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Every now and again life accidentally leaves a door unlocked. Only those who dare to enter are rewarded with great and unexpected surprises. Free coffee for life. Money for nothing. Airline and hotel points for years. All-you-can-eat buffets without spending a cent. Call them loopholes, glitches in the system, or sheer luck. They’re the stuff dreams are made of.
Someone recently asked, "What glitch in the system are you exploiting?" and thousands of responses came flying in. People shared all the ways they're winning at life without breaking any rules whatsoever. Epic stories about spotting a crack, slipping through and scoring. Harmless rebellion. Big wins. Legendary bragging rights.
Bored Panda has put together a list of the best ones for you to scroll through while you wonder why you didn't think of that. Upvote your favorites and feel free to share your own sneaky loopholes in the comments section below.
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#1
Live in a rural town. No degree, but I'm excellent at math. I got a job teaching GED math classes which requires a degree, it was supposed to be temporary and I was supposed to give my boss a refresher on math so they could eventually let me go. My boss knows I have a daughter to support by myself as a dad and have really turned my life around and my boss already knows how to do math. Boss still always tells her supervisor she just can't get the hang of alegebra so I can keep my job. My boss is cool.
Barong 3 hours ago
When I was younger degrees weren’t always a requirement. There are many people that know their stuff or perhaps more importantly can learn it without a degree. I know someone that has been doing IT for a large company that has a that has an English degree and another without a degree. Now some degrees are important as they are part of licensing like being an MD or an Engineer but there are some careers that what you learn in school won’t have much to do with what you will be doing on the job and therefore a persons ability to adapt and learn on the job is more important than a degree.
Ace 25 minutes ago (edited)
All very true (I worked in IT, Stats and Pharmaceutical development for decades without a degree) but a Maths teacher is one of those areas where you really would expect a degree to be required, even back when I was at school.
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Crystalwitch60 1 hour ago
Can anyone get the hang of algebra eugh I swear I’ve never used it since leaving school at 14 ,some 45 yrs ago , ligit never used it 🤷♀️
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#2
One of the washing machines at my college only costs a quarter as opposed to the normal dollar. I'm saving tens. TENS I TELL YOU.
Nota Robot 1 hour ago
"Tens" would have been very welcome when I was that age and first living in student accommodation.
Laserleader 4 hours ago
Cheap machine... in my town its at least $5 for the small machine, and drying is at least $4-10 depending on what is drying.
StrangeOne 3 hours ago
Holt c**p that's expensive. I pay $5 for both wash and dry in my building.
Load More Replies... Crystalwitch60 1 hour ago
Oh the beauty of living in uk lol having washing machines n dryers IN our own homes , have done since I was a kid , was a twin tub thens can’t say I’ve every used a laundromat or laundrettes as the ones here are called , in fact I’ve never even been in one 🤷♀️do we even have any anymore ?
#3
It's not exactly a glitch, but if you use spotify on chrome (so not the downloadable app) and have AdBlock on, you no longer have to listen to any commercials.
Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 3 hours ago
Or use Brave browser and the whole internet is ad free!
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Ace 20 minutes ago
Well duh! Who'd have thought that something called an ad blocker would block adverts? (Although there's a constant arms race as those sites try to block the ad-blockers and the ad-blockers try to find new ways around the blocking of their blocking. Firefox caved in to youtube a while ago, so I had to switch browsers to Brave).
#4
I've been getting free Internet for the last 10 years because my ISP never cut me off after I stopped paying. I don't question it.
Crystalwitch60 1 hour ago
That’s stealing ! And u can be sure it will catch up with u. So maybe don’t go around bragging about this one . Cos that is out n out illegal, I so do not wanna see that bill when it invariably drops on your mat . AND IT WILL !
#5
Was told by gas company that my apartment "doesn't exist" according to their records and therefore couldn't set up an account. Despite this, we've had gas in the apartment for the past 3 years.
Judes 2 hours ago
You're either using your neighbour's gas, or the building as a whole pays for gas and you're paying indirectly via your rent (if you rent) or your building fees (if you are an owner).
Crystalwitch60 56 minutes ago
Well I hope you,ve checked how it’s being payed for , cos if you have a gas leak in your flat , and they don’t recognise it as being supplied there will be a problem ,I’m with Jude’s , your likely paying via your rent .
Nugget The Toaster - they/them 2 hours ago (edited)
uh….gas in the bathroom…? (I feel so immature)
#6
I took a regular old stats class in high school. My college saw it on my transcript, thought it was AP, and checked it off of my degree requirements. My graduate school saw it on my undergrad transcript and checked it off on my requirements. I haven't taken a math class since I was 17 and I'm not saying a word.
General Anaesthesia 2 minutes ago (edited)
And that's why LLM AI (Authentic Ignorance) hallucinates.
