car there for the whole summer. Of course I drive a Honda Civic and I filled up once every two weeks. But I'm laughing all the way to the bank.
rab777hp · 2 points · Posted at 13:21:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You should've bought a siphon and sold to your buddies
Heebejeeby · 1 points · Posted at 07:10:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Looks like autocorrect changed "stole" to "saved".
Quiet_Car · 150 points · Posted at 04:25:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One summer when I was in high school, my local Blockbuster had a promotion where if you buy a gumball from their gumball machine and got the "color of the day", you'd get a free rental. Rentals were like 5 bucks, so I dumped $3 into the machine until I got the color for that day. When I went to the counter with the rental and handed over my gumball, the guy behind the counter told me to keep the gumball. I then realized I had all 7 colors in my pocket from my previous attempts. I went in there every day that summer and presented whatever color ball was on the sign for my free rental.
They didn't run that promotion the following summer.
sodaextraiceplease · 13 points · Posted at 05:54:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What was the thinking behind this marketing promo? Increase gumball sales?
vacax · 23 points · Posted at 06:30:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Say what you will, but they were the top gumball selling video rental place. How many gumballs do you think Netflix has sold? Zero.
QuietPewPew · 8 points · Posted at 06:24:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Probably had a limit of 1. They were probably banking on parents renting a movie and even if junior got a gumball and a free rental, the fact the parents paid for 1 made it worth it.
They were desperate
Viatical · 1 points · Posted at 06:31:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Attracts attention, just like any other promotion. I actually remember this gumball machine promotion more than anything else at blockbuster when I was a kid
Quiet_Car · 1 points · Posted at 06:40:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ambition assistant manager who didn't understand gumballs are cheaper than rentals? Idk.
TheWhiteWolf0310 · 5 points · Posted at 05:48:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They didn't run that promotion ever again...because They declared bankruptcy
Kingsolomanhere · 1117 points · Posted at 22:13:27 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
Found I could dial all the numbers but one on a business phone ( four lines at the frat) and then put it on hold. Did this with all four lines. When the radio station said 6th caller gets the concert tickets, hit the flasher and dial last number. Rang right through. So, I tied up ATT computers and won a bunch of prizes that year
punkerster101 · 868 points · Posted at 23:59:11 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fun fact, calls come in so fast there's no way to pick the 6th one... it's just said for effect tbh
EaterOfFood · 1138 points · Posted at 01:29:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Once, about 15 years ago, I won concert tickets from the local jazz station because the dj forgot to say their phone number when he started the contest. I just looked it up online, then started calling. The 5th caller was supposed to win. I was the first caller, the second caller, and the third caller. The dj asked why I was the only one calling, and I told him that he never gave the phone number. At that point, he just gave me the tickets.
fartbox_fingerbanger · 1763 points · Posted at 01:54:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, I think you were the only one listening to a jazz station
EaterOfFood · 732 points · Posted at 02:03:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I never thought of that. You're probably right.
Nutellafountain · 7 points · Posted at 03:17:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well, Jazz can be pretty sad sometimes.
Malace85 · 8 points · Posted at 05:04:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Many many years ago I was working at a food joint alone, bored off my ass. Then I was like "I should turn the radio on and why not I should call and request a song since I have never done that." So i call, goes through on the first try and the DJ picks up. "Congratulations you won tickets to see cold play!!!!" I was just stunned and all I could muster was. "Oh... I Just called to request a song"
LaterGatorPlayer · 2 points · Posted at 05:19:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
careless whisper intensifies
ThatGuyWhoEngineers · 6 points · Posted at 03:59:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, the other guy wasn't able to look up the number.
cardinals1996 · 3 points · Posted at 05:51:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well, actively. Doesn't account for the coffee houses and libraries that use the station as background noise.
bg-j38 · 2 points · Posted at 04:52:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Maybe it was like the one in the Simpsons where you can only hear it in the parking lot of the radio station.
Harold-KeeperOfKeys · 1 points · Posted at 04:36:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol
BoomBox206 · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
haha, in high school I was listening to the local college station and ended up being caller 1-9. I was the only one calling in to win the tickets.
fsjja1 · 0 points · Posted at 04:06:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This username... Just... Mwha!
xyfcacct · 15 points · Posted at 02:58:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did a morning show for my college's radio station on Saturday mornings, and we were giving away tickets to some really obscure show. 7th caller was supposed to win, but only one guy kept calling - after the 4th time I just gave him the tickets.
politicalteenager · 5 points · Posted at 02:34:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ya like jazz?
RenttheJoe · 4 points · Posted at 04:44:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In college, I had 2 lines at my work. I'd predial the number on both lines, and just call and call and call. I too, was usually callers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and on and on.
In a span of a few months, I won:
The station got tired of me winning all the time, so they changed it to winning once every 6 months.
gochickenfat · 2 points · Posted at 03:56:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wasn't this in an episode of Frasier?
EaterOfFood · 3 points · Posted at 04:11:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If it is, then life indeed imitates art.
TravisGoraczkowski · 2 points · Posted at 05:35:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hahaha, I sometimes forget to say the station phone number too. We have 6-7 call in contests a day. Because of that I think half the town has us on speed dial, so it doesn't matter much anyway.
VisualBasic · 1 points · Posted at 05:37:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How was the Kenny G concert?
lexgrub · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My friend was runner up to winning the grand prize of this radio station. The prize was to have yellowcard play a private show in his living room for him and 12 friends. This was over 10 years ago btw. Anyway the person who did won didn't seem excited so my friend called in and complained that he was a bigger fan. They gave him the prize because I guess off the air the person who won backed out.
I got to go to the show it was awesome still can't believe that he somehow won that.
Jah-Eazy · 1 points · Posted at 06:22:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I called in once to win some tickets to something. I think it was supposed to be the 9th caller or whatever, but I called and asked if I was number nine, and the guy just said that I could be if I wanted to
GuyInAChair · 212 points · Posted at 00:39:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They would also go through the lines, say hello and if someone sounded even half way excited... " congrats you're number 6!" Mumbled bored people suck on air!
Also there's often not really an all request lunch hour. Often they have songs the PD says they have to play. Which means "Jim says on the text line he wants to hear some Taylor Swift" isn't actually Jim.
[deleted] · 41 points · Posted at 04:20:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Lonely_Kobold · 15 points · Posted at 05:21:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Congratulations! You're caller number six!
ninjagrover · 5 points · Posted at 03:11:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol. Bobby-Joe wants to hear his Talor Swift dang nabbit!
GuyInAChair · 10 points · Posted at 04:21:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You'll often get a mix of actual requests and songs that the station is promoting. Depending on the volume of calls you can often find enough people to get through a premade playlist all with live people, not that they are all from a playlist.
If you want to get a song on that's not in the current top 40, pick something that was really popular that everyone will know even if it's old. Like Nirvana or Garth Brooks. And be excited when you call in.
noahconstrictor95 · 6 points · Posted at 06:07:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Shit like this is why I love my local rock station so much. As long as it's rock that's come out in the last 30-40 years, and it can by some definition be defined as rock, they'll play it. One night it went from Nirvana to Kiss to fucking A Devil Wears Prada and then straight into freaking Muse. I love that station.
And since I know someone will ask, it's X97.3 The Bird out of Terre Haute.
afineedge · 4 points · Posted at 06:16:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thank you for not continuing the "none of the requests are real" thing I always see in TIL and the like. I worked in a gas station for a year or so and got bored as SHIT, so I spent a decent amount of time testing how extensive the local hip-hop station's library was.
punkerster101 · 2 points · Posted at 07:25:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Also happens they will go though a few people and tend to pick the one that will sound the best on air, most phone calls in my experience are prerecorded and then put to air, so you can edit out swearing etc
punkerster101 · 1 points · Posted at 07:27:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Most request shows I have seen are real, there is set music it's all on a pc and all scheduled in advance, however during request shows the DJ has a chance to change it.
Sure sometimes it can be slow and they can make the odd request up and there is also a station format so say on a top 40 station if someone requests thrash metal it isn't gonna get played
cailihphiliac · 1 points · Posted at 23:19:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My favourite station had a DJ who would refuse to take requests, unless you requested the song he was about to play anyway. He'd usually say what the song was, then someone would call and ask for it, and he'd play it for them.
I thought it was great.
RebootTheServer · 46 points · Posted at 00:56:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Its the 6th one they pick up not the 6th one to come through
Bobby_Booey · 83 points · Posted at 03:07:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I worked in radio for several years. You are dead wrong. First of all, we couldn't fuck around when it came to contests because we have to answer to the FCC and they don't mess around. Secondly, it's easy: Just go down the row of flashing lights (phone lines) and say, "You're caller one. Try again. You're caller two, try again". And so forth, until you get the winner. It's not rocket science, and it's not fake.
ImAtTheWrongTrack · 14 points · Posted at 05:10:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This guy radios. I've entered many and won two call in contests, and I've been on the receiving end of "You're caller number X, try again" multiple times. Sometimes you get a busy tone, but I assume that happens when you're caller 10+ when caller 9 wins.
I also won 2 tickets to the Indy 500 in a go cart race for people that were at least 6'6" tall or over 300 pounds that was broadcast on the local country station. I'm 6'5” 230 lbs, but they measured me in shoes and I wore cowboy boots, the carts were slow as all hell, we were encouraged to wreck each other, I finished 2nd by purposefully not wrecking anyone. The race was the Friday before the 500 so I had to scramble to make plans to attend. The seats weren't great, they were in the infield between 1 & 2 so you couldn't see much. An Asian family sat it front of us, and when Takuma Sato crashed on the 40 somethingth lap they got up and left looking really pissed off. The crowd really wanted Tony Kanaan to win, but Juan Pablo Montoya ended up drinking the milk.
SillyFlyGuy · 2 points · Posted at 21:53:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I won a pair of movie tickets on a radio show contest, mid week in the middle of the night. Caller 10 wins. I called in repeatedly and was caller 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. I figure it was me and one other guy.
punkerster101 · 0 points · Posted at 07:20:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I still work at a radio station as a broadcast engineer, FCC don't give a shit what we do since we arnt American. Also there is no flashing lights. It's all computerised and we have 30 lines. Check out an application called phone box and you'll get the idea of the interface
Bobby_Booey · 2 points · Posted at 22:14:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So your system is more advanced than the ones at the 2 radio stations that I worked for. That doesn't invalidate my statement.
Kingsolomanhere · 168 points · Posted at 00:04:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Actually, they had a four line phone. If I was first and they wanted the fifth, I would stay on as they moved down the line. When they got back to "1" I was the fifth and won. Used to take the computer about 15 seconds to disconnect so I never was. Drove them crazy how they could say 55th caller and I still would win.
jdr393 · 28 points · Posted at 03:27:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
All the radio station promos around me - you can only win once per year.
Montigue · 3 points · Posted at 05:47:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mine was once every 30 days and I knew to always call before a break because whomever made the next song suggestion by their choice of phone, Facebook, or text would win the tickets. However they did phone over half the time
aposdkpoa · 16 points · Posted at 03:58:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's just straight up a lie. Any proper radio station are able to sort in which order the calls were put in the queue.
So it's not just said for effect and I don't know what made you assume that.
punkerster101 · 0 points · Posted at 07:38:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because I'm a broadcast engineer..... mostly. When people dial in it comes up on a screen generally able to show the first 8 active calls people dial in and drop quickly is regular if you don't pick up straight away you could have had 10 plus calls cycle round just by the time you make it to the phones.
Alsadius · 5 points · Posted at 03:46:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They just pick up the receiver and put it back down five times(or high-tech equivalent), then actually answer the sixth. I've called into radio shows before, and while 90% of the time you just get a busy signal, sometimes it sounds like you've connected but you never actually hear anything, and then the line drops a second later.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 04:21:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Have 6 lines
Line one call forward busy to 2, cfb to 3, etc
Answer "line 6"
That's the sixth call
Unless I know the DID of your line6, in which case I'm calling line 6 directly haha
punkerster101 · 1 points · Posted at 07:36:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Last 2 stations I've been at have used an isdn30 with 30 lines each and it's on a computer with no real physical phone
withfinesse · 7 points · Posted at 04:06:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Apparently you've never been the 2nd caller...I have.
cunninglinguist32557 · 2 points · Posted at 05:09:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I won tickets once from a text line. They went to the 104th text sent. I sent about 10 of the same text in the span of 5 seconds and got 9 error messages before they finally told me I won. Something tells me they had an automated system set up to detect message 104, but who knows.
punkerster101 · 2 points · Posted at 07:35:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yea the text stuff is more regulated since it tends to be premium, all of it is automated
logicalthinker1 · 1 points · Posted at 03:32:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol I heard this from old radio guys and it never occurred to me that they could just pick a random caller, no matter who they said would win, and no one would know.
PurplePotamus · 1 points · Posted at 05:11:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I haven't done it in a few years, but 98 Rock in Baltimore would give the prize to the xth caller they picked up on. You would call in, and they'd tell you you're caller number whatever. They would usually have a little chat with you too, so it would take forever to get to the right number caller.
I used to assume that the contest was basically over after a few seconds, but they wouldn't get to the tenth caller for like 5 minutes
theniwokesoftly · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've called in and had them pick up and say "caller three" and hang up. It's the sixth one they pick up.
Fjohurs_Lykkewe · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Radio guy here- your fact is not a fact.
We have several lines. We pick up each line in order and say, "You're caller 1.", "You're caller 2", etc. Until we get there caller that we asked for.
Also, I could be wrong, but I believe that there are laws that say that if you ask for a certain caller, you have to go with that caller.
punkerster101 · 2 points · Posted at 07:33:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Also radio guy, hi :) maybe the rules are stricter in American for that sort of thing but it's fairly normal here. A lot of the stations use their frequencies say if they are 108.2 "if your caller 108 you win!"
OMGWhatsHisFace · 1 points · Posted at 06:24:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So how do they pick?
i_killed_hitler · 1 points · Posted at 06:27:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Huh. I always thought it was whatever the 6th line they got from hitting a random light on the phone line was.
punkerster101 · 1 points · Posted at 07:30:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In no modern studio I have been in in the last 10 years has had a physical phone. It's all via computer now
Canadianxwild · 1 points · Posted at 07:02:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Then how do they pick?
Frostedbagel · 6 points · Posted at 04:52:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My father works for Telstra and he mainly works on the phone lines. There was a contest to win Dolly Parton tickets and my mother really wanted them so he cut the phonelines for a moment and called up using an emergency phone (in case stuff like that happens). As predicted, he won the tickets.
rydan · 3 points · Posted at 02:44:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have five phone lines. Not sure why I haven't thought of this. Then I remembered I don't have a radio.
solidsnake2085 · 5 points · Posted at 04:56:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I work in radio now, we have a program that we input listener information. We need name, birthday, address. If you won in the last 30 days it red flags the winner. If you use a fake name you still have to show your ID when you pick up the prize.
gstormcrow80 · 2 points · Posted at 02:30:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mitnick.
Kingsolomanhere · 1 points · Posted at 10:24:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Glad that wasn't me
wanderluststricken · 409 points · Posted at 01:10:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not exactly a loophole, but still wanted to share.
My husband and I have date night at an arcade about once a month and spend $20-$40. One time we started playing one of those games where timing the coin right and getting it in the hole drops coins into a pile and once there's enough they get pushed off the edge and you get tickets for them. We got kind of addicted to it and it's super cheap to play but rewards a TON of tickets if you have the timing right. It stopped working and it turns out the coin tank was full and when the kid fixed it our credit and tickets went way up. It said we had like 100 plays left. We ended up winning so many tickets that night, but I also saw how small the tank is underneath. This is a very popular arcade in a total tourist town, so it fills up OFTEN.
I have another arcade story from when I was in high school. I was at the bowling alley with my friends and little sister. To keep her out of my hair I gave her a few quarters and she went to win toys. She comes back with her hands full of the toys, but I hadn't given her that much money. She also reached into her pocket and handed me the quarters back. The machine kept giving her the toy AND her quarter so she used it to clean out the entire machine. She asked to put them in my purse and went back to the machine, by the end of the night my purse was entirely filled with plastic dogs and ocean animals. When we were leaving I noticed two of the machines were completely empty.
jerisad · 16 points · Posted at 05:18:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh you reminded me of the time the skeeball machine kept giving me free games after I'd paid for like 3. I skeeballed so hard I was sweating like mad, I got so many tickets, so many bouncey balls.
cunninglinguist32557 · 8 points · Posted at 05:27:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I played an arcade version of temple run that was supposed to be timed, but somehow I got it to keep going indefinitely. My score kept racking up as long as I stayed alive, and by the time i finally lost, i ended up earning hundreds of tickets.
ambiguoustaco · 24 points · Posted at 02:48:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A bowling alley near me had something simmilar, but with gumballs. If you shook the machine like 4 gumballs would fall out for free
losangelesvideoguy · 47 points · Posted at 04:42:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well that's just called theft
nijpep · 15 points · Posted at 05:04:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Aren't most loopholes though?
losangelesvideoguy · 22 points · Posted at 05:10:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Admittedly, it's a fine line between taking advantage of a legal method to receive an unanticipated gain, and outright getting something without paying for it. But it is definitely a line.
AccountWasFound · 3 points · Posted at 12:45:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd say if the problem is on their end (spits money out with what you buy, without you modifying the machine) then it isn't stealing, they just did a shit job on their end
FPSXpert · 1 points · Posted at 18:34:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Another gumball machine at the local mall would drop out a free one if you turned it backwards instead of normally. That was raided quick.
elv1shcr4te · 4 points · Posted at 06:23:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There are machines at my arcade where you drop a coin into a slot and it lands in the middle of a rotating disc. It then gets pushed slowly to the edge where there are different prizes depending on where it ends up. Some careful watching and about 5-10 coins practice and you can nail the jackpot every time. Each coin played would bump up the jackpot until it was won, even if you won a smaller prize. I'd wait until the jackpot was high and win it every time.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 06:06:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dude...date night at an arcade. You and your husband are doing things right. What a fun ass relationship.
wanderluststricken · 6 points · Posted at 14:38:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I always look forward to it! We always win a plushie to take home to our dog and then pick up some ice cream on the way home. We have so much fun.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 09:54:53 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
That is amazing, and one day I seriously hope to have a girlfriend who would enjoy a trip to the arcade. Kudos to you, unicorn.
wanderluststricken · 1 points · Posted at 11:00:13 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
They're out there!
sanhozay · 2 points · Posted at 06:33:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There used to be a vending machine at my local skatepark that would read your quarters as you put it in but would spit it tight back out. Literally stood there buying everyone stuff until the machine was emptied out
ivanwarrior · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That poor arcade is going to be out of business. But I guess that what happens when you skimp on maintenance.
wanderluststricken · 2 points · Posted at 17:53:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's less than $10 of play that we get for free. That doesn't even happen every time we go and we only go once a month. We spend more than that and I doubt they will be going out of business. They must be doing very well considering how often they get new games. This is a large arcade on a small island just off of the mainland. The island is completely full of tourists and the arcade is crowded every night of the week. They'll be fine.
Goodgardo · 1 points · Posted at 06:23:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Go to bed, kid.
nerbovig · 1 points · Posted at 06:33:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Something tells me your marriage is going to last forever.
wanderluststricken · 2 points · Posted at 14:39:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I hope so! It's all about having fun together!
fl_boyy_collin · 348 points · Posted at 22:41:13 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not me but I've seen people go to Walmart to buy those giant pools at the beginning of summer and then proceed to return it at the end of the summer.
[deleted] · 185 points · Posted at 01:03:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When ever one of my friends come visits me from out of town, almost always he buys an inflatable bed from Walmart when he gets in town, and on the last day he's here, he would return it.
Blackfyre2007 · 38 points · Posted at 03:40:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They don't allowed air mattresses to be returned now. Told me friend to try this and there is a sign posted near that that says we no longer except returns on air mattresses.
better_off_red · 5 points · Posted at 04:32:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Might depend on the store. I actually saw this today and it said the window was 15 days.
vivaenmiriana · 5 points · Posted at 01:12:30 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
as someone who worked at service desk for walmart for 2 years and whose husband works for it now, it's printed policy and has been for over a year.
matresses can only be exchanged for a mattress of equal or greater value.
Blackfyre2007 · 3 points · Posted at 04:41:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
True highly possible. I've noticed different Walmart prices will vary and cary different items.
mroperator · 3 points · Posted at 05:43:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think this isn't a company-wide policy. I returned an air mattress this past summer.
Blackfyre2007 · 3 points · Posted at 05:49:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I saw these signs up in late October early November.
mroperator · 1 points · Posted at 06:15:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ahh ok. Interesting. So what happens if it's a faulty product? Like mine was actually fucked up.
kolboldbard · 5 points · Posted at 06:24:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
generally, you can exchange it for an Identical product.
vivaenmiriana · 2 points · Posted at 01:13:14 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
or one of greater value
VROF · 6 points · Posted at 04:05:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Costco accepts them. He should go there next time
Kaiser-Saucier · 11 points · Posted at 04:41:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Costco takes anything back
JackLyo17 · 5 points · Posted at 05:31:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My ex-girlfriend's mom once saw someone return an eaten watermelon and the took it back...
iheartcatsandcoffee · 7 points · Posted at 05:06:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I still feel guilty for returning a 2 year old sofa to Costco for a full refund..... but then again if that's their policy then who's fault is it really?!!
Ghost17088 · 25 points · Posted at 05:44:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're not wrong, you're just an asshole.
Resevoir_Dog · 3 points · Posted at 05:53:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why did you return it?
poobicus · 16 points · Posted at 06:06:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
it was 2 years old
iheartcatsandcoffee · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Honestly, we hated it. Very uncomfortable. We should have returned it sooner but life got in the way and we didn't get around to it so we had resorted to keeping it. Then we were moving to a different state and didn't want to take it with us so we had a lot of people telling us to return it and when we called and asked if they would they said it would be ok to return so we did it.
Resevoir_Dog · 3 points · Posted at 18:44:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thats a good reason. I wouldve done it too
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:07:11 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'll let him know. Last time he was down here was a few years ago, so he hasn't tried since.
ElBiscuit · -1 points · Posted at 06:27:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If the sign is worded exactly as you wrote it, you could argue that they'd have to allow it. If they "no longer except" a return, that means they don't treat it differently from other returns, so they do accept it.
Unless that was your own misspelling.
Blackfyre2007 · 1 points · Posted at 06:36:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Definitely meant accept. I think it stated you could exchange if damaged.
Powerballwinner21mil · 3 points · Posted at 06:18:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My friend does that with mattress pads whenever he travels
kninjaknitter · 2 points · Posted at 14:52:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've had to do that once when we were in a move and forgot our air mattress. I felt so guilty doing it but also like I didn't have much of a financial choice lol
irishGOP413 · 180 points · Posted at 02:06:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Home Depot used to accept returns on pretty much anything. People would literally return Easter lilies after Easter was over and they'd be fully refunded.
[deleted] · 25 points · Posted at 04:14:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Confession: Sometimes I treat Home Depot as free rental for tools.
deltarefund · 13 points · Posted at 06:13:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Needed an obscure drill bit for a job and the guy at Lowes said "just buy this one and return when you're done" and handed me a super mangled package. Said everyone does it because you'd never need the tool more than once.
ChaosFinalForm · 3 points · Posted at 07:22:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wow. Wonder if that guy is running the company yet.
deltarefund · 3 points · Posted at 13:43:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Got me to thinking that they really should just rent it out, along with other obscure things. I didn't want to pay $15 but it But would have rented it for $5.
thel3l · 0 points · Posted at 07:57:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah, he's probably out of a job.
therasmus · -1 points · Posted at 15:03:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a home depot employee. Stop.
[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 02:45:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some people refer to REI as Return Every Item. I think they updated their return policy recently, but there was a time you could get some camping gear from a second hand store, then return it to REI, didn't even matter if they sold it, they would give you back the original price.
VROF · 9 points · Posted at 04:06:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The real benefit of this policy was the REI yard sales full of hardly used gear for super cheap. We used to get some GREAT shit at those.
joshuathewizard · 4 points · Posted at 04:17:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How does that even happen without a sku or upc? Original price or second hand store price? Could I have returned a 10 year old tent at REI for a full refund of the original purchase price no matter where it was originally purchased from?
thebigdirty · 1 points · Posted at 04:54:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
as far as i know, it was typically done with REI branded items.
draginator · 3 points · Posted at 05:17:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They still do, I have no problem overestimating what I need for a project because I know I can just take it back the next time whenever that is.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:14:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
that's shitty. poor lilies :(
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:46:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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cailihphiliac · 1 points · Posted at 23:22:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you carry the ladder home and back to the store?
nupanick · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well, now I understand that homestar runner joke about "returning an omelette to a hardware store."
SladeRipfire · 15 points · Posted at 00:08:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did this once with a window AC unit while waiting for my HVAC unit to be repaired.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:55:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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InternetUser007 · 19 points · Posted at 03:54:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How is that revenge at all?
shrk352 · 3 points · Posted at 05:00:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My family did that with a blow up water trampoline. It sat in the lake all summer then one part sprung a leak. So we returned it to Sam's under the warranty for a full refund. Next summer did the same thing.
Invincible_Yoshi · 2 points · Posted at 05:14:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I knew a person who would buy all sorts of pricey party supplies (think stereos, etc) and then return them after the party was over. Helped I'm sure that she was the customer service manager, so she knew about the loophole.
nodnizzle · 1 points · Posted at 06:12:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What's sad is that you're working your ass off and have to use loopholes like that to get shit for your party.
Invincible_Yoshi · 2 points · Posted at 16:47:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Absolutely! She did too. I made it sound like it was a bad thing what she did, but honestly when you work retail, that's the kind of stuff you gotta do sometimes.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:17:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's a shit ton of people that do this with camping gear for Coachella at the Indio Walmart.
ParachuteIsAKnapsack · 2 points · Posted at 06:24:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Related story. Few friends of mine did the same with bikes they bought at Walmart for college. Bought it at the beginning of fall semester and returned it before winter kicked in, in time for the 100 day return policy.
Kukri187 · 2 points · Posted at 18:49:29 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Me and a buddy were on TDY orders for the military for a month. We were put in a hotel that the Army paid for, and had brought an Xbox, but the tv was old, this was pre play panel tvs, and didn't have the connections for the Xbox, so we went to Walmart and dropped 200 for a decent tv, at the end of the orders, I took it to a different Walmart and returned it, essentially renting it for free minus gas, which the Army paid for.
Need_vagina_pix_nao · 5 points · Posted at 02:26:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Then the entrepreneurs turn around and buy that returned shit for 15 cents on dollar and open a truckload liquidation store selling shit for 60 cents on dollar.
asciisii · 193 points · Posted at 02:51:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In junior high our local pizza place had a gumball machine, and if you popped a black gumball you got a free whole pizza. A Vietnamese restaurant around a 5 minute drive away had a gumball machine except they only gave the exact same black gumballs. You can tell what my friends and I did for three years!
vacax · 12 points · Posted at 06:21:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A lot of people are confusing loopholes with scams.
Heineken008 · 2 points · Posted at 00:32:56 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mossimos pizza?
lizardscum · 5 points · Posted at 04:45:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
you tried really hard to get the rare black gumball because cheaters are not cool ?
Coffeechipmunk · 39 points · Posted at 05:56:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
do you know what thread you are in
ElBiscuit · 11 points · Posted at 06:19:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The thread where people don't know the difference between a legitimate loophole and outright fraud? Is that the one?
Coffeechipmunk · 12 points · Posted at 06:20:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
yes
asciisii · 3 points · Posted at 06:25:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Aye I understand that it was a dick move. Not trying to make excuses but we ended up only doing that once a year, but doesn't discount the fact that we were junior high assholes :(
Stau0237 · 602 points · Posted at 01:19:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in college and I procrastinated a paper or something that had to be emailed to the professor, I would send them an email, saying the assignment was attached but didn't attach anything.
By the time the professor emailed me back saying it wasn't attached, I had time to finish the assignment and wouldn't get a deduction for it being late as it was "an honest mistake".
Only used it a few times, but it really saved my ass a few times.
Edit: clarification
Wolfloner · 219 points · Posted at 02:34:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have a feeling I know why my professors didn't let us e-mail things, and we had to turn in papers and such through an online classroom.
ninuson1 · 6 points · Posted at 05:36:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm a teacher assistant in our local university (grad student looking for money and helping profs grade student assignments). We use an online classroom for our students too.
I still get at least a few students per assignment that either upload a corrupt file or "failed to upload and sent an email with attachment that wasn't there". Most of the time there's no penalty, as per the professor's instructions.
He doesn't care, we don't care. The deadline is there mostly to make most people submit it on time - if you have half of an excuse, most profs will let it slide (especially if you contacted them before the deadline).
WolfeBane84 · 4 points · Posted at 05:39:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's when you step up your game and build a custom "corrupted text" document (no converting pictures to text you pleebs) and attach that.
Willtheemulator · 4 points · Posted at 06:25:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is one reason I don't accept emailed work. Everything has to be submitted on Blackboard or a hard copy in class. I straight up tell students that it's an automatic zero if I can't open their files, and it's pretty easy to convince them that I know how to use a computer well enough to catch their bullshit. In reality I'm more lenient (I accept late work for reduced credit and as long as you get it to me before I'm done grading everything else, which is usually about two days, I won't even consider it late... it's really just about keeping things organized).
Plus, keeping track of emails and opening attachments is just inconvenient. And Blackboard/physical paper makes it easier to directly provide feedback on assignments (as opposed to having to email back a Word document with tracked changes or printing something extra out).
Oreo_ · 34 points · Posted at 03:10:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah the hardest professors don't really play that game anymore. You don't submit it on time you're late. Should have printed it and brought it in if you didn't check to make sure it was attached
DrRazmataz · 125 points · Posted at 03:03:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, in line with that, there's also the one where you corrupt the file you send, and then apologetically send it later.
WolfeBane84 · 14 points · Posted at 05:41:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, no no.
That's your mistake, what college student actually CHECKS the email they sent. And if they were that kind of person why would they wait hours to check it.
You wait for the professor to send back "can't see your shit, son" and THEN you send the assignment.
SirensToGo · 22 points · Posted at 04:52:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had to turn in this huge paper with a video component. The video was at least half the work but I didn't do it. I knew, however, that with the paper being so long he wouldn't get around to reading it for at least a week so I setup a shared Google Drive folder and just put the link to the folder and put the link to the folder on the paper. Turned it in, used a week of complete free time to do the video component, dropped it in the folder, changed the date. Everything worked out perfectly. Realistically there was no way of knowing unless he managed to get to the link before I uploaded because using Google Apps Script you can edit all the file attributes.
Moral of the story, papers with digital components means extra time.
Qorinthian · 8 points · Posted at 05:05:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How do you change the date? Doesn't Drive have an Activities window that shows when something was uploaded?
SirensToGo · 12 points · Posted at 05:16:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sorry, looks like I was wrong about the bulletproofness of this.It turns out I changed the last modified date and misremembered it as changing the raw upload date which is in fact immutable. By default the file inspector side panel doesn't show (and if it does, it's set to activity by default). By setting last modified to before the due date that's what he likely saw on the file list if he even bothered to look. If you give no reason to be suspicious, they won't bother to check anyways.
Canada4 · 9 points · Posted at 06:18:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I ended up having to retake a course because of an honest mistake, it was a mandatory advanced stats course. We worked in groups of 3 to "help develop team work like we would have to do in the field" luckily I had 2 friends in the class.
We always divided the questions evenly as possible making sure on average it was always even. We had a 2-2-1 split one day that was worth 15% of our final grade and I was in charge of compiling the answers into one document. I compile all them together to submit the next morning. Then I get a message at around 11:30pm that one of my team mates noticed a mistake in his answer so he sends a file with the fix. I input the fix into the file and save a new copy of our assignment.
Two weeks later we get out grades back, a measly 1%. I think this must be an error so I downloaded the graded assignment. The file I submitted was just the fix, not our full assignment. Both files had the same name. In a panic I email the Professor and explain what happened with an attachment of the completed assignment. She said after grading that she cannot re grade the assignment. It dropped my average just enough that I didn't qualify for a mandatory 4th year course needed to graduate.
noprotein · 4 points · Posted at 09:27:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Grades can totally get changed. What a shit.
camlop · 6 points · Posted at 03:48:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sdsu profs wouldn't fall for this... Sdsu students love cheating
MiddleBodyInjury · 8 points · Posted at 04:44:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Both in class work and on each other I hear
BadgerUltimatum · 13 points · Posted at 02:01:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Might still work if using an offline computer to finish the files but many programs now save the time of last edit.
jacktheBOSS · 7 points · Posted at 03:17:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Or more convincingly, change the time on the computer/file.
PM_ME_DICK_PICTURES · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can't do that on Google Docs
Jess593 · 6 points · Posted at 02:46:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep. I know this one all to well. Or attach the wrong doc.
BiddyFoFiddy · 11 points · Posted at 03:22:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One time I actually created a document (word or printed pdf, cant remember), made sure the file size looked legit, then opened the file in a hex editor and spammed on the keyboard. This corrupted the file and made it throw an error while opening.
By the time the professor tries to open the file and sees the error, I had the actual paper finished and just "re-saved" it and sent it.
empirebuilder1 · 4 points · Posted at 04:27:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used something similar when I got in over-my-head in an online Spanish class. I only took the class because it was "recommended", but I really don't have a head for languages. Plus, the course was built kind of shit to start with.
Anyway, at the time I took the class I had the shittiest of the shit old desktop that would bluescreen about once every two days on Windows XP. It also had RAM errors so that anything in the last ~200mb of RAM would get corrupt at random. Our internet was ALSO shit, tended to lose about 5-8% of all packets and ran at near-dialup speeds for weeks at a time. I abused all of these situations, since both my parents and my teacher knew of the situation, by getting into a couple online tests that I knew I had no chance of answering and spamming random altcodes to fill the submission form with gibberish. Blame the computer or internet, bam easy 80% (since that was my teacher's default grade for technical issues).
57stout · 9 points · Posted at 03:45:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Works better if you open the file in notepad and remove some of the text, then resave it. The link looks good but it corrupts the file
Spart33 · 5 points · Posted at 03:17:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did something similar, I would edit my half finished files and corrupt them and upload them. Gave me an extra week or two before they would ask me to reupload my assignment.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:50:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was the tech kid in high school and I corrupted the file and sent it. I then blamed the shitty school ICT.
Jumbobie · 3 points · Posted at 05:33:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
On the first physics lab I had this semester, the copy I sent didn't have my student number attached to it. The bastard TA didn't even bother to tell me there was an issue.
theniwokesoftly · 3 points · Posted at 05:34:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One time I was taking a test through blackboard, but this was like... 2004? So early days of blackboard. It was mostly multiple choice and then an essay. I was bombing the essay hard and ended up submitting it late, with the essay not in great shape. The professor came up to me in class the next day and told me blackboard said I hadn't submitted, that I was still taking it. I told him I had submitted it. He had IT or someone fish it out and it came out with the essay totally garbled, bt by that point it had been a few days and this was a summer term course so it was three weeks long. So he ended up grading me on the multiple choice only, giving me a 96% where if the essay had gone through I probably wouldn't have gotten better than 75%.
ceribus_peribus · 3 points · Posted at 07:11:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did something similar [once] back in undergrad:
There were two labs due on the same day, one at 8am and the other at 1pm. The lab reports had to be physically written out in standard hardcover A90 lab books and deposited into the corresponding professor’s drop box outside their office by the deadline. As of 6am my afternoon report was finished but I realized I needed more time on the morning one.
So at quarter to eight, I put the afternoon lab book into the drop box for the course that was due at 8, and went off to a lounge to complete the (now overdue) writeup.
At noon I went to the professor’s office with my late lab book in hand and a sob story about mixing them up. “I was up all night finishing them... they’re so similar... I must have gotten them backwards… was on my way to drop this one off but it’s for your class, you must have my book for the other class in your pile there…” and so on.
I think he was suspicious but he bought it and let me exchange books so I could run off and get the other lab submitted on time.
Twocann · 3 points · Posted at 07:23:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haha reminds me of my buddy. Day of turning in a paper, he'd go " oh it's on my floppy disc, just let me print it" and he'd friggin snap the thing and go "oops it broke in my bag". Not like there was anything in it to begin with, but the look of the teachers face literally watching him try to hide breaking the damn thing was hilarious.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 03:48:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can't you change the file extension on a picture to .doc so it looks like it's corrupted and then email it in? I remember reading that somewhere
drazilraW · 11 points · Posted at 04:20:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is dangerous because not all software will pay attention to the extension. If you sent an image like that to me, my OS would open it as an image rather than a word document regardless of the extension.
toric5 · 5 points · Posted at 05:24:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
yup. thats why you open a hex editor and mess around with as many lines as you can.
ISwearNotANarc · 2 points · Posted at 05:00:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
To tag off of this, if you ever want to get away with it. You can take a picture, rename it to YourTitleName.docx (renaming the extension from .jpg to .docx) and it would basically be a bunch of gibberish on a document. Upload and submit it. When your teacher confronts you, say you have no idea what happened and must have messed up when uploading and give them the real document (by that time you'll be able to finish it).
jerog1 · 5 points · Posted at 05:45:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
make the original jpg a picture of you shrugging playfully just in case they catch on and switch it back
tssop · 2 points · Posted at 05:32:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've been known to email in a paper - by taking a random word doc, opening it in Notepad++, and removing some random pieces.
Professor tries to open it and is greeted by a "corrupted file" error.
"Sorry, my bad. Something must have happened with the email".
Needmofunneh · 2 points · Posted at 05:53:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fun fact, if you open a word document in notepad and delete a few of the seemingly random characters, it totally fucks the word document up. I have done that a few times, and when I get the invariable reply of "your file got corrupted!" I'll send a real version in.
I managed to convince one English professor that it was just plain incompatible from PC to Mac by opening "the same file" on my laptop infront of her. Doing that got me off the hook for papers for quite some time, as she would "just grade it on her PC at home". Bitch, I know that paper wasn't worth 98%, it was a file that I corrupted that only read "lolfreepoints".
Snow_Wonder · 2 points · Posted at 05:57:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've done that but feel so dang guilty I only do it when I'm desperate. What's better too is my computer sometimes randomly has this glitch where it sometimes can't upload things to the internet, including attaching files to an email. I can get around with the windows mail which acts differently for whatever reason, but I don't when I need more time. I can then "prove" to my teacher the next day I couldn't email it and then just bring it in on paper. It's awesome.
GetOutOfBox · 2 points · Posted at 06:20:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was a shameless teenager and tried that, my teacher essentially said "It's your responsibility to make sure you send the assignment properly" and he was right. In my case I didn't get shit but if you have a really nice teacher they might accept it with a 10-30% late deduction, and if they accept it with no punishment they are straight up pussies because I and others like me needed to be put in our place. Start earlier, or if you truly deserve more time be honest and ask for more time, be willing to compromise on the final grade.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:27:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've never done it, but I think a tactic at my school is to fudge something up with the file so it doesn't open right. That way it looks like an error when the teacher attempts to view the work and they just ask the student to resubmit it without penalty. Not your fault that the file somehow got corrupted. That or the teacher will get an email from the student the day following the deadline exclaiming the fact that they'd uploaded the rough draft version and not the final version, oops! Here's the correct one. Some teachers will accept that thinking it was just an honest mistake.
pumpkin_blumpkin · 2 points · Posted at 06:31:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A guy I work with was telling me about the time he did something similar to this with a paper he had assigned. He knew he'd need more time so sent the professor a file named whatever the paper was on and sized the right amount, but then he corrupted the file so it didn't open anything. By the time someone got to opening it he had the paper done and sent them it with the same name as the other corrupted file.
bitchSphere · 2 points · Posted at 06:32:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would do this too, and I also would edit the file data to show the creation date and last edited date as before the deadline.
ent_bomb · 2 points · Posted at 06:34:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I once turned in a floppy with my "essay" on it. It was some sound or graphic file renamed with .doc and it somehow crashed my teacher's school computer when she tried to open it. She couldn't enter grades for about a week, so all of her classes got A's on our progress reports.
InsomniacKat · 2 points · Posted at 06:35:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hahaha I've done this too. Works like a charm.
Canadianxwild · 2 points · Posted at 07:24:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is gold.
ChaosFinalForm · 2 points · Posted at 07:26:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I do this at work sometimes! Super handy for meeting deadlines on reports and stuff. Can't abuse it though or they'll start to think you're a moron.
Slutfur · 2 points · Posted at 19:40:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some jackasses in a college class of mine went full lazy and decided to corrupt their PDFs of their papers, thinking they could get away with never having to do it cause their "source file was ruined"
thisdude415 · 1 points · Posted at 06:13:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Honestly if you are a hard working student and have tons going on, lots of professors are surprisingly ok with granting an extension to hard working students if you ask about 1-2 days in advance.
_Nathan_37 · 1 points · Posted at 06:27:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Really? I used to do that, but now I just go into notepad and corrupt the file, works better, especially if your teachers don't think you know anything about technology.
hesitantmaneatingcat · 1 points · Posted at 07:07:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've sent attachments that somehow didn't get received even though it looked all good from my end. Tried to explain, still got docked. Depends on the professor I presume.
notdanb · 1 points · Posted at 14:42:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
By accident, I made the default boot on the laptop I'd used in college lead to a crash screen (you had to open the boot menu to get to the actual OS). I would tell professors that my computer crashed all the time, and I'd almost always get an extension.
Also--size 14 periods make any page requirement paper a joke.
KonyAteMyDog · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A lot of profs won't give you the benefit of the doubt and will dock your grade, you got lucky
Saemika · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've definitely abused the "oh god, I'm so sorry" line in college. Most professors are people too, and if you're polite they tend to give a handful of get out of jail free cards.
cndman · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did something similar. Saved an mp3 or something as a docx file. Obviously it wouldn't open. Bought myself some more time.
anymanfitness · 316 points · Posted at 01:36:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a freshman in high school, we had a pop vending machine.
When you pushed the bottom two selections at the same time, the machine would dispel all of the dimes inside of it.
An upperclassman told me the trick, and I used it for a full year before someone figured it out and fixed the bug.
Every day, I would go into the cafe, push those two buttons, take 5 dimes, pump them back into the machine for the next guy, and grab my Cherry Coke.
It was pretty much the highlight of my life up to that point.
TwitchBoy · 12 points · Posted at 05:21:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Somehow we triggered some sort of glitch on our vending machine by pressing all the buttons at once a few times. Not quite sure how it worked, but it caused the money display to go haywire and start counting up in intervals of 10 cents up to about $8.00, then it would suddenly crash back down to $0.00 then to $1.00 before counting back up again. If you hit a selection button at that exact moment it would spit out a free pop.
Picture if you will a crowd of about 20 thoroughly entertained people standing around the machine furiously jabbing buttons until the principal put a stop to it.
LaterGatorPlayer · 2 points · Posted at 05:34:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
what's been the highlight of your life since then?
anymanfitness · 2 points · Posted at 01:05:06 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Getting over 300 upvotes on this thread.
selfishflesh · 2 points · Posted at 08:55:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My highschool pop machine was glitchy too. One day I couldn't make up my mind between coke and rootbeer so I hit both ... and both came out. This would work about 75% of the time.
I was really bummed when they replaced the machine :(
theskepticalsquid · 1 points · Posted at 05:11:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This same thing used to happen at my old high school!!!
ivanwarrior · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Good on you for putting them back into the machine. A lesser man would have just pocketed them.
[deleted] · 221 points · Posted at 03:04:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in middle school our sex ed class made us take home these baby dolls that would cry at random times in the middle of the night. When they cried, we had to turn a key in their backs and hold it there until they stopped crying, which could be as long as 90 minutes. The teacher could download a grade from the baby when we brought it back to school. It was basically to show us what it was like to have a new baby and scare us out of having kids.
Anyway, I found that if I took a hair tie and twisted it around the baby's neck, I could get enough tension to hold the key in place when it was crying. So it would start crying, I would turn the key once and toss it back in the closet. I ended up getting a full night's rest and an A.
Needless to say, I'm 30 and married and we are not planning on having kids like ever.
MattxG908 · 146 points · Posted at 05:40:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The real LPT is that tying a hair tie around a babies neck stops it from crying...
ChaosFinalForm · 4 points · Posted at 07:30:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
r/nocontext
st_owly · 2 points · Posted at 13:36:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The real LPT is always in the comments.
PM-ME-SOMETHING-GOOD · 55 points · Posted at 05:29:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The teacher had you wake up in the middle of the night and stay awake for up to 90 minutes? What the fuck that should be illegal.
TarzoEzio1 · 10 points · Posted at 06:32:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think it is.
Jumaai · 10 points · Posted at 05:58:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Funny thing, those baby dolls apparently have the opposite effect
Goodgardo · 5 points · Posted at 06:26:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This works with real babies as well btw.
WildflowerE42 · 5 points · Posted at 05:42:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had those too but the key was on what looked like a hospital bracelet attached to your wrist and if you cut it off, you automatically failed. And if the baby sensed that it was upside down you failed too, so you had to contort your wrist to actually turn the key in the baby's back.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 14:05:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sounds like the parenting philosophy I developed when I dated a girl who had two kids: "The problem isn't that the baby is crying; the problem is that I can hear the baby crying. If I turn off the baby monitor, the problem is solved."
187TROOPER · 4 points · Posted at 07:52:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In our Home Ec class, we also had to take home a baby. There were sensors in the neck that would record how many times you let the neck fall all the way back. There were also magnetic sensors on the mouth and on the butt. A diaper and a bottle both had magnets in them that had to line up so it would recognize that we changed the diaper and fed it. Well, we discovered that if you put the diaper over the babies head, it activated the magnet for eating. Combine this with a rope going from the babies neck to the babies feet to prevent head tilt, we really just gained experience on how to torture a baby.
All the students had to keep it over the weekend and by using this trick, it really made the job much easier. It looked similiar to this. http://www.cornerstorkbabygifts.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/diaper-aboy1.jpg
AnxietyAttack2013 · 2 points · Posted at 06:52:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Holy shit my ex had to do one of those fake baby doll things back in high school. My best friend and I would punt it around at a park when we were bored, We'd play football with it as the ball, dropkicking, just stupid shit like that. Somehow she still passed with like an A or some shit.
smogt3ch · 2 points · Posted at 06:55:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had kind of the same electronic babies. I found out that if you put it in your trunk next to your subs, it completely erases all the saved info. I was sure i was going to fail because i just didn't care. Teacher gave me an A because the data was gone
Milo359 · 2 points · Posted at 07:41:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is this the South?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No. it was the northeast
Milo359 · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Holy shit what.
What state?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:36:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
New Jersey. But I'm pretty sure they do that project in a bunch of different states.
ratchet457l · 2 points · Posted at 06:20:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've never heard of that and it sounds pretty fucking stupid to be honest.
"Hey, lets teach kids to wear protection by making them think kids are the devil so they don't repopulate and the human race dies off."
Medarco · 2 points · Posted at 06:32:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's pretty good at getting stupid high school kids to realize what a huge fucking commitment another human being is. You bet they're gonna wrap it up if they understand even a part of what real parenthood is like.
ratchet457l · 2 points · Posted at 07:35:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
But as you can see from the original post it's not something that only affects the teenagers and then they magically forgot when they are at an age and time where they feel like they want a baby.
alwaysmyfault · 262 points · Posted at 04:30:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This happened to a friend of mine, and was 10+ years ago, so bear with me on the details.
2005, McDonald's teamed with Best Buy for their annual McDonald's monopoly game. The promo was, for every large fries or pop, you'd get a coupon for two dollars off a Best Buy purchase. If you wrote to McDonald's and requested a game piece, and sent them an SASE (self addressed stamped envelope), they'd mail you some game pieces, including a two dollar Best Buy coupon.
My friend read the rules, and then researched state laws regarding promotions like this, and he discovered that Vermont (or maybe it was New Hampshire) has a law that forbids companies from requiring you to send in an SASE. So what he did is he set up a UPS drop box in Vermont (we live in a state 1500 miles away), and proceeded to send in 5000 letters to McDonald's, asking for game pieces to be sent to his UPS box.
Once they were all delivered, my friend paid UPS to box em up, and deliver them. Total investment was about 50 bucks in envelopes, 2000 dollars in postage, and 100 bucks delivery cost.
Once he got the pieces, he wrote down all the codes off them, and stored them in an excel file for use later on. So now he has 5000 game pieces worth 10k dollars. You think that the story ends there, right? Nope.
He decided he was going to try redeem some at the local Best Buy, so he went there with like 150 of em to buy an ipod (again, this was 2005ish). It worked, and he noticed they didn't even scan the codes or anything, they simply counted them out, and applied them to his total.
So what he did was went to various Best Buys in the area, doing the same thing. Buying ipods with the intention of selling them on ebay, since they go for almost full value and were easy to sell. Finally, one store actually did ban him since they thought he stole the coupons, but he was able to use them all, and obtained 10000 dollars in ipods.
But remember the excel file he had? Since the stores weren't scanning the coupons, he was still able to use all 5000 codes on the Best Buy website to buy even more ipods.
Altogether he ended up with 20k dollars worth of ipods for about a 2100 dollar initial investment.
Unethical? Yes. Illegal? Meh, maybe. Ingenius? Definitely.
TheGr8CokeMan · 41 points · Posted at 05:18:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I mean, it's technically legal.
pineapple13v2 · 66 points · Posted at 05:53:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Technically legal, the best kind of legal
TheGr8CokeMan · 13 points · Posted at 06:05:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I guess that's technically true, the best kind of true.
Motiv3z · 9 points · Posted at 04:50:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Win win win
BananaStandRecords · 3 points · Posted at 06:17:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did this same thing, on a smaller scale and I had to send the SASE. I invested about $800 and made $2-3K easy. I knew right away that the next year I was going to go so big into it. , but sadly they didn't do the Best Buy half again.
darkstarohio · 6 points · Posted at 06:36:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a friend do something very similar, but with the Victoria's Secret promo cards. Turns out, you can just send in the SASE and get a card that could be worth somewhere between like $5 and $500. You're not supposed to be able to tell what the value is until use... Unless you just go to the website, add one item to your cart, apply the code, but never complete the transaction.
He sells them to friends for a 2:1 ratio. He made like $800 profit last time he did it. For an afternoon or two of mindless repetition, it's not a bad return on investment.
pm_your_lifehistory · 1306 points · Posted at 02:15:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
By law if you send a cease and desist to a bill collector they have to stop calling you. They owe you 500 dollars for each call they send out after the cease and desist is given.
A bill collector robocalling system didnt stop calling me if I had the phone off and no voicemail service was configured.
I had a lawyer send a cease and desist at 5:29 pm on a friday of a 3 day weekend via fax, and turned my brand new no voicemail configured phone off.
And that is how I paid my student loans.
Darth_Corleone · 301 points · Posted at 03:25:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How did you determine that they'd called you with the phone off and no voicemail configured? To my knowledge, my phone won't show me a log of who called at what time while the phone is switched off.
I'm gonna try now, actually!
edit -- yeah.... no. It doesn't show up in the Logs as a received call when the phone is off for me. Maybe it's different where you're from. I'm in the US on AT&T.
pm_your_lifehistory · 268 points · Posted at 03:28:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was at the time an automation engineer for a major Telecom so I had a hint on how it worked. That and I looked at the call records.
Edit: I looked at them after lawyer sent a spreadsheet of them. Sorry wasn't clear before. He got them no idea how.
Darth_Corleone · 83 points · Posted at 03:31:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You were able to access the call records from the Provider side??? Is this something anyone can do, or only because you were working for the major telcom???
I'm not calling bullshit, I'm curious how it works...
gabeech · 32 points · Posted at 05:01:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Two ways:
Look at your DETAILED bill. Some carriers will show failed calls.
Hire a lawyer to subeona the Call Detail Records (CDRs).
The records exist on the carrier side even if the call doesnt connect to your phone.
Darth_Corleone · 1 points · Posted at 12:03:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Subpoena would do it!
pm_your_lifehistory · 67 points · Posted at 04:27:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No my lawyer did it. I have no idea how he got the phone records. I was the one that figured out how the robocalling bug worked since I had encountered the same bug.
Archsys · 12 points · Posted at 05:23:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can subpoena call records, certainly... you can usually just request them from your service, though, for incoming calls...
Darth_Corleone · 1 points · Posted at 12:03:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thx for taking time to answer!
stoprockandrollkids · 14 points · Posted at 03:57:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
yeah i second that, would love to know how this works
[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 04:34:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you have sprint call logs are in the bill pdf.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 04:13:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can see call records from my wireless provider
yakri · 3 points · Posted at 05:44:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure about the specifics, and it may vary by state, but ofc your provider has all this information and can be required to hand it over given the correct legal situation. Probably his lawyer filled out some kind of request for the data. I doubt they're too tight asked about customers requesting their own info anyway.
Seyon · 2 points · Posted at 08:54:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can log-on to my carriers website and see call and text history for every phone in my plan...
Darth_Corleone · 1 points · Posted at 12:06:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm gonna try that! Thx for the idea
Laureril · 4 points · Posted at 06:04:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Probably by subpoena or authorization.
Explaining in very broad layperson terms, but ... Basically the lawyer says "yo, this is my client's information and you need to provide XYZ info for these dates." The phone company says "neener neener, prove it."
The lawyer either submits an authorization from the client (much like the ones you fill out in new paperwork at doctor's offices so they can see your old paperwork from other doctors) or else asks the court to issue an official request (a subpoena). When you send a request for records by subpoena, the other side may have a chance to say "no you can't have that, it's stupid and irrelevant" or the phone company may say "omg, that's too much work and we don't keep that info for more than a ridiculously short period." Ideally they just hand over the documents as requested, though. If they drag their feet too long, the lawyers send them some nastygrams and eventually they may be called to testify officially at a deposition or in court if they still don't answer.
Phone records take about 2-6 months of bureaucracy to get hold of in my experience. I worked in legal records for a while, so there you go: crash course in what it takes to get hold of records.
helloiisclay · 1 points · Posted at 08:28:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
2-6 months? Were you subpoenaing a specific business' phone records, or just going straight to the telco? The telco wouldn't likely argue a valid subpoena, and would just provide a CDR report detailing the information. If a dollar sign is attached, it would take longer, but for a request like OP where they're asking for number of calls from "organization" to a specific number, it wouldn't take longer than a month...two at most.
Laureril · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This was while I was working for a records company and generally the Telcos are really backed up with requests. It might have been less time, but I remember that we had to really jump on phone records between short retention and long turnaround and long response time it was a tricky set of records. 6 months would be the outlier, but it certainly wasn't uncommon for it to take 2 months.
heisenburg69 · 2 points · Posted at 06:30:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How much money did you get?
pm_your_lifehistory · 3 points · Posted at 13:16:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Two years of college
PM-YOUR-CONFESSIONS · 3 points · Posted at 05:32:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well, don't know where you live, but I live in one of European countries and if my phone is turned off and someone calls after I turn it on I get a text message with times when I was called.
Darth_Corleone · 1 points · Posted at 12:04:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's cool. I wish we had that feature.
I'm in US on AT&T's cell plan.
dienamight · 2 points · Posted at 05:10:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It does for me.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 07:02:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I use Google Voice which shows online so my phone doesn't need to be on.
Darth_Corleone · 1 points · Posted at 12:06:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I wonder if you could sue over repeated calls to Google Voice??? That's interesting...
sunandtheskyy · 27 points · Posted at 04:43:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm a law student and this definitely sparked my interest. I have access to all state and federal laws, regulations, cases, etc., and I found the statute referencing communication [15 U.S.C.A. § 1692c(c)] but nothing on remedies. Was the $500 a state law thing, or did you have to go to court/settle for it? I can't imagine the debt collector company not challenging that amount of fees, or at least looking into it.
Update: Fair Debt Collection Practice Act [15 U.S.C.A. § 1692k] has amount of damages laid out: "(2)(A) in the case of any action by an individual, such additional damages as the court may allow, but not exceeding $1,000" You must have had a kickass attorney to get you enough to pay off your student loans. Just curious as to how that happened. Not trying to be an ass - but if it's possible, I definitely plan on taking advantage of it in the future, but I don't want to even try if your situation was an anomale.
pm_your_lifehistory · 19 points · Posted at 05:00:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
OK this is blowing up and keep in mind I am not a lawyer and this was a few years ago.
It was settled by a judge and I didn't have to go to court, lawyer did it in some sorta hearing thing. It is a matter of public record however which I am not particularly happy about it. My lawyer was not in the same state as me and he did it on his end, not sure if that matters. He specializes in suing collectors for this stuff and on his website there are a lot of people with testimonies like mine, except they didn't seem to know that disconnect phone trick. I never told him that. I think (and this is from memory so I might be wrong) the 500 dollar thing came from the settlement to avoid real court. I know at one point he told me X if it went to full court but it would be half of X if it did not and said I should take the deal.
Sorry I am an engineer not a lawyer.
sunandtheskyy · 4 points · Posted at 05:06:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Okay, that makes more sense, esp. with a settlement - even that amount of money they are paying you would be cheaper than them going to court and paying their attorney fees + whatever damages they end up owing to you. Thank you!
ChristoWhat · -5 points · Posted at 05:54:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
FTFY. This is just completely false. Not only would every lawyer in the country have a commercial on tv advertising the hell out of this to get a cut, but how in the hell could this ever be proven in court? A call from their number to your phone? Not good enough. Unless you had a recorded phone conversation with them, every time, you'd have no proof. No proof anywhere on the internet thatI could find mentions anything about $500 per phone call.
-Cromm- · 3 points · Posted at 06:03:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Agreed. It's all too neat, isn't it? "how did you gain access to the calls?." "Well, i was an automation engineer so I knew how it worked and I had access to the call logs." "er, i gained access to the call log because my lawyer gave me a spreadsheet." It doesn't take an engineer to explain how it worked. I was a collections officer in another life and sometimes we would get put on the "dialer". It's just a piece of software running on a computer that goes through your WIP (I don't remember what that stands for) and calls the phone numbers in order until someone answers or the voicemail picks up. I find it highly unlikely that it would call a person more than once per day, so even if everything else he claims is true, that's only $1500.
edit: added further detail, already have 0 karma. you people are fucking idiots.
HellfirePeninsula · 3 points · Posted at 05:02:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you see the Notes of Decision to check how such damages got awarded? Under those facts, I kind of doubt a court would really give monetary damages.
sunandtheskyy · 3 points · Posted at 05:10:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I doubted that too - but read his reply he just posted. Makes more sense now, esp. with an attorney who specializes in debt collection and probably had quite a few of these stacking up against the company. Otherwise, the company probably would've tried to prove they didn't communicate with him knowing he had sent a cease & desist, since the fax was sent right at closing and it was an automated calling service.
pm_your_lifehistory · 2 points · Posted at 05:21:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh yes he had sued them a lot of times. That is how I found him.
Guttrglttr · 15 points · Posted at 03:52:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Holy shit
pm_your_lifehistory · 7 points · Posted at 05:41:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You sound like my wife, coworkers, and friends when it happened.
I threw a party.
Nejmatiyafa · 14 points · Posted at 04:12:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can you elaborate a little more on that please :)
pm_your_lifehistory · 23 points · Posted at 04:29:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Send me a pm and I will put you in touch with my lawyer. I doubt this is going to work as well as it did for me but who knows. They must have fixed this bug already.
AcornTits · 1 points · Posted at 05:58:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just sent a p.m. as well, I hope you don't mind.
HappyHappyUnbirthday · 9 points · Posted at 04:15:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How much did you end up getting?
pm_your_lifehistory · 22 points · Posted at 04:23:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Two years of college tuition, fees, books, etc.
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 04:40:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm not very good at estimates, like are we talking about around $10,000?
itsnotuncommon · 21 points · Posted at 04:49:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What country do you live in?
monsantobreath · 22 points · Posted at 04:51:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A sensible one I guess.
PewPewandChill · 7 points · Posted at 04:50:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
2 years with books and all? Nah lol. More like $30k+ if you're at the average state school.
europeanCigar · 2 points · Posted at 06:07:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Holy shit university costs 1.8k a year and the state pays it if we get our degree. Why should you pay for An education of it helps your country.
SomeOtherCollegeGuy · 4 points · Posted at 06:51:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Straight up, in the US its cause were greedy. That's it. People don't want to pay for someone else. We're all rah rah USA until it comes to actually taking care of the citizens.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 22:57:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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SomeOtherCollegeGuy · 2 points · Posted at 04:02:57 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Right because the rich are so poor for paying taxes. You're obviously someone who doesn't understand how people are taxed. If you don't want to pay taxes, leave the country. My taxes go to roads in NY that i'll never drive on. They go to bridges ill never cross. They go to all sorts of shit that i'll never use. But keeping someone else alive? You're right thats where ill draw the line. Stop being a greedy little fuck and be a god damn citizen. You're living in a society, not on your own, fuckin act like it.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 04:01:26 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
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SomeOtherCollegeGuy · 1 points · Posted at 04:09:27 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, cause I didnt come here to argue. You took it upon yourself to say I would think differently if I was in a different situation. Cool beans.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:16:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
30k-40k is about average for in state public school for 4 years.
PewPewandChill · 2 points · Posted at 15:03:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not where I went and when I was looking at schools it was on the low end. This is assuming you are living in dorms as well. It was a bit under 10k a semester for all tuition, fees, books, and dorm expenses.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:12:53 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
You were replying to a chain talking about tuition, books, and fees. The state school I went to which had a well regarded engineering program ran me 30k in loans and 10k in payments, including 2 years of dorm living. Purely school related, I spent about 2.5k a term (quarter system) on classes, labs, books, and other fees. About to start a CS degree that runs 1.5k a term, though that's only accounting for credits.
Google corroborates my anecdotal account:
https://www.google.com/search?q=average+in+state+expenses&oq=average+in+state+expenses&aqs=chrome..69i57.9704j0j4&client=ms-android-att-us&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
Did you go out of state for school?
PewPewandChill · 1 points · Posted at 00:19:41 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was in state. I lived in the dorms for two years, I'll say tuition in this comment as referring to dorms, dorm cafeteria meal plan (the middle one not the best possible), books and of course the classes. My tuition each semester for those two years was 9-15k depending on the course load I took (~15hrs/semester). My school was in Texas and at the time about middle of the pack as far as cost.
pm_your_lifehistory · 3 points · Posted at 05:07:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
General area. I went to state school.
draginator · 3 points · Posted at 05:11:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
More like $25,000+
HappyHappyUnbirthday · 3 points · Posted at 05:02:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You have a baaaaaad username. Do you end up with a lot of shit in your inbox?
pm_your_lifehistory · 6 points · Posted at 05:13:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Actually only two people have responded one with a Simpson's quote and the other I couldn't parse. Think the person was drunk.
HappyHappyUnbirthday · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haha. Ill spare you my story.
CherrySlurpee · 7 points · Posted at 06:04:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So this story is complete bullshit, unless your student loans were a thousand dollars.
First off - https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/plain-language/fair-debt-collection-practices-act.pdf
The fair debt collection practices limits the damage payout to 1k, unless it's a class action suit.
here's more information on it: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0149-debt-collection
even more information: https://www.thebalance.com/fair-debt-collection-practices-act-overview-960562
Also, debt collectors can't repetitively call you. They all know that, and they'd be out of business if they did. So at absolute worst, they called you like 4 times. And even so, they're legally allowed you contact you once more to set up their next plan of action. Even if they do keep calling, it isn't $500 a pop.
https://www.thebalance.com/what-to-do-about-wrong-number-collection-calls-960592
https://www.thebalance.com/ignored-cease-desist-letter-960593
You can't just sneak something in at the last second and get rich.
Quit your fucking bullshit.
superiorswag · 2 points · Posted at 06:35:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Someone has the facts! I like that
-Cromm- · 1 points · Posted at 06:25:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
While I agree, OP is completely full of shit, collectors will call you as many times as they think they can get away with it. A automated dialer, though, unless there really was a glitch, isn't likely to.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:42:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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pm_your_lifehistory · 6 points · Posted at 05:06:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They were calling me before I did and I figured out the software bug because a. I had seen it with the software I was using at work and b. I had disconnected it by accident a few days before and when I turned it on it instantly rang which seemed like too much of a coincidence so I reasoned out they had the same problem it kept on trying when it saw this problem.
Lawyer got the phone records. I have no idea how.
-Cromm- · 1 points · Posted at 06:18:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
wait, now there's a software bug? how convenient.
4kVHS · 2 points · Posted at 04:54:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How did you know how many times it called you?
pm_your_lifehistory · 3 points · Posted at 05:15:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lawyer did it. I don't know how. He sent me a spreadsheet after the weekend. I never told him about the software bug.
fb39ca4 · 2 points · Posted at 04:55:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How often were they calling you?
pm_your_lifehistory · 3 points · Posted at 05:14:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Like 4X a day or so with my phone working normally.
fb39ca4 · 2 points · Posted at 05:18:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh and if the phone was turned off they called more often?
pm_your_lifehistory · 3 points · Posted at 05:22:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes.
fb39ca4 · 2 points · Posted at 05:23:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Noice.
Oh_helloooo · 2 points · Posted at 05:04:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How much did you make??
pm_your_lifehistory · 4 points · Posted at 05:12:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would rather not say the exact amount given that it is public record. It paid for two years of college.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:22:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I am so, so, so jealous.
Beaudism · 2 points · Posted at 05:52:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh shit. I didn't know you could order a c and d on these people.
-Cromm- · 4 points · Posted at 04:47:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
bullshit.
edit: Jesus christ your guys are gullible.
edit 2: I went from -4 karma to +1, it looks like the critical thinkers showed up.
ChristoWhat · 7 points · Posted at 05:57:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is the biggest pile of bullshit I've seen on Reddit today.
superiorswag · 2 points · Posted at 06:10:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm calling bs
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:39:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't they have a week or something to comply with the c&d?
pm_your_lifehistory · 5 points · Posted at 05:08:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not a lawyer apparently not.
icamehereforthecatss · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How much did it end up coming out to?
Azuroth · 1 points · Posted at 06:28:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I also see how your lawyer got paid, it's 1000 for each violation of the FDCPA.
tehringworm · 1 points · Posted at 03:09:49 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Maybe you should just pay your bills instead
pm_your_lifehistory · 2 points · Posted at 03:29:25 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's cool I can still become president
tehringworm · 1 points · Posted at 03:42:41 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's not saying much
FatMug · 1804 points · Posted at 21:54:18 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Sweden you can masturbate in public so long as you don't specifically do it 'At' someone. So long as you look down you can do it happily without issue.
Manleather · 1171 points · Posted at 22:22:42 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
How are you sure you've exploited this to the max?
FatMug · 1289 points · Posted at 22:24:22 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have a park bench named after me. They call it the Krusty Krab.
Manleather · 269 points · Posted at 22:26:09 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm tempted to publicly abuse myself if it means getting a park bench named in my honor.
FatMug · 196 points · Posted at 22:26:40 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
You should say you're tanning yourself, then your username is 100% valid.
Manleather · 36 points · Posted at 22:33:29 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was trying to come up with something witty. Either "tanning myself" or "getting sun-kissed where she rarely shines". Most tan their people leather in the sun, right?
FatMug · 2 points · Posted at 08:17:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh god yeah definitely. You've got this Manleather, don't doubt yourself. Haters will come but you just beat them off
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 01:14:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was gona say there's easier ways to do get this done, but then thought for a second, and nope. Jerking off excesively is probably the literal easiest way.
Manleather · 3 points · Posted at 06:01:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A noble way as well
A-HuangSteakSauce · 6 points · Posted at 03:11:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Krusty Krab Bench
Is the bench
For you and you.
Or me and me.
Hykr · 4 points · Posted at 22:54:52 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
In which park is it again?
throwaway_ghast · 5 points · Posted at 04:15:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Goo Lagoon.
What-The-Pho · 2 points · Posted at 14:22:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
ARE YAH READY, KIDS?
Nalortebi · 1 points · Posted at 02:30:55 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to go to a school that put up memorial benches named for kids who killed themselves. The other students used to joke whenever there wasn't anywhere to sit during lunch about how that one depressed kid should off himself so we could get some more seating.
Akmuq · 4 points · Posted at 04:45:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The bench is elevated so even when he looks down he is looking at people and there is nothing they can do about it.
Manleather · 3 points · Posted at 06:03:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The real lifeproloophole is always in the downthread
Kruten · 4 points · Posted at 05:28:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At least to the climax.
Hamilton_and_Arsenal · 135 points · Posted at 21:59:08 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bit chilly though.
FatMug · 170 points · Posted at 22:00:00 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah that is a drawback, but I refuse to allow the weather to stop me enjoying life to the full.
WeaponsHot · 2 points · Posted at 05:26:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Are you the one posting videos all the time on /r/publicboys?
FatMug · 1 points · Posted at 08:13:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
PM_ME_UR_4E55444553 · 3 points · Posted at 08:13:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
( ͡o ͜ʖ ͡o)
BiBiClosetHelloWorld · 14 points · Posted at 22:17:51 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nice scenery though.
[deleted] · 41 points · Posted at 01:04:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just don't look at it.
BiBiClosetHelloWorld · 6 points · Posted at 01:16:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why not look at it? Its the reason I'm masturbating outdoors.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 01:17:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The "scenery" might not like it being directed at them.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:55:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Biggest problem living in Canada in my opinion; 6" of clothing, 2" of dick.
icybains · 1 points · Posted at 04:50:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Also, all the terrorism...
WolfeBane84 · 1 points · Posted at 05:23:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's Sweden, they wouldn't be there if they weren't into the cold.
Or their just afraid to go outside anymore for fear of gang rape...
SilasX · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Even the pope has a confessor, and even Sweden has summers.
TheGeorgeForman · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah but the cold just gets you to tense more.
PIGEON_WITH_ANTLERS · 27 points · Posted at 04:37:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In many U.S. states [citation needed] it's illegal for a man to expose his erection in public or to display "a noticeably erect penis beneath his clothes." So it's technically illegal to get a boner in public. 13-year-old me would have been constantly panicking had I known that.
ElBiscuit · 5 points · Posted at 06:21:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How do they determine whether you're "erect"? What about a half-chub? What if you're just a show-er instead of a grower?
perk11 · 15 points · Posted at 05:04:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This article says otherwise https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/09/sorry-you-cant-really-publicly-masturbate-sweden/310719/
psychicsword · 8 points · Posted at 03:52:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just bring a vr device. Not only can't you be doing it at someone you also get porn.
ClashmanTheDupe · 21 points · Posted at 03:44:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
what the shit how is this legal
GetOutOfBox · 6 points · Posted at 05:40:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's just a lil public masturbation bro
throwaway_ghast · 12 points · Posted at 04:20:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sweden.
thomasbomb45 · 2 points · Posted at 09:14:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Everything is legal until you make a law saying it's illegal
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 05:38:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So... ya know how Sweden has been in the news a little bit lately?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:54:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 13:40:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So who's rioting over there?
FPSXpert · 2 points · Posted at 16:17:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do you really have to shoehorn politics into every fucking thread?
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 18:14:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What's political about people rioting in a country where apparently everything is legal?
supaflash · 7 points · Posted at 04:01:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So Thats what Trump was talking about!
montegarde · 4 points · Posted at 02:56:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As long as you don't do it without tissue.
Socky_McPuppet · 3 points · Posted at 02:24:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So it's ok as long as you injaculate?
Ryzon9 · 4 points · Posted at 05:58:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wtf did I just read?
Milo359 · 2 points · Posted at 06:57:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I somehow knew exactly what that was before I read it. Probably because I inadvertently do it sometimes while trying for maximum pleasure.
SharkTRS · 1 points · Posted at 05:15:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
TL;DR please?
PendantOfBagels · 7 points · Posted at 05:26:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So after skimming the intro for a few minutes out of morbid curiosity, it's this method of masturbation where you cause yourself not to ejaculate, but instead release your fluids into the bladder. And doing so brings about some questionable benefits.
Take that with a grain of salt, I stopped after seeing the drawn pictures indicating where to press to do this The "manual" way.
Safe to say I will not be continuing this research. Good luck.
akbort · 1 points · Posted at 07:18:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did this the first time I masturbated as a child. I received poor sex education so I was pretty much on my own in figuring out how to deal with the urges.
Anyways the first time it happened I didn't expect it to come (heh) and I thought I was about to piss myself so I held it with all my might.
But honestly it got way better when I just decided to release so I can't imagine doing this intentionally. It's like the orgasm doesn't happen.
Socky_McPuppet · 1 points · Posted at 11:22:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It can also happen as a side-effect of certain medications - alpha blockers, for example - which is how I experienced it.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:50:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nice try, Swedish voyeur.
LonePaladin · 3 points · Posted at 04:55:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Without issue"
Captain_Desi_Pants · 2 points · Posted at 02:46:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
...without issue? I don't think that is the usual ending.
Enforcer444 · 2 points · Posted at 05:12:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wouldn't you be looking at yourself?
Narcissist.
tntmod54321 · 1 points · Posted at 04:54:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Packing for sweden
9999monkeys · 1 points · Posted at 05:58:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
WTF, seriously?
YouWotBruv · 587 points · Posted at 22:10:45 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
I get the train late at night.. barriers always open.. haven't paid for a train fair in like 5months..
Think I've probably saved close to £1000
GrillPenetrationUnit · 270 points · Posted at 02:00:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Me too, they just dont give a fuck after 9pm in my city, so i wait around for 15 mins to get the next train, and its free. I also heavily abuse this to be a but nocturnal and get shit done around the city at night. Not too often though, i can see myslef getting stabbed one day. I also told this homeless guy about it and he sleeps on the overnight train for free as it circles the city and there is nothing they can do as long as he gets on after 9pm and gets off before 6am
Helliononparade · 9 points · Posted at 03:01:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Berlin?
GrillPenetrationUnit · 2 points · Posted at 23:44:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
nah im from UK.
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 05:35:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
awesome
Saemika · 2 points · Posted at 16:29:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You have to wonder why all the homeless in the city don't abuse this. It's not like they have anything better to do than figure this stuff out.
GrillPenetrationUnit · 2 points · Posted at 23:10:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
it must be a well kept secret, or maybe most people arent ready to risk being out in the city at night? is basically dead, you can hear a pin drop outside. it is a very dangerous city to be fair, and im a big guy who wears black so im a bit more menacing than a short young woman with a baby.
[deleted] · 202 points · Posted at 22:23:47 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
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WillieNederWiet · 86 points · Posted at 00:58:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
But always for the love of god break one law at a time. You can talk your way out of that but anymore and you're screwed.
Oi-Oi · 9 points · Posted at 02:28:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a broke student it was either pay for a weekly pass or have enough cash for a few beers and a pizza on friday night. In two years I got busted 4 times paying a £30 fine each time. Probs saved close to £1000. The annoying things was they put the price up for a weekly pass so much you were only saving about £2 over not just buying tickets on the day.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:10:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Where is this? Where I'm from, the buse fare doesn't depend on the distance you travel.
europeanCigar · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I dont understand what this means
Frungy · -2 points · Posted at 05:20:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just stealing? Like pretty much everything in this thread!
Tehgumchum · 10 points · Posted at 02:01:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I use to do this back in Melbourne, they had some company guideline where inspectors couldn't check tickets after 9pm, since a lot of my shifts finished after 9 I just never bought a ticket.
I didn't feel guilty because the train service was bad.
MadKingRyan · 5 points · Posted at 05:13:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm not that ballsy, but back when we had prepaid tickets (now we have tap on/tap off cards that are loaded with a certain amount, and the fare is deducted until you reach $0, then you have to reload the card) I would just buy a one stop ticket for my 45 minute journey home. if I ever saw the ticket inspectors hop on the train, I'd pretend I was asleep, then just act panicked like I'd missed my stop, and hop off at the next statiom to catch the train the opposite way. once they were gone, I'd continue in my original direction home/to school
crowleysnow · 3 points · Posted at 06:25:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
the train i take to school has an app to buy tickets and they only come by to check them maybe twice a month, so when i was more poor i would just pretend like i forgot to buy one and quickly buy it on the app. a monthly was 200 dollars, and doing this was 14 dollars tops. i don't do it anymore because i can afford to not and i think public transportation needs more funds and deserves my money, but when i was poorer it was a lifesaver
Terkan · 3 points · Posted at 02:43:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was on a train ride home one day, after riding for 7 months, and at the last 3 stops and the end of the line, there were blue flashing lights and cops waiting, checking everyone for a ticket. No escaping, no hiding.
Granted the fee I think would have been "only" $75?, but I'm positive that would go on a criminal record.
GisingGising · 3 points · Posted at 06:17:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I catch public transit to work 10 times a week, my ticket is checked 2 to 3 times a year. It costs me $7 a day ($35 a week), the fine for fare evasion is "up to $200"
If I work 50 weeks in a year, I spend ~$1,750 in public transit fees annually.
Realistically I would need to be caught nine times and pay the maximum fine every time in a single year to make it cheaper to pay every time.
There's nothing that forces you to pay because we use electronic ticketing, but I dutifully pay for every single trip as a positive contributor to society.
I_like_boxes · 2 points · Posted at 08:50:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't think it's any worse than a parking ticket, actually. Husband got one when he was riding without a ticket because all of the machines were out of order at his stop so he was physically unable to purchase a ticket. You can hop off at the next stop to buy a ticket (which is what they tell you to do), but then you have to wait 10 minutes for the next train. Not really viable.
He did manage to get it cut down to half after mailing a letter that showed exactly how often he purchases tickets (a lot) and stating that he planned to purchase an all-day pass on the way home. It should have been thrown out, but whatever.
But it's never come up since.
Idahno · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So? what did you do to get out of it?
SuperNeonManGuy · 3 points · Posted at 05:23:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You remind me of me
A few years ago when I was still in school I was given a bus pass for free travel on weekdays to get to and from school (imagine a Nintendo DS with the top screen being a valid from-to date on a piece of paper, and the bottom screen being an ID card) you were supposed to show the bus driver the whole pass as you walked on to the bus, but i realised a few years in to using it that the driver only ever really looked at the card on the bottom for the photo, on the rare occasion that i need to get a bus i do it for free by flashing my half-a-decade old school bus card, just with the date part folded back and out of view (if they ever change the design i'm screwed though) haven't paid for a bus journey in a long time
bxblox · 3 points · Posted at 05:23:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hell I spend about 500 per month on train fares... knowing other people in this city do too, there's no way people aren't making fake ticket apps now that you can just show a Mobile ticket in your phone. (Nyc)
gemaliasthe1st · 3 points · Posted at 05:30:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was in Italy visiting various different regions and travelled by train. Not once was I asked to show a ticket and there were no barriers. Very odd.
What-The-Pho · 2 points · Posted at 14:24:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hot
911ChickenMan · 1 points · Posted at 03:02:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It could be because it was an off-peak time, so it wasn't worth it to enforce the fare.
Hell_hath_no · 1 points · Posted at 04:37:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Train fairs sound fun!
NLJeroen · 1 points · Posted at 05:32:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't they have this guy on the train checking tickets?
minastirith1 · 0 points · Posted at 09:23:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's also this really cool loop hole I found where you can walk into any bank and as long as you are holding a gun, they will give you whatever you ask for! Crazy right!? You have to try it yourself, I couldn't believe it either. Totally gaming the system dude 😂
ezuF · 110 points · Posted at 04:36:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There should be a subreddit for this
obviousdscretion · 34 points · Posted at 06:21:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
we could call it "life pro tips" or something clever
BariSaxGuy · 3 points · Posted at 08:22:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/lifehacks
obviousdscretion · 0 points · Posted at 15:04:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I learned a thing.
Lets_be_jolly · 3 points · Posted at 06:06:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
is there a glitch subreddit?
IsThatWhatSheSaidTho · 1 points · Posted at 07:37:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/glitchinthematrix
Alchoron · 2 points · Posted at 18:01:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/loopholes
[deleted] · 56 points · Posted at 02:17:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bar in my town decided to make a phone app. If you downloaded it, you got a coupon for a free draft beer. I decided to delete it and re download and see if I got the coupon. I did. Everytime I went for like a year, I got a free beer. I don't feel bad.
JakalDX · 51 points · Posted at 04:29:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was working at Comcast, I noticed something about the way calls were recorded and monitored. Basically, we'd have a few calls every month we'd review with our manager, but I noticed they were selective about which ones to monitor. When you have to review calls with every person on your team, sometimes 15 or 20 people, you're not looking to deal with the 20, 30, 40 minute slogs where you're waiting for people to reset their computers or check connections. They'd almost invariably pick calls that were right around the 10 minute mark.
There were also times when you'd send someone to disconnect or reconnect things, and they'd put the phone down, and you were left sitting there til they got back.
Once I realized this, I had an epiphany. On occasion, customers would call and when I finished the call, they wouldn't hang up. I was on speaker or something and they'd just set the phone down. I could hear talking off in the distance, but they wouldn't realize.
So I'd just sit on that call in silence for another 30-40 minutes or until they realized and hung up, just surfing the web. Since the call was so long it'd never get reviewed, and if a manager asked what was going on, why they weren't talking, I could say they were going to find a serial number or were resetting connections.
Fucking hated that job.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:16:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Work for a telco would log into the switch and disconnect the line from There to hang up on ride customers no hang ups from me on the hang up report. Also we had router access if it was a Ekta modem combo quick reboot and call bye-bye
JakalDX · 1 points · Posted at 06:56:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh yeah, rebooting their phone modem was a pretty classic one.
ydoowoody · 3 points · Posted at 07:13:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My favorite thing was calling comcast, having them keep me on the line for an hour without actually fixing my issue and when I get to the end and they would ask "Would you like to fill out a survey?" Id say like "Oh yaaa totally. Id love to review how well you helped me!"... go to fill it out... No internet connection.
Fuckers.
BeauDog · 142 points · Posted at 04:22:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My story is kind of silly, but I'm still proud of finding it. I work in biomedical research. Animals not being used solely for the purpose of research are forbidden in the facility. I found, by some fluke chance, that fish were not on the restriction list. I confirmed with my director that this was the case. Though she was utterly baffled how this was overlooked, she confirmed there was no restriction.
My loophole now swims merrily atop my desk.
v-tanabata · 11 points · Posted at 05:32:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is the best one
bat_in_the_stacks · 2 points · Posted at 15:02:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is how we wind up with a mecha-shark-nado!
BACEXXXXXX · 317 points · Posted at 03:04:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It turns out, you don't actually have to pay for WinRAR. Crazy, right?
v-tanabata · 17 points · Posted at 05:30:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I know someone who told me she paid for winrar and I nearly shed a tear
/r/paidforwinRAR
pingasthrowaway · 8 points · Posted at 05:58:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Or better yet, don't use WinrRAR at all. 7zip exists.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 05:41:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/lX_pF03vCSU
tomytronics · 2 points · Posted at 06:15:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You get annoying nag every time WinRAR starts. Or you downloaded illegal crack and now might have a malware on your computer.
darkstarohio · 1 points · Posted at 06:26:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
WinRAR was the first software crack I ever made. I wasn't the first, but I felt accomplished anyway.
evankrul · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Now you tell me! $30 later!
TheDetective13 · 1 points · Posted at 06:22:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
NOW you tell me!
Frostedbutler · 98 points · Posted at 01:51:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A parking lot across the road in college. It was at a grade school. I parked there every day for a year and didn't have to buy a parking pass
Gorgonite-Scum · 5 points · Posted at 04:18:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did the same thing. :)
darkstarohio · 6 points · Posted at 06:40:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine would park once in a spot that he'd get a ticket. Then he'd keep the ticket that he never intended to pay, putting it under his windshield every day when he parked. Never got more tickets - and the policy of our school was to not tow your car, but to revoke your parking privileges if you didn't pay your fines.
If you didn't have parking privileges, they would ticket you for parking there. It was a pretty hilarious cycle until the school sold the parking to a private company to manage.
ChaosFinalForm · 4 points · Posted at 07:25:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I tried that when I was at college.... Turns out they had the same parking Nazis patrolling every area every day. So the fuckers caught on super fast and piled them on anyway.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:33:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There are many many parking options usually a little walk away from something....
DownvoteIfYoureHorny · 4 points · Posted at 05:36:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I always did the same at a plaza down the hill from my college. I was technically a customer at the LAN center in said plaza after I'd get out of class so I wasn't really breaking any rules. Still free parking all year.
[deleted] · 45 points · Posted at 03:18:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I once got a post card in the mail that said something like "If you DON'T want a subscription to Play Boy, mail this postcard back." I thought, "Yeah, that's legally binding" and threw it in the trash. 4 years later of just throwing everything they sent me (that wasn't a magazine) in the trash, they canceled my subscription.
Shimakaze4 · 40 points · Posted at 04:25:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Silence is not acceptance. That's one of the most basic contract laws. Whoever decided that was a good marketing ploy was a moron.
bananahead · 3 points · Posted at 13:02:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They make money mostly through ads, not subscriptions.
rab777hp · 3 points · Posted at 13:36:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Also anything mailed to you is legally yours
Shimakaze4 · 2 points · Posted at 03:38:54 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeh but you might need to be a bit careful there. If someone accidentally mails you something they did not intend to, it's probably theft to keep it.
rab777hp · 3 points · Posted at 05:51:40 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nope.
Shimakaze4 · 1 points · Posted at 09:55:56 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
So if my friend is posting me something and he accidentally puts my name with my neighbours address on it, my neighbour can keep what he is sent? That would be theft if he kept it.
rab777hp · 1 points · Posted at 14:52:28 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
He's definitely an asshole but more or less he is within his rights
engagedbbw · 8 points · Posted at 06:04:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I wonder if this is why my husband started getting Playboy at his moms about 2 years ago. Lol he used to live w/ his brother so he never changed his address until we got married. One day his mom calls him and she's so upset. And she's going on about why would you have this magazine sent here and on and on. He's like what are you talking about? He doesn't subscribe to any magazine. She tells him she got a Playboy addressed to him. She mails us his mail that still comes there about once a month and she includes them lol. We've told her to just throw them away. We've also had a few Maxims and Glamours show up too.
crusoe · 8 points · Posted at 03:54:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
All they shit they sent unwanted was yours free and clear according to postal regs.
[deleted] · 49 points · Posted at 04:42:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
back in the late 90's, my bank would give you a $5 credit into your account if you waited for more than 5 minutes in line at their branch. back in my very broke days, I'd go in at the most busy time of day, get my credit, and withdraw the previous day's credit. the bus to work was $2 each way. i'd do this a few times a week and have enough to make it until (very meagre) pay day. a year later they stopped this policy, probably because of people like me. but really back then it's the only way I actually could keep my job so it was a lifesaver.
vonMishka · 2832 points · Posted at 00:57:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My company had a matching gift program up to $5k. My son was in private school. I paid his tuition to a non-profit that just sent the money to the school. My company matched the "gift" and effectively paid the other half of his tuition. And this "gift" was tax deductible.
Single mommas gotta hustle.
EDIT: please note that I had to pull him out of public school in 8th grade. The private school was necessary to help him, improve his mental and physical health, avoid him becoming a drop-out etc.... I couldn't afford it but I had to do it. Explained in comments. This decision changed everything for him.
EDIT 2: Damn, I had no idea this would get so much response. The funny thing is that I'm not one to look for loopholes. My (now) husband makes fun of me for getting scared/upset at any hint of bending rules.
I didn't set out to game anything. When the idea hit, it was out of pure desperation to do what I needed to do for my son. It may have been unethical, I know.
If it makes you feel any better, this company ruined a lot of people's lives not long after this. The school continues to improve lives.
Coasterman345 · 228 points · Posted at 02:36:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What non-profit sends the money to the school? Is it a general one, or one just for that school?
vonMishka · 537 points · Posted at 02:50:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The school was very small and run/owned by this very wealthy lady. Most of the kids who attended were on scholarships of some sort. Very few actually paid full or any tuition. I had to pay full tuition because of my income. But it was still way too expensive for me.
One day, I got an email telling us that my company had doubled the max matching gift. Something dinged in my head and I decided to call the school to see if they were a non-profit. They were not. I explained what I was trying to accomplish and was told they had a sister organization that handled their scholarships. Since they really wanted my cash, they called the lady at the non-profit org and set it up for me.
ExLurker_at_Large · 476 points · Posted at 03:20:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sounds like that could be construed as fraud, you may want to delete your comments and never speak of it again- at least not until tuition is due again next year ;)
vonMishka · 264 points · Posted at 03:22:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This was several years ago. My son is now an adult and I no longer work for the company. I wouldn't have posted this back then.
Merad · 16 points · Posted at 04:49:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Still might want to delete this. Assuming you took full advantage and also deducted the "gift" from your taxes, you were probably committing tax fraud. IIRC there is no statute of limitations on civil tax fraud.
[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 04:15:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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vonMishka · 13 points · Posted at 04:34:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes. About 11, I think.
PM_ME_CUTE_BABY_PICS · 22 points · Posted at 04:44:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
StatueStatute of limitations should be up thenat2wells · 16 points · Posted at 04:58:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What exactly does a statue of limitations look like?
GuiltySpark343i · 5 points · Posted at 05:06:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
it's just a timeline for when you can't be tried for a crime you may have committed this prevents evidence (eyewitness, DNA, etc.) from being deteriorated as courts want convictions based on evidence not the he said she said bullshit crap.
Murder does not have a time limit to when charges must be brought against you and sex crimes have a long time as well. It also varies state to state for the crimes.
at2wells · 3 points · Posted at 05:10:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Re-read. OP said Statue of Limitations.
Im well aware of what a statute of limitations is.
GuiltySpark343i · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
yeah, just realized that. It was a long weekend of working and I was dead ass tired. But I ain't going to fix it.
WpgDipper · 2 points · Posted at 05:13:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Woosh
MattWatchesChalk · 1 points · Posted at 06:13:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I assume it is either a statue of a traffic cop or a stop sign.
vonMishka · 10 points · Posted at 04:45:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's what I'm hoping.
screen317 · 9 points · Posted at 04:52:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's statute.
PM_ME_CUTE_BABY_PICS · 2 points · Posted at 05:53:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Whoops. I blame it on me needing sleep.
[deleted] · -6 points · Posted at 04:55:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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vonMishka · 6 points · Posted at 05:13:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't understand your comment.
higgletypiggletypop · 305 points · Posted at 03:43:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah this is straight up fraud. Basically laundering tuition through a bogus nonprofit to take advantage of a charitable donation match program.
ChiefGraypaw · 44 points · Posted at 04:09:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How is that a bogus non-profit? It's a legitimate non-profit. She donated money to the non-profit, the non-profit sponsored her son in a way that is basically a scholarship, and then her company matched it. It's some real Joanne the Scammer shit but it doesn't seem like fraud.
keplar · 64 points · Posted at 04:28:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was not a donation and a scholarship - it was money laundering (disguising the source of the money in order to deceive the employer). It isn't a charitable donation to hand money to a 501(c)3 with the prearranged understanding and knowledge that it will be used for your benefit - that's pretty much the opposite of what charitable donation is. This was purchasing something, and pretending it was a donation in order to get somebody else to give them money. Very illegal.
I'm not judging here - not enough information, and not my place to do so - but it definitely was fraud.
slake_thirst · -9 points · Posted at 04:50:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
None of that justifies calling it a bogus non-profit. I know you didn't, but the comment you replied to literally asked how it was a bogus non-profit. You rambled on and on but never actually answered the question.
Of course, nobody asked you anyway.
rareas · 14 points · Posted at 05:20:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Keplar is doing a terrible job explaining. The only problem is OP is receiving a service for the money put out. That's no longer a charitable donation for her or her employer.
On the other hand, the employer should have paid more attention.
Farqueue- · 2 points · Posted at 05:54:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How does it work since it wasn't actually OP receiving the service/benefit, it was their child?
Does that make it a grey area? Serious question.
greg19735 · 2 points · Posted at 05:59:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's a very awkward situation when she donated the money and the company matches it. THat's lying, but she may not be legally in trouble. The only group she's lying to is the company.
Deducting it from her taxes makes it pretty illegal. It's just money laundering at that point.
vonMishka · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why would my employer care? The reason they have matching gifts is to increase their own tax deductions. It was a huge company.
greg19735 · 3 points · Posted at 05:55:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The company still loses more money than they get back from deducting it...
If they donate $5k, they subtract $5k from the profit when they're calculating their taxes. They gain back the ~30-50% or whatever the tax rate is ($2.5k) but lose 5k. if they kept the $5k, they'd pay the taxes on it but still make more money.
That matching program was more PR than tax deductions.
CaptnYossarian · 1 points · Posted at 07:16:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Matching programs are both PR and tax deductions. You can put in your Corporate Social Responsibility report to shareholders that you paid $x for charitable causes, and claim 35% (corporate tax rate) of that to offset against profits. You still pay a net 65%, but you make your employees feel good, your shareholders feel good, and contribute to society and occasionally get a little influence and invitations to events due to your charitable organisation.
(Usually companies cap the total charitable donations to some unannounced limit, but it's rare that employees push it and hit that limit.)
The issue here is that the company could be seen as complicit in OP's fraud, that they were helping her rort the system, and be subject to charges themselves, so you bet they'd sue her ass...
greg19735 · 1 points · Posted at 07:26:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
i'm not saying that the company was doing anything wrong, or that they don't profit down the road from good PR.
my only point is that the company could care. Her wording made it sound like the tax writeoffs are going mean that they lose no money.
A lot of people have no idea what a tax deduction vs credit is.
jakeeccle · 4 points · Posted at 04:38:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Doesn't matter, had tuition.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:16:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Her som attended in exchange for her generous donations to the schools scholarship fund.
Gougaloupe · 14 points · Posted at 03:51:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Chill bro, it's just an exploit!
CaptnYossarian · 8 points · Posted at 04:42:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Note: not all exploits are legal.
cannellbd · 2 points · Posted at 05:16:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bogus non profit? It's the scholarship foundation that assists students at their school. That's a legitimate organization.
How is it fraud? She donated money to a real non profit organization that paid out real scholarships for students' tuitions, one of which happened to be her own son.
If anything, the scholarship organization was the party acting unethically by approving a scholarship for her son that matched the amount she donated.
If they were doing anything illegal, why would the school and the scholarship organization put their entire reputation on the line for a single student?
greg19735 · 3 points · Posted at 06:00:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just because she isn't the one that put the donation 100% to her student, doesn't mean she couldn't be in legal trouble.
VisualBasic · 3 points · Posted at 05:33:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've already alerted the proper authorities. I'm also the guy with morals who prevented the vending machine thefts.
EldritchShadow · 1 points · Posted at 06:36:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You monster
Radix2309 · 4 points · Posted at 05:26:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That sounds like fraud.
cbs5090 · 2 points · Posted at 04:33:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some churches do this, even though it might not be the situation that OP is talking about. My sons go to an Episcopal school. You can either pay the church directly or pay the school. It really didn't matter.
vonMishka · 2 points · Posted at 04:52:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Interesting. This school also had a religious element.
ThatOneHuskyGuy · 67 points · Posted at 01:57:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well damn
[deleted] · 239 points · Posted at 03:04:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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markneill · 49 points · Posted at 03:37:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One man's loopholes is another man's criminal endeavor.
Semantics.
[deleted] · 47 points · Posted at 03:46:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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markneill · 23 points · Posted at 03:52:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This was a non-profit that she donated to. Her company matched donations to non-profits.
That may be violating the spirit of the matching program, but certainly not the letter of it.
vonMishka · 25 points · Posted at 03:56:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think the part where I pushed it was the tax deduction.
cattleyo · 8 points · Posted at 03:58:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The company operating the non-profit committed fraud, she was a beneficiary of that fraud.
VitruvianDude · 7 points · Posted at 04:54:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It violated the letter as well, because she received a tangible benefit in return for the "donation." It's not a donation if you get something from it.
There was a discussion similar to this during Trump's presidential campaign due to his use of foundation funds for dubious purchases.
keplar · 6 points · Posted at 04:38:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Purchasing something is not the same as donating. If you buy a car, you did not "donate" the price of the car to the dealership - you paid it in exchange for a vehicle. If you pay school tuition, you are not "donating" money to the school, you are purchasing their services. Handing the money to somebody else to hand to the end recipient doesn't change anything about that process, regardless of whether that somebody else was a non-profit. It was prearranged, and was a purchase - nothing was donated.
A donation is something given without receiving something of financial value in return (any "incentives" or "gifts" that come with a donation are subtracted from the creditable donation value). The fact that the money given was earmarked for her son's tuition means it was not a donation at all, and claiming it as such is fraud. Using it to get the company to match it and give even more is bigger fraud.
phoenixy1 · 2 points · Posted at 04:58:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Almost certainly the company's matching program disallows matching of a "donation" for which the recipient received a benefit. Those kinds of "donations" are not considered donations under US tax code.
vonMishka · 0 points · Posted at 05:20:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I receive a benefit for donating to NPR. I get to listen to their programming.
greg19735 · 8 points · Posted at 05:53:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can still listen if you don't donate.
The kid doesn't go if they don't donate.
Qluma · -2 points · Posted at 06:04:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
^ this is my favorite response by far.
nightpanda893 · 1 points · Posted at 04:15:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
But he paid tuition, he didn't make a donation.
HateCopyPastComments · 1 points · Posted at 04:44:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eg.
Timmytanks40 · 15 points · Posted at 05:21:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That just makes her smart. Youre just bad a making deals. Thats why you arent winning. No winning. Let me tell you. You think non-profits are so innocent? Killers. They come in and give out money its terrible. And they dont send their best. Just awful. But no more. No more folks. We are gonna start making good deals again.
vonMishka · 9 points · Posted at 05:40:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As OP and Trump hater, I appreciate your funny comment.
chimpfunkz · 17 points · Posted at 04:50:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Most of the "loopholes" in this thread are just borderline fraud.
KFC_is_delicious_ · 9 points · Posted at 05:32:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
the difference is the, "borderline," part. this one is straight up fraud.
Tyler1986 · 3 points · Posted at 05:48:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm sure you are an expert and can site the law? Didn't think so you armchair fuck.
LucasSatie · 8 points · Posted at 06:21:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
http://www.nonprofitexpert.com/understanding-donations/
Tyler1986 · 0 points · Posted at 06:34:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Boom.
ChrisHarperMercer · 6 points · Posted at 06:20:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You don't need to be able to cite a particular law to know when something is fraud.
Calm down man
Tyler1986 · 3 points · Posted at 06:34:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fair point, sry, I was overly aggressive, I'll calm down now.
DessertStorm1 · 5 points · Posted at 06:45:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well she definitely shouldn't have taken the deduction. Internal Revenue Code Section 170 allows a deduction for charitable contributions, but Regulation Section 1.170A-1 (h) states:
(1) Burden on taxpayer to show that all or part of payment is a charitable contribution or gift. No part of a payment that a taxpayer makes to or for the use of an organization described in section 170(c) that is in consideration for (as defined in §1.170A-13(f)(6)) goods or services (as defined in §1.170A-13(f)(5)) is a contribution or gift within the meaning of section 170(c) unless the taxpayer— (i) Intends to make a payment in an amount that exceeds the fair market value of the goods or services; and (ii) Makes a payment in an amount that exceeds the fair market value of the goods or services.
IRS Revenue Ruling 76-175 also confirms that if the donor has reasonable expectation that they will receive a benefit in return for the “donation”, the taxpayer cannot take a deduction.
So it's obvious the deduction was not allowed. I don't know whether she committed tax evasion, because it's hard to tell whether she knew she shouldn't have taken the deduction (IRC Sec. 7201 requires intent).
