Barclays coin counting machine in London

Estella

I'd like to take some change to Barclays to one of their coin counting machines. There's none of these in my area, but I'm down in London for a bit soon. Which branches have this facility? Barclays website is very unhelpful on this one.

I'd prefer central London locations if possible. I hope someone can help this provincial girl out

Extant

Where in London will you be going? It's a big place, you know...

Estella

Hehe, so true.

Am staying near Hackney but will be working near Victoria station, I think. Any around there?

Extant

I think Sloane Square has one - I'll double check tomorrow.

misscutiepie1984

BarclaysManager - are you able to look at my thread and advise please. thanks

pumpkin_soup

I am also interested in tracking down a coin machine (fed up of being charged 8% by the coinstar in tescos!), so I emailed Barclays asking where is the nearest coin machine to me (cambridge).

They sent me a list of all branches that have the coin machines. Thought others might be interested, so here it is:

Thank you for your email
Our support team have advised of the following branch, please be aware that these are for the use of Barclays Customers:
CARDIFF
COLCHESTER HIGH STREET
CROYDON
HAMMERSMITH BUSINESS CENTRE
LEAMINGTON SPA
LEWISHAM HIGH ST
LIVERPOOL, LORD STREET
LOWESTOFT
LUTON DUNSTABLE RD
Manchester Market Street
Manchester City Office (Moseley Street)
MILE END
MOORGATE
WOKING
WOLVERHAMPTON QUEEN SQUARE

Nowhere very close to Cambridge then Looks like Coinstar will continue to get their cut until I can get around to opening an HSBC account to use their machines (I'm far too lazy to do the whole bagging-up thing!)

mchughjcf

pumpkin_soup wrote: »

I am also interested in tracking down a coin machine (fed up of being charged 8% by the coinstar in tescos!), so I emailed Barclays asking where is the nearest coin machine to me (cambridge).

They sent me a list of all branches that have the coin machines. Thought others might be interested, so here it is:

Thank you for your email
Our support team have advised of the following branch, please be aware that these are for the use of Barclays Customers:
CARDIFF
COLCHESTER HIGH STREET
CROYDON
HAMMERSMITH BUSINESS CENTRE
LEAMINGTON SPA
LEWISHAM HIGH ST
LIVERPOOL, LORD STREET
LOWESTOFT
LUTON DUNSTABLE RD
Manchester Market Street
Manchester City Office (Moseley Street)
MILE END
MOORGATE
WOKING
WOLVERHAMPTON QUEEN SQUARE

Nowhere very close to Cambridge then Looks like Coinstar will continue to get their cut until I can get around to opening an HSBC account to use their machines (I'm far too lazy to do the whole bagging-up thing!)

This is great news that there are coin sorters - guess if they publicised it they would be a victim of there own success with everyone using them and then being out of order.
However being based in brighton is guess that the nearest ones are going to be in central london. It not to bad as every 6 week or so i venture up to london for one reason or another, and it just means stopping off along on the tube. Can anyone give me the road one of these machines can be found in a branch. I entered the ones in london into 'find a brach' on the barclays website but didnt always come out with one brach and since it doesnt list having these machines, still left me rather lost.

thanks there guys

Lokolo

pumpkin_soup wrote: »

Nowhere very close to Cambridge then Looks like Coinstar will continue to get their cut until I can get around to opening an HSBC account to use their machines (I'm far too lazy to do the whole bagging-up thing!)

News about Coinstar. Its going up to 8.9%!

Milarky

It seems a bit pointless having these machines in a handful of branches only. Wasn't another 'bank' such as Abbey mentioned on Moneybox as having around 200 (i.e. a 'useful' number)?

Extant

Milarky wrote: »

It seems a bit pointless having these machines in a handful of branches only. Wasn't another 'bank' such as Abbey mentioned on Moneybox as having around 200 (i.e. a 'useful' number)?

It takes time to...

• Analyze whether the machine is appropriate for any given branch
• Arrange and implement security concerns and logistics for removing any large amounts of coin
• Modify the branch to fit the machine - and everything that comes with it, i.e. costing, health and safety, blah blah
• Order the machine
• Wait for it to be built (they're specialist and not exactly off the rack) and branded
• Lots of other small considerations

HSBC has a lot of them, and we too will have a lot of them. But it's not like HSBC's machines appeared overnight.

gt94sss2

Milarky wrote: »

It seems a bit pointless having these machines in a handful of branches only. Wasn't another 'bank' such as Abbey mentioned on Moneybox as having around 200 (i.e. a 'useful' number)?

HSBC was quoted as having 200 - just a shame their website doesn't state which ones.. though it tends to be the bigger branches as you might expect.

Regards
Sunil