Roll Searching Dump Bank Question

@Maineman, Another great point.

@Xavier, It's okay, I love it. As long as you didn't intend to make the teller cry it's hard to not laugh at that story.

@Chris, I usually do one $25 box at a time and end up returning about $19 of it. I did say I was getting boxes, but I really am not. I just get 50 loose rolls at a time. I only used the term 'box' to keep it simple as it's a common unit for people to visualize. I've asked some of my branches to order boxes (which they can), but they seem to have no problems giving me lots and lots of loose rolls which I put into my own personal box. I've let them know that I want to make it easy and quick as possible on them, but they really seem to enjoy pushing their customer rolled coins on me and that's what they prefer. I've had good luck with their customer rolls, so at this time it looks like a win-win and I'll keep my supply branches happy.

Currently when I'm usually only walking out of there with one box it works. Soon though I think I might want to seriously order some *real* boxes though. I'm curious to see how Porschia in the dump bank will react to that :)

I'm Canadian and get my US box of pennies from a US bank, take what I need and put all the change (cents to quarters) in a pouch they supplied, when I get back to the bank they put it in the counting machine and I start all over again. I did ask and they have their own shot gun rolling machine right at the bank. So soon I will have to get another bank because I will be going through the same coins again.

i get boxes of nickels and pennies from several banks. I search lots of coins so I don't have time nor patience to roll them all back up. there is a free coin counter at a local bank near me. I'm wondering if they will get annoyed that I jump once every week or once every 2 weeks. they havent asked yet, but if they do ask where I get all my coins I am nervous to say that I am a coin collector because I dont want them to get annoyed at me.
also when I get my bank boxes I get nervous sometimes when they ask if I have a business and I say no, it is for personal. I bank at wells fargo. If I straight up tell them I get the boxes to search all of the rolls for rare coins, and that is all I do, will they become reluctant to give me boxes? or will they happily keep it up? I just dont want to piss anyone off or embarrass myself.

Trent I did what you are doing when I first started roll searching, and they did catch on. They didn't really say much or do anything but it did get awkward everytime I would run some rolls or loose change back to the the 3 branches that I didn't get rolls from you would see the manager on the phone and than look at me. A few times I could read their lips saying ya he is here.

My advice is open another bank account with another bank buy at one and dump at the other.

People with an immature attitude like the one shown here are the ones who will have every bank charging a % for cash in either direction.

You got "furious" because your employer didn't appreciate you sticking them with a year's supply of coins in an afternoon, and it sounds like doing it on company time? So you went out of your way to do something worse, this time wasting your time and another employee's, and ultimately a manager's time?

I'd have not only fired you, I'd have banned you from the bank.

Buying and maintaining those machines ("the machine broke several times") costs money. Using over an hour of your and the female employee's time not only prevented either of you from doing the job you were hired to do, but was just as real an act of stealing as if you walked over to someone's cash drawer and pocketed a fifty.

This hasn't touched upon the fact that a $3000 bag of halves or 20,000 nickels is going to require still more employee and machine time, plus material, to get them in a useful form, and perhaps a charge for taking them back to the fed.

And why did your bank incur this $100+ cost? Customer service? No, just so you could make money using their facilities.

Sorry to be so critical, but I want you and any others thinking like you to realize the bank is not there for your hobby/pin money. I've searched many a bag in my day, but even when I was several years younger than you, I had a bank officer explain that I could buy all the coins I wanted, and even swap them for different ones, but I couldn't just stand at the customer counter and check through coins.

Yeah, the tellers probably even admired the kid who had the gumption to cart around bags of coins on his bicycle, and I even got private access to the bag of silver halves in the vault, as long as I'd replace what I took with other halves. Paying them up to double face for all the silver certificates they could find kept them happy, too.

But I'm not 16 anymore, and neither are you. Time to put on your grown-up pants, and at least act like an adult.

If you have to ask whether you're on thin ice, you prolly are.

If you happen to be a million dollar depositor, or have tons of money borrowed, they should be tickled to get you all the coins you want, and help carry them to the car.

If you're a regular guy who likes taking part of each paycheck in coins, that should be OK.

If your sole relationship is getting or dumping coins so that you can make a few bucks by finding valuables, then no matter that the tellers have been told to be polite, you might as well be metal detecting in their flower beds or panhandling in their parking lot.

Moderation is the key. Being excessive in any aspect ends up causing new rules that eliminate you and make it harder for everyone else.

Perhaps you were passed over because "I would make more money somedays by simply looking through our branches coin machine and swapping out silver".

If I could get even a minimum wage job that put me where I could make a substantial side income from finding valuable coins, I would think deeply about jeopardizing it.

Show of hands, how many would work at Coinstar for free if they got first crack at the incoming coins?