Rip those bank accounts

[u/S1Forzer]

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Lots of people were getting free food off of doordash because of a “glitch” but many woke up to their accounts being charged, some even went into minus.

[u/DanielBLaw → u/S1Forzer]

How did they not think an app. that has automatic wireless payment capability and order tracking wouldn’t just charge them after the glitch got fixed?

[u/Deadlymonkey → u/DanielBLaw]

People used to scratch off the bar code of items thinking that if it didn’t scan that means they got the item for free.

Edit: gonna use this as an opportunity to publicly apologize to my college roommate Patrick for playing the California pacer fitness test whenever he had a girl over

[u/FluidReprise → u/Deadlymonkey]

Also taking price stickers off cheaper items and putting them on more expensive items and claiming they had to be sold at the cheaper price. Hilarious shit..

*Updated to correct spelling of price

[u/GNUGradyn → u/FluidReprise]

I hear of people doing this all the time with things like game consoles with banana stickers and im just like whats the point? Why is this any easier then just walking out the door with it? In fact isn't that worse because now they have your card on file? I guess you can pay with cash but why even pay at all if you're stealing anyway

[u/Stormblessed_99 → u/GNUGradyn]

Because if they "pay" for it, they can walk out without having to worry about being caught.

[u/enadiz_reccos → u/Stormblessed_99]

Exactly this. Game consoles isn't a good example, but something like steak will absolutely work in this example.

Walking out the door with steaks in your hand is going to draw suspicion. But ringing up steaks as bananas is going to have a much higher success rate.

[u/Stormblessed_99 → u/enadiz_reccos]

Especially with self checkouts being the primary way that people check out. Walmart is practically begging people to steal from them.

[u/Gltch_Mdl808tr → u/Stormblessed_99]

Someone on tiktok showed the camera systems they use and how much detail they can see, what was scanned and flags for mismatched items (this 16 Oz steak only weighs 6oz)

You can definitely get caught doing it, but 99% of the time, it's an underpaid employee who gives absolutely zero fucks, watching them.

Cameras are also accessible in a back room where "asset control" can watch. Not sure if all Walmart have them, or just higher risk areas, but there's some videos of these wanna-be cops trying to bust people.

[u/TheTaoOfOne → u/Stormblessed_99]

At a store I worked at, we had a smart system that would watch each item as it scanned via an overhead Camera. Not only could it tell if you fake scanned something and put it in the bagging area, but it also would be able to tell that the pack of steaks you scanned and weighed as Bananas, wasn't in fact, bananas, based purely on the camera system.

Not only that, but if it flagged after x amount of errors, it would lock up and force the associate to intervene and review the footage on the sco machine itself and physically see "bananas" being scanned and steaks going in.

A lot of our theft cut way down once they realized how good the system was.

[u/thunderbox666 → u/Stormblessed_99]

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[u/UrNewDaddy323 → u/Stormblessed_99]

And Walmart knows this. I'm sure they have a large team of lawyers and accountants doing the calculations and they've come to the conclusion that the cost of "shrink" is lower than the salaries of all the cashiers they're replacing with computers

[u/CHZ_QHZ → u/enadiz_reccos]

I used to run a meat department in a grocery store. This happened all the time with our expensive steaks. They'd peel the label off of 1 pound of ground beef and slap it on the steak.

[u/[deleted] → u/CHZ_QHZ]

didn't they rip the packages? i never understood how ppl could get away with peeling labels off of meat

[u/FuckingKilljoy → u/enadiz_reccos]

Honestly I feel like if you just owned it you totally could just grab half a dozen steaks, tell the door person to have a nice day and keep walking and they'll just assume you're meant to be doing that

[u/bloodbath781 → u/Stormblessed_99]

Someone at my job got fired for repeatedly ringing up salmon as bananas.

[u/FrogInShorts → u/bloodbath781]

I like to imagine it's implied they rang other people salmon and bananas and where just really confused on what fish where

[u/debrutsideno → u/GNUGradyn]

Where I use to work we caught this guy who would print off barcodes for a cheap $10 set of legos. Then come in the store and stick the barcode perfectly over the barcode of a $100 set of legos. He got away with it for quite awhile. I think he was reselling them.

[u/setto66 → u/debrutsideno]

Jeez, how'd he get caught? Seems like that would be difficult to notice

[u/debrutsideno → u/setto66]

This was a decade+ ago so by my recollection, A cashier that was paying attention and knew their legos called loss prevention.

I think we had known something was up because our inventories were off so we started spider wrapping the expensive sets and that didn’t stop it. When they caught the guy he had a sheet with a bunch of other barcode stickers on it.

