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McDonald's McFlurry for $1.40

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McDonald's McFlurry for $1.40
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cheezal on 24/01/2014 - 18:29 files.ozbargain.com.au (12943 clicks)
Last edited 02/08/2018 - 16:33 by 1 other user

So, being inquisitive and bored, a friend and I decided to see if we can get past the absolutely outrageous price that a McFlurry costs at micca dee's. So, by doing the following, you will get a VERY cheap McFlurry.

Process:
1) Ask for 3x30 cent cones to be put into a McFlurry cup
2) Ask for the topping (e.g. m&ms, oreo etc) of your choice
3) Eat your three thirty cent cones with whatever topping in a mcflurry cup :)

Enjoy, this will save you hundreds of percent of the total cost :)

Quick edit - yes topping (e.g. chocolate sauce or fudge) incurred an extra 50 cents.

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    • issh on 25/01/2014 - 02:02

      This is good

      Most popular deal ever posted in Ozb

      • tonester on 25/01/2014 - 11:16

        note that in terms of clicks, it will be hard to beat the 37k+ of the ms office deal :)

    • PJC on 25/01/2014 - 02:07

      I wonder why www.ozbargain.com.au/node/122485 (Telstra's free calls to Philippines) is omitted from the stats?

      • issh on 25/01/2014 - 02:35
        +1

        Because it had to beat the Microsoft record of 894

        As scotty made it in order for the old deals to still be 'at the top' due to the number of members back then

        i.e.
        https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/1480
        23 votes in 2007 was huge; whereas now, its just an average deal

  • HantuPocong on 25/01/2014 - 01:31

    Thanks OP, this is just brilliant……..

    Ordered an m&m's to be put inside the MC Flurry cup and 3 soft cone ice cream, voila….. $1.40 + 3 empty cones.
    The look of people eyes beside my table is priceless.

    Next time, I will bring my own m&m's. Lol……

  • knuckle8 on 25/01/2014 - 01:42

    Woohoo got it on 888 votes!! haha

  • Chongy288 on 25/01/2014 - 01:45

    Congratulations on the new record!!

    • knuckle8 on 25/01/2014 - 02:01

      Congrats!!!
      Is it going to hit over 1000?

  • shopaholic32 on 25/01/2014 - 02:10

    Holy crap 904 to 905 now votes for Mcflurry…looks like I have to try one too :)

  • mlburnian on 25/01/2014 - 02:21

    Wow the first post with 1000 likes is going to be for maccas ice cream…sad day for ozbargain

  • Tightaas on 25/01/2014 - 02:39
    +4

    Joined OB just to vote for OP

    • tightarse on 25/01/2014 - 08:50
      +8

      Are we related?

      • strangeloops66 on 25/01/2014 - 09:08
        +1

        Which one has outstanding sphincter control and who is just cheap?

    • dd22qq on 25/01/2014 - 20:39

      OK.

    • Tal_Shiar on 25/01/2014 - 04:41
      +2

      Yet you upvoted the baa deal too…

  • DEvok on 25/01/2014 - 02:47

    Whoa! 900+ votes! This might be a new record! Anything higher before?

    Also wonder how long till mccas change their condition. After losing money..

    • [Deactivated] on 25/01/2014 - 03:04

      What is there to change? This is just getting soft serves and extra toppings and mixing them together. The only thing they can change is increasing the price of a soft serve cone.

  • grababargain on 25/01/2014 - 03:13
    +2

    Come to think of it, this deal is actually "McDonald's McFlurry and 3 Cones for $1.40".

  • CVonC on 25/01/2014 - 03:29

    lmao this is legendary!

  • Bargoon on 25/01/2014 - 03:49

    Has anyone been able to buy a bag of their chocolate sauce ? I could just eat that on its own! (Not in one sitting!)

    • WT on 25/01/2014 - 13:31
      +2

      A girlfriend in High school stole a bag of chocolate sauce, so sickening.

      • montorola on 25/01/2014 - 16:38
        +1

        I'd let her go too if she did that :S

    • kwaker on 25/01/2014 - 13:47
      +1

      Have you asked the manager? They might let you buy one.

