Coinstar Machines

I check them as my wife walks the other way shaking her head.

I have in the past, but never found anything worth mention.

i take a glance as I walk by them. I haven't found anything.

I used to check them, but I had a really bad experience doing so at a grocery store. I once found a couple of Canadian coins in the reject tray, so I reached in to pull them out and a woman who worked there walked up and actually hit my arm (with a closed fist) and started yelling at me that she was calling the police on me.

I just now started checking them after reading a few posts. I haven't found anything yet.

I look in the reject bin of every coinstar machine I see. And every vending machine. And every pay phone. And evey newspaper machine.

Archraz, I would have informed the manager that an employee of the store hit me. And I would have been loud about it, so other customers could hear me.

Yeah, I know, I probably should have, but there was no way to prove anything. She didn't hit me hard enough so that it left a mark really. It was more of a swatting of my arm away from the machine (though with a closed fist). It was just one of those things where you think "this is bad, but it is just not worth my time." Often if you are seen doing something like that by store employees, they are supposed to get you out of the store since doing something to find money (though in our case, more of a numismatic pursuit) results in you being categorized as more of a pan-handler or loiterer than a shopper. But none the less, I kind of now get an odd feeling about looking in coin star machines. But my coin roll finds more than make up for any losses from this pursuit.

CoinStar machines count your change and give you a voucher that is then turned in to the store for cash. They charge 8-10% for the service unless you are redeeming them for gift/store cards.