AIBU to ask what cheeky things you've seen people to do in order to not have to pay

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First off, this is supposed to be a cheeky fucker thread. This is not a thread laughing at people making attempts to cut back to save money. Just want to make that clear!

This thread is inspired by my friend I went swimming with yesterday. Our local pool does wrist bands that indicate what time you entered, so yellow for 2-4, blue for 4-6, etc...

My friend was very adamant we HAD to go swimming at the 4-6 slot. I didn't question it but found her insistence odd.

It turns out she had blue bands from her last swimming session! She had just kept them and not handed them in

When we entered the pool she shouted "oh don't worry I already have the bands" to the pool employees. So not an outright lie but they assumed she paid!

It's a busy pool as well, so I doubt they notice she hasn't paid

I asked her why she did it and she said she'd paid once and if she could get in for free by keeping the bands, why pay?

any other stories like this?

My father also once said he went to a barbecue where the owner requested everyone bring a 'portion of coal' but I still think that was a joke (or hope)

I had a customer return a food product, because she'd got it home and realised that it was £1.95. She brought it back saying 'I NEVER pay that much for it.'

We were very accommodating and gave her her money back but we had to throw the product away (it had been out of our fridge, so couldn't be resold). But what kind of person a) doesn't check the shelf price b) doesn't even check the price on their receipt and c) brings it all the way back because the consider they could get it cheaper somewhere else? Which they couldn't, it's a fixed price!

Another obsessed fan of the cheeky fucker thread.
2 hrs in, burnt spuds and snappy with space intruders.

I was at a hairdresser's recently and a woman was making a fuss about her hair not being 'blonde enough'. It looked very blonde to me but she wouldn't back down. The stylist offered to re-dye it but the woman said she couldn't stay but would come back later. They had to let her go without paying. There was a lot of pursed lips and eye-rolling after she'd gone.

My cousin would keep his daily bus passes on his wall around his bedroom so he could reuse the same date next year, only covering the end of the date with his thumb.

My friend asks for a glass of tap water in Nandos then drinks it and uses it to get the self-service free refills.

She also orders £100 worth of items from ASOS just to qualify for free delivery and then sends the unwanted stuff back using because its free returns.

Thankyoucomeagain - That reminds me of when my DH found an old calendar during a clear out - he suggested we saved it for the next time the dates/days fell the same to reuse it (several years ahead).

My PILs and my DP are generally very honest people apart from two things which are basically stealing:

• They get magazines in the supermarket and put them at the bottom of the trolley, then put carrier bags on top of them and fill them up with shopping using the 'scan as you shop' facility. At the end they pay for all of the shopping but walk out with the trolley and unscanned magazines underneath their bags

• They pay for normal tickets at the cinema and then, unless it's very busy, they sit in the VIP seats.

Completely honest in every other regard...very middle class naice professional family. I was

I get the feeling that several CFs are following this thread to pick up tips.

When I was a student I used to work in an off license a few evenings a week and we always used to get twats swapping the price labels on the bottles before claiming that by law we had to sell the item at the (much reduced) price. When I refused they would always trot out the 'have you ever heard the expression that customer is always right' line to which I would reply that they were not customers but shop lifters and that I will be calling the police. They soon pissed off. Most of these offenders were quite posh folk trying it on.

@WhimsicalTart, I've done that when DS was technically old enough to pay more, but not actually old enough to use the bigger equipment. He was only old enough by a few weeks though (and since he was premature, he technically shouldn't have been old enough.

Also once when we'd promised to take him somewhere for his birthday, on the Saturday before his birthday (so he was under the age limit), but the place was closed that day (unexpectedly). We had to go the following week instead, when he was a couple of days over the limit, but we got him in free. Have always paid since, though.

That reminds me of when my DH found an old calendar during a clear out - he suggested we saved it for the next time the dates/days fell the same to reuse it (several years ahead).

