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credited with free plane tickets as compensation for my
trouble.


12
Free Airline Tickets and
Their Cash Value

I obtained my first Porsche with the following swindle: I
buy plane tickets on the busiest flights leaving my city.
These flights are usually overbooked by the airlines. (I
found out through a flight attendant friend which flights
were consistently overbooked. Travel agents have this
information too.) I buy the tickets for full price through the
airline ticket counter, using a credit card so that they are
fully refundable. When airlines have overbooked flights,
they ask the passengers if anyone will be willing to take a
later flight. I always offer to be bumped. Many airlines
have a policy of offering a free round-trip plane ticket to
any destination in the continental United States to anyone
who gets bumped. I get this free ticket as compensation,
and then I return my ticket at the ticket counter saying that I
want to take the flight a few days later. They credit my card
with the price of the ticket, and I leave with a free ride to
anywhere in the continental United States. if the flight that I
expected to get bumped from is not overbooked I do the
same thing; I return the ticket at the ticket counter saying
that I changed my mind and I do not want to fly that day (I
do not get stuck paying for a ticket). Then I buy a ticket for
another flight that is likely to be overbooked and try again.
The great thing about getting a free plane ticket is that it can
actually be sold to a travel agency or a private party. These
free round-trip tickets go for anywhere from four hundred
dollars to six hundred dollars. I sold a batch of such tickets
to a travel agency and bought a car with the money. I also
used some for travel around the country.


13
Making Money Returning
Purchases

This swindle can be applied in various ways, but I will
offer a specific example: You buy five small-size Ralph
Lauren Polo shirts at one store where they sell for $32
each. At another more upscale department store, you return
them, saying that they were a gift from a relative who did
not know your size. You say you do not want them, and the
department store will send you a check reimbursing you for
the shirts at the retail price--$55 per shirt. In short, you