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What's best loop hole you have found and exploited to your own advantage?

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  • #62
    phantom_lord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭phantom_lord


    stepbar wrote: »
    Well considering he's on the dole I doubt he'll have any tax to pay...

    You might back up your comment by linking the evidence.........

    i think you have to pay taxes when your income exceeds $80k otherwise you have to rescind your citizenship.


  • #63
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,315 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    seanybiker wrote: »
    ha ha ha I'd say you where gutted. How much should you have been paying?

    Think it was 2.00 for a cheeseburger or 2.40 with bacon. Still, I got my value for a while at least. :P


  • #64
    oppenheimer1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    stepbar wrote: »
    Well considering he's on the dole I doubt he'll have any tax to pay...

    You might back up your comment by linking the evidence.........

    As you wish
    http://www.irs.gov/businesses/article/0,,id=180946,00.html
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_United_States#Federal_income_tax

    Although it might come in handy, its one of the reasons I would be wary of getting US citizenship.


  • #65
    Jam-Fly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 549 ✭✭✭Jam-Fly


    ascanbe wrote: »
    I'm unsure of the intention behind your response.
    If you mean, 'that's hilarious.....oh wait, no it's not', as a conceit; ie, a humourous attempt to bring to life, for the reader, a situation where you laughed heartily at my post and then, on realising the implications, were left contemplative, then, yeah.
    If you meant that you saw it as an attempt at humour on my part and that this attempt at humour was a failed attempt at humour, you're mistaken; it wasn't meant to be funny.

    I'm sure it's the former


  • #66
    Misty Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Misty Chaos


    When Chorus first went digital back in 2000 ( and I still watched TV ) , we were one of the first to get a box ( my father was a sub contractor ) lets just say they launched a beta service. Basically, all of the ppw channels on it weren't blocked at all! Sweet.

    I can also remember finding a loop hole in a fag machine in a local bar as a child, you'd put in say, a 20p coin and then when you pressed reject, you sometimes got more back than what you put in! I sometimes got a pound or from that machine as a result and sometimes it worked more than once in a day!


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  • #67
    Xavi6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,159 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    My student ID has no expiry date on it so can still be used despite me having graduated nearly 4 years ago :D


  • #68
    njals_saga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭njals_saga


    Years ago O2, or whatever they were called then, used to sell phone credit in prepackaged card form, ie not printed on request. So anyway you bought your £10 or whatever and input the code. But you could also put in the same code again whilst changing say one of the last digits to something random. Got several hundred pounds worth of free credit.


  • #69
    actuallylike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭actuallylike


    Ribena were doing a promotion a few years ago, buy a bottle, enter the promotional number on their website and perhaps win a free Ribena tent. Entered in my code, didn't win but noticed the url had something like 'lose' in amongst a load of random letters and numbers.

    Well, changed 'lose' to 'tent' and hey presto, the winning tent page came up where all you had to do was enter your address.

    My area at Electric Picnic that year was awash with purple tents!


  • #70
    paddym355
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭paddym355


    Back in the good old days when no one used text messaging (1999, I think....) they were initially free, and after that there were several numbers you could input as message centre numbers and get unlimited free texts to anywhere in the world. As far as I remember most of these were originally Eircom numbers for testing the system, later they went through a number in Africa...

    It was great, apart from the fact that a lot of people didn't know what texts were ;-)


  • #71
    c4cat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭c4cat


    Up to a few months ago vodafone, if you ported your number to them, used to give 70 euro of free cr over 7mths without having to top up each month . So I used to get free sims from O2 and Tesco Mobile and ported them to Vodafone/. Then with vodafone you could send credit to another vodafone payg numbers. up to 40 euro per account. So I would sell E40 of credit to people in my local pub for 20 Euro. For about a year I came out of that pub everynight with more cash then what I went in with, plus a skinful of beer too. and never paid for fone cr either. Sadly this loophole has been closed now


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  • #72
    thundercatho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭thundercatho


    A couple of years back when waiting for our flight, me and my better half started collecting all the trollys that people had just left anywhere(£1 per trolley. Needless to say after 1 hour we had £50 which was then spent in duty free... Cant do it anymore as trolleys are now free


  • #73
    Chumpski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 741 ✭✭✭Chumpski


    I knew this guy Jacob and he was annoying the bejaysus outta me bringing people to this island we both live on in the South Pacific. So when a shower of these pr%cks moved the island, it started travelling through time. I coaxed and tricked them throughout a time period of 50 years to end up actually taking Jacob out in the future. It was very elaborate and complex and i cant be explaining it all to you guys here cos i don't really understand how i managed it myself but fu%k you Jacob, how do you like them apples?


  • #74
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    I went into a bank with a gun.

    Once the vault was opened i Shot everyone in there in the face.. lol

    Even the elderly and children. lmao.

    I got millions. Everyone was dead so they couldnt report it.

    Ninjas stole the dead bodies to break down and sell for spare parts on the asian market.

    Im rich.


  • #75
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Not a loophole but..

    About ten years ago Toddy's (beside the Gresham) used to do free food for their patrons at 6pm everyday.

    I used to go in at 5.55pn and load up :p

    They had loads of stuff, sausages, salads, soda breads, soup .. was the dogs while it lasted.


  • #76
    kenon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭kenon


    Free text message numbers!

    Years ago there was free message centre numbers that allowed you to text anyone for free. Usually some Singapore or Kazakhstan message center number. The time on the text message would normally be out by the time difference of the country. They worked for a couple of months (magical months :D) and then the network would find out and block the number causing much sadness to the user...

    Probably doesn't seem like a great loop hole nowadays but this was back when text messaging was just taking off and text messages would ravage your credit.


