What was a loophole that you found and exploited the hell out of?

L0p on 12/02/2016 - 22:12
Last edited 14/02/2016 - 15:53

Until recently I was using a coupon code for a pizza store which allowed me to get any pizza for $5.
I may be selfish but decided not to post it here for fear of it being canceled.
Until recently where one of the friends I shared this code with shared it with some friend of his who got a job at this pizza place causing the deal to "expire".

So coming to my question: What was a loophole that you found and exploited/are exploiting the hell out of?
It doesn't have to have expired if you wish to keep it a secret like me you may wish to censor the affiliated company.

If you need some inspiration/a good read

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/44tard/what_was_…

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    • montorola on 18/02/2016 - 10:34
      +4

      You sly devil you…

    • Twocupteabag on 28/02/2016 - 22:57

      You put the hole in loophole.

  • chatterbox on 18/02/2016 - 08:46
    +1

    Coles and Woolies use to have the big Fuel promotions until ACCC stopped them
    Whenever there was the 20c or above fuel voucher offer,(I have even got 45c off voucher) i use to get atleast 5 or 6 of them over the period and I use LPG for the car so i was paying about 30-45c a ltr of LPG
    Ofcourse they had a minimum purchase of $100.00, i use to get the most smallest and expensive items to make the $100.00 each time and then return it in a couple of days after using the fuel voucher. Since i had a Tax invoice it was never an issue. at the same time i collected so many qantas points as well from Credit cards
    Hope the fuel voucher thing comes around again

  • Ryballs on 18/02/2016 - 10:11
    +8

    I once managed to use a $3.95 fathers day special domino's voucher code a few months after fathers day.

    • altomic on 19/02/2016 - 21:26

      Are you a father?

      • Ryballs on 19/02/2016 - 22:35
        +3

        Yes I am… Why?

  • UncleCheapSteam on 18/02/2016 - 16:32

    Bought 2 bottles of wine worth $120 in total from BWS, the receipt had a coupon for a free bottle of wine worth $45.

    Refunded the bought wine, and redeemed the free wine from another BWS.

  • ieatcrackers on 18/02/2016 - 18:18
    +5

    Some stores will refund you if the price of the product you purchased drops shortly afterwards. Combine this with purchase protection on a credit card, and you can get a double refund!!

    This can be handy if you know a sale will be starting in the next few days, because you can get twice the discount. :)

    • Maki on 19/02/2016 - 08:31

      What do you mean by purchase protection? Does credit card company give you the difference if you find a lower price for what you purchased?

      • illumination on 19/02/2016 - 15:50
        +2

        Yea quite a lot of cards have this feature.
        How good they are varies. The common one is the price must drop by more than $75 within something like a 30km radius.
        28 Degrees is if the price drops by $10+ within 6 months anywhere in Australia at a store of the same name you can claim (e.g. JB Hi-Fi Perth are doing a sale on an item you bought in JB Hi-Fi Sydney, you can claim).
        Coles Mastercard is the same as 28 Degrees except it's within a 2 year period instead.

        • Little Miss on 24/02/2016 - 03:26

          Does this apply to the Coles reloadable MasterCard?

        • illumination on 24/02/2016 - 09:30

          @Little Miss:
          Haha no.. reloadable Mastercards/Visas hardly have any features.
          Even debit cards don't have many of these handy features.

  • Ryballs on 18/02/2016 - 18:32
    +9

    Using a member credit targeted giveaway as well as three different discount vouchers, I managed to get a $200 hotel room for $50 on HotelClub. We also managed to conceive during our stay and we had been trying for about a year. Bonus! =P

  • lainey13 on 18/02/2016 - 19:25
    +1

    I have a RACV card from when I was a member a long long long time ago. Kept the card, no expiry date. Very handy for RACV member deals, and Show Your Card and Save promos (includes discounts in other countries). Nobody every checks the validity of the card. Never mind I haven't given RACV money for about 10 years now…

  • supman on 18/02/2016 - 20:00
    +8

    It was year 2004 . I was in my 1st year at Deakin Uni.

