My CRH'ing days are over :-(

As is the end of the world, fools have been predicting it since some hominid first traipsed out of the cave.

 

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Yeah, it is addictive like illicit drugs or alcohol etc, but a lot less harmful and also a lot less costly.

 

The only places that use them are some universities will buy them to give out in change at concessions at sporting events etc. I know when I go to collegiate basketball games you can count on getting a half dollar in change instead of two quarters.

 

fools have been predicting it

You are naive. We now have conditions in the world unknown in all of recorded history. Heart-stopping debt, serious overpopulation, a derivative imbalance (in the quadrillions) that could destroy the world's bond markets, unprecedented armaments, reduced food production due to climate change, and much much more.

Never have all these problems converged at one time, to the detriment of the global population. In general, it can't be fixed, and you and your children (if any) are destined to live through the troubles to come. There is a price to pay for profligacy.

I won't be here, but I've left my assets to the most deserving of my friends, and I hope for the best. That's all I can do.

 

I have recently and personally used Halfs in the self-service registers at my local Wal-Marts and Home Depots.

 

I don't blame you for it. I'm going to use Coinstar until they stop giving me free gift cards.

For the record, just about everyone has agreed with the naysayers about bank policies and costs, but then have thrown in some special caveat about why it shouldn't apply when it is inconvenient for them.

 

just a side "side" note about gas stations & full service. Most service stations in RURAL east KY are self serve there hasn't been a full service station since the 90's other than the service station that takes care of disabled people. BUT the service industry is in such shambles that Oregon and New Jersey do provide full service to provide employment. In my opinion banks will provide the same. My bank does not charge for rolls of change. My DUMP BANK however which has a coin counter does require you have a account and if you are not a member you will be charged it enticed me to join.

 

Same in some parts of Europe. Selling gas is not exactly profitable for a gas station, so one option is to offer paying at the pump (some stations have only that at night). The other concept is to provide service - so yes, if you want to, you can get attendant service (costs €1 extra or so), and you pay inside where you find a veritable "XYZ-to-go" type convenience store.

As for coin rolls, some banks here still give them out without charging a fee if you are a customer. Also, many places now charge people if they take coins to their bank (to get them credited to the account). Reason is that banks are required to check the authenticity of submitted cash. Combine that law, and the current interest rates, and you end up with such fees ...

Christian

 

@chrisild You bring up a good point, it is a unique privilege to be able to search rolled, bagged coin etc for older coins. Practically not possible anywhere else in the world because coinages are a lot more recent. The only country that might be possible is Switzerland.

Treat it like a privilege and not a right.

 

Added for the most part you are right, for the most part the extra fee's included to "help" others fee's lol

 

True, but around here, at least in the euro area, you have the incentive of finding coins from roughly two dozen countries in your rolls (or bags). Makes CRHing fun and interesting too if you're into that.

Christian

 

I've been excited to find Slovakian and Cypriot coins in circulation. German, Dutch and Austrian coins are usually what I see.

 

I believe there is still a full service station on the New Holland Pike (PA23) running east out of Lancaster. They also sell "zero ethanol" gasoline. I know there is still a full service station just west of Reading on US422 in West Lawn. Schoelkopf's Service Station.

 

"Provided it's not abused".

Sorry, CRH is abuse by definition. Banks handle change for exactly ONE reason - to service retail customers. CRHunters ARE abusers. Only question is how much abuse you are worth to them.

 

The grocery store I use has their registers chock full of Kennedy halves. They're known for quirky interesting details.

 

Nobody's naive; you're just an alarmist. Elon Musk will save us all. If you truly believe we are approaching economic Armageddon, you need more education. "Old style" economics is DEAD, FINISHED. Nothing you knew matters any more, not even debt.

 

Nonsense. Elon Musk is a genius, but he can't save himself, much less the rest of us. I have never used the Biblical term "Armageddon," I merely believe that our standard of living is going to decline, and that it will take decades to fully recover; there IS a difference. Only suckers think debt doesn't matter; try stiffing the IRS. Or Chase. Or Visa. Or the BIS.

People with physical gold will have an advantage over people who don't.

 

They'll certainly be the whole world's first targets.

Look, my dad, who's still alive at 94, has seen a bigger change in technology than any other generation.

I, at 61, have seen the biggest change in acceptable social norms than any generation ever.

My son, 21, will see the biggest change in conceivable economics paradigms than any generation ever. Austrian or monetary focused economics died in the late 30's. Only neocons are propping up the corpse. "Economics at Bernie's".

 

Easy come easy go. When it rains it pours. Did they just outright tell you they had enough? Usually they say it indirectly by starting to charge you for the boxes.

This is a true story. I know a woman who had them convinced she was in the casino business. They gave her halves, dollars, you name it, and took back the rejects with a smile. Then the casinos came out with the tickets, and that was curtains for her. Lol.

 

Sorry but such a blanket statement is nonsense. One of the bank tellers I frequently deal with always THANKS me for taking CRWs off her hands, she says she gets too many of them and it makes her job EASIER for me to buy them from her. I hardly think she would call what I am doing "abuse". Also, not just CRHunters need coins. Many years ago when I used to rely on a laundromat where the machines only accepted quarters, I frequently bought several rolls of them each trip I made to the bank, and that back during a time I was not doing any coin roll hunting. Requesting a moderate exchange of cash for coin is not an unreasonable thing for a customer to request from a bank for crying out loud. How far a customer goes with it before it can be categorized as "abuse" is for each specific bank to decide for itself, but to say it is "abuse" by definition is absurd.