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30 Stories Of People Finding And Exploiting Loopholes When I was in high school, I accidently found a soda machine that dispensed free grape soda. I hit the button randomly while passing by, and a grape soda came out. I did it again the next day just to see and more free grape soda. It must have been busted or some sort of strange glitch. For the entire school year, I would pass by and hit grape on my way home and get a free grape soda. I wasn't stupid about it either. I kept that s**t to myself. I wasn't about to ruin my free grape soda by telling everyone.

Final score:

102points

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James016 2 months ago

My school had a vending machine and if timed right, we could get free drinks by switching the machine off at the wall and when switching it back on, put a £1 coin in. The coin would be rejected and come out but also still register so we could pick a drink.

30points

It's pretty minor, but Fuddrucker's kid's hamburger meal was less than half the price of the regular burger combo, so I'd just buy two kid's burgers and fries and end up with more food than if I'd gotten the regular burger meal. And I'd get two cookies.

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Final score:

95points

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Papa 2 months ago

I like this one.

30points

Afraid_Assumption_20 , William Choquette/Pexels Report

30 Stories Of People Finding And Exploiting Loopholes This loophole I learned from someone else on reddit but i’ll share it for those who may not know: If you have a planet fitness plan and can’t cancel it online, change your home gym to a random one in California. Then you can cancel it online!

Final score:

84points

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Sue User 2 months ago

All , USA Pandas. Contact your congress men/ women ask them to support " click to cancel". The FTC us trying to chabge the rule to say " however easy it was to subscribe, it must be just as easy to cancel". But it just keep getting put off. or better yet, contact your attornny general office. They can help/ tell who can help, in all dorts if these matters. Time to get the services we pay for by using them, not just " go vote" and then never thinking about what they are doing for another 2 years.

57points

30 Stories Of People Finding And Exploiting Loopholes Got fired two weeks after HR got fired. They never cancelled my health insurance. That was 2001.

L-W-J , Anna Shvets/Pexels Report

Final score:

82points

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Beth Wheeler 2 months ago

That is gonna catch up with you 1 day , you need to fix it now

23points

Excellent_Debt_2971 , Mikhail Nilov/Pexels Report

30 Stories Of People Finding And Exploiting Loopholes When my brother and I lived together, he worked for a large chain restaurant. They had a policy where if someone called in an order for pickup and didn't pick it up by closing time, it was free game for the employees to take home. Occasionally, I would call in orders for pickup, never pick it up, and he'd just take it home for us. I'm not proud of it. We were both broke af at the time, and most days, it was the only food we could get

EDIT: I'm no longer broke so whenever I buy food from this place I make sure to leave a heavy tip, I guess as a thank you to the chain for keeping me alive but mostly to ease my guilt.

Final score:

79points

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María Hermida 2 months ago

Don't feel so sorry for them. If your brother was working but he still couldn't afford food, he was being paid peanuts instead of a decent salary.

90points

kit_kat_barcalounger , Ricky Esquivel/Pexels Report

30 Stories Of People Finding And Exploiting Loopholes I used to bartend and would have to pay for parking, either on the street (which was a pain since I would have to re-up in the middle of my shift and often forgot), or in a paid parking lot.

Found a parking garage that used a ticket machine on the way in, but had you pay a person on the way out. 90% of the time there would be no one working late night when I left work, so I scored free parking for a few years.

Final score:

75points

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Jrog 2 months ago (edited)

This is common in my city's outskirt parkings. Parking entry is free before 7 AM and after 8 PM. People feel smart thinking they are taking advantage of a loophole... while the city did this on purpose to move traffic outside of peak hours and motivate people to use parkings instead of entering the city by car.

21points

DiscombobulatedElk93 , Chait Goli/Pexels Report

30 Stories Of People Finding And Exploiting Loopholes I was leaving an abusive ex, and he had made me put our apartment only in my name. I was gonna have to pay a bunch of money to break the lease. Until I looked at it and realized to my had put the wrong year for the lease ending. They had done the year before, so legally my lease was over and I had technically been month to month. The manager was super pissed when I pointed this out, and that I did not have to pay any lease break fee or additional rent past my submitted move out date. They tried to hit me with a bunch of maintenance and cleaning fees after. But I had picture proof the place was in the exact condition I’d rented it in. So they informed me I would never be able to rent at any of their properties again. Which was super dumb. I’ve always been a really great tenant anywhere I’ve rented and I was not going to let them do anything legally that could f**k me over. Buuut that whole lease thing was a huge relief and very helpful during the worst time of my life.

