The dollar coin thing is and always has been a complete fucking lie. It wasn't a get rick quick scheme at all for starters they never sold them in single amounts they sold them in sets that came in 3 different styles. 1: a pack of 8 $1 coins inside of a cardboard tube that would cost $10 and $5 shipping and handling. 2: A pack of 100 $1 coins inside of a wooden box with a glass lid to allow you to display all 100 at once and they had foam casing inside for all the coins to be displayed in that was $150 and $45 shipping and handling. 3: 10,000 $1 coins in giant heavy duty plastic and foam crate that stored the 100 coin cases so you basically got 100 cases of the 100 coin packs and that thing was $25,000 and $5,000 for shipping and handling meaning the entire set were not cheap and they were in fact designed for mass profit and they were over priced as hell. So to put it bluntly they were 1: $15 for $8 in coins, 2: $195 for $100 in coins and $30,000 for $10,000 in coins. Some people bought tons of the 8 coin packs and sold them for in boxes of 20 of the 8 coin packs for $5000 as well. They were a scam to buy and the real reason they stopped making them is lack of sales do to the reality that they were over fucking priced.
There was a machine at the grocery store I went to as a kid, and when you'd get a peach snapple it would give your money back with the drink. Every time we'd go I'd get like 3 or 4 and did that for a few years until they replaced it
I worked at an auto shop some years ago, and their soda machine would spit out 2 sodas for the price of one as long as you hit it twice right away,it belonged to the shop so I never told any of the guys,i guess they just thought I really liked soda that much lol
I remember there was some point people paying 2 cents for each purchase of those dollar coins to get more people to buy them. good on paper. but it was literally free money
Yeah you can literally work out your entire body with just a pull up bar for a few muscle groups. Everything else has a way to work them without any special equipment
@@Commanderbones a pullup/dip bar thing is the best investment ever lol, i run on my country road, then do plate carrier weighted sets of various exercises. its not much but has lead to a lot,
update on the first one, the FTC has now made it illegal for a company to make canceling subscriptions needlessly difficult in the same way california does
I worked at a hospital and the vending machine had a glitch that if you put in a dollar coin it would refund you four quarters and give you a soda free
The one about getting credit card reward dollars on purchasing US Currency was a real loophole a lot of people exploited, now im pretty sure whenever they distribute new currency like that they dont allow you to buy it on credit specifically to close that loophole
Yeah some people don’t run alpha or beta testing when trying their “new ideas” and then it ends up never happening again because they didn’t account for all that bad
The way I understand it, it wouldn't work to just "not let you use CC", because how else will people buy them? Instead, they made it so buying coins directly on CC didn't count as a "purchase" (so no airline miles). Instead, it would count as a "cash advance", equivalent to withdrawing money at an ATM using your CC. Except the "ATM" was online and the "bank" was the Mint, and they'd ship the money to you instead of having it launch out of the SD reader.
In high school I worked at a pizza place as a delivery driver. The owner put a coupon out that said $5 off orders over $20. Any time the customer didn't have one I got an extra $5 tip
@@louly3212 you order some pizzas. Your bill is over 25 bucks. You pay me $25 plus a tip. I go back to the shop and give them $20 and a coupon. I keep the $5 instead of the customer
There are still people flying for free off those coins. Genius hack during that time. My parents havent paid for a trip in nearly 30 years and their credit score went from "maybe i can buy this used car" to "Hey im gonna buy a house!" In the course of a year.
@HeloTH-cam Credit cards that offer cash back in the form of miles. When the mint printed dollar coins, they offered them at cost with free shipping. People would max their credit cards buying the coins, then deposit the coins at the bank, pay off the card, and start the process all over. The miles from the credit card spending added up, along with the amazing payment history with the credit company set a lot of people up with free travel and perfect credits. Some people "spent" millions.
@HeloTH-cam Most credit cards give you "points" for every dollar spent using the CC. You can use the points on cash back, travel, restaurants, and buying flights. Some credit cards also have bonus "miles" rather than points. Same concept under a different name. The idea being that you earn a mile and when you earn 1000 miles for instance you can buy a flight that takes you 1000 miles away. So for instance that 10k in money could earn a person $100 cash back or 100 miles or 200 miles or 500 points or whatever amount depending on the rewards the CC offers
I wanted to deposit my paycheck into my bank account. The bank said it would take several days for the check to be put into my account. I needed it, so I simply asked for the cash. Then I handed the cash back to her and said "deposit this".
@@moefritz9568 It's the fact that some banks now take days to deposit checks when people need the money the day they try to deposit the checks. It's quicker to cash then deposit.
Similar to the grape soda guy, one time i was on vacation with family and was thirsty. So i hit up a nearby vending machine for a soda. I out in $2 and picked an orange soda. It spit out 4 orange sodas and $6 in quarters. I tried again, put in $2 and it spit out another 4 sodas and $6 in quarters. I was ready to stand there all day but after the 3rd time, my mom told me i had to stop. My entire family (10+ people) drank orange soda that day and i walked away with a pocket full of quarters 😂
In 2009 there was a promotion between the video game Rock Band and Pepsi, basically 90% of 16oz bottles of Pepsi products had a winning code under the cap you could redeem for a song in the Rock Band game available on the three current consoles at the time, Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii. The Xbox and PS3 codes were only redeemable for songs from the Rock Band shop, but the code redeemed for $2 worth of Wii points right from the Wii shop without even owning the game, which could then be used to buy anything on the Wii's Virtual Console and WiiWare. So at this time I worked for a company that did catering, and we catered a company picnic for 300 people. My boss supplied Pepsi products for the event, all in 16 oz bottles. After it was over I spent an hour going through all the trash and collected over a hundred bottlecaps, and redeemed them for like $150 Wii points and basically got a ton of Virtual Console games for free.
