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orange monkeyee · 11-17-2003, 06:36 PM

Shit, my 200 dollar digital camera fried after using it for 6 months. Liking it and all I went to walmart, bought a new one, returned teh broken one. I think it was technically under warranty but I'm too lazy to do all that shit and send it in to Kodak,

jvwgtr · 11-18-2003, 11:02 AM

I had a coworker who was employed in Customer Service at Nordstrom's....they're a department store famous for their no-questions-asked return policy.
She said she once had a guy bring in four monster truck tires...they don't sell anything remotely similar to automotive parts...and they HAD to give the guy a cash "refund".

merkerguitars · 11-19-2003, 12:42 AM

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Originally posted by Neato
I also need to suggest you do not try this. I worked at Shop-Ko and we had this really cool anti-theft dude. I heard tons of stories from him and the other workers where the anti-theft guy would chase theives as far as he could without losing them. He would often enlist the help of multiple workers. He even chased a guy for blocks in a car chase of sorts.

Yeah I would recommend this too....I know at my local bestbuy they hired a guy that could run fast as hell and a big tough guy to hold the person down.......and they dont' take any shit.....

Oh yeah here are some other good tips.....

I do computer work for a bodyshop and the owner knows me and my parents really good. So everytime we get into an accident and it's the other persons fault he bumps up the estimate a little for us to profit. My dad has done it with his harley that he has done all the custom work to. Since for someone else to do the work...it would of cost lots of money. Too bad wal-mart didn't sell better computer parts...I could so switch out vid cards....and hard drives...

Heres another one to get free newpapers...those metal vending machines will sometimes open up if you give them two quick yanks.

Conclamo Ludus · 11-19-2003, 12:03 PM

I remember a good Target scam that my old roommate would always pull. They had some of those nifty French pop art posters for sale in the frames at one Target store for $12 a piece. Normally they were like $26 or something like that. The sale was only at one store, so he would buy three or four of them at that one store, and be refunded full price at another store. He did this all the time whenever he needed some cash for the weekends.

There are some great scams on this thread.

Scape · 11-19-2003, 02:58 PM

I use to work at best buy and yeah they wont chase you if you make it out the 2nd set of doors, but they got so many cameras the chances of you makeing it out are very slim.

valkan · 12-07-2003, 11:02 PM

some amazing stuff in here guys, i myself have been to many movie theaters and found the raising of the prices constantly to be annoying, so i came up with some ways that one might be able to get around that.

At a local movie theater here, it is on that is inside a mall. You go up an escalator and theres a big open area, one wall with atms, the desk and the arcade/food place. there is noone ripping tickets right where you buy them so heres something you can pull off which required 2 people at minimum.

have 2 friends go on in, one person comes back outside with the other persons ripped ticket, hand off the ripped ticket and head back in with one person for free.

Another nifty thing is having one person go in the theater, ask people to buy their ripped ticket for maybe $1 each if they wont be using it, come back outside and hand off any bought tickets to friends then quickly refund the ticket saying you had to leave for an emergency.

Now these are all theoretical of course, i can't imagine anyone who would possibly do such a thing. Have fun

basmoq · 12-11-2003, 04:01 PM

yall are sick sick puppies, but thanks for the tips

glasscutter43 · 12-14-2003, 01:32 AM

While doing renovations in a bank, I noticed 2 different people come in and say the ATM shorted them $20.00. The bank just gave them $20.00. When I asked, they said they only check the ATM records and video if it is more than $20.00.

When I was in high school we would take a peice of wire and insert one end into one of the holes on a public telephone receiver and touch the other end into the keyhole of the coin hopper. This would allow a call without inserting a dime. I haven't tried this in many years.

NoSoup · 12-28-2003, 01:49 AM

Well, also not really recommended, but a story to share-

A friend of mine and I were at a local Wal-Mart, we both had a bit of shopping to do. To save time, we split up and got what we needed. On they way out, He was carrying a rather large TV still in a box, 38 inches, I believe. Well, the alarms went off, and he "angrily" turned around, walked up to the greeter person, and said something along the lines that it was heavy as hell and the clerk obviously missed the security strip somwhere. The greeter, rather flustered, hastily got a cart for him and brought it out to his car, the proceeded to LOAD it into his car.

We climbed in, and after he burst into laughter, told me that he had actually just stolen the TV...

I guess occationally being incredibly bold when ripping off things that you can't smuggle out of the store can pay off...

