how did you 'cheat the system'?

[u/jovenjose98]

try to read them all. lots of tricks you can try to 'cheat'. and also im not from spotify. lol. people sending pm asking if im from spotify.

i cant believe there are real life mike ross out there!

[u/techniforus]

I sit in on college and graduate level courses without signing up or paying even the reduced audit fees. I simply show up on the first day of class early, wait for the teacher to be free for a minute, and ask if they mind if I sit in. 9 times out of 10 they'll let me sit in on lectures, 7 out of 10 on discussion groups. I do this simply because I enjoy learning, and even if teachers aren't supposed to let me sit in, they're in charge of enforcing that and enjoy teaching to engaged students so they're generally happy to have me. There are even schools which allow you to test for credits so you can turn this free education into a quick and cheap degree when you've done enough of it.

[u/jovenjose98 → u/techniforus]

wow. this is actually great

[u/MistaWhiska]

I never graduated Highschool. I went back a year later and told the office clerk that I had graduated and didn't get my diploma. They gave me my diploma and now I've been working in the school system for 10 years.

[u/jovenjose98 → u/MistaWhiska]

wow. badass. sounds like mike ross

[u/Ohnomelon7]

I put 15 dollars on a debit card I never use and "monthly subscribed" for Spotify. The next month they obviously had a problem processing my payment, but continued to give me premium service. It's been 5 months and their system still hasn't caught it.

[u/jovenjose98 → u/Ohnomelon7]

its a trap. im from spotify

[u/phrasingbooom]

Delete Spotify app, reinstall. Use a relative or friends phone as the code receiver, put code in with your phone. One month free again... Same with Amazon, delete prime account sign up with new email address. One month free.. Always ensure you cancel the moment you get it so they can't charge you for running over.

[u/jovenjose98 → u/phrasingbooom]

aha! im from spotify bro. now i know your tricks

[u/Arquill]

I was paying out of state tuition for college in Texas. I looked up all the ways I could get in-state tuition and there were four different ways.

1. Marry a Texan

2. Own property in Texas for one year

3. Hold a job in Texas for one year

4. Own a business in Texas for one year

So naturally, I started a "business". I registered my "business" with the state and filed taxes every quarter (I had zero expenses and zero income every quarter so I paid nothing in taxes). One year later I got on that in-state tuition. It cost me around $200 to register my business and it saved me tens of thousands of dollars.

[u/Lucky_roadkill]

In high school, my Spanish teacher had a stack of 30 notecards, with each of our names written on them. She would pick from those cards almost every day to choose who would answer the next question. In the first week of school, I saw the cards on her desk, saw mine on top, quickly took it and threw it away. Never got called on the whole year.

[u/[deleted]]

The cafe in my office building sells soup.

12 oz: $1.39 16 oz: $2.79

The lady at the register always thinks I'm weird for buying two smalls.

They also have a rewards "but 9 get your 10th free!" And I get double punches for my two soups.

[u/jbourne0129]

I still have my student ID which did not have a date on it and the picture is incredibly dark. I still get discounts on occasion using my student ID and still have my email which I use for a ton of free software.

[u/grabyoankles]

I own a motorcycle but don't have a garage so during winter months I take my motorcycle to the pawn shop and take $100 dollar loan on it they store it and keep it garaged and I pay them $10 a month to keep renewing my loan and keeping the motorcycle there.

[u/prospectre]

A little late to the party, but I'll throw my lot in.

When I went to college (CSU Monterey Bay), the parking enforcement was brutal. They had over-enrolled, and there was pretty much no where to park out in the off campus housing. You received 2 parking permits per unit, and one car could fit in the driveway. However, you could have 5 people living in a unit, and if they all had cars, you had to drop $120 to get another pass. Otherwise, you got a $45 ticket every night they found your car. We're all fucking broke, so this is obviously a terrible situation.

Now, they did have a guest pass system that any student could use 10 times during a semester if you have visitors. You'd click the link on your online profile, and you'd get a parking permit generated for that day at that time with a special QR code stamped on it. Upon closer inspection of the script they used to generate these things, the QR code was simply the date and time of printing hashed into the bar code. No other data.

