Share your favorite hacks, hustles, and cons here. Ones that you do or have done in the past. And ones that you know about, but have never done.
Also, what are your random thoughts about this subject in general? Do you have any tips on discovering hacks, hustles, and cons? And any tips on properly executing them?
Here are some of mine…
-Want fresh hot fries at McDonald’s (or anywhere I guess)? Tell them you have high blood pressure and need em’ salt-free. They’ll cook up a hot new batch just for you.
-At casinos look for abandoned credits. On a good night you can find up to $10 worth. Spend it or take it to the video poker machines. VP has a higher payout than regular slot machines. Don’t do this in Vegas though, it’s illegal.
-I have been surprised where I have been allowed access. It seems that many employees are inattentive to their surroundings or just don’t give a damn.
-When I was a teenager, I had a friend who was a huge shoplifter. She stole in all kinds of ways that you can’t imagine. Here’s her funniest technique, IMHO: She would place one of those paper shopping bags with the handles next to a spinning display of jewelry or accessories. She would then have an accessory (har har) to spin the display quickly…next she would make the display stop spinning suddenly with her hand. The display would jerk, making some of the items fall right into her shopping bag. :o She never got caught, that I know of. She said if she would to ever get caught, she would say it was an accident.
-More to come…
I can see where this is likely to end, but here’s mine:
Don’t order alcohol in any casino bar in Vegas. Go and put a few quarters in a machine and you will get a free drink (with actual alcohol in it) within a few minutes from one of the wandering waitresses. You don’t have to be winning or losing, just look like you are playing.
Go to the bookstore and find a book you’d like to read. Read a few pages every day until you’re done. Free entertainment. I’ve been reading Stephen King’s “Under the Dome” at Barnes & Noble this way since a week after it came out. I’m almost up to chapter 12.
After Christmas, check out which houses discard boxes from expensive, easily pawnable items like TVs or computers. It makes planning your next home invasion much easier :rolleyes:
Reminds me of the cashier I hated at my old work cafeteria. The take a penny cup would start to fill up, so he’d dump it in the till. Usually when I was on line, so there wouldn’t be any pennies for me to take. I still think he would count up the till, and pocket the difference from the extra pennies.
My “hack” is renting movies at the library. My library has online access, any movies they don’t have, I can request, and they’ll ship them in from other libraries for free. I get to keep the movie for a week, and it doesn’t cost me anything.
In college you could only dial on campus or local with the phones. Otherwise you needed a calling card. This was before cell phones.
I figured out you could navigate out by dialing the switchboard, and through there get to an outside operator by hitting zero.
Who figured, but as of the 1990s there was real live operators who would dial for you. Just tell them the number you are trying to call and they will do the dialing.
That way the school gets billed for the call and you don’t need a calling card.
A more infamous hack from back in the early days was the whistle from Captain Crunch being used to mimic the phone company beeps and get free calls. This was used by early hackers.
Back in the day when I’d get done at practice or whatever at school I’d call home collect using the payphone. It was an automated system and would ask your name to record and play for the person supposed to accept the call. But I’d just say real fast: “comepickmeupatschool” and hang up. Parents would hear that, decline the call, and be over to pick me up in 5-10 minutes. Man, what a scam!
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