    Every print out from Uni printers used to cost us 4 cents (B/W) and 10 cents (Color).

    My mate and I once noticed one day that if we print a document and delete the print job from print job queue straight away, the print still went ahead and we didn't get charged any money.
    For the 1st few weeks we used it to save $$ on printing.

    Soon we started offering "cheaper than uni" print service on the campus, heaps of students took notice and sent us soft copies of their notes to print out. We used to stay back till late to get printing jobs done and sold it to other students.

    It lasted only about 2 months as then I think they realised what was going on and fixed the bug, but we made about 500 bucks each. Fun times.

    • thefud on 18/02/2016 - 20:55

      It also worked if you changed the printer port to a direct IP, using a universal print driver.

      A mate printed a text book at Deakin from a PDF they got and then binded at the university print for a few dollars. Was a few hundred pages worth …

  • kyin on 18/02/2016 - 21:31
    +1

    Few months ago, Woolies had a sale on Vege chips - 2 for $5. Went to the self-serve checkout and scanned the 2 items, and the total came down to $0. Not sure if there was a glitch on the checkout machine or if it was a pricing error. Sad to say that I did not exploit it more afterwards.

  • imissbeans on 18/02/2016 - 23:33
    +5

    Not really a loophole but just before Christmas last year, The Art Series hotels had their overstay promotion where you check in, and call reception up in the morning at 8am on the day of checkout, and if no one checks into your room that day, you get to overstay an extra night. We paid for the first night at The Olsen and ended up staying for a total of 8 nights!!! It was awesome, though I did pay for car parking. If they run the promotion again next year, I'll definitely give it another shot.

  • [Deactivated] on 18/02/2016 - 23:33
    +8

    McDonald employee of the month, I think it was called the me time card.

    It gives 50% off up to $25, for anything anytime. I uses it everyday to buy meal with salad n water, to avoid obesity, it cost me $3 per meal.

    Everytime I buy, the employee ask, wow, how did u get it, which store do u work for?

    Surprisingly I got it from ebay…..

    • 0p on 20/02/2016 - 17:17

      How long is it/was it valid for?

      • [Deactivated] on 20/02/2016 - 22:35
        +1

        One year

  • Maz1 on 19/02/2016 - 00:30

    I have a $30 a month unlimited Optus plan. Day 1 I use $30 phone credit to buy runescape membership and riot points blah blah. Its basically me getting it free. :)

    • JDM4LIFE on 19/02/2016 - 14:13
      +1

      Pardon my ignorance, but how does this work?

      • Maz1 on 19/02/2016 - 16:13
        +1

        Okay well, once a month while grocery shopping I buy a $30 Optus credit thingo from the register.

        Once my current month runs out I activate that one and go to what ever I'm buying. Alot of places like runescape or league of legends have an option to pay with mobile, it essentially uses your credit so you can do it with any plan wether it be $10 or $100 a month.

        Because Optus use different things like; my data, calls, sms etc, credit is a different entity so you can spend the amount you recharged for on any item purchasable by mobile.

        I don't know if that explains it but I just found it while testing on the last day of my credits month and it worked, it was going to expire anyway so now I get free stuff.

        • JDM4LIFE on 19/02/2016 - 16:29
          +1

          I see, so its a $30 prepaid voucher which gives you $30 worth of spending's and essentially unlimited calls. Pretty cool. I don't think it would work with a post paid plan service though?

        • Maz1 on 19/02/2016 - 18:23
          +1

          @JDM4LIFE:

          Yeah I mean, its the amount I was spending per month for my phone plan plus free $30 for online stores with that payment method. As for post paid, I mean it depends if the plan is something like, $300 calls, unlimited sms, 1 gig data, $30 credit. If so I assume it will work.