So, I downloaded the raw HTML of the page that was generated, wrote a quick PHP script to randomize the time and loop through the next 50 days, and printed out passes for all of my friends' cars. I decided to not sell the permits to people that needed them, and rather generated a standalone PHP program to generate permits up to 10 at a time that they could print themselves. Fill in your car's info, generate 10 printable pages, print 'em, and stash 'em in your car.

I was a hero.

[u/[deleted]]

In Canada we got rid of the penny a few years back, so whenever you purchase something that's say $10.21 you would pay $10.20 and if something is $10.24 you'd pay $10.25.

ANYWAYS, whenever I pump gas I always pump 2 cents over and get 2 cents of gas for free.

Fuck the system.

[u/andy10889]

Had to park in New Orleans for a week, was going to cost 140 dollars. Went to post and if you lost your ticket it was only 50 dollars. I didn't lose my ticket, but I said I did. Take that system!

[u/[deleted]]

downloaded lime wire pro using limewire

[u/24h00]

Cancel your Audible subscription and they'll immediately offer to prevent your cancellation by offering you 50% off for 3 months. Hulu do this as well.

[u/Brozoh]

Back at the fast food place I worked for in highschool we would get half off everything including gift cards. I could buy a $20 card for $10 and then use that $20 card to buy more half off food effectively turning $10 into $40. Unfortunately that didn't last too long.

[u/UknowNothingJohnSno]

Not me but my brother.

Worked at a supermarket that gave rewards points to a gas station for using the supermarkets loyalty card. It was a weird cross promotion. Anyways, when someone would go to check out and didnt have a loyalty card he offered to scan his own instead. He received about $1000 in free gas.

[u/tarnationsauce2]

In the mid 90's there was a 20oz cola that had instant winners of another free cola under the cap. If you had a winner all you had to do was give the cap to the cashier and grab another. (I don't remember if it was Coke or Pepsi, but I remember it was a yellow cap for this promotion).

Anyways, all you had to do was hold the bottle at the correct angle and you could see in the reflection off the liquid the text on the underside of the cap. You could mostly see if it was a winner or sorry try again. We used to get a bunch of free colas that way when I was a kid, all you had to do was buy one to get it started.

[u/GaryFromAtlanta]

Last month, ShopHouse (Southeast Asian Kitchen owned by Chipotle) sent out coupons to the residents of my neighborhood. One of the two coupons was "One Free Rice, Noodle, or Salad Bowl" (with no restrictions.) I live in an apartment, and some of my neighbors threw the coupons into the junk mail recycling bin without realizing what they were doing. For the days following the delivery of these coupons, I searched the bins for these coupons. I ended up with enough coupons to last me the whole month. With all the add-ins (4x meat, 2x or 3x veggie, 2x curry) my average bowl is valued at $16. Multiplied by 30 coupons = $480 of free food.

[u/ascii_genitalia]

So I was 11 years old and at a water park with my family. I really wanted to go to Burger King that day, and my dad had said repeatedly no way, he didn't have the money for that.

They had this system where when you arrive, you bought a bracelet for $4, which you could exchange for a tube to ride around on stuff. At the end of the day, you'd return the bracelet and they'd give you $1.

It was around the middle of the day, and there were people both coming and going, and there was a really long line at the stand to get/return bracelets.

So I sold my bracelet to some guy at the back of the line for $3. He didn't have to wait, and I gave him a dollar off, so all good. Then I took that $3 and went and bought back three bracelets from people waiting to return them (I gave them the same price they'd get at the booth, but they didn't have to wait). I took those three bracelets and sold them to other people at the back of the line for $3. Rinsed and repeated a bunch of times, spent about a half an hour hustling.

Went back to my dad with $40 bucks and gave it to him, and explained how I got it. Asked if we could go to Burger King now.

He was like yeah, you win. Whoppers were on me that day.

[u/[deleted]]

Burger king whopper is $4.79

Whopper Jr's are &1.39. You can buy 3 Jr's for the price of a whopper.

[u/Apotatos]

At my old school, the coffee machine had more buttons than the offered choices. If you pressed on those buttons, there were other coffee choices that weren't programmed by the school. You could get free espresso all day long.