I would imagine there are also legal consequences of lying to your employer and telling them you're making a donation (when really you're just paying your child's tuition) to get them to pay a donation that is really for your benefit. I would think you could fit this under the definition of embezzlement, but I don't want to venture too far out of my expertise, lest I be deemed an "armchair fuck."
Tyler1986 · 2 points · Posted at 06:53:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Shit just got real.
Qluma · 1 points · Posted at 07:45:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How is this post not deleted yet? You can't just trick your employer into paying your kid's tuition, laundering it all through a non-profit, claim it all again on your taxes for the double dip, then brag about it. I've been lurking on this thread a while now and I'm still kind of mindblown.
yakri · 6 points · Posted at 05:19:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eh, fraud, loophole. It's the thought that counts.
Qluma · 1 points · Posted at 06:03:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There is no question here. OP doesn't know what the word loophole means, causing her to accidentally confess to criminal fraud and tax fraud, maybe even money laundering. Not that big of a deal, but also I'm not the one who is confessing to criminal acts so what do I know.
vonMishka · 4 points · Posted at 03:21:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not sure but it worked.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 03:58:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Careful, if you get caught it sounds like there could be some legal consequences.
vonMishka · 16 points · Posted at 04:01:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was 10 years ago. I think I'm past the audit window. No longer work for that company.
MetalandIron2pt0 · 7 points · Posted at 05:29:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
God sometimes Reddit just loves to remind you of the million reasons why and how you fucked up. I say congrats!
vonMishka · 3 points · Posted at 05:43:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thank you.
chevymonza · 32 points · Posted at 02:37:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That "non-profit" being something like "The Human Mom Fund"?
psinguine · 16 points · Posted at 02:31:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is Trump tier maneuvering.
sdmitch16 · 1 points · Posted at 06:57:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
but how often are Trump's actions undeniably illegal?
MacDerfus · 5 points · Posted at 02:33:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well done
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 02:43:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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vonMishka · 3 points · Posted at 02:51:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes
likeabosstroll · 4 points · Posted at 03:53:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Holy fuck why is my private school so fucking expensive. Damn 10k sounds nice.
sdmitch16 · 1 points · Posted at 06:57:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Small, religious school
vonMishka · 1 points · Posted at 04:02:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Small, weird school.
EmceeGalaxy · 4 points · Posted at 05:06:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Gifts are not tax deductible if they benefit you directly. Worse still, you should have paid income tax on the matched contribution as well. Fortunetely there is a statute of limitation of three years for the IRS to audit your tax payments. Hopefully you're in the clear.
Qluma · 3 points · Posted at 06:10:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is categorically untrue. There is a 3 yr. limitation on audit. No limitation applies if the IRS can establish you willfully committed fraud. You'd have better luck staying out of a courtroom selling drugs door-to-door than trying to not pay Uncle Sam.
vonMishka · 2 points · Posted at 05:13:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
11 years ago
WiFiForeheadWrinkles · 5 points · Posted at 03:23:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can't see me but I'm giving you a standing ovation right now.
light24bulbs · 3 points · Posted at 05:11:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That is AWESOME and very illegal. You better hope this account is totally secure and not linkable to you, or sorry to say, delete your comment and hope nobody checks a reddit aggregator( of which there are many)
tomz17 · 4 points · Posted at 05:48:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is not a loophole. This is both fraud and tax evasion! Both are fairly serious crimes in the United States.
Fraud : You defrauded your employer by taking advantage of their matching program under false pretense. That program ostensibly exists for charitable contributions (not the personal financial enrichment of employees). In your situation, you willingly used the program to misdirect company funds for your own personal benefit. Given the circumstances you described above, this would be an absolute slam-dunk case against you for any prosecutor.
Tax evasion: Your son's tuition would normally be paid out of post-tax earnings. You are NOT allowed to claim a charitable deduction for something which you received a tangible benefit for! (in fact, anytime I've made a charitable contribution, I get an acknowledgement letter indicating that I received no direct benefit for IRS purposes). Knowingly laundering your son's tuition money money through a nonprofit to avoid paying taxes on it could land you in prison if/when you are audited.
vonMishka · 0 points · Posted at 05:51:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
First bullet: the company also gained Second bullet: statute of limitations
tomz17 · 1 points · Posted at 21:21:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Even if that were true (not likely, since I see no possible way in which a company "gains" from matching a deceptive charitable contribution on your behalf), it's STILL fraud.
There is none on filing fraudulent returns or tax evasion in the United States.
Damocles2010 · 4 points · Posted at 03:29:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well done - THAT is clever.
yuwesley · 3 points · Posted at 03:35:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is fucking genius
SlowBiker · 2 points · Posted at 05:10:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's pretty sweet that it worked for you. That is a common thing that is thought about and sometimes attempted with religious schools (e.g. Church Schools that are ran by or closely affiliated with a church). Since any donation to the church (assuming it's a non-profit, which is normal) is tax deductible since all you receive are believes or support or whatever, nothing tangible. However, tuition to the school is paying (as other have said) for something tangible, the education. Most churches in this arrangement do pay a large portion of the school's budget, sometimes putting money directly to specific kid's tuition (often times a anonymous type of thing called 'worthy student fund' or something is created to make it seem vague). So, while there isn't supposed to be any connection between a legitimate church donation and money coming off a kid's tuition, it certainly can and does still happen. As long as it's not planned out ahead of time or orchestrated then it's perfectly legal. I've been involved with church schools for 20+ years and have seen many old timers write donation checks to churches with a post-it note on them saying "For Steve Waters at Bob's Faith School" (made up name of course) but basically a wink-wink, nod-nod to take the 'donation' through the church then transfer the money internally to friggen Steve's tuition bill. They know it's shady as that's why it's not written on the check..just a post-it note along side the check. In some cases you could achieve the same thing in legal fashion by just knowing the circumstances. For example if you are closely affiliated with a school ran by the church. If you know that most of the kids at the school are from well off families and likely do not need tuition help...but then you donate to the church to help the school and specifically say your donation is for "any families needing financial help for their tuition", which is a perfectly fine and very common thing for people to donate money to...but all students except family X are easily paying their bills...so your donation would effectively be going to pay the tuition for kids from family X which you may have already known ahead of time, but doing it as a donation is better tax-wise for you, versus just paying money directly to the tuition for family X...is that bad, eh, not sure.
skiing123 · 8 points · Posted at 05:17:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
line breaks would be appreciated, love ya!
manamunamoona · 2 points · Posted at 05:21:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I like this and am happy for you but you should definitely delete.
Xaxxon · 2 points · Posted at 06:01:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is almost certainly illegal. You received a service with a value - that is not tax deductible for the value of the service your received - only any overpayment you may have made (which sounds like 0)
Also the non-profit was likely fraudulent as well, if this is true.
circlesky · 11 points · Posted at 02:54:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Honest question; wouldn't the "single momma hustle" be to not have your kid in private school to save some money?
vonMishka · 37 points · Posted at 03:20:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fair question. My son is very bright but always hated school. When he got to middle school he fell apart. He was failing everything and we were fighting all the time. I had him checked out by a psychologist and was told he's fine but needed a different learning environment. He just wasn't suited for public school. He told me about this school. The moment I visited I knew it was the right place for him.
He thrived in the new school! He skipped a grade he previously failed. He graduated as Salutatorian. It changed our lives.
I took loans the first two years to offset the cost. Then I figured this scheme out and well, it worked.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 03:25:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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vonMishka · 12 points · Posted at 03:30:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is the first time I've ever told this story publicly. It happened several years ago.
dispatch134711 · 6 points · Posted at 04:01:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Should probably delete this unless you know what the statute is for fraud.
vonMishka · 15 points · Posted at 04:09:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Serious question: do they have prosecutors roaming Reddit looking for cases like this?
TheOlRedditWhileIPoo · 14 points · Posted at 04:16:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would think it is highly probable that IRS workers browse reddit, not necessarily to catch fraud but for the same reason most people do. But if fraud pops up in the post they just so happen to be looking at. . .
Qluma · 2 points · Posted at 06:20:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It isn't prosecutors you have to worry about. It is 5-10 people who saw this post, printed it out in hard-copy and mailed it directly to the IRS office. Those IRS guys love a mystery, and the great VonMishka case is afoot!
Qluma · 0 points · Posted at 06:21:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some people just get a hard on for Justice.
Fnar_ · 3 points · Posted at 06:10:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've known parents who've taken their kids to homeless shelters for a few nights to get section 8 housing when they had all the means to find a place on their own.
I've seen parents con churches into giving them money for "rent" that they blow on goodies and other completely useless crap.
Literally. A person advised me to do that.
"You can get like $500! Just tell them you're late on rent and facing eviction!"
And didn't understand when I visibly looked disgusted at them.
I've seen a lot of parents pull some fucked up con artistry shit that just blows my mind when I think about it. What an example they are setting for their children.
This isn't one of them. You got your child through private school as a single mother. That's damn near applaudable.
Don't let the bitchy comments get to you.
People on here like to think they know something everyone else doesn't.
vonMishka · 2 points · Posted at 06:17:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thank you so much for this comment. I didn't do any of the things you described. I could've legitimately taken advantage of services but I didn't. In my mind, I played the corporate game. I'm sure I'm not the first to do so. My kid was first and foremost.
Fnar_ · 1 points · Posted at 06:29:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Definitely!
As a fellow single (but soon to be wed) mother, I see absolutely nothing wrong with this.
People have done way more shady stuff to give their children far less in life.
Putting your kid through private school is something to be be proud of.
You are a hero girl!
Qluma · 2 points · Posted at 06:44:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There is nothing wrong with strong motherly instincts. But not skirting your taxes is one of the most unpatriotic things you can do. As a fellow single mother you may see nothing wrong with this, but you also probably have an extremely similar perspective and/or lens in which you live your life as op. You probably "resonate" with a lot of what op says. You are probably helping her confirm her own bias. I'm not saying any of these 100 comments are right or wrong, I'm just saying there are glimmers of truth in all of them. All perspectives have value.
Qluma · 3 points · Posted at 06:45:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Also lets not toss the term hero around like that, it is offensive.
Fnar_ · 1 points · Posted at 06:59:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Offensive to you maybe.
Fnar_ · 2 points · Posted at 06:58:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Qluma · 0 points · Posted at 07:43:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fnar_ · 1 points · Posted at 07:45:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And this comment is supposed to mean what exactly?
Qluma · 0 points · Posted at 15:47:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It means you obviously know something I don't.
Fnar_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That literally makes no sense.
RedGyara · 4 points · Posted at 03:25:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Maybe the public schools in her area weren't very good.
vonMishka · 5 points · Posted at 03:29:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I responded above.
I also forgot to add that when he hit middle school, it was very crowded and they turned a blind eye to serious bullying. Lots of shitty kids from messed up homes. Getting him out of there was crucial to his mental and physical health.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:29:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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vonMishka · 4 points · Posted at 03:31:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
See my response to the person who asked this question of me. I had a very good reason.
Li54 · 2 points · Posted at 05:30:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
ITT: people scamming Papa John's get kudos; people scamming to help their kids get ahead get slammed. What is this even.
vonMishka · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thank you.
I'll add that my company pretty much helped ruin the economy thereafter. The matching gift increase was for their benefit.
iRasha · 3 points · Posted at 04:32:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Youre defending yourself and your sons education to a bunch of strangers on the internet that either have no kids or no real life experience. You did what you did and good for you when it comes to the quality of education your son needs. You dont have to explain yourself to anyone, hustle away
vonMishka · 1 points · Posted at 04:35:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thank you. In the end, I think I did the right thing.
yulbrynnersmokes · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What non profit pays your kid's tuition?
aspiringneuropsych · 1 points · Posted at 06:03:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Where do you live where private school only costs $10k per year?
oh_no_not_canola_oil · 1 points · Posted at 02:36:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You go girl!!
markneill · 1 points · Posted at 03:35:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is the loophero this thread needed.
theskepticalsquid · 1 points · Posted at 04:58:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Honestly tho that doesn't even sound bad to me. Like morally to me it sounds great! You gotta do what you gotta do for your son!
i_killed_hitler · 1 points · Posted at 06:15:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Anyone saying you committed fraud is full of shit. First off, you donated to a non-profit, and your employer donated to a non-profit. You're clean. Now, the non-profit spent that money for your child, so if there's any fraud committed here it's on them. It won't be though, because they received money and spent it how they like.
It sounds like fraud, it feels like fraud, but it's not legally fraud. Not a single person that has replied to you thus far has given a single legal reason for it being fraud, because it's not. Rich people do this shit all the time. They start a non-profit, donate to it, and then do whatever the hell they want. There's little oversight on what non-profits can do with their money.
BlitzSolwind · -11 points · Posted at 03:30:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Most single mother hustle usually don't involve struggling to send their children to private school. I wouldn't be bragging about abusing this loophole.
vonMishka · 20 points · Posted at 03:38:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I raised my son completely alone. I had him at 20. Got my college degree. His father ghosted. I never received child support. My family lived in another state. I struggled and made a good life for him.
But I can see why you'd think that. I edited and commented to clarify why I put him in the private school. I had to.
BlitzSolwind · 2 points · Posted at 20:49:49 on March 2, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fair point, I didnt mean to judge harshly sorry. I have two sisters who are single mothers. One was a single mother at 17. The other recently single mother of 5 due to the father being deported. Ive seen the struggles of single mothers since I was 15 (now 30). I've had to help take care of nieces and nephews as well as financially at times. But at least my sisters have had some family nearby for the most part. You did not. Good luck with everything.
nickasummers · 38 points · Posted at 01:54:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was some mmo I played years ago, don't remember which, but people regularly sold things on an auction house thing and would try to undercut each other by a few dollars/coins/credits/whatever. There were a couple of items that were really common as drops so there were a lot of them on the auction house at low prices. One day I was checking prices for selling my loot to an npc and noticed that those items literally went for more money to the npc than they were sometimes sold on the auction house for. So I spent a few hours buying any that were underpriced on the auction house and then going and selling them to the npc for a tiny profit. Made money faster doing that during peak hours (when more people were getting more drops and thus competing on price more) than actually playing the game. During lulls it was faster to just play so thats what I did.
awesome357 · 30 points · Posted at 02:55:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This makes me remember back in vanilla wow I was on a new server. There was a 50 something level quest where you needed to turn in an item to complete that I found out about. Well I was a 30 something but engineering was high enough I could make said item. Since I was too low to gather the components I bought out the auction houses entire supply of the rarest component and equal amount of all the rest. And then started slowly putting the item up for ridiculous prices. No one else had caught on and I manufactured rarity by trickling them in. It was an otherwise useless component so it took a couple weeks for anyone else to catch on and in that time my low level character made a huge profit.
kazu-sama · 16 points · Posted at 03:40:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did something similar and it got me a 3-day ban for manipulating the market. I was pretty pissed as it was just me manipulating supply and demand, not hacking or botting. In case anyone wants to know, just had a really efficient route of all the copper for mining. So I ran around for a day and significantly upped me stock of ore. Smelted it down to bars, then just bought out all the auctions for cheap, and replaced them at a higher price (from like 20 silver to 1g a stack).
awesome357 · 23 points · Posted at 03:44:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah that's a stupid ban. How dare you profit in an open market that literally has unlimited supply if people (any character) puts in the effort.
itsMEGAMEGA · 1 points · Posted at 10:24:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
lol I did the same with mats in wrath but I didn't get banned
Navy_Pheonix · 2 points · Posted at 05:37:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That reminds of of the times when I would sit in the hub in Spiral Knights buying and selling Steam during High and Low times on the "Offers to Buy and Offers to Sell" Page.
There was a daily cap of 100 regenerating steam, so after I'd used that actually playing the freaking game I sat around all day making 3-4 steam each resell.
Literally free money, but as a 15 year old kid it was probably the least exciting use of my time.
Garystri · 1 points · Posted at 05:48:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did something like this too, there was a shop that would reset its inventory whenever the server would go down for maintenance. When it came up it had full inventory (no restock except for maintenance) so I would buy the things it sold and sell them for $$.
reboundmc · 38 points · Posted at 02:33:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in the Air Force it was discovered that the Motorola radios, when held up to a Pepsi machine's can drop, would activate something or scramble the electronics or something because if you keyed the mic it would release one can of soda and a dollar fifty in change. It was discovered because a vendor found an empty machine with no money in it and many people got in trouble, some demoted and kicked out. Also, in England it was discovered that a nickel rang up as 20p in pay phones and vending machines. People were going to the bank on base and getting tons of nickels to make cheap calls home.
KaiFoxy · 779 points · Posted at 23:02:00 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in middle school, I used to sell candies for $1 a pop. At the local HEB (grocery store in Texas) candy was often 2 for $1, so I would buy it at HEB then sell it at school for 100% profit. I built up from $2 worth of candies up to $50 over time, before my candy was confiscated. The people working the office to my school ate it all :I
pm_chicken_nuggets · 789 points · Posted at 01:26:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's not a loophole, that's entrepreneurship and arbitrage
jd530 · 477 points · Posted at 02:03:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And Theft on the part of the school admin...
[deleted] · 19 points · Posted at 04:30:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Regulatory capture. Welcome to crony capitalism.
fidgetsatbonfire · 6 points · Posted at 05:26:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Regulatory capture would be if he became the school admin.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm assuming that the school has vending machines or snacks in the cafeteria. If so, then the school has an incentive to reduce competition; that is a form of regulatory capture.
canadianpilot · 19 points · Posted at 03:13:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's called Tax.
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 05:43:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
FTFY
Alsadius · 9 points · Posted at 03:51:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the Ron Swanson sense of the word, yes.
CaptnYossarian · 8 points · Posted at 04:56:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
*Civil forfeiture.
Ghost17088 · 0 points · Posted at 05:29:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You mean civil forfeiture?
[deleted] · -37 points · Posted at 02:33:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, it isn't. They were allowed to confiscate it.
jd530 · 62 points · Posted at 02:57:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Confiscate, yes, consume and not return, not at all.
metalmilitia587 · 11 points · Posted at 03:46:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"We can't take the risk of candy being poisoned, we had to throw it out". How they justify their theft
OneHairyThrowaway · 2 points · Posted at 04:18:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It is a legit lability on their part though...
666666t · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:24 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
but they didn't throw it out, they ate it....
[deleted] · -7 points · Posted at 04:40:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well they don't have to return it.
jd530 · 13 points · Posted at 05:43:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's a students personal property, yes, they do
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:43:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When have you all last been in school? Teachers do this stuff and it's not exactly outrageous.
jd530 · 2 points · Posted at 14:37:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've never had a teacher take my property and not-return it. Even the most egregious violations ended with you can get it back if a parent comes with you
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 04:02:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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CaptnYossarian · 5 points · Posted at 04:56:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Note that's not tax. Tax is designed for a payment to the government for enforcing the laws of the country and providing you the environment and opportunity to do business. The above is civil forfeiture, where assets are seized on accusation of wrongdoing.
monsantobreath · 2 points · Posted at 04:52:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Legality and morality, two separate things.
WolfeBane84 · 2 points · Posted at 05:32:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, way back in middle school where they had those "here's a booklet sell stuff from it" competition.
I had a cool teacher that year who would have impromptu pizza parties anyway and since the prize for that year was a pizza party I came up with the idea of just blowing everyone else out of the water and making a bundle too.
Bought $1,500 in chocolate candies from my buddy in another class, so obviously he wins and so his class wins the party.
I take the candy, doctor up some real nice looking UNICEF stuff and then went around town selling the candy for triple what each box was worth. Boom, $1500 into $4500 and I'm 12 years old.
The_Bluest_Things · 2 points · Posted at 06:43:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Where did you get $1,500 at 12 years old?
WolfeBane84 · 1 points · Posted at 06:45:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Christmasses and birthdays, mowing lawns, selling apples from the trees in the yard etc.
Robododo13 · 1 points · Posted at 04:00:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I agree, especially due to schools overcharging for everything (similar the theaters) or just not selling it (Ex. School only has 'healthy' food in machines)
[deleted] · 326 points · Posted at 23:07:21 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Clavo_PR · 6 points · Posted at 05:35:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If that happened to make kid I would raise hell. The fuck is this confiscating people's property.
DOUGUOD · 1 points · Posted at 13:23:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Right? This is th kind of shit OP should be rewarded for. Dick heads.
WaitWhatting · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You mom sure does care a lot for your education, son
Philip_De_Bowl · 16 points · Posted at 03:03:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to get atomic warheads for a nickel & sell them for a quarter. I got called out for selling them in class and the teacher told me: If you don't have enough for everyone, then give them all to me. Everyone in class got one that day & I still broke even after selling the rest of my stash.
HamishHotFis7 · 8 points · Posted at 03:42:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Buy a case of soft drink/pop cans. Like $12 for a case of 24. Sell the cans for $2 each. School only sold the sugar free soft drinks which taste like rubbish. Lasted for a couple of weeks before the school cracked down.
ultra_light_memes · 8 points · Posted at 03:34:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did this too. Just took food from home for "lunch" and sold it to kids in my class, put up posters above the cubbies and everything. Made enough for a sweet yu-gi-oh duel disk before my parents caught on.
fuckititsralley · 6 points · Posted at 02:46:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
HEB is the bomb.
StrangeCharmVote · 10 points · Posted at 04:03:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's just straight up theft.
noah9942 · 5 points · Posted at 04:39:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A friend and I did this all the time in Highschool. We would get huge amounts of candy, easily $100 worth, and sell it all for $1 each, making $200-250, depending on bow much we ate.
The school security took all the candy we had and money we made (that we had on us, including in our cars). We complained, talked to the principle (who was really cool and had no idea they took it) who got the police to get them to give us back our stuff. We got a referral (which did nothing since they didn't keep a copy of it) and were told not to do it again.
Then we just sold it from our cars before/after school and at breaks (lunch/passing periods).
Coffeechipmunk · 3 points · Posted at 05:31:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That is legit theft.
JManRomania · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:26 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
probably b/c he didn't want school security to get nailed with a theft charge
waterfalll · 4 points · Posted at 02:14:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Step it up when I was in middle acc oil I would buy 2 bags of 20 Carmel apple pops for 3.75 at the cvs on my walk to school then sell them for 1$ each to the kids at my school everyday for a long while before getting suspended for it. I think I made a few hundred bucks off that one.
evelution · 4 points · Posted at 02:20:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did something similar. I bought a box of 500 sherbet straws (i.e. flavoured sugar) for about $10.
I sold about half of the straws for 50c each. Ate or gave away the rest.
Bought another box and sold the lot.
whatIsThisBullCrap · 4 points · Posted at 03:23:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
TIL retail is a loophole
rageycita · 2 points · Posted at 02:35:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid, I'd buy a 99 cent box of sugar cubes and sell them to kids for 10 cents/cube. Sugar addicts.
HotSoftFalse · 2 points · Posted at 04:07:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did the same thing in highschool! At my school they got rid of all the pop vending machines and replaced them with juice and water vending machines. I would go to Wal Mart and buy a 24 pack of pop for $5, then sell each can for $1. Teachers never stopped me and I made enough money to buy about 4 video games before I stopped because I couldn't be arsed to go through that effort.
TholomewP · 2 points · Posted at 04:44:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in middle school me and two friends started an operation where we would loan out money to the other kids at lunch if they wanted to buy food but didn't have enough money. We tracked all of our loans on a ledger which was just a piece of printer paper. We then got the idea to start charging them interest on what they owed us, I think it was like 25% per day. We got shut down when the principal stopped us and told us what loan sharking was.
PragmaticMoth · 2 points · Posted at 04:54:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a classmate do something similar to this. We lived near/within a few Amish communities, and they ran a few general stores where the items were a fraction of normal prices. So he bought all their chocolate bars and would sell them for a killer profit at school until the school noticed there weren't any fundraisers going on involving chocolate and shut him down.
Joeskyyy · 2 points · Posted at 05:07:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you live in San Antonio? Because kids in my middle school had an entire top down Ponzi scheme based on this shit hahahaha
Novahawk12 · 3 points · Posted at 02:39:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You should have charged them for taking your product
MarkerSniffer · 1 points · Posted at 03:47:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to do this same thing but with Lemonheads and Atomic Fireballs. Got them from the box store in big plastic buckets and sold them from my locker for a quarter a piece. Good times!
xxaaoo · 1 points · Posted at 04:33:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
HairE Butts I'm sorry, but I'm immature and since I moved to Texas and found out what it stood for I find it hard to resist.
FortWayneVlogger · 1 points · Posted at 04:38:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did this exact thing for a bit as well. I saved my fundraiser candy box and just kept restocking with my own that i bought to make more money.
agzz21 · 1 points · Posted at 05:09:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did the same but with gum. Bought the 3 packs of gum for like $2. HEB always had the deal where if you buy 2 of those 3 packs of gum you get the other free. Would sell the packs in high school for a dollar. Turned $4 to $9.
theskepticalsquid · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At my school one of my friends would sell mountain dew. He even got other people to sell mountain dew for him (I was one of these people) and we made a profit too. There was a rule that you weren't allowed to sell anything at school but it was a while before he got in trouble.
ajt666 · 1 points · Posted at 05:18:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I did the same thing in HS with sodas. The locker next to mine was empty so I put a small lunch cooler in it to keep the pop cold and we'd sell them for 2 dollars a bottle when we could get six packs of 24oz bottles for 6 bucks at the store up the street from my house. Made enough for us each to buy a copy of borderlands 2 when it first came out.
Slacker5001 · 1 points · Posted at 05:28:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Common thing that happens. Guy in my grade did it our junior year. He would buy it in cases and carry it around in this cool plastic see through briefcase.
School politely asked him to stop and he did, being a pretty good kid overall. A year later the whole district implemented a policy that any fundraisers, vending machines, or selling of food in general that was related to the school had to be healthy food only.
internetlad · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's not 100% profit that's 50% profit. or maybe it's 66% or 75% but it's sure not 100%
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:09:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
HEB is love, HEB is life.
RamnNodls · 1 points · Posted at 06:22:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a kid in my high school that would buy a ton of 12 packs of every flavor of mountain dew when they went on sale and then sell them of at $1/can at school. Everybody knew that they were being swindled but I guess that the kid cashed in on their laziness. After a few months every single trash bin was completely full of empty cans so the school management shut it down, which I'm still mad about. That kid was smart.
I also managed to con away every can I ever got from him, never paid a cent. Good times.
MarinaA19 · 1 points · Posted at 06:26:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Isn't 100% profit selling something that you got for free?
DoxBox · 1 points · Posted at 06:27:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wow, if they'd just straight up stolen stuff from me, one of my parents would be at the school demanding the principal's head.
i_killed_hitler · 1 points · Posted at 06:30:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to buy bags of candy and sell each piece to kids for 25 cents. It worked for a couple of weeks and I was raking in the money. Then some asshole teacher made me stop.
TexMarshfellow · 1 points · Posted at 06:33:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
…which part of Texas?
KaiFoxy · 1 points · Posted at 07:29:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
San Antonio :3
TexMarshfellow · 1 points · Posted at 07:42:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh okay, well my friend definitely did this in middle school as well. Stolen candy and everything
user0621 · 1 points · Posted at 06:34:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did I go to school with you?
mastermind04 · 1 points · Posted at 07:00:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Tried that with Pepsi but the problem was I would get thirsty and drink half my supply.
JManRomania · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:52 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's theft.
dgibbons0 · 1 points · Posted at 00:03:54 on March 4, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did this buying bulk 'pixie stick' candy from the outlet store by my house, something like 1,000 for $3. then sell them at school for 5 cents each. Worked pretty well for a few weeks.
Happy_Vincent · -7 points · Posted at 02:31:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in middle school I broke into the student store over the weekend, stole all the candy, chips and soda, and snuck over to the highschool down the street at lunch at sell it at 100% profit.
Ended up making $400.00 from an investment of $0.00. Thats an infinity profit.
Coffeechipmunk · 6 points · Posted at 05:33:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, that's theft
cinnaboo · 481 points · Posted at 23:31:49 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
In high school, my friend and I found out that some of the school lunch ladies when operating money card scanner (instead of real money we had cards that were like debt cards) didn't press the "finalize" button because idk. So instead of manually ending that transaction, the next card swiped would start a new one transaction for that account, rinse and repeat. Once we found that out we got extra snacks, drinks, food and it even worked at the supply office. We did this for 4 years without telling another person, and after each year whatever money was left over you would receive in a form of cash or check. We also did this to help our friends and some other good people if they were in a pinch for food or supplies. Never got caught but did get alot of weird looks, but from what I heard after I left someone spoke up and it was fixed and people got fired.
ColdestSteel · 125 points · Posted at 01:44:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm not exactly following, and am writing a scientific article about this for science. Could you please explain how it worked a little more clearly?
Aluminiumfedora · 137 points · Posted at 02:17:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If I got it right, OP used a blank card/ wiped their own card so that when it was swiped through, it wouldn't register and the previous person would end up paying for their meal.
oh_no_not_canola_oil · 40 points · Posted at 02:41:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not sure if that's terrible, or awesome.
Aluminiumfedora · 34 points · Posted at 02:43:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Me neither. I'm guessing that the people who lost money were refunded later, but it still feels wrong.
oh_no_not_canola_oil · 67 points · Posted at 03:12:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There is a lot of places (especially in the rural US) where the majority or at least a sizable portion of students get free or reduced cost lunch, so I don't think there is any way to justify what amounts to stealing from people who might be hardly able to afford their OWN lunch.
thebestatspaghettios · 17 points · Posted at 04:14:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In my school if you got free lunch the lunch ladies just waved you through instead of making you wait in line.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 08:12:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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I_like_boxes · 2 points · Posted at 08:29:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pretty sure my school scanned IDs for all lunches too. It kept people from going through the line multiple times. Most of the good food would still be gone by the time my lunch period started (I just wanted the damn soup!), and people probably would have bought food for their friends if they could go through again and get the same deal.
Also, pretty sure the school got reimbursed by the government but still had to pay up-front for the food. There were some weird shenanigans about how it all worked though.
On the bright side, the government provided free breakfast for everyone, which I never knew was weird until I heard they took it away after I graduated.
InQuizADoor · 14 points · Posted at 03:14:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I could be wrong but if the first transaction didn't finalize then they're still only being charged once (until they (the loopholers) started adding on snacks and stuff I guess)
Aluminiumfedora · 10 points · Posted at 03:15:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I mean it's hard to know what happened without more details
cinnaboo · 6 points · Posted at 05:26:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Actually no lost money, it was accounted as a clerical error, and the school saw no real waste they threw out ton of food and the supplies were all bought with government money
187TROOPER · 2 points · Posted at 07:57:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So you just went through the line and the cook/cashier didn't press 'finalize'? If this is the case, then you and every other student in the school did not have to pay for a lunch...something that would be detected well before 4 years.
Aluminiumfedora · 1 points · Posted at 05:48:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Gotcha
NoFriends_IWonderWhy · 17 points · Posted at 04:39:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think what really happened was pressing the "finalize" button charges money, and since they never pressed the button OP was never charged money. It's kinda like if you create a new file and do stuff with it but you don't save; it's like you've never touched it.
Aluminiumfedora · 17 points · Posted at 05:04:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wait, doesn't that mean nobody was charged money? How was this not caught earlier?
afkb39sdfb · 16 points · Posted at 05:35:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Public school employees
ArtilleryCamel · 14 points · Posted at 04:50:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No.. it sounds like since the first step in the process is to swipe the card, the next person swiping their card before you ever finalize your transaction would just forget your purchase entirely. But since you swiped, the cashier won't notice the difference.
Aluminiumfedora · 4 points · Posted at 05:05:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hmmm.. That's an interesting theory
cinnaboo · 74 points · Posted at 02:05:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh my apologizes. I have no excuse for my confusing english. Long story short, Ladies being lazy, they wouldn't charge and close out the transaction in between students. Thus S1 gets lunch and swipes card, S2 swipes card and starting new transaction and S1 accounts gets billed, ect ect. My loop how is S1 gets lunch and swipe, S2 swipe a dead card same kind of lunch card but no account tied to and S1 account is charged for a second lunch, S3 gets lunch, swipes, closes out S1 transaction of Lunch x2, new transaction begins. I aplogize again for my poor english
[deleted] · 44 points · Posted at 04:41:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So you stole a bunch of money from other kids. I'm all for sticking it to the man, but all you did was pass the bill to other kids. And to top it off, you added extra shit to your order.
cinnaboo · 5 points · Posted at 05:28:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Actually no lost money, it was accounted as a clerical error, and the school saw no real waste they threw out ton of food and the supplies were all bought with government money
chewyxc · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I mean it fits the thread question. He never said they had to be ethical loopholes.
The_Life_Of_Matt · 1 points · Posted at 04:59:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't think any money was stolen. If I'm understanding correctly, neither S1 or S2 are charged anything and I assume they are the two who are in on it. When S3, who I do not think is part of the scam, makes his order the previous order is wiped out. So they did not make anyone else pay for their food, no one paid for the food
imjillian · 7 points · Posted at 05:15:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Doesn't look like it, "S1 account is charged for a second lunch"
PM_ME_CUTE_BABY_PICS · 5 points · Posted at 05:42:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I believe the S1 account just had the charges of S1 and S2 on the screen but it wasn't sent through because the cashier didn't press authorize. When S3 swipes their card, S1 and S2's order for cancelled.
Condawg · 1 points · Posted at 10:07:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 05:11:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
your explanation literally makes no sense
GetOutOfBox · 3 points · Posted at 06:16:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's probably made up
AOEUD · 5 points · Posted at 04:59:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Okay, this isn't a loophole, this is theft. And not the good kind of "fuck the system!" theft, the kind where you stole from other kids. Does that make you a bully?
UhOhPhysics · -1 points · Posted at 06:29:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Asking the real questions....
No one got charged, it's as if you creat a word document write in it, the close it without saving
AOEUD · 1 points · Posted at 14:02:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
eKap · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah, it was confusing. Thanks for asking, I understand it now too
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:15:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
From what I interpret
Lets say a student swipes their card. A transaction is created, but doesn't go through because the lady didnt hit the finalize button. The lady swipes another students card, creating another transaction, but deleting the previous one.
cinnaboo · 1 points · Posted at 05:32:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Correct somewhat, when another card is swiped the previous transaction is finalized and is "paid" while bring up the newest card swipers account. I am sorry my English is terrible
p_a_schal · 1 points · Posted at 05:56:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The cashier never hit the button to finalize the sale. When the next person's transaction was started, the previous was cancelled, and so on.
SpazzyBaby · 9 points · Posted at 04:50:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So...you stole from random people?
cinnaboo · 0 points · Posted at 05:28:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Actually no lost money, it was accounted as a clerical error, and the school saw no real waste they threw out ton of food and the supplies were all bought with government money. I spread wealth as I saw fit with those I felt needed help, bad day, or just shit the fan. As for those who got fired, there a set SOP when using the POS, they weren't doing their job the correct way and took the lazy way instead of the correct way. I know all this is because I did volunteer hours in the cafeteria for a social studies requirement
SpazzyBaby · 3 points · Posted at 05:58:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
But how would they know which students were actually getting charged for the person after them?
Heebejeeby · 2 points · Posted at 06:59:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
lol government money isn't real money? What if the "error" as you eloquently put it wasn't reported by whoever was unfortunate enough to follow you in line? Likely then that person paid for your stuff without realizing it, and I'm sorry but your attempts at justification sound lame. You're describing theft not a loophole, and it's worse that people lost jobs they probably needed badly. Maybe they wouldn't have been fired if you hadn't exploited their oversight so unscrupulously?
monsantobreath · 4 points · Posted at 04:49:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh look, morality backfires.
187TROOPER · 2 points · Posted at 08:08:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In one post, you say:
"lunch ladies when operating money card scanner didn't press the 'finalize' button.
In another post, you say:
"when another card is swiped the previous transaction is finalized and is 'paid'"
Either way, if the lunch ladies weren't "doing their job" it would have affected the entire school and would have been detected right away.
superiorswag · 2 points · Posted at 06:14:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Calling bs
erickdredd · 150 points · Posted at 04:37:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dress code at work says men can't wear shorts. Dress code at work allows women to wear skirts. When it's hot as balls outside, I wear a kilt to work. Bosses at work are too afraid of sexual discrimination charges to say a God. Damn. Thing.
winnipegjets31 · 23 points · Posted at 06:25:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I just got a new job at my university. Asked my boss if i was allowed to wear shorts when it was hot out. She said no, but I would be able to wear a kilt. Jokes on her when I actually do it.
Eloviking · 9 points · Posted at 06:18:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/maliciouscompliance
onexbigxhebrew · 10 points · Posted at 06:07:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I kind of feel like it probably isn't fear. It's probably a case of "I don't really enjoy that it's my job to enforce this anyway, so this is my easy out for having to do anything or have an awkward conversation - especially since this guy seems like he's already being a dick about it."
Redkg · 7 points · Posted at 07:01:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
He's being a dick?
erickdredd · 2 points · Posted at 16:29:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well to be fair, I'm union, so it's kinda complicated. My direct supervisor is actually completely cool with it, but she's told me that others in the building have expressed concerns over how it would even be possible to stop anyone else from doing it.
Of course I've said several times how to stop other guys wearing kilts: let us wear shorts dammit.
Remi_The_master · -1 points · Posted at 07:35:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think the joke is on you for wearing a kilt
Yemto · 164 points · Posted at 21:57:51 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
Along time ago, before smart phones. I found a service that let you download 3 games each month/week for a cost. But they didn't properly check how much money that was left on the phone, so if it was even a cent left, you could sign up, download the games and cancel, without any bad consequences. So I did that every time I was low on money on my phone.
K_Click_D · 15 points · Posted at 02:00:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Like Jamster or some shit? Haha fuuuuck those services man, nice one for exploiting that system
Vouros · 3 points · Posted at 09:31:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Jamster once sent us text message bill for well over a trillion dollars, i dont understand it, and i chalk it up to some kind of glitch, and they never went after us again, but it was worded very threatningly (legal action wise)
Dtree11 · 32 points · Posted at 03:06:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was in car sales for 5 years and when someone would call in to ask for pricing they would page "new car sales". We would race to dial 101 or 102 depending on the line. I paid 5 bucks online to get the commercial programming guide for our commercial phone system and programmed a single button to instant pick up 101 or 102. I did this for years until another sales person stole my phone knowing I did something to it.
AppQ · 3 points · Posted at 12:09:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What happened when the other employee discovered it?
Dtree11 · 2 points · Posted at 13:05:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I reset that phone to the normal setting, but he then learned how to reprogram the phone. The idiot must have shown someone else how to do it because a couple months later a bunch of guys had done it. Because we are sales people, he probably programmed their phones for a fee.
picklestar · 39 points · Posted at 03:20:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
College class registration system: Randomly discovered that from 12:00-12:01AM the system was wide open during registration for next semester (it was intended to be segmented in days/# of completed credit hours ~seniors/juniors etc). Came in nice when previously popular classes/professors/time slots would always fill up by the time you could register. Worked for the years I used it. I only let a few people know about too; never heard of anyone else exploiting it.
[deleted] · 37 points · Posted at 03:22:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
College dorm Internet. So the college itself had unlimited Internet, but you couldn't easily pirate on it and because it was a govornment connection it wasn't allowed in the dorms. There was a different private company that took care of that, like $20 for 5GB, $30 for 10GB, and this was only a few years ago. Of course everyone blew threw it and was constantly sharing their last few MBs for assignments, and the gamers couldn't download GTA V, it was just terrible. But I'm a very heavy downloader, I like all my files huge and to download them fast. I discovered a loophole in the system. If you were in the middle of a download the system wouldn't cut you off in the middle of it, it'd leave your entire connection unshaped until the download you were in the middle of stopped. But I discovered if you never ever stop downloading then the system never ever cuts your connection when you reach your limit. Meaning I could buy the cheapest monthly data package they offered, like 1GB a month, and I'd just be constantly downloading and would end up downloading multiple terabytes a month, all at really high speed so it didn't affect things like gaming for me or downloading academic papers and such. I kept looking at the usage charts on my account page and the numbers kept getting bigger, the bar charts would generate so big and tall that they wouldn't even fit on the screen, they never accounted for a user using that much and they never caught me.
Medarco · 10 points · Posted at 06:46:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That sounds kind of like my brother in law. He had a very old verizon plan that had actually unlimited data. He set up his phone as a hotspot and used it as his family internet service in his home. When they went in to upgrade one of the phones on the contract, the staff was pretty baffled by the amount of data he used on his "phone".
SmartestIdiotAlive · 523 points · Posted at 23:10:01 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
I worked at Dunkin' Donuts. I wasn't allowed to say the food wasn't fresh even if I knew it wasn't. So I simply said "I wouldn't eat it. Neither should you. Order something else." I couldn't get in trouble for it.
earthsick · 230 points · Posted at 02:59:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The percentage of still frozen-in-the-middle sandwiches I've gotten there is 100%. You guys are consistent!
[deleted] · 19 points · Posted at 04:42:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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tallstoner · 8 points · Posted at 04:43:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's like going to maccas and buying a salad
MadKingRyan · 13 points · Posted at 05:16:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
found the aussie
tallstoner · 3 points · Posted at 05:33:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Guilty as charged ;)
Farqueue- · 3 points · Posted at 06:09:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had maccas yesterday. Been a while, it was worth it!
ajleece · 1 points · Posted at 07:18:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What else would you call Maccas?
MadKingRyan · 1 points · Posted at 07:19:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
my pommie friend calls it maccies. can you imagine? maccies? what a country!
earthsick · 3 points · Posted at 04:49:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It shouldn't be that tough to not fuck up egg, cheese and bagel.
Cohn-Jandy · 2 points · Posted at 04:55:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hah! I genuinely had no idea that did anything other than donuts!
earthsick · 2 points · Posted at 14:44:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure if they do lunch stuff, but they do breakfast! I mean, how hard is it to not use a frozen egg puck? Apparently very.
Brasso26 · 1 points · Posted at 04:53:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to eat their turkey sausage sandwich almost every day. I liked it.
pokeaotic · 3 points · Posted at 05:37:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Crazy. At my DD the sandwiches are literally hotter than the sun 100% of the time. I can get a sandwich, finish my drive to work, park, walk about a quarter mile to my office and it's about the perfect temperature at that point finally.
The_Moustache · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Never once had one that was still frozen.
earthsick · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lucky you!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
then again, i've never had a frozen sandwich there ever, so consistency on both ends i guess? their bagel/turkey sausage/egg white sandwiches are BOMB
gumnos · 18 points · Posted at 03:30:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do you have any tips for us plebes on identifying the fresh goods at DD? Especially the donuts. I find it's pretty hit-or-miss when I go in.
bookmole86 · 27 points · Posted at 03:56:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just don't get sandwiches. Everything that goes in there is frozen. I spent many evening slamming the frozen together sausage patties and eggs against the counter to separate them.
Mach_Two · 5 points · Posted at 05:12:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Let's be honest, everything that goes anywhere is frozen.
I'll grab Dunkin on my way to work, and I watch them piece together my meal during the mornings. I've been to Dunkin 100's of times over the past few years, never felt anything remotely cold in my sandwich or otherwise.
PM_ME_CUTE_BABY_PICS · 6 points · Posted at 05:34:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wendy's never freezes their products. I have never had a problem with DD though. Hot food I have ordered has always been hot. Not even warm.
Mred12 · 4 points · Posted at 06:08:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So you're telling me they arrive hot, on a hot truck?! Bullshit!
Seyon · 2 points · Posted at 09:03:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You say bullshit, I say I've never seen a germ that could survive in an open flame.
Flicks lighter shut.
BipedSnowman · 2 points · Posted at 12:52:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They refrigerate, but don't freeze.
bookmole86 · 2 points · Posted at 05:46:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well, I worked there throughout high school and definitely wouldn't recommend any of the sandwiches
SmartestIdiotAlive · 22 points · Posted at 03:42:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some Dunkin' Donuts bake their donuts. Most do not. It gets shipped every morning from some factory. At my store, they kept the muffins for at least a day before throwing them. I would recommend not getting them unless you ask "are they still warm?". If the worker says no, that means it probably isn't fresh. It is almost like a code. Just don't be an ass when asking. The only thing that would be the most guarantee to be fresh was bagels and croissants which were baked every morning, but the baking starts at around 4, sometimes even 3, so if you're there at night, chances are they aren't that great. Though, some extra busy stores would start their baking at night and then keep them covered for morning shift.
TL;DR Donuts are made somewhere else, muffins are usually stale, and bagels and croissants are baked daily. Ask the worker what they would recommend. Do it nicely, though.
h0rn37 · 5 points · Posted at 03:59:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The baker at the store I worked at used to come in at 8 pm to start baking and the first things done were always muffins and bagels. Like, he had zero concept of the fact that they'd be stale by 4pm.
gumnos · 1 points · Posted at 11:11:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
that the donuts wouldn't be made fresh daily; the whole "time to make the donuts" thing is a lie. My world has been unsettled. :-/
TinyFemale · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
my store got them delivered at 3am daily
mroperator · 3 points · Posted at 05:37:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just ask the person "hey what's the freshest donut right now?" Pretty easy.
gumnos · 1 points · Posted at 11:14:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sadly, I have a whole hierarchy of donut preference, so I'd have to hand them the in-order list and request the first thing on the list that's fresh :-)
'Cuz even if the pink-frosted-with-sprinkles are the most fresh, I still would sooner go without.
jmdbcool · 5 points · Posted at 04:00:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/MaliciousCompliance/
poobicus · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
thanks
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:11:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And your manager was cool with that?
Finalpotato · 2 points · Posted at 04:29:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At my work we do throw out bad food but most of our stuff has a few day shelf life and we have to either say it is "fresh this morning" if it hasn't passed the shelf life and "from yesterday" if it expired yesterday and we were specialing it (only for one day, everything was still fine). I couldn't tell people if stuff had come in that morning because fair enough people refused to take it otherwise.
stoprockandrollkids · 4 points · Posted at 03:53:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
r/madlads
RedemptionX11 · 1 points · Posted at 06:00:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to do that in a deli I worked for a bit. We would be required to leave fried stuff under the heat light until it sold. Regularly turned people away from it.
GrillPenetrationUnit · 1 points · Posted at 01:56:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lmao at this one
Trickster1995 · 376 points · Posted at 00:06:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Found a loophole that gave you unlimited free uber rides. I took a black car to taco bell a 1/2 mile away and went through the drive-through
CHUBBL3S · 135 points · Posted at 00:19:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Go on...
Trickster1995 · 258 points · Posted at 00:28:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't know if it works anymore but you basically created a new account every time you need a ride. You needed a phone number generator app. Every time you created an account you would link your main one and get a free ride on both accounts. Pretty awesome. Probably used it about 150 times before I no longer lived in a city which has uber
furedad · 54 points · Posted at 03:06:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Any recommended phone generator apps....obviously for unrelated reasons.
maxk1236 · 18 points · Posted at 04:27:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You could just keep making Google accounts with google voice
SirensToGo · 18 points · Posted at 04:41:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't make a bunch of Google accounts or else you'll get your IP banned and end up screwing over whoever gets your address next.
maxk1236 · 6 points · Posted at 05:18:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Banned from google??
GetOutOfBox · 8 points · Posted at 06:22:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The ultimate banhammer
TurboChewy · 9 points · Posted at 04:43:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Most people who move to a new place will get their own internet service, not continue the existing one. I don't think location plays a big deal.
SirensToGo · 9 points · Posted at 04:45:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Most providers don't give you the same IP the whole time you are paying. Most ISP routers don't request a static IP and so after a while it releases the address back into the pool and gets a new one. Static vs DHCP based addressing.
PM_ME_CUTE_BABY_PICS · 4 points · Posted at 05:46:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Also we're running out of ipv4 IPs so it's very likely you will get someone's old IP.
MapleKaiser · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Vpn?
SirensToGo · 2 points · Posted at 05:21:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There are so many better ways to get phone numbers like TextPlus on the appstore. Google gives a shit, these sketchy dinky companies really don't care and if you get IP banned nobody will care.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:20:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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maxk1236 · 3 points · Posted at 05:23:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well if you are just using it to make accts it should be fine
actual_factual_bear · 0 points · Posted at 05:47:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Does Google Voice even have phone numbers left? I was trying to get a second one a couple years back and there were like two left in the entire country that I could see.
DemiPixel · 6 points · Posted at 05:14:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Doesn't uber/lyft now require you to add credit card information to stop this from happening? Only way I could see around this is visa gift cards (if those even work with it).
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 07:13:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They also check device info and the first ride discounts seem to be something like $5 off for 5 rides instead of a $25 credit.
FabulousDavid · 1 points · Posted at 06:20:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This was my thought as well.
not_James_blunt · 1 points · Posted at 07:09:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Use a cc generator? Unless it actually tries to charge you to confirm it
Hotnonsense · 3 points · Posted at 04:44:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hushed
Vroonkle · 2 points · Posted at 05:52:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sideline
Trickster1995 · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haven't used it in a while so I don't remember
911ChickenMan · 23 points · Posted at 02:56:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Even if it doesn't work, you can still find free ride codes online. Uber just knows that most people don't go through the effort and just pay up. It's also the reason why five star hotels charge $100 for wifi, they know that it'll be covered as a company expense.
Swazimoto · 8 points · Posted at 04:05:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Where are these codes you speak of
withfinesse · 4 points · Posted at 04:14:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
From the Uber website- "To see your invite code, tap FREE RIDES in the app menu. When a friend signs up with your invite code, they’ll receive a free first ride." Sounds like he would use his own share code to create a new account and earn a free ride.
panameboss · 3 points · Posted at 05:59:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This doesn't work though. First off the new account would need to have an associated credit card (which can only be used for one Uber account) and then also before he could get a free ride, he would have to use his new account for a ride.
Very impractical.
MWO_FenixK17 · 1 points · Posted at 06:13:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My frugal friend used the same card on two accounts. I can't remember at what point you use the code but the referral code gives both accounts a free ride up to $20.
EDIT: Just want to put a disclaimer that I've not tried it myself.
911ChickenMan · -1 points · Posted at 05:39:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
999ewm makes a large pizza $10 Monday-Wednesday. You can go to retailmenot to find other coupon codes, they add new ones pretty often.
forestfluff · 4 points · Posted at 05:17:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
For existing users? No. The only ride codes available for Uber are when you sign up as a new user. Which is what he was talking about doing (make a new account and use his original account code to sign up and get double free rides)
panameboss · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Again this doesn't work either unless you have loads of different credit cards laying around because each card can only be linked to one account.
911ChickenMan · 1 points · Posted at 05:23:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Looks like you're right. Still, they could fix it easily but chose not to because it doesn't really impact them that much.
panameboss · 1 points · Posted at 06:03:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah this doesn't work any more. You have to link a credit/debit card to your account (and they can't be linked to more than one account).
zsphere · 1 points · Posted at 06:07:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This tends to work on any apps similar to uber. Currently doing it with a food delivery app called favor.
popsjourney · 1 points · Posted at 06:40:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did this so many times when I travelled to other cities or states so worth the signing in and out and creating new accounts.
tmack99 · 0 points · Posted at 04:55:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What kind of hellhole doesn't have uber?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:19:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Paris
Frustrated_Deaf · 1 points · Posted at 08:12:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This state I live in or at least within 100 miles of where I live, don't have Uber. I've been thinking about becoming the first Uber driver but thought twice against it due to high drug usage in my area (heroin is the most abused drug here and I don't want any strung out users in my vehicle).
AnyDemocratWillDo · 0 points · Posted at 05:05:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haha nice. I heard someone did the same thing but instead of using Über they actually picked up the drives as well as their others and basically never completed them.
aCourierFromXibalba · 2 points · Posted at 04:19:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
User name checks out
arsenalaccountant · 2 points · Posted at 05:23:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Used to do this all the time back in college. I think about a two years ago the trick stopped working for me. When was the last time you did it?
Trickster1995 · 2 points · Posted at 05:39:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
About 2 years ago as well
Prof_Lava-Hot · 9 points · Posted at 00:28:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Black car probably got harassed by police 3 times on the way there, despite having valid ID and not holding.
Synicr0 · 1 points · Posted at 05:02:25 on March 2, 2017 · (Permalink)
Elaborate?!
[deleted] · 760 points · Posted at 00:10:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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CHUBBL3S · 363 points · Posted at 00:20:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Doesn't that affect your credit?
maumacd · 315 points · Posted at 00:33:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not as much as you'd think. It's called churning, and there's lots of how-to's around. /R/personalfinance has links on the sidebar or FAQ I think.
lloydthellama55 · 29 points · Posted at 02:11:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/churning
MacDerfus · 41 points · Posted at 02:35:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I expected butter, am disappointed
bradorsomething · 15 points · Posted at 05:03:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you're buying butter I'd recommend a card with 5% back on groceries.
grandestufa · 6 points · Posted at 06:21:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You know that the Amex Blue Cash Preferred has 6% back on groceries and 10% back on restaurants up to $200 in cash back for the time being.
A_ARon_M · 1 points · Posted at 05:18:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's at least .5cpp boi
Sqrlchez · 1 points · Posted at 04:55:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you capitalize the "r" then a lot of people on mobile can't access the link. There is no reason it should be capital anyway.
Twatberriesandcream · 2 points · Posted at 04:37:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
r/churning
dare2smile · -2 points · Posted at 04:44:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Actually, visit /r/churning for ALL the tricks!
Ghost17088 · 0 points · Posted at 05:27:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Depends on your credit.
[deleted] · 154 points · Posted at 00:45:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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shiguywhy · 17 points · Posted at 01:20:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Would it affect your credit for jobs?
[deleted] · 40 points · Posted at 01:26:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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stateinspector · 3 points · Posted at 05:47:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Which is really the only way to shop at Kohl's. I never really shopped there before (and neither did my parents), so I didn't really know how it worked. When I got my first apartment, I got a bunch of coupons in the mail from USPS because I told them I was moving and to forward my mail. One of them was a 30% off coupon to Kohl's, and I knew they sold housewares, so I thought I could get some stuff there at a good discount. Once I got there, I figured out the pricing and realized they just mark everything up 30% so after the discount, it's the same price at any other store.
rinzler83 · 0 points · Posted at 15:08:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Of course it works, you just have to spend a bunch of money to get the rewards. The people who get free trips or 1000's back a year spend thousands. For me I'll never get that type of return because I don't spend thousands a month. My credit card bill is like 200-300 a month with me paying everything I can off with the card, that's every bill possible, gas, good, whatever that doesn't charge extra for paying with a credit card.. I'd love to see how that will somehow translate into me making 1000's back a year in rewards. In reality it can't.
cricketfluffernutter · 2 points · Posted at 15:16:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well if your life only costs $300/month, that's reward enough. 🙂
AlwaysClassyNvrGassy · 9 points · Posted at 04:11:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Credit for jobs? What does this mean? Like an employer running a credit check before hiring you?
III-V · 13 points · Posted at 04:16:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, some places won't hire you if you have shit credit. Mostly financial institutions.
shiguywhy · 1 points · Posted at 05:29:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Most jobs that require money handling. I think I was given one before being hired by a concierge agency because one of my duties was receiving and holding packages, and everyone in my mom's office gets one because they make budgets and there's concern that they might budget themselves in there, so to speak.
PlasticGirl · 0 points · Posted at 04:59:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Happy Cake Day.
PJsAreComfy · 1 points · Posted at 05:54:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Many employers do, especially if there's any relation to finance. It's viewed as an indicator of responsibility and likelihood to steal. Desperate times, desperate measures and such.
anotheronedown · 6 points · Posted at 04:05:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is it just America that checks credit for jobs? I'm in Canada and I've never heard of this before.
XanderJayNix · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm in America and have never heard of it either.
shiguywhy · 1 points · Posted at 05:32:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Honestly I don't know. Most of the jobs I've heard of doing it are ones that require money handling, which makes sense. Depends on the job level, though - when I was a lowly Starbucks peon I didn't need one but I think the managers did if they were hired for the position instead of promoted.
FR05TB1T3 · 1 points · Posted at 14:51:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah in the states they use it for all sorts of shit like car insurance where it is actually one of the best indicators you can get.
pugfantus · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I know, I applied for a new card and my car insurance went up a few months later when I renewed! It wasn't much, but still!
DontCommentMuch · 1 points · Posted at 04:44:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wait, your credit history affects your ability to get a job? I don't understand this logic. Is this a U.S. thing?
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 04:48:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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DontCommentMuch · 2 points · Posted at 05:17:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ah, righto. Seems reasonable. Thanks for clearing that up!
CalculatedPerversion · 3 points · Posted at 06:47:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's a trust thing. If you're $50k in credit card debt, you might not be trustworthy kinda thing.
911ChickenMan · 8 points · Posted at 02:46:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It depends if it's a "hard" or "soft" inquiry. A soft inquiry won't impact your score at all, but many lenders do a hard inquiry because it is more detailed. A hard inquiry will lower your score by a small amount, but as long as you pay your balances on time, the inquiry will fall off within 2 years (often sooner).
Another concern is age of accounts. Issuers often look at the average account age as a factor in credit score. It isn't a huge factor, but worth considering.
EDIT: Soft and hard inquiries both show the same information, but a hard inquiry is generally used for requesting a new line of credit. Soft inquiries are used for background checks or to verify identities.
kristallnachte · 3 points · Posted at 06:22:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Both inquiries show the same amount of info.
Hard inquiries indicate to other lenders you asked to be extended credit
911ChickenMan · 2 points · Posted at 06:25:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thanks, I'll update my original post.
Darth_Corleone · 2 points · Posted at 03:04:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I recently found out there IS a limit... I applied for another card, like I usually do when a new trip is coming up, and they told me I had too many new accounts to be accepted for the latest/greatest. I just applied for another and got that one, but there apparently is some theoretical limit for some of the banks.
I think they're aware that some of us are churning their rewards without spending money on their services, and they're pushing back.
tempusfudgeit · 8 points · Posted at 04:38:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Chase has a 5 cards in 24 months rule.
kristallnachte · 2 points · Posted at 06:23:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The rules aren't very theoretical. They're actually pretty well documented.
Darth_Corleone · 1 points · Posted at 12:05:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well.... I assumed it wasn't some Quantum State where checking would ruin the conditions. I just meant that I hadn't seen the limits, nor run into them after extended usage... and I'm prone to flowery language.
praxulus · 1 points · Posted at 02:29:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes, but having a boatload of hard pulls won't make a big difference as long as you keep paying everything on time. Having numerous credit accounts (as long as they remain in good standing) can actually improve your credit.
BooboligistOfTheEra · 1 points · Posted at 04:30:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My uncle does this and his credit goes down a tiny bit and raises it back through traveling. He now sits on 815 to 830.
fishsupreme · -1 points · Posted at 02:41:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So, hard inquiries and opening accounts affects your credit score... for a couple months. It's not lasting. You can literally not worry about it and then stop opening accounts a few months before you get a mortgage or car loan.
mwwalk · -2 points · Posted at 02:51:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In general, doing this will actually increase your credit as long as you don't carry a balance and pay on time. I've opened dozens of credit cards per year for the past five years for my wife and I. Check out /r/churning sometime.
Woodshadow · -1 points · Posted at 05:46:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
opening and closing credit cards doesn't look good for your credit. It isn't going to destroy your credit and if you don't need to use it for anything. Many people get along without ever using credit for anything more than a mortgage.
Darth_Corleone · 4 points · Posted at 03:03:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm doing that now. I travel a good bit and opened a new card for every adventure. By funneling all of my expenses through a single card for a few weeks, it doesn't take long to hit whatever spending minimums they have for the Rewards to kick in.
Basically, XYZ Bank is paying for half of my plane expenses every time I take a major trip. Having good credit makes money so cheap. I wish I'd learned these lessons early...
joehx · 6 points · Posted at 04:04:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
i did this last year and made $600. i'm on my way to my first $300 already this year
kristallnachte · -5 points · Posted at 06:25:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's really not much at all.
This year I've already gotten over $1500
tempusfudgeit · 3 points · Posted at 04:46:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So do that, and then get a job that you drive a company car, and you pay for gas, parking, maintenance, etc, and get reimbursed. Just in car related stuff I get reimbursed for I put 1000 to 1500 a month on credit.
cricketfluffernutter · 1 points · Posted at 04:51:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh for sure. I love doing that. I always offer to put things on my card when family & friends want to split the bill. My mom doesn't use credit cards so I've had her book flights on mine. Love that cash back.
colovick · 1 points · Posted at 13:03:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have a friend who flies internationally for business. He uses his millage points from this to fly first class to drink in a different country a few times per week
BroJackson_ · 8 points · Posted at 04:30:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Beyond churning, I have some friends that manufacture spending and have made TONS of money off of it. They have this math down to a science, but essentially what they do is..
1) Use CC with a 5% cash back at certain places (usually grocery and/or drug stores)
2) Get about $20,000 in Visa gift cards on CC
3) Take gift cards and buy money orders
4) Deposit money orders into bank and pay off CC
Spending without spending. Seriously. One guy hasn't had a job in 3 years and makes 6 figures tax-free, easily. It's not illegal, but banks/CC companies obviously don't like it. They're tightening up and it's getting tougher to do it. But damn if he didn't live like a king for a while.
cricketfluffernutter · 7 points · Posted at 04:39:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah I make about $3,000/year doing these things. There was once an unlimited promo on Amazon gift cards, $45 for $50. I bought 60 of them. Instant $300 and I shop there all the time anyway. Plus I got 3% cash on that $3000, another $90.
Chase Freedom, BP, Amazon Visa... all give you 5% back. My grocery store has a 3% cash back card, CitiBank is 2% on everything else. I pay all my bills with that card, all except my mortgage. I never use cash. Ever. Basically just quarters to wash my car. Everything else is on rewards-earning cards.
But the account bonuses are the fun ones. $500 for 30 minutes at the bank. Easy money.
Not sure how your friend makes six figures doing this, though. Unless he has millions to spend in the first place. To get new account rewards you usually need direct deposit (and he isn't working). The rest requires spending. Getting 5% means you're only paying 95% for things, which is nice and better than 100%, but where's the money for the 95% coming from without a job?
You're right though, they are cracking down a little. Some rewards programs have caps. Like Chase gives you 5% on particular categories but only on the first $1500 in purchases, so you max out at $75 there.
BroJackson_ · 5 points · Posted at 04:52:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't remember the exact details or numbers, but he was using a Wells Fargo card that was 5% cash back. He would MS $25,000 spend on the cards about 4-5 times a week. He knew the exact turnaround time on when payments would clear into the account and had a circuit of stores he would go to in order to liquidate the gift cards into money orders. The guy had it down to an absolute science.
He had a few cards he was able to do it on. He and his wife both had one, and it had gotten to the point where he had family members open one up and add him as an authorized user, and he would do the work and pay them a percentage of his take for letting him use their card.
But WF tightened up and canceled his accounts. CC and bank. It took them about five years though.
I know for a fact he bought and paid off a house, and neither he or his wife had jobs for a couple years.
He wasn't churning in that he wasn't opening accounts for sign up bonuses. He was just taking advantage of card rewards.
He still takes advantage of rewards but it's mostly travel now. One time he took two round trips to Argentina because he had to hit a certain qualifying distance to trigger some benefit package. Never even left the airport. Two RTs in about 48 hours. He's committed to the game.
cricketfluffernutter · 1 points · Posted at 04:55:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah that's a very high level of commitment. 🙂 I'm not that hardcore. My fear is that they'd end the promotion while I was in between a deal. When I bought $3000 in Amazon gift cards once I paused and worried I might not need to spend that much there for a long time.
BroJackson_ · 3 points · Posted at 05:00:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was nuts watching this guy. He'd walk out of Walgreens with 10-20k of visa gift cards in his pocket. I would be a wreck with that much. It became a full time job for him.
I've churned some - got the companion pass on Southwest and now have over 200,000 miles. Bonuses and travel points. But I could never dedicate like some people do.
dnbroo · 7 points · Posted at 02:25:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ah welcome to r/churning , the potential to make a lot of free money is there without affecting your credit!
cunninglinguist32557 · 2 points · Posted at 05:21:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I flew with Spirit last thanksgiving, and it was fucking terrible. They wouldn't let me check in .5 minutes late and charged me $100 to rebook over 24 hours later, forcing me to get a hotel room for the night. But on the flight they were offering a chance to apply for a World MasterCard free for one year, and you got 5,000 bonus miles just for applying. Then when you activated the card and made a purchase you got 15,000 miles, plus 2 miles on the dollar for the purchase itself. I found myself in a jam recently where I needed to make a $600 purchase immediately and I wouldn't have the cash to cover it until payday. I whipped out my Spirit card, got almost 30,000 miles and earned at least one free flight before I cancel the card and avoid the $59 annual fee.
Fuck Spirit.
zsphere · 2 points · Posted at 06:04:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can you link the cash app? Can't seem to find it
cricketfluffernutter · 1 points · Posted at 12:03:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
https://cash.me/
A_Reasonable_Man_98 · 1 points · Posted at 03:26:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Might try this. Thanks.
grewapair · 1 points · Posted at 04:06:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Chase offers $500. Every time I throw the offer away, I can't believe I'm passing it up. But my time is more valuable.
cricketfluffernutter · 4 points · Posted at 04:32:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've thought that briefly as well but when I think it through, it's not that much time or stress for that payout. For my job, I would have to work 16 hours overtime to get $500 post-tax extra on a check. Doing the Chase stuff, at worst, is two hours of my life. Totally worth it. What else am I going to do with those two hours? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
gdq0 · 2 points · Posted at 11:11:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The $500 is pre-tax from Chase. You'll get a 1099-INT in the mail for the money, and the $15,000 investment for 3 months can be better spent elsewhere.
NyxPeregrinus · 2 points · Posted at 04:50:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is your time worth over $500/hour? Because I did that offer and was in and out of the bank pretty quickly!
grewapair · -2 points · Posted at 05:00:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Believe it or not, yes.
informat2 · 5 points · Posted at 05:41:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
WTF do you do for a living? High end prostitute?
gdq0 · 2 points · Posted at 11:09:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
$1 million/year is $500/hour assuming a 40 hour work week, and that can drive up the price for doing something else. Also consider that once you're making that much money, $500 is a pittance and you'll make a lot more money worrying about investments than signup bonuses.
informat2 · 1 points · Posted at 12:32:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You have a job that pays more then $500 an hour?
actual_factual_bear · 1 points · Posted at 05:44:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What, how? The best I've seen from Chase is $300, and it requires you to hold $15,000 in a savings account for something like 6 months. Which granted, that's effectively a 4% interest rate, but having to (like you said) waste time, as well as fret over the fine print which says among other things that if they decide to close your account for any reason (churning?) they can take back the bonus.
potaytoposnato · 1 points · Posted at 04:41:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How do you find banks that are running these promotions?
cricketfluffernutter · 4 points · Posted at 04:47:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just look. They're usually advertising them on signs on the door. Chase sends out mailers. Banks in grocery stores usually have a banner advertising the current deal. The banks' website homepages usually list them.
The banks want to hook you. They get credit for signing up new customers. So this isn't like a secret trick. Usually it's front and center. Check out credit unions too. They tend to be as generous but have a little more conditions (e.g. you must do 4 debit card transactions a month).
thunder_struck85 · 1 points · Posted at 04:55:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What sorcery is this? Around here count yourself lucky f you can open an account t without some fee added! Where does one find these accounts that give you money?
cricketfluffernutter · 2 points · Posted at 04:59:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Every single bank around me offers one of some kind or another. I live in mid-Michigan. In January and February there was $300-$500 at Chase, $200 at KeyBank, $250-$500 at PNC, $125 at TCF, $150 at Huntington Bank, $200 at Financial Plus Credit Union, and $100 at Flagstar.
thunder_struck85 · 2 points · Posted at 05:06:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Must be a USA thing then. Never heard of that here in Canada
Slacker5001 · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've been trying to convince my partner to open a Chase account for this exact reason. If he has his paycheck deposited into it for a few months, then he gets to keep the reward and doesn't get a fee.
He's really short on cash right now and needs a brand new set of tires. And $300 is a lot towards new tires.
Katsie463 · 1 points · Posted at 06:37:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is this strictly certain banks or all banks in general? How long do you keep the accounts open? Do you just have the bare minimum in the account that they require to have the accounts?
cricketfluffernutter · 1 points · Posted at 12:00:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
All have different rules. But they're all manageable. None have been longer than six months.
numberninemac · -4 points · Posted at 03:37:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You belong in /r/churning
kristallnachte · 0 points · Posted at 06:20:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hmm, I did 6 cards this year already.
A_Gigantic_Potato · -4 points · Posted at 02:25:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/churning
You'd fit in quite nicely.
Edit: what's with the downvotes? Did any of you retards even see the subreddit? It's literally all about what OP is doing. Fuckin mongrels.
jastiers · -6 points · Posted at 04:47:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/churning
Serventdraco · 70 points · Posted at 02:10:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A buddy of mine used to work at Applebee's and they had this deal where you got extra money on gift cards, so he'd go to one he didn't work at and buy a bunch of cards with his tip money and whenever someone would pay with cash he'd pocket the cash and use the gift cards he bought to pay for the meal.
He'd probably have gotten fired if he got caught but he never did; made a bunch of extra money during that promotion.
ethereal_high · 225 points · Posted at 00:49:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Found out when I used to hitch-hike that , if you came across a Flying J gas station, they'd let you spend the night in their trucker's lounge, and usually offer you free food, as they have to change out their snack counter every few hours.
BabiDollNikki · 155 points · Posted at 03:02:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
True though. Worked for one. We did in fact let homeless people stay in the lounge and eat the 30 minute old expired food. It only ever got bad when one homeless guy started writing really creepy notes on napkins and giving them to us. The one that made us call the cops was 'must eliminate the Jewish. I am the lion. Do not fuck with the lion. DONT FUCK WITH THE LION
EpicLegendX · 16 points · Posted at 05:28:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well Jesus, why did you guys fuck with the lion?
BabiDollNikki · 3 points · Posted at 06:11:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I honestly don't know... we were sort of horrified for our lives at that point, although only one of us was Jewish and he wasn't working that night. So we fucked with the lion. I assume he's in jail or a homeless shelter now?
WorriedChimera · 2 points · Posted at 10:59:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So you proceed to fuck with the lion? Ballsy
cunninglinguist32557 · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
wait
FabulousDavid · 2 points · Posted at 06:36:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Looking at your username....
Please tell me you dont watch "On The Spot"
cunninglinguist32557 · 2 points · Posted at 16:38:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
...no?
FabulousDavid · 2 points · Posted at 21:07:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Good. Its horrible show.
BabiDollNikki · -1 points · Posted at 06:10:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeaaaaa
DeusVult9000 · 0 points · Posted at 06:29:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of a roommate I had that got VERY drunk/high one night. I left to go out with our other roommate and we got dragged onto a lesbian party bus (different story).
At one point during the night, drunk/high friend at home texts me, "I AM THE AZURE PANTHER".
When I got home, he's passed out sitting at a desk with a computer and a trashbag next to him, wearing a suit. I also think he put a tie (like a neck tie) around my door. None of it made any sense.
[deleted] · -5 points · Posted at 05:44:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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BabiDollNikki · 5 points · Posted at 06:10:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What sucks is if I wasn't the one telling you, I'd honestly believe it was a fake story too. But unfortunately it wasn't. It was just scary
FPSXpert · 0 points · Posted at 18:38:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/nothingeverhappens
Sandwich____ · 64 points · Posted at 01:43:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's not exactly a loophole if they do it on purpose
KingSmizzy · 24 points · Posted at 03:19:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
the loophole is that he lives there now
LaterGatorPlayer · 6 points · Posted at 05:36:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
legend has it he's still at the Flying J gas station and if you hear them tossing the old snack counter items, you just may catch a glimpse of him.
sniperbAit77777 · 6 points · Posted at 05:24:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Flying J's always make me nostalgic. My grandad was a trucker and my mother and I would meet him at truck stops locally, and chat and drink coffee for hours. God bless those truck stops, and the nice folks that work there.
phlegmthemandragon · 1 points · Posted at 06:25:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nice. A lot of places that have trucker lounges will actually let you hang out in them for a while, as long as you're not an asshole. I know I spent a few rainy nights/days in them back when I was hitching.
Nosiege · 32 points · Posted at 02:54:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In a private server of a game, there was a NPC who sold Blue Herbs which restored SP/Mana, which was an addition to their server not normally in the game.
They tried to balance this by removing the Empty Bottle seller, so you couldn't just make Blue Potions, bu thad to farm Empty Bottles, but they forgot the NPC which trades bottles for another purchasable item.
So my friends and I made a racket to stockpile bottles, turn them into Blue Potions, and sell them at profit to the NPC.
We flooded the market with money, but not the goods, so we broke the economy. The game got wiped.
We got back on and did it again, before they realized what we were doing to cause it.
Renouille · 8 points · Posted at 03:39:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ragnarok, eh?
Nosiege · 6 points · Posted at 03:39:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep.
judge2020 · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cheating in markets is fun, heh? :(
othervinny · 91 points · Posted at 04:20:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This isn't an extreme one, like some others in the thread, but it's pretty satisfying.
I had a Global History teacher in high school that would give out star stickers each time you did well enough on a quiz or a test. Those stickers could be redeemed on any quiz or test for 5 bonus points.
I saved each and every sticker I got for the whole year. I didn't even try that hard in the class, I just was a stickler about using my bonus points.
Last week of school, we took a final exam that counted as 20% of our final grade. I handed in all of my stickers and skipped it. 0 points on the actual test, but 105 bonus points from stickers. Felt good.
mgoulart · 22 points · Posted at 06:38:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
For a moment, I thought you were going to say you found a site selling the same stickers.
matinthebox · 6 points · Posted at 07:10:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well, technically this was not a loophole since you used the points just as they were intended to be used.
othervinny · 1 points · Posted at 12:15:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't think the points were intended for use on the final.
rab777hp · 1 points · Posted at 13:37:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If it's a total points grade though shouldn't matter. When I was in high school I remember most classes you didn't have to take the final if you had As every quarter and on the midterm
MrGreenToS · 5 points · Posted at 06:21:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nice
JoshSidekick · 89 points · Posted at 04:57:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You have a collect call from "Momwe'redoneatthemallcomepickusup"
Danyerue · 1 points · Posted at 08:33:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I figured this one out too, so convenient
shubhidoobi · 1 points · Posted at 08:56:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Explain.
JoshSidekick · 1 points · Posted at 12:50:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid, we used pay phones. So instead of dropping a quarter to call home when we were done, we would place a collect call and you had about 3 seconds to leave a message in where the name is supposed to go.
escherthecat · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a Geico commercial some years ago that did just that!
https://youtu.be/9JxhTnWrKYs
Wh33lman · 1 points · Posted at 07:19:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
ive done it
Prof_Lava-Hot · 264 points · Posted at 00:20:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fun fact: In Massachusetts, if your car is too crappy to pass inspection, you can drive it on an "R" sticker forever without even paying the $35 fee until it passes. Just keep bringing it back to the same shop to fail inspection over and over again for free and it stays road legal.
ThatOneHuskyGuy · 43 points · Posted at 01:35:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Explain please? Why would they let you keep driving then?
Prof_Lava-Hot · 65 points · Posted at 02:00:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because you're "eventually" going to get it fixed!
He-Man_barbeque · 93 points · Posted at 02:07:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When you get a rejection sticker in MA that is for non safety reasons, you have 60 days to fix it and you can bring it back to the same place that inspected it the first time to get the inspection sticker for free if it passes. Basically you just go back before the 60 days are up without doing any repairs and they'll fail you again but you get a new rejection sticker and reset the 60 days. So you just keep doing that without fixing anything and you won't get a ticket for the sticker. It's possible for you to get pulled over because of it though but you just show the officer the paper from the shop with the date the rejection expires.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 04:04:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
my cousin has been doing this for years!
He-Man_barbeque · 10 points · Posted at 04:41:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I haven't had a car in a while but this was pretty standard growing up. Buy a $500 beater and run it into the ground with a rejection sticker the whole time lol.
eeedlef · 9 points · Posted at 04:48:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Who has time to schedule an appt every two months just to keep driving?
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 06:07:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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nomnomnompizza · 1 points · Posted at 06:30:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I assume inspections are free in MA?
teh_maxh · 2 points · Posted at 05:37:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's cheaper.
He-Man_barbeque · 1 points · Posted at 06:47:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You don't schedule it you just stop in before the 2 months is up whenever you get a chance.
J_Wilb · 2 points · Posted at 02:37:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Generally, you have a month to fix any issues and return for a reinspection for no additional fee, but for that month you get a pass so you can drive it to a garage to fix the issues.
HiddenMica · 18 points · Posted at 02:11:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Red R stickers are illegal to drive on. Green R ones are not. Really depends on the sticker. Red means it isn't road safe, green means you failed your emissions.
Prof_Lava-Hot · 9 points · Posted at 02:32:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Right, important clarification.
Milo359 · 1 points · Posted at 07:46:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Emissions? You mean like greenhouse gas emissions?
HiddenMica · 1 points · Posted at 00:39:44 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Your car emissions. The smoke that comes out of your tail pipe, are called just simply, emissions. They are greenhouse gasses however but rarely called or referred to as that here for some reason. Likely because it's called an emissions test, people call it just that.
Milo359 · 1 points · Posted at 12:24:42 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, then you probably shouldn't drive even if you only failed an emissions test. That's just my view tho.
retrogamingnow · 8 points · Posted at 04:19:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If this isn't the embodiment of government, I don't know what is.
TurnOverANewBranch · 5 points · Posted at 02:29:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I believe this only works for the black "R" stickers. If you get a red "R," then it's not actually driveable. This would be for things like not having brakes. But this absolutely works for more minor things.
911ChickenMan · 5 points · Posted at 03:07:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think every state should have mandatory vehicle inspections, but just basic stuff to make sure the car is road safe.
I also think there should be a "fast lane" on the interstates that has a 10 MPH faster speed limit, but requires a more in-depth inspection and additional driver certification.
psychicsword · 12 points · Posted at 04:15:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yea but no state should have the crap version that Massachusetts has. I forgot to get my completely safe car inspected and it is a $55 ticket that added 2 points to my otherwise spotless records which ultimately is going to cost me a little over $1200 over the next 6 years in additional insurance premiums.
amdphenom · 3 points · Posted at 06:01:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Praying that I can have them remove the points in a hearing since it passed an inspection less than 2 hours after the ticket. It's bs. Did you fight it at all?
psychicsword · 1 points · Posted at 12:03:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes but I shouldn't have to pay a nonrefundable $25 and take an afternoon off of work for a chance to get out of the insurance part of this penalty. But most people don't know that the ticket comes with points and they will just pay it.
amdphenom · 1 points · Posted at 13:49:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Very true. I'm just looking for some positive results to see if I can win at all.
EnsErmac · 9 points · Posted at 05:34:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pennsylvania vehicle inspections are ridiculous. I have a 2006 Pontiac GTO which passes in every way, except one. The hood release spring gets jammed regularly to the effect that you can't get the hood open. Ended up replacing the system with hood pins, as they are much more reliable and even safer as a mechanism to keep the hood closed. Yet, because I modified the factory system, my car fails inspection. So, every year, I have to "install" the old system, pull out one of the front grills in case it gets stuck so that I can open the hood, then take it out after it passes.
Przedrzag · 1 points · Posted at 08:29:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So what modifications are legal in PA?
EnsErmac · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
For the most part, nothing. Rims and tires are okay.
Przedrzag · 1 points · Posted at 01:18:49 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fuck sakes, Pensylvania.
tylerdoubleyou · 6 points · Posted at 04:58:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If a car or driver isn't capable of going 10 over the speed limit, they should just be off the road entirely. There's really not much difference between 70mph and 80mph.
On the other hand, I could envision a future where a fast lane allows you to travel way over the speed limit, like 100mph+, but only if your car is self-driving...
cunninglinguist32557 · 6 points · Posted at 05:31:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My car is a 92 Buick, and the speedometer doesn't even go above 90. I don't think it's been capable of doing 80+ in at least 10 years.
Przedrzag · 3 points · Posted at 08:35:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The top speed of a Hummer H1 is 83 mph. At least you'll outrun one of those
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:48:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't think you realize how much laws like this hurt the poor. O2 sensors are $80 a pop in my 16 year old car.
911ChickenMan · 1 points · Posted at 21:51:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's unfortunate, but I also think that cars should have to pass a basic safety test before they go on the road. Just because you're poor doesn't mean you should be allowed to drive a dangerous car on the road and put others at risk.
KiloLee · 2 points · Posted at 05:59:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
VA State Inspector here: Can't do that here. We get 14 days to drive with the sticker, BUT it's only valid to be driven back to the inspection station, and the driver is still subject to citations due to whatever the vehicle failed for.
Also, the first step in the inspection process is to scrape of and destroy the existing sticker, no matter if it's a good or failed sticker. After that, no rejection sticker will be issued again. (Pass or nothing.)
Uncle_Skeeter · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So glad I don't live in a state with vehicle inspections.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:35:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Till a wheel comes flying through your windshield, because ol' Leroy never bothered taking care of those two lugs he snapped back in '99.
internetlad · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's like if someone is too evil to go to any jail so they just keep letting him go free, or a much better analogy.
187TROOPER · 1 points · Posted at 08:16:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Are inspections free?
Prof_Lava-Hot · 2 points · Posted at 08:49:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Only if you fail them.
The_Moustache · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not totally true. There are 2 kinds of inspection stickers. A black R and a red R. The Black are works as described but if you live in a small town the cops will catch on and give you a ticket.
The red R is a safety rejection and they will tow your car if they see it driving.
TheSkiGeek · 1 points · Posted at 02:46:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You won't be able to renew your insurance or registration like that, but I guess it could work for a while.
Also if anyone actually looks into it you're probably going to get in trouble.
W0lfgangster · 0 points · Posted at 05:37:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're gonna get yourself fucking killed, and then the investigators are gonna have a good laugh.
Scripter17 · 298 points · Posted at 23:27:31 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
The SCP wiki has a feature where if you try to access the random SCP/tale link more than once a minute, it won't work, so with some quick JS, I made a bookmarklet that bypasses that.
EDIT: I will update you with the re-written script at around 1 PM EST today, I seem to have deleted the original script.
EDIT 2: Here's the bookmarklet, create a new page in your bookmarks and put the following code in the URL:
Talco123 · 91 points · Posted at 00:34:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Please share your secret, that random button has been my one issue with that site for years.
Merwini · 2 points · Posted at 08:58:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's probably a better way to do this, but I just made this for ya. Make a new bookmark, name it whatever you want, and set this as the URL:
It won't take you to joke SCPs (ex 789-j), but adding that functionality is next to impossible since the joke SCPs are not consecutively numbered. Also they are trash anyway.
Scripter17 · 1 points · Posted at 13:03:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My script had a better way to work with numbers less than 100, it uses a
while (SCP.length < 3){SCP = "0"+SCP;}Scripter17 · 2 points · Posted at 12:54:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I seem to have accidentally deleted it, I'll rewrite it when I get to school.
Scripter17 · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Here's the bookmarklet:
infinitim · 47 points · Posted at 00:10:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
username checks out.
ClashmanTheDupe · 14 points · Posted at 03:47:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why doesn't it work if you try it multiple tines a minute?
losangelesvideoguy · 27 points · Posted at 04:21:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure the server generates the “random” page number once a minute, and just serves that page to all requesters until the next page number generation. Just tested this by clicking the random button from two separate computers with different IP addresses (via remote login) and it seems to be the case.
Letty_Whiterock · 11 points · Posted at 04:43:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Talk about stupid design.
onthefence928 · 15 points · Posted at 04:47:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
that is colossally lazy, probably tooks more work than just getting it to generate a random number every time
losangelesvideoguy · 15 points · Posted at 04:51:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If I had to guess, I would say it's a likely misguided attempt at conserving server resources by not going to to the computational expense of dynamically generating a page every time someone clicks the random button.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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losangelesvideoguy · 0 points · Posted at 07:23:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Who, me?
Kezaia · 5 points · Posted at 04:55:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Likely helps their server costs due to caching.
[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 04:11:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's probably to avoid bots or scripts overloading the site.
Scripter17 · 1 points · Posted at 12:54:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It blocks you from sending "spam".
NealCruco · 5 points · Posted at 04:40:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's a feature? It greatly annoys me. Could you please share the code?
Scripter17 · 2 points · Posted at 12:54:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I seem to have accidentally deleted it, I'll rewrite it when I get to school.
Scripter17 · 2 points · Posted at 17:36:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Here:
NealCruco · 2 points · Posted at 18:07:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thanks a ton!
WolfeBane84 · 5 points · Posted at 05:37:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pfffy, filthy casual, needing to hit random.
I read every single one on that site in order from start to finish.
Is it strange that I slept soundly after doing so.
I love the Infinite Stairwell and the Mountain of Pipes one. Oh and the Colored Mirror Series. Ooooh, and the infinitely shifting "theres something in here" tool cupboard NO DON"T CLOSE THE DOOOOOOOR!
Diplominator · 3 points · Posted at 06:19:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm my favorite but I can't remember what number I am.
Pengwertle · 2 points · Posted at 00:23:36 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm literally the first result when you google "SCP toaster," haha
Diplominator · 2 points · Posted at 01:05:10 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was too lazy for that.
Pengwertle · 4 points · Posted at 04:56:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Holy shit, get this madman in an asylum. He's a menace to society.
Eisborn · 3 points · Posted at 05:10:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What is this SCP wiki? I just got on it, clicked around a bit, and learned nothing really.
noreligionplease · 7 points · Posted at 06:12:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It is a supernatural/lovecraftian/sci-fi site that for the most part uses a particular writing style with all of the content being user generated and other users able to tap into and link with the other lore already present on the site. This is the second most visited site for me outside of reddit and I have killed many of hours reading through it, highly recommended, this is the SCP that really hooked me:
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-093
Make sure to read all of the "tests" as that is where the real meat of that story is. And don't stop there, click the top rated pages and become the best 0-5 you can be, because this reality depends upon it.
Something_Edgy · 79 points · Posted at 03:26:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The grocery store by me leaves grapes right out in the open. Sometimes I take a grape. Then I eat that grape. I don't even care.
Coffeechipmunk · 12 points · Posted at 06:24:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/madlads
KB_112 · 8 points · Posted at 05:42:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the industry, we refer to you as a Grazer.
pingasthrowaway · 5 points · Posted at 06:20:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Doesn't grazing refer to people who eat food while shopping and never pay for it, like eating a bag of chips and cramming the trash somewhere?
Eating a piece of fruit is just making sure you're not paying 8$ for a bag of shitty unripe or spoiled fruit.
TheGr8CokeMan · 3 points · Posted at 05:38:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh you sneaky bastard.
Wangushenpo · 3 points · Posted at 06:47:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fucking mad man
erindes · 2 points · Posted at 19:43:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was in a candy store with my SO a few months back and I really wanted cherry rings. I was going to buy them anyway, but I figured if I was paying $13.99/lb, that I deserved a free one or two.
While no one was looking, I popped one of those sugary MF-ers in my mouth. I chewed with haste, and swallowed.
Except, in my rush to destroy the evidence, the ring was not chewed up enough and got stuck in my throat. I cough, and somehow manage to quietly free the candy from my throat, undetected.
Then my SO looks over at me and says "I know what you did, and that was the universe punishing you."
10/10 would consume "stolen" candy again though. Shit's expensive, and the thrill of being caught makes them taste better.
cuterus-uterus · 1 points · Posted at 08:58:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Name checks out, you sneaky bastard.
bilymays · 211 points · Posted at 00:53:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One time I was waiting for class and there was a vending machine near the classroom so I went up to it and entered a random combination of numbers followed by the pound sign. A weird screen popped up so I just hit "1" and it gave me a bag of skittles. I got a free bag of skittles everyday until they realized what was going on.
Nymall · 191 points · Posted at 01:43:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You entered the maintenance mode for the machine. Congratulations!
lizardscum · 29 points · Posted at 04:41:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
what are the odds of getting the exact code?
turlian · 19 points · Posted at 05:40:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The code is usually 4231, but the maintenance mode has to be unsecured as well for any free product. Otherwise you are limited to just displaying sales and temp data.
bilymays · 1 points · Posted at 14:37:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I know for sure it wasn't 4321. It was in high school so I can't remember what it was exactly but I know it started with a 9.
turlian · 2 points · Posted at 14:41:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The 4231 is for machines with just buttons for the drinks. You'd press the fourth drink button down, then second, etc...
nijpep · 5 points · Posted at 05:02:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Isn't there an extensive list of these codes?
tntmod54321 · 7 points · Posted at 05:09:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is there any website that has a database of vending machince maintenace codes? shows a pic of the vending machine, find a few that look similar, enter the codes for said machines, and whichever one is right, unless it's randomly generated
Nymall · 8 points · Posted at 06:17:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can easily find the service manuals for most machines online. Many different vendors will not change the code from factory default, but be aware - it can be changed.
If you can't find it on a website, try looking for a torrent.
Edit: Here's a Sample, From Vendoco: http://www.vendoco.com/Documents/Coke%20V-Max%20Manual_WHOLE.pdf
The password is on page 42. Unlike the manual states, you do not have to press the "maintinence" button to begin working with this unit.
SomnambulisticTaco · 3 points · Posted at 05:08:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
4231? This works on most vending machines, but rarely results in free stuff
666666t · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:08 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
was the code... 4231?
pm_chicken_nuggets · -19 points · Posted at 01:31:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Was the nonprofit basically a shell?
keytar_gyro · 15 points · Posted at 04:59:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wrong comment. Assuming you wanted the single-mom tuition, right?
pm_chicken_nuggets · 2 points · Posted at 12:38:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Woops, you're right
tato3 · 0 points · Posted at 05:08:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Meta?
keytar_gyro · 2 points · Posted at 05:19:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If so, it's definitely 2meta2furious, and postmodernism has gotten out of hand
[deleted] · 25 points · Posted at 02:12:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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dongoju · 16 points · Posted at 03:17:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can you elaborate?
sodaextraiceplease · 3 points · Posted at 05:53:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Amex platinum and centurion, for example, have return protection. You buy something, the retailer won't take it back, and AMEX will reimburse you the price you paid... and usually not ask for the item back. Same deal if the item is LOST or stolen. Now I'm not sure what the threshold is for asking for an item back or more proof of loss, but I have heard it's around $100. My item was just at $150, and they never asked for it back. Sure, if you don't actually meet the requirements for having the item reimbursed and you are lying, it is fraud, and I would never condone that. Never actually did that myself, but I could see where it would be possible.
Things to keep in mind. The platinum card has a steep annual fee at $495. The return protection benefit is available on the other amex products, but the limits are lower. No accidental loss protection on the lower cards, though.
KentuckyFriedMitten2 · 1 points · Posted at 08:06:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got my $250 jacket stolen in a pub.
Used my loss protection coverage.
Went to buy the jacket again because I really liked it, but it's warming up so it was like $80 now.
DeviantGrayson · 1 points · Posted at 09:35:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't let a CSR see
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:17:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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sodaextraiceplease · 1 points · Posted at 00:26:47 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
No doubt. It's a sweet and legitimate perk to be refunded by amex when my irresponsible self loses somethinf or when I buy something I regret and the store wont take it back.
Enforcer444 · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I too want to know.
NorCalJustice · 2 points · Posted at 05:58:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I want to know more
readysteadywhoa · 25 points · Posted at 04:06:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The extended warranties at Best Buy/Future Shop that they always try to upsell you on. I think I went a good six years without paying for video cards. Mine would occasionally die after a while... usually when only newer models were available as a replacement. Weird how that worked.
subsonicmonkey · 25 points · Posted at 04:40:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I work for an online retailer. Very recently a marketing staffer fucked up when creating a coupon code. It was supposed to be $10 off an order with a minimum threshold of $50.
They swapped the dollar off and the threshold, so the coupon ended up being $50 off an order with a minimum threshold of $10.
We gave out $50k in free orders before a customer service team member caught the error.
405freeway · 26 points · Posted at 05:19:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Here's proof for this story.. My CAG username is "kunai." You can just follow from that page and also see other crazy epic scores I've made. (Like the insane "Get any 5 games for $5 each" Blockbuster promo).
Back in the day (2007/2008) I found a major flaw in the POS at Blockbuster
Their system would update overnight, but only certain parts, and these parts were on different days of the week. Their new item prices would update on Thursday, their used prices would update on Friday- BUT their trade-in values would update after closing on Sunday.
This meant if a game dropped in MSRP, it's new version would first lower on Thursday morning ($49.99 to $19.99) and be cheaper than the used version. The next day, on Friday morning, its used version would be lowered ($47.99 to $17.99).
The trade-in value would still be the same- usually $30-$35, even though you could pull the game off the rack, buy it for $20, then trade in back without leaving the line.
I did this a few times and felt bad so I emailed corporate to let them know about the loophole. They told me they didn't take in information/suggestions from outside parties, essentially because they had that set up as part of their "business strategy."
I then proceeded to assist them in their endeavors by buying 25+ copies of Beowulf from Best Buy for $9.99 ($19.99-$10 coupon) and trading them in for ~$800 in store credit.
Then I repurchased all 25 copies with the store credit for ~$500.
Then I traded them in again.
Then I bought them again.
I did this a few times over the weekend and ended up with $1200 in store credit from $250 cash.
Then I found a few games GameStop gave good money for and traded them in over there for store credit. I made some preorders for Street Fighter IV and eventually canceled them and requested cash back for the deposit. Then I got shitfaced at Almost Acoustic Christmas to celebrate.
I eventually got a letter from Blockbuster banning me from trading, but it had the wrong date (post dated for the next year) and I kept trading.
I don't feel bad about it.
Apprentice57 · 4 points · Posted at 08:54:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think I remember reading this one in another "How you broke the system thread". Nice to reread it, and well done with blockbuster. I like the part where corporate told you to screw off, invigorating you break the system more.
ReaperXHanzo · 71 points · Posted at 00:51:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Signing up for Subway's SMS coupons program with different apps.
So, if you sign up for their program, you get a coupon for a free 6 inch w/ purchase of a drink. I did this with my phone #, then unsubscribed because the coupons were never for anything I liked. I tried later with my Google Voice number, and it worked fine. (some services won't work with VOIP numbers.) Now I do it over and over with different texting apps in the Play Store.
Just make sure that the location you're going to accepts the coupon, because some don't. For some reason, my local one did, then later (the 2nd time like 2 months later. Not like I'm doing this every day), said they didn't accept them, so I had to pay for the sandwich :(. I like Subway, but not enough to actually pay for anything there
ghostella · 9 points · Posted at 02:44:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Jokes on you...you still had to eat Subway
jeanLucPonty · 3 points · Posted at 05:43:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Subway is fine in a pinch.
Eating it regularly is no way to live, but the occasional sandwich is alright with me.
It's basically the same as a sandwich I would bring from home.
The only difference is it's on a gigantic piece of terrible bread, and the meat isn't as nearly as good as the stuff from a deli, and all the vegetables are soggy and especially the tomatoes have been destroyed by extreme refrigeration, and the only options for mayo are none at all or an entire jar no matter how much you beg the "sandwich artist" to split the difference, and eating it at your desk makes you question all of your life choices thus far.
krejci46 · 3 points · Posted at 02:28:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've gotten these SMS coupons but have never found a Subway near me that accepts them. :(
KingSmizzy · 3 points · Posted at 03:25:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Theres a subway like 50 meters from my house, and multiple times a year the company will do ad campaigns in the mail, only problem is 99% of neighbourhoods do not allow advertizements in the mail so they just dump all the flyers into the post offices. Lucky me and my part time job, i get infinite subway coupons. 2 for 1 sandwiches all day every day.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 03:27:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So after eating that much Subway, when did the paedophilia set in?
13Deth13 · 69 points · Posted at 04:09:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Delivered pizza in high school, (back when speeding tickets were hand written). I had a Chrysler intrepid, but I scraped the Chrysler logo off the back and replaced it with Dodge letters from a parts car I had. Got off on 7/8 of the speeding tickets I got in that car when I showed my ownership to the judge and the cop had written the wrong make of car on the ticket.
Viatical · 16 points · Posted at 06:38:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What about the 8th time?
discipl · 1 points · Posted at 13:26:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Op iz kill.
13Deth13 · 1 points · Posted at 06:07:38 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
He actually read my ownership and wrote Chrysler rather than glancing up at the car to fill out the ticket.
SmurfyX · 4 points · Posted at 07:04:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
lol @ how tf did you get caught speeding EIGHT TIMES
drainbamaged99 · 7 points · Posted at 07:15:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Used to deliver pizzas as well. Everytime i got pulled over for speeding the cop let me off with warnings. Maybe 3 times over 5 years. Lived in a small town, and i always was the driver when the cops in town ordered pizza.
I like to think it was so they didnt get cold pizza next time.
jecowa · 8 points · Posted at 07:17:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You don't cause problems for the people in charge of your food.
13Deth13 · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:10 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
When there are no consequences you don't stop haha
Navy_Pheonix · 0 points · Posted at 07:02:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hope you got rid of that Intrepid. Apparently they explode.
13Deth13 · 2 points · Posted at 06:06:57 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
best car I've ever owned ran until 399,9** kms, blew the engine trying to tow the other intrepid to the junkyard with a chain.
pm_favorite_song_2me · 24 points · Posted at 05:27:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I bought a house. One day I look out the window and some guy is cutting my lawn. I go out and ask him, he says he's from a service. The previous owners had an account. I tell him him that I'm not being billed, I don't know anything about it. He says the address is still on his route, but he'll talk to his boss about it.
For the five years I owned that I owned that house, someone cut my lawn every week. I never got anything in mail about it. I never paid a dime. Hopefully, they're still doing it for free for whoever owns it now.
holybetharn · 21 points · Posted at 04:50:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
there was an old EB Games or Gamestop promotion where you could trade in any five old games for any new game of the same console or something like that. This was a bit after the ps2/gamecube/xbox generation was introduced so you could actually find some old games for pretty cheap. My older brother and i went to a near by record exchange (which sells older systems, used games, music, and shit) and we bought five games for about $5 apiece then went over and traded them in for a new $50 or $60 game. IT WORKED! So the next day we bought like 25-30 old games. basically whatever they had that was cheapest. We then redeemed all of our new used games for 5-6 new games. They said we couldn't do it anymore. We kind of wanted to fight it but were out of money anyway, and pretty satisfied with our haul.
CercleRouge · 3 points · Posted at 08:35:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of when Blockbuster paid out $8 in store credit for ANY DVD with a barcode on it, regardless of what it was. So my local convenience store had their own movie rental section (hard to believe it ever existed) which they were trying to liquidate. I bought basically all 250 DVDs that they had left for maybe $50 total. I brought them all into Blockbuster and got like $2000 in credit, which I then used to buy basically every Criterion DVD that they sold.
holybetharn · 2 points · Posted at 20:31:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
clear winner. dayum son
qwerty12qwerty · 69 points · Posted at 02:27:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This gas station gives you a free drinks if you install the app.
I uninstall it and all traces on my device and reinstall for the coupon weekly. There's 50 stores in my city so I rotate
judge2020 · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep, because at least on iOS there is no public API apps can use to identify your device across installs. Using a private API will prevent the app from entering the app store.
jacob_ewing · 46 points · Posted at 04:40:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A long time ago I used plentyoffish.com to meet people online. As with most dating sites, men tend to get far less traffic than women.
With P.O.F. though, I noticed that the suggested profiles that show up on the main page were sorted by how recently they logged in.
