*************************************** ** ** ** How to Get Free Video Tapes ** ** ** ** PART I ** ** ** ** ** ** Brought To You By ** ** ** ** The Duke ** ** ** ** Co-Sysop of the Army BBS ** ** ** ** ** ** A Release Of The ** ** ** ** Federation ** ** ** ** And ** ** ** ** The Neon Knights ** ** ** ** ** ** Call... ** ** ** ** The Black Forest ** ** 617-431-7972 ** ** ** ** The Labrynth ** ** 401-885-2079 ** ** ** ** /\/\aster \/\/orld ** ** 213-478-5478 ** ** ** ** Find The Army Logon And ** ** Number From Me Or ** ** From the Nearest Elite ** ** Near You. ** ** ** *************************************** The topic of free video tapes has brought more interest that i thought it would. When I decided to write this file, many people began to ask me "How do you get free video tapes?" The answer to that question will be answered many a time in this article because there is far more than one way to get free video tapes. Video tapes can currently can be rented for about one to five dollars a night. Some places, even if you are a member of their club, will ask for a $50.00 deposit on tapes. An important thing to realize in getting free video tapes is that most tapes retail for about $60.00. So if you successfully get five tapes, you've made yourself $300.. Not bad for a day's work.. On to business. It's really quite easy to get free video tapes once you understand how the movie rental business works. In the past couple of weeks, I've managed to learn most everything there is to know about how movies are rented. As they famous quote says "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." This quote will be proven true thoughout this article. I will first explain the more primitive ways of getting video-tapes, then explain how the video tape rental business works, and then explain ways to use this to your best advantage. To start off, I will cover what I consider the more primitive ways of getting free video tapes. Credit Carding- If you know how to illegally use credit cards (naughty naughty you), you can call up places and simply card them. This will work especially well with porno tapes, because tapes of this sort are not usually on display in the video department of Lechmere. If you need numbers of places to call to get free video tapes, go out and buy (steal, card, whatever) a copy of any video magazine, where there is usually at least 200 advertisements for places to buy video tapes. In these advertisements it is also possible to get free video equipment. but that is carding and this is something different. There is another use for CC's that I will discuss later. Shoplifting - Shoplifting is another basically primitive way, but in some circumstances, it can work very very well. In many places, including the place where I work, the store will put certain movies on display. If you know what you're doing, simply switch the movie to a movie on T.V. so nothing looks too suspicious, and then stop the tape, eject it and put it in your bag (pocketbook, pants, whatever) and calmly walk out of the store. Remember, the smaller the store, the better your chances are of successfully completing such a maneuver. Make sure the store is not so small that the store employees watch your ass everywhere you go. Try to find a small store where a lazy person is busy renting out movies. Another thing to look for is a video tape machine behind a T.V. so the recorder is blocked from the view of the person who is working register. I wouldn't try to do this from places like Lechmere, although I know it can be done, there are usually cameras everywhere and they watch the video place like hell. I called the security department of Lechmere and they told me they watch the computer, the video department, and the watch - jewelry department the most. To sum up, if you want to shoplift success- fully, the best thing to do is to stick to small stores, when there isn't too many if any male managers around (I'm not a chauvanist, but a female can simply just not stop a 19 year old kid running from a store...), usually on a sunday, and make sure you know something about the security of the place (cameras, concern of salespeople, etc.) Other shoplifting methods - Different movie rental places use different methods of storing their video tapes. The place where I work has all the video tapes behind a very accessable desk. If you can find a kid who will bother the guy at the register enough while the manager is in the back, you can usually just go back, take a few tapes, and calmly walk out of the store.. Another nice method is if you have a brother about 8 years old, who can keep his mouth shut.. The younger looking he is, the better.. Just keep saying how annoying the kid is and ask the guy to show you the video machines. Then your little baby brother can just crawl over and take a few video tapes.. If the guy catches him, just hit your brother and say, "Oh my goodness, he just can't keep his hands off anything!!". A guy had done this once where I worked, but I nailed the sucker since he was stupid. The little kid brought the tape to his older brother, and I said, "Ummm, sir...".. The guy started walking out of the store, but I nailed his ass.. If you can, tell your brother to hide the cassette in his shirt or something, but don't have him give it to you.. Copying the tapes-Just another way, only problem is that it actually costs money to copy tapes. You have to buy blank tapes, etc. etc. and you need two video recorders. A good place to do this is school since they usually have at least 5 video recorders around. One more primitive method - If you have a friend who works there.. Have him act like he's signing them up for you but in reality, he won't. Be careful, since if the manager notices the movie missing during your friend's shift, he will often have to pay for it. A major rule of getting free video tapes is to be careful not to get your friend busted. Ok, onto the better methods.. First let me explain how the movie rental