          If not, I'm unsure as I've been on this plan for many years and never had reason to change. Couldn't really post it as a deal due to the fact that, its only really a deal if you already pay monthly for runescape membership monthly or whatnot as it was, because I'm essentially paying the same amount and getting free month to month plan on top.

    • josepet on 21/02/2016 - 23:00

      Can you tell me more games/webs that accept mobile payment? Thanks :D

  • Donaldhump on 19/02/2016 - 01:05
    +4

    I need to get something off my chest…. I cheated something shocking in UNI

    I applied for a job as a Sql Server DBA in approx 1999? I had to do an exam which was in a word document. I knew nothing about SS as had Oracle back ground. I went to recent document history and saw a good half dozen other people who had done the exam. I pilfered through who seemed the most intelligent and used their answers. I got offered the job, but had to decline for obvious reasons.

    also stole several uni assignments of temp drives, and putting student numbers in web urls to view javascript source etc.

    best one in first year mid semester exam there were two time slots, as 500 students. Went in 12-1 took 2 exam papers, wrote John Smith on first paper, and handed it in after 20 mins, went outside with spare exam paper and looked up answers, and went back in at 1-2 and did the exam.

    what a dam cheat i was… but hell i wanted to drink beer not study.

    finally got burned though, after cheating off dude next tome on multiple choice paper…only realised when handing them in every other person had questions in different order…..FML failed that subject

    • [Deactivated] on 19/02/2016 - 22:21
      +1

      Don't feel too bad, at my uni the department with the most theft was Law. Shameful students.

  • Ladsos on 19/02/2016 - 02:20

    When I get my insurance bills through, I do an online quote with the same company and it usually come out cheaper!
    Recently Coles had 5c cds! ive stocked up on a few wiggles ones.
    Sometimes when I put my bananas on the self scanners it scans as 5g for example, so I get my 4 bananas for a few cents…
    like using woolies online, usually get extra from the deli department, ie. pay for 500g of chicken and get 660g, sometime if they don't have what I ordered, ie. woolies nappies, they will give me huggies.

    • theguyrules on 19/02/2016 - 08:54

      Apparently woolies online always gives you extra for the deli stuff, and fresh produce.

  • battler on 19/02/2016 - 10:59
    +1

    1) bought some discounted gift vouchers, paid for 'product', returned 'product', got refunded in full

    2) opal card

    3) expedia brazil (I really miss that one)

    • realfancyman on 19/02/2016 - 18:24

      i thought you couldn't return gift cards tho

      • battler on 19/02/2016 - 18:54

        No, I returned the product that I purchased with the gift card

        • realfancyman on 19/02/2016 - 21:03

          oh that makes sense. smart :) Edit: wouldn't the money go back to the gift card though?

        • battler on 19/02/2016 - 22:15

          nup, cash, that's what made it a loophole.

        • realfancyman on 19/02/2016 - 22:58
          -1

          @battler: so this still works? could i do it with woolworths e gift cards?

        • battler on 19/02/2016 - 23:13
          +1

          Yes, would still work, but no, I'm not going to name the retailer where it happened to me. It wasn't WW.

        • JIMB0 on 21/02/2016 - 13:46

          @realfancyman:
          I've bought grocceries with a giftcard that scanned up at the wrong price, as per the scanning policy they had to give a refund which ended up being in cash (<$10) as it was easier for them. Still got to keep the item, 4c/L fuel docket and also got the bonus Woolworths $ for the >$30 spend.

          I returned a 4G modem to Officeworks which was purchased with a giftcard, they refunded onto a giftcard though. Nearly ended up with a OW only card instead of a Coles/Myer like I paid on.

        • ronnknee on 24/01/2017 - 19:00

          So are you this guy?

        • battler on 24/01/2017 - 20:57

          @ronnknee:
          Bad link

        • ronnknee on 24/01/2017 - 21:40

          @battler:

          Sorry, here.

