Real TRICKS Companies Don't Want You To Know

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[theycallmetheangryelf]

As a customer service person, I can vouch for the "be nice to the help". I will do everything in my power to try to get you what you want as long as you're nice and polite, but the instant you turn ugly or get an attitude of entitlement, it's over. I'll get a manager I know will say no, and that's your final answer. So be nice to the employees; that should be your default anyway. We're overworked and underpaid and take a lot of abuse that we really shouldn't have to.

[Bobrogers]

Many years ago as a teacher, I brought my class to a cider mill and we watched the assembly line filling bottles. Then the line was stopped, and the roll of labels was changed from a supermarket brand to a high-end national brand. The line resumed, filling the bottles with the same juice. That taught my class something quite valuable!

[Queina]

I can vouch that talking to customer service nicely and asking for a discount code can and often does work. I had a need to buy a particular software program. There were free versions of similar software but I found this program to be far superior to anything else I'd seen out there. But it was also kind of spendy and I was tight on funds. So I emailed them, gushed about how much I loved their program, and asked if by chance they had a discount code for like 10 - 15% off. To my surprise, they sent me a code for 35% off.

[x]

The tip at 16:15 can be expaneded to places that want a mail address from you. You can create a near limitless amount of mail addresses with the dozens of freemail providers everywhere. Use every mail address just once and note down which company you sign up with each mail address. The amount of spam can quickly tell you which companies sell your private info and should therefore be avoided for your business.

[jewgirl]

I had that "attempted delivery" scam done on me. I'm 69 and handicapped. I do not leave my apartment. On the day I KNEW he was coming, I was actually sitting by my picture window waiting for him. Then the "attempted delivery" three times in a row. I complained to upper management and finally got it delivered! Oh, did I mention it was FedEx?

[adamzaborszky]

One time I left my online shopping cart without purchasing the item in it, then I got a 50% coupon. From that point I always leave my shopping cart for 1-2 days before purchasing.

[davidcrane]

As a night Auditor at a hotel, I am the one responsible for making sure check-ins do not fail and such things. One of the first things I was taught is if someone calls to cancel a reservation, check the log, as it will show if the reservation was just booked, or was rescheduled. If it was rescheduled, not only are you getting charged that cancellation fee, but if you are staying at a big brand hotel such as Wyndham or Sheraton or something like that, you are also getting put on a do not rent list, which in the case of people like this, is shared with all hotels under the umbrella of that corporation, so now you can no longer book rooms at several thousand hotels, all because you wanted to be cheap. Lol

[plonkersbro]

I've often watched delivery drivers walk up my front steps not with my parcel but rather with the unable to deliver card in their hands, then when I open the door they've tried feeding my a load of BS that they knocked minutes before only to go silent when I tell them something that they've done since pulling into my street

[SmartGoblin]

My local walmart is moving the shopping isles around in the store. A common tactic to confuse the regular consumer into make them stay longer in the store. If they're in the store longer they tend to put more items in their cart. This company uses this strategy for their benefit the most. They claim it's to make the store seem fresh and updated. Sorry Bubba, I wasn't born yesterday.

[julietteoscaralphanovember]

I tried on glasses at my local opticians office. I loved 2 pairs of glasses, a pair of Versace and a pair of Coach. I took the model numbers down thinking ill come back when I decide which ones I want. Versace was $410, Coach $390, plus the cost of lenses. A few days later I looked them up online still not being able which I liked better. I ended up finding each pair for $110 including lenses and free shipping, so I ordered both pair for a total of $220!!! Less than half than I would have paid for one pair!!! I scored!!

[reneehughes]

Hard water tip: put a cup of white vinegar in your load of whites to keep them bright (can be used with colors too). It's good for your clothes and your machine. It's also great to kill germs and odors, especially on dog beds & blankets.

[vmudxwn]

You don’t need to run a bead of toothpaste from one end of the brush to the other. That’s a waste of toothpaste. A small blob of paste will be plenty. I very often add water to my shampoo and liquid bath soap. Thanks for the great tips! As far as the grocery carts go, they brought in smaller carts but the people who bring the carts from the cart corrals never bring those in. To get around that I bring my own shopping bat, fill them up with what I want and check out. Limited size bags means limited purchases. The rule breaker for this is when I am filling up my own water jugs. $1.29 for a gallon of drinking water in Kroger. If I go to another local store and fill up it’s 36 cents.

[starmenproject]

Working for several call centers I will say that yes being angry while on hold will bump you in the queue time to time. How ever being irate and rude to the customer service rep will result in you being placed on hold again, one that no amount of anger will speed up.

[RavenFilms]

The Do Not Call list doesn’t work... and here’s why:
(I got this information from my Mom who worked as a telemarketer for years). Many companies actively tell their employees to ignore the list, the small fines they will have to pay for the very few people that report them are nothing compared to the lost call volume and the working time it takes for someone to check all the numbers they plan to call to see in advance if they are on the Do Not Call registry. The best thing to do is not answer, because numbers that have someone answer are put on a new list that shows your number as “active. This list is sometimes just internal, other times shared between other telemarketing companies or even is sold. This results in even more calls.

[borleyboo]

I ordered a rather expensive camera from Amazon and was told on delivery day, that it had been delivered. It hadn’t of course. I asked neighbours if it’d been delivered to them, but it hadn’t. I phoned Amazon and they sent another the next day....no questions asked. They know exactly what goes on.

[Ceci_et_Cela]

I don’t recommend adding water to your shampoo unless at the time of using it in your hand. There is preservatives in shampoo to keep the water in it from growing bacteria, but there is just enough preservative for the water that’s in the bottle, not another half a bottle of water. Also, shampoo is around 1/3 water as it is.

[scarlettsteele]

I worked at a factory that produced muscle milk and the Costco and Walmart generics. When we switched to filling the packs for a different brand we only switched the outside. It was the exact same liquid. No changes to the actual product.

[Wachtos]

Buys a security camera online to dispute "Sorry we missed you" alerts. Security camera supposed to arrive in the mail today. Get notification that says "Sorry we missed you"!

[MegaNandoXZ]

Less detergent consumption is also possible for personal use, sometimes my hands are just a bit greasy, maybe because I just ate pizza, and a little "rice" of liquid soap is enough to clean the hands, but some people dont think this through and press the dispenser to as far as it will go, releasing a lot of soap that isn't really needed most of times

[carlinemoon]

As someone who worked retail, and was a manager for ten years in one location, some of these sound great, but aren't realistic. Such as bartering for an extra discount. If it is a display item we could give an extra discount since it was touched or used by people, but if it was a boxed item none of the four companies I worked for allowed us to give ANY further discounts since they were already marked down to a rate where we were not making money from them, or making so little we were only covering the cost to the manufacturer. The trick with the numbers are not always accurate, either, as having a discounted item marked with a 7 or 8 at the end might just be a special temporary sale item, not a permanent discount. If it ended with a 0, though, that almost exclusive meant we needed to get rid of it as quickly as possible, though we were NOT allowed to discount it any further once it reached that price as we were already loosing money on the product, and the companies would rather make something, even if it was beneath what the item cost us, rather than giving it away.