business works nowadays. Some places will only allow you to rent movies if you rent or lease equipment from them. Other places will allow you join the club for about fifty dollars, and then have the ability to take cassettes out for about five dollars a night. Either way way, you usually end up with a membership of some sort.. You then have the ability to rent out video tapes for very cheap prices, and usually without any deposit. Where I work, this membership will give you an account number. In other places, all you really need is a name, and occasionally a card. Where I work, the place used to give plastic fancy cards, but the place got lazy so it doesn't do that any more. What does this mean? This means that if you have a guy's name (the account number is not really needed, but if you have the card, you'll have a much better chance of success), then you can just about get as many free video tapes as you want. There are a few problems with the methods I will cover in a second.. Most of the managers who work at video places have extremely good memory.. In other words, if you go "Hi", if you rented equipment, they'll be able to say "Oh, Hi Mr. Fuckhead, how are you." This is especially true in small stores, where most of the contracts are done by the manager who is usually somewhere in the store.. You then have to prove to the manager one of three things. One, you are the son, daughter, dog, or whatever of one of the people that has a membership there. Do not say you're a cousin unless you have the person's plastic card. My store nailed someone who tried that method. Two, you are a member of one. the other stores. This will only work if the place allows you to sign up in one town's store and then have the ability to take tapes out in a store under the same name in a different town. This is the most successful and best way I think. Read the part later on about account numbers and the way they are set up (at least for the store which i work at). Three, you are a new member there, and he doesn't recognize you. (I personally don't like this one, use either of the others since they usually remember new people). Remember this when you read the next section.. Part II.... I will now explain a few of the methods you can use to get and to use the account numbers.. Getting and using false cards or names I will give a quick description of how account numbers are set up and then describe ways to use them. How the account numbers are set up - This really depends on the store. However, the place where I work has a very easy system to figure out. all the cards from my store start with XXYYYY. XX is a two digit store number, which is followed by 4 more numbers. It is best to make sure you know the set up of the store where you plan on doing this before you do it. A nice thing about this store number deal is when you have a video rental place such as the place I work at, if you get the card of a person in one town, if you bring it to another town, you can still use the card, but the chances of being caught are so slim, I don't even consider it. Other places will only need a name. Remember, you will often run into people with photographic memory who memorize faces.. Whatever you do, don't panic. How to get the Cards - There are basically two types of cards to look for, plastic and paper. However, as I said before, the place where I work is very lazy, so they usually don't issue the plastic ones anymore. Now, if you know someone that works there, you can have them steal a few of the paper things upon which people account number and name is written on. Most people carry their cards in the wallets (obviously) so if you come accross a membership card, don't through it away. Use it quickly. You can also make your own cards. Get some of those paper things. Write "John Wilson", account number 209583 on it, and whatever other info it needs, and you're all set. The best way to get free video tapes is by finding the store's list of names and account numbers. At our store the list is called the alpha list and is usually lying around somewhere on the front desk. If you get that, you'll have enough accounts and account #'s to last you the rest of your life. Remember that list is updated every month or so, and many people quit. It's much better to try to "borrow" tapes from a teen-age salesperson since 1) he won't care, and 2) he won't know your fake name, and 3) he doesn't really know too much about who quits and who are new members. He is programmed to take an account number, enter it and give out video tapes. How to use the fake card - Simply bring the card into the shop, act intelligent, pick out a few videotapes, and give the guy your card.. Remember what I mentioned earlier. If you happen to steal a black guy's card and you're white, you claim to be his son, and the manager happens to know the guys name off-hand, you may run into trouble. If you can, find a place where the person running register is in high-school working there part time.. You can usually pull such manuevers off pretty easily. Some places will only allow you to take out 3 video tapes at a time. If you are intelligent though, you will try to get more than 3. Most places, after signing out video tapes, simply file the order away until the person brings the tapes back. Go back the next day (preferably when a new salesperson is working there) and just take three more out. Don't do this too much since the orders will start to pile up and one day the guy may notice it and say "Gee Whiz!! This guy has 12 video tapes out! I thought you could only take 3 out!" Whereupon the guy will probably call the card owner's house to discover him to say "Huh?? I haven't visited your shop in two months!" Unless you are in the mood to live in a place with bars and solitary confinement, I suggest you be extremely careful about this. Advanced use of Credit Cards - If you have an actual plastic, and you can forge the person's sig pretty well, you can use yet another method of getting