Final score:

75points

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Sue User 2 months ago

I had a complex threaten me with this (no more renting ). I replied i was fine with this because i never wanted to do business with them again.

28points

When I was a struggling single Mom there was a well known rewards program that ran a promotion that you would get 3 points for every “review” posted on business listed on a business directory website.

I wrote reviews non stop for months, always gave 5 stars if it was somewhere I hadn’t been (figured the business owners would be happy with that) , and everywhere I did go I wrote an honest review. I worked my way through the alphabet and after a few months I was able to buy my son a PlayStation for Christmas with the points.

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Final score:

63points

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Lyone Fein 2 months ago

I would call this very creative free lance writing.

35points

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#10

30 Stories Of People Finding And Exploiting Loopholes Around 2008, the US Mint was trying to get more people to use the new dollar coins. You could buy some via their website and they would ship them to you for free. Those purchases would earn you points on your credit card.

I bought $10,000 worth of coins, then took those coins to the bank so I could pay my $10,000 bill. I would then buy another $10,000 and repeat. A few hundred thousand air miles later and I’m still using those free miles in 2024.

They eventually did close the loophole, but some people with huge lines of credit were able to get millions of free air miles.

Final score:

60points

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cugel. 2 months ago

"trying to get more people to use the new dollar coins" Stop printing dollar bills will do it.

32points

#11

30 Stories Of People Finding And Exploiting Loopholes When lava cakes first rolled out on the dominos app, rather than selling them only in two packs as they do now, there was a drop down picklist where you could select the specific number of cakes you wanted. For whatever reason, if you selected 1 cake only, it was added to your cart with no price ($0.00). You could then go into the cart and change the quantity of that $0 lava cake to whatever number you wanted.

I was worried at first that I'd get found out so I would only order 1. Then I got bold and ordered two, and they came just as they do now, two in a pack. No charge. I decided to push it one time and ordered 8 lava cakes with just two medium pizzas. Total bill was $16. Thought for sure someone at the store would realize something was wrong sending out two pizzas and 8 cakes for $16. Nope, minimum wage employees don't give a f**k, they just see the order and fill it.

After that I was like the Don of crunch cakes, you want a crunch cake? You GOT one. I must have gotten hundreds of those things over the course of 3-4 months. Eventually I knew it would come to an end. I was going to write to dominoes in hopes they'd like give me a gift card or something for exposing the glitch, but my gf at the time was like dude, don't blow your cover, they'll just fix it and not give you anything, so I didn't.

Less than a month later they patched the problem, and I still regret not being the whistleblower and maybe getting some free pizza.

As a totally random button on this story, years later I was helping my company develop their website, and I flew to Detroit to work directly with the developer. At lunch on the first day we were talking shop, and the dev told me one of their claims to fame was developing the Dominoes pizza tracker. I was like, wait, did you just do the tracker or the whole site? Turns out they did the whole site, the app, and tracker! I mentioned my lava cake scheme and the dev almost fell out of his chair, he was like "I totally remember that issue and patching it!", he was floored I had the inside scoop on that site glitch he assumed nobody knew about.

cutty2k , Vishu Joo/Unsplash Report

Final score:

59points

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Fussy1 2 months ago

Didn't have my glasses on and thought Domino's now had their own brand of condoms when I saw the picture. Lol

30points

fulthrottlejazzhands , Lukas/Pexels Report

#12

30 Stories Of People Finding And Exploiting Loopholes I used my college ID nearly until my 40s for discounts. A few years back, a cashier at a local hardware store gave me a "really" look that cut right to my soul which made me stop using it.

Final score:

51points

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Red Hair Blue Soul 2 months ago (edited)

Anyone can be a college student. At any age.

54points

#13

I used to fish a lot. WalMart guaranteed their trolling motor batteries for 12 months to charge to I think 90%. So I bought 3 batteries for $125 each and kept the receipt. At month 11 I’d go in and have them tested and without fail they’d be in the 80% range and I’d get new batteries with new 12 month warranties, that’s how they wrote the policy. Finally in year 6 they gave me my new batteries with a 30 day warranty. But I got 7 years of new batteries and used the final 3 for 3 years.

PolybiusChampion Report

Final score:

50points

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Jonas Fisher 2 months ago

Not a loophole. They promised to do things that way.

