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While it might seem like cheating, the truth is that loopholes in anything from game rules to laws exist only because someone didn’t do their due diligence. As they say, don’t hate the player, hate the game, so it can be entertaining and even illuminating at times to find out strategies netizens have used.
Someone asked “What was a loophole that you found and exploited the hell out of?” and people shared their best examples. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to add your own thoughts and examples in the comments below.
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#1
It was in Navy boot camp, and if you've ever been through boot camp you know that speaking during meals is forbidden. Not even a whisper.
Then service week arrived and the chain of command ordered me to work the mess hall. The job was to pass out cups at the beverage section in order to move the line as fast as possible.
Being on service week, I was permitted to talk. Used that loophole to smile and give each recruit their cup by name. "Here you go, Miller." Read the names off their uniforms. It was the only time all day that somebody treated them like a human being.
The smiles of gratitude were priceless.
London Paris 8 months ago
Why on earth would you forbid bonding and talking to each other to military recruits? That's insanity and cruel.
David 8 months ago
I assume they mean USA so rules must have changed. I was in navy boot camp in 1979 and as best I recall, we could talk during chow. There were other times, like in formation / marching - but actually sitting down to eat I think we could talk. You have somewhat limited time to eat so you didn't do a lot of talking, but it wasn't forbidden.
g90814 8 months ago
I did USAF basic training in mid 80's. The first week they were very strict but then they lighten up. I don't remember being forbidden to talk but most guys were still in shock so it was quiet at meals. They also rushed us a bit that first week, but after we had plenty of time, and could go back for seconds if available.
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#2
Back in college I had a thirty day trial for some software. This was back in the early 2000s when that stuff wasn't quite as sophisticated. I found that if I kept changing my computer calendar back before opening the program, it would think I was still within the initial month. I did this for years.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 8 months ago (edited)
Used this one a lot when I was younger mostly to keep playing shareware games.
WubiDubi 8 months ago
Don't do that now though, a lot of things will stop working, and documents saving may get messed up.
Sue 8 months ago
I do it it with Candy Crush. Once I get the lives, I put the clock back correctly. Never had any problems with it, but I only play on my phone so don't know if that matters.
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#3
There's a Jack in the Box right near me. When you buy something, you get a link to a survey for three free tacos. When you get the tacos, they give you a new receipt with a new survey code.
Infinite Tacos.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 8 months ago
But they are Jack in the Box tacos so their taste, texture and nutritional value is somewhere around course sand and mayonnaise.
Ashlie Benson 8 months ago
When you're poor, sand and mayonnaise is heaven.
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#4
During the last year of University a couple of my friends and I discovered that one of the buildings often did like a fancy buffet table if it was hosting a lecture for visitors. It actually was quite a common occurrence and we realised that the people looking after the food didn't care if you were part of the visitors or not so we would just go along and take a bunch of free food.
Great for poor and starving students!
GalPalAl 8 months ago
Technically if you are paying for school, the food ain't exactly free. Consider it a perk of tuition
Just Another Karen 8 months ago
i'm from brazil and went to a federal college. it was free, BUT i pay (a lot of) taxes, so not free either way
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Gregory Mead 8 months ago
When I was a grad student, the chair of our department and the chair of another department in the building next to ours were dating. The other department had some kind of symposium where they fed the attendees some pretty posh food. Not as many people attended that symposium as they expected, so that department chair phoned our chair, and he went around to all the labs, handed out ziplock bags, and told us to go next door. It was like a swarm of locusts descended on the snacks, and I think all of us starving grad students (and some undergrads) ate well for a couple of days.
#5
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, it's 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 preorder and eventually canceled them and requested cash back for the deposit.
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.
Charles McChristy 8 months ago
Their policies were borderline criminal. I don't miss them at all. I am glad they went the way of the dinosaur.
Tom De Paul 8 months ago
And they didn't buy Netflix when it was offered to them. All in all you cost them nothing compared to this mistake which put them out of business. Also it's 6:50 on Friday evening as I post this so I am feeling their loss particularly sharply.
Gregory Mead 8 months ago
I'm LOLing about this. You tried to help them, they spit in your face, so you showed them they should have listened. Good on you!
turk 8 months ago (edited)
The "thief" tried to tell them their system was flawed and they ignored him.
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#6
My college didn't put any dates on our Student IDs. No graduation year, no expiration date, nothing. As a result, I kept using it to get student discounts for YEARS after I graduated, mostly the 15% off J. Crew discount.
DeoManus Argentem 8 months ago
My college had a campus downtown that shared a huge (10-story +) parking garage with everybody else, usually $15/hour (USD in early 2000s!) but free with my student sticker (I never had a single class at that campus) - parked there for a good five years after graduation until my car got totalled.
OneHappyPuppy 8 months ago
Ooh I've done this too. Discounted intercity bus fare for students, who's asking?
Anthony Elmore 8 months ago
To be fair, they're probably at least half the reason the students are struggling to begin with.
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My wife had foot surgery this summer. Daughter had a short hospital stay earlier this year. We've met our family insurance deductable so now that everything is covered at 100% everyone is stocking up on medical supplies, procedures, chiropractic visits, and anything else we normally can't afford.
Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 8 months ago
My son was hit by a car while he was in high school. He's fine! He had a broken femur and a few day hospital stay, but he's absolutely fine. It happened Jan 9th. I highly recommend getting hit by a car in January if you've decided that getting hit by a car may be something you can benefit from! Everyone in the family has their tonsils out that year!
Stephanie A Mutti 8 months ago
Tripped while walking Jan 2nd. I could get a whole new body this year.
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Alan Gale 8 months ago
British. NHS. Everything I need, I get, I don't have to play the system, because there isn't one!
Natalia 8 months ago
Shame about the ridiculously long waiting lists though
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Onan Hag All 8 months ago
Medical: "Can't normally afford". Tell me you're in the USA without saying ...
Brenda 8 months ago
Back in 2018, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. They got me a grant to meet my deductible. After that, 100% covered. Refilled all my meds every month that I couldn't take during chemotherapy & convinced my surgeon to do my surgery a few weeks earlier than usual (before years end) so it would be paid for. Gotta save where you can
#8
I was once the only person to show up to a Microsoft CRM event, since I was the only person to attend I automatically won the door prize of a Xbox 360 with a Kinect.
