Im guessing free pizza.

The fact that they’re local shouldn’t matter in this case; they offered it, and apparently were going to give it to someone, so don’t blame the kid for trying!

It definitely matters. Abusing some loophole to get 50 free pizzas from a family business is categorically worse than doing the same to Domino’s.

My wife owns an after school tutoring center. We sponsor the local elementary school - and one time they had a silent auction fundraiser. We were asked if we can donate anything. We said sure...we gave them three vouchers, worth ~$150 each of services. We were expecting 3 lucky families.

At the end, the coordinator herself won (or supposedly won?) all 3 vouchers and showed up with her kid. For the next silent auction we ensured to put 1 voucher per family. The shock on her face when she showed up again, with 3 vouchers in hand and my wife told her to read the fine print.

From the HN comments it looks like - we were silly for trying to promote something in good faith and we deserved to have been abused. Jokes on them because reality is small businesses stop doing fun things for the community and it becomes strictly business.

But there's a difference between "Teenager hustles the pizza place and they settle for a gift card" and "Fundraiser coordinator methodically wins every auction". Maybe that difference is how much "breaking the rules" is part of the real rules?

I hope that for the next silent auction, you contacted whoever was above that coordinator and explained why you won't be providing anything anymore.

When I was younger I thought the McDonald's prank was cool. Being older, not so much.

So you've established that there's some kind of hierarchy here, where the value of 1 pizza to a certain entity depends on their place in the hierarchy. The higher up on the hierarchy you are, the less 1 pizza matters to you. Furthermore, you've stated that it's "categorically worse" to get a free pizza from a family business than from Domino's, because a net loss of 1 pizza matters less to Domino's than it does to a family business.

I agree with this assessment. However, I would posit that a single university-aged individual is even lower on this hierarchy than a family business is, so unless Domino's had the same promotion going on and they chose to target a family business instead, the logic seems to defend their action.

It's probably also worth pointing out that the original commenter only said "local pizza place", which isn't always used synonymously with "family business", and additionally that describing an explicit instruction ("you [can] enter as many times as you like") as a loophole is somewhat of a stretch.

It wasn’t a loophole. And we had a good laugh about it after all was done. I wasn’t out to make money, I just really liked their pizza.

He did everything according to their own rules. No bad faith at all. That they failed to foresee this is their own problem. Things are not as simple as they seem. When people assume they are, they get things like this. They should be happy their gift card offer was accepted and a peaceful outcome was reached. It could have been much worse.

Also, someone was going to win that contest regardless of what he did so it's not like it matters to the pizza place's bottom line.

'Bad faith' is a term literally intended for situations such as these. When you do something 'according to the rules' but clearly against the intent of the rules.

Nope. It would have been bad faith if signups were restricted to one per person and his program generated alternate identities to sign up with.

> Bad Faith. The fraudulent deception of another person; the intentional or malicious refusal to perform some duty or contractual obligation.

He was not obligated not to apply as many times as he could. He was explicitly allowed to do so. He defrauded no one

Reminds me of the Keybase "Space Drop"