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[liftingz]

on-floor concealing methods

first and foremost, always conceal in a blindspot! if there aren’t any natural ones, duck down to create one or, if you’re with a lifting buddy, have them stand between you and the camera.

♥ clothing rack

pick up an item and walk over to a clothing rack. go to a clothing rack and, with the same hand as the item, pretend to look through the clothes. as your hand is deep in the rack, either sleeve the item or drop it into your purse. this is a great, natural way to create a blindspot. 

♥ double and sleeve

this is the most basic sleight-of-hand and is something every lifter needs to have in their tool belt. this works for long and small items, like lipgloss or mascara. grab two of the same item, hold them as if they’re one, and slide one into your sleeve. you can do this while swinging your arm to propel the item into your sleeve, or just put it subtly in with your fingers. 

♥ drop

this works for bigger items. wedge several items between your elbow and ribs.  “accidentally” drop one of them from your elbow into your bag as if you had too many items and one of them just fell into your bag accidentally. 

♥ lightning conceal

this one is literally just putting something into your purse as quickly as possible. ONLY do this in a blindspot as it’s very obvious the intent is to steal the item. 

♥ starbucks cup

get an opaque coffee cup, cut an X into the bottom, and shove little items (concealer, lip gloss, mascara etc) into it. if you do it properly they shouldn’t fall you. you can also pad the cup. 

♥ food bag

get a bag of food from the mall food court. eat some and leave some food in there. drop items into your bag. if you get sussed, you can eat food out of the bag. an alternative of this is to put a hole in the side of the bag and put items through the hole rather than just through the top of the bag. 

♥ armpit

tuck something under your armpit and either walk out with it there or walk to a blindspot and lightning conceal. 

♥ long skirt

wear tight spandex and, when squatting in front of a low shelf at sephora or ulta, push your skirt up slightly and slide a small item into it. pallettes may fit in the waistband. make sure you practice this at home to make sure they’re tight enough and nothing will fall out.

♥ phone

hold something small between your hand and your phone and then put your phone and item back into your purse like you’re only holding your phone. 

[liftingstressdaily]

i’m just posting this because there are some people who don’t know yet. but not all barcodes beep when walking through towers, only the ones with this silver strip underneath. it is deactivated when scanned. they will only be on expensive items or jewelry. they will also only be under stickers. if the item already has a hard tag on it that does not mean this won’t be there too. just take it off and you’re good to go, safe lifting my luvs!💕

[communistdumpling]

If it’s a CHAIN it’s free reign

If it’s locally owned leave it ALONE!

[bigfatbussylipss]

Hey! can all my american liifters please r0b h0bby l0bby blind?

[weenie-lifts]

literally driving out to my closest h0bby l0bby asap to rob them blind <3

[faerielifter]

i’m omw to hobby lobby rn

[liftabitxh]

I know what I’m doing today bitches. The candles are my fav 🤓

[liftnshiftman-blog]

This is my laptop bag. The first picture is what it looks like empty. The second has $141 of stuff in it including a 400 page book and two spools of yarn.

For guys/people that can’t carry formed purses because that’s sus, consider a laptop bag, especially if you’re young. It’s not sus at all to have a laptop bag. It doesn’t hold as much, but it hold a lot.

[serpentlifts]

BOOST TO MALE LIFTERS!!!

[sadlftng]

may all the things you want be untagged, all the LP useless, all the cameras fake, and all the SAs clueless.

[moonlightlifts]

feeling like pure shite had to actually buy things with money today x

[luxurylifter]

[lucentlifter]

Attention all lifters!!

I saw these on the inside of a tag for some underwear my mom bought for me the other day. They’re close to the thread that you snip off, so be careful!

[audiqueenstealer69-deactivated2]

Alrighty we’ll start off with what basic pinhole cameras look like on their own not hidden or imbedded in walls. 

The second picture is a pinhole camera without a specific lense attatched to it. Do you see that little cone shaped thing on the first picture? That’s the lens.

Pinhole cameras can be even smaller that that hunky box thing, they can even be wireless.

See how tiny? See how wireless? You know where these are? Plants, furniture, and displays in stores, potentially even mannequins. 

Now to some cameras you’re probably seen and didn’t even know they were cameras!

I bet you have all seen some variation of this thing around and didn’t even know that they were a camera! Maybe a motion sensor device? These little guys take a photo up to every 1/100,000 if you aren’t into photography that’s a very fast shutter speed. A normal camera usually goes up to 1/250th of a second. The live feed from those pinhole cameras updates every 1/100000th of a second creating a constant HD feed for loss prevention to look over at their leisure. I know for a fact that my American Eagle has the little white pinhole cameras and I have seen them around. Now to how do they layout these cameras? 

Once upon a time I had a post on my old blog queen-city-lifter that had a picture of a section of Hollister’s store with the pinhole camera placement. Some idiot employee left it unattended and out on the counter for any impressionable and curious youth to look at. So I took a picture and studied it obviously. I hope one day you can be as lucky.