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Theres a change dispenser near my house and when you put in 1 dollar bills it despenses 5 quarters instead of 4. Woohoo breaking economy.
#8
Not current, but a good story.
Three years ago I worked at a grocery store as a cashier and they had a system where every dollar spent was put towards a point system to give you discounts on their gas. You also got discounts on specific items with the card.
They tracked our employee cards, so we couldnt cop some free fuel points. But my mom's old phone number was still linked to an account, so whenever a customer didnt have an account (which was free) I would just type in my mom's old # and say it was the store code to give them discounts. I paid next to nothing for gas while I worked there and never got caught.
Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 2 hours ago
Even better. My boss was a contractor. He'd buy home Depot gift cards when the store was running 20 percent off gift cards sales. Of course he used his phone number and bought thousands of dollars worth of gift cards. Then he'd buy stuff at home Depot that was on sale and basically be getting 40 percent off plus all the gas points which he gave the number to all the employees because there were so many points he couldn't use them all!
BlitheSpirit 4 hours ago
I did that as a student who had to deal with downtown parking in the USA - worked like a charm!
#9
This was like 7 or 8 years ago when a lot of towns in the UK didn't have Dominoes Pizza, before Papa Johns was a thing here and you were lucky if there was a Pizza Hut delivery. Most people only had access to pizza from little, dirty kebab shops and like their kebabs, the pizzas were best eaten when drunk.
Well a Dominoes opened up in my hometown not long after I finished university and moved back home. Because it was so expensive compared to the cheap, albeit bad, pizza you could already buy, they did loads of really good coupon and online deals.
They had this one code, PIZFIFTY, that was 50% of £50. A large pizza with two sides was about £25 anyway, so you could basically get twice the amount of food. It made it feel like you weren't getting totally ripped off.
That code didn't stay on the menus for long though, and it was replaced with various other codes that would change every month. The thing is though, the PIZFIFTY code still worked online. And it stayed active until this year. I was a little heartbroken when I entered it and got an invalid code error.
Lotekguy 4 hours ago
I feel sorry for anyone who lives where Domino's offers the best pizza in town.
Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 2 hours ago
I'm from NY and I think I'll make a few more BP accounts to upvote this more
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James016 42 minutes ago
We have several pizza places where I live including Domino's and Pizza Hut. I use one called Red Pepper Pizza and it is amazing. They do a half and half so my wife and I get one large rectangular pizza but we each customise one side for ourselves. Price is very good as well
Crystalwitch60 51 minutes ago
Erm dominos have been in pretty much all towns for over 20 yrs lmao ,my stepson worked in on m in a small town we lived in , 16 yrs ago now ,🤷♀️gotta say I much prefer the pizzas I make , but should I have one I like Mario’s in chippy , they lush
Lucas Jackson 4 hours ago
Yeh got be done though, they are charging £20-25 a pizza now over here
Unicorn 35 minutes ago
Once a week I buy a frozen pizza in the supermarket, keep it in the freezer until I want to eat it, then put it in the oven. What's so difficult about that?
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Being a private nanny to get through university. Rich parents will pay a ton for someone well-presented who enjoys playing with children and can make a sandwich. I earn so much more than my friends in casual jobs, work half the hours, love my job and the parents are people in my field who let me assist them with work so I'm gaining experience for after my degree. Just find some rich parents man.
Crystalwitch60 44 minutes ago
Even full time can be online , so once the kiddies are asleep at night time to study , like loads do 🤷♀️
Load More Replies... Crystalwitch60 45 minutes ago
Decent rich people that is lol most would have you working 18 hrs a day cleaning entire house to , well done op for landing good parents ,they would amazing x
#11
Wal-Mart will match any price of their competitors...so I usually get a tremendous deal on sodas...$2.50 per 12 pack...because if you just show them the deal on a newspaper they will honor it, doesn't matter if the deal is from the friggin 4th of July. They never check the date. This can work on other items as well, I've just found the biggest savings to be on 12-packs.
comfort the lame 3 hours ago (edited)
This must be very very old. as far as I know, Walmart stopped doing this ages ago.
Ace 16 minutes ago
Well it's a 9 year old thread, and quite likely wasn't current even when it was posted.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 3 hours ago
Depends where, I guess. A lot of grocery chains claim this price match policy but they never seem to want to practice that policy.
#12
If your listening to pandora on android and an ad comes up, press your recent screens button (either the left or right button) and close out and re launch it, its quicker than sitting through the ad and with extended use pandora is now permanently glitched and every ad is now 6 seconds of black screen and back to my music (:.
#13
At my work, we have to pay 30€/month for parking which get deducted from our salary, but I've never paid a cent since when I started there, I used to go to work by train but after a month, I've started to use my car and just never informed anyone ...