The downside of this loophole was 3 long hours of talking with MS product evangelists who were very disheartened and desperate to make a sale.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 8 months ago
OP makes them sound like Old Gill from The Simpsons. Old Gill: "Old Gill needs to sell you MS Office Delux or he's going to go back into the bad place..."
Gregory Mead 8 months ago
My wife and I are amateur musicians, and one year, when she was very much a mandolin beginner, we went to a festival where they held a mandolin contest. She was encouraged to enter the contest, and since there were only 3 entrants, she won the bronze medal as the 3rd best mandolin player in the state.
#9
My credit card through my bank gives me reward points. My card is linked to my checking account. You used to get points every time you used your checking account to pay a bill, as well as points for spending on the card. They originally didn't put a limit on how many times you could pay a bill in a month and still get points. So I was literally paying my credit card bill after every single purchase. Coffee in the morning? Pay bill online. Lunch. Pay bill. Gasoline. Pay bill. Etc. I was getting more points from paying my bill over a hundred times a month than I was from using the card. They changed this after about 2 years.
Jihana 8 months ago
That's how credit cards work in the US?If I use my Visa card the money is automatically transferred from my bank account to Visa about a month later. I don't have to do anything.
David 8 months ago
This sounds like a weird setup. Most points / cash back / air miles / whatever rewards from credit cards are based on the dollar amount charged, not the frequency of the charge. One $500 set of tires is worth way more rewards than charging something at the dollar store 20 times. It's not a "loophole", but I make money on my Costco visa every year because they give 5% cash back on their own gas and 4%-1% on other categories. I use it for almost all purchases and pay it in full every month so I never have fees / interest. So they pay me $150-300 / year for using the card.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 8 months ago
Another group of corporations I don't care for so go for it if you can.
#10
Early on in Minecraft, if you dug a hole straight down, go into the corner, and used 3rd person to look in just the right direction, you could see through the block texture. the result was you could see things like caves and lava pits really easily, which was key to finding good ore back then.
We called it "Prospecting". It was eventually patched out.
freakingbee (she/her) 8 months ago
yes but i find it difficult to work with
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#11
Before they changed the machine, if you played Hungry Hungry Hippos alone at Chuckie Cheese you got all of the tickets that would normally go between 4 players, because obviously your hippo gets the most food. It really appealed to my "I don't have any friends" side.
#12
I had a coin operated washing machine and dryer in my college apartment. 4 quarters to wash, 8 quarters to dry. We figured out that if you opened the dryer with 1 minute left on the clock and inserted 1 additional quarter the timer would reset to max dry time. Laundry went from $3 to $1.25. Unfortunately the landlords daughter lived in the same complex and ratted us out and they replaced the dryer with a s***tier one.
Lulu Waters 8 months ago
That’s the problem with loopholes, eventually no one can keep quiet about it and it gets ruined for everyone
brittany 8 months ago
which is exactly why if i have a loophole, i dont say a word
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Calling the FCC on Comcast because Comcast is a bag of d***s. Every time my bill gets lower, and I've even been flagged as a problem customer, but I keep calling with legitimate complaints (internet speed slower than I pay for; unnecessary fees attached to my bill; paying for an extra box when I only have 1).
My bill went down from $150/month to $60/month. Blazing fast internet and all of the premium channels. My goal is to have them paying me for their service by 2017 if given the chance.
StrangeOne 8 months ago
This sounds like a very old Reddit thread if we're talking about 2017 not here, yet.
David 8 months ago
BP has no limit on the age of the articles it steals to republish here.
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C .Hunger 8 months ago
Not gonna happen - Comcast is horrible now. I used to do this same thing. I would call every year and stay on the promotional rate. Nothing horrible, and we were still over paying for internet with Comcast. This year, they broke me. They charged me 100 bucks going over a data cap I didn't have and raised my rate 50 bucks a month, Dropped them immediately and went to another faster cheaper provider. It was satisfying to say goodbye to that company.
JK 8 months ago
I have comcast/xfinity. It was down Monday and Tuesday afternoons. Had to use my phone as a wifi hot spot but I have the smallest data plan. Called and asked for the data to be credited back because I'm unemployed and looking for a job (true). They gave me a $15 credit, and I won a bet with a friend. He said they wouldn't do anything. Pays to be nice to customer support.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 8 months ago
Because of where I live I'm forced to use Comcast. They have a monopoly here and I hate them. But I refuse to pay for ANY frills. I bought my modem from NewEgg used and it works great. It also cost $35 instead of almost $200. For Wi-Fi on my other devices, I plugged the modem into my main desktop PC and just turn on the mobile hotspot. LOL "mobile" BTW did you know old laptops and PCs can be turned into routers and Wi-Fi extenders?
#14
Most online news sources want to charge you after something like 10 articles. Easily avoidable if you either adjust your cookies to clear automatically, or browse in safe mode.
#15
Lawyer here - Adobe has a loophole where, if someone uses their redaction program, you can open the pdf on an older computer that is slower, zoom in and out real fast and the redaction disappear.
I had a case where the defendant was a con man but good at what he did...so our securities violation case was really a toss-up - had to do with joint venture interest... anyway
Guy has to produce text messages - and some of which had redaction - I did my trick, found out the guy was dealing d***s as well - turned the f****r over for d**g trafficking (because he was selling Rx pills across state lines) and well, we lost the civil case, but f****d him over anyway.
2bwhctmvgn 8 months ago
If you can see the previous text at any point, the text is still there in the file. You don't need a slower computer, you just need to look at the "source" of the PDF. Honestly, I seriously doubt that this is a problem with Adobe. (They may be d***s, but they're not stupid.) It's either a third-party redaction tool, or someone is abusing an editing feature and calling it "redaction".
MaxMi 8 months ago
You can if it’s been masked, not deleted or rewritten. But you can’t just open a pdf with notepad or any character text editor of sort, as the text itself isn’t in clear inside the file, it’s coded togheter with formatting and fonts data, among tables or any other element such as graphics in your pdf file. The fascinating part of this is that a certain point in it history, somebody had the idea of storing the information to draw a text instead of the text itself, such as making beautifully painted handwritings likewise sterile computer text from a matrix dot printer of the era, as laser printers without the character shape like a typewriter, the idea of drawing came to the mind of somebody at apple the day he was fired, and being unemployed he decided to go to a calligraphy class. He was Steve Jobs, that idea became the standard "postscript" (once .ps files), which now we use likewise in any pdf.