Back in 2009, I drove a semi cross country for about 8 months. There was a truck stop in Colorado that had washers and dryers for drivers. They were pay to use like a laundromat except a little more expensive. One of the dryers malfunctioned in a great way. You didn't have to pay to use it. Not sure how long it was like that before I used it, but I used it a few times over the next couple months. But like always, all good things must come to an end. The last time I stopped there, the dryer was out of order. And yes, I did try to start it
That Planet Fitness tip only works if you transfer to a franchise that allows online cancellations, and a lot of them do not. Part of this is because you’re less likely to end a membership in person, part of it is to make sure you pay any outstanding fees, and part of it is so that PF knows that it’s actually you closing the membership (a shocking number of crazy exes try to close people’s gym memberships, and not because they’re paying for it [if you are paying for someone else’s membership, show proof and tell them to remove your billing]). If you need to cancel your membership but can’t go in person, send them a letter telling them you want it canceled; usually takes a day once the letter makes it to management.
At my college the vending machines are cash/card so when someone pays with a card it doesn’t immediately close out of their card in case they still want to buy something, but there’s a finished button so people can’t charge your card. So most people get their drink and go not even thinking about that. Well lucky for them I always press finished for them.
When Washington DC was burning after the assassination of Martin Luther King, and the entire city was locked down, I was tasked to get permission for a relief caravan. Knowing that they absolutely were not giving any such permissions, I asked the police for a police escort. We got an escort from the first to the second roadblock, then they gave us undated unlimited all-access police passes. I kept mine for years
So for gym canceling tips, this is what I did for a local gym in my town. I called on the phone right after my bill was due. I told them I moved out if state and needed to cancel. They asked if I could come in and I told them no, i moved over 12 hours away and I wasn’t able to come back just to cancel in person. I went a bit first with my lie and said that i moved because i had to take care if my mom with a life threatening medical issue and hadn’t found work yet and asked if there was any way they could wave my last bill and the cancellation fee. They said of course and that it was no problem. Might be a lot harder for a big gym, but at a small local one like mine it was no problem.
@@tokiomitohsaka7770 thats how i feel! Gyms shouldn’t have the common practice of making it so hard to cancel. In my opinion, they’re being unethical with how the do business. Its not that hard to cancel literally anything else. I didn’t feel bad and normally im a pretty “by the books” kind of guy
I just reported my credit card as lost and got a new card #. After that, they couldn't bill me anymore, and I never heard from them again, other than an email saying they were canceling my membership.
Had a similar thing at Domino's. At my local Domino's, when you used a coupon, it didn't upcharge you for premium toppings. It was likely supposed to but it was family owned and they were probably just happy that people were buying their pizza so it wasn't an issue. They sold the store to someone else, the issues with online ordering were fixed, and the deals got worse, so I stopped going there. 😂
I liked those dollar coins. My dad used to have a bunch of them all the time, because when he used the subway in NYC, when he would pay to put more trips on his metro card, the machines would given him change in those coins, and you could use them just like any other coin in the same machine.
A couple weeks back, I took my kids to a local arcade. There was a game that had a spinning wheel in which you dropped a quarter down a ramp, and it would shoot through slots in the wheel. It would go into bonus mode where you had a short amount of time to collect more points and in turn more tickets. That day, the spinning part wasnt working, so I kept feeding quarters in and hitting the 999+ bonus. Felt guilty, so I ended up giving half the tickets to another family, but didn't tell anybody about the "broken" game
Our local bowling ally removed the “smack the button to stop the spinning lighted dot onto the number 1” arcade machine cause I could unload its bonus each time. We would go with a just a few dollars and I would fill my kids game cards with thousands of points and they would get the prizes. So they removed the machine😂😂 I still have the cards with a ton of points so I can just show up any day to the prize counter and get something with them. Game is gone now. 😂
There was a vending machine at my college that would dispense 2-3 bottles of water for free when slapped on the side. Turns out the bottles were made with 35% less plastic but this also made them less firm and thus the vending machine couldn't contain the bottles properly.
my school also had a glitched soda machine, if you bought one specific coke you would recieve 2 but it was also fucked up in the sense that if you shaked the whole machine it would drop few of them for free. I wasn't dumb, i knew they where going to replace that machine if they continued fucking it up so i told my friend about the more durable option but they didn't listened and after few days the machine got completely broken and then replaced by a sturdier model that wasnt' glitched
@@mhammer3186you think canceling a gym membership is bad you should see how hard it is to cancel your car insurance after surrendering your license is. the insurance company literally refused to cancel my insurance unless i proved i didn’t have a license, then when i gave them proof that i surrendered my license they said it wasn’t good enough and still refused to cancel it
I was told they continue to charge your account even if there is no card on file. Once the unpaid amount is high enough, they send it to collections, and it can hurt your credit score. I've never had a membership like that, though, so I've never personally had that problem.
@@jorgeantonini201 they stopped making those in like 2005. In the 2010s they reminted dollar coins for ever president up to president Donald trump however most were just for collectors and only the first handful of presidents got theirs in regular circulation. I have the full set of 45. I dont think president joe biden got one
@@ShaddySoldierI didn't know they made them all. Shoot. I was so disappointed when they stopped circulating them I assumed they hadn't minted them all
@@TheCumberCoIlective yeah they'll pop up now and then. The new president ones mostly are jsut worth a dollar only some of the later ones of more modern presidents wernt made en mass
I used to live in an apartment complex that had a soda machine behind the mail room. One night I figured out that if you held the coin return button down while choosing your soda, itll give you a free soda. Wirked for maybe 2 years.
i once placed a bet in a bookmakers and my horse 'won' but was demoted to 2nd place for interfering .the bookies policy was to pay out on who crossed the line 1st not technically who won so i still got my money :)
Back before cell phones were a thing, there was a rest stop on the Long Island Expressway that had pay phones. I pulled in to call a client, and a guy told me to use the third phone from the right. It was an open line. No coins needed. Just dial the number and get connected. It even worked for long distance. I had an expense account and was worried my clients would get charged if I tried it. Great loophole, though.
So THAT explains why my grandma has so many dollar coins that I am STILL finding tons of months after her death and cleaning out her house... ...I have found over 20 dollars in dollar coins in my car (her car) alone. I thought I deep cleaned this car three times...they are literally everywhere.