So far I've saved around 3k€ ...
Judes 2 hours ago
I have a friend who, as a university student, would just part in the most audacious spot on the university campus---right in front of the building he mostly studied in (not actually a parking spot), and he was never stopped because it was assumed that only a really important person would park there.
#14
My great student card heist. I live in South Australia, so YMMV elsewhere. Basically, the cost to apply for a uni degree here is about $60. So you apply for a degree, enrol in topics, get your "full time student" ID card, then unenrol in all your topics. If you unenrol before the census date (which is usually a month or so after uni starts), you don't get charged for the course - but they don't ask for your student card back!
That means that you get to claim all the sweet sweet student discounts, the best of which being on public transport. If, like me, you get public transport twice a day, five days a week, it costs you almost $40. Having a student card halves the cost. So you basically make up for the $60 you paid to apply for uni in 3 weeks of catching the train.
Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 2 hours ago
I'm 51 (today actually!) and I take a 0 credit yoga class twice a week for 100 bucks a semester. With that comes a student ID and all the perks and discounts of being a student including half priced Amazon Prime!
#15
At Noodles and Company I regularly order online at work. I get the Med Salad. Normally it comes with chicken added. I deselect the chicken saving like $3 and so far I'm 5/5 for them still putting it on there.
Meyrin 2 hours ago
Salad had the option remove chicken (saves 3 bucks) he/she removesv it saves the 3 bucks, salad still comes with chicken.
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#16
I get 15% discounts at a particular grocery store by virtue of being a student. However, the chain doesn't apply the discounts on returns. So,I can buy something at a 15% discount and return it for full price.
I don't use it because I want the chain to stick around, but I know it exists.
#18
My brother got discounts from other stores in the plaza of the grocery store he worked at becsuse he work at said grocery store. The pizza place got so used to seeing him, they gave him the grocery store discount every time he came in, even well after he quit that job.
#19
I use the Starbucks mobile ordering system to order a grande drink, but then select the option to have it put in a venti cup. 4/5 times I get a full venti drink.
Edit: grande: medium. Venti: large. Yea, I hate using those words too. They offer that option so you can have room to add sugar or cream. And yea, I know it's not a full venti drink, but it's always more than a grande. My cousin is a barista and she says they don't really care if they give more on iced coffee or hot coffee because yea, it's still $5 for .50 coffee. Anyway, it's the little things that make my day.
StrangeOne 3 hours ago (edited)
I remember Tim Hortons used to be pretty good at just charging me for a small because I would add so much cream and sugar. But now I'm having a time just trying to make sure I get my order heard correctly. If try to explain any sort of loophole I get looked at as if I'm trying to steal their gold.
#20
Flipping failed recalled products. When say Apple do a recall for a logic board failure, find systems with those symptoms on eBay for cheap, take them into the Apple Store and they'll repair it for free under warranty.
Also a cheap way to get a MacBook every few years (but usually better to get several failed ones and swap for something that hasn't been recalled).
#21
The mobils in my area did a scratch off game via text. you text a code and they send you a link to a scratch-off page. get 3 out of the 6 and you won a free energy drink, soda, or water (changed monthly). i literally won every day. then i discovered you could clear cookies and get as many tickets as you had email addresses. was getting 5 energy drinks a day for free for a few months.
#22
Getting a mortgage and then getting a roomie to pay rent to me, which I use to pay the mortgage. Living for free man.
JudyfromAccounts 4 hours ago
Living for free in your own home with a random stranger. Cool cool cool.
The Starsong Princess 3 hours ago
If he’s smart, he’s paying double his mortgage payments and will be mortgage free in less than half the time. Then he’ll have no payment and won’t need the roommate. Roommates are fine when you are young.
Load More Replies... Crystalwitch60 38 minutes ago
Sod that if I still owned my own home , I ain’t having strangers living in it ,just no !
#23
My local pizza place has pepperoni on the menu for £1 more than pepperoni plus (pepperoni, mushrooms and onions), just swap the mushrooms and onions for pepperoni and pepperoni.
Every time I eat it I MWAHAHAHAHAHA to myself.
StrangeOne 2 hours ago
There's a pizza place here that has a good deal on for medium, 2 topping pizzas. I order online, so I do half and half with my daughter. We can both get our own 2 toppings on each side, that's 4 toppings in total.
Toothless Feline 3 hours ago
Unless the pepp-only has three times as much pepp as the pepp-plus, it’s a massive rip-off. One topping should be cheaper than three.
#24
I keep being offered sign up bonuses for starting new bank accounts. I've switched twice now in a year, moving my direct deposit each time and have made $800 in incentives. Other than the hassle of switching my direct deposit I can't find a reason not to. There are no penalties for closing a bank account, and to me the hassle is worth the money.
