App-solutely Rewarding
U/lfernandes: “On my iPhone, there is a particular app that awards ‘M Points’ whenever you do certain things in the app…Well those M points you could trade in later for tons of things, including Amazon gift cards. 5k M points was a $5 amazon gift card. Watching a 10 minute video was worth…about 300 M points. The trick was that you could drag the bar to the end of the video and it would still trigger the M points.
My buddy and I stayed up super late that night and made several hundred dollars in amazon gift cards…In the end, after about a week, we bought 2 high end gaming computers (parts then assembled) from nearly scratch. We already had a tower and power supply for one, but the other was completely built for free, courtesy this app.”
Multi-step Mischief
U/sk4ht: “I used to work at Walden Books back in the day. There was a dude who used to routinely come in and buy bargain books. He would then go home and come back another time with the bargain books with the stickers ripped off to return them and claim he didn’t have a receipt. We would then have to give him store credit for the price that the books rang up as (always more than the discounted bargain sticker).
He would then come back at a later time and use the store credit to buy full priced books. He would then come back one final time and return the books with a receipt for cash. It used to irritate me when he would do this because I knew what he was doing and there wasn’t anything I could do about it.”