PSA: do NOT use Coin Master available at Vons / Albertson

[andylawcc]

those Coin Master machines simply don't work right, the design is flaw in the way that all the coin you put in will not be counted. about half of the coins got stuck on the conveyor belt. beside, it 'counts' much much slower than Coin Star; and they charge the same too. 8.9 cents per dollar.

sorry for the typo



updated

GOTO A BANK instead...
copied from Thegonagle

Many banks and credit unions have change sorting/counting machines of their own, and will provide change counting service for free if you're an account holder there.

Not all branches of the same bank or CU have the machine though. For example, my credit union has four branches in the area, but only one branch has the machine. (Luckily, their machine is at the branch I use most frequently.)

 

[amol]

haha, i automatically knew you were from california with Vons, Ralphs, and Albertsons

 

[deftron]

WTF?

They charge 89 cents on the dollar?


You get to keep only 11 cents from each dollar in change you
put in the machine ?

 

[RossMAN]

My CU counts all my coins and for free

 

[her209]

I take my money to the bank.

 

[HappyPuppy]

Peeple R Stupid is us.

 

[Syringer]

Originally posted by: deftron
WTF?

They charge 89 cents on the dollar?


You get to keep only 11 cents from each dollar in change you
put in the machine ?

Are you being sarcastic?

 

[mugs]

I spend my change. Except pennies.

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: deftron
WTF?
They charge 89 cents on the dollar?
You get to keep only 11 cents from each dollar in change you
put in the machine ?

sorry! me typo.


and Amol
I probably live on the same street as you.

 

[waggy]

whoa! they charge 89cents per doller? WTF what a scam. kinda hard to beleive some poeple are dumb enough to use it.

heh ok i see you edited it.

8.9 on the doller is not bad. But my bank will do it for free.

 

[Colt45]

8.9% is pretty crappy if you ask me

 

[voodoochylde]

The coinStar in my store (Kroger) is rather popular, albeit horrendously unreliable. To be honest, I wish we didn't have to deal with the damned thing. A couple of nights ago, two guys come in with this HUGE jar of change, start pouring it in. Five minutes of silence later, the floor manager looks over to see one of the punks jabbing a knife into the coin grate in an attempt to de-fubar-ize the coinStar. When told that all we could do is take his name, address, and phone number, the (not-so)gentleman went agro on my manager and threatened to whip his ass - LOL! Unfortunately, the damned thing screwing up like that is a near-daily occurrence and *we*, the store employees who are in no way affiliated with coinStar or its franchise, are responsible for fixing it. Stupid POS. People apparently don't realize that either of the two banks in town will count their change out for free.

 

[Specop 007]

My bank does it for free right there.
Theres no WAY I'll let a place charge me to count change. It costs and arm and a leg to ship change to stores, they should be DAMNED glad people will bring change in.

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: andylawcc

Originally posted by: deftron
WTF?
They charge 89 cents on the dollar?
You get to keep only 11 cents from each dollar in change you
put in the machine ?

sorry! me typo.


and Amol
I probably live on the same street as you.

nah, your profile says that you're in tha 310

i'm in tha 626

 

[Injury]

Those things are more fun when you put 1 penny in at a time, print out a receipt for it... then do it a total of 100 times. Take the receipts to the service desk and ask for your dollar.

You even save the 8.9 cents!

 

[Syringer]

Where in the 310 are you from?

 

[Baked]

Vons rules. I think there's a Coin Star at the local Food Co.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: Syringer
Where in the 310 are you from?

spider

 

[HOWITIS]

where in the hell are these places u speak of.

 

[rahvin]

Originally posted by: voodoochylde
The coinStar in my store (Kroger) is rather popular, albeit horrendously unreliable. To be honest, I wish we didn't have to deal with the damned thing. A couple of nights ago, two guys come in with this HUGE jar of change, start pouring it in. Five minutes of silence later, the floor manager looks over to see one of the punks jabbing a knife into the coin grate in an attempt to de-fubar-ize the coinStar. When told that all we could do is take his name, address, and phone number, the (not-so)gentleman went agro on my manager and threatened to whip his ass - LOL! Unfortunately, the damned thing screwing up like that is a near-daily occurrence and *we*, the store employees who are in no way affiliated with coinStar or its franchise, are responsible for fixing it. Stupid POS. People apparently don't realize that either of the two banks in town will count their change out for free.

