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

[slamdunkpro]

One of the Washington DC local new channels did an expose on Coinstar about a year ago after one of their reporters dumped a bunch of change at one then got a bill from the store saying that the Coinstar paid him $200 too much and they’d like it back please, right now.

They took $500 in $100 batches (hand counted) of mixed change to 5 different Coinstar machines. The results were that none of the machines counted the change correctly. They all shorted the person by as much as 20% (on top of the 8.9% fee)