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Cheat Code For Life: 30 Times People Found Insane Loopholes And Took Full Advantage Of Them
A loophole is a technicality that allows a person (or a company) to avoid a law or some other restriction without directly violating it
When most of us hear the term, we probably think of greedy businessmen and their tax issues, or ethically corrupt politicians trying to avoid legal procedures.
But when Reddit user Ninjalord5 made a post on the platform asking, "What was a loophole that you found and exploited the hell out of?" many regular people shared their schemes too.
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#1
Back in college we found a loophole with coupons at Kroger for General Mills cereal. If you bought 4 boxes of cereal each box was a dollar. But if you did the self checkout you would be printed out a coupon for $4 off your next purchase. We used the loophole to buy about 300 boxes of cereal. We only spent $12 on all of it. We would've spent less but we had to go to another Kroger once the manager got wind of us. We kept around 20 boxes for ourselves and donated the rest to the local food bank. They were so excited when we showed up with three vehicles full of cereal. Totally worth the $12 and all the time it took.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
What is it the kids say these days? "Hate the game not the player."
MushroomHead22 2 years ago (edited)
and had those boxes not soled and went to the "best before date" the store would have thrown them out anyway; now they can't write those off.
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#2
I coach a high school team; we recently bought airfare with Spirit airlines to take 9 students to a competition. Two of the students cancelled about a month out from the trip, and we had to replace them with two different students. Spirit airlines' policy: no name changes. Can't even pay a fee to change the name. The tickets are basically lost, I have to buy new tickets. Spirit's customer service is overseas, and they plainly don't care at all about customer service (because they don't actually work for Spirit etc etc). EXCEPT that Spirit airlines DOES allow passengers to correct misspellings. And these folks don't really recognize nonsense names. So over four calls, I change the names of the cancelled students to the names of the new students, two letters at a time. No one at Spirit customer service made a note (because who would care), and no one ever notices that the "correct" names during the intermediate steps were nonsense. Also, f**k Spirit.
Monday 2 years ago
I imagine those calls to customer service knocked at least a couple of years off OP's life....
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 2 years ago
The cheapest ticket today on Spirit is $77 one way, $154 round trip. That's $308 before taxes and fees. The median HS teacher salary is $61,280 or about $29.50 an hour. If they wasted less than 11 hours to do the name change, they saved money.
the sixthgirl 2 years ago
I call them Break-Your-Spirit Airlines. Damn. Used them once, and never again.
Aviation Panda 2 years ago
Sorry, but I gotta. Did you know that the plane in the background is a Boeing 767 that is bigger and has a longer range than the Airbus A319 pictured in front of it?
Elaine Morinelli 2 years ago
Yeah budget airlines are not worth it. Really uncomfortable and you pay for bags.
Susan Betz 2 years ago
That is one of the stupidest rules I've ever heard. Plus, once subjected to that nonsense, who in their right mind would ever give them repeat business?
#3
One of my professors let us use one side of a 8.5x11 sheet of paper as a test "cheat sheet", so I cut it and made a mobius strip with it so I could use "both" sides.
Greg Sheldon 2 years ago
He doesn't do anything, he's stuck in an endless loop!
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Pieter LeGrande 2 years ago
Had an exam once that allowed 2sides of A4 notes. I bought a sheet of A3 paper (twice the size). With my extra-fine mapping pen and black mapping ink I could write extremely fine and clearly. Covered the paper in copious notes and then photo-reduced it to A4. Worked great - essentially 8 sides of normal writing.
Susan Betz 2 years ago
Aaaaand...the professor secretly admired the creativity of said student. (Or, hated them intensely but had to swallow it).
#4
When I was in high school we had a dress code where the teachers insisted we tuck in our shirts. I (like most of my friends) didn't like this policy, but apparently I was the only one to actually read the rulebook. It said, and I quote: "all shirts and tops must be worn tucked in except for those designed to be worn untucked." So, for the majority of the last three and a half years of high school, I f****n' wore Hawaiian shirts.
Whenever a teacher would tell me to tuck in my shirt, I'd pull out the rulebook and quote it to them. Most would just shrug and let me to carry on my way.
Rider (any pronouns) 2 years ago
My high school declared war on spaghetti straps by making the rule no bra straps showing. Every warm day for the next 3yrs I wore spaghetti straps any time I was dress coded I'd offer to take off my bra or stay as is.
Victoria 2 years ago
I did something similar. We had to wear uniforms in High School and my shoes were falling apart. I didn't want to buy another leather shoes so I looked at the rulebook. It said Black shoes, so I got a pair of cheap Canvas Black shoes. When confronted, I showed the rule book that didn't specify it had to be leather. Next year they changed it to leather shoes only, but I skated for the rest of the year!
MushroomHead22 2 years ago
we also had a uniform in high school. white shirt, black pants, and you were allowed to wear either a white or black undershirt. one day a kid wore a grey undershirt and was asked by the teacher to remove it. he said no. then the vice-principle came in and asked him. he said no. then the principle came in and asked him he still said no. his reasoning was the grey was a mix of both white and black so he should be allowed to wear it.... from that day on they stopped caring about undershirts.
Mary Kelly 2 years ago
yes, but nobody wants to date the guy who wears a hawaiian shirt every day...so....victory?
Justin Thyme 2 years ago
Once again proving the truism that if you read the rules, you can safely break 'em
#5
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.
Amo Mazzuchelli 2 years ago
Did the same, student discounts for movies, entry prices. Had to stop when it faded too much
Two_rolling_black_eyes 2 years ago
My college used to do the same thing. My ID still gets me free admission to any team sporting event, home or away. About 5 years after I left, the new president came from Florida State (big sports school) and our teams got better. They ended the forever IDs by issuing new IDs each year with dates on them. They tried to say the older IDs were no longer good but one alumni lawsuit with paperwork proving the ID was good forever and it never made it to court before the new president acquiesced.
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Kat Waterflame 2 years ago
I did this, too! I got student pricing at the movies, $2 instead of $10, for years!
Robert Trebor 2 years ago
I got a Time magazine subscription at the student rate in 12th grade, and due to a glitch got to renew at that rate for about 10 years. I was a third of the way through a 20-year Navy career when their box caught on (no, they didn't have a military rate). I let it go, as I didn't have time for Time anymore.
michael Chock 2 years ago
My college didn't delete my college email for years. Used it to buy Microsoft and Adobe at student prices.
#6
I'm not sure if this still works or not, but there used to be a 1-800 number on the bottom of a Wendy's receipt, and if you called it and took a survey they'd give you a free cheeseburger.
The thing is, when you got the free cheeseburger, they'd give you a receipt for the transaction. And at the bottom of that receipt... you guessed it.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 2 years ago
Each receipt has a new redemption code. They still do it but its now a buy one and get one free deal.
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AreYouGoingToEatThatPickle? 2 years ago
Most of these are done online now and you have to submit an email to get the coupon/code. You can only enter the same email once in so many days. Most people have more than one email address so can squeeze a few extras out of these.
Dreaming Spirit 2 years ago
Not to give you any ideas, but there are websites which give you a temporary email address (valid for 5-15 minutes, or as long as you don't close the page) :)
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Samantha Mannion 2 years ago
I used to do this all the time! Also dunkin always had a survey for a free donut also.
Samantha Mannion 2 years ago
It's been a bit now but when I was managing a wendys the employees never ever checked those receipts just hit the discount button for it....you could write any number at all on it same with dunkin and I know there is no way to check at dunkin ran a few of those over the years.....just write some random numbers on that receipt and they'll give u that donut lol
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visacrum 2 years ago
I mean, for at least the past 10 years, that offer was for a free burger with purchase. I can't remember exactly, but I want to say the way it was set up, you'd have to spend as much or more than the item to get the item. I just remember looking at it one time and thinking I'd never need a whole extra burger (don't judge). I much prefer apps with rewards points anyway.
#7
Bought a s****y sega genesis game, I think it was some flight sim which was the crappiest game I ever played. So I took it back to K-mart and got told "No refunds for opened games. Replacement for the same one if broken." Annoyed that I couldn't get my money back I said it was broken and went for the replacement. They handed me a new copy of the game and my original receipt.
