47 Loopholes That Were So Good People Just Needed To Exploit Them Until They Were Found Out

Pizza Hut partnered with a Coupon Book company.

The coupon read.. "Buy any one Pizza and get a second Pizza of EQUAL OR GREATER VALUE...Free"

So for about 2 years I would order a medium cheese pizza and get a Large Supreme for free.

If you take the survey on the back of the Popeye's receipt, you get a free two piece and biscuit with the purchase of a drink. And you can take the survey on the back of that receipt to get a free two piece and biscuit with the purchase of a drink. And you can take the survey on the back of that receipt to get a free two piece and biscuit with the purchase of a drink. And you can take the survey on the back of that receipt to get a free two piece and biscuit with the purchase of a drink. And you can take the survey on the back of that receipt...

A grocery store by me has a policy that if you found food that was expired you could bring it to them and get a non expired version for free. I was really poor and did this a lot. They really hated me for it and started adding rules like oh you have to spend the amount that the items are worth....

Maybe take the expired food off your shelf.

A Walmart near my place accidentally marked a specific flavor of beef jerky as a dollar, I bought 70 bags over a week until they fixed it.

We didn't have much money when I was a kid, but my mom ended up getting a timeshare at a local resort. It had a huge, amazing pool with a waterfall, hot tub, UNDER WATER SPEAKERS PLAYING JAZZ, basically a kid's dream of a pool. My mom would take me, my siblings, and my friends to swim there all summer long. We even had birthday parties there.

Never actually stayed in the resort though! My mom would just say "I have a timeshare" if anyone ever stopped her, and I guess nobody ever checked if she was actually staying in the hotel lol.

Years ago when I was a freshman in college, Papa Johns ran a promo for the Super Bowl where if you called the coin toss correctly, you would get a voucher for a free 1 topping pizza. However, the only control in place was you could only enter the contest one time per email address. I created more than 60 emails, half of them calling heads, half tails. Ate free for six weeks. I was also not what you would call healthy in those days.

When I was back in High School my orientation was arts. So in my entire class there were tons of people that were good at drawing. We went partying and in Germany they stamp your hand at some locations to show you've already paid entrance fee AND that you're the appropriate age to get all the hard alcohol. Two older classmates got their stamps and they came back out after 5minutes. On the parking lot we copied the stamps. We had brought a palette of different colored pencils for this, as the stamps change daily.

We all got in.

Vending machines at work stopped taking money and started giving out things for free over the holidays a few years back, I notified the bosses it was broken, waited a week it wasent fixed so I let everyone know at work how you could get free snacks from the machines.

Those were empty within 24 hours.

My local Dominos has a 50% off coupon code that they give out when someone's order is screwed up. They never change the code. I've gotten a lot of half off pizza.

If you work in education and have a .edu email address you can almost always get student pricing on services that offer it (Amazon, Spotify, etc).

When CVS first came to town, they sent out mailers with several in-store coupons for $ off anything from a certain category ($3 off hair care, $5 off vitamins, etc.). Figured out quickly that if you bought something that was for less than the coupon amount the excess would apply to anything else in the store, and you could use all of the coupons in a single transaction.

And did I mentioned I lived in a large apartment complex and lots of my neighbors just threw the coupons in the recycle bin by the mailboxes? And CVS sent another round of coupons about a month later? I ended up with so much free lotion, shampoo, TP, etc. I didn't have to buy that stuff for years!

When I was younger I had Family Link on my device. For those of you who don't know, Family Link is a standard family monitoring app, and one of the things it could do is lock down my phone during bedtime hours. If I unlocked my phone during this time, a screen would pop up that says "Time for Bed", and I couldn't get past said screen until morning. However, young me quickly discovered that the phone needed to be connected to the internet, and I found that if I turned off my wifi and data, my phone would not lock. Even though I couldn't access the internet, I could still play the games already downloaded to my phone, so young me was a happy camper.

One GBP equals about 20 SZL (Swaziland currency) but the £1 coin is exactly the same shape and weight of the Swazi L1 coin.

Vending machines in the UK would therefore accept L1 coins as £1.

Let’s just say I had many cheap snacks and train/tube tickets...

I once got a card to put in my car window to allow me to park at an event. The wording on the card was vague and just pretty much said I was allowed to park there. I used it while I was in college to park in the closer teacher spots.

The car wash station near my house: if you put in a quarter it thinks its a loonie (canada) and i can wash my car for .50 instead of $2. i have been using this method over 4 years.

More of a glitch I suppose, but when Redbox first started their app was much less robust than now. My wife discovered if you added a movie to your cart then hit checkout, then back, it would keep the movie in your cart but change the price to $0. We rented probably 30 movies for free, a few each week, until they finally updated the app.

Think Ill finally share this one. On the youtube mobile app, you can skip all the ads in the middle of the video by skipping through to the end of the video you are on, then clicking on the replay button. Sometimes, you will get one ad you have to watch, but its so much better then watching all of the ads in the middle of the video.

I lived by a movie theater so I went a lot. The large popcorn was like $11 dollars but had free refills. I was a broke middle schooler so I would go into the movie, grab a large popcorn bag out of the trash, and rip the bag down the side. I would then take said large, ripped popcorn bag to get a refill and ask for a new bag. Thus, a free large popcorn In a new bag for free!

At Burger King, a double cheeseburger meal cost more than a two cheeseburger meal for years. Pitch the two bottom buns and boom, double cheeseburger.

When I was in high school, my friends and I discovered a horribly unhealthy "extream coupon" buy.

The store was running a promotion of "$.99 energy drinks". The same energy drink was simultaneously running a promotion of "buy 10 energy drinks, get $10 in store credit".

We cleared out 3 stores over a summer break and spent $30. We did this so we could have 3 check out lanes constantly scanning all of their inventory. When the managers caught on to what we were doing, they would go through the same stages. First they'd make sure we weren't doing anything illegal, make sure they weren't doing anything they could get fired for, then they'd help us off load their entire stock. The next day we went to try it at a few other stores, but word got out of discovery and the store shut the promotion down.

I drank so much Amp that summer. I remember staying up for 2 days running on nothing but Amp and doritos. We were out in the desert building jumps for our bikes in the Phoenix AZ heat. I threw up, went home and slept for like 16 hours, and gave away the last of my energy drink loot. To this day the thought of drinking an Amp makes me feel uneasy.