To take advantage of that I wrote a script on my computer that would automatically log in to the page every few minutes. When I wanted to meet someone, I'd turn the script on, and within a day I'll have been approached by two or three ladies.
WWJDSalingerD · 36 points · Posted at 06:00:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I feel like this is partially why you are single.
Resevoir_Dog · 11 points · Posted at 06:20:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Jokes on you, im actually in two relationships!
jacob_ewing · 3 points · Posted at 14:17:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
;) actually married for seven years now. Admittedly not with anyone I met on P.O.F.
pingasthrowaway · 4 points · Posted at 06:22:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would want to date you just because of your tenacity after hearing about this.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What do you use to write scripts? I want to do this for bank deposits (nothing illegal).
jacob_ewing · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hah - it was a bash script that used "curl" to log in to the page.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 06:29:30 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have no idea whet that means. What will teach me to make scripts? I don't mind learning programing
ScottEInEngineering · 64 points · Posted at 03:43:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
remember when the Treasury was trying to get $1 coins to be adopted? They would sell them at cost on their website and have free shipping. Well people would buy the maximum amount on their credit card, then just go to the bank and deposit them when they were delivered. People got those credit card reward points at the expense of the federal gov't...
emmitt_fitzhume · 10 points · Posted at 06:26:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I remember this. One guy bought $2.4 million worth!!
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-mint-ends-the-dollar-coin-scam-for-airline-miles-2011-7
blondjokes · 7 points · Posted at 07:19:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ok so this got me thinking, if he paid off $2.4 million in credit card debt on time, is his credit like amazing?
Netwinn · 135 points · Posted at 00:07:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
With any Toy-to-life game, mainly Disney Infinity,
Amiibosand Skylanders, you can buy the characters and use them while still in the packaging. So you can use them and get whatever unlockbales they have, then return them after the fact. No spending hundreds of dollars on little plastic figurines.sunskiessea · 93 points · Posted at 00:53:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't know about the rest but the packaging for the Amiibo figures specifically prevent you from doing this. If you go to the pre-owned section of GameStop though they sometimes have used Amiibo figures in plastic bags which you can scan in-store (sneakily) without buying.
nuclearfarts99 · 34 points · Posted at 00:39:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If it's scan-once and a portable system, couldn't you even just scan them all in the store?
XenoFractal · 6 points · Posted at 05:13:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Its a bit more obvious to lug your wii and portable generator into the store
nuclearfarts99 · 2 points · Posted at 12:10:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's why I specified portable - like a 3DS or something.
OldNakedSnake · 7 points · Posted at 04:28:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You need to have the scanner plugged into a console iirc.
nuclearfarts99 · 1 points · Posted at 12:11:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's why I specified portable - some 3DS games use Amiibo.
RhetoricalOrator · 2 points · Posted at 07:17:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This also works with NFC enabled Android devices that have a reader/cloner app. Then you do that have quite the conspicuous scene of gaming device and scanning. Just a person randomly looking at ammibo while holding their phone.
kernozlov · 4 points · Posted at 04:29:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think for amiibos (for the nintendo wii u) you have to put the figurine on the wii u controller which isn't mobile? So you buy it, bring it home, scan it, and return.
jesse9o3 · 12 points · Posted at 04:56:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Could do it with a New 3DS though.
OminousGray · 9 points · Posted at 04:48:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Amiibo don't allow this. There is a little bit of an aluminium plastic/cardboard thing underneath that interrupts the signal.
Midnight06 · 75 points · Posted at 02:05:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Worked at a restaurant with these old Panasonic point of sale systems. On occasion management would hold contests such as, who can sell the most side salads or desserts. Winner would get a prize like a gift card or something (value $20-$25)
On the back end of the system they would assign said contest product to something called a "contest counter" and at the end of your shift when you cashed out, your report would show your total contest counters.
I accidentally found, through some completely random key presses, that you could add a contest counter to any of your table's bill and it wouldn't show up on the printout but it would count at the end of your shift on the report.
Needless to say I was the up sell king for a few of the contests. Just had to be careful to add enough not to look suspicious.
Mixalodeon · 135 points · Posted at 00:38:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Xcom 2, I think from reloading a save in quick succession, all the enemies stopped doing anything and would just stand in place no matter what I did. I played for quite a few hours and did really well! Perfect, dare I say.
Spart33 · 26 points · Posted at 03:20:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Where's the fun in playing a game with no challenge
Shlappz · 39 points · Posted at 04:09:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The part where you win and feel good about yourself
Hero32 · 11 points · Posted at 04:45:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"You dirty save scummer!"
He says, pressing f5 before any RNG determined event in any rpg ever.
TheNessLink · 2 points · Posted at 20:24:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
them bethesda feels
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:16:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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TheNessLink · 2 points · Posted at 20:25:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I beat it once without noclip about a year ago. Now I can't beat it at all without noclip ;-;
because cheating ruins me
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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TheNessLink · 2 points · Posted at 20:39:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Good idea. But first,
unbinds key to developer console
smb275 · 4 points · Posted at 04:57:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I bet you still missed, a lot.
internetlad · 2 points · Posted at 05:33:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just download a picture that says "you win!". It's likely equally as gratifying Source: ironman commander mode blood sweat and lots of tears.
palindromic · 1 points · Posted at 06:59:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Star Trek the video game for pc, the original one, you could pause the game after firing torpedoes and it would reset your delay, so you could line up a bunch of shots and crush a Klingon vessel in one crazy volley.
g3istbot · 88 points · Posted at 02:23:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In January of 2006 Blizzard would release it's pach 1.9 for World of Warcraft. The patch was significant in that it released a new raid, and a mini (20 man) raid "Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj" and a full (40 man) raid "Temple of Ahn'Qiraj".
The most unique thing about this particular content release was that the raids were not immediately available. The instance portals were blocked off by large gates that would need to be opened. The server had to work as a whole to complete various events that were taking place in the game. Simultaneously some people had taken up the long and arduous task of completing a very long, very expensive, and very difficult quest, that once they completed they could ring the gong outside the gates, and open up the instances. They were rewarded with an exclusive mount for all their troubles. Technically multiple people also on the quest could ring it as well and get the mount, but the pool of people who were close to completing it were very small.
So they ring the gong, the gates open, and everything goes quiet - right? Nope, now we have the AQ event - honestly not sure what all was happening during that event. Why? I was too busy farming sweet sweet thorium and arcane crystals. See, the temple was in a zone called Silithus, and Silithus had a unique property in that it'd have these tunnels, filled with elites (stronger than normal enemies, very difficult to solo if at all). What were they guarding? Ooze-covered thorium veins, these veins produced extra thorium and extra arcane crystals. Arcane crystals are especially important, since they were kind of rare and needed for arcanite bars - a heavily sought and expensive resource. When the gates opened though, for what ever reason, all the mobs inside of those tunnels just up and vanished.
This meant that
A) I could go through the tunnels without fear of being killed by bug monsters
B) Everyone else was so busy doing the AQ event I had these tunnels all to myself.
AQ event lasted for I think 11-12 hours, and I spent every single minute of it farming those tunnels. By the end of it my bags were full, my bank was full, my alts bags and banks were full.
alurkerhere · 10 points · Posted at 04:50:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ha! I used to go to Silithus as a rogue before there was any content to farm the ooze-covered thorium veins; certain veins were mineable if the elite mobs pathed far enough away. You could also blind, mine, and vanish to keep farming those arcane crystals... Ahh, epic mount!
judge2020 · 3 points · Posted at 05:03:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you have any amount of coins left, trade it for bnet balance with the new token feature.
Lemona1d_Lady · 3 points · Posted at 06:04:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So basically, you became the richest SOB on your server? Cuz that's exactly what it sounds like!
munchidk · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Off the World of Warcraft topic , back in Mists of Pandaria there was a lot of duping of rare mounts . for those who don't know certain mounts can be sold and some come at a very high cost , and somehow people found a way to make copies of them. There were a few of them floating around but they were available and what let you know if they were duped or not was the price of the item. I've been farming gold since the beginning of expansion and was already started making my own mounts to increase my gold. The thing with the dupe mounts is it would not let you put them on the auction House so you had to sell them in person. I would buy every one I could get and try to off it as quickly as I could so it wouldn't be in my account for too long. I must have bought close to six or seven jeweled Panthers within the first month and made quite a large amount of change off selling them at regular retail price. I found I had much better luck selling them at a high price to make them look authentic then selling them at a low price and giving away the fact that they were duped
memelordeXD · 53 points · Posted at 01:54:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Go to gamestop after October 15th. Buy anything preowned. Beat the hell out of it then return before January 15th for full refund, sans Christmas policy. I used 15$ to get 70 platinum trophies on PS3 in 2013
Basically 15$ for 3 months of gamefly on steroids
GOATPROPHET22 · 5 points · Posted at 03:58:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Does this still work? What does the Christmas policy do?
memelordeXD · 10 points · Posted at 05:23:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haven't been to gamestop in some time, but it used to say at the bottom of the receipt "return any time before January 15th!" as if every preowned item purchased was intended to be a gift from Oct15 - Jan15.
Check it out this winter
skiing123 · 5 points · Posted at 05:11:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/patientgamers ?
tachycardicIVu · 4 points · Posted at 05:33:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
GameStop around here puts a sticker on preowned games so they know if you've played it. They won't accept an opened game now. I managed to get around this by playing the "I'm a girl clearly I don't know games" card and also the store I went to originally hadn't put the sticker on even though they were supposed to. It really depends on the cashier I suppose.
Rooster022 · 5 points · Posted at 06:05:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
GameStop near me has a "return used game for any reason within 15 days for full refund" yes you could use this as a free rental but they will eventually backlist you according to the employees I asked about it.
altalata · 3 points · Posted at 06:14:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I worked there, never got instructions nor saw any black listing going on
[deleted] · 127 points · Posted at 22:26:10 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
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DirkMcCallahan · 40 points · Posted at 02:04:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm confused. If they took the card anyway, how did you benefit from the fact that they didn't take part in the program?
Thundaklutch · 68 points · Posted at 03:09:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
He doesn't have the time to explain it.
AndrewNeo · 4 points · Posted at 06:23:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
He doesn't even have time to explain why he doesn't have time to explain.
KingSmizzy · 21 points · Posted at 03:11:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm guessing the card worked similar to a gift-card where it would eventually be spent or had some limitation, but he abused the fact that they werent part of the program and they gave him more sandwiches than if he went somewhere that actually was
aspenthewolf · 12 points · Posted at 03:19:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I assume that the card had some sort of limit tied to the card and since the store wasn't part of the program they weren't aware.
Araneomorphae · 6 points · Posted at 03:27:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I suppose the card has a limit of rebate the user can get, but since this specific Subway didn't participate to the program, the sale wouldn't be associate with the card, making the card limitless.
Mommacide · 4 points · Posted at 03:42:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sounds like the card was only meant to be good for a set number of sandwiches, but since this location wasn't equipped to take it, they never scanned it or kept track of the number of times it was used.
Reyny · 2 points · Posted at 03:03:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I guess normally the card would be scanned and could only be used a couple times or so.
danyxeleven · 204 points · Posted at 21:56:05 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
the tried and true "you're only in trouble if you get caught"
[deleted] · 127 points · Posted at 00:53:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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insanity_calamity · 30 points · Posted at 04:14:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I guess he/she is trying to balance productivity and morale. Sure, use your phone every once in a while to keep your spirits up, but if you use it so much we catch ya, then your in trouble.
mathrufker · 10 points · Posted at 03:22:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well howbow dah
TheRealJMHacker · 4 points · Posted at 01:00:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
both
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:59:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is he the only boss, or is there another boss above him he reports to?
Americanstandard · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
He is saying "At least don't do that shit in front of me man, if someone reports it I am going to be in trouble but I am too cool/too much of a bitch to say it."
Slacker5001 · 1 points · Posted at 05:48:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If I had to guess it's probably a sign of the fact that he doesn't care if it's not causing a problem. But if he ever sees you doing it, he'll probably have to call you out on it for appearances sake.
ivanwarrior · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The idea is that it's okay to be on your phone but don't be on your phone so much that your boss notices.
mobocrat707 · 3 points · Posted at 02:46:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Similarly, I'm a fan of "If you don't ask, they can't say no."
danyxeleven · 3 points · Posted at 04:25:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:37:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mutes have the easy sex-life
toucan_sam89 · 17 points · Posted at 04:15:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in college, the (insert mega bank name here) was doing a special "keep the change" promotion for incoming freshman to encourage building a savings account if you opened a checking and savings together. This is a common practice actually, and whatever cent remainder (rounded up to the next whole dollar) was on every debit purchase, the bank would automatically withdraw from your checking to your savings. In essence, it was still your money, just moving around to make your savings grow incrementally.
The special promotion allowed all that "transferred" money to be matched at 100% by the bank, for the first 3 months after opening. Their mistake was not putting (or advertising) a cap on the amount that could be matched (they did in subsequent years). Needless to say, I found every cheap card transaction for $1.01 around town and swiped a lot. Made a nice chunk of matched funds from the bank.
TLDR- Took advantage of a checking account loophole and made a good amount of money.
superdead · 54 points · Posted at 03:04:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I work retail, and of course we have to push numbers. The worst is getting people to sign up for credit cards. No one wants a new credit card, especially ones with shitty apr. So how do I "exploit" this? Most/all customers think you want them to put the entire $500 transaction on it, so I graciously point out the partial pay button. How many sign ups I've gotten now with "you get 15% off your purchase, you partial pay a dollar, and can pay how you originally planned on."
The store's bank might hate me but oh well corporate numbers.
AlexIsAnAnchorBaby · 7 points · Posted at 05:58:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do you want to sign up for a target Redcard?
judge2020 · 8 points · Posted at 05:20:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do you by any chance work at Wells fargo?
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 04:31:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/MaliciousCompliance loves stories like this.
lobsteryo · 38 points · Posted at 01:06:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Doritos had a special offer where you enter a code from the packet and play a game to win prizes. The game was basically just complete luck (kicking a ball in 6 predetermined spots and hoping the goalie doesn't block it). You only had one shot, and the chances of winning a prize were super low. I had bought a packet for me and a friend, and then we both played it. We both lost, but we realised that we hadn't actually used the second code, and that my friend had just used the same code that I used. It turns out that you could use the same code again and again as long as you used a different email. Bought a few more packets for about £2, and spent an hour grinding on the game, using a temporary email. If I lost, I would start again but create a new email to sign up with until I got to the £20 prize. Claimed it for all five of them and a week later got 5 £20 cheques in the mail. I probably could have gone for a lot more but I was worried that they might notice the same address being entered for about 200 accounts.
pwilliams58 · 72 points · Posted at 02:16:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Our annual local fair/carnival used to pre-sell tickets for admission or ride tickets etc through the local drug stores the week leading up to the fair. So you'd go to the register at the drug store, say "can I get one admission" or "25 ride coupons" or whatever and they charge you, and print off a voucher in the form of a receipt, which you then present to a ticket booth at the actual fair who'd either give you a wristband or a sheet of ride tickets.
Me and all my buddies worked at grocery stores at the time so we had ample access to rolls of receipt paper so we went and bought one real version of each voucher and just straight up photocopied them onto the rolls of receipt paper. We would tape a length of it to a piece of printer paper so we could run it through our printers at home without jamming. The end product was virtually indistinguishable from the originals except for the fact that if the fakes got wet the ink would run.
So we made dozens of fake vouchers and hit the fair with essentially unlimited tickets. So we pretty much got into the fair for free, rode all the rides for free, and still had enough tickets left over to blow a ton over and over playing the games until my brother finally won a mini motorcycle. We flew too close to the sun and tried to exchange a fake while it was raining and the ink was running. Had to book it away from the ticket stand while the attendants called security.
We did it 2 or 3 years in a row before the fair wised up and introduced scannable barcodes onto the receipts.
I now work for the security company that is contracted to work the same fairgrounds which hosts a menagerie of events throughout the year. Don't know what I'd do if I was called for such a thing other than pat the kids on the back and say "I'm not even mad, that's amazing. You gotta leave the property but bravo dude."
Blanche- · 47 points · Posted at 02:09:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Amazon use to let you download music to "Amazon MP3" on your computer like a minute before the payment went through. I had a gift card and I decided to use the last dollar on a song just not to waste it. I discovered by accident that I could buy and download a song to my computer and then I would just get a notification saying my payment was declined.....But I already had the song on my computer. "Bought" A LOT of music that night.
decnine · 1 points · Posted at 06:48:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used this to get prime shipping a few times after my card expired
arbitrageME · 15 points · Posted at 05:03:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In High School, my history teacher let us take one notecard in to take our tests. The catch was: it had to be hand-written. So, I used several different colors of pen, and used different colors of cellophane on my glasses so only specific colors would pop up and I could write on the same notecard 3 times (red, green, blue)
Turned out I didn't need my notecard even once, because it turned out that I memorized the material as I was preparing my notecard.
Well played Mr. Williams.
schaudhery · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Are you Nicolas Cage and are you plotting on stealing the Declaration of Independence next? Lol.
M2MK · 1 points · Posted at 21:51:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I hadn't thought about the different colors! Classes where we could have a page of notes, though...my chemistry and statistics finals note sheets were works of art. I would write really small in pencil, photocopy occasionally throughout the process to prevent smudges. Probably could have spent that time studying instead of making a fine-print note page, but the amount of information I could include was huge.
Salami___Tsunami · 224 points · Posted at 01:25:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Australia paypal takes 3 days to take money from your bank. When I'm a couple days away from payday I'll order a bunch of food online to tie me over til payday.
Oreo_ · 674 points · Posted at 03:42:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's not a loophole that's being poor
hicow · 32 points · Posted at 05:08:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
21st century version of floating a bad check
stevegcook · 2 points · Posted at 07:30:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Technically it's both!
yepitsdefinitelyme · 1 points · Posted at 05:38:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I just lol'd!
K_Click_D · 16 points · Posted at 02:08:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not really a loophole haha, I like this though, used to do this with Contactless, grab some Maccies, put it back on payday, Contactless is cool if low on cash cos it takes up to 7 days to come out in England
jjjjaaaakkkkeee · 1 points · Posted at 05:02:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Same if you need fuel, takes a few days to come out of your account if you pay at the pump haha
compstomper · 13 points · Posted at 04:29:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
that's like 21st century check kiting
k_mermaid · 2 points · Posted at 06:47:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why not just use a credit card? Most credit cards don't charge interest for 21 days so why not just use it to buy stuff with it until payday, and pay it all off at once when you get paid? Not much of a loophole, you still pay for it either way...
Mred12 · 1 points · Posted at 06:05:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Also; if you're not over your limit by midday Friday (when the banks close) your card will be accepted, no matter what, until 9am Monday.
This worked when I was at Uni, not sure if it works now.
minastirith1 · 1 points · Posted at 10:07:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What happens if you don't time it right and the money isn't in your account yet by the time they go to withdraw? Do you cop an overdraft fee?
st_owly · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Same in the UK. Means I can indulge my online shopping habit 2 days before payday.
bluemermaid01 · 1 points · Posted at 04:14:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
same..... Only way to get decent food at the end of the ft
k_mermaid · 1 points · Posted at 06:46:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Or you could just use a credit card...
bluemermaid01 · 1 points · Posted at 09:30:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't get enough money per week to be approved for a credit card. I've tried believe me.
k_mermaid · 1 points · Posted at 02:10:05 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Really? Not even a low limit one? I got my credit card when I was 18, I was a student and worked a part time job that gave me maybe 15-20 hours a week max. The limit was $1,000, although I'd heard of other people getting ones that were only $500.
bluemermaid01 · 1 points · Posted at 09:45:56 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Currently job hunting, have been for 4 months since my old one made me work in a crowded town centre with children with obvious pneumonia. My bank won't let me while I am on centre link.
WhoaMilkerson · 1 points · Posted at 04:08:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Have done this many, many, many times.
cunninglinguist32557 · 0 points · Posted at 05:34:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've had PayPal delay payments by 6 days or more. Very convenient when I buy a flight on Tuesday and get paid Friday.
DeputyDurp · 58 points · Posted at 02:14:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
University degree. Looked through the course calender before starting first year and found a tiny box about "double degrees." Figured out that I could get two separate pieces of paper and degrees for taking nothing more than 5 more courses than an undergrad. So now I'm the proud owner of a degree is history and poli Sci.
Arg3nt · 7 points · Posted at 06:22:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Would you like fries with that?"
Source: history major
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 05:10:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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DeputyDurp · 2 points · Posted at 05:59:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I know. Gotta double down and get more degrees. Got send more money after that well spent money.
[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 02:17:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 19 points · Posted at 05:44:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
lives in Portland, OR working as a barista
DeputyDurp · 9 points · Posted at 05:55:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Went to law school and practice now. Family law primarily.
virtualrreality · -28 points · Posted at 04:11:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dickwad
decnine · 1 points · Posted at 06:44:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did this with finance and econ
unknowntothebone · 29 points · Posted at 01:21:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Found a loophole while working for Verizon Wireless. Certain customers who were still in their contract & on good standing with the company were eligible for an early upgrade but only for certain (crappy) devices which majority of customers denied and decided they would wait until their true renewal date. Found a way to trick the system into allowing me to upgrade the customer to literally any device they desired. Therefore = happy me & happy customer. That only lasted a couple short months unfortunately, but it was great while it lasted!
AmcillaSB · 27 points · Posted at 02:28:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Developers from the Facebook game "Game of Thrones Ascent" really had no idea what they were doing. Using Chrome's inspect elements, you could just change item names to craft or gift yourself any item you want, including premium/pay items.
One of the end-game goals of the game was to hatch a baby dragon through a long and tedious crafting process. My friend and I bypassed this process by entirely guessing what the baby dragon item name was, and sent ourselves a bunch of them through FB's gifting system. Fun times.
I hid mine, and just equipped them on my bannermen. My friend was an idiot and put the baby dragon on his public profile, and within 2 weeks he had his account entirely wiped.
Last I checked, mine were still there =)
Raygunbutt · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Does this still work?
AmcillaSB · 1 points · Posted at 06:27:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They had fixed it by the time I stopped playing, but that was a few years ago. I imagine it's still fixed =)
cocomunges · 30 points · Posted at 03:07:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Destiny 2014 loot cave... nuff said
TheMainStream · 4 points · Posted at 06:15:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A million deaths are not enough for master Rahool...
Mr_Haunzz · 3 points · Posted at 06:21:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
...2014 Jesus Christ what the actual fuck. Felt like it was just yesterday I would go in and out of areas to manipulate resource nodes
Berserk9868 · -3 points · Posted at 07:15:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yea sadly I quit the game like one month after year 1 of 2 can't remember had like 8 ghorns and everything
Reason for me quiting I met a guy one day one and we basically did everything together on the game and I got tired of the game as I basically had everything I liked from the raids so I played crucible most of the time
Met a few new people a girl another guy girl turns on me most of my friends do the other guy turns then me N my first day friend r cool until he turns on me
I played crucible for a while rumble 21-0 or usually just 5 deaths and winter match I. Mins I said fuck it and said fuck games and shit n I only played it for time pass etc
Brother bought Xbox one bought destiny first off shitiest graphics ever compared to other said fuck it there then second the response time for me was horrible and I hated the new controller so much
I have burned two 75 inches tvs and two theater lamps about 3-4 Xbox 360s white red ring of death
I have around 15ish controllers or more 😅 4 blacks 7whites 2 reds 1 chrome red black on back 1 modded chrome blue
2-3 black slims
I wasted so much money and shit over games and got glasses
I found out I played games as it was time pass and smhhh I hate to admit it I wasn't really social IRL as everyone just ignored me as I didn't exist just bc I'm Indian and maybe it took me awhile to learn English but oh well
I quit playing games for about 3-4 years and now everyday I just lay on my bed on my phone or just stare at the ceiling
I'm 14 atm and still have no friends IRL 😂☠️☠️☠️ and ah I really don't care being alone is easier as u don't got to listen to anyone bullshit and u can do whatever u want to
izipin9142 · 3 points · Posted at 03:11:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Holy crap I just had flashbacks
kazu-sama · 1 points · Posted at 03:45:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Good times... sniff
coltthedog · 28 points · Posted at 03:54:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a kid in high school I took a public speaking class because I was absolutely terrified of it and wanted to get better. The teacher would essentially give us topics to talk about for a certain amount of time and we would give the talk in front of the class the next day. The thing is, the teacher never said we couldn't lie. So while the other kids were "ummming, uuuuuhhhhhing and liking" is was telling bad ass stories of hunting giant man eating spiders in Africa and how I was Spring Heeled Jack." I soon came to realize that public speaking isn't about conveying information as much as it is about conveying something with confidence. I am much better at "believing myself" when I lie on the spot than trying to remember facts I wrote down on index cards.
TL;DR I aced a public speaking class because there was no rule against lying.
mraider94 · 7 points · Posted at 06:34:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That sounds like Sean Spicers whole job.
Herb_Kazzaz · 2 points · Posted at 07:11:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
He's got all the lies with none of the confidence!
rab777hp · 2 points · Posted at 14:10:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The loophole you found is called "learning"
x5789 · 30 points · Posted at 04:09:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nothing crazy but I keep my cup from Starbucks and just keep getting free refills as a gold member.
This Starbucks is at my university and eventually they caught on, so they started to write the date on the cup.
Luckily I have hand sanitizer and a sharpie in my bag, I'd erase the date with the hand sanitizer and write the current date.
Still works to this day
Agent_M · 1 points · Posted at 06:48:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Starbucks in Toronto has to scan my card before every refill. Yours doesn't do this?
x5789 · 1 points · Posted at 07:41:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sometimes they scan, sometimes they just look at it. As long as you have the cup and card, you're good to go.
vacax · -2 points · Posted at 06:50:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's not a loophole. That's stealing coffee.
x5789 · 4 points · Posted at 07:41:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Aight bro I'll make sure to pay the multi billion dollar company it's fair share for it's overpriced coffee
rab777hp · -1 points · Posted at 14:11:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Its*
eddie1975 · 29 points · Posted at 05:15:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
DELL $100% OFF COUPON CODE
One night I went back into the office to get some more work done. A colleague was buying Dell computers online and told me he got a code from a friend for $100 off but was actually giving 100% off!!!
He said wanna try? Have it and gave me a coupon code. I was skeptic but went ahead and ordered 8 fully loaded workstations with as much RAM, CPUs, and hardware, software and services that I could stuff into them 10 years ago. $28,000 - 100% off = $0.
Next day Dell calls my colleague, his friend and myself stating they made a mistake and the orders would all be cancelled. I received a cancellation for 7 computers. I called them and said I never got a cancellation for the eighth one. They said don't worry... you will.
A couple days later I get a call from another department at Dell stating my computer was built and would be shipped soon. I said no they are canceling it. They said.... hum, I'm not so sure, I think you're getting a computer.
Sure enough, I got an amazing computer with lots of memory, CPUs, white glove service, extended warranty, 5.1 surround sound speakers, All-in-wonder TV card, remote control, extra USB ports, two hard drives, CD-burner, windows media center edition, etc, etc, etc...
TheNessLink · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I call bullshit.
eddie1975 · 1 points · Posted at 06:51:38 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
They even called saying they'd be sending someone to set it up for me. I work in IT so I told them no need to.
I wonder who screwed up that coupon. There's got to be an article on it somewhere. I imagine it must have spread fast.
I might have the emails.... maybe. This was like 10 years ago.
TheNessLink · 1 points · Posted at 02:38:02 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eh, if it's real it's real. Not much I can do if it isn't. Take an upvote 'cause I still enjoyed the story.
SillyFlyGuy · 1 points · Posted at 02:23:01 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dude! Your getting a Dell!
arithm · 1 points · Posted at 07:50:34 on March 4, 2017 · (Permalink)
you know hes being at least partially honest when he mentions the all-in-wonder TV card.
throwaway_27547 · 11 points · Posted at 02:52:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Around 2013, there was this website online where if you made a new account, you would get a $5 amazon gift card. So I bought 500 bulk order of email addresses and signed up a bunch of times.
Ended up getting about $1800 in amazon gift cards.
rab777hp · 2 points · Posted at 14:11:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm confused about the "paying money for emails" part
throwaway_27547 · 1 points · Posted at 23:27:39 on March 22, 2017 · (Permalink)
I bought bulk emails so I didn't have to make a new email every time. I was using guerllia mail but they disabled that half way through.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:00:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Holy crap. Does this still exist?
LILHOMIE1250 · 1 points · Posted at 06:17:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Elaborate
throwaway_27547 · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:41 on March 22, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was a website to teach teens to bank. I can't remember the name of it anymore but everytime you made an account, they gave you a $5 amazon gift card for free, no questions asked. So I kept making accounts. You only needed an email address so I had to buy some bulk ones to sign up. They stopped taking temporary email addresses like guerilla mail half way through.
LILHOMIE1250 · 1 points · Posted at 23:45:09 on March 22, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is it still up and if so what's it called
[deleted] · 37 points · Posted at 04:07:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can't stop reading these comments
Crapletunnel · 3 points · Posted at 05:57:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's been an hour. Why am I still here?
Amance · 4 points · Posted at 06:10:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's currently 1:10 am as I'm writing this. I have class tomorrow at 8:00 am. I can't stop reading these. Send help
jfitz12 · 1 points · Posted at 06:41:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah, you good
Wangushenpo · 1 points · Posted at 06:58:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
think im going to read the entire thread
RodrLM · 1 points · Posted at 07:14:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
1:14 am in here. Tomorrow class at 7 am. Feel ya dude.
Bronn_McClane · 90 points · Posted at 01:12:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Cup OF Pork tRick. I would go to a BBQ place that had all you can eat pork. I'd ask for a To go cup, and stuff it full of pork. Drink from another cup. Leave with a cup full of sliced pork.
RavioliAssMaster · 14 points · Posted at 03:45:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Aren't you still paying for the pork?
MizukiAyu · 29 points · Posted at 04:18:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yea, they paid for all you can eat, and got more than they could eat to take home
Bronn_McClane · 17 points · Posted at 05:16:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah but you get a lot more than if you just ate what you could while you were there. If you don't like the idea of a cup, just get pants with cargo pockets and line the pockets with a plastic bag. That is called the Pocket of Pork trick.
losangelesvideoguy · 10 points · Posted at 04:43:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well, they said “All you can eat”, not “All you can eat while still here”.
mike5799 · 6 points · Posted at 05:34:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In that case shouldn't you be able to eat free pork for the rest of your life
RandyReaver · -1 points · Posted at 05:38:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This sounds like a perfect Sunny in Philadelphia episode
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 02:21:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:34:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Didn't realize Hungry Howies still existed - that was the cheap go-to for elementary school pizza parties. Last one near here closed by middle school.
Svarf · 12 points · Posted at 02:33:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the Campaign of the Game Dawn of War: Dark Crusade as Necrons you can kill a member of your Honor Guard units, replenish the unit and then let your Necronlord resurrect the fallen member. It becomes a whole new Unit without affecting the Unit cap, as it still is seen as a Honor Guard. Repeat to your liking and swarm the map with endless unkillable Terminators!
damboy99 · 2 points · Posted at 06:48:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Doing this I got infinite Necron Warriors/ Immortals, and used my tomb spiders (in Titanium wars if not in vanilla), to eat the fallen Necron Warriors to get more of every other unit, and lagged the fuck out of my game, because I had 10 times the unit cap...
Arrow222 · 12 points · Posted at 04:21:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Facebook advertising, you are allowed to set a goal for your campaigns. Out of the choices "optimise for conversions" and "optimise for website clicks" worked the best for my online shop. Costed me $6-$12 to acquire a customer.
I found a loophole that allows me to optimise for both these objectives at the same time. My customer acquisition cost decreased 10x. In turn it allowed me to target 10s of millions rather than my usual 500k audience. Sales increased 5x during the few months of exploiting it. Life was good.
robsnell · 1 points · Posted at 04:55:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Genius! Loophole? Please explain! :)
godmodedio · 1 points · Posted at 05:44:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Curious how this one works.
Have a very small business and wouldn't mind extra cheap advertising
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 05:20:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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JonSnoooow · 2 points · Posted at 09:49:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
applause
itchy_puss · 12 points · Posted at 05:21:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was about 12, in the early 80's I used to hang out at the arcade with my friends. I would spend my $2 allowance there in about 30 min. $2 was a lot of money back then and after it was spent I always felt sad and remorse.
Anyway, this particular arcade for some reason was carpeted. One day I walked up to a machine to drop a quarter in and as I was about to put my money in, I got a shock from the machine. I looked up and I had 3 credits on the machine, and I didn't even drop my quarter.
I realized that if I dragged my feet around the carpet I would generate enough static and when I touched the metal part of the machine where the quarter went, it would give me free credits. Sometimes 1 and sometimes up to 5 at a time.
It worked on about half the machines there. I never told anyone and as a 12 year old I walked around like I fucking owned the place. What a great summer.
akfilmmaker · 12 points · Posted at 05:29:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Around 5 years ago I used to work as a Sales Rep at a cell phone booth. Every new smartphone that would be released, the wireless provider would usually send us a demo unit of that phone with a demo line. The demo line would have unlimited talk, text, and data but would deactivate after 2-3 months. This was so we could show customers how the phone works with all of its features. One time we got a demo line that didn't expire after the 2-3 months. So my manager at the time told me to use it as my work line. I didn't want to carry two cell phones so I cancelled my personal line and used my work line as my personal too. Fast forward one year later, my manager is transferred to another store and we get a new manager. New manager has no idea about my work/personal line. I left the company 6 months later with my demo line and to this day I still use this demo line. Have not had a cell phone bill for over 5 years and counting.
TL;DR - Got a cell phone line that I have been using for free for over 5 years.
flugbone · 1 points · Posted at 06:11:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You lucky ass mother fucker. Lol
Little-nug · 164 points · Posted at 21:54:43 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
That i dont have to work overtime hours. So i wouldnt turn up to work on some days and just be like "my contract is only 25 hours, sorry bro"
_PM_ME_YOUR_ELBOWS · 93 points · Posted at 03:14:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
...I think that's the opposite of a loophole. That's understanding and acting upon something explicitly stated in a legal contract.
Good on you either way.
Arg3nt · 2 points · Posted at 06:21:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Unless he hadn't actually worked 25 hours to that point. I mean, depending on the job, they might not necessarily keep track. That's the only way I can see that it's a loophole, and even then, it's more just straight up lying than a true loophole.
Vox_Populi98 · 1 points · Posted at 07:45:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/maliciouscomplicance
Little-nug · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
you people read contracts? wow thats adulting done right. actually my manager is a moron and a bit of a pushover so he totally bought it. Im not guilty either because I worked for a widely known restaurant chain who made billions and paid me piss all
UtMed · 75 points · Posted at 22:37:30 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
Your contract has overtime at 25 hours?
theniceguytroll · 12 points · Posted at 03:15:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Could be part time?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:03:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Part time is up to 40 where I live
Philip_De_Bowl · 30 points · Posted at 03:19:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Telling the boss "No"
Holy Fuck this liberating. When my work calls me up wanting me to work crazy hours and stupid overtime and I just tell them "nope! I got plans" (to sit at home and do nothing)
Rooster022 · 11 points · Posted at 06:18:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My buddy gets called for over time pretty frequently but every time he just said he's been drinking. They can't legally allow him to be on site if he has been drinking.
Sometimes they call at early in the morning and he uses the same line, I bet someone at his job worries about him.
ReiNGE · 6 points · Posted at 02:40:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
this is a loophole?
911ChickenMan · 2 points · Posted at 03:12:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do you get paid overtime if you work those hours?
rangermetz241 · 27 points · Posted at 03:20:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a kid: there was a snapple machine that gave 3 cans of kiwi strawberry for 85 cents at my school for a little while. i only told a couple of people.
As an adult: Kodi and addons for amazon firestick.
pingasthrowaway · 3 points · Posted at 06:25:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you consider piracy a loophole I guess. But yeah Kodi is amazing.
Chronic_Liar_69 · 2 points · Posted at 03:50:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can confirm, Kodi is the best
crazywolfe · 1 points · Posted at 06:30:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I just have to recommend "mimic 2" with the menu on the side, it looks magnificent.
AlwaysHaveOnions · 9 points · Posted at 01:35:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Local arcade chain (of sorts) introduced this thing where you pay a set amount of money for (a card to play) unlimited games for an hour. Anyways, my friends and I found out that you could swipe the card once every minute (pretty much the only restriction on the unlimited games thing) to stock up on lots of in-game credits (to resume play should you die in-game)...
We found out about that exploit way too late though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The-Coopsta · 13 points · Posted at 04:34:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can google the company names on most school worksheets to get an answer key...
AgilityBobblehead · 11 points · Posted at 04:37:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One of my teachers would assign homework via internet but wouldnt actually check the work just check to see if you submitted. So me being me I submitted blank papers under whatever the assignment name was. I felt kinda bad because some people got detentions for not submitting but then i remembered they were cunts
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 04:41:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the 90's I had a decent paying job and good credit. One of my credit card companies kept on sending me credit card application even though i had a credit card with them with a $10,000 credit limit.
One day, I decided to fill out the form and applied for another credit card. So they sent me a credit card with about a $4,000 limit. I then called them up and asked to combine the accounts and the credit limit. Now my limit was up to $14,00.
I did this about 10 times and my credit card now had a limit of over $50,000. This was in the late 90's. I was making only about $60,000 annually.
blackseaoftrees · 11 points · Posted at 04:43:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In high school I got an A in a class I didn't attend. The grade was based on attendance, but I said I was dropping the class so they never marked me absent. Apparently I had perfect attendance.
linuxwes · 11 points · Posted at 04:49:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a Jeep Cherokee that had some engine problem that would have cost more than it was worth to fix. I discovered that the state of California would give you $1000 for a car that was a gross polluter, the only requirements was you could prove to the local junk yard that it failed smog and that it would drive for a block. It was barely running, so failing smog was easy, and I got $1000 bucks for it. Managed to also set my girlfriend up with the same deal on an old car she wrecked and totaled, and later another friend. All cars that were headed for the junk yard anyway, and were in no way worth $1k. Last I checked though that sweet deal had been discontinued.
meddlinkids · 32 points · Posted at 03:44:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I never actually did this but when Chevy was running their test drive for a month and bring it back no questions asked you could get a Volt. You could then return the Volt but still take the $7500 alternative fuel vehicle tax credit because you only had to show proof of purchase, not a length of time you owned it.
fco83 · 6 points · Posted at 05:36:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Are you sure you could actually do this?
Seems like what they would do for that would be a 1 month free lease.
RikkaTakanashii · 20 points · Posted at 05:31:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My business teacher(B.T) told us a story about something like this once. He was a fresh university graduate and worked for some summer job at a company. After the summer, he was offered a job as the supervisor (forgot which position exactly. something like a supervisor) of the same summer program for the next year. Apparently it was a new position that they implemented.
Summertime came around and the company wasn't doing so well, so they canceled the program. But since it was a new position, somebody screwed up and my teacher went to work without finding out. The receptionist showed him to his office and left, saying that she'd be right back. He didn't know what he was supposed to be doing as nobody explained it to him, so he just sat there. Day ended, and he went home. He went back to work the next day, just sitting there waiting for instructions. Everybody he asked didn't know what he was supposed to do. So he just sat there for the next few days.
Eventually, it got to the point where he would just go buy a cup of coffee and leave it on his desk, put his blazer of his chair and leave to go home, so that everybody who walked by would just think he went to get or do something.
After the first week, he got an email saying something like "Approve B.T's paycheque for the week". B.T clicked approve. Then pops up "Rate B.T's work". He clicked "Exemplary". Then comes an email notifying him about his paycheque coming in and his "exemplary" work. Apparently, he became his own supervisor. He just sat around playing video games on his computer or getting online certifications or ditching work altogether for the rest of the summer. There's more to this, but it's already long enough.
DRxRIDICULOUS · 4 points · Posted at 05:35:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Would love to hear the rest of this story.
flugbone · 2 points · Posted at 06:19:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Agreed
Vox_Populi98 · 2 points · Posted at 08:16:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
! RemindMe
Carthage96 · 3 points · Posted at 10:27:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of the story of the forgotten employee.
deecaf · 1 points · Posted at 11:12:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would love to hear more about this! Please consider sharing it with us!
jmac8122 · 10 points · Posted at 02:59:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
GameStop used to give almost $30 trade in credit for Xbox 360 adapters. Those things could be bought for $10 a piece in bulk. My buddies and I probably made hundreds of dollars in credit before they lowered the credit. And don't get me started on those 50% bonus trade in weekends. Also, I used the credit to buy Amazon and eBay cards usually, so I wasn't just stuck with game credit
Daracaex · 11 points · Posted at 04:05:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was on a meal plan at my university. I decided I wanted to cook much of the time and only do quick lunches at the dining commons, so got the version where I only paid for X number of swipes to enter the dining commons instead of the "unlimited Monday through Friday" or similar ones. Turns out, they were doing something wrong and didn't process the swipes right about 75% of the time and my count wouldn't go down. So the next semester, I got the cheapest, minimum number of swipes plan and it lasted me the entire semester.
TineageDirtbag · 10 points · Posted at 04:20:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a couple months when Starbucks was promoting their app and would give all new users a $5 credit, but wouldn't need to verify the email before you got the credit. To make it even easier, you could send the money to other accounts via a digital gift card. My friend figured this out and we spent a month getting free Starbucks everyday. Eventually they figured it out and shut down our accounts, but the $100 of free drinks each was well worth it.
Daniel15 · 9 points · Posted at 04:33:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not me, but someone I know. National Australia Bank, one of the large banks in Australia, had a special offer where you'd gain bonus frequent flyer points for every transaction made on one of their credit cards. This guy made 7000 $0.01 transactions, earning enough points for two business class round the world flights in addition to many many domestic flights, for just $70.
They discontinued the offer but did let him keep some of the points.
News coverage: http://www.afr.com/business/media-and-marketing/nab-taken-for-a-frequent-flyer-ride-70-to-rack-up-380000-points-20130306-jyhlu
http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/nab-shuts-down-qantas-frequent-flyer-credit-card-loophole/news-story/92624b276d834c3c6042921b72116c53
Forum post where it all began: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/90255
tssop · 10 points · Posted at 05:48:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Late to the party. But when I was in college, the bookstore was closing and going to a separate company.
They had a bunch of textbooks that, I assume, the distributor wouldn't take back or something. I walked by one day and saw a table in the middle with a sign saying the remaining books were being sold for $0.05 each. I confirmed the price with the clerk.
I gave this a few minutes of thought, and then proceeded to purchase pretty much every book on the table. Sometimes 20 new copies of the same book. Few of them were amazingly popular textbooks. I spent about $5.
For the last 3 or so years, I've been selling them on Amazon. The highest one sold for $60, and most of them are around $15 after fees and shipping. I've made at least $1k on this so far. Don't even think I've sold half of them.
apeliott · 106 points · Posted at 23:34:14 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I realised that uploading pirated games is illegal but downloading them isn't.
I spent months downloading tens of thousands of games for all sorts of systems. PC, Playstation, PSP, DS, SNES, Gameboy, GBA, arcade roms etc.
For about 3 months I downloaded around 80 Xbox games and burned them to disk.
Then a few weeks later my Xbox broke :(
EDIT - This was in Japan.
breakingborderline · 115 points · Posted at 01:00:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not sure how true that is.
apeliott · 50 points · Posted at 01:18:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was true up until about 7 years ago.
typodaemon · 48 points · Posted at 01:34:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Downloading a game you don't own is still piracy, but enforcement is much looser. Publishers focus on prosecuting the people distributing pirated games because there's typically less of them and in theory shutting them down would also stop the people who are just downloading the games.
apeliott · 3 points · Posted at 02:16:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nobody could be prosecuted for downloading games because it wasn't illegal at the time.
jdr393 · 4 points · Posted at 03:44:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Source on this? You would still likely be in violation of copyright law regardless of whether the specific act of "downloading" was legal or not.
judge2020 · 1 points · Posted at 04:58:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You would, but you couldn't be prosecuted due to it.
jdr393 · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Interesting. Thanks.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 02:36:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Depends on the country.
IceCrusheR · 2 points · Posted at 05:27:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Depends on the country. Holds true here in Switzerland too.
mastermind04 · 2 points · Posted at 08:08:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Depends on the county, in Canada for a long time it was just a legal gray area in which was not illegal as long as it was not a torrent due to seeding. It was changed a year or 2 ago so that it is technically copy infringement with the risk of a small fine.
DarthMoose37 · 1 points · Posted at 01:22:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It got me thinking though, no terms of service or EULA's being broken by the end user (Pirate). He might be onto something.
apeliott · 3 points · Posted at 01:34:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah, not any more. They amended the law to include downloaders about 7 years ago then increased the penalty 5 years ago.
I wouldn't do it now.
DarthMoose37 · 1 points · Posted at 01:59:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lemme just grab my time machine. I'll be right back.
SomnambulisticTaco · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I am certain it isn't true at all based on copyright law.
eeedlef · 1 points · Posted at 04:51:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you download a car!?
Nymall · 0 points · Posted at 01:40:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's not true. By possesing the iso and not having a physical copy, you are voiding the EULA. TECHNICALLY just having the ISO isn't illegal - it becomes illegal the moment you install it however(or run for the first time).
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 04:02:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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apeliott · 0 points · Posted at 09:28:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No. I used sites that were download only. Slower than torrents, but safer. And legal.
ipad_kid · -1 points · Posted at 02:05:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
DCMA overturned this about four years ago
crimeo · 33 points · Posted at 04:58:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
TIL 50-75% or so of people don't know the difference between the terms "loophole" and "fraud." To be a loophole, you have to be playing within the rules, but the rules are made poorly to let you gain a lot. If instead you are lying or cheating and simply not getting caught because the rules didn't allow for easy oversight, that's not a loophole, that's just a safe crime of convenience.
Berserk9868 · 0 points · Posted at 07:26:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lmao who say he hell cares if it's fraud one people can donate shit to the poor that government is not doing and two we pay extra money for shit then their regular price is lol more money again to spend on the poor and needing
Who would even bother to pay taxes for the government in USA or really anything country as all of them use their money for shit things
crimeo · 0 points · Posted at 08:19:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because it's not what the thread asked for...?
Berserk9868 · 1 points · Posted at 08:21:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well my good sir fraud or not I been on this post for 3 hours I have no life ☠️☠️☠️☠️
crimeo · 1 points · Posted at 08:27:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
some sweet emoji action though
Berserk9868 · 1 points · Posted at 08:35:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haha my emoji history is for people with no life
😂😱👍🏻😉😪🚥☠️😑😍🛤☺️😆😭😫😊😌🗻😆😒🔫😚🏖⛵️😄😅👏🏻🤔😋🌄🙃
Some of them r in my history from random accident clicks the blush the eyes and everything else that's not a face except the gun
MountainBlossom · 26 points · Posted at 02:21:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Gods loophole. Garfunkle & Oats had a good song about it.
TheOtherCoenBrother · 10 points · Posted at 02:58:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A couple summers back there was a gas station next to the pawn shop I worked at that had a pump that wouldn't shut off if you spent more than 17 dollars. Go inside, ask for 17 on the pump, fill up the truck I had that usually cost me about 90 bucks. Worked for about 5 months until they caught on.
Pyro9966 · 8 points · Posted at 03:41:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pee in a cup for money.
I honestly have no idea what the program was but around Killeen, TX about 2 years ago you could sign up for this program where you peed in a cup and then they would give you a 20$ walmart gift card.
It was pretty much based on the honor system as you could only use it once a week. No one took IDs or anything and there was 3 different locations around the city. I hit every location every week. I hate walmart but I effectively did all of my grocery shopping for free for a year using only my pee.
aKingS · 1 points · Posted at 08:03:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What kind of a pervert was running that?
Pyro9966 · 2 points · Posted at 09:20:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I seriously have no idea and no explanation was given whatsoever. I was broke and didnt give a fuck.
dai_panfeng · 1 points · Posted at 09:12:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Probably so people could pass drug tests
schaudhery · 1 points · Posted at 20:39:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This. I did this for a friend whose mom would hit him with a home drug test.
NoNickname90 · 9 points · Posted at 03:48:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was this toll exit that would for some odd reason release the quarters after throwing them in them.
I noticed one time when I went late at night and heard a lot of change jingle when my quarter came out.
I reached out and found like $5 worth of change.
I repeated this every night. I'd just drive there and get the quarters.
I think I was caught one time by the lady because like within a week some mechanical people were there working on the toll. And the next time I went that area was apparently being changed to an EZ Tag only. Bwhahahahaaa!!
It was fun. I don't do bad things so I felt taboo.
aKingS · 1 points · Posted at 07:56:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mechanical people? Like robots?
NoNickname90 · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:04 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
LoL!! No as in people who work with mechanical things. I didn't realize the ambiguity before.
grewapair · 9 points · Posted at 03:52:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A major retailer defaults to a price of $1 for items they forget to price. They started carrying my favorite craft beer and someone forgot to price it. So it rang up $1. They put it in a weird spot, not where it should have been, and only got four six packs a month, so I must have been the only one buying it because no one else ever appeared to find it.
I bought it every week for three years before someone finally corrected it.
Brod24 · 10 points · Posted at 03:54:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Years ago i was on vacation with my family at some beach hotel. Beach hotel had a small convenience store. Store sold fruitopia for $1. Fruitopia had a coupon for $1 off your next fruitopia.
So i bought 1 fruitopia and went later with the coupon expecting them not to take it or give me 50% off. Nope, free fruitopia that came with another coupon.
I gave my coupon to my sister. She gave her coupon to some random new friend we made and so on. We ended up with 20 or so free drinks before they shut us down.
WhyAlwaysMe1991 · 9 points · Posted at 04:21:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nike 2 year return policy. I havent bought new cleats in over 5 years
BroJackson_ · 10 points · Posted at 04:24:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Found a basketball machine at Dave and Busters that hit jackpot every game when you made a basket - 500 tickets per game. Did some Christmas shopping that day.
There was one other machine a few down from me doing the same thing, and this kid would play it for a while then leave and go "buy" a video game. Had a bag with like 7 games in it.
anapollosun · 8 points · Posted at 04:36:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't recieve a parking stipend and work in the city. As it is a part time job, I really can't afford parking.
I found out that the parking garage across the street only has one attendant and no cameras. He leaves at 1, so that's what I chose as my start time for work. Getting to the point, I found free parking.
CreeDorofl · 10 points · Posted at 04:46:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when there was Blockbuster video, they had some sort of video game competition where if you won you could go on to regional and then national championships. One of the games was Clay Fighter for Super Nintendo. I figured out that Taffy could do an infinite combo by just pressing jab over and over, so I just cheesed everybody with that to make it to Regionals. Then I lost :(
DrivingRainn · 9 points · Posted at 04:48:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
After working at a mall, I learned that asking for a "Mall Discount" is hilariously easy no matter what mall you are at. I would often pick one of the bigger stores in the mall and say I was a "stock worker" or whatever to match my shitty pajama-wrapped appearance for the day. So far I have gotten a mall discount at no less than 4 malls in my area.
Ask for it, and if they don't give it to you, sound disappointed. They often find a way.
JasXD · 9 points · Posted at 05:02:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm gonna post this because today is the last day I need to use it.
Every Monday I have to take a train to work. Takes a little over two hours. I have to change trains and lines once, which means buying a second ticket. Round trip, it costs approx 25 dollars.
So I buy my first ticket for a dollar to the next station on the line but instead of getting off there, I ride the train all the way down to where I need to go. I then transfer over to the other line and buy my ticket in cash. When I finish work, I get back on the train and pay cash again. I transfer back to the other train and take that son of a bitch to exactly one station before mine and get off on the $1 ticket. My commute now costs about 5 dollars total. From there I can just casually walk home. Takes an extra 5 minutes.
My company reimburses me the full 25.
Jcapss1 · 9 points · Posted at 05:22:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A bit late, but here's mine:
When I was in college, I worked for the Business College's IT. I was also enrolled in the business college.
Worked there all 4 years and had great relationships with all of the professors because I was always fixing their shit and helping them out, teaching them about 'puters, etc.
Was able to glean a few answers to quizzes and exams with just a quick glance around their desks, or by grabbing the building master key and doing some lengthy updates on their machines when they were out teaching/left for the day.
Also, senior year came along and I didn't turn a single thing in on time, they didn't care at all. Full credit every time, even I knew the quality of my work was bullshit.
Associate Dean even placed me in a job as I graduated.
Talk about exploits man.
Lourdez01 · 9 points · Posted at 05:43:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was the first person to put my Uber code on Yelp, back in 2011.
I haven't paid for an Uber since 2011.
Bullitbob_ · 16 points · Posted at 03:01:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
when i worked in retail there was a website I heard about that would send you free software to try out if you worked at certain stores. The only trick was you had to send in a copy of your pay stub to prove where you worked. I signed up but also photoshopped my pay stub as a fake name and would get a second copy of everything sent to a friends house. I would sell all of mine and sell all of his on eBay and gave him half of what I made for the software getting mailed to his place.
PimpedKoala · 2 points · Posted at 05:02:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Any idea of that website is still around?
Bullitbob_ · 1 points · Posted at 14:52:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sorry no, I don't even recall the name of it.
JuanPRamirez · 16 points · Posted at 03:08:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have two from high school . One was for my Spanish class where my teacher said that if you were to get an A in the final you get an A in the class. Slept all throughout the semester and got 100% on my final. Ended the class with 100% the teacher hates me but I got an A so she can't complain.
Then there was one where my AP English Language teacher would make us use a website for grammar tests so we can add more notation into our essays. I did the ones I knew and the ones I didn't I ended up just looking at the code for the website and managed to obtain the correct answers.
Clavo_PR · 3 points · Posted at 06:29:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did something similar in my first year of college. Professor was teaching us the proper way to type on our PC's and gave us a challenge. Whoever could type 45 words per minute would get an automatic A in class but if you didn't you would get an F. I accepted the challenge and typed 46 words. She was pretty pissed.
JuanPRamirez · 1 points · Posted at 08:21:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I also had that but u think the bar was higher. Somewhere along 50wpm
Clavo_PR · 1 points · Posted at 13:54:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
She was an old school Professor that was teaching computer typing but came from type writer era.
pm-me-ur-shlong · 1 points · Posted at 05:05:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My school makes us use a similar system that's honestly terrible. It makes you drag elements and lacks a mobile site and is rounded off with annoying as hell noises. I figured out that the word's example sentence could be copied from a word list instead of transcribed by sound. I also optimized my clicks and figured out a process to get through the fucking thing in 10 minutes or less.
JuanPRamirez · 1 points · Posted at 08:20:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had this quiz website that made us match phrases with whatever we were doing. This was timed and the one with the best time received a 100% in the assignment.
I figured out that you can use keyboard inputs that lined up with their answers while looking at the code. Managed to get the high scores of the school in every subject (even one's I didn't have) for every class in under an hour. While everyone struggled to get under 10 seconds in a subject I managed to get under .5 in every subject.
School thought i was hacking the network and almost got expelled. Told them if the exploit and how to fix it.
Arcade42 · 19 points · Posted at 04:01:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Borderlands two has this thing called a "Badass Rank". Basically you complete challenges that translate to small bonuses or buffs.
Anyway buddy had a glitch that resulted him losing a significant portion of his rank so he emailed gearbox. Gearbox basically gave his profile the coins back along with fifty golden keys (special keys that open special chests for grade A loot). Only there was some kind of error and it gave him his coins and keys about 12 times resulting in a ridiculously high badass rank and all his character getting super buffs and a near infinite supply of keys. It was great for him in that he could dominate our run throughs and we had all the keys we could ever want.
pm-me-ur-shlong · 2 points · Posted at 05:10:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a glitch where you could save the golden key count and then copy and paste down text to repeat that value but keep the loot. I don't remember the details but it was hella rad.
Evning · 0 points · Posted at 07:27:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
huh wtf? i just downloaded a trainer. is this not a client side multi player game?
i mostly played alone.
[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 04:37:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My student ID didn't state the year I graduate. So I just continued to use it for student discounts.
darkstarohio · 2 points · Posted at 07:23:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My college's ID was good for free rides on the local bus system just by showing the ID to the driver. They've changed this now, but I rode free for like 3 years after graduating.
rab777hp · 2 points · Posted at 14:22:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I live in a non English speaking country... My alumni card is in English... I straight up just use my alumni card for student discounts
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I still do this myself, even though I already have some gray hair.
Spitfire103 · 27 points · Posted at 04:25:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in high school I bought a purse from a "premium brand" outlet store while on vacation. It was my first big purchase and I was super excited. Fast forward one month later, and my purse was fraying at the handle which was unfortunate considering I thought it would last much longer.
I went to the retail store in town (no outlets near me) to see if they did repairs. They said it would have to be shipped to their facilities to be inspected but I would have to pay $20 to ship it. Having spent about $125 on the purse I balked a having to pay shipping. So the associate ended up waving the fee. Two weeks go by and I get a letter in the mail from the brand explaining they can't fix my purse but here is store credit for what it's worth. If you keep the credit, they would keep the damaged purse.
I received store credit for $500! I returned to the retail store and bought a new purse, shoes and earrings. Unfortunately the purses were always garbage so I would return them every two months and get another store credit. Never paid for shipping because there was a comment on my account that basically said "she causes scenes."
Did it for about a year and a half until I gave up on the brand. Just wasn't worth the hassle.
AnindoorcatBot · 2 points · Posted at 17:46:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
lmao
Not-in-it-for-karma · 30 points · Posted at 04:49:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was an electronic roulette machine at my local casino, brand new technology when it showed up. After spending 2 days enjoying free sodas and watching it work, I showed up with $20 dollars on the third day and walked out with $20,000.
It consistently fell into patterns, most easily recognizable with red/black. If a pattern repeated three things twice in a row, it would repeat a third time 97.25% of the time, so max betting for 3 bets usually resulted in 3 wins, although never less than 2.
Casino employees were impressed, but after 3 more days of me exploiting this, they were forced to replace the entire system with a real roulette wheel. On top of my winnings, I used my points card to rack up another $2,000 in comps.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 14:35:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Was this in Vegas?
Not-in-it-for-karma · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nope. Random OLG casino in Ontario, Canada. OLG eventually had to replace their electronic wheels in all their casinos, as I pulled a copycat of this a few cities over, walking away with another $2,500 in money and comps. There was nothing they could do to prevent me from doing this, as I never cheated, so they had to simply change the game.
Electronic roulette, no matter how seemingly random, is never truly random. There will always be patterns, and if you can find them, you can exploit them. Real roulette has patterns as well, but it'd take months to find them, and they wouldn't likely wouldn't be frequent enough to take advantage of, plus there'd be no guarantee like when a computer program falls into a rhythm.
CercleRouge · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wow, this is my dream. Did you already have a feeling it would be easy to discover the patterns? Was it just luck that you noticed it?
Not-in-it-for-karma · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've always been intrigued with numbers, math, and statistics, and excelled in those subjects in school. I was actively looking to see if it was possible to exploit, as no technology can ever be truly random.
Now, I didn't get to write anything down, I could have been kicked out of the casino had I done that. I simply sat back and made some "safe" bets while I studied, typically $1 on both red and black. I maybe lost $10 over the 2 days of studying the wheel due to green hits, but with all the soda I got free I considered that to even out.
Once I saw the pattern was consistent though, I struck. Building up my bankroll from $20 was a challenge, but I didn't have much disposable income either, so I could afford to lose it. But once I got rolling, it was impossible to stop me. When you win 9/10 bets you make at the max the table allows (my table was $100 on the outside), you still walk away with 9 times the initial amount bet.
Now, I would love to actively try to break two different casino games, roulette and craps. They're very much luck dependent, but also only pseudo-random, unlike slot machines which can be rigged against the player heavily. But these games have existed for a long, long time, I highly doubt that the base game could be broken, but online/electronic versions are a different story. You just need to know what to look for, and have a way to study the outcome for little or no actual cost. Because nothing would suck more than blowing a few thousand dollars in an attempt to find a pattern that might not exist.
_J_G_M_ · 15 points · Posted at 03:51:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My friend worked at a waste recycling place and sometimes see's cool stuff come down the picking line that he takes. This one particular day down comes a huge roll full of the McDonalds Monopoly stickers.
Profit.
SquiddyFish · 16 points · Posted at 05:11:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thisll probably get buried but eh
In the engineering building at my uni there was a vending machine that had this promotion going. The promo was something along the lines of 'create an account with us and get a free drink'. However, the registration didnt require anything but an email address. It didnt even have to be your student email. At this point you can probably see what happened. We created a shitload of fake accounts and cleared out the whole machine in a few hours, for free. This went on for about a week before they realised what they'd done and cancelled the promo. Good times
SmellySchmupper · 7 points · Posted at 03:14:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to live in a house on the corner of Pape Crescent and George Street. The driveway and front door were on Pape, but the address was 3055 George.
I would rotate through all of the pizza, Chinese, and other delivery food places that offered the food free if the delivery took too long.
I can't even count the number of times I got free food because the drivers couldn't find the house. Sometimes I would sit out front and watch them drive around.
I've since moved, but I told the new home owners. Ran into them not long ago, they're still doing the same thing.
bojack1701 · 8 points · Posted at 03:47:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At my summer camp when I was like 10 there was a new vending machine put in, and one day someone found out that if you put a $5 bill in, it would not only dispense your soda AND spit the 5 back out, it'd also give you $1 in change; basically paying you a dollar to have a soda. It lasted about a month and then they either replaced it or fixed it. It was a sad day when I had to pay for my vanilla coke again.
KNHaw · 8 points · Posted at 04:00:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This one had mixed results...
In the 1970's, there was an ice cream parlor in California named Farrell's (since gone bankrupt and then recently resurrected). You could get a free sundae on your birthday month if you filled out a card. Many kids at my school filled out 12 of them for a free one every month, but my Mom caught me filling out the cards and so I wasn't able to exploit it.
Fast forward to the mid-1980's when we all turned 18 and had to register for Selective Service - the US military draft agency. Little did we know that in order to crack down on people who didn't register, the government bought every mailing list they could find that included a date of birth: driver's license, the Playboy subscription list, and, yes, the Farrell's list. Queue many young men receiving one "Thank you for registering" post card and eleven "You are in violation of Federal Law" letters.
I still wish I'd gotten those free sundaes. It would've been worth it.
davesoverhere · 7 points · Posted at 04:05:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When Pepsi first did their free song with iTunes promotion about 12 years ago, you could tilt the bottle and look at the bottom of the cap just enough to see if you had a winner. I won a free song with my lunch just about every day for months.
teaching-man · 9 points · Posted at 04:09:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I challenged classes in college. $50 to take the test vs $2500/class. I go to take the test and they leave me unattended in a room with a computer with internet access and never came to check on me. I challenged every class they would let me. Saved 10's of thousands of dollars and many semesters of my life.
ArchitectGeek · 7 points · Posted at 04:24:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was in 7th grade and attending a paper airplane contest between a number of area middle schools. We had to stand at one side of a basketball court and throw our planes. Most made in about half way, a few planes made it further. The rules were simple, you could use a sheet of paper, tape and paperclips. My entry was a wad of a few hundred paperclips wrapped and paper and taped to form a ball. I easily threw the paper airplane ball to the other side of the gym. I unfortunately did not win, as they quickly decided it was "not in the spirit of the competition".
devenchis · 8 points · Posted at 04:36:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was given a 'temporary' discount code on Reebok.com for a free TShirt for completing the CrossFit Level 1 course. The code was never removed and I got about 15 Tshirts for free before they finally caught it.
SteenerNeener · 8 points · Posted at 05:04:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the first Fable, some bosses (iirc) would give you trophies.
I found the trophy that was worth the most amount of gold. I'd buy a house, place that tophy in that house, which would raise the value of the house by the value of the trophy, and then I'd sell the house.
Then, I'd break into the house, steal the trophy, and now the value of the house is x gold less, where x is the value of the trophy.
Then I'd re-buy the house for the new lower price, place the trophy in it, re-sell it, and repeat.
:|
daveosf · 9 points · Posted at 05:08:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I went to get my learners permit, the DMV accidentally inputted my birth year as 1981 instead of 1982. So I was given a state issued fake ID. Could go to bars and buy booze at 20. Also didn't need to worry about the stupid junior operators laws for minors since when I turned 17, my ID said I was 18.
Corrected it when I was 24, thought it was going to be this huge deal or that perhaps I'd be in some sort of trouble but they didn't even blink an eye.
phoenix-corn · 9 points · Posted at 05:11:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My undergraduate degree program was supposed to consist of 120 credits. However, I found out that things in my minor double counted as electives. Additionally, my major requirements were all written as "take 3-12 credits" of this.
I graduated a year early with only a handful of classes in my major and started grad school early. Then I joined the curriculum committee as the Masters member, and when I pointed out the loophole they said nobody else would figure it out. For $250, I would help any undergrad that wanted to to graduate early too.
n122333 · 8 points · Posted at 05:14:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a manufacturer coupon for $1 off a box of hamburger helper, and Kroger $1 off two boxes of hamburger helper. A single box cost $1.25. I bought 2, with two single coupons and a two coupon, costing $-.50
The cashieer was really confused for a while before giving me my $.50 that I used to pulltab loto ticket, and won another dollar.
I ended up with two boxes of hamburger helper and $1.
toronto_programmer · 8 points · Posted at 05:17:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It didn't actually happen, but almost did before a manager with half a brain saw what was happening
Out with friends at a small bar chain in town for beer and wings. Have a $50 gift card. Bar has some sort of promo like buy $50 gift card get $10 bonus gift card. When the server comes over as a joke I ask "can I buy a gift card using my gift card?" To which she replied with "I don't see why not".
After speaking with her for a few minutes I had almost convinced her into letting me purchases dozens of gift cards in a snowball type formation just acquiring those freebie $10 ones until her manager walked by and realized that she was not a smart girl and said no way not happening
Joskilatrix · 7 points · Posted at 05:31:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to work tech support for hotel internet as a Tier 2 agent. Would maybe take 10-15 calls in an 8hr shift, making $12 an hour. I was promoted to working the command post (scheduling lunches, watching the queue, etc), which also bumped my pay to $14 and hour. I rarely had to take calls, but when I did, I used my supervisor phone login so I was on lowest priority. This meant that if I was in the queue, I would only take a call if nobody else was available to and if the call was sitting unanswered for 2min.
After a couple months I took myself off command post (scheduling issues) and went back to Tier 2 tech support. On my first day back as tech, I tried logging into my phone but it wasn't working. Spoke to IT and they said that my old login was being used by someone else, so just use my supervisor phone login for the time being.
Here's the thing, when I logged into my phone as supervisor, I was being paid at a command post rate ($14/hr) even though I was doing tech. Also, since I was low priority that meant I never took calls. I would go weeks without taking a call. I started working from home doing overnight support. I would set my phone ringer on high, login, and go to bed. I never woke up to a call. Took them 9 months to fix this 'issue'.
sfsdfd · 7 points · Posted at 06:21:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Way back in 1999, the dotcom bubble was in full swing. New etailers were popping up like crazy, all hopped up on infusions of crazy amounts of investor cash, and desperate to drive traffic by any means necessary - often including instant rebates.
One of those companies was vitamins.com, which offered an instant rebate for $10 off any order of $10.01 or more. Plus free shipping. And no sales tax. And no limits on uses.
This occurred during a point in my life when I had a lot of free time, so I decided to see just how much I could utilize this nonsensical set of conditions. If vitamins.com only sold vitamins, I wouldn't have even bothered - but it also sold some other things I might actually use, like fancy toothpaste, and sandalwood soap, and all-natural dog chews, and scented candles. And if you picked just the right combination, your basket came out to something like: $10.05, or $10.12, or $10.38.
So I decided to amuse myself by placing these orders... over and over again. I must've placed about 50 orders with combinations of stuff clocking in between $10.01 and $10.50. I mostly did it because I was bored and wanted to see what kind of message they would send me while canceling my orders.
Only... they didn't cancel my orders.
Instead, over the next week, I received about 50 boxes of stuff from vitamins.com. They dutifully shipped me about $500 worth of stuff... for about $20 charged to my credit card. And they covered all of the shipping.
My dog and I used that stuff as basic necessities for about three years. Fancy toothpaste and sandalwood soap by the boxload - I think it even made it through two apartment moves.
And a few years later, when I started running out of fancy toothpaste and sandalwood soap, I decided to do the righteous thing and reorder from vitamins.com. But I couldn't... because vitamins.com had gone out of business back in 2000. Something about an unsustainable business model and not meeting its profit margins.
...oops. Sorry bout that.
miaminative1 · 14 points · Posted at 05:05:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did this a few times. I'm a bit of a sneaker collector. I found out I could buy a shoe at an outlet mall for anywhere from 30 to 70 or even 80 percent off, then take the shoes I bought and return them at a regular store without a receipt and get store credit. This was in the middle 2000's and at the time they never asked me to sign anything other than the receipt. I probably spent 1000 dollars at the outlet stores and got back 8000 or so in store credit at retail stores it worked for me because I was going to buy shoes anyway so I was able to get alot of my shoes discounted because of that loophole.
Designer3 · 23 points · Posted at 01:57:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Okay I can finally contribute something.
I have two. Both were during high school. One, I realized that one of the vending machines at school could be gamed by inserting a dollar, ordering a soda, but then holding the vending flap closed when the machine attempted to dispense the goods. This 'tricked' the machine into thinking the slot was out of inventory and refunding the dollar. Then, simply re-insert the dollar and order another item. Two for the price of one! They fixed the machine about a month later after telling some other kids how to do it.
The second, I was a part of this webpage-based rpg game. You could buy power ups with with paypal. Thing was, the paypal buttons' embed source included the payment amount at the time in addition to the item code. So one could simply edit the page source in their browser to make the item cost 0.01$ and get the power ups for virtually free. This technique also worked on the prank dial website for basically unlimited calls.
In retrospect, I realized that both of these things were juvenile and unethical...
Askarus · 23 points · Posted at 04:55:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a teenager, this guy at the 7-11 would give you free cigarettes if you showed him your ass. Looking back, I guess that was kinda fucked up.
SupersuMC · 44 points · Posted at 00:03:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The fact that https:// can get you past the basic firewalls. I actually was considered a hacker by the staff at my high school threefold because of that trick. Then came the day they upgraded the firewall against YouTube...needless to say, I wasn't able to watch much YouTube during Spring Semester of my senior year.
325Gerbils · 20 points · Posted at 02:52:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just download a VPN extension. There are free ones that work just fine. That's what got me called a hacker at my school....
that and making the chrome icon on people's (windows) laptops link to a batch file that just opens itself twice and then quits, basically crashing the computer.
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 05:02:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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tallstoner · 4 points · Posted at 05:57:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got two internal suspensions (one level below expulsion) for 'hacking'. If it wasn't for one of my IT professional parents yelling at the principal for hiring such incompetent workers, I probably would have been kicked out.
First time was using tor to get around their dopey firewall and the second was that I wanted some extra shortcuts on my desktop. For some reason group policy didn't allow that, so I mapped a network drive a few levels higher than where my files were stored (shouldn't have been able to do that) and made a shortcut in what I thought was my profile folder.
Nek minit, my login stops working and I get hauled off to the office because apparently the shortcut replicated to everyone's profile. So everyone in the school got a Google and School Email shortcut on their desktop.
I didn't mess with other people's files (intentionally), change tests or hack the pentagon but apparently that was enough to warrant an expulsion.
Edit: Grammars
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:39:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have very basic computer literacy, need help PLZ
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 03:52:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We just use VPN's these days. Barracuda was a waste of money.
Boxfigs · 6 points · Posted at 03:50:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My high school had YouTube blocked at one point and the video production class I was in used the same trick to get around it. Some of us used it for projects, which might have been part of the reason why it was eventually unblocked.
the_nidificator · 2 points · Posted at 06:18:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, it sucks. Used to be able to get onto Netflix and Facebook with that, too. Then they stopped that. Then they blocked the KProxy Chrome Extension. Youtube is coming soon. I can feel it.
darkstarohio · 2 points · Posted at 06:48:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to run a proxy from my home computer when I was in high school. Since it was a home line, my IP address would change every day usually. I would print off the new address, and charge $1 for the new address every day. I made some serious cash so that people could get on xanga in the school computer labs.
judge2020 · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Depending on the time, using TLS 1.2/1.3 (which came out within the last year or two) can hide the URL of the website you're visiting. Only extremely advanced firewalls that would intercept the SSL certificate could block those sites.
SupersuMC · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This was back in early 2015, so that might not have been available. Even so, I'm too innocent to use it.
[deleted] · 19 points · Posted at 04:22:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nice try, IRS.
ilostmyotheraccount · 12 points · Posted at 03:39:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not me but my mate.
He found a raffle competition (weirdly enough) for a Vespa motorcycle if he bought some kiwi fruit at the supermarket.
All the raffle tickets were just left there, on the kiwi fruit. So my mate bought a kiwi fruit and grabbed the tickets and entered all of them. Long story short, he got a free Vespa.
Not sure what happened, the competition clearly it wasn't vetted. Regardless - free bike!
Arctaedus · 13 points · Posted at 04:05:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in Neopets, they came out with the obelisk shrine that could be visited once a day for a random prize. I realized that after you reached the webpage which told you what you got, you could refresh it as many times as you liked and still get to keep each prize from every single page refresh. This allowed me to accumulate a ton of items easily and in a short period of time.
And that is how I became rich in Neopets.
SmurfyX · 5 points · Posted at 08:07:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
hoo boy. back before galleries were a thing, people would list items at an unbuyable price in their shops. You remember that? Someone messed up typing their price for a hypno helmet (i think called h4000 helmet now). Got it for 9,999 np.
I'm still neopoints rich motherfucker.
DriftingFam · 14 points · Posted at 04:21:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One day in English I discovered my teacher just copy and pasted the test questions from Quizlet for every single test we had. Needless to say I had very good grades that year
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 04:47:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I lived in Chicago with my ex, we would go to bulls games here and there. They were running a promotion where you get a free Big Mac the day after if the bulls score over 100 and won the game. I used to get my coupon, plus my ex,who didn't eat beef, and I would jus pick up any coupons I saw floating around on the way out. I'd hit McDonald's all week just looking for someone older or who may not have watched the game. They just take the coupon and hand u a Big Mac
icemanerich · 14 points · Posted at 04:48:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a pay phone at my high school. (Yes I'm that old. It was before cell phones). I have NO idea how I figured this out but the wires running to it were exposed. If you scraped 2 of them together you could "hotwire" the phone to make free calls. Local or long distance. I made SO many calls from that phone. I could never get that trick to work anywhere else. :(
nijpep · 14 points · Posted at 04:56:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't know if loophole or plain fraud, but it's a good story nonetheless. At my high school in the Netherlands there was a rolling cafeteria (they called it a soup cart) in the general schoolroom during breaks. There were always two people selling soup, candy, snacks, thinks like that. The biggest and most expensive item was a sausage roll. Costing 5 boxes (read on!) or 1,25 guilders.
You could only pay with a soup-cart-card. A paper card the size of a Creditcard with 10 or 20 boxes on the side. The people behind the cart punched holes in the boxes to make them invalid. I believe a card with 10 boxes used to cost 2,50 (guilders, it was in the pre-euro days) and a card with 20 boxes was 5. Serious money for a 13 year old. You could only buy them from the janitor, and the water-tight anti-fraud (oh so yeah, no loophole but fraud) mechanic was a janitors stamp at the back of each card.
I was one of those extra curricular kids who often stayed after school and was in almost every thinkable club possible. I just happened to like those things more than attending actual class. One of the perks of those things was that you often had to pick up a key for this or that at the janitors office. Most of the time he was there, but often he wasn't.
One day I picked up a key in an empty office and saw a piece of paper with 8 x 20-box soup cart-cards on it. Ready to be copied and cut. I took my chance and quickly placed it under the copier and put the copy in my back pocket. On my way home I bought coloured paper (that's where the original cards were printed on), went to the local copy shop and made 20 copies. I now had a potential 20x8=160 cards worth 5 guilders each. That's 800 guilders and I was only 13. The only thing left was to stamp the cards and cut them into smaller cards.
Next week I took a couple of sheets with me, talked myself into picking up a key, found the stamp and, sweating from fear, stamped the backside of the sheets. At home I took a scissor and super precisely cut the sheets into cards. The next day to school I took 1 card with me, bought 4 sausage rolls for me and a couple of friends and they took it! I was a rich man!
Next week I stamped the remainder of the cards. I kept a bunch, sold most of them for half the price and gave the rest of 'em away to friends. I can't remember if I ever made another batch, I don't think so because I was too afraid of going through it again but it was a huge thrill!
TL;DR I minted my own food-coupons at high school.
SpannerInThe · 5 points · Posted at 02:18:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
uber eats where given out free delivery up to £25. Plus £10 if someone used your promo code. If you got a £1 sim(or already had one). you could send the referrals to each phone giving you £10 off each meal unlimted times. plus the original £25 promo code. so buy food from one place, dessert from another. this went on for about 2/3 weeks
politicalteenager · 8 points · Posted at 02:40:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haven't actually done this, wonder if it would work. In MTG, you can trade in 1 card in each set online for 1 card in paper. The thing is online prices are cheaper. By quite a significant margin. You could do this, sell the set you got, buy another one, rinse and repeat and get more money/cards every time. Not sure if I'm missing something though.
Whitsitt23 · 3 points · Posted at 05:58:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've thought the same things! Turns out Wizards of the Coast has a $25.00 redemption fee and you pay for shipping. In all sets but one this results in breaking even (if you're able to sell all the commons and uncommons for value). The one set that actually results in you making money is fate reforged! Ugin is a badass and makes up for it with the other rares.
Dothackver2 · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
i ahve a quite a few friends in the MTG community let me hit them up for you and see what they say, as they are Judges and they like for tournaments so they know the rules inside and out
barefeetinwetshoes · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I haven't run the math but i'm pretty confident you'd be losing money. I hope to be corrected by someone who had MTGO buy their house or whatever, but commence speculation:
Sure, the market on MTGO is pretty frictionless and large enough that you can get the set together reasonably easily, but the issues arise from selling paper cards, which will most likely be to physcial shops. There generally aren't more than a dozen or two cards in a set that shops will pay money to purchase specifically, rather than in lots of bulk commons and bulk uncommons.
You'd need to MTGO to be cheaper than paper by a wide enough margin to be able to eat the cost of ~200 odd specific commons, uncommons, and junk rares, as well as the margins that the LGS makes between buying and selling cards.
Ultimately, though, the main reason I'm skeptical about this being viable is the pretty-well-classical market that is MTG coupled with the kind of motivated, pedantic nerd so common in the hobby. With so responsive a market I would expect that if there were money to be made, someone would already be making it and in doing so narrowing the margins to be made.
melesana · 7 points · Posted at 04:04:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Robocalls hang up after 4 rings or 20 seconds of silence. Actually, so do many live script-callers. They rarely require any interaction.
Mike2830 · 43 points · Posted at 01:08:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cool story. The rapper Akon realized that if you had the keys to a stolen car it was considered joy riding. He then paid valets to give him the keys to expensive cars and steal them. He cleaned the money he made through a music studio. Everyone recorded there for free. When he got locked up, he wrote a bunch of music. Then when he was released, he called everyone he recorded for free and asked they do songs with him. This is how he blew up.
buell500 · 11 points · Posted at 04:00:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
He also bought a diamond mine in Africa like 10 years ago.
Sinkthecone · 4 points · Posted at 02:45:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is this true?
Mike2830 · 3 points · Posted at 02:46:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure it is. He talked about it in an XM radio interview.
Sinkthecone · 4 points · Posted at 03:02:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's some boss level shit if so. I need to do some research on it haha. Thanks!
Mike2830 · 1 points · Posted at 03:17:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's my favorite come up story ever.
GaimanitePkat · 2 points · Posted at 02:18:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is this why "Blame" was released?
xanthus29 · 12 points · Posted at 02:49:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Way back when, the local Toys R Us had sealed booster boxes of Magic cards. Just for fun, I had the cashier scan the box. Price of a single pack. They got cleaned out right then and there. 6 boxes.
Pmead47 · 11 points · Posted at 04:44:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In high school people started telling me I sounded like my dad. I began calling the attendance lady as my dad and saying that I was sick. I didn't go to class much my senior year.
SuperSmash007 · 1 points · Posted at 06:26:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Isn't impersonation illegal?
knockoutn336 · 12 points · Posted at 05:05:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My Physics II class had weekly online homework. Anything not handed in on time was docked 10% per day. The teacher posted the solutions the day after homework day every week. Guess who had a 90% homework average
ImmaNutInYaButt · 26 points · Posted at 02:55:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So this might be frowned upon but who cares. I bought a laptop at the Exchange and bought the insurance on it. Now since I am not currently in the States they do not require items to be shipped back so about 3 months later I called the insurance company, told them it crashed, and a week later I had a check for the full amount. I feel bad but hell already had a spot for me long ago.
crankery · 22 points · Posted at 05:01:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's just good old fashioned insurance fraud.
Renouille · 9 points · Posted at 03:40:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Seems like a very blatantly abusable loophole...
bananahead · 1 points · Posted at 13:10:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well, I mean, it's probably felony insurance fraud.
DrLeftCrRight · 32 points · Posted at 02:06:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ask for a McDouble with Big Mac sauce instead of a Big Mac.
trilliam_clinton · 1 points · Posted at 04:19:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
they have that on the menu now.
Element_Scrolls_v · -1 points · Posted at 06:29:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
nope
trilliam_clinton · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
its called the Mac Jr.
Element_Scrolls_v · 2 points · Posted at 05:22:48 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
A mac JR is still more expensive than a McDouble With mac sauce. a Mac JR is made with a single 6:1 patty.
Source: am work at McDoanld's
BurntToaster9 · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've always done this haha
LikeAFoxyCat · 1 points · Posted at 06:38:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I tried this today, they said it costs 1.20$...
thebangzats · 31 points · Posted at 03:53:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is when I was a dumb religious teen and it can be considered a loophole. I was taught that it's a sin to merely have impure thoughts about girls, so I watched hentai. The girls don't really exist.
SmurfyX · 2 points · Posted at 07:29:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
lol this is the same reason that dude invented bubbling images.
tybo171 · 17 points · Posted at 04:23:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lil caesars has hot 'n ready pizza right? So they have to make pizzas all the time to make sure there's ones for when people come in. So sometimes pizzas sit and get old so they don't get sold cuz who wants a pizza that was in the warmer for a half hour when a fresh one just came out? So when the one by my college apartment closes at night we hit them up for leftover pizza. Sometimes it's a little old from being in the warmer but hey it's free and what else can you ask for in college? Friends went the night of the super bowl and got 31 free pizzas. Check your local lil caesars and they might give you some free pizza!
Lovehat · 3 points · Posted at 05:52:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pizza is well known for being just as good, if not better later.
rowenstraker · 0 points · Posted at 07:54:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is that the step I've been missing all these years that makes Lil Caesar's palatable? Fuck....
Lovehat · 1 points · Posted at 07:59:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I dunno, I've never tried it.
pogmathoin · 12 points · Posted at 04:33:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Traveler's Checks: Several decades ago I was travelling overseas and needed to show some countries proof of financial support. Before leaving I purchased a sum of travelers checks from the bank, ensuring I carried out cordial small talk with the teller so they would remember be. A short while after leaving the bank I'd return to the same teller telling them I had forgotten to take my checks with me. "No sir, you took them with you". Oh crap, I've been pickpocketed (or whatever), what do I do? Present the receipts and get replacement checks. Now with two sets I'd mark the first (cancelled) set so I would never accidentally spend them - they were always available to present to immigration etc to prove my financial soundness. End of the trip: Burned them.
ShadowWard · 12 points · Posted at 04:38:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I moved in to a new place. We never set up an electricity account. For 3 months they sent letters saying they would disconnect our power. One day they stopped the letters. It's been 5 more months and we still have power.
My mate who works for the power company says they are lazy as fuck it'll probably take a year to get done if ever.
Surffff · 34 points · Posted at 04:30:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Asked for a small share of money on kickstarter to buy ingredients for Potato salad. Made over 70k.
SuperSmash007 · 5 points · Posted at 05:55:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
THAT WAS YOU?????
Torvaun · 4 points · Posted at 06:52:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, that was /u/ztbrown. He did an AMA. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2ifzmd/i_am_potato_salad_guy_zack_danger_brown_ama/
ztbrown · 2 points · Posted at 02:11:51 on March 3, 2017 · (Permalink)
hi!
Torvaun · 1 points · Posted at 02:13:40 on March 3, 2017 · (Permalink)
You were already internet famous, but now you have impersonators. Go you!
SuperSmash007 · 1 points · Posted at 07:03:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
oh
ianator22 · 2 points · Posted at 06:20:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm gonna call bull shit on that. No way you're the patio salad guy.
Surffff · 5 points · Posted at 06:25:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You are right. It was potato salad.
ianator22 · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
All jokes aside, PROVE IT!!!
ianator22 · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
All jokes aside, PROVE IT!!!
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 06:34:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pics plz OP
JAH1205 · 6 points · Posted at 01:57:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Matched betting
Completely legal way of making money from the bookies with no risk if done correctly. Easily made £1k off it in the last year or so
At_own_pace · 1 points · Posted at 03:02:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
can you elanorate please?
JAH1205 · 7 points · Posted at 03:19:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's essentially using the free bet offers from bookies to make guaranteed profit.
Initially placing a bet in order to get a free one, then using betting against it (laying) using the betfair exchange to reduce the money lost, then using the same technique but using the free bet rather than your money to guarantee profit which makes up for you initial bet
Probably haven't explained it well but it's completely legal and as long as you're willing to put some time into it it's guaranteed money. Here's the link for the basics, it's a bit long but a good read which makes it a lot more simple
http://www.savethestudent.org/make-money/what-is-matched-betting.html
-stuey- · 2 points · Posted at 04:38:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
sounds like sports arbitrage
DrCoxIsHouse · 7 points · Posted at 02:54:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in freshman year of high school, we had a vending machine that I would always go to. I would by a crunch bar, but it would always get stuck in there. The machine would then drop another one to release the original. I would sell the second one for a dollar, while keeping the first one. Candy only cost 75 cents, but yet, it would sell.
Womper1 · 5 points · Posted at 03:30:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in high school all of our vending machines had this amazing glitch where if you put in a 0.50 coin (they weren't in circulation in Canada however was still legal currency) and pressed the return button 4 quarters would come out.
I remember going to the bank at lunch and getting $200 worth of these coins telling them I was a magician and needed them for a trick.
Emptied out all those machines and made a $200 profit.
The next week the machines were changed out. :(
25pnavarro · 6 points · Posted at 03:38:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Local athletic club coupon card. Unlimited use for 2 quarter pounder combo for $6.59. Up to a year. Card cost $10, plus there are other stores too.
wecado · 6 points · Posted at 04:18:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The grace period at work. Mine is 7 minutes.
CaCoTnOr · 6 points · Posted at 04:18:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Got a free gym membership through my health insurance. Had to switch to a different insurance company/plan but my membership is still good. I hope it takes them a few more months to figure it out!
Salvidrim · 6 points · Posted at 04:35:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My local fast food joint used to be cheaper when ordering two orders of 10 fried chicken pieces than ordering 20. I did that for like two years until they augmented their prices across the board.
willygmcd · 6 points · Posted at 04:42:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Years ago you could get a rodeo cheeseburger for 1 dollar at burger King. The cheese burger was like 1,50 or something, so you order a rodeo with no onion rings or bbq sauce and you get your cheeseburger!
AM_key_bumps · 5 points · Posted at 05:09:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Late to the party but here goes:
Poor college student spending the summer at the beach. Grocery store near me has self-serve, walk in beer fridge. Randomly grab a 12 pack of 24 ounce Bud cans that I throw in my cart with some groceries. Total seems light. Check the receipt when I get home. Beer rang up as $1.99.
My assumption is they were supposed to be sold as singles and the upc code on the box was the same as on the individual can.
Cheap beer for an entire summer.
Demented3 · 6 points · Posted at 05:13:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I still have unlimited data from Verizon. Haven't changed my contract since 2008. Only down side is that I have to pay for my phone outright. I figure since I use about 15-20g/month, it's still financially smart to do so.
boogsley · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Woo hoo, me too! I had alltel before Verizon bought them out, and stuck with my old contract. I use anywhere from 25-30gigs a month, heh
Demented3 · 2 points · Posted at 05:24:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah it's fairly smart to keep paying full price for phones haha
MrSithSquirrel · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
meanwhile in NZ, $-.25 NZD per 25MB
you lucky SoB
PizzaHockeyGolf · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I just transfer my free upgrade to a family member that doesn't have unlimited. They get the phone I want. Then we just ask the guy at Verizon to switch the numbers. The last two times they were more than willing to just put my number in right away. Instead of the assigning the correct number then deactivating the phone and assigning my number.
Demented3 · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ooo I like that idea
BobbyBee08 · 5 points · Posted at 05:29:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can currently download the app "ACC 3-Point Challenge" and it comes with a code for a free small cheese pizza from Mellow Mushroom but the catch is that every time you delete the app and then re download it, you get a different code and therefore unlimited free pizza until it expires on 4/15.
munichek · 7 points · Posted at 05:41:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When you send a postcard in Europe, just write "2FaBe" where the stamp usually goes. This will send you postcard for free. I don't know why but this worked for me maybe 100 times.
Danyerue · 2 points · Posted at 11:40:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How did you even figure that out?
workthebait · 7 points · Posted at 05:57:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
XM sirius radio.
Buy a radio
activate it
turn it off
place in box
call and deactivate. They will tell you to turn it on for this bit, just lie and say "yeah it is on". They will then tell you they "see" the radio and will send the disconnect code. This is a lie, the system is not capable of such detection.
remove said radio from box 6 months later, deactivation code is no longer in the satellite queue
free XM sirius radio forever
shit is pimp
I moved to Guam a long time ago when I was in the Navy. I called XM radio to ask if it would work there. The rep told me yes everything would work fine. I arrive in Guam, receive my household goods and the XM radio did not work. I asked for a refund for the three months I had no service and they told me to pretty much piss off. I put the radio in a box and when I moved back to the mainland years later I turned it on and was going to reactivate it. Didn't need to though because it was still working fine and now I had more channels than ever. Turns out the satellites they use don't have enough bandwidth to constantly broadcast disconnect signals, they send out signal when you don't pay the bill ect, and the radio goes into showcase mode. So, don't turn on your radio for 5 or 6 months it will never receive the command to deactivate itself. Now that old radio of mine is my free for life garage XM/sirius radio. They shouldn't have lied to me, otherwise I would have reactivated it the normal way, they can suck a fart for lying to me. You can do this too, it just takes a while for the deactivate code to cycle out of the system.
Amiable_Pirate · 5 points · Posted at 07:01:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Growing up, my parents password protected our computer. The sibs and I discovered that if we asked our mom what the password was when she was asleep, she would tell us and not remember doing so the next day. She would make us sit in the garage when she changed the password, convinced we had some elaborate system of mirrors and other trickery. Poor thing never figured out that we were just asking her for it.
ProfessorGigs · 51 points · Posted at 00:37:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My college's bikeshare program allows users to rent bikes for up to 8 hours.
I usually slept 6-7 hours so I rented one out like at 2-3 am and rode it back for my morning classes.
Free transportation!
thetruthful · 32 points · Posted at 01:18:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't see how it's free. Sorry.
ProfessorGigs · 13 points · Posted at 01:48:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The students didn't have to pay for it.
Davor_Penguin · 13 points · Posted at 04:02:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Then I don't see how it is a loophole?
bemybaegel · 1 points · Posted at 04:18:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's more of a hack
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 03:40:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
so is it like you have to pay only if you take bike outside the college for more than 8 hrs?
ProfessorGigs · 4 points · Posted at 03:53:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah, it's totally free. But if you pass the 8-hour rule, then you can't use the bikeshare for like a week or something.
PeerlessAnaconda · 2 points · Posted at 05:27:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How is this a loophole? They were offering free transport and you took it. You can use it within those 8 hours however you'd like, so you slept.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:40:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pay once, ride twice. One free ride
thetruthful · 1 points · Posted at 06:05:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's a weird way of thinking of an 8 hour bike rental.
Red_it_dawg · 4 points · Posted at 03:59:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So you walked to college to get the bike in the morning, only to have to wake up a few hours later to ride it? Why not just make that walk to school before classes....
Owning_all15 · 1 points · Posted at 08:17:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They would probably all be taken in the morning. Or that's what I got out of it
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 03:08:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Having a heart transplant. Seriously, although it sucks and your life is never the same, you can get out of virtually anything you want to.
furedad · 3 points · Posted at 06:32:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm interested in learning more.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:40:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
From kids birthday parties to functions you'd rather not attend, having had a heart transplant gives you a get out of jail free card to skip these. It's true that I shouldn't be around large crowds because of germs and often I have bad days and feel like crap. So, if I'd rather not attend some boring or awkward situation, I can play my card.
zachalackinnnnnnnn · 23 points · Posted at 01:25:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My senior year in high school I was taking AP environmental science and one of the projects was to build a solar oven. The goal was to boil a small dish of water inside the oven which was made out of cardboard and aluminum foil so it would have been hard to do correctly. That's when my teacher told us if we managed to set our ovens on fire with the raw power of the sun we would get an A. So being the great student I was found a big ass magnifying glass one of the other kids had brought in then proceeded to burn the living hell out of my oven. That was the only A I got in his class that year.
Also in my senior year I went to school every other day, that was my schedule I had ab classes so every weekend I got a three day weekend. I managed it because I had essentially fulfilled my classes I needed to graduate I didn't need to take any more. It was awesome and my friends tried to jump on bored but the guidance office caught on and the principal shut it down after that.
PM_ME_UR_4E55444553 · 3 points · Posted at 01:25:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Relevent XKCD
fuckititsralley · 9 points · Posted at 02:54:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in the iPod days I bought 1st gen 1/2gb iPod shuffle at Best Buy and got a 2year warranty on it for like $10. 1year and 10 months later I broke the headphone jack. Went in to replace it with my warranty. But they didn't have to 1st gen in stock anymore so they replaced it with the 1gb 2nd new version. $10 for the warranty on the new one. 1year 11months later. Time to upgrade I broke the headphone jack.(on purpose this time.) got the 3rd gen. I did this loophole and have the newest shuffle. Which I don't use cause I have Spotify and a smart phone.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 03:25:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mcdonalds free coffee. Order 3 smalls at a time and collect all the stickers
manswerpants · 10 points · Posted at 03:32:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At my local car wash, in the manual wash stalls, when you turn the nob to the soapy brush it adds thirty seconds. If you switch to the brush and back to spray wand several times really fast it adds thirty seconds for every time you switched to the brush. I've spent a lot of time in the car wash getting my vehicles sparkly clean for the $2.50 it takes to turn the machine on.
mechtaphloba · 11 points · Posted at 04:38:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A few years ago at Bed Bath and Beyond they had an offer to get a $50 gift card free with the purchase of a Dyson vacuum. The process for whatever reason included the gift card getting rung up separately, so it didn't appear on the same receipt as the Dyson. Return Dyson, keep the gift card. Rinse and repeat.
They've changed the process now to include the gift card on the receipt. If you return the Dyson, you can return the gift card too and get all your money back, or keep the gift card and they reduce the return amount to match.
I made about $600 before they closed that loophole.
SpartanDoubleZero · 9 points · Posted at 05:28:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was ordering pizza online a few years ago, i was visiting my parents and my mom is a coupon hoarder, so she whips out a coupon for 15% off your entire order with a purchase of a 2 liter. So i punch in the coupon, hit apply, nothing happened, then i hit it again, and nothing and after 4 or 5 attempts it rang up 2 pizzas and a 2 liter to be almost $7. So i added a few more pizzas to the cart, put in the coupon a few more times and next thing you know im in the car going to get 12 signature pizzas and a 2 liter for $17. I walk in, pay cash and the look on the cashiers face was just confused and so i made up a story about how my mom works with the owners wife and my dad and him are good friends and they happened to be in town and i walked out no further questions.
It was not a small mom and pop shop i did this to, it was a large chain in the mid west and frankly charging $23 for a 14" specialty pizza is redamndiculous.
Marimorx · 6 points · Posted at 03:03:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to live in a college dorm that used refillable Mac-Grey laundry cards. You would insert the card into a machine, put your cash in, and then it would put the money on the card. One day I went to put $10 on the card and the machine put $150 on instead, and a little message popped up on the screen saying "Congratations". I have no idea what happened.
Qender · 5 points · Posted at 03:15:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the 90s sprite had a promotion where you could get a message under the cap would give you another sprite for free.
I bought one bottle of sprite. I got about 20 free ones in a row. I'm pretty sure I came out ahead there.
ttoilleynnek · 4 points · Posted at 03:56:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Free amazon prime. The free trial is only linked to your email and not your credit/debit card so just use up the free trial then just keep creating throw away email accounts and then throw away amazon accounts. This is only really beneficial for the 2 day shipping aspect and not the other prime benefits such as music and movies.
OverpricedSliceOfHam · 5 points · Posted at 03:59:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This might still work, a friend of mine gave me a life proof case and it broke so I used the code inside to get a new one through lifetime warranty. One day I went online and tried to use the old code to get a new case in a different color, and it worked. Then I tried getting multiple cases at once (three was the limit) and that worked as well. Finally I tried getting LifeProof accessories and cases for phones I didn't even have and that worked as well... all using the initial code inside the first case. All I had to do was pay $5 shipping and I received almost $300 worth of phone cases each time, I think I ordered about 30 cases and then eventually had too big of a pile in my room so I stopped
Alistair-Septim · 4 points · Posted at 04:37:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was 7, my mom and I were walking around downtown. I had saved up $4 for an ice cream cone at the local parlor. Mom waited outside the parlor because she found a table (it was really busy that day). It was around noon and she had to take her medication, so she told me to get her a cup of water from inside.
Well, when I ordered my cone I asked "Can I also have a cup of water so my mom can take her medicine?" The lady at the counter must have felt pity on me and didn't charge me anything for the cone. The next week we walked by the same parlor, but I didn't have any money. It was around noon again so I ran inside to 'get mom some water for her medicine'. I got free ice cream again.
I only did this twice, but god damn, that was the best ice cream I ever had.
Le_Arsonist · 6 points · Posted at 04:48:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in college, I was living on a very limited budget but i really wanted a PS3 to play a newly released video game. I also had 3 Future Shop stores (aka Best Buy) around me and took advantage of their 30-day return policy. So in 3 months, I bought and returned 3 different PS3 systems just to play KZ2 multiplayer.
I eventually did buy a PS3 a couple months later when Uncharted 2 got released. I also did do this with a Wii console but got rid of it within a week because i didnt like it.
broham89 · 5 points · Posted at 04:56:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Brunswick bowling did this thing where if you signed up on their website with your email, they would send you an hour free bowling coupon to your email.
I made like 60 fake yahoo accounts and my friend and I bowled many free hours during the year of 2007.
vvsj · 5 points · Posted at 05:12:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Older vending machines were easy to trick. In high school, you could put a 5 dollar bill into the machine and yank it out just before it got completely pulled in. If you did it right, you'd have your five dollars but the machine would set the flag for 5 dollars of credit. Free money. I did this several times. Eventually, you had to put long clear tape on the bill. This way, it could go all the way in the machine and you could pull it out from inside using the tape. Same deal. This trick does not work on newer vending machines, as far as I know...
altiuscitiusfortius · 4 points · Posted at 05:14:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
AOL free dial up internet in the late90s early 2000's.