22points

opermonkey , Miroslav Denkov/Unsplash Report

#14

30 Stories Of People Finding And Exploiting Loopholes There used to be a glitch in my Domino's app that would give free extra cheese as long as you waited until it asked if you wanted it. If you added it yourself it would charge you. It worked for a few years until I got a new phone.

Final score:

46points

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MaximumKarmaSaint 2 months ago

What is it with Domino's and glitching the app for free?

20points

number_juan_cabron , Shayna Douglas/Unsplash Report

#15

30 Stories Of People Finding And Exploiting Loopholes It was a multi step process but damn it felt good. A local grocer had coupons for $1.00 off a 32oz Gatorade, branded by Gatorade, so they worked at multiple retailers. I clipped a bunch of them.

Then I went to Walmart down the street and loaded my cart with as many gatorades as coupons. At the register, the cashier was baffled I was buying so many gatorades (I was in high school). She scanned all my gatorades and the total was something like 68 dollars. Then I had her apply a price match to Meijer’s price, something like .88 cents each, bringing the total down a bit. But it doesn’t stop there.

Then I had her scan all of my coupons (deducting a dollar for each Gatorade in my cart). The look on her face was hilarious, as my ‘total’ went lower and lower each scan of a coupon, eventually passing zero and showing a negative value. After ringing them all up, she got smug and said, “I bet you think you’re pretty smart, getting all of these for free”. I looked at the total on the screen, then at her, and said “oh no, not free. I actually think I have some change coming back”. Her jaw hit the floor as she called her manager and was told, indeed, that she had to also shell ~$8 out of the register and hand it to me. What a feeling that was. [Proof of Gatorades](https://imgur.com/a/PTQTiAg).

Final score:

46points

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Brenda 2 months ago

This must have been years ago. No one gives you cash back anymore. You have to buy additional items to cover the negative balance.

36points

Graceful_cumartist , Ankit Gupta/Pexels Report

#16

30 Stories Of People Finding And Exploiting Loopholes When I was studying I used to take the train home almost every weekend. There used to be a perk with the first class ticket that you could rebook the train if you missed it in a 24 hour window after it departed. I figured that the only way they would know if I missed the train was that if they scanned my ticket. So I just put on something that made me look like I belong and then I pretended to be asleep when the conductor came to check the tickets. This worked almost always so I had two tickets, one for each direction that I just rebooked into the next week. The first class had single seating, free coffee, biscuits, oj and water. It was almost empty usually so very nice and quier, the train otherwise was usually aleays booked near full but people didn’t want to pay the 50% more for the first class. I think I got ”woken up” like 5 times during the 3 years I studied so I paid about 320€ for about 100 first class trips on those trains. I guess they realized people were doing this and it was changed as an optional addon to the ticket and had to be rebooked before departure.

Final score:

43points

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🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 2 months ago

€320 as against what?

2points

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#17

30 Stories Of People Finding And Exploiting Loopholes I worked for an organization that ordered large amounts of groceries every week for their group activities from a major supermarket.

There was a place to put in your loyalty card number so I just used mine.

Not only did I get heaps of points to use in shopping there, no one noticed it until about five years after I left.

Edit:
- I wasn't a supermarket employee or other insider exploiting my employer. We were a totally unrelated business who bought from them.
- When I was tasked with setting up the account to purchase online there was a form to fill out. My business didn't have a loyalty card and wasn't interested in gettiing one. So I just used mine. It was a set and forget type of thing. The supermarket also had, in addition to our business landline, my mobile number and the delivery people would contact me directly if they had any problem at 6:30am when they brought the stuff.
- I don't really know if anyone ever noticed it or not. Probably either (a) they changed their supplier or (b) someone else taking care of the account put in their number instead (I tend towards option b). They didn't ask for the points "back" because they hadn't been interested in them in the first place.
- For years I also kept getting calls from various suppliers who somehow still had my mobile number - I kept redirecting them to the office and telling them I didn't work there any more. It hasn't happened for a while now.

shunrata , Lisa Fotios/Pexels Report

Final score:

40points

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Green Tree 2 months ago

On yhe flip loyalty card purchases usually include sale discounts so the employer business probably got hundreds if not thousands of saved dollars over all those orders

7points

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#18

This isn't exactly a loophole, it's more an unknown exploit.

In the UK if you work for a large business they have to spend 0.5% of the salary bill for the Apprenticeship Levy. They need to spend this money within three years or it's forfeited to the government.

