Count your Change!

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So I happen to catch this report on the new about how accurate CoinStar is and then afterwards they say there's a charge for using their service. Well, smart 'ol me said... "psft... **** that I'll do it myself and show them." Not to mention they said the "average person has about $90 in change lying around".

So I start counting and then finally I get finished. My dad is an accountant, I go to tell him, and he proceeds to tell me after I got done counting that they do it all for you at the bank. Son of a... :banghead:

Anyway, I call the bank to make sure and they say they do NOT count the money or rap it for you. So, I go over there with a box full of white rapped (I made myself) coins and say I want to turn this in. She laughs and hands me a bunch of color rappers to signify what coins they are...

So now I have to re-rap them and on top of that she gave me a **** load of dime rappers when what I need is a **** load of penny rappers... The reason that is bad is because there's no way in hell I'm re-rapping $20 in pennies! :irked:

Note to self.... When rapping change, don't get ****ing creative and make your own rappers. :rolleyes:

Anyway, I'm gonna have to go to another bank to get more rappers and rap the pennies but I guess my success is that I'll have $128 when I turn it in.

The moral of this lesson... Don't let you ****ing change build up so long. :rolleyes:
 
Our bank wont take change deposits, period. Make sure they'll take them. I bet you never asked. Be careful.
 
Funny because I also phoned my bank a few days ago since I wanted to know if I could go any deposit my "small change box".

The small euro coins are really anoying, whenever my wallet gets too bulcky, I just empty it in my "small change box". The result is that I am now left with way too much copper. I didn't know if they would accept it as a deposit and turns out that they do, IF it is less than a hand full. Otherwise they give you some clips which you need to fill and then they send it to the national bank (don't ask me why they do that...).

There are plans in the making to get rid of the 1cent en 2cent coins though :)
 
You mean "wrappers"?

Or are there people in basketball jerseys speaking in rhyme about your change? "Coloured rappers"? :eek:


In banks in the UK you're given plastic bags which specify how much of each type of coin should go in there. They weigh the bags, and only count them if there's a serious discrepancy.

My brother, who used to work in a bank, mentioned that one ex-colleague, knowing she was leaving her job and the country in one month, took one coin out of every bag which passed through her fingers and netted nearly £20,000 in that one month. "Sadly", her flight was delayed by 3 hours and she was caught at the airport.
 
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Our bank wont take change deposits, period. Make sure they'll take them. I bet you never asked. Be careful.
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What bank? That's an outrage. Money is money. I'll bet it's Bank of America.
 
I e-mailed Westpac (the bank i'm with) and they said (because i have $103.20 in coins -sorted into $10 plastic bank bags) to bring in all the coins and they will transfer the money into two $50 notes (my request).

"We may charge a money handling fee (or something) of $10.00. What the???

I could just as easily go into a supermarket or shop and get the money changed into notes that way!!!
 
You don't need to go to a bank to get the change wrappers. I think you can get them at most office supply stores like Staples.
 
Our bank(s)(since we are a bunch of Fusz employees we have a separate savings bank from the checking bank, or something like that) take wrapped coinage. I generally don't deposit much in the way of coins...my dad does, several years back I went with him to the bank where he unloaded an army box(metal box with a handle, pretty nifty and actually from the military thanks to a grandfather) full of rolls, mainly quarter. I think it was around $350 worth or something, haha.
Ofcourse today walking into a bank with a metal army box might get you some attention. :)
 
That's bull, my bank has a change counter. Every year or so, we take this big jar of change to the bank and they pour it inot the change counter and they give us cahs! :D normally, it's about $90. We get about $90 every year.
 
I have A large water jug (5 gallons) that I'm trying to fill with change. I'm nowhere near it being close to full, but now It has a good 120 Dollars in it. :)
 
Only a few banks here accept it. I used to work at a bank/postoffice where they accepted it in bags that you had to weigh, as mentioned above. I'm not sure they still do that though, but I know my girlfriend's bank accepts coin deposits. Generally banks that still have one of those cash machines have no problems with it.

On the other hand, many shops actually buy change from banks. If you find yourself paying your bank to be able to deposit bank, and then the bank makes money again by selling that cash to a shop that needs change. No wonder banks make money, the smart little buggers.

The easy solution here of course is to cut out the middle-man. Most shops are more than happy with change and if you just go to one outside of rush hours you should be able to get rid of a lot of cash very quickly.
 
This is the first time I've ever heard of a bank not accepting money. I'd be like, "It's US currency *****, take it." I'd laugh my tellers in the face if they said they wouldn't take my money.
 
I've never had that much change... in fact, a couple weeks ago, I actually ran out of both change and one-dollar bills, so I had to do some swapping with my mom.
 
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I'll bet it's Bank of America.
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Nope, they (BOA) gladly took my coin rolls. Of course, it helps if your both a member of the bank, and depositing your paycheck as well as lugging the chump change. Sounds more like Wachovia, if the roots of First Union's policies are anything to go by.

When banks don't accept your change, it's really time to find another bank.
 

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