My parents gave me my own land line in the basement for me and my sister to share. A teen phone. Pretty common back then, it was even in the phonebook as that. "Main line xxx-xxx-xxxx teen line xxx-xxx-xxxx"
Anyways, I wanted the internet for my computer to play diablo 2. I started up on a free AOL account, got 3 months free, then called to cancel when it was up and said "I'm just not sure if this is the right provider for me". So they offered another free 3 month trial.
I had free internet for 4 years doing that, till I went away to university.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 05:15:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the game, "inFamous," you play as a guy with the power to shoot and absorb electricity. You had a basic attack that was weak, but didn't cost any energy. Then there were special attacks and abilities that cost you energy. If you ran out of energy, then you had to leach it off of electrical equipment or people, if I remember correctly.
The loophole is that your basic attack, which is free, can charge up any metal object. So, if I needed some more energy for my abilities I would start shooting a trashcan with my basic attack, get it charged up as much as possible, then leach off of the energy I which I just created.
SchruteRampaged · 4 points · Posted at 05:39:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When Makerbot was selling their Cupcake 3D printers as kits, their price for an unassembled kit was $1100. Then they started offering a fully assembled and fine tuned version for $2400. I ended up buying a total of 16 kits, assembled/fine tuned them and resold them on ebay for about $2000. Being the middle man, I made some heafty profits and paid for my first car while I was in college.
JohnnyZepp · 12 points · Posted at 04:37:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Use Netflix for that special $7-$8 first month or so trial. Switch to Hulu for the same promotion when Netflix's promotion ends. After about 2-3 months, I switch back to Netflix because hey miss me and they will offer me a cheap month or so. Hulu follows suit.
I've been doing this for about 2 years now.
altalata · 2 points · Posted at 07:12:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Firestick + kodi
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They do this? I have never seen someone talk about this.
JohnnyZepp · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not sure anymore as I haven't watched anything on either in like 2 months, but yeah. After some time the competitor company sends me an email saying something like "come back to us and see what you're missing!" And I'll get at least a discount.
Easier and cheaper than having both accounts at once
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'll ask the misses if she sees these emails.
BiBiClosetHelloWorld · 59 points · Posted at 22:07:33 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can have sex with animals as long as they are already dead. I promise, it's perfectly legal.
Prof_Lava-Hot · 28 points · Posted at 00:24:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Panda exhibit, here I come.
Unusualmann · 8 points · Posted at 01:19:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
r/jesuschristreddit
subvrsve · 2 points · Posted at 03:42:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You beat me to it. Jesus fuck haha
dendawg · 1 points · Posted at 05:30:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
FTFY
[deleted] · 28 points · Posted at 03:30:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
oh, so that's why everyone had their dicks out for Harambre..
5MonkeyPunches · 9 points · Posted at 22:12:15 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ugh geez
fattybunter · 4 points · Posted at 03:36:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh geez Rick
Scrappy_Larue · 1 points · Posted at 01:20:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So I can just scoop up road kill and make love to it in the car? Sweet.
NerdRising · 1 points · Posted at 02:38:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In a similar vein; necrophilia is not illegal in the US. Desecration of a corpse is however. Cannibalism also would not be illegal if someone consented to it, as there is no laws banning it.
HolaAvogadro · 11 points · Posted at 04:22:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Amazon primes free trial. I have so many fake email accounts
darkstarohio · 1 points · Posted at 07:16:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to work for an institution that had a .edu domain. I also happened to work in IT, and had the ability to spawn email accounts. I had so many fake student accounts, that I've not yet paid for Amazon Prime because of the student promotion.
Hydro134 · 1 points · Posted at 08:03:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The worst part is when your main email won't let you verify more new emails and you have to start using one of your throw always to verify even more. Like acid trip into a mirror I say.
ryananderson · 8 points · Posted at 04:42:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In university, we heard a legend that you could use coffee stir sticks to trick the laundry machines into thinking you had put coins in them. One guy on our floor figured it out and taught the rest of us - I never paid for laundry again, even when I moved to a nice building off campus.
qwertywiz3 · 24 points · Posted at 03:02:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Picky women that are out of your league will marry you if you can make them their dream bathroom.
MannyPlimkin · 18 points · Posted at 04:37:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got a job with a city government right out of high school, worked for them for 30 year, and retired at 48 with a nice life-long pension that includes guaranteed yearly cost of living increases.
iIIest · 8 points · Posted at 04:47:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My fraternity learned of a new app called OPER in St. Louis, it had a promo where you sign up, and automatically get a certain amount of credit to buy a free meal. It had another code where if your friend signs up and buys something, both of you get 10$. Not only did we figure this out, but there was a glitch in the app to where you could change the email in your account and be able to reap the 10$ credit from that same friend. Rinse and repeat with 80 guys and that accounted to $1,000's of dollars of free food. The CEO even called us up and told us to stop, but legally they could not do anything against us. With the new app update, all of it was fixed but we ate like kings for weeks.
LAT3LY · 4 points · Posted at 02:37:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At Academy (the sporting store) they have this nice policy where if you don't like the shoes you've purchased, you have up until like 60 days or so to return them for a full refund, regardless of the quality.
I've had a brand new pair of shoes each month for about 6 months now. Do I feel bad? Nah
IamLeven · 4 points · Posted at 03:00:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was part of a marketing club in college and we tried to help a local pizza place market their business. They gave us hundreds of coupons for free medium pizzas, chicken tenders and other things. I ended up keeping about 40 coupons I couldn't give away. It lead to a lot of free stuff for friends.
shivboy89 · 3 points · Posted at 03:44:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you go to a fast food place that has a receipt for an online survey that once completed will allow you some free food your next visit, you can just write in random numbers and letters and the cashier won't know or care. There you go with your extra chicken leg and biscuit at Church's chicken! :)
Varshan12345 · 5 points · Posted at 03:49:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not my loophole but my friend's. In Toronto Nestea had this promotion going on where if you bought a pack of Nestea you could get a coupon for a free pack. The thing is that the free pack also had the same coupon in it. So naturally he loaded up on Nestea. Shit lasted him two months
Edit: The promotion was at Food Basics
Starshaft · 4 points · Posted at 04:12:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The poophole loophole. If you want to have sex but retain your virginity, you are still free to explore your partner's cavernous anus. The poophole loophole.
DrummingChopsticks · 4 points · Posted at 04:14:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I got into grad school my boyfriend sent me a flowers.com (or similar) arrangement that came with champagne. The flowers were wilted the first time so I emailed to complain. They sent over a replacement with even worse off roses that looked like they were sitting next to a heater for the last five hours. I called customer service and got sent another free replacement order. Boyfriend called that one in as ugly and wilted, too, and we finally got a beautiful arrangement redelivered.
In the end I had three bottles of champaign and 72 roses.
itswednesday · 4 points · Posted at 04:19:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Credit card churning.
schaudhery · 1 points · Posted at 21:01:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Churn baby churn
tretretre2016 · 4 points · Posted at 04:21:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Buying stuff on eBay and using the local pick up option. I found that several pawn shops in my area would sell stuff at a very low price with a very high shipping charge. Almost all of the people bidding would be out of state and have to factor in the shipping charge whereas I could outbid them by a decent amount and still come out ahead. It only lasted for a little while but I got some damn good deals in the meantime. Pissing off the pawn shop guys was an added bonus.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 04:22:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I live in a smaller town that has a pretty popular state college. Most of the locally run stores and restaurants have some sort of student discount because our population increases significantly while school is in session and they want to attract those students as customers. I graduated from school a few years ago but still look pretty young so I can get away with showing my student ID to get the discount.
I just did it yesterday when I went out for breakfast. Saved $3. Totally worth it!
abiroo · 4 points · Posted at 04:26:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
when i was about 9 i figured out the candy machines in my dad's office would accept quarter-shaped pieces of cardboard. spent an afternoon cutting and tracing cardboard and went to town each time i went to my dad's office after that.
SillyFlyGuy · 1 points · Posted at 04:01:47 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Your dad knew. He paid for the candy himself because it kept you quiet and was cheaper than a babysitter. ;)
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 04:34:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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SillyFlyGuy · 1 points · Posted at 04:04:24 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/firstworldanarchists
RingGiver · 4 points · Posted at 04:45:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Vending machine in my college's humanities building. Every third Mountain Dew gives double. At one point, a professor told me in class that if I've started juggling my unopened cans, that's probably a sign that I've had enough.
ShogunIeyasu · 4 points · Posted at 04:48:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One year when I was 13 or so I decided to be a broken change machine for Halloween. I spray-painted a box with silver paint, wrote on it with a sharpie marker, cut some holes, grabbed some quarters, and went to work. For every dollar I got folks to insert, I only returned 75 cents. I came home with a bunch of candy and a few dollars richer.
BattlefieldNinja · 5 points · Posted at 04:48:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
About a year ago, a vending machine at my high school got broken. I figured out that if I hit it in just the right way, coins would flood the coin return slot. Everyday after school I would come to get a few dollars. Keep in mind that 3 bucks a day is a lot for a high school without a car or job.
caligold1911 · 5 points · Posted at 04:53:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At my highschool there was a vending machine, and if you hit the vending machine hard enough in the right spot above the coin return it would drop quarters. Whenever I did this I was able to get $5—$10 worth of quarters each time. I did this every day for almost 2 months before they fixed it. A whole lot of weed and food was bought with that money. Good times.
lesvegetables · 4 points · Posted at 04:57:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Found out the test code for an automatic car wash. Free car washes every week for a year. Also, do Moes restaurant review on receipt, clear browser, do it again free burritos for days.
sams_club · 4 points · Posted at 04:57:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a smoothie place in my colleges food court that had punch cards for free smoothies. Buy ten get one free. They used star punches so I bought a star hole punch and got my smoothies free for a semester.
c1248tkd · 4 points · Posted at 04:59:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Scooping up as many scholarships as possible then collecting a pay out at the end of the year from my college
Onlyusemifeet · 3 points · Posted at 05:00:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a young teen, I visited my local Walmart to get those 85 cent two-liter soda frequently. Since they were relatively cheap, and I exercised often, I could afford to buy a lot of them.
One day however, they switched the shitty machines out with new, polished ones. The machines were the monotone creepy ones that has a voicebox.
I didn't think anything of it until a few months I noticed a trend. The last coin I put in wouldn't register properly, and would slide right through to the change deposit area. After some thinking, I wanted to test something out.
The next day I brought a dollar coin to the Walmart, and put it in the slot. Sure enough, it gave me my receipt, and the last coin I put in. Basically because of this system, I was getting two liter sodas once a week, for free. This went on for a whole summer, when eventually the Walmart realized it was losing money. They never found out that it was me, but they replaced the machines a week later
tl;dr: I cheated the Walmart machine into giving me my last coin pack, and got Two liter sodas for free.
take__it__sleazy · 4 points · Posted at 05:01:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was younger, my friends and I would always go to a bowling alley that was close by and play in their arcade. With this arcade, like most, if you did good in each game they would give you tickets. From these tickets you would go to the machine, insert the tickets, and it would count them automatically and give you a piece of paper with the ticket amount on it. You then would take this to an actual person at the counter where all the goods were. The catch was that the ticket counter was based on the holes punched between each pair of tickets. So in lieu of this newfound knowledge we went to a dollar store, bought a role of tickets and punched holes in them. We then went to the arcade and fed a full roll of tickets into the machine and took our unrealistic number of tickets to the counter where we purchased all the bouncy balls and a bunch of other items. Basically the toys that we got, which would have probably cost hundreds of dollars in arcade dollars, costed us a dollar and some time. Needless to say the next time we went back the machine was behind the counter and you had to give the person working your tickets for them to feed into the machine
Omega-Flying-Penguin · 5 points · Posted at 05:03:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Last year during the summer I was rebuilding my PC and I needed to get DDR4 ram. I wanted to get something like 32gb so it was never an issue. The cheapest place I found some was at Jet.com with each 8gb stick at a little more than 35 dollars each; note that I needed for. The going price for an 8gb stick of ram at the time was around 35ish dollars as well, however Jet had a signup deal where you could get $10 off your first 3 purchases. So I did 3 separate purchases of individual ram sticks each at around $25. Then I used a business/personal account to purchase the last ram stick. So, I was able to get 32gb of ddr4 ram for a few bucks more than $100, instead of $140ish. The going price of the same ram is around $115 for 2 sticks of ddr4 8gb for the same ram and speed.
Thanks Jet
TheOmnivious · 4 points · Posted at 05:04:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I found a promo from a food delivery service that offered $20 of credit whenever you referred someone, and they also got $20 of credit. If you used another promo code you could get $10 off, meaning that people would be able to get a free ~$20 meal.
I posted this on Facebook and various reddits, and I got around $1000 of free food in 2015.
threewanyay · 1 points · Posted at 07:30:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Does it still work? What service was it?
TheOmnivious · 1 points · Posted at 07:57:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Service was TryCaviar, but the promotion has been reduced to $10 referral. There's a promo code of $5 off an order of $25, code is TWITCAV. Below is my referral link, but they no longer operate in my city (Probably because I got $1000 of free meals out of them), so I just use the credit I get from referrals in RandomActsOfPizza.
https://www.trycaviar.com/r/qc1hwr?s=web
Search for the cheapest restaurants without delivery fees, cheapest being denoted by a single $, and try to get an order as close to $25 as possible, as that makes the deal "Better". The food is a bit pricier than getting it yourself, but you don't have to tip as its included in the price.
In the end, you should be able to get about $20 worth of food for about $10. Remember to put the code TWITCAV in at checkout by clicking the Promo Code box under your order, its easy to miss.
JMPopaleetus · 3 points · Posted at 05:06:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Current loophole that I'm exploiting at my new job where I don't have enough tenure to park in the senior employee and visitor's garage. I should be parking in the second garage a mile away and taking the shuttle into work.
If I pull up to the gate and swipe my badge, it won't open as expected. But if I take a visitor's ticket from the pay station, the gate opens up.
On my way out however, swiping my badge works and opens the exit gate. I should be paying $10 for my 8-hours of parking.
I figured this out when I was late for work one day and planned on paying to park on-campus.
Mrthrowaway1993 · 4 points · Posted at 05:07:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not sure if I should post this since it probably works but I received free Amazon prime shipping. You can buy your items, one of the options is to get prime if you don't have it while checking out. Get it and once your order is through just cancel prime immediately for a refund. Voila free shipping. A bit of work but if you're broke and need something badly I guess there's that.
kitch2495 · 4 points · Posted at 05:12:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A year ago or so, McDonald's had a thing where if you downloaded their app, you'd get a free premium sandwich (like Big Mac or something). You'd have to just use an email and password and it would immediately show the QR code for your free sandwich.
And then I discovered a temporary email generator site. It was here that my loophole exploiting came to my knowledge. I'd just create a new account every time I wanted a sandwich. They had the deal for a few months, and I was on the road a lot. Probably got thousands in McDonald's. Haven't eaten there since.
The food got gross enough eating it all the time for free that paying for it seemed outrageous.
jonnie5isalive · 5 points · Posted at 05:13:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was an arcade I used to go to a lot with my friends inside this mall. They used a card system where you would load credits on it to play their games. You would insert the card in the arcade game you wanted to play and it showed you the credits you had on the card and needed to press start game to begin playing. Anyway, I noticed the credits would show right away once you inserted the card so I thought what if I attached a piece of tape at the end of the card and pull it out once the credits showed on the game. Turns out I was right and would just need to load $2 to play any game in that arcade to my hearts content. I kept this exploit to myself for a while before sharing it because I knew the staff would notice it once they see a bunch of kids staying in the arcade all day and barely going to the cash machine to load their cards for game credits. Within a few days of sharing my secret one kid got caught and then another one. They ended up changing their arcade games to accept tokens instead. Had fun while it lasted though.
Tldr: Attached a piece of tape at the end of a card with game credits to play unlimited games in an arcade. Fun times.
king_mahalo · 5 points · Posted at 05:14:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
visit your local casino and see if they offer you match plays. Here's how they work.
Normally at a casino, you bet $5 on a hand of blackjack (or your game of choice). If you win, you are now net +$5, if you lose you're net -$5. With a match play, you win double your typical amount when you win a hand. So +$10 for a win, -$5 for a loss.
You win just under 50% of the hands you play at any table game if you play it right, and it only takes a 33.3% success rate to break even. If you win over 33% of hands with matchplays, you will profit.
My local casino used to offer a daily $20 match play. I went to the casino every day for MONTHS, played one hand, and left. I was making $250-400/month. Every time you go, you will, on average, win just under $10.
I no longer live in the area, but if I did I would still be going to that casino on the daily. I would think of it as a part time job that I work at for 15 min everyday.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:23:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some of the casinos in my area changed the match play rules to prevent this. One place made you make a bet equal to the match play amount first, using no match play and at least a couple of others changed the rule to 1 match play per day per customer.
king_mahalo · 2 points · Posted at 05:31:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
well that first condition is a drag, but I don't understand what the problem is with the second one, 1 match play per customer per day. That's what we've always had.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I probably misread your post. I thought you were saying to use match plays until you get ahead then leave the casino.
One of the casinos here used to give the player a match play every time you got a blackjack. You could come back later and use them all, but they eventually changed the policy to one per day. Another place advertised in the local paper (and had a cut out match play) and people were collecting them and coming in with a handful and they changed their policy also.
Now I don't even get match plays but instead free table play chips. Even better because you don't have to put any money with it but you have to play to get them.
stone401 · 4 points · Posted at 05:14:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not me but me brother. Pepsi used to have a way you could get your next soda for free. You win by getting the special cap only visible from the bottom . My brother would put the soda up to the light at just the right angle and could tell whether it was a winning bottle. He said sometimes he would walk up to the cashier take the cap off the unpaid for soda give it to them and walk away. He got free soda for years off that.
AnxiousOcelot · 4 points · Posted at 05:15:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a sophomore in high school, we had this arbitrary computer class that tried to teach us Powerpoint formatting, typing, and basic HTML (which we all sorta know from MySpace). Near the end of the year, our bitchy teacher started a competition for extra credit in a class I was already terribly failing. She had this website for measuring typing speed and said that whoever could get the highest speed and accuracy per day would score points.
I type like shit. To this day, I still use only my index fingers. It's taken me 5 mins to get this far... It would take me about 30 mins at that age to type the paragraphs that the website offered. Until I found a "Finish" button at the top of the window. So I abused the holy hell out of it.
I found the paragraph with the easiest first word, which was "The". I would start that module, type one word, and hit "Finish". I registered at ~70 words per minute with 100% accuracy. I proceeded to do this every day for the rest of the semester and it saved my grade. Eat that, Ms. Sajid!
justWonderingzz · 4 points · Posted at 05:15:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
On one of those online learning sites, I figured out that it didn't matter if you got the questions right or not. All you had to do was open the console (F12, then escape) and type
my_score=x, where x was the number of questions on the page, then submit. Made that class so much easiernoodlesdefyyou · 5 points · Posted at 05:16:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
one of my past jobs was delivering pizza in a rather rural area. they way their delivery system worked in-store was you checked out each order as a 'run', but you were only paid 'per-run', not per order/delivery. so this ended up with some really shitty runs taking me 20-30 miles as i would have to drive all over town to make 3 stops. after about 4 days i questioned the boss why i wasnt being paid per delivery when my stops would sometimes be 10 minutes apart, and that drivers were not being fairly paid for mileage driven (it wasnt my first rodeo as a delivery driver). they just said 'thats just how our system is, we cant fix it'. ok cool. from that day forward i just checked out each delivery as an individual run, but there was one minor, overlooked flaw in my plan which exposed me over time. all my run times sucked. food would look like it was being delivered 2 hours late sometimes, yet no complaints were ever made for 'late food'.
im not sure if they ever fixed it, but i exploited the shit out of that system to get my fair pay.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:17:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My ex boyfriend found out that a nickel was counted as a dime in a vending machine at the mall. I spent hours sitting while he brought a bag of nickels and exchanged them for dimes until the machine ran out. He would then buy me a soda and a pizza with all dimes. Eventually someone caught on and he was banned from the mall.
SillyFlyGuy · 1 points · Posted at 04:21:49 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
I imagine you being completely smitten with this boy, him asking for a ride to the mall, you agreeing, then he says we have to stop at the bank first. You're really excited at this point, but get a little quizzical when he walks out with a bag of coins.
Then as he is plunking in nickel after nickel, you slowly start to realize that he might not be all that..
Mat145 · 5 points · Posted at 05:23:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was 19 I was working at a supermarket.
We were in the process of moving to a newly created store in the same building.
They needed someone to stand by the door at the building site for the new store and make sure all staff signed in and out of a log book and the Store Manager asked me to do it.
I did this from 8am to 5pm for 4 days to Monday to Thursday and that was meant to be my total work hours.
When Friday came around, the old store had people call in sick and I was asked to cover their shift. I knew if I did over 40 hours the store would have to pay me 2.5x my rate for Friday, 3x for Saturday and 3.5x for Sunday.
I did another 3 8 hour shifts Friday to Sunday. I did this for 2 weeks. When pay day came, I got paid over $5,000 for 2 week of work (this is in Australian dollars).
I got a formal warning out of it because apparently I should have told my manager I'd already done 40 hours of work, but really, it wasn't my fault. I just did my job, worked my ass off and bought a PlayStation 2 later that month.
G36_FTW · 3 points · Posted at 05:23:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dang, probably too late but...
In Calculus 1 we had a absolutely horrible website we used for homework. It would want things formatted a certain way, the teacher didn't allow hints, took forever, and you would only have a few chances before you got zero credit.
Thus, towards the end of the semester, I wasn't doing a lot of the homework. However, many students were complaining about the homework scores, and one day towards the end of the semester our professor said he would open all of our homework assignments that evening and leave them open for a few weeks so that we could get credit.
Well, clever me went home as quickly as possible, opened all of the assignments and wrote down the answers (answers were given after the assignment was due). I then waited until they were open again and proceeded to receive credit for a weeks worth of work for about a half hour of writing down answers.
RoyalCaller · 4 points · Posted at 05:23:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
On the mobile twitch app, you can skip ads in channels by clicking the settings icon and selecting the 'audio only' option. It'll skip the ad straight to the channel's audio and then you can unselect it on the screen and yay, ad- free twitch viewing!
Edit: Please don't nerf
Night-Changes · 4 points · Posted at 05:26:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When my sisters and I got into Webkinz as kids my mom decided to sell rare items on eBay. She literally would gather rare items in this online game and post them on eBay. She made enough money to take our whole family on vacation.
Webkinz sent her a cease and desist a few months after this started
StarWarsfan11 · 3 points · Posted at 05:27:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My dad told me that the year the Soviet Union boycotted the Olympics McDonald's ran a promotion where they had scratch tickets or something where you would scratch it and a sport would come up. If the US got a gold medal you would get a big mac, silver you would get fries and bronze a drink. The US was so dominant at that Olympics my dad and his friends had free meals at McDonald's for a month.
qazaqish · 5 points · Posted at 05:28:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Once went to a public vending machine with no money, so I decided to smash all the buttons because why not.
Next thing I know, I see some text appear on the box
"Enter Price: " (or something along these lines). Of course, I set it to $0.00, and I enjoyed myself a nice, free Nestea.
In hindsight, I probably should have grabbed more, or tried to back-track to hopefully figure out what the "magic combo" was, but sadly I did not, and it was fixed a couple of days later.
ConstantlyConfuzed · 5 points · Posted at 05:28:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in a small group communications class I took in college we were given a project where we had to present a product to the class to get investors (the investors being our classmates). The amount of money your group got in investments would determine your grade relative to the other groups, my group and I convinced the class to only invest a dollar for each product leaving everyone equal at the end. The teacher gave everyone an A but warned us not to pull something like that again.
splein23 · 3 points · Posted at 05:29:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
On one of those coin rolling machines at arcades. If you a certain marker multiple times quickly it would just glitch and empty out non-stop. I pissed off the maintenance employee quite a bit to the point that he shut off the machine. It was either the bowling one or the one with the old guy holding a handful of tickets.
real_nice_guy · 5 points · Posted at 05:31:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
downloading limewire pro from limewire free
papapapineau · 5 points · Posted at 05:32:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when I was little I found a porn site that would let me watch free videos even though I wasn't of legal age. Used it to the max till I became 18. Don't think they even ever found out :o
schaudhery · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Whois4chan.gif
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 05:37:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Student exchange, one of our coins worked in their cigarette vending machines so we could buy a pack for 1/6 of the original price. All of us have lung cancer now.
evacu8 · 4 points · Posted at 05:38:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm probably way too late for this, but here I go. In college, each student received a free ticket to a concert (we will call it School-Spirit Fest) that is specifically for students.
A few months before a show in 2015, a friend told me that he paid $160 per ticket to see Twenty-One Pilots. Well, guess who was playing at School-Spirit Fest that year? Twenty-One Pilots.
I would ask if classmates and some random students were going to make it to the show. If not, I would ask if they could get a ticket for my "brother". Twenty-One Pilots quickly turned into nearly Twenty-One Hundred.
kungfoojesus · 4 points · Posted at 05:40:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When Chipotle was relatively new they came to my town and mailed out postcards good for 3 free burritos. The postcards looked like spam mail so most people threw them in a trough under our mailboxes were stuff like that went (this was 2003? but still the whole trough idea for spam mail was probably horrifically bad,). I went through that trough for approximately 60 mailboxes and then walked around the complex and grabbed as many more as I could. had about 90 free burritos at one point. Had to give some away since I simply could not eat them all.
Klowdcity · 5 points · Posted at 05:42:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had free xbox live on my ex-girlfriends 360. After trying to rent a movie, i noticed i couldn't make any purchases on my account. I had called customer support several times to resolve the issue but to no avail. I continued using the account for my online gaming and came to realize my monthly payments werent coming out of my account. I continued using this account for about a year and a half until we broke up.
julbull73 · 4 points · Posted at 05:43:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At one point mcd monopoly came on the hash browns, one of the prizes was an egg McMuffin meal. ..which comes with a hashbrown. Odds of winning 1/4...Each hashbrown had two stickers...
I won 1k 1..Plus a shit load of egg sandwiches...
jchaosrs · 3 points · Posted at 05:44:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the days of dial up, there was an ISP that basically just resold AT&T internet access. They would mail out CD's with their connection software and rate plans. When you launched the software, it would initialize an internet connection.
The software would prompt you to login or signup for an account AFTER the connection was established. So all I had to do was leave the login window open in the background and use my own internet browser for free, unrestricted internet access.
I think I used this loophole for a year before the company caught on and started restricting traffic to their servers.
myhatismuchtoolarge · 4 points · Posted at 05:44:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At my university everyone got $5 free printing credit each year, which was enough to print a dozen or so colour A4 pages, or about 50 in black and white. By chance I found that printing full colour A3 pages double sided (with a dot on the back) charged only a couple of cents instead $0.80 for single sided A3.
They fixed the prices eventually, but not before I'd plastered my walls in free colour prints. That was one colourful year indeed.
WillSwimWithToasters · 4 points · Posted at 05:44:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Anyone remember that stupid AppTrailers app? Watch ads, get points, redeem for abysmal rewards. Well, I was a nerdy 13 year old. If you had a jailbroken device you could change your iPod's ID and make a new account. You got a lot of points for referring new people, probably around $.40 or so. The whole process took less than a minute. Change the UDID, clear AppTrailers from the apps running in the background, start it up, enter referral code. I made like $400 that I put in my mom's PayPal. They stopped the referral service altogether after I had been doing it for a days.
Still bought my Wii and Excite Truck. Mom kept the rest.
tepidstringysemen · 2 points · Posted at 06:43:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haha I did the exact same thing with AppTrailers. It was so exploitable.
stevel024 · 4 points · Posted at 05:45:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Coke vending machine where you block the machine from vending the drink so it returns your money
Could do 2 for 1 or even 3 for 1
Ah the days of being a broke teenager...
91Bolt · 3 points · Posted at 05:45:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
On a carnival Cruise, the casino had a $5 match bet coupon for every signature cocktail you ordered. I had already gotten the all you can drink pass, which was 20 drinks a day, actually.
Saved them up for the last night, used them on roulette to get 2:1 pay off on black. Went on a streak, so I used the winnings to play some numbers and a few hit.
Paid for the whole cruise, a nice watch and sunglasses, some untaxed liquor, and still had pocket money to walk around with the next few months.
Went on another planning to do the same thing and... Wouldn't ya know, they don't do that anymore.
TheyAreBlisters · 5 points · Posted at 05:46:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Signed up for some shitty credit cards at age 18, proceed to buy tons of 10$ Starbucks Giftcards, begin to return all for cash at nearest Starbucks, as long as they were 10 or under it was company policy to return for cash. They hated me.
flugbone · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How did you make money?
TheyAreBlisters · 1 points · Posted at 06:00:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Never paid back the CC's, used the cash to buy booze, smokes, and drugs
schaudhery · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ahh churning 101
goodgamble · 3 points · Posted at 05:47:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When i was a kid there was a local video game place. there was a game where hologram necklaces were in little discs. when you put in your coin, you would hit a button and swing a lever to try and push a disc into the drawer where you could retrieve it. there were 4 levers and 4 stations. i learned that when you unplugged it and plugged it back in, all 4 levers would swing. so i loosely plugged it back in so i could interrupt the circuit with my foot on the plug. i would go in weekly and win everything and then sell the necklaces at school for 5 bucks a pop. big winner over here. 20 years later i work in a casino. makes sense.
GoinFerARipEh · 4 points · Posted at 07:04:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid a newspaper started in our city. They hired teens to go door to door offering a $10 - 36 week subscription. If we signed a new customer up we got $20 dollars.
The first day I sold a couple but not many. The second day I offered to pay for their subscription so it was free.
Instead of pocketing $20. I pocketed $10 and signed almost every person up. After 5 days and $2500 dollars they shut down the promo when a customer told them about my little racket.
BoredAtHomeMom · 5 points · Posted at 14:53:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
1 Filipino peso (worth 2 cents) = 1 quarter at my college laundromat
Hellobrother222 · 8 points · Posted at 02:08:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In my school, you could just type random digits & press enter three times in the little help box to unlock any blocked website. I loved my computer class. It's patched now, so I need to use Tor...
325Gerbils · 3 points · Posted at 03:19:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
get a vpn extension. One of the free ones.
Hellobrother222 · 1 points · Posted at 03:23:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can't add extensions:( I already use one on my iPad & Phone, but ugh sucks that Tor loads pages so slowly, it kinda is a bummer when trying to do some graphic design. Loading high qual images take forever. I could always use a server connected to my iPad (SSH) like I do to transfer bigger files, but I don't want a shitload of random high qual pics on my iPad.
325Gerbils · 0 points · Posted at 03:37:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
tor is only good for the dark web
Hellobrother222 · 3 points · Posted at 03:38:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I know, it's my go-to browser to visit the deep web. I don't even think that you can use another browser anyway...
Tor is the only working bypass I know of so I'll keep using it.
TheBaconator3 · 1 points · Posted at 04:14:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Depending on how your school's firewall works you could try spoofing your MAC address.
Hellobrother222 · 1 points · Posted at 11:59:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Already tried w/ no luck:(
Vox_Populi98 · 1 points · Posted at 12:52:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Teach me how to get in the dark web please, I can't for the life of me figure it out
Hellobrother222 · 1 points · Posted at 14:29:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I could google a tutorial for you, but I'll let you do it:')
Perfectgame33 · 10 points · Posted at 04:02:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in college, in our student food court there was a place called burger studio. You would order your food, they would give you your receipt, and then give you your food in a to go bag. I would order the 2 dollar fries, then go and take two boxes of chick fil a nuggets and throw those in the bag. When I went to pay I would hand them my receipt, and end up paying 2 dollars for about 14 dollars worth of food.
SplitArrow · 1 points · Posted at 07:44:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's not a loophole that is theft.
[deleted] · 104 points · Posted at 00:13:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 50 points · Posted at 01:36:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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psinguine · 2 points · Posted at 02:33:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Utilized this way it's called a mobius strip.
justacheesyguy · 8 points · Posted at 04:35:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Only if you make half a turn in the cord before plugging it in.
ooglyEyes · 3 points · Posted at 03:09:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This sounds more like the guys having a power trip
SammyD1st · 2 points · Posted at 06:13:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
---> r/shittyaskscience
cuddersudders · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't follow..
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 05:27:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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schaudhery · 2 points · Posted at 21:15:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
+1
TheAmazinManateeMan · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:37 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/wholesomememes
Mawbey · 8 points · Posted at 03:00:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Maybe not a loophole. But when I was maybe 10-11 I went on holiday to a resort where they had PCs with on of the old battlefields on it I think 1942 but I remember jungles so it might have been a Vietnam one.
The machine broke and one coin got us unlimited goes. I made a friend while out there and we played it for about 8 hours that day. I can barely remember the holiday because I was young. But I still remember that.
GOATPROPHET22 · 2 points · Posted at 04:01:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dang take my upvote for reminding me of Battlefield Vietnam. One of the funnest games I've ever played. My childhood man.
Damon_Bolden · 6 points · Posted at 03:08:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At a certain cellphone company, a warranty came with iPhones that lasted a year, but it only covered if the phone itself failed, not water damage or anything. I broke my screen once and it wasn't covered, and I couldn't afford a new one, and the guy there pulled me aside and said "go to the service center... and just so you know, they can't call you a liar"... I caught his drift and went to the service center and said "yeah I left it on my nightstand, woke up in the morning, and it looked like this. It must have exploded or something. Thank god nobody got hurt"... they glared at me knowing exactly what I was doing, but the customer is always right. I just smashed my phone every 11 months or so to get a new phone to keep the warranty going. If it's anything other than water, just lie. Free replacements for my clumsy ass, or on one occasion, if I just got pissed and threw it at a wall
AJSchwadron · 8 points · Posted at 04:24:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The 1L Dr. Pepper bottles had random free Dr Peppers printed on the underside of the cap. I figured out that if you hold it at the right angle you could see a little bit of the printing that said Free 1 Liter Dr Pepper. Bought one and went about 2 years without buying another until they finally got rid of that cap promotion.
RaccoonInteractive · 19 points · Posted at 03:05:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a job that made it a point to give employees religious holidays off. My manager, who was a goant bitch, never gave anyone the day off except for this reason. So I converted and got ordained in Satanism so I could declare my own holidays then request them off.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 06:01:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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RaccoonInteractive · 5 points · Posted at 06:37:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
She gave me every day I took off then fired me as soon as she could for any reason.
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 04:33:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The poophole loophole. I had a girlfriend who wouldn't have sex with me because we weren't married, so I told her about the poophole loophole. I'm sure you can guess what it means but for you dimmer folk it means that if you do it in the butt it doesn't count in god's eyes. That got us by until we got married but now I put my penis in her vagina.
schaudhery · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Instructions unclear. Stuck it in wife's ear.
losergoldfish · 6 points · Posted at 03:06:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
rosebud;:
PigeonFace · 5 points · Posted at 03:09:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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mathrufker · 7 points · Posted at 03:27:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not a loophole per se but i found many many years ago that 1-800 POO ON ME was a coldwell banker in Colorado. I'm a grown ass man and I still call them randomly.
Usually I call in as a customer wanting to get poo'ed on. Sometimes I pose as a guy in the phone sex industry and offer to buy their number. Other times I work my way up to the managers and break it to them when I can't keep the ruse up.
I suggest you all give it a try it is good fun.
zephyrmckey · 5 points · Posted at 03:35:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Local coffee store had punch cards you can take from the counter, and your 10th drink was any size, any coffee free. The punch was always a star shape.
Go to hobby lobby (craft store) buy same star punch and have at it. Used to give cards out for friends birthdays and stuff.
Next year, find out they give you the cards now, and your 10th drink is a free small coffee.
crusoe · 2 points · Posted at 03:45:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's theft.
iamjowens · 5 points · Posted at 04:20:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
you can order a kids meal at culvers and its basically the size of a normal meal, plus it comes with a free scoop.
bt123456789 · 4 points · Posted at 05:22:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
this happens a lot at the dine-in places, which this reminded me of a jerk from a comments section or something, that threw a temper tantrum because people ordered of the kids meal. Not everyone wants to pay $15 for a plate of food when they won't eat any more than a $5 kids meal has
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 01:57:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do video games apply? There was this level in Rebelstar Tactical Command (strategy game) that forced you to get from point a to point b while keeping ALL characters alive. One big challenge was that there were dinosaurs guarding the exit, which killed my units every time I came across them. My solution was to use only two characters, equip them with anti gravity units, and let them cross a river to point b, therefore avoiding the dinos which were limited on land (the game doesn't say you can't use a different route).
I felt good about myself, lmao
[deleted] · 19 points · Posted at 03:58:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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iDarkville · 10 points · Posted at 04:01:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Loser. Sad. /s
majorjoe23 · 11 points · Posted at 04:31:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In college, there was a forgotten vending machine on the second floor of our student union. One night my roommate and I noticed that the piece of metal that pushes up when you reach in to get your snack was broken. So you could reach through and grab the snacks on the lowest rungs.
We cleared those out, and after consuming them, returned with a ruler to clear the next row. Then we taped two rulers together to get the next row and so on.
Wait, is this a loophole or my super villain origin story?
SuperSmash007 · 2 points · Posted at 06:23:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
both, great job condiment King.
bbbbbenji · 2 points · Posted at 07:20:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Neither. It's just theft.
SplitArrow · 2 points · Posted at 07:46:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You are foggy on what constitutes loophole and theft. You were stealing not exploiting.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 02:40:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When ordering Burger King online, it's cheaper to purchase a cheeseburger and add another burger and slice of cheese than to order a double cheeseburger itself I do that shit all the damn time
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:41:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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SplitArrow · 1 points · Posted at 12:01:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wait you must not live in the US because there is no online ordering here.
flaystus · 3 points · Posted at 03:09:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Chili's used to give you a coupon for a free Skillet queso if you signed up for their email list. I had a domain and I had a catch-all email address. My friends meet weekly at Chili's and I would always have a fresh coupon ready.
I also used the same loophole to sign up for the free trial of XM Radio on my phone about a hundred times before they change their system to require a credit card.
NingunIdea · 3 points · Posted at 03:14:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There used to be an online text-based mmo thing called Dark Age of Wythia. We played it in computers class in 7th grade after we were done with our assignments for the day. The premise of the game was to build up an army by purchasing a variety of units and battling opposing armies to gain items, currency, and more units.
I don't remember why it happened, maybe it was because I attacked him or maybe he was just having a bit of fun, but one of my classmates decided to report me in the game. After he reported me, he got back to doing his thing in-game and realized he was actually logged into my account.
Turns out this wasn't just a weird, one-time glitch. It was easily repeatable. When you reported someone through their report form you had to type in their username, and you ended up logged into their account afterwards. Because I was apparently a massive scumbag in middle school, I exploited the hell out of this when I got home that night. I would report players with a reasonably sized army (but not the top players), get into their account, and have them join my clan and dump their currency and items into my vault. Then boot them. Rinse and repeat.
topsspot · 3 points · Posted at 03:25:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a change machine at my work that I discovered would randomly mistake a 1 dollar bill as 5 dollars. I fed dollar bills into it like it was the best slot machine ever. The worst payout I could get was my money back in quarters. About every 3rd try it would pay out $5 in change. I emptied that machine out 3 times before it was finally repaired.
crusoe · 3 points · Posted at 03:51:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Soda machine at one job if you tapped the button real fast after putting in change it gave out a random number of sodas.
At another job the chips machine was next to a soda machine. Buying some chips would randomly spit out sodas sometimes.
MeirsPops · 3 points · Posted at 03:28:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a teenager, I worked at an amusement park. Found out the plastic tokens used in one of the arcades registered as dollar coins in one of the vending machines in a break room. These plastic coins were everywhere. Put a coin in, push coin return, get 4 quarters. Drained the machine of money.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:30:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Way back when EA had a promotion buy 2 of their games get 3rd free.
Required the original receipt so after digging we found Sears allowed returns with a copy of the receipt.
We ended up with every game free at least 3x over for ourselves and then reselling to friends..... This was the Sega Genesis days if I remember right....
Dan_iel_S · 3 points · Posted at 03:39:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not sure if this is a loophole, but instead of paying for YouTube Red, I just use the Safari browser on my iPhone to multitask while listening to videos of YouTube. Pretty old, but recently I noticed it stopped working with the Chrome browser app.
PeerlessAnaconda · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
firefox lets you listen to videos with the screen off.
schaudhery · 1 points · Posted at 21:42:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In iOS?
PeerlessAnaconda · 1 points · Posted at 23:32:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
sorry no, android. It might work in iOS but im not sure.
TheBrunBrun68 · 3 points · Posted at 03:40:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used the free 1-month trial of Audible and also used the 2 free tokens they give you to get a couple of audio books. 6 months into using Audible, and the free token each month to get a new book, I finally realize that an Audible account doesn't come with Amazon Prime and somehow I've been using it for free. I checksd my old email the account was registered to and found several emails warning me that I needed to pay or the service would stop. Still hasn't. It's been nearly a year and I've gotten at least a dozen free audio books from it.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:44:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In undergrad there was a soda machine that, once you put in money, would read however many button presses you could do before something stopped it. It was quick, but everyone got really good at double tapping for free drinks.
It lasted until some unknown time after I graduated.
jiggeroni · 3 points · Posted at 03:47:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Roughly 6 months ago we got this great coupon through Tmobile Tuesdays for like $7 off any purchase from Petsmart. My wife and I both got one.
So I get out of class at roughly 2pm and decided hey ill go use them and asked wifey to send me hers. Go to petsmart check out, asked the cashier if I could do two seperate orders and pay seperately and use different coupsons she said sure no problem. At the time my phones screen was broken so it was really hard to open stuff cause it was going crazy. When I got back to my car I felt like I used the same coupon twice so I double checked and low and behold both my coupon and my wifes coupon had the same code...It was a universal code.
We spent the next few hours driving between petsmarts both doing double transactions using the same coupons....
TLDR. Tmobile gave us $7 off universal code coupon to PetSmart. Used it lots of times to get food, toys, treats, shampoo you name it for about $30 total we got almost $200 worth of pet stuff. It was great.
swimforce · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That reminds me. I use beepngo (rewards card app) on my phone which uses the proximity sensors ir capabilities to blast the card. I made a typo when entering my rewards card and when I hit beam it took 50% off the most recent item at PetSmart. No longer works.
schaudhery · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When they did the free Subway sandwich my wife and I drove to 4 different Subways collecting sandwiches. The cashier never told us to hit Redeem because she was ordering a veggie sub and the coupon was good for a free chicken sub.
Tossing_Machine · 3 points · Posted at 03:54:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Teachers, at least in my highschool, get 100% of Thier notes straight from the internet. I just googled the title of the note and did it in a fraction of the time
DarthPoptart · 3 points · Posted at 03:54:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Spotify free skips.
NovaNightshade · 1 points · Posted at 12:16:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Elaborate
schaudhery · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Please do...
MistakesTasteGreat · 3 points · Posted at 03:58:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
All of the Pepsi machines with the 4-digit padlocks around here (WNC) have the exact same combination: 8691. I got about 30 of them before i got bored.
rustinthewind · 3 points · Posted at 04:00:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My high school soda machines had a button combination to get into the system settings. As a kid who had an hour after school before sport practices, I learned my way around the setting menu. I changed one machine to sell soda for a quarter in the fringe area of the school. It stayed that way for about 3 months until people started getting wise to my scam.
gmasstaa · 3 points · Posted at 04:00:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This will be buried but I used to get free boxes of Reese's in the mail by complaining to the number on a vending machine at the car wash that my money got stuck in the machine. This literally went on until I got sick of Reese's.
skimasterfly · 3 points · Posted at 04:00:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One time at the supermarket I used to work at, they accidentally put my favorite fruit juice on sale for $0.01 instead of $1.00. I bought 5 cartons!
The_JayBird18 · 3 points · Posted at 04:05:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in high school, I found an arcade machine where you had to launch tokens onto different prize platforms. It was programmed to give you a few tickets even if you didn't hit any of the targets, but if you didn't shoot your token far enough (i.e. if it "fell" off the launcher) it returned the coin.
I spent like 15 minutes racking up tickets with a single token and used them to buy candy for my friends and me.
BenTG · 3 points · Posted at 04:06:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Casey's Pizza has a promotion where you buy 10 large pizzas and then get 1 for free. Each time you get a large, there's a coupon on the box. Save up 10 and get the next large for free. EXCEPT...the free large also has a coupon on the box. So I get a free pizza after only buying 9.
I AM CRUSHING IT.
ThatGuyWhoEngineers · 3 points · Posted at 04:06:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm required to travel a lot for work, but my territory is small enough to not have to fly.
My employer pays mileage for wear and tear on my car, as well as gas.
I just rent a car and report the mileage as if they were in my personal car. I come out ahead if I'm travelling more than about 300 miles total, but it depends on how long I'll need the car. I just pocket the extra money.
I typically have enough of a margin I could rent a Cadillac or other luxury car and still be ahead, but I just stick with an Intermediate size.
thundersnake7 · 3 points · Posted at 04:09:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bought a Twix. Scored a Twix AND Gardettos! Such a great day at work.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QzMcDOHB3q4
0RGASMIK · 3 points · Posted at 04:09:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was thing new start up that delivered alcohol in my city. They had this promotion for a certain discount which basically made your order free. You could use the code as many times as you wanted for the first week it was a thing. They fixed it but my friends decided to try and get around it and to this day still figure a way to get the promotion to work.
Bc42727 · 3 points · Posted at 04:10:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can call basically any fast food joint and tell them they messed up your order and make up whatever you'd like to eat from the place and they'll replace it. Always works.
Jenksbt17 · 3 points · Posted at 04:10:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What are some that are still going on today? I thought I hit it big the other day when I got half off a large pizza at pizza hut and then joined their email club for free breadsticks, $25 worth of food for less than $10! Help a brother out
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:13:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Kids in the grade above me told us that the final exam at my school was the same as the pretest we took at the beginning of the year. You could review the answers to the pretest via an online test taking service called 'horizon ecart'. Some asswhole spilled the beans, so we all had to retake the test, this time it was different.
current909 · 3 points · Posted at 04:15:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in the late nineties, I used to buy a CD at Sam Goodie, rip/encode mp3s and return them for a new CD. Yep. I'm partially responsible for A) why you can't return CDs anymore and B) the downfall of retail music stores.
bigfancy · 3 points · Posted at 04:17:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not really a loophole, but Duluth trading company has a no bull return policy. I buy a pair of pants from them, beat the piss out of them at work (construction) and then send them back for a full refund, which I use for a new pair of pants.
ph33randloathing · 3 points · Posted at 04:19:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had unlimited data from Verizon on a grandfathered plan long after they'd stopped offering it. As long as I continued paying my bill, I got to keep the plan. But it meant I had to pay for a new phone out of pocket ($650 for something "flagship") or give up my data package.
My old phone was coming up on three and a half years and starting to get buggy. There was ONE weekend when they were redoing their pricing structure (and introducing those EDGE plans, I think) where if you had unlimited data and you upgraded normally with the phone cost subsidy, their system was just letting you keep your grandfathered plan.
I've had THAT phone for almost four years now. :P
withfinesse · 3 points · Posted at 04:20:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Worked for a local cable company and learned that they way they blocked channels before the digital conversion was just a small inline frequency blocker in the box with the coax splitter. I removed it for my parents who didn't want to pay for cable (i got it for free since I worked for the company) and they enjoyed it for a while until the cable guy showed up for something else and put it back on.
TheOGinBC · 3 points · Posted at 04:22:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A while back Qdoba had a promotion where if you played a game you got a coupon it generated. Most of them sucked, but if you kept refreshing you'd get a different coupon. One of them was buy a soda, get a free burrito or quesadilla. Needless to say my brother and I went to Qdoba 4-5 times in that two week period.
doggscube · 3 points · Posted at 04:23:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
First job in high school. Time clock let me clock in five minutes early. Then I could clock out ten minutes early.
Current job requires a 30 minute break but when I'm driving I don't need it. By the way DOT breaks up quarter hours I can log that break in 16 minutes. That will change when we go to electronic logs.
ExtraBaconPlz · 3 points · Posted at 04:23:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At some point, my high school began stocking their vending machines with only diet soda as part of some "get healthy" campaign. We had a contract with Pepsi to provide all of the sodas and machines in the building, but for whatever reason, there was also this lone Coke machine in the lower level of the school that would get stocked with regular soda about once a month.
Word would get around the school that the Coke machine had been refilled, and there would be a line in front of the machine between classes. The school had to have known because teachers sometimes used it too, but it stayed there for a couple years.
zman122333 · 3 points · Posted at 04:23:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not sure if this counts, but Operation Sugar Packet. Started as a joke with my Dad on vacation, he needed sugar to make coffee the next morning. So instead of buying sugar, we went to Burger King and conducted a sugar heist. We jokingly mention it pretty frequently, but I used the technique to get through the leaner days at college.
tourettes_on_tuesday · 3 points · Posted at 04:24:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A guy in high school (1995) told us that he had a code you could enter into any payphone and then make any call you wanted to without paying. Of course it was bullshit, but my friend bought one anyway.
Turns out the code actually worked. You entered a series of numbers, and then it asked for your phone number (i'm guessing it wanted the number associated with a cell phone, which were rare in 95) We put in a random number, and then we had a dial tone. We called a 900 number from the school payphone, and it worked multiple times.
ruthlessrellik · 3 points · Posted at 04:25:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I work at a grocery store with a deli and salad bar area. Around Christmas as a give back to the employees, they discounted the salad bar more than 50% when we scanned our store card. That was supposed to run through the end of last year. It was never removed and now that's the only thing I eat while I'm at work.
dickbuttdinosaur · 3 points · Posted at 04:25:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Denny's used to give you a free grand slam when you signed up for their rewards card. To sign up, all you had to do was give your name and an email; they didn't even check your ID.
I probably got a couple dozen free grand slams out of them before they figured out what I was doing and changed their policy.
I regret nothing.
Pedomouse · 3 points · Posted at 04:25:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I guess any free trial period on any service that only requires an email...So many throwaway accounts
stuskowski1 · 3 points · Posted at 04:26:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pizza company in my town used to give out a free single order of cheese covered breadsticks (enough for a meal for yourself) if you filled out a survey online and brought the code back in. There was no other purchase necessary. Needless to say They knew me by name and I probably single handedly ruined that deal for everyone since the company changed it to "with a $$ purchase" about 6 months later.
ashrnglr · 3 points · Posted at 04:26:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to scam Winstar. Every Monday they had a "guys night". Once you built up 2pts on your players card, it would unlock $20 on the card to use in the slots. Over time I was able to get 7 guy friends players cards, which totaled $140 after the points were built. We would ask a random person to build up our first cards points so we never had to spend money. Paid my bills this way for months, then they caught on I guess. That was a sad day :(
BeastftMiddleEast · 3 points · Posted at 04:29:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just over a year ago when McDonald's first came out with the McDonald's mobile app you could get any free sandwich. This could have been any sandwich so I would usually go for the most expensive one, the bacon clubhouse. Signing out and making another account refreshed that coupon so I did it somewhere around 100 times within the span of a month. Absolutely destroyed my health eating McDonald's two to three times a day driving between school and work and back home but I saved a lot of money and the bacon clubhouse is pretty good :)
I haven't eaten any McDonald's in months and kind of quit eating fast food in general so I'm getting sick just thinking about this... It was like $500 worth of McDs...
riverraider1 · 3 points · Posted at 04:29:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm a big meathead and on the road a lot. Just google "(city) gym trial membership" and there's almost always something. I've never missed a workout being on the road.
Bonus: call up the GNC in town and ask if they sell single-serving pre. They'll say no but typically offer a few free samples. If they don't offer just ask if they have any to spare.
Ixidor89 · 3 points · Posted at 04:30:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had a project back in college where you had to program one of those Lego Mindstorms robots to perform different tasks and the such. It was supposed to be autonomous, but you were allowed a sound sensor.
I controlled the robot by yelling at it and got full credit.
sylvar · 3 points · Posted at 04:32:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A restaurant had bags of coffee beans with labels that summed up the taste, like "in a word: bold" or "in a word: smooth". I suppose they meant to say that one blend went well with other tastes, but the label said "in a word: complimentary". I didn't hesitate, and they didn't object when I took a bag home without paying.
blue_nous · 3 points · Posted at 04:33:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's this guy who used to work at my store. All workers get an employee discount card that automatically stops working when they quit/get fired. This guy's card still works, and he quit over 7 months ago.
I met another woman who works there but at a different location. Our cards aren't supposed to let us use coupons if we use our discount, since that gives you too good of a deal. For some reason, her card lets her use them together, and she ended up saving so much money because of it.
biladelph · 3 points · Posted at 04:34:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Used to work for a company in sales. One day a laptop they offered was priced incorrectly for weeks, i used my employee discount and bought 5 laptops, which is the max you can buy in one order, for about $430 each, flipped them for 600 each. Another coupon code error got me a $1000 laptop for $300 resold for 800
NotOBAMAThrowaway · 3 points · Posted at 04:34:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Carl's junior had an app that gave 100 points each visit, and used GPS to verify you were there. I noticed if I click the check in while driving past a Carla jr, I still got the points. Every 1000 points (10 check ins) was a free $6 burger.
Now you only get a BOGO $6 burger but others this still works. I don't bother with it anymore since the burgers are no longer totally free
G1bs0nNZ · 1 points · Posted at 05:19:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you're tech literate, you could have faked your GPS too :)
Shardok · 3 points · Posted at 04:35:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So way back in like 2007 I found a cool trick in a browser mmorpg where you could create your own islands that other players could visit.
Simply put... If you set the level value to insanely high you xould have a player run in, open a chest and run out before dying and they would end up with a few billion gold inno time.
$5 could buy you an in game item that players would pay up to 35 or 40 million gold for.
I tricked this out, got a bunch of gold on a friend's account and had him hide the gold in several different ways including mailing it to friends, hiding it in holes on maps, in the player dungeon chests of other players who let him in, trading it directly and buying things and also hiding those things.
Totally cleaned out some old boy's of all their display piece items in their shops and then had them hidden in the clans banks.
Obviously the admins found me out somewhat. They banned the account that opened the chests and questioned me. I feigned stupidity and stated that I had no idea that my friend did this and wasn't aware that making a high level dungeon with chests would result in that.
They bought it and I did turn myself around and did a lot of great things in that game up until the servers for Nowhere Else and Beyond shutdown not too long ago.
But me and my friends kept the vast majority of our wealth and mostly just held onto it to play pranks with. Thankfully I had a great excuse for my vast wealth within a month as I put the game up on several referral vote websites and got it up high on the lists with the help of my clans. Referred over 500 players that hit level 10 via that which got me over $300 worth of those in game items I mentioned
Shardok · 2 points · Posted at 04:36:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm GraBug from NEaB if you were wondering, Shardok on their sister games like Baneworld and that StarPirates one.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:36:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was this vending machine at a local golf driving range that only took $1 bills or exact change. Naturally I didn't read this and I put $5 in the machine. I made my choice of drink and the machine spit out the $5, the drink, and 45 cents in change. So needless to say I got paid to drink soda for awhile.
adultinglikewhoa · 3 points · Posted at 04:37:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I sat on an auto insurance quote for six months and saved $200
cmikesell · 3 points · Posted at 04:37:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to buy messenger bags from this company that would liquidate their old inventory by selling blind boxes of 3 bags for $10.
Nearly every blind box would contain at least 1 bag that I could sell to Buffalo Exchange for $25.
I bought so many bags. Made a couple thousand dollars in profit before I was banned from selling bags to all the Buffalo Exchanges in the Austin, Houston and Dallas locations. They thought I was a professional. I was just a hungry/poor college student
cmikesell · 1 points · Posted at 04:51:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in 2004 AOL had a promotion where if you signed up for Dial-up, they would give you $100 in Amazon credit. You could only use your credit card once. I signed up for accounts on all 4 of my credit cards, right after the 4th one, they took the deal offline (because other people wrote scripts to exploit this and get $1,000s of dollars.
I set a reminder to cancel AOL before the end of the month... oh yeah, the first month was free.
Everyone I knew got good christmas presents from my broke ass that year.
cmikesell · 1 points · Posted at 05:09:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not sure of other states, but if you lose your driver's license you have to go in person to the DMV in Texas to get a replacement card. They'll give you a temp permit and charge you $25.
If you change your address through, you can do it online, and it's only $10, and they mail it to you. Sure you run the risk of getting pulled over without having a drivers license, but if you have a passport or some other form of photo ID. The officer can prove you are you, and look up your license status. You will still have to probably up to the court at that point to verify everything, but the chances of you getting pulled over are very slim.
So you save $15, and never even have to leave the house.
I currently live in my 3-bedroom house and my address on my license is "#### Street name Suite M"
The M stands for Master
3osh · 3 points · Posted at 04:37:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One day, I used the ATM at a nearby grocery store, and noticed that, on the back of the receipt, there was a coupon for a free fountain drink from the in-store food court. The ATM also gave out receipts for just checking your account balance, and the coupon was on those as well. Free drinks for quite a while, until someone realized what was going on.
kaenneth · 3 points · Posted at 04:39:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in the dial-up BBS days, with limited phone lines, you often had a limit on how long you could stay online per day.
One I used had a 'gamble' feature, where you could bet N minutes for a 1 in 3 chance at N*2 minutes.
I gambled negative amounts; usually losing, subtracting negative time from my quota.
Then it went off the rails.
I went over 32,768 minutes, which overflowed the signed 16 bit integer for the number of minutes.
Which crashed the BBS software for that node.
Which dumped me into a remote command prompt.
Which allowed me access to the unencrypted password file.
Fortunately, I'm a nice guy, so I contacted the sysop and helped him fix the chain of bugs. So A) no more anti-gambling B) reboot the node on crash and C) used hashing on the passwords.
allenmiles62 · 3 points · Posted at 04:39:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well I need this medicine to get better but it costed $300, well turns out the doc has a coupon that makes it 4 bucks, turns out it still counts as $300 through the insurance deductible. We didn't get to exploit it to the max but it definitely put a hefty dent in the insurances high deductible.
Tezot · 3 points · Posted at 04:39:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a vending machine at my University were if you paid with card it would never fully charge you. I checked my bank account everyday to see when I will be charge and never did. So after a week I decided to go back and 'bought' like 10 packs of gum, 3 full racks of loony cookies and half a rack of trail mix... it was glorious. Then after a month they got rid of it :(
jamesbrownisnotdead · 3 points · Posted at 04:40:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was getting my master's degree, and for 3 years I had to drive to another city and take evening classes (I still taught full-time). At first I parked in a garage, until I could get down there on a day that Parking Services was open and I could get a permit to use their lots. The garage was about $8 for the length of my class, but permits were about $150 a semester, so that would've been the cheaper option.
But my class lasted until 8:00, and by the time I left nobody was manning the booth at the garage and the gate was open (it was an old-school garage and you had to pay the attendant). At first, the honest part of myself was uncomfortable just leaving, until I remembered how much I was paying them for getting my degree.
The rest of my time there I got free parking in that garage, and only occasionally had to pay for parking on days where I needed to go in earlier for a special workshop or something. If class was let out early, I'd hang out in my car for a bit until the attendant left.
I figure I saved about $900 on permits, plus I told some others about my secret and saved them some money too.
edmcnulty · 3 points · Posted at 04:42:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid Reese's Peanut Butter Cups had a special that was '1 in ever 4 packs wins a free pack.' Since the odds were so high several packs in a box on the shelf were winners. The way the winners were printed on the sleeve inside you were able to see through the seam and read the code if you knew what you were looking for. Everyday after school a few friends and I would walk to the corner store and stock up on the free packs. Buy one, walk outside, go back in and repeat. We got so brazen we used to open packs in front of the cashiers who hated what we were doing but couldn't stop it. Eventually the giveaway campaign ran out and we were out of luck but it was a great few weeks.
kep_cyyc · 3 points · Posted at 04:42:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Years ago Pepsi was having a look under the cap to win contest. The caps all had 1-6 lines printed on them. If you picked the one with six lines it was a winner every time. So much free Pepsi that summer.
Djason_Unchaind · 3 points · Posted at 04:43:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I worked at a grocery store and they had a sale one week that if you bought 10 bottles of SOBE or Lipton iced tea you would get a $10 coupon. The bottles of SOBE were a dollar each. So I loaded up a cart and bought 150 or so bottles. I kept a few cases for myself and gave the extra to a local shelter.
Also, the shelter couldn't take one of the cases because the iced tea was apparently expired by a few days.
TheBodman · 3 points · Posted at 04:45:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In grade 7, at the local convenience store, I figured out I could buy a certain amount of penny candies, without paying tax. So I would buy I believe 7 penny candies per transaction, without paying a penny tax. The guy behind the till couldn't stand me and my 10+ transactions, but there was really nothing he could do.
CheshireBuddha · 3 points · Posted at 04:45:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I worked at Blockbuster from 2007-2009, right around the time of Netflix's rise to popularity. They have their own online rental service, and we giving away two-week subscriptions.
Well, whoever was in charge of making the codes fucked up. You could keep reusing the codes. Our entire staff enjoyed even more free rentals for around four or five months, and I enjoyed seeing movies that I never would have otherwise.
DarthNixilis · 3 points · Posted at 04:46:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Albertsons grocery had a policy that if a price scanned higher than the shelf price, the first one was free.
Every time I found one at the Albertsons across the street I'd send up a Batsignal so all my buddies could get free product.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 14:41:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do they still have this policy?
GeraltofMeowia · 3 points · Posted at 04:46:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sister's free Spotify premium glitched out 2 years ago and we've still been reaping the benefits for FREE
greg0ry7 · 3 points · Posted at 04:47:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Selling water... seriously buy like 10 24 packs for like $5 bucks each and go around either to a festival or any outdoor large gathering of people, or even literally any busy store and say "I will be donating half of the funds to (some reputable charity)" and make a small sign if you want to so you seem more respectable and sell it for a $1 each. Seriously you would not believe how many people will give you a dollar for a crappy bottle of water especially in hot weather and it's an easy couple hundred bucks in an hour or so if you play your cards right - and if you offer to donate a portion to charity don't be a piece of **** and actually do it.
BattlefieldNinja · 3 points · Posted at 04:48:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
About a year ago, a vending machine at my high school got broken. I figured out that if I hit it in just the right way, coins would flood the coin return slot. Everyday after school I would come to get a few dollars. Keep in mind that 3 bucks a day is a lot for a high school without a car or job.
beaviscow · 3 points · Posted at 04:48:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in the 4th grade, we played heads up seven up. I used to always hide in the corner so if my side was picked, I quickly stepped over to the other side.
indecisive311 · 3 points · Posted at 04:48:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There is a wholesale store near me that sends out monthly coupon books. What they don't tell you is that you can use more than one coupon on the same item. You can also print their coupons out online. So before each trip I print a bunch of duplicates out and stack them up. Grocery items usually get close to or are free.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:59:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Name of store?
indecisive311 · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
BJ's
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 14:37:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Costco? Sam's club?
indecisive311 · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
BJ's
the_nerdling · 3 points · Posted at 04:48:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In HS we got free laptops but they were locked down, we could keep the.once we graduated and they would be unlocked I found a loophole with swapping the sticky keys app with CMD so i could then go into CMD before i logged in so it would be full admin, them on made an admin account t and remove all the software that looked them fosn
gnugnus · 3 points · Posted at 04:50:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was 20 years old, state IDs in my state used to be just a laminated paper with some signatures and stamps on them, not the spiffy plastic things we have today. My birthday is in November. Turns out that one of those official stamps was over my birthday in such a way that it said I was born in January. So, for almost a year earlier than my 21st I was drinking and going to clubs "legally".
koreanwizard · 3 points · Posted at 04:50:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think this is more of an unethical lifehack than a loophole, but I realized that car washes that have a bay code system, where you can purchase codes to punch in which buys time, have a huge flaw. All bay codes are pre-determined, and so there are tens of thousands of already existing codes, instead of a system that creates codes than activates that code. I used to wash my car about once a week just for the fuck of it, and never payed a dime, I would just punch in random codes until I hit a pre-existing code. One time I hit a code for a $90 car wash, I must've given a dozen people a free wash. I've never spent more than 2 minutes guessing codes.
Hyperdistortia · 3 points · Posted at 04:50:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can actually do this now. Ok, so, Raising Cane's has this thing where you can ask for a Cane's rewards card, go online, register it, and then in 2 days they load afree box combo(~8$ worth) on the card, and next time you go to the restaurant you have them scan the card and get a free box combo. So, how do you abuse this? Just buy something like a 1$ drink, get free card, register it(with fake info of course), and in 2 days you have free food. Rinse and repeat.
JPWRana · 2 points · Posted at 14:31:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is still going on? They just opened up one in my neighborhood.
Hyperdistortia · 2 points · Posted at 14:42:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I haven't done it in like 2 months, but I imagine so. I don't even really understand the point of it, you never get any actual free food again, except on your birthday, you only get dumb promos that aren't really worth the time,effort, or money, so they're practically asking to abuse the system.
JPWRana · 2 points · Posted at 19:26:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How many fake emails did you have to use?
Hyperdistortia · 1 points · Posted at 04:25:14 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Like 5 or 6.
PM_ME_DICK_PICTURES · 3 points · Posted at 04:50:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
KFC had this thing where if you gave the restaurant a rating using the code on a receipt you could get a free Go Cup. I was cool with the cashier so I bought a drink and he gave me a receipt, which I then filled out to get a free Go Cup that generated receipt which I then filled out to get a free Go Cup that generated - you get the idea. Did this every time my friend or I was hungry. Then a couple months later, they changed cashiers and the new guy wouldn't give me a receipt for the free Go Cup anymore. And now they require you to buy something to get it.
amos_samosa · 3 points · Posted at 04:51:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Free scoop(s) of Baskin Robbins ice cream on their mobile app.
WSRBoater · 3 points · Posted at 04:51:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I work at a grocery store and there was a coupon for money off dog food. The specific brand happened to be on sale the same week that the coupon was valid. I printed a shit load of them, and got 400 lbs of dog food for absolutely nothing. My puppers don't eat the brand that was on sale, so a local no kill rescue got a delivery of 400lbs worth of food a couple days before Christmas.
woodspryte · 3 points · Posted at 04:51:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was a temporary meter reader for a local utility company. After 90 days, the company had to let me go, or hire me full time. They liked me so they tried to get me into another full time position but it didn't work out. But i worked for 4 months. I contacted HR they sent me the necessary paper work. I really thought i got them. But i got laid off anyway.
Or so i thought.
I keep getting checks like once every three months for a couple hundred bucks. This goes on from 2000-2009. In 2005 i became a contract lineman and in 2009 i re-hired back to the company. Human resources did not know what to think of me and my case. The lady said she couldn't hire me because i already worked there and have for 9 years. This qualified me for 4 weeks of vacation instead of the usual of week. I still dont know what those quarterly checks were for, but it pissed alot of the guys off that i walked in and had seniority over them.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 14:22:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So I take it it was an electric utility?
The_Dominion · 3 points · Posted at 04:52:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have two to share, even though I am late to the party here.
Back when the Xbox 360 was launched Mountain Dew ran a 'Win an Xbox Every 10 Minutes' contest, where by drinking Mountain Dew and collecting the codes from a bottle cap entering into a limited drawing for a single timeslot to win an Xbox 360 before it was even released. Mountain Dew of course wanted to make everyone aware of said contest by providing a free code to anyone who signed up for their newsletter. Well once I found out, I did the next logical thing and made 1000 e-mail accounts. Now this is before I found tons of easier ways to get bulk e-mail, but the method worked if was slow. I did however make a script to log in and collect the code from each e-mail, eventually getting and then manually entering all of the codes into one contest with a drawing period of 4AM, I entered enough codes to make my odds a little better than 50/50 for that time period (because for some weird reason they decided it was a good idea to show the number of entrants per period), and I actually won. And because I now had an Xbox before launch, I did the next logical thing, which is sold it on eBay for a little over $1000. I used that money to get a new Xbox 360 a few weeks later, and a new TV.
TLDR: Mountain Dew ran a promotion that was easily exploited with a little effort, which I turned into $1000 profit.
Back when Blockbuster was still around and had gotten into the used games business, they were spectacularly bad at it. One such way was easily exploited by my teenage self. You see Gamestop would have a sale on a game, sometimes a new and poorly received game. Blockbuster accepted trade-ins at the time, and when a new game came out and was on sale, sometimes Blockbusters trade in value was higher than that of the sale price of the game from Gamestop. So the loop-hole worked like this:
TLDR: Blockbuster was run poorly as a business.
JPWRana · 2 points · Posted at 14:19:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do you still run scripts? I need your help for deposits. I have no idea how to do them or even what program I should learn to do this. It appears your know what your are doing. How much time did you spend making 1000 emails?
manymasters · 3 points · Posted at 04:52:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Gamestop has this policy about used items that's really begging for abuse. you can return ANY used game with a receipt within 7 days, so you can basically "rent" whatever, play it, beat it, rip it, and then get your money back over and over
myseaentsthrowaway · 3 points · Posted at 04:53:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't know if it's a "loophole" but Totes used to have a lifetime warranty on their umbrellas. I'd buy the small umbrellas and they'd always break, turning inside-out in a storm. I kept returning them and getting a new one for years until they finally changed their policy.
jamiethemime · 3 points · Posted at 04:53:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I didn't do this, but the online grocery delivery service I work for has a promo where if you make a new account, you get free delivery and $10 off with order minimum of, you guessed it, $10. So we'd get multiple orders the same day from the same person at the same address. So we'd call and tell them its for new customers not new accounts. So then we get orders for a Larry, a Barry, a Gary, etc. And we couldn't do anything because they were technically different people.
e-rok85 · 3 points · Posted at 04:54:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Kroger by my house sold dragon's milk, a special beer that was $15.49 / 4 pk, but was included in the single beers to choose from for the $9.99 make your own 6 pk. Knowing I was saving 57% on the price per beer, I'd fill up the six packs with only dragons milk and kept purchasing them. Needless to say, that beer is no longer included in the make your own six pack to choose from.
NaturallyPerfect · 3 points · Posted at 04:54:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I used to work at Walgreens, we were doing a promotion where you could pick up a coupon in the candy aisle they gave you 2 Mars Candies (m&m's Milky Way bars, Twix, Snickers, ect) for the price of one. Which is a good deal. Well, the Walgreens I worked at commonly let you stack coupons on top of sales they were already having. One common sale they would do is 2 candies for one dollar. So if you stack that coupon you get 2 candy bars for $.25. On top of my employee discount I could bring the price of 2 candies to $.11
I came home with 25 candies and gave them to my college mates. I exploited the shit out of that.
Jov_West · 3 points · Posted at 04:54:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Burgerville, a slightly upscale burger joint here in Portland, offered a coupon for a free large milkshake for completing a survey. There wasn't a barcode or anything on the coupon preventing you from reusing it. I printed out dozens of those coupons, handed them out to my friends, and probably had about 20 free milkshakes that month.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:54:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Boyscout camping trip to sleep in the woods and watch a Navy football game. I bought a huge bucket (and it was indeed a bucket) of popcorn that was refillable for $40. I proceeded to give free popcorn to my troop for the entire football game, so much so that I had to stagger my trips so that each popcorn stand had a chance to refill their stock. I ended up refilling that bucket at least 60 times and we ate like kings.
MartinVanBallin · 3 points · Posted at 04:55:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Malicteal · 3 points · Posted at 04:56:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Whenever cable TV was still the main way to watch television I remember once that our Charter cable got turned off remotely at the box because our bill was past due by like a month or two. Well, since streaming services like Netflix or Hulu wasn't a thing yet I was trying to figure out a way that we could at least watch SOMETHING until we could get the bill caught back up.
I read an article that basically explained that whenever cable companies shut off your cable remotely using their cable box it just doesn't allow the box to access the signal coming in from the lines outside. The information is still there they just block the box from doing anything with it. If I remember right you didn't get the features that the box offered of course (DVR, channel guide, etc.) but you box still got the channel information.
So if you were to simply bypass the box by hooking the coax cable directly to the television you could still get some of the channels for free until you paid your bill or until they sent a tech out to uninstall the cable/collect the equipment, whichever came first. I'm sure cable companies have done something to fix this, especially since more and more people are becoming "Cord Cutters" and doing away with cable all together.
TL:DR - Cable box got shut off, bypassed now disabled box by hooking the coax cord directly to the TV for free cable.
EDIT: Phrasing.
ride365 · 3 points · Posted at 04:57:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Germany you have to be 18 to drive. In the U.S., 16. I was able to get an International Driver's License from AAA at 16 and blew my German friends away when I rolled up in my uncle's BMW to take them for a ride!
Madmagican- · 3 points · Posted at 04:57:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The ol' poophole loophole
PM_ME_DRUMSETS · 3 points · Posted at 04:58:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back before I had a credit I would make new Spotify accounts with an empty prepaid card to get the 3 month free trial. When that expired I would make a new account with a . in the Gmail address and then follow the old ones Playlist, and download it for offline listening. Rinse and repeat when necessary
schaudhery · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I still do this.
WeededDragon1 · 3 points · Posted at 04:59:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dominos used to have a coupon for buy one get one free Parmesan bread bites. In the cart the free bread bites were listed separately from the ones you had to pay for. If you clicked the quantity dropdown and selected the max quantity, you still got all of those for free.
I got somewhere around 300 bread bites for $10 with a pizza.
Then the coupon expired. :(
Sloathe · 3 points · Posted at 04:59:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It wasn't me, but my friends in high school. They found a glitch in the school's lunch account system and got about 2x what they were supposed to get for their money. What it was was they would buy lunch from another line and immediately buy a second lunch from another line. Somehow the money in their school accounts only charged them for one. I suspect it was designed to only charge once in a short period of time in case a cashier accidentally purchased the lunch twice instead of once or some other error.
telva1896 · 3 points · Posted at 04:59:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dunkin donuts gives a free coffee with every 150 or so points if you pay thru the app. It generates a QR code in the app and would also print one on the receipt for the order that got you the free coffee. If you used the receiot code first, the app QR code would still work, netting you 2 free coffees. Sadly they fixed that last year.
MNfolks · 3 points · Posted at 05:00:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A few years ago I could go to the night deposit box at my bank and "deposit" a check (empty envelope) for 200 bucks or however much my "check" was for and it would be deposited into my account. And then I could get back to the bank before they "cashed" my "check" and put money back into my account before the bank took they're money back so I wouldn't go into the negative. It was like a mini loan from my bank without the paper work. Needless to say they revised their ATMs
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:01:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Harris Teeter has a policy that says if a price rings up incorrectly at the register, the item is free. I get a free twelve pack a week because they don't check and I do.
abusementpark · 3 points · Posted at 05:01:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We don't have cable TV. Don't want it. Except when the Olympics are on. I love me some Olympics. Winter, though. I don't really like the summer Olympics as much. So every four years, right around the time the Olympics are gearing up, I call the cable company and say "Hey there, cable company. Long time internet subscriber here. Say, I'd like to try out TV service. Can you offer me a free month with a DVR to see if I like it?" Like clockwork, every four years they come out, hook up the DVR, start the service. I record every event I can and spend the month watching what stores up on the DVR. Then I call them back and say, "Nah, I don't really dig it all that much, but thanks."
BERSERKwaffle25 · 3 points · Posted at 05:01:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The app Spotify has a feature where you can't pick specific songs to play unless you're a premium member, we'll for some reason on one of my tablets I was able to pick any song anytime and listen to it even though I am not a premium member this exploit ONLY worked on that specific tablet, I tried it on other devices but to no avail, Ehhh was fun until that tablet broke
orionbuster · 3 points · Posted at 05:02:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Using public transit as a teenager, I noticed one machine at a subway station ran out of ink and was spitting out paper transfers which prevented the date and time from being recorded.
Stood there for 10 minutes stockpiling them. Didn't have to pay a bus fare for about 3 years. Drivers would give me a hard time once in while but always let me on.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:03:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Collect calls, when you record your name you just say what you want really fast like 'momcomepickmeupfromsoccer' instead of your name.
vpl671 · 3 points · Posted at 05:03:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Grocery store (H-E-B) had a coupon for these adult lunchables that was supposed to be buy one get one free. My wife bought a few and noticed she was charged for just the first one, so we went back and "bought" a few more. We told the story to my mother-in-law who then looked at the receipt to confirm, but then pointed out that we actually didn't even get charged for the first one. We ended up getting over 100 of them over the course of several grocery store trips.
ishikiera · 3 points · Posted at 05:04:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
TGI Friday receipts had a survey on the back of it and it didn't tell you it gave you a free appetizer coupon upon completion
You go and order a free appetizer, they give you a fresh receipt that you can open the survey for
And nobody even knows because it doesn't say you get anything for doing the survey on the receipt itself, it likely passes under the radar
Can confirm worked, I had a stream of free appetizers for months
SevenDeuce9 · 3 points · Posted at 05:04:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My last car came with Sirius satellite radio. I loved it, but I was poor and ~$30 a month was steep. I let it lapse. 2 weeks later then sent an offer of 6 months for $45. I took it and repeated the process every six months until I sold the car. Last I checked, my dad still does it
Crappedinplanet · 3 points · Posted at 05:04:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A year ago I took the Spotify premium 3 months for a dollar deal, and the credit card ended up being cancelled. They sent me a few notifications in the beginning but after that I've been riding free Spotify premium for a year
Idahogirl556 · 3 points · Posted at 05:05:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Safeway has a guarantee that if an item is mispriced and under $5, you get it free. I would find a bag of carrots, apples, or brussel sprouts that was under weight. Then when they would place it on the scanner, I would point out that weight reading was less than the weight the bag said. Free produce. Finally, after months of this, they told me I couldn't do it anymore. Now I just go to the safeway near my work instead of by my house.
MrsTrustIssues · 3 points · Posted at 05:12:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Most grocery stores and Walmarts have the "scanning code of practice" which is what you described.
BoomBox206 · 3 points · Posted at 05:05:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
SiriusXM has multiple links for a 30 day free trial, but one of them doesn't ask for a credit card. I have had SiriusXM free for 4+ years, all you do is use/make a different email after 30 days.
IIVIIatterz- · 3 points · Posted at 05:06:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hopefully not too late. As of right now, in the tampa bay area, if you download the McDonalds App, it gives you a free QPC or 10 piece, no purchase necessary. Once you use it you can log out, create a new account and wait about 10 minutes to receive a new coupon. This has been going on since the beginning of the year and ends at the end of march. I personally have gotten over 20 free meals from them so far, and I know my friends have been abusing it too. My friend actually lost his job and wasn't eating for like 2 days at a time so he could feed his kids. This literally saved his life.
Nizzle0920 · 3 points · Posted at 05:06:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In college we always got these giant coupon books on campus. The chickfila coupon was buy one get one free. If you ordered through the drive through and didn't offer the coupon, they usually didn't ask for it.
My roommates and i got like TONS of free sandwiches. I think the record was like 15 times in a row with the same sandwich coupon.
We were wild college kids.
hungs · 3 points · Posted at 05:06:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
About 2-3 years ago, I learned from a co-worker about a coupon code to PapaJohn's that would be 50% off entire order. This particular coupon would never expire and can be used anytime. Used it a ton for a good year or two till they updated their website increasing prices and updating codes.
Editing post to add more exploits.....
AT&T had a deal when Samsung Galaxy S5 were released, when you get the phone there was a American Express promotion where you had to sign up to an app literally called ISIS (before the world new about ISIS). I think this was to promote people to start using the NFC wallet transactions. Anyways, with this promo it said for any transaction you did using that app they would credit back $1 to the account. Well my work had a vending machine also with a NFC enabled payment reader had some items in there for $1. So I tested the app bought a $1 cookie, ate my lunch and cookie dessert. Every other day that $1 was replenished to my account. Yep, tons of cookies till they finally increased the prices.
Another exploit I know of still works to this day so I wont give out the name of this website, but it was used for online homework for a college class. Basically the student would have to buy a semester long access to log in and use the site. The class is generally a 2-semester class and the access lasted a little longer than semester so I continued to use it for the second part of the class. I logged on, registered my class into the site, and used it till my subscription expired. Once it expired if you log in, it tells you it's expired and takes you through steps to purchase a new subscription. Well I would go with all the steps up until the payment page, and then I would open a new tab go to the website and log in and close original tab. For some reason, the site thinks I bought the subscription and allows me to continue my work. Just rinse and repeat every time I had to log in and do my homework. Similarly if the subscription didn't come with an e-textbook and you need to purchase it, then it worked for that too.
RVinnyT · 3 points · Posted at 05:06:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a youngin and went to the arcade, they had ticket machines that would count all your tickets you won from the games. It would then give you a print out of the amount and you can get things with your tickets. I figured out that if you slide the ticket in the machine just enough it would count the ticket without actually taking the ticket. I would leave arcades a very happy kid :)
jesse9o3 · 3 points · Posted at 05:07:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A few years back there was a leak of Reality Kings accounts, naturally they blocked them so they were pretty much useless after a couple days. That is unless you went on the mobile site, which worked just as well on PC as the desktop site did. Then you could log in and browse to your heart's content. Eventually they cottoned on to this and you couldn't watch vids anymore, you could log in but you couldn't watch videos. However if you right clicked on the vids you could open the vid in a new tab and it would still work. Again they eventually figured that out and you couldn't do that, but you could still right click "save file as" and download 1080p porn at very decent speeds. Sadly about a year after this all started they finally realised that maybe they should just not let canceled accounts log into the mobile site.
Being a teenaged boy at the time I definitely exploited that one.
Risicato · 3 points · Posted at 05:08:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So theres this clothing store in Australia called Tarocash. About 7 years ago they had this offer on their website where you put in your details and on your birthday they send you out a $50 voucher.... no ID required when putting in your details.... no ID required when redeeming said voucher at the store. This lasted a good year.
kiphinc · 3 points · Posted at 05:08:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pretty simple one here
Pepsi and Mountain Dew bottles used to have a "buy one get one free" thing going on every so often. The design of their bottles at the time made it possible for you to turn it to the side so you could clearly see whether you won or not.
This was probably back in the late 90s when I was a kid. I felt like a drug dealer because I always had a ton of those caps in my pocket and everyone knew it.
WrenchsDen · 3 points · Posted at 05:08:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Walmarts return policy.
You needed a piece of clothing without a tag and wax paper, along with cash money.
Go to WalMart, find something you liked, and buy it with cash. Let's say it's one of these new fangled DVD players. So you walk out the door with your new DVD player and receipt, and put it in your vehicle.
Then, take a small piece of wax paper and stick it in your pocket alongside the receipt, and get your item of clothing. Take the clothing to return to the store, and back then a door person would put a small sticker onto the item that said it was a return along with the date and time.
Now is when the clock starts ticking.
Go past the return counter, and exit back to your car. Remove the sticker and put it on the wax paper, and go back into the store. Find the EXACT same DVD player (or other item) you previously purchased, walk towards the front with it, and put the return sticker on in while walking back. It will stick since the fabric didn't remove the glue, and the wax paper doesn't either. Looks like it was just put on brand new from the sticker gun at the front door.
Make sure you walk from near the garden section to circumvent explaining why you didn't come in the main doors. Once at the return counter simply wait in line and return the item with the receipt for the item you actually bought. Cash back in full.
Now you have a DVD player in your vehicle and the money back for it - and technically done all with a receipt just in case you get stopped.
If you need more than one DVD player, simply go back inside, find the same exact DVD player and walk out the door with it - you have the receipt for just a few minutes ago, although this only works for a period of 5-15 minutes, and only twice unless you time the con for shift change, in which it's around 4 times.
Then simply perform the refund con, and you now have 3-5 DVD players/any other item in your car alongside a full refund for the initial purchase.
If one was brave enough, they could also perform the act on more expensive items in cases such as hard drives, radios, and knives. Of course you also can wait for days or even weeks, since the receipt's timestamp doesn't matter - only the return stickers.
I paid for a cross country, 48 state vacation (as well as the vehicle itself) by simply doing this and pawning the items - with a receipt for proof I didn't steal it - in nearly every state. No idea how much I made from doing this, but I know it was at least $30,000 over the course of a year.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:08:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm the reason my local chick fil a doesn't give out free sandwiches for surveys anymore.
I would take a free sandwich survey card every time I went through checkout, and pay for my meal with- You guessed it- a free sandwich survey card.
Eventually they caught on and now they don't have those anymore.
anaris328 · 3 points · Posted at 05:09:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I drive a scooter as my mode of transportation. There's plenty of space to drive out of a parking garage and go around the gate. Driving a scooter saves me A LOT of money.
ChrisRunsTheWorld · 3 points · Posted at 05:09:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a place that sent a coupon for a free smoothie the day after you signed up for their text messaging deals. I signed up and STOPed the deals a lot for a couple months.
Mjolnr66 · 3 points · Posted at 05:09:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When i was in college there was a blockbuster video and a family video right down the street from one another. Each place had a long running promotion where if you'd cut up a competitor's card you'd get any rental for free... i just went back and forth between the two getting new cards and free rentals until i graduated
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:09:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
On the previous version of the QuikTrip app after creating an account there was a deal where you got a free pizza and a 20 oz. coke as a reward for making an account and downloading the app. The app didn't have you verify your email account so you just had to delete the quik trip app and redownload it and create another account and get the same deal. You could do this as much as you wanted!
HAHAHAFARTS · 3 points · Posted at 05:09:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's a website I visit occasionally that is behind a paywall. Subscriptions are a little overpriced to begin with; for how often I visit the site I definitely wouldn't buy a subscription. Turns out if you hit the stop loading page before the page has fully loaded the pop-up blocking the page and telling you to subscribe doesn't load. Still works to this day.
iamrangus · 3 points · Posted at 05:11:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Over the summer, you could fill out an online survey and get a code for a 32oz slushy/drink from Sonic after buying something there. Chained like 8 within 3 weeks.
And back when Bing rewards was a thing, I got like $80 worth of credit on Xbox doing a few searches a day over a couple months.
sinbysilence · 3 points · Posted at 05:15:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You know those soda machines that has the little conveyer belt that your soda bottle would fall on and then conveyer belt over to a shoot where it'd fall down? I found that if you putting money and block the door from allowing the soda drop it'd have you reselect. So pick another soda and do the same thing. Then reselect. Then on the third one, if you're quick and pull the sodas out of the shoot quickly all 3 would drop for the price of one. Haven't used this in years, but used to do it when I was a broke college student.
phillymjs · 3 points · Posted at 05:15:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Way back in the days of dialup when AOL billed hourly, I used to sign up for multiple accounts with the "x hours free" discs. They required a credit card number for this, but they only tested that the card number was valid according to the Luhn algorithm, not that it was an actual working account. I found a program that would generate valid numbers, and went to town.
I'd use up all but a tiny bit of the free hours, then have a marathon final session that went way over the free hour limit. They wouldn't disconnect you when you hit the limit, but after that session was over the account was useless. Rinse and repeat.
TracingHeart · 3 points · Posted at 05:16:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Getting under the Skyforge in Skyrim.
Shit was lit.
amanhasnonames · 3 points · Posted at 05:16:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A couple months ago Papa John's had a deal where if you paid with visa checkout they would email you a coupon for a free large pizza. When I redeemed my pizza I ordered extra garlic butter do I ended up paying around $1.20. the next day I got another coupon. it turned out that so long as you paid at least $1 with visa checkout you could keep getting free pizza coupons. I ended up getting pizza every day for two weeks before I decided I was overdoing it so I passed the coupon on to a friend who ended up doing the same thing
furious_forge · 3 points · Posted at 05:17:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had free 30Mbps internet for 2 years, back when 1Mbps was considered "high speed."
When the small, local cable company got into the internet business around 2000ish, they started with a T1 connection and handed out surfboard modems for their 1Mbps service. Being me, I bought my own enterprise modem and router; more so to learn about networking than anything.
Later, the cable co/new ISP upgraded to T3 drops for their growing market, but they continued to offer 1Mbps service only- and left everyone using DOCSIS 1.0 modems on a DOCSIS 2.0 system. This is where my technical knowledge is a bit dim, but somehow, their lack of proper setup of the newer equipment allowed my modem to provision itself for both standards, then give me 30Mbps Upstream but only .5 down.
I called the ISP, told them everything that was going on, they pushed some keys and made some confused noised and then said everything should be sorted out... and indeed; it was. After hanging up, I spent the next two years paying $50 for 1Mbps service but enjoyed a rock solid 30/30 in a time when that was the stuff of gods.
VivaSpiderJerusalem · 3 points · Posted at 05:20:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Goddamn it, way too late to the game, but this was a good one, because it involved porn.
Way back in the day of the first satellite television (those huge, metal-mesh dishes that you needed to pour concrete to install), you could basically kind of "tune" those things like a radio receiver.
What I mean is that, sure, the receiver knew where the Spice channel was, but it wouldn't come in clearly if you didn't have a subscription. But if you knew how to work the, I guess what you would these days call the "admin controls", you could tell the dish to adjust its angle a cunt hair of a degree until, lo and behold, actual cunt hair! Wonderful, "crystal" clear, only occasionally skipping, sometimes oddly colored cunt hair!
And yes, you can bet that my 14 year old self exploited the shit out of that.
Leroyjankinsss · 3 points · Posted at 05:22:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The GTA V car duplication glitch. I make Bill Gates' fortune look like chump change.
Kvothealar · 3 points · Posted at 05:24:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Domino's online has coupons based on the store you order it from rather than nationwide. My local store had a coupon for a particular pizza, XL, 1-topping, for $10.
But I found out if you add toppings it doesn't charge you for them.
So I would order triple cheese, extra sauce, cheddar, beef, philly steak, chicken, bacon, ham, salami, pepperoni, brooklyn pepperoni, and more bacon.
Regularly like $50, still got it for $10. The delivery people would always take it out and go "holy crap this is one heavy pizza" and then get the machine out and make this silly face as they realized how cheep it was.
That lasted for about 3 months before it got noticed. Then I found another coupon that did the same thing and used that for another 2 months. They seem to have gotten all of them now but I still regularly check.
Pussy_On_TheChainwax · 3 points · Posted at 05:25:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
To fund an expensive habit I have I found a non-fraudulant method to spend money I didn't have...opening multiple bank accounts and multiple Venmo (money transfer app) accounts all in my own name, taking advantage of Venmo's perk to overdraw if there's not enough in your account. So you'll owe Venmo the difference. But with these fresh bank accounts I could send myself money through the app and drive these accounts negative $600-700 at once while Venmo picks up the bill at the bank. Essentially instead of owing the bank I'd accrue debt to Venmo. These transactions were all done and money withdrawn before anyone at either company reviewed or declined what was going on. I accumulated a lot of debt in a very little amount of time...it was one of the dumbest things I've ever done but so was picking up a speedball habit. My credit score will haunt me for a long long time😕
CPT-yossarian · 3 points · Posted at 05:26:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My college required three courses of a second language. They also required everyone to take a test to determine the level of the language you would start at, and whether you would be able to take the classes pass fail or for a grade. I took this test right before computerized version were the only option. For reasons I can't remember, I took the version from a paper book. Luckily for me, who ever used the book last circled the answers but didn't do a good job erasing them. I knew enough Spanish to tell the answers seemed correct.
I was able to take three semesters of Spanish pass/fail. Made college a bit easier.
VengefulRainbow · 3 points · Posted at 05:26:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can train and work hard to become strong, a banana in the morning should be fine.
oneguyonline · 3 points · Posted at 05:27:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When i was around 14 years old, my local burger king had a Plinko-style coin catching game. I found that when 3 pennies were simply placed under the front right corner, I could drop in a quarter and win a free combo meal every time.
leo_rugiet · 3 points · Posted at 05:28:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Amazon has a service where you can sell used items to Amazon and they will give you money for it. They had one weird CD, where the buying price was higher than the selling price, but only by 37 cents. So i bought 1000 of these CD's and sold them to make a profit of 370 dollars.
flugbone · 1 points · Posted at 06:03:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You mean selling was higher than buying
leo_rugiet · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
no i don't because i was selling it, and customers buy it off of amazon
Iwasrunning13 · 3 points · Posted at 05:28:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Have Xfinity but don't have HD. Found out that if you hit the C botton on the remote there is an option to watch every sports game in HD.
KingOfTheMultiverse · 3 points · Posted at 05:29:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine discovered that the penalty for abandoning the scene of an accident is lower than the penalty for dui. He's done that like 5 times. He's lucky he's not dead.
RichysRedditName · 3 points · Posted at 05:30:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Local college bookstore would pay for trading in used textbooks. I would just take them off the shelf and give it to them and they would pay me for it. Figured they wouldve caught on after a while so i only did it twice with like 4 textbooks
Storm137 · 3 points · Posted at 05:30:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
For five years we stole internet from Comcast. We canceled our cable and they just stopped charging us for the internet.
Then my uncle screwed it up calling for a wi-fi issue and they locked us out.
SIM0NEY · 3 points · Posted at 05:30:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When my brother and I were kids, we found out that the soda machine between our house and the mall had a Lipton sweet tea button that dispensed for free. We drained that shit right after the soda guy filed it and left every time until he realized it and fixed it. That count?
him999 · 3 points · Posted at 05:30:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When spotify family plans first came out i added 5 people to my plan. It was suppose to charge me $5 extra for each if i remember correctly. ($15 for two, $20 for 3) my family all paid me their share....... only spotify never billed me correctly. I always paid $9 or so. When they changed their family plan up it fixed it though.
Cryingpanda69 · 3 points · Posted at 05:34:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I work at Dunkin, at the end of each receipt there's a offer if you do the survey online you can get a free donut with a purchase of a med or larger beverage and you get a 5 digit validation code at the end of the receipt. We don't need the validation code to make the coupon work,you can put any 5 numbers and we don't even look at it. You can choose to abuse this or actually do the survey aND mention the crew members name in the what did you like best box. Our managers see the nice things you say about us and it makes our week :)
Kindofabigdeal2680 · 3 points · Posted at 05:37:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My college phone book had two BOGO coupons for a local pizza buffet. The coupons didn't have an expiration date on them so I grabbed every copy of the book I could find. I used those coupons for years. One day many years later, the owner was the one running the register I gave him one of the coupons and he laughed, called over the assistant manager and showed him the very first coupon he ever produced and mentioned how he forgot to put an expiration date on it. He honored the coupon but I threw away the rest.
ethan-bubblegum-tate · 3 points · Posted at 05:39:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the mid 90s, when I missed the marks I needed to get into a somewhat prestigious Canadian university, I discovered there was no age, grade or experience stipulation for their adult learning courses which they were just commencing. I signed up for those which were all the 1st year general studies courses. I did this for 2 semesters and transferred in as a regular student at the same spot I would have been in. The adult learning courses were cheaper too!
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:40:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Sambuking · 0 points · Posted at 05:49:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Way to ruin the environment for the rest of us ¬.¬
janaynaytaytay · 3 points · Posted at 05:40:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My ex used to work at a grocery store that would give you rewards points for every dollar spent. These points turned into coupons, especially if you spent a lot. Every time he would ring someone up who didn't have a store rewards card he would scan a rewards card registered to me. I would get the rewards coupons in the mail every month containing hundreds of dollars in free cleaning supplies and groceries.
thatEMSguy · 3 points · Posted at 05:42:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I worked at a sporting goods store with a no questions asked return policy. At the start of the summer, 40-50 people would come in and buy large inflatable swimming pools. These things ran $500-$600. They'd use the pools all summer, then right before school started they would take a knife to the inflatable part and return the pool. If they kept the receipt they got their cash back. If they didn't, they got store credit which they usually used to by school clothes for their kids.
blackout-loud · 3 points · Posted at 05:44:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in the 4th or 5th grade we had a computer class where we would do math problems. I sucked at math as a kid (still do) and was just not getting the problems to this test we were doing (believe it was divsion). Out of frustration I just started typing "0" for the answer and wouldn't you know it the computer marked my answer as "correct" I tried it again and it was correct again. At this point I'm like wtf? and just let it rip from there. I was more impressed that I had found and exploited a glitch that worked to my benifit and less excited about how well I did on the final test. Keep in mind this was early 90s on an inner city school PC so there's no telling how jacked up and cheap the program was that they were using. I missed those days, lol
GreenTeaOnMyDesk · 3 points · Posted at 05:44:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
ITT: Nothing useful today
flubberpuff_man · 3 points · Posted at 05:46:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I went to Robotics Academy (like Space Camp but even nerdier), we had a challenge where had to build a "robot" to complete certain tasks in water. They only had really shitty PVC pipe and so we were kinda SOL trying to get a good buoyancy level and testing it, and so I got mad and started taking it apart and making a giant claw. I stood on the dock and completed every single one of the tasks from the dock with my mega-arm except for grabbing 1 thing that floated into the middle of the lake we were using. So that was pretty fun.
This was only a loophole because a big focus of camp discussion was that there was not a set definition for "robot", so what I had made counted.
onetwopunch26 · 3 points · Posted at 05:46:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I work in the restaurant industry. A while back I managed this upscale hipster burger joint with 20 taps loaded with all types of craft beer. One of breweries of said beer did a dinner with us and we featured them on tap for like a month after. They put in a standing order for a keg a week to us and the brew master was so happy with the dinner he sent out the first 2 free. Around the 2nd week in he retired after signing a deal with Miller/coors and the guy that took over the brewery must have just seen the standing order and let it ride. For 15 more weeks we got piss drunk for free of some dank Colorado IPA before they caught on. By week three we stopped selling it to the public, would close down every night and just have friends come in and get smashed.
Good times right there.
Janitor_Paul · 3 points · Posted at 05:47:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I took my pre requisite course test for college on a computer to skip early into school. Apparently their software wasn't too good, even though they blocked every avenue of cheating..
They forgot to block the Windows key, which allowed me to use calculator and search anything I wanted. I searched all questions than cleared history afterwards.
I was never caught and it saved me almost 1 1/2 years of useless courses.
TreeTrunkHunk · 3 points · Posted at 05:48:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Parents would change the password on the computer so I would do my homework. Went into safe mode and created my own account.
87788778 · 3 points · Posted at 05:49:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I dunno if it's a loophole, but I found a website where a case of Chimay Rouge was priced the same as a bottle ($15). Only bought 5 because I felt too guilty to try for more. It took me forever to drink it all.
Kushkaki · 3 points · Posted at 05:51:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One of my teachers is close to having a school years worth of sick days saved up. He plans on being "sick" for a whole school year, then retiring the next year.
milo0o · 3 points · Posted at 05:51:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Going through the self checkout at Walmart (or other applicable grocery store) and selecting bananas when you actually grabbed...motherfuckin honeycrisp apples
odin99999 · 3 points · Posted at 05:51:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I earned 200k miles using an online shopping portal for pennies. Pretty sure no one else knew my secret. Still not giving it away.
Ivan_Joiderpus · 3 points · Posted at 05:52:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
1-800-collect. When you heard the automated thing start asking a question to the person you were trying to call, just start talking. You could hear them over the automated BS, & could get your message through without having the person accept the call. Worked well when I needed to be picked up from the pool by my parents in the days before cell phones.
eat_poutine · 3 points · Posted at 06:08:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had Sirius radio. Only used it in the winter when I snow plowed. Come spring, I unplugged the unit and cancelled my subscription. Next winter I plugged it I and it still worked. My assumption is that they send out disconnect codes over the air for a reasonable time period then stop. Worked again for almost 8 months before it stopped. I guess they send out the end codes a couple of times a year after the initial period.
stringg · 3 points · Posted at 06:26:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I work in a busy downtown and don't have a parking spot. There's a massive parking garage next door attached to a casino that charges $6 per hour. If you play at the casino you can get your parking validated. The minimum amount to get your parking validated is $50, presumably to prevent free parking. Usually I'd work 8 hour shifts, so if I paid to park it would cost $48.