Laserleader 4 hours ago (edited)
Be careful... opening and closing accounts at different banks rapidly gets you placed on the Check-system that banks use to monitor fraud for the feds. Once one the system you wont be able to ever open a new account, and even prevents loans.
StrangeOne 3 hours ago
Yeah, I would be especially wary of this one. It's not the same as switching internet companies for deals. Sometimes, some banks may have deals and offers for long-time existing clients. You may have to ask for them through telebanking or at a branch.
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The cost of living system hasn't been refactored for the online economy yet. That means you can make a decent income online while living in a place with a cheaper cost of living, thus multiplying your standard of living, often to a level exceeding your home country.
I've tested this in Thailand, Mexico, Bulgaria and South Korea so far. Works like a charm.
Laserleader 4 hours ago
People who work online figured out they could do it from anywhere a long time ago. You make it sound complex, and its not.
Toothless Feline 3 hours ago
The complex part is “living in a place with a cheaper cost of living”. How easy that is depends heavily on which country is your home country.
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In Norway they legally can't put more than one parking ticket on your car. So I have been using the same ticket when parking since september.
#27
The Deluxe Double at my local Culvers is like 4 bucks but a regular double cheeseburger with deluxe condiments is 2.80.
#28
During Christmas the power for just my apartment went out but the Christmas lights on the balcony railing were still on.
I hypothesized that that wall outlet was probably wired to my neighbors place by accident by the electrician or on purpose for some reason. i tested this by plugging a power strip into it, running it inside and plugging everything i could into it and sure enough the electric bill was low as heck.
the neighbor drives a Mercedes so i dont feel bad about it.
Unicorn 24 minutes ago
How much current do you have to draw before the circuit breaker tips? And if the neighbour is not at home to reset it ...
Ace 1 minute ago
I read recently that a single circuit in the US would be 13A. At their puny 110v that's not even enough to run a normal European electric kettle.
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A while back they got new keypads at my job that wouldn't let you punch in if you showed up late for work. It would just say, "too late, see a manager" and then you'd have to go through the awkward process of telling your manager, having them follow you up the stairs, and they had to sign a late slip for you. One day I figured out that if I put a nine at the end of my four digit key (because it doesn't overwrite the last key) I could punch in late without being penalized. Naturally I exploited this loophole whenever I was too late for work. Eventually they caught on to what I was doing and had a manager talk to me and tell me that if I showed up late three more times (three strikes) I'd be fired.
I think the only reason they didn't fire me then and there was because they didn't want to admit there was a loop-hole in the system.
Deta Rossiter 2 hours ago
why does it feel like this system was set up because of you? New entry into tell me a rule that implemented because fo you?
#30
Thought about upping my Gamers Club Unlocked membership at best buy when I realized when I initially bought the membership two years ago best buy quite literally had a glitch in their system and accidentally gave me an additional two years for free
It's not super fancy or anything, but hey it means 20% off games without paying another 30 bucks, so that's a win in my book.
#31
One that I used to use, not sure if it works anymore.
On a kindle, I would buy books from the store and wait while they downloaded. Then I would click the refund button, go to my library and load up the book. As long as I didn't press the home button, I could read the book to the end. If I pressed the home button, the book was no longer in my library.
#32
Standard size ice cream, was 1.30, while "big ice cream", double the standard size, was 3.30.
The "standard" was really small, so everybody bought the "big" one. But I did the math, so I'd ask for two standard ones, receive an extra waffle, and save 0.70.
I was 11. As I watched the line of adults all buying "big ice cream", I realised that not all adults were smart. Nobody repeated my trick.
Toothless Feline 3 hours ago
Always do the math. The largest size is frequently not the best deal.
#33
If you're scrolling a website and you get the pop-up or greyed out words because the site is hidden behind a paywall, just open the link and type archive.is/ right before the www. Then click the link that pops up and there's your free, unblocked article. Looking at you New York Times...
Crystalwitch60 28 minutes ago
Highly likely , I won’t be trying it thank you , u never know what’s on links ,
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#34
I am due to graduate from university soon. When my student card expired recently, I changed my graduation date to December 2022 before getting an updated card. Hello, 6 more years of cheap movie tickets/public transport concessions.
Edit:
The guy who issued the card and took my photo was pretty skeptical of the date I had entered haha.
When I told him I was in a very long dual degree, he smirked and said he was "happy with that explanation". I think he was just doing me a solid by turning a blind eye #topbloke
Technically, I *am* enrolled in a degree that takes 5.5-6 years... I just skipped the part where I'm 6 years into it hehe 😇.