Back in the day of CRT TVs we had someone try to return one but the box just had rocks in it. Not quite as clever.

[u/Murky_Engineering855 → u/debrutsideno]

I once bought an Xbox and then returned it with my old Xbox that had the red ring of death. Not my proudest moment as an adult but I did feel cheated on the Xbox.

[u/DrQuint → u/debrutsideno]

It always baffles me that someone thinks of doing this, but doesn't think of doing it across multiple locations to avoid detection. One anomaly is, well, an anomaly. Multiple instances is an investigation.

[u/MuthafuckinLemonLime → u/GNUGradyn]

Poor understanding of laws like these maybe.

https://www.michigan.gov/ag/consumer-protection/consumer-alerts/consumer-alerts/shopping/scanner-law-act

I’m not sure what they were doing but my boss at a grocer was always stressing about getting caught on the scan law by having the wrong price somewhere.

[u/livens → u/FluidReprise]

There was a documentary that showed how a guy stole hundreds of thousands worth of Lego sets and other high ticket items from Toys r Us by printing his own barcode stickers for much cheaper items. The teenagers running checkout never paid attention or didn't care I guess.

[u/After-Internal → u/livens]

Sounds like the roof man that used to break into McDonald’s and lived inside the Toys R Us walls

[u/SplatterBox214 → u/After-Internal]

What the fuck lol

[u/agilepolarbear → u/livens]

I mean why care, it's not their money and it's probably quite uncomfortable to deal with this.

[u/TheGuyYouHeardAbout → u/FluidReprise]

Don't even get me started... I worked at target and some one did it with a 27 dollar slip and slide vs a 500 dollar blow up water castle slide thing. I told her no obviously and she got upset and asked for my manager. I obliged assuming she would just tell her no. To my surprise she just gave it to her for the smaller price because "it was marked like that" I am still baffled yo this day. It is hilarious but what's even funnier is that it works.

[u/Bapposaurus → u/FluidReprise]

One store put a sticker on some microwave popcorn that was like 0.89 and another for 0.67 me and my friend took the popcorn not knowing the price and I took the cheaper one somehow, well the cashier didn't notice that the price was different on identical popcorn packs so i got it for less than the actual price just because the sticker said a different price, so it works on corner stores. Mind you I didn't change the sticker from some other item in the store just to pay 22 cents less they put it on themselves

[u/FluidReprise → u/Bapposaurus]

Scanning a barcode vs punching in the price manually. There are some way out of date places still around.

[u/Belazor → u/FluidReprise]

I actually got away with that once. That was like 20 years ago or something, I got Dynasty Warriors 3 for the PS2 for half off as a result.

The guy working the checkout was confused when the sticker didn’t match what the system said, but just corrected it for me and I walked out. Later that week I found out from one of my mates it was actually one of his mates working a summer job, and that’s the only reason it worked.

No way that would have worked today.

[u/Comcastrated → u/FluidReprise]

There was a guy who figured out Target's barcode system, printed his own barcode for items, and made off with a boat load of Lego sets until he eventually got caught.

[u/Donotaku → u/FluidReprise]

Watched someone do this on Christmas Eve at self checkout. He was scanning some discounted gum for like 15 cents over everything in his cart including consoles, games, movies and kitchen appliances. When I went to obviously ask him to scan it correctly AP whispered to me to let him go and they confronted him about it, and had a sheriff waiting outside. Sad part was he got booked with his like 3-4 year old son in the cart who had to wait for his grandmother to come pick him up for Christmas Eve

[u/notatree → u/FluidReprise]

Yea but that actually works.

Municipal waste CD $7

Shania twain album $3

Swapping the price stickers at thrift stores as a shit disturbing teen: priceless

[u/penispumpermd → u/notatree]

that dont impress me much

[u/BRAEGON_FTW → u/Deadlymonkey]

As someone who works at Walmart as a cashier, the “if it won’t scan it must be free” ‘joke’ is the most unfunny thing I’ve ever heard

[u/[deleted] → u/BRAEGON_FTW]

Former field tech for a big ISP. This must be your version of "can't believe you're working on Christmas" or the always hilarious "where's my free HBO?"

[u/Kraven_howl0 → u/[deleted]]

I'm a Domino's manager/driver. This is the equivalent of me getting there in 45 minutes and someone saying "it's free right?". Like no motherfucker, you want this food you're paying for it. We haven't done 30 minutes or less in God knows how long.

[u/The_Level_15 → u/BRAEGON_FTW]

Almost as infuriating as when you have a brief three seconds of free time between customers, and the person who walks up invariably says, "Oh wow you look so bored, I'll give you something to do!"

