Here in BC, for our public transit system it is broken down into three zones of travel and a person has an option of buying a bus pass that enables them to travel through various zones. As you may have guessed, buying the pass that allows you to travel through all zones is more expensive.

Not too long ago there was this program called “Scrap It” that was introduced as a way to get rid of older car models off the road that are not as environmentally friendly. As an incentive, people can get an incentive worth up to a little over $2000.

Apparently there are a lot of people that don’t opt for the credit towards purchasing a new car but instead opt to get bus passes that are mailed to them every month. Interestingly enough, many of these people don’t even use transit and so instead they look to sell off their passes to others and there is no rules about it.

For example, a three zone pass is about $136 a month normally and there seems to be a never ending amount of people willing to part off with them for about $100 or less. Not a bad way to save money if you are a regular user of public transit.

Haven’t tried this myself personally, but the main thing to look out for from what I read are people that ask for a lump some and then mentioning that they will simply put your name as the address to deliver the passes to every month as from what I read the person can easily just take your name off the list afterwards.

If you find an honest seller though, it looks like it can be a good and perfectly legitimate way to benefit both parties.

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I saw a re-run on the news the other day about how if you go to a store and buy an item where the scanned price comes out higher than the price marked on the shelf then you are entitled to get it for free or a $10 credit if the item is over $10. This is known as the Scanner Price Accuracy Voluntary Code and you can find a list of merchants that participate in this by clicking on the link.

Speaking for myself, I have always found that London Drugs seems to be the most prevalent in having items that end up scanning higher than the tagged shelf price. Not exactly sure what the reason is for that. I personally knew this awhile ago but I know a lot of people are unaware of this and as a result they usually just accept the offer of simply accepting the item at the tagged shelf price.

I never actually gotten an item for free before though and I wonder what they mark down on the receipts for it as I’m sure as a business you always want to keep try why an item was discounted.

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