So the entire point of this board is to help each other get deals, but you need to be snide about a town that it seems a lot of us are good at it? real ahavas yisroel there, kid...
Taking advantage of a loophole like that to the point where the employees take notice, is not called a "deal". It's called "abusing the system".
And for the record, the vast majority of Lakewood is not "good at it" when it comes to
finding deals, as you say. The vast majority are good at taking deals found by
other people, and systematically milking and abusing them until they get shut down, more than once causing a huge Chillul Hashem in the process.
And before you go and label me as a "Lakewood hater" who just "makes hateful assumptions based on rumors", I just want to go in record that I lived there for a few years myself, and all of my siblings and most of my cousins still do. So I am quite well informed on the inner workings of that town.
Oh, and I ain't no "kid".