    • Scrooge McDuck on 27/01/2014 - 15:56
      -1

      Buy chocolate flavoured golden syrup from the supermarket. It's pretty much the same thing.

  • paulaus on 25/01/2014 - 04:42

    fantastic

  • IgnitionS15 on 25/01/2014 - 05:11

    mclovin

  • Jase2801 on 25/01/2014 - 05:50
    +8

    MasterNoob had sort of the same idea in November if only he would have posted it. See last comment https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/122517

    • grasstown on 25/01/2014 - 13:14

      For me my vote wasn't so much the idea but the execution. But props to MasterNoob too.

  • wizzlesticks on 25/01/2014 - 05:54

    If the media gets hold of this, it's NOT going to look pretty!

  • ahly92 on 25/01/2014 - 06:08

    give that man a cookie!

  • TheSly on 25/01/2014 - 07:05

    While it's nice to share, doing so will mean they will change the rules and your deal will be worthless. Shame really.

    • adam on 25/01/2014 - 09:55
      +1

      Nah… they'd love the publicity & change nothing.

    • [Deactivated] on 25/01/2014 - 13:11

      Why would McDonald's stop selling soft serve cones?

      • ProspectiveDarkness on 25/01/2014 - 21:33
        -1

        Don't be daft. If they thought this important enough to disallow, they would just refuse sale of 'custom McFlurries'.

        • [Deactivated] on 25/01/2014 - 22:05

          I don't think you understand how this works. When you order these you are ordering soft serve cones. After that you're just combining them together. There's nothing stopping you from doing whatever you want with your food once you've ordered and paid for it. It's not like the McDonald's staff will jump over the counter and ban you from mixing your cones and toppings together.

        • ProspectiveDarkness on 25/01/2014 - 22:26
          -1

          You don't think they'll realise that you're working their system, when you're blatantly ordering the ingredients of a McFlurry, in McFlurry packaging? The regular crew won't give a crap, but management might not take too kindly to you cutting into their profits. They don't have to jump over the country if they refuse the order in the first place.

        • [Deactivated] on 25/01/2014 - 22:31
          +1

          They're not going to refuse people from ordering soft serves. Don't be stupid.

        • ProspectiveDarkness on 25/01/2014 - 22:34

          If those soft serves are completely obvious replicas of higher priced items, they might.

        • [Deactivated] on 25/01/2014 - 23:02
          +1

          Not going to happen. In fact they're making more money when you order it with this method because you're giving up the cone which they can then use for another customer.

        • ProspectiveDarkness on 25/01/2014 - 23:11

          The McFlurry packaging you're using instead isn't free, and you're obviously ignoring the lost profits that would've been made on an actual McFlurry sale.

        • [Deactivated] on 26/01/2014 - 01:22
          +1

          What lost profit? The people ordering this are never going to pay the full price of a McFlurry in the first place. They are still making money off the soft serves they are selling you. Also the McFlurry cup packaging is nothing. They give out water with cup, lid and straw for free.

        • ProspectiveDarkness on 26/01/2014 - 01:56
          -1

          The people ordering this are never going to pay the full price of a McFlurry in the first place

          [citation needed]

          Also the McFlurry cup packaging is nothing

          Just as the cost of 'the cone which they can then use for another customer' is equally negligible. Which was my point.

          Spin it all you want, this is a cheat method for obtaining a higher priced menu item for cheaper than intended. Whether any Maccas will take issue with it is their prerogative.

        • [Deactivated] on 26/01/2014 - 02:51

          Spin it all you want, this is just ordering 3 soft serves. You are delusional to think McDonald's will care. There is nothing they can do to stop this but stop selling soft serve cones or raise the price of soft serve cones (which they won't just because a bunch of people are ordering more of it).

        • ProspectiveDarkness on 26/01/2014 - 03:02
          -1

          Right, three soft serves. With toppings. In special packaging. Making a McFlurry. Everyone else here recognises that, or the title wouldn't read 'McDonalds McFlurry for $1.40'. The fact that this is an illegitimate workaround isn't questionable.

