Scamming things in everyday life

i have established that the glasgow underground can be scammed out of 50p a journey by purchasing a child's ticket instead of an adult ticket from the machine. the only problem is a child's ticket flashes and a noise sounds as you go thru the barrier, but its mostly too busy for staff to notice or they dont seem bothered anyway.

savings such as this would pay for a couple of pints and a haggis supper on the way home come the end of the week.

i am interested to know of other such scams in everyday life that save money and effort.

so post them here.

You should be arrested. Normal people are not proud of such things.

With some technique and some daring-do, I manage to get the laundry coin thing to take 20 c instead of 50 c pieces... and I'm not even Scottish!

If you catch beggars while snoozing you can just grab their money and run! Haha!! Cheating people is awesome!

Dudes! If you go to a really packed restaurant on a Friday or Saturday night, you can order the most expensive food and get lots of expensive drinks and not have to pay a single euro-cent! All you have to do is leave when the waiter goes to the kitchen for someone else's order! Then the waiter pays for everything! It totally rocks!

woof.

not people but the system. as regard the glasgow ubahn, its the shitest disgrace of public transport ive ever seen (3rd oldest in the world, and you can tell...) and when i am travelling i rarely get a seat. its a total rip off and this is how i justify paying less than i otherwise would.

ex. ive managed to get some pfand back from an irn bru bottle i brought from home in a tengelmann machine. this isnt harming a person like the dine and dash on the waiter.

as for stealing from beggar's i reckon i would do this just for a laugh.

dude thats the lazy way! takes all the sport of it. you have to find one of the handicapped ones. you can just take the money and walk, what are they going to do chase ya? and all the sport is getting close enough to them to grab the money without them hitting you with a cane or such.

actually i am still using a canadian student id for discounts everwhere. i love the fact that my student id had no expery date.

classic! this reminds me of a mate that used his fake student ID (that never actually worked to get drink while under the age) to get free entry to a museum in bilbao once, while the rest of us had to pay!

Sorry, I thought you were talking about stealing, not stealing from "the man". That rocks!

I say we keep all undergrounds crap so we can ride for free.

when i went to vienna i borrowed an isic card from a friend of myn in regensburg who comes from arizona, used that for all the stickey places that they demand a isic card. no one questioned got lots of little discounts and the funny part we have different hair color. shows how much these people normally check these things.

What? They definitely checked mine when I was in Vienna. The art history museum wouldn't give me a discount, because I'm too old.

this is another thing though you are introducing IPJ. if youd stayed and complained even senselessly they would back down eventually wouldnt they?

its like the airport programmes where people turn up late for their flight.

chancer: "right im late for my flight i demand to be put on another one with no extra cost"
airline: "sorry we cant help you, you have to be here 30mins before departure"
chancer: "traffic, its not my fault"
airline "sorry sir but you need to allow time for this"
chancer: "who the fuck are you talking to? i want to see someone in authority"

...

and they invariably always get something for free.

try harder IPJ you can do it!

@schotte
erm, how about not stealing and paying your way?

That goes against the grain and is not particularly relevant here anyway. The purpose of the remarks is to attempt to get people all narked and angry about people like Schotte allegedly scamming the system, causing grief to others and so on and so forth. People tell him he's a thief and a dumbfuck, he gets all indignant and calls them boring and losers, they come back with something else and Schotte gets his entertainment.

It's as pathetic as it is transparent.

Goodnight, sleep tight and don't let the trolls bite.

Never. That's the way my mother does it. I've watched her abuse way too many sales people. I will never be that idiot.

If you have an English car here, you never ever have to pay a parking ticket!

2p coins used to be the same size as 10 Francs when I was a kid. So I used to go on holiday with loads of 2ps and play arcade games and pinball for hours.

Also remember being in Majorca as a kid in a hotel and the front of the pinball was left unlocked for about 48 hours. During that time you could quickly load the machine with credits when no-one was looking. Even when they fixed the machine it was too late - we then knew the game so well we could play for hours and hours on 10 pesetas.

i remember the old 5 pence coins use to be the same size as the 1 deutschmark coin.great if you were a smoker.a packet of fags for 20p from the machines

@ worm: I wouldn't count on that, they found Scogs' Dad in spite of his Spanish license plate a few years ago and sent a ticket through the Spanish authorities.

I got one.. get a job where you can bullshit your way through working, surf the internet all day long and still get paid for it!

I racked up nearly 2000 euros worth of parking tickets last year and when my car got towed to a pound for being parked on a corner, the guy at the pound just said, "oh don't worry about the parking tickets, it's too much hassle for us" and that was that.

Why am I not surprised that you need to buy a child's ticket instead of an adult's ticket?

Is a Troll a short name for a English Person?

ffs im not always trolling. i will pay my way when i stop being a student, but for the moment its nice to save a few quid here and there. pathetic is policing a website like this.


i think you're onto something here mate.

i know of a car park where you have to pay to get a token that lets you out but in fact old washers seem to fit just as nicely in the slot, hence free parking.

a bit like del boy's technique with the "out of order" bag he used to put over the ticket machines.

but so far the 20p for a packet of fags is my favourite that was posted here but the others are great too.

If you don't want to pay for groceries simply write a letter (the more elaborate the better, be sure to include pictures, sticky hearts, stars and glitter) to the products manufacturer praising the product.

Many will send you all sorts of free samples.

>> i will pay my way when i stop being a student, but for the moment its nice to save a few quid here and there

You're a student - use the right words. It's "steal" not "save".

Now go get some glue de-bonding agent, walk up to an HVB counter, and steal some 2 euro beer tokens.

I got on the bus last night (here in Munich, duh!), and the new rule is to show the driver your ticket when you get on after 9 pm.

I watched a man show his Streifenkarte, and then punch it and sat down while the driver watched. I was thinking, what is to stop that man from showing the driver a brand new stripey card, and then walking to the machine and punching the back of the card?

That way his card will always be punch-free on the front, to show the next couple of dozen bus drivers.

@shotte

the glasgow underground is a complete joke, but if people paid it might actually get revamped

Allegedly you can put glue on Streifenkarten, which you can then rub off after stamping it. That's why the inspectors run the finger over the surface.