There was a line of unlocked parking meters down the road from my school. People kept putting money in them so every day for over a month, I would grab around $10 a day on the way to the pizza store
My schools vending machine used to only charge for 1 thing even if you got more. Like 20 kids did it for a bit but then they fixed it and we all accidentally bought like $20 worth of stupid snacks
I wouldn't call it a loophole exactly, but I abused the hell out of the rules and superior's expectations at an old job. I used to be a "part time" supervisor at UPS. One day I got moved to a new station where we would repair and re-label open box things that fell apart in the trucks or conveyor belts, but we also handled packages that "didn't belong" such as USPS and FedEx. Well, around this time, we also found ourselves under new management as one of the full timers got promoted to the head of the building. He wanted to make a name for himself and impress the higher ups and so he implemented a "the job is done when the work is done, no ifs ands or buts" policy. Which essentially meant if your area still had work left in it at the end of the shift, your employees get to go home, but you have to stay and finish up that work. My area was already short on hands no matter how you slice it, so this was especially taxing for my area. But also around the same time, too many supervisors had been messing around and stealing time by lying about how long they'd been clocked in and just hanging around for hours after the shift. So the new head decided to crack down on that as well, by giving everyone a hard limit of 35 hours. Keep this in mind. So as time went on, and especially after covid hit, we were slammed with excess packages at the end of every shift, most notably FedEx because the only employees who knew how to process them were me, 1 guy in my area who was always moved elsewhere, and one woman who worked the shift before ours. So given the parameters, the FedEx sorting fell on my shoulders every day. To cut a long story short, all the other "part time" supervisors were being true to the new 35 hour rule, but me? I was hitting at minimum 54 hours a week because of the absolutely egregious amount of FedEx that kept finding its way into our system + nobody else knowing how to do it. I got called in by my superiors every week to ask about it and I would always explain it to them, but they never took it seriously, just told me to "hurry it up next time" but I can only go as fast as the system's database - made in the late 90's - could load them up. On top of supply shortages and having the only other person in the building ripped from my area every day, I had them in a chokehold as far as overtime goes. My check was nearly double what everyone else was making, and nearly on par with my supervisor's pay despite his work being WAY more complicated lol. Had a lot of people mad but I oftentimes made suggestions about streamlining the job and making some areas more efficient, mine included, but they would never budge. Lot of late nights and a heap of stress, but at the time I could afford damn near anything on the planet, it felt like.
I'm happy for you because you are chuffed with it but you americans live in a capitalist hellscape haha! your story is, workplace made you work too much and you got paid for that time, essentially haha
There was once a store that sold gift cards that had a glitch. You could use the card in the store, then go online and spend the same balance again. The web site was run by a partner, and I guess they didn't sync their databases fast enough.
In the late 1990s, my high school had a soda machine that if you put in a dollar and then mashed multiple buttons at the exact same time, it would dispense one of each that you pressed. The whole squad would push the buttons together and get buy 1 get 5 free soda at lunch.
In the early 2000s there was a PC at my library that could be used for infinite time (usually it was capped at 60 minutes and you had to request more). I played RuneScape all day on that thing lmao
There was a pop machine outside a local grocery store that would dispense one orange pop a day it was like it was on a 24hr timer. I’d stop by on my way to school every morning and get a free one.
In a college I was at the dryers took quarters, but if you did it right you could fit 3 pennies inside the coin slot and it would count it as a quarter.
When I was in college, I found a vending machine that had sodas for 75¢. If you put in 25¢ and hit a button, it would refund you 30¢ and give you the soda. It took 2 years to get fixed
When I was in college, I found that on one of the soda vending machines, if I selected my soda, then timed a second press of the same button, the machine would dispense twice for the price of one.
The poophole loophole For real though, I remember the last one about the coins, I remember a relative telling my dad about it and he didn't believe him. Then when the story broke my dad was so mad he didn't do it
To get around copywrighted videos, i opened another tab with the official video and then played that and then went back to the tab with the video that was copyrighted and hit play, so it's technically playing the song.
@louly3212 like if you're on a labtop and say you're watching an AMV that's supposed to have a song on it, but it's muted because it was copyright strike. Simply open another tab and play the official music video, and let it play. Then go back to the AMV tab and then hit play, and you'll have the music to the copywrighted AMV.
I work for the NHS in the UK. I was seconded to another hospital to aid in a backlog (I’m a Biomedical Scientist I.e I analyse everything a clinician or surgeon will pull out of you if it is liquid I.e blood, spinal fluid, tissue fluid, pee etc…). Anyway, because I was seconded to another hospital, my travel outside of my usual travel (I got a bus pass to work every day but this secondment meant I needed to get a train too) meant any excess travel meant I could put it on the taxpayers tab. Long story short, I took advantage of these coupons going where if you spend 50 pounds or more per week via Trainline, I got a free 5 pounds Amazon coupon. A couple of years later, I had 500 pounds of Amazon vouchers for free! 😂 Plus free travel on the weekends to the city of my secondment as buying 5 travel tickets was the same as buying a week train travel.
Land lord forgot the key for laundry coin dispenser. I never stole from it but I would take the extract change needed and pay my laundry with it. Me and now wife had free laundry for 8 months before we moved.
I'm so happy to hear that someone kept that mouth shut and just explored the hell out of the grape soda because a lot of things are ruined just by telling a friend because they'll tell their friends and then their friends will tell their friend so on and so forth till it gets fixed
Xbox 360 warranty claim. I bought a refurbished 360 that eventually got the red ring of death. I contacted Microsoft about it, wherein they asked for the serial number of the console. I gave it to them and they said it was outside the window as it was purchased some years before. I told them I purchased it less than a year ago and have the receipt to prove it. Gamestop receipt said nothing about it being refurbished. They said, "sure thing" and gave me a brand new console under warranty.
My high school had a similar thing but the way it worked was that the machines stopped dispensing drinks after a certain time, but it didn't stop taking money so if you got to school early and clicked the button it would drop drinks of the kind you clicked based on how much money had been put into it outside it's operating hours, one time I got 5 free drinks usually you'd get nothing though because people knew the drink machine didn't work past a certain time.