        • battler on 24/01/2017 - 21:51
          +1

          @ronnknee:
          Yeah, not me, and certainly not as deliberate.
          I got hold of some travel vouchers on ebay/gumtree (hence the discount), bought some travel. Weeks later found cheaper price, so I cancelled original travel under free cancellation clause. I thought I would be refunded gift cards but to my surprise they refunded cash, so I ended up with more cash than I used to buy the vouchers.

    • 0p on 25/09/2016 - 18:49
      +1

      Whats "Expedia Brazil"

      • battler on 26/09/2016 - 08:10

        search ozb about 3 years ago.
        you could get half price qantas syd to singapore or bangkok if booked via brazilian expedia website.

  • jasonf001 on 19/02/2016 - 12:19
    +4

    Boots UK had $5 voucher cards (printed on paper), fortunately for me they also use self-serve checkouts. You were able to scan them multiple times in the same transaction and effectively get any purchases for free. You were meant to hand them in after use but self-service you could just walk off.
    They got me through 6 months in the UK without having to pay for food, cosmetics and plenty of other pharmaceutical items. Saved a fortune and passed them off to a friend when I left. He got them confiscated after about 6 months but found some more on Ebay.

    • nexus4 on 27/02/2016 - 10:45
      +3

      That's basically just stealing…

      • Usher9387 on 02/03/2016 - 08:46

        seriously, some of them need to learn what is morality and ethics.

  • timmeh15 on 19/02/2016 - 12:23

    Bought My Bus 3 Travel Tens and would catch Hillsbus everyday to work, as they were private operators so they didn't have the green ticket machine to dip it in so the bus driver would get a pen to manually cross the number of rides on the My Bus 3. After 10 rides, I would sell the used tickets to friends who catches public buses who had the dipper at a discount rate as the dipper didn't pick up the pen scribbles. My friend would always have an excuse up her sleeve saying it was her cousin scribbling on it if she ever get caught with it.

    • illumination on 19/02/2016 - 15:52

      Haha I wonder how well that excuse worked…

    • Peanut money on 20/02/2016 - 13:56
      +3

      The good old travel 20

  • cheapm8 on 19/02/2016 - 13:14
    +10

    A few years ago when Event Cinemas upgraded their cinebuzz program to include status credits i was booking sessions non stop using my existing cinebuzz points. I found the bug when i wanted to use my points to book a movie session, but to my surprise their new system was not deducting my points. I booked nearly $3k worth of movies for family and friends and about a week into my booking spree, their new system got even better for me as i started earning points for these bookings hahaha. Lasted about 3 weeks before they fixed it. I started out with only having enough points to two seats, but ended up with soo many points i was booking out rows of seats in one transaction. I think i was the first person in Australia to reached VIP status.

    • treeman on 25/02/2016 - 09:40
      +1

      They didn't try and cancel any of your seats?

      You could have booked out the cinema to yourself.

      • cheapm8 on 25/02/2016 - 11:03
        +2

        no seats were cancelled. In fact i was getting free physical tickets for asking them for a refund for the seats that i booked but left empty. It was a win-win-win situation hahaha (unlimited free bookings, earning points for free bookings, getting free tickets for refund of free bookings)

  • phreak on 19/02/2016 - 14:04
    +7

    At uni back in 1998, your account in the system showed your start and finish date for the course, and you could amend the finish date. Mine was 2002, my friend changed his to 2020 (highest value possible). When we got our student cards his card expiry became 2020. He's probably still getting cheap movie tickets and concession discounts now :)

  • dedb4bedtime on 19/02/2016 - 15:18

    I didn't do this myself but met a mature age student back in my uni days when I was getting my first ID card.

    For about 10 years he had been enrolling in the required courses to be classed as a Full-time student. Then before the deadline he dropped all his classes/deferred. By then he had his ID card renewed as a full time student so he could enjoy all the benefits of being a student, cheaper tickets, public transport etc.

