How Bad Were Those Stnk'n Zinc Pennies? :drool:So Bad They Choked The Coinstar Machine:rofl:

[John-Edmonton]

-Put in pennies
-After 1,833 pennies machine chokes
-Machine says call store attendant
-Store attendant comes 10 minutes later
-Store attendant has wrong set of keys
-Store attendant, after 10 minutes has right set of keys.
-Store attendant opens machine, pulls out bent, cut, rusted, holed, 1/2, 1/3 etc. pennies
-Store attendant apologizes for inconvenience, gives writer $17.34 voucher
-Detectorist buys this: ............................................................................................................

Below Are The baddys......

 

[dfmike]

That's a cool machine. I wish we had some around here.

They should write an incentive on it: Put old bent up, chewed up pennies, get free beer !

 

[John-Edmonton]

That's a great idea!

 

[Greenwyvern]

Non alcoholic? That's like caffeine free coffee. It's called "why bother".

 

[John-Edmonton]

I have an allergy to alcohol, but I love beer. It's a good compromise. Less calories in a can of prohibition beer as compared to drinking Coke. I recently quit drinking all cans of pop. Beer is much healthier.

[size=x-large]And don't forget......beer makes you smart. It made "BUD WISER."[/size]

 

[Dancer]

Yeah my brother was taking his coins to the Machine at the grocery store. At the time machine kept 10% for itself. He wasn't much on cleaning the coins either. Swirling them in soapy water for a while. Well after a year or so , between him and his buddy, multiple machine jam-ups, guess what, no more machine. So now he and his buddy have to show more pride turning coins in down at the bank. They are on the banks watch list for filthy coins. As for the non-Alc% beer, it would make him physically sick. I can say this about him though. He will hunt the thickest cover, sift threw buckets of iron. Hunt a grid to a tee. Bust more britches, digs up the darnest things, sells only the clad. All this with his trusty Ace 250.

 

[kingingkunsan]

Had a similar experience. Although with bent coins I take a hammer and try to flatten them because I figure the machine would not like them. But I loaded machine with rock tumbled coins.
-After some time it jammed and said contact store attendant.
-Store attendant could not find keys
-After 10 minutes finally found keys and opened machine and fixed jam
-Machine printed receipt instead of giving cash and you take to register to redeem for cash.
-Well the machine did not print it had an error on this as well.
- Contact store attendant again
-Could not find keys again. How this happened I do not know. Just had the keys 10 minutes ago.
- Attendant said that the machine had an error printing receipt and the store did not own the machine it was owned by a vendor. If I wanted my money I would have to contact the owner of the vending company. I called the number on the machine and the number was disconnected.
-The manager of the store tried calling vendor after I told them of my issue and got same result. Manager then asked how much in coins I had put in the machine. I told her I was supposed to get $54.63 back after paying the penalties. The manager paid me out of the store register and put receipt in the drawer. I think this was a favor to me as the manager could tell I was frustrated at the situation. I do not think it was required to pay me.
My point is be cautious if you decide to use the coin machines. I have since decided it better to roll the coins and take them to the bank. The few that are corroded I just throw away. It is not worth the headache.

 

[surfman]

That's what I do now, I just roll mine. Girls at the bank give me the paper rolls and once a year or so I bring them in. I got tired of using those machines. Too noisy and I always thought the 10% was a little high.