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Working in NYC they are constantly filming SOMETHING somewhere. I always noticed that there was usually a tent with a full spread of food and various people eating from it. Sometimes there was a food truck too. On a particularly hot day I popped my head in and grabbed a cold water. Nobody batted an eye. Ok, that was refreshing. About a month later they were filming for a few days in a row outside of my apartment. I finally got some balls one morning and walked in and grabbed a bagel and coffee. Nothing........ The next day I did the same. A friendly smile and good morning was all I got from the guy putting scones out and cooking up some eggs. The next day I walked in during the morning and the "chef" was making omelettes. HE ASKED ME if I wanted an omelette. Who was I to turn down such a kind gesture. That was the last day they were filming by my apartment, but whenever I see a film crew I look for the tent and grab a little something.
Also, sorry for your $20 movie ticket.
Stephanie A Mutti 8 months ago
Your enjoying the offerings is NOT the cause of the $20 ticket.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
They didn't say "Hey, let's buy extra food in case that local guy sneeks in!"
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Back in the 90s I figured out if you dialled 14711471 on a pay phone it gave you an open line without needing any money.
Free phone calls for me :D
Which was useful because I lived miles away from my friends and liked to chat to them for hours on the phone.
Igor914624 8 months ago
In the 80's we used a pocket tape recorder to record the sounds of coins dropping into the pay phone. We then returned all 10 dollars worth of coins, then played back the tape into the microphone. It credited us with 10 dollars worth of calls. Made lots of calls all over with that trick until the phone company disabled the microphone until you put in money. After that the calls just cost $.25 to enable the mic.
General Anaesthesia 8 months ago
14,711,471 attempts. The 90s was in the days before social media wasted your time :)
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Puppy Dancing! 8 months ago
I used to get free calls by putting in a quarter, waiting for the ringing, hit the hang up quickly coin would return without disconnecting. Also you could get free calls by unscrewing the handset speaking area, then touching the microphone magnet to a piece of metal which was touching the metal body of the phone. Instant dial tone.
#18
Back in a computer class during grade school we had to use this test program for the class. We would learn how to use word, excel, etc then take the test. Well I figured out that during the test if you hit CTRL-A, it would highlight everything on the page, except for the correct multiple choice answer. Got an easy A in the class.
Jaya 8 months ago
Because we all know you're not in school to learn stuff but just to pass the test /s
MushroomHead22 8 months ago
technically if you can pass the test without paying attention, then you're good. if you understand the fundamentals of a certain subject, you can easily reach the paramount of that subject.
Load More Replies... Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 8 months ago
I was in college when online tests became a thing for the first time. There was a lot of cheating on those.
Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 8 months ago
I sat for the first ever round of online nursing boards in NY. Studied like crazy for weeks thinking I had to beat the computer. It took maybe 30 min. Apparently the questions got harder and harder as you got them correct. If you got one incorrect, it took a step back to an easier question. Do you either failed because the test couldn't get any easier, or you passed because it couldn't get harder!
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Marleina Hershberg 8 months ago
but did you learn anything?? cheating and getting your A doesn't mean you know what you need to know. you only cheated yourself.
MushroomHead22 8 months ago
they did learn. they learned how to get an A in that class. they also learned what CTRL+A does, which probably turned in to them trying other things. sometimes just sitting their and listening and getting an A on the test is not the best thing. all that does is prove you can sit, be silent, listen, retain info, and complete a test. learning isn't just going to school and listening to a teacher; if you have the intelligence to figure things out on your own, and still be correct, then whats the problem?
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#19
When i was in college a guy actually bought a calculator ($30) from the bookstore and just pressed the buttons through the plastic packaging and returned it at the end of the semester.
Charles McChristy 8 months ago (edited)
Not for credit returns without the receipt.
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It amuses me that the calculator in the photo says "electronic scientific calculator" on it. The ones I have used didn't say that. Presumably because you can tell from the buttons it is scientific, and if you can't tell from looking that calculator is "electronic" instead of mechanical, you probably have no business using one.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
Because if they put "Boat Anchor" at the top, unfortunate things might happen.
Load More Replies... Sue 8 months ago
I find it ridiculous that in the US, where education is supposed to be free, you have to pay $100 for the calculators.
Charles McChristy 8 months ago
Education is free?! Where TF did you hear that BS?
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EMT here. In our charting system, there is an entire menu of choices for a patient's prescription medicines. I was always taught how to fill out this menu item by item (which, for older folks, can be incredibly tedious). One day, scrolling through the huge list of meds looking for one or another, I found the option: "List Given To ED Staff". One click, and I don't have to spend 10 minutes typing in medications. Sounds like a small thing, but boy does it make a difference.
Cpt. Christan "Panda Bombero" 8 months ago
When I first became an EMT we were still writing our reports, for situations like this, with non-emergent transports of 'frequent flyers' we would write in the narrative; C-List@File, C-List@ER or C-List@DO/PO.
#21
When I lived in my first apartment in college we only had 2 parking spaces but 3 of us had cars. I got my car 4 months after we signed the lease so I was the one with no parking pass. My complex was notorious for towing people without passes immediately. I had a geo prism (it's an incredibly small car) and I eventually realized somehow that if I parked next to the dumpster the tow truck wouldn't be able to tow me because it couldn't fit back there, so that's where I parked everyday for the rest of my lease and never had to pay for parking.
Dr Jimmy 03 8 months ago
Hey, lighten up. If all you could afford was a Geo Prism, there were bigger problems in your world.
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I used to take this shortcut to work, through a rich neighborhood. Recently they put up a sign that says "No Right Turn Between 7am-10am" to ~~stop poor people from driving through~~ ease up traffic congestion.
However, if I drive past the street a ways, pull over, and then make a U-turn? Now I'm turning *left* onto the road. So it's not illegal.
Charles McChristy 8 months ago
Sure, just commit multiple felonies instead of making a u-turn. Brilliant!!!