When I bought my wife's engagement ring, JC Penny was on the last day of one sale and the first day of another - the sales stacked. The lady at the checkout counter pulled me aside and told me that if I bought literally anything at the store and filled out the survey, I could get another 20% off. So, I bought a belt for $20, filled out the survey, and bought the $5,200 ring for $2,400 after all three discounts went into effect. This was almost 15 years ago, so I doubt they're doing that anymore.
During covid. My local fast food chain would post online coupons that were one use only. So every month id take a screenshot on my phone of the coupons id use then proceeded to get 10-15 uses out.of them before the month ended
Another fun one is the quarter machines with the slightly larger egg containers, if you run the cycle of "quarter, turn to drop" about 3 times without taking the prize, it causes the chamber to stick in the open position, give the machine a little shake while you open the door and youll get a few more out before the mechanism springs back into place 👍😅
AMEX made a similar mistake years ago to the dollar coin exploit. For every dollar you spent on the card, you got a mile. Max out your card buying traveller’s checks, and immediately pay it off. Check your balance regularly, and once it’s zeroed out do that again, so you could do it at least a couple times a month, especially if there was a brick & mortar place where you could pay in person. After a while, request a limit increase. Rinse & repeat!! Yeah, that didn’t last long… 😂😂😂
Those things at Burger King that are filled with water sometimes and have a bubbler and some platforms that you try to land a quarter on to win a Whopper. There was one near the college where I attended and the bubbler was broken. Which made it super easy to drop quarter after quarter onto the platform because it would fall the same way if you dropped it the same way. Free Whopper anytime.
My friends and I randomly learned that if you kick a Snapple machine in the right place at the right time while it was dispensing it would spit out two Snapples so we kept trying it whenever we got snapples. It worked like 30% of the time. One time I kicked it so hard no Snapples came out but the machine made a whirring sound and it sounded like something was spraying inside so we ran
Soda machine at my job takes 5$ bills, if you use a 5 it will drop 5 1$ coins after you select your soda. I have went to work with a wallet full of 5s and went home with a pocket full of 1s for the last 7 years.
Discovered that on a specific model of vending machine if you put in your .75 cents and hit 2 buttons at exactly the same time you'd get 2 sodas to come out. Never told anyone. Not sure if it was that specific machine or every machine of that model.
For the coin thing, people saying "oh wish I'd thought of that!" Most people don't have tens of thousands of dollars in excess liquid currency to play around with like this. You can look at it like a really weird investment with a huge guaranteed return. It only works if you already have lots of money, like all investments. Also, a ton of free air miles would be next to useless for the vast majority of people who don't fly often. Even if the airfare is free, everything else you do on that vacation isn't, not to mention being able to take time off from work for several days which is an inaccessible luxury to most.
In high school our vending machines were old and you could just take a dollar bill, get some clear packing tape and carefully tape over about 1/4" of the edge to make an extension of the dollar bill. Then when you put it in and the machine read it, you just pulled it back out. The dollar was registered in the machine and you would even get change back after you selected your item.
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The dollar coin thing is and always has been a complete fucking lie. It wasn't a get rick quick scheme at all for starters they never sold them in single amounts they sold them in sets that came in 3 different styles. 1: a pack of 8 $1 coins inside of a cardboard tube that would cost $10 and $5 shipping and handling. 2: A pack of 100 $1 coins inside of a wooden box with a glass lid to allow you to display all 100 at once and they had foam casing inside for all the coins to be displayed in that was $150 and $45 shipping and handling. 3: 10,000 $1 coins in giant heavy duty plastic and foam crate that stored the 100 coin cases so you basically got 100 cases of the 100 coin packs and that thing was $25,000 and $5,000 for shipping and handling meaning the entire set were not cheap and they were in fact designed for mass profit and they were over priced as hell. So to put it bluntly they were 1: $15 for $8 in coins, 2: $195 for $100 in coins and $30,000 for $10,000 in coins. Some people bought tons of the 8 coin packs and sold them for in boxes of 20 of the 8 coin packs for $5000 as well. They were a scam to buy and the real reason they stopped making them is lack of sales do to the reality that they were over fucking priced.
@@GokuMeme1 no
Had earphones in when that fucking beep at the beginning happened. I’m not liking or subscribing lol
The grape soda guy is smart there are too many people that are dumb enough to tell other people and it ends up being fixed
It's dumb to do the honesty and right thing? This is where hope for humanity starts to die.
There was a machine at the grocery store I went to as a kid, and when you'd get a peach snapple it would give your money back with the drink. Every time we'd go I'd get like 3 or 4 and did that for a few years until they replaced it
I worked at an auto shop some years ago, and their soda machine would spit out 2 sodas for the price of one as long as you hit it twice right away,it belonged to the shop so I never told any of the guys,i guess they just thought I really liked soda that much lol
He said " I kept that shit to myself" 😂😅😂
@@Jawsjawsjawsrg It's dumb to tell people if your goal is to exploit it.
The coins things is hilarious
it also true
Which is why they close the loophole by banning purchase via CC
Which is why it's now considered a cash advance
I remember there was some point people paying 2 cents for each purchase of those dollar coins to get more people to buy them. good on paper. but it was literally free money
@@mugenusv8290Guy was the only person with a 900 credit score doing that
Biggest Loophole: Never join Planet Fitness.
Yeah you can literally work out your entire body with just a pull up bar for a few muscle groups. Everything else has a way to work them without any special equipment
@@Commanderbones a pullup/dip bar thing is the best investment ever lol, i run on my country road, then do plate carrier weighted sets of various exercises. its not much but has lead to a lot,
They good if you live on the road and need a place to shower 🚿
@@Commanderbones ill admit planet fitness sucks but I like tricep pulldowns and I dont really feel like buying new weights everytime I go up in weight
Bro some people literally have no other choice
24 hour fitness refused to stop charging me when they shut down their gyms, I reported the transaction as fraud.
I mean that's literally fraud. You aren't even misrepresenting it.
update on the first one, the FTC has now made it illegal for a company to make canceling subscriptions needlessly difficult in the same way california does
Click to Cancel hasn't actually been made into a rule yet, and businesses are expected to sue to block it.