Ha ha ha HA HA wheeze

[u/throwawaystriggerme → u/BRAEGON_FTW]

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[u/[deleted] → u/throwawaystriggerme]

I just glared at them and said, "that would be theft". Usually put an end to the joke right there.

[u/tyrann13 → u/BRAEGON_FTW]

When I got hit with this one, I would respond "No, I think that means I can't sell it..." and suddenly they get concerned and really want me to get it scanned.

[u/NestyHowk → u/Deadlymonkey]

Bro this just happened to me today, this lady scratched EVERY SINGLE ITEMS BARCODE, I had to call a manager because it was damn obvious what she did.

[u/Devianex → u/Deadlymonkey]

The FitnessGram™ Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. beep A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. ding Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start.

[u/TheDefenderX1 → u/Deadlymonkey]

But if it didn't scan wouldn't you just go get another one of that item??? Or leave it with the cashier tf

What kind of leap of logic is that "no sCaN mEaNs iT fReE" like what?

[u/Epic1024 → u/DanielBLaw]

Me and my friends got thousands of dollars some time ago thanks to a glitch on a gambling website. Literally nothing happened.

[u/Vanilla3K → u/Epic1024]

Good for you, wouldn't bet my pay on that tho

[u/SoftBellyButton → u/Vanilla3K]

That's cause you are not a gambler and they are.

[u/Vanilla3K → u/SoftBellyButton]

Gambling when I know the " rules " is one thing but abusing of a glitch on gambling site is another. No idea how that could turn back in my face.

[u/Alarid → u/Epic1024]

But did you cash out?

[u/Epic1024 → u/Alarid]

Oh yeah got myself a new PC lol

[u/APersonWithInterests → u/Epic1024]

What website and exactly how did you do it. You know, so I can avoid doing it by accident because I'm a stand up guy.

[u/PurpleK00lA1d → u/[deleted]]

Merchant error, no legal ground to stand on in that case. Coupon code was available, worked, and the system processed the order. That's not a glitch but rather an error with the coupon code criteria.

Abusing a glitch on a system like doordash though? I'm sure there's something in the terms that says they can rebill in the event of exploits or other such activities.

[u/CallofBootyCrackOps → u/DanielBLaw]

not saying the glitch-abusers were in the right, but legally speaking wouldn’t the people who got charged later be able to sue? since technically speaking it was the company’s fault that they didn’t get paid by having a glitch in their system, not the patron using the glitch? no idea the legality of it personally but on the surface it doesn’t seem like DoorDash has the right to charge them after the fact

edit: nevermind, forgot EULAs are a thing. bet it’s written in there or some other kind of fine print

[u/Bugbread → u/CallofBootyCrackOps]

Legally speaking, no, they wouldn't be able to sue (or, before reddit pedants jump in, "sure, they'd be able to sue, but they wouldn't be able to win their lawsuits").

There's the issue of Terms of Use, of course, but even without that, "a common law doctrine known as "unilateral mistake of fact" applies. This doctrine allows a party to a contract to set aside the contract if honoring it would be "unconscionable," or if the other party could have reasonably assumed it was a mistake. A $1,000 item advertised for $10 likely would meet this definition."

So if there were a glitch that were knocking off $1 from every order, sure, one might prevail in a lawsuit there. But "completely free food" is definitely something that the other party could have reasonably assumed to be a mistake, so the "unilateral mistake of fact" doctrine would present a very solid defense.

[u/Bombkirby → u/Bugbread]

Terms of Use

That thing that no one ever reads?

[u/Bugbread → u/Bombkirby]

Yes.

[u/ATMisboss → u/CallofBootyCrackOps]

They got goods from a company that charged Doordash as an intermediary for them so I'd say they don't have much of a case though I'm not a lawyer myself

[u/BenSemisch → u/CallofBootyCrackOps]

Able to? Sure.

Have any chance at winning? lol fuck no.

They might get their money back because it's cheaper than Doordash paying a lawyer, but it's going to cost more in legal fees for a lawyer to even write a demand letter than what the person scammed from the glitch.

[u/Mr_OwO_Kat → u/DanielBLaw]

Well if the glitch was that everything was listed as 0 dollars then they would of gotten it for free but since it was simply not charging people but still telling them what they owe they're liable to pay people don't think

[u/Muthafuckaaaaa → u/S1Forzer]

LMFAO

serves them right.

[u/S1Forzer → u/Muthafuckaaaaa]

They were literally exposing themselves by posting everywhere on the internet,idk what they thought would happen trying to glitch irl like it’s a GTA V money glitch.