So everyday after work now, I put $50 on red, and have a 48% of winning $50 AND having my parking validated. If I lose, It's only 2 more dollars than what I would have paid. I've been doing it for months and have won enough times that it's effectively nearly free parking in the long run.
schaudhery · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Jesus I hope you are making enough to recoop 48$ daily parking.
stringg · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:30 on March 3, 2017 · (Permalink)
48% of the time I win 50 dollars and get free parking. 52% of the time I pay $50 for parking. It works out to be nearly free parking.
GfY86 · 3 points · Posted at 06:33:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My job doesn't fire you for drinking on the job because alcoholism is a disease. Nuff said people.
HairyJo · 1 points · Posted at 06:42:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had to sample a beer every tank at "x" brewery.
I was only a temp but the union members from the bottle sorting/washing floor where known for extended hiatuses...(alcoholics).
Archardy · 3 points · Posted at 07:07:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
20 plus years ago when I was at university, we had meal cards. You could get a monthly plan that gave you up to 3 meals a day. There were a couple cafeterias on campus that were normal buffet style, and one swipe = one meal. There was a quick stop cafeteria kiosk as well but it gave you 7 POINTS for a swipe, and you could use the points to get stuff like for a sack lunch, so there were bananas, granola bars, pop tarts microwave popcorn, cans of soda etc.
I figured out there was a way to time it so you could get the 7 points and a buffet style meal if you hit two cafeterias pretty quickly. I would stock up on soda and snacks and then go eat a hot meal for lunch. I don't remember the details but it was a little tricky but I had it down for a couple of semesters.
helloheyhithere · 3 points · Posted at 07:16:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I quit a job that gave me an iPad working there.. I've had unlimited data for roughly 8 months on it
Canadianxwild · 3 points · Posted at 07:22:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In my elementary school we had certain sites blocked on our internet. Like neopets and runescape etc. But you could go to 'My Computer' and then enter the http:// address at the top and viola, you're past the block.
deatoai · 3 points · Posted at 07:31:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not me, but an old boss of mine.
He found a glitch in an mmorpg where he could attempt to sell a highly valued item to an NPC, but close the trade window in a certain way where as he kept his item, got a duplicate of his item, and got the money for it. He then got a couple friends in on it and basically didn't sleep the whole weekend. By Monday, he amassed so much in game currency and rare items, he sold them for real money.
He then used that money to open his own business selling used electronics and knock-off China crap.
Scammers gonna scam.
deliciouspterodactyl · 3 points · Posted at 08:26:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to work at Blockbuster Back when it was a thing. I ultimately quit upon finding a better job, but I didn't want that to stop me from enjoying all the free movies and games me and my roommate would enjoy. When you rent a game or movie from one location, you can technically return it to any location (even though they ask you to return it to the original store) and they will take it just fine. When you do this, the new store(1) calls the original store(2), tells them they work at said store (1) and reads them the sku number on the movie and it gets checked in from your account. All these checked in movies/games stack up in a huge pile in the back called wrong store pile until they are eventually driven or mailed back. Usually lost to the world. So after I quit I would rent movies or games every week from different stores, then call the store I rented them from acting like an employee at another store (since I knew all the surrounding store codes) and they would get checked in off my account and I would just keep them. Ended up with a massive movie and game collection, constantly trading the games into gamestop or selling to people online.
T1_Spork · 3 points · Posted at 10:05:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Elite: Dangerous, if you have a big enough ship you may receive missions where you transport a large amount of cargo, usually 100+ tons, to another system.
There was one system on the outskirts of inhabited space that offered these "large haul" missions that rewarded a million or so credits to haul the cargo back to inhabited space. However, the cargo was usually illegal stuff like slaves which are worth a lot of money.
You could accept these missions, immediately abandon them, then sell the slaves to the black market at the station for a large amount of money. Then you could do it again. And again. And again. Eventually the faction giving missions will hate you for constantly abandoning and will stop giving them out, but by then you've made a few hundred million credits with next to zero effort.
iDarkville · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is it still around since the patch? PM me details, nice gamer! :)
T1_Spork · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's been fixed for a while now
Pm_me_ur_signedboobs · 3 points · Posted at 13:35:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A buddy of mine recently told me that he spends less money paying tickets for illegally parking at the university than he would for a parking spot. In two semesters, he's paid about 150$ rather than about 600$ per semester.
PickleMouth222 · 3 points · Posted at 15:15:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At 16 I worked at a gas station that has a points system, a few points for water or snacks, etc. after something crazy like 500,000 points, which I imagine only truckers and travelers could rack up, you could turn in your points for $100 gift card. We would scan your members card, hit redeem rewards, then pick up a small receipt that would deduct the hundred dollars off of the gas gift cards that you could buy. I noticed all the barcodes were the same on the little receipt. After you scan the barcode you were told to just take the receipt, crinkle it up and toss it in the trash, but I would instead stack them in the bottom of the till. At the end of the night I would take them home, hand them out to all my friends and we had free gas for the entire summer.
Vwampage · 3 points · Posted at 15:51:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In my junior year of high school we did a 1920s stock market simulation. We got some starting money, could buy stocks in various companies in any combination, and could take out a loan equal to twice the cash we had on hand.
Each 'day' of the market I would sell off all the stocks I had, take out a loan equal to 2x current capital, pay off the previous loan, and then buy into stocks spaced evenly across the available companies.
It was the 1920s so I assumed everything would keep going up very quickly until some horrendous crash. Luckily, I had a friend who was a senior who had played this same game before and remembered that the crash happened on day ten.
So day nine comes around and I said to my group "why don't we just pay off the loan and hold onto the money?" and they went with it because we were so stupidly far ahead of every other group that it was fine.
The crash comes and the teacher asks for anyone with money left to tell him how much we have. I walk up with a shit eating grin and a note that says we have $10.35874 * 1023 in our account.
tl;dr Played a 20s stock market simulation in high school, ended up with about a mole of money and insider traded my way out of the crash.
qwertywiz3 · 3 points · Posted at 16:02:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was 15, I discovered that I could buy boxes of 100 DVDs off of ebay for $60, then sell them for $2-3 each at the local pawn shop for a profit of $140-240. Eventually they accused me of selling them fake DVDs, but I'm pretty sure they were just sick of me bringing them so many bad movies. I made about $1500 profit before it got to that point. Not bad for a 15 year old...
justanothergirling · 3 points · Posted at 17:53:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was around 8 or 9 at a pizza joint that had these arcade games. I lost a token in one and when I told the cashier, he stuck a long metal tool into the coin slot and a bunch of tokens came out. He gave me one and kept the rest. The next time I lost a token I told him I lost 4; he was suspicious about my claim when only 2 popped out initially but he kept going and eventually, more than 4 popped out and he gave me 4. At this point, I realized that a butter knife would fit into the coin slot enough to give me all the tokens I could use for the evening. Free games!
crusoe · 10 points · Posted at 03:48:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So much theft in this thread.
sbashe5 · 7 points · Posted at 01:20:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I worked at my first fast food job, the sheet to request off started on a Sunday and ended on saturday. So I would only ask off on Saturday and Sunday, and would work all through the week. So basically I got every weekend off for around 4 months before the scheduling manager noticed. Fast food is full of loopholes
911ChickenMan · 7 points · Posted at 03:20:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wait, I don't think I get this. Did you just request off every weekend?
Stanley_the_Manley · 3 points · Posted at 03:56:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Also confused about this one.
TheInternetShill · 2 points · Posted at 03:59:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't think I'm understanding what you did. Aren't you just asking for the weekend off?
gigastack · 6 points · Posted at 03:04:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
AOL's sign on a friend. Free 3.5" disks 4 lyfe. (I was my own friend.)
Clavo_PR · 2 points · Posted at 06:35:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"was"
FleaHunter · 5 points · Posted at 03:53:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
in gtav online when racing if you all place a wager on yourself and then dq a driver it would forfeit the race and award everyone maximum payout. We got tens of millions before they fixed it.
ccrexer · 5 points · Posted at 04:55:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A long time ago in a galaxy right here (Early '70s'), Dollar change machines were not very sophisticated. They just shined a light through the tray that you laid your dollar on, if it matched, you got your change. So, being the enterprising degenerate that I was, I went to my local drug store that had a copy machine that you could make a copy on 8.5X11 for .10 or 8.5X14 for .15. I laid dollar bills on the glass and made a shitload of $1 copies. Cut them to size and went to the local laundry-mat. I cleaned out the change machines, then went to the local do it yourself car wash and cleaned out that machine. BAM, instant free pinball! Yes, pinball, no vidya games yet. I ran this scam until someone a bit older than me explained that it was counterfeiting, a federal offense.
hab1b · 6 points · Posted at 05:22:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Costco has it written in their By Laws that if your dividend does not cover the cost of your next years membership then you didn't get legitimate value out of it. Thus they will cover the difference for the next membership.
A lot of the workers there do not know this, but every time I do it I just bring in a copy of their By Laws, they look it up on their own, and happily give me the membership for free less whatever my dividend was. EG: Last time my dividend was $17 so they took that money and comped the remaining $183 for me.
mikeymop · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Are you saving your receipts to calculate your dividend?
hab1b · 1 points · Posted at 06:22:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They mail you a dividend at the end of the year, It tells you exactly how much.
ImPinkSnail · 0 points · Posted at 06:12:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Where in the By Laws is this?
roarbenihime · 5 points · Posted at 02:51:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In call of duty modern warfare 3 (a video game), there was a glitch online where you could keep getting more prestige tokens. I kept exploiting the glitch and used the prestige tokens to unlock everything.
Juraraw · 6 points · Posted at 04:16:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At red Robin I've figured out how to order 8 boneless wings, bottomless fries and bottomless chips for 4.99.
BurntToaster9 · 3 points · Posted at 05:25:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
... Go on
Juraraw · 5 points · Posted at 05:40:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You order the small boneless wings appetizer and ask for fries instead of chips. Once you have fries on the table at red Robin they're automatically bottomless. And almost every time the server hasn't bothered to not bring out the chips which are the same deal.
Jesticles73 · 1 points · Posted at 06:43:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a red robin employee. It's a pretty great place to get unlimited food for a good deal. Add a employee discount on that. Ez profit.
lucklife · 5 points · Posted at 04:52:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Disclaimer: try at your own risk
The self-checkout line at my local Albertsons is fatally flawed. You take any item (oranges, steaks, string cheese, anything) and place it on the counter where you would usually scan or weigh the item, then instead of scanning it you go into the screen for items with no barcodes. You'll get a list of items like bananas and celery and whatever else from A to Z. I always select GARLIC (and this is the real loophole) because a prompt will come up that asks how many cloves am I getting and you enter it yourself. Basically what happens is you bypass the need to scan or weigh an item by substituting garlic and because we're user reporting the count, you can put anything and self-checkout will accept it, no problems. You'll only end up paying a couple bucks, walk out with a receipt and you can even ask an employee to help you out with your groceries.
I'm a college student without a steady income, so this little trick has saved me thousands of dollars in groceries over the years.
itsjero · 7 points · Posted at 04:43:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well prolly gonna bust myself out and ruin this exploit but it worked long enough for me.
Living in Washington state has it's ups and downs, and having Amazon is an upside for everyone but folks that live in this state. Gotta pay the man, so all orders from Amazon are taxed. My family lives in other states and doesn't have to pay tax on large items like tv's or anything else really. Very peanut butter and jelly.
So one holiday I got an Amazon gift card. Turns out if you use a gift card to pay no tax is added.
Well now anytime I want a big item I just go to the store, buy a gift card and they don't charge tax, then pay using said gift card.
Not a huge deal but on a big tv or expensive item, it can save hundreds.
furedad · 1 points · Posted at 06:23:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I wonder if you have to go to a store. Could you make an Amazon account in a state with no tax and buy gift cards online?
itsjero · 1 points · Posted at 08:23:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't know. If I pay with my credit card, I get taxed. Gift card, no tax. Don't even get taxed on gift card purchase at local store. Discovered it by mistake.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Really? Does this still happen?
itsjero · 1 points · Posted at 05:44:53 on March 3, 2017 · (Permalink)
Used to do it all the time. Been awhile but yeah.
devestations · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:19 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
I pay with gift cards and still pay tax.
Cholaus · 8 points · Posted at 03:33:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I only have to cry for 15 minutes before my girlfriend will give me the sex
schaudhery · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lucky.
Damocles2010 · 4 points · Posted at 03:42:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Loophole or theft? - but a woman in Australia - where supermarkets now have self serve checkouts - scanned and printed out her own sticky bar codes from cheap, instant noodles and stuck them over the higher priced items.
CCTV looked like she was scanning objects properly but they were priced at cheap noodle rates.
Supermarket found out when it was re-ordering shitloads of noodles that overflowed their storage area and shelves. No-one was buying that many noodles.
Shimakaze4 · 3 points · Posted at 04:39:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Made the classic mistake of over using it. If she had done it once a week and saved herself 100 bucks at a time, no one would have noticed.
Damocles2010 · 2 points · Posted at 06:11:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
She should have used a variety of cheaper products instead of just one line.
It actually wouldn't have been hard to make up a sheet with lots of different bar codes of cheap items.
The other problem was - she paid using her debit card - so the transaction - as it must be from self service checkouts - can be traced to her.
Shimakaze4 · 0 points · Posted at 06:59:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Self serve out my way you can pay with cash too.
Damocles2010 · 1 points · Posted at 07:14:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you are going to do something illegal - that is probably smart...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:25:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Damocles2010 · 1 points · Posted at 07:27:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't think that is correct. The self serve ones I use certainly don't because I scan them by hand and don't put them down.
Call BS all you want - then fuck off.
HERE is the news link
GrillPenetrationUnit · 5 points · Posted at 01:52:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One time i bought all the stock at my school store and turned it into a monopoly with a turnover of 800% as i controlled all supply. Its nothing to the genius of some of you guys, but i was proud of that.
DomSP · 2 points · Posted at 02:47:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had to do an essay in college about 2 films and compare aspects of them for my course, but I couldn't be bothered watching the movies so what I did was read the synopsis of both the film's on IMDB and did my essay that way, nobody has time to watch films when it would be quicker to read a synopsis
ant2k15 · 2 points · Posted at 03:07:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Seamless. I found a way to keep getting coupons as if I'm a new user , and I just keep using them whenever they send them. Coupons range from 7 - 15 dollars off. And I've been doing this for 3 Years. Got me through undergrad and then some.
AichSmize · 2 points · Posted at 03:09:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This was pre-cell phones. The lobby phone where I worked was normally restricted to in-building calls only. But, a certain 3-digit code connected to the full company phone network. Then, 9 got an outside line, and I could call anywhere.
I never abused it (no international calls, for example) but it was a great way to make calls without having to return to my office.
YoursTruli · 2 points · Posted at 03:15:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The old Dunkin Donuts app. At one point, they had a deal on the app where if you bought a medium hot coffee (or something), you got a free medium iced coffee. One of my friends was able to take a screenshot of this coupon, and use Snapchat (not even photoshop) to white-out the part that said the "with purchase of a medium hot coffee". All of sudden, we had a coupon that said "Free Iced Coffee" and a hot summer in New England ahead of us. You can imagine how that screenshot was utilized. We'd call it "running the gauntlet" and would use the same coupon at 4 or 5 different Dunkin Donuts in our neighboring towns in one trip. It was a sad, sad day when Dunkins updated their app, and made it impossible to take screenshots of deals and use them an infinite amount of times.
IntentionalTexan · 2 points · Posted at 03:18:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The coin op washers in my old apartments would get jammed all the time. Two quarters would get jammed in the return slot. Eventually the jammed up quarters would make it all the way up to the top and the machine would stop working. Someone in the office would tape up an "out of order" sign and call for repair. I figured out the issue and that a butter knife would free the jam. It was like like a slot machine. I didn't pay for laundry for two years.
StaffroomFruit · 2 points · Posted at 03:31:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Free cheese pizza with a coupon code that's just a 5 digit number divisible by three bad hasnt been used with pizza hut NZ.
09999 is where I started and just worked down
citizennsnipps · 2 points · Posted at 03:32:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had a drink vending machine with the cool belt grabber. If your drink was on the belt and you hit the money return, the drink would still come your way and you'd get your money back.
HideoshiKaze · 2 points · Posted at 03:32:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a Groupon code for our local dominos pizza for $50.
Let's just say that dominos never bothered to take my code for a whole year. When the time finally came for them To take it (I tipped the drivers regardless as I feel they bust their asses and deserve it anyways), there was already another Groupon code I got and just gave them that instead.
To this day I still use my $50 Groupon code that hasn't expired yet every now and then to order some pizza until they decide to take it from me lol.
tacknosaddle · 2 points · Posted at 03:34:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a summer job and there was a pizza/sub place across the road that had a lunchtime guarantee that if your food wasn't ready fifteen minutes from when you order it your next lunch was free. My friend and I would go there every Friday just after noon and it would always take more than fifteen minutes because they were so busy so we only paid for lunch the first week.
quackphotocone · 2 points · Posted at 03:35:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was younger and payphones were still a thing, you used to be able to make free calls is you had a drinking straw and a 50c (or greater) coin.
You just needed to put the coin in the phone, then insert the flattened straw in a small gap at the top of the coin return flap. It would hit some sort of lever inside, and cause the coin to drop down into the return slot.
Just take the straw out, grab your coin back, then make your call.
I must have done that for a few years before the fixed that.
forever_fantastic · 2 points · Posted at 03:38:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Paid 3 months gym membership upfront to try new gym out. Didn't check auto renew when I signed up. My membership card still scans at the front desk. Saved $50/month for like 7 months so far
crazyliquid · 2 points · Posted at 03:39:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In RuneScape, feathers sell for around 50 GP at the Grand exchange but you can buy them for 6 GP at fishing shops. So you buy 1000 feathers for 6 GP each, then sell them all for 50 GP each making around 44,000 in a minute or so.
if6was90 · 2 points · Posted at 03:44:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Figured our how to put my college's vending machine into test mode and get as much free stuff from it as I wanted. That included sandwiches, books and even a calculator!
Did something similar with a pre pay electricity meter system when I was in college housing. It worked by punching a card so we opened it up and disabled the punch. We could reuse cards as much as we needed. We only used this occasionally as we didn't want to get caught though.
slothywaffle · 2 points · Posted at 03:45:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can use that free scoop from Baskin Robbins coupon A LOT! It's supposed to be one scoop on your birthday. I printed out a bunch and had a free scoop almost every day for 2 weeks. Thanks guys!
linux1970 · 2 points · Posted at 03:46:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Free dialup internet from 1stup back in 1999/2000.
They put ads on your screen and you get free internet.
I quickly found a way to completely bypass the ads and got ad-free unlimited dial up for a year.
Downloading 650mb ISO of windows 2000 took a very on time on 56k
GOATPROPHET22 · 2 points · Posted at 03:54:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
for my AP science class (12th grade) we have our regular tests every once in a while. Well I took a test one day and I remembered a question on it. I looked up the question because I wanted to see if I got it right. Turns out the whole test was online and I still study off that. If I ever get caught I can make a case that I technically am using it to study for the test. In fact the website says test "preparation" not answers. Also I don't just memorize the answers. I genuinely take the test prep first (I actually do well) and then I memorize the answers. Plus there are some questions on the test that aren't on their because only multiple choice questions are on the test prep. I get those questions correct as well. I'd say I get around 102% on all my tests as an average (tests are worth 65% of my grade). Even if I didn't use it I'd still get around a 95% so it's not like I'm too dependent on it. I do it for one reason. So that I don't have to do all the HW I get in the class (HW is worth 15%) and can enjoy my free time since I have all AP classes and I play sports.
iLikeQuotes · 2 points · Posted at 03:55:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I found a glitch in a Minecraft server, back when I played it, which I could exploit to suddenly spawn thousands of entities in, lagging out the area and somewhat the server. I used this glitch to punish anyone that annoyed me or my friend. Good times.
Steel_Forged · 2 points · Posted at 03:57:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In my high school senior year we had four 90 min classes but the handbook stated to be counted as present I only had to attend each class for 60 min. I only used this for my first class since I didn't want to ruin the exploit too soon. It was nice sleeping in every day.
whatsdup · 2 points · Posted at 03:57:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Outback Steakhouse. Order water while I think of my meal, get a loaf of bread in the meantime and then decide I don't want to eat there. As a teenager I've done this plenty of times.
wutwhatt · 2 points · Posted at 03:57:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Worked at a Bertucci's. If you get a side order of meatballs it comes two in an order and is pretty cheap. Combine those meatballs with their amazing rolls and you got yourself some damn cheap and delicious meatball sliders.
Lynerd · 2 points · Posted at 03:59:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In December 2015 Starbucks had an offer of "get a free cup of our Christmas blend beans" if you showed the baristas your email. I went to 2 different Starbucks and got 2 free cups of beans.
IShootWithThisHand · 2 points · Posted at 04:05:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My cable provider had a promo of 3 months free hbo and Cinemax. I'd call and add it then call in 3 months and cancel. The next day I'd call and add it on again. I did it for 3 years before I moved to an area that provider didn't cover.
jphive · 2 points · Posted at 04:06:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If i tell you, everyone will do it and then it will be fixed so it doesn't work any more.
RanaktheGreen · 2 points · Posted at 04:06:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I found out there was a Dominoes Pizza coupon for 1 large any number of toppings pizza for 8.99. It came with a coupon code you had to enter to use it online and the code itself seemed to be unique to my University. Found out a few things about it: 1. The coupon could be reused as many times as I wished. 2. The coupon could be used at ANY Dominoes location.
Result: Me, and my entire friend group (Some who live across country), got cheap 5 topping or more large pizzas for 9 bucks for 4 months before the promotion ended.
SlaughterHouze · 2 points · Posted at 04:06:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I stole a sim card out of a Verizon phone at the store one time and it worked for a little over two years, completely free texting, data, and calling.
t3hxman · 2 points · Posted at 04:08:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A bar I frequented in my late teens had a couple of pinball machines. One night a mate and I got there pretty early and it was kind of quiet so we decided to play pinball for a bit. On inserting a coin we heard a crash coming from the change return but the game fired up anyway. Found $8 in the change tray and played free pinball all night. It had been fixed by the time I went back though.
mercurialchemister · 2 points · Posted at 04:08:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've told this story before, but back in about 2000 Best Buy and Microsoft had a promotion where you could get a $300 Best buy shipping spree if you signed up for 3 years of service through Microsoft's dialup ISP. At $20/mo, bad deal, right?
The fine print? Service not cancelable except in California and Oregon.
I took my $300 of loot and called to cancel that week.
They had to shut down the promotion when they realized word got out.
moviepoopshot · 2 points · Posted at 04:10:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Remember the Tupac lyric "1-800-skypage when you wanna see me"? Turns out that was a real service back before cell phones. You'd setup an account tied to a credit card and load money on your account. Then you could go to any pay phone, dial 1-800-skypage, put in your numerical pw and make free calls. We tried random number combinations until we got one that worked. We used it for about 6 months before it stopped working.
TheSturdyBisexual · 2 points · Posted at 04:10:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At church camp, we figured out that if you punched the side of the vending machine, two light would go on and give you a free credit. We ate like Kings!
BladeMaster666 · 2 points · Posted at 04:12:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Probably late to this but; shack shack has a free burger promotion for new accounts made on the mobile app which basically takes 5.50 off your order. I've been making new accounts for the past month and eating that for my lunch everyday with cheese fries. Offer ends on the 28th so I'm going to have to start paying for lunch. :(
jmanpc · 2 points · Posted at 04:12:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At Dave and Buster's, there was a game where you had to position and drop a hoop around a cylinder. If you lined it up just right, the hoop wouldn't touch the cylinder, and touch the bottom of the game and you'd win tickets.
Well this particular machine was set up so that if you just held the right button until it spotted moving, then dropped the hoop, you'd win 50 tickets every time. So I played until the machine was out of tickets, then waited for it to be refilled, then ran it out of tickets again. I guess an employee watched because the next time they moved the cylinder a smidge.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:12:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Taking a screenshot of a Dunkin Donuts e-coupon and getting free coffee daily.
shildot · 2 points · Posted at 04:14:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Iowa, there's video slot machines in most bars. One particular gambling machine I have figured out a system that I literally never lose. I don't abuse it to badly. Once a month nets around $50-200 depending on how it goes.
Smole388 · 2 points · Posted at 04:14:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to work as a cashier at a local grocery store. As an incentive for us to encourage customers to take surveys, we would get a five dollar cash card (in store only). Two of the other cashiers would take tons of surveys for themselves. They would get like $150 dollars a week from that shit, until the store manager changed and put an end to that shit.
Ichabod89 · 2 points · Posted at 04:15:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I worked at batteries plus a couple years ago. Particular batteries sold have a commission varying from 1 - 10 dollars per battery. We also build battery packs, weather for a power drill, electric razors, battery backups. One day a maintenance guy from a local apartment complex came in with a big order of emergency exit sign battery backups. He had to have brought in 60 or so batteries that I had to build manually. Noticing the batteries looked very similar to a cordless phone battery that had a dollar commission on it, rather than building every pack from scratch, I unpacked 60 of those batteries, spot welded the positive and negative leads where they had to go, and made myself an extra 60 bucks that day.
dressinbrass · 2 points · Posted at 04:16:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The dial in number and password to the attendance computer in high school.
Jumaai · 1 points · Posted at 06:20:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure that's a felony.
dressinbrass · 1 points · Posted at 13:33:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes
Vox_Populi98 · 1 points · Posted at 05:30:20 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
How did you find out...
Temporalwar · 2 points · Posted at 04:16:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Found a HP part number for a Intel Enterprise grade SSD, only 10% the retail price. Let's just say we bought a pallet and sold them for half retail and made a chunk of money.
Vox_Populi98 · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:19 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
So uh... You still got any of them SSD... And ways to order a pallet of it
jnnnnn · 2 points · Posted at 04:16:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Airhogging
Vox_Populi98 · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:39 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
KSP!
baylithe · 2 points · Posted at 04:18:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Missing Number cheat in the original Pokémon Red and Blue games. I was the first kid in my class to find out about it, so I'd charge 5 bucks to get someone's Charizard level 100 in a day. Once the rest of the class figured out what to do my monopoly fell apart. Made almost a hundred bucks as a 4th grader.
gingerninja361 · 2 points · Posted at 04:19:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I found out that someone had registered the number 867-5309 (with a local area code) at Safeway. That number had $0.30 off the gallon's worth of fuel points and something like a 20% discount in store. I probably saved something like $50 before it stopped working.
CadeTheHuman · 2 points · Posted at 04:20:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
during the school photos week they accedentaly printed out my ASB card with the staff format, including the internet access and a bar-code on the back that allows me into all vending machines, theater, lunch pay and a few others. i go to the theater with my bag of whatever i want to eat and drink and my school computer with now access to unblocked internet to watch Netflix during lunch
zoooN · 2 points · Posted at 04:20:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Earned money by buying certain pre owned games cheap and sell them back to GameStop for more money. Bug in their system and we worked with shitty pay.
alexbooth · 2 points · Posted at 04:21:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in college, I couldn't afford Amazon Prime, but really wanted it. I had a google business mail account from a blog I had, so I just kept creating new new email addresses on my domain and kept getting 30 day free trials of Prime. This went on for years until I could afford it and was tired of making new email addresses.
MotownMoses · 2 points · Posted at 04:21:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In high school we found this old vending machine upstairs (there was only one classroom upstairs.. It was a small high school), we could just stick our hands in and pull out cans of pop. They kept that thing stocked too. It was cool.
polio23 · 2 points · Posted at 04:21:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Idk if this works anymore but it was a fairly well known secret in gaming exploit communities but if you changed your default currency to Brazilian real on the blizzard site you could get basically any transaction for about half the price in terms of realm transfers, race changes, etc.
slelham · 2 points · Posted at 04:21:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
About 10 years ago in high school. Teachers had software to block our computers from going on the internet. I found out if I unplug my Ethernet and plug it back in I was getting a new ip which was then not in the list of IP's to block and allowing me to surf the web. I told one person and it spread like a wildfire. That year I graduated but I still had high school friends that told me that they changed their entire system
Exvaris · 2 points · Posted at 04:24:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when I had more time, I used to buy prepaid gift cards with my credit card, load the gift cards into an American Express Bluebird account, then transfer the funds back to my bank.
Was able to rack up hundreds of thousands of miles this way with minimal cost, although eventually the CC companies caught up and only allowed the gift cards to be purchased with cash.
Doesn't nearly compare to the old dollar coin days, but it was decent. Haven't done much churning nowadays though.
Bahaman23 · 1 points · Posted at 04:38:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Come over to /r/churning!
Exvaris · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've taken a peek in once or twice! I used to be on FlyerTalk a lot too, but nowadays I feel like I just don't have the time - working in management plus grad school in the evenings plus a new baby at home has made me not worry about manufactured spend.
I will probably think about getting back into it soonish. I remember being kind of put off by the sort of elitist / secret society feel from some people though. A lot of people want to protect their secrets.
pleasuretohaveinclas · 2 points · Posted at 04:25:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to buy lots of 50 or 100 CDs on ebay and take them in to used music stores and sell them for 3x what I paid.
spikebrian · 2 points · Posted at 04:25:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There used to be a loophole with the old iphone 2g through at&t to get grandfathered into the unlimited data plan .
You would buy your phone, insert your SIM card, and sign up for the unlimited 2g data plan through iTunes. This would grandfather you into the unlimited data plan.
Several of my friends used that old phone to sign up for the plan until it sadly got patched in iTunes.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:25:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Free boxes from USPS back in the day. Sent hundreds of those to people I wanted to prank, or get back at.
Gummymyers124 · 2 points · Posted at 04:27:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I failed math in 8th grade and so I had to go to summer school. Thing is though, we were moving and switching school districts so I never actually had to go to Summer school.
Crxh22d · 2 points · Posted at 04:28:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sprite used to have 1 in 20 "free soda" written under their bottle caps. In the late 90s I was a bottle boy (stocked bottles at the local gas station) and I would hold the bottle up under the light and look for winners. I won so much sprite.
eddmario · 2 points · Posted at 04:28:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've done the save-punch-reload trick in Skyrim.
mcdinkleberry · 2 points · Posted at 04:28:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can't be sad if I'm dead inside.
blabberdill · 2 points · Posted at 04:28:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dagger trick in skyrim. Loved that shit.
ToshieZ · 2 points · Posted at 04:29:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There used to be an Amazon Coin deal with 4 free games and the last being GTA: San Andreas. The 4 games all gave $4 worth of coins and GTA: SA costed $4. The catch was that GTA:SA gave you $20 for buying it off the Amazon Marketplace/App Store. I made a quick script that fetch random American addresses for the required info and started creating accounts.
Long story short, exploited Amazon coins worth $8000 and spent it all on some random game I was playing at the time.
Sybre · 2 points · Posted at 04:30:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in highschool, there were 4 vending machines. 2 that were normal, one extremely old, one brand new. Both the old one and new one I was able to exploit. The old one never worked properly. It didn't take bills, never gave back change, it was a hunk of junk. Well it turns out, while things were listed as like $.50 to $2.00, if you pressed the letter button first, put in any coin, then pressed the number button, it would vend anything.
The new vending machine was a bit different. It had a card reader on it, and was run by a raspberry pi (mini computer). Other members of our robotics team and I did some research and found out that the vending machine is connected to the wifi to do card charges. So we bought $5 gift cards, unplugged the wifi adapter from the ethernet port and do a charge. Turns out, when it has no ethernet connection, the charge fails but the machine vends. We practically lived off those machines considering we would stay at school until like 9:00pm working on our robot.
cyberrich · 2 points · Posted at 04:30:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Craigslist before they hid the email in the personals section.
Sqli
MySpace layout phishing
Unrated google http login
HempmanRx · 2 points · Posted at 04:31:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
GameStops 7 day no questions asked return.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:31:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My university's housing is handled by a private company that also takes care of food. They charge us around $6.5 - $9.00 per dish, which is kinda expensive.
The loophole? The person in charge of handling prices is lazy. All side dishes are $1.5 in some tiny box that no one looks at, and often, not much thought is put into what is a "side dish". Almost everyday, something fancy like Au Gratin Potatoes or biscuits with mushroom gravy is served alongside some cheap salad, and the Au Gratin potatoes is labelled as $1.5 if I order it separately. I feast like a king on a paupers budget now and I don't plan on stopping.
Epic_Mind_Blow · 2 points · Posted at 04:31:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Costco used to have a return policy on appliances that would not expire. Any appliance bought before April 2015 (I'm not sure of the date) could be brought back at any point for a full refund. Needless to say, a lot of people took advantage, and are still taking advantage of that.
FlightlessBird918 · 2 points · Posted at 04:31:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If I prepaid for gas at a local gas station with my credit card, they would refund me with cash instead of back onto my card. I got 'cash advances' on it any time I wanted to buy marijuana in college. Maxed the card out real fast. Only took 4 about 4 years to pay that card off, but that was a fun year. As an adult, I actually have actual money in the bank, and I can just buy it in a store.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They did this?
paycadicc · 2 points · Posted at 04:32:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At my school, you can charge lunch if you don't have cash on you. I used to always bring lunch but I didn't one day and had no money so I decided to charge lunch. I got a sandwich and went to charge and the lunch lady said that I'm "class B" or something, which never happened to me before. Keep In mind this is in the middle of the year. So she said I got it for free. I've been getting lunch for free all the time now. That was last year and it still works this year. And no, I'm not on financial aid with the school or anything. I don't want to ask why I've been getting free lunch because I'm afraid it will end. Lol maybe last day of senior year
FprtuneREX · 2 points · Posted at 04:32:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I worked for a phone provider in the mall they had a promotion where if you signed in with their free wifi you would get a free sub from subway. Everytime I activated a phone I used the wifi to get a free sub. I ate subway for like 4 months before they stopped.
apocalypticradish · 2 points · Posted at 04:32:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
With Amazon Prime, I used to be able to get a next day delivery package even if I did the two day delivery by ordering early in the morning. If there was something I wanted, I'd make sure to buy it at like, 7 AM and it would be shipped out and often in state by night time. It would then go out for delivery the next day. This was really handy for items where the next day shipping cost was high, since two day shipping is free. Amazon got wise to this because any time I've tried it since, the package ends up sitting in the distribution center for a day before going out for delivery.
PairOfParedPears · 2 points · Posted at 04:32:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got a new credit card with a promo where you would get a $500 bonus for spending $1000 each month for 3 months or something like that. Each month I would buy an item like a TV from Costco, then return it a few days later. Most of the time companies will just credit the money back to the account it came from, but Costco would just give me cash which I would then use to pay off my credit card bill. In the end, I got the $500 bonus without spending a dime because the credit card company had no way of knowing the items had been returned.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How long ago was this? Does Costco let you do this.... Get the money back via cash? They always asked if I want it back in the CC. I would just say yes because I assumed they would only give me store credit.
PairOfParedPears · 1 points · Posted at 22:09:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This was a couple years ago. I haven't tried it with any big items since, but I returned a printer a couple months ago and they gave me back cash no problem even though I paid with a card.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hmm, I'll try this with their own version of go pro. It's like $400
coolradish69 · 2 points · Posted at 04:33:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in middle school I was in an esteemed academic program in the school where we worked on projects and competed all the time, we started using it as an excuse to get out of class and the instructor didn't care so the only thing I would really do all day was mess around outside in the woods outside my school...I'm still surprised I even graduated middle school since the only class I regularly attended was math
produce_this · 2 points · Posted at 04:33:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The skill book trick in Skyrim. Maxed out my stats in 10 min.
UserColonAl · 2 points · Posted at 04:33:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when Borders operated in Australia, they used to send out discount coupons periodically for their mailing list members that weren't unique, meaning that you could print the same coupon out multiple times and use them all successfully.
They were also very generous, and vague. Often along the lines of 'Get 50% off any full priced item' and the like. I got countless books, box sets, expensive coffee table books etc at drastically reduced costs. Used to print the coupons out 50 times while at work and hand them out to colleagues, friends and family.
It's no surprise to me at all that they went out of business in Australia. These coupons were ridiculously generous, were sent out frequently, and free of restrictions.
giobbistar21 · 2 points · Posted at 04:34:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In fantasy baseball, I put starters in relief pitcher spots to gain extra points.
In fantasy football, I sub players in off the manager menu in order to get higher scores.
vomirrhea · 2 points · Posted at 04:34:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had a Happy Joe's (kids pizza and game place) I'm my town with ski ball machines. There is a button on top of the machines that releases more ski balls without ever putting in a token. I would win hundreds of tickets without spending a single cent
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:35:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is it only Google voice numbers where this isn't allowed?
NotBuyinUrIsh · 2 points · Posted at 04:35:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A vegan food delivery service had a loophole on their ordering form. Apparently they had a groupon for a free 1 month supply of meals but on the website it just asked for you to "click here" if you'd bought the groupon. I clicked it. Three times. One for each address I had access to. Then did the same for my friends and coworkers. I ate well for months. The company eventually changed it.
Valstorm · 2 points · Posted at 04:35:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I moved in to my new rental property I transferred over all utilities including my Gas account. Well shortly after I had moved in somebody else accidentally used the same address as my new property when they switched their utilities over to their new address.
In Victoria, Australia (where this happened) the billing companies are often a separate company from the suppliers for power and gas, they also have a poorly thought out system with no safeguards in place to prevent this sort of thing happening.
After about 4-5 months I realised that I wasn't being billed for my gas. I called my gas company to figure out why and they told me I had transferred my gas to another billing company when I moved in to the new property. I called the other billing company, the one referred by my original biller, and they were unable to find me in their system as a customer.
After talking with a few reps from both companies I figured out that the mystery person who somehow accidentally listed my address as they changed gas billers had only half completed the migration process over the phone. The side-effect of this was that my property was receiving a gas supply but not listed in any customer directory for a billing company. It's the equivilent of best friends telling their parents they are both sleeping at each other's house for the night.
I did a bit more digging and discovered that gas companies can only enforce back payments for max 6 months under Australian law. So instead of jumping through a slew of red tape to get the property relisted for gas billing I just did nothing and waited for somebody to call me back... for 18 months.
Eventually I had to get the listing fixed before my supply was tapped off as the residence was declared officially abandoned by the utility company, but I had about $3,000 wiped off my billing back pay.
__j_o_s_h__ · 2 points · Posted at 04:36:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I am very indecisive and also like to "gamble"
When using a soda/vending machine I typically hit the buttons of the items I can't decide between simultaneously. When I was a kid they installed a soda machine up the street from me. I found out if you pressed Cherry Coke and Mr. Pibb at the same time it would give you two Mr. Pibb. I drank a lot of Mr. Pibb growing up.
DancingPaul · 2 points · Posted at 04:36:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Restaurant by me has a pretty well appointed salad bar. $8.99. It also has lunch and dinner entree specials. You can add the salad bar for $2.99. So on Sunday order an entree, add salad bar option, eat salad bar, and entree goes directly in to-go box for lunch at work Monday.
obsidiandubstep · 2 points · Posted at 04:37:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can get half price cinema tickets for a year in the UK by buying any kind of insurance from compare the market. I bought some £2.10 one day travel insurance. Pays for itself in one trip
ErythDey · 2 points · Posted at 04:37:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was in high school when I would do this. But I would buy games at Game Stop and would return it within the 7 days allotted, but play and pass it before then. So I would get the experience of the game, and not spend money. Eventually they caught on and I could only do it 3 times before I had to keep the game, but after that I would start a new cycle to essentially "rent" the game.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:37:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was this pizza place down at the beach that would give you a receipt with a survey on it. If you filled it out you got a slice of pizza for free...
which they gave you another receipt for.
Loken89 · 2 points · Posted at 04:38:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had Straight Talk and always waited for my subscription to be up before paying for the next month. Well, one month it just never went off. Checked my account, no money taken out, so I kept my mouth shut. After a year or so, my phone got messed up and I had to call, where they fixed the problem. 2 months later, the same thing happened. Had a free cell for about 2-3 years before I got a job that required a larger service area, I miss it. To my knowledge, it's a pretty well known glitch in their system, and it still happens today.
Mikeb1123 · 2 points · Posted at 04:38:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I remember in high school, me and my friends would go through a taco bell drive through in our area and order our food like normal. After getting through the drive through, we would park, go inside, and tell the cashier that they forgot one of our food items or drink. We would always just get it no questions asked.
We started escalating from fiesta potatoes or a taco to more expensive items or even multiple items. Never got caught, always got it no questions asked. Between the turnover being high and teenagers not giving a shit, we got tons of free taco bell by just stating it was forgotten in the drive through.
schaudhery · 1 points · Posted at 21:56:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a teenager I would pull up, grab food, drive forward 10 feet, place some food under driver seat, put car in reverse, and tell them they forgot some of my items.
kefkameta · 2 points · Posted at 04:39:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had an xbox 360 in high school. my dad let me skip a couple of days of class to try to flash the firmware on it. I figured it out on the start of the third day and i figured out how to play burned games. There was a video game rental chain (regional) in my town and if you went on their website, you could print off a rental for one free video game rental for one day. No limit apparently because I used a fuck ton of those coupons to copy the game, return it, rent another free one and copy that. Had probably around 150 copied xbox 360 games AND THEN I GOT THE RED RING A YEAR LATER );
TLDR; was able to play copied games on xbox 360, exploited 1 day rental coupon bc the store figured I would forget to return and pay late fees. didn't forget and wound up with over 150 copied xbox 360 games. then red ring
StutteringGamer · 2 points · Posted at 04:40:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't know if this counts but in Ratchet and Clank 1 if you use the Robot Cloaking thing then you speak to the Blackwater Race Hostess you'll glitch and be walking from here you go to the final big jump with all the boxes get out the Taunter weapon hold O and it breaks the boxes while regenerating them. Best way to get the RYNO
w0673438 · 2 points · Posted at 04:40:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I live on the Canadian American border which certain areas can turn to roaming- well I go to trips in America as far as Florida or as little as Detroit racking up my phone bill roaming charges in the hundreds ( highest I've had was 750$). I call them every time I do this and tell them " I live in a border city and my phone goes to roaming when I'm at work" no questions ask they credit the roaming amount. Honestly have done this for about 8 years. If they were smart and looked at where the roaming was coming from they wouldn't be crediting me over a grand a year off my bill
Chalico · 2 points · Posted at 04:40:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My jobs work week is Sat - Friday , I worked 6 nights.
Now I would do over night on Friday at clock in at 8 pm well I found out my hours I get into Friday will carry over till I clock out on Saturday. So I would stay on the clock for 20 hrs with out being there.
I averaged 20-30 hrs overtime a week doing this
jamthat · 2 points · Posted at 04:40:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not sure if this counts, but around 11 years ago I got a coupon code for a well know ski/snowboard company's website that was good for 75% off a single item, one time only. Got it from a friend who worked at a store that sold their gear.
Turns out it could be used for unlimited items, multiple times. I enjoyed my next few seasons
MegaNerd42 · 2 points · Posted at 04:40:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some software that has a free trial period will let you keep downloading the software, therefore refreshing the trial period.
G1bs0nNZ · 1 points · Posted at 05:03:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And then there's the WinRAR trial period...
mrs_bar_rat · 2 points · Posted at 04:40:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I found a loophole in a carpark once in New Zealand. You had to take your ticket from a machine, keep it with you, then put it into the auto pay machine when you were about to leave and pay your parking fee for the time you had been there. Except I discovered by accident that if you put the ticket into the auto machine right when you arrived, then it was free, because it assumed you had been there for less than an hour (which you had, because you just arrived). There was no other way for anyone to check how Long your car was actually sat there for, so it was brilliant, I got like a year's worth of free parking until they fixed it. Felt bad sometimes but then also fuck the parking rates in Auckland.
Redditenmo · 2 points · Posted at 04:41:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've found out how to get free parking at Wilsons carparks
viktor72 · 2 points · Posted at 04:41:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you have an international flight that's delayed, complain! Airlines care a lot about international flights and there are laws, especially in the EU, on compensation for delays or cancellations. Do this especially if you are a frequent flier with that company.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Care to elaborate on an example?
Tucker4President · 2 points · Posted at 04:41:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm way late by now, but why not. I was in a fantasy football league (12 teams) with the weirdest reward system I've ever played. It was $300 buy in, and the winner of the whole league made something like $500. However, each week the top WR group (most yards total) and top Defensive group (most tackles total) each were rewarded $50 Well, my father (Co-Owner) and I threw the overall scoring out the window and focused exclusively on cycling WR's who averaged high yardage totals and defensive players who had a high number of tackles per game or played a heavy run team. We ended up winning something around $1,200 despite coming in near last place. We were not invited back the following year lmao.
lucky_harms458 · 2 points · Posted at 04:41:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
diamond glitch in minecraft back in the day. MAXED IT OUT
Lurkthedoor · 2 points · Posted at 04:41:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The one loophole in female psychology
forgetfulcoder · 2 points · Posted at 04:42:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This exploit involved two mods for Minecraft 1.7.10: Applied Energistics 2 and Extra Utilities. AE2 has this thing called a Formation Plane, it basically lets you either place blocks or spawn the item as an entity in the world. XU has a block called the Ender Collector, what it does is pick up item entities before they spawn in the world and place them in an adjacent inventory. The purpose of this is that it reduces the lag that mob grinders would make when mobs drop loot.
Now for the exploit. If you give the formation plane a very expensive item to spawn but have the ender collector nearby, the collector will pick up the item but the item that the formation plane has never gets consumed.
So you have a dupe bug that can't be fixed short of disabling the ender collector.
O_Apples · 2 points · Posted at 04:43:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was one time Best Buy had GTA V on sale for half off, so it was $30 +tax. The trade in value for GTA V was $30, but they had a 50% bonus so the trade in total was $45. Each copy of GTA V I bought that day made me $12.
That was a fun weekend. I think they realized what was up and now cut the trade in value when the game goes on sale.
I've never played a GTA game in my life.
shitfuckedmeup2 · 2 points · Posted at 04:44:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I lived in a backpacker hostel for 9 months after moving to a new city. I paid $80/week for rent because I did menial maintenance when I knocked off work like silicone sinks, remove locks left on abandoned lockers, tighten bolts on the bunk beds etc. I had a master key to the whole building and access to find out which rooms were empty, but I digress.
On the balcony there was a coin operated pool table. It took $2 coins and the system was the kind where you place a coin in a slot then push a slide to deposit the money. Well, thanks to the combined stinginess that is backpackers and a kind fellow that showed us this trick, we played free pool every day.
Take a cotton ear bud and pull the cotton off one end. Put the bare end into the slot and wiggle it around a bit while slowly pushing the slide in. About 1/2 - 3/4 of the way in you'll feel the ear bud slip into a little notch. With a bit of minor adjusting of the slide you will get it to slide all the way in (about 10mm). When this happens, push the slide in the rest of the way. It'll chop off the end and register it as a coin.
Every time the guy came to collect the money from the machine he would bitch and complain to the front desk that he was being cheated out of money. Nobody cared, not even the owner, because he got fuck all from the payment for the table (10c from every $2 went to the hostel)..
I don't see why this system wouldn't work with other slide-style payment machines, but I haven't tried it on any.
MewtwoStruckBack · 2 points · Posted at 04:44:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Think I'm a bit late here but I managed to get 102 copies of The Legend of Zelda 4 game collector's disc for free from Nintendo. That marked the end of Nintendo running good promos, in favor of their Nintendo coin bullshit they're doing now.
Years ago, Nintendo offered a promotion where they gave away The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition disc for the Gamecube, in three different ways:
Purchasing a Nintendo Power subscription would get that as the free gift. This in and of itself was +EV, as the subscription was $20 and the game was eBaying for $30-35 at the time. This is probably why the rest of this went unnoticed for so long.
New GameCube systems being sold in the store that holiday season included the collector's edition disc as a pack-in.
Nintendo was marketing four new games at the time - 1080 Snowboarding, Mario Kart: Double Dash, Mario Party 5, and Mario + Luigi: Superstar Saga. If you purchased any two of these, took the included PINs included with the games, and registered those numbers on your My Nintendo account along with your GameCube serial number, this would qualify you to have a free copy of the collector's edition mailed to you.
Number 3 was exploitable in many, many ways:
-One person could have an unlimited number of MyNintendo accounts, even if the addresses matched, and the last names, so long as the first names were different. (Guessing this is because two siblings in the same household, roommates, etc. may want to have separate accounts.)
-You were able to use the same GameCube Serial # on a vast number of MyNintendo accounts; when this stopped working, I found that the GameCube Serial # pattern was the exact same pattern that is used for Delivery Confirmation numbers at the post office - seriously, if you have an old GameCube, take the number, and add 1, 6, 7, or 17 to the number, and one of those four results will conjure up another valid GC Serial.
-Game rental places, as well as some game stores like GameStop, would just take the discs out of the display boxes and keep them behind the counter, but would leave all other information in with the displays - including the PINs. (Yes, I realize this resulted in people buying a game from GameStop and being told their PIN was already used if they went to register. Odds are a call to Nintendo explaining the situation would get them a new PIN.)
-For some readson, adding 1 letter or number (turning A into B, or 4 into 5 for example) to a valid PIN conjured up one more valid PIN. Exceptions being J turned into 2 and Z turned into 9 for some odd reason. I never questioned it, trial and error just proved those to be the two exceptions.
So that holiday season, I made a mass run to all the game stores/rental places in the area, copied down all the PINs (and a few GC Serials from Best Buy for good measure) and got to work registering all this.
At one point I even had the gall to call up Nintendo because they sent me one less game than I had coming to me, the support person saw that I had all these accounts, I told them which games had come in and which one didn't, and no questions asked, was sent a copy of the game to cover the one that didn't arrive.
I ended up getting 102 copies of the game and was eBaying them at a pretty penny. Oddly enough, I found out that Nintendo had left my scam unchecked, but put the screws to people who were mass-subscribing people (and listing "Zelda game plus free Nintendo Power subscription" for $34.99 + shipping on eBay)...so someone who had been cut off and still had to supply customers ended up buying most of my remaining copies to fulfill orders Nintendo would no longer let them process.
Oddly enough, by doing all these registrations, I fond out six months after the fact that I had won a contest for a free GBA game that paid out one free game per every couple hundred people that registered their system. I guess Nintendo figured "Hey, he got all these games, why not one more?"
tl;dr; found several exploits in a free video game promotion, conned Nintendo into mailing me 102 copies of the game at no charge, made $3,000.
icemanerich · 2 points · Posted at 04:44:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Way back when in high school my chemistry teacher was insane. All his tests eye multiple choice but he was a genius at making every answer plausible. If you could make one little mistake in a ten minute problem, that answer would be one of the choices.
He graded on a curve because he knew his tests were so hard. 40% would usually be an A. 25% would usually be a B or so.
It didn't take long for me to figure out that if I just guessed on every question, I'd get around a 25%. So...i could sit and take a 75 minute test during the last period of class or I could finish the test before the teacher was done handing them out and leave school grounds 73 minutes. Yeah. Easy call.
I got a B in the class. Didn't learn an ounce of chemistry but majored in accounting later.
Redwoodsilouette · 2 points · Posted at 04:44:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My high school had a soda machine in the boys locker room. It was the only soda machine that wasn't programmed to be off until after school.
The locker room also had old showers that were never used so the lights were off in that area. I dropped a soda I bought from the machine and it rolled into the showers. I grabbed it and noticed there were stacks of something in the corner.
They kept all the back stock soda that didn't fit in the machine back there, I let all my friends know and we all unloaded our backpacks of books and filled them with bottles of soda. Hands down still my favorite day of school.
schaudhery · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sounds like where I went to school in MD
Mmfksn · 2 points · Posted at 04:45:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Used to buy thousands of currency from treasury on my credit Card for the point. Free shipping.
Got a few free airline tickets and a bunch of gift cards
vqel · 2 points · Posted at 04:46:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A couple of years ago in TF2, I was really big into trading. At the time, the main currency of the game was the "key", an item used to inbox crates for more items. They were steadily raising in price and also had a range. I made a bot account that purchased keys from people for about 5% less than average, and then resold them for about 5% more. Eventually, I got to about 200 keys. Sold them for about $1.80 PayPal each, easy money since I only invested about 5 dollars into the game. Since then though people like me made the makeshift economy go to shit and nobody sells keys anymore. RIP.
Dk-79 · 2 points · Posted at 04:46:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Free USPS boxes.
Mass_Nine · 2 points · Posted at 04:47:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a vending machine where I used to work that had a weird issue. If you put a twenty dollar bill in it the machine would read it as five dollars and then you could buy whatever you wanted. Then if you unplugged it and plugged it back in it would spit out the change from the "five" it thought you put in and give you your twenty back. Needless to say it was great. Who doesn't like free food and money?
wrestlingfan007 · 2 points · Posted at 04:47:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Always let someone go to the top rope when you have a catch finisher. Most people don't realize it exists and hitting a Sweet Chin Music from mid air is quite nice.
BattlefieldNinja · 2 points · Posted at 04:48:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
About a year ago, a vending machine at my high school got broken. I figured out that if I hit it in just the right way, coins would flood the coin return slot. Everyday after school I would come to get a few dollars. Keep in mind that 3 bucks a day is a lot for a high school without a car or job.
93907 · 2 points · Posted at 04:49:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to play Minecraft. On one of the early servers, they had set up this economy system. You could buy and sell items from your inventory. Well if you got to the market at the right time, midnight I think, then you could sell an apple without it leaving your inventory. So you could sell this one apple over and over, $5 entering your account but no apple leaving. I went to the market, clicked on the sell button and left a weight on my mouse so it would click all night long. Woke up with over $150k in the account.
SirDuckingtonI · 2 points · Posted at 04:49:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Use an empty visa gift card for "free 30 day trials" - "$19.99 charged after 30 day free trial". Every 30 days, I lose my membership because the card doesn't go through then make a new account.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 14:34:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can you elaborate a little further? I have tons of these empty cards.
SirDuckingtonI · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Use the card, after 30 days when the card is denied, just make a new account and keep enjoying premium for free.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thanks. I'll try it on... Anything on particular that has a trial?
Anderson2218 · 2 points · Posted at 04:50:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not really a loophole but falls under same category, i used to get a credit card that i can earn miles or points back etc and max out the card by buying coins from the mint, take them to my local coin shop to cash them in and then pay off the credit card. *edit before anyone tries i think the mint stopped you from being able to buy a certain amount with credit in like 2012
tjrl · 2 points · Posted at 04:50:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I decided to take a victory lap year in high school after learning that I could submit grades from different calendar years as long as they were at the 12th grade level. Universities in my province (at least at the time) required six grades to be submitted, so I tried hard in three classes each year and did minimal work in the others.
bb2003x · 2 points · Posted at 04:51:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The internet
LonePaladin · 2 points · Posted at 04:51:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mine was in an old computer RPG, "Ultima VII: the Black Gate".
Early in the game, you meet up with the head of the Fellowship, a religious cult akin to Scientology. Their leader, Batlin, has you do this rigged test that basically says you really need their 'guidance'. In reality, he just uses you to strong-arm dissidents and push their agenda.
Anyway, when you agree to join this cult (the plot requires it), he asks you to deliver a sealed package to a pair of operatives (assassins) in another town. If you say no, he'll just ask you later. Saying yes gives you a plot coupon and everyone gets 100 XP.
The thing is, if you say no, when you go back and say yes you can do so repeatedly. As long as you don't deliver the package, you can run this conversation over and over, getting XP every time.
But wait! There's more!
Once you've activated the infinite XP loop, go into a container -- a bag, barrel, someone's pack, whatever. Pick an item that's stored with a quantity. Arrows, money, reagents for spells, anything like that. Move it from that container to anywhere else -- what matters is making the 'how many?' dialog pop up.
After moving the item, talk to Batlin and accept the errand (again). Now look in the container again. The item you moved is copied back into it. (For instance, if you took 100 gold coins that were in a bag and dropped them on the ground, after the conversation you'd find 100 gold on the ground and 100 gold on the bag.)
You bet your ass I took advantage of it. I had barrels full of gold coins (they literally couldn't hold more). Enough spell reagents to cast every spell ten thousand times. Ten arrows for every living creature in Britannia. Enough food to feed the world. Six copies of every spell known to man. I would have bought Lord British's castle if they'd let me.
As far as I know, I was the first person to find this item-duplication glitch. None of the websites devoted to game cheats at the time had anything about it.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:51:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Made about $1000 bucks in a week with a mistake ad from Kmart putting a hot new electronic thing at -$200 the retail price. Screen grabbed it and took it to Store X which tends to hire the minimum of the min wage employee crop and also has a conveniently new price match policy. Took about 3 tries but once I convinced one of them to sell me the new electronic thing for the price of the coupon without checking it's legitimacy, I had a receipt from that store that said I bought it at that price. Took the receipt to every other store with a price match policy and bought more electronic new things. Sold them all for -$50 retail price. Fun times.
DarkSkyForever · 2 points · Posted at 04:51:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Way back in the day you used to be able to buy those cormenative coins with credit cards and get cash back. You would take the coins to the bank, deposit them and pay off your card, getting 1-3% cash back.
BKDX · 2 points · Posted at 04:51:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in September 2014, the mobile game company Kongregate had a thing where if you downloaded a game and made an account you would get a $5 Gamestop gift certificate.
Cue the ol' Gmail "period" trick, and I got four of those coupons. I then bought four $10 Nintendo eShop cards in separate transactions, and changed my in-game ZIP code to a tax-free one.
And that's how I got Smash Bros. for 3DS a few weeks later for $20.
DavidThorne31 · 2 points · Posted at 04:52:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Online betting company had a promo where if you placed a bet before certain sports games, you could also place a bet during the same game and be guaranteed to win money if the second bet was paying $2 or more, because if the second bet lost you'd get your money back up to $100.
So if your first bet was paying $1.30 and you put $100 on it and it won you'd get $130, and the second bet would be refunded.
If the first bet lost but the second won, you'd win at least $200, which covers the lost $100 from the first bet, the $100 you bet, and the rest was profit.
Easily made $1,000 in a couple weeks before they shut the promo down.
frosty2076 · 2 points · Posted at 04:52:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you quicksave and then punch the apothecary and then load it would reset their inventory and money so I would keep buying giants toes.
abvgdeika · 2 points · Posted at 04:53:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When in my office in Russia we needed to make international calls we would have to call a special telecom company, give our card number and they'd connect us. Once every few months we would receive a bill, check that calls listed were correct, have it signed and give to finance department to pay. We also had a fax machine in the office and it had its own card number. After certain time of sending faxes internationally we noticed that bills for that machine never came. So we figured that those calls were somehow going unregistered. This was early 2000s, international calls were expensive and Skype didn't exist. I was in a middle of very intense online affair so I'd stay late in the office and spent hours on the phone with a guy in USA and it lasted for good 6-8 months. Those calls would have costed ton of money. Not sure it ever got discovered, but our offices moved and I was separated with the fax machine.
flash40 · 2 points · Posted at 04:53:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In a typing class in high school I figured out when you finish a page if you hit the "next page" button repeatedly while it was loading, it would continuously skip pages. I was hundreds past all of the other students.
Akmuq · 2 points · Posted at 04:53:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One of the nightclubs in my city often team up with local business's to give away free food for attending on a particular night. I, and a few friends, happen to have free entry to this nightclub. We would turn up, not pay for a ticket, be given a voucher for burritos/pizza whatever, turn around and go for food.
Just have to make sure you're dressed ok.
orgazm_donor · 2 points · Posted at 04:54:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Something I found out and do a lot of in an app, but won't go public with, because I think if enough people do it, then the developers will notice and fix it. Let's just say it's a way to get out of watching ads.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thanks for sharing
orgazm_donor · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thanks for replying.
bchafes · 2 points · Posted at 04:54:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Discovered that no matter when you leave (January or December), you can use your full healthcare Flex Spending Account. It doesn't matter if they haven't taken the full value you assigned for the year from your pay checks. So if you chose $1,000 for the year ($41.67 per paycheck), but quit in January and have only paid $41.67 towards that amount, you can still go out and use your FSA debit card for $1,000 worth of medical expenses. I bought new glasses AND a year's worth of contacts before leaving one job!
Strategory · 2 points · Posted at 04:54:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Exercise is not something I'm drawn to naturally. Sitting over standing, driving over walking, normal things, but also somewhat unusual in Colorado. Anyways, I bought a recumbent bike and then hooked the ps4 to it exclusively. The inherent action of gaming completely drowns out the discomfort of exercise, I don't feel guilty for gaming, and I get 45mins in daily. TV, ofcourse, is the other usual choice for this, but for me, it just isn't engaging enough to eliminate the pain of exercise.
kambo_rambo · 2 points · Posted at 04:54:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The salad place i eat at occasionally, released a new app where you can make online orders. New sign ups gets $5 of loyalty credit for free. New accounts dont require email verification, so you can see this where i exploited the $5 off every single order i made, which i I did for several weeks. They added a new salad, as a 'special'. I discovered later that ordering just this salad did not deduct my loyalty credits, but I still accrued them. After about 6 of the same salad, i now only pay < $2 for the normally $12 salad. There are 3 locations within walking distance from my work that i rotate between.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:55:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was 14, I'd go to the Santa Monica pier and play the game where you have to knock down 3 milk bottles and get a prize. I realized the employees sucked at their job so I'd line up in front of a knocked down pile, where only two of the three are still standing. Knock down two and win a prize. I won 7 giant, bright iguanas that day.
PYJX · 2 points · Posted at 04:55:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When Murky in Heroes of the Storm got buffed and I played him every day for 2 weeks at 90% win rate (still am playing him)
youDingDong · 2 points · Posted at 04:55:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At a drama course I did once, the vending machine in the rec room was broken. Broken as in every time you put in a twenty cent piece it came out the change slot but still giving you credit.
IDKAnythingMan · 2 points · Posted at 04:55:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Would this be considered a loop hole? Oh well I played the original Pokémon Gold version and there is this cheat that lets you copy a pokemon. I would train my 'Feraligatr' to a high level and either give it a 'leftovers' or a 'rare candy'. I dont remember the cheat very well but it was along the lines of deposit pokemon into the 'P.C.' and as it was saying "SAVING PLEASE DO NOT TURN OFF THE POWER..." i would turn off the game. When i would turn it back on i would have a 'Feraligatr' in the 'P.C.' and my 'Party pokemon'. I ended up have 6 'Feraligatrs', 6 'ho-ohs' and a bunch of other shit.
dylzim · 2 points · Posted at 04:56:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So, we did this thing at school with Engineers Without Borders once, where we were supposed to use the instructions we were given to create a simple dirt/pebble water filter. To simulate countries in poorer parts of the world getting screwed, the worse off the country you were based in, the more of the instructions were just Wingdings. I was in the country that was all Wingdings.
We were supposed to beg and cajole with our limited resources to get the rest of the instructions, but I had been a huge code/spy dork when I was like 10, so I just used simple code-breaking techniques (look for double letters, single letter-words, etc) to crack the wingdings. The engineers said they'd never seen anyone do that before.
LauraAstrid · 2 points · Posted at 04:56:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can go to work 3 hours late and leave an hour early and no one says shit. I feel bad though.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:56:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
For a while when Krispy Kreme first came to my area they wouldn't accept any form of credit or debit. So we figured out that if you ordered a variety of donuts and attempted to pay for them with credit or debit, they would just give you the donuts for free. We enjoyed it very much.
Someuserguy · 2 points · Posted at 04:57:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Reading all of these makes me want to listen to "Free Ride", which makes me want to watch the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers movie.
TypicalJeepDriver · 2 points · Posted at 05:00:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Years ago Butterfingers had codes on the inside that you could redeem online. The codes valued at $.05, $0.10 all the way up to $5-$10 for some codes. Well they sold them at the dollar store for 4 for $1, so I bought like $10 worth because whatever, I loved Butterfingers. The money could be then used on half.com, CCS (skateboarding website) and a bunch of other places. You could enter in 10 codes per day, 2 accounts per household.
After entering in the codes, they sent me an email that said "Take this survey for a free code!" The survey only took about a minute to complete and I found out you could take the survey multiple times. I found that if you put your age as 14 or younger, the survey was shortened immensely and could be done in 10-15 seconds.
I made several accounts for my house and all my friends houses and was making like $30 a day between all my accounts for about 30 minutes of work each day. All I asked for from my friends was that I got one of the accounts, they got the other for letting me use their address. Ended up making like $700 during the time the codes were being accepted.
HeyitsmeyourOP · 2 points · Posted at 05:00:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can skip YouTube ads on my mobile device. I'm not really sure why because not everyone's mobile device can do that.
helloackbar · 2 points · Posted at 05:01:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
10 years ago or so, I was called out of town just after renting a movie from red box. I returned it about 1.5 hours after I rented it and was never charged for the rental. I never paid for a rental again as I would rent, go home and download onto my computer, and return it before 2 hours was up. Haven't done it in about 4 years so I can't say that will still work.
schaudhery · 1 points · Posted at 22:05:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
To improve on this, why not take a laptop with you and sit in the car outside the Redbox ripping the movie.
iamegglord · 2 points · Posted at 05:01:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
After moving to an old house, I noticed that the cable is still active. So I called the previous owner to cancel it. They said they cancelled it already. I then called the cable company to make sure to deactivate the cable, and they said they already did. But I can still watch all channels in my TV. Called them 3 times. We've lived in that house for 8 years.
twhite15 · 2 points · Posted at 05:01:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I worked for a fly in fly out contract company in Saskatchewan, Canada. I noticed my first pay cheque was pretty great, I thought I was for sure making the big bucks now. The guys around me were telling me their pay cheque sizes and I was wondering why I was making so much more than them. I didn't say a word to any of them or the company because if anything I was getting more money than I should, and I didn't want to peak any awareness into somebody looking deep into that. Pay cheque after pay cheque they kept coming in, everything was ok, pay roll never said anything or HR.
Turns out after 8 months I was getting off a plane to go home, and I get a call from HR saying they made a big mistake on my pay cheques and they were going to have to get me to pay it back. Which I had to, all $10,000 or so dollars. They were adding 40% vacation to every cheque, which was only suppose to be 6%
Was nice spending it, until they started paying me less then I was making because of repayment.
letmeusespaces · 2 points · Posted at 05:07:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
AOL. call to cancel each month before the free trial ended, get another 30 days. we went 2 years without paying anything.
Enforcer444 · 2 points · Posted at 05:15:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Online exam loophole.
Once my dorm's wifi went out and I still tried to click, "submit" for the question, and without internet being up it showed me the "correct" pre-loaded answer. Wifi came back up, I hit refresh... and the page didn't think I'd submitted an answer.
I had a lot of wifi troubles with my computer that class.
videoflyguy · 2 points · Posted at 05:15:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
For about a year, xbox live gold was free for one month if you did not have an active xbox live gold membership. When it expired, i would go sign up for another month of xbox live. Got over a year of gold for free, not to mention all the games with gold I got
dchanelle24 · 2 points · Posted at 05:20:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Kodi
njester025 · 2 points · Posted at 05:31:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was a small one, but me and some friends would go to cinnabun after junior lifeguard during one summer about once a week. One day they were all out and wrote a note that they'd give up free ones next time. We used that note every week for the rest of the summer.
Ethanextinction · 2 points · Posted at 05:33:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Gamestop rewards points
PaigeTheGreat · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
How do you pull that one off?
Ethanextinction · 2 points · Posted at 06:01:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in the day you could get these things on the power up rewards site called "steal of the week" and it would basically be "pay 2000" rewards points for an extra 10%-25% (depending on the promotion) towards (x new game coming out) pre-orders. Somehow they were stackable. If I redeemed 3 or something I would get 30%-75% extra credit.
I walked in there one time with 3 coupons, 6 bargain bin games I bought a couple weeks prior for dirt cheap at a buy 2 get one free sale. I walked out with a paid off copy of Crysis 3 for PS3 and $120 in credit.
After the points for the trade ins and the pre order by my account, I cancelled the pre-order and started stacking games to trade again.
I barely paid for games for years. It was nice.
SonOfNod · 2 points · Posted at 05:36:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Coke and Pepsi used to have contests where you could win stuff based on the bottle cap. If you titled the unopened bottle just right you could tell if it was a winner. I bought 1 coke and it paid for me cokes for like 6 months. I was 10 and that was the best thing in the world, especially since my parents didn't allow sodas in the house.
Zerosugar6137 · 2 points · Posted at 05:38:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You ever play Tiny Tower?
DasevilDawg · 2 points · Posted at 05:40:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a time CSGO had these stickers of pro teams in crates (over whatever they have stickers in). For a short time the stickers were worth more than the crate and the key, so you could make 2 or 3 dollars every sticker and keep buying more and more. Think I made 50 bucks, but that was a lot for a 16 year old me.
XarcticatX · 2 points · Posted at 05:41:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Buy one get one free at chipotle. If you order guac on the 2nd one the guac is usually free. (Happens every time i do it)
tugboatmassacre · 1 points · Posted at 05:44:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What
xsandied · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can say that again!
tugboatmassacre · 1 points · Posted at 05:54:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What
tepidstringysemen · 1 points · Posted at 06:50:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a while where if both your bowls were the same they'd both be free with a BOGO.
dontbuymesilver · 2 points · Posted at 05:42:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm not proud of this:
Back in the days of dial-up internet, if you signed up with MSN on a two year contract through circuit city they'd give you a $200 gift card. To sign up I used a prepaid Visa card with about $10 on it, just enough for the first month's payment. I did that about 3 times but started feeling guilty and paranoid, so I stopped doing it.
RonaldMACMcDonald · 2 points · Posted at 05:42:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Essentially got myself a $10k loan interest free (paid off over 2 yers) after a bit of screwing around. I took out a line of credit to buy a car (Australia) and soon discovered there was one particular credit card that would allow balance transfer from my line of credit. The balance transfer offer was 2 years interest free, so i just figured out what i needed to pay per month to pay it off in time and thus pay zero interest, rather than the 5% i would have been paying on the original line of credit.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:43:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At my engineering school we had one of those vacuum hose ice cream dispensers. Well one day I discover that if you pushed hard enough with your foot in the lower right panel it would let you reprogram all the prices to a nickel. So we would do that and then switch it back so the price was normal when others used it.
ozmotear · 2 points · Posted at 05:43:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's a gas station in my area that must have a faulty pump or something because the $ amount on it never registers when it calculates your total. So the pump that should charge you $2.18 per gallon is only charging $0.18 per gallon.
Its always the same pump and it changes with the price adjustment of gas. Unfortunately my gas cap is on the wrong side to use it, unless I face on coming traffic which would be really weird at this station.
ABLA7 · 2 points · Posted at 05:44:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At outback online ordering they had the price set to $0.00 for a few items so I'd order like 1 steak and 4 shrimp cocktaiks and get all the shrimp free lol
steel_toe_sandwich · 2 points · Posted at 05:45:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My old apartment's coin op washer and dryer had a maintenence code that would allow for free loads.
Calvin0433 · 2 points · Posted at 05:47:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in elementary school we had to take keyboard classes where we just learned how to type. You weren't allowed to use backspace during tests. I found out that you can highlight the word and press delete and it would wipe it out. I aced every test after that.
BigDawg2034 · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Went to buy a four pack of beer (4 x 500 mls) they were on sale for $8 or the same indivisible cans were sold individually for $2. I went to pay and the barcode for the four pack was tied to the $2 individual can price - so it rang up as only on deposit ($.20).
I then am able to get $0.80 back on my four empties.... 2L of beer for $1.40! I went back 10 times that day - over 80 cans of beer....
Evan3tte · 2 points · Posted at 05:52:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This was at a very small cafe I used to work at, but I think it's the only thing I exploited. We used to sell a grilled cheese, and a kid's grilled cheese. Of course the kid's grilled cheese was cheaper, and included fries. The catch? The grilled cheese's were the same size, and to get the adult's grilled cheese with fries, the fries would cost like, a dollar extra. So in total, adult grilled cheese and fries was about $6, while the kid's was $2.50. That, plus my employee discount, and I got Grilled Cheese and Fries, practically for free.
I need to learn how to exploit more things that just grilled cheese....
Agent-Incognito · 2 points · Posted at 05:52:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used the price match at walmart on Amazon to buy a bunch of consoles, I went to every walmart in 30 miles
CylinderC · 2 points · Posted at 05:52:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's this broken vending machine on campus that gives you more than you paid for. For instance, 1 pack of Reese's cups costs about $0.75.
Threw in 75 cents and instead of 1 pack, I got 3. Not only did I get 2 extra, but it gave me 50 cents extra on top of that.
I thought someone must've left their change down at the bottom and didn't think much of it. Still, getting 3 instead of 1 confused me.
I decided to try it out the next day with something different so I ordered a pack of Orbitz gum that was 50 cents, and again, I shit you not, I got 2 extra as well as an extra 50 cents.
I hit the jackpot. This vending machine was like a free-flipping machine! The profit margin isn't much to work with since it only seems to work with the things that cost between 0.50 - 0.75 cents.
But to this day, at least 3 months later it still works, and I always head to the same vending machine if I'm in need of some extra change. Luckily it's on the 3rd floor of the math building, and there are 2-3 other vending machines on the same floor. The odds of someone finding out that machine is rigged are slim.
And if someone does manage to find out... Bad things'll happen. No one gets between me and my little money-duper.
EDIT: slight correction on price*
me10 · 2 points · Posted at 05:54:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you're nice to people, generally they will be nice to you back. It's worked out pretty well and it seems like anyone can do it.
Brigman509 · 2 points · Posted at 05:55:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in high school, 2009-2013, my buddy and I would each pitch in half for a movie ticket and I'd go pay for it. After I would get settled in the movies I would leave the theater but make sure the guy at the ticket stand would notice me. I'd say hey I'll be right back I forgot something in the car, etc. I'd meet my buddy in the food court and hand him the ticket and wait about 10 mins. Come back(in hopes it was the same person) and usually I'd have no issue getting in. I'd wait by the bathrooms and about another 5 mins or so my buddy would walk up with the ticket I gave him and get in with no problem. But that's just the icing on the cake. After we were both in we would wait for people to exit their movie and throw their trash away. The trick was to grab a large bucket for popcorn and a large cup for soda. We would then go to the bathroom wash the cup(sometimes...) and since they're large we would get free refills. And viola, a movie, popcorn, and soda for about $5 each. Sometimes we would jump to another movie that was about to start when ours ended and so on. Our biggest movie streak was I believe 5 movies.
TL:DR; saw a few movies, got free refills on popcorn and pop at regal cinemas with my buddy for $5 each
Squall0123 · 2 points · Posted at 05:55:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
EB games, if you purchase a brand new game you have 1 week to return it for a full refund, this 1 week resets every time you return a game, then purchase a new one, if you know the game is going to take you longer than a week to finish, second hand games have two weeks to return. I think my record was 51 games from $100aud
The workers are generally aware of the loophole and they don't care, Id just say "see you guys next week".
noahyalung_ · 2 points · Posted at 05:55:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I wasn't the brightest kid when I was younger. I was at Mall of America and I needed change for a $20 that my dad gave me to play at the arcade. I asked around and no one could break it for me.
I found a machine that gave you game tokens for cash. Being the idiot I was, I saw the machine, didn't read the huge sign above it that had "TOKENS" plastered in bold, black print across it, and thought it would be able to break my $20. The exchange rate from USD to game tokens was listed. "$1 for 3, $5 for 18..." so on and so forth. I put my $20 in the machine and out comes 90 non-refundable game tokens. I frantically ran up to the cashier and asked her to make an exception but she said there was no way she could. Then she suggested I sell them to other people in the arcade. So I decided it was worth a try.
Seeing as it was listed at $5 for 18 coins, I went up to a few people, explained my dilemma and they happily paid me $5 for 18 coins. Then I realized that the more money you put in the machine, the less the coins cost. 90 is divisible by 18, 5 times.
Simple math tells you 5 groups of 18 tokens sold at $5 a group will get you $25. I eventually got my money back and kept remaining 18 tokens and essentially played all the games for free. I told my dad what happened and he was impressed enough to let me keep the $20 that I eventually earned back.
So no, I wasn't some genius who saw a loophole from the start but I sorta stumbled into it and got $20 out of it.
paintdatank252 · 2 points · Posted at 05:55:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I already posted once in this thread, but I think all of you would like this one too: the story of how I got into a public university without ever applying.
I "dropped out" of high school after my junior year with only 2 required classes standing between me and a diploma. Without going into too much detail, I had worked out a deal with my high school and a public university to allow me to take college classes for dual enrollment credit. It was the opposite of how the program normally worked, and I had full approval from the superintendant of my public school system.
The university had never dealt with a situation like this, and after a few interviews and letters allowed me to be a full time student with 12 credit hours. I was issued a student ID and given access to their system to register for fall semester classes. Keep in mind that I was never required to fill out an application; we simply had a mutual agreement and I was entered into their system.
After one semester, my program ended and I received my high school diploma. I then applied out to other universities (not the one I had just attended) and within a few months was subsequently denied everywhere. Most schools didn't understand my path to graduation, and a few questioned if I was even a graduate. I was shit out of luck and my only option was community college.
Or so I thought.
Out of desperation, I went back to that public university in the summer and met with admissions about applying late since their fall acceptance letters had already been sent. They asked to see my student ID and ran me through their system.
"Hey paintdatank252, it says here that you've been a full time student taking classes since last fall, and that you are enrolled for the fall. What do you mean you want to apply?"
"Uhh idk but I think we are done here"
Turns out their system never removed my enrollment status or class registration abilities. 4 years later and I've got a degree and one hell of a story to tell.
TL;DR: I was accidentally accepted to a public university without ever applying.
Todderfly · 2 points · Posted at 05:56:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
McDonald's started delivering in Brisbane, AUSTRALIA. You ordered online, but we realised any extra piece of meat you put on the burger was not charged at all! So this allowed us to make a tower burger without any additional costs. The glitch was fixed about a month later, but we had fun while it lasted. They had to deliver our burgers in happy meal boxes. http://imgur.com/a/MfCZn
AChimimunima · 2 points · Posted at 05:56:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Around the time Halo 4 came out there was the Double XP promo released by Dew and Doritos. I was shocked to see Doritos put the codes on the outside of the package. You could take pics of the codes at any store you went to and with how fast the stock went out it was pretty much an unlimited supply for the duration of the promo. I think they messed up like that for MW3 as well.
tepidstringysemen · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They did that with titanfall fairly recently too.
mcarlini · 2 points · Posted at 05:56:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Flying a jet that with a pilot who had his single pilot waiver from the FAA. This means that as a co-pilot, I cannot log that flight time because I am not a technically required crew member. The catch is that the pilot needs to have that waiver with him on board in order to exercise those single-pilot privileges. So, when I fly with him, he just doesn't bring it and I become a required crew member, thus I can log the time legally.
Its an amazing deal!
pilotavery · 1 points · Posted at 06:33:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's awesome. It's a little bit sketchy but awesome.
mullersmutt · 2 points · Posted at 05:56:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Amazon had a deal a month and a bit ago where if you picked 3 movies from their 3 for 30 list, regardless of the cost of the order, an algorithm subtracted whatever it had to in order to make your order come to exactly $30. Thing was, the algorithm screwed up and applied the discount twice, every single time. So as long as your order from the 3 for 30 list was exactly $60 or more, the total always came to zero, with free shipping.
Of course, I would never partake in such a morally bankrupt practice. I only heard about it from a friend. Of course.
vanzgalla · 2 points · Posted at 05:57:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was this particular vending machine in my university that kept giving you drinks when you've paid once and repetitively mash the button. However, there was a two to three second window for every $2 we put in. The folks who maintained the thing only fixed it in my last year of study.
The energy drinks consumed in those three years lay the foundation of the learned lad I am now.
goldshark5 · 2 points · Posted at 06:00:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pepsi50 on Papa John's orders. 50% off Everytime. Still works.
Arctichydra7 · 2 points · Posted at 06:02:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have good credit so I get mortgages on houses and other people work real jobs and give me their earnings to live in those houses while at home and read Reddit.
john_jdm · 2 points · Posted at 06:02:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Several years ago there was a Coke/iTunes promotion where inside the lid there was either a code for a free song or a "too bad" message. Well, if the bottle had just the right amount of liquid in it you could sometimes well whether or not the lid had a winning code or not just by tipping the bottle and looking. You didn't have to open the soda. So I'd look in the bottle at the store looking for winning bottles and then just buy those.
nilok1 · 2 points · Posted at 06:03:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I didn't do this one but when the Treasury wanted to push dollar coins you could order them online and have them delivered to your home for free.
People would order hundreds of them and pay for them with a cc with reward points. Once they got the coins they'd merely deposit them in the bank and then pay off the card.
People racked up lots of points before they figured it out and cancelled the program.
Pipes32 · 2 points · Posted at 06:05:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was young, I attended summer camp at my elementary school (basically day care). Towards the end of the summer, we'd hold a "Summer Olympics". All the kids from all the different camps in the school district would get together and compete in different events. Think long jump, fastest sprint, furthest baseball / golf ball hit, those types of things. It was a big deal to win a medal for your camp.
I was not an athletic kid, but I wanted to win a medal so fucking badly. Well, one of the competitions was hula hooping (longest time). I realized there was NO rule about the hoop being around your waist. So I signed up for the event, practiced spinning the hoop on my arm (wayyyy easier than your waist) and competed that way. On competition day I spun it for almost an hour. Kids would walk up during their designated time slot, I'd be spinning the hoop on my arm, they'd look at me, then proceed to fail hard doing a traditional hula hoop. It blew my mind that none of them were like, "holy shit, this girl is hooping on her arm, so clearly I can do that as well". Nobody else! Finally the organizers told me to go away, and they'd call me if someone got close to my time.
Standing up there during the awards ceremony with my gold medal...it was just as awesome as I thought it would be.
They changed the rules next year.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:05:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
get paint mixed, don't buy paint, put on shelf, come next day, paint you mixed is on sale b/c its a random color no one asked for. purchase paint.
Alfheim · 2 points · Posted at 06:06:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
During the first Diance code giveaway for pokemon there were a few ways to get it. You could hope for a code from gamestop, or if you were in mexico you could sign up for some website. I found out how to exploit the website to produce unlimited codes. That morning my house had been robbed and I was kind of feeling my faith in humanity shaken so I decided to do something for other people. I did not know how long this would last so I produced a few hundred before starting up giveaway threads on some subredits. I got a lot of folks from the Philippines and a few other island nations that had no access to the codes so I started working with them to provide their communities with codes. I think I produced some 3000 codes that night for people who had no other access. Ended up spilling the secret of how to do it to 5 other people when I went to bed, but unsurprisingly it was fixed by time I woke up the next day. I still wonder if it would have been more effective to spill the secret sooner or if by keeping it quiet I was able to provide the largest amount of codes. To late to be seen but this is the first time I have told the whole story.
Cjh156 · 2 points · Posted at 06:06:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My university charges $500 a semester to park your car. With all that great income they have the new automatic license plate readers attached to cars that scan your plate and give you a ticket if you don't have a permit. Well $20 bucks later and one automatic license plate reader BLOCKER and I park closer than the dean everyday for free. I have been doing it for a year so net profit $980
Dr_Hank_Hill · 2 points · Posted at 06:23:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wait, how were you able to fool the license plate reader?
Cjh156 · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They sell a cover that goes over your license plate that blocks the camera
adamqadams · 2 points · Posted at 06:08:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I lived in an apartment which had absolutely terrible wifi. The hotspots were building-owned, and any time past 5 or so, when people started to get home, the internet would slow to sub-dialup speeds, and sometimes simply stop working all together. Each router also had it's own wifi network, so you'd see a list of several hundred networks named "APARTMENT-213", "APARTMENT-354" etc. They all had the same login, so people would just hop around to try and find a working network.
One day I tried opening the router page, as I would have back home, before remembering that I didn't have the username or password. I tried admin/admin, thinking "there's no way they forgot to change the defaults on this." But no, it logged me right in. I changed that single router to be a hidden network, and all of a sudden I was the only one on it, with fast internet.
Kept working for the three years I was there.
Campbellfilms · 2 points · Posted at 06:09:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A few years back Arby's had a thing where you could take a survey on your phone using a code on your receipt and get a coupon for a free regular roast beef. When you claimed the free roast beef you'd get another receipt with a $0 total but a code for a survey. I ate free roast beef sandwiches every day for over a year and spent $7
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:09:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Dr_Hank_Hill · 1 points · Posted at 06:17:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
lol, nice. was this Step1 by chance?
Joe1972 · 2 points · Posted at 06:10:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a student a local pub started a "Post Exam Party" promo. If you brought in an exam question paper from an exam written earlier that day you could swop your paper for a free beer.
Many people caught on and would hound everyone else after the exam for their paper to get more than one free beer. But because so many begged, most people caught on to the fact that these had a value and almost no one gave it away for free.
I, on the other hand, had access to the department's photocopier...
Crowbar_Faith · 2 points · Posted at 06:12:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't drink, so my aunt would always get me to go to the casino with her so she could get shitfaced on the free drinks and have a safe ride home. For my troubles, she would give me $100 to play with. I'd go from machine to machine, play a few bucks here and there, win a few, lose a few...but then on one trip I started playing on this one Pink Panther-themed machine. And I would win. And win. And win. I'd put in $5 and win $50. I'd put in $5 more and win $30. $5 more and $15. $5 more and $100. Literally everytime. I believe I made about $1800 off that machine before I eventually lost. I played it for a few more minutes but my streak was over so I counted my blessings (and money) and called it a night. The machine HAD to have been broken or malfunctioning or something, and I'm sure casinos keep checks and tabs on all or most of their machines. I kept waiting for Paul Blart the security guard to tap me on the shoulder, say the machine was not working right and the casino needed its money back, but it never happened.
falconmick · 2 points · Posted at 06:14:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
During the time when coke had that 1 in X many cokes had a free coke under the lid a mate of mine figured out that there was a number on the side of the lids and all the ones that had 17 (from memory it was 17) were winners. So for a month or two while the promo was on I had free coke!
Borkenstien · 2 points · Posted at 06:14:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My friend's dad used to own a condo in Orlando and he'd do all of the Time share presentations for free tickets. Keep in mind this was in the 90's at the peak of the Timeshare craze and getting tickets to parks in Orlando or cash was common. So he'd do these every morning and then spend the rest of the day with his family. He found out that if he brought his young kids on these presentations he could make them go by sooo much faster. He'd tell my friend, "This is your time to act up, the only rule you have is that you can't go off to the kid room you have to stay with us." Apparently kids telling a ruthless salesman that his feet stink and that he's bald will end a 3 hour tour in about 30 minutes.
Jewniversal_Remote · 2 points · Posted at 06:16:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I haven't tested this because I don't have Mexican connections like my dad did, but he told me that when he was a kid he'd take shopping bags full of pesos into Chuck E Cheeses. He grew up in Texas and so when his friends came back from Texas they'd trade usd USD for Pesos (currently about 1 dollar for 20 pesos, compared to the House Of Mouse where you pay 1 dollar for like 4 or 5 tokens). Thing is, the pesos worked in the machines. My dad said he was never caught, but man they could just rule the machines at Cheesy Charlie's with basically 5x as many coins
Furbal1307 · 2 points · Posted at 06:16:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A closed video game store chain back in the early 2000s had an odd, system glitch. You had to buy something, return it the next day and put the return money towards a pre-order. Wait a day or two, then cancel the pre-order, and ask for in-store credit as the refund. The in-store credit funds never depleted when used. We tested it at several locations over several days and walked away with a lot for a little.
Goliad_stormo · 2 points · Posted at 06:17:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Used to work at McDonalds and was able to take roughly 300 of those cards people put stickers on for free coffees. Every few days the people who would count the tills would tally them and throw them out. I just happened to get to them between being counted and being thrown out so when I moved cities, the new McDonalds doesn't know my history so I have a free coffee every day.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:18:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Working as a Production Assistant in Los Angeles one of the places I shopped regularly was Staples. Spent a shit ton of petty cash too.
So, naturally I get the Staples reward point card. Points amount to dollars which can be spent in-store on anything except gift cards.
This is a restriction they did not make online.
Every time I got $100 worth of points I'd order a $100 Visa Gift Card on their website with my points. Week later it'd come and Staples would treat me and the roommate to a nice sushi dinner.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:23:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm late to the party, so this will probably get buried, but I washed my car for free for 4-5 years... There was this old self-wash place back where I grew up, and it was pretty typical; put quarters into the slot to add time, then turn the dial to different modes (power wash, foamy bubble brush, no streak, wax, etc). Apparently, when you put a quarter into the slot, the quarter would drop down and activate some sort of trigger mechanism or something, and it would add time to your wash. Well, turns out that if you swipe a strong enough magnet over the front of the slot, it would activate the mechanism inside the machine and add time for free.
So, I would swipe a magnet over it and rack up like 15-20 minutes worth of time on the machine and detail the shit out of my car every couple weeks. I'm not sure if management / owners ever actually found out about it, because I did it for years, and other people knew about the trick as well. The carwash is still there, but I'm pretty sure they've remodeled since then and put in new machines.
Pantry_Inspector · 2 points · Posted at 06:26:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In high school I was anti-authoritarian to the extreme and I got detention constantly for being a shithead. My sophomore year I got real interested in passing classes, so I went (voluntarily) to study hall after school a few times. But I'm still kind of a dick, so I have all this detention too. And I realize in study hall, which is basically a quiet place to work on homework, there are a few kids serving detention. This is great news to me, because detention's like 4 hours on a Thursday night or a Saturday morning, and study hall is an hour 4 times a week. No more early weekend mornings or lost evenings. I ask to have my detentions (I had multiple at any one time) changed to study hall. And the counselor knew my grades were getting pretty good, so he thought it would help me.
So the sign-in sheet is computerized, and the system automatically signs you out at 4pm if you don't sign out. So I get greedy. For a week I show up early to sign-in and excuse myself to the bathroom, never to return. But there's no call into the office or any follow-up. Then it's 2 weeks and 3. I meet with the counselor to talk about my grades improving, and he's really happy I've been going to study hall, but sure wishes I'd stop getting into trouble. He's just glad my grades are solid really.
Eventually, during my senior year, I stopped getting into trouble. But it sure as shit wasn't from serving detention, because I avoided that shit for 2 years.
Fuxit-readsmokesigns · 2 points · Posted at 06:28:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a teacher in high school that was really flighty and disorganized. I figured out pretty quickly that if I appeared engaged with class and the subject matter he would just assume that he had lost my assignments when they never appeared. Didn't do a damn thing all year. I ended up with a better grade than the class know-it-all. It was beautiful.
kingocad · 2 points · Posted at 06:31:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When Dr Pepper first came to Australia they had a promotion for a free can if you brought back 3 ring pulls from purchased cans. The ring pulls were a distinctive gold colour.
At the same time I went to a giant Blues festival where the beer being served had the same gold ring pulls. My friends and I ran around collecting all the empty beer can ring pulls and each had enough for about 20 free Dr Pepper cans each!
The only problem was we all realised we hated Dr Pepper after the first 2 cans :(
Aerukai · 2 points · Posted at 06:36:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Took a geology final in high school. My teacher had two policies which could be easily exploited. 1. As long as you attend the class and take the test, the minimum grade you could get was 50%, and 2. If you got every question wrong, you'd get 100% on the final. Since I had a high grade (like 99%) and I couldn't get below a 50%, I attempted to get every (multiple choice) question wrong. Since, statistically, it's easier to get more wrong than right on multiple choice, I went for it. Unfortunately, I got 4 questions right... but the teacher was soft and he gave me a B- on the final anyway. Easy A.
LikeAFoxyCat · 2 points · Posted at 06:37:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a circle k near my house, like a 7/11, that was open 24/7.
After a few long nights of drinking with friends, we would go to this circle k and pick up food. We noticed after doing this a few times, there was the same person working there every night. We started talking with him and made friends.
He was pretty happy because not many people were nice to him (think he was at a bad place in life or not many friends).
He told us that if we come in at 2 specific times, he can write a bunch of food off as "old" and we can get it for free. The food was still good. We did this for about a year until we all moved out. He would load us up with more food than we could stuff down.
Wasn't the best or nutritious food, but god it was good when you were drunk.
Ciggy_snacks · 2 points · Posted at 06:38:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a teacher who didn't like to teach. So he had students do "extra credit" presentations, which meant that you would read a unit (17.1: marine life) and then give a short summary to the class. He didn't have to teach the unit, and the class still got the information. He also was very open about what your grade was. You could walk in and ask to see hot grades and he'd pull up the spreadsheet and show you a detailed list of your grade.
I figured out pretty early on in the year that he weighted the extra credit pretty heavily, assuming that nobody would take him up on it, and that it might boost your grade a little bit. I took it as a challenge and did three weeks worth of extra credit, boosting my grade to over 100%, and then didn't do a lick of work for the rest of the semester. No homework, projects, tests, essays, hell, I didn't even do the final, and I still got out with a 99%.
Tldr: lazy teacher plus extra credit equals easiest class ever.
thekdawg360 · 2 points · Posted at 06:43:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
During college, I had an assignment I was supposed to email but completely forgot about until after the deadline. I emailed my teacher saying I had tried sending it before the deadline but just noticed that it hadn't been sent. She asked me to resend the original email with the time stamp included to prove I wasn't lying. So I created a new email with the current time stamp on it and just manually changed the date and time. I got full credit on the assignment.
duckhunt007 · 2 points · Posted at 06:49:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A few years ago i was very into the vaping(ecig) community. THey has these online shows people would run and they had sponsors that would give out free stuff to the viewers based on a random number generator. I had about 20 accounts over many vaping networks and i won most of these contests. I won hundreds of free bottles of ejuice, multiple devices, gift cards, mod skins. It was awesome not to have to pay for anything. I eventually stopped because I had too much vaping stuff and it was taking alot of my time.
Jolly_Potato · 2 points · Posted at 06:57:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had a dominoes pizza coupon code for a regular pizza + drink for €5 that was only useable for like one semester 2 years ago.
When you use the coupon online however, it still works, sometimes the people at dominoes are confused why it says I ordered a drink with it for that price and then I just play dumb.
Free soda for days
prongtine · 2 points · Posted at 06:58:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In 1999 Time magazine had an online poll to determine the publication's Person of the Century. This was in the earlier days of internet proliferation so print media was still king, but there was a growing online presence. The online poll for PotC was conducted in tandem with their own, traditional write up of a PotC story. The online poll was not frequented much when I happened upon it and I realized that the numbers for the top of the poll were not too high.
So every night for the next few weeks I would write in my own name and then continue to vote for myself for several hours each night. A few days later, I broke into the top ten. I was able to maintain my spot in the bottom of the top ten among some other notable write-in candidates such as Jesus Christ and Adolf Hitler.
I was the only unknown individual that was in the running.
Sadly, I woke up one morning to find that the votes for the no. ten candidate was now hundreds of thousands above my last self-voted total from when I went to bed. It would be impossible for me to catch up now that the poll had gained some traction and the votes for the other candidates were above the numbers I could generate.
I gave a brief concession speech and faded back into anonymity.
crystalnoller · 2 points · Posted at 07:03:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My dad is the one who started this one, but when Verizon first had their unlimited plan back in like, 2012 I think it was,my parents and I had gotten unlimited data on our lines, with no throttling or anything. When verizon got rid of the unlimited data, if you got an upgrade, they changed the amount of data you could use on that line. My dad figured out that if you just buy the phone at full retail value and not upgrade, you can keep the unlimited data and they can't force you to change your cell phone plan. Also, Verizon charges you if you want to be able to tether your phone, so your phone can be a wifi hotspot, but if you have the right phone, you can download an app where you can do it without going through the phone company, so you don't have to pay the amount to tether. My dad has been keeping this up for years. My dad, my mom, and I all use at least 15 gigs a month each on data because the internet where I live is horrible and the LTE speed is faster than the internet, and unlimited data. And, since my dad can be a hotspot, I get decent wifi to play on my laptop with.
mastermind04 · 2 points · Posted at 07:05:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In high school me and my friends would play magic the gathering. When shadows over inistrade came out I went into the city and bought a whole box of packs. I then whent a round to anyone that played and sold them at $5 a pack cheaper that the local Wal-Mart. In the end I got 9 packs for free and the best part was finding a $60 foil card in my free packs. Second best part was the people saying how they hate me and saying "screw you" as they handed over there money for the cards.funny how angry some were yet I didn't force them to buy the Cards at a better price.
tummster · 2 points · Posted at 07:11:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In high school our cafeteria had a back room that was used as the teachers break room/lunch lounge area. Because of all the stupid health crap the government passed we weren't allowed to buy soda from vending machines in school anymore but there was a vending machine in that back lounge that had soda. Instead of walking to QuickChek and spending $3 on a soda, we would sneak into the lounge once school was over and get the $1 soda from that machine. We did it for about a year before they started locking the lounge at the end of the lunch periods.
jitterlynx · 2 points · Posted at 07:12:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to work in a camera store. One of the top brands held a promotion that if you bought their new camera, you got a free bottle of 18 year old Chivas Regal. Just take the coupon to a particular bottle shop and redeem. Only the coupon didn't require proof of purchase or record ID. As the camera didn't sell too well, we waited until the 3 days before the promotion ended and divided up the coupons between the team, leaving one box just in case. I got 7 bottles, just went to different bottle shops. Made for great presents to friends and family.
A-nana-moose · 2 points · Posted at 07:19:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hockey is a very uncommon sport where I live and most people know nothing about it. I went to a local general sports store and removed the stickers from the 5$ wooden street hockey sticks and stuck them onto the $200 carbon fiber ice hockey sticks and brought them up to the register. The cashiers had no sense of their value and rang us up for $30 for over $1000 of merchandise. My friends had to contain our laughter.
MTBDUDE99 · 1 points · Posted at 07:46:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Jesus. As a Hockey fan I dont know if I should be mad at you or envy you. Are you sure they were carbon fiber and not fiber glass? (The same as fishing poles) a twig made of carbon fiber would not only be like hitting a puck with a steel pipe but carbon fiber is crazy expensive, more than 200$ sticks for sure
A-nana-moose · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Maybe they were composite? Idk I haven't played anything but pickup in long time so I'm out of touch with new gear. I know they were between $180-$210 in 2010.
MTBDUDE99 · 1 points · Posted at 02:19:28 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's a nice twig, a senior/adult stick for sure. The reason I say fiber glass is ice hockey sticks flex like a fishing pole so when you shoot it pulls back on the ice then flings the puck. Street sticks are wood/composite and don't flex. In the 80s ice hockey sticks were wood. Either way nice grab.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 07:19:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when StarCraft 2 was new, I opened the first campaign level in the editor and made it so when the game started it would give the player every single achievement in the game at the time. I noticed that if it was just a custom map it wouldn't work, and if you saved this campaign map as just a custom map it wouldn't work, so instead I just saved it and replaced the map file in the game files with an MPQ editor and launched the campaign like I was playing it normally. And so I got all the achievements. And I was pretty paranoid I was going to get banned, but here we are almost 7 years later and my account's still good.
No idea if this still works with all the updates and expansions now. I never mentioned it so it wouldn't get noticed (until now that the game is dead).
capt_carfax · 2 points · Posted at 07:20:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to work at a marine retail store that will not be named because of the currently legal but questionably ethical scheme I've been running. They are fairly common across the United States in areas of boating. Well the company is smaller then its competitors but still applies the same customer benefits like "no hassle guarantees" and warranty plans they call "plus plans". Well the "plus plans" are extra special because corporate was so obsessed with customer satisfaction that these plans would cover any damage what so ever. That is important for later.