Excited for this.
Common Lina Khan W
@@lucar6897 also common Trump/right-wing L... They hate her...for some reason lmfao
That law has not been passed yet, and a bunch of companies have plans to sue to prevent that from becoming a thing.
I worked at a hospital and the vending machine had a glitch that if you put in a dollar coin it would refund you four quarters and give you a soda free
The one about getting credit card reward dollars on purchasing US Currency was a real loophole a lot of people exploited, now im pretty sure whenever they distribute new currency like that they dont allow you to buy it on credit specifically to close that loophole
Yeah some people don’t run alpha or beta testing when trying their “new ideas” and then it ends up never happening again because they didn’t account for all that bad
When i was younger i told my father about this explaining how it worked and he thought I was crazy, even after i showed him how it worked.
The way I understand it, it wouldn't work to just "not let you use CC", because how else will people buy them? Instead, they made it so buying coins directly on CC didn't count as a "purchase" (so no airline miles).
Instead, it would count as a "cash advance", equivalent to withdrawing money at an ATM using your CC. Except the "ATM" was online and the "bank" was the Mint, and they'd ship the money to you instead of having it launch out of the SD reader.
@@omargoodman2999 so they would even charge withdrawal fee? 🤔
In high school I worked at a pizza place as a delivery driver. The owner put a coupon out that said $5 off orders over $20. Any time the customer didn't have one I got an extra $5 tip
That’s awesome
I don get it 🤔
@@louly3212 you order some pizzas. Your bill is over 25 bucks. You pay me $25 plus a tip. I go back to the shop and give them $20 and a coupon. I keep the $5 instead of the customer
@@louly3212 The customer gives him $20, he gives the boss $15 and a $5 coupon and keeps $5 for himself.
@@louly3212i think he put in the coupon and took the 5 dollars for himself
There are still people flying for free off those coins. Genius hack during that time. My parents havent paid for a trip in nearly 30 years and their credit score went from "maybe i can buy this used car" to "Hey im gonna buy a house!" In the course of a year.
I'm not from the US and this sounds insane to me. What do you mean by flying for free?
@HeloTH-cam Credit cards that offer cash back in the form of miles.
When the mint printed dollar coins, they offered them at cost with free shipping. People would max their credit cards buying the coins, then deposit the coins at the bank, pay off the card, and start the process all over. The miles from the credit card spending added up, along with the amazing payment history with the credit company set a lot of people up with free travel and perfect credits.
Some people "spent" millions.
@HeloTH-cam Most credit cards give you "points" for every dollar spent using the CC. You can use the points on cash back, travel, restaurants, and buying flights. Some credit cards also have bonus "miles" rather than points. Same concept under a different name. The idea being that you earn a mile and when you earn 1000 miles for instance you can buy a flight that takes you 1000 miles away. So for instance that 10k in money could earn a person $100 cash back or 100 miles or 200 miles or 500 points or whatever amount depending on the rewards the CC offers
@@TheCumberCoIlective huh interesting
That 2008 dollar coin one is so good I am upset I didnt do it
I wish it was still available, I do something similar with cash back but that is pure GOLD though.
I'm annoyed I was a teenager at the time.
Imagine doing this with these cards that give cashback on purchases nowadays
Nothing is more devastating than the time you hit the free soda button and it doesn't work.
I wanted to deposit my paycheck into my bank account. The bank said it would take several days for the check to be put into my account. I needed it, so I simply asked for the cash.
Then I handed the cash back to her and said "deposit this".
Why would you hand the cash back if you needed it?
@ I didn’t need the cash. I needed my check deposited. Can’t pay bills with cash.
@@moefritz9568 It's the fact that some banks now take days to deposit checks when people need the money the day they try to deposit the checks. It's quicker to cash then deposit.
what a stupid system. If it takes several days to get the check into your account, how are they allowed to give you cash immediately?
@ Right?
Similar to the grape soda guy, one time i was on vacation with family and was thirsty. So i hit up a nearby vending machine for a soda. I out in $2 and picked an orange soda. It spit out 4 orange sodas and $6 in quarters. I tried again, put in $2 and it spit out another 4 sodas and $6 in quarters. I was ready to stand there all day but after the 3rd time, my mom told me i had to stop. My entire family (10+ people) drank orange soda that day and i walked away with a pocket full of quarters 😂
That starting ding is WAY to dang loud!
In 2009 there was a promotion between the video game Rock Band and Pepsi, basically 90% of 16oz bottles of Pepsi products had a winning code under the cap you could redeem for a song in the Rock Band game available on the three current consoles at the time, Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii. The Xbox and PS3 codes were only redeemable for songs from the Rock Band shop, but the code redeemed for $2 worth of Wii points right from the Wii shop without even owning the game, which could then be used to buy anything on the Wii's Virtual Console and WiiWare. So at this time I worked for a company that did catering, and we catered a company picnic for 300 people. My boss supplied Pepsi products for the event, all in 16 oz bottles. After it was over I spent an hour going through all the trash and collected over a hundred bottlecaps, and redeemed them for like $150 Wii points and basically got a ton of Virtual Console games for free.
Buying the buffet as a side to your burger was cheaper than the buffet alone, so I’d just eat the buffet and get the burger to go.
That soda machine selection probably wasn't priced. The machines have settings to set all the prices at once or each set individually.
And nobody bothered to do the grape soda because that shit is fucking nasty so they thought "eh nobody is gonna get this crap anyway". 😂😂
Wellcheers
Back in 2009, I drove a semi cross country for about 8 months. There was a truck stop in Colorado that had washers and dryers for drivers. They were pay to use like a laundromat except a little more expensive. One of the dryers malfunctioned in a great way. You didn't have to pay to use it. Not sure how long it was like that before I used it, but I used it a few times over the next couple months. But like always, all good things must come to an end. The last time I stopped there, the dryer was out of order. And yes, I did try to start it
That Planet Fitness tip only works if you transfer to a franchise that allows online cancellations, and a lot of them do not. Part of this is because you’re less likely to end a membership in person, part of it is to make sure you pay any outstanding fees, and part of it is so that PF knows that it’s actually you closing the membership (a shocking number of crazy exes try to close people’s gym memberships, and not because they’re paying for it [if you are paying for someone else’s membership, show proof and tell them to remove your billing]). If you need to cancel your membership but can’t go in person, send them a letter telling them you want it canceled; usually takes a day once the letter makes it to management.