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Jay Cee 3 months ago
There are a couple of roads near to where my daughter lives in west London with signs up that prohibit entry between 8am and 7pm Monday to Saturday unless you have a permit. It's a PUBLIC HIGHWAY and I'm not allowed to drive down it? There are cameras. Screenshot...f8-png.jpg 
#23
ISPs and cable companies love to sign you up by offering new subscriber deals. problem is the rate ends after a time and you are paying a higher rate. and you are usually under contract so it costs you to get out of it...unless you move out of their service area.
So in college between years my roommates and i would systematically cancel our contracts saying we were moving, then another roommate called and started service under his name. we got the discount rates for 4 straight yearsw.
visacrum 8 months ago (edited)
I know not all companies are the same, but I was with a company considered 'the debull', began with a C and rhymes with downcast. I don't consider this a loophole per se, but when the bills started getting to be too much, I'd threaten to cancel, and would be given another rate. I wouldn't do this on any regular schedule, just when I felt like I was paying too much. Seems like an easier thing than cancelling accounts and starting new ones (I don't have roommates) but to each their own. Edit: A lower rate, not 'another' rate (though the inference should be the rate was lower).
#24
My last job I worked at for 5 years gave me discounts to a ton of things.
I stopped working there, but I never returned my employee card. I still a**se the hell out of it for free parking, free museums, free movie tickets, free subway rides, etc.
Billo66 8 months ago
Thank goodness I was afraid you were just about speading anise evrywhere.
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I downloaded a free trial of WinRAR. I found that if the trial runs out, you can still use the software. I've been using WinRAR for free for years! Life has never been better.
MaxMi 8 months ago
Despite they were only few years apart, 7zip didn’t widely spread fast until decades later due to the fact winzip was mostly already used
Load More Replies... Anthony Elmore 8 months ago
I think I am the only person I know that actually has paid for WinRar. I finally felt enough guilt and bought a copy after years of using it. It has not even remotely improved my workflow when working with rar files to the degree that I often forget that my copy of it is paid. But... I do get the moral high ground in any argument, because who actually pays for WinRar? Oh, you ran into a burning building to save some orphans? But have you paid for your copy of WinRar? Didn't think so.
MaxMi 8 months ago
A friend of mine paid a version of getright (a download manager of the old times), just to find out he only paid that version. Wasn’t happy about it.
Load More Replies... Fat Harry (Oi / You) 8 months ago
Jesus, how old is this list? The WinRar never expires thing was well known back when I was at college in the late 90s.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 8 months ago
Yeah, it's just a nag screen with full features. Not that it matters anymore since handling .rar and .zip files is baked into most OSs now.
Paul Gerrard 8 months ago
Its scam ware. Zip tools are in windows so it is unnecessary unless you believe their licensing claims. Years ago most games were "freeware" and you could upgrade and pay or not and received some other benefit eg 20 more level or saving etc
#26
The soda machine near the locker room. For some reason, every now and then, when you bought a Hawaiian Punch, the flood gates would open and all of the remaining HP's would flood out.
Whenever I had some change I'd give it a shot. We had different theories about what made it work, but I think it was just random.
Jihana 8 months ago
At work we used to have a soda machine with that elevator thingy that brings tge selected item down were you can grab it. Sometimes the elevator got stuck mid-transport, but the machine registered the problem, so it would give back the money and shut down. Someone showed me that if you unplugged the machine for at least 10 seconds and then plugged it back in, it will reboot, the elevator will work again and dispense the stuck item. Since you also got the money back you got the soda for free. Also it was worth checking out if something was stuck when you were near the machine, not everyone knew the trick. 😁
David 8 months ago
Not exactly a "loophole" but there was once a local soda machine that I discovered had a 'sticky' coin return. If you kind of "thumped" the coin return button (mechanical metal plunger) a couple of times with the side of your fist, any jammed up quarters would drop into the coin return. I discovered it on accident one day when it didn't return my change. When I "mechanically agitated" the coin return, my change plus some other change dropped down. After that I'd check it if I was nearby. I think my best haul was six quarters. But that was back when a soda was 25 or 35 cents so it was nice. I never saw anyone lose their money in it so I had no way of knowing whose quarters I got.
Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
Betcha it was on the far left. The spring in that slot gets reduced in order to allow the f****e on the back door room.
Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
F l a n g e. Apparently BP is censoring engineering terms now.
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Not me- back in around 2004 a friend of mine found out his bank couldn't charge him fees while in his student overdraft, he also discovered the train company he uses took money sometimes 7 working days after the purchase. He'd buy a train ticket on the day with no money in his account, he'd get the train 3-7 days later the company would try and take the money, it wasn't there and the bank couldn't charge him fees. They sent letter after letter and he just kept doing it for years, never picking up his phone to the bank.
One day he goes into branch and the manager summoned him into the back office, explained that he had been manipulating a loop hole and the bank were having to pay for everyone of his train tickets. He shrugged and said I have no money to pay into the account that account will always be empty, just close it. Manager said they couldn't close it w/out his permission. He asked how much his permission was worth.
£250 quid it was worth and a promise to please use another bank.
Have asked banking friends about this and that loophole is now well and truly closed sadly.
Ace 8 months ago
Doesn't make sense. It's not clear what means of payment he was supposed to be using, but how would it continue to be accepted by the train company? The bank charging fees or not has nothing to do with th fact that he's obtaining goods by deception, defrausding the train company, and there's no way in hell they're just going to cotinue letting him do so.
Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
And I'm pretty sure banks have lawyers who know how to deal with fraud.
Load More Replies... David 8 months ago
Debbie, Yes, he was stealing. In the US it is fraud because he is intentionally making purchases he knows he doesn't have the funds for / doesn't intend to pay.
Load More Replies... Kit Black 8 months ago
Cool story bro... except that the bank can absolutely press charges for fraud, and they certainly would.
visacrum 8 months ago (edited)
Not only that, but the part about permission. He TOLD them to cancel the account, where does the lowkey extortion come into play?
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Tom De Paul 8 months ago
I don't know if this still works, but it used to be if you used a credit card from a NY-based well known department store at one of their California stores, all purchases under $50 would be approved. Someone I know "bought $1000s of clothing and then couldn't pay. This was in the early 80s so you could buy individual sweaters, shirts, ties, belts and even some shoes and jackets for under $50.
