Re: Man cashes in $13,000 in pennies at coinstar.
 

Id just use the pennies to buy myself a coinstar machine.

Re: Man cashes in $13,000 in pennies at coinstar.
 

I don't understand, why do you need to count them? If you take them to your bank and say you'd like to deposit them into your account, the teller is going to have to count them anyway so won't they just do it for you?

Re: Man cashes in $13,000 in pennies at coinstar.
 

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I don't understand, why do you need to count them? If you take them to your bank and say you'd like to deposit them into your account, the teller is going to have to count them anyway so won't they just do it for you?

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53 pounds of change the teller will count? It would take hours. I'll ask, but I doubt they'll do it.

Re: Man cashes in $13,000 in pennies at coinstar.
 

Try some casinos. Obviously not for shitloads of change but I had a good bucket of dimes/pennies/nickels and brought it to the casino one time when i went to play poker. dropped them into a bucket and gave it to the slot cashier. The cashier gave me a feel strange looks but just dumped the money into a machine and gave me my money.

BTW, what is this coinstar? Never heard of it, from this thread I can figure out what they do, but are they stores or machines scattered all over the place?

Re: Man cashes in $13,000 in pennies at coinstar.
 

HAHA, this is a guy In town right beside mine. I would never have thought it would make it to 2+2. BTW I live in Brewton Al if yall don't belive me.

Re: Man cashes in $13,000 in pennies at coinstar.
 

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i would think it would be pretty easy to negotiate a better rate someplace

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I called a few banks and some of them told me they used to have machines that took no percentage on change. But no longer....

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commerce banks here in NJ all have change machines free for account holders

Re: Man cashes in $13,000 in pennies at coinstar.
 

It's a stand-alone machine fould in grocery stores in which you dump your coinage into a hole and it calculates the value almost as quick as you can dump it.

It prints a receipt stating the value, which is redeemable at the cashier check-out or courtesy booth. It's a neat thing, but they charge like 8.9 cents for every dollar you put in.

Once when I was a cashier this guy came through my line "to be funny". he handed me a coinstar certificate that said $.43 So i gave him 43 cents, shortly after I realized he'd put about 47 cents into the machine and got back 43. He walked away laughing and I shook my head and that night I went home and enrolled in College.