"If you goto a park their are free ducks."
"You can just take them home"
"Noone cares"
*duck cookbook* comes to mind 🤔
😂 ripping off vending machines has always brought me much joy
At my college the vending machines are cash/card so when someone pays with a card it doesn’t immediately close out of their card in case they still want to buy something, but there’s a finished button so people can’t charge your card. So most people get their drink and go not even thinking about that. Well lucky for them I always press finished for them.
And did you feel refreshed after ur good deed?
There was a powerade machine that when a dime was inserted, it would register the .10 and give dime back
If you write small enough during a writing test and you're known as a good student, they'll just give you an A
When Washington DC was burning after the assassination of Martin Luther King, and the entire city was locked down, I was tasked to get permission for a relief caravan. Knowing that they absolutely were not giving any such permissions, I asked the police for a police escort. We got an escort from the first to the second roadblock, then they gave us undated unlimited all-access police passes. I kept mine for years
I don get it..
So for gym canceling tips, this is what I did for a local gym in my town.
I called on the phone right after my bill was due. I told them I moved out if state and needed to cancel. They asked if I could come in and I told them no, i moved over 12 hours away and I wasn’t able to come back just to cancel in person. I went a bit first with my lie and said that i moved because i had to take care if my mom with a life threatening medical issue and hadn’t found work yet and asked if there was any way they could wave my last bill and the cancellation fee.
They said of course and that it was no problem.
Might be a lot harder for a big gym, but at a small local one like mine it was no problem.
Also, i didn’t move at all….
I don’t like lying, but for shady companies like that who scam you, no guilt!
@@tokiomitohsaka7770 thats how i feel! Gyms shouldn’t have the common practice of making it so hard to cancel. In my opinion, they’re being unethical with how the do business. Its not that hard to cancel literally anything else.
I didn’t feel bad and normally im a pretty “by the books” kind of guy
I just reported my credit card as lost and got a new card #. After that, they couldn't bill me anymore, and I never heard from them again, other than an email saying they were canceling my membership.
@@danbance5799 nice! Ive done that before for some other subscription I couldn’t figure out how to cancel but not for the gym. Good call.
Papa johns had a 50% off code that should have expired but didnt it worked on the whole menu it was a random search
Had a similar thing at Domino's. At my local Domino's, when you used a coupon, it didn't upcharge you for premium toppings. It was likely supposed to but it was family owned and they were probably just happy that people were buying their pizza so it wasn't an issue. They sold the store to someone else, the issues with online ordering were fixed, and the deals got worse, so I stopped going there. 😂
@MichaelSheaAudio lol
I liked those dollar coins. My dad used to have a bunch of them all the time, because when he used the subway in NYC, when he would pay to put more trips on his metro card, the machines would given him change in those coins, and you could use them just like any other coin in the same machine.
Grape Soda guy, be THAT guy
A couple weeks back, I took my kids to a local arcade. There was a game that had a spinning wheel in which you dropped a quarter down a ramp, and it would shoot through slots in the wheel. It would go into bonus mode where you had a short amount of time to collect more points and in turn more tickets. That day, the spinning part wasnt working, so I kept feeding quarters in and hitting the 999+ bonus. Felt guilty, so I ended up giving half the tickets to another family, but didn't tell anybody about the "broken" game
Our local bowling ally removed the “smack the button to stop the spinning lighted dot onto the number 1” arcade machine cause I could unload its bonus each time. We would go with a just a few dollars and I would fill my kids game cards with thousands of points and they would get the prizes. So they removed the machine😂😂 I still have the cards with a ton of points so I can just show up any day to the prize counter and get something with them. Game is gone now. 😂
There was a vending machine at my college that would dispense 2-3 bottles of water for free when slapped on the side. Turns out the bottles were made with 35% less plastic but this also made them less firm and thus the vending machine couldn't contain the bottles properly.
Remember, if it’s a “free money glitch”, it’s fraud
my school also had a glitched soda machine, if you bought one specific coke you would recieve 2 but it was also fucked up in the sense that if you shaked the whole machine it would drop few of them for free.
I wasn't dumb, i knew they where going to replace that machine if they continued fucking it up so i told my friend about the more durable option but they didn't listened and after few days the machine got completely broken and then replaced by a sturdier model that wasnt' glitched
Can't cancel a gym membership? Get a new debit card. Now they can't charge you
You can cancel it by sending a letter or going to the gym yourself but people don’t wanna do that
@@jordynm103some gyms are on the line of illegal with how difficult it is to cancel.
@@mhammer3186you think canceling a gym membership is bad you should see how hard it is to cancel your car insurance after surrendering your license is. the insurance company literally refused to cancel my insurance unless i proved i didn’t have a license, then when i gave them proof that i surrendered my license they said it wasn’t good enough and still refused to cancel it
I was told they continue to charge your account even if there is no card on file. Once the unpaid amount is high enough, they send it to collections, and it can hurt your credit score. I've never had a membership like that, though, so I've never personally had that problem.
That credit card glitch is devious
I miss the dollar coins. They were fun. The ferry ship in the puget sound used to have a dispencer for them
Pretty sure there’s still dollar coins bud
Pretty sure they have Sacagawea now instead of Susan B Anthony
And also they’re gold colored
@@jorgeantonini201 they stopped making those in like 2005. In the 2010s they reminted dollar coins for ever president up to president Donald trump however most were just for collectors and only the first handful of presidents got theirs in regular circulation. I have the full set of 45. I dont think president joe biden got one
@@ShaddySoldierI didn't know they made them all. Shoot. I was so disappointed when they stopped circulating them I assumed they hadn't minted them all
@@TheCumberCoIlective yeah they'll pop up now and then. The new president ones mostly are jsut worth a dollar only some of the later ones of more modern presidents wernt made en mass
Plot twist: the soda gives you diabetes and the pharmaindustry makes lots of extra revenue.
