Have you ever benefited from a glitch in the matrix?

The Purveyor of Truth · 02-09-2014 07:53PM #1

Seems, despite having moved my 086 number to Tesco Mobile five weeks ago, I still have the ability to send free web texts by logging into the O2 website with my old number.

Also, a subscription company I was with for five years, but then unsubscribed from, is still give me free ******* to ***** and as I really like ***** I haven't alerted them to their error. I should I know.

So how's about yourselves? Ever benefited from, or take advantage of, a glitch?

Kermit.de.frog · 02-09-2014 07:54PM

I should have taken the blue pill.

TeddyTedson · 02-09-2014 07:56PM

Erm, I'm getting a subscription based service free every month. I'm actually so happy about it

Agricola · 02-09-2014 07:58PM

Was put on a business package by my broadband provider which had a big upload speed, lower contention etc etc because the normal service I had was gimped due to a problem their end. They left me at my normal monthly charge obviously. Couple of years later, Im still on the more expensive service at the lower charge. Sshhhh.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 02-09-2014 07:58PM

Moved to: Talk to O2

Chucken · 02-09-2014 07:59PM

The Cunning Linguist wrote: »

Moved to: Talk to O2

Snitch :P

monkeysnapper · 02-09-2014 08:09PM

This reminds me of years ago, 1999 , a friend was telling me how his brother was suddenly getting money lodged into his account , for past 2 months in a row , and how he was chuffed that somehow he was on to a good thing. Like most things that appear to good to be true , the glitch suddenly corrected it self and he found himself on the receiving end of having to return all the money that he had already spent .

Wether it was a red or blue pill , it was very hard to swallow for poor lad .

castletownman · 02-09-2014 08:11PM

Yeah. My pirated DVD of the second and third films stopped working about five minutes in.

Spared the tedium thank god

Godeatsboogers · 02-09-2014 08:14PM

I was working in a factory about 15 years ago and instead of telling someone i was quiting i just walked out and got a new job, but they kept paying me till i had to ring for my p45. Good times, think i got about 2000 pounds altogether, suckers

fineso.mom · 02-09-2014 08:17PM

Godeatsboogers wrote: »

I was working in a factory about 15 years ago and instead of telling someone i was quiting i just walked out and got a new job, but they kept paying me till i had to ring for my p45. Good times, think i got about 2000 pounds altogether, suckers

How bad were you at your job that they didn't even know you were gone!!

fineso.mom · 02-09-2014 08:18PM

Godeatsboogers wrote: »

I was working in a factory about 15 years ago and instead of telling someone i was quiting i just walked out and got a new job, but they kept paying me till i had to ring for my p45. Good times, think i got about 2000 pounds altogether, suckers

How bad were you at your job that they didn't even know you were gone!!

Into The Blue · 02-09-2014 08:20PM

When I was serving my apprenticeship, the company continued to pay me on block release.

So I was getting 450 from them and 350 from fas.. Good times in the off licence with my povo student mates buying whatever piss was on special that week

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 02-09-2014 08:23PM

Into The Blue wrote: »

When I was serving my apprenticeship, the company continued to pay me on block release.

So I was getting 450 from them and 350 from fas.. Good times in the offo with my povo student mates buying whatever piss was on special that week

We could've worked for the same company

hi-5!!

Into The Blue · 02-09-2014 08:25PM

The Cunning Linguist wrote: »

We could've worked for the same company hi-5!!

Ian?

Duiske · 02-09-2014 08:33PM

On the landline account, I tried upgrading my bundle online and noticed that I could "upgrade" to the same package I was already on, and get it for half price for 6 months. Tried at the end of the 6 months and discovered I could do the same thing again. Managed to do it 4 times before they changed all the packages to account for fibre and it wouldn't work anymore. :mad: Still, 2 years BB and phone at half price was pretty good.

UCDVet · 02-09-2014 08:47PM

I paid for one of those USB modems from O2. I plugged it into my laptop and got cellar internet access somehow. I did it for two months over the summer, but even though it wasn't a phone, they gave me a phone number.

I can still log into their website and send free web texts!