  • The General on 19/02/2016 - 15:21
    +5

    I wrapped my Wife's birthday present with Christmas paper. Does that count? Saves a fortune especially when you pick up Christmas paper from the supermarket for 20c a week after Christmas.

    • tj101 on 19/02/2016 - 16:52
      +1

      We buy the plain Christmas paper ie red or green or with stars and keep it in the cupboard for any birthdays ect. We also buy the bows and ribbon and keep them in the cupboard. I also keep a stock of assorted cards, from the op shop where they are 20cents, for any occasion that pops up. Sorted valentines this way.

    • altomic on 19/02/2016 - 21:22
      +1

      I bought an industrial roll of Christmas paper from a garage sale in Richmond for 50cents in 1992. Used it every Christmas for 10 years before moving overseas. There is still half of it in my old room at my parents house.

      • muncan on 19/02/2016 - 22:14
        +2

        I'll give your folks 30c for what's left.

    • koplik8 on 02/03/2016 - 05:52
      +1

      I do this every year when they are mark the wrapping paper down. This year I notice that they didn't have any plain colours like the gold and silver. Maybe they are catching on

  • unfunkable on 19/02/2016 - 18:15
    +2

    When I was in uni 2001-ish
    I played a lot of D2 .
    Duping was rampart back then, and I actually looked into it…best thing i ever did.
    It was literally printing off money with a click of a button and selling digital items in the chat channel.

    If anybody remembers the ITH items, I was responsible for the type_sorc ith bow, it was one of the best bows at the time.
    In the end I made about 2.5k in a month I think..not bad for selling digital items.

    I wish I had gone larger, but I had no knowledge at all of programming as was pretty much just lurking forums on how to do stuff, and just being a copy cat. Capturing packets, modifying them, was all new to me.
    I heard the hardcore dupers/'hackers' 'pioneers' were making upwards of 50kUSD per month, and I don't doubt this for a second. I heard rumors, that the lead hacker, could actually 'tell' the blizzard servers to make him ANY items he wants, this was never confirmed though. But I remember vaguley seeing videos of some crazy stuff…crazy crazy stuff

    I remember seeing item packs on EBAY for hundreds of dollars, and people were actually buying them, as they were being listed in sold items page.

    • Hirolol on 22/02/2016 - 02:44

      ah the good old D2 days… shame D3 is nothing like it.

  • altomic on 19/02/2016 - 20:17
    +3

    I was an undergrad at Monash Clayton in the late 90s. I had different classes usually spread across the day which meant paying for all day parking which was expensive.

    On the first day of semester i paid for one ticket and then that night just scanned, photoshopped and printed out tickets for the days I needed for the rest of the semester.

    Not really a loophole as such.

    • [Deactivated] on 19/02/2016 - 22:27
      +3

      Good to hear, I got a ticket on Orientation Day even before the first day, as there wasn't a parking space to be found we parked on anything.

    • battler on 19/02/2016 - 22:43
      +3

      Ha, likewise, used to get a weekly bus ticket that printed on thermal paper from the machine in the bus. It had a one week expiry and just needed to be flashed in front of the driver each trip.
      Then figured I could buy a single on Monday, scan and photoshop the date forward 7 days, then reprint on thermal fax paper, cut/rip to size.
      Saved about $30/week…. for about a year :)

