Barclays coin counting machine in London

mchughjcf

BarclaysManager wrote: »

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

is there a coin sorter at the sloane sqare branch?

JollyJones

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)?

I went in my local Abbey branch today, with about £90 in coins, all bagged up correctly into bags with their correct denominations. No ways would they take it. "We have a five bag policy sir" -

I wasn't happy, I have been a customer with Abbey ever since my nan took me to open a disney account back in the mid 80's when I was 10yrs old, and have never changed since. They were only about 30 small coin bags, they only needed to be weighed. I wanted to pay it into my Abbey bank account, not even cash it there and then.

Anyway I called head office complaints when I got home, and after a bit of wrangling, they said they would do it for me tomorrow..... as a "one off!" like they were doing me a favour, paying money into my own 20 odd year bank account!!!

So I am seriously considering changing all my savings accounts/ISA's, etc... into another bank, just on this one bad experience. I'm not happy.

It's all a bit of a faffle though isn't it. Natwest say you can do it in 4 easy steps, but you have to get new bank cards, cancel/setup new direct debits, advice HR at work, your new bank details, for your salary to be paid into...etc...etc...

P.S. I don't know of any Abbey branch that has those automated coin sorting machines.

apt

Yes, but you are charged royally for the convenience. I'd rather pay 0% at a bank than 8.9% at a supermarket.

anna42hmr

Estella wrote: »

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

have you got any natwest accounts (even savings acccounts) as they have the machines in some branches too, (you can either use a chip and pin card, or if you have their savings accounts and dont have a card, then you can use a paying in slip with the account number, sortcode etc

sharon7_2

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:

MOORGATE

Hi

Just bumping up this thread.

Can anyone confirm if the Moorgate branch still has this facility. Ive rang BB and they have no clue - the branch had a refit so they arent sure.

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MartyTwoTimes

Out of the list I know that Moorgate doesn't have one anymore. Visited Lewisham today and I don't think that branch has ever had one going of the blank looks.

Going to give Piccadilly Circus a try.

mindbox

Just found one this morning in my Barclays branch in Portsmouth High Street... Great News...no more bagging up and paying out to coinstar... WooHoo

sharon7_2

Hi

There is one at HSBC off Cannon Street (near the train station) - you need to have an HSBC or First Direct account and then money is put into your account.

The address is

60 Queen Victoria Street
London
EC4N 4TR

S

ppm1974

I sent Barclays an email asking which branches had machines, I am surprised they don't have any in Birmingham especially as we had a new branch opened within the past year.


Anyway, here's the reply i got...


Thank you for your email dated 12/9/11.

A Coin Deposit Machine is a self Service device used by Barclays customers to deposit coins into a Barclays account.

Coin Deposit Machines are located at the following Barclays branches:

Manchester 86-88 Market Street
Manchester 51 Mosley St (City Office)
Manchester St Anne?s Sq
Leicester, Haymarket Towers
Cardiff 212 Queen Street
Colchester 9 High Street
Leamington Spa 146-150 The Parade
Liverpool Lord Street
Luton 170 Dunstable Road
Mile End 240 Whitechapel Road
Woking
Wolverhampton 5 Queens Square

Please Note: There are no plans to install any further Coin Deposit Machines at the moment.

We hope this resolves your query.

Aquanaut_2

Update October 2011

The Woking branch has had its machine removed as part of its refit

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