The plans themselves would be a percentage of however much the item they were protecting cost. The "plus plans" then had a tier system in which the price of the item determined whether it would be repaired or replaced. This cut off for immediate replacement is $400. One cent higher then the cost of the second to best GoPro.
I am a clever man but not necessarily a careful man. Which is why for the past three years my last three Gopros have received unfortunate luck when it comes to water damage. Lucky for me I never forget to buy my $29.99 "plus plan" that gets me a brand new GoPro every 364 days.
But not only does my $29.99 get me the new model GoPro, it also buys the silence and the cooperation of the cashiers. Because corporate puts so much emphasis on selling these "plus plans", the cashiers get a percentage of the money made for every one they sell and performance is based almost entirely on meeting warranty goals.
Corporate makes it's goals, Cashiers get their percentage, and I get my brand new GoPro.
Itr0llhoe · 2 points · Posted at 07:23:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This isn't really a loophole but my friend had a friend in accounting at an isp back in the early 2000s. Signing up for said ISP would net you a 200 or 400 dollar gift card at a large electronics retailer.
You then told my friend to tell his friend to make your account disappear after giving him your info. Well our group of mutual friends started going overboard and driving all around signing up at different store locations. I had friends who did it 2 or 3 times.
Eventually accounting guy goes "guys I can't thia is too fucking much" and stops canceling accounts. I was so glad I never got into it. I had a friend who ended up paying something like 60 or 70 dollars a month for 18 months for a total of i think 800 or 1000 dollars in gift cards.
To top it off they kept sending him letters askimg basically to talk to him about it. He just ignored the letters and paid his dues. Spider sense saved me from that one.
Amnial556 · 2 points · Posted at 07:40:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was this home town breakfast thing in my home town. And the gave out coupons for a free stack of waffles with every receipt (the stack was like 3 waffles or pancakes can't remember )
Well I went to go buy breakfast from them and when I did I got a receipt with a coupon. So I used it then they gave me another coupon with that receipt .
Needless to say I had free breakfast for about 4 weeks before they stopped giving me the coupons lol
SporkSalad · 2 points · Posted at 07:46:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We are getting free internet off Teslstra.
We moved into a new house and ordered internet with Telstra. Because of our house's location we had to use a special bundle and modem/router that we had to set up ourselves and didn't need a technician to install it.
After we installed it we plugged it in and the internet just worked! We called Telstra to tell them that we are set up and ready to go, but they said it wasn't connected, so we haven't don't it right and they will send out a technician to fix it.
We told them that it is working and we have high-speed Internet and using it currently but they didnt believe us, so we told them not to worry about the technician.
To this day we have yet to receive a bill for it and we have been getting free high-speed internet for almost a year now!
Saberaq · 2 points · Posted at 07:46:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
@gmail.com and @googlemail.com are interchangeable.
Why bother making a new email for your alt account? Better yet, on sites that ban your email instead of user, I used this all the time to raise twice the hell.
HUMANPHILOSOPHER · 2 points · Posted at 07:46:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I remember a potato chip contest where in each bag was a tic-tac-toe contest. You had to scratch the correct sequence to win the prize. My shithead friends and I figured out that if we put a piece of scotch tape over the game board and then pulled it off it would still leave a bunch of the grey scratch & win stuff on the card. However, with a thinner layer of grey we could now put the game card over a bright light and see the game board, ensuring we would always scratch the winner. We slow played that one for the whole contest, slowly getting many bags of free chips and some pop using these. I even won a Walkman which I had to mail in for.
lamannabanana · 2 points · Posted at 09:32:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At my former job, my dumbass penny-pinching crook bosses hated the idea of paying $30 for a toner cartridge from Office Depot down the street so they decided to order toner from one of those shady refill outlets because they could get TWO for $30. Even though the lack of toner shuts down my entire office, they waited three weeks before actually ordering only for the toner cartridges from this to arrive empty and the ordering line number "mysteriously" disconnected.
The bosses were located three states away at corporate HQ and my immediate supervisor was literally a missing person, so I was in charge of the entire region. We were completely stalled, not one person could do any work without me generating authorizations and I couldn't do it without toner. So I decided eff this and gave everyone in the office a month off with pay until we could start back up again. I said they could feel free to come into the office if they wanted, but bring a book or laptop because there wasn't jack to do. I went into the office most days, but I spent it reading comic books, playing games, watching Netflix, and occasionally challenging my colleagues to broom swordfights if they decided to wander in.
This had happened the previous year, only it was no electricity for two weeks because the bosses hadn't paid the bill in three months. The year after the toner, it was five weeks of a shut down office because they hadn't paid the internet and phone bill.
tl;dr My corporate masters wanted to save $15 on toner so everyone in my office got a month off with pay.
There's a far, far larger story behind all of this that explains why I was to the point where I no longer cared that I was not working for wages, but that's a different thread. Considering the bosses were ripping off actual impoverished old ladies, people with mental illness, and poverty-stricken children, it was hard to GAF about their profit margins in the end.
The_Punniest · 2 points · Posted at 13:53:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I get Amazon prime though my college email still. I graduated two years ago. I keep canceling it and they keep offering me free trials every time I go to buy something.
edgars23 · 2 points · Posted at 14:43:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when Game Stop was new, there was a competitor called Game Crazy. This particular one was right next to a Target. That Target had some Gameboy game on clearance for about $5. The trade in value for it was $15. I tried it with one cartridge at first, then confirmed with the employee that you could trade in more than one of the same game. I went back to Target, bought them out of the clearance game and traded it in. Used the profit to buy multiple new games.
codeman000_ · 2 points · Posted at 16:07:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Reeeally late to this thread. When Redbox first came out, in my small town, Walmart and McDonald's had the Redbox, but our grocery store had to have Blockbuster's box to compete, dumb, but whatever. Well Redbox promotions use individual use codes, or if they use a mass use code you couldn't use the same card or email. This is kind of a "Yeah, why wouldn't they?" Well, Blockbuster was losing big time, but their promotion codes for 1 free movie night on us, did not expire nor did they have a limit on uses. So me and my Dad would get 3 or 4 movies each night whenever we felt like it for a month or so, and then they patched it. That was fun and the Blockbuster box was gone by Christmas...
ex_bandit · 2 points · Posted at 22:41:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When my Brita filter gets down to the the last bar, I reset the filter countdown...water still tastes great! I've been using this LOOPHOLE for years!
dinosaregaylikeme · 5 points · Posted at 02:25:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My school banned teachers from wearing more then two earrings.
Didn't say shit on nose, lips, or eyebrow piercings. Got to wear my lip piercing somedays to school.
Coasterman345 · 5 points · Posted at 02:32:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In my Principles of Engineering Class, we had to make a claw to save "ducks" from an "oil spill." The score was number of points scored (more points were awarded per duck, the farther away from the spill they were placed) divided by the time. My partner and I saved only 1 duck and placed it in the closest zone, for 10 points. We did it under a second and ended up getting first place before the teacher changed the formula.
Also, this year, my teacher for AP Spanish has us do assignments on VHL. She always gives us 2 chances, so I team up with my 2 friends. We all select one letter for all of them, and then afterwards we change the wrong ones to the right ones.
Tactical_Moonstone · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You catapulted the duck out of the oil spill?
Jcostelic · 2 points · Posted at 05:24:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you date a chick you can get alota sex. Why buy the camel when you can get the whorse for free
SelfLoathingHippie · 6 points · Posted at 02:29:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not me but my friend rips the tags off stuff at Good Will and always gets a killer deal at the register. He saved $100 on some decent waders. Note: everything is donated to Good Will so any sale they make is profit regardless of item's value.
Cptbanshee · 3 points · Posted at 01:50:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Wings Up website glitched out so that everything I ordered cost nothing; naturally I ordered five pounds of wings, as well as some wedges and other shit.
For referece, three pounds of wings alone run about 40 bucks.
the best luck was I had managed to get the new delivery guy, and he didn't see any problem with all my food only costing fifteen bucks. Gave the poor guy a good tip though, considering he probably ended up paying for the fuck up
Mrcattington · 3 points · Posted at 02:45:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lived in an old high rise in central west end of St. Louis that required an rfid keyfob to enter the front door. One day while drunkenly pushing the door box numbers like an idiot, I hit the combo *333 and the door just opened. Told all the other tenants about it and the whole building started using it. Turned out it was some glitch in the old system that couldn't be disabled. Management spent $6k to replace the whole access control system.
SplitArrow · 1 points · Posted at 11:57:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Likely the number given to emergency responders.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:08:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
From the age of 5-10 I lived in this neighborhood that had a community building with a clubhouse + swimming pool. Outside the pool was a vending machine that had 20 oz. Coca-Colas for $0.75. One time I noticed that if you held the button down for 5 or more seconds it would spit out two sodas consecutively, and then spit out your change. I took advantage of that for quite a while -- as a kid I'd gather up a whole bunch of sodas for later!
loukspinelli · 3 points · Posted at 03:43:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When we take a test on Chromebooks in math class, a bunch of people and I make a Google Doc and share it with each other, then go over all of the answers. The teacher is has no idea and I've aced all of the tests so far even though I don't know any of the material.
MasterChiefGuy5 · 2 points · Posted at 03:59:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The current loophole with Xbox one lets you and 1 friend get each other's digitally bought games for free ( 2 copies for the price of 1 ), all you really have to do is set your account's Home Xbox to be your friends Xbox and your friend's account's home xbox to be your Xbox, then you can play all the games that each other has.
BurntToaster9 · 2 points · Posted at 05:30:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My husband and brother do this haha
pancakesandspam · 4 points · Posted at 04:00:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Red Robin's burgers all come with "bottomless" fries, which of course means that you essentially get free refills on fries. However, if you look at the sides on their menu, you can also do sweet potato fries, broccoli, or a side salad, all bottomless.
I like to get one of their cheaper burgers, usually around $7, and either fries or a salad. But when the food arrives, I simply put my burger in a to-go box and fill up on fries/salad. During the summer months, I can put away about 6 or 7 salads. What's even cooler, though, is that they don't mind if you want to take your last salad/batch of fries to-go, too.
The waitresses there love me because I tip well, so whenever I walk in the door, they immediately bring me like two salads. And they check back often to see when they should prepare a couple more. By the time I've gotten through a couple, they'll then tell the cook to throw the burger on the grill, and bring it out to me in a to-go container, with another to-go bowl full of salad.
So I take my burger home and eat it later, then maybe have the fries or salad for a midnight snack. Can often get two big meals or three small ones out of the whole thing. Occasionally I'll splurge and get one of their more expensive burgers, which are usually $10 to $12. But usually I just get the $7 burger. Either way, not bad for a couple of good meals.
Edit: They also have a rewards system, so after like 10 burgers, you get one free. And you also get a free burger anytime during the month of your birth. So if you eat there roughly once a week, which is about 50 times per year, 6 of those 50 times will be free burgers. So that's like a 12% discount on top of everything. And occasionally they'll have $25 gift cards go on sale for $20. So if you eat there a lot, stock up on them, which saves you even more.
Oh, and they have a pretty good allergen menu for those with food sensitivities. They'll even wrap your burger in lettuce, which I often do because since I take my burgers home, the bun will get soggy. So to reheat my burger, I simply take off the lettuce, cook the burger, reattach lettuce, and it's almost as good as it was fresh.
crnerthling · 2 points · Posted at 04:37:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In college there's was a $1 slice pizza joint downtown where you could use your on-campus cash card. However, if that card was at $0 balance, it would swipe at this pizza shop as an approved transaction. I'll be taking that secret along with many free drunk pies to my grave
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well, it's no longer a secret... But I won't be using it.
Yualae · 3 points · Posted at 04:41:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My favorite was getting more AOL free trials.
mickey72 · 2 points · Posted at 04:42:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There used to be a restaurant that had a special menu section that guaranteed to be ready in 15 minutes or less. If your whole party ordered from that menu and it was late then your meal was free. It was always late. So for 3 months a group of us would go there at least one a week , never paid one. Then they discontinued that menu.
Sevzilla · 3 points · Posted at 04:42:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was 17 I went with a couple of my older 18+ friends to a temp agency.. Nobody ever asked for i.d. (I have NO idea why) so I joined them and went thru the whole process.. Out of our group of 5, 3 of us got picked up to work at a D.H.L. package factory.. Long story short we all worked there for about 2 months then they asked me and another buddy of mine if we wanted to be hired on permanently, when we agreed they FINALLY asked for our i.d.'s and found out I was under 18 and told me I could no longer work there because I was underage.. but 17 year old me gave no fucks I already got 2 months pay at about $12 an hour working 8-10 hour shifts that was BIG MONEY to a 17 year old!
BiGGCaTT99 · 3 points · Posted at 04:47:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can't remember what cod game it was but they offered 2xp if you bought either Doritos or a Mtn. Dew product. They were smart about the Mtn.Dew and put the code under the lids but they put the codes on the Doritos just on the bag. So one day I went to Walmart and took picture of all the Doritos bags and ended up with like a month or more of double xp.
Savassan · 3 points · Posted at 05:00:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mine is from World of Warcraft. In WOW they have a system to distribute droped loot. Called DKP. There are many variations of DKP but back in vanilla my guild just did "for every boss kill u get x DKP" "if u want a piece of gear, bid and highest bidder wins". This worked fine for months. But some gear is restricted to each class. Hunters have hunter only gear, rogues have rogue only gear. And then there is cross class gear. Which is anyone can use.
So class restricted items would often go for like 50-100dkp. (10 dkp per boss kill or something), non restricted would often go for 200dkp.
I was the hunter class leader for my guild. so instead of sticking with the DKP system i came up with an excell spreadsheet. It made it so the hunters would get the item they needed most, and instead of bidding against each other. Every other hunter in the raid would pass. So hunters started to get set pieces for 10DKP, (min bid). Which allowed us to save insane amounts of DKP, which we would then use to outbid everyone else.
This went on for like a month before the other classes started to catch on, so finally everyone either had a spreadsheet or they were fucked on gear.
My guild leader finally had enough of it and had to create a whole new system. I felt rather proud. My job was to help the guild hunters and... i did that... but i kinda screwed over everyone else.
imtruwidit · 2 points · Posted at 05:06:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had some friends that would go to the grocery store looking for expired foods. If you found expired food and told an employee, you could get a non-expired item of the same type for free. And that is how they were never hungry during college.
DanStanTheThankUMan · 3 points · Posted at 05:09:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In college they had washing machines that you had to use a card loaded with money to wash your clothes. I would simply pry open the computer box and jump the wires that came from the machine I wanted to use. People from all over our building would come to me and ask could I get them a free wash and dry.
I have had to take multiple 3-12 hour online driving classes. Many of them make you wait a certain amount of time before you can go to the next section. I would use the google developer tool to find the timer count down and skip it to 0 so I could finish the course in like an hour.
I worked at a McDonalds in highschool as a cashier. When someone was paying in cash for I would put the order and and it Immediatly come on the kitchens screen. They make the order, then I cancel the order, and take the food and pocket the cash.
I once worked as a magazine telemarketer, but I got to work from home. They monitor your calls randomly so you can't just say you worked if you didn't. They also give you a response book of things you should say to sell the magazines. I recorded all of the responses and wrote some python scripts to play the recording based on what the person says. Voice recognition wasn't as good back then so it wasn't perfect but it worked pretty good and actually got as many sells as I did.
There used to be regular "Coupon" threads on 4Chan that would post fake coupons. I only did it once, but I got a PS3 for $99 when it was going for $299.
UncleTouchysPuzzle · 2 points · Posted at 05:10:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sign up for college classes I'm Denver for $25, receive student bus pass that's good for 3 years, cancel classes, keep using pass.
$25/3 years vs $~100/month or 5.20/day. Fuck em
Also my job supplies two 10 minute paid breaks and one 30 minute unpaid. The 30 isn't mandatory so a lot of us just scarf some food during a 10 and wind up with 2.5 hours overtime each pay period.
xyzen420 · 2 points · Posted at 05:11:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I always asked my students to vote in groups. It gave them the false impression that they were making the decisions, while I was always able to gerrymander whatever outcome I wanted.
tckiely · 2 points · Posted at 05:22:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You found out that you can get karma by submitting old AskReddit questions.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 03:34:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The CIA contracted with me to build a massive laser weapon when I was a professor at Pacific Technical University. Instead I used the money to renovate my home while having my students, who are all real geniuses, build it for me. There was a minor popcorn situation but otherwise it worked flawlessly.
The point is now I have a lifetime supply of popcorn.
KB_112 · 2 points · Posted at 05:38:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That damn Mitch, screwed things for ya.
kccustom · 1 points · Posted at 06:31:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sounds like you have a bright future...
SplitArrow · 1 points · Posted at 07:59:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Man, you are a Real Genius.
gandaar · 4 points · Posted at 04:48:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Sims:
ROSEBUD ROSEBUD ROSEBUD ROSEBUD
Wash, rinse and repeat
TheEverling · 2 points · Posted at 05:03:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I did a similar thing, except I learned you could type rosebud;!;!(adding endless sets of ; and !) and each semicolon exclamation mark combo would input the code another time. Would just hit the character limit a few times and get massive amounts of money to build whatever I wanted
gandaar · 1 points · Posted at 14:26:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's incredible! Truly a top notch cheat code
JulianPlenti · 3 points · Posted at 05:22:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When the US Mint was pushing the $1 coin, they would allow you to purchase them with credit cards and ship them to you for free. People would use a credit card with rewards like free air-miles to purchase thousands of dollars worth of $1 coins, deposit the $1 coins to the bank, pay off said credit card, keep rewards from cards, rinse, repeat.
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-mint-ends-the-dollar-coin-scam-for-airline-miles-2011-7
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 22:52:07 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Talarn · 32 points · Posted at 00:08:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure I would consider theft to be a loophole...
iB3xx · 3 points · Posted at 04:46:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One time there was this new dating app, and everyone in town started using it.. I am not a very attractive guy so it was hard to find a good time.
There was this blonde girl who literally slept with me every time I messaged her on the app, even though she kept giving me 1 star after every hookup. She thought she was empowering herself by doing that and making me feel like shit, so I just went along with it.
We slept together about 8 times in one week, my rating went to shit but I didn't care, that was more nuts per week that I busted with a girl than ever in my life. After that, her brother had a big meltdown she stopped using the app. I miss that whore.
HehTheUrr · 1 points · Posted at 06:05:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Her brother is a FIVE STAR MAN!
MGRaiden97 · 3 points · Posted at 03:49:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My local grocery store has a self checkout where you enter in how many of something that isn't prepackaged (fruit, vegetables, donuts ect.) So I usually get a dozen donuts and put in that I have 1 donut and get 12 for the price of 1.
LesNessma1 · 7 points · Posted at 04:27:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's not a loophole. That's theft.
jjanssen69 · 1 points · Posted at 04:57:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What are you a cop? They throw half that shit away every night anyways
IMKridegga · 4 points · Posted at 03:54:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
winRAR ― Nothing more needs to be said.
eclipsehb1 · 2 points · Posted at 02:14:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Care package glitch
NoNotInMyHair · 2 points · Posted at 02:37:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Staying alive
demesisx · 2 points · Posted at 04:14:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
REI's no questions asked return policy. Rest in peace.
Psykiit · 2 points · Posted at 04:31:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not ITT : many loopholes still working, that Redditors didn't mention to no put an end to them.
badlaptop · 2 points · Posted at 04:36:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have a coupon code for Dominos Pizza which takes 50% off every order, and I'm taking it to the grave.
asmallman · 1 points · Posted at 06:20:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I WILL PAY YOU FOR THAT CODE
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
PM me the Dominios code... Please?
vldsa · 2 points · Posted at 04:48:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Makeup site that I frequent very regularly always has $5 off coupons if you sign up for their newsletter. Cue me going to a throwaway email site whenever I order from them so that I essentially get free shipping.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 14:36:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Which make up store us this? Ulta?
vldsa · 0 points · Posted at 15:23:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
makeup site - it's colourpop.
Loked-N-Stoked · 2 points · Posted at 05:07:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
to this day every time i break or wear out a ps3 or ps4 controller i buy a brand new one and return the old one int he new ones package after cleaning it up and say its broken. get store credit to buy some food for a few days or a new game. ive only even really paid for 2 controllers 1 extra with each my ps3 and 4 and i've probably broken or wore out over a dozen. thats a lot of cash still in my pocket or spent elsewhere over the years.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 02:32:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
ITT: Stealing from people.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:12:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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jmhalder · 9 points · Posted at 03:48:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's not a loophole mate, that's fraud. I mean, kudos I guess for not getting caught.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:51:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Maccas dinner box for cheaper they fixed it now however :( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z0g1O5IQDc
mattrat88 · 1 points · Posted at 02:52:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Getting two bubble gums for the price of ones always been my go to
Redarrow762 · 1 points · Posted at 03:40:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Go home, IRS, you're drunk.
geek_cave · 1 points · Posted at 04:28:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This whole thing belongs in r/churning lol
VivaLaEmpire · 1 points · Posted at 04:33:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The poophole one! Being Catholic and all...
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 04:46:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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kramertoast- · 1 points · Posted at 04:48:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Tiny Tower sushi restaurant bux glitch
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:54:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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crimeo · 1 points · Posted at 04:57:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If they worded it as "everyONE" with an app, then that wasn't a loophole since you are only one person with an app. That was just lying and hoping not to get noticed.
TondaGossa · 1 points · Posted at 04:57:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I abused Target with video games. I would buy a game, play it, return it and say it broke so they let me exchange it for another one. Then a day or two later I'd return the sealed copy for a refund and buy a new game, play it, and return it. Rince and repeat.
Was just my own personal rental system, finally stopped doing it, played a bunch of games for free and got all my money back.
ChrisRunsTheWorld · 1 points · Posted at 04:57:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Buying discounted gift cards to a store that sold Paypal load cards, and allowed you to purchase them with the store gift cards, using my Paypal debit card.
fistasaverb · 1 points · Posted at 04:57:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had free AOL.
I started with the free trial because I for my own phone line and needed my own AOL account. Decided to drop it and try people pc; when I told the operator that, they offered me 3 months of AOL free, I just had to make sure and cancel before the trial ran out.
Fast forward five years; either they finally caught on our it wasn't profitable to offer anyone free service, because they actually went through with cancellation.
It was a good ride while it lasted.
This happened sometime in the late 90's to early 2000's.
serjykalstryke2 · 1 points · Posted at 04:57:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I found out my at my online college (its an online program for adult students at a university near me) that one of my instructors didn't really check work to grade shit so I have plagiarized some of my work from other students (not like papers, but in order to "stay engaged" the school requires a discussion board post every week; I've just copied and lasted someone else's then changed some words and sentences and gotten a 100 every time)
nicless · 1 points · Posted at 04:57:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is the least "ha ha!" moment... But I got a membership for Sam's Club. Didn't really shop there enough to be worth it but going there on my lunch was super awesome because it was a hot dog and a huge drink for $1.50. Well, you have to be a member to get in but the people working their cafe scanned a store card to ring up purchases. I didn't even realize my membership had lapsed for 6 months or so, I was still enjoying that cheap ass lunch.
AlwaysChangingMind88 · 1 points · Posted at 04:57:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm super late but those coin slots that had anywhere from a gumball to those small toys in a plastic container. You put the quarter in and turn the metal knob and out came your prize.
Well, I figured out that on packs of beer there were these small round cardboard pieces that you can punch out. I put these in the slots and turned and it accepted this cardboard circle as a quarter. I did it's every time I went to the grocery store until one day they took the machines out. This was about a 1 year operation I had going on. I was around 10 or 11 at the time. Witty lil kid ayye
Rayona086 · 1 points · Posted at 04:57:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In subnautica you can charge power cells inside your cyclops. If you have the 400% efficiency mod, it becomes a unlimited source of power.
TheRealClose · 1 points · Posted at 04:58:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Win-rar.
syzergy · 1 points · Posted at 04:58:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Staples.com used to let you stack $25 off $75 coupons through their chat service. I would often buy expensive electronics and get them for 1/2 or 3/4 their retail price. I would buy coupons off ebay. I even had a coupon plug! Guy would sell me $25 off coupons for $3 each. I don't think they let you do coupon codes in chat now. Anyways I easily made $800 one summer just reselling the stuff I bought on ebay. It was great.
Another loophole I had on Staples.com was abusing their 110% price match promotion. They listed a $250 PC graphics card (a gtx 970 for those who want to know) for about $1600 on their site. I price matched this to another site and basically got the card for around $100 because of that extra 10% match. The CSRs were clueless as all hell. Such a fun time with staples! They've really stepped their game up unfortunately :/
MaxLemon · 1 points · Posted at 04:58:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In my high school, you could substitute a semester of Gym class for Scuba Diving. There was only one version of the scuba diving class, but it hosted all levels of certification, so I ended up taking scuba in place of Gym for four consecutive semesters, becoming a rescue diver and finishing a significant portion of my master diver certification. When my cousin took the class, I found out that after I left, you could no longer do that.
hokie18 · 1 points · Posted at 04:58:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a casino night being held by our Residence Hall Association a couple years ago, you got a small bag of chips when entering and could exchange chips for raffle tickets at the end of the night. After wandering around and playing cards for a little bit my friends and I found a vertical roulette game that was actually broken; you could play on black/red which gave you a 2:1 payout, but there was also a segment on the wheel labeled "black" and "red" which paid out 15:1. We physically couldn't lose, at all. Eventually the person running the table caught on to what we were doing (mainly after she ran out of large-denomination chips to give us) and put a limit on the amount we could bet at once (previously unlimited, we were playing almost $100k in chips per spin). It didn't stop us from getting over 500 tickets at the end of the night, which we put in for a GoPro and a small drone.
We won both of them.
pot8ers · 1 points · Posted at 04:58:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In my Engineering 1101 class my freshmen year, we had to build a vehicle that went up to a certain point and then come back to the starting line; it also had to be made up of 50% recyclable material. The score was broken down in a lot of different parts, which included: simply moving forward, moving backward, making it the end point, returning past the starting line, and the 50% recyclable material part. My team had attempted to build a vehicle but ended up falling short. So, on the day it was due, instead of using the vehicle we had attempted to build we used a roll of duct tape with a ball of crumbled up paper shoved in the middle and some cardboard attached to the sides.
It was able to move forward and backwards, and come back past the starting line (we folded up some duct tape so it would bounce off and come back). We ended up having one of the highest scores in the class.
not_ratty · 1 points · Posted at 04:59:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Rosebud on the Sims
khanabyss · 1 points · Posted at 04:59:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Aol free trial discs.
legumekin · 1 points · Posted at 04:59:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was attending a military school there were pay phones that you could only use a phone card on. I learned from someone else that was a few months ahead of me a trick to place calls for free. You would cycle the cradle hookswitch rapidly for about 20 seconds until there was no dial tone. Then dial any 1-800 number, you would hear a dial tone, then dial the 10 digits you wanted to call for free. I have wondered if it still works. Off to find a pay phone.
VaporizerInHeat · 1 points · Posted at 05:00:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When using the change machines that take 8 - 12% of your total, which can add up to quite a bit depending on how much change you have, we found a way to circumvent the charge. We would start the process like normal, but select to redeem the money as a gift card as it wont take a percent. Deposit our change and before finishing, disconnect the ethernet cable in back of the machine. When you try to cash out the machine tries to connect to the net to activate the card(but cannot), tells you the internet in down and gives cash for the same total. Not sure anyone else knew about this outside my group of freinds.
TheObstruction · 1 points · Posted at 05:00:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had to do continuing education for my job, and I did it online because why sit in some boring classroom. I wondered if there was some way to speed things up to get to the end, but figured multiple tabs wouldn't work. I ended up with Internet Explorer (it's good for something!), Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera all running different sections of the program simultaneously. Did 32 hours of class stuff in about 14 hours.
Hivefleet_Cerberus · 1 points · Posted at 05:01:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
BXR
veryrandomcomment · 1 points · Posted at 05:01:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
An online community had a monthly giveaway based on how much time you spent on their site. I think the top 5 got something, but I could be wrong. This was in the time of dial up internet without any unlimited plans and were most people did not have internet. We figured out that we could go online unlimited by asking older people in the village if they had some of these AOL 2000 minutes internet for free promotion CDs, that were floating around at the time. That worked quite well, we just had to make new accounts every few weeks.
So, back to the giveaway: every night when we went to bed, we put a book on our keyboards, so it looked like we were typing all the time and it did not log us out of the session (which usually happened after 10 minutes of inactivity). My best friend, my classmate and me, who all lived in the same street were on top of that list for 6 months straight. I got a nice pair of Axion Shoes, a Powell Skateboard, Independent Trucks, several T-Shirts... After 6 months they realized that this probably can"t be real and stopped the whole thing.
My Girlfriend was pretty mad at me when I told her about it years later, because she also was on that site and tried to compete by actually STAYING UP ALL NIGHT and participating in the forums. We did not know each other at that time.
ArchibaldMcAcherson · 1 points · Posted at 05:01:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At university any copying of textbooks on the photocopier was 20c per sheet of paper but scanning any number of pages to a PDF and emailing it to yourself was free. I told this to a class of 30 people and we set up a mailing group where people would scan different sections of books and send them to the group. Not many of us bought textbooks or borrowed from the library after that.
Artphos · 1 points · Posted at 05:01:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My school had a small theatre(more like a conferance room), so we saw what the code for the room was and always watched netflix and played smash on the bigscreen. One time the principle came in with a high profiled politician and showed him around at school, so he even pretended that we were supposed to be there infront of him, instead of yelling at us.
Biobillybonez · 1 points · Posted at 05:01:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Gamestop used games:
Wanna play a single player game and think you can beat it in a week? Beat it, take it back on day 8 full refund no questions asked.
I've done this to so so so many games and just buy my "favorites" at midnight release (Nioh, Dark souls FF15) or games that favor MP component wait til they drop significantly and buy at 20$ in a couple months.
aa_ishi · 1 points · Posted at 05:01:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At qdoba you can get an entire bowl filled with chicken for roughly $8
Lava_will_remove_it · 1 points · Posted at 05:02:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Amazon offered free Prime membership for 30 days when you bought the Kindle Fire. (This was the original one.) One day I forgot to lock down the Kindle and my kid managed to find the factory reset. Turns out when you factory reset the device and set up your account on it again you get another 30 free days of Amazon Prime.
I may have hit the factory reset on the device once or twice whenever I shopped Amazon, saw a show they had I wanted to watch for free, or a book I wanted to borrow and read.
Stopped working a year or two ago. Someone finally fixed the code.
SpiritualRemains · 1 points · Posted at 05:02:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not really a profitable one, but a convenience one: the apartments I've lived in only had pay laundry. When I was in school, I discovered that if I put a dollar in the Pepsi machines at school (which were more than a dollar for a bottle), it would give quarters out as change. As long as I had singles, I got my laundry change from there until I finished school and moved.
That isn't a problem now because my current place moved to stored value cards a few years ago for laundry (and finally gave us a non-crappy dryer during the conversion).
LmaoB0x · 1 points · Posted at 05:02:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in my high school... I was taking part of an online curriculum. Everything was done on online, everything. After submitting whatever assignment or project was due, you would receive instant feedback on what your grade was (Or if it was pending a grade), and the answer key. The full answer key, and if it was an essay or short answer, an example answer was given. Now, this website was a bit new, they used javascript for everything. Once a page was "submitted", it revealed a javascript code where you had buttons to "Show Answer". What I ended up doing was viewing the source code of that html page, copying the code, and used inspect element on all my other "un-submitted" assignments to paste in the show answer part. 100% on all my assignments, it was unheard of. Went on for about a year and a half before I was finally "caught." Good times...
billythekidofbastion · 1 points · Posted at 05:03:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back at college, the school auditorium used to hand out free Chick-Fil-A sandwich coupons to freshman during orientation. Some friends worked there and had hundreds upon hundreds leftover. No one wanted them so they took them for themselves and to share with friends. And even though the coupons had expiration dates, Chick-Fil-A always took them. We never paid for Chick Fil-A during those formative years and, as far as I know, they never caught on.
blacksoxing · 1 points · Posted at 05:03:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Radioshack had a promotion where you'd get 6 months of Netflix if you bought a prepaid phone. Initially they had a $5 prepaid phone available which stupidly ran at the same time as this promotion. I bought all I could, which was roughly 8 of them. It got to the point where Radioshack QUICKLY changed their promotion terms as I'm confident others were clearing out these $5 phones that Radioshack had.
Just a few months ago did I get a notice that I had to start paying for Netflix. Probably the funniest aspect to this is that for the years that I had free Netflix, I never watched it. Never.
Mandamelon · 1 points · Posted at 05:03:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I found that on the Kindle store you can buy a book then cancel the order for a full refund, but still read the entire book if you opened it before it got deleted off your device. I bought books to support more unpopular authors, but still probably saved hundreds if not thousands of dollars reading books without paying.
I believe they patched this recently, I'm surprised it took so long (I did it for years). I'm also a little surprised I never heard of anyone else figuring this out.
greg0ry7 · 1 points · Posted at 05:03:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
COLLEGE CAFETERIAS STRAIGHT UP - Since my buddy at the time lived in the dorms and had an unlimited meal plan he could just walk into the cafeteria and just eat anytime he wanted to...when me or a couple other of my buddies who did not live in the dorms needed food he would pile as much food as he could onto a plate, take it back to his backpack in the corner of the eating area and put it into A HILARIOUS AMOUNT of Tupperware. He would repeat this process multiple times and go to all of the food stations in the cafeteria not to seem suspicious... we all ate for free. If he ever got caught he would just say "oh I didn't know, I live in the farthest part away in the dorms and just like to keep the food in my dorm room fridge". Kind of a dbag move but if you're broke and hungry in college you gotta eat!
Tskear · 1 points · Posted at 05:03:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not me but my father uses a loophole when driving. If your driving in Ireland and get done speeding you pay a fine and get points on the license. X points equals suspended license. However because he doesn't have an Irish licence, but one from another country , all he can get is the fine and not the points, so speeding doest hurt as much when your going 40 over on the motor way.
MindOfNicole · 1 points · Posted at 05:04:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the game they so call, "Monopoly" you can collect $200 every time you make it around the board. So I grabbed all the money from the banker and took off to the other room. Now I have all the Monopoly money I'll ever need..
bountyman34 · 1 points · Posted at 05:04:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My school is pretty shitty by doing this but they would charge you $.50 for printing in color and $.30 for black and white. We have this main printing room where both teachers and students print things out. The teachers and teacher aides have a special account where the system knows you are a staff member and won't charge you for printing jobs. I went in line to print something and I saw that the person in front of me (a teacher) forgot to log out. I hopped on and went to see the credentials. I made a new account under as an aide and then made accounts to sell to people at a discount (accounts don't expire). So I made 15 or so "aide" accounts and sold them for $10-$15 to a freshman and I did this for 3 years until I graduated. It was good money.
Dont_hurt_meplz · 1 points · Posted at 05:04:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There is this csgo website where you can do survey to make credits on the site and then u can use those credits to buy skins. For those who don't know csgo skins are items in the game that you can trade or sell them for paypal money. So me and my friends were bored during our computer class in high school so we start doing surveys, and when I fail survey, the failed survey link was something like www.yadihyadiyada.com/fail=0 , and I make it to /success=1 and it worked and now I have 1 dollar in credit on the website. I did this for about 5 months until the owner of the website contacted me and sad he would report me to fbi, lel I just blocked him and ran away with around 400 dollars profit
FatLightng · 1 points · Posted at 05:04:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Used to do Pay per Visit/Click banners back in the early days of internet. Wrote a script that forced a click when someone came to the site. Started a Rom And emulator site. Got 1000 views a day and got 25 cents per click/viewer. Would get checks of like $5000 dollars sent to me in the mail. Lasted for about 8 months until company caught on and changed to pay per item bought.
JimmyRat · 1 points · Posted at 05:04:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
REI has a one year return policy if you're not satisfied with an item. I get new shoes for free all the time. I've paid for three pairs total, so I always have three returns waiting for me. The trick is that the return past 30 days is if you're dissatisfied with the performance of the item and not for wear and tear. That is unless you tell them you're dissatisfied with the performance of the item based on the amount of wear and tear. Trust me when I say you will get looked at like you're a piece of shit, but you will get brand new shoes.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:04:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My high school had no actual penalty for amount of absences or tardiness, a fact that they made a concerted attempt to hide. When I found out through my guidance counselor, it began. If I needed an extra day on an assignment I stayed home. If I wanted a big breakfast, I'd skip first period. If I had a test in the afternoon, I'd sleep in and come to school after lunch. And after college acceptances came through, I stopped coming to school altogether on a whim if I didnt feel like it.
All and all, I missed over a months worth of classes, with absolutely no repercussions. Senior year was dope.
bassdome · 1 points · Posted at 05:04:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Free Internet on Verizon prepay just by texting your self google.com lasted a few years then they put a stop to that.
DarkPhenomenon · 1 points · Posted at 05:05:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in vanilla wow I discovered an issue where Master Looting gear to someone that wasn't on your screen didn't show up in anyone's logs. Me and my Rogue cousin ran so much shit with me ML'ing where I'd tell him to run a few screens away from everyone when something good dropped (like world drops). Best thing we got was a Krol blade from an UBRS runs.
noisycat · 1 points · Posted at 05:05:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Gamestop way back when had a promotion where you could trade in your Sega Genesis and get like $50 for it. I read over all the rules and promptly found a pawn shop that sold me a pile of non working Segas for $40 and turned them in for $500 in store credit. It was double awesome because I worked there and got my employee discount when I bought anything. A couple weeks later Corporate added a bunch of new rules to the trade ins.
jackalguy · 1 points · Posted at 05:06:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A while back at Best Buy they used to offer a Geeksquad warranty on console games that for $1 you could return a game if it were damaged, and get full store credit back. But they never actually checked the game, so I played through a bunch of Xbox 360 games for only a few dollars till they stopped doing the warranty and was left with a legitimately broken copy of Timeshift...
KlaatuBrute · 1 points · Posted at 05:06:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not a loophole, exactly. In the early/mid 90s, when I was like 13, I realized I could buy Sega Genesis games that were marked down at K-B Toys for $9.99, then return them to the local department store (Venture, for you Chicagoans) where prices stayed at MSRP for way longer than they should have, for like $50. I did it more than a handful of times, getting either cash store credit for more toys. One time it was basically a straight-up trade for a case of Fleer X-Men Ultra trading cards. My mom helped me do it enough times until she started to feel bad, and then my swindle was over.
FrozenWafflesOP · 1 points · Posted at 05:07:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At my previous job as a cashier at a produce market, we often had lots of dumb little sales. One I remember in particular was on seed packets. The way our system was set up to do the discount, was it would ring up the price for all of the seeds, then remove the price to get it to the sale price. That's how the head manager decided to set that up.
Well one day they went on a bigger sale than usual. But the head manager didn't change it. I don't remember specifics, but it was something like half off of what they normally were.
So then the next manager changed it to show that. Except, he changed the price they rang up at, not what would be discounted. So normally they would take off about a dollar every 10 packs, bring the total down to about 90 cents from $1.90.
But the price was cut in half, and the discount was not take away. So it became 90 cents roughly for ten, then it would take away the dollar. Meaning, according to the system, we owed the customer money for buying seeds.
Now by exploiting to the max, I bought about 3 sodas before I told my manager how I was getting them for free. He was amused and then fixed it. Thanked me for catching it.
NomadicTickler · 1 points · Posted at 05:07:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
NBA Jam used to give you free games if you pressed down heaps of the buttons and do some joy stick stuff. Whenever I went to the shops I would tell my mum I was going there and make friends with people by saying I'll get us free games. It made going to the shops bearable
craploadedwithcrap · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In University, it costs average 250$-400$ per textbook. However the max late penalty at the University library is only 25$ per book. So I'd pay 25$ and get a textbook for the whole semester. (still using the loophole)
BoogieToSomeMarvin · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh barely anything Im not at a big boy job yet.
I work 6 hours a day and I take a paid lunch cuz no one has asked me if I was clocked out yet. I also add like several minutes a day to my time card because no one ever checks them.
pornymcgee · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Carls app gave you 100 point ever time you checked in. Most were stupid coupon things like "buy a burger get a free soda with your 500 points" etc. but at 1000 points you got a free "six dollar burger" I had a paper route when the app came out. You could check in and get the points once every 3 hours. I passed by 1 Carl's Jr. at the beginning of my route and one towards the end. My route took a little over 3 hours. I was getting 200 points a night while working. I was getting a free burger a week, no other purchase necessary. I eventually found out that when you redeemed it, you would have 30 minutes to use it. So I would get a burger at the end of my shift and couple exits over was another Carl's Jr. would get a second burger and save it for lunch. At 4am there wasn't a line and all these Carl's Jr. we're on my route so it didn't even cost me much of my time. Eventually they changed it to "buy one get one free" for 1000 points
rubbishgrubbish · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I went to Disneyland and my parents had one of those early am tickets for us kids (this is around 2000,not sure if they still do this) . My friend and my sister were into riding space mountain as much as possible, but when the ride finishes, the exit is far from the entrance and walking through the building takes a while.
As we were getting out there was a door open and we decided to check it out. Turns out it was the side entrance that leads right up to the last 10 feet or so of the line. The park was empty, so this didn't result in us cutting in line, but we were able to ride the ride more frequently since we didn't have to snake through the rest of the building. Eventually, they closed the door.
Hellorachiee · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Using Incognito mode in Chrome to vote multiple times on contests that otherwise only allow you to vote once/once per day. Helped my previous job win one of those "Best of" contests this way.
georgetheobscure · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Rosebud in The Sims. Damn I had some fine housing.
Vadersballhair · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you buy real estate that barely covers it's own expenses, you'll never pay tax again due to depreciation.
ChefCs · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This was my 3rd year of highschool. My local fried chicken restaurant had a promotion where if you sign up for their membership program, you get a free combo meal (worth about $8). So my friends and I figured out as long as we could go inside and get the free membership cards, we could get a free meal. With our membership cards in hand, I would drive us to the restaurant and go through the drive thru, my two friends would hop out of the car, go inside and get the membership cards for tomorrow's lunch and I would place the order for all 3 of us and hand over the 3 membership cards. It got to the point where we did this every school day for a month and a half. We ended up getting $240 worth of food for free, each. Unfortunately, one of my friends had a big mouth and apparently the word spread to this kid named Micheal. Micheal's dad is in upper management for the chain, he heard about our shenanigans and thus ended the promotion.
fresh_dan · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Baja Fresh used to have gift cards that were printed on cardstock and had no barcode or redemption code. They were easy to replicate with a color xerox.
shilpaehaja · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Black ops III. The default pistol (whatever it was called) practically had no cap on the fire rate, so I assigned a rapid left click macro on my mouse and dominated.... Until it got patched a few months later. Haven't played since.
pisspoordecisions · 1 points · Posted at 05:09:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My ex girlfriend's brother worked for caribou coffee. They had a buy 9 get one free sticker deal going on. His branch of caribou went out of business, so he took home a stack of the cards and a few rolls of the stickers...they gave me some and I got free coffee from caribou whenever I wanted, for like 3 months.
nancam9 · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Late to this, but ... it was the peak of my life.
Air Canada matched a deal that a (now defunct) airline offered - fly 42 segments (basically 21 round trips) is a 3 month window and get 2 Business Class tickets anywhere in the world that they flew, as well as all sorts of bonus miles, status, etc.
Really? I called several times and asked pointed questions about what fare classes were eligible (A: any), and so on. So I booked 21 return trips between Calgary and Edmonton, which is about a 30 minute flight. I got off the plane in Edmonton, cut through a side door, and got back on the same plane, in the same seat, about 20 minutes later. Total trip time was about 2 hours with some travel to and from the airport.
Each ticket was less than 100 dollars at the time (this was 1995/1995). A few flights were as cheap as $75 (before air navigation, fuel charges, security charges etc), a couple were about $120. Including parking charges at the airport, the odd meal and snack, etc. I spent a little less than $3000 all in for the trips.
I took my wife to visit her grandfather in South Africa. A trip that could not, would not, have happened at the time (new child, new house, etc.)
toufu6 · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hero's Quest 1 aka Quest for Glory 1. When creating a new character, you had like 20 points to add to an assortment of different base stats (throwing, climbing, magic, strength, etc.). Found out if you messed with adding and subtracting stat points you could make an individual stat go into negative amounts and add to the initial 20 points. Easy way to max out every stat except 1.
damboy99 · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bit of backstory first. In high school I did a lot of theatre, and often spent more time there than at my own home, the group of Thespians (theatre people) that also "lived" in the building would go to a pool a few hundred feed away from the building to by snacks, and drinks. I found the extension cord that powered all of the vending machines a few months later (cause I never really looked for it, and it was up against a wall pretty close), and flipped the switch, on and off. Not knowing what it would do, I went, swiped my card, and bought a drink, and left like normal. But then when I checked my online banking a few days later, I had not been charged for buying the drinks, after bringing it up to my friends they hadn't either. When the Coca-Cola truck came at the end of the month to restock the machine, they guy was probably informed to get the machine to start billing people again. We tried it, and of course it charged us. A week later, turned them all off, and back on and got a bunch of free snacks, and drinks. 3 years of Theatre, and we told nobody. When we were Seniors, we knew we had to tell somebody, so we told the people who we trusted the most... Our Technical Director, and he told only the people who he trusted. When I go back, I ask him who currently knows, and then ask them if they still use it. I am really surprised that after this long, it still is not fixed, and it's the same Coca-Cola Truck driving restocking dude.
The main downfall though, this was the beginning to my Mellow Yellow addiction...
Goldving · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when you used to be able to get free 20oz. caps off sodas if you titled the bottle you could see if it was a winner before using your free cap on it. I was a real rebel.
straight_gay · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
(Not me but one of my friends) In seventh grade there was a science project where you had a shit ton of optional things you could do for extra credit, but the project was only out of 30 points. A friend of mine did every single extra credit option (which was an obscene amount of things) and ended up getting like a 700/30 on the assignment. He didn't do a single thing the rest of the semester ended the class with a 200%
JackSpyder · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Our school vending machine used to cost 50p for a can. If you put I think a 2 euro coin (forget exactly which value it was) it would register as receiving a £1 coin plus spit out the 2 euro coin and 50p change and the can of juice. A couple of mates and I did this for about 2 years sparingly. Good thing is even if someone is watching you it's hard to notice you're cheating the machine as it looks like a legit purchase.
LordFlux · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when the XBox One came out, they had a promo code that gave you $10 off of their online store. So you could get a $15 Microsoft Currency code for $5. Thing is, the promo code wouldn't stop working after use -- you could just use the same code over and over.
Sold MS Currency codes to friends for $7 (not a huge markup, but it kept them coming back and gave me a little extra $). Ended up spending about $600, which gave me $1800 in codes. Sold a huge chunk of them, but also used a lot on my personal account.
Whoever handles the digital transactions (I'm guessing Digital River) temporarily banned my account and I couldn't make any purchases on microsoftstore.com for about 8 to 9 months while logged into that account. It works fine now, though.
Being signed up for XBox Live Rewards also allowed me to earn points back on all of the digital purchases.
Only drawback is that I now have so much digital content on my XBox 360 that the thing is damn slow.
Hurtadau · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That old duplication glitch in Oblivion where you use a bow and arrow. I ended up with so many fucking poison apples from the dark brotherhood. Entire towns were ravaged by poison apple epidemics thanks to my pickpocket skill.
JerZeyCJ · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was a very enterprising child who was also very into video games and very short on money, at some point in time I found out about Gamestop's return policy of returning a purchased used game within a week and getting all your money back. Cue literal years of me abusing the SHIT out of that policy and stretching birthday and Christmas money for months. My poor parents drove me there almost every weekend for years and those employees were completely in their rights to cut me off, but bless them they never did. Probably had to do with me being a little kid when I started doing it and at that point fuck it, I was a regular, it was what I did. I stopped sometime around when I was 15 or 16, I think. Probably a good thing too, they never seemed annoyed by it, but I'm sure the ice would've started wearing thin since I was getting older.
BBEKKS · 1 points · Posted at 05:11:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Local Smoothie King (chain that sells "healthy" smoothies) had a "buy a gift card, get a free smoothie" promo.
Step 1: buy gift card get free smoothie Step 2: use gift card to buy gift card, get free smoothie Step 3: repeat
ridenourt · 1 points · Posted at 05:11:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have a good one. In 2001 I was a power seller on ebay, and had a issue with a dell order. Anyway I talked to a manger about my order and he gave me a coupon code for 40% off my next purchase up to $150 off. I was able to stack multiple codes and on top of that stack the 40% off at the end to get some serious good deals. The coupon never maxed out at $150 and always went a full 40% off.
At one point my entire house was just stacked from the floor to ceiling with Laptops, desktops, LCD's ect. I ended up using this same code for almost 2 years before they caught on and easily made 250K. Those were the good days. Now I might sell on ebay 20-30 times a year due to their fees.
One part that really sucked about e-bay was 1 out of every 25 buyers would try to scam me. Either they wanted free stuff or make up something about a scratch on something that was NIB. I also had a guy send a laptop case back filled with rocks and I had to credit his money back.
GhettoOSRS · 1 points · Posted at 05:11:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That you can just walk out of stores with merchandise. I was such a sucker for thinking that you had to go through the check out line and pay for things.
foodsexreddit · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I went to programming conference with my husband at this really nice resort. The programmers made rockets and had fun networking events; the spouses (read: "wives") were offered shopping and sightseeing trips. I just read and wrote by the pool, but they charged a lot of money if we wanted to join our programming halves at all-- even for meals and social events. I got to know some of the staff who worked at the resort and found out that not only were the people who planned the conference assholes to the staff, but they were vastly overcharging all the participants for things like food and space reservations. The staff were actually so horrified to learn how much we were being charged, they ended up helping me sneak into all the events and meals for free. This might not be some big "hack" or "loophole", but I made friends, got free food, got to hang out with my husband, and ripped off some assholes. Overall, great experience. :)
Freemindedness · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a kid, there was an apartment complex across the street which I would go to. I was thirsty from the bike ride and summer heat, so naturally I went to the soda machine to grab something to drink, I had to pee really bad at the time so I started rapidly pushing the button repeatedly. and because of that 2 sodas fell out, long story short me and my friend we kept going there for sodas till they fixed it and a bunch of other kids in the neighborhood got free sodas.
TheAlamander · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At my old job I noticed that the software we used for clocking in and out rounded to the nearest quarter hour. I would clock in 7 minutes late and clock out 7 minutes early and it would register me as being on time. It took half a year for them to find out.
DrunkenGolfer · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was at a bar with a TiuchTunes Jukebox. They have an app and you can buy play credits and play songs from your phone. The Jukebox was offline, but the online service and app were ok. I submitted a song, my account was decremented by a play credit, and almost immediately the play credit was returned to my account because the attempt to play the song failed. I tried again, same result. I tried again, but on the third try I was awarded a "bonus credit" for having played three songs. Another bonus at five, ten, etc. I could have sat there all night requesting songs that wouldn't play while ratcheting up my balance of play credits.
I contacted their support because I thought it was a brutal logic bomb in their app if people could simply unplug the network cable from the Jukebox and rack up unlimited free plays.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Its_Raul · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Found one of those surveys that gave you a 5 dollar amazon gift card after completing it. It would just be the code. I did the survey, answered some 20 questions with 1 question a page so it took like 10 minutes start to finish. Well...the code worked to my surprise. I decided to do the survey again, only used a macro script and recorded my inputs. I did the survey another 24 times with the script and got 50 amazom bucks for free before the website said they ran out of gift cards.
GreatRegularFlavor · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I wasn't charged healthcare insurance for a FULL YEAR because the HR department failed to file my paperwork properly. This was approx 5-6 years ago. I had myself and my family in the plan.
Quixotic_Remark · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was windows store that opened up in the mall by my place in highschooland they were showing off their new windows phone. If you won in a challenge against it with your phone you'd get a 100$ gift card and a 20$ card if you lost. I made over 1000$ losing against them before management stepped in and told the employees that it was a once a day challenge and to keep me from doing it again. I had been going over 10 times a day between shift changes and with different sets of clothing.
NetworkAuditor2 · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A lot of you won't find this funny at all, but ms08-067.
So basically this is a Windows exploit. In a theoretical world where this isn't widely patched, you can sit in a coffee shop, and just about any windows device that pops on the network, you can just "point, click, hack."
No required vulnerable software, no pesky ASLR, just an easy ticket to a totally pwned machine.
I know a lot of vulnerability testers today who still swear by it.
I_Love_Dean_Spanos · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
back in the day before smart phones there used to be a store on your phone where you can buy wallpapers, games, ringtones etc. On wallpapers they were like $1.99 but if you go through it you can preview the wallpaper and through your settings you can save it. there was never a watermark or anything so i would always just save the wallpapers i wanted without having to pay for it.
IceBerg3141 · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My college charges ridiculous amounts of money for convenient parking so when I found out that there was this one obscure parking structure that was free on the weekends I paid minimal money for shitty parking a mile off campus and brought my car to the nearby one on Thursday or Friday, got a ticket to get in but because it was open on the weekends never had to actually pay to get it out when I wanted to use it.
deedoedee · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I work from home and accidentally snatched the cord out of the phone base for my headset. I called in, pretending I had no idea what happened. They sent me a new one and the days off were excused because the equipment was theirs, and for hygienic purposes, they don't require the headsets to be sent back.
I've done this about 8 times over the past year, for about 2 weeks total in free, completely excused days off.
willskywalker93 · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
AT&T partnered with AmEx a few years back for the Isis (now Softcard, sold to Android pay I believe, name changed for obvious reasons) app and mobile pay. They had a deal where you could get a 1 dollar credit for every 1 dollar or more transaction, up to 30 credits a month. I used it at a vending machine that sold 16 ounce canned drinks for exactly 1 dollar. Free drinks. Cool, right? Gets better. The drink machines had a cash free loyalty program. Every fifth tap to pay purchase was free, up to 5 dollars. So every week I got 9 free cans of soda. I didn't drink that much, but my friends loved it.
icamehereforthecatss · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At Costco you can return ANYTHING NO MATTER WHEN. i work there... the shit ive seen man... (fades to vietnam flashbacks)
tacolikesweed · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Chipotle near me had a problem at the register and couldn't charge gift cards for about 3 days straight after Christmas. I would order 2 burritos, chips and guacamole with a drink to keep it under 30 and never have to pay. I must have gone about 10 times in those 3 days. The gift that kept on giving.
magical_midget · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
About 5 years ago Netflix conducted a sort of market research where you had to be part of a fb group and answer questions weekly. I got invited and since I love complaining I will answer the questions every week with long essays about why everything is wrong.
Anyway, there were rewards for every month you spend in the research. I believe the first two months were 50 dollars amazon gift cards and the last one was a few months of Netflix free. Now this research was being done in both Mexico and Canada, and somehow my account appeared in both countries. I only got invited to one fb group, but the emails for the rewards arrived from two different persons! One from Mexico and other one for Canada. I brush up my Spanish and answer both. I got double rewards every month. I thought they will catch me in the last month since they will apply the special code to my account directly and see that someone else already applied the free months. apparently that did not riced a red flag, I think I got 10 free months instead of 5!
LakersSolomente · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when Foursquare was a thing, a local bar that I walked passed everyday, gave out free Fish Bowls to the Mayor of their establishment on Foursquare. So I checked in everyday and became mayor and got about 4 free fishbowls before they changed that policy.
imooseyy · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
About 8 years ago a buddy and I found out that this certain type of preloaded gift card could be used over the limit when making purchases off the apple app store. By over the limit I mean you could easily get $250 off one $25 card. I think we ended up somewhere around 5 grand in free stuff off the app store.
friends_think_im_gay · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Uber Eats and Door Dash. I got a 15$ credit for Door Dash in the mail one day, and I decided to try it out. Like a week later I decided to use it again, but I had deleted it and forgot my password so I made a new account with my school email. I log in and I see the offer again for a 15$ new user credit... So I started making new emails just to use for Door Dash and then later Uber Eats when it came out. I probably ordered 1,000$ worth of free food before they required a phone number and just started to kinda catch on. Worth the five minutes to make a new email lol
ThanklessTask · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
British Airways online check-in seat allocation used to not understand premium economy.
Regularly we used to book and check in online and pick seats as far forward as possible - resulting in a seat upgrade for economy tickets.
A few times we'd get questions from the various check-in staff but a printed ticket and a check on the system always showed we had that allocated ticket & seat.
mightyqueef · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I work for a food courier app (not uber eats) and when they expanded a zone they offered an hourly guarantee of 17$ per hour. I signed up for a six our shift in which I only had 3 orders. There weren't enough no restaurants in the zone and the word hadn't gotten out. I signed up for 50 more hours most of which I spent playing call of duty. Easiest money I'll ever make.
timshoaf · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In a fit of frustration, I once typed "eggs" into sim-ant on a rainy day recess and found out that if you did that, the queen would lay tons of eggs around her. I spent uncountable hours taking over the yard and house after that. Nothing was safe; nothing was sacred.
sykopoet · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid I went to a Christian summer camp. We were required to memorize a Bible passage (John 3) one verse at a time and then repeat it to a counselor for points. The more of the passage you could say at a time, the more points, and then at the end of the week, you could redeem your points for prizes like candy. If you had a lot of points, during assembly you got to go on stage and pick out big prizes, like giant (3 foot tall) stuffed animals and other actually really cool stuff. They never changed the passage from summer to summer, and I was apparently like the only kid who went every summer, so by 5th or 6th grade, I could recite the entire thing start to finish from day one. I came home with a crap ton of giant stuffed animals and once an entire retail store box of packs of baseball cards. Those were some great summers.
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DieSchadenfreude · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Meh , it's just a butthole, what's the big deal?
ExtraShard · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Comcast gives you free premium channels if you complain to their support.
shnmchl61 · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Probably 2-3 years ago, I got a small Taco Bell gift card for my birthday. I went to my local Taco Bell and they said their scanner or whatever for gift cards was awaiting repair, so they had to give me my order for free. I went back once a week or so for a bit. I wanted to just use the gift card (I always use gift cards as quickly as possible), but I didn't want to be a jerk and go in every single day. Probably ended up getting $40-$50 out of a $15 gift card.
Bots_are_people_too · 1 points · Posted at 05:15:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Old ticket stubs will get you into movies, especially if there's a crowd. All they look at is the name and say the direction its in.
Shadowace24 · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Restaurant near me had a 'text this number for a free dessert' it sent you the text, but it only starts to work the day after you send the text. There was only one code.
I sent this code the day before I went there, for a free dessert every time. Basic but effective.
Philobus · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At a local movie theater, the arcade token machine took 25¢ per token. But if you put a dime in it'd give you 1 token, and if you inserts a nickel it'd give you two tokens. My friends and I would exploit it to the point where we wouldn't get caught. So we'd take turns "extracting" tokens and even come back with a roll of nickels.
Rufen · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
About ten years ago or so, I used to exploit those paid boxes for a newspaper.
Worked with a dime up to a quarter. Papers were fifty cents during weekdays and a dollar on weekends. I found out that if you pushed the white button to return the coin, as long as you put in the right amount it'd open up.
This worked for a couple years.
alias_487 · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was able to see movie's at a theater for only a dollar for two years because of a bugged app.. Long story short, I never update apps on my phone because I like to read the little synopsis of changes that were made. When purchasing movie tickets through the companies app it started only charging me a dollar. There was an update that fixed it but I never updated it. So I bought movie tickets like a mad man. The best part, you pick the seats. Star Wars? I bought the seats in front of me, behind me, and next to me and it still cost less than a full ticket. Friends wanted to go to the movies? I bought 17 tickets for a dollar each. We would go to the movies multiple times a week. Doesn't matter how bad of a movie, we would watch it. I did this for two years before the phone crashed and I had to restore it with the new app.
beatskin · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The vending machine at my school didn't have a very sophisticated mechanism for checking what coins it received (only checked the size). I realised that two 1p coins glued together were the exact same with of a £1 coin. I then sellotaped around the edges to get it to the same diameter, and I got free chocolate! As a 14 year old who never was given money to spend, this was a big deal.
ItsDomKu · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's this free YouTube downloader that can download video and audio, with a bunch of easy options. It's free because you're supposed to only get 20 downloads, but the counter has stopped at 16 and I have over 700 songs now.
pyrofanity · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is really late and nowhere close to as cool as some of the stories but I wanted to share anyways. When I was about 7 or so I was at Discovery Zone (the indoor playground place) with my best friend and they had a claw machine that was filled with candy. The machine was rigged so that if you didn't get any candy on your first try you could keep going until you did. There was even a sign saying so. My friend and I noticed that most kids either couldn't read it or didn't read it so we hung out near the machine and everytime some kid would miss on the first try and leave we would swoop in and get tons of free candy.
Asterve · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is not so much a loophole, more an exploit. You see, in World of Warcraft there is a tag in order to reduce the amount of time doing grindy quests. It means that there will never not be a particular mob, or group of mobs. You can see this in action right now if you stand in the middle of the Maclure Vineyards and continually DoT all the boars around you. In moments you will be surrounded corpses that you can use to quickly level up skinning. So you can see how it could be useful beyond simply completing quests.
Anyway, at Sentinel Hill, Westfall, there were waves of Gnolls that were attacking. All had this tag, but this group of eight or so were particularly close together, and so anyone with a particularly effective AoE spell could easily farm these gnolls. Rain of Fire was instant cast at the time for Destruction Warlocks, and so you could kill this group several times over before it had completed its duration. A few minutes of afk farming and you had a full inventory of items, usually greys but a lot of greens and linen too. You could send the greens to alts for disenchantment, or sell on the auction house if they were particularly good. And use the linen to level up tailoring and first aid. After about an hour of afk farming and selling the useless items, I had enough linen to fill up an entire guild bank tab. Let's just say that I'm still making money from the linen.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Remember AR (accelerated reader) in reading class? Well, 8th grade me figured out you just have to read the last few pages of any book to get 10/10. Worked every single time.
Slipin2dream · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The graveyard in fable where you can get unlimited combat multipliers.
Theonetruebrian · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At Boy Scout camp we took a long walk to the camp store nearby that had a vending machine. People would put a quarter in and it would go through and not work, but if you put it in a few times it would eventually register the coin (but still give it back). Once we figured that out we walked back and got our pillow cases, emptied the machine into them using about two dollars (every once in a while it would keep your quarter) and sold/traded the sodas to other campers as there was no other way to get any.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in college, Kohls would mail me a "coupon" that basically was "$10 off when you spend $10 or more!". It only worked on specific days (ex. 1/1-1/3), but I would always take it, and shop their clearance clothes for something as close to $10 as I could find. Practically built a wardrobe for under $1 per article of clothing.
AshrafSal · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
McDonald's had a special offer in my country where they gave free nuggets if you ordered a meal on their website. I found out that the nuggets stayed even if you took the meal out of your basket. So I once got 6 boxes of nuggets and didn't pay anything
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:18:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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DioramaMaker · 1 points · Posted at 05:19:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Whiterun forge chest is also a favorite.
Prot0Zer0 · 1 points · Posted at 05:18:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm in high school and this happened at the beginning of the year. Due to some medical problems I was accidentally put into general english when I was supposed to be in enriched english. My school gives us summer reading assignments and of course I did mine in the last week of summer break. The general english teacher took the summer reading assignments two or three weeks after school started and didn't start grading them until the week after. Between those two weeks I was transferred to enriched english. The enriched english teacher took up the summer reading assignments in the first week of school. Due to this my crappy summer reading assignments were never graded.
TL:DR Due to a class switch I didn't have to have my crappy summer reading assignments be graded
FN-2197 · 1 points · Posted at 05:18:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had T-Mobile back around 2010-11, and only after I signed a two-year contract did I realize my house sat in a thick gray area where reception was almost nil. I dealt with it for a few months, but I got pretty pissed and looked for any way to get out of it without having to pay the early exit fee ($250 or so).
Turns out there was a clause in my contract stating that if I could prove I received no service at my house, they had to let me out of the contract for free. And since I found out I lived in a gray area using the map on their website, I left without paying a cent.
awesometographer · 1 points · Posted at 05:18:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
GrubHub $10 off any order of $15 or more.
All it needed was a new email address. I have my own domain, so unlimited email aliases at that domain with literally no setup.
Mr Sandwich, a vietnamese sandwich / pho restaurant next to my office had such a deal. Every day I had fresh Pho for lunch, and a sandwich and another entree (fried rice, wings, etc, etc) for dinner. All for under $6 a day.
MapleKaiser · 1 points · Posted at 05:18:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Amazon Prime. Get a visa giftcard and leave a dollar or less in it. Usually it last up to a good week until they cancel it. Wait a few days and bam you do it again. Same thing with any free trial service pretty much. Xbox live for free has been working out good. :)
fuckin_fitz · 1 points · Posted at 05:18:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a freshman in high school, I didn't really have many friends. Well, I had none so I sat alone, which was fine, at the far end of the cafeteria, which was still about 50 feet from the vending machines. Anyways, my school had two or three vending machines that were nothing but Dr Pepper, then a couple drink machines with other choices, then the snacks. The first Dr Pepper machine would always sell out by first or second period, it was a rather big school with hundreds of students and I noticed early on that the coin return button was missing on that same machine, so people would come up and put a dollar in, hit every Dr Pepper button on the way down, get frustrated, and then try to get their money back, only to find that they couldn't. I also realized this missing coin return button was about the size of a pen. So every day at lunch, I would watch kids walk up, lose a dollar, get mad, and walk off. Then I would walk up, stick my pen in, and walk away one dollar richer.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:18:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So coco cola had one of those promotions where on the underside of the bottle cap you could win a free soda. Well I figured out that the sodas that were winners had a different colored bottle cap. I got 16 free sodas in a row. Don't know if they caught on or if the promo ended but it was one of the greatest discoveries as a kid.
Botanicalist · 1 points · Posted at 05:19:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I found a way on an online bitcoin betting site to skew the odds of a dice rolling gambling game so that the EV was slightly positive. Then I set up an autoclicking program and had it running 24/7 slowly making me money. I then used the winning from that to lose at the poker tables, all the while ignoring finals week entirely.
Xacto01 · 1 points · Posted at 05:19:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My wife's. I have 2 kids now.
IdentityS · 1 points · Posted at 05:19:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was an hourly employee, during a fiscal year we can only work 1040 hours, and more importantly, 1560 in a year and a half from the date of hire. After about 10 years of working as a manager, and becoming a very bitter employee towards my supervisors, I backed them into a corner finally.
If an employee works over the 1560, they are to be given back pay in benefits for all years previously worked as if they were a full time employee. For my case it would have been well over $100,000.
I had finally garnered enough loyalty from my coworkers to screw them over. I made sure to fly under the radar for the 1040 hours. That would have set warning bells off. The 1560 sneaks up on people. So as soon as my hours watch for the 1040 hours disappeared I began working the max 19hrs we were told we could work per week (subbing shifts, picking up shifts). One supervisor I liked started to catch on, but by that time it was too late. The other staff already had approved requests off. So they had an ultimatum, give me a full time position or give me my payout of over $100,000. Little did they know, I would end up getting both as I became a contracted employee only after I was beyond the 1560 hours due to a misplaced subform.
mouettefluo · 1 points · Posted at 05:19:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I live in a somewhat poor neighborhood. People working at the grocery store are uneducated teenagers. Once, there was a huge deal on beef. They were selling a complete filet for a great price. Since the deal was nice, none were left when we were there, so we took a raincheck. The cashier noted the price $/lb.
One week later, we come back. We take the beef and use our raincheck. On the package, price was in $/kg. Cashier got confused with maths. We don't know how she did it, but we got the 60$ piece of meat at 8$.
klampro · 1 points · Posted at 05:19:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I work at Moes and we have a $2.00 off survey at the bottom of all receipts so if you come in and buy a drink and do the survey on your phone it will get you a side of queso or quac or anything under two dollars and take that receipt and do the survey again and get unlimited sides of guac and queso and drinks for $2.50 just keep taking your receipts and doing surveys
chiefmanstory · 1 points · Posted at 05:19:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Little chocolate turtles, yum right. I was 16.
Publix has/had a sample section in the candy isle, and the turtles cost about 4-5$ a pound, but near the end was a sample box saying Insert 25c for sample(2 pieces). So for 4 $ I could get 32 chocolate turtles, big fat nutty ones too. Doing some quick math, we were able to get double the amount of chocolate turtles for the standard price by shoving dollar bills in the sample box and walking out with bags full of chocolate turtles. The first time we were holding bills up to the camera before shoving them in because we didnt know if the cashiers would let us leave without receipts or anything. They did.
Yes, we did talk to the employee's and they didn't mind since we were the only ones who did it. I'll have to check sometime if they still have that going.
anschelsc · 1 points · Posted at 05:19:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I unexpectedly needed an extension cord to plug in a speaker at an outdoor event (the battery-powered one was broken). I was wracking my brains to see if there was anywhere on the college campus that loaned out or rented extension cords, and then I realized...
I went across the store to CVS and asked their return policy. They said they'd take anything back in working condition within 48 hours. That day I learned you can borrow things for free from CVS.
mordecai98 · 1 points · Posted at 05:19:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In cub scouts, we did pinewood derby. The wheels that come with the nails are a bit loose so they rattle. I applied graphic powder before each race and destroyed the competition.
A scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.
Ain't got nothin about not winning any way you can.
mmiloou · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Discovered that most supermarkets will rescan a product label. It only has to be within a very wide estimate weight limit. Would buy cheap products and then double side tape them when I went grocery shopping. $2 for Canadian Mapple syrup and organic everything from then on....Don't get me started on the bulk aisle 😂
AnguishOfTheAlpacas · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in the 90's Gatorade did this check-under-the-cap contest for a bunch of memorabilia. At the time they had this lemonade flavor that was clear. I would go through every one flipping them over peering through to the caps and setting aside winners while my mom shopped. By the end of the contest I had recieved 8 tshirts, 2 hats, a duffle bag, a baketball, a cooler, 4 water bottles, a different kind of cooler like you see them dumping on coaches, a poster of Michael Jordan, a visor, cards autographed by Michael Jordan (it was printed on but 8 year old me didn't know that), and 20+ additional jugs of Gatorade.
RevolutionaryG · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got free Internet from Comcast for over a year without them having a clue. It finally ended when a storm took out the power lines in front of my house and I couldn't get an IP address. Ended up just signing up again...sigh
Robinhoodie5 · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a coupon code for half off your entire order at papa johns at a certain location from when they first opened that location. 2 years I used the crap out of that code before it stopped working.
TtotheItotheM · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid we found it that the pop lid liners under the cap for perfectly into the bouncy ball vending machine at mall entrance. We exploited that so much, we went back to empty it a few days later only to be there the day the owner of the machine was emptying the coins only yo find out it was plastic soda lid liners. He was sooooo angry.
g2rade · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One of my jobs I was paid to monitor a lab of students, I realized after a month I wasn't being checked on so I stopped going to work but I'd still write in my hours online. I got paid for a year while I'd just sit at home and play video games or study. (This was only a part time job of 10 hours a week but still it was free cash)
Honkadoo · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Credit cards used to charge no fees for balance transfers with those checks back in the early to mid 1990s.
You can thank me for exploiting that loophole into oblivion by transferring my high % rate auto loan balance to my credit card at 0% with zero fees for one year. I now owned the car free and clear, got the pink slip then transferred that balance to another card and so on until I eventually paid the loan off with no interest.
I'm sorry.
teh_maxh · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got an extra Oscar by bribing someone to hand the dude the wrong envelope.
frankenfien99 · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Once in highschool I noticed that the price of some of the stuff in the vending machine was 10 cents instead of 1$. Bought all that I could.
bom_chika_wah_wah · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Currently using a Total Wine coupon that lets you get any $10 or under bottle of wine for 1 cent. I've used it 6 times already and just keep printing new ones.
Silverc25 · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, start
ohhpow · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a promo code for Marco's Pizza that freed out cheese sticks when you bought any large pizza. Instead of freeing out just the cheese sticks, it freed out the entire order. My roommates and I lived off Marco's pizza for about a 45 days, until they caught on and fixed the problem. I now can't stand Marco's because of how much I had it
Sarahlorien · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I complained about an arcade game eating my coins (one of those ones that you pay for coins to use instead of using change) and the guy just sat there and pulled out every single stuck coin in the machine which was at least $50 worth. So when I used that up I complained about the rest of them, one at a time, and eventually ended up with $200 worth. I filled up 6 22 oz cups of the stuff.
MikeTheInfidel · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Grubhub's universal "$10 off $15" coupons for new users. Right now, LOVEFOOD10 is one of them.
Any time my coworkers and I order lunch at work, we sign up with a fake name, a fake phone number, and a throwaway e-mail, and we group up our orders so that we have a bunch that are just over $15. The only things that have to be real are the payment info and the name of the "contact person," which is used to verify the payment info.
ERenaissance · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I go to a hotel I want to stay at after midnight and get a room and put my checkout day for the next day so I get two nights of sleep for the price of one. I have done it when I go to NYC and stay out for a while and if my schedule permits but it saves money and I like hotels.
BabyFork · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When Uber first came out, all you had to do was make a fake number using Pinger, a random email, and a free ride promo code. Long story short, I abused this my last 2 months of high school almost everyday.
Spoffle · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sony did this Xperia Z promo about 5 years ago where they'd issue you a £22/€25/$30 Sony Entertainment Network vouchers if you installed a specific app onto an Xperia Z.
Well it was incredibly easy to exploit. You didn't even need an Xperia Z, and I ended up with about 200 of them. I didn't think it was right to sell them just in case they got revoked, so I bought everything I wanted from the PSN store as well as quite a few years worth of PS+.
They didn't get revoked.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I found out that my school's electronics policy left out a lot of "disruptive" tech. Because of this, I'd bring my laptop to school and play games after I finished classwork. The best part is that no teacher (even the ones that were gung-ho on electronics confiscation) tried to take away the laptop as long as I had its speakers muted.
Ts;dr: Brings laptop to school and plays Underground 2 in class.
Harddaysnight1990 · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a particular vending machine at my school that would give you snacks and money back if you knew how to do it. If you put a dollar in, and choose B10 (a pack of tiny doughnuts for $.90), it would drop three packs of the doughnuts and then spit out two dollars in change. It was near an 8 am class that semester, so i used the hell out of it. Right before finals though, it got changed to some awful chocolate creme bullshit and the trick no longer worked.
techwithbrett · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was only able to do this once but Delta had a glitch in their system when booking a flight online. We were able to get 2 round trip tickets across the country to NYC for $80. We had first class on the way there as well.
Superfly503 · 1 points · Posted at 05:22:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in elementary school, I had a few slightly older friends in junior high that let me know about the much stricter attendance policy. So, as a 6th grader, I skipped school on several occasions, and just came in the next day and said I was sick.
d0ggzilla · 1 points · Posted at 05:22:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Free guitar controllers for Guitar Hero. I forget what the details were. You had to fill in an online form and send your guitar to them for RMA, except someone found out you didn't actually have to send them anything - just fill in the form and wait for your guitar to arrive. I got 6 for friends and 1 for myself for Xbox 360 and Wii
Sleep_Fapnea · 1 points · Posted at 05:22:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in the 90s, Gatorade would run those promotional things where you could win stuff under the cap (like many drink companies have done for a long time). Very conveniently, Gatorade produced some flavors that were clear in color. So my brother and I would just take the clear ones off the shelf, look through the bottle at the underside of the cap (as best we could), and only buy the ones that appeared to be winners. Most of the prizes were just more Gatorades, though.
Cloud8_ · 1 points · Posted at 05:22:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I never paid for a pizza my senior year of college. 100's for me and my roommates...
I was a Resident Assistant at Indiana University's largest dorm my junior year. I knew Pizza Express gave great coupons to freshmen and the new RAs would be pissed to learn they had to sort mail for 6 hours a week... On top of our actual jobs. I started a revolution of, "Unless it has a specific name, it goes on the desk." And there were enough holdovers from last year to keep the tradition. The coupon from Pizza Express was the best one of my four years. "$4 a Big Ten." Large one topping, sticks, sauce and two drinks for $11ish. So all we had to do was give 4 coupons per pizza and the tip was $5... Which was a great college tip. We grabbed over 550 coupons from the front desk before the freshmen even showed up. Even got a sweet rubber band ball from our friends sitting behind it.
csono · 1 points · Posted at 05:22:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ordering from a website that offered a coupon code for free shipping to continental united states. That would normally not be good for me but it apparently worked for the non-continental US also. I probably saved hundreds in shipping until they finally caught on two or three years later.
gitobd · 1 points · Posted at 05:22:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A few years back JCPenney ran a Christmas promotion where they handed out little pins with codes on them. You took them home and entered the code online and you could win prizes like household items and gift cards for $10, $25, or $100. I have 3 JCP's close by, so almost everyday from Black Friday until Christmas Eve when they stopped handing out pins, me and my mom and sisters went to every store and each got pins. To make things even better, they had the pins to give out at every register. There's at least 5 registers in each store so by the time it ended we had hundreds of pins. Not every one was a winner but we got so many coupons for $10 off of a $10 purchase and $25 off of $25 that we had a great Christmas.
Fiddlestix22 · 1 points · Posted at 05:22:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My boyfriend, his family, and I went to a movie at a nearby theater. His sister saw one of those machines you put a quarter in and it gave you a cute donut keychain. Well she put a quarter in it and out popped 3 keychains. So now me, his mom, and his sister are digging through our purses to look for quarters to try and get all the donut keychains. We each walked away with probably half a dozen keychains each.
Shoeytennis · 1 points · Posted at 05:22:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Way back when media play was open. You kids. If you traded in 5 ( I think ) video games you could get a new one for free. We used to hit up garage sales and such and get used games. We would spend around $5 and get brand new video games each week.
FuriiouZSymbiote · 1 points · Posted at 05:22:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So as all of you know, you need PS Plus to play online now a days on the PS4, which is 50-60 dollars a year depending on where you live. And well currently i'm not in the best financial state, nor do I have plenty of free time to play Online, so buying a year subscription of PS Plus seems like a waste of money to me... So the exploit is, that Sony gives out a free 2 day subscription to any new account, so what I do whenever I want to play Online is, make a new account, get the free subscription, and set it to be my "Primary" account, and Boom, Free PS Plus on my real primary account, so whenever I run out, and want to play Online, I just repeat the process!... (Sorry for bad english)
Aishas_Star · 1 points · Posted at 05:23:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My local shopping centre where I work has ticketless parking. But I worked out that if I tailgate the guy in front of me on the way in the camera can't read my number plate so it doesn't charge me. I park in there every day for work, saves me $45 a week!
timeforanewacc0unt · 1 points · Posted at 05:23:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The policy for video game return wasn't exactly iron clad when Starcraft broodwar and diablo 2 lod were out. As long as the disc and the manuals and shit were in the box I didn't even need to buy it to open the package, use a pen and paper to record the cd key. I didn't need the cds or anything. I needed the keys.
momoman46 · 1 points · Posted at 05:23:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Broken vending machine at my dad's work place, just insert your initial note, and as long as you held down the "buy" key, it would keep spitting out drinks. I did this for about a year every time I went to use their pool before they caught on and got a new machine. Good times.
NoMoreBoozePlease · 1 points · Posted at 05:24:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When Dell had the problem with the batteries that caught on fire , I was able to get myself and 4 of my friends new laptops for free.
Bobsbestgame · 1 points · Posted at 05:24:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When the iPod touch 2nd gen came out, I saved up enough money to buy one. I went to best buy, purchased it, and got the best buy warranty. It was a two year warranty that was good for anything except "acts of god" to my understanding. So, every year when the newest gen iPod touch came out, I would crash the software and take it to best buy to be replaced, but when I did so, they would no longer have the iPod gen I had, only the newest one, so they had to upgrade me. When they did, I had to purchase a new 2 year plan for about $50-$65, but had my device exchanged for free. Did this several times up until 2014-ish. I even got my 16gb upgraded to a 64gb at 4th gen because they didn't have any in stock and wouldn't for several weeks due to reserve orders. I wonder if I could still do this?
Rhymeswithfreak · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
First day of summer a friend of mine and I went up to our local grocery store. We both came from very poor families and this was the early 90's when $0.25 pops still existed. We discovered that the pop machine outside of the store would give you a bunch of sodas depending on how long you could continually press the button after you put the quarter in. We took a cooler up there and just filled the thing full. People around us just watched and laughed, no one cared. Great start to our summer.
HanSoIoque · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My freshman year of college I noticed that in one of my syllabi there was a process that would happen if you missed an exam. The syllabus stated that if you miss an exam, the next exam would count twice. Skipped my 2nd exam because I thought I wouldn't do as great as I would on the material for the 3rd exam, got a 96 on the 3rd exam that counted twice.
Ended up with an A.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Arby's once had this billboard that said "text tasty to 27299" or something and so I did, and they sent me a text that said I could show it to the cashier for a free roast beef sandwich. I did it once, and have now been forging these texts at some fast food restaurants to get any food I want for free.
Zarana85 · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My last job sucked. I love my work but my manager and cronies were just toxic people which made it so difficult to go to work every day. I would cry at night alot because I didn't want to go to work the next day so when I figuired out this loop hole, I didn't feel bad at all for exploiting it.
See I was on a salary. My work day was supposed to be 7.5 hours and work week 37.5. The problem is: I was good at my job. Very good. So good that my manager gave me the largest and most complex workload which involves hundreds of millions of dollars with of contracts and projects. He also had me reviewing all processes and procedures and submit rewrites which he would later take credit for. When he didn't have an answer for a coworker, he would refer them to me for help.
Anyway.. As I was saying, I was getting a salary for a certain amount of hours a week. Problem is, I was putting in 16 hours a day on a regular basis. No one else in my department was, just me. We weren't authorized overtime so, in lieu of overtime, we could "bank" vacation hours with a cap of 5 days. I would bank a day or two then take a few long weekends. Bank a few more, take some time off. Eventually work back up to 5 days and take a week off. I had a year where I never actually used any vacation days but took a lot of time off. The next year when I carried over my full allotment of vacation days, they clarified that you can only bank 5 days a year, total The following year I was recruited by the firm that provides oversight to my previous company in their contracts. Needless to say, my previous manager and director are not happy they have to send their work into me for review. :)
leo_rugiet · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The first week Uber Eats was up for service, you could just put in 0's for the credit card number. And your first time ordering with a new account is free. So for breakfast lunch and dinner for a week, I would simply create a new account each time using 0's as the credit card number. An entire week of hand delivered free meals. Perfect. That is until the fixed it and i had to resort to the grocery store again.
TurdWrangler934 · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I remember in Xbox 360 back in 2012, you could make a new profile and you could switch your Xbox's location to Japan, download a Japanese exclusive game demo, which gave you a free 14 gold membership code, and use the code on your original profile. Had gold for almost 6 months and I didn't pay anything
ShockinglyEfficient · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would like a website or app that keeps track of all these nice promos, deals, and special offers because it's hard to keep track.
mywaterexpired · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when I was around 13 there was a game at an arcade where you entered a coin into a slot while the prize circle was spinning with different numbers and your coin would land into a number slot. There were two jackpot coin slots that your coin could land into while the prize circle was spinning. Some 8 year old girl was hustling on this machine winning the jackpot time after time, my dad and I went up to ask her how she was winning so much and then she showed us if you drop the coin when a certain part of the spinning circle was passing the top slot then you would win the jackpot every time. We totally banked on tickets that night, but eventually they caught on a month or so in and changed the speed randomness slightly, it was so amazing while it lasted.
PenguinGrits07 · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The back alley. No babies ;)
RobertELemon · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a Best buy in my town that offered 2x value for in-store trade ins on Sundays for video games, so I would buy a newer game for $60 dollars. The base trade in for a new AAA title would be $40 so made $20 for each time I trade in the game.
buildadog · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At my college they used to have mediocre yet cheap pizza sold by the slice for about 2 bucks. You had to put it in a little box to carry it out. One day I wanted two slices and didn't want to waste a box so I just plopped them both in one. After checking out I realized I forgot to tell them I had two slices... Then I forgot to tell them I had two slices from them after, until they caught on to my scam months later. Apparently it was a popular loophole
Mac_DG · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A failed attempt at an automated vending machine. No door, so cold get my arm up to the elbow In. Took a good 8 months and they fixed it by removing products within arm's reach.
Also rage of bahamut, would go to the mall, walk into every store and sign the device up, had a username system with the same password and then traded the sign up rewards to my account along with using my referral code. Sold a $0 game for about $1200 when I bailed off the game.
LMAO_HAHA_WOW · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the fall of 2015, McDonalds had a promo on their app where, when you downloaded it, you would be eligible for a free sandwich from their extra value menu. Man, I lost count of how many times I entered fake email after fake email after fake email. Eventually, I think they made it where you had to verify it in your email. Good times.
tdmsbn · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Could still use a temporary email generator
cinnaboo · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Actually no lost money, it was accounted as a clerical error, and the school saw no real waste they threw out ton of food and the supplies were all bought with government money. And when given the chance I spread wealth to those who I thought were in actual need.
MistrWintr · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Every year at my middle/high school we had a spring fair to raise money for the school. It was actually really great, there was cotton candy, bounce houses, a dunk tank a few years, food vendors, games, etc. However to keep all the money together kids exchanged their money for raffle tickets which they then spent on fun and an unruly amount of sugar.
In the sixth grade I realized a roll of raffle tickets cost about $5.
I lived like a king once a day every year for six years, and they didn't catch on till my senior year when the colors didn't match perfectly.
col_k · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They charged 50 Cents a page for Colour prints at my school via our Colour Laser printer, you had to send the file to the teacher to print to make sure we weren't using it without paying. I found out the USB port at the front of the printer could print pictures from a thumb drive. Soo... I was really into astronomy at the time, needless to say they went through an awful lot of Black and Colour toner when I printed out APOD pictures every day for a semester.
hiimfrankie_ · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The time my group of friends became known as 'the RS dealers'
Every once in a while we would go watch a movie or do something at one of the 4 shopping centres the 6~ of us would separate and go to the telecom stores, and do the good old RS mobile purchase and rack up nearly 50 codes each time and then sell them at school at a 10% discount from retail did it for nearly a whole year and then everything changed when security upgraded...
ilovethatpig · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in college, there was a gas station that would give you a free 32oz drink for checking in there on FourSquare. I went every day I had class, and they started calling me FourSquare guy. Eventually they stopped that promotion, and I cried that I had to start paying 79 cents.
GLaDOs18 · 1 points · Posted at 05:28:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
On some websites, when you first show up and start shopping, they give you a discount code or $X amount off your purchase. I sign up using that ten-minute email program and get perpetual codes and discounts on stuff.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:28:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Comcast Promos.
Digital Preferred (basically everything, 1 movie subscription e.g. HBO, minus the extra sports package)
Also Comcast Boost Internet I get 100 mbps down.
They do a promo where you get it all for $89.99 every now and then "Internet is 80 by itself", so I sign up.
When the Promo runs out, I call and cancel it, no questions asked, no negotiating, just cancel it cable and keep the internet and live off my rokus (netflix, crunchy roll, hulu, amazon prime, etc)
Then in a week or two I get another promo in the mail and I sign back up which basically gives me HBO for $7 a month so I can watch Game of Thrones.
I use all my own equipment, I don't even rent a cable box. I just use their online app and a rasberry pi on my TV and the XFinity App.
ComradeC0g · 1 points · Posted at 05:28:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to own a car with a cassette player, and travelled between two towns for my job. So I went to the Wallmart in the town I worked at, and bought one of their cassette to phone jack conversions, which are $20. I used it all the time, and when it wore out, I'd go in and buy a new one at the one in the town I lived, and because of Wallmart's return policy of any store, I'd just swing by after work with my dead one, the packaging for the new one, and my day old reciept, and get my $20 back. Did this for 2 years before the car died. I mean, it had a cassette player in it, and this was only a few years ago.
mobile1502 · 1 points · Posted at 05:29:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to order 2$ bigmac sandwhiches when they were worth 4$ and change.
What I do is order a mcdounle(1.39$) have it made like a mac(30cents) and have it made on a bigmac bun(40cents).
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:29:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A million years ago, when I was broke and in college, some sort of muesli cereal had a coupon printed on the back of the box for a free box of the same cereal. I swear I ate hundreds of boxes of that cereal for the price of one box. Finally one day - new box design, no coupon.
Archy_TRO · 1 points · Posted at 05:30:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When Coke was doing its itunes promotion way back when, sodas either had a code for a free song under the cap or a message saying "Sorry you are not a winner." I distinctly remember going into a Subway, angling each bottle they had so I could read the cap to find winners until everyone in my family got a free song. Man... who pays for music?
Astynax15 · 1 points · Posted at 05:30:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in high school, I was late a lot due to staying up playing video games. After your first tardy, up to 10 minutes late you would get a detention for every one after. After ten minutes you get an unexcused absence for first hour resulting in a zero for that class. 30 minutes and you get unexcused absence for all classes that day. Well I had band 1st hour with no daily grade and I played drums so I would show up 20 minutes late everyday while everyone else was warming up and tuning their instruments. My instructor thought I was getting detention and the office thought I was failing a class, and I got off Scott free, late everyday.
fifteen_two · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Used to eat at a diner. Ice cream cone was 99c, mug of rootbeer was 99c, rootbeer float was $2.25. Because labor I figure. Whatever, order a cone and a mug and proceed to turn the cone upside down in the mug in front of the waitress. Fuck the police.
Anarchy aside, dipping an ice cream cone in a mug of rootbeer is pretty good in its own right and you should try it some time.
benskinic · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not me, but a friend that lived in downtown SD got so many parking tickets that he discovered the 10 one didn't have to be paid. Apparently the system only showed the last digit of the amount of violations so number 10 would show as "0" and not have a fine. Not really a good deal, but more of a "buy 9 get 10th one free!" for parking tickets
BoyceKRP · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't know if it's a loophole, but it was an opportunity I exploited to the max.
In the 3rd grade or so, I was at my elementary school fair of some sort, where we could play games and win tickets. Basically, they imported chuckie cheese to our gym. When I went to the table to turn in my tickets, the two or three old ladies working it were SLAMMED and moving as quick as possible, so I gave them my tickets and they hastily threw them to the floor and gave me my prize, or surmised ticket count. Well, they weren't paying attention, so I picked the tickets back up, and gave them over again. And again. And again. I easily quadrupled my actual tickets and they never seemed to notice. Won a ton of candy, couple gimmick toys, and a sweet blow up dinosaur which I played with for years.
I still don't feel bad B)
ThatPaulywog · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Poophole Loophole!! Anybody with a religious girlfriend knows about it.
Katholikos · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When blockbuster was still around, if you told them you returned a movie, they'd go look it up on the shelf. If it was there, they wouldn't charge a late fee.
GKnives · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The standard vocabulary test that my school gave, and I had to take til junior yr of high school, could be solved by knowing only around three of the twenty definitions because no word was repeated more than once, and never within a section of the test. To the annoyance of my grade-conscious friend who studied furiously to be able to scrape an A-, I may have gotten below 100% twice.
I don't feel bad not telling her since now, her determination and excellent work ethic is her most marketable quality out of college. She's the type person with her nose to the grindstone making companies meet deadlines
Taco_Truck_Aficionad · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I worked part time at a union job that contractually stipulated that working more than 4 hours per day was over time. I would work double and triple shifts. So I would make 8 hours of over time and 4 hours of regular pay. I was making more money than my friends who had graduated with college degrees. Eventually, the company caught on and when the contract was renegotiated, overtime was only granted if you worked more than 8 hours per day and double and triple shifts were rarely allowed anymore (due to the economic collapse).
eventhorizon07 · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Many years ago, while I was in the Navy, it was time to test to increase my rank. I passed the test which meant I needed a new military ID to reflect this rank change. I was 20 years old for this change in rank. When I received my new ID, it showed my birth year was wrong, making me 21 years old according to the new ID. The area surrounding the Navy base was accustomed to allowing the use of only the persons military id to buy alcohol, so I went wild getting alcohol for underage friends, myself and basically using the new ID to get whatever I could for someone 21 and over. It was a great year.
acurioustale · 1 points · Posted at 05:32:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bubblestrat.
jk021 · 1 points · Posted at 05:32:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
From my high school days:
1) My school had temporary ID's given to anyone that forgot theirs. It was a sticker you put on for the day and by the end of the day it would get red lines across to invalidate it. By putting it in the freezer the red lines wouldn't go away...no more having to use our disgusting bright lanyards.
2) One of our vending machines would give 2 drinks if the button was pressed like a thousand times after putting the money in.
3) My gym teacher would let my friends and I cut class everyday as long as we brought him back coffee from Dunkin Donuts.
Rakesh1995 · 1 points · Posted at 05:32:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Enjoying free 3g unlimited since 2007 because my sim card is bugged and it never deducts money from Internet.
-Grant · 1 points · Posted at 05:32:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Our card reader locked doors on campus can be activated by any student no matter what major by swiping up instead of down. So a college of design student can get into the engineering building at 3 am if they really need to pee (me). But they've switched a lot to scanners now :(
figgs87 · 1 points · Posted at 05:32:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Years back I realized the computers at the Apple Store had full copies of all software such as final cut, after effects, Microsoft word, photoshop, etc (I forget specific ones but basically all the good ones) and I read somewhere that every night each computer gets wiped so the next day it would be fresh and clean, which would cover my tracks. I set up an iPod in hard drive mode, with the cable snaked down my coat sleeve, plugged in the USB, and copied all the programs I wanted from the computer. Since no one could see the wire, it just looked like I was trying out the computer. I then went home and installed the software on my mac and it worked great. *ipod method was because thumb drives were expensive and not big enough to fit all the programs in mid 2000's when I did this, likely 2005 or 2006
crayon_proof · 1 points · Posted at 05:32:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
To bypass school web blocks we would translate the entire page on Google translate and then click "view original." School caught on and eventually blocked "translate.google.com" but we still could use translate.google.as or any suffix other than ".com"
ghostdate · 1 points · Posted at 05:32:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I didn't do this, but someone I went to university with did.
They worked in some office of the university dealing with scholarships, and could see all of the available scholarships and how nobody applied for many of them, so she'd apply for all of those ones, and being essentially the only applicant she would get most of them. Some of them are as simple as a 3 page essay for a couple thousand dollars.
Kind of a loophole to let a student have a job that gives them all the information about a bunch of scholarships, while most students apparently don't even know where to look for what's even available.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:32:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This isn't really a loophole but at a place I used to work, the vending machine option C9 was supposed to be 50 cents (.50) but some vending guy accidentally programmed it for 5 cents (.05). Most everybody knew about it and whatever was in space C9 was always empty.
I went to a Sonic restaurant once and bought some food and also bought several bananas (they used to sell bananas separately). They were supposed to be $1.00 but apparently had been programmed into their computer at -$1.00. I ordered $12 but it wound up being about $4. I asked about it because I thought the order was wrong and was told "Dat what the comprutah say." I used to go to this Sonic at least a couple of times each week and so I would always order a couple of bananas no matter what because each banana took money off the total, plus you got the banana.
My cousin and I once went to a post office kiosk and she needed change to buy stamps. There was a change machine and she put in a dollar bill and it gave her four quarters but also gave her back the dollar bill. She did this several times and got 5 or 6 dollars worth of quarters before it finally kept her dollar. This was in the 70s and $5 was a lot of money back then.
fco83 · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a parking ramp at my university that used to be un-staffed most nights after 10 or so. Many times i'd just leave my car there until after then (especially if i was leaving on a trip or something) and drive right out.
Unfortunately the last semester i was there they put in an automated system.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A little late to the party, but back when I was in college my dorm had a vending machine in the laundry room that no one ever really used. I had stayed at my dorm during Christmas break and pretty much had the building to myself. I spent this one night playing Socom 3 for hours and decided to run to the gas station for some snacks. I couldn't find my wallet anywhere. I only wound up finding about a dollar or so in quarters, so I said fuck it and went to the vending machine for a bag of chips. The machine took my money and I got my chips, but then the machine dispensed four more quarters. I repeated the process over and over. For that week I lived off of tiny bags of chips and candy.
AbortionBruser · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not me but a buddy of mine gamed' a bar VLT . It was a froggee style game that used a touch screen. A waitress tipped him off that if you run you fingerss up ether side instead of one side, it will move the frog for you safely. He made $4000 and tipped the watress 200$. He has a gambling addiction now
Slimebeast · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Used to go to one local supermarket that would pay me to take groceries away. If the coupons came out to more than the products, like a dollar off an item that was on sale for less than a dollar, the cashiers had no idea what to do and would just hand me the change left over as I wheeled out free shit.
Unfortunately, as you've probably already guessed, modern technology eliminated this. (It was decades ago.) It was also only one store where no one was on the ball. Any other supermarket, they'd call a manager and spend forever figuring it all out.
Xrathe · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mortal Kombat 2 arcade at our local pizza place didn't disable unlimited credit cheat so me and a couple of friends would play for hours on end for free after a paltry investment.
Manager got wise, would reset the game, and eventually had them disable the cheat. I was actually there when the service guy was going through the menu in the cabinet and disabled the cheat.
Crushed me as a kid and I hated the manager after that. 😂
petard · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Signed up for Comcast, they wanted to make me buy a self-activation kit for $15 even though I already had a modem, coax cable, and the apartment was wired. I said fine. Called back an hour later and asked to cancel the self-activation kit order and just asked for my new account number. This is because when you plug an unactivated modem in you get the activation page, and at the time you could simply enter an account number (and phone number I think) in to activate the modem.
I did this and the modem was activated. Sweet. Got around that $15 forced self-activation kit.
It gets better though. Apparently because I didn't activate normally I never got billed. My account stayed in pending activation status for months. Almost a year later it timed out and my modem got de-provisioned. I called up, feigning ignorance and asked why my internet stopped working. The rep was really confused as to the account's status. He could see that it was working for nearly a year but there were no payments. He corrected the account, took my billing info, and then service started normally. Got a free year of internet from Comcast!
NCKellogg · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a gas pump in my hometown that if you held the nozzle trigger just right, it wouldn't calculate the gas being pumped. It took forever, but I could get an entire tank of gas for just a few bucks.
VendingIOT · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In physics class my senior year of high school, we had a project to build a trebuchet that had to launch a projectile at least 10 ft. Every additional 5 ft it went, was 5 extra credit points towards the project. This being the teachers first year, she forgot to include a cap to the extra distance, and to the maximum counterweight mass. So instead of launching a ball 10 ft, my team launched the ball 117 ft for a solid 105 extra credit points. We aced the project, and the extra points let me coast the rest of the year without doing any homework assignments.
charizard_72 · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
GameStop used to have a policy where new games could be returned for full price within 30 days (like $60 not their awful trade in values). My senior year of college (2014) I didn't have a lot of extra cash but loved playing video games with my girlfriend. Anyway, for trading in two old games plus about $30 I played every new title of 2014 for $30 that year.
They discontinued this policy and the manager always looked annoyed when I was trading something in here every week to three weeks depending on the game and never paying for brand new titles besides my original down payment on the first game. It was nice exploiting the shit out of that for a while but GameStop is the absolute worst with Trade ins and literally their whole business model so fuck em.
Northerly · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Michigan, you get a 10 cent return on bottles and cans at the grocery store.
