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    You can’t cancel your reservation within 24 hours. You can rebook it. Okay, rebook it for one week out. Call back a day later, cancel.

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    My brother-in-law didn’t want to carry his jacket around at Disney World, and he didn’t want to get a locker for it, so he had his dad turn it in to lost and found. At the end of the day, before leaving the park, he picked it back up.

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      Somebody else could’ve taken that.

      The lost and found at my school sometimes gathers interest on some items. Umbrella on a rainy day got 4 people claiming it’s theirs. But a golden chain is still winning at 8 people claiming it as theirs.

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        That’s why you hide the item and get the person claiming it’s theirs to tell you a piece of identifying information about the item so they can prove it’s theirs.

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            That’s a different problem entirely, your school needs to rethink things. Kind of funny though!

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              Why does the school need to rethink things?
              It’s in their interest to get rid of the items quickly so they don’t have to store them.
              Who gets them doesn’t matter to the school.

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                Because it’s unethical, and because if they just said “hey we have a lost object; if you are missing anything, come by and describe it” it would help reunite more items with their rightful owners.

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                  Yeah and also if the school really doesn’t care about it getting back to the rightful owner, they should just throw everything out.

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      Ingenius! Even more ingenious: every time you leave go to lost and found and pick up a free random jacket.

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        Or basic manners. Although, if you want to consider basic manners a loophole, I’m okay with that. It doesn’t matter how you get there.

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        But a service worker knows lots of loopholes, and they can help you take advantage of them or choose not to bring it up if you’re treating them badly.

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      I think working retail should be a mandatory thing like how military service is mandatory in some countries.

      Everyone should have to serve their time doing retail so that they can have a bit of empathy

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    Back in the day they were “selling” dollar coins through tv. It was legal tender so banks had to accept any deposit of it. The U.S. mint offered free shipping in the continental U.S.A.

    Some smart folks started buying them with their credit card that offered air travel miles as a reward. Then they took all the coins and depositing them in their bank and paid off their CC. Rinse and repeat.

    Yes they were out no money and had thousands of dollars worth airline miles.

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    If you get married the tradition is for one partner to change their last name to match so both have the same last name.

    We didn’t do that, so we have different last names.

    So when you sign up for services that offer (x) months free or discounted cost per unique household, you use one name, cancel, and sign up under the other name. They don’t know you’re married, don’t know if it’s a rental, or don’t know if it’s a roommate thing. So when we were poor AF we could save a lot of $ on services at least for a few months or so. Usually cable tv that offered a 6-month discount.

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      Even with the same last name they don’t know you’re married. We share a last name and have done this a few times before.

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      Where I live you can freely use your maiden name or your spouse’s name and switch between them whenever you want.

      We didn’t like either of our last names so before getting married I legally changed mine so my Spouse could adopt it after the wedding, instead of both of us legally changing it after the wedding.

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    There was a burrito shop that had a frequent customer card that you could use to earn points towards a free menu item. You could register the card online and for whatever reason you could add multiple cards to the same account.

    A friend of mine realized that if you registered a new card they would give you a decent chunk of points just for signing up, then you could merge that account in with your existing account and get free points.

    Every chance he got he would grab handfuls of the cards, activate them all, and get tons of free food.

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      A friend of mine found a loophole at a burrito shop as well. They had some old points system where you’d have to go to a url on the receipt, and enter a code for a free taco. Eventually the promotion ended because they stopped printing the URL, but they never shut down the webpage either. So he continued to get free tacos from the old webpage, but whatever proof of purchase was needed could be used from the same receipt used to get the previous free taco. He doesn’t do it too often so no one catches on, but he would eat for free there once or twice a week.

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      I had a similar thing with a promotional card at a bar called Wurstküche in LA some years back shortly after it first opened. The card said something like “one free sausage” on it. The intent was you use the card once, and then they take it away and next time you want a delicious gourmet sausage you need to pay. All of my friends had one of these cards, and eventually they all were taken away, but they never took my card and we kept going back to that bar over and over again to get sausages and drink beer.

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      Yep!

      But commiting yourself to the idea of surrendering to some kind of God is.

      So you can fail AA as a sober atheist, but pass it as a religious, functional alcoholic.

      Great system.

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      Eye, but not drinking feels like a loophole insofar that I’ve abstained for over 5 years and went from no money to having a down payment for a house saved up, all while improving my health by leaps and bounds. Can’t get a beer gut if you don’t drink 👌

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          Do they still call it a beer gut when you don’t drink? Shouldn’t they call it a pizza and fries gut or something?

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            I’d say it’s mostly energy drinks,

            but I found a really good zero alc beer that is also putting in work so technically still a beer gut.

