Can You Take Coins You Find In A Coinstar Machine?

Wait a minute Paulie , are you saying you pulled 990 coins out of coin star at one time , how is that possible ?

Thanks , I just read it , never saw that post . If I was there watching you I would have laughed my Butt off . Was anyone around looking at you pulling all those coins out ?

Fortunately, the Coin Star is sort of hidden off in a corner of the lobby with some shelves around it. I can do my dirty work mostly out of sight.

Coinstar machines are the modern equivalent of pay-phone booths back in my day as a kid: Always check the coin return, because you never know if someone left something behind. Reason being that Coinstar machines cannot process silver coins, or things like foreign coins and tokens. I've found my share of ordinary silvers in them, as well as some really odd foreign stuff.

And best of all, you feel like you score whenever you do find something(s) in the coin return.

If you don't take them, someone else will.

In my experience you didn't get change back. The only time you would get coins back in the return was if your call didn't go through. For long distance it was a "use it or lose it" proposition. The operator would tell you how much for the first three minutes and you put that in, then they would try and connect you. If there was no answer you got your money back. If they answered the money dropped down into the internal box. If you hung up before the three minutes that was it no difference returned. Likewise if the operator interrupted to request more for the next three minutes you put that in and then it dropped into the internal box and your call continued. If you hung up before the end of the three minutes you lost what ever extra you had put in.

@fistfuladirt: Midwest Refineries. They're in Michigan. Find them on the web using their name followed by dot com, or Google/Bing them..

I have no interest fiancial or otherwise in the company whatsoever, I've been using them for years, and they've always been above board.