Left and came back an hour later, "I want a refund for this game, here is my receipt and unopened game." Got my money back, went and bought a different s**t genesis game.
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
And their phenomenal lay-away. Year round, no minimum payment amount. I still have a microwave I bought in ~1990.
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Me. Just Me. 2 years ago
I worked for a mass retailer in customer service for years. We had the same policy (as just about all stores did to combat piracy), but we were required to open the replacement copy before giving it to the customer so this kind of thing could not happen.
PlatinumTheCat 2 years ago
Why the heck do you not get refunds for opened games? How else are you supposed to see if you like the game or not? Also, I’ve (well technically my parents) had a similar situation with not being able to get refunds for a crappy game because we opened the box to play the game
Boo-Urns 2 years ago
I used to do this with albums I didn't like. (These were cassettes when I was a kid.) I'd take it back to the store (Sam Goody) and tell them there was an audible defect in the tape, they'd give me an another copy, unopened, which I would then take to a different location of the store (there was one in every mall) and exchange it for something else.
#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.
brittany 2 years ago
husband and i have a cruise coming up soon where you have to listen to a time share pitch in order to get the free tickets. id done one of these pitches before with a friend and it isnt so bad really. thing is, the time share is in a state we are planning to move to in just a few years. so there is literally no point in getting a time share when we will be living there full time anyways. i get they want to make a sale but, its not gonna be with us.
#9
In elementary school we had the Accelerated Reading (AR) program. You would read a book, take a test on the computer, and be awarded points based on how well you did. At the end of the year you could buy things at the book store with the points you accumulated. I had just finished reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and got a perfect score on the test. The computer was only supposed to allow you to take the test once but I figured out you could take that specific Harry Potter book unlimited times. I racked up so many points and was never found out.
Alexandra Davis 2 years ago
I am a retired teacher and the teacher software for AR (in the UK at least) would have allowed the teacher to see exactly what quizzes you were taking and how many times etc. it would even flag up to me if a child tried to take the same quiz more than once or read the same book more than once (I would never stop them wanting ti read the same book again as if they liked the book, they liked it, but I'd encourage them to pick a different book alongside so they could progress) so your teacher either didn't care or just didn't look.
Zane Lumagrowl 2 years ago
I tried this (one of the Warriors books had the same exploit where you could keep retaking the test) but the teacher saw it on the records and gave me a detention for cheating the system :( I just wanted a cool Lisa Frank binder from the prize shop!!!
M Bow 2 years ago
We had a similar thing, so I decided to gain a few more points by taking tests on books that weren't actually in the school library but were on the system. It all came crashing down once they DID notice I had a few too many points (big reader as an early teen), and the school deleted my account and made me start a new one :(
Disgruntled Pelican 2 years ago
Something similar happened to me in the 6th grade except the book I read did not have a test built into the program. The librarian who was in charge of AR let me make the test based on the book and submitted it to the program. Being the system provides points based on the complexity of the book/questions, most AR books were maybe 10-50 points right? That one test I created turned out to be worth 324 points....needless to say, I was the last kid who ever created an AR test at that school lol.
Kurt Place 2 years ago
7th grade I moved schools half way thru the year. The math program in the new school was 'Do a packet, get points, buy your grade each quarter with your points. any left over points were used in an auction'. I finished all the packets (including any extra credit packets) in half the year, bought A+ for both quarters and had a ton of leftover points. The teacher only let me bid on one item. I did win a rocket launch day, estes rockets for the win. No way anyone was going to outbid me so it didn't cost me that much.
PlatinumTheCat 2 years ago
I did AR in my elementary school too, and I sort of wish we still did it, because I would have probably at least 200-400 points because of how much I read last year
#10
This was more grinding than exploitation, but it was fun. The grocery store where I lived had a fuel card you could sign up for. If you bought certain items, you would get $.01 or $.02 off per gallon, sometimes more depending on the item or week. One week, they run a promotion that every one of their store generics would get $.02 off per gallon, per item. I walk by the powdered KoolAid packets and notice they sell a generic version of that, 10/$1. I do the math. My vehicle has a 16.5 gallon tank. Gas costs $3.14 per gallon. Each packet of drink mix costs .10. Every packet of drink mix I buy will save me .33 at the pump. I will need 157 packets of drink mix to get free gas. This will save me $36.11. I should do this. So, I count out 157 little individual packets of drink mix, all kinds of flavors, and go to the checkout. I try to save the guy some time by telling him how many there are in each flavor, but the manager had walked by and stopped to see what was going on with the generic KoolAid. So, the poor guy has to scan every single one. The manager makes an awkward joke about the amount of drink mix I'm buying, but when I pull out my fuel card, my ploy becomes clear. The cashier reads off my new fuel discount and I'm on my way to the gas station, where I proudly fuel up my vehicle. (I still had to pay $0.16, they wouldn't let you reduce the price all the way to zero.) Then, I took all the generic drink mix and donated it to the local food pantry, because I hate KoolAid.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago (edited)
Simplest math: each item (packet) saves 2c per gallon. So divide price of gas by 2 to get the number of packets needed to reach a price of 0c /gallon (157). Calculate what the price for that is and if that price ($15.70) is lower than what it'd cost to fill the tank normally 16.5 x 3.14 ($51.81) then he's saving money. The amount he saves is the normal cost versus the cost of the packets, so $36.11.
Load More Replies... pfeils wife 2 years ago
I just love that they donated the Kool-Aid. Cuz there just isn't enough Kool-Aid being drank these days ;)
ƒιѕн 2 years ago
Why did you delete your comment? Just because the math was wrong is no reason to delete it. Have an upvote for the simple mistake.
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Bi Emo 007 (he/him) 2 years ago
Thanks for donating it to the food pantry, although I’m not sure how I feel about donating food you hate to charity….
#11
I worked at a sandwich shop when I was a young lass. We were allowed one free sandwich for the entirety of our employment there. Being an endless pit of hunger 16-year-olds are, I was determined to get as many free sandwiches as possible. If someone called in a phone order and never picked it up, the sandwich was fair game for employees after an hour. So I would text my friends to call in the sandwich I wanted and then never pick it up. Every day I got free sandwiches. It was amazing. If I didn't eat it, I would bring it to school the next day and sell it.
Verena 2 years ago
This is why the pizzeria in our little village demands pre-payment. They'd rather choose for loosing customers than loosing money to tricky teens.
kansasmagic 2 years ago
Wait, you only got one free sandwich "for the entirety of your employment"? Was it a hiring bonus? Retirement gift?
Mary Kelly 2 years ago
and it's that kind of s****y behavior that makes restaurants not let employees eat leftovers AND not donate leftovers to homeless....they will even ruin the food with soap etc....hope you and your friends enjoyed those sandwiches though...not a loophole...theft
#12
I lived down the street from a rare book store that didn't have a website. I would go in, take pictures of really expensive books, list them on eBay with a reserve of the cost of the book +$50 sometimes they would sell for $500 to $1000 over the price of the book.
marcelo D. 2 years ago
and thanks to him they got a lot of sells, cause for him to sell the actual book, he still bought it from the store. if they have actually decided to enter the 21st century by themselves, they might have made even more money.
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Pyla 2 years ago (edited)
Damn What if you sold a book, went to the book store to buy it and it was gone? Curious.
Clown fish 2 years ago
You can reserve books at most shops you have to put a down payment. Maybe they did that
Load More Replies... Two_rolling_black_eyes 2 years ago
This only works as long as the bookstore doesn't sell the item while the e-bay auction is active. The slightly more ethical method would to buy the book and then list it. Even more ethical would be to work with the owner to list the books on e-bay and take a cut of the profits. Keep the bookshop afloat by paying the book expert true market value while giving the OP more money by selling more items.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
You can cancel an auction at any time though right? If you list it for a fortnight you'd just buy the one from the store once you started getting bids. That way you'd know you'd covered your costs and hopefully it'd be early enough to still get the book.
