Monday, December 7, 2020

Loopholes People Were Able To Exploit For Years


Sometimes it can feel like the universe itself is throwing you a bone, when you happen upon a long-term loophole. Loopholes are basically cheats codes in real life. These folks were able to exploit their respective loopholes for way longer than they should've been able to. For some, they're still somehow getting away with their sneaky antics. That free burger loophole sounds way too clutch. A true shame they got rid of that. 

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Text - Johnsendall • 1d 15 Awards I paid three hundred dollars a month to park a really pimped out van in a heated garage in Boston. If you parked front in no one could see you. Found a spot near an electrical outlet and ran a line into the van. Paid for a $10 gym across the street that was open for 24 hours so I had all the hot showers I wanted. Served at a nearby restaurant so ate most of my meals for free. Watched tv on my laptop with the free WiFi from the coffee shop above me. Literally liv

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Text - SpookyPlankton • 1d 3 1 Award There is an app for a local burger chain where it allows you to "roll the dice" to get a code for a free double- patty burger upgrade. It was designed so you could only try it once per day and it even shows the date of the roll on the code so the cashier could verify it. However, I found out that you can just change the date on your phone and try again immediately. If you got nothing, change it again and just keep going until you get the code. Then, when you

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Text - OyVeyzMeir • 1d 1 Award Still ongoing. Thanks to a charge card i was granted top tier elite status with a hotel chain. I downgraded 6 years ago but the status remained. The hotel chain went through a merger but since I had retained the status for over ten years was given lifetime top status in the new program that was created. Reply 12.0k •..

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Text - bravehamster • 1d 8 2 Awards One week the local Chick-fil-a put a coupon in a local coupon magazine flyer which was Buy 1, Get 1 Free, any item on the menu. Next to that coupon they had a 50% off any menu item. I carefully checked, and neither coupon mentioned "Cannot be combined with any other offer" anywhere on it. So I ran out to the local grocery store and grabbed a stack of these flyers. Sure enough the next week the offer was gone, but it was too late to stop me. I spent almost 2 ye

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Text - thebollard • 1d My friend used to restock condom machines in pubs and collect the money from them. The machines would always break and get jammed all the time but because it was condoms no one would ever tell someone that the machine ate their money. He would just count how many condoms were gone and give that amount of money to the company and pocket the rest.

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Text - OlmecDonald • 1d 3 7 Awards Local casino issued a $20 free play coupon in the newspaper with no expiration date. I talked to the newspaper delivery guy and asked him about that copy and he told me he's got 100's of them in the van as they were a few days old now. I got all of them, clipped out the coupons and proceeded to make $19.50 every day after work for around 500 or so days. Not quite years, but pretty damn close. The casino never printed a coupon without expiration/one per customer

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Text - DrunkPhoenix26 • 1d Growing up I worked at a chain grocery store. They had a policy in place that if an item price label didn't match the scanned price in the computer, the first item was free and any subsequent items would be for whichever price was lower. Every few months an elderly woman would come in and spend 4-5 hours shopping. When she would come up to the register, she would have a full cart and near everything would be free. I had to ring her out a handful of times and only caugh

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Text - BarnabyMoose • 1d 8 4 Awards In high school, our p.e. grade was based on improvement. We took a skills test at the beginning and another at the end and your grade was based on how much you improved. So, once I learned that, I always sucked at the first test and then did miraculously better at the second, so I had a massive "improvement" and thus, a better grade. Reply 15.8k ...

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Text - Solo_is_dead • 1d 5 Awards Circa Late 80s. You could make a long distance collect call from a pay phone, and charge it to a private number. The operator would call the other number to confirm. We'd ask the operator to call the number of another pay phone nearby,and have a friend authorize the call. Free long distance for almost a year. Reply 33.0k ...

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Text - btpn-425 • 1d 3 15 Awards When I was a kid there was a pay phone down the street that if you put your quarter in made a call but no one answered it would give you back two quarters. Went there all the time and called home when I knew no one was there to answer. Reply 1 21.1k ...

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Text - Shooterdude34 • 1d 3 4 Awards My old job i worked at a pretty large gym (gold level, like the 3rd highest level). Monthly fee was $79 for the gold membership but employees got a free diamond membership. Worked there for a year and a half before i quit, but my account was never deactivated. Been going there for a while completely free, still not found out. Diamond membership is like $200 a month Reply 11.5k ...

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Text - lanni957 • 1d 149 Awards Used to work at starbucks like 7 years ago and they used to print these receipts where if you filled out a survey it would give you a 6 digit code which you could then exchange for a free drink. However when you gave in the receipt with the code we would just toss it in the garbage and then give the free drink. So over a shift I would just keep all the survey receipts when people didn't want them, write random numbers on them, then keep a wallet full of free coffe

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Text - _Art_Vandelay_ • 1d 3 Awards Back in 1999/2000 there was this web advertising company called AllAdvantage. You could install their ad banner on your computer and it would occupy like the bottom 15% of your screen and show you ads and AA would pay you for the time you were exposed to the ads. Of course they had basic measures in place like stopping your accumulated time if your screensaver came on or your computer went to sleep. But all it took was a simple program that would keep your mou

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Text - otternoses • 1d 7 Awards I went to a sporting goods store and they asked me for my phone number when I was paying. I was in a bad mood and didn't want to fight with the clerk so I told them our local area code + 555-1212 (which is the old number for directory assistance), clerk accepted it and I left. When I checked my receipt I had a huge number of loyalty points - because apparently a ton of other people did the same thing. I called the office the next day and switched the "account" to