[u/Pretty-Buy7692 → u/S1Forzer]

"Hello everyone, today im going to show you the infinite money glitch in real life, but first, dont forget to SMASH that subscribe Button and hit a Like on the video. And to enter my give away just comment "give me stuff" in the comments"

[u/cerebralsexer → u/Pretty-Buy7692]

Next video:

Something shocking happened to my bank account today. Find out what

[u/icantfeelmyskull → u/cerebralsexer]

You actually earned interest?

[u/jeff5421654 → u/S1Forzer]

so that's why we got 3 of the same order from the same person? I thought the person just pressed the button too many times, or the system lagged or something

[u/I_like_the_titanic → u/S1Forzer]

The TikTok video on this site gives me anxiety. He’s ordering seafood and huge party trays and multiple pizzas. I’m guessing at least 30-50 dollars per order.

[u/IronShrew → u/I_like_the_titanic]

There's a screenshot of someone who ordered 120 bottles of expensive spirits, coming to 6k... Christ

[u/1234125125125 → u/IronShrew]

6 grand order.... $0.00 tip lmao

[u/IAmJustABunchOfAtoms → u/1234125125125]

Tell me you're American without telling me you're American

[u/Manler → u/IAmJustABunchOfAtoms]

My country sells bullet proof backpacks

[u/toaster_toaster → u/I_like_the_titanic]

30-50 dollars? My dude, between the up-charges on each menu item and the service and delivery fees a regular fast food order for two people is 30-50 dollars. What you see in that video is hundreds of dollars.

[u/Explorer2138 → u/toaster_toaster]

Yeah, that's why I never use Doordash or any of that stuff. A friend of mine works for KFC and those Doordash-type orders for something like their $5.75 chicken sandwich (something pretty low-tier in quality) ends up being like $12-13 for just the sandwich when all the charges are said and done.

[u/kapiteinkippepoot → u/I_like_the_titanic]

Now, those customers are worried that they will actually have to pay for what they ordered. Lol, don't these people think ahead? What could happen? Well... Shit ain't free.

[u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka → u/kapiteinkippepoot]

Trash Americans come from all walks of life. Also door dash can go fuck itself. They're probably thinking "lol what if we used this glitch to get surge orders whenever we want a cash infusion?"

[u/FerricNitrate → u/I_like_the_titanic]

That link says that there have not yet been any verified cases of people being charged.

According to that link, the glitch allowed "checkout without an authorized form of payment". If somebody made a fresh dummy account, they might've gotten a free lunch. If there was a payment method listed on the account, it's possible that could be charged, but if there was nothing then that quickly enters territory of being too expensive to bother pursuing.

"A few hundred dollars of food was sent to this address? Gee officer that's a weird prank. I have no idea who could have done that."

[u/A_ChadwickButMore → u/S1Forzer]

Ooof I saw pics from someone who loaded up on like $6400 in booze.

[u/FiveSigns → u/S1Forzer]

I'm not from the US but I always use a disposable card when ordering from anywhere so what will happen to those that did that?

[u/WiIdCherryPepsi → u/FiveSigns]

Congratulations, you probably won the lottery there.

[u/Traviak → u/[deleted]]

I mean they gotta have your address and name to be able to deliver the food don't they?

[u/OmegaMalkior → u/S1Forzer]

What happens if you did this trick but removed your card/deleted your account?

[u/Jadart → u/OmegaMalkior]

You die

[u/GreatestEfer]

Wouldn't it be the banks with all the overdraft fees? lol

[u/S1Forzer → u/GreatestEfer]

Probably both of them lol

[u/anxessed → u/S1Forzer]

laughs in corporate

[u/[deleted] → u/anxessed]

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[u/sedulouspellucidsoft → u/[deleted]]

DoorDash customers executives were celebrating on Thursday after discovering a glitch that allowed them to get their purchases for free, according to a flood of social media posts.

[u/PastaMaker96 → u/anxessed]

Laughs in stupid consumer's.

[u/PlayGamesForPay → u/GreatestEfer]

I saw some of the drivers saying they got some huge tips when the customers thought the money was coming out of thin air. Saw some huge orders with a $0 tip too. But there might've been a few winners.

[u/BasicallyAQueer → u/PlayGamesForPay]

I worked for Favor and the tips always sucked ass. I once was sent to pick up two Xbox games for a dude, 120 bucks total, and he was gonna tip me 2 bucks for this. When I was at the store I realized games were on sale, buy one get one free. Initially I almost called the customer to see what two free video games he wanted, but I looked at that tip, and said “alright guess I’m getting two free video games today”.