#35
With the *subway app* you can get discounts on subs. If you delete the app you can try again and get a different (better) discount. It ain't much, but it is to a 19 year old student.
EDIT: it's the Subway Netherlands app for everybody asking. So that might be why the Americans don't see the "footlong for 5 euro" discount. I don't know what the deal is with subway in other countries.
Laserleader 4 hours ago
Subway is a franchise, so my hometown NEVER had to accept any discounts or sales that were available by advertisement. Nothing worse then having to explain to a tourist that $5 footlongs never existed here and have them walk out after you made their food.
#36
My Dad is a recycling man for my town. And man did he ever do this well.
So with McDonalds you know how you can get a stamp card and a sticker on every cup? When you fill out the stamp card you get a free drink.
Well whenever he goes to pick up someone's recycling sometimes a person left there mcdonalds drink cup in there. And the sticker is still on it. So he takes the sticker and puts it on his stamp card.
Lets say he has over 50+ stamp cards for a free drink by doing this. And counting. He is exploiting that one that is for sure. Free coffee for life.
Chich the witch 18 minutes ago (edited)
They used to have stickers that you put on a card that peeled off a cup. The thread these things are coming from is 9years old.
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#37
Not really a glitch but I churn credit cards and bank accounts for their signup bonuses. In the past year (2016) I have opened 23 new cards and made close to $10k "profit" - which is nothing compared to some others. I have enough airline and hotel points to last for a long time, I get into airport lounges for free, and I have elite status at many hotels. And no, I don't pay interest and it's not bad for your credit.
Alex Martin 3 hours ago
If you open 23 credit cards in a year your credit score is going to crash.
Crystalwitch60 23 minutes ago
Actually not always , it only crashes if you actually USE the cards ,if he doesn’t then no problem , they might however look in to him for money fraud tho ,more so if he’s in uk , it’s not one I’d recommend I gotta say
Load More Replies... David Andrews 31 minutes ago
I'm going to call BS on this one. Every credit card application and lending limit impacts your credit rating, and if you are not giving enough time for your score to recover, you are going to start getting rejections well before you reach 23.
Laserleader 4 hours ago
Yeah, but you do pay annual fees. So that "free" card costs a minimum of $80 a year, and you dont get points unless you use the card.
#38
GameStop allows you to get a full refund on any preowned game if you bring it back within seven days. Good for shorter games or breaks/vacations when you have lots of time to play.
#39
In most states, children/teens have to take a series of specific standardized tests to determine the effectiveness of the school and progress of the student themselves. These aren't the APs, SAT, ACT, or TOEFLs. These are state administered and in my state when we had to take it, people found out a "glitch" so to speak.
So the way the test works was that the questions got harder the more you got right. Also it was not timed so you could pause the test. **However**, whenever you paused and then came back you got a different question. This question may have been easier for you to do if you were the student.
So basically, a room of 30 or maybe more students would get a question they would get stumped on. Then pause the test and resume seconds after to receive another question that they knew how to do. Of course, you could do this as many times as you wanted to during the test. It was L I V I D! !
I scored 99% better in the whole state because of this. . . **NOTE** the new question would be in the same difficulty "set" as the one you couldn't do. The new question you got just might have been faster to do or easier to comprehend. So it was kind of a half **glitch** and you still had to be a little smart. (#_#( woo^oo^o
TL:DR> Glitch on test allows you to switch out a hard question for something you could easily comprehend or do faster. I did 99% better than the rest of the students in the test in whole state.
#40
Two school glitches I used to "exploit" (if by "exploit" you really mean "use because they handed it to you."):
In middle school I quit going to a class and started to help out/hang out with a teacher I got along with way better than the teacher I was supposed to be with. They still gave me an A on the next report card. For the class I hadn't even been in for weeks. They gave me another A on all subsequent report cards. For the class I literally was never part of again. To this day I have no clue how that happened, but I was sure glad it did.
In high school, my school had 2 lunch hours, and allowed students to program their schedules each year. Thanks to their not requiring a full compliment of credits to graduate, a particularly motivated student could complete their high school in 3 years, or have any specific free hour each of their 4 years if they wanted. Guess who got first lunch *and* second lunch? This hobbit, that's who. Only did that one year, and man was my guidance counselor not pleased at my figuring it out. Kinda mad I didn't figure that out for each year, but oh well. I heard they added a third lunch hour the year after I graduated.
#41
Used to work in the cinema so I know al the tricks.
Order tickets online, pay the extra convenience fee. Then go to the registers and tell them you left your credit card at home and you wish to pay in cash. The cashier will cancel your order but keep your seats so tou can pay regular price but still have designated seats.