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Rohan Naik 2 years ago
Depends on the country but could run afoul of fair trading laws or contractual misrepresentations laws. By misrepresenting ownership of the books.
michael Chock 2 years ago
I 100% encourage this. You helped a small bookstore stay in business. It would have been better if you told the owners, but not everyone is a saint.
Elaine Morinelli 2 years ago
That's not cheating really is it? Because the book store got their money. It's just like thrifting and finding a "find".
Victoria Pitt 2 years ago
I've seen a few listings on marketplace trying to do this with Goodwill stuff. They list an expensive item that isn't likely to sell right away in store, and if they get a bite online they go buy it. It's kinda clever, worst case scenario if it sold, you just tell them someone else just beat them to it.
Deborah Rubin 2 years ago
This one just seems really cruel to the store owner, as it is an independent business and not a big chair.
Legoinsinööri 2 years ago
How is it cruel to the store if they get more sales with the price they're asking?
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My son attends speech and occupational therapy every week. Usually, it is a $35 copay for each therapy, but if I do them on the same day I only have to pay the copay once. Saves me about $140 a month!
Anthony Jordan 2 years ago
It actually saves him $105 a month, if he pays the single $35 copay.
michael Chock 2 years ago
This is how I could afford allergy shots. One year we hit our max out of pocket early, it was like Christmas. Got surgeries, skin conditions fixed, ect... had an allergenist charge me for the entire 4 year shot treatment up front.
MichelleDonut 2 years ago (edited)
Lucky you! My insurance specifically will not allow that, so I have to drive 70 miles round-trip TWICE a week to get my health care.
#14
My friend works for a company where he spends the entire week traveling and staying in hotels and he can expense any hotel. Because of this my roommate and I listed our air mattress on Airbnb for $150 and he's the only one that ever stays there. He's only even in town once every couple weeks but whenever he is we have a small house party entirely on the company's dime!
NewBird 2 years ago
I once worked for a company that had a policy about this. Can't remember what it was called but if you stayed with someone you knew while on business you could still expense a certain amount and it was a decent amount, maybe £50-£100 a night? Of course if you liked the person who was putting you up you'd buy them dinner as a thank you, if you liked them a bit less I guess you could keep all the money. I thought it was nice of the company to let us do that :).
Diolla 2 years ago
Same here, I once stayed with my aunt for 2 mmonths during weekdays and the company paid expenses for it.
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John Yaskowich 2 years ago
For many years, the Canadian Military would give you an amount for staying with friends / family during a business trip. The amount was (unofficially) tied to the cost of a very nice bottle of Canadian Club whiskey.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 2 years ago
If they are coming at least once a month and paying $150, its time to upgrade the bed from an air mattress. They deserve a decent night sleep to recover from the hangover.
Fabian Bernard 2 years ago
My organisation affords 130€ a day for job travels, and doesn't ask anything after. So basically, if you only spend 45€ you keep the difference. One trucker at the company makes his own food, sleeps in the back of the truck and showers at gas stations, he already have paid his house at 28
Marina Rocha 2 years ago
Ernst Young gives you money for you to stay with friends. Its win win
Robert T 2 years ago
On top of that, the tax man might have something to say about it too.
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Monday 2 years ago
Not really. If company policy is that he can choose wherever he wants to stay, and the air mattress is a legit Airbnb listing they can't do anything to him. If they figure out what's going on they will likely change their policy, but they can't retroactively punish him. Since they're using the $150 from the Airbnb charge to party they're not technically doing anything wrong.
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This past semester, I needed to take a Biology class with a lab to graduate. I was told that it was one of the easiest classes at my school to take, but as a lit type, I didn't agree much. It was so much information all at once, and I found it really boring, so I didn't do so well on the tests or assignments. I got Cs and Ds, even on the final which I stayed up all night to study for. We also had a class blog. There were about a hundred and twenty of us, and we each had to write three posts per semester on anything biology-related. I didn't do well in the lab section, either. I failed the multiple choice test *and* the practical, and I assumed I was f****d. However, the professor said that if we made comments on our peers' blog posts, and turned in worksheets to show what edits we made, when, and on what topic, we could get five extra points per edit. Most kids did two or three. I did 97. Got an A for the semester.
Kirsten Kerkhof 2 years ago
That is a good professor, giving students a way to compensate a low grade with assignments they are good at.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 2 years ago
This is alternative learning. You learned the subject by self-teaching yourself what you needed to make intelligent replies to the blog postings. Good job from the prof.
Load More Replies... Passerby 2 years ago
I agree. If I were the teacher, I would allow this too. I like effort.
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KittyMommy 2 years ago
I know for a lot of US colleges the basic courses that everyone has to pass for a degree tend to have a lot of students. Class sizes go down when it's a degree specific course. My daughter was told things like her Lit class would have 100 or so students, but her business law class would have about 10 to 15 students
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Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 2 years ago
I had a couple classes like that last semester. Didn't do so well on the tests, but did the required side work (I E busywork) and got a B on the class and an A for its lab.
#16
I spent 5 years on a US navy submarine. Every two years we would do a six month long deployment called Westpac.On my second deployment I got boondoggled with a few other dudes - basically, the boat goes out for deployment without us and we got sent to attend various training schools in Pearl Harbor for the first half of the deployment, then catch a flight to meet the boat. So we watched the boat steam off and then caught a flight to Pearl Harbor.
We show up with our orders to check in, but there was some miscommunication, office personnel done f****d up. We aren't enrolled in any of our classes. We don't have barracks, meal chits, nothing. They had no idea we were coming. They give us something called a "non-availability chit", which allowed us to stay at any reasonably-priced hotel on the gov'ts dime. So naturally we found a palatial estate a block away from Waikiki. We show up for muster the next day and the PO more or less just told us "Yeah, I don't want to see you guys again, ever." We couldn't get a hold of our boat, because it was underwater doing secret things shhh. Once the yeomen got their s**t on straight, they realized that our return plane tickets were already paid for and paperworked up, so they just said f**k it we'll do it live.
We were getting a per diem and having our housing covered by the navy, never had to muster for work, never had to check in anywhere. On top of that, we were still collecting our normal pay and allowances, sea pay, BAH, etc. For three months. I grew a beard, got high as f**k as often as possible, learned to scuba dive, did some surfing, had sex with a bunch of international tourists, went on pub crawls every weekend, did some hiking, lots of snorkelling. Woke up on the beach a few times with no recollection of how I got there. Best vacation ever. Thanks, navy.
Allen Scherr 2 years ago
Not sure I would want someone on a nuclear powered sub that "got high as f**k as often as possible".
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
this is the kind of s**t I want my tax dollars going to when we spend trillions on national defense. glad you enjoyed!
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
sure is a better use than killing innocents in foreign countries. Agreed.
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Rae Ramirez 2 years ago
Waikiki is beautiful! No better place to get a free vacation! Thank you for your military service!
becck 2 years ago
That’s a s****y thing to wish on someone for no reason?
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Dan Banks 2 years ago
When I was serving in the Canadian military they messed up my training schedule. I spent six months without a tasking. I was also told by the Sargent in charge of PAL platoon (personal awaiting training) to keep the lowest profile possible, and to keep myself scarce around the building. I did have to show up each morning, other than that I would go to the gym, go to the Junior ranks mess and watch tv, pretty well anything that kept me out of the Sargent's sight.
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I worked in a call center during college. Our main performance measure was the number of donations solicited PER CONTACT. If the person didn't answer or hung up immediately, it didn't count against you.
I discovered a bug where, if I blew into the microphone just as the phone started to ring, it would register in the computer system as a no-answer and dial the next number. I rode this out for several months before I got tired of blowing my microphone for 8 hours a day and quit.
Agfox 2 years ago
Not going to comment on OP's interesting turn of phrase in their last sentence
Lexekon 2 years ago
They have special operators standing by, just for that service.
