Bank Tellers Tips..please!

I thought about your question for awhile before answering. I had a similar issue awhile back and so I know what you're going through and I feel your pain! I hated standing in line with boxes of change and see the tellers already looking at me and secretly hoping that they wouldn't get me next. It's irritating. But there's hope yet!

I found no particular bank chain where every branch has happy tellers awaiting my visit, BUT, I've come to believe that it has more to do with the management of the specific branch than it does about how I look or if I have a box of change it my hand. It doesn't make roll searching very fun when in the back of your mind, you know you are hated! Yes, this is how I started feeling.

So what I did was took some time and opened several bank accounts around town. It was amazing how many banks are close to home when I started looking. I ended up with 3 banks and a credit union and I could have opened more but I thought I would try these first. My most important bank right now is my local Wells Fargo where a very friendly teller manager orders anything I want. She told me that I could also bring all rolls back but per the advice of some great minds here on CC, I don't take everything back to one bank.

My second most important bank is not a bank but the teachers credit union. No, I am not a teacher but come to find out, they take anyone with money! The credit union employees are friendly and they have the only coin counter in town. The actual coin counter is in the teller area but they happily take all of my unrolled change and throw it in the machine. As long as I don't bring in more than $200 in change per visit, I don't have to pay the 2% on anything over that $200. And being able to not have to count and roll it all up is a nice thing as well. The other 2 banks where I just have savings accounts, happily take my occasional rolled change.

The point I am making is that with a little up front work, it can really pay off big time. I will not put up with attitudes and temperamental tellers, especially in this economy. At the same time, I try to be as friendly as possible, striking up a conversation when I can. It is amazing how being friendly can pay off big time. They often save stuff for my visit each week including ikes and half dollars that are brought in. So open up as many accounts as you can bare and with a little luck and friendliness, you'll be set.

Sherry: I live near Easton. Must be BOA policy around here.

tornandfrayed75: Great score at the gas station.

Update: I went into PNC Bank today to see if I could buy a couple of rolls of James Buchanan Dollars since BOA and KNBT didn't have any. The teller in PNC said she couldn't sell me any if I didn't have an account.

technically you dont buy the coins from the bank but you go and swap currency. Buying would be getting a coin and paying above face value. just say that there is a sale (or some neighborhood sale) and say that you need change and that you would like to give out the "odd" currency (halves and dollar coin) as change... Good luck.

RPT- I went to a PNC out near 191 and picked up some halves, nickels and dimes. They waited until I was about to hand over the bills to ask me if I had an account. I said, I am not conducting a transaction that costs you anything. They told me that I had to have an account in the future. This was the same bank with the attitude from before.
Coincollector123- :), I am going to give that a shot!

thank you all again for your help :)

Taking your kids along helps too. While picking up my boxes for the week, a guy came in with his bag of change (he's dumping where I pick up, which is why I prefer the Brinks boxes). He didn't have a kid with him like I did - he had his parrot which proceeded to eat one of the dum-dum suckers they keep for kids.

Tips on how to get along with a bank teller:
1. Marry one. Might not get along with other things but for coins, might work out.
2. Check all your friends, nighbors and relatives. If none work in a bank, suggest they do.
3. Get a job in a bank yourself and become a teller
4. Go to a prison and ask to speak to all the prisoners that robbed banks. Ask them what they did and don't do that.
5. If your old, hire a younger person to go to the banks for you. Most tellers are young and a possible date with a customer is one of the reasons the tellers are there.

Why don't you come out, with your red dress on, come out, umm you look so fine, come out, move it nice and easy, girl, you'll make them lose their mind!

Sorry.

i guess you are from New York. i'll get the same attitude as you get. so I just buying from another seller or ebay. Welcome to the World. they don't get paid enough to treat people nice. don't feel bad.