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Posted by admin on 10 26th, 2009 | 6 Comments
- Buy a pack of gum at any store that accepts atm cards, get cash back to avoid ATM service fee
- Leveraging a close family member’s death to decrease a bill
- Reading the entire magazine at the bookstore
- Parking at a meter with time remaining
- Bringing your own wine (not on the list) to a restaurant so you only pay corkage
- Using the toilet in Olive Garden without buying anything
- Buy CD, copy CD, sell the original on eBay
- Join and re-join AOL under different names to get an infinite number of free hours
- Ordering only a cup of soup at a French market-style restaurant and rounding out your meal with 5 pieces of complimentary bread and jam.
- Camping out at a buffet through two meal times
- Taking lots of ketchup sachets from Burger King to avoid buying a bottle
- Getting your friends to write letters to your boss describing make-believe scenarios in which you provided fabulous service in hopes that you will get a raise.
- Cashing long-distance carrier’s promotional checks when you have a pick-freeze enabled on your phone
- Failure to inform your server of unbilled beer/food
- Sneak into a high school for the cafeteria
- Buying tickets online so you can choose “Student” and get in for 5 bucks
- Doubling-up on a sale that is one per customer
- Spackling the wall holes in your apt with toothpaste to get security deposit back
- Double-occupying a hotel room after paying single price
- Sneaking one more friend into the drive-in theatre
- Taking advantage of a new lower price by buying new merchandise and returning it with your old, high-priced receipt.
- Sneaking food into the theatre.
- Dodging the conductor on an Amtrak train
- Renting a house for $600 and getting four roommates who pay $150 each.
- Opening a joint bank account with your grandmother to qualify for the no-fee senior’s package
- Sneaking into a hotel to use their pool/gym
- Borrowing unused bandwidth from afar via wireless networking
- Ordering as many pay-per-view movies as your dish will allow with the phone line unplugged, since you’re canceling service anyway.
- Buying a CD, scanning the cover art, downloading all the songs & returning it unopened
- Failing to notify a utility company for unbilled service
- Buying a CD, recording it and returning it
- Paying for one movie and seeing two
- Taking two newspapers at the newsstand
- Removing your front license plate to avoid red-light/traffic camera detection
- Using the collect-call verification process to get information transmitted for free
- Putting the correct address on the return address of an envelope so it gets sent “back” for lack of postage
- Stealing pens/paperclips/notepads from work
- Buying one cup of coffee at a diner and sharing the refills with your friend
- Dreaming up an imaginary price-match challenge at Circuit City
- Making long distance personal calls from the office of the guy who just quit
- Using the postage meter at work
- Stealing milk crates
- Unauthorized sharing of an internet account
- Tearing expired coupons in such a way that the expiration date is missing
- Get the dole, (unemployment) but do something crafty like make furniture or baskets and sell them at weekend markets for cash.
- Establishing underground trade relations between neighboring retail worker
- Stealing cable with a pirate cable box or dish
- Inflating the scope of damage after a car accident to get more money/repairs
- Lying about your kid’s age to get discount tickets
- Eating seven free samples instead of buying something
- Lying about your age to get a senior discount
- Wearing a dress one time to the big occasion, then returning it
- Eating Brach’s Candy or grapes in the supermarket, and then not paying for them
- Bringing Tupperware into a buffet and sneaking out with a second meal
- Returning a book after you have read it.
- Lying about the quality or exaggerating the faults of a flight so you can get frequent- flyer miles
- Buying a video camera and then returning it after your kid’s birthday party
- Picking flowers out of the park/neighbors yard instead of buying them
- Using your companies FedEx account number for non-work related shipping
- Kinko’s textbook manufacturing
- Repeatedly buying and returning a textbook until the course is over.
- Sneak overdue video rentals back into the store, place them on the shelf, then prove to the clerk as you check another video out that you *did* in fact return the video on time by showing that the video is there on the shelf and available for rental.
- Sharing food at a buffet with your non-paying friend
- Downloading unregistered software
- Hiding CDs behind the display in a store so that you can come back by on SuperSale Monday and buy them at half-price
- Re-using your cup at Taco Bell by refilling with soda again and again on different trips
- Joining a CD club with a fake name for the twelve CDs for a penny
- Switching the item numbers in the bulk foods aisle to get items for less
- Re-using old/discarded city bus transfers.
- Sabotaging a piece of hair after your salon perm/hair color to get a refund, then going back and fixing the piece you wrecked with a box perm or color from K-Mart.
- Buying a computer, then opening it up and taking the ram out. You take it back, and claim that there was no ram in the computer, and insist that they give you the proper amount.
- Filling your water cup with soda at Carl’s Jr
- Telling people at work PCs or printers are broken so they tell you it’s okay to take them home
- Saying it is your friend’s birthday to get a free dessert
- Using some other company’s FED-EX account number
- Falsely claiming you found a hair/bug/it was cold/ to get a free meal
- Ripping buttons off of clothing to get discounts
- Buying a coat at Marshall’s or Ross and returning it to Nordstrom for cash or credit
- Saving a webpage from an online store to disk, editing the sale value, then printing and price-matching the product at a real store
- Making counterfeit stamps for your buy-ten-get-one-free coffee/video/carwash card
- Buying a second answering machine that looks like your old model, and returning the old one in the new box
- Sabotaging your hard drive to take advantage of your extended warrantee before it expires
- UPC/price tag peeling or replacement
- Switching plastic sleeves on new and used LP’s with cheaper ones
- Starting nuisance lawsuit for settlement money
- Calling for credit for long distance calls to numbers you aren’t going to call again
- The night before you move out of your apartment, tell the pizza delivery person that the order is very late and that the shift manager told you not to pay. Tip $3.00.
- Writing the wrong room number on the hotel bar tab
- Returning your digital camera to the store after removing the extra stick of memory.