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StrangeOne 2 years ago
My last call center job, I discovered that many people would just hang up because the dialer would be faster than we would be getting through calls. So, someone would be called and they would answer before we would be done with the last call. We pointed this out to our Team Leaders before. All they did was use it as a lecture to get through calls quicker, and that was somehow our fault. Anyways, when we go through calls there's a disposition screen, where I type in a number corresponding to how the call ended, such as answering machine, fax, not interesting, do not call, interested, etc. Then just pressing enter. I learned that if I pressed 2 for answering machine and enter, very fast repeatedly, the calls would come in and end rapidly for the amount of times I did the call ending. Wouldn't have to speak to anyone and it made my dial rate look really fast. Just had to make sure I didn't do that too too much, as we got monitored. But I got a small reward one day for BS dial rate XD
Kim Steffen 2 years ago
Get your mind out of the gutter. Even my filthy mind didn't think of that.
#18
I used to play a lot of backgammon in Yahoo Games - and some people were real jerks when losing. Most commonly they'd stall the game by taking the maximum 5 minutes per move, hoping I'd resign. I learned a way to boot these people off Yahoo for as long as I wanted, by trying to log into their account. When I used the wrong password ten times, the account was locked for 24 hours. They couldn't log in again until I chose to allow it.
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
does anyone remember online pool on yahoo games from the early 2000s? that was the s**t back then.
kansasmagic 2 years ago
So endlessly f*****g with someone else's AOL account is somehow equivalent to them messing with your backgammon game for a few minutes? Seems "fair"...
MushroomHead22 2 years ago
don't f**k around and you won't find out. simple.
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At my local movie theater, you could get a small drink for $2.50 or a large drink for $3.50, and large gets unlimited refills. Or you could get a SoBe tea for $2.50. But they didn't give you the SoBe bottle because they wanted to avoid any broken glass incidents. So they poured the SoBe into the large cup. Boom: unlimited large drink refills.
I saved several dollars that way.
Vasana Phong 2 years ago
Meh, if I drink that much soda, I’ll be in the bathroom more often than watching the movie
Clown fish 2 years ago
I was thinking that. I have one small drink and 20mins before the end of the film I start to need a wee
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 2 years ago
Prior to the pandemic, the SO and I both belonged to an AMC program that allowed unlimited movies per month for $19.99. They also had free refills on large sodas same day. One Sunday a month we'd plan a date day and see that month's movies and use the same cup all day long. I don't feel bad about getting refills on a $9.72 w/ tax soda that I refill from the machine myself.
kittygrl85 2 years ago
As a young and broke teen I could barely afford a movie much less the $40 in snacks to go with it ...so I would find a full trash can, grab a large popcorn bucket (free refills) tear a decent sized rip in the side and go to the counter with a story about how my evil little brother tore our bucket in half fighting with me. Never had an issue and always got a free (clean) bucket of popcorn. Didn't feel too bad about it as the actual price for popcorn is pennies on the dollar for what is being charged anyway.
TruthoftheHeart 2 years ago (edited)
People need to lose the obsession with huge amounts of pop, do you realize how much sugar you're drinking?! There's a reason we have such an obesity issue here in America. More is not always better!!! Drink some water!
Rohan Naik 2 years ago
I feel for something to he a loophole it has to be legal. This is illegal its theft, the contract wasnt if you have the large cup you get the refills it was probably if you buy a soda you get unlimited refills. Theft =/= loophole.
Rohan Naik 2 years ago
I bet I got downvoted cos people thought I said thing bad so not a loophole. No my point was there has to be a hole you can exploit, a thing that is by law illegal (whether you agree or not doesnt matter) makes it not a loophole, so there isnt a thing you are legitimately exploiting. Bad pandas bad.
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By accident I found a gumball machine if you turned the dial really slow it would drop the gumball, then you could dial it back just enough so the next gumball would drop into the tumbler bits, then slowly dial forward again until it drops, etc. Got about 20 of them and stopped when I realized that I really didn't want to chew that much cheap gum...
tom 2 years ago
which begs the question, why do they make cheap gum?, surely it takes just as much effort as the good stuff
CV Vir 2 years ago
Ingredients for good gum cost more. Better flavors, fewer fillers, more sugar.
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Gamin Coda 2 years ago
You can also grab a free priority mail shipping box... trace a quarter, cut em out, and use it as a slug. I was a bad but creative kid.
#21
In high school they gave students credit for interning. I started my own corporation and interned at it for my senior year. The boss graded me very highly, as well.
Anthony Jordan 2 years ago
You stole my reply! (I wonder how well the giant ball of oil went over?)
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sturmwesen 2 years ago
Due to some personal drama I missed some ECTS for my BA. I took a munch of online self learning courses took some screenshots and took a few tests in an hour. I got more points than I needed for not even half a day of work. Wish I had known this before. Took the rest of the semester for job searching while my healthcare was payed.
Susan Betz 2 years ago
I love this. It's not that hard to start a corp or an LLC, and certainly not cost-prohibitive. Very clever application.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
this wouldn't work here, you have to be 21+ to sign contracts such as company registration papers.
#22
When I Was younger (12-13) I had one of those stupid timers on the computer that would only let me use the computer 2 hours a day before I got kicked.
Found out that if you minimize the screen alerting you that you have ran out of time, you never run out of time. Best summer ever.
Lexekon 2 years ago
Full respect for doing something you enjoy. I get to hear a lot of people in my life who evangelize going outdoors and being particularly active, as if you are broken for enjoying indoor stuff. Spend your time the way you are happy to, you don't get more time for listening to others.
XenoMurph 2 years ago
If you live an entirely sedentary life, it'll be a short life.
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Lexekon 2 years ago
We live in an area with few peers for my son to play with, so when he is home he enjoys hanging out with his friends online.
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General Stukov 2 years ago (edited)
My dad had a physical timer called my mom. They would physically lock the pc after a set time, usually 30mins to an hour a day even though i love computers today and i found i was good at picking locks and thus far no locks can keep me out. I build pc's mod handhelds and take great joy in my work. Despite my mom's attempt to kill a dream, she gave me another life skill. gaming gave me my love of hardware and software and for 33 years I've been working hard to share my love with everyone. (Fun fact my dad was actually super proud that every lock or prevention mechanism they threw at me i was able to get past)
#23
I live in the UK and train prices are a joke. They are so expensive. The best way around this is to split your journey. Say you are going from London to Birmingham; would normally cost around £40+, instead find a stop that the train you want to get stops at and do a journey of London to Milton Keynes and then Milton Keynes to Birmingham for example.
This saves you so much money, and is completely legal. You just have to make sure you stay on the same train when doing it, so double check all the timings. It annoys the rail companies as well as I believe they tried to shutdown a website which did this for you.
Verena 2 years ago
Then their pricing is very, very strange. In most countries, two trips would be more expensive. Not much more, but more.
Cat Palmer 2 years ago
I can confirm that UK rail pricing (really the whole industry) is indeed very, very strange. And expensive.
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Donnie Mc00 2 years ago
How does Split Ticketing work? Split ticketing means you book two or more tickets rather than buying one rail ticket for your journey. You still travel on the same train without any changes to the normal journey. By splitting your journey into multiple tickets automatically, Split My Fare can make you big savings. Instead of buying a single ticket from Leeds to Glasgow for £120.00, you can save £96.20 with Split My Fare by buying split tickets from Leeds to Bingley, Bingley to Motherwell, and Motherwell to Glasgow for a total of £23.80. You stay on the same Leeds to Glasgow route and don’t have to make additional changes. https://www.splitmyfare.co.uk/
Gavin Johnson 2 years ago
Several fare splitting websites out there. The government refuses to force the various rail operators to have a simple, logical and easy to use fare system so it’s on us to reduce what we pay them….. https://www.splitmyfare.co.uk/
Petra Schaap 2 years ago
yeah UK trains are strange! I once saved heaps of money buying a multiple day return and a single fare instead of two single fares, for two trips on two days. (if i remember correctly it was a London Birmingham return plus a Birmingham Bristol single, not sure. But strange) I also once outsmarted the journey planner from a smaller town to Manchester, by spending 3 pound on a singe ticket to travel via Birmingham, and from there on to Manchester. It was also faster! Ive seen a lot of strange things in my life but not many make as little sense as the UK trains :-D
Alexandra Davis 2 years ago
Many sites now will split ticket for you, I use Trainline and they often split my tickets for me and show how much you save. With my disabled rail card getting me 1/3 off too, I can travel for a fraction of the price. Helped an American who was coming over on holiday here and travelling around on trains save over £100 with split tickets. Now you can have e-tickets too, you don't even have to worry about losing the tickets or not knowing what ticket to use through the barrier and they're all on the same QR code.
