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I'm Reconsidering Not Using Coinstar.

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 Posted 07/24/2012  09:16 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CWS to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Don't quote me here, but if the bag fills they replace it just like they would at a bank. I don't think you have to worry about filling a machine and getting stuck. If the coinstar is in a supermarket just ask customer service the next time you're there about bags getting filled.

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 Posted 07/24/2012  2:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sixthcents to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
On my way to the banks now.

" would a coinstar be able to handle 100$ in pennies at a time on average?"

I was wondering that myself.

I think I will avoid the coinstar for now.
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 Posted 07/24/2012  7:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add VGRX to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'd love to see the video of someone overfilling the coinstar machine with hundreds of dollars in pennies and the reactions of others as it happened.
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 Posted 07/24/2012  8:37 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sixthcents to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
OK so I did a swap at the banks.

When I stopped at the grocery store today I did take a peek at the unit.
It is much smaller then I imagined, I bet it was barely 2 foot wide. Must be a compact version.

They must have two different sizes, I always thought they were bigger.
So ya, you would have to watch you don't over load it. lol.
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 Posted 07/24/2012  11:12 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add copper nickel daddy to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It will handle them; it will just take a long time!
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 Posted 07/27/2012  01:14 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Steele to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The store employees have nothing to do with the coinstar bag changes. The stores company rents the space out to Coinstar and they send their own employees to do the pickup and bag changes. The store employees can open the machine and use the phone inside to call the coinstar company when there is a service issue and the the coinstar people can either talk the store employee through the process or sometimes not. Ususally there is a way to not lose the money counted.
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 Posted 07/27/2012  10:34 am  Show Profile   Check 52Raymo's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add 52Raymo to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Would love to buy some of their bags before they're gone through.
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 Posted 07/28/2012  11:16 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add VGRX to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
^Not sure a coinstar bag would be better than right from the bank. In fact I would think it would be worse as there is no chance of silver.
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 Posted 07/28/2012  11:18 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Steele to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
VGRX- there is a chance of silver. It will take any change sometimes rejecting silver dimes, sometimes. I think I would prefer the coinstar bags over any other way of obtaining coins due to the fact that anybody who uses a coinstar is too lazy to find a way to get their change counted that doesn't cost money. Therefore I associate them as also being too lazy to go through the change looking for goodies first. Also it leads me to believe that they are ignorant of what to look for.
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 Posted 07/28/2012  11:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Steele to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
On this point I am not certain, but they were changing the box on the coin counting machine at my bank and it was similar in size to the coin box in a coinstar machine. I asked how much it held and they told me about $6,000. I also asked what they did with them and they said somebody comes to pick them up. I told them I was already here but they still wouldn't sell it to me.
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