          As I said, if any stores want to take issue with the practice, that's their decision and their right. Whether they definitively would, has never been my point.

          And no, they're not limited to playing by your rules as to what they can sell and how much for. They could easily just say 'no custom McFlurries'.

        • [Deactivated] on 26/01/2014 - 03:39
          +1

          Uh huh. If they say 'no custom McFlurries', you say 'Can I please order 3 soft serves in a sundae lid, m&m topping and a cup and spoon'. You've been able to do this at McDonald's for years. This isn't really a hack or exploitation.

        • kwaker on 26/01/2014 - 12:04
          +1

          Take your own bowl if you need. This is not so much of a rort by the people as it is pointing out that McDonald's have been rorting us for years.

    • bund90 on 25/01/2014 - 14:31

      I doubt there would be that there would be that many people ordering McFlurries this way.

  • grababargain on 25/01/2014 - 07:30
    +1

    Getting there - 997. Come on guys, I stayed up all night for that magic number. Don't disappoint me.

  • Archi on 25/01/2014 - 07:35
    +2

    Yay … I'm the #1000 up vote this deal is awesome…

  • grababargain on 25/01/2014 - 07:36
    +5

    Pass 1000. But the last digit is superimposing the + sign in the green up vote box and also won't fit in the tally box.

    • giu on 25/01/2014 - 11:29
      +2

      Ozbargains 2.0 to have wider vote count

  • grababargain on 25/01/2014 - 07:44
    +1

    Congrats cheezal! You get my up vote for Australian of the Year.
    Scotty, any offers for this website yet? Keep us in the loop.

  • gimli on 25/01/2014 - 08:23
    +2

    Why this kolaveri Di?

  • auna on 25/01/2014 - 08:26
    -8

    Good post. However it really is 4 cones of ice cream ($1.20) and two toppings ($1.00) totalling $2.20.

    Also, the main reason it's possible is the cheap promotional price of 30 cent cones. In some countries cones cost over half a mcflurry.

    • Folly on 25/01/2014 - 09:02
      +20

      Ozbargain.

    • chipstss on 25/01/2014 - 15:17
      +1

      Straya

  • Herbse on 25/01/2014 - 08:36
    +4

    Wow, in all the time ozbargain had been running. The devs never thought a deal would reach over 999 votes.

    This deal just broke OB

    • tonester on 25/01/2014 - 11:01
      +1

      y2k? :)

  • Billygoat on 25/01/2014 - 09:14

    Excellent.

  • c64 on 25/01/2014 - 09:35

    i have absolutely no idea what a 'mcflurry' is but it sounds cheap

    • lousy on 29/01/2014 - 04:31
      -1

      ?

  • funkay on 25/01/2014 - 09:39
    +1

    Op is the MacGyver of Mcdonalds! Lol

  • spychiatrist on 25/01/2014 - 09:43
    -2

    McFlurry is whirled, this isn't so ain't the same. No deal for me! ;)

    • Jase2801 on 25/01/2014 - 09:53

      Lol just stick your finger in it and whirl it ;)

      • strangeloops66 on 25/01/2014 - 10:01
        +9

        That's what…no, not going there.

    • Marty131 on 25/01/2014 - 11:59
      +3

      They don't whirl it any more… at least in Adelaide multiple stores are too lazy to. That's what I thought the whole point of a McFlurry was!

      • Retrojunkie on 25/01/2014 - 23:00

        damn. I was going to post that you're paying for the whirl so the OP is wrong… but I guess I am the one that needed correcting??

  • cmafra on 25/01/2014 - 09:52
    +6

    I saw this post on the phone before, had to come home and comment! You sir are a legend, may you multiply and have many children!

  • Maglia Nera on 25/01/2014 - 09:55

    1107 +ive votes so far - hopefully will break 1500

  • Herbse on 25/01/2014 - 10:20

    all hail cheezal, the recently crowned king of OB

  • Murdrum on 25/01/2014 - 10:38
    +1

    Being a maccas vet from a few years back, I'm surprised at how much attention this deal has earned! Employees do do things like this. As long as you can put everything that would usually cost money through the register, it's legit.