And the birthdays etc are already marked on, saving valuable biro inkValenta

I once saw a man in the veg aisle of a supermarket, snapping the tips off loose asparagus spears.
I was so busy trying to pick my chin up off the floor, I didn't ask him who he thought would buy what he had discarded.....

Schadenfreude

I left a job and my department had a whip round and gave me a large pot for the garden. Very pleased. Supermarket pot which I saw after cost £20. Very pleased. 4 years later my best friend left too and got a plant and a book.

However, her colleague (my replacement) was surprised she didn’t get more as he had given twice the rough cost of her gift and there were 8 others in the department. My friend asked me what I had received 4 years before and remembered she had given £40 and there were 8 others in the department.

Subtle investigations. The Head of Department was pocketing the Cash and telling others she had covered the gift, vouchers and our leaving meal out of their donations. While spending only a fraction of what she had collected.

I can’t believe that people blatantly shoplift like this (magazines in the trolley wtf) are they not embarrassed?

I agree about nicking buffet food for later, that is cheeky. If I think I can’t afford lunch I just wouldn’t go.

Someone I know told a garage that a dent on their car had occurred while it was in for a service (it hadn't; the dent was pre-existing), just so the garage would repair it for free. The garage was apologetic and duly repaired the damage they didn't even cause.

I actually have a reverse CF story!

A few years ago I was shopping in Vegas in a gorgeous independent boutique shop that. All shoes were BOGOF that day, they weren’t cheap (about $120 a pair) but great price if you were buying 2 for the price of 1.

There was a woman at the till trying to get a further discount for her 2 pairs. The owner said no several times as they were already on BOGOF. She was being quite huffy and snooty and taking bloody ages with her haggling (which didn’t work, she bought the shoes anyway).

After she paid I stepped forward to pay for my 2 pairs. Stressed looking owner asked if there was anything else I wanted, I said no thank you.

He then knocked $20 off my total cost! I was and he said I was the first person that day not to try and get money knocked off at all, so for respecting his business my reward was money off. I practically skipped away with glee he may have done it because CF woman before me was lingering nearby complaining about the cost of her shoes, but frankly I don’t care

When I was a student I had a friend who every time she got a taxi home cried and said she'd been mugged and only have a fiver to get home.

She'd ask the taxi driver to take her as far as possible for the fiver (one female, early hours. 9 out of 10 times the taxi driver would take her all the way home for the fiver rather than the usual ten pound fare.

On the rare occasions they said they would only take her as far as a fiver, she'd magically find another fiver tucked away to get her home. Shameless.

To be fair Disneyland is so expensive I do understand why you’d bring your own food. I don’t think that counts at CF-dom in the manner of others on here. I have been in theme parks run by CF of the highest irder

When my friend was seriously ill in hospital, she had a set of visitors who arrived with a stack of magazines that they had scrounged from neighbours’ recycling bin. They had actually held their 5yo by the ankles so he could bin-dive for them. All very enterprising and entertaining, but these visitors are multi-millionaires and my friend’s illness meant that she was incredibly susceptible to infection.

Agree about DL in Florida, paying to park really annoys me

It is CF behaviour though, to load up your handbag from the buffet, so you have lunch in your handbag after eating your breakfast once already

I know, some just have no shame. I couldn't go away or be friends with someone who did it. I

I sell a bit on ebay and most items I now send signed for as so many that I have sent unsigned for apparently don't arrive.I also sometimes sell eggs by leaving them out with an honesty box but sometimes people just leave a load of change which doesn't come to the full amount -or occasionally just take the eggs without paying at all.

mojo do they know that if you buy a subscription to a magazine you get a hefty discount. I get two magazines this way and pay about £25 for both a year. I get the economist for my father which is the most expensive subscription and the cost is about £100 a year. Each magazine is about £5 so it's more than 50% off the full price.

My daughter is a CF, she is 19 but regularly buys half fares. The last time she did it, the person selling the ticket quizzed her about her age, as in..'are you sure you are old enough to travel alone, you look about 12'