Best thing to do with huge bottle of 1 and 2p coins?
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Bacman said:Two thoughts - one is to take a handful of coins every time you go to a supermarket and use their self-service checkouts to dump your coins into to pay for items; second thought is to donate it to a charity for "guess how much is inside" for winner to get percentage of the contents.Which passes the problem to the charity - only they have to count manually to determine the winner.I support the bit at a time self-service tills method.
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I am really struggling with this "machines in supermarkets charge a hefty %" thing.
They charge for providing a service, same as anyone else. The machines will cost thousands, they have staff to go round and empty them and then they have to "bank them" as well, which is the bit you don't want to do. if you don't want to pay their charge, then bag them and bank them.
Last time I used one it came to £660, Ok so they got £60 of it, but it saved me spending hours counting it, driving into the city centre branch as local one now closed, parking, petrol, time, £60 is a bargain2 -
trevjl said:I am really struggling with this "machines in supermarkets charge a hefty %" thing.
They charge for providing a service, same as anyone else. The machines will cost thousands, they have staff to go round and empty them and then they have to "bank them" as well, which is the bit you don't want to do. if you don't want to pay their charge, then bag them and bank them.
Last time I used one it came to £660, Ok so they got £60 of it, but it saved me spending hours counting it, driving into the city centre branch as local one now closed, parking, petrol, time, £60 is a bargain5 -
Bacman said:Two thoughts - one is to take a handful of coins every time you go to a supermarket and use their self-service checkouts to dump your coins into to pay for items; .
I also gave some to my little niece to use in her toy shop. I only gave her 10p but it made her day!2 -
I find it quite therapeutic counting coins, but maybe I'm just weird.
I would just spend some time counting into bags of £1 then take it to the bank, but be careful as my bank the nationwide only accept 5 bags at a time, so check what yours accept first.SPC 0373 -
trevjl said:I am really struggling with this "machines in supermarkets charge a hefty %" thing.
They charge for providing a service, same as anyone else. The machines will cost thousands, they have staff to go round and empty them and then they have to "bank them" as well, which is the bit you don't want to do. if you don't want to pay their charge, then bag them and bank them.
Last time I used one it came to £660, Ok so they got £60 of it, but it saved me spending hours counting it, driving into the city centre branch as local one now closed, parking, petrol, time, £60 is a bargainIf you pile in a handful of coins into a self-service checkout till at a supermarket, it counts them for you and you stop emptying your pocket when you've paid for the items you have! No need to count anything!That way you don't pay 8-10% commission to a machine that is designed to sound like a gambling machine paying out, to encourage those types of users pumping more money into it to hear "the sound".Seriously, happy to spend £60 which is a week's food bill, on a machine that goes "bang,bang,bang" while it takes a fee of your hard earned cash??As the old saying goes, "let me have your details, I have a timeshare I can sell you" lol
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Bacman said:trevjl said:I am really struggling with this "machines in supermarkets charge a hefty %" thing.
They charge for providing a service, same as anyone else. The machines will cost thousands, they have staff to go round and empty them and then they have to "bank them" as well, which is the bit you don't want to do. if you don't want to pay their charge, then bag them and bank them.
Last time I used one it came to £660, Ok so they got £60 of it, but it saved me spending hours counting it, driving into the city centre branch as local one now closed, parking, petrol, time, £60 is a bargainIf you pile in a handful of coins into a self-service checkout till at a supermarket, it counts them for you and you stop emptying your pocket when you've paid for the items you have! No need to count anything!That way you don't pay 8-10% commission to a machine that is designed to sound like a gambling machine paying out, to encourage those types of users pumping more money into it to hear "the sound".Seriously, happy to spend £60 which is a week's food bill, on a machine that goes "bang,bang,bang" while it takes a fee of your hard earned cash??As the old saying goes, "let me have your details, I have a timeshare I can sell you" lol
As I said before, why shouldn't they take a fee, do you think they get the machines for nothing ?? I am not "spending" £60 on a machine, I am paying for a service which I would use, I guess about once every 5 years, especially these days with not much cash being used.
if you don't want to use it then don't but I have far more valuable things to do than sit there and count coins into a bag.0 -
Why accumulate £60 in coins in the first place? Bizarre.Now not a gainfully employed bassist.1
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trevjl said: You know nothing about me so it's rather a silly comment.
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Bacman said:trevjl said: You know nothing about me so it's rather a silly comment.
I once gave a jar of coins to a woman who came to the door collecting for charity. She was really pleased with it and came back to tell me how much was in it.0
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