Coinstar machines

[simonr]

Re: Coinstar machines

The coffee machine in work takes my 1p's and 2p's so I never accumulate tons of change.

[zeronineteen]

Re: Coinstar machines

i used to work in a cash office.

theres a machine bascially like a coinstar and it doesnt take a percentage.

get your fucking bank to work. lazy bastards making money off our hard earned money!!

Ya pretty much every bank has one now which doesn't charge you and they are lazy sometimes because they just don't want to. I would understand if they had to hand count and/or roll it.

[Dhar_2]

Re: Coinstar machines

The coffee machine in work takes my 1p's and 2p's so I never accumulate tons of change.

ah the old 1's and 2's!!

[res0nat0r]

Re: Coinstar machines

heard about how to hack a coinstar a while back:

This is really quite simple. Follow the directions as usual, but when it asks how you would like your money, make sure to pick the iTunes gift card. After it counts all of your change, the machine will ask you how much of your money you want as a gift card and how much you want as cash. Go ahead and set it all to gift card. Now, before proceeding, you need to find a way to unplug the phone jack from the back of the machine. I'm lucky because the wall phone jack for my local CoinStar is at about shoulder height right next to the machine.
Now the poor machine is in quite a pickle. It already has all of your change, and it can't give that back to you. It can't give you an iTunes card either. It could give you cash, but it's not going to lay that 9% fee on because you obviously didn't agree to that when you put your change in the machine. What can it do? Give you cash for FREE. After a few minutes of trying, it will simply give up and just give you a slip which can be redeemed for cash at the store customer service counter.

http://www.antiyawn.com/guidetocoinstar.html

[Shpira]

Re: Coinstar machines

no you don't.

I go into Bank of America every spring with all my change from poker, random shit, my truck, whatever, and just give them a couple of freezer bags full of change. they tag it, and deposit the money in my checking account in a day or two. no sorting.

those coinstar machines are a rip off. plus, you look like a desperate schmuck emptying all your change in those things at the grocery store waiting for the some currency, especially if you just have a small jar, and especially when you go right to the liquor isle and spend what you just received.

Read on..."IN THE UK" important bit there...u might have missed it