John Henry · 12-31-2003, 06:22 PM

1)I went to an all you can eat chinese buffet banquet place the other day. I had to leave early so I settled up with my friends and walked out unaccosted. When I got to the train station I found that my train wasn't leaving for a few minutes and also that I had left something in the restaurant. I went back in, went to my table stopped to help myself to some dessert, got my stuff and walked out again. All this without so much as a glance from the staff. If you were unscrupulous enough, it would probably be easy to sneak in to these sort of places on a busy sitting, have your meal and walk out again.

2) In my experience, train conductors in Britain always start from the back and move forward. For some (usually short) journeys you can get on the train at the very front and the ticket collector will never get to you. Make sure it's somewhere that the ticket office is closed or where they don't operate penalty fines, or they might screw you.

phaedrus · 01-03-2004, 11:50 PM

Damn you, damn you all j/k After reading this thread I'm going to open everything I buy before I leave the store just to make sure it isn't a bunch of rocks.

Anyway, heres a good way to rip off nike:
I've a friend who would go to the clearance aisle or an outlet store and buy the last seasons nikes. He would then pop the air bubble in the shoes and contact nike. They would replace the broken shoe with new ones from the current season. He would take those shoes and return them to a shoe store. Pocketing the difference between the discount shoes and the full price new shoes. I don't know how often he did this, but after a while I think Nike would catch on.

DrJekyll · 01-04-2004, 10:24 PM

I got some moldy Jose Ole taquitos the other day. I called up the company the next day and they asked if I had the serial number (or whatever), but I didn't. They asked if they should send coupons for free Jose Ole products. Hopefully the coupons should be in next week. This did make me wonder if you could sustain yourself by calling comment lines with a complaint.

Another good legitimate freeload...if you happen to go to Universal Studios and stay at their official hotels, your room key allows you to go to the head of any line in the park. Well, that info's current as of a couple of years ago. Just be prepared to get mean looks from people as you walk up the exit line.

Another vending machine trick...there are those vending machines with the glass front that usually serve drinks like Snapple. Well, if it's in a low-traffic area, you can clear out the bottom rows with a coat-hanger. Just stretch and bend with a loop on the end. Then, open up the doors, wedge the hanger up inside, and loop it around a drink. The drink should pull out with too much trouble. We used to do this years ago at a camp. Eventually, they must've caught on, because they redesigned the machine to beep if you lifted the door for too long. However, since it was in a low-traffic area (the vending room in a dorm), it usually didn't attract much attention.

The final idea is slightly more malicious. I've heard of a friend pulling it off, but I've never really had the desire. Basically, he and a friend got a sweatshirt or something and kept tossing it around a music store (over the rows to each other). At some point, they slipped a CD inside. Once they got to the door, they continued the pattern by tossing the sweatshirt to the other over the theft detectors.

3rdEye · 01-05-2004, 06:34 PM

I did these things to k-mart.

Camera Film- Grab a box or single box of film, scope the store for cameras. They usually have the black dome looking cameras, that prob arn't even cameras. anyway they don't have them in every isle in the store, find a convienient isle w/out a camera, quickly open and discard the box into the shelfs. Put the film canister into your pocket and leave that trailor trash employing hole.

Me and my buddies were ggoing to the mountains on weekend in hgh school and we forgot a cd player to play tunes. We stopped at k-fart and found a few we liked. Problem was nobody wanted to throw in money. So me and a buddy got the bright idea to shove a nice phillips boom box off the shelf model into a shitty boom box, box. We unplugged the nice one, took the shitty one out of the box and replaced it with the nice one. We payed 30 instead of 80. I was nervous as hell at the counter, the box was all crammed full like it didn't fit insde the. Luckily those idiots didn't notice. What a great weekend.
I was such an asshole in high school, I prob wouldn't have the balls to do it now. Although I do want to try the quarter thing, drill the whole technique.

filtherton · 01-12-2004, 09:30 AM

This one is kind've like NoSoup's

A friend of mine decided that he need a bike. Being the type that preferred to spend his money on drugs rather than things he actually needed he decides to steal said bike. What does he do? He walks into a target superstore, grabs a bike from their display rack, walks it to the point where you choose between going to the checkouts or leaving and just hops on the bike and rides away. Simple as pie. I don't know if they chased him or not, but i do know that he did it at a few more target stores in the surrounding suburbs and got away with it.

