Turned in some quarters at the bank and got $100 in $1 bills. (They only gave me $99 ) I found 1 starnote, a 1963 A series bill, and 2 kinda cool serial number bills. I don’t think this is an error but the 1963 A bill’s seal is raised more than the others. What’s up with that?
Get in the habit of counting them in front of the teller. I don't care how many people are waiting behind you in line.
So what! Most of the coin-counting machines are off by about 10% unless they are serviced regularly. Why must you assume that just because it is a machine that it is always correct. Try driving your car without a tune-up and oil change and see what happens. You have every right to count it, and the next time you should make it a point to tell the teller that you were shorted once before.
Yep, 100 percent right It's a job to them. You're no different than any other jerk who walks in that day. You have to have the ability to fend for yourself. I wish I got that message sooner.
Price of doing business with them? LOL Probably just an over ink. NAV, but always fun to find some anomaly.
Yeah, no. I'm not wasting my time or the teller's time to count out a measly $100 in singles by hand in front of them. You're actually far more likely to goof up counting by hand than when a machine is used, anyway. And what if you buy a larger volume? Imagine insisting on hand counting $500 or $1,000 in ones in front of the teller. In fact, when they bring out ones that are already nicely strapped, I will tell them not to bother counting them out (by machine or otherwise). Usually they will insist to machine count when it is $2 or above. I'm okay with that if it makes them feel better but when it comes to ones I just do not care. Yes, I have been shorted before. Once in circa 2009 I was shorted $10 in ones from a teller whom in I suspect intentionally shorted me to avoid coming up short herself. Okay. So one bum teller in 15 years of searching. Otherwise, it's been at most $1-2 but even that is very rare. This is an apple and orange analogy. It varies by design but when a currency-counting machine is dusty or needs to be serviced a teller will typically have to frequently place bills from the reject slot back to the top to be run through again. That, or the machine will stop counting mid-bill and the teller will need to place it back at the top. No matter what, the machines don't go off count by over counting what is there. On a super rare occasion a teller will miss retrieving a note from the machine when bills are verified. This is most likely what happened with the OP. This comes down to human error than machine error.
If you don't mind being short-changed, that's your choice. Me? I'm a Virgo. I expect them to be right. You aren't old enough to remember when everything was counted by hand. Today, people rely on the computer to count everything for them. If you ask the average clerk working in any retail store to figure the amount due in their head, they can't do it.
I don't mind because it happens literally once an average of every 2-3 years and even then it is typically only $1-$2. That is quite true that I'm not old enough to remember when everything was counted by hand. To that I would like to note the dollar is not worth what it was prior to that time. Yes, maybe before heavy inflation took off in the early 70's into the 80's I'd have cared more if I was around back then but to care so much about losing a dollar literally only occasionally (and not even that) these days, holding up other customers, or wasting my own time, it's just not a big deal. As Mountain Man says it's the price of doing business. This is quite true. It is really quite sad. I was recently told the story how a cashier was asked to make change for a twenty. The cashier was so oblivious about how to count and do basic arithmetic she tried giving three tens for the bill. I'm not sure how long ago this happened but I expect the cashier to have likely been fired by now.
A dollar here, a dollar there! Big deal! How many retail businesses are there in the US? Suppose every retail business made a $1 mistake every day. Imagine what that would become! No, not every business will make a mistake, but there are plenty, I'm sure, that make mistakes ten times that.
A few years ago I was at the bank exchanging my coins for cash. I had around $200 worth of coins and the teller gave me $300. I gave her the $100 back and let her know she made a mistake.
I was thinking that you might want to save the star note but it is in a run of 3.2 million (high for a star). They are all spenders.