#28
Gatorade had an under-the-cap contest one summer (like 20 years ago). And they were still being sold in glass bottles. Well, the glass bottles of lemon ice - you could just flip the bottle over and read the cap without opening it. I must have looked at 500 bottles that Summer and won a bunch of c**p. A CD wallet and a pack of basketball cards were about the best things I won.
Charles McChristy 8 months ago
They still used glass into the 90s. "Gatorade Lemon Ice was originally introduced in 1995 and sold in a glass bottle, becoming a popular flavor, but was later discontinued..."
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BS Detector 8 months ago
Dr. Pepper had a cap contest in the early 90's. I worked in a gas station and figured out the font difference and tilled the bottle enough to be able to see the difference and drank Dr. Peppers for free for many months. I think there was something like this for Fruitopia also?
Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
Which is why we now have that clear blue plastic rather than the clear under the cap.
#29
I go to a lot of baseball games, but sometimes the lines are insane, especially for a giveaway.
I found out that if you enter the stadium from the gift shop the line is probably never more than 50 people deep, and you still get whatever the giveaway is.
I mean, some people line up for those giveaways HOURS before gates open.
David 8 months ago (edited)
Sarah, I have not participated in many years but stadiums used to give out free items to people attending. Not every game, but sometimes as a promotion. One I remember as a boy was 'bat day' and we all got a miniature sized bat about a foot long (baseball) . As a kid I thought it was cool. I've heard of hat days. I assume other items over time but I'm not an avid sports fan so have rarely been to a stadium game.
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Stephanie A Mutti 8 months ago (edited)
Paying for books in the Cafe at Barnes and Nobles when the checkout line at the cashiers is really long [around holidays].
#30
Papa John's had an online coupon which could only be used once but by changing the URL you could print new coupons. Would take me 20 seconds to find an unused code and free pizza time. After about 10 free pizzas the manager called to ask how I was getting so many codes so I quit.
Debbie 8 months ago
So you actually were using other people's codes who couldn't claim their coupon that way?
Anthony Elmore 8 months ago
Not necessarily, but the chance does exist. It's possible the pages existed as some sort of blank check, where a given account or IP address is associated with a random URL. To this end, it's entirely possible that more coupons were available than could ever be assigned to IP addresses, and instead the URLs are just waiting to be generated without checking what the actual account or IP address of the computer was that was generating it. It would be a terrible setup, specifically because of the loophole listed above... but... even if a near infinite amount of possible coupon generations existed, you can't rule out the possibility that one of those coupons would eventually be associated with a user who would be unable to use it or even that had already received it and was planning on using it.
Load More Replies... Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 8 months ago (edited)
Letting employees participate in any promotion is a bad idea. McDonalds learned that when employees started collecting the most popular Happy Meal toys to resell on E-Bay.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 8 months ago
What makes you think he was an employee? It just said the manager called, but then the manager would have his phone number from him placing the order anyway.
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Last year, McDonald's launched its app and when you registered your email you got a free burger. The great thing was that the app wasn't verifying the emails so I entered a fake email 3 times a day every day for about 3-4 months and got free Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Each sandwich was about $7-$8 because I would add bacon, avacado or an extra patty on mostly ever burger or sandwich. I estimate about $700 - $1000 worth of food.
And I even told atleast 4 other friends that did it with me.
Now I'm just a fat piece of s**t.
#32
I was a bike messenger in the early 90's and learned 2 calling tricks. The first one was a red boxing it's a noise simulator that you could buy at radio shack that could replicate the noise you hear in your ear for each coin you drop in a payphone. You would hold this little gadget to the mouthpiece and every time you pushed it the coin noise would be accepted as credit toward your call.
The second is that ATM machines used to have phones on them to contact a bank rep with problems. If you lifted the receiver and tapped the hookswitch to mimic a rotary phone (think of morse code) 2 = tap tap space.. you get it. You could make free calls all day, even internationally, a roommate of mine abused this at the same machine every night talking to his girlfriend overseas. He didn't have the smarts to acknowledge the 3 cameras recording him and was arrested.
no adhesiveness 2020 8 months ago
I discovered the rotary phone tap dial. THe phones in restaurant kitchens typically had no dial, so employees could take calls, but not make calls, until...
#33
If you do a 3 month trial of Apple Music and your car automatically starts playing music when you turn it on you can go way past the trial, but you can no longer pick your songs so hopefully you had it on a good shuffle.
#34
Alladvantage
It was a website that paid you to put an ad bar on your IE browser and paid you like 10 cents an hour.
This was in 2000 I think
I found a hack that let me run 100 ad bars in the background at a time. I ran it on my dial up connection overnight for a couple months and they sent me about 5,000 USD. not bad for a 11th grade kid. My parents thought I was selling d***s.
The company quickly went out of business.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 8 months ago
Oh man I remember those pay you to watch ads companies. The big dotcom boom happened soon after and almost everyone went out of business.
#35
Our favorite German restaurant/bar offers a *Schnapps Nummer* free birthday drink to anyone celebrating a birthday with 2 equal numbers in the age (i.e. 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, etc.)
A group of college friends would go and take turns pretending to be 22 to get a free drink. Amazing how one of us was *always* turning 22!
#36
The free water and $.50 iced coffee refills at Starbucks. You used to be able to get an iced coffee and get it refilled for $.50 at any Starbucks as long as you had your cup. My buddy and I would play basketball at the park, walk to the Starbucks next door and ask for venti iced waters. We would drink them to cool down on the one block drive to the next Starbucks where we would write the code for unsweetened iced coffee on our now empty venti water cups. We would walk in and pay 50 cent for for a would be $3 venti iced coffee. We did this for a good 8 months before they changed the rules to you can only get the 50 cent refill during the same visit and writing "IW" or "h20" in the drink code box on the water cup. I'm a lot older now and pay full price for my iced coffee.
#37
Gamestop would let you return any used game for the price you paid, if you returned it within 1 week. And you could return it to any store. Free 1 week rentals.
#38
In Dominican Republic I used to tutor in a high-school which I also attended. We had a cafeteria in the high-school that was run by said school and was hella expensive.
Well employees were allowed to buy with their employee code and have it deducted from their paychecks at the end of the month.