video tapes. I called yet another place (I called many other places about this to get a good idea of how other systems work) and found that they rent video tapes out to anyone for 5$ a night, but you have to leave a 50$ deposit. The nice thing about this deposit thing is if you give them the fake card, then you don't have to worry about memberships or any of that other bullshit. Just be careful, since illegal credit card use carries a worse punishment that does video tape theft. Going to work This does sound a little harsh, I know, but sooner or later, you will have to go to work. If you can get a job at one of these places, most of them will allow you to take out video tapes as you please. If you find a video tape you like.. Keep it!! ** A WARNING **- A kid who worked at either the store I work at or another one, just got fired from his job. He did many stupid things, but one of the things he did is to steal video tapes and then just leave them around the house. My manager called his house and his father said "Oh, he told me he bought the tapes". You can probably finish the rest of the story. The morale of this story is If you steal tapes (really if you work there or not, but definately if you work there) keep them hidden from your parents. I noticed something very interesting when I went to work. If a person decides to lease equipment from our store, they use TRW to check the person out, and do all this other shit (co-signer's, etc.). By the way, when I say leasing, I mean of video players, not just tapes. Anyway, when I went to work there, I just filled out an application, and in a week I got a call and now I'm working there. In other words, they did less of a check on me, and i'm responsible for the cash flow, the tapes, and just about everything, than they do for a person who rents a fucking T.V.!! If you have a lot of guts, try to get a job under a false name. There are problems with this such as the guy calling to say you got the job, but if you have any creativity, you may be able to work it out.. Try not to let the guy see you too much when you work there that first, and make sure to work in a place far away from your home. Then simply take 15 tapes home on your first night, and never show up again. (15*60.... figure it out..) (I don't advise this method of jobs under a false name, but if you have a false id and you can pull it off, I'm sure you could be very successful with it. It would be a good method for a person who travels a lot..) There are other advantages of working at these places. It's very easy to steal the late charges by simply not ringing the charge in, but you can do this in any store, so just figure it out. I don't waste my time with this. It's just another way to make money in case you're curious. "Dropping the Tapes off in the morning" Many places have a little mail slot where you can drop off your tapes if you work, and you can't drop off the tapes due to your work hours, but don't want to pay late charges. I did a little research on this and found that many places have a key you can get to drop the tapes off when the store is closed. If you have a membership there, you can usually buy a key like this for about 50 cents. I decided to check into this furthur and found this when you dropped the video tapes in, they were dropped in a large box. However, by the end of the night, especially on Monday nights, the box was overflowing and it was possible to reach in and grab video tapes. If you brought along one of the things you use to put logs on the fire, it would be very easy to snag at least 10 tapes, and probably 20 on monday nights. (20*60$=1200$). Remember also, if the place loses 1200$, they will probably find out it and will probably stop the policy of allowing people to use the keys. I was informed by someone that some of the more expensive video places have video cameras watching the slot so if I were you, I would I would park my car or bike in a place behind the store, and probably wear a mask of some sort. Now for a quick summary... The Video Tape Frauder's Commandments ------------------------------------- Thou shalt not steal from places that are large and that may contain cameras and other such equipment.. Stick to smaller places. Thou shalt not use the card of a black man when thou are not of the black race, and visa versa. Thou shalt seek out stupid looking salesmen, not people who look like they know all the people who hold accounts there, such as the phenomenon known as managers. If the place starts to look for new people (ie. a help wanted sign), wait until you see the new person, and then use the methods on him or her. You've probably noticed that I've mentioned this about 4 times in the article. This is because this is one of the most important things you should do, for a foolproof day of video tape theft. Thou shalt not panic, under any circumstances. If thou runs into a problem, thou shalt say, "Shit, I can't believe you guys are so screwed up. I'm going to go home and fix this whole thing up." and walk angrily out of the store. Thou shalt use the account of a person in another town if possible. Thou shalt be sure that the person does not use that store often, or thou shalt have his royal ass burnt. Thou shalt know the way the store is run before thou tries anything of the illegal type. Thou shalt not get a friend who works at a video place busted if he helps you steal tapes when he is working there, by saying "He gave them to me!!" or anything of the like. If thou decides to try to get tapes from the video boxes late at night, thou shalt wear a mask, and do it when it is as dark as possible. Thou shalt also be on the look-out for cameras and cops who are patrolling the area. Thou shalt not come running to me if thou gets busted for being very very stupid. *************************************** ** You may put this up on your BBS ** ** as long as the phile remains ** ** completely unchanged. 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