In short, recognize pinhole cameras and know what stores use them. Stores will typically not mix dome cameras and pinhole cameras. But always be on the look out.

[18551951815219-deactivated20200]

I’ve asked a lot and no one ever answer but do barcodes set off anything? Like I’m scared to lift things because of barcodes and such and I’ve heard taking off the barcodes is bad so if you can help me I’d highly appreciate it thank you

i think people dont answer because this ask has become a meme around senior lifters tbh. once and for all:

BARCODES DO NOT SET OFF ALARMS

rfids do, tho, and i think that’s what probably trips baby lifters up and why this is such a common question.

THIS IS A BARCODE. ITS HARMLESS. LEAVE. IT. ON.

THESE ARE RFIDS. TAKE THEM THE FUCK OFF OR YOU WILL BEEP. IF YOU HOLD UP A BARCODE TO THE LIGHT AND SEE A MAZE-LIKE PATTERN SHINE THROUGH, THAT IS AN RFID !!!!

THESE ARE RFIDS/PUFFY TAGS, EVEN THOUGH THERE’S A BARCODE ON THEM. TAKE THEM THE FUCK OFF AS WELL, OR MUTILATE THE HELL OUTTA THEM OR YOU WILL BEEP.

[justasimplememebean]

A tip from an ex-magician to my lifting babies ♡

That has got to be the most ridiculous title for myself. Anyway. GOOGLE MAGIC TRICKS. LEARN SLEIGHT OF HAND THROUGH MAGIC TUTORIALS.

Guys I was OBSESSED with magic as a kid and I practiced it until I was a junior in high school. You know how easily I took to lifting? Ridiculously. I’ve fucking concealed with employees staring me in the eye during my first ever haul. They can’t tell shit. And they had no idea. There’s tricks you can learn that are INVALUABLE. Of course don’t go running up to lp and concealing in front of them right away. I’ve been playing with sleight of hand and illusions for years. You’d be amazed how much better you can get at lifting if you learn tricks similar to it.

Penny behind the ear? Oh no. I pulled a fucking nAKED PALLETTE OUT OF YOUR DAMN ASS HOW’S THAT FOR A TRICK.

Now go learn from the pros my precious babies ilysm ❤❤❤❤

[niftyshiftylifty]

To add to this: look up Apollo Robbins and the sort of stuff he does: he explains diverted attention really well, and basically how to direct others’ gazes to particular areas while doing something else. Of course, Robbins uses it for stage effects, but if you take the basic premise and get creative with it and apply it to lifting… you’re all set. Practice this shit in the bathroom mirror at home and stuff, too, with items around the same size and weight as stuff you’re lifting. (If you don’t have those items yet, use small packets, or lipglosses or pens or whathaveyou.)   And get very, very good at not looking at your hand while you’re doing stuff (including removing and even finding RFID tags, as well as concealing). Ideally you want your attention– and anyone else’s– focussed on what you’re doing with your other hand, which should be looking at a product/price/etc. 

[lifting-lolly]

This is very good advice. I’ve also used the same philosophies as professional pickpockets (they use sleight of hand, same as magicians) and been very successful with it.

[moonlightlifts]

trying to online shop and this shit is so expensive??? missing lifting sm

[rosel1ft]

Y'ALL. DO NOT LIFT RIGHT NOW. STORES ARE ON HIGH ALERT AFTER CONSTANT LOOTING AND THEY WILL BRING YOU STRAIGHT TO THE POLICE. LIFTING IS NOT WORTH YOUR LIFE. BE SMART AND STAY SAFE.

[lift-fever]

Y’all what was that hack for Glossier again? Apparently it’s a company that believes too much in customer service that is really easy to exploit? Ya girl needs the invisible sunscreen cuz I hate regular sunscreen but I don’t wanna spend $25 on SUNSCREEN…

[heavenlylifter]

was it this?

[lift-fever]

Oh sweet tysm!

[pascal-lifts-deactivated2020070]

I was searching for this time ago, thanks to the reblogger

[littlemisslyfts-a-lot]

Rules Of Liftblr

(Beginner shorthand edition)

(All this I’ve learned from reading the inactive OG blogs when I was a newbie)

I’m just sick of having to block you guys for not knowing the basics and I’m watching liftblr get sloppy and noooo thanks.

SO. LET US BEGIN SHALL WE?

What your blog needs to look like

1.) Oh My God hide your likes and following. This is so important because it makes it harder to track down every member of the community should antis find your blog

2.) Don’t use actual pictures of yourself as your pfp or anywhere else in your blog. I’m sure this is a given but everyone needs to start somewhere! We are all learning!

3.) Don’t use your real name! Also a given but you never know what people don’t know!

3.) Don’t use tags. Don’t use tags. DONT. USE TAGS

Antis can find the community so easily through tags. It’s literally a giant flare gun please don’t use tags!

Posting Pictures of Hauls

1.) Delete all of your Exif data!

This makes your pictures harder to track. Exif data pretty much is all the information about the picture you took that a phone may save. This includes location and what form of photo it is like all that jazz. Long story short, it keeps your tracks covered to have it deleted.

