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January20

HeadInSand wrote: »

I think thats just bloody bad manners and rather selfish! I always make the effort of bagging up my loose change into money bags and paying into my bank account and THEN going shopping. So her laziness/bad planning causes a massive inconvenience to lots of other shoppers at an already stressful time. Poor show.

Well, it was Christmas Eve so perhaps she couldn't do anything else! The last time I went to my local branch they didn't have any plastic bags, so they sent me along to the next bank along the street (It was Abbey and I wasn't going to walk into there lol!)

There could be lots of reasons why she did it like that. And I didn't mind. I wasn't particularly in a hurry that day. The cashier was happy to count it so...

Barron hard up, you are so right about Newcastle. It's a great place (but let's keep it to ourselves!). I've spent here a lot longer than I was supposed to and I'm not planning to go away either lol!

rog2

poppy10 wrote: »

HSBC have free coin counting machines in their branches.

Maybe in some of their branches, poppy - not in our local? HSBC.

jo1972

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the Coinstar machines in Sainsburys that takes 7-8% of your total went to charity? Am I wrong, if so I'm gutted as I came away with just over £200 from a machine last week. I'm happy to pay it to charity as it saves me counting and bagging it but I'm not losing almost £20 if it's for admin fees :mad:

ZTD

jo1972 wrote: »

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the Coinstar machines in Sainsburys that takes 7-8% of your total went to charity? Am I wrong, if so I'm gutted as I came away with just over £200 from a machine last week. I'm happy to pay it to charity as it saves me counting and bagging it but I'm not losing almost £20 if it's for admin fees :mad:

My understanding of it is that you can get the shopping vouchers for Sainsbury, or you can just donate to charity - but the 8% goes to coinstar in both cases (with a kickback to Sainsbury of course).

Sassers

Hi everyone - hope you've had a lovely Christmas........hats off to the woman in Newcastle - christ she must have had the hide of a rhino to do that.:T I bung my change into the self service tills instead....
Off on a tangent....when I lived in Berkshire a few years ago I was told by a friend in the Council office that one bloke was so annoyed his council tax went up something like £200 that year, brought his entire council tax cash in 1p's,2p's - loose change - into the council offices in a wheel barrow:eek:

S'true - I thought I'd wet myself laughing when she told me. The bosses in finance there swore everyone to secrecy in case it leaked out to the media as the full amount was about £1000.:D

PS sorry but the 'puters slow this morning so I'm out of touch with the last posters comments:mad: :mad:

rog2

Sassers wrote: »

Off on a tangent....when I lived in Berkshire a few years ago I was told by a friend in the Council office that one bloke was so annoyed his council tax went up something like £200 that year, brought his entire council tax cash in 1p's,2p's - loose change - into the council offices in a wheel barrow:eek:

My kind of hero, there, Sassers - we need more people like that. :T :T

We don't see enough of you, Sass, - have a Happy New Year.

free4440273

Sassers wrote: »

Hi everyone - hope you've had a lovely Christmas........hats off to the woman in Newcastle - christ she must have had the hide of a rhino to do that.:T I bung my change into the self service tills instead....
Off on a tangent....when I lived in Berkshire a few years ago I was told by a friend in the Council office that one bloke was so annoyed his council tax went up something like £200 that year, brought his entire council tax cash in 1p's,2p's - loose change - into the council offices in a wheel barrow:eek:

S'true - I thought I'd wet myself laughing when she told me. The bosses in finance there swore everyone to secrecy in case it leaked out to the media as the full amount was about £1000.:D

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

malestrom07

The currency she spent bears the monarchs head, so it's legal tender and good for her. Poor girl may have been desperate, embarrassed and already stressed by her situation. Good for her to spend whatever few pounds she had. As a completely plastic free person, what stresses me is idiots paying for their sandwiches and lunches with plastic. I once stood in a queue in tesco for half an hour. While madam in front slowly packed her £211 worth of shopping into two trolleys, we were then treated to watching all four cards be declined. She left the shop with nothing. That's what you call a proper poor show.

loulou6

Well done asda lady
be careful with coin counting machines I watched a man pour in loads of silver just before Xmas in tescos he pressed the wrong button and it all went to charity.
He was devastated nothing tesco could do apparently.

HeadInSand_2

If I had a bag of loose change and it was an emergency at Xmas eve, I would've first stopped at customer service and explained the situation, on such an occasion they would've undoubtedly provided her with moneybags, weighed it for her and then given her vouchers to use instore. (To avoid losing a cashier for the time it would take to go through loose change)