Funny Money

Keep up the good work spreading them around and educating people!

I spent a lot of the Sacs in 2000. I used to put $20 bills in the stamp machines at the Burlington Mall every chance I got, just to get 18 Sacs in change. I was a blast to spend them. Initially Wal-mart was using them, too. That was the only place I have ever got one back in change at a check-stand. This time around I don't think the post office or any large retailer is on board with using the new dollar coins. I don't understand why stores will still pay employees well over 10 cents a minute to deal with pennies but are hostile to a dollar coin.

I can't believe the problems that people are having spending the $1 coins.
Sears can't refuse them, they are legal tender of the US.
I'd call a manager and then the store manager.
Idiots never cease to amaze me.

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Sears can't refuse them, they are legal tender of the US.

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Sears CAN refuse them. There is no law that says they must accept legal tender.

What Condor101 said is absolutely true. Why would any organization order something for a few and be stuck with excessive amounts of just stuff. Think of it like this. You go to a store and ask them to order a pack of lined paper with 4 holes in it for your special notebook. They would probably throw you out.
Here is another little tip though. If you are a steady customer at a bank or banks, and you ask for say some rolls of halves, you may be suprized that they do really have them. The problem is so few people want them, they are usually in the vault and to go get them would mean holding up a line of people for just one customer. So if you are not a regular customer or someone they know well, they will usually just say they don't have any. Same with other types of coins such as those baby dollars. At one bank I go to they constantly ask people if they want any Presidential dollars since they ordered so many thinking there would be a run on them. The run is in the other direction though.


Want to have some real fun? It will cost you some but the reaction can be great. Get an uncut sheet of dollars and cut it vertically and horizontally so you have 8 groups of four notes connected top to bottom. Then when you make a purchase that has an odd dollar, pull out one of the groups and proceed to cut off what you need for the bill. (If you fold them top to bottom each group will take up the same space a four regular notes in your wallet.)
One warning though, doing this you just MIGHT get the police called on you for counterfeiting.

Condor101, I would love to try this but in the area I live I think I would have to have an attorney on standby, just in case.

I felt bad serval monlths ago trying to pay my charge card at sears after that lady did that to me. Telling me they never seen those and did not have clue on what they were. I was lucky I had paper money that day in my pocket to pay it.

Its not first time it happened to me. I tryed to spend them in an small town grocery store. They had to call there main office asking what are these things. They thought I worked for us government or bank asking all those questions on what are these things.

I am happy I got rid of that 1000 dollar fed box of coins I bought for those new gold dollars . These days I am having problems trying dispose of tons half dollars since I bought 1400 of them to search for silver coins. My bank I sold to them to freaked out with me trying cash them in for dollars. I had to spend 25 dollars to open another bank account at an secord bank to dump those halfs. I been trying to spread them out over serval banks where they dont freak out. Those tellers freak out when I try cash in 300 bucks worth rolled halfs. They ask quastions where they came from and why I have so many. One food place I spent them at thought they were dollar coins and have not seen them for over 10 years. I would have thought those half dollars were common and been around for years . The bank tellers tell me those halfs sit in there vaults for monlths or years before they are sold again. My last box I bought from bank was wraped in 2004 and coins started tone in bank . Its been siting for an long time before I bought them. The main reason I buy lots fed boxes is search for silver , old coins all the time. I wish they I could find easy way dispose of them keep buying boxes of them to search. Trust me its very hard to dispose all coins its seems like pennys, nickels, dimes, dollars, halfs, quarters all the time to search coins. Its never ending all the trouble I have trying dump coins all the time. I had to open 3 banks accounts with serval banks. Serval banks to dump them, serval banks to buy fed boxes of coins. Some banks dont stock coins it seems and need to wait on them ordor them.

All this trouble since I am coin collector and I just want to finish sets to keep. Is it worth it ? I cant help it if my sets are missing coins and I need certain dates or mint marks to finish them. The onley thing I know is keep buying fed boxs to find them.

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