Have you ever benefited from a glitch in the matrix?

Duff · 03-09-2014 09:53AM

I ordered a Dominos online last week and when I went in to collect it, it came up that I already had paid when in reality, I hadn't. Fúck the system.

Senna · 03-09-2014 10:20AM

Someone hacked my PayPal account, used it to get payments and send them straight to a bank account in the UK. Once I realised I contacted PayPal who stupidly refunded me all the money back, they even made a balls of the refund, it was a Euro amount but they thought it was sterling and converted back to Euro, adding about 20% extra for me. Think it was nearly €900 in total.

Jen Pigs Fly · 03-09-2014 12:14PM

Haven't paid my phone bill since February ... got a text on there on Monday saying I owned 60euro, I just got 3 months free Mobile and internet haha. Paid the 60 and no word about when I last paid. My bill is normally 20 a month

Shhhhh

o1s1n · 03-09-2014 12:17PM

Bought myself a new Moto G phone on Amazon 6 months ago, still haven't been charged :pac:

The Purveyor of Truth · 03-09-2014 01:37PM

smash wrote: »

But Tesco use the O2 network...

Yeah but I still have an O2 account with Priority Moments App access and all.

I could in effect, sell the sim and yet still use the O2 account to send texts from it, even though I would no longer have access to it.

orchidsrpretty · 03-09-2014 01:43PM

Took out a 5000€ loan in 2005ish. Didn't make the repayments for 4 months as I had lost my job at the time. Got a letter to say the loan had been passed onto debt collection agency. When I rang them they had no record of loan. Went back to bank who also had no record of the loan! Got about 4000€ for free

AnonoBoy · 03-09-2014 02:18PM

This post was deleted fairly quickly!

Bertie A. wrote:

Ran the country into the ground, accepted bribes and did a load of dodgy things along the way.

I'm still walking around free.

bur · 03-09-2014 02:29PM

I signed up to busybeedvd.com using a 3v voucher one time, a month trial or something. But they kept sending me dvds for well over a year even though the 3v voucher was empty.

Rucking_Fetard · 03-09-2014 04:21PM

o1s1n wrote: »

Bought myself a new Moto G phone on Amazon 6 months ago, still haven't been charged :pac:

Lad on comp&tech had a new Dell Laptop for a year there recently b4 they came looking for the money.

Accounts catch up eventually.

_Brian · 03-09-2014 04:30PM

Wouldn't like to give details but I had €30K transferred into an account I wasn't using any more.. Just appeared on the statements, left it sit for 3 years and it wasn't recovered... So I sent a letter to the institution asking for all monies to be forwarded and account closed..
Cheque arrived and never heard anything since, that was maybe 4 years ago now.. :cool:

krudler · 03-09-2014 04:32PM

xxxJennyxxx wrote: »

Haven't paid my phone bill since February ... got a text on there on Monday saying I owned 60euro, I just got 3 months free Mobile and internet haha. Paid the 60 and no word about when I last paid. My bill is normally 20 a month

Shhhhh

60 was probably the amount in collections, you get a limit of what's overdue before they contact you, takes ages for it to be racked up if you're on a low amount a month. seen people go a year without paying a broadband bill before being contacted because their credit limit was pretty high.

jimgoose · 03-09-2014 04:32PM

Nah. I never had any luck like that. Still searching for section 2 of the Universe manpages. :pac:

ganmo · 03-09-2014 04:33PM

There is a law stating that if you find something and make no effort to find the rightful owner you are guilty of 'theft by finding', great name isn't it

The Purveyor of Truth · 03-09-2014 04:39PM

_Brian wrote: »

Wouldn't like to give details but I had €30K transferred into an account I wasn't using any more.. Just appeared on the statements, left it sit for 3 years and it wasn't recovered... So I sent a letter to the institution asking for all monies to be forwarded and account closed..
Cheque arrived and never heard anything since, that was maybe 4 years ago now.. :cool:

...

The Peanut · 03-09-2014 04:43PM

_Brian wrote: »

Wouldn't like to give details but I had €30K transferred into an account I wasn't using any more.. Just appeared on the statements, left it sit for 3 years and it wasn't recovered... So I sent a letter to the institution asking for all monies to be forwarded and account closed..
Cheque arrived and never heard anything since, that was maybe 4 years ago now.. :cool:

Honestly, I couldn't live what the guilt of doing something like this. Yes, it could be from someone with more money than sense but it could also be from a crime or some doddery old dear who thinks it's gone somewhere she intended.

In any case, it wouldn't be mine to keep.

Tiger Mcilroy · 03-09-2014 04:45PM

Was going to a christening in kildare a few years back and had been tasked with buying the wine in a Tesco in the north, not being a big wine drinker i bought 20 bottles of Wolf blass Chardonnay at £5 a pop as it decent and was on offer.

On the way down word got out that it was all Chardonnay and i was told to swap some in a Tescos on the way as not all liked it..brought them to the customer service desk and the bottles i had bought for a Fiver scanned at €17.99 a bottle...giving me 360 in credit so I picked up 20 bottles of €10 pinot grigio etc and took the €160 for my troubles.

I beat the system that day and the replacement wine went down a treat.