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    Tried cancelling adobe. They wanted to charge for the rest of the year or something as a cancellation fee. Instead, I “upgraded” to a more expensive package, giving me their 14 day refund policy and was able to cancel immediately and still gave me access to the rest of the month. Fuck adobe

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    If you want to cancel a subscription for whatever reason, worst comes to worst (dark pattern nonsense like trying to cancel an Adobe subscription) you can call your bank and request for a replacement card

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      However sometimes they allow cards that are being used for recurring subscriptions to keep going even if you’ve had the card replaced. I know from experience Chase does this

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      I work for a UK bank, and we automatically provide your replacement card details to all subscriptions, for example Netflix, Spotify, adobe, amazon prime, gym and many many others etc. The reason for that is that if you lost your card or it expired, you would otherwise have to spend ages updating the card numbers with all your providers. We call the subscriptions ‘recurring visa’ and if you ask your bank to place a recurring visa block, it’s quick and easy and we won’t let your named merchant take further funds. No need for a new card. However, if you are in a contract and you deny the company access to your bank card, they may demand that you pay for the rest of the contract still. They won’t be able to get the money from the bank tho.

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      I did this, a gym membership could “only be cancelled by the manager” I just went online and changed the credit card number on file. Moved away never looked back

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    In Australia most retailers discount specific items for “members”. Being a member is free but you need to sign up with your contact details. They will give you a card but no one carries a million cards so cashier’s just ask for your phone number.

    The Australian Communications and Media Authority administers phone numbers in Australia and they publish a list of phone numbers which may not be used by telco’s and are reserved for the exclusive use in TV shows, films, and creative works.

    I made a note of one of the numbers in my phone, and provide that when asked. Loads of other people are doing this so the number is always registered at every shop.

    The conversation usually goes:

    • cashier: are you a club member?
    • me: yes.
    • cashier: what’s your number ?
    • me: <ACMA number>
    • cashier: oh. wow. there seems to be hundreds of people with this number. what’s your name?
    • me: oh really? who’s there?
    • cashier: uh, nigel, john, luke…
    • me: I’m Luke.

    I’ve been doing this on a weekly basis since reading about it in another thread (on reddit) a few years ago. I’ve never encountered a problem and I’ve received thousands of dollars in discounts. I would’ve gotten those discounts anyway but would’ve had to sign up with my personal number in order to receive them.

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      Issue with that, at least in the u.s. is that stores often give you points that accumulate that can be redeemed for certain dollar amounts or a big discount on a single purchase.

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        Yeah. This is a potential problem.

        I’m not directly aware of this reward points thing actually happening in Australia. I mean they send text messages about sales and member only discounts, but real actual money off something you actually needed to buy isn’t something I’ve seen or heard of.

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      In the United States the same concept has sloshed around a bit; (xxx)555-01xx is the official range of “reserved for fiction, guaranteed not to connect” numbers; most people think it’s all of 555. It isn’t, there was a directory assistance service on 555-1212 until 2020. In the first Ghostbusters film their phone number is given as 555-2368. I’ve seen a number of fictional programs give a number as 555-5555. If they ever were reserved, they’re not now. The 555 exchange is explicitly NOT reserved in the toll-free area codes, which is how The Last Of Us accidentally included the number of a sex chat line. “I thought 555 numbers weren’t real.” No it’s more nuanced than that.

      Then there’s 867-5309, made famous by the band Tommy Tutone. They wrote a song about finding a girl’s name and number written on a men’s room wall and used a valid phone number. In fact, because no area code is given it’s several hundred valid phone numbers. Across the United States in the early 1980’s a few hundred random people started getting prank phone calls asking for “Jenny”. The number remains valid and several are still in use and even specially requested but I don’t think they’ll issue it sequentially anymore.

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    Currently I found a glitch to get near-free infinite mobile data usable in my country via 3 different mobile carriers giving me far superior coverage as well.

    I got a Czech T-Mobile SIM card with the purpose of receiving SMS verification codes. Unlike cards in my country, Czech ones don’t need ID card registration. The cheapest one was an IoT SIM card, so that’s what I took. I found I could get signal basically everywhere with it, since they have multiple roaming partners (Slovak Telekom, O2 and Orange).
    For shits and giggles, I’ve used that 200MB it came with since it’s available in EU as well. And that’s when I discovered the 64/32 kbps limit after using up the data isn’t getting applied outside of Czech Republic. It just still goes at full speed.
    Charged at 0.00CZK:

    The difference with IoT and regular SIMs is that low speed. IoT SIM cards get that reduced speed while regular ones have a hard cut-off with more data amount. Attempt with regular SIM after using up the data:

    So really, I can just fully use 80MB for 39CZK (1.59USD) and keep going:

    But there is a caveat: Permanent roaming charges. If for the past 4 months the SIM is used more than 50% abroad, T-Mobile can start charging these charges. This year it’s €1.30/GB without VAT. But I can probably just keep getting new SIM cards each few months.