The Coins one is literally money, that is a no brainer.
I used to live in an apartment complex that had a soda machine behind the mail room. One night I figured out that if you held the coin return button down while choosing your soda, itll give you a free soda. Wirked for maybe 2 years.
You're also not the only one who exploited the dollar coin thing.
But.... then you have to drink grape soda
i once placed a bet in a bookmakers and my horse 'won' but was demoted to 2nd place for interfering .the bookies policy was to pay out on who crossed the line 1st not technically who won so i still got my money :)
Back before cell phones were a thing, there was a rest stop on the Long Island Expressway that had pay phones. I pulled in to call a client, and a guy told me to use the third phone from the right. It was an open line. No coins needed. Just dial the number and get connected. It even worked for long distance. I had an expense account and was worried my clients would get charged if I tried it. Great loophole, though.
Yooo that loophole on the mint was peak gameplay right there
So THAT explains why my grandma has so many dollar coins that I am STILL finding tons of months after her death and cleaning out her house...
...I have found over 20 dollars in dollar coins in my car (her car) alone. I thought I deep cleaned this car three times...they are literally everywhere.
There was a line of unlocked parking meters down the road from my school. People kept putting money in them so every day for over a month, I would grab around $10 a day on the way to the pizza store
That's not a loophole lol
My schools vending machine used to only charge for 1 thing even if you got more. Like 20 kids did it for a bit but then they fixed it and we all accidentally bought like $20 worth of stupid snacks
I wouldn't call it a loophole exactly, but I abused the hell out of the rules and superior's expectations at an old job. I used to be a "part time" supervisor at UPS. One day I got moved to a new station where we would repair and re-label open box things that fell apart in the trucks or conveyor belts, but we also handled packages that "didn't belong" such as USPS and FedEx.
Well, around this time, we also found ourselves under new management as one of the full timers got promoted to the head of the building. He wanted to make a name for himself and impress the higher ups and so he implemented a "the job is done when the work is done, no ifs ands or buts" policy. Which essentially meant if your area still had work left in it at the end of the shift, your employees get to go home, but you have to stay and finish up that work. My area was already short on hands no matter how you slice it, so this was especially taxing for my area.
But also around the same time, too many supervisors had been messing around and stealing time by lying about how long they'd been clocked in and just hanging around for hours after the shift. So the new head decided to crack down on that as well, by giving everyone a hard limit of 35 hours. Keep this in mind.
So as time went on, and especially after covid hit, we were slammed with excess packages at the end of every shift, most notably FedEx because the only employees who knew how to process them were me, 1 guy in my area who was always moved elsewhere, and one woman who worked the shift before ours. So given the parameters, the FedEx sorting fell on my shoulders every day.
To cut a long story short, all the other "part time" supervisors were being true to the new 35 hour rule, but me? I was hitting at minimum 54 hours a week because of the absolutely egregious amount of FedEx that kept finding its way into our system + nobody else knowing how to do it. I got called in by my superiors every week to ask about it and I would always explain it to them, but they never took it seriously, just told me to "hurry it up next time" but I can only go as fast as the system's database - made in the late 90's - could load them up. On top of supply shortages and having the only other person in the building ripped from my area every day, I had them in a chokehold as far as overtime goes. My check was nearly double what everyone else was making, and nearly on par with my supervisor's pay despite his work being WAY more complicated lol. Had a lot of people mad but I oftentimes made suggestions about streamlining the job and making some areas more efficient, mine included, but they would never budge. Lot of late nights and a heap of stress, but at the time I could afford damn near anything on the planet, it felt like.
I'm happy for you because you are chuffed with it but you americans live in a capitalist hellscape haha! your story is, workplace made you work too much and you got paid for that time, essentially haha
My school had that clitch with blue powerade. Blue powerade still makes me nostalgic
I got pissed at the guy melting the chocolate, he burned it😂😂
There was once a store that sold gift cards that had a glitch. You could use the card in the store, then go online and spend the same balance again. The web site was run by a partner, and I guess they didn't sync their databases fast enough.
In my college library there was a vending machine that would give you more change than the product cost. I got paid to eat Doritos.
Being more dangerous than the other person is a powerful loophole.
Instructions unclear, I now live in a Planet Fitness in California
That last one is literally the plot of Punch Drunk Love.
In the late 1990s, my high school had a soda machine that if you put in a dollar and then mashed multiple buttons at the exact same time, it would dispense one of each that you pressed. The whole squad would push the buttons together and get buy 1 get 5 free soda at lunch.
Bro that last one sounded like an admission to a crime 😂
Grape boy and coin guy is brilliant
In the early 2000s there was a PC at my library that could be used for infinite time (usually it was capped at 60 minutes and you had to request more). I played RuneScape all day on that thing lmao
To cancel my gym membership I just changed my credit card number to a fake one
There was a pop machine outside a local grocery store that would dispense one orange pop a day it was like it was on a 24hr timer. I’d stop by on my way to school every morning and get a free one.
That coin story is brilliant
Getting free money from a vending machine by pressing the buttons in a specific order.
In a college I was at the dryers took quarters, but if you did it right you could fit 3 pennies inside the coin slot and it would count it as a quarter.
The last one was genius
idk which one is better, the free flights or the free soda
Grape soda dude committed theft.
When I was in college, I found a vending machine that had sodas for 75¢. If you put in 25¢ and hit a button, it would refund you 30¢ and give you the soda. It took 2 years to get fixed
The old grape soda hack 😂
When I was in college, I found that on one of the soda vending machines, if I selected my soda, then timed a second press of the same button, the machine would dispense twice for the price of one.
Dude, I seriously need that planet fitness one
The poophole loophole
For real though, I remember the last one about the coins, I remember a relative telling my dad about it and he didn't believe him. Then when the story broke my dad was so mad he didn't do it
There was a vending machine in my school that would give out an extra mountain dew energy drink if you pressed a specific selection.