  • Sterio on 19/02/2016 - 21:26
    +4

    Colleague at work bought something from general pants. There was some sort of promo where you got a code for a future purchase. If memory serves me correct it was for either 10%; 20% or 50%. After receiving his code he tried the same one but substituted the numeric value to another of the discount amounts for example instead of deal10, he put in deal20 and it worked. The other one was the number first then the word i.e. 50 deal. After identifying all 3 codes there was more, in that you could stack the codes. Bingo 80% off goods online. So next thing you know a select few at work were cleaning up with jeans, converse chucks, Doc Martens at 80% off. It was crack up when the courier would arrive each day at work with all these boxes from general pants.
    But wait there was more. If something was not to your liking you could exchange it at any store. So the boots i bought were not to my liking so I went to the store for a refund. The invoice with your original purchase was for the full price not what you paid. Ending up getting refunded the full price not the discounted price. I knew i should have bought one of those Nixon watches that retailed for $600 at the time and returned it for a nice little earner.
    In the end i reckon they cottoned on when doing a month end reconcilitaion and found out that things weren't right. There were heaps more orders in process which were suddenly cancelled. Anyway, thanks are extended to General Pants.

  • battler on 19/02/2016 - 22:51
    +4

    This was a small yet elegant loophole I discovered and shared with fellow members a few years back.
    Every ozbargainer loves $2 bottles of good wine, delivered.

  • coco1458 on 23/02/2016 - 21:49

    I usually go to JB Hi-Fi and ask their staff on the lowest price possible, generally on tech products there's a mark up on them but it's easy enough as I ask them for the lowest possible price and for them to show me on their little device that the Mark up% is at 0%

    Gotten so many things so much cheaper than the advertised price

    • Usher9387 on 02/03/2016 - 08:54
      -1

      I do the same too, last time when i went JB Hi-Fi to buy my Macbook Pro(15), it was marked around $2880 but the techies offered 10% discount but i told them all i have $1450 in my card nothing more and they sold it for that price.

      • coco1458 on 02/03/2016 - 12:33

        That's actually a bloody good deal!
        I've found that officeworks has the lowest price on Apple products although JB can match it, sometimes beat it. They try to sell you on the extended warranty but Consumer Affairs has got your back, not really worth wasting your money on extended warranties

      • T-man on 02/03/2016 - 19:47

        Was it the last one or display model ?

        • Usher9387 on 03/03/2016 - 08:49

          My apologies, i supposed to say $2450.I am sure, its not display model neither last one.

        • imcold on 08/03/2016 - 17:35

          @Usher9387:

          hahah there is a big difference between $2450 and $1450

  • Mons1eur on 25/02/2016 - 16:15
    -1

    Got 6 months of Stan and SMH subscription on new Vodafone connection. Too bad Spotify didn't work for some reason.

  • [Deactivated] on 25/02/2016 - 21:40

    An online music store had a free $10 or $15 signup credit, and allowed all tracks to be purchased as an entire album or individually. The site allowed you to cancel your account and signup again with the same email address immediately after. I downloaded about $4-5k of songs that night. I found 2-3 tracks didn't work (were incorrectly labelled on the server), and sent them an email advising the tracks were missing and that I'd like it to be fixed. They weren't happy at what I'd done, but didn't fix it either….

  • goat on 25/02/2016 - 22:05
    +2

    Okay guys so a few friends and I figured out a loop hole with a betting company. they would give you a matched bonus bet with x amount deposited. the catch was that in order to withdraw the bonus money it needed to be turned over 4x. this is where the loop hole existed they allowed you to bet on both teams allowing the turn over be virtually guaranteed money. They also offered referral bonuses for each friend that turned over x amount of money. I did not get caught however they did eventually catch on to what we were doing.

    • illumination on 26/02/2016 - 17:32

      Haha when they caught on they just told you to stop, or they closed your account?

      • goat on 26/02/2016 - 22:24
        +1

        Nothing happened to my account no messages. An acquaintance of a friend had his bonus bet removed while completing the process and lost most of his deposit. It was when this happened that everyone decided to stop. Some of my friends made a few thousand out of this

    • juzz0 on 09/03/2016 - 01:55

      Matched bonuses are common and a feature of most bookies, was it for every deposit you made or just the first deposit? Bonus betting and real money bets on the same markets are banned by books for this very reason (doesn't stop you from going across books). However books trade information on clients and companies own multiple books (like Tom Waterhouse, William Hill etc.) So you will eventually get found out. You are playing a dangerous game as they may freeze your account if you have money still left in there for violating the terms of the bonus bets. I wouldn't call it a loophole just exploiting the fact that some books aren't across all punters betting on dual outcomes with real and bonus money. Hopping on public transport for free isn't a loophole just because the driver ain't watching.

