62 Times People Saw An Opportunity To Exploit A Situation And Took It

One of the washing machines at my college only costs a quarter as opposed to the normal dollar. I'm saving tens. TENS I TELL YOU.

Live in a rural town. No degree, but I'm excellent at math. I got a job teaching GED math classes which requires a degree, it was supposed to be temporary and I was supposed to give my boss a refresher on math so they could eventually let me go. My boss knows I have a daughter to support by myself as a dad and have really turned my life around and my boss already knows how to do math. Boss still always tells her supervisor she just can't get the hang of alegebra so I can keep my job. My boss is cool.

Was told by gas company that my apartment "doesn't exist" according to their records and therefore couldn't set up an account. Despite this, we've had gas in the apartment for the past 3 years.

I took a regular old stats class in high school. My college saw it on my transcript, thought it was AP, and checked it off of my degree requirements. My graduate school saw it on my undergrad transcript and checked it off on my requirements. I haven't taken a math class since I was 17 and I'm not saying a word.

Not current, but a good story.

Three years ago I worked at a grocery store as a cashier and they had a system where every dollar spent was put towards a point system to give you discounts on their gas. You also got discounts on specific items with the card.

They tracked our employee cards, so we couldnt cop some free fuel points. But my mom's old phone number was still linked to an account, so whenever a customer didnt have an account (which was free) I would just type in my mom's old # and say it was the store code to give them discounts. I paid next to nothing for gas while I worked there and never got caught.

It's not exactly a glitch, but if you use spotify on chrome (so not the downloadable app) and have AdBlock on, you no longer have to listen to any commercials.

I've been getting free Internet for the last 10 years because my ISP never cut me off after I stopped paying. I don't question it.

Theres a change dispenser near my house and when you put in 1 dollar bills it despenses 5 quarters instead of 4. Woohoo breaking economy.

My great student card heist. I live in South Australia, so YMMV elsewhere. Basically, the cost to apply for a uni degree here is about $60. So you apply for a degree, enrol in topics, get your "full time student" ID card, then unenrol in all your topics. If you unenrol before the census date (which is usually a month or so after uni starts), you don't get charged for the course - but they don't ask for your student card back!

That means that you get to claim all the sweet sweet student discounts, the best of which being on public transport. If, like me, you get public transport twice a day, five days a week, it costs you almost $40. Having a student card halves the cost. So you basically make up for the $60 you paid to apply for uni in 3 weeks of catching the train.

Getting a mortgage and then getting a roomie to pay rent to me, which I use to pay the mortgage. Living for free man.

My brother got discounts from other stores in the plaza of the grocery store he worked at becsuse he work at said grocery store. The pizza place got so used to seeing him, they gave him the grocery store discount every time he came in, even well after he quit that job.

My local pizza place has pepperoni on the menu for £1 more than pepperoni plus (pepperoni, mushrooms and onions), just swap the mushrooms and onions for pepperoni and pepperoni.

Every time I eat it I MWAHAHAHAHAHA to myself.

This was like 7 or 8 years ago when a lot of towns in the UK didn't have Dominoes Pizza, before Papa Johns was a thing here and you were lucky if there was a Pizza Hut delivery. Most people only had access to pizza from little, dirty kebab shops and like their kebabs, the pizzas were best eaten when drunk.

Well a Dominoes opened up in my hometown not long after I finished university and moved back home. Because it was so expensive compared to the cheap, albeit bad, pizza you could already buy, they did loads of really good coupon and online deals.

They had this one code, PIZFIFTY, that was 50% of £50. A large pizza with two sides was about £25 anyway, so you could basically get twice the amount of food. It made it feel like you weren't getting totally ripped off.

That code didn't stay on the menus for long though, and it was replaced with various other codes that would change every month. The thing is though, the PIZFIFTY code still worked online. And it stayed active until this year. I was a little heartbroken when I entered it and got an invalid code error.

Standard size ice cream, was 1.30, while "big ice cream", double the standard size, was 3.30.

The "standard" was really small, so everybody bought the "big" one. But I did the math, so I'd ask for two standard ones, receive an extra waffle, and save 0.70.

I was 11. As I watched the line of adults all buying "big ice cream", I realised that not all adults were smart. Nobody repeated my trick.

Every year, the New York Times tells me my $4/month promotional rate is ending and I'll now be paying $20/month. Every year, I go to cancel it, and every year, they extend me the $4/month rate for another year.

A while back they got new keypads at my job that wouldn't let you punch in if you showed up late for work. It would just say, "too late, see a manager" and then you'd have to go through the awkward process of telling your manager, having them follow you up the stairs, and they had to sign a late slip for you. One day I figured out that if I put a nine at the end of my four digit key (because it doesn't overwrite the last key) I could punch in late without being penalized. Naturally I exploited this loophole whenever I was too late for work. Eventually they caught on to what I was doing and had a manager talk to me and tell me that if I showed up late three more times (three strikes) I'd be fired.

I think the only reason they didn't fire me then and there was because they didn't want to admit there was a loop-hole in the system.

If your listening to pandora on android and an ad comes up, press your recent screens button (either the left or right button) and close out and re launch it, its quicker than sitting through the ad and with extended use pandora is now permanently glitched and every ad is now 6 seconds of black screen and back to my music (:.

My Dad is a recycling man for my town. And man did he ever do this well.

So with McDonalds you know how you can get a stamp card and a sticker on every cup? When you fill out the stamp card you get a free drink.

Well whenever he goes to pick up someone's recycling sometimes a person left there mcdonalds drink cup in there. And the sticker is still on it. So he takes the sticker and puts it on his stamp card.

Lets say he has over 50+ stamp cards for a free drink by doing this. And counting. He is exploiting that one that is for sure. Free coffee for life.

Flipping failed recalled products. When say Apple do a recall for a logic board failure, find systems with those symptoms on eBay for cheap, take them into the Apple Store and they'll repair it for free under warranty.

Also a cheap way to get a MacBook every few years (but usually better to get several failed ones and swap for something that hasn't been recalled).

The mobils in my area did a scratch off game via text. you text a code and they send you a link to a scratch-off page. get 3 out of the 6 and you won a free energy drink, soda, or water (changed monthly). i literally won every day. then i discovered you could clear cookies and get as many tickets as you had email addresses. was getting 5 energy drinks a day for free for a few months.