Today , At my lunch Break I went up to the vending machine to get a snack. I put a dollar bill and a quarter in the machine. I pressed the change button to see what Id get back in the machine..and for the very first time in my life I recieved a dollar coin for change. I looked at in in surprise. Could it be that we're finnally just accepting these as change? Mabey Im being a bit optimistic but it made my day for some reason.hya:
The change machine where I work gives out dollar coins (Susan B's, Sacagawea's, and just recently Presidential dollars) and all of the vending machines accept them.
The post office is the only place I have ever seen dollar coins given as change. This is a pretty cool thing to discover. I know the mint has been dangling incentives for vending machine manufacturers to make such changes, but I was unaware that any of them did anything more than update the coin validator to accept dollar coins.
I keep a pile of them in my office. They are the only thing that works reliably in our soda machine. Dollar bills are frequently rejected by the machine. You gain more respect for the coins when that happens.
The change machines on the Oklahoma Turnpikes give LOADS of Dollar coins. The toll machines also take them too
when our school still had pepsi and mountian dew in the machines, i used to buy sodas with sacs. there was this one kid behind me that had a shocked look on his face seeing me put those in there. dollar bill accepors in those machines are so picky, you almost have to use a crisp bill. now the soda machines have all diet sodas, so i don't buy them anymore. i think all vending machines take those dollar coins, people just don't use them. i'll have to do that with the machines around here and see if i get a dollar coin!