      Many bookies also have clawback provisions in their terms of use so if they go over your trans history and see bonus and real money bets on the same markets they will immediately suspend your account and you might lose everything in it. If they just blocked you or closed your account and refunded your money you were lucky (but it seems got cold feet and got out after one of your mates was stung - lucky). I got blocked from bookies when I used to be into online sports betting not because I was arbing (even across books) but because I was a lucky mug who ended up a few grand on each book. Some books like sharps because they can follow them but if you are just a lucky mug (who bets live) eventually they will want you off their books as you are costing them money. Books routinely block people who they regard as 'abusing' promotions even if they aren't doing what you are doing, just for betting on them frequently (more than once a week).

      If you are into redeeming promotions best way of going about it is limiting your frequency so you won't get on the radar and definitely not violating the terms of the book. There are ways of creating weak hedges in combination with things like multi promotions on other books. For example a four way multi on favs which carries if one leg loses could be combined with small bonus insurances bets on outsiders in remaining matches could lead to a small positive outcome without violating either books T&Cs. Of course you need bonus bets for that strategy and an ability to access promotions on the other book. There is no such thing as a free lunch though and you would need to match betting levels on standard markets so you aren't seen as a specials wh*re.

    • shortgum on 09/03/2016 - 22:29

      I will not be surprise your account either end up limited or only able to bet peanut money n ban promotions soon after. then arbing is OVER. NSW VIC state is restricted the most on bonuses these days

      The best way to turnover any winning bonuses is to wait patiently then place different outcome bets on different bookies. e.g. williamhill n ladbrokes, palmerbet n ubet, tab n bet365, madbookies n luxbet, sportsbet n crownbet etc etc when available. not the own bookies, its just a self destruct method.

  • kiyz25 on 01/03/2016 - 19:28
    +1

    I miss the Expedia Brazil!! Booked nearly a years worth of flights! Best score was 5 return tickets Adelaide to Melbourne inc luggage for $190 :) then just over $100 return for 2 to Sydney a few times :) good days good days in deed!

  • koplik8 on 02/03/2016 - 05:47

    I do a lot of mystery shopping. There is one clothing store I do every couple of months. I buy gift vouchers when they are 20% off. When I complete the mystery shop the company pays me $17 for the job plus $10 for goods. I now own a heap of rugby shorts

    • Ash-Say on 14/03/2016 - 18:44

      Why don't you say you work for Personally Recommended and does myatery shopping of Lowes.

  • dein_gesicht on 03/03/2016 - 14:18
    +3

    Two years ago, my work installed a new HR system to show online payslips and where you can apply for leave. I noticed that my manager's screen would show the same information if I took 1 day leave or 0.5 day leave - let's just say that i still have a lot of leave left

  • Neoika on 05/03/2016 - 20:37

    I found a loophole on Ozbargain but I have not exploited it yet.I have seen some people play it really well.

    Here is loophole or just a trick to share:
    If you want to post a referral deal,you should never put your referral link in the post in the beginning.Many members will not upvote if it is a referral deal;Hence,lowering your deal's chance to become popular.And also Ozbargain has limit for referral deal posting.So focus on the deal quality and gather enough upvotes to the front page.You should only add your referral link when it becomes popular and jumps to the first page.Actually,you may get more referral credits than put it at first.If the deal does not get popular,you will not be limited to post another one.

    I have seen some top players doing like this for quite a while.Geniuses!

