[Offers] Mostly legal and mostly pikey ways you have saved money

Dale Jasper said:

Not proud of this but in the 1990s , my pals and I frequented virgin records on western road. Between the top and bottom floor there were stairs with no security . We would pick a cd or two and then scratch off the security tab on the stairs , out of sight. Then leave.
We justified it by saying Richard Branson could probably afford it

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marlowe said:

But that's just mindless and pointless vandalism. It's hardly up there with Joe Orton and his library books. I hope you and your pals at least had the consideration to return the CDs to their correct section before leaving.

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Tim Over Whelmed said:

You'd be amazed now much resource is used to spot and prosecute for this, there's no second chances, they're not daft .....

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Bevendean Hillbilly said:

That's a great idea..you can even use the free hot water provided to rinse your mug.

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desprateseagull said:

A 'reverse pikey' thing i do, as it were, is to leave my day saver ticket at last bus stop I use- no longer needed, so anyone who comes along next can get a free ride or two..

Apparantly sharing tickers is frowned upon, but the driver can't check who paid for it, can they??

#randomactsofkindness #reversepikey #payitforward

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RandyWanger said:

In a previous job I had a company car and fuel card, I’d always carry a jerry can in the boot and when filling up the work car, fill the can too for my personal car.
Also used to use it for personal trips and fudge the mileage. I used it when moving back to the UK, over 1200km and €300 in tolls. Saved me a fortune. Drove back to my old job in France, dropped the car off at the office then flew home with hand luggage.

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mejonaNO12 aka riskit said:

Good thread.

I knew at Uni that perfectly good food was being thrown out at a certain time of the morning. I used to set my alarm for 30mins before this, get to the shop at say 4am and then stand there and buy food for pennies whilst they could still legally sell it..

The guy was about to throw roast chickens. I think I agreed to buy about 10 of the little blighters for about £2. Bang them in the freezer. Done.

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Whitechapel said:

When I was 17 I went in to Tesco and bought a 2L bottle of Tesco Value water for about 12p.

I went home, cut the barcode out, stuck some double sided tape on it and then headed back up to Tesco.

Stuck the barcode on to a 2L bottle of Strongbow and went through the self service checkout.

No I.D required, and less than 20p for 2 litres of drink.

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marlowe said:

In the days of vinyl LPs and C90 cassettes I'd regularly buy LPs from Virgin or HMV, take them home and record them onto cassette and then return the LP to the shop and get a refund using the receipt.

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desprateseagull said:

A 'reverse pikey' thing i do, as it were, is to leave my day saver ticket at last bus stop I use- no longer needed, so anyone who comes along next can get a free ride or two..

Apparantly sharing tickers is frowned upon, but the driver can't check who paid for it, can they??

#randomactsofkindness #reversepikey #payitforward

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Norman Potting said:

I hop everywhere and make sure that I do it on alternate legs each day. Doubles the life of my shoes.

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Jack Straw said:

Many moons ago, I went in to a sports shop and asked to see a selection of table-tennis bats. I "accidentally" put the dearest one back in to the box with the lowest price on and bought it. I still feel really sorry for the person who paid a fortune for a cheap and nasty table-tennis bat!

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marlowe said:

About 15 years ago I discovered a Buy One Get One Free loophole which meant the supermarkets (Tesco and Sainsburys) paid me to buy their goods. It only worked on BOGOF items which were also reduced because of the sell by date and reduced by more than half.

How it worked was this. If a BOGOF item was originally £2.50 and it had been reduced to £1, when you bought two they would charge you 2 x £1 which came to £2, then when your items were totalled at the till it would take the original price of £2.50 off you bill which meant they had paid you 50p to buy their two BOGOF items.

Because I looked out for reduced BOGOF items it wasn't unusual for me to be paid as much as £10 to do my shopping. I always had to make sure I spent more than they paid me as I didn't want to be rumbled because if I wasn't careful I could have got in a situation where when it came to pay for my purchases the supermarket would be giving me money instead of me them which might bring the loophole to an early end.

This loophole lasted about three years before coming to an end. Then when the new Waitrose opened in Hove near the Greyhound Stadium a couple of years ago I discovered the same loophole. I think it was specific to that Waitrose because it was new and they probably hadn't sorted out their systems yet. I became a regular visitor there in the evenings at reduction time. There was another bloke who always used to turn up too as he had sussed the loophole too but it seemed to be just the two of us. It worked for about six months before they discovered it and brought it to a halt. I reckon I got paid around £200 by Waitrose in those six months while it lasted.

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