Not that i'm advocating stealing, just relating a story about a friend of mine.

89transam · 01-12-2004, 11:38 PM

This thread turned from how to freeload into how to steal

noblejr · 01-13-2004, 01:47 AM

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Originally posted by noblejr

And to point my thread in the right direction:

free·load v. - To take advantage of the charity, generosity, or hospitality of others

steal v. - To take (the property of another) without right or permission.

xim · 01-17-2004, 01:25 PM

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Originally posted by 89transam
This thread turned from how to freeload into how to steal

Aint it great?

smooth_4 · 01-24-2004, 09:37 AM

Two great sites for freeloaders are

fatwallet.com

and

http://members.cox.net/dailyfreestuff/

macmanmike6100 · 01-29-2004, 07:37 PM

this thread just seems a little skeevy because, at the very least, some "loss prevention" guy could be reading this and implement fixes for everything we write

MrFailure · 02-06-2004, 05:23 AM

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Originally posted by Stare At The Sun
Take 1 five dollar bill to a lamenating machine, lamenate it, and then leave about 4 foot of lament behind it, then shave the lament to the very edge of it, it must be very precise. you then just take it to a secluded change machine(car wash stations open 24/7 w/ no security cameras, a few counties away work well. Basically, just insert the bill, let the change come out, and then pull it back out. Repeat untill the machine is empty .

Ahhh, fuck da system.

*note, just ask, i will clarify anything that is unclear

Why don't you just use a 20?
Now I need to find somewhere to laminate money

skier · 02-06-2004, 02:03 PM

freeloading at stealing are just degrees of theft. You either shitkick the system or not.

runawayfetus · 02-25-2004, 06:51 PM

usually... i have 10 friends waiting at the exit door of the actual theatre itself.. not the main lobby,... u know where the people exit after the movie is over. the officials cant see people waiting at these doors.. and one person buys a ticket and goes and lets everyone else in

aa1037 · 03-04-2004, 04:44 PM

this thread was a very interesting read! personally, my friends and I have done the ticket tearing trick a few times - who wants to pay $9.50 for a movie now?! I remember when it was $7 on LI, and I'm just 18! ha

Zander · 03-06-2004, 12:32 PM

It's not illegal unless you get caught.

Here are some things I've thought of/heard of:

The switch in a store, my friend and I were buying sports gloves, and we just switched expensive ones into the cheap boxes while we were trying them on.

I also want to work in a store just so I can chase down and beat up people that try to steal shit =D

Zander · 03-06-2004, 12:40 PM

Also, when going to a store to buy a game that needs a CD key, just open the box, write down/text message/take a picture of the CD key and just have your friend burn you a copy of his old one.

Zander · 03-06-2004, 12:46 PM

And this really isn't a scam, but something funny to do:

At a Target/Wal-Mart etc. get a bunch of clothes with security tags and put them in a backpack, and when someone tries to buy the backpack they'll set off security alarms.

ols · 03-10-2004, 12:53 PM

this is the greatest thread ever

most of the people working at these stores dont care if you rip their employer off. i can vouche for k-mart. its also easier if you know someone that works there

agball · 03-10-2004, 01:06 PM

This one works like a charm!! If you have a Costco near you go there and Purchase a new computer. Costco allows you to reutrn any computer within 6 months. They also are getting new models in with the latest technology all the time. 6 months after you buy it clean it out back it up with the DVD burner that it came with & return it to them for a full refund. Now go and look at what they have in stock and you will find the latest technology for the same price as the one you return. Get in line & buy the new one.

wakelagger · 03-10-2004, 07:00 PM

Yeah, my friend's dad does the Costco trick all the time. Goes in, creates a ruckus like only a German accented 60 year old can, and walks out with the latest in computer tech. Repeat 6 months later. He hasn't spent money on a new computer in three years, and he's gone through 5 or 6 generations of Costco computers.

runawayfetus · 03-12-2004, 03:24 PM

hah .. teh comp stuff seems like itd be too much work for me. Im to lazy to pack it upo and return it etc. id rather just steal it and get it over wtih

Devilinmypants · 03-16-2004, 05:58 AM

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Originally posted by 89transam
Some people can get two sodas almost every time by hitting the machines in the right spot. Thats what I wanna know how to do.

heres my small addition.Recently,I was dissatisfied with some taco bell so I called that 1800 number. ANyway I told them the problem and my name and address and how much the bill was (Around $5.00). I kid you not, the next day I had five bucks in taco bell gift certificates in the mail.