I quit the 2nd week of the month and got paid my last check that friday. Well being the last few weeks of school I continued to eat at the cafeteria for about 4 weeks ordering food for me and my friends.
Still remember all those empanadas.
Sue 8 months ago
It's like stealing from the king. I would not do that with a small business or an individual or if it's illegal, but I will take advantage of corporate stupidity. Some peon probably warned them it would happen but the C suite guys knew better.
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#39
I carry round an unopened parking ticket and stick it on the windscreen if I have to leave the car in a place it shouldn't be.
Dog Mom to Zoe 8 months ago
In San Francisco, the cops will continue to give you multiple tickets so that doesn't work here.
Jihana 8 months ago
I don't have a car, but don't you have to pay within a certain time? How often do you get tickets thst you always have an unopened one in the car?
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 8 months ago
In the UK you get a letter through the post AND a ticket on the windscreen (in some places), so you can safely leave the windscreen one unopened on the basis that you'll receive a ticket in the post that you can then pay.
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Got this Student Edge card for free at university. Came with all these s****y deals but the best one was for McDonald's, spend $5 and get a free medium soft drink. You couldn't use this deal when buying from the cheap menu but no one ever checked. The loophole went further though when they had their Monopoly game one year. The medium soft drinks came with a code so I would get them essentially for free and then get free food off of the codes. Circle of life.
#41
When I was a kid a KFC by my house used to give out free cups of water without a purchase. They also kept packets of lemon juice and sugar on the condiment counter, so my friends and I would go there several times a day during the summer and make lemonade.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 8 months ago
That sounds like some sad a*s lemonade. Not the saddest lemonade, but still pretty sad.
#42
When vending machines first started accepting credit cards you could swipe your card, select a drink and when the little drink pod starts moving to collect your drink hit cancel. The cancel button would stop the card transaction but not the machine so you could get free drinks.
Was a sad day when it stopped working.
#43
When I was a kid (13 if I recall correctly), I figured out the number AOL used to dial out when you *sign up* for the service, and I managed to get online with my PC and Dreamcast that way. I can't remember exactly how I did it, but I do remember AOL attempting to sue me, and my mom getting pretty upset, but they apparently dropped it when they found out I was so young.
#44
My first semester at college I lived in a three story dorm, with roughly 50 rooms per floor. About halfway through the semester the local dominoes decided to offer a promotion where if you signed up for a new account with a unique address you got your first pizza for free.
My roommate and I exploited the hell out of this promotion by registering for a new dominoes account twice a day using a new mailinator email address and a new room number. By the end of the promotion a couple of months later we had registered rooms up to the 14th floor of the 3 floor dorm we lived in, were absolutely sick of pizza, and were about 15 lbs heavier.
All in, we spent about ~$360 to tip the driver ($3/delivery) for somewhere between 100 and 120 free pizzas over a 2 month period.
John Dilligaf 8 months ago
but it's a lot less gross when you're a college student on a budget and it's free
Load More Replies... superfluous 8 months ago
I'm trying to figure out 'registered rooms up to the 14th floor of the three floor dorm'! But, I didn't go to college, so...
#45
Snack machines at my old work. They were a "guaranteed delivery" type and I found out if a snack comes out and gets stuck it would dispense another one since it thinks that it didn't dispense anything (something is "dispensed" once it comes out of the corkscrewy thing and triggers the sensor at the bottom of the machine). I always exploited it and some of my colleagues who would come along picked it up and started to do it too. We were never caught.
My friend didn't really exploit the hell out of it since it's hard to do so but he found out that sirius xm radios had a year to receive the deactivation signal after the subscription expires. If the radio isn't getting power, it wouldn't receive the signal. If you disconnect the power before the expiration, let it sit without power for long enough, you'd get free lifetime siris xm. He exploited this when he inherited his grandma's crown vic after she passed away. It sat for 2 years without the battery and it was stored just before her subscription ended. In that car my friend has free lifetime sirius xm.
#46
When Reign of Kings (PC game) came out in beta, my brother and I found an exploit where if you rotate the 3rd-person camera when up against someone else's house or base, the camera wouldn't treat the walls like solid objects so you could rotate yourself through a wall and interact with the objects inside. If anyone placed a chest against a wall (which 99% of people did), we were able to access them and loot people without even breaking into their house. It went unnoticed for like 3 patches until they finally fixed it. Exploited the f**k out of it and made everyone on the server bankrupt within 2 hours. I feel like an a*s but it was so much fun.
#47
Im still exploit this so dont repeat it:
when you go to a water dispenser you can take more than one paper cups. use one and keep one for later.
#48
Not me personally. But every holiday season, the Cheesecake Factory has a deal where you can get a free piece of cheesecake if you buy $25 in gift cards. So my dad gets $500 in gift cards for himself. Our family has to eat 20 pieces of cheesecake every year from 1/1 to 3/31 (it honestly becomes a chore).
Ace 8 months ago
I see no loophole here. He's still spending ten times (or whatever) the value of the items he's getting for 'free'.
Anonymous Fox 8 months ago
He keeps the gift cards. Essentially, he's converting his money to money he can only spend on cheesecake, while getting free cheesecake.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 8 months ago
If consuming all that cheesecake is such a chore, I'd be willing to pitch in and help for a very nominal fee.
David 8 months ago
LOL Dad would probably be $$$ ahead if he just bought his cheesecake from some place that didn't overcharge for it. From the internet - "6-inch & 7-inch Whole Cheesecakes: $32.95-$44.95 10-inch Whole Cheesecakes: $68.95-$75.95 " and "At The Cheesecake Factory, individual cheesecake slices typically range in price from $11.50 to $12.95, depending on the specific flavor. "
tracy black 8 months ago
why do you have to eat cheesecake they have a full menu i eat at the one in nashville when i go home ( my mom likes it) and i hate cheesecake
#49
Years ago, Blockbuster had buy two get one free sale for used dvds. So I would pick two whatever movies and one that I absolutely wanted. A few days later, I would come in, return the two movies, then pick the new ones. I repeated this process for a whole summer.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 8 months ago (edited)
And this is why there is no more Blockbusters, outside of one store in Bend, Oregon.
Divado 8 months ago
And also why the bargain bucket was always full of lousy movies.
