Randomly Lucrative Loopholes Redditors Have Successfully Exploited

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JR Atkinson • Writer and Editor
Dec 8, 2023 7:00 PM EST

I never buy something online until I've done a thorough search for a promo code beforehand. Chances are you'll find one, and you'll never have to pay full price. It's the smart way to shop, but that's only level 1 in the scheme of deal-hunting and sneaky workarounds. When I was in my high school library, a fellow student approached me and asked me for my email and phone number-- he wasn't asking me out, he was actually running a referral scam on Uber Eats that somehow allowed him to get a bunch of coupons while pretending to be different people. I declined to give my info because there wasn't anything in it for me, but I respect his hustle. 

Gaming the system is an art, and some folks have mastered it. Like these Redditors, who recently shared the life hacks they've juiced for all they've got. Get inspired below. 

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  • 01
    r/AskReddit u/Aarunascut. 3d What was a loophole that you found and exploited the out of?
    via u/Aarunascut
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    Otis Firefly 3d Not real sure it's a loophole but I'll still post it. I run a recycling center and when Mountain Dew did the win a Xbox one with codes under the soda bottle caps we got a total of 20 Xbox ones. Every worker got one that year. Also Casey's pizza had a thing going that you collect 10 tabs off the large pizza box you'd get a free pizza. We had free pizzas weekly for years till they stopped doing it.
    via u/Otis_Firefly
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    driveonacid 3d ● During my first year teaching, teachers were each allowed 1500 photocopies a month. I had 150 students. That wasn't enough. One day, a coworker announced that she was leaving for a different opportunity. I asked her for her copier code. They never deleted her code, so I had 3000 copies per month for the last 5 months of the school year.
    via u/driveonacid
  • 04
    Map UnitKey 3d ● Older vending machines like the ones in my high school and car wash used to take golden dollars (yes, the Sacagawea coin), count them as a dollar and then spit them back out. You could buy the whole machine with one golden dollar. My friends and I exploited this for 7 months senior year until they swapped all of the machines out.
    via u/MapUnitKey
  • 05
    ember3pines 3d Interestingly almost all of the US dollar coins ended up in Ecuador as they also use the US dollar. It was super weird but convinient as an American going there and i guess it really up thier economy. I had always wondered where they disappeared to tho. Major issues with counterfitting them too, any shiny one was basically useless even if it was real.
    via u/ember3pines
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    AMLT1983. 3d You used to be able to order dollar coins from the mint. Pay for it on your credit card, free delivery. Get sky miles. Take dollar coins to bank, deposit, pay off bill. Repeat.
    via u/AMLT1983
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    homerinthebushes • 3d ● My bank thinks the vending machine at work is an ATM and refunds my "atm fee" automatically.. chase bank if anyone wondered I noticed I was always getting like $1.50 returned to my account here and there and then I realized what it was
    via u/homerinthebushes
  • 08
    Stone_Reign • 3d When Pizza Hut first started online ordering they gave me a code for a free pizza for ordering online for the first time. Turns out the code also worked if you just ordered as guest and kept working.
    via u/Stone_Reign
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    InterestingNuggett • 3d ● The campground we stayed at when I was a kid had an arcade in the lodge with an air hockey table. I figured out that if you put quarters in and pushed the plunger to start the game just until the air started - you could pull them back out and get a free game. I had that air hockey table running for HOURS. We had kids lined up around the table. We even did a little tournament - it was so much fun. When my family was about to leave I told one other kid the trick. Turns ou
    via u/InterestingNuggett
  • 10
    RedLeader7 • 3d Burger King used to have an app where you'd shake your phone and it would sometimes display a free item. Guy at work write his own app that looked identical to Burger Kings, but would only ever show a Whopper Meal. Every lunch time he'd go to Burger King and get a free meal.
    via u/RedLeader7
  • 11
    Panther90 3d My senior year of high school a Chick Fil A opened in our town and to advertise the grand opening they put a free chicken sandwich coupon in the yellow pages of the phone book. No purchase, no stipulations. For whatever reason there was like 1,000 phone books stored in a storeroom off the gym. Me and my buddies ate a chicken sandwich near every single day of senior year.
    via u/Panther90
  • 12
    weakplay • 3d Back in the 80s we found vending machines which were not regularly serviced that would overflow the coin box and spill quarters on the floor. We used to scrape them out from under the machine with a stick. Was a good time to be a latchkey unattended minor.
    via u/weakplay
  • 13
    impiousdrifter. 3d In the 80s, Coke had prizes under their bottle caps. We turned over the Sprite bottles to find the winners
    via u/impiousdrifter
  • 14
    -Satsujinn- • 3d Back in school, I found if you stuck two pennies together the vending machines would accept them as £1. I had a LOT of cheap chocolate and soda.
    via u/-Satsujinn-
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    Crazy_from_the_heat • 3d At a former job management rearranged the schedules to expand our call center hours from 7am to 9pm. It was still an 8 hour day, you just started later. We had a meeting to discuss if we could pick our own hours so employees didn't run the risk of working to 9pm then having to be back the next day at 7am. Management gave us a hard no on that. But we were allowed to swap with a co-worker. A few of us got together to review the monthly schedule and noticed that 5 people we
    via u/Crazy_from_the_heat
  • 16
    rosso_saturno • 3d Last July I went to a metal fest. Beer was €7 and you paid by purchasing a coupon online, which would then be swiped off by the bar attendant on your own smartphone. After the first legitimately purchased beer I thought to my IT self: what if the swiping off animation of the coupon is on client side? If that's the case, turning internet off before handing the coupon would prevent it from being voided. Then, turning internet on again and refreshing the web page should present i
    via u/rosso_saturno
  • 17
    Roofbunk 3d ● I used to abuse the McDonald's coffee stickers scheme for a couple of years, you needed to purchase 6 cups of coffee and get 7th free. You could just buy the stickers of eBay and stick them on the redemption cards, worked out 5 pence a coffee. Then they came out with the app
    via u/Roofbunk
  • 18
    Guac_is_extra_____ • 3d Maybe not a loophole, but Kroger used to have a thing where if you found something expired in the store, you'd get the equivalent item for free, and the expired item for free as well (provided it wasn't something that could be dangerous when expired.) So in college, my roommate, my girlfriend and I would go to Kroger at midnight and go through the meats, cheeses, and bakery looking for things that had just expired. Some nights, we would fill a shopping cart with bread, co
    via u/Guac_is_extra____
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    thisisinput. If you're a Hilton Honors member and stay at a hotel where you get the $15 food and beverage credit, make sure you reserve as two guests even if it is just you. You will get $30. 3d
    via u/thisisinput
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    Basherballgod • 3d Years ago, my office had a Christmas party at a bar and restaurant in the city. Just dinner and drinks. The service was absolutely atrocious, forgotten orders, wrong orders, when offered a free round to apologise, they forgot to bring the free round. So we clearly complained. Management gave us a call the next morning to apologise and to come in. Myself and a colleague went in and the management gave us a refund for one meal and one drink, and then gave us a voucher for $100 o
    via u/Basherballgod

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