  • #77
    kenon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭kenon


    paddym355 wrote: »
    Back in the good old days when no one used text messaging (1999, I think....) they were initially free, and after that there were several numbers you could input as message centre numbers and get unlimited free texts to anywhere in the world. As far as I remember most of these were originally Eircom numbers for testing the system, later they went through a number in Africa...

    It was great, apart from the fact that a lot of people didn't know what texts were ;-)
    Didn't see that post... :D

    In 1999 text messages were 10p I think.

    Getting free text messaging 10 years ago is worth two posts anyway. ;)


  • #78
    dster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 ✭dster


    That's the best post title I could think of... Basically it was a loophole in the nokia phone code, not sure if it still works. You used to be able to send an SMS email and by putting a@a in the subject field you could then put the name of the person you want them to think the text is coming from, I think you put that name in the title field. It only worked if you have the name exactly the same as the name in their address book.

    So just say you wanted the person to think they got a text from their mother you put Mam or whatever in the title field. It definitely used to work. We had such fun, such fun messing with people's lives. The 'come-on from the hot girl' thing never got old.

    Oh yeah, when replying to the text it would come back to your phone, the duped party being none the wiser (unless they checked the number the text went to, but most don't just pressed 'reply')


  • #79
    zonEEE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭zonEEE


    Bit of a recent one.

    The offer that 02 does where you top up by 20 euro month and you got free calls to 02 numbers.

    You could call any number you wanted for free by putting * at the end of the number when dialling. Think we got a few months out of this before they coped on. This was only a few months ago.


  • #80
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    strongr wrote: »
    Bit of a recent one.

    The offer that 02 does where you top up by 20 euro month and you got free calls to 02 numbers.

    You could call any number you wanted for free by putting * at the end of the number when dialling. Think we got a few months out of this before they coped on. This was only a few months ago.

    That was still working for me up until three weeks back.


  • #81
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    c4cat wrote: »
    About 20 yrs ago when I was living in Japan, North-West airlines ran a promotion whereby if one refered ones friends to join their frequent flyer milage club, and they actually fly one round trip international flight, they awarded 5000 miles for every friend introduced. All one had to do was get a friend to fill in an application form which already had the freq flyer number pre allocated on the form to use, for 10 friends at a time. One could get as many of these forms as one had friends, there was no limit to the number of friends one could introduce.

    So I thought 'where can I find these people' The Airport!!!! queing at North West gate to check in. So off to the airport I went and sure enough all these Japanese tourist waiting to check in with their suitcase which had lables hanging on them with their name and address on display. I Jotted down the info, went to the phone and called Northwest reservations. Most of these people were not members of their freq flyer club, and I just asked the reservation clerk to imput the freq flyer number I had for each person and got 5000 miles on my freq flyer a/c for each one I introduced that flew one RT int flight. I did this almost every day. If I tried it today, security would come down on me like a ton of bricks

    When I got my North West airlines milage statement each month, I just contacted a frequent flyer Milage Broker in the USA who got them converted into first Class tickets for his clients. I was getting about US$6-7000 each month for about 8 months. I was minted then as that would be about 10-1500 euros per month in todays spending power. I blew it all on cars, and women and drink.
    Also when ever I flew with Northwest, because of the number of miles I had collected I was always bumpt up to business or first class.

    I was young then and my only regret was I did not save the money and buy a house in Ireland, cos today 20 yrs later and compared to then I am poor and skint.....but finding that loophole gave me the best months of my life. Well I Hope you enjoyed the read anyway, cheers


    Pity you didn't spend some of it on spelling lessons;)


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  • #82
    actuallylike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭actuallylike


    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    Pity you didn't spend some of it on spelling lessons;)
    Very adult ;)


  • #83
    Krieg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,378 ✭✭✭Krieg


    Also have an undated student card.
    Im saving about 200 euro p/y, but its starting to look pretty faded.


  • #84
    Saibh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,431 ✭✭✭✭Saibh


    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    Pity you didn't spend some of it on spelling lessons;)
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63152137&postcount=20


  • #85
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,541 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    I use my student card in the bus station when Im going home at weekends, what else is there in this country that you'd reccomend using it on?


  • #86
    Whosbetter?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭Whosbetter?


    Many years ago, fag machines used to have drawers.

    If you pulled 2 of the drawers out slightly, then put in the price for a pack, & then pulled the 2 drawers out quickly.

    Hey presto! 2 packs for the price of 1!


  • #87
    Grimebox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,997 ✭✭✭Grimebox


    Almost every vending machine in UCD used to have some kind of knack to get free stuff out of it. Bottom floor of the science was the easiest by far


  • #88
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,646 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    <yoink>

    another "Message Centre Numbers" one haha


  • #89
    Auldloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭Auldloon


    Up to fairly recently driving a southern Irish reg car in the uk = no speeding summonses/parking tickets.
    It was possible to change your account number on a sky box through the settings to avoid billing for ppv movies.


  • #90
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    daltonr wrote: »
    In the early days of the internet I signed up with IOL.IE.

    They never charged me.
    After a few months, I got worried that they might suddenly hit me with months of bills at once. So I rang them and told them they weren't charging me.

    They said they'd sort it out.
    They never did.

    Every now and again I check and my account is still active.

    I think that's 14 or 15 years of free service from an ISP.
    Granted, I haven't really used it for a lot of those years, but still, it's there.

    -Rd
    Ruu wrote: »
    Surf No Limits customer? Had this as well but they caught on after 2 years or so. :)

    Same for me. Haven't used it in years, but it probably still works. Seems more common than I thought.


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  • #91
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    when I lived in London I lived in West London zone 2 but worked in East London Zone 2 so only ever had a zone 2 ticket for the tube (supposed to buy 1 & 2). As the Central Line was always jammers at rush hour there was a zero chance of there being an inspector on.

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