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David 8 months ago
This seems so obvious I'm surprised it worked. Must have had a bad receipt system. Modern receipts would show the 'free' one on the same receipt as the purchased two so they'd know what you were trying to do. A more common scam generally is buying something on sale, then trying to return it at full price after the sale is over. Again, modern receipts prevent this from happening in most places.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
Quite true, but I thinkl I know how it might have happened. Several of my high school students worked at Blockbusters, and they were paid much too little to (a) pay close attention or (b) give a d**n.
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As a college student with meager financial assets, I wanted to be able to read the newspaper. I'm a news j****e and this was before the internet was as good for news as it is today. I learned that if you simultaneously pulled the door and pushed the coin return on the newspaper machine, it would return your coins and still allow the door to open.
Read the news and scored a lot of coupons that way.
Kyle Simonson 8 months ago
Ripping off some guy, nice. You do realize you're not stealing from the newspaper company. Essentially ripping off a paperboy.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
In my city all those boxes are owned and operated by the newspaper itself. But newspapers are not doing that well lately that they should be the target of theft either.
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Marian Spanik 8 months ago
Does anyone know what word BP censored here? I tried to search Internet and not found any swear or offensive word that starts with J and ends with E. I am not a native English speaker, though.
#51
When gambling websites offer a free £10 bet when you spend £10, bet both ways. I usually use tennis matches since there's no draw.
It works best in a fairly one sided match, because if the free bet wins, you only earn the amount gained (not the free bet's value), so you need odds of 2:1 or greater for a "no lose" situation.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 8 months ago (edited)
It's like giving free quarters to someone playing a slot machine that only pays out a maximum of 50 cents. It's there to get you hooked. I'll bet a lot of people fell for this one.
Ace 8 months ago
Nope, I've read this four times now and I still don't understand it. If I were to assume that this is a way to guarantee winning thn just how often would you be able to repeat the trick? I always imagined that the 'free' bet would be a one-off offer per customer.
Mischa Keizer 8 months ago
You get 10 gamble money. You play it on a sure thing. Like djokevic playing a guy in a wheelchair in Australia on gravel. You probably get odds of 1.01 (or lower). So one cent for every buck. You bet the gamble money. Esto presto, you made 10c. However, mostly you have to bet the amount 10 times before getting money, there is a minimum withdrawal and most people are addicts.
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When you fly Southwest business select print your boarding pass and drink coupons at home. Check in at the counter and have them printed again. If you have a connecting flight you will now arrive at your destination pleasantly toasted. I've gotten away with it on a single flight by ordering doubles as well.
David 8 months ago
Um, doesn't the flight attendant notice when you hand them a second set of drink vouchers on the actual flight?
Michael Largey 8 months ago
The OP mentioned a "connecting flight", so he'd be using the second set with a different flight attendant.
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At my city's library they have this summer reading program. In addition to reading books, you can earn points for doing stuff on the library's website, like writing reviews for DVDs and correcting errors in the book-pages-to-text database.
I found that you can get 100 points (a relatively large amount) for creating a public list online of your favorite movies. You could do this multiple times, but it took about 30 seconds to wait for the page to refresh. I found that I could just spam the "Create List" button without waiting for the page to reload, and every click got me 100 points.
I showed my brother how to do it, and we were on top of the leaderboard overnight. I started cashing in my points for free library drawstring bags and the like, but soon they caught on to me. My brother and I got permanently banned from the reading program, but it was fun while it lasted.
David 8 months ago
Scamming your local library feels extra scummy to me. It's local tax dollars and libraries try so hard to encourage people to read / be literate.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
And all for a free library drawstring bag? Not exactly an irresistable impulse.
Load More Replies... superfluous 8 months ago
Ah, for the good old days! We got a stamp for every book we read (parents had to vouch for this) which we affixed to a page. When the page was full, it could be turned in for some (very) small reward. Also, reader's names were published in the local paper at the end of the summer listing how many books they read.
#54
Very late into the lifetime of NBA 2K13, the greatest glitch ever was discovered. Someone found out that you could get as much Virtual Currency as you wanted through faked microtransactions. Basically, as long as you **didn't** have money on the PayPal you were trying to pay with, and logged out immediately, you'd log back in with $10 dollars worth of virtual currency.
The best thing about it though was that it wasn't too well known and was discovered **very** late into the game, so the framework for the microtransactions was carried over to 2K14. Not only did the glitch still work (for the two-three weeks), but it was **even better,** since the highest "pack" of VC was now worth $50.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 8 months ago
Microtransactions are a way to get kids addicted to gambling and should be outright banned.
RedHairedDragon 8 months ago
Not microtransactions, but loot boxes. Although I still don't like microtransactions
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In the early 2000s, I'd go to the movies with a group of friends and buy two tickets. One of us would go out with both ticket stubs and bring a friend who was waiting outside. Then someone else would go out with both stubs again and bring another friend. We did this until all of us got in. Not sure if this can still work now.
I've never tried this but my friend claims he's done it a few times. Get a gray wig and buy the senior citizen reduced rate ticket. The people who check the tickets are getting paid minimum wage and don't give a f**k if your face doesn't have enough wrinkles to be 65.
PrettyJoyBird 8 months ago
Tickets are checked electronically now. So wont work. Once tickets scanned thats it.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
Did the OP and two friends also sit on each others' shoulders and put on a really long rain coat and try to get in on one ticket?
David 8 months ago
This might have worked at some theater the poster attended, but even long before everything was computerized, there was usually a 'gate guard' where you exited the lobby into the actual theaters - who would tear your ticket in half, drop one in half in the box and hand you back the other half. The obvious purpose was to prevent stuff like what is described above.
RedHairedDragon 8 months ago
In Sweden, the seats are numbered. They would pretty soon discover that there are more people than expected in the salon
#56
I had the code to a touchless car wash nearby.. needless to say my car was very clean and would sometimes wash it multiple times in one go just in case.
#57
I am part of a group that routinely launches weather balloons. There's a law about how large of an object you're allowed to fly before having to contact the FAA and obtain permission to do so. However, the law specifies the size of the object using measurements taken "at sea level," and we typically launch from up in the mountains. Our balloons are almost always larger than what is allowed, *but* they would be within the parameters if we went down to a lower elevation. So we've exploited the hell out of that about a million times.
