How do you get your hands on Coinstar / coin dump machines' coins?

Discussion in 'Coin Chat' started by nuMRmatist, Apr 12, 2018.

  1. nuMRmatist

    nuMRmatist Well-Known Member

    How do some of you guys get your hands on coins from coin-dump machines?

    I just went to the local grocery store [BIG - monopoly sort of, in this county] - I know them pretty well, and they got a Coinstar. No 'service / contact number' on the machine, to get up with service guy, or local corporate, to buy raw sorted stuff. I went to the store Assistant Manager...

    (((WOW - I had to try to impress upon an adamant 'nay-sayer' employee - GOSH - they gathered like a camp-fire, or guys around the back of a pickup truck... ("It's hard to contact Coinstar, to buy this stuff", one said ). [me] "LIFE is hard; if you want something, GO GET IT". No deterrence; I could see she'd rather languish in the squalor of her life as it is (no wonder Founding Fathers created Republic, in stead of true Democracy) [​IMG] Sure wish nay-sayer types would get their [deleted] to Wash., D. C. )))

    Sir Rants-A-Lot OUT ;) (sorry about ranting here guys; coin collectors are usually above-average, socio-intellectually).

    Anyway here, how do you guys get access to the coin-dump machines' stuff?
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  3. furryfrog02

    furryfrog02 Well-Known Member

    Short answer - you don't.
     
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  4. ToughCOINS

    ToughCOINS Dealer Member Moderator

    It's quite easy, really (tongue-in-cheek) . . . you just identify those who lack the ambition to cart their coins off to the supermarket, and offer to do the work for them.
     
  5. baseball21

    baseball21 Well-Known Member

    It's quite easy really. You buy the machine and service it yourself with a contract to the store
     
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  6. V. Kurt Bellman

    V. Kurt Bellman Yes, I'm blunt! Get over your "feeeeelings".

    Here's a wild and crazy notion, just for giggles. How about you figure out this hobby isn't all about hunting through pocket change. Yeah, yeah, I get it. I must be some kind of elitist or something. Well actually no, I just grew up.
     
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  7. V. Kurt Bellman

    V. Kurt Bellman Yes, I'm blunt! Get over your "feeeeelings".

    N. F. String will fix you up.
     
  8. furryfrog02

    furryfrog02 Well-Known Member

    But but but they take out all the silver! I know because I got some rolls that had their name on them and there wasn't any silver. It's a conspiracy I tell you!
     
  9. V. Kurt Bellman

    V. Kurt Bellman Yes, I'm blunt! Get over your "feeeeelings".

    They will sell you machines, too. Go big or go home. Start a GoFundMe or whatever.
     
  10. furryfrog02

    furryfrog02 Well-Known Member

    Don't give him any ideas. Some idiots out there with too much money and note enough sense will probably donate to that.
     
  11. V. Kurt Bellman

    V. Kurt Bellman Yes, I'm blunt! Get over your "feeeeelings".

    Hey, it's The (New) American Way. [aka Idiocracy]
     
  12. furryfrog02

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  13. Sullysullinburg

    Sullysullinburg Well-Known Member

    I’ve never heard of anyone having access to CoinStar specific machines. I have herd of some banks selling the bags out of these machines to customers, but I don’t know what banks will and will not allow it. My suggestion is to simply go into a bank that has a coin counter and ask if they would be willing to sell any of the bags. Overall I’m not a huge fan of the bags because other times these machines kick out the silver so they don’t end up in the bags.
     
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  14. brandon spiegel

    brandon spiegel Brandon Spiegel

    True, I agree, you can either search through 5 rolls of pennies for one or two wheat backs, or just spend five to ten or fiteen cents to buy them. Pocket change is still a go to source for filling up state quarter albems and the like, it never hurts to always have one of those filling up.
     
  15. Michael K

    Michael K Well-Known Member

    Coin Star is a private company. You can't buy or lease a machine.
     
  16. cpm9ball

    cpm9ball CANNOT RE-MEMBER

    What is it that makes you think that these people want to pay a premium of any kind above face value for their coins?

    Chris
     
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