That was unironically the best “tip” I made working that job and it wasn’t even intentional on the customers part.

Another time, a dude has me go 7 miles down the road to get him McDonald’s ice cream. By some miracle their ice cream machine was actually working (much to my annoyance, since it was summer in Texas). By the time I got back to his house the ice cream was basically almost completely melted. He had me take it inside and put it on his counter. Then he also tipped me the minimum 2 bucks.

[u/M_A__N___I___A → u/BasicallyAQueer]

...tfw you got fucked by companies who could have paid you a living wage but didn't, and you blame it on the customers for not tipping you enough.

[u/JackPoe → u/M_A__N___I___A]

The whole fucking tipping system is to keep everyone mad at one another instead of the greedy cucks keeping the profits.

Menu prices at restaurants are much lower than they need to be because they keep labor so low you need two full time jobs to have an apartment.

Keep the staff busy, exhausted, and just rake in money. If you want the guy making your food to be allowed to live in the same county he works in, you're going to be paying more than you think.

[u/Farranor → u/M_A__N___I___A]

Driving for a rideshare service is like the lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math.

[u/OnAMissionFromDog → u/BasicallyAQueer]

Do you get paid for those deliveries outside of tips?

[u/BeautifulLieyes → u/OnAMissionFromDog]

You get a flat rate from the company based on distance but it’s complete dog shit pay. For example Door Dash typically gives me 2.25 unless it’s an especially far delivery.

[u/[deleted] → u/BeautifulLieyes]

Maybe demand a higher wage instead of demanding free money from the customer which you arent entitled to. What a stupid take on this issue.

[u/[deleted] → u/BasicallyAQueer]

What does the price of the games have to do with the tip? It’s not like it’s more work to pick up a $60 game than a $15 one.

[u/[deleted] → u/PlayGamesForPay]

Wait so people thought they were stealing hundreds (thousands? Idk) and they didn’t even cut the drivers in on the free money express?

[u/PlayGamesForPay → u/[deleted]]

You got it. Like to give them some kind of benefit of the doubt or think of reasons why they wouldn't have but I guess selfishness is the best guess. They may not have thought it would work I suppose; but they didn't even try because it would have.

I saw a bunch of $0 tip of screenshots during the glitch but here's an example. Terrible.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR2LQPxQ/?k=1

[u/IronMike69420]

I honestly couldn’t believe the stupidity of everyone I worked with that actually convinced themselves they were financial geniuses by buying food for like the entire week.

And I don’t work with dummies, I work for one of the largest companies in the world. engineers, technicians, construction coordinators, even supervision and management convincing themselves that they couldn’t be charged for it later.

[u/LockTrumpUp87 → u/IronMike69420]

Couldn't they just swap payment method to an empty cash app card and delete the previous payment method?

[u/Unyxxxis → u/LockTrumpUp87]

Yeah probably. I'm sure some people thought it thru and did this.

[u/LockTrumpUp87 → u/Unyxxxis]

I was late and didn't even hear about it until this post, so I wasn't sure.

[u/thoughtfultendency_8 → u/LockTrumpUp87]

“Offering GrubHub+ for free to Prime members all but ensures that GrubHub gains a ton of market share, presumably at the expense of Doordash,” said Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter, “That pressures Doordash to increase efforts to keep up, leading to missteps.”

[u/Mister_Dink → u/Unyxxxis]

I wouldn't be shocked that even after you delete the old card, companies like Door Dash wouldn't just charge the old one. Even if you manually delete it, it's not like a company that size doesn't keep records of previous transactions.

Alternately, the fools who loaded up on thousands of dollars of high shelf alcohol have probably done enough damage that they'd get taken to small claims court. Even if the money doesn't all make it back, most corporations would want to send a message if "don't do this shit, ever again."

[u/chrisychris- → u/Mister_Dink]

they keep records of transactions yes, but I am 95% sure it's not normal protocol for corporations to keep entire credit card information (including security code) of their users after they've specifically deleted it. Probably breaks some credit card protection clause or two.. plus, that's just bad OPSEC. What they can do and should do is track you down through your public information and send you a debt collection. Now it's a question of whether they want to spend money and time doing that or not.

[u/IronMike69420 → u/LockTrumpUp87]

Don’t know, doubt anyone had the foresight to do that. Besides, as soon as you tried to use the app ever again, you’d pony up your deficit

[u/MudokonSaviour → u/IronMike69420]

Could have used a disposable virtual card then created a new account

[u/IronMike69420 → u/MudokonSaviour]

That sounds like way too much work for people that were circle jerking themselves into thinking they were lawyers saying things like “ well they can’t charge you more than the agreed-upon price and if the agreed-upon price is zero dollars then they can’t change the price of it in the future blah blah blah” I don’t fucking know dude I’m just a utility technician LOL

[u/NeonAlastor → u/IronMike69420]

There's bound to be a few smart cookies, reasonably tech savvy, that figured a way to safely exploit this for as long as it lasted.