One of the "apprenticeships" you can do is level 7. These are the level of a masters degrees. I got a £25k MBA for free, paid by my employer with zero strings attached.

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Final score:

39points

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May 2 months ago (edited)

Where I live it's highly advertised, that's why so many students go on apprenticeships. Indeed, the years of study are fully paid, plus you get a quite decent salary, and yeah, no strings attached once the contract is finished. The only thing is that rather than doing a 6 months traditional internships, apprenticeships run a bit longer like 1 to 2 years, so it's best suited for students who quite know the branch where they'd like to work. Also students who do the 2 days study + 3 days working / week need to be quite organised so most students tend to choose the 6 months studying + 6 months working formula.

8points

#19

I used to work at Staples many years ago and every item that we sell has a status. For example, A status stands for active, C status stands for clearance and F status stands for final. For whatever reason, when an item goes to F status, the price drops DRAMATICALLY. I'm talking a desk that was $250 would ring up for $8.50. Also, because it was no longer an active item, that meant it was no longer on display on the sales floor so anything that would not sell would just sit in the back unnoticed. I used to run a report in our system constantly and it would list everything that our location had in stock under F status. There was a time when like 1/3 of my furniture at home was F status items and I paid probably $50 total for it all. Got my first DSLR (with lens) for $250 (regular price was over a grand). It was a great time to be alive.

GartFargler- Report

Final score:

39points

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James Doe 2 months ago

Awesome! No one got hurt (everyone arguably won) and you got the biggest WIN.

17points

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#20

30 Stories Of People Finding And Exploiting Loopholes Signed up for a free trial on Audible, when I went to cancel it offered me a free credit to stay. Took the free credit, went to cancel again and offered another free credit to stay. Got about 25 credits in one day before I chickened out and officially cancelled.

PolishGazelle , Ivan Radic/Flickr Report

Final score:

36points

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Jess Smith 2 months ago

Rebecca: Audible offered it. They might not have meant to offer it, but it didn't involve hacking the system and if Audible let that loophole in, oh well.

11points

#21

30 Stories Of People Finding And Exploiting Loopholes Back in the days when Groupon was new and so there were real deals to be had, I purchased a one for a free sub from a big sandwich chain.

The process for redemption was to order your sandwich in line like normal, and at the point where you'd pay you held up your phone and the employee at the register would click the redeeem button on your phone, then comp the sandwich.

I would pull up the Groupon, turn off cellular data and then let the employee "redeem" the Groupon.

As soon as they had done so and I walked out with my food, I would uninstall and reinstall the Groupon app. This prevented it from simply relaying the redemption the next time data was available.

I did this nearly every day until the Groupon expired. Usually for a couple weeks. I bought the Groupon every time it showed up, usually every other month.

Probably over a hundred free subs. Such times, the late naughts.

knabe4k , Marta Dzedyshko/Pexels Report

Final score:

33points

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Featherytoad 2 months ago (edited)

I used to order 3 or 4 pizzas from Schwans every month when they still had their trucks running where I live, and before it became Yelloh and the quality went to s**t. They always had 25% to 35% off plus free delivery for new customer orders. I learned that they verified accounts from email addresses, not phone numbers. I realized if I created a new email account, and a new account with Schwans/Yelloh, they always thought I was a new customer, and I always got the 25 to 35 percent off.

6points

Rebecca A. Corvello Premium 2 months ago

Again, fraud not loophole.

2points

James Doe 2 months ago

Wow, you stole 100 subs

2points

Lyone Fein 2 months ago

I guess I don't really have a problem with low income people stealing cheap food.

8points

Florin 2 months ago

A lot of these "loopholes" can be categorized as theft.

0points

Michael Parsons 2 months ago

People who do things like this are scumbags. Rationalize it any way you want, you're a low-life thief.

0points

Nimitz 2 months ago

I mean, we're so exploited at every single turn that I feel it's perfectly ethical to exploit every opportunity you can versus large corporations. We all know they exploit everything they can against us, often times even doing illegal things and then just paying fines. F**k 'em

0points

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#22

30 Stories Of People Finding And Exploiting Loopholes In college I was dating this girl who worked at the bookstore, which had an ATM.

She texted me informing me the ATM was giving out $20 bills instead of $5s, so if you withdrew $15 it’d give you $60.

I and my friends and like 7 other people who happened to find out made quite a bit of money that day. I only made a few hundred because I was broke at the time and only had so much to withdraw.