Charl Marx 2 years ago
When I went to uni many moons ago, I used to use an "Open Return" ticket to commute on the train 3 times a week. The outward ticket would be valid on the day of purchase only, but the return ticket was valid for a month!! 9 times out of 10 the ticket wasn't checked on my return journey, so I'd keep it for the next time and just buy a single ticket which was about £10 cheaper for some reason. Saved a fair bit of money.
Ankita Shetty 1 year ago
I used to work for a company that helps plannings such journeys, i would always suggest the customers to split the journeys and purchase railcards if the save more than what they pay for the railcards
#24
Complained to Chipotle corporate when the hours were wrong on the door and it was closed Sunday during my lunch hour. Got a free burrito card in the mail. Went back later in the week. Ordered a burrito: * double chicken * extra beans * extra rice * grilled peppers * extra cheese * extra salsa * DOUBLE GUAC $$$$$$ * Oh s**t this thing is huge you better double up the tortilla. Man, you should have seen this m**********r drawing up the wrapper with his black marker. Giant C, two circles around it, forward slashes, back slashes, Guac x2 circled, some sanskrit and I'm pretty sure even a tilde. He followed the burrito to the register like I was going to tuck it under my wing and Marshawn the f**k outta there. He shoulder-surfed the cashier while she rung up this $20 monstrosity. Shoulda seen the look on dudeman's face when I pulled that card out and smiled and said, "here ya go". God my coworkers are still laughing about it.
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
that Marshawn Lynch reference is going to pass over most people's heads but it's brilliant.
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
Agreed, I wouldn't know the individual if I saw them at the mailbox.
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My university requires that you change your password every few months or so. The new password can't be on that you've used in the past. Naturally this sucks because I have to remember yet another password. But you "forget" your password and reset it it can be anything, and it counts towards changing your password. I've had the same password for my entire college career. Edit: Guys I'm aware this is a security risk. You can stop telling me now. I change my important passwords (banking, health insurance, loan accounts etc.) religiously.
urvish sanghvi 2 years ago
On the contrary, if any websites asks you to keep changing passwords every interval there is a greater chance of the user setting up a simpler password and hence the security risk.
marcelo D. 2 years ago
100% this. It has been shown that it is more secure not to force users to change their passwords at intervals cause they will use simpler passwords to remember the amount they have to, since most people don't use a password manager.
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kath morgan 2 years ago
Ugh my university was the same way with passwords (without the cheat). I had to write them all down because it became impossible to keep track. Much safe very security.
Colleen Glim 2 years ago
Reasons why I have a list of assorted passwords as a note on my phone. I add to it as and when I need to and only have to remember one password
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
yep I also do this, but I don't clearly mark which password is which site.
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MelFunction 2 years ago
The more often you require a password to change, the more you risk the users writing their passwords on a post-it-note.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
yeah this isn't a security risk if your original password was good. The thing of changing passwords makes people use systems like august2023! september2023! and so on.
#26
When my friends and I were in 6th grade we were always looking for a hustle. We would collect our parents empty soda and beer cans to return to the safeway near us for a few bucks to buy candy. One day they installed these big machines that automated the process so the employees didnt have to manually count the cans. You would put your can in the machine through a wide tube, it would roll the can around until it read the bar code, drop the can into a locked storage bin inside and you would repeat this until all of your cans were tallied. It would print a receipt that you would exchange for the cash amount of your cans at the register inside. My friends and I tied a can to the end of a stick, got the machine to read the barcode and then pulled the stick out before the mechanism would force our can-on-a-stick into its belly. We did this once a week and got about twenty bucks each time before we would get nervous and stop so we wouldnt get caught.
Vasana Phong 2 years ago
I remember my first job on the books at 14 , I stayed at my uncle’s house in CT to work at a supermarket (Waldbaums’s) for the summer, I lived in PA so the return exchange for the cans were different, if you bought a 6 pack of Pepsi, the register would charge automatically an xtra .30, we had a large recycling machine where the customers can come in and put their recycling in to obtain a receipt for the $, some people would bring in 3 trash bags of cans, a man that did this at one transaction got more $ than my weekly paycheck ( minimum wage back in 1987-$ 3.75)
ILoveMySon 2 years ago
My son used our riding lawnmower and an attached trailer to collect cans on weekends from a house rented to college summer employees. We lived in a resort town. He made a LOT of money at five cents per can. He now works in finance.
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behind these machines is the grossest, worst smelling room possible. our machines at the kroger I used to work at in high school would crush the cans automatically, so you just got pop and beer everywhere. our drains would stop up too which made everything worse. nothing like the smell of stale soda and beer.
Lizzie Lola 2 years ago
I remember being the employee who had to count the cans by hand. It was SO gross! 🤣
#27
In the 80's Chuck E Cheeses didn't shred the tickets you get out of their games and use to buy toys, candy etc. My friends and I were biking one day behind a strip mall practicing our wheelies and jumps. We saw a worker throwing a garbage bag of tickets into the dumpster behind Chuck E Cheese. We grabbed it and then started circling back about once a week. Garbage bags and garbage bags full of tickets. We were doing so well, one of my friends parents got in on it. She would take the mini van behind there and have her kids load up. And this is why tickets are now shredded. I think I still have a huge stockpile of frisbees and stuffed animals in my parent's attic somewhere.
Monday 2 years ago
Depends on where the dumpster was. If the dumpster was accessible to the public you could get away with it since once you dump trash it no longer belongs to you. If "behind Chuck E Cheese" is where the garbage collectors emptied the dumpsters then it was free game, if not then it was theft.
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Eric Katowitz 2 years ago
I hate that personally. I love Skee-Ball, but don't care about the tickets. So I would play, amass a decent chunk of tickets and then find a little kid nearby and give them to him/her (with their parent's permission of course). Can't really do that as easy with the cards.
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Zane Lumagrowl 2 years ago
I haven't been to Chuck E Cheese in a long time, but I've been to several similar arcades and most of them don't use physical tickets anymore. All of your tokens and tickets are all logged on a card.
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SadieCat17 2 years ago
It's free and entertains the kids. Slightly unethical, but a big chain won't miss the tiny bit of money.
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Around 5 years ago I used to work as a Sales Rep at a cell phone booth. Every new smartphone that would be released, the wireless provider would usually send us a demo unit of that phone with a demo line. The demo line would have unlimited talk, text, and data but would deactivate after 2-3 months. This was so we could show customers how the phone works with all of its features. One time we got a demo line that didn't expire after the 2-3 months. So my manager at the time told me to use it as my work line. I didn't want to carry two cell phones so I cancelled my personal line and used my work line as my personal too. Fast forward one year later, my manager is transferred to another store and we get a new manager. New manager has no idea about my work/personal line. I left the company 6 months later with my demo line and to this day I still use this demo line. Have not had a cell phone bill for over 5 years and counting. TL;DR - Got a cell phone line that I have been using for free for over 5 years. EDIT: Just to clarify on a couple of questions that come up a lot. I can upgrade the phone whenever I want but I have to buy new phones for cash, rather than worry about contracts. The talk and text works fine in the US but I am limited to 1 GB of data per month. The line does not seem to work internationally, but I usually use WIFI anyways. BONUS STORY: Around 2 years my phone got stolen from my car, along with my laptop, hard drive, and tablet. I was utterly devastated, but more for losing my phone line than anything else. After moping around for a few days, I started to think of ideas of how I could possibly get the magical phone line back. I called and texted the phone line non-stop, offering money for just my SIM card back, but no response. I decided to try a different approach. I called my old store I used to work at, pretending to be a customer I asked for my old manager, but I was told there was a new manager and I got his full name. I called my carrier, remembering the protocol from my working days, pretending to be the new store manager and I gave them our authorization code (which I luckily still remembered). Told them one of our demo lines was on the fritz and needed to transfer onto a new SIM, they ask for the phone number of the demo line. I give them the number and they say it's some special line that I have to contact some special department for. They transfer me to special department, I tell special department dude about the situation and he's like he can definitely do the transfer but only through email requests. So I have to send him an email request of the transfer through our store email. SCREWED! Another dead end, so maybe the magical phone line is gone forever, looks like I have to pay for a phone line like the rest of you peasants. But then I had a magical flashback to 5-6 years ago, when I used to work at the wireless store. My then manager asked me to create a store email for our team to use, for whatever use. I couldn't remember the password of that email but I did remember I just made a regular gmail account. So I made a new gmail account for my old store and emailed the special department my phone line transfer request onto a new SIM card, under the guise of that store's new manager. The line was transferred within 2 hours and I got my magical phone line back.
