Specialization is for Insects.
I wouldn’t actually do this, but for some reason I’m just fascinated with these unbelievably simple methods of circumventing the system.
Just like the How to Pick a Padlock, this method of using a coin operated washing machine for free is so simple it makes you wonder how they would ever collect any money in these machines!
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When I stayed back in the college dorm in Denmark it was a well known fact that coins from other countries worked well in the washers…
So for example a 10 Peso coin from Philippines (worth around 1.5 DKK) would be a substitute for a 20 DKK coin, that helped keeping a lot of the students washing budgets down :)
Kim:)
But does it really work? I’d love to hear from someone who has tried this :) I saw one once about cheating a Coke machine but it didn’t pan out :/
When I was younger we used to play games at the arcade for free using slugs, but the machines are a bit more sophisticated now then they were back then.
Also, (and I think this still works), if you turn off a pinball machine, and turn it back on, it usually starts with 1 free credit. Though turning it on makes a lot of noise and can attract attention.
Now this is just pure evil. Not the washing machine John, this time you’ve gone to far. Poor washing machine…
At ASU there was a machine nearby that could be “shook-started” as we called it. Shake it side to side and boom, it starts. I had a washer/dryer in my apartment, but it was hilarious to stop by the laundromat and watch students routinely stand there shaking the hell out of a washing machine :)
We used to do it with a hamer back in the dorm in Montreal. You pay one time, but you don’t let the lock return all the way back after pushing it, you tape it half way. Next time you just hamer it !
et voila !
That was a very interesting find, and yet I’m fairly certain that all of those laundromat owners are a little more irate because of it. I wonder how many washing machines suffered an ill demise while this solution was being sought out.
Oh, I’m sure the laundromat owners either were not aware of this flaw, or have long known about it but price the machines to make up for the loss from some cheaters.
The funny thing is, that old coin style machine is decades old, and this was the first time I’d ever seen it. But just think about how many people must have know this trick, and who knows what other ways to cheat these machines.
Humans are very creative when it comes to getting something for nothing.
John
thanks guys you save me about 30 a week now in washing which i spend on weed n beer i will give u some cheat codes for automated snack machines u can get free drinks chips whatever.i would put it up but i only want u to have it coz i jealously gaurd this scam coz ***** people if any know it
Ya, this works well. Some machines are harder then others, but I did this for a year or two at school. Then they put in fancy new machines……….