    I'd have thought this type of deal would just get a few "Oh hey, that's neat," up votes.

  • altomic on 25/01/2014 - 10:39
    +7

    "hey, that's a real cheezal deal."

    Cheezal deal - using upscaling of lesser valued items in combination to obtain an item of greater value.

  • sleepyowl on 25/01/2014 - 10:43
    +2

    cheezal, 25/01/2014, the day he broke Ozbargain.

    • bxpressiv on 25/01/2014 - 10:46

      He's pretty much just done what Nadia Comaneci did in the '76 Montreal Olympics.

      • Waikikamukau on 25/01/2014 - 11:06
        +2

        He's pretty much done what Tonya Harding did to Nancy Kerrigan.

  • Bargain4U on 25/01/2014 - 10:46
    +2

    Well now we know how many active users OzBargain has.

  • Shanda on 25/01/2014 - 11:18

    logged in just to vote u :)

  • giu on 25/01/2014 - 11:24

    Congrats!

  • pennae on 25/01/2014 - 11:26
    +3

    I often buy 3 boxes of cookies and use the Student Edge card to get a free espresso pronto, which is priced higher than the cookies. The difficulty is not eating all of the cookies at once (they're addictive!). OP, you've just added variety to my diet!

  • dan76n on 25/01/2014 - 11:27

    I prefer HJ's soft serves. Do you think if a took a mcflurry cup to them they would put 3 soft serves in it for me? Makes it a bit more expensive but I find HJ's soft serves are a little bigger.

    • blighst on 25/01/2014 - 17:53

      They're also more creamy i find.

  • OldBugger on 25/01/2014 - 11:27
    +1

    Morning Ozbar… What the hell??

  • tassie Pete on 25/01/2014 - 11:33
    +1

    Good on you cheezal for the original post, and +1 to everyone else for their humour.

  • txn25 on 25/01/2014 - 11:49
    +1

    Ozbargain has peaked. There's no way it get better after this

    • tonka on 25/01/2014 - 14:41
      +1

      Peaked? It may well have jumped the shark.

  • Gidget on 25/01/2014 - 11:52

    So many giggles! Thanks OP.
    And best and funniest comments on a post. Is there an award for that too?

  • Flyerone on 25/01/2014 - 12:04
    +8

    25th of January 2014 will go down in OzBargain history as:
    The day Cheezal released the McFlurry Hack

  • Blendnbake on 25/01/2014 - 12:27
    +2

    Other very minor fast food deals
    6 mcnugget happy meal is cheaper than the 6 mcnugget small meal (not sure if it still is) You get a bonus toy as well as paying less.
    6 wicked wings are cheaper per wing (under $1 per wing) than buying 10 wicked wing deal (over $1 a wing)
    until the recent menu change at nandos, the 3 tenders kids meal with added two tenders was cheaper than the 4 tenders meal, they have now changed the kids meal to a half serve of chips instead of full and the drink has to be the fruit/juice box. Though if you don't care about the size of chips and drink adding two tenders is an even better deal now since they "lowered" the kids meal price and jacked up the normal tenders meal price. Supposed to be for kids 12yrs and under….

    • [Deactivated] on 26/01/2014 - 12:34

      "Supposed to be for kids 12yrs and under…"

      Where's jv when you need him ?

  • JuryWheel on 25/01/2014 - 12:42

    How many people have actualy ordered one of these? I would love a forum post dedicated to pics of people actually eating one of these.

  • T1OOO on 25/01/2014 - 12:59
    +3

    The op must have an savings iq of 180. Only better thing would be steeling it. Women. Line up. This is the guy u want to have ur baby with.

    • [Deactivated] on 26/01/2014 - 22:01

      Hey buddy, get in line!

  • silverrat23 on 25/01/2014 - 13:11
    +1

    Got mine for $0.90 at Sanctuary Lakes!

    Person didn't charge me for the Oreo topping (since she was new), hence the lower price.

    Thanks OP!

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