It sounds pretty cool, but I only use about 50 of my 500 free webtexts on my main account.

artanevilla · 02-09-2014 08:51PM

UCDVet wrote: »

I paid for one of those USB modems from O2. I plugged it into my laptop and got cellar internet access somehow. I did it for two months over the summer, but even though it wasn't a phone, they gave me a phone number.

I can still log into their website and send free web texts!

It sounds pretty cool, but I only use about 50 of my 500 free webtexts on my main account.

That's how they work, there's a sim card in the USB.

GLaDOS · 02-09-2014 08:53PM

My mobile phone company seem to have been undercharging me for a while now, over 2 different contracts

mightyreds · 02-09-2014 08:57PM

A factory I used to work in had a staff discount shop that was taken from your wages, after they did an update on employee cards it stopped being taken from my wages even though I was still getting goods from the shop.

Banjo String · 02-09-2014 08:59PM

Godeatsboogers wrote: »

I was working in a factory about 15 years ago and instead of telling someone i was quiting i just walked out and got a new job, but they kept paying me till i had to ring for my p45. Good times, think i got about 2000 pounds altogether, suckers

The Cunning Linguist wrote: »

We could've worked for the same company hi-5!!

You pair in the civil service by any chance?

UCDVet · 02-09-2014 09:27PM

artanevilla wrote: »

That's how they work, there's a sim card in the USB.

Yeah - but they could come up with a better way of doing it without giving me two years (and counting) of free text messages.

oppenheimer1 · 02-09-2014 09:45PM

UCDVet wrote: »

Yeah - but they could come up with a better way of doing it without giving me two years (and counting) of free text messages.

They weren't free. You got them because you were a mobile broadband customer.

AndonHandon · 02-09-2014 09:51PM

I accidentally walked out onto a motorway in Spain but instead of getting hit I ended up being transported in an instant to a destination 3km away. Odd feeling but a reminder that this is still the Matrix and not reality.

alias no.9 · 02-09-2014 09:59PM

Was checking my holiday balance at work today and figured they're giving me some extra holidays this year

Also received a refund from a mobile provider one time after an overcharging incident, the refund was 100x the amount I was overcharged

krudler · 03-09-2014 03:41AM

UCDVet wrote: »

I paid for one of those USB modems from O2. I plugged it into my laptop and got cellar internet access somehow. I did it for two months over the summer, but even though it wasn't a phone, they gave me a phone number.

I can still log into their website and send free web texts!

It sounds pretty cool, but I only use about 50 of my 500 free webtexts on my main account.

...you mean the same thing EVERY mobile broadband customer has with them? broadband users get an 086 prefix phone number and 500 webtexts as well.

Aglomerado · 03-09-2014 09:00AM

I had my private health insurance paid by the company for two years after I stopped working for them.

Kimbot · 03-09-2014 09:07AM

A few years ago I was on Grafton Street for lunch, outside HMV and went to the bank machine (It was the only one still doing 10's). Popped in my pin and requested £30 and out popped £70. Checked my account and only 30 gone, someone filled the 10's slot with 50's

mathie · 03-09-2014 09:10AM

I was on a sports clothes website years ago having a browse and all of a sudden all the prices dropped to zero.
So I lashed a few bits into the basket as quick as I could and went through checkout.
It added up to zero euros with free postage.

The order sat there for weeks saying "pending" and I thought I'd never hear anything further until about six weeks later I got an "Order shipped" email.

I got about four hundred euro worth of stuff for free.

Good times.

AnonoBoy · 03-09-2014 09:29AM

Got on the bus the other day and the Leap Card reader thing wouldn't work so the driver said I could get on for free.

FOR FREE MUTHAF*CKERS!!!!!

I then sensibly used the 1.45 I'd saved to buy a pack of crisps and some chewy sweets.

paperclip2 · 03-09-2014 09:39AM

Not me, but a woman I work with is a big GAA fan from Tipp and used to be a club press officer years ago. She got a call last week from a woman who offered her 2 premium seats for the Hurling final this weekend. She's won them in a raffle but had no interest in going and had no-one to take them off her. Didn't want anything for them either.
Down here in the sticks in certain circles that's like a lotto win.

smash · 03-09-2014 09:47AM

But Tesco use the O2 network...

Have you ever benefited from a glitch in the matrix?

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