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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.
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.
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.
Welp, my school just sends everyone pictures of the items and waits who claims it.
That’s a different problem entirely, your school needs to rethink things. Kind of funny though!
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.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.
Yeah and also if the school really doesn’t care about it getting back to the rightful owner, they should just throw everything out.
That just sounds like a flea market.
Ingenius! Even more ingenious: every time you leave go to lost and found and pick up a free random jacket.
I don’t know if it’s a “loophole,” but I find my phone to be a pretty good eReader. I did the same with an old tablet (just has the eReader and the book(s)). I’ve never had a real eReader so I can’t really comment on the difference, but if you’re just trying to read, a good app costs a couple bucks, way cheaper.
I would call that not a loophole but definitely a nice LPT.
Doesn’t it strain your eyes tho? I thought the appeal of having an e-reader is having the screen easy on the eyes.
Not that I’ve noticed. I can usually fiddle with the settings (some even let you program a day and night mode). But I also state at screens all day, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
My phone is definitely easy on the eyes because I can see my reflection in the glass.
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I’ve always used Android tablets. You need an app that allows you to fiddle with the colors. Mine is dark orange on a black background.
eReader Prestigio has been good to me.
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.
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.
Well played, then.
has not worked for me. most places its by address.
Eh, this was years ago we played this game. We tried to keep it on the DL by not changing immediately after the discount, usually several months later. We also had separate checking accounts and cards, so that probably helped. The policy may have updated since then, but I don’t see how they’d know if one person canceled the policy and another with an entirely different name and payment account opened a new one.
yeah and actually if its a single family home I have gamed the system by putting apt 1a, 1b, etc but I have not tried it when I actually have an apt/unit/whatnot
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.
Don’t be a dick to service workers. Your entire life will be better.
This isn’t a loophole–just how any decent human being should behave.
Not really “loophole”, more like common sense
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.
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.
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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I remember there was a time when you could use the self-serve kiosk at McDonald’s, order a bunch of plain cheeseburgers and remove everything so it was just a bun and it would credit back enough money that you could get a whole meal (plus a bunch of empty buns) for free.
The one big drawback: it’s still McDonalds
Calories are calories when you’re broke
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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.
don’t those coins cost more than their face value? you are talking commemorative coins yeah?
Commemorative coins do cost more that is correct. However this was not those. This was when the US mint was essentially attempting to phase out the dollar bill and replace it with a coin.
Keep in mind this was late 90s early 2000s.
One of the sub plots to Punch Drunk Love, and a true story.
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.
Why wait the extra day, Just do it in the same call. They don’t get paid enough to give a shit. And if they do, you technically haven’t broken any rules.
Managers audit those calls. Source: I’ve worked in three call centers.
And why should the customer care?
Yeah, I’m Canadian. Thus, non-confrontational by nature. Now, If I was answering a call and someone did that, I’d let them get away with it, 100%.
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Go to a climbing gym. “I think I left my drink bottle here last week. It was clear, about this size”. Worker pulls out a box of lost and found drink bottles. “Oh, that is it there”. Take a dusty one (so you know it’s been there a while, and nobody’s coming back for it). Now you have a new drink bottle! Give it a clean and go!
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
Great tip, if you live in the 1980s
WTF
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.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.
Sorry, can’t imagine having a banking system that’s a decade behind fuckin Eritrea or Kazakhstan and thinking it’s the norm 😂
Why be such a jerk to OP?
It’s not OPs fault they live in an underdeveloped nation, they’re just trying to get by.
I enjoyed paying $1.50/mo for YouTube premium by signing up with a VPN to Turkey 🇹🇷 but that’s not a thing anymore 😢
VPN via Turkey used to work on other subs too. Often something like 1:10 discounts. Most of these loopholes are closed though.
It’s still very possible for iOS in app purchases if you use gift cards and a Turkey iTunes account. Some regional pricing has been adjusted but many have not
Why pay the bastards, just block their ads? Plus you can get sponsor block and bring back youtube dislike
What do you use it for? Adblock? Use uBlock Origin
Video download? Use yt-dlp, or one of its many GUIs, such as Tubular (Linux) or Seal (Android)
It was nice for iPhone
Fair enough, if you use Apple, you’ve bought into capitalism; you can’t be saved.
Lol, lmao
I think there’s ways to block ads through DNS or using a VPN. You can set up pinhole at home and tunnel into it, but that’s a bit technical.
