Banks And The Hard Time They Give Me

Seems only fair to me. The banks have to put in a little effort to get boxes of coins. It's easy enough to open a small account to end the problem.

I would like to hear myself from others on this topic,,I think a little charm doesn't hurt,I have a friend that bought a 1000.00$ in half dollars from a bank 2 days ago,,and does it all over the country,,sometimes I think they are going to hit the alarm when I approach,,your not alone,,LIVE FREE!

I live in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario Canada. Fortunately for me I have no issues getting coins at most banks in the city except for BMO. They have a strict policy of clients only. Same issue with the Credit Unions. I have no problem with this. I just open a savings account with them if need be. With-in the last 2 months...One of my regular banks (no account with them) has stopped selling me any coinage. They said they received a notice about allowing non clients to purchase large amount of coinage (ie. boxes) and to exchange any coinage or other currency without having an account. I was also told that now they have to put any and all cash transactions through the clients account while processing. No more walking in and asking to break hundreds into smaller bills and such. I was told that the notice was issued to try and prevent any and all money laundering. They were very apologetic. No worries I said...rules are rules. I frequent other branch locations off the same bank in the city and have not yet had any troubles. I thought that maybe they were just saying that but the teller showed me the notice they received. Maybe the same thing is happening in certain parts of the states.

In Canada...we can not get halves in boxes and rarely if at all see them in the banks in CWR. Same thing goes fro any pre Loonie Dollars. Next to impossible to get. SIGH!

my bank giving me problems? I would bank somewhere else. I could understand a bank that you didn't have an account with. In my part of the country banks are bending over to get customers so if I were treated rudely I would move to the next.

Ha - further proof why I've kept my money in credit unions for the past 25+ years. My local credit union service center, which services 3 or 4 credit unions, is happy to sell me rolls of Presidential dollars and even go through their quarters in their booth trays (of course, I was the only customer in line at the time) to look for state park quarters.

I wouldn't expect a money institution to procure boxes of coins and sell them to you unless you had an active account with them, but I would not keep an account with an institution which changed its procedures to cut you off from one of the services it had offered to you previously.

One thing I think everyone is missing here is the fact that it cost the bank money every time they order a box or send a bag of change back. There is a fee for this. That's how Brinks and Dunbar stay in business. With the economy today banks like all other businesses (and everyone in general) are cutting back on costs and spending.

bobby131313...it sits empty because he went bankrupt.My profit was around 10% but I didn't work there.And yes we did things for free...saved pickle jars,jerky containers,cardboard boxes for customers..wrapped hoagies special for fishing the next day..gave away hoagies or ice cream when I felt like it.I could go on and on.
All I can say is when livefree hits the lottery for 50 million, I know where he won't deposit his money. That saying about the customer being right is true, you just have to know how to apply it.