What loophole did you exploit for years before someone found out?
At my current apartment complex, they just changed the laundry machines so you need to use this super beep 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
edit: others in this thread use this app so i’m gonna hold back the direct name of it and y’all can use this trick for longer.
I used to work at a grocery store and we had this era of the steak discounts.
Hundreds of coupons for $5 off a steak were just everywhere for some reason.
I found out that if I used the self checkout and bought a steak that was less than $5 while using the coupon, the machine would give me back the difference in change.
I ate dozens of free steaks and filled my change jar up nicely.
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.
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.
Edit: actually, since it was all overtime, it was closer to 10 weeks of regular pay.
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 rules ever since.
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 mouse slowly moving while you're actually away IRL and the AA clock would keep on ticking.
Not sure if it keeping it running at all times I was away IRL ended up being cost-effective in regards to cost of electricity but I was a teenager living with my parents so I didn't care about that.
I think I pulled maybe $500 or so before the company went under.
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.
When I was in college they had this deal where if you signed up for a free trial of Netflix you could get a $10 giftcard code for Papa John's.
They didn't even ask for a credit card back then, just an email, so I would just make new email addresses to use and would get a code every time.
Not only did I get free Netflix for a while, but I also got a lot of free pizza.
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.
I had a killer racket in school where I would buy the graduating classes used textbooks for like $5 and then sell them to a third party book seller in the next town over who would pay me between $25 & $30 for each one.
Eventually people started asking questions and others figured out the deal
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.
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.
Edit : someone asked this.
It went on for about a year and half and I don't know what happened to the machine it was just gone one day someone could've caught on or it could've been because construction was finished.
I probably made $500-$700 in cash back.
And at one point I actually had a sack of coins.
When Lyft first came out, they were giving away free rides up to like 20-30$ 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 payments to my old card, but it never came out of my bank account
Not intentional, but once I found out I didn't stop.
Years ago I used my card to pay for Xbox live during a period before I could pick up a manual 1yr subscription, but when I tried to remove my card details it wouldn't let me and said I had to call MS directly.
Being lazy but smart, I decided to just change the security numbers that were saved so it wouldn't process any future payments.
And it never did.
But somehow I still kept getting Xbox Live access.
This went on for about a year and a half before it stopped.
I was never contacted about paying anything for what I'd used either.
My first credit card ever when I was 18... many moons ago.
I opened a bank account and they sent me a CC.
I used it for just shy of 2 years, all kinds of stuff, my first apartment was baller...... NEVER GOT A BILL.
bought nice clothes, systems, subscriptions, food- you name it.
Never got a bill.
Went to the bank one day to deposit some money and ask when my new card was coming (my old one was about to expire) and they said, “What CC?
You aren’t supposed to have this.” They took it on the spot- never got a bill.
Tens of thousands of dollars EASILY, all for free.
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 I was given lifetime top status in the new program that was created.
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 me and one other kid that knew would keep air hockey going for the entire
time.
The arcade would be filled with kids who would often play other games while waiting their turn at air hockey.
They must have found out after a few years though because one year we went back and it was fixed - the arcade was also a complete ghost town, and the campground made no money off it after that.
That's when I fully realized and understood the concept of a "loss leader" at like 13 years old.
It was only once.
Bought a game (license) on steam for a game which was on a different launcher.
Tried out the game, didnt enjoy it and refunded it.
Later i checked the alternate launcher and while steam gave me my money back, they never canceled the license at the other company.
Got a game with it's newest expansion (€70,-) for free.
Edit: Still works and turns out i enjoyed the game after a while :)
My high school counselors told everyone we needed two years of a foreign language to graduate.
It was common knowledge, everyone just listened and took the classes.
Everyone.
I read the student handbook and it listed the graduation requirements and it said nothing about foreign language.
I never took one.
My friends didn’t catch on until senior year and when I told them, they warned that I would be in big trouble and might not get to graduate.
They freaked out.
One girl called me an idiot.
I showed them the graduation requirements, available for anyone to read in the student handbook or counselor’s office.
No one ever said a word.
I graduated.
Always read the terms and
conditions, y’all.
Whole Foods used to have bacon on the Breakfast Bar.
Cooked bacon weighs almost nothing!
I would get a pound of cooked bacon for $8.00 It lasted almost a week!
Bacon crumbles for the salad, for the turkey sandwich, and the 100 other things that you can toss bacon into!
I used this method for almost a year, then they stopped putting bacon out....sigh......
A whole hell of a lot of tax loopholes.
Phone phreaking to call long distance BBSes for free.
Yeah that hasn't worked in a long time, it's all digital now.
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