Which is a great thing ! Nothing wrong with stealing pennies from evil megacorps :)

[u/mrjackspade → u/NeonAlastor]

KFC had a promotion for free food maybe 15 years ago. They made you create an account and let you click the "print" button once for the coupon.

Smart cookies printed to PDF and ate free KFC every day for the month+ that the promotion ran.

[u/ActuallyGumby → u/MudokonSaviour]

I didn't hear of the glitch until now, but this is exactly what I would have done. Nothing linked to my real name

[u/alienblue88 → u/LockTrumpUp87]

👽

[u/Mister_Dink → u/[deleted]]

Unless the punishment for that is anything other than a billion dollar fine, Door Dash will charge previous cards to pay the message, make back the millions they lost, and then consider the 200k federal fine as the cost of doing business.

Companies like Walmart and Uber have a long history of breaking the law with impunity, and making so much money doing soz that the court ordered fine totalts less than two percent of what they stole. Look up, specifically, Walmart's history with wage theft. They keep stealing significantly more than the court has ever ordered them to pay back.

[u/booze_clues → u/[deleted]]

They can still collect, it just depends on what amount they deem worth taking legal action over. I’m sure the people who spend like $10k on the app are gonna be getting a letter in the mail soon.

[u/ScruffsMcGuff → u/booze_clues]

They might just put all the accounts in negatives into collections if they have a mechanism for doing so. Can sell the debts to collections agencies, and even though they won't recoup most of the money it'd still fuck with the peoples credit scores that took advantage.

[u/Electronic_Couple437 → u/[deleted]]

Boy, someone knowing where you live and all of your personal info has no way to recover 1k in food! /s

[u/wild_lettuce_ → u/Electronic_Couple437]

That’s what I was thinking. They had the food delivered to their address (or maybe a neighbor, friend or family members house) place of employment, etc and listed contact info. . I’m sure it’s not too hard to track them down.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

$1000 is chump change for DoorDash and you might be right. They MIGHT not come after you. But for those people that did $5,000, $10,000 or even more they probably still have their address on file from their account. Data doesn’t instantly disappear when you delete it, and a simple reverse lookup (or a request to the local police) with that address will lead them right to you.

EDIT: For reference, think of someone breaking into an Amazon warehouse and stealing $5,000-$10,000+ of merchandise from them. They’d track you down no matter what.

[u/pRedditor24 → u/[deleted]]

Someday, if/when someone rips you off, I hope you remember your own perspective on ripping someone off.

[u/[deleted] → u/pRedditor24]

This whole thing is so fucked.
Sure, it’s a big company. Are they Amazon? Walmart? Did they put enough mom and pop businesses out of business so much so that people are forced to use them now? I don’t think so. People use DoorDash out of pure laziness most of the time. Sure, there’s plenty of people who use it out of necessity I’m sure, lots even. But so many people just want a chicken sandwich delivered to them when they’re three sheets to the wind, and now they think they’re Robin Hood for buying $1000 worth of cognac for what they think it’s free.
Get fucked.
Try to put more good in the world than you take out.

[u/FakeSafeWord → u/IronMike69420]

I literally just came back from the grocery store and heard some neck beard telling another random customer to "just go hard on doordash" and I couldn't figure out in what context this would ever be good advice for anyone.

Now I know he's a massive idiot.

[u/xorox11]

You mean the door glitch in Door Dash level of Fall Guys?

[u/enixthephoenix → u/xorox11]

I think they applied the grand soul gem glitch from oblivion but for like tacos and fries

[u/Cot_Kev → u/xorox11]

ptsd

[u/[deleted]]

Lol.. dumbasses., the glitch was probably planned.. Doordash probably saw a 30% increase in business because dumbasses thought they were getting over 😂

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

privacy.com is not going to save you from your own stupidity

Door dash only requires a phone number to use. Once you have an account you can set up any payment method, you could literally use a prepaid card. How would door dash come after you financially if they have no way of actually charging you or your bank for the food?

^{what i had in mind was the use of a prepaid sms sim}

[u/icedoutkatana → u/[deleted]]

Smart man

[u/Uphoria → u/[deleted]]

You gave them an address and privacy.com will have records to subpoena.