Some people were there for a *long* time though. Everyone was super respectful about it, they’d withdraw, get their $60, and then move to the back of the line and do it again. Not one argument about hurrying up or anyone trying to double withdraw.

Just broke college kids living in harmony, stealing from a bank. Was beautiful.

No one got in trouble. We were bugging for a while. The machine was completely cleaned out of $20s by the time the ATM people came. Girl I was dating said she heard them say it was well over 10k.

ihopethisworksfornow , RDNE Stock project/Pexels Report

Final score:

32points

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Lyone Fein 2 months ago

Someone loaded the machine wrong.

19points

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#23

30 Stories Of People Finding And Exploiting Loopholes Back in university when windows 10 was new they offered free licenses for students. They used a third party website that didn't have actual limits and even had a dropdown menu to select the amount of licenses you want. I think I got 10 licenses that way but If I wanted I could've gotten hundreds.

and they were legit windows 10 education license codes and not tied to any account.

Mriamsosmrt , Surface/Unsplash Report

Final score:

31points

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Derek Yeung 2 months ago

That was intentional, trying to get everyone on a Secured Operating System. Microsoft knowingly allow all previous Windows, including Priate ones to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro for Free.

19points

#24

Subway’s Chicken Bacon Ranch is cheaper if you just order a Chicken Breast Sandwich, Add Bacon, and Ranch instead of ordering it by its marketed name.

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Final score:

31points

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Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 2 months ago

I do this in Burger King - their motto is "have it your way" so I order 2 kids burgers dressed like whoppers and end up with a meal just as filling and tasty for less than half the cost.

12points

#25

A few years ago, Leafly sent out a "gift code" for $50 on a specific CBD/THC company's site. I realized that, rather than having a single-use code locked to your email (or per IP, computer, address, or whatever) like they usually did, it generated a new code every time you clicked the link from the email. That is to say, none of that "this code has already been used" nonsense.

At that time, the majority of their products were under $50, and they offered free shipping on orders over $25, lol.

So over the next 3 months, I "bought" thousands of dollars worth of gummies, oils, lotions, and other health/wellness products...all for the low low price of $0.

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Final score:

31points

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Nimitz 2 months ago

Sounds like high way robbery

13points

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#26

30 Stories Of People Finding And Exploiting Loopholes I had found out and abused the fact that Bed Bath & Beyond's had a birthday reward loophole, I essentially had created multiple BBB accounts, set the birthday to next day, and had $5 birthday giftcard rewards roll in on the next day. It also turned out you were able to stack them together into one account, so I cashed out about $600 worth of them to buy my mom expensive kitchen appliances. Ninja Creami and Ninja Smart Foodi, great products, use them almost everyday.

Idionare , Mike Mozart/Flickr Report

Final score:

27points

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AlMa 2 months ago

BB&B was awesome. They would let you use expired coupons, stack them, and the checkout people would even tell you which coupons would give you a better discount. Probably why they went out of business. RIP.

6points

#27

I remember a co-worker telling me about a loophole he found. There was some promotion with a bank where every transaction you made you'd receive 5 reward points. So he wrote a script that paid for all these transactions in 1 cent iterations and he'd get 5 points for each cent. So for example if he had a $100 bill, he'd pay in 10,000 1 cent transactions and get 50,000 points. They found out soon after but let him keep the points he accumulated.

berryfilthy Report

Final score:

27points

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Lyone Fein 2 months ago

What did the points give him?

7points

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#28

30 Stories Of People Finding And Exploiting Loopholes When I worked at Petco I hooked people up for free treats. There was a $2 bag of sample treats with a coupon off for $2 (supposed to be off your next large bag)

One day I accidentally scanned it as the UPC and coupon were side by side. I started doing that more and gave away treats lol.

Outrageous-Serve-964 , Mike Mozart/Flickr Report

Final score:

23points

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Rae H 2 months ago

I used to work there too. It was the instinct freeze dried samples. At the time I would use my 40% off employee discount. Got the treats for $1.20 and saved the $2 off coupons from the package. I would then wait for the big bags to go on sale. They would sometimes go BOGO. They were $10, but then I’d get 40% off again. So it would bring the total down to $6. Then I’d use 2 $2 off coupons. So I really only paid a total of $2 for the big bags. Then my dog started to get fat. So I stopped, but passed on my knowledge to my coworkers.