Don't be foolish. Coinstar pays your store a percentage of the take to be inside the store, that monthly rent paid to your store entitles the users of the machine to harrass the employees because when it breaks or doesn't work right you are supposed to call Coinstar and get their asses in there to fix it.

 

[voodoochylde]

Originally posted by: rahvin

Originally posted by: voodoochylde
The coinStar in my store (Kroger) is rather popular, albeit horrendously unreliable. To be honest, I wish we didn't have to deal with the damned thing. A couple of nights ago, two guys come in with this HUGE jar of change, start pouring it in. Five minutes of silence later, the floor manager looks over to see one of the punks jabbing a knife into the coin grate in an attempt to de-fubar-ize the coinStar. When told that all we could do is take his name, address, and phone number, the (not-so)gentleman went agro on my manager and threatened to whip his ass - LOL! Unfortunately, the damned thing screwing up like that is a near-daily occurrence and *we*, the store employees who are in no way affiliated with coinStar or its franchise, are responsible for fixing it. Stupid POS. People apparently don't realize that either of the two banks in town will count their change out for free.

Don't be foolish. Coinstar pays your store a percentage of the take to be inside the store, that monthly rent paid to your store entitles the users of the machine to harrass the employees because when it breaks or doesn't work right you are supposed to call Coinstar and get their asses in there to fix it.

Please don't call me foolish. I know damn well our store is reimbursed for the floorspace the machine takes up. I also know damn well that I was told by a coinStar CSR on the machine's internal phone (you open the machine to clean out whatever it is that has managed to block the sensor and there is a phone that dials automatically to a coinStar CSR) that unless the machine were inoperable, we were to take care of it. My manager and the store manager were both told the same thing by other CSR's on different occasions.

I'm not begrudging the customers in the least (they give me reason enough already ) it's the stupid concept that bothers me. I'm disgruntled by the fact that coinStar doesn't want to provide enough people to fix the crappy machines (assuming they work for more than two or three days) and the responsibility to dismantle and clean the monoliths comes down to people like myself. I don't mind messing around in the coinStar. I do enjoy tinkering around and seeing how it's put together and what-not. However, every time the coinStar guys bring their little hand trucks in to tow out the crates of change, they try to bitch that we're ripping them off and that we should NEVER be messing around inside the machine. Uh - what?!

Anyway, my point is this - you're right in that we get paid. You're wrong in thinking that my complaint with the coinStar is that I have to deal with customers. It's the company that gets my goat, not the users.

 

[rahvin]

Originally posted by: voodoochylde
Anyway, my point is this - you're right in that we get paid. You're wrong in thinking that my complaint with the coinStar is that I have to deal with customers. It's the company that gets my goat, not the users.

Well then don't bitch about the customers.

Coinstar is a bloody ripoff, I took $70 and bought my own change sorter a couple years ago. It's more than paid for itself many times over in saved time (rolling your own) and in saved money (paying someone, ie coinstar, to count it).

 

[Thegonagle]

Yet another PSA: Many banks and credit unions have change sorting/counting machines of their own, and will provide change counting service for free if you're an account holder there.

Not all branches of the same bank or CU have the machine though. For example, my credit union has four branches in the area, but only one branch has the machine. (Luckily, their machine is at the branch I use most frequently.)

 

[andylawcc]

updated!

thanks guys!

 

[shopbruin]

we usually roll our own coins, but when i took it into washington mutual once, after the first three rolls, they charged a 10 cent surcharge per roll.

it wasn't that bad when we used to roll quarters, but now that we have to use quarters for our laundry, we'll only change them if we have a large amount or just go in with three rolls at a time.