    But I am being nice and still mostly using my regular carrier with 300GB of data. I rather keep this as backup. The wholesale market data cap is that €1.30/GB in 2025, so the carrier could get charged up to €390 for that same amount by their roaming partner. Regardless, I am not giving them equivalent of €1.55 for just 80MB either.

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    If your bank can only deposit a certain amount of a check the same day and you need it all just cash it and deposit the cash

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        It’s still valid today.
        Payroll fucked up and I didn’t get a deposit a few weeks back. They gave me the choice of waiting 2 weeks and having the deposit added to my next paycheck, which is totally undoable, or they would cut me a paper check that day.
        I took the paper check.
        I decided it would be easiest if I could use my Bank apps Mobile deposit but it only allowed me to access $500 of it that day, the rest had to wait until the next business day which was Monday.
        If I would have thought about it I would have done it this way so I could have had access to the whole check before the weekend.

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          Sorry, can’t imagine having a banking system that’s a decade behind fuckin Eritrea or Kazakhstan and thinking it’s the norm 😂

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            It’s not OPs fault they live in an underdeveloped nation, they’re just trying to get by.

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          You still don’t necessarily get the full amount. Depending on the bank writing the check, you may only get a person available today. Payroll checks might give you all of it, but I’ve had checks deposited in person that only let me have the first 3-500 available immediately.

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    My typing class had early computers that graded on speed but not accuracy. So you mashed the keys and got 140 keys per second, and an A in the class. So now I’m a 50-something year old who types like a 13 year old. Somehow the rest of the class didnt figure this out.

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      My typing class wanted me to learn how to type with my hands spaced just right, using different fingers to reach each key. But by then I had already been using a computer and just kind of developed my own way of typing efficiently and quickly mostly just using my index fingers. They’d correct my hand position whenever they saw me type, but I was one of the faster typers in the class, so I’d use my own way for the tests and passed easily. I’ve tried to force myself to go back and type like they told me, but by now I’m just much more used to my own spurious method. 🤷‍♂️

      Had a computer savvy friend watch me type once and he audibly went “what the fuck”

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        I used to be exactly like that, could even type blindfolded with my own weird way of typing. I eventually learned touch-typing (i.e. the correct way your teachers were trying to teach you) and a more ergonomic keyboard layout (Colemak), I haven’t gained any speed, but I do notice that I get a lot less strain on my wrists and fingers. So if typing is something you do a lot on a daily basis, then it’s worth learning to do it properly to not injure yourself in the long run.

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      Similarly, in my typing class, they’d have you type the same paragraph a few times. The program didn’t notice copy and paste.

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    Credit card manufactured spending. Still doable, but I think it’s more difficult now.

    You sign up for a fancy card with a fancy offer. Say, spend 6k in 3 months, get 1k in points.

    Then you go to the local post office, and buy a money order for 6k. They used to be more permissive about letting you charge it on the CC, with only a nominal fee.

    Then deposit that money order to your bank, use that money to pay off the charge for 6k. Boom, free signup bonus achieved.

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      There was a time you could get an AARP credit card that had 5% cashback, you don’t have to be a certain age to join AARP in order to get the card. At the same time the federal reserve was letting people buy quarters in bulk without any shipping fees. So, order thousands in quarters, take them straight to the bank, repeat.

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    There was a time when Discover would give you checks that you could use to transfer debt from other cards or accounts, which had a promotional rate of 0% for the life of that debt. I deposited one check into my checking account that filled up my discover card credit limit, then used that money to pay off my higher rate Discover Card debt. Then I did that a few more times until my entire Discover Card balance was 0%. This made my credit spending look amazing, because I had such a huge amount coming in and going out each month, and I soon started getting offers for much better card rates. Then I paid off my other credit cards while that debt sat there accruing no interest penalty.

    Also, the way the accounts worked was higher debt would be paid off first, so until I fully paid off that account, there was always some 0% debt below all the higher % debt.

    TL;DR: Discover Card let me my entire credit card debt through my checking account, making my credit score look wonderful and at the same time dropping my interest rate to 0%.

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      “There was a time when…”

      Sounds similar to the tactic of serial debt transfer to one 0% interest card after another. Discover probably realized their program wasn’t motivating enough people to use Discover cards for actual spending.