I hear this works with lots of other stuff too. All you have to do is call thier complaint/ suggestion line and they will send you free stuff.

As far as stealing goes, I have heard that as soon as you make it out of the door of certain stores (Best buy,Circuit city..etc) youre home free, they wont chase you , even if they saw you run out the door with a tv on your back. its just too much of a liability to chase you.

I did the same thing, except they sent a coupon for any one free item. The coupon however was just an inkjet printout. Easily photo copiable. I plan on using it when i visit tacobells during trips, you know to avoid the burrito police.

Devilinmypants · 03-16-2004, 06:01 AM

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Originally posted by merkerguitars
Ok this is a good trick.....if you want a certain piece of electronics for free but can't afford it get something that is broken. Then buy the exact same item (or something that looks really similar) and shove it in the box and return it. I have done this many times trading a broken older model sony radio for a newer one and swapping a lazar cd player for a jensen one.

I do this all of the time at wallmart, but they sell me crap that doesnt work, so its completely justified.

Devilinmypants · 03-16-2004, 06:07 AM

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Originally posted by costello
Please TFP do not try this at the frys electronics stores. My stepfather is the manager of loss prevention and comes home nearly everyday (proudly, which is sad) with stories of chases he's made in the parking lot. Yesterday he broke a guys arm slamming him into a wall.

Eckerds has a policy of no chasing shoplifters out of the door, and no physical contact with ones who are trying to flee. Management told me once that unless a manager sees somone shoplift it doesnt matter. (essentially because the employees cant be trusted with a matter as severe as spotting shoplifters.) This all varies by managers though. Some might be more fervent about loss prevention.

Devilinmypants · 03-16-2004, 06:12 AM

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Originally posted by turbodriven
These examples are from things I have noticed in the past.

UPS will issue an insurance claim settlement without actually verifying that the item was broken. However... I'm not sure what the insurance limit is for this. And furthermore... they do reserve the right to come inspect the item if they choose. My particular item was under $100 and they never came to inspect it. I imagine for higher insured items they would make it a point to come see it for themselves. Also I'm not sure if they track how many times a certain individual makes claims.

So.. the scam would involve sending something from work to your home address (a rock for all anyone cares). Filing a claim that your "whatever" was damaged upon reciept. Make sure you actually have a "whatever" that you could damage or already is damaged in case they actually come out to see it or take it. And voila... an instant $100.

Second scam is a story I heard from a friend.

Back to the Walmart thing. He actually got home with a set of stereo speakers that had nothing but a cinder block in the box. Either a store employee stole the speakers or walmart returned the speakers from a previous scammer and never verified the speakers box's contents before putting them back on the shelf. He returned them and got a different box with actual speakers in them.

So... again the scam would go like this. Buy a "whatever" from Walmart. Go home and swap contents with a couple of rocks. And return the box with rocks in it to Walmart and get a second set of "whatever" to do whatever with. Either use the "whatevers" or sell them on ebay.

Both of these seem very legit... no matter how morally wrong they are. No way on either end can it be proven that your up to malicious behavior.

The second is an easy way to get caught, you never want to return an item withou atleast the correct item in the box. Wallmart can match the return of an item with video of it being returned and get a photo ID of you. If you are going to return something to Wally world, buy a broken one first to put in the box.

Devilinmypants · 03-16-2004, 06:27 AM

I had a tagger friend go to walmart, load a buggy full of spraypaint and just push it passed the cashiers out of the building. He dumped it in his trunk and went back in for seconds, where the greedy bastard got caught. Yet another friend of mine was lawfully paying for items when the cashier forgot to ring up his photos because he didnt know how and this friend got stopped by walmart rentacops and ended up doing community service and being banned from walmart. Very odd how much security varies from store to store.

tehblaed · 03-17-2004, 10:54 PM

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Originally posted by Blistex
Ive never heard of companies giving away replacement equipment without first recieving the original.

Microsoft. I actually got 4 free Intellimice Optical Explorers out of this one, and to this date have still never purchased an Intellimouse Explorer.

By the way, I love each and every one of you.