6points

FaceFuckYouDuck , Erik Mclean/Pexels Report

#29

30 Stories Of People Finding And Exploiting Loopholes I got a hefty ($300+) parking ticket out of state; the officer wrote down the correct license plate number, make, model, and color, but used an incorrect state abbreviation. I fought it and won.

Final score:

22points

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Tobias Reaper 2 months ago

thats not really a loophole thats a copper making a mistake

26points

unfortunate_leo , Jonathan Alexis/Pexels Report

#30

30 Stories Of People Finding And Exploiting Loopholes Not too exciting but the marcos pizza in our area had a “free cheesybread” coupon when i was in highschool, you got a survey on the receipt and if you filled it out you got a free cheesybread and you didn’t have to buy anything else. we saw that they still put the receipt with the survey with the free cheesybread. my ex and i abused that at least once a week until they got rid of it lol.

Final score:

21points

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catastrophegirl 2 months ago

for a while arby's had a survey code like that and you'd get a free sandwich with any purchase. and the new purchase also came with a receipt with a survey code. buy something, get a receipt. do the online survey, add the code to the receipt, redeem it for a free sandwich with purchase of a small soda or fries. get your new receipt, rinse, repeat. i was quite broke at the time and arby's was right by my job. got a large filling lunch daily for a few months, and only paid for the small fries each time. not quite as good a deal as only free, but still quite good.

5points

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arthbach 2 months ago (edited)

Some of these are genuine loop holes. The vast majority are simply people stealing, and feeling smug about it.

9points

Lee Stone 2 months ago

I'm not sure I see much of a difference? A loophole is by definition something unintended that someone exploits to their benefit. Legal loopholes allow people to escape punishment for otherwise punishable behavior, tax loopholes allow people to avoid paying taxes they would otherwise need to pay. How are any of the things described here any different?

11points

Michael Largey 2 months ago

My wife and I were booking a train trip in Canada. She was slightly over the Senior Citizen age, so she got a discount. I was slightly under, so I didn't. But because I was "escorting a senior citizen", I rode for absolutely free. I try not to remind my wife of this more than twice a week.

8points

Nimitz 2 months ago (edited)

I worked for an oil company as a traveling IT guy for 3 years. Employees who worked there got a permanent 15x rewards points put on their personal cards if they linked it to their work email. They gave me a giant gas guzzling company truck and I drove about 400+ km every day. It came with a company credit card billed to my team. My boss didn't even look at the numbers. I filled up with premium every time, got car washes, oil changes every 5,000 km, tire balances, windshield wipers, every vehicle product and service we sold at our gas stations I bought for that truck. Basically every day I'd get $20-30 worth of points on my card. The kicker? The points were good for anything in the store, including prepaid credit cards. I felt no guilt because it was an evil oil company and really I was just keeping my work vehicle in good condition.

8points

Schmebulock 2 months ago

They used to sell these coupon books door to door for like $20. In it were like 5 BOGO coupons for a restaurant where a bunch of friends waited tables. They would buy 5 of the books and then use the coupon themselves when a customer paid cash, keeping the difference. They would make over $100 from each book.

3points

Mammuttipähkinä 2 months ago

Not a big thing, but our local mcdonalds has very weird pricing. When using a little bit of brain and calculation, i can get lots of food a lot cheaper than a regular meal. For example, buying two 4-packs of nuggets with a dip, you get 8 nuggets and two dips cheaper than their pack of 6 nuggets and one dip.

2points

Jack Sonol 2 months ago

When I worked at McDonald's, a regular cheeseburger was 1.49, double cheeseburger was 1.29 and McDouble was $1. Hamburgers were like 1.39. it made no sense.

0points

Tobias Reaper 2 months ago

in a job i used to work we had these card that you would put money on to be able to buy food at the staff canteen. My girlfriend at the time noticed a glitch on her card she added £5 credit and when the balance went below £2.50 it would change back to £5 we had free food for a long time there until the card broke.

2points

MaKai Magie 2 months ago

I went to the gas station to fill up my car on my lunch hour. It was almost on empty and i knew it would be pretty expensive. The pump shut off and I looked at the pump and amount was for under $4 dollars. I thought it must of just clicked off and tried to put more gas in my tank, but it wasn’t’ having it. I hung up the nozzle and took a close look at the pump. The person who set up price on the pump missed a few numbers. I went into the station and the first thing I said was thank you for the gas and then I showed him the receipt. He turned white as a sheet as the pump had been operating at this price for half a day. When I got back to work a co-worked whined at me for not “hooking him up”, I told him I didn’t want to mess up my karma.

