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jaydeeuk1

You missed the best one (my 2 local Morrisons have stopped doing 3vcards now so I don't mind sharing).
Everyone knows that if you spend £10 on giftcards, you get 1p off petrol. Great if you want to spend a load at amazon, just buy vouchers. But if you don't want to spend any money, and want free petrol (or rather, get paid to fill up for free), this is how you do it. If you can find enough vouchers and do enough miles, I worked out on a thread on hotukdeals that you can buy a brand new car and run it for free.

Here's my quote from an earlier post

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

Ok..ok.... My local morrisons have now officially stopped stocking them, the gits, so here is the holy grail method - its so simple its brilliant

You can make more money from it using matched betting (bet365 is a good one) Depositing and just withdrawing will get you warned - i deposited a few thousand in to paddy power via paypal and then w/d straightaway before they cottoned on (account was limited anyway so didn't care) - withdrawals show up in your account balance, not refunded to cards.

But for those who can't/won't use betting sites, here you are:

Holy Grail Method

You will need 2 paypal accounts, ie yours and partners. At least 1 must be fully activated / linked to a bank account.

You'l also need the paypal mobile app. I'm using android but probably works on ios too.

Right, activate all your cards on 3v first.

Next login to paypal account 1 on pc, and add a 3v card (easier copying/pasting from a web browser).
Now, login to your paypal mobile app, and go to send money to family and friends (I found xferring only works on the mobile app, using website didn't work for me, i just get some random errors.)

Paypal warns that credit cards have a fee, however these are treated as debit cards therefore free. Xfrer £25 to the other paypal a/c.

Delete this card from your pp account and do another. Again send £25

I tend to do in batches of 4 incase you get limited half way through. On a good day you can do about £1250 worth in a couple of house if you don't need to ring up


Now log in to paypal account 2 on mobile app and either withdraw, or if like me there is no linked bank account, gift the total balance back to account 1, and then withdraw (should show up in bank account almost immediately) from account 1.

As long as you keep 1 linked card on your account, paypal don't seem bothered (you may have to ring up after 20 or 30 cards, or you may not, seems random). I must have put through well over £10k by this method

Voila. Free petrol, and if on a cashback credit card like Amex, free money too. Mayweather would be proud.

Another tip, 3v have a limit of something like £1600 after which you have to verify your account sending all your personal details off which I'm not keen on. Eff that, its my money!

So register a gmail account, eg 3vvouchers@gmail.com and use this for 3v too
After £1500 worth register another a/c with 3v, this time 3.vvouchers@gmail.com Gmail treats addresses with a . the same, so no need to register a new account and try and remember passwords.

Trust me, you'll be sick to death of 3v cards after this.

I'd barely paid for petrol between jan 2014 and feb of this year, and made some money from filling up too. Tesco, coop, boots all sell 3vcards which may count towards points, but Amex often do offers eg spend £20 get £5 credit, so again just buy a card, do the above and get £5 free.

They're also good for unlimited netflix etc trials. They'll take a purchase approval fee of 5.99 or so, but cancel the trial and it will be refunded. Do this as many times as you want with a new payment method and email address. Think it also worked with nowtv but as that doesn't work on rooted devices I dont use it.

Also -assuming you can get an amazon prime trial - if you buy amazon gift cards, say £50 worth, and then add a £25 3vcard as a payment method, purchase an item between £50 and £74.99 and you'll be offered an amazon prime trial. Take it and pay for the item with next day delivery. Amazon will then start emailing that they can't take the trial fee (they must take some sort of pre purchase fee) and that if no valid card is added, they'll cancel the trial. After 10 days, the trial will be cancelled, but wait 24 hours and you'll find you have another option to get a free trial. Rinse and repeat.

Got more of these too if Martin wants to sign an exclusive £1m book deal.

I must give credit to another user who's name I can't remember for pointing out in 2014 that morrisons were running a fuel saver scheme, will try and find the thread.

JJ_Egan

Bit of a misleading/ fake title thread as many will read the title as how to watch live tv for free .Hack as in no its not a hack its just the often posted licence rules .

cifpower

So everyone follows this advice (watched everything on demand rather than live), no one pays the licence fee and no programmes get made.

Kite2010

cifpower wrote: »

So everyone follows this advice (watched everything on demand rather than live), no one pays the licence fee and no programmes get made.

Or the BBC manages to get the law changed to make the licence fee payable as part of the council tax

zaax

There nothing worth watching on TV.

JonathanSmith87

You can still find some good documents about animals, universe, earth and so on.