My teeth would be purple if I found that hack in high school then start selling them but never tell from where 😂😂😂😂
To get around copywrighted videos, i opened another tab with the official video and then played that and then went back to the tab with the video that was copyrighted and hit play, so it's technically playing the song.
More context?
@louly3212 like if you're on a labtop and say you're watching an AMV that's supposed to have a song on it, but it's muted because it was copyright strike. Simply open another tab and play the official music video, and let it play. Then go back to the AMV tab and then hit play, and you'll have the music to the copywrighted AMV.
I work for the NHS in the UK. I was seconded to another hospital to aid in a backlog (I’m a Biomedical Scientist I.e I analyse everything a clinician or surgeon will pull out of you if it is liquid I.e blood, spinal fluid, tissue fluid, pee etc…).
Anyway, because I was seconded to another hospital, my travel outside of my usual travel (I got a bus pass to work every day but this secondment meant I needed to get a train too) meant any excess travel meant I could put it on the taxpayers tab.
Long story short, I took advantage of these coupons going where if you spend 50 pounds or more per week via Trainline, I got a free 5 pounds Amazon coupon.
A couple of years later, I had 500 pounds of Amazon vouchers for free! 😂
Plus free travel on the weekends to the city of my secondment as buying 5 travel tickets was the same as buying a week train travel.
Nice try IRS.
Land lord forgot the key for laundry coin dispenser. I never stole from it but I would take the extract change needed and pay my laundry with it. Me and now wife had free laundry for 8 months before we moved.
I'm so happy to hear that someone kept that mouth shut and just explored the hell out of the grape soda because a lot of things are ruined just by telling a friend because they'll tell their friends and then their friends will tell their friend so on and so forth till it gets fixed
Imagine the coins with cash back
I can totally see a bank being like, we don’t want all those dollar coins. They’re a pain in the ass. 😂
That last one makes my blood boil. The rich always get free shit they dont need.
Xbox 360 warranty claim. I bought a refurbished 360 that eventually got the red ring of death. I contacted Microsoft about it, wherein they asked for the serial number of the console. I gave it to them and they said it was outside the window as it was purchased some years before. I told them I purchased it less than a year ago and have the receipt to prove it. Gamestop receipt said nothing about it being refurbished. They said, "sure thing" and gave me a brand new console under warranty.
My high school had a similar thing but the way it worked was that the machines stopped dispensing drinks after a certain time, but it didn't stop taking money so if you got to school early and clicked the button it would drop drinks of the kind you clicked based on how much money had been put into it outside it's operating hours, one time I got 5 free drinks usually you'd get nothing though because people knew the drink machine didn't work past a certain time.
When I bought my wife's engagement ring, JC Penny was on the last day of one sale and the first day of another - the sales stacked. The lady at the checkout counter pulled me aside and told me that if I bought literally anything at the store and filled out the survey, I could get another 20% off. So, I bought a belt for $20, filled out the survey, and bought the $5,200 ring for $2,400 after all three discounts went into effect. This was almost 15 years ago, so I doubt they're doing that anymore.
During covid. My local fast food chain would post online coupons that were one use only. So every month id take a screenshot on my phone of the coupons id use then proceeded to get 10-15 uses out.of them before the month ended
Another fun one is the quarter machines with the slightly larger egg containers, if you run the cycle of "quarter, turn to drop" about 3 times without taking the prize, it causes the chamber to stick in the open position, give the machine a little shake while you open the door and youll get a few more out before the mechanism springs back into place 👍😅
Mine is: limit per costumer(1 per costumer) leave store come back in new costumer.
AMEX made a similar mistake years ago to the dollar coin exploit. For every dollar you spent on the card, you got a mile. Max out your card buying traveller’s checks, and immediately pay it off. Check your balance regularly, and once it’s zeroed out do that again, so you could do it at least a couple times a month, especially if there was a brick & mortar place where you could pay in person. After a while, request a limit increase. Rinse & repeat!! Yeah, that didn’t last long… 😂😂😂
Those things at Burger King that are filled with water sometimes and have a bubbler and some platforms that you try to land a quarter on to win a Whopper. There was one near the college where I attended and the bubbler was broken. Which made it super easy to drop quarter after quarter onto the platform because it would fall the same way if you dropped it the same way. Free Whopper anytime.
I must admit, it took me a long time to realize other people will ruin your grape soda hack
My friends and I randomly learned that if you kick a Snapple machine in the right place at the right time while it was dispensing it would spit out two Snapples so we kept trying it whenever we got snapples. It worked like 30% of the time. One time I kicked it so hard no Snapples came out but the machine made a whirring sound and it sounded like something was spraying inside so we ran
Soda machine at my job takes 5$ bills, if you use a 5 it will drop 5 1$ coins after you select your soda. I have went to work with a wallet full of 5s and went home with a pocket full of 1s for the last 7 years.
That ice cream is needed in my life
Discovered that on a specific model of vending machine if you put in your .75 cents and hit 2 buttons at exactly the same time you'd get 2 sodas to come out.
Never told anyone. Not sure if it was that specific machine or every machine of that model.
For the coin thing, people saying "oh wish I'd thought of that!"
Most people don't have tens of thousands of dollars in excess liquid currency to play around with like this. You can look at it like a really weird investment with a huge guaranteed return. It only works if you already have lots of money, like all investments.
Also, a ton of free air miles would be next to useless for the vast majority of people who don't fly often. Even if the airfare is free, everything else you do on that vacation isn't, not to mention being able to take time off from work for several days which is an inaccessible luxury to most.
He didn't need thousands of dollars of liquid assets, just a credit card with a decent sized credit line.
Still using those free airline miles 16 years later!
yeah who really got got here
guy punch drink loved the treasury 😂
In high school our vending machines were old and you could just take a dollar bill, get some clear packing tape and carefully tape over about 1/4" of the edge to make an extension of the dollar bill. Then when you put it in and the machine read it, you just pulled it back out. The dollar was registered in the machine and you would even get change back after you selected your item.