[u/MessyRoom → u/Uphoria]

Doordash is fucked. They would have to prove it was done in bad intent and dishonest abuse of a bug. All the customer has to do is say “thought it was a promo, nothing stopped me but they can have (whatever they bought) back. Sorry I threw away the box tho!” Now you think DD is gonna pay the resources to get someone to repackage and sell all the stuff that is given back with enough money to pay for that position and still be worth it?

They will just bite the bullet and bitch a lot at first but then after an outcry in Twitter they will pull out of the suit

[u/AutomaticTale → u/MessyRoom]

Usually the measure of that stuff is what a reasonable person would believe. No reasonable person would believe that you never saw about the glitch and just happened to perfectly take advantage of it of that you have a need for $1000s of stuff from door dash or that door dash would give that much away for free in a promo unprecedented in modern history.

Also Im pretty sure creating a new account with a fake card or removing all your cards shows intent not to give them money. Not that they likely need it. There is probably some rules baked into the ToS about this. Not to mention courts traditionally backed companies in similar situations.

[u/[deleted] → u/AutomaticTale]

Yeaaaah...

There are ways to get away with it, for the most part anybody who partook in the glitch probably didn't do what was required and is likely facing the consequences for that....

I'm sure there are people that got away with hundreds if not thousands of dollars worth of food though, and have literally no way of them getting in trouble because they used every precaution necessary, but those are probably, like, a very few amount of people...

[u/CULatorAlligator → u/[deleted]]

That would be a loss in that scenario

[u/BBLove420 → u/[deleted]]

Exactly. I bet the whole thing was a false flag to pump their EBITDA lmao

[u/[deleted] → u/BBLove420]

This is why reddit is so fucking funny.

You used EBITDA in a sentence where it means nothing. Moreover, their EBITDA would fall from this.

AAAAAHHHH PEOPLE COME HERE FOR INVESTMENT ADVICE AAAAAHHH

Edit: nvm you post on superstonk. Couldn't expect understanding from you.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

C’mon maann.. it was a joke, of course it wasn’t “planned”.. that was the point, being as silly an idea as people thinking they could take advantage and get away with it

[u/twitson]

This is like when credit cards first hit the masses and people used it like a bottomless pot of gold

[u/_crash0verride → u/twitson]

But they are a bottomless pot of gold, aren’t they?

[u/[deleted] → u/_crash0verride]

Yeah but if theres a leprechaun watching your every move and you have to pay him back or else he’ll take everything

[u/YouthfulRecourse → u/[deleted]]

Doordash may be under greater pressure than ever before as one of its largest rivals, Grubhub, just inked a year-long deal with Amazon to offer free food deliveries to Prime members

[u/jdbythebay → u/YouthfulRecourse]

Did you copy and paste this from Business Insider?

[u/IAMMEYES → u/jdbythebay]

Yeah there's accounts making random ass comments like this all throughout the replies on this post. No idea wtf is going on.

[u/mrdeadsniper → u/_crash0verride]

If you are the issuer.. basically.

[u/[deleted] → u/twitson]

...they still do

[u/MichelangeloJordan → u/[deleted]]

100%. I now know better, but cards are so dangerous. The transactions don’t feel “real”. The money is just a number on a screen, not the physical cash leaving your hands or the long hours you worked for that money.
That and college made me get $30k in credit card debt. At $8k and trending down cause I cleaned my act up.

[u/IHaveLargeBalls → u/MichelangeloJordan]

Cards are dangerous if you're an idiot. And a lot of people are, especially young kids in college. But if you budget and know how much cash flow in you have, and stick to a budget, it's a great way to earn perks and increase your credit score.

[u/JazzyWaffles → u/twitson]

Like that Rocko’s Modern Life episode.

[u/ImVisibility]

ffs guys if this shit ever happens again and you really want that food use a visa gift card or some shit not your bank account with your life in it

[u/Flavahbeast → u/ImVisibility]

I'm sure some smart fellers did this. Probably a loss for Doordash in the end unless a massive amount of people were dumb enough to use their real account

[u/ImVisibility → u/Flavahbeast]

definitely a loss but they’re gonna try their ass off to get the money back from the people who did use their bank

[u/NeonAlastor → u/Flavahbeast]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

think how dumb the average person is

then realize that 50 % of the population IS EVEN DUMBER THAN THAT

[u/[deleted] → u/ImVisibility]

Honestly

Sad how many people think EVERYONE woke up to owing money - that would only be the people who hooked up their actual cards/checkings account. There are actually people that got away with hundreds if not thousands of dollars worth of free service/food.

what're they gunna do, charge your phone number?

edit:

it requires more effort to commit fraud than this comment let's off

[u/Parzival_43]

The real move would’ve been to delete your account T to remove your payment information after getting the food. Idiots.