    • Moderatorneil on 06/03/2016 - 12:46

      That's fine as it accomplishes good deals with a bonus of rewarding the poster. You can put a referral link or code in anytime up to 7 days from posting. However, even if you remove the referral link or code, the post will still count to your limits.

      Deal Posting Guidelines
      Referral Posting Limits

  • jeeryos on 07/03/2016 - 00:37
    +1

    Not sure if youd consider this however tapping off early on with your opal card can be very thrifty

  • Ethere on 08/03/2016 - 01:36

    Few years ago when you signed up for subway mail subscription you'd get a free 6 inch sub with a bottle of coke or water, signed up each day during class with the fake 10 minute email, printed coupons and walked to subway during lunch, lunch sorted for a few weeks til they asked for I.D because I used it consecutively along with few other high school friends.

  • WT on 08/03/2016 - 14:26
    +1

    One of the places I worked at in my early 20's had a drink machine. he would open it in front of us and I figured out how to fake money going into it to get free drinks. I told a few others about it, but no one really fudged it unless they didnt have change and would just give it to the guy when he came in every week. I told him that we knew how to get free drinks, but he didnt care as we were mostly honest.

    Somehow the shit kicker found out and was ripping drinks off daily, along with our beers after work. He would drop 20c in the beer can instead of $2. I told the guy and soon after we got the upgraded machines that arnt easy to hack. Boo no more free drinks for me when I have no change.

    This is more to point out that your hack, that you think is really cool, can ruin it for the rest of us. Sometimes it affects the pockets of the little guys.

    I fired him the day we got the new drink machine, he had it coming to him and it was the last straw.

    • roddy84 on 09/03/2016 - 23:37
      +1

      That's not really a story about you finding a loophole and exploiting the hell out of it.

      Now if the "shit kicker" came on here and told us how he found a machine he could drop 20c into instead of $2 that would be more appropriate.

      His version would also probably be the day they eventually fixed the machine he quit.

      • WT on 10/03/2016 - 11:42

        He would probably leave out the bit about crying when he "quit" too.

  • JIMB0 on 14/03/2016 - 00:24
    +2

    I was buying groceries at the Woolworths self serve checkout, when it came time to pay the giftcard I had was 2c short of the full amount. So I selected split payment and used up the balance of the giftcard. This left 2c owing so I selected cash and tossed in a 10c coin. The machine then rounded down the 2c and gave me back the 10c coin. I've used this loophole about a half dozen times since but think my time is worth more than 2c for the 30 extra seconds this takes.

    If you have lots of items and heaps of time you could buy them one at a time to save even more. A word of warning though, don't try this at Coles as it crashes the machine.

    • argonide on 15/03/2016 - 00:47
      +1

      I've had this at Coles, total of $10.04, paid $10 on Flybuys dollars and it completed the transaction, it rounded down 4c.

  • pufffdragon on 15/03/2016 - 03:57
    +1

    Amaysim have a referral deal where if you refer someone, you will receive $10 credit and the other party will also receive $10 credit when they join up.

    I'm on a prepaid 90 day plan and normally pay $10 each top up to receive $10 credit. With this I pay $5 and receive $25 credit .

    So what I do is send a referral link to myself, join up from the link and pay the minimum $5 and use another name. The sim gets sent out and a few days later I have $25 credit which only cost me $5.

    This is good if you have two phones or a dual sim phone.

    • 0p on 15/03/2016 - 04:24

      Too dam specific mate…

    • neil on 15/03/2016 - 09:17

      The referral program has shut down as of a couple days ago.

      • pufffdragon on 15/03/2016 - 11:05

        Damn. Glad I got one last one in before that happened. Thanks for the update.

  • eccentriq on 01/06/2016 - 00:56
    +1

    During the Tiger launch of their Infrequent Flyer's program, they were offering $100 flight vouchers. Signed up 10+ email accounts on 10 separate browser windows/PC's and scored big time. Flew back and forth to Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney all year at minimal cost. All my mates did the same…

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