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Yellow - deecro3000 • 1d 3 8 5 Awards When Lyft first came out, they were giving away free rides up to like 20-30$ if I remember correctly, all you had to do was refer a friend. So me and my college roommate just made a few email address, and somehow my free rides glitched and I just kinda had free rides for the year Edit: I remember what caused the glitch: I had lost my debit card that was linked to the account, so I had to cancel it and get a new one. For some reason, Lyft kept processing paym

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Text - ReformingDegenerate • 1d 1 Award My family used to go to this campground in the summer and rent a little cabin for like a week. In the main building there was a little arcade - mostly older games, and a foosball table, and an air hockey table. What most people didn't know was - the air hockey table was broke. If you put quarters in, you could push the plunger to start the machine and then get your quarters back if you did it juuuust right. A couple of years in a row were SUPER fun because

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Text - InDarkestNight • 1d 4 Awards Obligatory not years but I can't believe I got away with it- My mum gave me £20 to buy a big thing of a certain brand of cat food which normally costs £10.99. Now heres the thing- when I entered the store I was given a coupon for £5 off that particular brand of cat food. The store was ALS0 doing £5 off the type of cat food I entered for. I got to the till and the food was priced at £5.99, I handed over my coupon and it was scanned so that the food was 0.99p. I

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Text - FunklerLing • 1d 3 11 Awards At my current apartment complex, they just changed the laundry machines so you need to use this super shitty slow app. I found out if you press start on the app and start on the machine and then back out of the app while it's "chatting" with the machine, the machine will start but won't charge any money. Been washing and drying for free for a few months. App name is similar to smallGS or smallPayments

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Text - WordN3rd • 1d O 11 Awards Because I was a good student and rarely got into trouble, I was allowed to have my own phone extension in my room. So, if I was out past curfew, l'd call home. When my mom answered, l'd say, "It's for me. I've got it." And she'd think I was up in my room. She never did catch on. :D Reply 4 12.1k ...

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Text - neglectedhusband24 • 1d Years ago I was a season ticket holder for an awful NBA team. My tickets came electronically via PDF. I had OK seats in the upper part of the lower bowl, but nothing great. Anyway, on nights where I knew it would be empty (which was most nights unless a superstar like Kobe or LeBron was in town), I would use the full version of Adobe Acrobat to edit the PDF's to indicate a much better seat location than mine. The bar code still scanned just fine because I didn't me

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Text - EarlyBirdTheNightOwl • 1d 3 Awards At my old job we had a vending machine in the basement that gave change back when you bought something. Sometimes it gave more than you paid. No one used this machine as the basement was being reconstructed but it was regularly filled.

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Text - pierrekrahn • 1d 3 9 Awards parking meters took credit cards. But they weren't actually connected to a live network at all times. The machine just confirmed the card number was valid and was not expired, then spit out a valid pass. So when my card number got stolen and replaced, I kept my old, cancelled card. Of course when the system tried to run the card later it would be declined. My car and I were long gone by then. Sadly they wised up and now it charges your card before giving you a

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Text - MermaidRumspringa • 1d O 3 5 Awards Arby's used to have a "take a survey on the back of the recipt and get a free roast beef sandwich". But when I got the free one, I got a recipt then too. I bought one sandwich got literally dozens for free over the course of a year or so. Reply 30.4k ...

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Text - ArmyOfDog • 1d e3 4 Awards The thing we clocked in on when I worked at Kmart would round to the closest quarter hour. So by clocking in 8 minutes early, and clocking out 8 minutes after my shift, I got paid for 30 minutes rather than for the 16 minutes. By exploiting this, I was paid 2.5 hours of overtime a week. Cumulatively, during my time there, this added up to about 6.5 weeks of extra pay. I wasn't ever caught, though.

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Text - mammoth200 • 1d 3 8 7 Awards Worked out how to get the jackpot every time on a Connect 4 fruit machine in a pub I used to drink in. It would cost about £5-£10 before you'd get into the bonus round, then when you did, you'd play a connect 4 game against the machine. You place the first counter, and then after the machine places the next counter, you mirror the machines move. Every game ends in a draw, and you win the jackpot, which was £50. The pub landlord removed the machine after around

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Text - 8bitPete • 1d O 10 Awards Got keys to a new flat on a Friday afternoon, the place had electric but it wasn't in my name. Went to the electric company just before closing and the lady said "flat 8 you say... Hummm we only have record of 7 flats on that building. Tell you what (glances at the clock) come back Monday with the serial number on your meter, and we'll get you all hooked up" I never went back and enjoyed free electric for over 2 years until i moved out. Edit to clarify: when I sa

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Text - IBeMadToo • 1d 3 22 Awards I used to live in an apartment across the road from a casino whilst at University. They released an app where if you "check-in" you get points that go towards free food and drinks. Because I was close enough to the casino I could just check-in without going to the casino itself. Every Saturday I used to get a free burger, fries and drink and watch sport in the sports bar. They eventually scrapped the app; it was awesome considering I was a broke Uni student. Q R

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Text - Nerdy_Life • 1d My boss was always late and patients would always show up early for the first appointment of the day. I started letting staff know I would be changing it on the schedule to show our first appointment starting 15 minutes earlier. We ran like clockwork for a year until the doc decided to randomly be on time more often. I had to admit patients weren't late I had just been shifting the schedule to make things run more efficiently. Reply 2.0k ...

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