Little king trash mouth 2 years ago
I have no problem scamming large, greedy corporations. Thumb's up for this guys ingenuity
michael Chock 2 years ago
My company issued us new work phones but didn't shut my old one off for 2 years. Not as magical but I can see why you would fight to get it back.
Andrew Sanford 2 years ago
This is the type of villainous genius they write about in superhero stories
Heather Talma 2 years ago
I couldn't do this, I'd be too paranoid about the thing suddenly fixing itself for no reason and locking me out.
Demosthenes 2 years ago
Try @X they have a 120 character limit for low attention span folks
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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.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
so damaging some poor bastard's small business running vending machines? not really ethical.
brittany 2 years ago
place i used to work had messed up machine for the dr pepper drinks (no other drinks messed up) youd pay 2$ and instead of dispensing one bottle, youd always get 2. eventually i stopped drinking as much soda and started drinking more water so i have no idea towards the end if it ever got fixed, but everyone knew if you wanted dr pepper, you basically got a free one every time
Lexekon 2 years ago
That is assuming the machine cannot be adjusted to stop giving things in error. This is easier than you think, the original program simply was written by someone TOO trusting.
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#30
There was a Papa Johns coupon for 50% off if the official PJ twitter retweeted you.
I found the code looking through their website.
I got half off pizza for a year and a half.
#31
In elementary school we would individually read books and take an online test on the content. If we got enough questions right it would give us credit based on the amount of words that were in the book. I realized early that I could read the short version of classic books that were meant for little kids and would get credited to reading the full novel. By the end of the year I "read" over 4 million words. Nobody else in the school broke 1 million.
Monday 2 years ago
I wonder if you could do anything with the points or if it was just like reddit karma
Alexandra Davis 2 years ago
Sounds like AR (accelerated reader- I'm a retired teacher who used to use this) and your points could be used to 'buy' prizes and the more points the better the prizes. However (like the other AR story here) the teachers could log in and see what the students are reading, how well they do on the quizzes and everything. So this persons teacher was pretty rubbish at tracking, especially as different books were different levels and you were meant to progress through the levels and improve your reading age/ ability. The fact this OP was reading the same low ability books and not appearing to progress on the system (even though they're getting 100% on the tests) would have been flagged to the teacher, showing the teacher couldn't have cared less; which is quite sad.
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4th grade we would set a goal for minutes read each month. You got a "bonus ticket" for every x minutes you read over the goal that you could use to buy stuff at the class store. You and the teacher set your goals for the first half of the year, then it was just you setting them for the second half, with a minimum of like 150. December my goal was around 900 (I read a lot). The next 5 months my goal was always the minimum, and I made bank on those bonus tickets.
#32
There was a site where you could upload your own games and make revenue for every time someone visited the page. Turns out just refreshing the page counted as a visit, so I found an auto refresher and left it on 24/7. I made almost $2,000 before they figured out what was happening and now it only works from different IP addresses
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
yeah you'd have to re-login after every refrresh so as to get a new IP since a VPN allocates you one dynamic IP per login. Better solution is TOR network which changes your IP for every transaction, as far as I understand it.
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In college I bought a pack of coupons for Hungry Howie's Pizza. It had three coupons for a free pizza, no other requirements, just a completely free pizza. I would call and order my pizza, tell them that I had the coupon for a free pizza, show up and "forget" to give them the coupon every time. I always had it on me as a backup, just in case they did ask for it. But, out of the three coupons, they only asked for it once. I kept using them for months, until the coupons expired, which I am sure they were looking for. I ended up getting a few dozen free pizzas out of them, which was great for a college student.
Marianne Luginbuhl 2 years ago
You mean you had the pizza delivery guy pay for your pizza, which is what happens if they don't have the coupon. Jerk. My husband delivered pizza thru our college years, this would take out all his tips for the evening.
White Sauce Hot Sauce 2 years ago
OP was picking up the pizza from the store, not getting delivery.
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#34
So I wanted to get cheap coffee filters online as I knew i was going to need them for the foreseeable future and wanted to get a better price on them. So I found a site that had them at half price ($1.95 for 100 filters, usually $3.99 at the store) what I was paying at the store and put them in my cart. When I went to check out it asked me if I wanted to setup an automatic delivery to have them shipped every 2 weeks and they would reduce the price. I said sure why not, after all they were the cheapest i had found and getting them every week would mean i didn't have to keep ordering them. So it brought the price down by like to like $1 for 100 filters. I was thrilled. Then it asked me if i wanted to join the Coffee savers program for more discounts! I said sure! So after joining the savers program it brought the price down to $0.00. I was stunned. I still had to add my credit card but I was never charged. So for 2 years I got 100 filters delivered to my door for free. Never got charged NOT ONCE. One day though I got a notice that said they were going out of business and my free filters would end. I was sad. But the stock pile I amassed them lasted me about 2 years and recently in the past 2 weeks I had to buy new filters. Life will never be the same.
Carrie de Luka 2 years ago
If enough people did this it's not surprising they went out of business!
#35
This is the story of how I passed math and graduated from college. So my university was notoriously awful for their math program. They used MyMathLab and it was just generally s**t. I was terrible at math anyway. You had the option of testing out of classes. You would go to the testing center, pay five bucks and take a test. So this was my plan to get my math credits. I'd go take the test, find out what I got stuck on and then work on that type of problem until I understood how to do it. Then i'd go back, take the test again. So and and so forth. I probably took the test like 8 times in a semester. Finally I passed that f****r and got my math credit out of the way. The next semester a new rule was implemented that you could only try and test out of a class twice per semester.
Monday 2 years ago
Probably, since they learned how to do the things they were stuck on.
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Vanessa Richardson 2 years ago (edited)
Can confirm, MyMathLab is the worst! (Edit to add: during my college years, I once took an online public speaking class—we had to record videos of ourselves giving our speeches and then upload them to a private YouTube so the other students could go and watch—it was very weird, but I appreciated it as I have a fear of public speaking!)
Sarah 2 years ago
I did something similar! Transferred from a real high school to an online one my last two years and somehow convinced them that an oddly labeled class on my transcript was math. It met their 'advanced' level math class, so I didn't have to take math my last two years of high school. Then I paid a tutor to teach me how to (barely) test into the right level math in college. Signed up for a communications degree at community college that only required 1 or 2 math classes, they were online so the tutor 'helped' a lot. Transferred to a 4 year college that also never looked at the low-level math courses I'd taken and I never did math again :)
DDmaybeandor 2 years ago
Honey you didn’t play the system, you got played. They tricked you into being better at math, which is the whole point.
#36
Remember 1-800-skypage? No? There was this glitch where, if you dialed that number on a pay phone, then redialled a long distance number, it would connect the call for free with no time limit. I don't remember why, because this was in the late '90s and I'm old now. Also, we once lived for two solid weeks on free Taco Bell by photocopying the "two free items" coupon they send you if you call 1-800-Taco Bell and complained. My bowels still haven't forgiven me.