11-19-2003, 12:03 PM	#44 (permalink)
Conclamo Ludus Modern Man Location: West Michigan	I remember a good Target scam that my old roommate would always pull. They had some of those nifty French pop art posters for sale in the frames at one Target store for $12 a piece. Normally they were like $26 or something like that. The sale was only at one store, so he would buy three or four of them at that one store, and be refunded full price at another store. He did this all the time whenever he needed some cash for the weekends. There are some great scams on this thread. __________________ Lord, have mercy on my wicked soul I wouldn't mistreat you baby, for my weight in gold. -Son House, Death Letter Blues

12-11-2003, 04:01 PM	#47 (permalink)
basmoq It's a girly girl! Location: OH, USA	yall are sick sick puppies, but thanks for the tips __________________ "There's someone out there for everyone - even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them."

12-14-2003, 01:32 AM	#48 (permalink)
glasscutter43 Insane Location: Vancouver Island BC	While doing renovations in a bank, I noticed 2 different people come in and say the ATM shorted them $20.00. The bank just gave them $20.00. When I asked, they said they only check the ATM records and video if it is more than $20.00. When I was in high school we would take a peice of wire and insert one end into one of the holes on a public telephone receiver and touch the other end into the keyhole of the coin hopper. This would allow a call without inserting a dime. I haven't tried this in many years. __________________ Book 'em Danno

12-28-2003, 01:49 AM	#49 (permalink)
NoSoup Non-Rookie Location: Green Bay, WI	Well, also not really recommended, but a story to share- A friend of mine and I were at a local Wal-Mart, we both had a bit of shopping to do. To save time, we split up and got what we needed. On they way out, He was carrying a rather large TV still in a box, 38 inches, I believe. Well, the alarms went off, and he "angrily" turned around, walked up to the greeter person, and said something along the lines that it was heavy as hell and the clerk obviously missed the security strip somwhere. The greeter, rather flustered, hastily got a cart for him and brought it out to his car, the proceeded to LOAD it into his car. We climbed in, and after he burst into laughter, told me that he had actually just stolen the TV... I guess occationally being incredibly bold when ripping off things that you can't smuggle out of the store can pay off... __________________ I have an aura of reliability and good judgement. Just in case you were wondering...

12-31-2003, 06:22 PM	#50 (permalink)
John Henry Addict Location: Grey Britain	1)I went to an all you can eat chinese buffet banquet place the other day. I had to leave early so I settled up with my friends and walked out unaccosted. When I got to the train station I found that my train wasn't leaving for a few minutes and also that I had left something in the restaurant. I went back in, went to my table stopped to help myself to some dessert, got my stuff and walked out again. All this without so much as a glance from the staff. If you were unscrupulous enough, it would probably be easy to sneak in to these sort of places on a busy sitting, have your meal and walk out again. 2) In my experience, train conductors in Britain always start from the back and move forward. For some (usually short) journeys you can get on the train at the very front and the ticket collector will never get to you. Make sure it's somewhere that the ticket office is closed or where they don't operate penalty fines, or they might screw you. __________________ "No one was behaving from very Buddhist motives. Then, thought Pigsy, he was hardly a Buddha, nor was he a monkey. Presently, he was a pig spirit changed into a little girl pretending to be a little boy to be offered to a water monster. It was all very simple to a pig spirit."

11-17-2003, 06:36 PM	#41 (permalink)
orange monkeyee Banned	Shit, my 200 dollar digital camera fried after using it for 6 months. Liking it and all I went to walmart, bought a new one, returned teh broken one. I think it was technically under warranty but I'm too lazy to do all that shit and send it in to Kodak,

11-18-2003, 11:02 AM	#42 (permalink)
jvwgtr Completely bananas Location: Florida	I had a coworker who was employed in Customer Service at Nordstrom's....they're a department store famous for their no-questions-asked return policy. She said she once had a guy bring in four monster truck tires...they don't sell anything remotely similar to automotive parts...and they HAD to give the guy a cash "refund".

11-19-2003, 02:58 PM	#45 (permalink)
Scape Insane	I use to work at best buy and yeah they wont chase you if you make it out the 2nd set of doors, but they got so many cameras the chances of you makeing it out are very slim.

