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How a jerk scams a free quadruple espresso at Starbucks 365 days a year
boing boing ^ | 8-21-2015 | Mark Frauenfelder

Posted on 08/21/2015 9:25:25 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

A Starbucks barista named Brad describes a guy who bought 365 Starbucks gift cards and registered each of them with a different birthday so he can get a free drink every day. That's already a dick move, but the guy makes it worse by being a real jerk to the barista. When he comes in to the store he asks for a Venti cup and a marker and writes instructions on the cup before handing it back:

[He draws lines and arrows and writes all over the cup while telling me: “Two pumps of white mocha here, then add five pumps of vanilla. That should take us to this line here where you’re gonna add cold heavy cream up to this ridge here...it should be halfway between this line and this line. Make sure to add the heavy whipping cream before the espresso, it changes the taste if you do it out of order. Then add your four shots, three regular and one long shot. That long shot is important, since you guys reformulated your machines, it’s been Hell trying to get my drink right. That long shot helps balance it. Then stir it for me, Mister Brad. Now do me a favor and add ice to the top there and it’ll be easy as pie. I’m not picky so don’t worry about shaking it or anything like that.”]

A drink like this is normally $6.50, which would make it ineligible for the free birthday coffee, so he instructs the barista to ring it up as a "one quad espresso, add white mocha, sub vanilla, sub heavy cream."

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To: Red in Blue PA

“Aholes like this ruin it for everybody.”

I am suspicious. There is either ‘more’ to the story or ‘less’ of a story.


21 posted on 08/21/2015 9:37:27 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Citizen Zed

They let him do this 365 times?? No wonder those “baristas” can’t get a job with their PhDs.


22 posted on 08/21/2015 9:37:27 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: hal ogen

I’m sure he’s diagnosable, but he’s probably ‘competent to stand trial’.


23 posted on 08/21/2015 9:37:38 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: Old Sarge

Eh. I hate Starbucks, everything from their idiotic “Let’s Talk About Race” campaign, to “Fair Trade Coffee” signs, not to mention their overpriced coffee.

If I was behind that guy in line, when they handed him the drink and he turned to walk out with a smug look on his face, I would consider either sticking out my foot, or giving his coffee-carrying forearm a stiff nudge as he removes the cover to stick more “stuff” in it.


24 posted on 08/21/2015 9:38:29 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: Citizen Zed

Does he get hi secret service detail anything?


25 posted on 08/21/2015 9:41:48 AM PDT by ryan71 (Bibles, Beans and Bullets)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

LOL, that was my thought as well.

I have an intense dislike for them, but you do have to wonder...how would they manage to make a profit if there wasn’t a legion of dummies willing to pay that price so they can have “morally sound” coffee?

I know of a couple of independent coffee shops that are run by obvious liberals (I won’t go into how I can tell...) and I am amazed that people actually go there, because I have gone there a few times myself, and also walked in with others, and they seem to have absolutely no idea of how to get out of each other’s way. They will have six people behind the counter, a long line of paying customers, and all six people look like they are busy, but...nothing gets done. It is almost as if someone wrote a sketch.

If liberals weren’t so damned potentially dangerous and frequently annoying, they would be hilarious.


26 posted on 08/21/2015 9:44:21 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: Citizen Zed

Hillary voter. Probably registered in multiple precincts.


27 posted on 08/21/2015 9:44:36 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: ryan71

Hahahahaha...now that made me laugh!


28 posted on 08/21/2015 9:44:52 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

I don’t why anyone would want to go to Starbucks. Their coffee tastes like crap and its way too high. I think most of their sales psychology is appealing to the customer’s ego because he is drinking the “special” coffee. My Keurig makes far betterr coffee and costs 15 - 20 times less.


29 posted on 08/21/2015 9:44:54 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Citizen Zed

Free? ...how much does 365 Starbucks gift cards cost?


30 posted on 08/21/2015 9:47:05 AM PDT by TexasCajun (I'll believe in man-made global warming when those that believe it, act like it.)
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To: TexasCajun
> Free? ...how much does 365 Starbucks gift cards cost?

The reason I think the story is made up

31 posted on 08/21/2015 9:49:32 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001
I don’t why anyone would want to go to Starbucks. Their coffee tastes like crap and its way too high. I think most of their sales psychology is appealing to the customer’s ego because he is drinking the “special” coffee. My Keurig makes far betterr coffee and costs 15 - 20 times less.

No clue. By my office, there is a Starbucks two doors down from a local coffee shop that offers pretty much everything Starbucks does (all of the espresso-based drinks, etc.), only cheaper and much better. And yet, every morning, people are lined up out the door at Starbucks, while the lines are much shorter at the other place.

32 posted on 08/21/2015 9:49:53 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Citizen Zed
A Starbucks barista named Brad describes a guy who bought 365 Starbucks gift cards and registered each of them with a different birthday so he can get a free drink every day.

How much did he pay for each gift card? Now multiply that number by 365 and that's the minimum he spends at Starbucks each year. On Starbuck's website, I couldn't find a gift card for less than $10. So this guy is potentially spending $3650/yr at Starbucks. Sounds to me like he is a valued customer no matter what complicated drink he is trying to "scam" the company out of.

If gift cards are free, then clearly I am wrong.

33 posted on 08/21/2015 9:54:15 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

It would be interesting to watch the customers at each business. I might be interested in checking out the women at the non-Starbucks place.


34 posted on 08/21/2015 9:54:30 AM PDT by meatloaf
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To: jsanders2001
Free? ...how much does 365 Starbucks gift cards cost?

GMTA

35 posted on 08/21/2015 9:55:24 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Citizen Zed

Bought 365 cards? Isn’t that a bit much for a free cup of coffee?


36 posted on 08/21/2015 9:57:40 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: al_c

It must be the pizza store owner from a few days back who closes his shop during lunch hours.


37 posted on 08/21/2015 10:03:13 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (http://thegatwickview.tumblr.com/ http://thepurginglutheran.tumblr.com/)
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To: al_c

awhile ago, you can just put 5$ on a gift card and sign up online, with a bday. then you can move/gift the money away to another account.
365 seems like too much work, and drinking a special coffee like that daily... perhaps is too much...think of the calorie intake!
if I was doing it, I could settle for 52 cards, one a week. I’m not that greedy. or heck, one for each starbucks that we have around town.


38 posted on 08/21/2015 10:17:46 AM PDT by VAFreedom (maybe i should take a nap before work)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

That and nobody remembers the same guy coming in everyday and using the B’day ruse? Barista’s are geniuses!


39 posted on 08/21/2015 10:18:09 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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To: treetopsandroofs

Not so fast. If he would have skipped the feb 28th and March 1st card he could have used a card from Feb 29th! lol

They probably would have let him slide on the day before and day after. lol


40 posted on 08/21/2015 10:22:26 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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