Vanessa Steis 2 years ago
Did that have to be said? I feel even older now =D
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At a bar/pool hall with my mates, I noticed a jukebox. This jukebox had tens of thousands of preloaded mp3s for people to take their pick. Late Saturday night is the pool tournament and it was packed. I realized you could download an app for your smartphone and sync up with the the jukebox, paying with credit cards and choosing music on your phone. In the app, I found that with every "new" account made, you would get a free song of your choice to play. I made several (many) throwaway accounts and played Spongebobs "campfire song" and "best day ever" on repeat. I almost forgot, the grande finale was "raining blood" -slayer, followed by Through the fire and the flames" - dragon force Never told a soul, until now Edit: words
Nicky 2 years ago
As a kid, I put in $5 at a jukebox and picked "To All the Girls I Loved Before" 20x. Thought I was hilarious.
Vermonta 2 years ago
We were travelling many years ago and I put 3 songs on the jukebox. This is when they still played vinyl. The second song was Sweet Home Alabama (popular at the time) and for some reason it repeated at least 8 times before we finished our meal and left. I hate that song. The staff didn't do anything about it and it wasn't crowded.
#38
Worked at Wal-Mart. Employees can't take advantage of mismatched prices. See 3DSXL labeled at $70, when they first came out. Friend is with me. Hand him money to pay for it. Get new 3DSXL for $70.
Robert Trebor 2 years ago
I went to WalMart to buy as cheap a microwave as they had, not having much money at the time. Found one for $95, carted it, and was heading for checkout, when I saw a much nicer one tagged for $110. I could do that, so, swapped out, and went to checkout, and it rang up at $139. Told clerk what the shelf tag was, walked back with a roller-skating manager, he agreed to the shelf price and overrode the price that came up, but as we were leaving the aisle, he told a shelver "Get that tag changed."
Monday 2 years ago (edited)
𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘧𝘵 (𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘯) - 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨; 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳; 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘺. This is not theft. OP literally paid the listed price (or rather had a friend pay the listed price). Taking advantage of a labeling screw up is not the same as stealing an item.
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#39
A long long time ago Hostess chips (was the major brand in Canada at the time) had a Mario Bros promo. You got a "bingo" card in each bag of chips and every card was a winner. You had to scratch 3 of 9 areas and if you matched the icons you won. One of my friends figured out that using a tin can with a tiny hole punched in the bottom and then dropped down unto a 100W lightbulb, you could see through the card and find the winning spots to scratch. This spread around town and a week later there wasn't a single bag of chips to be found anywhere. Sold out all over town. We all had garbage bags of open chips around. I won 1 grand prize which was a Super Mario Bros game.
#40
The online community that played Diablo 2 created its own form of currency by trading valuable in-game items for rare rings called SOJ's (Stones of Jordan). For instance, if you wanted that rare +attack power armor, you would buy it for 12 SOJ's. Anyway, I figured out that there was a discrepancy between the worth of an SOJ in-game and it's actual monetary worth on eBay (same with magic items, but in reverse). I would buy SOJ's on eBay for cheap, go in game, and trade them for rare magic items. Then I would sell those magic items on eBay for way more than I paid for the SOJ's. I made enough money to pay for college books, and other living expenses. Blizzard tried to capitalize on this when they released Diablo 3, but they failed miserably by regulating the market too much. The system worked in D2 because it was only regulated by the supply and demand of the users.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
so, currency arbitration. You can do this with all kinds of fake currencies.
#41
There used to be an electronics store called 'Hastings' where I grew up that sold both new and used electronics. They had a deal that if you traded in 3 used games of a common type (e.g. all ps2 games) you could get a brand new game for free, no strings attached, just free, any game of that system. So I would go into the store buy 3 incredibly cheap used games (bass pro hunting or whatever it was called for 5$, they had dozens) and then walk out, double back, and then trade those in for a $60 brand new game. I did this constantly for a few months while being harrassed by the managers there until they stopped the promotion.
#42
They've closed it now but a couple years ago I discovered you could charge an american express 'serve' card with a regular credit card by going to walgreens (or maybe it was rite aid I forget). I have a credit card with 1.5% cash back. Every month I put $10K on the serve card (that was the limit) and then just paid my cc bill with it. I cleared $150/month for free.
#43
Not truly a loophole, but I got a flier in the mail one day from a pizza joint advertising 5 dollar large pizzas on certain days of the week with a code that was valid for another month. I'm still using the code to this day, three years later. It's only worked at the local branch so far, but I've been riding that gravy train as hard as possible.
#44
Years ago when online poker was a thing in the US, there were sites that let you look at statistics on other players. They'd give you like one free look, but I realized you could just manually change the player's name in the link and get unlimited free statistics from them. I used it a lot to see if someone was a good player or not before sitting down at tables with $20+ buy ins.
#45
There's these 3 Dunkin Donuts in my area that let you buy "Coffee Cards" basically you pay 200$ for the card and can come through any part of the day, how ever much you want a day and get an any size coffee for a year. Well my mom bought one last year and it had expired; she bought another one this year and it looks EXACTLY THE SAME as the old one; They took no effort into changing the card at all, so my mom gave me her old one and I get free coffee whenever I want. EDIT: They're not scannable cards or gift cards. It's literally just a pink piece of paper in the shape of a card that has the Dunkin Donuts label on it and the locations where it's valid and a managers signature. It does have the date it "expires" on there real small but they have never once checked my card, they only ask me to "flash" it at them; so I guess the day they ask to inspect it the jig is up.
#46
Around Halloween, Peeps website had a code to get 20% off at checkout for any order. It ended up working on all items, including gift cards. So I first bought a $3 gift card, then I used that gift card to by a $4 gift card etc. until I got to an $80 gift card. I then bought $80 worth of peeps with $3. I told one of my friends and he did the same thing but got his gift card up to $1,600
Kat Waterflame 2 years ago
And this is why most places won't let you buy gift cards with gift cards.
#47
I was in Costa Rica at a casino, losing money left and right on blackjack. I left the table and went to find my buddy, turns out he was playing casino poker, the kind where you play against the dealer. I had never been interested in it before but I was sick of losing at blackjack in Spanish so I sat down and bet. I was freaked out the first time it happened because I didn't think it was legal, but all 5 players at the table would compare the cards in their hands before the dealer turned over his. This way we knew if we had a shot at winning with a straight or flush, which paid more, or should fold. I don't know if the dealer cared or could not understand English, but we all cleaned up at that table over the course of an hour or so. I walked away with over a grand.
kissmychakram 2 years ago
Really surprised any casino, regardless of country, would allow this. Pretty sure you'd end up with fractured kneecaps around these parts.
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
That's why you avoid the "casinos" in basements in Philly. 😂😂
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Back when Hollywood Video was around, they would guarantee new releases to be in stock. If they rented out all of their copies in the store then they would give you a voucher for a free rental. I was in college at the time and would go into the store near my college campus at around 10pm on a Friday night. There was simply no way for them to have any copies left by that time, so I would collect whichever vouchers were available. Rinse, repeat. Cheaper than redbox.
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 2 years ago
And now they're out of business. All because of you. Probably.
#49
Back in the 80s. Raffle for a car had write your own entries. Printed off thousands of pages of entries on my printer. Won car. Unfortunately I was too young to drive. My sister totaled it before I got my license. Easy come...
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 2 years ago
It was the 80s. If a 12 year old wanted a car then a 12 year old could get a car.
#50
My '96 Jeep Cherokee used to leak transmission fluid really badly. Luckily, Jiffy Lube offered free "top-offs" on all fluids between oil changes. So I would just pull into Jiffy Lube every couple of weeks and have them fill my transmission fluid back up. They did not like me.
#51
Back when you could win a free coke under the bottle cap, I spotted a pattern where the caps that I won had a logo on the top that looked faded, whereas the losers all looked pristine. For 2 weeks, everyday after school I'd stop at the UDF and exchange yesterday's cap for a new coke. A few years ago, there was a promotional sample of catfood. The bag cost 3 dollars and it had a 3 dollar coupon inside it. The coupon did not have a weight limit on it. So I bought a big plastic bin, put it in my trunk, and for an hour, went in and out of the store filling that plastic bin, one $3 bag of cat food at a time, cashing in the 3 dollar coupon the previous bag gave me. I'm pretty sure I only saved like $20 but as the saying goes, 20 bucks is one less blowjob I have to give for 20 bucks.