If you bring food in plastic bag (like a burger you just bought in the bag they gave you) they ushers will tell you to put it aside for safekeeping, but if you put it in your own bag (like the one you take to school. Sorry I don't know all the words in english I think it's the same word) they can't tell you to open it
If you feel extra sneaky and have lots of spare time you can watch a movie and hide in the bathroom for 20 minutes until the next showing is starting, then just go to a different room to watch another movie for free.
StrangeOne 2 hours ago
The last one is a big gamble in some theatres. Cineplex has assigned seating. So you would have to know which movie isn't going to be too packed and hopefully find a seat that isn't taken.
Toothless Feline 3 hours ago
The theater I normally go to waives the fee for members of their rewards program, which has no fee to belong to. So much simpler than that rigamarole.
#42
Not currently, but a year ago when I was in college:
The meal plan, in addition to letting you into the cafeterias a certain number of times per week, included something called "dining dollars" which are just regular dollars except you can only use them at college-approved restaurants or fast food chains on campus. The meal plan comes with a fixed number of dining dollars per semester ($200 or $300 or something depending on your plan) but you can add extra if you want to go to the college restaurants more. They have a promotion where if you spend $20 or more of real money on dining dollars, you get 10% extra, so for example if you pay $100, you'd get $110 to spend on food. The college actually earns a profit on this because items at their convenience stores are marked up by more than 10% of market value, so it increases their revenue by more than the cost of giving out that 10% bonus.
Except I broke this system.
I was the treasurer of a club, and noticed in some obscure bylaw that if you filled out some form at the student affairs office, it would authorize your organization to hold fundraisers where people can spend their dining dollars on your club's merchandise, such as soccer team t-shirts or a bake sale or whatever. Usually when you have a fundraiser, you want people _outside_ of your club to buy your stuff, because otherwise it'd just be like charging ridiculous club dues. But I figured out we could charge $10 per cookie, have all the club members buy 20 cookies (from ourselves) using dining dollars, take the $6000 check out of the club account, then re-distribute the money to everyone so that they could buy more dining dollars. BUT you get 10% extra each time you repeat this, so basically it was like being given $600 for free by the dining services department for doing absolutely nothing productive.
Also we got to eat a lot of cookies.
#43
Went out drinking a couple of yeara ago and woke up with broken phone.
Went hungover to a place to buy a new one, Samsung S5. Was broke so bought it with 12 month part financed through having to change phone company. They told me the phone company would take care of the switch and I would start recieving bills in a couple of weeks.
Well ita been 2 years and I still havent recieved one, and still with the old phone company.
Basically got a free phone.
#44
A month or 2 ago amazon had a bunch of blu-rays that were on both the 2 for £10 offer *and* the 3 for £20 offer. Just happened to notice when I was checking out that I was getting double discount so I went back and searched for all the ones that were on both deals. Got 12 blu rays for ~£35 with ~£60 discount. They changed the deal a couple weeks later.
#45
Every year, the New York Times tells me my $4/month promotional rate is ending and I'll now be paying $20/month. Every year, I go to cancel it, and every year, they extend me the $4/month rate for another year.
#46
When I was a kid, two 5 piece chicken nuggets at burger king cost less combined than 1 eight piece chicken nugget. Two extra nuggets for less money. One of my idiot friends told me "that's just a trick they use to get you to spend more" and I sat him down and did the math in front of him.
#47
I never actually did this, and I'm told it doesn't work any more, but I saw people do it.
Years ago, at a certain major university, the administration decided to put all your services on one card: everything from the library to photocopiers, to exams to food services: a fine idea.
There was just one tiny problem...
The code somehow presumed that everyone would, at some point, put a balance on the card. They did not account for the possibility of someone showing up in certain places with a zero balance.
One set of such places involved anywhere that served university-issue food.
In short, as long as you kept a zero balance on your card, you ate for free.
You'd get rung in at the cash, and present your card; it would scan but *not* show the cashier the balance (because of privacy regulations); it would only say 'OK' or 'not OK'. If you had a balance that was not sufficient, or negative (e.g. in the case of library fines) it would compare X to Y and it wouldn't go through; if your balance was zero, it went through every time, so somebody didn't set up that binary properly.
This went on for YEARS. In certain faculties and departments -- and it's easy to imagine which ones -- it was legendary. It got to the point, I'm told, that they were actually holding meetings and disciplining people who used it too much because they were so concerned about keeping it going.
AFAIK, it only ended because the university tore out all of their old cafeterias and put new ones in -- presumably because the old ones were losing staggering amounts of money -- complete with a new payment system that did not apparently have this issue.
I found out towards the end of my time there, but I didn't feel too upset because I lived off-campus and only ate within the university inside my college, which was on a different system and had way, WAY better food. Someone literally said, "How would you like a free lunch?", showed me his 0.00 balance on a nearby machine, and then bought me lunch.
