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Valued Member
United States
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Wife and I are at the grocery store, just entering the building when I notice an attendant removing a HUGE bad of coins from the Coinstar machine.
So I ask "Are you taking that bag out?" "Yes" she replies.
"How much is in that bag" I ask. "Bag says $50" she answered.
"Can I buy the bag?" I ask. "I'll have to ask my manager" she says.
Manager says "No". BUMMER! I think they need a receipt from a bank.
Bag looked like all pennies and was about the size of a basketball. I can only imagine what treasures it held. Sob...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2829 Posts |
Yep, people have no idea what they're dumping into the Coinstar machines. Awhile back, I was walking through the local grocery store, walked by the coinstar, saw something really shiny in the reject slot.... it was a '57 dime. I took it.
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Moderator
 United States
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At least you tried!  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
6514 Posts |
Huge bummer! Like JBuck said, at least you tried.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2200 Posts |
I had better luck a couple of weeks ago at the grocery store. As I always do, as I was leaving, I checked the Coinstar machine and I saw a pile of change sitting in the reject bin. I quickly pocketed it and when I got home, I found myself with about eight dollars in Roosevelt dimes. Nothing rare or silver or anything, but I was $8.00 richer! Quick question: Why would the machine reject normal dimes? |
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United States
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Better luck next time..  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
73579 Posts |
Aw man. That's a bummer. At least you tried.
Errers and Varietys.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21786 Posts |
The attendant was acting on behalf of another collector, who may have well been the manager.
You were never going to be fortunate on that one.
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United States
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Quote:I quickly pocketed it and when I got home, I found myself with about eight dollars in Roosevelt dimes. Nothing rare or silver or anything, but I was $8.00 richer! Very nice! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
996 Posts |
I would be very surprised if CoinStar employees were allowed to sell bags to people at the machines for several reasons.  Security. The transaction itself is gonna get weird and they may not be allowed to handle cash in that manner. They may have some sort of contracts with various stakeholders such as the host store and end purchasers of the coins themselves. There business model is to provide counted coin to distributors and not to sell coins at retail like this. Are the bags segregated at this point? Are pennies mixed with other coins and sorted elsewhere? Are copper and zinc coins separated here? Are the bags actually counted at $50? This I don't know. If so then it could be done if the other factors are solved. It could be that the bags are filled more by weight or to a certain height and not by count. I know some places do handle this stuff by weight but that might not be practical with US pennies due to the difference in weight from pre and post 1982 pennies. Other coins (post silver) retain their weights so could be fairly accurately counted by weight. Heck, they could do dimes, quarters and halves this way since their weights are proportional to each other's values. (A half dollar is the same weight as 5 dimes...) Edited by n9jig
10/01/2023 4:16 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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The attendant not acting on behalf of Coinstar but the store manager or employee, who just happened to be a collector.
A conversation may well have been:
"Have a quick look in the bag before I dispatch it".
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Posted 09/26/2023 3:45 pm