One of the machines at a grocery store broke in such a way that the can was rejected and returned to me but the machine registered it as ten more cents.
I abused that all the way up to the "relatively small" dollar limit, then called the store a few days later to inform them of the bug, but not my exploitation.
Coal909 · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid, back in the days before cell phones we would call collect to get my mom to pick us up. When calling collect it would ask for your name and the name then record it, we would quickly say our msg in the name part, so my mom would receive a call saying do you accept the charges from " Johnny pick me up at the park at 5" and she would refuse the charges and come pick us up
Not a great loop hole but saved us a couple quarters
InfectedShadow · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was this vending machine at work where it would dispense the entirety of one of the options. So I always made note of when they were refilling the machine and grabbed about $20 of soda for $1.
f0xtrawt · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in TBC days of World of Warcraft, I tried to sell my account with a couple level 70s and a decent amount of gold (maybe 3-4k) and lots of gear, mostly just new high teir. So of course the sale was a scam and they took the $900 back on PayPal and jacked all my shit. Well they used my account as like a middle man account, sending a shit load of gold from other I'm guessing hacked accounts, same with gear and etc. So when I figure out this happened I call blizzard. They get my account back but I have no gear or gold on any character. So I call back. A few hours later they restored my stuff. And by restored my stuff, I mean I ended up with over 100k in gold and a ton of boe gear I never owned, and then of course all the stuff I did own. Basically they just restored everything my account came in possession of in the last 48 hours.
Broken__Arrows · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My college has a vending machines located everywhere, but there's one in particular that glitches out. I'm not sure how or why, but I noticed the pattern. Sometimes the machine won't accept your quarter, it will just eat it. You have to pay with dollars instead if you want it to work. I put in an actress dollar so I'll get some change back, but instead it empties out all the extra change that it contains, presumably from all the other unlucky customers who's change has become eaten. I've received over $20 in quarters and dimes from this machine.
ErikTheDon · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I get free amazon prime forever. I'd say how but I don't want it to get fixed
YOUGOTTMAIL · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was a member of my local YMCA gym but when I moved for school I canceled my membership. I ended up working for a YMCA while in school and found out that a lot of people who travel for business have YMCA memberships and sign in as an "away member". When I moved back I lost my membership. So now I just walk in show them my old card and say "I'm an away member" and tell them my name. They write my name down and pretend to check to see if I'm actually a member, but no one actually does it. Been doing this for the past 5 months and seems to work like a charm :)
I haven't tried it at any other Y's, and the staff at this Y knows my face so it's easier to get by.
TL;DR: go to the local YMCA for free just by saying "I'm an away member" and showing them my old membership card.
buildadog · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There used to be a code for Dominos pizza called APT50 which took off 50% from any order. On top of that it could be added to any other coupon or special offer. That shit was magical. Got two large pizzas with 3 toppings for like 10 bucks multiple times a week until it finally became invalid. My roommate and I still joke about that, if we see something really expensive we jokingly say "no problem just APT50 that shit bro"
Finaglers · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Jason's Deli used to have a "Kids eat free" night. So once a week our family went there so us kids could eat like kings. .... Yeah, my parents were really cheap.
toastedsub94 · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Basically me and my college buddies found out about this company called Postmates, which delivers food to you for a price. They operate kind of like Uber and you wait for someone to go get food you ordered at a restaurant.
Turns out they had a promotion going on where if you signed up you'd get free food AND free delivery, AND you'd get freakin like $10 in Postmates credit. Well all we had to do was keep making different email accounts to get this promotion, the debit/credit cards we signed up with were never cross checked to make sure people didn't game the system. Anyways we ended up with hundreds of dollars of Postmates credit and about 50 free pizzas. To this day, if we're ever too wasted to drive somewhere to eat, we get Mexican food delivered to us for free at like 2am.
readmond · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
0% credit card balance transfers. Paid off my cars. Twice.
beezbeck · 1 points · Posted at 07:24:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can you expand on that? Wouldn't the credit card have interest on that balance though? And aren't credit card rates generally higher than auto loans?
Jamin527 · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is circa 2008 and redbox was pretty new. There were a lot of promotional codes and between my group of friends and myself we had plenty of credit cards to choose from. I bet we watched over 100 movies for free that year.
nekothecat · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No one will probably see this BUT...Early 2000 me and some friends had a local hardcore metal band and there was a website called hardcoremp3.com that was like SoundCloud but old and ghetto ya know the early days of the internet. So me and my guitarist figured out how to embed a link from the site into MySpace comments so the song would play in the background silently on someone page and the link would be invisible. We then would post the comment/link on sat Tila tequilas page and on the hardcore site it would show us as literally the most played by far band on the whole site....like 10,000 plays a day and the second biggest band was less then a 1000. When we would go play shows people would come up to me and we're blown away how many plays we got and thought we were going to be huge. We were all cracking up.
Sir_Tachanka · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There is this Nestea promotion that happens from time to time. You buy once case and it comes with a coupon to get another case for free. Except, the coupon was also valid for the same promo cases. So essentially, if you bought one case of Nestea, you could get as many free ones as you wanted (while supplies last).
CptHammer_ · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There used to be a budget grocery store in my town that had a sign in the soda isle that stated, "Please place soda flats under the basket". Simple request and it was where the cheap store brand had four sixpacks of soda on a cardboard flat with a discount from buying them individually. It was even ok to mix and match your flavors so long as you stayed in the store brand.
At the register another sign stating, "Leave large items in the under carriage: soda, dog food, etc." Again a simple instruction so I did. It turns out they only charge you for the soda if you tell them it's down there. I now have type 2 diabetes, so karma I guess.
Sejmax · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Papa John's 50% off code used to be "sorry". I dunno if that counts as a loophole, but I DID abuse it for an extended period of time.
northintersect · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Our telecom/internet provider had a bug that when you pay your bill with an amount that has 1 cent in it your next bill will be PHP0.01!!
For 2 years we didn't have to pay for their crappy internet service. It was stopped when they did a system update.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Audible lets you return /refund audiobooks for like no reason . I've returned like 40 books last year for full credit.
tugboatmassacre · 1 points · Posted at 06:22:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
:(
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:53:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
But I've "read "so many books
tugboatmassacre · 1 points · Posted at 06:14:53 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
They're not a library.
Check to see if your library provides audiobooks. Mine does through Overdrive.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:06:23 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes but I'd say half of the returns are legit . Bad narration or it was not a good book or their audio quality was bad .
tugboatmassacre · 1 points · Posted at 09:32:05 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
And the other half aren't.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:41:35 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm a bad whittle boy
stoutlegs · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Me and my girlfriend go to the movies and pig out on popcorn for waaaay cheaper.
Costco offers a 25 dollar ticket that gives you 2 tickets, two medium drinks, and two medium popcorn. So already that's pretty good. We then upgrade our popcorn to larges for 50 cents each. It also just so happens that they let you get your popcorns refilled for free if they are larges. Not a huge exploit but we pay 26 dollars for 2 tickets (12.50 each) 2 medium drinks (4.00 dollars each) and four large bags of popcorn (8.50 each).
Not a huge exploit but we are huge popcorn and movie fans.
throwaway___3393 · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a particular starbucks on my college campus that only looked at your "free drink" reward coupon, without scanning it and using it up the way they're supposed to. So as long as the coupon was within the valid time frame, they would glance at it and hand you a free drink.
I got 36 free drinks in a month, and about 4 months after I started doing this they announced they wouldn't be accepting rewards stars anymore.
unfoldyourself · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
For a few months, Blockbuster had a promotion where you could trade in any two used games and get any other used game for only five dollars (minus the trade-in value). There were no exceptions to which games, other than they couldn't be really old versions of Madden. So, I would buy the two really cheap games and then trade them in for a used copy of a new game. I got some newly released games for around ten dollars or so.
A few times, I actually bought the games from Blockbuster, and then traded them in again right then and there, the cashier was surprisingly cool with it.
Stikki_Lawndart · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had a Hulu subscription on autopay from a debit card. Switched banks, closed account and hadn't updated my payment info in Hulu do to the move and forgetting. For 2 years I had free Hulu Plus while I'm pretty sure they kept charging the old card/bank.
Few years later I finally got the dreaded "update your payment info".
Traw535 · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid I used gamefly and I would order a game and when it got to my house I'd tell them I didn't receive it and they'd send another for free. Then I'd send back one of them and have a $60 game for $8 or however much it used to be.
Hellhunter120 · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a chicken wing restaurant near me that had really good garlic parmesan fries, and you could get a free order with your meal if you filled out a survey on the receipt. Of course, you get another receipt with the meal you use it on, too. For about 3 years, we got free garlic parmesan fries every time we went. The people working there were super cool and knew we were going to redeem it every time we stopped by.
_scat · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At mcdonalds they had the this deal where if u downloaded their app u get a free large burger and so many kids i knew would abuse the fuck outta it and get like 6 burgers in one day
C-Love · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm looking into it still but I might be able to keep getting student tickets and a gym membership at the rec if I take a single class per semester after I graduate.
Would be cheaper too
spanky2222 · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In highschool, I was late just about every day. At the last 5 weeks of school they finally caught me in class to be sent to the principal.
He gave me Saturday school for the last 5 weeks and Aldo said I would not graduate if I was late a single time for the rest of the year.
MY LOOPHOLE...
I continued to be late, but I wouldn't go check in at the tardy office, to get my pass to class.
My first bell teacher was so used to me being late, she would never even ask for the pass.
So basically. The school had me marked as absent.
But my classes had me marked as present.
- I continued to be late for 5 weeks. No problems, and graduated.
King_Ryan · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was young they still had nickel gum machines. My enterprising older brother and I figured out that if you used one nickel to buy gum, chewed it and stuck a piece on the second nickel it wouldn't drop in but would continue to churn out gumballs as you turned the handle. We even got free paper bags from inside the store as we "robbed" their machines on the outside.
Snowflayke · 1 points · Posted at 05:37:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had this whole steak and airline miles scheme, you wouldn't get it though.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:37:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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PM_ME_UR_4E55444553 · 1 points · Posted at 05:37:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Relevent XKCD
SnipingRalder · 1 points · Posted at 05:37:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I found out that at the vending machine at my school you could get change if you pressed the button right after you bought food. I must've made over $20 in quarters in a month
stephen_1975 · 1 points · Posted at 05:37:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've told this story on Reddit before:
My loophole: That if you release a prisoner on parole, if you don't give him the papers in a language he can understand, you might have to acquit him if/when he fucks up. You're goddamned right I exploited that one, otherwise I may have gotten up to four years in prison for breach of probation ;)
canIpleasehavepizza · 1 points · Posted at 05:37:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
recently when I was homeless I discovered a loophole where I could get any drink I wanted no matter the cost from starbucks for free.
futureformerteacher · 1 points · Posted at 05:37:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Want to avoid a meeting with someone who is too busy to actually know you're supposed to be meeting them? When they send the meeting invite through Outlook, just decline, but don't send a response. It will just go away.
rockstarz7509 · 1 points · Posted at 05:38:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was this vending machine in the field at my school that wouldn't take dollar coins. If you put a dollar coin in it would come back out the bottom and still say there was a dollar in there. I went all the time to use this exploit and put one dollar coin in and then pushed the refund button and voila I got more money plus you could buy infinite things
futureisscrupulous · 1 points · Posted at 05:38:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a glitch on the dominos website where they wouldn't charge for "double" toppings, which is one step above "extra" toppings. I got double pepperoni and double for those big sandwich style pepperonis that i think they don't have anymore for the price of two toppings. The manager new something was up because he was like "...man...... that's a lot of pepperoni." The glitch was fixed like a week later.
seembah · 1 points · Posted at 05:38:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cricket wireless had an "unlimited everything" plan back when I was about 18-19 (26 now) it was something like 45-50$ a month and to me working a part time job that wasn't bad. So I got the service and had my phone for a few months. Lost my job eventually and couldn't pay the bill. So I counted the days as my unlimited web data slowly was about to run out. No more 8 hour YouTube sessions. So it comes to be the day my phone is shut off and texts and calls aren't working. But guess what does? The web data. For 5 months after that my phone had free unlimited 4g or 3g data( can't remember which) so I downloaded a free text/call app and rode the free cell phone wave. The day they finally figured out the mistake was a very sad day for me. But it was good while it lasted. Thanks cricket! You saved me quite a bit of money.
hipsterrobot · 1 points · Posted at 05:38:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Didn't exploit this to the max, but when chase bank first rolled out the feature to deposit a check with a photo from a smart phone, I decided to deposit one of my work checks this way and put the check in my wallet. A couple of months later, I found the check in my wallet and didn't remember whether I ever deposited it, so I took it to a bank and deposited the same check again at an ATM. Later I checked my bank statements and it turns out both deposits went through! Got myself a laptop with that sweet bonus!
TheeSweeney · 1 points · Posted at 05:38:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I like to go skiing a lot and though I am very good at this point, I still think it's important to take lessons now and then to stay sharp and keep up with what's new in the skiing world. However, I have noticed that most people take lessons until they are good enough and then figure the rest out their own. I like to sign up for advanced/expert group lessons, and unsurprisingly I am always the only person in the lesson so I end up getting a private ski guide for a few hours. Usually the group lesson is about 60% the price of a private lesson, and a bit longer. Wins across the board.
DumbClamCollector · 1 points · Posted at 05:38:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Drop trading
MrWheelieBin · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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nutsaur · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm currently playing Skyrim I found a companion that doesn't take damage. I assume I'm supposed to complete their quest and then they'll leave but until I do I'm not taking any damage.
Admittedly, the game alternates between fun and tedious now because of this.
necroxephon · 2 points · Posted at 05:47:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Was actually headed to /r/Skyrim but got distracted by front page. Hello fellow Dovahkiin. lol
nutsaur · 2 points · Posted at 05:51:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
"You're not supposed to be in here!"
ChickenDrifter · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when Alltel wireless was still a thing, they had a prepaid monthly plan you could buy at Walmart. Turns out when you ran out of money on your account they still gave you access to text. Had $0.01 in my account for a year and texted every day throughout Jr. High. Until that phone broke.
Jumbobie · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I lived in my old apartment building, you buzzed in by putting in your number and it called the house phone of that unit to let you in.
Being between 10 and 12 during this, I didn't have my own phone to use. I ended up fiddling with the numbers and discovered the maintenance code. I inputted a friend's phone number into a phony apartment number so I'd just sit on the front porch and talk to him through the comm system whenever my mom told me to go play outside or when she was on the phone.
cmowglik · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The local news channel near my town had a weekly event called "fan of the week." My really close friend managed to be video taped as "The Music Man" and on their website was a voting system to see which fan was the best. I recall having read somewhere that with certain voting website, if you change your cookies setting and make multiple tabs one could infinitely click the vote button and have it count. My WHOLE senior English class spent a period smashing that vote button till my friend had over 4,000 votes for him to win and we were in tears. Later that week, the local news station said they had no winners, and that they would appreciate hackers staying away from the website. Lame ending..
Kuuzie · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When Bing dropped they had games you could play to earn points to turn in for Microsoft products. One was a crossword where you could just guess every letter and eventually win the puzzle. Cue some glorious bastard making a mouse bot the just run through it all super quick. I got about 10 free xbox 360 controllers and a few Vista copies for eBay.
In highschool I lived in Michigan. MI has a 10c bottle deposit and our school had pop machines. Most teachers would have a separate box for pop bottles so they could get extra money. Whenever pepsi points came around I would raid every box for caps and get tons of free shit.
Used to be able to unplug the ethernet cord on Coinstar machines. So, unplug the cord, select Amazon gift card option. It could not connect online so it would just print out a cash ticket without deducting the 9.9% fee.
Also when I was dirt poor I found this one particular pump at the local gas station would turn back on after you reached your prepay limit. $5 prepay and the pump clicks off... squeeze the handle and it starts again! I feel shitty about that one but I was so poor at the time and it was a godsend for 2 months.
NJPeace · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well one time I got a free Romeos Pizza coupon. No strings attached, just a free medium one topping pizza. So I called to make the order and mentioned that I had the coupon. When I picked up the pizza they just handed it to me and said it was already paid for (because of the aforementioned coupon) BUT they didn't collect the coupon. This same scenario happened three more times and I got four free pizzas until they finally collected the coupon. That's a win in my book.
clitiarayoutearis · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Before uber tracked credit card info/PayPal credentials; I just kept making new uber accounts using google voice numbers and referring myself to get the 25 dollar referral credit on the new account/old account so 50 bucks per number.
Then they started limiting how many times a card can be used on uber accounts and froze me. But I had managed getting around for free for at least 3 months.
ohcherub · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The gas station near my house doesn't charge me anything other than the $1 authorization fee. It's been going on for 2 years now. I get all my receipts printed so I have proof if they ever try to come back. I think it doesn't recognize my debit card or something.
I don't abuse it, really. Just if I'm really strapped for cash and pay day isn't for another week, I'll use that card. I at least go in and get snacks sometimes so...
rdeisenhauer · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Years ago I was a wholesale wine salesman. You had to apply to your supervisor to be issued sample bottles to taste w/ wine store owners and restaurateurs (and to drink yourself). The boss would simply slash in half whatever request you ever made. So you just requested double whatever you wanted.
DomoX2000 · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wave-dashing
Neither7 · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Your mom
onodriments · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The "lucky 20" thing that pepsi or coke did probably in the late 90's where if you bought a 20oz soda you could win another free soda. The voucher was the cap and it would say if you won or not on the bottom of the cap. You could tip the bottle and usually read whether or not it was a winner. I probably paid for 1 out of every 10 sodas i had while that was going on.
707RiverRat · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you call your cable provider and complain they'll give you HBO, Showtime, Starz and Cinemax for free.
Called once to complain about service cutting out. Given HBO for free for year. Called again with the same complaint: free HBO for as long as we get their service.
Wife called about the same exact thing asking to have our account terminated immediately, free Showtime for a year.
Months later our internet/wifi starts cutting out right around the time I get off work(2am) again. I go outside to make the call. I just worked 14 hours and I'm paying ~$200 a month for a service I can't use when I get off work? Fuck you! I'm done with this shit!
Oh, you say I can have all the top movie channels for free for life? Oh and this problem will never happen again? Screw it, you got a deal.
xsandied · 2 points · Posted at 05:54:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You must not have Comcast!
Beelzabubba · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not so much a loophole but when I was a kid Pepsi had a promotion where you could win a free bottle if you got a winning cap. All the caps had a series of numbers on the side and the ones that started with 10 (I may have that mistaken, it's been 30 years) were winners. I didn't much care for Pepsi but I drank a lot of it that summer.
js73905 · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to work at a Google customer support call center. All new agents there get a free Google Play Music subscription. Well, when I left there they forgot to cancel my subscription, so now I've had years of free music.
enoughhysteria · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Skittles and 25ct machines
hola_its_sheamus · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in high school my counselor told me half way through my senior semester that I wasn't going to graduate, I was a math credit short. I figured out that if I became the math teachers TA I could get my math credit and graduate. I graduated on time with all my friends.
HereditaryMediocrity · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
For one glorious summer the mug rootbeer machine outside our rural grocery store registered $0.10 every time you put a dime in & would return the dime to the change return slot.
bradybunches5 · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Those old call of duty codes on dorito bags you would redeem for 2x exp for 15 minutes were at almost every store. I would take pictures of all of the codes without buying the dorito bag and ended up getting 15 hours of 2x exp. that's 900 codes and 900 different dorito bags. Yea I spent a full day doing this.
bighawaiianbaby · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The grocery store I work at has a "hot bar", where they served hot, ready-to-go meals that you picked out, and there is a cold-bar where it has salads, potatoes, and other easily-reheatable foods. Both of them served Mac-N-Cheese(it is amazing) but the hot bar version was $6.99 and the cold bar version of $2.99, so I would tell all the customers and even myself occasionally to buy Mac-N-Cheese from the cold bar and just reheat it instead of buying the hot version for 2.0x+ the price. They changed the price of the Mac-N-Cheese but I still use the old price because the old Mac-N-Cheese code is still valid.
MFN_00 · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I hate to pay for printing at my university. You have to swipe your ID card at the printer to then get access to whatever you need to print and it charges your account. Well I looked through the menu of the couple printers that I used the most and got their ip addresses and set up new wireless printers on my computer. It allows me to print strait through to the printer instead of going through the ID card system. Free prints.
ethan-bubblegum-tate · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Up, up, down, down, left, right, left right, B, A, B, A, Start
FryFroAllFrizzy · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Pizza Hut here had a coupon code "FREESTIX" that worked to give you just that, free breadsticks. (They were building a new store and it was a promo to get people in the door) Well they were for orders $10 or more and one day I tried getting cheese bread and it worked! Now there's also a special online deal for $7.99 2 topping large, I decided to press my luck and see if the code worked for that as well. Turns out it does and I've been getting a 2 topping large pizza with cheese breadsticks for over a 2 years for a total of $8.43
misterverymean · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had a cold vending machine in my high school that dispensed frozen treats like ice cream sandwiches and chaco tacos. The top had generic ice cream sandwiches; five identical rows of your basic chocolate cookie and vanilla ice cream.
They all cost 50 cents EXCEPT for one of the middle rows which was only 5 cents. Clearly the vendor made a mistake when typing in prices.
Once people figured it out, that row would sell out in a day while all the others were untouched. I'm sure the guy who replaced them was confused why that specific row always had to be replaced. Shockingly, it lasted months before it got corrected.
drewskimalone · 1 points · Posted at 05:42:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I once got a "ticket to ride" on my local transit train system. I bought a ticket at the machine, it printed out blank so was had all the correct barcode, card, specs etc , first time I got asked for inspection of tickets I gave the inspector it and explained that the machine printed it that way and he gave me it back. At the time you had to put the ticket in to open the gate at the end of your journey and because it was a day pass I got it back again and again. I used that ticket to ride for about two years until it was so poor a condition that the barrier machine wouldn't accept it. I worked out to and from work for 2 years plus weeken travel as 1200 journeys at 2quid a pop. £2400 cha Ching
He's got a ticket to ride, he's got a ticket to ri-i-ride!
sandyshrew · 1 points · Posted at 05:42:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a parking garage right next to my building at my university that charged $5/day to park on the roof, paid on exiting. The parking pass for the rest of the garage/campus was something stupid like $350 a year. The garage was for a different zone than I would have qualified for, so if I had gotten a normal parking pass I would have had to park on the opposite side of campus, roughly a 15-20 min walk away. But, if you stayed until after 5:30, the gates would open and you could leave for free Needless to say I parked there every day for free for two years. (Had 8 am classes anyway so getting there early wasn't an issue, and I had my last class ending at 3:30. So it was no issue to hang around and study for two hours before going home. Also missed traffic that way)
deathfalcon908 · 1 points · Posted at 05:42:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They may even still do this, but when I was in college Gamestop would give full refunds for used games returned within one week. We pretty much just made Gamestop our free game rental service.
my_myr · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The other day at McDonald's I was buying the 2 cheeseburger value meal and the medium was 40c cheaper than the small. I mean I still only bought one, but it came with the smug satisfaction that I was sticking it to the man.
NotARobotSpider · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That women like it if you have a job and take a shower every day.
Thuggish_Coffee · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wehadababy. It'saboy.
usernames_are_danger · 1 points · Posted at 05:44:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
0% APR entry periods and balance transfers
flugbone · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Elaborate?
WerewolfOfLondon520 · 1 points · Posted at 05:44:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Pirate Bay
ronisolomondds · 1 points · Posted at 05:45:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a friend who worked at a major footwear company and they gave me an online discount code that was intended for friends and family. The discount was for 60-80% off all shoes and apparel. They quit shortly afterward, and I wondered if it would still work... it did. I used that code for nearly 10 years after they left. A few times a year, I would place orders for 5-10 pairs of shoes at a time, in all colors or styles. I'd have a basket of $1,200 in shoes, add the code, and the discount would bring it down to like $300 or so. Around Christmas time, I'd buy everyone a fresh set of kicks. I'd piggyback on "free shipping" promos so a giant box the size of a small appliance would appear on my doorstep a couple days later. Unfortunately, following a major site redesign, the code stopped working, but I can't be mad about it.
0000010000000101 · 1 points · Posted at 05:45:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Civ 5 for a very long time in multi player if someone offered you a trade you could 'modify trade' then accept your new offer without their consent. I played often with a friend of mine and exploited this repeatedly every game. Friendship, luxuries and all your gold per tern? why yes I think I will accept.
This is one of the few game exploits I've personally discovered.
EnumaFaker · 1 points · Posted at 05:45:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in college in my American Studies class, we had to do a reading before each lecture and write a critique about it. Most of the readings had introductions or summaries that pretty much told me everything I needed to know to write the critique. Did that for 90% of the readings 10 mins before class, sometimes even in class since I had my tablet with me.
deep_in_the_comments · 1 points · Posted at 05:45:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So this probably won't be seen since I'm a bit late but I'll write it out anyways. I was travelling as part of a group by plane outside if the US. When we landed in the airport we needed to take a train to get to where we were staying. We used a machine to buy the train tickets which were around $3-4 in US currency. We mainly had $20 bills since we were travelling and so we paid with that. The way the conversion worked out it and what we believe to be a lack of proper currency to return to us we got money back. But not just usual change, we got our $20 bill, a few coins and a train ticket. This worked for ~15 tickets so we not only got free rides to our hotel but also a few dollars on top of that.
ItPutsLotionOnItSkin · 1 points · Posted at 05:45:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I worked at a company that had a vending machine that had $2 enegry drinks and $1 soda. The vendor would stock $2 drinks on the $1 slots.
ZippoInk · 1 points · Posted at 05:45:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a poor college kid, I hated paying $15 per day to park where I worked. After losing my parking ticket one day, I learned I could just get a new ticket on my way to my car, and when I scanned it at the gate, it would open without payment.
rednessw4rrior · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
$15 a day? wow..
ZippoInk · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, my first hour of work went to paying to park there. The worst.
RUN_B · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Used to work at Staples (shitty job, don't do it)
Sister's birthday was coming up, FUCK, forgot to buy a gift - quick, what's on sale?
Found this laptop on sale, was still a bit pricey - but found this interesting loophole in our system where I could stack my employee discount on the ORIGINAL price of the laptop, then added a coupon I found in our catalouge for a percentage of the ORIGINAL price AGAIN, and then the "Sale" of "X" amount of dollars off the laptop.
Walked out of work that day with an 75 dollar laptop, sister still uses it 3 years later.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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rednessw4rrior · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
how? :)
Mateohecktic · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I first got my 4K Smart TV, I binge watched shows on Hulu. At one point, I discovered that if you pause during the ads and adjust the video quality, it skips the ads completely. Not sure if that works with any other TV.
fffjayare · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Earlier this year Uber had a promo code that was supposed to be for $100 credits towards helicopter rides in Vegas for CES or something but it worked for everything, including UberEats (food delivery service, for those who don't live in a city where it's offered). I added $105 worth of BBQ to my cart, hit order, took a Lyft home from work a few hours early (fuck Uber, lols) and ate/shat like a champ for a week.
KeatingOrRoark · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Albuquerque, the new local Target sent out coupons as an invitation to shop there with them.
They made absolutely no disclaimer as "one per person."
Well, come every week the trashbins by the mailboxes would be full of these things, thrown away probably because people took it as junkmail. Some of the coupons were for bread, some for eggs.
One week it was for 2 Liter Cokes. I pulled 45 of those coupons from the trash and went right to target.
I got 46 free bottles of Coke that day.
...took me two months to drink them all.
Supertilt · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Self checkouts at grocery stores can't determine the accuracy of the number of items per entry, or the accuracy of the variety for weighed items.
You can both low ball the amount of rolls in your bag and enter in the item code for those on sale apples when you really have those delicious $3/lbs organic Jazz apples and no one would ever know.
I should note that I don't do this because it's less of a loophole than it is flat out stealing, I just used to work at a grocery store.
Esleeezy · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you go to sea world I'm San Diego there's a trick you can do with their 'all you can eat' passes. It's a piece of paper that has a bar code on it. If you head to your left and go to the first restaurant you can get food at, it's a cantina or something, they can't scan the bar codes at their registers. Every time I've gone they will tell me to throw it away and they will just give me the wristband for the all you can eat. I don't throw it away and give it to my BIL to use at the next restaurant. 2 for 1 all you can eat.
I guess you could Lee going to the same restaurant and just keep making it happen but that's just greedy. Sea world sucks anyway.
treytfd · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in the day when blockbusters were still open, if one of my video games broke I would immediately go to blockbuster and rent that game to swap out the disc.. never once got caught up and did it at least 10 times. When I was younger I was terrible at putting my discs away so they'd always end up unreadable
hokiefan240 · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got a 30 day free trial of audible and downloaded a book, after I listened to it, I refund for the credit back and get another one.
I found out that the book I refunded stays downloaded on my phone, so I would download a book, refund it, get another, download another one, and refund it.
I ended up listening to about 7 books before they cut me off. I recently got a new debit card so I need to get a new email and see if I can exploit it again. But to do this I need to unlink my Gmail from my phone, so it's almost more effort than it's worth
that90sguys · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Burger King didn't know how to check gift cards circa 2009, so I got about $200 on a $10. They caught on and threw away my gift card.
kungfoojesus · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when McDonalds ran the Monopoly game with Best buy Bucks you could mail in a self-addressed stamped envelope and get at LEAST$1 in BBB as well as 4 monopoly pieces. Based on the distribution of $1, $3, and $5 coupons and the cost of stamps being like 34cents it cose 64cents to mail and returned at least $1.6 to Best Buy as well as free food with the monopoly pieces. AND you could play those game pieces in an online game and easily win 20 free snapfish photo prints.
I spent about $100 in stamps and got soemthing like $170 in BBB, 500 free prints with free shipping from snapfish, $200GC from the online game, and quite a bit of free food. I even sold some of the unopened stamps on Ebay.
I was in college, had little else to do. It was a blast.
atomicsnarl · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In an online MMO I won't name, lower class toons were being issued a daily health and mana pot good for a ton of recovery. They also added an auto-grind feature letting you bot whatever is in a distance range of some starting point for a set time. The auto function would also let you cast a spell, repeating every few seconds to minutes.
My toon used animals to help hunt, and was low enough for the daily pots bonus. So, I found an area where the mobs dropped a very valuable item, but only about 1% of the time. Thanks to the pots, I could bot several hours and auto heal my pet, collecting hundreds of the items along with a ton of other junk.
The drops sold for about 500K coin for 20, and I made millions. This paid for all my other toon's gear and goodies for as long as it took them to turn off those drops. Ha!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was this RV park I used to stay at over the summer with a game room full of nothing but pinball and there was this Lord of the Rings themed one that for some reason didn't take money at all so I'd spend a lot of time in there just playing it. Didn't get me any money or anything, but it was fun because I loved hearing the horrible quality music and voices ripped from my favorite movie series.
Up until the grumpy old lady who worked there found out. >:U
bands8384 · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I still use my Best Buy employee discount code, I haven't worked there since 2005... I just use it at a different Best Buy.
MyNameIsBlowtorch · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At the restaurant I used to work at, we had Sweet Tater Fries as an appetizer. In the computer, we also had Sweet Taters Fries. No one every just ordered a side portion, so every time the cook saw "Sweet Tater Fries" he cooked up an appetizer portion. I paid $1.25 instead of $5 when I'd order on the clock, because I'd hit the "side" button instead of "appetizer". Mwuahahaha.
sephrinx · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in the days of Diablo 2 my friends and I would play on LAN a lot, a few of us in my basement playing together. We eventually figured out we could copy the file of a character save to another folder, log into our characters, and dupe our loot. We then discovered that we could dupe our Stash, and all hell broke loose. We did it for hours, duping runes, gems, items, etc. It was fun.
Yoloswaggerboy2k · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I found how to softlock the tram ticket machine by accident. If you did press some buttons in a certain sequence, the machine would freeze. It used to work on all the machines in the city. So instant of buying tickets, I used this trick and whenever there was a ticket check I would tell them I wasn't able to buy a ticket because the machine was broken. It took them 1+ year to patch this.
bigbobbarker199 · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in the day I had AOL as my ISP. I got busted for porn one day. My bro-in-law setup the porn filter under that account, turns out if you login [new_user], that you don't need a password, also the porn filter is gone.
babrownmamba · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The water cup. Wait, or am I just an asshole...
g-linc · 1 points · Posted at 05:48:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
One of the gaming stores in Australia had this deal where you could buy a second hand console game and if you didn't like it you could return it and swap it for another game. The only catch was that you couldn't swap it for another game after a week or so.
So one of my mates would go in buy a game and finish it in one week and then go back and swap it and repeat this loop. In the end he had finished 20 games for the price of one.
ungm0ney · 1 points · Posted at 05:48:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A couple of years ago when I was in college, I used to shop a lot at a grocery store from a pretty large chain in SoCal. This was about the time when self-checkout was beginning to take bigger strides as a norm. Back in the day, I went to buy some avocados to make some guacamole for a party and when I used the self-checkout, it had automated selection choices as "Avocados, Small" and "Avocados, Large." I picked the correct selection and was prepared to enter the # of avocados I bought (~10) but it had already given me a price, $2.74. No questions asked. Seeing as it woulda costed me about $15 or so, I just took it as a win and went about my way. A week later or so, my roommates loved my guac that they basically paid me to make more so I went back to the store and bought 5 this time. Same procedure, same total, $2.74. The next day I decided to buy 20 avocados. $2.74. I just became this avocado fiend that just kept buying avocados every week for about a quarter, selling guacamole on the side to coworkers and other friends, giving it to my family when I went home on the weekends, or just enjoying some avocado toast every morning for breakfast. All my college friends would always be like WTF, how do you the funds to have so many avocados? It went pretty well, until a lady caught me with another 20 when she helped the self-checkout next to me with an error. It wasn't even a big deal too; she just was like oh you probably selected the wrong option...
Nah man, I wanted those avocados for $2.74
Mareo1319 · 1 points · Posted at 05:48:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in middle school, we had a vending machine where if you put in a $10 bill and hit one of the options and the refund button at the same time, you'd get the bill back and the drink. My friends and I had free drinks for the next 2 weeks until the guy who stocked it caught on and replaced the vending machine.
aaromalloyola · 1 points · Posted at 05:48:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The fact that my gym is COMPLETELY empty for a half hour in the evening.This is the time I go beast mode - roaring,flexing unnecessarily,retarded facial expressions and the like.
Once,one of the guys came early during one of my 'posing' routines. Brotip : DO NOT perform Frank Zane poses,at least not when you're a skinny fat gym douche.:p
Schicktastic · 1 points · Posted at 05:48:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't know if it's a loop hole, but the Costco rental department (my term) return policy is so lax and if you push you get what you want. Hot tub return after 5 years? Here's your money. Purchase a snow blower for winter then bring it back in spring? All good. Electronics not so much but most other goods. Get on it people
cunninglinguist32557 · 1 points · Posted at 05:48:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not really a loophole, but definitely exploited. Two summers ago a local grocery store had a special on Pure Leaf iced tea where if you bought 10 bottles, you got a mail-in voucher for a $25 ticket to Hershey Park, limited to two vouchers per person over 18. So naturally, my dad filled our cart with 40 bottles of Pure Leaf and got two $25 tickets for each of us. A while later he brought his fiancé and got 20 more bottles of tea and two more tickets. We took the whole family to Hershey twice that summer, and all it cost was $150 and five straight months of all of us drinking nothing but iced tea.
They don't do that promotion anymore.
juicestand · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I remember one of the Launch games for the nintendo Ds was a car racing game... UrbanGT something. Anyways they messed up cause on of the cars could be bought for like 50,000 BUT THEN RESOLD at 55,000. Few minutes of BUY/SELL/BUY/SELL/BUY/SELL and next thing you know, I have every car unlocked hahaha!
Francloman · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Target had a thing where you could basically pre order a game for 1$ when you bought a pre order card, but when you bought the card you'd get a certain amount of money off a game (about 10-15) dollars I think. I ended up price matching with some cool guy there and he and I ended up price matching every game in existence while pre ordering every game multiple times to get some games for basically free. The system didn't really ever catch on so I got some games for dirt cheap back then thanks to amazon and Wal Mart having such cheap prices on games. Me and that employee stayed friends.
thesmellnextdoor · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A door to door salesman came to my door selling Clearwire internet service. It was some kind of wireless provider that is now out of business (I think?). I was interested but I didn't have any money until I got paid on Friday. The salesman said that's okay, he can connect it for me now and come back on Friday for the payment!
He got me set up and I was online within 20 minutes. I didn't have to sign anything or even give him my name. I thought about it and I asked him what would happen if he 'forgot' to come back? He said that as far as he knew it would keep working like it was. I asked him if he could forget to come back for about $40 worth of weed that I had on hand. He accepted the offer and only said he couldn't guarantee it was going to work forever.
I had free unlimited internet access for about 4 years.
FunkyDoktor · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can in fact eat cookies, ice cream and candy before dinner.
Mah68Man · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In my city, you can use your phone as bus fare. It is supposed to cost $1.25 for 2.5 Hrs, but because the ticket is stored on your phone and not their servers, you can just restore this over and over with a backup app like Titanium Backup, essentially getting free bus fare.
They had stopped giving me the daily code the drivers look for after about 6 months to a year, but they have since updated the app to store the ticket on their servers. However, for people with tickets still on their device, they allow uploading the tickets to the servers. So, the tickets that were being considered invalid are becoming completely valid fare, and I have been using this for about a year and a half, almost daily.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dragon head duplicate glitch.
Loved that ugly old thing.
zachwilly · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in December, McDonald's was giving away any sandwich for free if you downloaded the app and made an account. I downloaded it and would create a new account every McDonald's trip using 10minutemail. I had a lot of free quarter-pounders that month.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A while back a certain bank had a deal where if you open an account with them they give you X number of dollars for every 10k deposited but never put stipulations on how long you had to keep that account or how many times you could take advantage. I ferried my money back and forth between banks opening and closing accounts just to rack up tons of free money until they caught on and added several stipulations to their fine print.
groovemerchant · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have told this story before on Reddit.
When I was a youngster, my family didn't have much money. I had a paper route and worked odd jobs before being able to take a real job as a teenager.
I used to take a couple bucks worth of nickels and smash them into quarter sized metal discs. I literally would take a hammer with a buddy and pound them on my concrete driveway or right next to the bowling alley where we would use them.
Who knew nickels made a perfect place replacement for quarters when appropriately bashed. Nothing like 5 times the amount of plays!
I actually saw a sign saying please do not use slugs in our machines at the local bowling alley!
lmport · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a friend who worked at McDonalds, and during the monopoly thing, whenever so someone handed him a free burger coupon, he just slid it into his pocket and gave me and my friends a bunch of the coupons afterwards
ccaarr123 · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At a Cineplex they had a free refill on a large bag of popcorn for a couple of years and when you got a free refill they would give you a new large bag and you could repeat and bring your bag home and get free popcorn every time you went to a movie. Lasted a lot longer then you would think
FallFromEden · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If I apologize and say I forgot to put my coat in the closet, my dad will always do it for me.
Straxex · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a mobile game that gave out free premium currency when you linked your Facebook account, but if you unlink it and then linked it again it still counts. So I was pretty much the richest player for that game since I had unlimited premium curruncy. Bought everything that was available then got bored and quit.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A vending machine at my high school use to give you the starbursts and then give your your money back if you pressed the Change Return button right before it dropped. I got sick of eating a pack a day for a month I told my friends about it. After that there was never any starburst in that machine.
Gray_Upsilon · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The only thing I got is this. At my place of work, there's a pop machine. Sometimes when people would try to buy a drink, it'd grab the drink, but wouldn't deposit it in the hole so the person that bought it could get it. So sometimes I'd go to the soda machine and find a soda just sitting in the grabber thing. I eventually found out that if I unplugged it and plugged it back in, it'd deposit the drink after it performed its tests. I've gotten several free drinks through this.
judoka_ · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Winrar.
VapeshopSco · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in high school when Surge first came out, they put a machine in the cafeteria that was just 10 slots of Surge. Better yet, it was only $0.25. Well, through mindless fuckery, I figured out that if you held the third button in while you dropped your quarter, and then rapidly hit the buttons, it would give 5-8 Surge per quarter. I'd go in to school first thing, load the back pack up for $1.00 and then sell the Surges to people in class who didn't get a drink before hand. I made 5-10 bucks a day, plus all the Surge I wanted and Pizza for lunch.
theevilhillbilly · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
its stupid but i found out that the old plastic toy coins worked on machines because they were almost exact replicas and you could get a pack of those with 8 quarters for 1 dollar.
So i would buy some and use them in the coin machines for thingies. then after a while they changed the coins to be a little thicker so it stopped working
Leocunn · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
About 2 years ago I used to go to online marketplaces, add a few items to my cart and use the coupon code "null". It seemed to work on a few places, giving me a basic 20% off or sometimes a full 100% off. My biggest score was Bass Pro Shops, bought a Tent, a Kayak, and a Sleeping bag for a grand total of $0. I then continued to purchase stuff for about 2 more days totaling around $500 (un-discounted) when they stopped allowing me to buy things using "null". It still works, but on a very very limited amount. Most sites have stopped coding in null items, or most have caught on. I used it with postmates about 2 months ago and it seemed to work.
turtlenecklace123 · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So did this when I was in high school and had ALOT of free time. So I would go buy a used game from GameStop , play it up until 7 days and return it and restart the process for another game (at a different location so they wouldn't recognize me). Would usually beat the game within 7 days , kinda like free blockbuster. I was a scummy kid I know
Edit: just noticed someone above also loopholed gamestop during Christmas returns which I also did (lol), my strategy works all year long but they have a 7 days return policy on pre owned games, hence returning it before the 7th day.
FrankthePug · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A few years back JC Penney had a promotion with buttons in store for the holidays. You could enter a code online and you had a chance to get $5 towards your purchase, $10, etc
When you asked in store most employees usually let you take one or two, but sometimes they'd leave them out for customers to take or they'd give you a handful of them at a time.
Now the interesting part here is the coupons were good before taxes. So in this case, I'd you used the $10 coupon on something that was $9.99 you wouldn't have to pay anything. In fact the store technically owed you a penny.
I ended up scoring a massive amount of Skylanders using the $10 coupons since they were $9.99 each. Basically my entire Giants collection I got for free because of this.
I think they fired the CEO after this stunt
FrankthePug · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A few years back JC Penney had a promotion with buttons in store for the holidays. You could enter a code online and you had a chance to get $5 towards your purchase, $10, etc
When you asked in store most employees usually let you take one or two, but sometimes they'd leave them out for customers to take or they'd give you a handful of them at a time.
Now the interesting part here is the coupons were good before taxes. So in this case, I'd you used the $10 coupon on something that was $9.99 you wouldn't have to pay anything. In fact the store technically owed you a penny.
I ended up scoring a massive amount of Skylanders using the $10 coupons since they were $9.99 each. Basically my entire Giants collection I got for free because of this.
I think they fired the CEO after this stunt
Donnakebabmeat · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in the late sixties, we were a pretty poor family and had an electric meter which took the large 50p coin. when times got tough my dad would make ice coins and buy us half a nights electricity, the whole meter was mechanical. every time the electrical company 'meter man' arrived, he would empty the contents and be on his way, this lasted a couple of years until one day he questioned the rust in the bottom of the tray and gave my mum a knowing glare. They stopped doing it after that.
DangerSwan33 · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Over the summer, a card of mine hit the max. What I didn't realize was that this card was what I had been using for Uber all along.
After a few free uber rides, I realized what was going on. They weren't charging my maxed card, and something wasn't hitting their system to reject the payment.
So I got about 3 months of Uber for free.
I didn't really exploit it too much, fearing getting a massive bill in the mail one day. But I probably got about $300 in free rides.
flimspringfield · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Up up, down down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start
Ok I didn't find it out but I exploited the shite out of it!
SelfShine · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm on a fixed contract for a company that gets discounts for gym membership at a chain gym. Because I'm not a full time employee I'm not able to get the discount which is half full off regular membership. I found out that I could still get the discount by using my work email without having to go through the HR rep at the company.
kcasusi · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At the vending machine at my work, if you put in a shiny new quarter, the machine counts it but then drops it into the change dispenser. The trick is to angle the quarter and force it in as fast as possible.
Endless cheetos and poptarts for a quarter. I live a dangerous life.
shelcod · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was 14, I found out the gas station down the street from me had a vending machine sitting outside that would give you your change back after it dispensed the pop.
The next weekend I went at night and emptied out the entire machine. The owner must have then noticed the problem and had it fixed.
angrypunishment · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The golden axe arcade cabinet at my bowling alley would accept a nickel as a quarter, and then spit the nickel out in the coin return.
I beat golden axe for free while my family bowled
adio-s · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Shadow Clone Jutsu!
_Cchandler_ · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So I've pretty much figured out how to college in the best way possible when it comes to getting good grades. First day of class I sit up front and within the first week I make some kind of personal connection. Just some small talk. Then for the rest of the semester I play the "quiet kid" role but always pretend to be super interested in the lectures. Because the teachers think I'm genuine and doing my best, they are always uber nice about due dates and are way more lax when it comes to grading papers and such. I haven't actually tried in a class in like 2 years but have maintained A's and B's. hellz yeah I'm gonna scam my way to a degree
KmKiero · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A friend and I found out a little trick with a vending machine at our school. Not a huge scam, but we got a free beverage every time out of it. When kickstart was first being sold, a machine in the school commons had both orange and cherry. He found out if you put the money in, and then rapidly tapped the button for one of the kickstarts in a specific corner of the button, it would give you two instead of one. No idea how it happened, probably the size of the fan or something, but I got free kickstarts for a few months so I never questioned it.
niftyifty · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I purchased a cell phone at best buy a few years ago and it came with a $100 promo gift card on top of any trade credit, etc. The gift card was electronically generated and given at the time of sale, but able to be used in the same transaction. We used the amount to cover the tax on the phone and activation fee or something. All was good and I enjoyed my phone for a couple days until I had an issue that required it to be exchanged for the same phone. Upon exchange I was handed another $100 gift card. I asked if this was a mistake and the guy said "the computer generated it so it's yours."
Let's just say I had an odd run of malfunctioning phones for the next two weeks while that promo was running. Ended up with a Sony 4k TV, ps4, and some games (some of the money spent was legit $300 trade in credit.)
geebrownshoes · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A friend and I used to take drinks from a vending machine in our break room for a little over a year, and would also get other coworkers drinks. So in total we were taking roughly between 8 - 12 drinks a week. The vending machine was the type you could put your hand/arm in. We learned that there was a small release lever underneath from were the drinks rested and managed to get up to the forth row with a thin metal rod. One of us kept a watch for people pretending we were on an important business call near the front of the break room. they started putting all diet drinks near the bottom, then eventually changed the machine out.
gags89 · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Get a metal cc (like chase sapphire) and then get money clip wallet where the clip is a magnet. Next time you go to a parking structure and print a ticket, keep it in your wallet - the metal and magnet will scramble the cheap parking ticket's barcode and you'll be able to blame the parking company for the faulty ticket and get free parking!
oakland_oakland · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When uber eats just started to be a thing. You could get 20 dollars of food for referring somebody, but turns out you could make unlimited accounts by using another app that gives you a second temporary phone number. Ate free for a couple weeks until they caught on... Guess you could probably do this with a lot of those deals for random apps.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Online classes, lazy professors, and Google.
The university I go to offers online classes for many technical undergraduate degrees (actual uni's, not Uni of Phoenix, etc.) The online quizzes and exams that don't use calculations (true/false, multi-choice, closed-ended questions) seem to be collected from a variety of tests and quiz preps that are mostly posted online.
REAL college classes involved essay questions and discussions questions when I got my first degree. Now, an online class and Google seem to be all I need at my college. Very few of the questions are unavailable online word-for-word. Those that don't immediately appear are typically just altered slightly and easily found with some creative searches.
For as much as this is questionable, ethically, I feel no guilt due to the laziness on the part of the instructors. Before I learned of this trick, I was reading chapters and taking notes on key concepts. I'd take the quizzes and tests - but none of the concepts or key topics lined up exactly - even on open-note tests/quizzes. I later learned from a fellow student that the material quizzed and tested on isn't in the book. The concepts may be but the actual technical terms could vary wildly depending on the "test bank" used for that question and the source material that it was culled from.
And so, even in 400 level courses, I continue to do well on online quizzes and tests because the professors are too damned lazy to generate their own material based on the assigned text, nor do they take the time or patience to critically grade educational test output like discussion or essay questions.
BlurryBu · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I haven't had to pay for a replacement pair of shoes in almost two years. At Kohls their return policy allows anyone to return any product at any condition at any time for either a return or equivalent exchange. No questions asked. You don't even need a receipt, as long as you have the upc number you can return the item. Now two years back I bought a pair of black vans, every couple of months or so (depending on wear and tear) I go in and do an even exchange and get a brand new pair of shoes for free. I even do this for pants or a shirt that has been worn out for a while.
Danneales · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At Busch Gardens, they charge 15 bucks to park. To avoid the charge, when you get the gate, say that you're either there to pick up (empty seats in car) or drop off (full car). They give you a sign to hang from your rearview mirror to hang up which tells the parking attendants around the corner to direct you to the drop off/pick up. Simply remove the sign from your rearview after you pull off and before the corner, and when the attendants don't see the sign, they wave you into the regular parking free of charge! I also have other BG "freebies" but that's more or less stealing (sort of like this one).
CowardiceNSandwiches · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In 8th grade, my science class had a contest to see who could build the strongest bridge out of popsicle sticks and white glue. The bridges would be tested by hanging weights on them till they broke. Notably, they did not place limitations on design.
I mentioned the problem to my dad (an architect), who said "Well, why not a laminated beam?"
I basically built a solid I-beam out of popsicle sticks. Never did find out its capacity, as they ran out of weights before it broke.
toTheNewLife · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the 80's at the place I worked there were a couple of video games. Zaxxon, Spy Hunter, etc.
One afternoon on break, goofing off, while my buddy was playing his turn I inserted my home gate key into the lock on the Spy Hunter coin box. Was able to open the panel and ring up credits to play. That went on all summer - only worked on that 1 game's lock.
At 18 I wasn't going to get caught stealing coins from where I worked, but free credits were fine. Nothing to carry / be found.
What were the chances of finding a Master Lock that matched the one at home?
Girlinhat · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Kinda obscure. Really obscure, but something I enjoyed. This game I played, a browser empire game, based in space. You'd make ship designs, then build multiples of that design, and send them into combat. The trick was, when two fleets fought, it would apply damage to each stack of ships, per design. If you had 30 ships of 1 design and 1 ship of 1 design, then it would split the damage 50/50 between the two designs. If it dealt enough damage to destroy 51% of 1 ship, then the stack of 30 would decrease to 29. If it only did 50% damage, the stack of 30 would remain 30.
So the battle strategy was to build as many different designs as possible, with all of them maximum armor. Just giant indestructible bricks. The ONE design with maximum weapons. If you took a hit, the damage would be spread between each different design, so if you brought 9 armor and 1 gun, each ship would take 10% of the incoming fire. Since your armor ships would be so massive, it would take ENORMOUS firepower to reduce one below 50% life, and thus they very very rarely took losses. The split firepower also made your 1 gunship less likely to take damage because the firepower was spread so thinly across all the different designs.
The end result was a screen of armor in front of one artillery, which could easily take on fleets 10x larger, it would just take longer for the 1 artillery to deal damage, but since you never lost a ship it was just a matter of keeping the fight up to keep winning. The developer eventually changed it so that ships took incremental damage and needed to be repaired between fights, so the entire strategy became unviable.
FlobiKenobi · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
GameFly. Sign up for the free 30-day trial and then cancel. Change your shipping address on that account and then start a new trial with a different email. They track re-uses by shipping address and not by credit card number (you are only supposed to get one free trial per household). So yeah, free gaming.
nilok1 · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a text-based fantasy game a long time ago, don't remember the name. When dumping your gear, including gold, if you dumped a negative amount you had that amount added to your inventory. You had unlimited gear.
ShiroTrev · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Our university requires that all freshmen have an "All Access Meal Plan." When I was a freshmen, I worked at the dining hall for a short time. During that time, I found all the secrets around the eatery. After I quit the job, I started taking full bags of cereal, full cans of whip cream, full loafs of bread and bagels, and also washed an old milk carton and filled that to the brim with milk. All of this stuff went back to the dorm to make up for grocery shopping. Some of my friends would fill old tubs of ice cream using the soft-serve machine, or fill their old 2-liter bottles with soda. Every time we would do this and someone would look at as funny, we would just say "my all-access meal plan covers it."
This year, they started putting up signs saying don't take "full" items.
EDIT: The all-access meal plan allowed students to eat or take home as much as they wanted using one swipe.
Mandood · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Went to a friends neighborhood to go trick or treating. The neighbor across the street was giving out full size candy bars. My friend had a bunch of old costumes from previous years. We went back to the neighbors house over and over using old Halloween costumes to get as many full sized candy bars as possible. After we were caught my friend had to give back all of his full sized candy bars but I got to keep mine.
Zergged · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
MMORPG, game called RIFT. You could basically change around your talent points any which-way you wanted through various builds in the old days.
I was reading tooltips closely one day and there was this one Buff that when you hit one target, three other enemies would also be hit for a modest amount of damage. "Okay, cool" I thought and used it.
Then I realized when using a skill that hit multiple enemies, they died instantly. This was just a skill that hit 3 guys total by itself. 3 guys, each was hit, each applied that Buff's damage.
I started pulling big groups of enemies and started racking up easy kills in areas above my level, clearing large swathes. I stepped it up by using an ability that could hit 10 enemies at once. 30 strikes for the price of one, on top of spamming that one that only hit 3 enemies at a time.
It came to be known as the Duracell build until RIFT killed the system that allowed for it to be kitted out.
Julianus · 1 points · Posted at 05:54:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A local amusement park had a rapid river ride with water cannons for onlookers to make riders even more wet. It was a quarter for every shot of this big geiser. My buddy, earlier on the first day we figured this out, had been given a quarter with a sticker on it, making it a little thicker than usual. This somehow got the quarter stuck right where the machine noticed a coin got in. We replicated this for several quarters and destroyed people with water cannons for hours paying exactly one quarter each. If you slammed the machine, the coin fell through, which we always did before we'd go ride some rides. Fun was had.
brothermonn · 1 points · Posted at 05:54:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Found a car wash that people had pre paid accounts on and figured out that all of the codes were just four numbers long, I would enter a random code until it worked and found several that gave me the highest level wash and had multiple uses on the account. I would remember these codes and use them at least once or twice a week for a free car wash.
animal34 · 1 points · Posted at 05:54:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When Halo 4 came out, Mountain Dew and Doritos offered game codes that gave you boosts in XP (experience points), which you'd have to enter yourself while in the game. The codes from Mountain Dew were located inside the caps of their 20 oz. bottles. I never used those. Doritos, on the other hand, had their codes on the outside of their bags. Clear as day. Initially, I thought you'd have to purchase the Doritos bag for the code to activate. Nope. All you had to do was write down the code for later, not pay for any Doritos bag, and you'd get free XP for the game. I ranked up rather quickly.
tepidstringysemen · 1 points · Posted at 06:10:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They also did that for titanfall. I didn't have the game but I sent codes to some people on reddit who didn't have the promotion in their area.
tomytronics · 1 points · Posted at 05:54:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in the old day of BBS, telephone charges still applies if you dialed in somewhere that wasn't local. But there was a way to hop from BBS to BBS without making it a long distance.
My first time in Europe wasn't from the internet, it was from BBS and somehow I was able to end up a few thousands mile away without having huge phone bill.
Stephen1985 · 1 points · Posted at 05:54:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to use one of those cashback sites a few years back. Netflix had an offer for 3 months free trial, if you did it through this cashback site you also got £25, seemed to good to be true but it worked so i signed everyone i knew up.
slofella · 1 points · Posted at 05:54:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in about... the year 2000... there were internet companies that would pay you money to have their ads on your screen. The mouse had to be active for their timer to advance, so just had to download a program to keep the mouse moving. Made a couple accounts, for myself and some friends, and maxed them out each month (about $25). There is no way that company is still in business.
Runelifts · 1 points · Posted at 05:54:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The diet pespsi max would dispense 2 sodas if you paid in all dimes. dont know why but I did that everyday for a month before I left the job.
tc2007 · 1 points · Posted at 05:54:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do bad things and ask for forgiveness. Always works.
Spoon_Elemental · 1 points · Posted at 05:54:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Here's a story from back when I used to play Neopets.
In Neopets you can read books to your pets to increase their intelligence, but their intelligence will only go up if it's a book they haven't read before. Originally books were actually books and you could read any one book to all of your pets. Eventually however they made it so that books became consumable items and would vanish after one use. This meant they became limited in quantity and certain books could only be obtained outside of the player market during specific events. Now one book could be bought for super cheap from the appropriate shop during a specific event and there was an unlimited quantity for as long as the event was active. Nobody bought them from shops because you could get them fr even cheaper by getting t from the event directly. So I took a bunch of these books and stocked them in my shop for super cheap, not to sell them, but to buy them. Other players who were trying to unload theirs had to mark theirs as cheaper than mine because they wouldn't disappear from the shop listing since I had so many in stock at once. So all I had to do was wait for theirs to appear in the shop search for super cheap and buy them up immediately. This went on until I had several hundred copies of the book. And then I waited until the event ended. As soon as the event ended the books were no longer obtainable from the event itself which meant the bottomless supply of books had disappear and there was now a finite amount of them available in game. I immediately went and bought every single book I possibly could from every shop listing before the owners could inflate the price to the new proper number and took all of mine out of my shop. I now had nearly total control of a massive but non renewable amount of books. Despite the fact that these books were only selling for around 100 or so points before, the remaining amount in the shops were floating around 7k in price. All I had to do then was wait for the remaining books to disappear naturally and I immediately dropped my several hundred books back into my own shop at the maximum shop price of 99k.
I got a temporary ban for manipulating the in game economy.
jvisco97 · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was a camp counselor and the camp sold the freezie pops (otter pops?) for 25 cents each but if you bought 4 they would give you one free. You were supposed to bring the kids up individually so they could buy the pops but we said fuck that and we would make a list of all the kids orders.
We wouldn't tell the camp that each kid was buying one individual pop but instead we would order them all together. 20 kids each buying a pop = 20 pops. 20/4=5. 5 free ice pops for me and my assistant counselor.
Hhmmnn · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Rust code glitch
thesmellnextdoor · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No Fear energy drink ran a promotion back in 2007 or 8: collect the tabs, enter the code from the tabs online and collect points. Use the points to get free stuff. At the time No Fear was my drink of choice already and I consumed 2-3 cans a day (gross, I know). I also worked at a big call center with a LOT of people who drank energy drinks and there were recycling bins for cans all over the place. I could pretty regularly collect 5-6 extra tabs a day. I racked up the points and got free shirts, towels, hats, stickers... all of it had that ugly no fear logo on it, but, hey, I was poor and it was free.
Ezekielyo · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A super easy one. Print out MacDonalds vouchers and take them to the check out. 99% of peon employees aren't going to give a fuck and will give you a deals meal. Quarter pounder/big Mac and chips for 2quid every day for weeks.
BlandSlamwich · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've got a premium Crunchyroll account but I haven't paid for it in almost a year. Has this happened to anyone else?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So many classic video games had "the spot" for fighting the bosses at the end of each level. For me the biggest loophole was when I sat in the corner and timed my jumps just right to beat the final boss on the last level of Super C. Probably the highlight of my life so far
burko81 · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I heard about a guy claiming petrol at work, not so much a loophole, more that he'd put £40 in his car, £20 in the work car, then hand in the £40 receipt in to accounts and drive the work car like a monk to keep the mileage fairly acceptable.
ARGO_SUPREME · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would order vinyls not available in the states from Amazon UK for free with my USA based Prime membership. I was doing 3-5 orders every week before they finally closed that loophole.
fr4gge · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the game redbull flugthaug you had to tap left, right Quickly to build speed. I realized that if you held them down at the same time you got superspeed. I had the record for a week or something :D
AMathMonkey · 1 points · Posted at 05:56:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a vending machine at a Best Western I visited twice in Fairfax, Virginia, which they had coupons for in their front lobby. Really useful coupons, for a dollar off any purchase, and they just had them laid out; you could take as many as you wanted.
Well, my family accidentally figured out (by taking too long to decide what to get) that when the machine timed out, it returned whatever credit you had put into it in the form of quarters. Even coupon credit, so you could make the machine give you money by inserting a coupon and waiting. I believe there was a timer that would only allow it to accept one coupon per fifteen minutes or so; it wasn't completely exploitable, but still a strange feature.
Being the nice people we are, my family only ever used it to obtain change for an adjacent drink machine that didn't accept the coupons itself. We didn't hang around the hotel grounds all day trying make money from this vending machine, although it might have been possible. It's been years since this happened and I'm sure they took action to prevent this exploit at some point. I'd be shocked if they didn't. Someone from Fairfax, let me know.
humsterlord · 1 points · Posted at 05:56:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Like 16 years ago my boyfriend and I were buying some vanilla. It was expensive stuff, like Madagascar vanilla for $16.00 a tiny bottle. But when they ring it up it's $1.60. Tingling with silent excitement, we paid, left, and discussed how weird it would be to go in and buy more. So we go back in, trying to act all chill, and scoop up every goddamned bottle of Madagascar vanilla they had. We had Madagascar vanilla for like 6 years. When we moved to Japan we packed it up in a storage unit back home. Unpacking 4 years later it was like being back in the grocery store that very first time. What a rush!
Ok so then a decade later we go to buy some maple syrup. None of this Canadian bullshit. Vermont maple fucking syrup. They had like a half gallon for something like $38. Worth it. But the same thing happens - rings up at $3.80. Holy fucking hell!
rarattatta · 1 points · Posted at 05:56:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
McDonalds Monopoly - I won an attraction pass to a theme park. I registered and got a printable ticket. At the door the girl couldn't scan the barcode and another girl there said "The McDonalds barcodes don't scan with us so just take the printed ticket" When I got home I printed a bunch more and went to the theme park over and over, sometimes taking as many as five extra friends with my extra print outs. I won another attraction pass this year and did the same thing to another theme park. Good times!!!
Sandstormmm · 1 points · Posted at 05:56:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Loot Cave on Destiny lmao
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:56:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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MapleLeafKing · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
And what did you buy? Just curios.
thegreatsynan · 1 points · Posted at 05:56:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
After college while waiting for our friend to get out so we could carpool home, me and my brother would go to a nearby Subway for dinner. They have the survey on the receipts that you could fill out for a free cookie. I'd do it on my phone, get the code and we'd get a cookie. This free cookie came with a receipt with it's own code and we used a fake email each time.
We usually ate three free cookies each time. The girl working there couldn't care less and just laughed at the whole thing. We were only saving a couple of dollars, but both of us and the employees got a kick out of it.
I went to a Subway recently and tried, but they don't send the code until the next day now, so you might be able to still do it, but it isn't worth it for me now.
ClutchOrKick007 · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to own an Xbox when I was a kid and so did my older brother and later on my younger one. We all had turtlebeach headsets and every time they broke we went to a store where they selled them and we bought a new pair and switched them in. I swear we did this at least 3 times these things were so cheap ffs. I guess it's stealing but it was either this or we wouldn't have any more headsets so yeah. Sometimes even to this day I still use this with some of my atuff. Ps: sorry if I made some mistakes english isn't my first language.
Docterw · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have no idea why it's happened honestly but I haven't payed for Xbox live since I had a 360 however many years ago. Sold my 360 got the one and still haven't been charged or cut off for years now.
millamber · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I went to a pawn shop that was trying to offload vacuum cleaners and had a sign out front that said all vacuums $9.99. I found a new iRoomba in the original box and plastic on a shelf in electronics with a 299.99 price sticker and exploited their signage to get it for 9.99.
jsnystro · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when I was kid coke ran some sort of promotion for a chance to win golden yo-yo's if you punched in the code you could find on the bottle cap. The number was free to call.
Being a bright kid I called several times inputting random 6 number codes.
I ended up with 11 golden coca-cola yo-yo's and being the cool kid in class who had golden yo-yo's to do around the world with.
IanVidya · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to have a serious issue with going through pairs of Apple EarPods like tissues. I did not treat them right. One day, I bought a pair at RadioShack and they offered a $5 warranty where they promised to replace the headphones no matter what the cause of destruction was. When replacing them, I discovered you could renew the plan and pay $5 in advance for your next pair
TL;DR - paid $5 for every pair of $20 headphones I got for quite a while
pilotavery · 1 points · Posted at 06:29:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why earpods? They are crappy headphones?
IanVidya · 1 points · Posted at 21:38:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I dunno, they just fit my ear nicely and I've gotten into a habit For $5 they were amazing though
Kopextacy · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ok,please excuse my moronic childish actions, I've definitely done some growing over the years... anyway when I was 16 and was constantly broke as hell I discovered that if you go through the McDonald's drive through I lived close to and ordered a water, they would just say OK no worries just ask them at the next window and they will give you a water. The brilliant part was, that when I told the cashier I was just getting a water they said OK go ahead and then I would just grab the food they handed me at the next window and then just drove off. I had a lot of dishonest free meals in my youth that I feel guilty about and just felt it was time to get it off my chest.
bobfu · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My knowledge of bottled packaging led me to collect a number of $10 movie vouchers for Empire Theatres from 24s of Molson Canadian because they were glued inside the box just below where you're supposed to pick it up.
I'd fish them out before purchasing several Colt45s
PM-YOUR-CONFESSIONS · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ok, so through my life I had exploited quite a few loopholes but the grandest one is free electricity. So I've got this loft type of place as my studio/workshop and as there are a bunch of these, let's say, rooms, every single one has their own meter inside and a fuse box above. So if I turn off my fuse box the meter doesn't run and all outlets stop working, all but few.
I quite hope that no one will figure it out, as I do use others, that are running on my grid, and use these for more heavy duty things.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Borderlands 2. I started up the game and noticed one day that I had a weapon I could have sworn I traded away, weird. It happened again so I had an idea and tested it. Ended up figuring out how to duplicate any piece of equipment in the game including money. Turns out when you're playing with friends the game doesn't save after every trade. So you trade away all of your money/valuable weapons and equipment and then dashboard or turn off your Xbox (I'm assuming it works for other platforms too, just have to end the game somehow without saving), then enter back into the game and you'll still have everything you traded away. My friends and I had all of the best gear and infinite money since we'd just duplicate anything good we found. Not sure if this was an intentional design aspect of the game or not and it's really not that hard to discover if you knew of a similar exploit, but it felt nice discovering an exploit for once rather than looking it up online.
Que_n_fool_STL · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My company was sold to a larger company. I reported taking 2 weeks of PTO in summer but there was a clerical error and I kept my vacation to my anniversary work date and a week carried over. Which was great because my son needed 10 days in NICU
myshieldsforargus · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I found out that if you lend money to people who can't afford to pay it back I will get bonus depending on the amount I lent then if the company loses money and is about to go bankrupt the government will bail the company out.
nikhilsath · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
They can't get pregnant if you put it in their butt. Needless to say when I found that out I exploited that (loop)hole as much as I could
TY_Lizzle · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Whenever a landline was disconnected, there was a way to access the line by dialing 119 then the number. There never seemed to be any repercussions to doing this. I was able to talk to a friend when their parents forgot to pay the phone bill.
It was really fun to do and try to make it seem like a place is haunted.
charismauniquenessNT · 1 points · Posted at 05:58:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My student card doesn't expire, and students get 10% off groceries at my local grocery store. I have for a family of 4!
I figure I'll stop using it when my 32K in loans are paid off.
nikster2112 · 1 points · Posted at 05:58:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In a videogame I played when I was young (on the game boy color), it was released early, and ended up not even having an area where a certain kind of creature spawns. It doesn't spawn at all in the game, and thus the only way to get its Dream Essence to make a ring to summon it was a Gameshark.
However, the creators seem to have compensated for this shortcoming by not realizing you could buy power gems for X amount of gold, but sell it back immediately for More Than X amount of gold.
The game is Magi Nation, an amazing open world free roaming game which has a combat system and puzzles in various corners of the world. No one I've ever mentioned it to has known it, and it's one of the only "indie" things I can say that I've played/had the pleasure of knowing. I really wish more people knew about it, this game was so amazing and challenging, even now.
MrNumeros · 1 points · Posted at 05:58:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At work we have those kinds of vending machines where you put a quarter in and it gave you candy. Well we figured out that if you put a quarter in the machine that gave out skittles it would give you like 7 skittles, we flattened those and we were able to insert them as coins and the machine would accept those too.
flimspringfield · 1 points · Posted at 05:58:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The one I remember is when you would get free Snapples if the cap underneath said so.
I was able to figure out that if you tilted the Snapple bottle to a certain degree you could see if you won or lost.
I was the one in charge of stocking the Snapple bottles and I was a college student so I made sure I bought the winning ones.
I don't recall if they offered more than winning a free Snapple but this was back in 1998.
gooderthanhail · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Every loophole found out on slickdeals
bigbootybigdoody · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I convinced my mom to buy the $1 gold coins via infomercial.
Buy 100 for $100. They were initially offering no shipping and handling fee. You would use your credit card to order them, take them to the bank and lose no money. We would use CC1 to order them. CC1 had a points system where you could redeem them for things like booklights, appliances, plane and hotel tickets, etc. We them used CC2 to pay for CC1. CC1 had a cash rewards for like 2% on gas and groceries, and a 1% on everything else
We would order the coins and receive points, pay for them with the CC that earned cash back, deposit the coins to break even, and then pay for CC2 with the debit card associated with the account that deposited the coins. I remember one of the CCs had a stipulation that if the balance was paid before the end of the month, and the other card had a 0% interest rate for the first six months. She ended up making a sizable profit, enough skymiles for my whole family to fly to Disney World and back, and a TV for the den and our (me and my young bro) game room.
Something ended up happening, either with the credit cards or the people selling the coins because she couldn't keep doing it. I can't remember if there was an ordering limit established or they started charging shipping and handling fees or what. All I know is that our sweet sweet loophole ended up closing.😞😞😫😫😞😞
PandaEatsRage · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This website had a point system. Essentially 100 points equaled a $10 gift card. If your friend signed up with a referral from you, you got 100 points. It didn't require a purchase, just the free sign up. I used those dummy email account websites. Signed up 25 of my friends. Made 25 quick accounts over a 30 minute period and got $250 in gift certificates on my main account.
I made one purchase of like $245 to get their entire line up they had. It accepted it, then gave me a cancellation day or so later. I figured "Ahhh they caught me" So I just sent a polite email asking why my order was cancelled. The person apologized. Said they'd send it right away. But referrals from now on required purchase for the points. They accidentally cancelled mine automatically from an update they did. After the email I checked their website and they updated the terms saying it required purchase. I think I probably caused that.
Whiskey_Thief · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in college the local supermarket had a special that you got $2 off the price of an NFL ticket with every receipt over $20 and that you could combine receipts. We were and hour away from where the team played so one day a buddy and I went and stood outside the door of the supermarket and asked if we could have people's receipts. By the end of doing this a couple of days, we had enough receipts to buy box seat tickets to all 8 home games that year.
AbeWearsSocks · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The chick-Fil-a I go to had survey papers you could take where you would get a free chicken sandwich if you filled out the online survey. I would fill the survey out and give them excellent ratings and while I got my free chicken sandwich I'd take more of those survey papers and got to the point where I was going in and getting four free chicken sandwiches a day. They were later removed cause they realized people abused the system but I just checked last week and they are back. I bet they have the best review in the state cause of me so it's a good trade off.
mcarlini · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used my airline mileage credit card to book the family spring break trip and my mom just reimbursed me for it. Got 3x the dollar amount in miles, so thats like 8000 miles or something.
whiteapedia · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
First year university. One of the bursaries I was awarded from my high school was $400. The money is applied to a special cheque from the school fund that can only be applied to the university tuition here (Canada). Someone in the accounting department at the university added an extra 0 somewhere along the way. Walked out dumbfounded with the cheque for $4000. Accounting department called me 3 weeks later, admitted their fuck-up, and I got to keep the additional money as an additional "Entrance Award". Like winning the lottery, basically paid my first year and helped me carry over cash to 2nd year.
spencerisbatman · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've got two. In 10th grade my school made a new student handbook that addressed kids having phones in school. Problem was that they mentioned "wireless communication decides" being banned. It said nothing about other devices. So my best friend and I brought in our Gameboy colors and played OG Pokemon.
When halo 4 came out I worked at a gas station. They had a promotion where codes for double XP games were inside mountain dew bottles and large Doritos bags. But the codes were on the outside of the small Doritos bags. So the aforementioned best friend and I punched in every code in the store and ended up maxing out the possible number of entries. I still have some 2X XP games left I believe.
pianoboy8 · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was on the US school food stamp program in my freshman year of HS as my father was out of work for about a year and a half. It was a program which would renew every time you send another application in, or so it should be.
What happened was that even after my dad went back into work, without redoing the application, I still received both free breakfasts and free lunches for another two years. Hell, I even told my lunchladies about the issue, and it still didn't fix until the middle of my SENIOR year of HS.
TL:DR: Had free breakfast/lunches through food stamps due to father being out of work, still received free food for another 2 years even after telling the authorities about the problem. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
randomcoincidences · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
those little candy machines that cost a quarter for a handful of candy.
you buy skittles and put one on the ground under the heel of your shoe and spin in a 360 with all your weight on it; the result is a roughly quarter sized mass of sticky candy.
put your sugary counterfeit in the machine and spin, at worst it works once. but eventually it'll gum up the pins and the mechanism will fail and you can spin the whole thing empty.
12 year old me advises bringing a grocery bag and going to arenas when nobodys really playing a sport there.
BeXHero · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I worked in foodstore here in Norway some years ago. Coca-Cola had a campaign where you could collect 6 bottle caps and get a free cola. Here in Norway we return our bottles for a small payback. So I was standing in the storeroom and collect the caps from the return bottles. I drank so much cola that summer.
3rdEyeTiger · 1 points · Posted at 06:00:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
All these elaborate schemes and I'm over here turning my McDouble into a Big Mac to save a few bucks.
Stuffferz · 1 points · Posted at 06:00:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In 2012 I believe, Mountain Dew had a contest to win a copy of Halo 4 and special edition 360's. You got a code off a bottle, put it in their site and got an entry.
Somehow, using the same code over and over again got you one entry each time. Spammed it like hell. Got three copies of Halo 4.
Herb_Kazzaz · 1 points · Posted at 06:00:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pita Pitt MORE, I can only link an email to one account at a time but they don't check the phone number. Free Pita any size for free
AmadeusK482 · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hitching a ride on the coupon gravy chain... I complained once about all my Pringles being smashed in the can. They sent me a $5 off coupon for any of their brand products (I forget who makes Pringles...) anywho ... turns out that coupon meant $5 off the total grocery bill whether or not you bought an applicable product. I re-used the coupon in the self-checkout lines at various grocery stores for a long time.
Eventually I got paranoid and threw it away.
Actually --- this works 90% of the time with any coupon. $1 off Pistachio nuts coupon will take $1 off your grocery bill whether or not you actually rung up Pistachio brand nuts.
IAMTHECAVALRY89 · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Loot cave in destiny
Siraffe · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I only ever took a written driving test and only spent maybe 20 hours ever behind the wheel. I am a fully licensed driver.
Grew up in TX and started drivers Ed program at 17 where basically my dad had to give me instruction except that rarely happened and we kind of gave up on it. I turned 18 and TX doesn't do learners permits for people over 18, so they gave me a license with a restriction that I had to be with someone over 21 until I took the test.
I moved to Missouri and they don't do it that way, but I needed to establish my residency for school. So I was standing in line expecting to apply for a nondrivers license when I realized I had all the documents and it was cheaper to just transfer a license. So the clerk at the DMV looked at it and said "that's weird" and just waived the restriction. My record for owning a car is 8 hours.
clazaa · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
1) Got a phone plan that is significantly cheaper only in other areas of my country, and not where I live
2) There was a glitch in a gift-card system a while back for a coffee chain where it basically gave you $5 free (I can't remember the details). I spent about an hour doing this and got about $200 worth of free drinks.
FreakyDouble · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a vending machine in my dorm building that would give you twice the amount of money back and whatever you got from the machine. I only spent a dollar for about 30 or 40 candy bars before the machine ran out of change. I ate so much candy I think I went into shock. I got so sick from all the candy I ended up eating but it was totally worth it.
Edit: I was really stoned at the time.
teapuddles · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a really easy way to win that coin game at Taco Bell and once I found out I ate bean burritos for free until they took them away.
atreayou · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That loophole in the Bible doh ;]
thetaro · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I love abusing loopholes. There are just too many.
Amex reward points contest where you need to click a link at a specific time to buy a certain prize with heavily discounted points. I got close to 30k prize from it cause I figured out the link before it was available to public.
Amex wishlist contest where I also found the loophole on the page where I won a $15k vacation, MP3 player, Xbox, $2k jewelry...someone used the loophole to win a BMW.
McDonald monopoly contest where you can write in a letter to request a code which guarantees at least $1 in bestbuy gift card. I wrote one, scanned it and printed over thousand of copies. I won lots of food and couple thousands in bestbuy gift card.
An online game where I figured out a bug to duplicate inventory. I sold them for thousands of dollars.
Verizon trade in. I bought $10 phone traded to Verizon for $300 credit. They have a bug to keep sending you trade in code through SMS where you can continue to trade in shitty phone for $300 credit.
Dell and Staples coupon stacking back in 2000. Basically ecommerce back in the days was nothing but poor coding. There were so many price mistakes and coupon stacking. I made so much money from dell and staples which funded my college education.
There were tons of online contest back in the Web 1.0 days which were poorly programmed and designed.
Tomato-Tomato-Tomato · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can go into the webpage code when on Pandora and use an easily noticeable link to download the song you're currently listening to. Takes a couple days to build up a totally free high quality library of music. Google it if you wanna figure out how.
JC_Frost · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This was in late 2015. The McDonald's mobile app gave you a free sandwich with a new account. When one of the guys in my a capella group discovered this, we all went to Mickey D's after rehearsal and had a free sandwich. The next week we discovered that we could get unlimited free sandwiches, because the app didn't require a confirmation code or email or anything like that. So we just put in some random email addresses to make new accounts for more free sandwiches. My buddy and I got a free Double Quarter Pounder at least once a week for about 3 months until the app was unfortunately fixed. A couple times we were still hungry after the first sandwich, so we drove to a different McD's to get another free sandwich!
Felt kinda bad exploiting it like that, but evidently not bad enough to stop!
grumpy_flareon · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At GameStop you can get the same amount in cash as you could in credit by buying a game that was the same price as what they gave you in credit then immediately return it for cash. I also abused the hell out of their seven day return policy for used games.
0311secret · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
exploited a complimentary free hour of wifi by changing my mac address.
flugbone · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well me and a friend found an exploit on our school servers where we could look up anyone's school number and for some reason they had all the school passwords as the same thing. But there was this asshole kid who always picked on me, so one day I logged on to his account and deleted all his files. I'm like 99%sure he had some projects due that day that where saved on there. Don't fuck with the nerdy kids.
shinglemill · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the 90's when the big soda / pop makers ran their promotions with twist and win prizes, we just tipped every bottle over just enough to read key letters or words written on the cap, then claim our prize, which was usually another pop.
Troutmandoo · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the late 90's, 7-11 ran a promo where they put stickers on the sides of the Big Gulp cups. They were those little squiggly pink and green lines that you look at through 3D glasses to see the picture. Each one had a prize on it that you could only get once you took the Big Gulp to the counter and the clerk read it with the glasses. The prizes were crap, except for the one where your Big Gulp was free. I memorized the pattern for the free Big Gulp. It was easy because it was visually different than the other ones. So, I would dig through the cups at the fountain until I found the right one, then, free Big Gulp. I didn't pay for soda pop for an entire two months.
I know it's not a big deal, but I thought I was so damned smart. I was in my early 20's and funds were seriously tight. Coca Cola was a luxury at that point in my life. Now I can afford it, but it's a luxury because my metabolism isn't what it was 20+ years ago. That shit = serious gym time!!!
Hugh_G_Normous · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can cancel your HBO Go account and just keep watching... As long as you're watching at midnight, they extend your service for another day. Noticed it the first night, then binged through stuff for an extra week.
tbz709 · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Um.. I probably have a better story but this one came to mind first. Shortly after windows 8 cane out they offered free upgrade with media centre. I had faked a genuine copy of 8 but it was likely going to be discovered because I always download the windows updates. I'm handy enough to deal with the issue when it arrives. Anyways, the free upgrade came with a windows key but had to be applied while on Cairo time due to my false activation, scored a genuine copy of Windows! Later 10 came out for free, upgraded and still genuine.
pilotavery · 1 points · Posted at 06:15:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not a loophole, Microsoft announced they wanted everyone on Windows 10, and therefore illegal copies will be upgraded for free also. It's was for reasons they say help them financially.
tbz709 · 1 points · Posted at 11:52:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The first part was a loophole. Microsoft GAVE ME a key to patch my pirated Windows 8
I know Microsoft released 10 for free.
pilotavery · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Windows 8 as well. I had a pirated copy of 7, I upgraded to 8, and they gave a key also. They announced they were doing that.
SpezTheCunt · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm not proud of this. But many years ago, when self-checkouts were first installed (I'm talking, the first few months) at Wal-Mart, my friends and I would take the barcode stickers off of .69 cent plastic cups and stick them over DVD barcodes. We'd walk over, buy 4 or 5 DVDs or games, pay a few bucks, get a receipt, bag it and walk out.
We ended up getting caught but were able to play it off and walk out without any repercussions. We were all under 18 but that's definitely something I regret doing. Karma has since kicked my ass for that.
SkullKingSnake · 1 points · Posted at 06:03:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when Blockbusters were still open around every corner, they'd get new stocks of PS3 or 4 games in, and they'd be special ordered games that came with the bonus DLC codes for games inside the cases. The managers never thought to take the dlc codes out of the display cases, so every couple weeks when a new game came out, I'd go up and down the isles collecting all the codes and use them for myself or sell them to people on Craigslist.
No one ever caught onto what I was doing, but eventually the Blockbuster went under as expected and my fun ended.
candycv30 · 1 points · Posted at 06:03:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure if this was how it worked, but has been my theory. About 15 years ago, we listened to radio a lot, and occasionally would have "call in and win" promos. E.g. "caller #9 wins tickets to e-40," or what have you. Well, I called in one time and actually won the tix. I was stoked. So after I spoke with the DJ on the air, he told me to hang on the line to get info to pickup tix.
One thing to mention is that the radio station had 3 numbers you could call, suggesting that at any given time, 3 people could get through their open lines. I feel this is an important piece, as the exploit is coming.
Anyway, I'm on the line during the commercial break, and I am giving pertinent info such as name, phone #, etc. Well, wouldn't you know it, I was driving and my cell cut out and dropped the call. Sunnavabitch. Shitty, I just lost concert tickets! I exert a little rage, and continue my commute. Then my phone rings...Local number but not stored in my phone. I answer, and it is the radio guy! He called back, and I still won the tickets.
I saved the number as Radio Station.
On a promo later on, I called in to try to win. I used the number saved under Radio Station. Now for all you younger kids, when you try and call in to a station to win, you'll either get a busy signal or a ring, meaning you got through. With the original numbers, you'd get busy most of the time, as many other callers are bottlenecking for those three spots...But when I used the magic number, I got a ring every time. I had a direct line to be one of the 3 callers. Every. Time.
I won tickets. I won gift cards. I won shit just to win and never picked it up. I called in and won Linkin Park tix, knowing I wasn't able to go. For some reason, I didn't pick those up and try to sell them. There was a limit on only winning once every 30 days, so I gave friends and family names and numbers so as to not get caught.
I did this for months. And then one day, I called the number trying to win, and I had gotten the three tone melody...You know the sound. This number has been disconnected or changed. The jig was up. But it's cool. I won some stuff. Nothing major. They never gave away vacations or anything. But I do remember chatting with the desk guy at the station after a win pickup that be had seen me a lot, and I seemed to have been really lucky to have won multiple times.
POINTSofER · 1 points · Posted at 06:03:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Early 2009, I bought U.S. mint coins online (free shipping) with a rewards credit card. Then deposited those coins into the bank and paid off the same credit card. I earned over hundred thousands of frequent flier miles by doing this before it was cut off in 2011.
burko81 · 1 points · Posted at 06:03:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I use the McDonald's breakfast loophole, where by ordering a big breakfast on it's own and a sausage and egg Mcmuffin meal you get two hash browns rather than one if you ordered it the other way round.
Mythologicalcats · 1 points · Posted at 06:03:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There are code words to get past the regular lines into VIP access lines on the rides and some exhibits at Universal Studios. If you're charismatic enough, you can get the employees at each ride to give you the password. We figured this out one day, and we managed to get unlimited access to every ride that had one. They change every 24 hours though, or so we were told.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:03:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My buddies did a diaper drive one time to help people in my city who could not afford diapers for their babies. Well everyone who donated got a coupon for a pizza with any purchase at a local pizza place. When the diaper drive was over they still had hundreds of these coupons and gave them in stacks to some of their friends. We ate pizza every day for months. We would buy a drink and get a free pizza. Places started catching on so when one place banned us we would just go to the next. That was 4 years ago. I recently found like 15 of those coupons when cleaning out a drawer at my parents house.
wesbot2k5 · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in the early days of online shopping, Buy.com was getting off the ground. They offered $10 off your first purchase, as long as the purchase, including shipping, was over $10. They determined what your first purchase was based on email address. I had a domain, and the ability to set up email forwarding for any address on the domain, so I had unlimited email addresses, that were pretty easy to set up.
I bought a lot of cds, which cost about $12 with shipping at the time.
brosephstalin7 · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When Raising Cane's did this seasonal promotion where every drink cup had two peel-off stickers that always won you something, me and quite a few people from my dorm caught on and rolled up to Cane's to buy just the cups.
For $8 you got a stack of 24 or so cups, and WELL over $8 worth of food. At first, the managers started wondering, "why the fuck are all these kids buying these cups?" But it finally dawned on them when hordes of kids came in with boat loads of coupons to cash in on free food. They stopped selling cups with peel-off stickers, but by then, the damage had already been done.
I remember the day before the stickers' expiration date, me and my best friend at the time collected stickers that nobody had any use for, and we took them all to the Cane's by our campus and smacked em down on the cashier's counter and said, "we'd like to cash these all in."
The poor cashier had to call his manager who begrudgingly honored the sticker offers. To add insult to injury, for every sticker we used (must have been 30 or 40), the manager had to swipe his little card for his approval, each time his face fell just a little more.
Our friends ate like kings that night.
jessinthebigcity · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I took online Psychology and Sociology through my local community college in high school. A bunch of us did it, so it was a full "class period" at my high school with a high school teacher who didn't know shit about Psych or Sociology. Well, turns out, all the answers to the quiz and midterm and final questions were on either Quizlet or other college practice websites. Word. For. Word. I finished my work for each entire semester in two weeks and spent the rest of the year playing games on Cool Math. My PhD student uncle helped me with the final papers.
My classmates were pissed all year that I could work so fast, because they worked themselves to the point of tears for this class, and I swear I saw some of them fuming when I got two medals at the end of year awards ceremony for "Highest Average" in each class. :)
dood98998 · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
On the MLA citation machine, I just took out UBlock and picked out the little area that complains if you use it ad-free for too long. BAM, no more ads.
SubIiminaI · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Gaiaonline You know how in free to play games if you do a survey or download something you get their premium cash?
Well when that started Gaia had an option to download a toolbar and it would get you enough Gaia cash to buy these eggs. And they would sell like 200k gold a pop.
Then 10 year old me thought why not just make billions of accounts to make millions of gold. Just had to uninstall the toolbar and reinstall(the damn addons where annoying tho).
I was rich, I had everything I wanted. My friends were wondering how the hell I was so well off in three days. Alot of people started asking for donations.
Like all Gaia stories I got hacked. I fell for social engineering where the form asked me for my password. Not my first time being gamboozled, but certainly not my last.
And yes I did get a virus. Yes my dad yelled at me for getting a virus, again.
greggorievich · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My buddies and I used to loophole parties and events that used drink tickets.
One guy would go in, buy drink tickets, and take a picture to send to the other.
The other was waiting in a dollar store or party store, and bought a roll of that style/colour of ticket. Then he would come in with the whole roll and we and anyone we liked would drink free all night.
Juliablizzz · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Those Chick-fil-A treat receipts. You get a free sandwich when you fill out their survey. They never check the code. You can literally put any variation of numbers and letters in and it works. My friend at work does it weekly.
Rizslice · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
About 5 years ago, a mate was looking online for flights to Rarotonga on Virgin's website. For some reason even though he had never flown with them, he signed up to their rewards program. After signing up and searching the flights again, the price was at $0 using his air points. So five of us proceeded to sign up for the air points (which was at a zero balance) and buy the flights using the redeem points option. Free weekend trip to Raro in premium economy! We were shitting our pants wondering if it was going to work when it came time to check in though. He then did the same for free flights for his family to Tonga.
Uphene · 1 points · Posted at 06:05:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eve-Online has a game mechanic where if you attack a player in high-security space without provocation the game's NPC police force will nearly instantly warp in and kill you. Found a loophole where if you could perform a minor infraction (stealing from a jettisoned cargo can of theirs) and get the person to attack you. At that moment the victim as allowed to attack you without interference from the game's police force. At that time you got a friend in a free rookie ship fly beside you and eject from his ship while you are still being attacked. After about 15-30 seconds that player can get back into another ship while still in space. So while you are under attack you eject from your ship and your friend boards your now-empty vessel while it is being attacked. Since this player had not been flagged the continued attack on the ship was considered a criminal act and was swiftly punished with the near instantaneous destruction of his ship. Your friend could then pick up the loot and would be free to leave to find the next victim.
After a few hours the GMs got wind of the assholery and told us to knock it the hell off or we'd be banned. As far as I know the loophole was patched the next update.
Nova_Jake · 1 points · Posted at 06:05:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A Fallout 3 trick that let me sell armor to someone until I drained them of their supplies and caps. I controlled the economy of DC.
mitus87 · 1 points · Posted at 06:05:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A few years back when a bubble tea chain in Singapore paired up a promotion with a mobile app. You just need to show the cashier you downloaded that app and you get a free drink. Needless to say, I did that for a week (that promotion period) had 3 bubble tea by going 3 different shops a day to avoid the same staff from seeing me coming back twice in a day. I was sugar high for that week. Absolutely worth it.
soapinthepeehole · 1 points · Posted at 06:05:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ticket counting machine at our local arcade / games / tickets / prizes joint was calibrated wrong. You could put a string of tickets into it and then just pull it back out before you lost the end of it. It should be tough enough to not let that happen.
Basically by sitting there for a few minutes you could get a print out that was worth thousands of tickets even though you only had 20.
They fixed it eventually, but it was awesome.
irememberthepotatoho · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was this old vending machine at my laundromat that charged $1 per can of soda. You could pay with a dollar, or use your laundry card to buy the soda. I didn't have a dollar, so I used my laundry card. It would spit out 2 sodas, and not charge the laundry card. I got 2 free sodas every time I did laundry, until the machine "broke down" a year later.
kilem_pal · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I ordered a large 1 topping pizza and 8 wings from pizza hut for $5.99. When you put the code 1y it automatically discounts the large pizza with one topping from $11-$12 to $5.99. Thats was a normal coupon. But one day I was in the mood for wings so I went to deals and added the spicy bbq wings but they came up as $0 every time they were added. I tried adding other flavors but only spicy bbq came up on the website as $0.00. There were times were i would put in 5 orders of wings and it would come up to $0. There was something broken with that specific flavor. I did this for about 6 months before they revamped the website and removed that flavor altogether. Btw I've only tried this for carryout. The 1y code still works for me and i still get a large 1 topping pan pizza for $5.99.
tinamagumbo · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Poop hole loop hole
8k7k6k5k4k · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in the day, the Sonic drive in fast food restaurant had a deal where if you texted "SONICSA" to this certain number, youd receive deals and stuff like that. On the side you'd get a free route 44 sized drink of your choice. (For those who don't know, a Route 44 drink is 44 fluid ounces of liquid deliciousness)
I would literally go and get these drinks everyday after school because you could literally text "Stop" and then cancel the service and then text the code again to get another route 44 drink. This lasted about half the school year with me and a few other friends going everyday to either get soda flavored slushes or giant mega sodas. I probably got away with about a few hundred bucks worth of sodas and slushes from that place. The manager eventually caught on and we just wouldn't get served anymore since that manager along with all the other managers memorized my face. They also changed the text deal to where you have to buy something to get the route 44 drink, so it wasn't completely free anymore. Though they changed it, it was a great time while it lasted.
duckisaurusRex · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I remember in the old plants vs zombies mobile game you could press the sleep button on your phone while in game and you would get a certain amount of coins. My zen garden looked really really good after that.
NamelessJ · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At work there was a vending machine that kept giving you more Mentos every time you pressed the button after putting in $.55. I would empty it out and store Mentos in my cubical drawer. Straight gangster.
Gehb_ · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm just a cheap fuck but my work (restaurant) wouldn't let us use our discount on chicken quesadillas, so I'd just get a cheese one and add chicken to it on the thing and it was hella cheap
I'm pathetic
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just yesterday. I found out that if you use the Postern app and a config file, you can exploit Globe (in the Philippines) for free internet. This also works on Smart and Sun.
Basically Globe gives you free access to Facebook, Wikipedia, and other selected sites (thanks to FreeBasics). What this app does, it fools Globe that you're visiting those free sites. When really it redirects your request to a server in Japan, Singapore, US, etc. In return, it brings you to the requested site.
The downsides are, let's say you get 20Mbps if you were to pay or use those free sites. With this exploit, you'll only get about 1-3Mbps. Still usable though.
The servers could go down in any minute, but usually not a problem as they have some working backup. And it's a bit wonky but usable. Some sites are really slow, some are fast like YouTube, Reddit, and Bing.
Do I feel bad? Fuck no, they cheated me with my money before.
CSMom74 · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lots of pizza loopholes in this thread!
meman30 · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There used to be a sandwich place near me with a survey link at the bottom of the receipt. You fill out the survey online and it gives you a code you write on the receipt and you get a free cookie.
The thing was, when you got your free cookie they gave you a receipt for it that had a cookie and then "Store Credit". The new receipt had the same survey link at the bottom.
Every day when I walked home from school I would stop in and get my free cookie. Eventually they fixed it, but I got a lot of free cookies.
tweakdsolution · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When i was a kid, in Australia, Dr pepper came out and was instantly huge. One of the promotions were, at the time if you got 3 of the gold can lids you could trade them in for a free can.
I lived near a bottle shop/pub and realised on my way home from school that the beer " Hahn ice " had gold canned lids too. So i'd sneak out at night and raid the bottle shop/pub recycling bins and steal all the gold lids and got my self carton after carton of free Dr pepper.
BananaStandRecords · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Best Buy would give a $10 promotional code if you order a back ordered item that never ends up shipping. So I identified some records on their site listed as back orders that I know are no longer in production. You can use 40 codes at a time; I ended up with an iPad, ps4, android tablet and some smaller stuff before they changed the system.
haffbaked · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well... little known secret but, if you do self check out at a grocery store you can get ORGANIC fruits and enter them as the cheaper kind. gasp.
nikster2112 · 1 points · Posted at 06:07:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I posted a different comment, but this one is IRL, rather than in a video game lol. I got a birthday email for a free one scoop sundae for Culver's, here in Wisconsin. Going through the drive-thru, you mention the coupon when ordering, show them the email (RATHER THAN CLICKING ON THE LIMITED USE LINK IN THE EMAIL), and profit! I used it at different Culver's a total of 8 or 9 different times, I didn't abuse it that hardcore though.
slugfeet27 · 1 points · Posted at 06:07:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Who else here rode the BMG CD Club for all it was worth?
BlueSolitude · 1 points · Posted at 06:07:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in high school, I was in the class that produced, shot, and (later in the day) would broadcast the daily announcements.
In an effort to keep all of the students in that class from filling up their passbook whenever a problem with the announcements came up (which was actually pretty rare), the school decided to print permanent passes on our ID's so that if we needed to help Mrs. Blahblah with some technical shizzle wizzle, we could just flash that and be on our way. They did make sure to tell us to only use it if we had HSTV business.
Sure.
Looking back on it, I kinda kick myself for not abusing this more, but holy fuck did I abuse it. Every single study hall and IRP (homeroom time) of my junior and senior year, I would just get out of class and do whatever. All I had to do was go to the announcements room, grab a camera, and nobody asked any questions as to what I was doing or where I was going or where I was supposed to be.
One semester I had study hall during a lunch period, which is basically a two hour period where you take a lunch break somewhere in that time for 30 minutes. At the start of the period, I would just flash my ID, go directly to the lunchroom and have a two hour lunch.
The last semester of my senior year, my study hall was last period. Every single day, I would just grab my personal camera from my locker, walk outside like I was about to film something, and then proceed to just leave. Never got called out. Never got caught.
TL;DR: My high school printed a permanent pass on my ID and told me not to abuse it. I abused it.
______DEADPOOL______ · 1 points · Posted at 06:07:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/sweden banned me for asking what's going on every time their post reach the front page. What they didn't realize is that the report function still works, even after being banned.
I report "Okay, /r/sweden. It's frontpaging. Explain yourselves" every time an /r/sweden post frontpages.
/u/divineplatypus can testify.
I've also made my own Swedish subreddit, with blackjacks, and hookers.
DivinePlatypus · 1 points · Posted at 06:10:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
tjena mannen
______DEADPOOL______ · 1 points · Posted at 06:13:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hi, platy
necroxephon · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just several days ago, my AT&T goPhone rate plan expired which should also take your ability to use data along with it. I couldn't text or call or receive them either but I still had data. Took advantage of it to be able to talk to my girlfriend.
I_am_from_Kentucky · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the greatest loophole of them all back in the day.
AOL free cds. My dad would get one a month, ranging from 200 free hours to, like, 1000 free hours of AOL a month. He rarely used the internet, and I visited him every other weekend and was on it for 15 hours a day, so we never used the entire CD's worth. For close to two years or so, he'd call and complain if he ever saw a charge on his credit card and tell them he had a CD for free internet.
Of course, knowing AOL's retainment strategies, it's no surprise they were willing to keep him on board even for free. I think in total he paid something like 2 months cost of internet for 2 years worth before finally switching off AOL.
tomparker · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ran out of money while in college and (long story) discovered by accident that, if I removed the ceramic fuse on the outside of a phone booth, the phone inside would "capture and hold" all coins deposited until such time as I would return and replace said fuse. The phone would then disgorge its entire stash of accumulated coins into its coin return. Having stumbled upon this curious flaw in the payphone machinery, I immediately mapped out every phonebooth in my town and established a daily route visiting each one in sequence, alternately removing and replacing my stash of "borrowed" fuses as I went. I still remember the snap of the fuse being recaptured by its clips followed seconds later by the glorious sound of coins spilling into the coin return hopper inside the booth.
