Does Coinstar Make You Go Crazy?

Same here. I don't use them. If there is a Commerce bank near you they have machines that you can use for free and they take out no percentage.

I search through lots of rolls, and it's gotten to the point where I'm far too lazy to re-roll so many coins. So, I use coinstar whenever I have around a hundred bucks of change, and the fee is worth it for me. If you've got connections with the grocery store manager, you can probably look through the coins and replace them with coins of equal face value.

My local Credit Union has a coin counter that deositers may use for free. I would NEVER pay a fee to have someone count my loose coins. I'll do it while watching a football game on the idiot box.

I use a coin star machine when I am in a hurry and just finish looking throuhg a lot of rolls of pennys, nickel, and Dimes. I don't use it if am cashing in anything bigger then those just because it cost so much. But most of the time I will wrap my coins and take them back to one of the banks I go to. I usally get rolls from one bank and return them to another that way I never search the same rolls.

Also to anwser your poll. There are alot of coin it will not take. I knowalot of time it will not take my wheats I have to incert them so I think alot of old coins will just be rejected.

Quite a racket to me. It's like paying at an ATM to get at your own money. If you go to your own bank they normally do not charge any fee's. I suspect that most folks doing this are not collectors. Mike

Some people are just stupid. We have those coin accepting machines around here also. There is one in a grocery store near here called Jewel. It is about 500 feet from 2 banks that will take and do take change. Yet I've seen people dump cans of coins in the machine at the store and loose a % doing that. However, there are some banks around here that have certain charges for accepting raw coins (in a bag, box, can, etc.) One bank I go to will charge for any coins over $100 but if you deposit it in an account it is free. Another bank will not accept coins at all unless they are deposited into an account. Most of the banks around here will not accept rolled coins. I purposely opened accounts in about 15 different banks just to play safe with such things. Another thing I noticed is unless you make over $10 in interest in an account, many banks will not report it to the IRS. This is in the Chicago land area and we have more banks around me than grocery stores I think. One of the things I do periodically is buy a $50 bag of pennies (cents for the nuts that are particular to terminology) look through them and take the residue (unused coins) back to another bank.
Sure wish there was some way of convincing people to let me have their coins in cans, boxes, jars, etc and I'll take them to a bank when I'm done looking through them.

Do you guys think, most people look for old coins before they dump them, or do most people just cash in? All I know, when I saw that person dumping a 5 lbs coffee can full of half dollars, I could just not stop wondering if any were silver.....

Tim