Now that I'm more involved in and aware of university operations, I'm actually kind of pissed about this -- like all free lunches, it wasn't -- but it remains, undeniably, a first-class hack.
(Personally, my own view is that student nutrition is a huge problem, and we should be giving food away to students, but the legal problems surrounding that are truly prohibitive.)
**TL;DR: students at a major university who kept a null balance on their student cards had an all-you-can-eat buffet on tap.**.
#48
This is probably the same in other cities but if you get a parking ticket from a private company you don't have to pay it.
I've been getting parking tickets for years in this privately owned parking lot and I just throw them out.
#49
Jamba juice give members of their club a free small smoothie during their birthday month. They recently redid the app for mobile ordering so you could use discounts and stuff. In the app you can use the free small smoothie to get a large smoothie. I use ten minute mail and a random phone number to make a new account whenever I want a smoothie.
#50
In my library system, you can only get pre-due notifications on items if you have e-mail notifications set up. You can get only an e-mail, or an e-mail and a text, but you *must* have e-mail selected or else they won't come.
Except in my account.
I'm enjoying my text-based notifications without spammy e-mails, and while I dutifully reported the bug I certainly haven't pressed to have it fixed.
I also briefly enjoyed a period when HR's emergency closure alert system decided that it wasn't going to call me on the phone at 6 in the morning even if I wasn't scheduled to come in for that shift, opting to text me instead. This wasn't how it was supposed to work, everybody was supposed to get a call and then some people would get additional texts. I think the library just really likes to text me, and I'm sure not complaining!
#51
If you swipe your Kroger card at Food Lion you will still get the discount and the gas points.
Edit: user name has nothing to do with this.
#52
When I was in university we had a machine that gave you a little slip for the windshield to show you paid to park there so i used excel to make duplicates and put them in my windshield every morning without having to pay the $8/day to park. I got caught though after about 6 months when the machine was broken one day but i still had a slip on my dash.
#53
Not any more but for about 2 weeks at my school I could get 600ml Choc Chill for free because the online ordering glitched.
#54
The food court at my local mall gives a discount to anyone that works in the mall. I just lie and tell them I work at sears and they hook it up.
#55
I've been getting free movie tickets for a while now. Fandango has an app that you can buy your tickets on and it becomes a QR code thingy and the person at the booth just scans it and you go in. If you screenshot it and show the picture the QR code doesn't work but if your local theater has a nervous teenager working the booth and a long line of customers, they're not gonna make a big deal and just assume the computer is being weird and let you in. When you get inside the theater, pull out your phone and return the tickets through the app, it will let you because it sees that its QR code was never scanned. I've bought movie tickets for my friends a bunch of times, and then they pay me back for spotting them. So free tickets and profit.
#56
In high school, I was a teachers assistant for my 5th and 7th periods. 6th was my lunch hour. I was able to earn a good enough relationship with both of the teachers that I was assisting to the point where I didn't have to go anymore. So I would have a 3 hour lunch every day.
#57
I was a 17 year old when I opened my bank account and it was free as I was under the age of 18. I haven't paid them a fee since I turned 18.
JudyfromAccounts 4 hours ago
I've never paid a bank or credit card fee. Why are so many people paying for a bank to use their money?
Crystalwitch60 15 minutes ago
Nor me 🤷♀️I mean uk does have ones they call platinum accounts or gold ones ,but f k paying for one , n I’ve had bank accounts since I was 17 to , anyone as pays for em is a numpty right lol
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 2 hours ago
There's a grace period, as the youth accounts are typically for students, not necessarily for those under 18. Banks know some 18 year olds are still finishing school, so they keep the fees free. But if you're 19 and still going to school you can tell the bank and they may waiver the fees for another year. That's what our bank did for my daughter. They actually held off fees until she was about 20 or 21, as she was thinking about going to college but that didn't go through. She had to change her bank account from a youth to a regular account. They just didn't charge her fees for a while.
#58
Nike soccer cleats have a two year warranty... Per pair. I use firm ground cleats, but we always play on turf, so they'll wear out after about a season or so. We print out the warranty, attach it to the cleats, ship them back, get approval, then get the exact value of thr cleats back to buy another pair. Been having free $300 cleats for the past 5 years.
#59
An ex-girlfriend hasn't changed her Netflix password and is still logged in on my Blu-ray player. It's been nearly two years.
Toothless Feline 3 hours ago
Netflix will catch on before she does. They’ve been heavily cracking down on using accounts from multiple locations.
Crystalwitch60 12 minutes ago
That they are , I get my Netflix free with my sky sub ,I don’t use Netflix ,but my kids do so they can use it , n my son uses it when he’s working away , that’s allowed , cos he’s family but anyone else ILEGAL NOW actually always has been ,but they never bothered chasing people till last yr now if your caught u in deep shite aren’t you .
