Questions Regarding Coinstar Machines

Gift cards are the way to go.

In my area the coinstars are emptied every three weeks regardless of whether or not they are "full".

All of the coins dumped into a coinstar go into a single bin. Obviously, the rejects do not go inside the bin because they go into the reject tray. The "full" bin is removed and swapped for an empty bin. The bin containing coins is taken to Loomis, Brinks, Garda, etc for sorting and re-rolling, then re-distribution as orders are received from banks.

This info is direct from a Loomis person who I chatted with as he was swapping out the bin that is held inside every coinstar machine, so this info is reliable.

Yeah I saw them change it once. It doesn't sort into bags it's like a 20 or 30 gallon size bin to hold about 500 pounds I was told the machine program monitors the weight and alerts coinstar when it's close to 500 pounds so they can come out and empty it to limit downtime of the kiosk.

Depends on how active the machine ism could be 1 week, 2 weeks a month or more before they change it. But they figure nobody is walking into a store with much more than 50 pounds of coin at a time to turn in. Just too heavy although I have seen them out of service my guess is waiting to be emptied.

It's too bad Amazon won't let you buy coins and silver with giftcards... I'd be taking the gift cards if they did.