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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 3605025, member: 105098&quot;]They don&#039;t want to deal with giving you boxes of pennies anymore so they are tacking on an extra $5 surcharge as a deterrent so you&#039;ll find somewhere else to go.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway you look at it I end up paying for coin service one way or the other. I hook up the tellers with doughnuts or bagels or a restaurant gift card if I feel a funky vibe like they are getting tired of me and then it&#039;s back to smiles and whatever I want again for another period of time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not a business and I don&#039;t have a business account with fees so they are doing me a favor by ordering me coin boxes and I feel I&#039;m obliged to also do them favors in return to keep the relationship beneficial for both of us. Getting boxes each week sure beats visiting 10 banks for to get $100 in mixed rolls for a &quot;weekend garage sale&quot; which they don&#039;t bat an eye at and seem to be really helpful with that as an excuse for needing a bunch of change and not having an account with them. It becomes a chore stopping at banks all week to build boxes a little here or there.</p><p><br /></p><p>I find learning their names, being friendly, and yes, bringing a food gift around a holiday or just for no reason seems to go a long way to them ordering boxes for you consistently without any push back. Just if they are ordering a box a week or 5 boxes a week or 20 boxes a week, don&#039;t leave them hanging. Pick it up and say thank you don&#039;t miss the pickup and expect them to continue next week. Everything you do has some sort of a cost to it to absorb. If they are charging $5 for a box of pennies, maybe up it to dimes or quarters instead. If it&#039;s a flat $5 for the transaction, maybe up it to 4 boxes per pickup instead. Depends on how it works. I doubt they are charging $20 for a box of nickels, $50 for a box of dimes, $100 extra for a box of quarters unless they are trying to make you go away, so it&#039;s probably $5 per transaction as a service fee for a non-account holder.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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