Load More Replies... #60
I don't know how I did it, but I went 3 years without getting fined for not having health insurance.
#61
Honestly, public assistance programs are where it's at. Even if you are housed & have employment, there are things you are entitled to as a citizen that the government still does pay for (despite what our current administration implies) & they help out so much. You don't have to struggle as much as you think you do. There's stuff out there that can help you reduce the pressure!
Crystalwitch60 2 minutes ago
Exactly , I’m disabled , n thanks to people like this one and the benefit cheats ,we have to jump thru hoops ,even if we old clearly disabled docs proof etc it’s not easy cos of them , so I defo call this one stealing , yes if your on a low income , with kids your entitled to universal credit , used to be tax credits , which in turn helps you with free school meals , but anything past that , , is taking it off those of us as really need it .
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 2 hours ago
Please don't use these programs unless you absolutely have to. If you do decide to use a program, look into the pros and cons.
#62
Multiple members of family are police officers. When they say "Do you know why I pulled you over?" I say, "I was speeding, I know better, my -------- is a an officer"
85% of the time the response is "Slow it down and have a good day"
I know it's bad but those tickets are expensive.
Keith Evans 3 hours ago
how about just don't speed, its not only safer for you and others on the road
StrangeOne 2 hours ago
I have a family member who's now a retired police officer. It has some perks, but just randomly blasting that you're related to a police officer doesn't always result in a welcomed response. He got pretty upset with me at work when I chatted up another officer and I said my dad was one on their force, then he called up my dad so I could talk to him. It was very awkward. I got told by police all the time that I look "familiar" to them, so I got questioned a bit. Not every police officer knows the kids of other police officers.
Crystalwitch60 6 minutes ago
Nope if don’t , mostly well in uk that would get ,a I don’t care if you the king , your still breaking the law , and it applies to you as well , plus a ticket and or arrested lol ,
Load More Replies... Crystalwitch60 7 minutes ago
Try losing the f kin lead foot idiot ! cos I’m dam sure your family do not wanna be the ones as have to go knock on peoples doors and break the bad news that there loved ones are d e a d. Cos you YOUR SPEEDING 😡or even worse for your own family , turning up to a fatal crash , to find YOU wrapped around a tree , YOUR OWN FAMILY ! every time u get pulled for speeding , that’s EXACTLY what your risking , !!
What do you think ?
Janissary35680 45 minutes ago
"Unethical" is a word that comes to my mind.
Load More Replies... James016 27 minutes ago
Up until Feb this year I was with Virgin for my internet and O2 for my mobile. As they merged they had a deal called Volt. So if you were a customer of both companies you got certain benefits. On the internet, I got a speed bump to next tier which doubled the speed to 200Mbps and on my phone contract I got double data and roaming in 75 countries. When I left Virgin, this didn't cancel the benefits on my phone contract until a couple of weeks ago when I changed my phone tariff to a much better value one.
Barong 3 hours ago
Most restaurants around here have corkage fees. Not expensive but it offsets their service and potentially lost profits from selling you a bottle of their wines. Bringing your own bottle is great way to share that special bottle I’ve been saving or enjoy my wine being served by someone else with food and venue not my own. I find that if you frequent that restaurant and/or offer the wait staff or sommelier a glass they waive the corkage fee. I still tip on the corkage fee that wasn’t included just as I do on a discount or comped item. ( for those who don’t have tipping, in the US, tipping is a silly custom whereby customers are usually expected to add 15-20% to the bill as compensation for the wait staff for their service.)
Janissary35680 45 minutes ago
"Unethical" is a word that comes to my mind.
Load More Replies... James016 27 minutes ago
Up until Feb this year I was with Virgin for my internet and O2 for my mobile. As they merged they had a deal called Volt. So if you were a customer of both companies you got certain benefits. On the internet, I got a speed bump to next tier which doubled the speed to 200Mbps and on my phone contract I got double data and roaming in 75 countries. When I left Virgin, this didn't cancel the benefits on my phone contract until a couple of weeks ago when I changed my phone tariff to a much better value one.
Barong 3 hours ago
Most restaurants around here have corkage fees. Not expensive but it offsets their service and potentially lost profits from selling you a bottle of their wines. Bringing your own bottle is great way to share that special bottle I’ve been saving or enjoy my wine being served by someone else with food and venue not my own. I find that if you frequent that restaurant and/or offer the wait staff or sommelier a glass they waive the corkage fee. I still tip on the corkage fee that wasn’t included just as I do on a discount or comped item. ( for those who don’t have tipping, in the US, tipping is a silly custom whereby customers are usually expected to add 15-20% to the bill as compensation for the wait staff for their service.)
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