1point

Caryn Zent 2 months ago

Loopholes or dishonesty.

1point

Jonas Fisher 2 months ago

A loophole is a clever and legitimate (if non-standard) use of existing systems. Most people on this list seem to think a loophole is anytime they didn't get caught.

1point

Lee Stone 2 months ago

Aside from the dog treat scanning person, most of these sound like they meet your definition. Which ones are you thinking? Also, I'm not sure I agree with your use of "legitimate" here. Loopholes are exploited to avoid the legitimate intended purpose of something. Legal loopholes allow someone to evade the purpose of a law, tax loopholes allow someone to avoid paying taxes, security loopholes allow someone to access locations and materials they shouldn't have access to. If you think about it, not getting caught is itself a loophole...

3points

Stephanie Did It 2 months ago (edited)

This is not a loophole, but most people aren't aware that it's available. My husband and I traded in a very fancy limo van (his before we married) but forgot the snow tires which were in storage. The dealer resold it almost immediately, and we spotted it in the parking lot of our workplace. Husband decided to contact the new owner and offer to sell them the snow tires. We dug out the pile of paperwork from the original van & tire purchase, and found the original warranty on the tires which had several years left on it. I'm an obsessive reader; I had a few minutes and so I read the warranty and made a discovery. So instead of offering the tires to the new owner, we sold the remaining warranty back to the dealership according to its terms. We received enough money to go to Maui for almost a week, all expenses paid. Read your paperwork, ESPECIALLY your warranties, people!

0points

Murdocksgirl 2 months ago

Triple merger of companies, New Parent company didn't realize that just because a sku # shows 2 of an item in the entire company, it actually existed. I was an outlet store, and one of of the few that could use 1 of 3 sku numbers. My boss would look up the sku's of anything we wanted to buy and find the sku with the lowest price. One Xmas I bought all my friends new Victorinox backpacks and knives/pen sets... (so 10 friends)... for a grand total of...... $1.75 with tax. (she wouldn't allow us to use our employee discount on top of it). I got SO much stuff I couldn't afford otherwise because of this- some of which i still use to this day 20+ years later. Thanks Ivy for being the coolest boss ever and looking out for us!

0points

Ryan Mercer 2 months ago

When I was a kid, the local Chucky Cheese had an arcade ride that was so old and beat up, every token that went in just came back out. I rode that ride all day.

0points

brittany 2 months ago

dumpster diving is legal where i used to live. i worked in a family owned grocery store and the boss was super picky about making sure items looked pristine. if a box came in with a slight bend or the fruit/veg didn't look perfect, into the garbage it went. me and a few others would circle back after closing time and dive for food. living out of my car at the time, this food was often all i had for the day as far as a meal goes. i once found a whole bag of apples that had a small tear in the plastic no longer than my thumb. you bet i rescued that. they also offered free coffee in the break room. my first check i bought a loaf of bread and a jar of peanut butter to eat with my cup of coffee and i swear no sandwich has ever made me as happy since. i have a home now but somedays i still get a taste for a simple peanut butter sandwich and coffee. not sure it counts a technical loophole, but it was food we didnt have to pay for and it was damaged out so maybe

0points

TennesseeHomesteadUSA 2 months ago

Found property just barely off one of the most beautiful lakes anywhere. For a hundred bucks a month. Feels like I have totally lucked into some loophole others don't know about or can't find.

0points

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arthbach 2 months ago (edited)

Some of these are genuine loop holes. The vast majority are simply people stealing, and feeling smug about it.

9points

Lee Stone 2 months ago

11points

Michael Largey 2 months ago

8points

Nimitz 2 months ago (edited)

8points

Schmebulock 2 months ago

3points

Mammuttipähkinä 2 months ago

2points

Jack Sonol 2 months ago

When I worked at McDonald's, a regular cheeseburger was 1.49, double cheeseburger was 1.29 and McDouble was $1. Hamburgers were like 1.39. it made no sense.

0points

Tobias Reaper 2 months ago

2points

MaKai Magie 2 months ago

1point

Caryn Zent 2 months ago

Loopholes or dishonesty.

1point

Jonas Fisher 2 months ago

A loophole is a clever and legitimate (if non-standard) use of existing systems. Most people on this list seem to think a loophole is anytime they didn't get caught.

1point

Lee Stone 2 months ago

3points