HTX19D · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was given a pre-loaded Visa card for $50, somehow somewhere something was messed up. After finishing the $50 it would still allow sub $3 purchases at one specific self checkout machine at a local grocery chain. One summer of free coffee and candy bar breakfasts.
attycusfinch · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Me and a group of friends went to see the last full show of a movie in an annual film festival. We bought the last of the tickets but it was not enough--two of our friends didn't get any.
So the rest of us went into the theater. In this theater if you went out to use the toilet you had to show your ticket, and when you get back you have to present the ticket again. So I got two tickets from my friends who were already inside, went to the "toilet" but in truth I met my other two friends who didn't have tickets and gave them the ones I brought with me.
So we returned to the theater, presented our tickets, as if all three of us had just gone from the bathroom. We did that every year since.
mypunanystank · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Starbucks once had a promotion on its app where if you were to sign up, you would get $5 free or something like that. You could register under a fake email and still get the $5. Starbucks eventually caught on and took away the money from the fake accounts, but it was too late since I transferred it all to my real account and ended up around $230.
fruitcake11 · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
in my country, if you used over a set amount of money within a year for medical services like the doctor or prescription medicine. you get a card in the mail from the government that let you get those services for free the rest of the year. i used it to get my prescription pills even though i already had them. not so very awesome as the other stories here but its something.
ovoxo_tofu · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When Chamber of Secrets was a new game. During the polyjuice potion mission (where you become goyle), then as you make your way to slytherin house there was prefects that would penalize you for being out past curfew. Getting caught would make your house lose points and I would keep getting caught and make slytherin lose all their points. Good job developers for making the first 2 games fun as fuck.
raven0usvampire · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you complain to the manager at a movie theater long enough. they will give you a free pass to a movie.. Always! They don't get paid enough to care about the literal book of free passes they're given to deal with people who complain.
Switch it up between theaters and you will literally have free movies for the rest of your life.
Ociris · 1 points · Posted at 06:09:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This was some years ago when soft drink vending machines started with the conveyor belt and dropped the can/bottle into the slot which pushes out to where you would grab the drink. If you would push your hand against the doorway where the drink eventually comes through and prevent it from falling into the pocket, the machine will eventually stop trying, and give you your money back with the soda still on the conveyor belt. Put the money back in, select another option, and let both drinks fall into the pocket.This trick worked for up to 3 drinks for the price of one.
There was a cute chick at work that i gave the extra drink to every day. Which resulted in a first date, and eventually I married her. Now she's snoring next to me as i write this. Thank you vending machine.
Toejelly69 · 1 points · Posted at 06:09:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mopeds in Ohio.
A moped is legally considered a bicycle with a helper motor in Ohio and only has a few regulations
Heres the loophole- mopeds don't require insurance, a drivers/motorcycle license (if your older than 14) or a helmet for those older than 16. AND i can park it at a bike rack or honestly just lock it up wherever i want. It costs $20 per year to register and get plates but you get 90+ mpg so the money you save in gas quickly turns into free money.
p.s. all the cool kids buy 70cc big bore kits and bigger carburetors/intakes/exhausts to make em go fasssst. were talkin 60+ mph fast.
Jennacide88 · 1 points · Posted at 06:09:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ordering a tall Starbucks drink but asking for it in a grande sized cup.
mr_lockwork · 1 points · Posted at 06:09:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When the McDonald's coupon app first came out I realized that you got a free sandwich every time you signed up, so I got on a ten minute email site and ate free for three months.
Ausfall · 1 points · Posted at 06:09:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In college the school used a special program to control how much people could print. You had an account with the school that you had to fill with money, and money would be deducted from the account based on how many pages you printed (5-10c per page). You also had to use a special piece of software in order to connect to the printer and print something.
The problem was, the software allowed you to input a negative value for how many pages you wanted printed. It also calculated the price based on this negative value. In other words, I could print a negative number of pages, and have funds added to my account. Never paid for that bullshit.
Of course the money in the printing account was non-refundable. Figures, you spend thousands of dollars to go to school and they nickel and dime the hell out of you.
dropthebaum · 1 points · Posted at 06:09:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
you can probably still do this. Dropbox gives you an extra 250 MB or so of cloud storage for every person you refer to them who actually installs the app. So with my real account I sent invites to fake email addresses I had made, and through those referrals installed dropbox on a bunch of virtual desktops. Now I have maxed out my dropbox storage for free.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:09:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was younger I signed up for a lot of free trials. Amazon prime, spotify, etc. I wanted more free trials but they only give one free trial per person. I tried signing up with different emails, but they recognized my card number. Every Christmas, I would get a bunch of preloaded visa cards from relatives. You know, the ones you can buy in line at the supermarket, that are like spend anywhere gift cards? I would spend those, but leave a little bit of money on them and use them to sign up for more free trials. I stopped getting those cards and so I don't do this anymore.
DriedUpSquid · 1 points · Posted at 06:10:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Coke machine at work will give 2 cans of Fanta for the price of one if you keep the button pressed down.
sean19620 · 1 points · Posted at 06:10:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Gambling online in 2001 when software was in early release and not well tested. Played video poker and found a bug where you could play two hands in different browser windows and software would deal the same hand on both windows. Play first hand normally and play second hand KNOWING WHAT THE CARDS ON THE FINAL DRAW WOULD BE. Took quite a while for casinos to discover error. Better, same software was being used by many casinos -- what a great loophole.
Dr_Insano_MD · 1 points · Posted at 06:10:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Late to the party here, but I used to TA in college for Computer Science. I usually TA'd the Intro to Computer Science class, but it was full one semester, so I ended up TA'ing for a slightly higher level class using the same language under the same professor. I hadn't taken the class since it wasn't required for CS majors. But it wasn't terribly difficult since I knew the language inside and out.
Now, the rule at my school (understandably) is that you cannot TA a class that you are actually enrolled in. However, there is no rule that says you can't take a class after you TA it. So my semester as a TA ends, I go back to my normal class, and I jokingly enroll in this higher level course I just finished teaching. Turns out that the enrollment system also doesn't check this scenario.
So, in my last semester, I ended up in a class that I used to teach and even wrote auto-graders for. Needless to say, I made an A in the class with minimal effort. Which was nice since my school was notoriously difficult, and I could use whatever GPA boost I could get.
platitood · 1 points · Posted at 06:10:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My family home had a party line, in suburban Philadelphia. It was a legacy of the days when that area was mostly farms, but we kept it well into the 1970s. Nobody else was on the line, so it was as good as a private line, but cheaper. Every once in a while the telco would try to "upgrade" us, but we always pushed back and they legally couldn't do so without our permission. I think it went away during the Bell breakup and deregulation.
For those unfamiliar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony)
eat_poutine · 1 points · Posted at 06:10:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Might not technically be a loophole, but in highschool we would raid the dumpster of the potato chip distribution center every couple of months. We'd get unopened boxes of soon to expire chips. The dumpster was otherwise clean and the chips were just fine.
hoboa · 1 points · Posted at 06:11:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to live in a small apartment complex that had it's own laundry room with two washers and two dryers, all of them coin operated. I figured out that one of the dryers didn't need money to run. Since my apartment was literally next to the laundry room I would warm up my hoodie every morning before work. I'd also warm my pj pants and blankets before bed. I did this every day for months before someone told the super about the magic dryer and he fixed.
LooksBetterInTheDark · 1 points · Posted at 06:11:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was 16 I got my learners permit in Washington state to drive a car. Fast forward 2 years and I am now living in California. I had not taken a driver's education class ever, but if you are 18 years of age, that requirement is removed; leaving only the driving hours (accompanied by someone else), written test, and drive test. So I turn 18, go in to the DMV, take my written test and pass. I go up to the counter and ask the employee if I can schedule my drive test, he asks for my permit and takes a look at it, says to me "see on the back of the card where it says 'Restrictions: Corrective Lenses'?", I reply "Yah, for my glasses", he says "Well, in California, our permits state under 'Restrictions' that you are required a licensed passenger above the age of blah blah blah in the front seat with you, yours does not have that. So, I am 99% certain this is just a difference of how they are printed in Washington, BUT, I am going to take this at face value and say this is a legal driver's license and just issue you your California driver's license".
TL;DR: I was issued a driver's license without ever taking driver's education or a drive test at the DMV due to learning permits looking different in different states
MrHorseHead · 1 points · Posted at 06:11:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Many years ago when I still played Minecraft online I was on a server called SuperFunTime.
Like many servers they had a mod shop where server staff would buy and sell items for server economy currency.
They also disabled TNT.
Now this was shortly after TNT had become craft-able, prior to that it was rare dungeon loot.
The server, not wanting people to be mad that one of their rare items was essentially useless made TNT worth 10k at the mod shop.
However they forgot to change that after TNT became craft-able.
So you can see my plan was simple, obtain tons of sand and gunpowder, make tons of TNT, sell TNT, profit.
The sand was easy enough. Make several shovels, go to the desert, shovel until your inventory is full.
Gunpowder would have been more of a challenge if it hadnt been for the tendency of some members of the server to build ridculous monuements and buildings that end up unused beyond being art.
These massive buildings are always poorly lit, and filled with mobs, including creepers which drop gunpowder.
By exploiting these various loopholes I quickly became one of the top 10 richest players on the server. I bought a Villa, and commissioned a TNT statue to honor my fortune.
Within a week of me breaking the economy like that they dropped the price of TNT to 1k.
adamfrost01 · 1 points · Posted at 06:11:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When Chick Fil a launched their app you got a free sandwich on your first order. It didnt require an email verification so I put in fake emails and was allowed to reuse the same credit card. Got close to 10 sammys
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:11:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Classic Skating in Orem, Utah had a claw machine. The machine was filled to the brim with candy. This had to be early 2000's. Somehow we figured out that the machine had a debug mode that you could activate by simply holding the controls in a certain configuration and double tapping the joystick as the claw came back. The mode would give you a free try. So one single quarter was all we needed to empty the machine of candy. We spent the night cleaning it out.
standswithpencil · 1 points · Posted at 06:11:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in high school, I worked at an arcade that used flimsy credit cards instead of tokens. One of my coworkers figured that you could stick a card with a lot of credit into a game (like $100), turn it off , and then switch in an empty card, turn the game back on, and the game would credit the card the empty card with $100. We couldn't cash out and get real money but we handed out a ton of them to friends. Great summer job
FineCuisine · 1 points · Posted at 06:11:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My old university's cafeteria offers this card for 10 meals and stamped it everytime you used it. Every card has a unique number on it and after the last stamp they keep the card for accounting purposes I assume.
Well I bought one and used it twice when I realized this was super easy to duplicate. I promptly went to staples, bought the same paper they used and copied that card enough time to eat lunch for free my whole bachelor & master. I still have some copies left.
After the 9th meal I just threw the card in a garbage and continued with a new copy. I offered lunch to many of my friends yet they never got on to it. They just thought I was super generous.
Gamejunkiey · 1 points · Posted at 06:12:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Used Inspect element to alter my grades online web page when my parents wanted to see them ¯\(ツ)/¯
tjeastman · 1 points · Posted at 06:12:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in the day of "parked" domain names, you could reserve a domain for 90 days for free. I'd park 100s of domains and list on ebay, etc. these were the days of the Internet bubble so I off loaded a fair number didn't cost me hardly anything, just the ebay listing fee. I'd sell the domain, pay the registration fee and then transfer to new owner.
fuqers · 1 points · Posted at 06:12:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when I was about 13 (circa 2006), I collected Premier League football cards. I worked out that if you have an unopened pack and you hold it up to the light with the back of the pack facing down, you could see which pack had a shiny at the back.
I would just go into all the shops and buy all their shiny packs and then when I had managed to get all the shinies, I traded my doubles for all the other cards which I didn't already have. I ended up with a full collection quite quickly needless to say.
tomytronics · 1 points · Posted at 06:13:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not mine but a school class exploited the grading curve. No one took any test one day and everyone got a 0. And because 0 was the highest score, all kids who got 0 got an A automatically.
HodorismyCat · 1 points · Posted at 06:13:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would go to walmart and get one of those prepaid debit cards for $4, and load my weeks worth of grocery money and online bills for it. I would then go and sign up for netflix, hulu, wwe network etc. with a fake email account made on anymous email sites for their one month free trials. I would then cancel right before the end of the trial and then repeat with a new card/email.
sats11697 · 1 points · Posted at 06:13:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Me my brother and my sister were at Dave and busters one time and one of those old arcade games you would shoot coins up and try to knock more coins off was there and broken. Every time we launched a coin it would count as some sort of bonus and give us an absurd amount of tickets. We kept doing this for a while until the machine ran out. Then we asked the worker to add more. And kept going. We only stopped once we decided we spent too much money. Then when we went to go cash in we only got small things like candy and whatever and couldn't decide what to spend the rest on. So we just gave it to some kid and he was so excited and his dad so happy. What a great memory.
jasonx994 · 1 points · Posted at 06:13:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This isn't really a loophole, but it was a damn good opportunity: In the summer of 2016 I was flying from London-Malaysia and they overbooked my 8pm flight due to administrative issues. They offered to bump me to the next morning's flight for €600 and a stay in a 4 star hotel. To date still the easiest €600 I ever made.
Whitsitt23 · 1 points · Posted at 06:13:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
On the Magic The Gathering fat packs I could go into Walmart, take a gray sharpie and mark three lines on the barcode, take the stickers off of the display that showed the price (around 30-40$) and have the cashier next to the cards scan them and they wouldn't scan (because the three marks) and he would simply look over and see the price of 4$ for a pack and enter it in the computer. Needless to say on my birthday I went In Walmart with 50$ and walked out with 90 pcks of cards.
i_jizz_nails · 1 points · Posted at 06:13:58 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a summer job at the post office once. I quit but got paid (a lot of money) for 4 months after.
doctorkush69 · 1 points · Posted at 06:14:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dominos has a 30 minute delivery or free pizza deal so one night the guy comes right at the 25 minute mark. He tells me to call up his manager and tell the manager he was late, hence free pizza out of which the delivery guy takes home 50%. Did this for about 6 months after which my guy quit.
PacificManatee · 1 points · Posted at 06:14:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when Modern Warfare 2 (I think) came out, Doritos had a deal with Activision where they put double xp codes on the bag of the bags. I would go to the store, take pictures of all the codes, type them in on my Xbox and got 2 hours of double xp per code. I would then wait a week for all new Doritos bags in the store and repeat :D
nonononononononoon · 1 points · Posted at 06:14:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have a twin brother who is a quite successful doctor. During college he was a complete fuck up, still bright, but a fuck up. I was a neuroscience major but had no plans to pursue clinical medicine. I ended up taking his MCAT, going on his interviews, and got him accepted to a pretty good med school he would have otherwise definitely not been accepted to. This was 9 years ago. The understanding was that once he became a doctor he would pay me 50k over 10 years...so every Xmas I get a 5k check from the good doctor. This will continue until 2026.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:14:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In highschool, in our courtyard where we took our breaks we had change machines that would accept $1 and $5 bills. Im not sure who or how someone figured it out, but it would accept notebook paper that was cut into the shape of a bill. It only exchanged them as 4 quarters though. Only a few of our football team knew about it so we ate free for about 2 weeks. We didnt get greedy and try to take all the money out, but apparently the trick got out and someone did get all the money. The school being too cheap to fix it, instead placed a camcorder on the top of it. Panicked that we were on it we stole the tape out of it. The next day an announcement was made over homeroom that someone stole a camcorder from the courtyard. 7th period came around for athletics and the machines were gone and we never seen them again. Never knew if they replaced them, as it was end of the year and i was a senior.
muddapedia · 1 points · Posted at 06:14:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I accidentally found the answer key to each chapter for APUSH.
benjaminczy · 1 points · Posted at 06:14:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My school had a photocopying machine which needed an e-card with money to work. My friends and I discovered this glitch where if you inserted and pulled the card out at the right time the machine would think the card was still there so you could basically print all your shit for free.
Long story short we charged a ton of guys in our class to help them photocopy exam papers. We made about $50 every exam. :)
Best part was when we were exploiting that glitch and there was this dude using another machine next to ours. He printed the wrong exam papers and had to pay $10 for that shit lmao
yuleneverkno · 1 points · Posted at 06:14:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
College roommate worked at a DirecTV call center. Call center offered free shipping (or 20% discount) on anything from the Panasonic website. One night he was drunk & browsing for a pedestal stand for our 42" plasma (sold out), but he noticed 70" pedestal stands were unusually priced @ $0.01, so he bought 30 of them for $0.30. After sobering up he forgets about the $0.30 withdrawal from his bank account.
Two weeks later we get a call from FedEx Freight asking if we have a truck & can meet in a parking lot nearby, as he can't get his freight truck down our street due to all the vehicles parked curbside. Totally confused we load up in the F150 and drive to a grocery store near by... Fedex guy then proceeds to unload 5 pallets worth of 70" TV pedestal stands into our truck and into the parking lot. Took us 3 trips to get them all home. Mind you, 70" plasma TV's cost about $10K back then.
We sold ALL of those TV stands for $500-$600 each over the next few months and made out like bandits!!!
TL/DR: Bought a shit ton of stuff of Panasonic website for $0.01 then sold it for $500 a piece! CHA-CHING!!!
LokNLoad · 1 points · Posted at 06:15:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This was a couple years ago, my friend showed me a glitched promo code for HP that would give $XX dollars off your order of anything and was reusable.
He went for the big items like printers and I figured if I ordered smaller items they wouldn't notice as much..
I was right. I ordered multiple cartons of black/colored ink and they eventually arrived. On the contrary, everything my friend ordered was cancelled. :D
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:15:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I and 90% of my class mates got our cisco certification via looking up all the answers online.
southerstar · 1 points · Posted at 06:15:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When broadband cable modems were first becoming a thing in alabama in '99 i had just got my first apt. I ordered up some cable tv and internet through some company called @home. Well as a poor 20 year old i was barely making rejt and bills so i called and got my tv service stopped but kept internet. They came out and took the splitter off the line and took there cable box back. For shits and giggles i hooked the cable up to my tv just to get the 4 or so channels you could get for free back then and lo and behold i still had a shitload of channels. Went bought a cable splitter and ran that shit like that for years untill comcast bought everybody out and fixed it.
PantWraith · 1 points · Posted at 06:16:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So this last summer Chipotle did a thing called Chiptopia rewards. Short version is if you bought 11 burritos (turned out to be really about 8 as they gave you free burritos for every 4 that counted towards the reward system as well), for the months of July, August, and September, you got a free catering meal that was valid until the end of March 2017.
I ordered the 20 burritos by the box from my nearby Chipotle using their catering hotline as I was instructed by the chiptopia rewards thing. Said nearby Chipotle did not know how to handle the chiptopia rewards. I got the catering comped, and they said HQ screwed up by letting me select their location for the reward. I figured I'd keep trying this until they told me no or the reward was correctly taken from my account. This took them 5 tries, so I turned what should have been ~$240 of free catering into just over ~$1,000 in free Chipotle burritos. They finally got it right this weekend and successfully registered me using the reward on my account.
Thanks Chipotle, for not knowing how to do your own reward system.
TL;DR I got about 100 free burritos from Chiptopia rewards.
wheeldog · 1 points · Posted at 06:16:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to have a little punk rock gang back in the day. We had a squat and were all like, chainsmokers... so we'd go around the neighborhood looking in people's mailboxes for these coupons that basically got you a free pack or two of some cheap smokes. We each took a part of the neighborhood and canvassed as many mailboxes as we could get to without being reported to the police.
We got enough coupons to be able to go to the store about 4 abreast and all get free smokes. Which we did, each standing in line holding our coupons and looking up at the sky grinning at our good fortune to be showered with so many free coffin nails.
And that worked really well to distract the store clerk from the two who were raiding the beer cabinet of cases of Black Label. We generally got out with a case and a half. Give or take
Jfelt45 · 1 points · Posted at 06:17:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had to buy a bunch of rubbing alcohol, for cleaning reasons and got really tired of heading back to the store to buy more, and it was buy 2 get 1 free at $4 a piece. Well basically the cashier called me out in front of a bunch of people telling me I was wrong about the deal so I walked back snapped a picture of it and waited through the line again.
I was pretty fed up with her bs, being wrong and treating me like shit, so I walked up with the 24 containers of 99% rubbing alcohol, pointed out the sticker that said 4$ off anything if we get the price wrong. Basically got each for 15c, total of 24 boxes of rubbing alcohol for like 6 dollars. I still haven't run out and I got them last Christmas
tankgirl85 · 1 points · Posted at 06:17:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm with virgin, and every month or so I get a promo for buy 1 get 1 free movie tickets, also my theater has a cheap day where all tickets on tuesdays are half price, my husband and I both get the text message offering the code so we each get a code and go on cheap day, we pick two movies we want to see and spend the day at the theater, we end up seeing two movies together for the price of 1 regular ticket.
Marcules13 · 1 points · Posted at 06:17:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was 10 (~14 years ago), I hung around the hockey arena while my brother played. There was an old school vending machine that was full of 1/4 sized cans of Pringles. The fuckers cost $1.25 (a loonie (canadian dollar coin) and a quarter). But I figured out that using a coffee stirrer folded in half, I could press down the mechanics in the coin slots and twist the dial. So I did that, and cleaned that bitch out and shared with all my friends at the arena. I repeated this every week for about a month until they realized we were stealing them. That machine disappeared pretty quick.
deecaf · 1 points · Posted at 06:18:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As anyone who's gone to a university knows, paying for printing is ridiculous with the tuition that you're paying. Well, one of my friends was very clever and decided to figure out a way around it.
Basically, in order to pay for printing you'd load money onto your student ID that had a built in microchip. You'd insert your card into a reader that would deduct the amount from your account as it read the chip. Well, in order to prevent people from pulling out their cards before the chip read them (and thus getting free printing), the device clamped down onto your card with a small metal pin near the edge of the card.
My friend realized that, hey, what if I punched a hole in the card where the pin clamps down, couldn't I just pull the card out whenever I wanted?
And that, my friends, is how he never paid for a single page of printing in his four years of university.
wishlist28 · 1 points · Posted at 06:18:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In high school on one of the pop vending machines if you hit some of the buttons in the right order you could change the price of the machine from $2.50 a bottle to 10 cents.
ryeyun · 1 points · Posted at 06:18:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My 12th grade English teacher offered extra credit on our midterm exam for every line we could recite from Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy. I have a great memory and knew this was my chance to make up for all the summer reading I didn't do. My teacher was stunned when I rattled off every single line in front of the entire class.
I don't think she expected anyone to get that far, but she promised 1/2pt per line and kept her word. Received an extra 16.5 points on the exam.
DustyCupcakes · 1 points · Posted at 06:19:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you fill out a survey on your Subway receipt, you get a free cookie. When you give them your completed survey, they give you your cookie, with yet another receipt with a survey, which gets you another free cookie, which comes with another survey, and so on and so forth. I got 5 cookies before they stopped giving me receipts.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:19:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Rather late to this but, a friend of a friend's mom worked at a Krispy Kreme. No matter what, they had to get rid of donuts that didn't sell that day as Krispy Kreme's biggest draw is, of course, fresh AF donuts. Instead of throwing them away she would bring them home for her kid and his friends. Imagine the vault scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, but instead of wood boxes it was boxes of Krispy Kremes.
On that note, a lot of fancy specialty bread/sandwich/deli places have the same rule, and if not daily, it will be on a Saturday or Sunday night. Show up an hour before they close. Those $7 sweet rolls and creme treats? $1. That big $20 loaf of super fancy bread? $5. Cakes, sandwiches, whatever. If you know where to go, you can raid those places like a Viking Berserker.
DoxBox · 1 points · Posted at 06:19:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in high school there was a soft drink machine in the cafeteria that I would use every day, as it was cheaper than getting stuff to drink elsewhere.
One day I noticed that, upon accidentally hitting two buttons for the same product, I got two cans. So the next day I tried it again.. it worked. I used this for the remaining 3 years of high school, every day. Probably several hundred dollars in scammed pop. Did it for other people all the time too.
beauwilliams · 1 points · Posted at 06:19:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was on my way home from school one afternoon and decided to pick up a packet of chips from the vending machine at the train station. I selected the honey-soy-chicken flavoured bag of crisps and watched the price displayed on the screen. It read 0.05.. Huh? I assumed it was an error and as an attempt to humor myself I popped in a 5 cent coin and to my surprise out popped a fresh bag of chips. As you can guess I instinctively bought the whole lot and proceeded to mull over my new business plan. First item on the agenda? Figure out when they restock this machine. Monday mornings: check. I'll have to get the early train as my friends soon caught on. Second item: Marketing, undercut the school canteen: check. So now I had a business model. I proceeded to sell chips for $1, @ slightly more than half the usual price. I sold 10 bags a week for roughly 6 months until someone at the vending company had figured out why one particular row of the machine was run empty every single week. It was good fun while it lasted and made me roughly $300
Abraham7889 · 1 points · Posted at 06:19:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At McDonald's you can order a 2 for $3 make both items a 6 piece chicken nugget then order a large fry and a large drink, ends up cheaper then the chicken nugget meal that has 10 nuggets a medium fry and a medium drink, save money and get more food
cube44 · 1 points · Posted at 06:20:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My dad went to college on a full scholarship to play division 1 football. The scholarship also included the costs of his textbooks, which he got to keep. At the beginning of every quarter he signed up for all the hardest classes he could, had the school pay for his textbooks, drop the classes and sell the textbooks new. I think he made a thousand or so dollars doing this every quarter.
Jfelt45 · 1 points · Posted at 06:20:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had these weekly assignments for a class of mine where we had basically textbook pages printed out with various words blanked out and we had to go through OUR textbook to fill in the blanks.
I found the textbook online that was used for our assignments, and every week had almost no homework cause it took me 5 minutes to write down the exact same words that were written on my screen.
Coincidentally this worked for most of that teachers assignments. Even the final project was basically the same thing but like a book version that I was also able to find online.
gml1996 · 1 points · Posted at 06:20:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A couple years ago I had a screenshot of a Dunkin' Donuts coupon that was for $.99 medium hot or iced coffee. I used it 2-3 times a day for an entire summer even though it had expired like a year before. Don't know why I ever stopped and I don't have it anymore. :(
allseeing1 · 1 points · Posted at 06:20:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm sure this'll get lost by now, but before art college, I'd actually started in an IT job before going back to study. I get to art school and of course they're charging prohibitively high prices for printing. But they did have a decent A3 colour laser printer which was a godsend. You had to print through one of the college computers and the system meant you had to buy credits on your account to print BUT you were allowed to setup your laptop on the college network of course. I however knew you could print a test configuration page from the printer which gave you an IP address. You could then setup a direct IP connection to the printer on your own laptop... And that's the story of how I got free printing (up to and including A3 colour laser) for three years.
-LovelyJubbley · 1 points · Posted at 06:20:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
the heck u still replying for? OP banned and thread deleted.
ButtNick85 · 1 points · Posted at 06:21:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I sometimes had to drop off leftover medications in the med drop box. If they were good I kept them. I then sold them to help pay the bills. 100℅ profit.
DocBrownDMC · 1 points · Posted at 06:21:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There are so many comments But I haven't seen if my exploit has been thrown out yet.
So about 5 years ago if you went to Arby's after ordering your food you would obviously get a receipt. one time I noticed the back of the receipt said "Call and do a 2 min survey and you will be awarded a free regular Arby's sandwich" So I did and then after taking in my receipt with the claim code written down on the receipt as it told me to do, I received my sandwich but also they had thrown in another receipt with a 0.00 balance. Turned the receipt over boom. Another survey offer.
I just called again, new code, new sandy. Rinse and repeat. I did this for months on months until I believe Arby's changed the policy because I had exploited it :) My last trip I flipped the receipt and instead of "regular sandwich" it read "small beverage"
I left the game.
DredgenYorMother · 1 points · Posted at 06:22:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a Taco Bell game where you could land a coin on a platform that was pretty easy to win every time if you shook it a bit. It was 10 cent tacos until they changed the rules on me.
QueenKragg · 1 points · Posted at 06:22:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got to have Amazon Prime for free for 3 years thanks to my old university. I only went for the one semester, but happened to be there when they were switching to a new email system. Thanks to reasons, anyone who started classes during my first semester ended up with 3 different .edu email accounts (can probably see where this is going), anyone before then just had the one account switched over, and anyone after just had the new email.
Well, after the first year, all of the email accounts were still there in the University's system, and me and my friends realized Amazon didn't care about anything except the email address when signing up for Amazon Student (basically Amazon Prime), so we were able to use each of the accounts to get Amazon Prime free for a year.
I was really disappointed when I had to actually pay for Prime for the first time last year...
Viatical · 1 points · Posted at 06:22:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to work at Panera, when placing an order for someone realized it didn't charge for an additional topping if it was "on the side". Everyday for lunch I would order the cheapest thing on the menu, a plain cheese sandwhich, with turkey, bacon, avocado, ect on the side. Told potential snitches that I just liked making it myself. On cocky days I would make an entire salad or fruit bowl out of "on-the-side" items. Used it for a few years after anytime I went to Panera. Idk if they have caught on.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:22:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This actually works today considering I'm still a broke as hell student but when I'm in a bind, have no money in my bank account, no dedicated driver home, and am far away from my destination I'll still just call an uber. Uber will essentially pick up the tab temporarily until the next time you ride with them even if there's no money in your account. You guys don't know how many times I needed a dedicated driver and Uber was that one bro looking out for all of us.
png2jpg · 1 points · Posted at 06:22:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well this exploit wasnt found by me but everyone who knew used this pretty much all the time.
In our middle school, we had classes like "video production" and "digital tech" classes that utilized the computer rooms. Obviously everything was "restricted" so kids dont mess around. They blacklist all of the (major) flash games sites, forum sites etc. They also block any online VPN that theh find, so you had no guarantee that the website would work every time.
What someone found out was, that you could install chrome extensions. Of course, you couldnt install them manually and chrome store was blocked, but what you could do was install the extension on a non restricted computer, then using your account you could sync the extension on to the restricted computer.
Using this method you could install a Chrome VPN and basically get to any blocked sites which led to a bunch of kids in the back of the room just playing age of war and stuff.
glorious times
YellowSnow15 · 1 points · Posted at 06:22:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nike has a 2 year warranty on soccer cleats from the manufacturing date (not sure about other shoes). So I bought one pair of Nike Magistas which cost me around $300 maybe a bit more I'm not sure since I haven't bought shoes for 3 years now. So when the Magistas broke I sent them back to Nike. I went out to buy a temporary cleat to wear and ended up finding a brand new pair of Nike Hypervenoms on kijiji for $175 which retail for around $250. These Hypervenoms were still under warranty as the second year deadline was just coming up. These end up breaking just as I got a replacement from Nike on the Magistas. The thing is that Nike send back the same model or a different model of equal performance and price. So I ended up getting Superflys which retail for almost $400. I sent back the Hypervenoms and got a brand new pair of the new flyknit Hypervenoms, also retailing for around $300. So now I pretty much just kept sending back a shoe, using the second pair as a temporary shoe, getting back a replacement for the first shoe and sending in the second shoe. I saved well over $1500, and being a 17 year old this is significant money. Haven't bought a pair of soccer cleats in 3 years almost 4 now. A lot of my team mates do this too. Thanks Nike :D
azntorian · 1 points · Posted at 06:23:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Late to the game, in 2004 PartyPoker had a 300th Billion hand promotion. They started paying out 10-50k from 290 billion to 300 Billion. The winner would get half and the rest of the table would get half. To avoid paying rake (tax to the winner) my friend and I set up a private table and kept folding back and forth. Folding was the fastest and it avoided paying rake. We got lucky and landed on the 295 Billion hand and split $30,000 with my friend. Shortly after the win, PartyPoker changed their promotion rules to ban private tables and rake must have taken place on the hand.
Crowbar_Faith · 1 points · Posted at 06:23:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in the early 2000s when I was in college, I use to eat at Subway a lot. If Jared could lose weight eating there, I bet I could too! Thankfully I didn't try to emulate any of his other habits. When you're a frequent customer somewhere, you tend to strike up a repore with the staff. I feel bad because I don't even remember her name but there was this little lady who looked a lot like Flavor Flav that use to work there almost everyday. She clearly hated her job and especially her boss. I would sympathize with her about how bosses can be terrible and how she deserved a raise. She took a liking to me and if there were no other customers in line, she would give me double meat on my sandwich for free while saying "fuck it, I don't care, I'll cost him every dime I can." I got free double meat sandwiches because she felt by doing so, she was sticking it to her boss. So being a broke college student who loved double meat on his sub sandwiches, everytime I would go in there, I'd bring up her boss before ordering to get her fired up, and without fail, double meat and sometimes free cookies.
zakl2112 · 1 points · Posted at 06:24:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Elementary accelerated reader program for our library. The usual read a book, take a computer quiz, get x amount of pts. depending on book difficulty. At end of year spend pts. on prizes. Most books a 3rd grader would read would be easy .5 or 1 pt books. Think easy 30 page kids books. Most kids would spend 20-30 pts at the end of the year. Get pens, poker cards, toys
Not me, I took a 400 page Dr Doolittle book worth 150pts/ 20 question quiz. Same with The Secret Garden. Next year I took the quizzes again and they went through. Got a cd Walkman for free. Which if I remember correctly were expensive mid 90s.
-JXter- · 1 points · Posted at 06:24:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was more so my mom's cleverness.
We both needed our service chips for oir phones repaired or replaced, so we went to T-Mobile. Turns out that it was the day after the Galaxy S7 came out, T-Mobile had a pretty good deal - buy the S7, get a rebate on the next one, a year subscription to Netflix, and a GearVR.
In order to get the extra benefits or whatever, you had to put a special pin into the T-Mobile website and the GearVR would be sent off to your residency.
Now, since the deal gives you a rebate and not a "buy one get one free" kind of deal, we actually bought two S7s. We were only given one rebate though, but we used the second S7 to get a second GearVR and a second year of Netflix.
Jfelt45 · 1 points · Posted at 06:25:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My sister used to ask me to play club penguin for her and get her gold through mini games.
I actually had a lot of fun with the surfing one, I also found a spot right around the time the mini game came out where you could sit still and never lose speed or get hit by the glaciers. I left it there on my desktop for a long time, got her thousands of coins and to this day she still thinks I'm some sort of video game legend because she didn't realize how I got them.
selfinflictedboner · 1 points · Posted at 06:25:09 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have two and both involve my school. They may be minor to you guys, but for a broke college student, they're a time/money saver.
There's vending machine at my school that if you pick a specific option, gives you two drinks instead of one. 100% of the time. Been abusing it for the past two years.
Second one is that the parking meters near my classes' building are broken. They don't display how much time is left anymore. I park there and save $200 on a parking sticker every semester.
HalfManHalfCyborg · 1 points · Posted at 06:26:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This one was working until about 6 months ago. A friend at work at a bank account that awarded a certain number of frequent flyer points every time you paid a bill using their internet banking service. Figured out it even worked when you made a partial payment. So he configured a semi-supervised Auto IT script that would make a hundreds of one-cent bill payments off his cell phone account every day, up to some hard-coded limit.
Ran this for several years, always keeping the points balance low in case the points were confiscated. Took his family on regular interstate trips throughout the year all that time, all for free.
duckusucksr · 1 points · Posted at 06:28:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Last year the University of Oregon gave out Jack in the Box coupons that gave you 1 free Jumbo Jack with any order.
If the football team scored more than 30 or 40 points, they'd give out a coupon.
If the basketball team scored more than 60 points, they'd give out a coupon.
If the women's team scored more than 50, you'd get a coupon.
I forgot the rest of the teams' thresholds, but I basically got a coupon to every single sporting event I went to. I'm one of about 6 or 7 students who go to EVERY single home game a UofO team plays and so I got in the neighborhood of 70 coupons in a few months.
Jack in the Box used to have 2 tacos for 99 cents. I got 2 tacos and a jumbo jack for 99 cents a LOT.
They eventually increased the price to 1.19 for the tacos but it was still a sad day when the coupons expired, (I still had around 20-30 left).
Jack in the Box didn't renew that promotion this year.
basedmattnigga7 · 1 points · Posted at 06:28:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That asking questions is the key to unlimited conversation and great banter... with pretty much anyone!
Coopsmoss · 1 points · Posted at 06:29:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Websites with popup adblock deterrents can usually be beat by refreshing the page and clicking stop (the X) before it loads the pop up
knightelite · 1 points · Posted at 06:30:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At the university I went to, they had vending machines scattered around campus where you could add money onto the photo-copy cards (or buy a card if you didn't have one yet). The machines were prone to jamming though, and would semi-regularly jam when reading bills people put in. When this happened, the machine would light up an "out of order" light that was quite obvious, and return the copy card, but not return the money.
A friend of mine discovered that if the light was lit, you could unplug the machine and plug it back in, and it would spit out the stuck cash as part of its boot process. She made over $400 from that in about a year (mostly because her class schedule made it such that she had to walk past this machine often), I made about $50 in the same time period.
Pofesbe · 1 points · Posted at 06:31:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Public transport paper tickets. Photoshop skills. Winner winner chicken dinner.
SuperSmash007 · 1 points · Posted at 06:31:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
infinite bottle caps in Pokemon sun and moon.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:32:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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PM_ME_UR_4E55444553 · 2 points · Posted at 06:32:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Relevent XKCD
dawsonduck · 1 points · Posted at 06:32:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
During my sophomore year in high school, one of the vending machines in the school had a little problem with it where you could put in a nickel and push the coin return button thing and a quarter would come out. For a couple months I was getting 25 cent diet cokes a couple times a day but my biggest mistake was telling a couple friends of mine about it and then everybody knew and they fixed it. It also looked really weird because the vending machine was at the end of a hallway and anybody walking down the hallway would see me putting in one coin at a time and then pushing the button thing and then finally putting 6 coins in the end and getting a drink ;)
Thomas9002 · 1 points · Posted at 06:32:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Many years ago my father gave me his old sim card. He was called a lot and activated an option which gave you 1 cent for every minute you have been called.
Fast forward a few years: the carrier now offers flatrates. So I had my father call me before going to bed.
Unfortunately the call time was locked to 2 hours, but it was enough for my teen years.
vomit_unicorn · 1 points · Posted at 06:34:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Coca-Cola was having some promotion back in the early 2000s where is you spelled certain words from letters found under the cap you won some massive prize (can't remember what it was now). You could also win instant prizes of more drinks. Because of drinking so many coke products I took all the bottles I ended up going to the bottle depot. At the bottle depot they removed all the lids of bottles before they recycled them. I noticed a giant bucket full of lids and could already see some letters I needed and instant winners. I asked the owners if I could take them and they said sure. I ended up going back every day for the next 5 or 6 days before the owners caught on to why I wanted them and told me I couldn't have them any more. I ended up getting like 25 free bottles of pop. Never did find all the letters to win whatever the grand prize was.
Ajl1198 · 1 points · Posted at 06:34:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother switched the "The Duke" football from its original packging to the autograph version of the ball making it go from 100 to 35 dollars real quick.
RealEnergyEigenstate · 1 points · Posted at 06:37:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Glitch at sainsbury on internet shopping years ago, voucher codes could be used repeatedly Lots of free food
BrutalHotRabbit · 1 points · Posted at 06:37:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A white-box retailer had a promotion where you gave them your mobile phone number plus email and they'd send you 2x $25 vouchers (after the 2nd and 5th weekly newsletter).
They sold $2 SIM cards, so you could sign up again. And again. And again.
JPAchilles · 1 points · Posted at 06:38:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
ITT: every single trick here will be fixed
tronoku · 1 points · Posted at 06:38:30 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I get unlimited data without a grandfather plan and without paying out the ass.
1) sign up for 5gb internet access without overage fees
2) switch to 10gb plan when 5gb is used up - data usage resets
3) switch back to 5gb plan when 10gb is used up
My current average data usage is 145gb/mo
chano_y_tequila · 1 points · Posted at 06:41:28 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Every year on Black Friday there's this Walmart near me that mislabels their video games with the DVD prices so that 50-60 dollar games are on sale for a few bucks each. The past three years I've been able to go in and buy a massive stack of 20 games for like $50 bucks total and resell them a little below retail for a nice profit. They've yet to catch on or change anything which is kind of surprising but fine with me.
Katsie463 · 1 points · Posted at 06:47:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Late to the party, but, when I was in preschool my aunt worked at the post office. Every other day she would pick us up in her mail truck and take us to the post office break room and we would have to stay there until she got off work. So of course we were hungry after school. There was a vending machine in there that had those big cookies that came with two cookies in the pack. My cousin and I had no money but figured out that our hands and arms were small enough to reach up into the machine and grab whatever we wanted. We always grabbed the cookies of course. This was in 1996. It worked solid for us for as long as we were in there. Now machines have the blocking door inside that won't allow you to reach your hand up there anymore.. but needless to say, it was a success.
mmmmtits · 1 points · Posted at 06:47:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At Kroger you could take a 24 rack of beer to self-check, tear the box a bit, scan the barcode of a single beer and get charged for a 6-pack.
Case of Bud Light for $5. Funded many a party with that hustle.
hiphop_dudung · 1 points · Posted at 06:50:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not much of a loophole but more of a glitch.
Around early 2011 I needed earphones, something thats durable enough and cheap and I saw that skullcandy was selling their paramore riot on sale for $5. I ordered a pair and waited for delivery. It showed up and it was nothing special but I was happy with it and moved on with my life. The next 9-10 days were weird. I received 30 more pairs of the same model shipped separately on different envelops. So I called skullcandy and I was like what the fuck guys? Can I return all of these? I don't have another $150 to pay for all of these.
They said they do not see a problem with my order and it indicates that I only ordered one pair. After much digging we learned that since I have an Irish last name with an apostrophe, the apostrophe caused the program to put my order on repeat. Skullcandy told me to just keep all the pairs and I was never charged for them except for the original one. I sold about 28 of them for $20 bucks each and I still have 2 unopened ones in my drawer since I'm still using the first one.
troyaner · 1 points · Posted at 06:51:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bachelor thesis time. We were writing and constructing the thing with long hours in the institute, which is very secluded - a bus goes to the city every hour if it's late evening or weekend, no food vendors/grocery stores in the radius of 1km. The only food source was this lonely vending machine on the ground floor and one of the items in there with decent price-per-amount ratio was this rissole/frikkadel/meat patty with a pack of god-awful mustard for 60ct. So we noticed that the numbering of the slots skipped a number and this patty was held by two spirals. We tried the number of the unlabeled spiral - and the machine wanted '5ct' :D I was surviving on these ground meat patties for the rest of the thesis. At some point after months they must have noticed and exchanged the whole machine.
rebelbass1219 · 1 points · Posted at 06:51:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to work at a theme park and I found 2 loopholes that I used for a while. 1) The cash registers in the employee cafeteria didn't properly charge Visa gift cards. I went in, bought my lunch, went back to work. By the time I got home I could check the card balance online and see that the lunch charge had declined after the cafeteria closed. I ate free until I had to use that gift card at another store. 2) There was a soda machine that after you put money in, if you rapidly hit the Coke button it would send 2-4 cans of Coke out. I abused that until it was fixed a couple of months later.
goldaces · 1 points · Posted at 06:51:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Really late to this but it still works. So Netflix has the promotion when you make a new account and link a new credit/debit card you get a free month. So every month I would go to my bank and ask for a new debit card and since it's a "debit visa " it works as a visa. So I get free Netflix and have been for at least a year.
wabbajohn · 1 points · Posted at 06:52:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bit late to the party, but on delta flights to watch the in flight entertainment on a mobile device you are required to download a gogo app. To download the app you are given access to the in flight wifi for a short period. Once you visit the website and get redirected to download the app, you can exit the App Store and enjoy free wifi for about 15 minutes. Every 15 minutes you just visit the site again and redirect to the App Store. Easy way to enjoy free wifi on every flight.
Delta has since fixed this and only allows 3 download attempts, but that's still 45 minutes of free wifi which is better than nothing.
Knightified · 1 points · Posted at 06:52:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lots of vending machine stories, so let's add mine.
At my old high school there was a vending machine purely for drinks. Soda, milk, water, etc. Found out one day during my freshman year that if you hit the side of the machine hard enough a drink from a certain spot would always fall out.
They never did figure it out. Abused it about three times a week.
burnsguy97 · 1 points · Posted at 06:52:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in around 2010, the fancy coke vending machines were just created, with the moving horizontal and vertical axis and shit. So we git a brand new one in like 7th grade, and they didnt have the turny plastic thing, or the stopper, so if you shoved your hand in and kept it stuck for a few seconds, the machine would think it messed up your order, and give you another drink choice, but you were easily able to grab your drink out of the machine before it moved back, and gave you a drink on the house
ionlyspeakinvowels · 1 points · Posted at 06:57:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in college I noticed that a novel that was normally sold in the campus bookstore was required reading for a literature class. So it was sold upstairs in the "student store" section for one price and was sold downstairs in the "textbook" section for like $20 more. I went in every day for the first two weeks of the term (when you could return textbooks) and bought a copy upstairs only to walk downstairs and return it for a profit. I got my books and several cases of beer for free that term.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:58:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In downtown Phoenix, there are a few companies that own all the parking lots in the downtown area. One is really close to the college and I would park there everyday and just pay the minimum for 2 hours time instead of the max time which was what I actually needed. It saved me about $4 a day by doing this.
Well one day I get a ticket. The instructions say put $50 in the envelope they gave me the ticket in and send it back to this P.O. box in a different state and then I can park there again without being towed.
I don't like sending cash in the mail so I do some digging to find an office so I can pay in person. Well there is no office. There isn't an office phone either. The phone number you get when you look up the company is the cell number of an old dude that lives in another state that owns the company. So I called him. He told me I had to mail the cash. I told him no I need to pay another way so I don't get scammed. At this point he is livid. He tells me he is old, sick, and doesn't have time for this. He tells me to just not pay it as its too much of a hassle for him to go through the process of actually towing my car.
I park in the lot everyday and never pay. I get a ticket. I call up the old dude. He gets pissed, tells me not to pay, and angrily hangs up. I would feel bad but he's charging a ridiculous amount to park in a lot.
schaudhery · 2 points · Posted at 22:59:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
His whole process seems like a scam. Good for you for standing up against it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:24:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Right?!? Mailing cash to anyone is sketchy
ironicsharkhada · 1 points · Posted at 07:00:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I do this all the time at my college. We have laundry room's that take cash or these special ID cards. I call them every two or so weeks and say the machine stole my money. They don't ask for proof, all you have to do is make sure the machine you talk about is out of service. And now I get around $10 more a month.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:01:25 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Almaty, Kazakhstan the bus ticket costs 80 tenge. Up until about two years ago, you would pay to a machine in the bus. My friends and I discovered that if you put in exactly 40 tenge and waited a few seconds, you'd get a half-priced ticket, and this glitch worked on most city busses. Unfortunately, those machines are gone, and you either pay to a designated person who wanders around the bus collecting fares, or you swipe one of those bus cards that you load with money in advance.
FiIthy_Communist · 1 points · Posted at 07:20:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in high school we would go to the YMCA for gym class. Outside the YMCA was a newspaper box. The kind you'd drop a Loonie into and then push a button while you pull open the door. The kind where you're honour bound to only take one newspaper.
Well... Some days lunch was directly after gym, I dunno what compelled me to do it, but I pressed the button as I pulled on the door and it opened without a Loonie. So I took a newspaper.
Did that a few times through the school year.
Nearly 15 years later, it's still there... It still works.
iamatrollifyousayiam · 1 points · Posted at 07:33:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
i can't use this loophole at the moment; but there's a law in my state the exempts federal and local law enforcement officials, military personnel, and national guardsmen from gun carrying laws(concealed carry, open carry with a semi-automatic rifle is completely legal, but pistols aren't, nor are concealed carry permits easy to get) as long as their on official duty; now military personnel can't bring guns on base or into recruiters office, but i could use it to carry in my car to and from official duty; will i, probably not, but a cool gun loophole
AwesomelyHumble · 1 points · Posted at 07:37:42 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I worked at Best Buy for 6 months when I was younger. They had a deal where you get 25% off Verizon Wireless service. Well that 25% off lasted me for years and years and years. Until they had an unlimited plan for $99 (fully unlimited, none of this pretend "unlimited*", but that was years ago).
jasrenn2 · 1 points · Posted at 08:09:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Was at chuck e cheese, (kids pizza place/arcade). One of the games my token got stuck, so I banged on it and the token went in and I played the game. Put in another token, same thing but I realized there was a bunch of tokens stuck in there, kept banging on it and got like 10 free games + prize tickets to exchange for prizes, until all the stuck tokens were gone. Went to the ball pit for a while and came back to find it restocked with even more stuck tokens than before, played it out again, went away for a while and went back for an eagerly anticipated round three. Found a little girl at the machine crying because it ate her token. So I shared my secret. Then when I went to cash in my prize tickets I discovered I could reach under the counter to the garbage can they threw all the tickets in after they were redeemed. Never had to buy big league chew again.
9Solid · 1 points · Posted at 08:15:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm a 3d artist and use Maya LT. They have a subscription service where it costs 30 dollars a month. Well, after the second month they stopped charging me. I went to the renewal section of their website where it says when they'll charge you next in x amount of days. The amount of days was a negative number. I've been using it for about a year since.
taboo_ · 1 points · Posted at 08:42:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So all I've learned from this thread is never let vending machine engineers work at NASA.
TheAdmiralCrunch · 1 points · Posted at 09:01:50 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Many restaurant chains (McDonald's, IHOP, Starbucks) give you something if you register your email with them. They don't account for people with multiple emails.
TheAdmiralCrunch · 1 points · Posted at 09:03:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A very minor one but in the game MLB the show 15 you could quit a game in career mode and simulate the rest. If you, say, hit a fly ball that's about to be caught you can exit the game, simulate your at bat for a different result, then rejoin the game
TheAdmiralCrunch · 1 points · Posted at 09:08:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Target sold shaving gift boxes for Christmas. They went on clearance when Christmas was over. For ten dollars I got a razor, shaving cream, lotion, aftershave and A 5 DOLLAR TARGET GIFTCARD.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:09:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when they first introduced the vending machines with a glass front that would drop bottles onto a conveyor belt you could trick the machine into thinking the slot was empty by holding the inside door closed, to prevent it from falling into the chute. The machine would then fetch another bottle for you. 2 for 1!
Apprentice57 · 1 points · Posted at 09:13:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I bought a pretty powerful (and pricey) laptop from hp before I entered college. My dad insisted I get a 3 year extended warranty, and offered to cover the price of the warranty. I agreed. Because of that warranty, hp is buying me a computer now and loaned me two laptops in the meantime.
Well, fast forward just under 3 years and the wifi card is on the fritz. So I send the computer in. To my surprise I get a call from a Case Manager who tells me my computer has a battery issue and since they don't make the battery anymore they have to replace it.
There was a weird glitch on that laptop, that sometimes the beats volume rocker/button could get stuck and it wouldn't power on. You just had to press it and it would go back to normal. I think this happened and they assumed it was a battery issue. But I didn't tell them that.
Since I decked out that laptop, I paid around $400 for a 256gb ssd. In 2012 that was only on their top laptops, and in 2015 it was still only on their top laptops. So they could only offer me a couple things as replacement. I accepted an offer for a $1600 gaming laptop, which then had it's own 1 year warranty.
Well, the touch screen on that 2015 laptop never worked right. I sent it in 3 times on warranty to get repaired and they never could fix it. I got my problem elevated to a case manager who again was going to replace it. This time I just asked for hp credit so I could buy a desktop, and they agreed to $1100.
I sold that $1100 at a loss for $970 through a gift card website (I know nobody IRL who's in the market and I was too scared to sell on ebay). I'll be making a gtx 1070 rig soon.
Here's the 2012 laptop configuration before a 30% coupon.
Here is the 2015 laptop configuration.
bouncythesane · 1 points · Posted at 09:14:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This will probably kept buried but last year, United had a glitch where First Class and Business Class Tickets were 70 USD, but only from Hong Kong to North America. I'm usually based in Asia, where you can get a flight to Hong Kong on a budget carrier for next to nothing.
I flew 16 hours in First Class from Hong Kong to New York, and earned full mileage credit as well. My colleague flew his entire family on First Class from Hong Kong to Dallas.
Atraidis · 1 points · Posted at 09:19:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was at Dave and Buster's, and a technician must have left open the door to where the tickets were stored. I was trying to figure out how to take all the tickets, when nearby I saw a black lady with a baby stroller. She looked down at the ticket cabinet, then looked up at me, and I motioned for her to bring her stroller over.
I loaded up all the tickets into the bottom of the stroller and we split it 50/50 in the parking lot.
Skippythestuntbaby · 3 points · Posted at 15:51:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's not a loophole. It's theft. Can you not tell the difference?
BigPandaCloud · 1 points · Posted at 09:22:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had an LG Chocolate phone. It was an older phone with a wap browser. It's kinda like a text browser and very old school. Verizon checked your data usage by going through their proxy server first. The phones secret dev menu showed what page loaded when you tried to access the Internet. You couldnt edit because the fields were locked. Used a usb cable to download the dev configuration file. Change a zero to a 1 in a hex editor. The proxy address was now editable so I switched it to my own server. Free Internet. I mainly used it for getting movie times.
Hatefuls · 1 points · Posted at 10:00:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Theres was an exploit back in 2011-ish where microsoft would send out a promo code of 100 microsoft points to your email so that you could redeem it on your account.
Well in the email, the code wasn't in text rather an image and if you copied the image URL, pasted it in your browser and switched a couple characters around you have yourself a new image with a brand new code. It lasted around 24 hours before they closed the promo and put out a statement. I ended up with around 12000 Microsoft points but heard people who got up to 50k
Prettyhornyelmo · 1 points · Posted at 10:10:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had an Xbox 360 that got the RRoD as they did. Went to Kmart and bought a brand new one on boxing day so it was cheap and I only had to wait a week. Got the new one set up, kept all the new stuff and put all the old stuff in the box. Took it back a week later asking for a refund because it got the RRoD after a day and I was not happy about it.
Got my money and a new console, didn't have to wait for Microsoft to send me a refurbished console.
schaudhery · 1 points · Posted at 22:50:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Former BBY employee, this is VERY common.
douganater · 1 points · Posted at 10:59:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sometimes maccas monopoly didnt take the coupon
ItsRomzie · 1 points · Posted at 11:23:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This isn't a super great loophole, but it was actually done early February so you guys could probably try it.
My girlfriend and I got dairy Queen one day, and she wanted the blizzard of the month which was some extreme chocolate Royal Blizzard, the ones with golden spoons and a core. Well fast forward coming home and eating it she tries to dig into her Blizzard but never finds her core which she told me was the only part she looked forward to.
After leaving the blizzards in the freezer and trying to comfort my girlfriend while she threw a fit and actually wrote a complaint on their website, I convinced her to just eat it anyways as it was no big deal. Turns out the core was just a little too far down and she finds it after eating most of the blizzard.
Valentine's day rolls around and she gives me this gift which, among other things, contained a $5 gift card that dairy Queen sent her in response of her complaint.
So now I know how to get DQ gift cards.
icemule1 · 1 points · Posted at 12:28:44 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Probably around 10 years ago I found something weird (can't remember what it was) in my TV dinner. Called the manufacturer and told them, they sent me 3 free TV dinner coupons. I noticed the barcode was the same on all of them so I made color copies and ended up getting around 20 free TV dinners.
SarcasticOP · 1 points · Posted at 12:47:22 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Poop hole loophole
TheCountof70 · 1 points · Posted at 12:49:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Noob combo
Fjohurs_Lykkewe · 1 points · Posted at 13:33:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ah! I hope I didn't sound too condescending.
We have to be exact, so we don't make the number astronomically huge. 😅
munichek · 1 points · Posted at 14:53:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Someone in Cologne told me during a punk rock concert. I tried it and it worked ever since.
LikeAhYourOpinionMan · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in the day - when Pepsi would put prizes underneath the caps, I found that if I tilted the bottle 20 degrees, I could read the words under the cap. Cut to 10 year old me emptying entire coolers of Pepsi's at Cumberland Farms looking for free bottles. I think I bought one bottle and then stacked free ones for the rest of the summer.
zensnapple · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The good ol chicken and airline miles scam
jdickens2245 · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:19 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Amazon return policy for the kindle book store, id buy a few comics read returm for instant refund repeat, they caught on and i can no longer return stuff on my kindle
nolooselips · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Worked at a local pizza chain for about 6 months. Employees got a pretty good discount of 40% off. A couple months after I quit, I ordered from them and it turned out there was a permanent note on my account, directing in-store employees to give me my discount. I did this every other week for 3 years until they started requiring recent paycheck stubs for the discount.
zorro1701e · 1 points · Posted at 00:04:00 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Late to party. In college on the first day of the semester they were handing out student guides. In them there was a flier for a free 7up at 7-11. People were ignoring the handbooks so my gf and I just started pulling out the fliers. We grabbed a ton. They had no expiration date but honestly we drank 7up like 3 weeks before we got sick of it.
sovamind · 1 points · Posted at 06:29:29 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
BART in the Bay Area used to have these old IBM made ticket machines. The machines would hold all the change put in them until a ticket selection was made and then the change would be dumped into the bank and issue the ticket. However, if you canceled your transaction it would return all your change. So basically, the machine had to hold the change in limbo until you either canceled or made your ticket selection.
A friend of mine and I figured out that if you put only nickles into the machines, they would credit you the coin but at some point the spring holding the tray for the temporary location would become overloaded and it would dump all your coins back to the return tray but NOT remove the credits the machine had already counted.
We used to carry around zip-locks full of nickles until they replaced all the old IBM machines.
eddie1975 · 1 points · Posted at 08:58:10 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got a nice one that time!
count023 · 1 points · Posted at 00:19:53 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
I get student discount on everything for my student ID from 2003. It just so happens that the card doesn't have an expiration date printed on as a mistake when it was made, it only has the tag "valid for duration of enrollment". I don't look that much different since Uni. :)
mail1118 · 1 points · Posted at 03:04:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If I had a loophole why would I tell you and bring attention to it?
shiguywhy · 1 points · Posted at 01:11:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Story of Seasons, if you play on Beginner/Seedling mode, you can go to the Silk Country booth and buy them out of crystals, which cost 3700 but resell for 3900 due to an oversight. Repeat until they run out of crystals and then come back the next day.
...I'm not very good at finding loopholes.
Michaelphelpsisquick · 1 points · Posted at 04:15:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
People use condoms to avoid pregnancy but if you bang a girl in the butt you don't need to worry about that 👌🏻👌🏻
supermarioluv · -1 points · Posted at 06:43:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah just aids and stds. Degenerate
Derpywhaleshark7 · 1 points · Posted at 02:36:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In spanish class, we use a Super site for online activities. My teacher does not look at the scores for the supersite, but rather completion of writing down thenanswers. Whenever I don't feel like doing a supersite, I simply submit a blank page and accept the score. It then shows me the correct answers for every question. Easy peasy.
fuckititsralley · 1 points · Posted at 02:59:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Another apple related scam. Back with songs on iTunes were 99cents. There was some time between when you purchase and download your MP3s and when actually charged your visa gift card. So we would get a new iTunes account drop $50 on early 2000s pop punk and then hit the town and spend the $50 on pizza and junk food. Two problems. You couldn't do this scam twice on the same iTunes accounts. So we had like 20 different accounts. And we should have just used lime wire.
dondox · 1 points · Posted at 03:18:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you have trouble sleeping, have kids. You'll fall asleep so quickly every night.
continous · 1 points · Posted at 03:19:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some of you may remember, or god forbid still play, on a game called Roblox. To put the story short and succinct, it's an online block-building game for kids. This game is extremely rancid in it's milking people of money; but I found out that if you managed to resend the verification for a purchase it would go through even if the purchase was already made. The result? Well, a set of 20 $20 purchases were made using $20.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:31:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back when I first joined the Army I didn't have a driver's license. I got stationed in Kansas and went to get my permit so I could then take the test and get a license. Well Kansas likes to issue you am actual card permit instead of a paper copy like California(my home state) well drove around for a few months acting as it was a license and when I went home on leave I stopped by the DMV and said I wanted a California license instead since I'm a resident. Well they took my KS permit as a DL instead and had me take the written test not the practical and low and behold got a CA license with no practical test. I have only taken 1 "practical" test since then at the end of a motorcycle safety course to get my M1 endorsement and it's been over 10 years. Fuck parallel parking(which I can do fine now but back then was not easy in the boat of a car I drove).
LiveL33t · 1 points · Posted at 03:32:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In highschool, early 90s, our cafeteria got their first electronic fund accounts. You give them money and then draw off it for lunch, snacks, cookies, sweet tea, extra milk.. etc.
Well, I discovered (inadvertently)... I happen to press and hold the 9 key on the keypad as the lunch lay was entering in the few dollars I was trying to pay.
It overrode her entry and gave me a max balance of $999.99 and she didn't notice.
Hell, no one noticed for my entire junior and senior year of high school, my friends and I ate like kings.
I depleted the entire balance with only 3 days until graduation, never attempted the glitch again.. didn't need to lol.
Funkymermaidhunter · 1 points · Posted at 03:50:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was a youngan, about seven years old, I twisted the knob to the gumball machine at the laundromat (which at the time I pronounced "lawn-dree-mat), despite not having put a quarter to put in. To my great surprise, out came a perfect, shiny gumball. So I tried again, same result. I ate the first one, pocketed like three and brought my sisters each one. Not sure if actually ended up giving the gumballs to them or if they got lost somewhere along the way, but that was the intent at least.
BeerIsDelicious · 1 points · Posted at 03:59:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
SunTrust once had a delta miles deal where if you started a business account you would get 100k Mikes and 50k miles for each debit card you added, at $50 yearly charge per card, no limit on the number of cards.
Now, a debit card requires no credit check, just for the person to sign a sheet. My whole family and 20 of my friends each took advantage and got debit cards with each others new business account.
I think I spent about $1,200 or so for over a million delta miles. You can get domestic flights for 15k to 30k miles. This was 7 years ago and I still have 250k.
They didn't run that promotion again.
Tomloes · 1 points · Posted at 03:59:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's an automated wine dispensing machine at the bar near my house. You load money on a chip card and insert it and then select a wine and quantity.
If a wine runs out mid pour they charge you a fractional portion of the cost, or if you have insufficient funds, it will only pour what you can pay for. Sometimes you end up with a few cents left on a card.
The machine can't physically pour less than a quarter ounce at a time. So I save the 10 cent cards to get .25 oz of a 100 dollar bottle for basically pennies on the dollar.
LazicusMaximus · 1 points · Posted at 04:12:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Microsoft had a $1 for 1 month of Xbox Live Gold a couple years back, they had the special running for over 7 months. I would buy it and then cancel my auto renewal and then buy it again. I got 8 months of Xbox live gold for $8.
AcrossTheNight · 1 points · Posted at 04:16:45 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Most of the posts in this thread are just blatant stealing.
iBobRoss · 1 points · Posted at 04:25:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Food stamps. Not necessarily a loophole; it's just easy to get them and maintain them. However, I won't apologize for being a poor college student
drogean2 · 1 points · Posted at 04:27:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
the BBQ place called Famous Dave's let you sign up for their birthday coupon with an email that lets you get random shit like free dessert or free app on your birthday. There is a rare chance that you can get the FAMOUS FEAST, which is a massive garbage lid full of ALL their different meats and sides.
All ya need to do is put your GMAIL in with periods in random places to create "new" addresses like Joe.Smith, Jo.eSmith ,J.OeSmith, and so on.
When your bday rolls around, your gmail gets 10 different coupons and one is ALWAYS THE FEAST.
Allupual · 1 points · Posted at 04:39:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My school has a fairly normal vending machine that gives 1 can of soda for 75 cents, but if you put in $1.50 and get a can of brisk it gives you two cans and gives you a full dollar back. My friends from quizbowl and I would do that all the time and then sell the second can for 50 cents or favors. Still works now actually but I'm not in gym this semester so I can't go to the vending machines
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:40:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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AlphaSarcastic · 2 points · Posted at 05:40:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
might be???
Laurelinthegold · 1 points · Posted at 04:50:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Restoloop glitch in skyrim.
I have not found many loopholes to exploit :(
haystackthecat · 1 points · Posted at 04:54:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Quizlet. Nuff said.
golgol12 · 1 points · Posted at 05:04:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I once made a post in the past that contained a link to itself.
sarar3sistance · 1 points · Posted at 05:04:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
At work, (I'm a grocery store cashier), I've noticed that when they put discount/clearance stickers on something to sell it quickly, and the product is already on sale, the computer will take the "sale price" off of an already discounted item. For example, on Fridays they put a box of 12 donuts on sale for $5, normally $6.99. When they don't sell well, they will put a "New price: $4" sticker on it. When it's scanned at the register, it will scan at $4, then the computer will realize oh hey, that's a box of donuts on sale for $5! And it will still take the $1.99 it's supposed to to take off of every other box of donuts, making them $2 and some. Not that big, but it's one of the only rewards I've gotten for paying so much attention to how our computer systems work. I've gotten steaks and other meat, other bakery goodies and even produce at really awesome prices because of this!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:05:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
In Canada we have Tim Horton's coffee as our national drink of choice, Tim Horton's does this promotion called roll up the rim to win. Where you buy coffee, roll up the weird rim thing around the coffee cup and it'll tell you if you won a free coffee or donut or whatever.
It turns out, that if you win a free coffee there is nothing stopping you from going in and ordering an extra large coffee with everything possible in it, and that coffee has a chance of winning as well. So every time roll up the win to rim comes around, I buy a small coffee every day, these cost like 75 cents so it really doesn't matter, and when I win a coffee I get the most expensive thing I can and ride that win for as long as I can.
Roll up the rim is happening right now so I've been drinking a lot of coffee
thebigdinnerplate · 1 points · Posted at 05:11:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The rights to an HIV medication became available so I purchased it and raised the price like 600% made a fucking killing but people were pissed
LuckLovesVirtue · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is gonna get buried but what the hey. A gas station next to my old apartment had a glitch in their register that would ring up a 4 pack of Stella Artois pint cans for $2.49 USD. I think the actuall price was like $8.99 of something. Rode that train every day for like 3 months until someone wised up.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:23:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
This works at almost any retail store.
If you like their clothes and would be spending this type of money there anyway, it's an easy way to multiply your money.
Buy high ticket items that are 40-50% off (on promotion, not clearance... also, not non-returnable). Then, when they go back to full price return the item WITHOUT the receipt. They'll only give you store credit, but it will be at the current, newly restored, full price. And you like the stuff anyway. Need it explained more thoroughly or wondering how you'll pull it off? Keep reading you broke motherfucker.
Example... $500 jacket is $250 with a 50% coupon. Get 2... 1 size bigger than you and 1 size smaller than you (more on that later). For now... if the cashier asks... you're not buying them for yourself... they're for your friends or your fat and skinny child, etc. Also, this ain't none of your business.
So far you've spent $500 and have 2 jackets.
Now, once they're full price again, take those 2 jackets to the same store at another mall. Return them for store credit, but full price. Now you have $1000 at a store you were gonna spend it at anyway. Go get a ton of those clearance items your broke ass was gonna get anyway.
Now... "Won't they catch on?" ... you're thinking... I like that. Here's how to prevent that.
If they ask, tell the returning cashier that your friend/parent/sugar significant other got it for you and you don't know any of the information and store credits fine with you. Now they can't look up the old transaction in their database and see your coupons were used.
So why one size bigger and smaller? Let's say you're a medium... well whoever bought it for you got you a small, medium and large because you never know which one will fit "ah... I hate how the sizing is never the same... any way the medium fit and now I've gotta return these". I'd recommend occasionally changing it up size wise. Sometimes return the medium and large and say the small fit... you get it. Really, they probably won't notice/care anyway (I just prefer being thorough). Why won't they notice/care? Because you're known in the store as that crazy guy/lady with a rich sugar-person that's always returning stuff AND giving that person $1000 toward their daily sales quota.
It helps to pretend to be stupid and drop shitty lines like "I guess he's not getting his money back... oh well, I woulda ended up spending it anyway. Hahaha lololol" or "Oh no... guess I have to spend his money now." Or "Shoot. More shopping."
And don't run straight to the clearance you chiseler. You're pretending to be rich for Gods sake! Toss in a few lower priced full price items... if the associate recommends something more expensive don't break down into poor person tears. Just pretend you already got or "It doesn't look as good on me as I thought." And once you've slowly worked your way to the promise land... don't forget the finishing touch... Be SHOCKED to find such great things on clearance. Omg... this and this and this!
Play a cunty angle (cunty to your significant other... not the associate), play the loud angle, play the fun loving angle, drunk angle... whatever... just typecast yourself with the associates and it gets easier over time.
Final question.... what if they don't offer full price? Just pretend to be a little bummed and tell them you're so sorry (not sarcastically). Then say that this is a lot of money so you're going to try to find the receipt and return it for full price. Go back to the original store and return it with the receipt. "Didn't fit the friends they were for" or "those bitches didn't like them."
Source: YEARS working in several retail stores... spent all day autistically playing with our return policies in my head, finding loopholes, and running them through far more scrutiny than the average minimum wage worker will... especially ones that like you.
goldscale · 1 points · Posted at 05:23:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to own a bank card with a magical glitch. Every once in a while, I would make a purchase somewhere & the money wouldn't leave my account. I wouldn't touch the $ in my account with the reasonable idea that someone at the bank would figure it out & eventually withdraw the money, but it never happened. As a starving student, I didn't volunteer the info since I seemed to be getting instant refunds. It was a sad day when I received a new card in the mail after a few years due to some kind of new design they were implementing.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The People's Peephole Poophole Loophole
DaCaton · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you get 365 Starbucks memberships, you get a free birthday coffee every day of the year.
FloatationMarks · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:06 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was in high school, a can of cola was like eighty-five cents. We figured a way to jam some paper in the coin return chute so that it kept all the coins. No one complained the machine was broken because it was only fifteen cents change. We used to let it add up for a few days and then buy fries with all the dimes and nickels that would pour out once we wriggled the paper around.
Another time when I was in grad school, I was an RA and to use the washers and dryers in the basement, you had to load your money on your student card. Eventually, someone figured out that if you entered cycle button but didn't hit the start button and then removed your card before hitting it, the machine would work but without deducting any money. Everyone in the whole rez complex (like ten buildings) used this exploit for months (and some people racked up hundreds of dollars letting their off campus friends do their laundry) before the morons at the card office realized they'd fucked up. They made everyone pay the difference back and then somehow deflected blame onto literally everyone but themselves even though someone definitely deserved to get fired for such a hilarious, monumental screw up. Because I worked for the school, I and all the other RAs that used this loophole had to go have a meeting with the housing manager, who was a miserable bitch on a good day. When she asked me why I did it, I nonchalantly said "What difference does it make? I didn't mess the system up. The card office did. I figured they'd get around to fixing it eventually." She wasn't too impressed with that answer. Years later, I heard she eventually got fired under mysterious circumstances, much to my delight.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:29:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Senior year of high school, I was a teacher's assistant for a lit class. This was my 1st class of the day. My 2nd class of the day was the same lit class, except I was actually a student. For an entire year, I graded the exams that I ended up taking an hour later. Easiest two A's of my academic career.
jonhen99 · 1 points · Posted at 05:29:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a Trans I (f) identify as a (m) and use that bathroom. Helps a lot at concerts and ballgames.
flugbone · 1 points · Posted at 06:10:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What? First off, you would say transgender person and second i (f) identify as a (m) makes no sense you are a transgender man, transgender woman, or gender fluid. Idk what I(f) identify as a (m) means.
majikinc · 1 points · Posted at 05:29:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back around the turn of the century, my friend and I discovered a loophole in a very major auction site. We discovered that you could retract a bid literally seconds before the end of the auction.
So, using a few different accounts, we would bid on items we wanted that had no reserve (a set price that has to be reached before you could win the auction). For an item that would get on average $200, a bid would be made for $250. Because of how the bidding worked, the price would only go up a dollar or two. Then, we would make a second bid at $230 with another account, driving the price up to that amount.
Two mins before the auction would end, the second bidder would retract his bid, lowering the price back down to five bucks or some other crazy low amount with only a minute to go.
Over a couple weeks we got a bunch of computer stuff and Oakley sunglasses for an absolute steal. One guy got really pissed, and apparently contacted the site. About a month after we started this the auction site sent out an email to all its members informing of the new bid retraction policy. Now you couldn't retract a bid in the last 24 hours of the auction.
We were some punk-ass 14 year olds.
RetroMonger · 1 points · Posted at 05:29:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was younger I discovered that I didnt need a second person to have sex, just my hand. I still exploit the hell out of that one.
Captain_Moose · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A few years ago, my mom sent my dad and I to the store for a few things and cigarettes. She gets 3-4 packs of her kind; dad buys his by the carton. Everything together should've been about $110. It came out to 60-ish. Dad knew it was off but couldn't place why. Didn't say anything. (Smart man.)
We got in the car. He handed me the receipt, asked if I can figure it out. The cashier didn't scan the carton. She'd gotten it off the shelf, set it down, and done something else. We debated going back, but hey, free stuff! Cigs ain't cheap.
Mom took it back and paid for it. Party pooper.
Hotwings22 · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So I have a mobile plan with unlimited data, however the mobile hotspot is not unlimited. For some reason, my phone does not tell my carrier that I am using a hotspot. So instead of paying for both internet and a data plan, I just regularly have over a hundred gigs of data worth a month on my phone, but 0 gigs on my mobile hotspot.
supersonic-turtle · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
its not really a loop hole but it comes in handy on laundry day. I use my dimes and nickels in the nearby soda machine and when I hit a dollar I press the coin release and the machine drops out quarters. Really convenient when I dont want to break a dollar at the store.
-LovelyJubbley · 1 points · Posted at 06:24:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
THREAD DELETED.OP BANNED.
Nick_litt · 1 points · Posted at 06:25:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not so much of a loophole, but..
For the last year or so, I've lived in a dormitory on a military base. Being that it's a secure installation, the base only allows one company to come on and provide internet/cable to all of the on-base housing, including the dorms. (A cable company in a position to be a monopoly? How unheard of!!!)
So I took the time to jailbreak my iPhone 5S (with an unlimited data plan from Sprint) and was able to reactivate the mobile HotSpot capability on the phone. Not only that, but the app hides the use of the HotSpot from the providers, so they just think I use a massive amount of data every month. Meanwhile, my computer, playstation, and apple TV all contribute to the average 400 Gb or so of data usage on my phone bill every month.
$74 every month on my phone bill. Saved over $1200 thus far.
Fuck you cable/internet providers.
Ajl1198 · 1 points · Posted at 06:34:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother switched the "The Duke" football from its original packging to the autograph version of the ball making it go from 100 to 35 dollars real quick.
MDSGeist · 1 points · Posted at 06:49:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Me and the gang devised this scheme where we took our bosses credit card, bought a bunch of airline miles, then used to airline miles to purchase 400 steaks.
After getting the steaks, we rubbed live chickens on the meat to contaminate then, repackaged the steaks, returned them and received cash back, thus exploiting a loophole in the current airline mile system.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sounds like Charlie work.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:53:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was about 15 years old, my friends girlfriend dad had a friend who was the boss of our city's Macdonald. One time he gave her a coupon for a free menu. The coupon was just a piece of thick paper with a pic of the logo behind and a text written "free best of menu" on the front. I had the genius idea of scanning it and printing like 20 of them on paper for photos (you know those thick papers). Because I was missing some blue ink or whatever and because it was completely misaligned it looked pretty fake, se we dumped all our free coupons and walked on them to make them looked used and hide the details. Anyway we had like 40+ free menus like that. At some points all the cashiers were asking their manager if they can use the coupon and they always said yes.
CedarWolf · 1 points · Posted at 07:02:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I first lived on my own, I was working at a grocery store, and I was pretty poor. I was living on ramen noodles, hot dogs, and cheap frozen burritos.
Well, our store had a special that summer where if you bought 10 boxes of ice cream, you got an 11th for free. All summer, I had to sit there and hand this little printed flyer about it to every customer, for every single transaction that came through my register, a hundred times a day.
Until that brand of ice cream went on sale for half off. So I bought 11 boxes of every single flavor I'd ever wanted to try, and got them all for the price of 5 boxes; roughly $12 to $15, IIRC.
I ferreted my frozen smorgasbord home at the end of my shift and stuffed our freezer full with pride. Such an amazing deal; I had enough ice cream to last me all year! Even if everything else in my life was hard, I'd at least have a special treat to come home to, now and then. Two weeks later, I came home after a rough shift to have my first taste of sweet, dairy deliciousness...
Only to find that one of my roommates, a real leech and a fatass of a person, had eaten all of them. She'd sat there with our third roommate and eaten them all over a few days. He got a box or two, she ate the rest. Then they threw all the boxes away, as if I wouldn't find out. I never got a single taste.
I have many more stories about this person. She crushed half my furniture and she's a burden on those closest to her, but somehow she keeps finding more people to mooch off of. To date, she's still the worst roommate I've ever had, and she remains one of the worst people I've ever known.
beefcube5 · 1 points · Posted at 12:15:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm super late but has anyone ever heard of Bangbros and Johnny1?
Well...Johnny1 was the Username and Password to an all-access account. My friends and I were like 16...needless to say we fapped and fapped and fapped...until they took it down of course. Then the streaming sites came into existence, and now we still fap.
Myzyri · 1 points · Posted at 14:22:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'll probably go unnoticed since I'm late, but here goes...
In high school, I had stayed late for one of my after school clubs. I ended up being the last person in the building (aside from the janitors) because my mom was late picking me up. Very late.
As I wait, I walk to the Pepsi machine. I put in a dollar, the Pepsi comes out. The change comes out... $1.25.
Hmm... I could swear I heard five distinct little plinks, but I assume someone else forgot their change. Just in case, I feed in another dollar.
plink plink plink plink plink
Yup, I was getting a drink, a refund, and 3 free quarters with every purchase (a can was only 50 cents back then). I just sat there feeding quarters back into the machine. When mom showed up, I had a mountain of various beverages and a backpack full of quarters.
She helped me load the drinks into the car.
It eventually ran out of quarters, but still dispensed the beverage and gave the refund, but no bonus. If I recall correctly, I had like $60 in quarters and almost 250 cans of various beverages.
I tried again the next day in every machine and they were all working correctly. I kick myself every time because I didn't try the other machines that night. I know my mother and I would have sat there all night just cleaning them out if they were all puking out soda and quarters...
bneufy92 · 1 points · Posted at 14:34:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bought a $300 2part foam spray kit from home depot for work. Use it up completely (refoaming hot tubs) wait til next day. Buy another foam kit for $300, then return the first empty one with the last receipt and get a full refund saying the hardener was no good. They dont ask for proof and the tank is empty. Rinse & repeat. Done this 5 or 6 times and only ever spent the initial 300 bucks
DidItRegister · -5 points · Posted at 01:04:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Renting video games from RedBox (an electronic video game and movie dispensing machine) with a prepaid debit card so that i could not be charged for not returning the games and than selling the games to people for money.
silentfal · 16 points · Posted at 04:54:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's not a loophole.. that's theft.
DidItRegister · 0 points · Posted at 05:39:12 on March 10, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eat my nut
W0lfgangster · 2 points · Posted at 05:46:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Here's a loophole for you.
if you walk into a bank wearing a ski mask and point a gun the clerk, they'll give you all of the money. make sure you have a fast car though .
[deleted] · -15 points · Posted at 03:42:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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the_kijt · 3 points · Posted at 04:07:11 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
wp
idk24k4 · 2 points · Posted at 05:03:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fucking Genius.
topkekies123 · 2 points · Posted at 05:05:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
were we just bamboozled
octopus5650 · 2 points · Posted at 05:26:47 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm almost too impressed to be mad, because you admitted it. Pulled off the perfect karma heist.
The_RonaId · 2 points · Posted at 05:43:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
What the hell OP
One800Uup · 2 points · Posted at 05:47:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You burned 5 hours farming a few thousand karma just to be able to post on some sub that you'll probably end up getting banned from again anyway. Lol really gaming the system there buddy.
one_pump_dave · 2 points · Posted at 05:29:39 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I bet all those other replies are fake and you're a weirdo dude, nobody cares about your dumb comments.
trenchdick · 1 points · Posted at 06:03:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dude you're so cool! I wish I were a badass just like you!
iEatCrayons_v2 · 1 points · Posted at 04:36:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I like you
TAOMCM · 0 points · Posted at 04:02:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
ITT: Tell me about a time you committed fraud and/or theft
MythoclastByXur · 0 points · Posted at 04:42:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have such a great story for this that I can't share. :/
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:49 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Share it with me. 😊
MythoclastByXur · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It would work for you anyway unless you have a flex plan. If you do PM me.
JPWRana · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Flex plan?
[deleted] · -5 points · Posted at 23:38:16 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Jeheh · 7 points · Posted at 00:55:33 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Let us know how that works out for you.
ThatOneHuskyGuy · 3 points · Posted at 02:01:43 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Worked for Wesley till it didnt
nirvanna94 · 0 points · Posted at 02:31:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
MissingNo.
iatealltheapples · 0 points · Posted at 02:36:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The infinite free burgers hack at hungry jacks
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 02:58:34 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Zippy0201 · 1 points · Posted at 05:05:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do you have to scan multiple receipts? Or can it be the same receipt?
BarneyTheWise · 0 points · Posted at 03:26:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't know if this is a loophole, but I figured out quite recently that the dumber someone is, the easier it is to separate them from their money.
I'm sure it'll come in handy one day.
Maximus_Stache · 0 points · Posted at 03:35:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Poophole Loophole
lValientl · 0 points · Posted at 03:35:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
For some reason whenever my friend buys a game on his Xbox, it downloads it onto my Xbox as well. Been doing this for like 10 years now.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 03:59:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you sort r/askreddit by top of the year, scroll down a bit, you can just copy the title of a post and paste it into a new thread
The_RonaId · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just like OP. Or can we even call him OP considering his P isn't OC.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 04:19:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Infinite warfare key glitch
eneka · 0 points · Posted at 04:21:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
the Citi AAdvantage Platinum Select Mastercard "World Elite" loophole. Man was it fun getting 250k AA miles...
Kechioma · 0 points · Posted at 04:25:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Almost every time I logged into my PS4, I got $10 of PSN credit. I guess this was because I was supposedly buying a lot of dlcs for game, when simply I logged online and found vouchers for watch dogs dlc. So I ended up getting $20 for just logging into my ps4. I just used it on games and dlc.
SMGB_NeonYoshi · 0 points · Posted at 04:27:26 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is it OK if I make a post like this in the videogame subreddit?
IHavetwoNipples · 1 points · Posted at 04:44:16 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, you will be forever banned from the internet.
SMGB_NeonYoshi · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Noted.
xxaaoo · 0 points · Posted at 04:27:52 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Um... hope I don't get in trouble for this.... it was a LONG time ago (over 15 years and I was a minor).. but remember the old vending machines? Remember how you could go purchase play money at the dollar store? I was very young and hungry and it was one heck of a way to get goodies in school as a broke kid.
fen3 · 0 points · Posted at 04:28:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Every time I'm broke and need gas I go to the pump with anything more than $0.00 in my bank account and it lets you get about 12 dollars in gas before it stops. I have to pay for it with my next check when I go negative and get and overdraft fee but it's basically getting a loan for about 12 dollars and paying a ton of interest on it. Helps me out a ton when I'm too broke to get gas though.
alwaysmyfault · 4 points · Posted at 04:34:59 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So you end up paying like 37 dollars for 12 dollars in gas? No wonder you're broke. That's about as terrible of a financial decision as you can make.
fen3 · 1 points · Posted at 04:44:07 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I mean I'm broke cuz I'm a young kid and don't make a lot of money right now and like to spend money. But like I said ya I pay more money in the long run but when you need it, it's worth it. Rather pay 37 bucks for 5 gallons of gas then run out of gas on the road and have no money to do anything about it.
MellerTime · 0 points · Posted at 04:31:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hotel and car rental corporate discount codes.
printertossaway · 0 points · Posted at 04:53:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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simmocar · 0 points · Posted at 04:53:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not me but my younger brother. Years ago I celebrated my 21st birthday poolside at a local beach resort. Amazing place. After the party officially ended, some of us were invited by staff to hang around poolside for the rest of the day. My girlfriend and I left but a majority of my friends including my brother stayed. There were all given hotel key cards so that they could let themselves in and out of the area until a certain time (I think 7pm).
Anyway, later on when staff were all asking for the cards back, they completely overlook my brother. He walks out with the card. He then used that card for 2 straight years - using the gym, poolside, the tennis court, of this beach resort (who were kind of on their way to going bust, so it shows how well they were managed).
TL;DR - had party at beach resort, brother given full access card, kept card and used it for 2 years, accessing almost every part of the resort.
RoseyCarolyn · 0 points · Posted at 04:59:24 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sundays during Lent aren't considered part of the 40 days of Lent. So whatever you give up for Lent, you can have on Sundays without consequence.
Some Catholics think that is cheating, but I think it's a loophole that should be exploited. And I do.
JagoKestral · 0 points · Posted at 05:08:02 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's this website shutter that's like Netflix but it's all just horror movies. I discovered a glitch where if you unsubscribed to the site, you'd still have permanent, and free, access to all of the movies. I watched 1 movie and then notified support because I can't bring myself to exploit things like that T-T
lagspike · 0 points · Posted at 05:16:36 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
affirmative action.
on every application from now on, im going to identify as a pangender genderfluid black female, for maximum bonus points.
the best part? they cant discriminate against you if you do. so you get all the affirmative action perks even if you're a white male.
(im kidding, but this might actually work)
ChevroletSparkSS · 0 points · Posted at 05:18:53 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine is a sheriff, and will boot his own car and put a fake window sticker on to avoid paying at parking meters. I only do this when I need to park somewhere and I either: a, don't have time to pay, or b, didn't bring enough money to pay for the meter. He gave me a boot plus the removal tool, plus a fake sticker (it's reusable).
DEADSCOPED · 0 points · Posted at 05:18:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Someone was buying girlfriend, they payed, I'm guy
Boycoronablow · 0 points · Posted at 05:26:14 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The one I put my belt through to hold up my pants.
45thPOTUS_BIATCH · 0 points · Posted at 05:31:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I lost nearly a billion dollars and didn't pay taxes for two decades... now I'm President of the United States. #SoGreat #1%
itstime117 · 0 points · Posted at 05:41:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Poophole loophole.
throwawaypf2015 · 1 points · Posted at 06:28:27 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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itstime117 · 1 points · Posted at 22:58:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
It doesn't count as sex if you don't enter the vagina. At least that's what my Christian ex told me.
Heart_breaker_lion · 0 points · Posted at 05:41:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you take estrogen, you turn into a girl!
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 05:47:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bout 6 months or so? Ago, chick-fil-a had a promo where if you downloaded the app and created a new account, you got a free meal. That lasted for maybe a month I believe. This also coincided with a brand new location opening up near me that was giving out free meal coupons for the first week or so, for anyone who ordered through the app.
For breakfast, lunch, and dinner (and a snack or two usually) monday-saturday, I ate nothing but chick fil a, completely free. A whole meal. For about a month. There was no verification needed, so i just typed in some random ass email, ordered my food and picked it up from the drive through (after they stopped giving the free meal cards away after the first week.)
akjoltoy · 0 points · Posted at 05:54:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Buying big items at Costco, emptying out the box, going back in with the box in the cart and filling it up with stuff. Buying another one while there and having my friend go in the return line with it while I go out with the hot box. Then return, etc.
The big items all fully returned and usually a fridge-sized box worth of free shit. Computers/sound bars/clothes/chocolates/wine.
I do it once or twice a month. $3k hauls usually.
I have some other ideas cooking too but this beautiful one works great.
genitalDefect · 0 points · Posted at 06:08:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
ITT: How I stole a bunch of shit.
Tralliz · 0 points · Posted at 06:11:04 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I actually have a decent one. I essentially get fries, 6 wings, and a large pizza for around $11. I'd say how, but they haven't fixed it yet... so I'm good.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 06:16:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Unlimited Candy Crush lives.
Lemonade8891 · 0 points · Posted at 06:18:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
when i was in university, i lived in a hall of residence with maybe 500 other 19-25 year olds boys and girls. hall management brought in an MnM's vending machine one day for a good cause. if you put a dollar coin into the coin slot and twisted the lever/knob thingy clockwise about 90 degrees or so, you'd get a handful of candy, and some of the proceeds would go to a charity.
problem was, the knob mechanism was faulty - u could forcefully twist the knob in the wrong direction by maybe 5-10 degrees, then turn it in the correct direction 5-10 degrees until it was at its original resting position, and a little candy will drop out of the machine. not much, maybe 5-6 individual MnMs.
so everytime people walked by the machine, on their way to class, or on their way back from class, they'd do this to the machine and receive a small, free snack. and hall management didnt realise we were doing this until the candy level started dropping conspicuously (once more people caught on to the trick) without a single cent collected for charity, and removed it immediately.
people are assholes.
MartinMcDrunkenstein · 0 points · Posted at 06:25:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My buddy worked as a cashier at a major retailer in high school. He found that you could take $20 for a gift card, 'accidentally' hit an extra 0 and boom, you have a $200 gift card. Among a lot of other shit, we got a PS2 and guitar hero when it first came out. The gift card trick worked for a few months, but he did it way too much for too many people and got caught. Got some badass games though. Fight night is the shit.
CavemanJoseph · 0 points · Posted at 06:25:15 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
The fast food franchises at my University are 3rd party and are ran by University employees instead of franchise employee. Therefore, they don't follow 100% of the franchises' rules.
I figured out that the Subway there doesn't always label the sub you ordered (you had to take it to a common central cash register away from the place where they make your food).
So I always get free bacon my my sub since it never gets labeled so the common cash register never charges for it. Been doing this for two years now.
Jean-Luc_Dickard · 0 points · Posted at 12:19:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have a couple decent ones. First, at the advent of all of the self scan checkouts at grocery stores we realized that if you just rip part of the case and scan one can of beer it rings up as a 6 pack, well since they had to check your id, you just set it down and they always cleared the weight discrepancy when they entered your id etc. so that was cool. then to take this further..we would go in really late...usually 11:45 and get a bunch of different beer and then stack cases on the bottom. Always 2/3 different people checking out but using one cart so it was a sort of mis-direction since we would all be walking up to show our ids at different times. We wouldn't ever ring up the 2,3,4 cases of beer at the bottom of the cart...i lived in what was essentially the "rocker kids" frat house. 4 dudes living in a fairly large 4bdrm house with a basement etc etc. we usually did a kroger run 5 nights a week...this went on for YEARS. Lets take bare minumums...2 cases per run, 4 nights a week, 52 weeks... 2x4x52 = 416 CASES of beer per year...and this went on for well over 3 years. That is 1248 cases of beer that we walked out of the store with...and I need to stress...this is a VERY low ball estimate. We had to get a can smasher and we would easily fill the huge trash cans full of smashed empties in a couple weeks. Man...that house was so fun. So many parties, so many girls, so much crazy shit went down there. Oh yeah..we were good at beerpong...stupidly good.
Ok next one. I worked at a restaurant. This place had just opened so i was part of the opening crew. They opened a few months before christmas and it was the most popular joint in town. We were selling giftcards like crazy. Well for some reason some of the gift cards would error on when you went to load them so we just kinda threw the shitty ones out and kept going until we got a good one. Well one day on a slow shift i sold a few gift cards and went through like 10 of the "bad" ones. So they are just sitting there and i get the idea to try and use it for a tab. Boom. It works. Holy fuck. I was sitting on a stack of ten gift cards loaded with 100$ on them but that are not in the "system." This job just got infinitely better. 2 months to go until christmas...i started taking ALL of the day shifts so that i could sell a majority of the gift cards. I started giving away all of the ones under 50$ thats how many i fucking had. So christmas rolls around and then for the next 3-5 months any time a person would pay cash on my shift, i would get them their change but ring it up on the gift card so basically the cash for the tab went into my pocket. I would do this on solo shifts so the money would all go to me (i was a bartender). And sometimes on shifts with people i liked and we'd just make bank on a crappy morning. I would easily walk with 3-400 per 4-5hr solo shift. I also gave a bunch of the cards away but i made like 7-10k extra that year. Quit when the cards dried up as its hard to do something for less money than you previously did it for. I was insanely lucky also...right at this time bitcoin was going through its first real huge jump...i invested a huge chunk of cash (like 4k worth) in bitcoins..they went from like $80/ea to like $3/400 each. I cashed out, had my mother (financial planner) invest it wisely for me...i'm basically retired at age 30. I say basically because i dont have SUPER nice stuff..but i'm set as long as i keep my expenses under a certain amount.
badguys8 · -11 points · Posted at 01:21:54 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
If I claim transgender and I take testosterone while still being female I can still play sports in competition with other females. Only issue is I'd have to become female in the first place.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 01:49:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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badguys8 · 1 points · Posted at 02:47:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well aware, was just using it from a humor standpoint. Many people that disagree with her choice to wrestle see it as a loophole. I for one don't have any quarrel with it.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 14:34:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can also be a man, claim you're "transgender", go into MMA, compete against helpless women and fucking destroy them while still being a man. You'll make shit-tons of money, and nobody will be allowed to complain because "transphobia".
Source: Fallon Fox, a man.
badguys8 · 1 points · Posted at 14:59:08 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well shoot, I didn't even know about that lol
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 02:46:13 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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RexFox · -1 points · Posted at 02:59:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had a trebuchet project freshmen year of highschool. There was a limit to the weight allowed in the basket but not overall.
I had a bunch of spent lead from the range which i melted down and covered the basket side of the lever with.
Worked pretty well and somehow didnt burn the cheap ass wood.
chewbakia · -1 points · Posted at 04:00:56 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Alcohol.
DFParker78 · -1 points · Posted at 04:22:05 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Amazon return policy used to send you new products without receiving old one first. Off one XBox purchased I managed to get three consoles and my money back! Now they're way more strict because of people like me.
ComradeGibbon · -1 points · Posted at 04:29:48 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
White male over 30?
Curtixman · -1 points · Posted at 05:02:21 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pay attention kids;
Take a case of bottled beer. Let's say Miller Lite. The type of case that looks like this;
Take all the empty bottles, fill them with water and put the caps back on and then put all the bottles back in the case. Take a glue-gun and glue the top flaps closed again so that it looks like a unopened 24 case of beer.
Go to the beer store with a buddy and have your buddy stand right outside the exit door with the case of water-beer while you walk in the entrance door.
Ask the clerk for a 24 case of Miller Lite. Pay for it and walk out the exit. Quickly swap the case with the one your buddy is holding outside, stop the exit door with your foot and walk straight back in and say; oh sorry, not Miller Lite. I meant Miler Genuine Draft MGD. Hand the water-beer to the clerk and watch him go to the back and come back with a second case of beer for you.
You just got two cases of beer for the price of one. Cheers!!! http://i.imgur.com/iWjbNIc.jpg
Colin03129 · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:38 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
So how do you exchange your two cases of water for beer?
Curtixman · 1 points · Posted at 06:29:00 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hu?
PontifusRex · -1 points · Posted at 05:42:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I found an amazing loophole while working for the South African State Department. I had recently been promoted to Ambassador to the US and noticed that the price of gold coins was highly favorable before taxes and tariffs.
I did some research and found out that I had diplomatic immunity which meant I could smuggle the gold in, but the police couldn't do anything to me! I even could have people killed who got in my way! I've made millions with this trick.I just hope my diplomatic immunity doesn't ever get revoked.
[deleted] · -20 points · Posted at 22:34:28 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
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slowpokeswell · 9 points · Posted at 23:34:32 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a girl in Australia who was recently found replacing barcodes on $200+ items with barcodes of items that cost $3.
sharpkittty · 3 points · Posted at 01:36:46 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
My friend did this in the US in Walmart. I had to bail him out of jail the next day.
jmhalder · 3 points · Posted at 03:51:17 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to work at Walmart, people used to do this BEFORE self checkouts. As a cashier, you'd have to keep on your toes to notice that stuff. They can easily deny that they did anything: "that sticker must have already been on there". Our AP dept. definitely caught people swapping stickers though.
slowpokeswell · 2 points · Posted at 03:13:03 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not gonna lie it was pretty well thought out but still wrong
Prof_Lava-Hot · 7 points · Posted at 00:30:35 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
cmelo321 · 18 points · Posted at 23:54:27 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
Stealing isn't a loophole it's a crime
mbinder · 19 points · Posted at 23:15:33 on February 26, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's just plain stealing...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:32 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
right!? :-D
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 03:53:20 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Have any of you heard of Synthetic Cannabinoids? They were invented as a way of getting really high legally as the cannabinoids were not scheduled and rarely even fell under the Federal Anolouge act. Often it was sold at head shops and gas stations owned by immigrants. This was my main drug of choice in the Navy as they could not test for it(They can test for it now with about the same amount of resources it would take to test for acid but their are thousands of formulas and they do not have the resources to test for them all.) , it got me really high, and technically it was legal. In fact the formulas that were most used would change every few months to further foil the powers that could make something illegal in the first place.
iDarkville · -6 points · Posted at 04:06:37 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Tell that to all the people getting busted on the urinalysis for spice.
By the way, a pothead in the military? Fuck you. Fuck you very much. You disgrace the service.
Shame.
Shame.
Shame.
TysonBison117 · 2 points · Posted at 05:14:40 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I bet you're fun at parties
iDarkville · -1 points · Posted at 11:00:31 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Actually, I am. I'm also good at spotting the dirtbags in the military. Zero tolerance for druggies.
ProfessorDrewseph · 3 points · Posted at 12:23:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think you need to focus on maturing.
iDarkville · 0 points · Posted at 17:21:01 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Advocating a drug free military living is childish? Well, I stand corrected, mature fella.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:40:12 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
the military is not drug free even regarding policies. Alcohol, tobacco, coffee, opioids are all drugs god damn you a dumb fucking idiot.
iDarkville · 0 points · Posted at 17:45:23 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Let's make a deal. You stop babbling about things you obviously don't know about, and I'll continue to berate the drug-using shitbag.
The policy for illegal drug usage in the military is zero tolerance. Spice is illegal. People are being kicked out for testing positive for it. Using synthetics or devices designed to circumvent the testing procedures is also punishable administratively.
Source: I know what I'm talking about.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:47:51 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Source: I am the source bitch!
iDarkville · 0 points · Posted at 18:01:41 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm still laughing at your lame attempt to equate coffee to illegal spice.
Just showed your comment to a few colleagues. All laughing at the stupid man on the internet.
That's right, people are laughing at you.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:08:29 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Have you ever tried to explain photosynthesis to a tree? Explaining anything to you is much like that. Illustrating your ignorance to you could very well be impossible. Therefore I will not even try.
iDarkville · 0 points · Posted at 20:26:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, because I don't do drugs.
TysonBison117 · 1 points · Posted at 10:41:15 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/iamverysmart
iDarkville · 0 points · Posted at 11:33:02 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
r/andyuoarenot
TysonBison117 · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:37 on February 28, 2017 · (Permalink)
Uh, you spelled that wrong, ya dingus...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:55 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
this guy is fun at parties because all us real sailors are raping him in the closet! Your attitude and closed mind are the shame. You should be hung from the top mast. you foolish swabbie.
iDarkville · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:10 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wow. Way to show your ignorance. Keep going. Entertaining to watch you self-destruct.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 04:58:18 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
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no_witty_username · -3 points · Posted at 00:32:57 on February 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pDTiFkXgEE