Supermarket change machines

Smidster

The people using these machines drive me mad.

I will Happily count it for you - for a much lower charge!

chelms38

Thank you all very much for your replies and in these tight times I will stick with my coins and use them for papers/buses etc.

sammyjammy

The machines in HSBC are free to use but can only be used by those with accounts at First Direct or HSBC.

silicon_chip

How do people get some much coinage ? Do they never spend coins only notes.

Have they never heard of banks which will take money their money in and change it for notes for NO commision charge !

boliston

Smidster wrote: »

The people using these machines drive me mad.

I will Happily count it for you - for a much lower charge!

Well you could always wait next to one of the machines and when people come along, offer to count and exchange it for a lower commission.

Payless_2

silicon_chip wrote: »

How do people get some much coinage ? Do they never spend coins only notes.

Have they never heard of banks which will take money their money in and change it for notes for NO commision charge !

The banks will only change it into notes if it is bagged up into £1 or £5 bags of the same coinage. So to do this you have to wait a while before you have enough. Taking this weight of coinage onto a crowded bus can be both arm stretching and lethal fro those you are trying to get past .

caroline1973lefty

my bank (natwest) has a new machine that takes unsorted coins in any quantity for no charge. you have to have an account there obviously but this could be a 'basic account' that most people are able to open regardless of credit status etc. the machine is quite new so i expect other banks are getting them now as well.

i've never used those coin machines in shops and now i'm glad - had no idea they charged 7% - what a total rip-off! :mad:

shazrobo

natwest also have these machines, if u have an account with them. they dont charge anything and its put straight into your account

caroline1973lefty

Payless wrote: »

The banks will only change it into notes if it is bagged up into £1 or £5 bags of the same coinage. So to do this you have to wait a while before you have enough. Taking this weight of coinage onto a crowded bus can be both arm stretching and lethal fro those you are trying to get past .

no longer true in my bank at least- they have a new machine that takes any random mixture and amount of coins you have. i discovered this recently when i went in with all my neatly bagged up coins and had to open the bags and tip them all into the machine!

geordie_joe

silicon_chip wrote: »

How do people get some much coinage ? Do they never spend coins only notes.

Yes, they think of it as a way of saving. Some people save all the 1p and 2p coins they get, others save 5p coins too etc.

There's even a £2 coin challenge somewhere on here, every time you get a £2 coin you put it in a jar as savings.