2.) oh hey again don’t use tags!!

What Goes On Your Blog

1.) Don’t Reblog Outside Of The Community

When you decide you want to be apart of this community and create a whole new blog to go with it. That blog is apart of Liftblr ONLY. Do not reblog outside of the community! PERIODT. There are people out there who want to see you in jail or injured and even killed for what you do. Don’t take it lightly. This is still a crime. You are apart of a community of people who need to stay hard to find. REBLOGGING outside of the community is leading those awful people right to us. You’d be surprised how often that happens.

2.) Don’t Reblog Posts With THOUSANDS of notes!

Pretty much the same reasoning as above. People literally take the time to sift through notes and find us. Don’t take that risk! Stay safe! Use another blog for those things!

Be Nice!

Everyone was new at some point. We all have questions. We are all doing our best!

Slang

LP: Loss Prevention

AP: Asset Protection

Anti: Anti Lifter. People who (understandably) still believe stealing is wrong and want you to SUFFER. They have been known to hack blogs and doxx lifters. Overall, not nice people.

CS: Customer Service

SA: Store Attendant/ Sales Associate pretty much anyone with a name tag

Plainclothes: when LP/AP wear normal clothes to look like a normal customer to catch you

Feel free to add on in the reblogs there is no WAY I covered everything!

[lislifts]

✨10+ years and i’ve never been caught - TIPS✨

okay, not saying these tips are foolproof but i really think that they are what has helped keep me from being caught even though i’ve been lifting on and off for quite a while. they’re nothing new but IMO these are the most useful things to keep in mind, especially if you’re wanting to start doing it more seriously for boosting, holiday season, etc. 

disguises are your best friend. once you’ve perfected your disguises, there are so many more opportunities such as 

visit multiple times close together 

scope out the store on multiple days to see what the vibe is like when it’s busy/slow, check for cams, etc without them recognizing you! 

shake off LP if you think you’ve been sussed 

i know there are several posts going around with disguise tips so i won’t bother typing mine out but lmk if you want advice on this

don’t wear perfume/cologne; it can draw more suspicion. LP is looking for you; they walk by you in disguise but recognize your perfume, do a double-take and realize you’re wearing a wig, took off your glasses, etc. 

lifting with others can be a double-edged sword. i prefer to go solo, or have one consistent partner, because….

LIFTING IN A GROUP IS EXTREMELY RISKY! if you’re all caught, the charges can be much more serious since they may frame it as a “crime ring”, but if you do decide you want to do it: 

pretend not to know each other until you are safely away from the store. don’t come in the same cars, don’t park near each other, don’t all go to each store all at once. 

don’t even ride the same public transport together since most buses/trains have cameras (at least where i live) and if they suspect you at all, the police can pull the bus footage easily. 

a couple people can act as decoys by being extremely sus (staring directly into camera, shifty glances, double-hanging items, etc) while the most skilled lifter of the group is the one actually doing the work.

ALSO, lifting with someone who you’ve never lifted with before can be a disaster. obviously every pair has to pull off their first lift, but it’s so important to practice your concealing techniques with your partner firsthand so that you know what works for both of your skills. my best friend also lifts but we just don’t work well with each other and the risk isn’t worth it when we’re both proficient lifters on our own.

i avoid using tools that aren’t everyday objects. 

i’ve never used magnets bc of magnet detectors, potentially sticking to clothing racks, and severely increased consequences if i were to be caught. 

i use a hook occasionally because it’s easy to conceal on-body, but if possible i just leave it in the car. 

try to get comfortable in crowds. if you’re lifting in a crowded store there is  a higher ratio of shoppers to LP = more people that 1-2 LP are having to try to watch at any given time. i know for some people anxiety or other issues mean that this isn’t possible, but if you think you can overcome it, crowds can be another great tool. 

that being said, other shoppers will fucking snitch on you in a heartbeat, so you need to stay on your toes. 

shoppers are not there to look at other shoppers; they’re there to look at the products. 

don’t smile at other shoppers, don’t pick up the same item as them at the same time, don’t use crouching methods when they’re nearby since you can’t tell if they’re looking over your shoulder without seeming sus. 

if another shopper accuses you of stealing or you think you’ve been sussed by them, GET THE FUCK OUT. it’s just as serious as if LP has sussed you.

some stores will take the side of the customer over the SA since the SA is a representative of the company and they want to cover their ass, but if another customer goes to the counter and says, “that woman there is shoplifting” they’re more likely to follow through, start trailing you, etc. just leave. 

even if you don’t want to risk lifting in a crowd, spend time people watching when you’re not lifting. this can help you gain a sense overall of when people are looking at you or how to predict their next movements etc. this is something that i do as part of my regular job so i think that experience has really helped me. 

if you have to ditch, ditch off camera. even if they can’t stop you after you’ve ditched, they can look out for you when you come back and they may catch you on your next trip.

that’s it for now! i might do a part 2 if enough people find this post helpful :-)

[thiftcorelifter]

Reposting for gl