can't use coin deposit machine because it keeps getting blocked with coins

hermum

Take_it_like_a_man,_sonny wrote: »

Why store it the container, bag it and drop it in every week. Under the mattress it gains no interest, in the bank, it does. And if the average balance is about £20, the that is a bar of chocolate free every year.

Petrol costs or bus fares to get to the bank more frequently would cost far more than the free chocolate bar the interest would earn each year.
For me to go to my bank I have to pay parking, I think the lowest charge is £1 & the petrol to get there. Bus fare would be around £3.

withabix

barbiedoll wrote: »

As for Coinstar.............:mad::mad::mad:

That is their business model. Do you expect them to do it for free???

They will be PAYING Asda to have the machine in their store. Perhaps you should :mad::mad::mad: at Asda instead?

Nobody is forcing you to use the machine.

Perhaps you should set up a coin sorting machine business in competition with them???

:mad::mad::mad:

grayme-m

withabix wrote: »

That is their business model. Do you expect them to do it for free???

They will be PAYING Asda to have the machine in their store. Perhaps you should :mad::mad::mad: at Asda instead?

Nobody is forcing you to use the machine.

Perhaps you should set up a coin sorting machine business in competition with them???

:mad::mad::mad:

Are you really this angry about it?

I chuckle at the term on the thing, 'Turn your coins into cash'...

I'd always assumed that the supermarket benefits from the machine and not having to pay for change as they would empty it; hence why Morrison's give you 100% if you spend it in the shop?

Personally I just tip my coins into the self service tills to sort for me, seems they take them, as they would this enigmatic 'cash'.

dontone wrote: »

I have to say, I would have gone nuts at that statement. How cheeky and rude to make assumptions about someones dress and financial state there and then.

Especially as how sometimes people have money through not buying things, like clothes.

withabix

grayme-m wrote: »

Are you really this angry about it?

No, just the fact that someone was really :mad::mad::mad: about there being a charge to use something that is done by choice!

grayme-m

withabix wrote: »

No, just the fact that someone was really :mad::mad::mad: about there being a charge to use something that is done by choice!

...that they didn't want to use?

edgex

brettcta wrote: »

It's just the way he likes to save his money. It's more convenient to take it every 2-3 weeks rather than every week.

He'll set himself challenges to reach certain markings on the tub in X number of days (doesn't matter if it's pennies or pounds, just so long as it's up to a certain level in the tub). Then sets further goals for the remainder of the tub. Once it's full or if work's slow (I.e. the neighbour's grandson walks their dog), we'll empty it and start again.

To echo what someone else has said, he never asks for anything. He's 13 and if there's something he wants (so far an Xbox 360 & games, iPhone (albeit 2nd hand) and he got himself a brand new iPad 2 before Xmas), he saves every penny he earns and banks it. He's learning the concept of interest aswell and his statements are showing him how it's beneficial to have his money in the bank and not under the mattress.

His next goal is a PS3. What I've not told him is that he's saved up enough for nearly 3 of them since December.

& then proceeds to spend it all

any thought gone into opening a savings account for him, where some of the money could go so that it really starts to add up

maninthestreet

The coin deposit machine in HSBC Reading got jammed when I was using it - they fixed it for me in a few minutes.