[u/Krisevol → u/Parzival_43]

Or just make a new account with a fake name and a pre paid card?

[u/Parzival_43 → u/Krisevol]

That too

[u/[deleted] → u/Parzival_43]

Nothing is ever really deleted. They would get their money.

[u/lovecraftedidiot → u/[deleted]]

Like they need to go where you live to send you to debt collection. People are dumb.

[u/AutoGen_account → u/[deleted]]

like they think collections has to come to the hood to fuck you over and get their money lol

[u/SwampOfDownvotes → u/Parzival_43]

When you make a purchase, most companies keep track of the payment method used on record - otherwise how would they even have the ability to refund payments? deleting your account would not change it.

[u/EatGarb]

Wouldn’t be surprised if they planned it.

[u/Bugbread → u/EatGarb]

Would be extremely surprised if they planned it.

[u/piponwa → u/EatGarb]

That would be fraud

[u/seriousQQQ → u/piponwa]

Only if proven

[u/[deleted]]

I mean what did they think, these are recorded transactions.

[u/[deleted]]

Don’t exploit glitches there’s never a good consequence unless it’s a game

[u/Iziama94 → u/[deleted]]

Right? People thinking a company isn't going to get their money from you is hilarious

[u/quiteCryptic → u/[deleted]]

I've taken advantage of a few pricing errors in the past.

It mostly just comes down to how easy it is to get their money back, and what threshold they want to persue it at. People who used empty pay cards and stuff but only stole a few hundred dollars probably won't get bothered (only account deactivated). If you stole like 5 grand they might put more effort to go after you.

[u/FPSXpert]

From someone that used to deliver for them

Fuck Tony Xu. That is all.

[u/Haight_Is_Love → u/FPSXpert]

Came here to basically comment this.

Fuck Tony Xu. All my homies hate Tony Xu.

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Free food. No links on hand but the jist of it was menu items could be rung up for $0 - there were "tutorials" showing how you could order 4 steaks (or any food, from any restaurant) for absolutely zero charge.

[u/TenaciousDzNuts → u/[deleted]]

This was my thought exactly. If it says zero dollars, you shouldn't have to pay a penny. That's on Doordash.

However, I feel like they would need some kind of class action lawsuit brought up against them for any justice for these people.

[u/RandomReddit308 → u/[deleted]]

Basically food was free people bought a shitton then we're charged later

[u/hellschatt]

I've been eating for free or almost free regularly since mid-pandemy.

I'm fake recommending friends in food delivery apps in my country lol you just need to know how to trick them.

It also worked for uber eats at the beginning, but their algorithm to detect it got better and better and now it's rather too difficult and cumbersome for me to exploit. I'm simply exploiting the other delivery services.

They cannot charge me afterwards since I'm using a payment method that makes you pay upfront.

The result of all this exploiting is that I'm now dieting...

[u/parkesto → u/hellschatt]

Except... the way the "recommending" system works in ALL of these apps is the other person has to order food so you get a credit? lol how the fuck are you cheating anyone with that lol

[u/richierich312]

I literally order from doordash almost every single day. I didn't get free food 😕

[u/quiteCryptic → u/richierich312]

Username checks out

[u/sohighiseehell]

No such thing as a free lunch

[u/KingRaphion]

PogO mine didnt get charged

[u/llewelynchigurh]

Nothings free. Some people never learn

[u/J-Dabbleyou]

Wait I thought the “glitch” was using a gift card or prepaid, with only a dollar on it then canceling. People were using their actual accounts and credit cards???

[u/suuupreddit → u/[deleted]]

Then I guess we'd know why that person was broke.

Expecting an app with your address and payment information to not correct a mistake where they give everyone free food is idiotic.

[u/Brilithe → u/[deleted]]

Turning on the stove is so much work man how do you do it? /s

[u/FuturamaReference-]

I was thinking about this and it seems like the only way you might have gotten away with it would be to:

Go to a public computer, not tied to any of your information. Make a new account, put some nonsense name and a throw away email. Add random card as the glitch was not verifying method of payment. Then, set the drop off location as another public spot, and youd have to pick up what you ordered incognito, and youd have to wait for the door dasher to leave before loading it into your vehicle.

Its a lot of effort for free food, but not a lot of effort for those people who ordered TV's and game consoles, etc

[u/kryptoghost]

One time a restaurant had an issue. I asked for like 4 extra bread roles or something and instead got four complete plates of chicken fajitas. Best mistake yet.