The move here, or with any merchandise or service that isn't tracked, is to pocket the cash when someone buys one. Friends in high school made bank working at the circus circus game booths, management had no way (at the time anyway) of telling how many times people actually played. This used to be popular with movie theater employees too, at small independent theaters. My friend tells of the time the owner made his yearly visit and the theater was pretty packed but he had rung up only about ten tickets and got in hot water, but amazingly not fired.

I worked at a store with one of those cards where you swipe and save money if stuff is on sale. You'd also get a gift certificate a few times a year to the store, the amount of which depended on how much you spent.

The store had a generic card we could swipe if the customer forgot theirs.

I always used my parents instead, this worked out awesome until I got fired for doing it.

Another job, I don't know how much of a scam this is opposed to good ole fashioned crime but a guy it's still good.

I worked in a huge gas station, 24/7 Subway inside, other stuff, really nice. Well a kid I worked with would take an arm's length of scratch off tickets from underneath the counter, scratch them off in front of customers(and the store's cameras) and if they were winners he'd scan them in the state linked register and pay himself out from the cash register.

People liked the idea so much 1/3 of the store was doing it. Never did this myself because my mom didn't smoke crack when she was pregnant with me. Pretty awesome though. Amazingly, nobody ever got caught.

The video store where I used to live when I was younger had a promotion where if you got a blue gumball from the gumball machine you got your movie/game for free, so me and my friends would buy gum until we got the blue one, but we saved it and from that point on whenever we would rent something we would put a quater in the machine show them the blue gumball eat the other color one and get our movie for a quater. (I hear they went out of business awhile ago).

When i get blowsjobs from hookers they charge $20 for a basic and $30 to swallow. They ask when the time comes, if you want them not to swallow let them know. I will bust and let them swallow and tell them it was pre cum and Ill just finish myself off later. They obviously know it wasnt precum but how are they going to prove it?

yes this is semi-true. the ones where i live are programed to stop if something else meta goes on top of the sensor after a second or two delay so u still have to be somewhat quick.

but otherwise say if a tow truck was toeing a car out of the parking lot it would not go down in between.
or if someone had a trailer hitch thingamabob it would not go down in between

I called into every Mcdonald's in the city and told them i was missing a patty on my Big Mac and the fries were stale. I had free big mac meals at every Mcdonalds by the end of it.

Most of the scams listed here are only possible because businesses decided to replace employees with machines.

They money they are saving on wages > the money the are losing to extra theft. If not, they'd just hire people again.

My friend used to do this when there were clearances on items, where they print out a new barcode sticker and place it on. Just remove the sticker and put it on something else more expensive.

No-one ever noticed, just always pick the dumbest looking, most disinterested girl at the checkout. She'll swipe it through and not bat an eyelid.

Prolly went to Ridgemont High

Definitely have had a few guys stand directly behind me while swiping my subway pass lately then following me close enough behind to get through the gate without them paying.

I shake the vending machine at work and probably get 1 free bar per week


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Reminds me of this unrelated win

Haha, yes I arrived at a vending machine the other day to see a bag of crisps resting on the glass. I really wanted a Double-decker, but in the interest of choosing something that would knock the crisps down too, I went for a Twix and double fist-pumped.

LOL!!

When I worked ata hotel I hadta refil the pop machine. I would buy cases of pop on sale at walmert for like $3. I open the pop machine and put in the cheap pop and take some of the profits to make it look like no one was buying much pop. I made aboot $25 extra a week doing this

When I was about 9 years old I used to buy the Sunday newspaper for the old lady in a wheel chair a few house down. She would give me money for the paper and an extra dollar. Two more neighbors wanted in, so then I went to the stand and put money in for one and took out all of them, and profited around $5 in which I bought baseball cards, most likely 88 Donruss at that time, lol

i've heard of people doing something like this at baseball games. the employee brings in their own beer and sells it for $9 a can.

I owned the Donruss card company , in which we bought licenses cheap from MLB, we printed 12 card packs at 14 cents each total cost , and sold them at 1.29 a pack under the guise that our rookie cards would appreciate in value and a set was worth 59 dollars. We so overprinted and oversold them and now the market has cratered and you can buy a set for 7.99

I feel like most of these are just straight stealing. To be a scam, I feel like you have to outsmart the other guy. Here's a couple of scams I've pulled.

Playing 1/2 in Vegas. I'm drunk and getting drunker. I raise PF with AK and lose when a guy bets into me on a no face card river. I show my AK and complain that all the flops here suck. A guy laughs. I'm like "No, seriously dude. Every single flop has a 2, 3, or 4. Bet you a dollar this flop will have a 2, 3, or 4." It comes out without one and I pay him the dollar. We agree to do this every flop. Pretty soon, six other guys at the table are betting me a dollar on every single flop and laughing at me. Added bonus of cover when a guy points out that I'm playing pretty tight for a drunk and I respond "Card dead and it sucks double cuz I always have all my outs for the 2,3,4 game!" Swindle.

Talking with a buddy about craps. He's one of these know-it-all math poker guys. I say that I think the hardways are the best bets in the game. He gets all indignant on me and tries to quote some math at me. I'm like, "blah, blah, blah, whatever. Let's bet on it. Grab some dice. We'll take turns rolling. Whenever a 7 or soft 4, 6, 8, or 10 comes, I'll pay you $2. Whenever a hard 4 or 10 comes you pay me $16; whenever a hard 6 or 8 comes you pay me $20." He snap agrees. We play for like 90 minutes until he runs out of pocket money. The great thing about this one is we've played a couple of other times and he can't figure out how I run so good!

I did a variation on this when i worked at a chuck e cheese style place. for about 10% of the customers that paid cash, i would put them down as a free pass. kids were 9.95 and adults were 15.95, so i just had to put 5c in each time to balance the till. I would walk out with between $150-$300 a day depending on how busy it was. not bad for making 7.50/h

the oversight at this place was obviously terrible and never even got close to finding me out

That's not why they were standing so close behind you.

Similar to this, you can buy a video game or DVD from the store, watch or play it as much as you want and then return it. Stores have a "no refunds if opened" policy, so just take back the opened version, tell them it skips or freezes and you want to exchange it for another of the same title. They give it to you and then you just turn around and return the sealed copy for a full refund.

Nice!

i used to go to the library the day the new SI for kids came in and would take out the paper trading cards

Eeeeeverybody scams......sooooometimes