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Valued Member
United States
71 Posts |
I only have 1 bank locally that has a coin counter. As I have a Ryedale and don't want to over load the bank with the coin counter, I dump in the coinstar every time I am purchasing something from Amazon.com. No fees to get an Amazon.com gift certificate. I spent some time dumping at the coinstar when I bought my wife her Kindle Fire. They now have Dell as a fee free option, as I purchased my last laptop from Dell, I might have to purchase the next one with coinstar pennies. |
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Valued Member
 Canada
135 Posts |
That's a great compromise!
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Valued Member
United States
349 Posts |
Definitely find a dump bank. I have two different types of banks which gives me four different bank locations to pick up rolls and give them right back.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2224 Posts |
Most of the banks around me have no problem selling cents even without an account as long as you don't overdo the amount you want. Since I prefer CRW's anyway over boxes, I usually don't ask for more than $10 worth at a time. One of the two banks I have an account has a counting machine, and they couldn't care less how much I bring in; they re-roll it on site to resell. Therefore I know not to buy there. Try other banks in your area to buy from; even without an account you should have enough luck to give you plenty to go through.
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New Member
United States
31 Posts |
Sort of off topic but would a coinstar be able to handle 100$ in pennies at a time on average? I would hate to overload the machine and lose money or be stuck. I'm purchasing computer parts from Amazon so it would be a no loss situation for me or I could use Acme gift cards to purchase groceries. |
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Valued Member
United States
125 Posts |
Don't quote me here, but if the bag fills they replace it just like they would at a bank. I don't think you have to worry about filling a machine and getting stuck. If the coinstar is in a supermarket just ask customer service the next time you're there about bags getting filled.
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Valued Member
Canada
135 Posts |
On my way to the banks now.
" would a coinstar be able to handle 100$ in pennies at a time on average?"
I was wondering that myself.
I think I will avoid the coinstar for now.
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Valued Member
United States
161 Posts |
I'd love to see the video of someone overfilling the coinstar machine with hundreds of dollars in pennies and the reactions of others as it happened.
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Valued Member
Canada
135 Posts |
OK so I did a swap at the banks.
When I stopped at the grocery store today I did take a peek at the unit.
It is much smaller then I imagined, I bet it was barely 2 foot wide. Must be a compact version.
They must have two different sizes, I always thought they were bigger.
So ya, you would have to watch you don't over load it. lol.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2224 Posts |
It will handle them; it will just take a long time!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1119 Posts |
The store employees have nothing to do with the coinstar bag changes. The stores company rents the space out to Coinstar and they send their own employees to do the pickup and bag changes. The store employees can open the machine and use the phone inside to call the coinstar company when there is a service issue and the the coinstar people can either talk the store employee through the process or sometimes not. Ususally there is a way to not lose the money counted.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Would love to buy some of their bags before they're gone through.
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Valued Member
United States
161 Posts |
^Not sure a coinstar bag would be better than right from the bank. In fact I would think it would be worse as there is no chance of silver.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1119 Posts |
VGRX- there is a chance of silver. It will take any change sometimes rejecting silver dimes, sometimes. I think I would prefer the coinstar bags over any other way of obtaining coins due to the fact that anybody who uses a coinstar is too lazy to find a way to get their change counted that doesn't cost money. Therefore I associate them as also being too lazy to go through the change looking for goodies first. Also it leads me to believe that they are ignorant of what to look for.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1119 Posts |
On this point I am not certain, but they were changing the box on the coin counting machine at my bank and it was similar in size to the coin box in a coinstar machine. I asked how much it held and they told me about $6,000. I also asked what they did with them and they said somebody comes to pick them up. I told them I was already here but they still wouldn't sell it to me.
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Posted 07/23/2012 9:38 pm