#52
I always bring an old starbucks cup to starbucks and ask for a refill. They always give me a new cup and since I have a "gold" card, its free. Edit: this does work. I worked at Starbucks for six months, employees don't give a s**t about the coffee- they pour it out every thirty minutes anyway. As far as I know gold cards don't expire. I've had mine since 2009 which is how long I've been doing this
SkekVi 2 years ago
One of the downsides to being trans is that I had a gold card with my deadname and so I threw it out. I only got it bc this very nice senior I met every day at the local sb would buy coffee for me and back then the cards were just loyalty cards, so I eventually got a gold one. It was so cool. I will never actually go to sb enough for a gold card to happen again. XD
#53
Clipped ALL the Sunday "5 dollar off" coupons for the restaurant i waited tables at, every time someone payed cash, i got an extra 5 dollar tip. I made way too much money doing that.
Annymoose 2 years ago
Considering waiters make less than minimum wage because of a capitalist loophole, I'd say this is perfectly acceptable.
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#54
Back in the day of flip phones (can't do this anymore). I had a Razr which I f*****g loved and learned that if I dipped the screen in water and the put it in the freezer (freezing the water) the screen would stop working, but everything else continued to work fine. The sticker behind the battery was never touched and didn't change color. I would do this whenever my phone got scratched and then call up saying my screen stopped working. I would send it and they sent me a new one for free. Did it about 5 times.
I discovered this because I left it out in the snow by accident once. It was awesome.
#55
Bought a really expensive pair of boots for $350 that were priced wrong for $35. Returned them to the store a week later with no receipt and ended up getting $350 store credit.
Squishy 2 years ago
this isn't a loophole, it's stealing. just 'cause you're getting away with it doesn't mean it's not still just plain theft. you knew better and chose to say nothing.
Monday 2 years ago
That's not what stealing is. Stealing is taking something without permission or without paying. They paid. They followed the store policy. You're not obligated to correct employee mistakes because you are not an employee. They get paid to their jobs properly, if they don't do them properly then it's their problem, not ours.
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#56
I made tens of thousands of dollars by creating accounts at online casinos, getting "new customer" bonuses, gambling a small amount, and then cashing out.
#57
Was in a trivia bowl type competition in college. As soon as the announcer began asking the question you could buzz in and answer. If you got the question wrong you lost no points and the question was skipped. My team answered the first question correctly and proceed to mash the buzzer for the rest of the round, effectively blocking out all the other questions. We won the round with a final score of 1pt. They changed the rules before the next round. :-) Edit: Thanks for my first Reddit gold! It pays to exploit loopholes after all. Lol
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
I mean, debate competitions are one giant loophole nowadays anyway. While it's kinda about how well you can debate, it's also about how quickly you can talk. Every debate just sounds like an auction. Someone found that loophole, and now it's how the entire competition is run.
#58
Wizard hats were really high for for some reason, like 3-4K each. I figured out I could buy them from NPCs for 10 gp. I just ran around buying up all the hats on all the worlds.
#59
I work at a haunted house during the Halloween Season. We're allowed to grab customers, but nowhere between the shoulders and knees, and we can't be too rough about it. My costume has a very long rope at the end of the sleeve, which I use to loop around them pull them from behind by the chest or stomach area. I'm told I can do it as long as I'm still not too rough. It's a literal loophole.
kansasmagic 2 years ago
How do you loop them around the stomach if you can't touch customers between the shoulders and knees?
#60
I knew a guy in college who would use his foodstamps to buy the expensive milk with a deposit on the glass bottle it came in. He would pour the milk down the drain in the parking lot and return the glass bottles for cash. Super f****d up and unethical, but it was a loophole and he exploited the F**k out of it for beer money.
Christos Arvanitis 2 years ago
Some of these are indeed loopholes while others are morally dubious and others are just downright stealing...
kittygrl85 2 years ago
Currently living in Portland, Oregon and this is just a normal Tuesday here in the Wastes.
What do you think ?
The Queen Of Upper Butt Crack 2 years ago
Hospital parking. My brother has had to be hospitalized for long periods over the years. Our mom and I would take turns staying with him 24/7 as he had seizures and hospital wanted/need to tie him to the bed and would do so unless we were there. Mom would stay during the day. I would come after supper.pull a new parking ticket and go to bros room and give mom the ticket I just pulled so she would get out of the parkade for 0 or minimal charge (depending on how long it took her to het out of parkade). When she came back in the morning I would take the ticket she pulled and head off to work paying nothing. Would keep this going for duration of his stay, usually a few months at a time.
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
Hospital parking should be free anyway. No reason for any patients or their visitors to ever pay for parking. At the hospital I work at, you get a ticket when you enter the garage, bring it to your appt or the desk of the clinic you're visiting, and they validate that you were there. This puts a discount on the ticket that pays for the parking so no one who is there legit ever has to pay. The system is in place to keep random people or employees from parking there for free (us employees park miles away and get bussed in).
Load More Replies... Captain Awesome 2 years ago
My only loophole was a memory game at a pizza joint. The higher you score the more freebies you got. I had (and still do) a damn near photographic memory especially when it comes to patterns. I would walk out with a pizza, bread sticks, and soda every week for only a quarter. Damn good times.
Cindy Brick 2 months ago
Little Caesar's, right? I used to stare at that game many times while waiting for my pizza.
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Cass 2 years ago
Phone calls outside of our area code used to be wildly expensive and it cost more the further it was from your area. My best friend moved 3 hours away. My dad almost had a stroke when he got the phone bill and I was not allowed near the phone. Desperate to talk to my BF I went to the phone booth and found that a little wriggling with the return coin lever would allow me to talk for free. The coin dropped out and the call went through. I spent many cold hours in the phone booth that winter.
Jason Doakes 2 years ago
So many self-righteous criminals that have no clue what they're doing... A clear inability to distinguish between right and wrong, was a sign for something when I was young...
General Stukov 2 years ago (edited)
So apparently i learned today that the cheat code for life is theft. Who knew
The Queen Of Upper Butt Crack 2 years ago
Hospital parking. My brother has had to be hospitalized for long periods over the years. Our mom and I would take turns staying with him 24/7 as he had seizures and hospital wanted/need to tie him to the bed and would do so unless we were there. Mom would stay during the day. I would come after supper.pull a new parking ticket and go to bros room and give mom the ticket I just pulled so she would get out of the parkade for 0 or minimal charge (depending on how long it took her to het out of parkade). When she came back in the morning I would take the ticket she pulled and head off to work paying nothing. Would keep this going for duration of his stay, usually a few months at a time.
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
Hospital parking should be free anyway. No reason for any patients or their visitors to ever pay for parking. At the hospital I work at, you get a ticket when you enter the garage, bring it to your appt or the desk of the clinic you're visiting, and they validate that you were there. This puts a discount on the ticket that pays for the parking so no one who is there legit ever has to pay. The system is in place to keep random people or employees from parking there for free (us employees park miles away and get bussed in).
Load More Replies... Captain Awesome 2 years ago
My only loophole was a memory game at a pizza joint. The higher you score the more freebies you got. I had (and still do) a damn near photographic memory especially when it comes to patterns. I would walk out with a pizza, bread sticks, and soda every week for only a quarter. Damn good times.
Cindy Brick 2 months ago
Little Caesar's, right? I used to stare at that game many times while waiting for my pizza.
Load More Replies... Cass 2 years ago
Phone calls outside of our area code used to be wildly expensive and it cost more the further it was from your area. My best friend moved 3 hours away. My dad almost had a stroke when he got the phone bill and I was not allowed near the phone. Desperate to talk to my BF I went to the phone booth and found that a little wriggling with the return coin lever would allow me to talk for free. The coin dropped out and the call went through. I spent many cold hours in the phone booth that winter.
Jason Doakes 2 years ago
So many self-righteous criminals that have no clue what they're doing... A clear inability to distinguish between right and wrong, was a sign for something when I was young...
General Stukov 2 years ago (edited)
So apparently i learned today that the cheat code for life is theft. Who knew
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