12-07-2003, 11:02 PM	#46 (permalink)
valkan Upright	some amazing stuff in here guys, i myself have been to many movie theaters and found the raising of the prices constantly to be annoying, so i came up with some ways that one might be able to get around that. At a local movie theater here, it is on that is inside a mall. You go up an escalator and theres a big open area, one wall with atms, the desk and the arcade/food place. there is noone ripping tickets right where you buy them so heres something you can pull off which required 2 people at minimum. have 2 friends go on in, one person comes back outside with the other persons ripped ticket, hand off the ripped ticket and head back in with one person for free. Another nifty thing is having one person go in the theater, ask people to buy their ripped ticket for maybe $1 each if they wont be using it, come back outside and hand off any bought tickets to friends then quickly refund the ticket saying you had to leave for an emergency. Now these are all theoretical of course, i can't imagine anyone who would possibly do such a thing. Have fun

01-03-2004, 11:50 PM	#51 (permalink)
phaedrus Insane	Damn you, damn you all j/k After reading this thread I'm going to open everything I buy before I leave the store just to make sure it isn't a bunch of rocks. Anyway, heres a good way to rip off nike: I've a friend who would go to the clearance aisle or an outlet store and buy the last seasons nikes. He would then pop the air bubble in the shoes and contact nike. They would replace the broken shoe with new ones from the current season. He would take those shoes and return them to a shoe store. Pocketing the difference between the discount shoes and the full price new shoes. I don't know how often he did this, but after a while I think Nike would catch on.

01-04-2004, 10:24 PM	#52 (permalink)
DrJekyll Crazy Location: Nowhere	I got some moldy Jose Ole taquitos the other day. I called up the company the next day and they asked if I had the serial number (or whatever), but I didn't. They asked if they should send coupons for free Jose Ole products. Hopefully the coupons should be in next week. This did make me wonder if you could sustain yourself by calling comment lines with a complaint. Another good legitimate freeload...if you happen to go to Universal Studios and stay at their official hotels, your room key allows you to go to the head of any line in the park. Well, that info's current as of a couple of years ago. Just be prepared to get mean looks from people as you walk up the exit line. Another vending machine trick...there are those vending machines with the glass front that usually serve drinks like Snapple. Well, if it's in a low-traffic area, you can clear out the bottom rows with a coat-hanger. Just stretch and bend with a loop on the end. Then, open up the doors, wedge the hanger up inside, and loop it around a drink. The drink should pull out with too much trouble. We used to do this years ago at a camp. Eventually, they must've caught on, because they redesigned the machine to beep if you lifted the door for too long. However, since it was in a low-traffic area (the vending room in a dorm), it usually didn't attract much attention. The final idea is slightly more malicious. I've heard of a friend pulling it off, but I've never really had the desire. Basically, he and a friend got a sweatshirt or something and kept tossing it around a music store (over the rows to each other). At some point, they slipped a CD inside. Once they got to the door, they continued the pattern by tossing the sweatshirt to the other over the theft detectors. Last edited by DrJekyll; 01-04-2004 at 10:42 PM..

01-05-2004, 06:34 PM	#53 (permalink)
3rdEye Upright Location: tri-state area	I did these things to k-mart. Camera Film- Grab a box or single box of film, scope the store for cameras. They usually have the black dome looking cameras, that prob arn't even cameras. anyway they don't have them in every isle in the store, find a convienient isle w/out a camera, quickly open and discard the box into the shelfs. Put the film canister into your pocket and leave that trailor trash employing hole. Me and my buddies were ggoing to the mountains on weekend in hgh school and we forgot a cd player to play tunes. We stopped at k-fart and found a few we liked. Problem was nobody wanted to throw in money. So me and a buddy got the bright idea to shove a nice phillips boom box off the shelf model into a shitty boom box, box. We unplugged the nice one, took the shitty one out of the box and replaced it with the nice one. We payed 30 instead of 80. I was nervous as hell at the counter, the box was all crammed full like it didn't fit insde the. Luckily those idiots didn't notice. What a great weekend. I was such an asshole in high school, I prob wouldn't have the balls to do it now. Although I do want to try the quarter thing, drill the whole technique.

01-12-2004, 09:30 AM	#54 (permalink)
filtherton Junkie Location: In the land of ice and snow.	This one is kind've like NoSoup's A friend of mine decided that he need a bike. Being the type that preferred to spend his money on drugs rather than things he actually needed he decides to steal said bike. What does he do? He walks into a target superstore, grabs a bike from their display rack, walks it to the point where you choose between going to the checkouts or leaving and just hops on the bike and rides away. Simple as pie. I don't know if they chased him or not, but i do know that he did it at a few more target stores in the surrounding suburbs and got away with it. Not that i'm advocating stealing, just relating a story about a friend of mine.