TheJackAttack · 03-09-2014 04:54PM

About 2 years ago over in the Gambling forum somebody spotted a glitch during a Crystal Palace game which had the +2 market overpriced. Bearing in mind the game was 0-0 and Palace were the favourites it was an outrageous price which fluctuated from 10/1 - 40/1 ..

I won about 1,200e but I know of others who won 3k+ ..I couldn't believe my luck!

sbsquarepants · 03-09-2014 05:02PM

Bank once put almost 3 grand (I can't remember exact amount) into my account by mistake, I left it aside expecting them to find it but when they hadn't after a couple of months I blew it on a nice suit and a mates stag do. That was about 8 years ago, still no mention.
Thank you Mr. Bank Man, I appreciate it.:D

The Purveyor of Truth · 03-09-2014 05:15PM

TheJackAttack wrote: »

About 2 years ago over in the Gambling forum somebody spotted a glitch during a Crystal Palace game which had the +2 market overpriced. Bearing in mind the game was 0-0 and Palace were the favourites it was an outrageous price which fluctuated from 10/1 - 40/1 ..

I won about 1,200e but I know of others who won 3k+ ..I couldn't believe my luck!

Reminds me of a few years back when Paddy's and Boyles had priced up the Champion Hurdle winning distance in such a way that you could bet 2 and half lengths or less on one bookies and 2 lengths or more in the other, and no matter what happened, be guaranteed to win. The was three options in each bookie also, so the price was a decent 9/4 or so, if I recall correctly and so it was around a 4/7 sure thing. There was a limit of a €100 on bets though and so I ended up going to twenty different branches of Paddy's and Boyles and placing a bet in each one. The hardest part was making sure I alternating from Paddy's to a Boyles, as didn't want to suddenly see the bet disappear, or get refused at any point and realize that I had the majority of my money on one outcome. Anyway, got them all on and all told, I made around €1250. Not bad for a few hours driving around Dublin like a mad thing.

People do this all the time I believe. It's called Arbitrage betting, or betting the arb.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrage_betting

Daveysil15 · 03-09-2014 05:22PM

Years ago when I was with Sky digital I had a little trick I used to do to get free Sky box office movies. I'd connect the phone line from the socket in the wall to the back of the Sky box. I'd click on a movie that I wanted to buy and then immediately whip the cable out of the socket before the information could be sent back to Sky. Whenever the bill came there was never any sky box office listed on it, so I assume I was never charged for it.

_Brian · 03-09-2014 07:55PM

The Peanut wrote: »

Honestly, I couldn't live what the guilt of doing something like this. Yes, it could be from someone with more money than sense but it could also be from a crime or some doddery old dear who thinks it's gone somewhere she intended.

In any case, it wouldn't be mine to keep.

No bother.. just send it on this way and I'll manage the guilt just fine

Mariasofia · 03-09-2014 08:02PM

I used to work in a factory years ago and someone who worked there found out that "balance unavailable" came up on a certain banklink machine at 12 on a Thursday night enabling people to take out up to £200 wether or not the funds were actually there! Thursday was a big night out for said factory and for weeks there used to be a queue for a mile at 12..... :-D
Bank always took funds back but it didnt matter lashing back cocktails of a Thursday..... :-D

Ruu · 03-09-2014 08:11PM

Awful lucky bunch here it would seem! Closest I got was years back when the nudey channels on Sky were unencrypted, turned it off and went for a night out and came back expecting a fuzzy screen but they were still free. \o/

One other time during the IOL Surf no limits era, they had my billing info and hadnt taken money for months. Called them one day and they wanted everything in one go even though their billing fecked it all up.

falan · 03-09-2014 08:41PM

Not me but the mother and father...
A few years ago they owed about 5 or 6000 or something and the repayments were 165 a month or something like that.
They got into financial difficulty due to my dad getting a serious illness he could not work.
They phoned the company and begged them to let them pay say 100 a month for a few months or whatever but the company wasnt having any of it and insisted on 165 a month.
The parents couldnt afford this in no way so just thought F*ck them, let them take us to court and stopped paying. They got a few letters in the post making threats of legal action etc and then nothing.
After a year or so they were in a bit of a better position financially so phoned the company to arrange to start paying back what they owed...
They asked whoever was on the phone to send them a bill of exactly what they owed.
They got the bill and it was for like 250 euro. They couldn't believe it.
They paid this and said no more about it.
The company even rang a few weeks later offering them another loan.
A debt of nearly 6 thousand vanished..

mightyreds · 03-09-2014 09:53PM

TheJackAttack wrote: »

About 2 years ago over in the Gambling forum somebody spotted a glitch during a Crystal Palace game which had the +2 market overpriced. Bearing in mind the game was 0-0 and Palace were the favourites it was an outrageous price which fluctuated from 10/1 - 40/1 ..

I won about 1,200e but I know of others who won 3k+ ..I couldn't believe my luck!

Same happened to me, think it was William hill they had on the Kerry Dublin AI final a few years ago, both teams to score 10-1

Girlfriend heaped on and a few people I knew, unlucky for me I was so sure it wouldn't be honoured I didn't bet and they honoured it.

Have you ever benefited from a glitch in the matrix?

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