David 8 months ago
This doesn't seem like much of an exploit if the FAA has already taken into account that for some things, size changes based on atmospheric pressure. If they could legally launch a balloon at sea level and fly it to say, 10,000 feet, what is the difference if the same balloon starts at 4,000 feet and flies to 10,000 feet?
Billo66 8 months ago
Actually, if they are within parameters at sea level it doesn't matter. They would be the size you're launching them at once they reach that altitude. Whats the problem? Probably my math lol
Billo66 8 months ago (edited)
I mean. balloons expand as they rise so if you launch at sea level with sea level specs, wouldn't the balloon be larger at your altitude anyway? At the very most you are just filling them to compensate for this difference. And why am I attempting this kind of math at 3am?
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Back before all info was stored on computers I discovered that military leave requests were approved and signed by the local chain of command as paper carbon copies. One copy was placed in the soldier's file, one given to the soldier as his leave pass, and the last copy sent to Ft. Ben Harrison to be officially recorded and subtracted from a soldier's accrued leave. So, taking leave without it counting against the leave accrued was simply a matter of making friends with the company clerk and making sure that last copy ended up in the round file rather that mailed to Ft. Ben. I traveled all over Europe on and off for about four months that year until my ridiculous time away was noticed by my Sgt and compared the local records to the official one. I was only docked about 1/3 of the leave I'd taken and they chalked it up to a "mistake." If I'd have had the good sense not to go over the top the entire thing would have gone unnoticed. Good times....
SomeFaustkateer 8 months ago
I confess I got the same deal through Fort Belvoir’s PAC in the 1980s! I took 30 days of “Leave in Drawer” each year without realizing at first what it was. Then I discovered that as long as I returned safely from my holiday, the paperwork was never filed. Holy cows! When I was discharged after 4 years I still had 3+ months of leave paid out. I didn’t feel bad. I worked my a*s off for the U.S. Army!
Kit Black 8 months ago
This is an excellent way to spend the remainder of your enlistment, doing a lot of things you've never wanted to do...
Michael Largey 8 months ago
Also an excellent way to extend your time with the Army without even having to re-enlist.
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My high school had just started using computers to keep track of attendance and class registrations. There were some bugs, like you might accidentally be assigned a class and a study hall at the same time. Therefor, if you didn't how up for the first week, they dropped you from the class and assumed you were somewhere else.
The computer didn't raise any flags if this wasn't true. My junior and senior years I did this and just showed up to school late for my second class. I blew my mind that no one seemed to notice. Senior year I took it a step further and did this for the class after lunch. I was in school at 9 and left at noon.
Ace 8 months ago
And what did you gain from all of this? Sounds like a wasted education, 'cos you skipped half the classes. The fact that you're still proud of it tells us all we need to know.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
I doubt this guy learned all that much even when he was there.
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In the casino that I work in , smoking cigarettes is perfectly acceptable as long as you're a customer. But there's a specialized break area for employees outside in the blistering cold. But as employees they're not allowed to tell us which restrooms we can use and which ones we cannot. There are also No cameras located in the restrooms. So frequently I will go into the customer restroom and smoke a cigarette in a stall. I don't know if this is a loophole or not but it sure feels like one.
#61
Late to the party so it's probably going to get buried
My university has a program that buys books back, and they guarantee a minimum of at least $5 for college textbooks.
Well, to be considered a college textbook all it really needed was an ISBN. So, I proceeded to buy books from the local library for about 25 cents a pop, sometimes 50 cents. I'd bring in loads of books, 40-50 at a time and sell them. Then they began to have a 20 per student policy, so I rounded up a bunch of friends and gave them books to sell for me, in return they get to keep $50.
I did this for 3 semesters til they caught on and stopped buying old college textbooks all together, and removed the $5 minimum.
Man that was a lot of beer money.
no adhesiveness 2020 8 months ago
When I was in college you paid $75-$150 for a text book and they bought it back for $20, then resold it at 3 times that as a used text book, or changed the course requirement so you couldn't sell it at all.
#62
Not me but a highschool teacher. Each teacher had only so much paper they could use so he registered his paper use on some other random teacher all the while printing packets like there was no tomorrow.
Pieter LeGrande 8 months ago
I worked (late 1960s) in a job that required using large amounts of lined notepaper. Management decided to economise by limiting the issuing of said paper. We discovered our photocopier had a lined paper test print option. So we just printed heaps of test prints. Must have cost a fortune.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
At the school where I taught, my department got a grant. But the grant could only be used to buy items from a certain catalog. We were a math department , and there was nothing in the catalog we could use. However, you could order the kind of paper photocopy machines used. So I ordered it, and every month I sold to the school's photocopying department however much they needed. (It was better quality than they were buying, and I charged them less.) They transferred the payment to my department's account. The school's business manger could not figure out how the balance in my department's budget went up over the school year instead of down. At the end of the year, we had enough money to buy the school's first computer.
What do you think ?
Ace 8 months ago
And some of them make me laugh because the person doesn't realise that they're the ones being exploited, that the "loopholes" are deliberately put there there specifically to suck them into buying more product and becoming lifelong loyal customers.
Load More Replies... General Anaesthesia 8 months ago
Not that BP would understand but "loophole" comes from the Reddit article that BP scraped this from.
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BookFanatic 8 months ago
If you have a Kindle Paperwhite, you can load it up with free ebooks from your library and then turn on Airplane mode. It doesn't hurt anyone because the database automatically "returns" titles on their due date and so they're available for the next patron. But since Kindle can't tell the time/date in Airplane mode, the books actually stay on there until you turn it off.
Ace 8 months ago
And some of them make me laugh because the person doesn't realise that they're the ones being exploited, that the "loopholes" are deliberately put there there specifically to suck them into buying more product and becoming lifelong loyal customers.
Load More Replies... General Anaesthesia 8 months ago
Not that BP would understand but "loophole" comes from the Reddit article that BP scraped this from.
Load More Replies... BookFanatic 8 months ago
If you have a Kindle Paperwhite, you can load it up with free ebooks from your library and then turn on Airplane mode. It doesn't hurt anyone because the database automatically "returns" titles on their due date and so they're available for the next patron. But since Kindle can't tell the time/date in Airplane mode, the books actually stay on there until you turn it off.
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