01-12-2004, 11:38 PM	#55 (permalink)
89transam Psycho Location: Central California	This thread turned from how to freeload into how to steal __________________ I'd rather be rich than stupid.

01-24-2004, 09:37 AM	#58 (permalink)
smooth_4 Tilted Location: Washington	Two great sites for freeloaders are fatwallet.com and http://members.cox.net/dailyfreestuff/ __________________ It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle

01-29-2004, 07:37 PM	#59 (permalink)
macmanmike6100 High Honorary Junkie Location: Tri-state.	this thread just seems a little skeevy because, at the very least, some "loss prevention" guy could be reading this and implement fixes for everything we write

02-06-2004, 02:03 PM	#61 (permalink)
skier Rawr! Location: Edmontania	freeloading at stealing are just degrees of theft. You either shitkick the system or not. __________________ "Asking a bomb squad if an old bomb is still "real" is not the best thing to do if you want to save it." - denim

02-25-2004, 06:51 PM	#62 (permalink)
runawayfetus Crazy Location: san fran	usually... i have 10 friends waiting at the exit door of the actual theatre itself.. not the main lobby,... u know where the people exit after the movie is over. the officials cant see people waiting at these doors.. and one person buys a ticket and goes and lets everyone else in __________________ im a huge movie goer....

03-04-2004, 04:44 PM	#63 (permalink)
aa1037 Insane Location: New York	this thread was a very interesting read! personally, my friends and I have done the ticket tearing trick a few times - who wants to pay $9.50 for a movie now?! I remember when it was $7 on LI, and I'm just 18! ha

03-06-2004, 12:32 PM	#64 (permalink)
Zander Banned Location: Vegas/So. Cal	It's not illegal unless you get caught. Here are some things I've thought of/heard of: The switch in a store, my friend and I were buying sports gloves, and we just switched expensive ones into the cheap boxes while we were trying them on. I also want to work in a store just so I can chase down and beat up people that try to steal shit =D

03-06-2004, 12:40 PM	#65 (permalink)
Zander Banned Location: Vegas/So. Cal	Also, when going to a store to buy a game that needs a CD key, just open the box, write down/text message/take a picture of the CD key and just have your friend burn you a copy of his old one.

03-06-2004, 12:46 PM	#66 (permalink)
Zander Banned Location: Vegas/So. Cal	And this really isn't a scam, but something funny to do: At a Target/Wal-Mart etc. get a bunch of clothes with security tags and put them in a backpack, and when someone tries to buy the backpack they'll set off security alarms.

03-10-2004, 12:53 PM	#67 (permalink)
ols Insane	this is the greatest thread ever most of the people working at these stores dont care if you rip their employer off. i can vouche for k-mart. its also easier if you know someone that works there Last edited by ols; 03-10-2004 at 01:01 PM..

03-10-2004, 01:06 PM	#68 (permalink)
agball Insane Location: Long Island	Free computer upgrades This one works like a charm!! If you have a Costco near you go there and Purchase a new computer. Costco allows you to reutrn any computer within 6 months. They also are getting new models in with the latest technology all the time. 6 months after you buy it clean it out back it up with the DVD burner that it came with & return it to them for a full refund. Now go and look at what they have in stock and you will find the latest technology for the same price as the one you return. Get in line & buy the new one.

03-10-2004, 07:00 PM	#69 (permalink)
wakelagger Insane Location: Toronto	Yeah, my friend's dad does the Costco trick all the time. Goes in, creates a ruckus like only a German accented 60 year old can, and walks out with the latest in computer tech. Repeat 6 months later. He hasn't spent money on a new computer in three years, and he's gone through 5 or 6 generations of Costco computers.

03-12-2004, 03:24 PM	#70 (permalink)
runawayfetus Crazy Location: san fran	hah .. teh comp stuff seems like itd be too much work for me. Im to lazy to pack it upo and return it etc. id rather just steal it and get it over wtih __________________ im a huge movie goer....

03-16-2004, 06:27 AM	#75 (permalink)
Devilinmypants Hippie relocationist. Location: Greensboro NC	I had a tagger friend go to walmart, load a buggy full of spraypaint and just push it passed the cashiers out of the building. He dumped it in his trunk and went back in for seconds, where the greedy bastard got caught. Yet another friend of mine was lawfully paying for items when the cashier forgot to ring up his photos because he didnt know how and this friend got stopped by walmart rentacops and ended up doing community service and being banned from walmart. Very odd how much security varies from store to store.