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<p>[QUOTE="Chip Kirkpatrick, post: 4830961, member: 101265"]I have posted before of a situation that I have been having with a local bank and their coin counters. Once I was cashing in a bunch of half dollars and I heard coins drop without being counted. I convinced them to open it up and 11 of my half dollars were in the inside reject tray. Yes INSIDE REJECT TRAY. In fact these machines have two. </p><p>So all your rejected coins are likely not being returned.</p><p>A tv station once did an investigation and 13 of 14 machine cheated them. A family saved up $448 for a vacation but were credited with only $404. </p><p>This happened to me twice more and I was in contact with the Vice President who had the machines cleaned and serviced but ignored my inquiries to why there are internal reject trays. I once asked an employee or my coins and they refused, saying they had to be “audited”. </p><p>Well yesterday I dumped some coins at one location. I thought I heard coins dropping but decided to ignore it. But my receipt didn’t print and they opened up the machine and it was full of coins including 5 of the half dollars I had in the box. I tried to snap a picture and they blocked me. I did manage to retrieve a few of my coins but doubt I got them all. </p><p>Free money for them. Foreign coins can be exchanged as can damaged coins. [ATTACH=full]1168439[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1168440[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Chip Kirkpatrick, post: 4830961, member: 101265"]I have posted before of a situation that I have been having with a local bank and their coin counters. Once I was cashing in a bunch of half dollars and I heard coins drop without being counted. I convinced them to open it up and 11 of my half dollars were in the inside reject tray. Yes INSIDE REJECT TRAY. In fact these machines have two. So all your rejected coins are likely not being returned. A tv station once did an investigation and 13 of 14 machine cheated them. A family saved up $448 for a vacation but were credited with only $404. This happened to me twice more and I was in contact with the Vice President who had the machines cleaned and serviced but ignored my inquiries to why there are internal reject trays. I once asked an employee or my coins and they refused, saying they had to be “audited”. Well yesterday I dumped some coins at one location. I thought I heard coins dropping but decided to ignore it. But my receipt didn’t print and they opened up the machine and it was full of coins including 5 of the half dollars I had in the box. I tried to snap a picture and they blocked me. I did manage to retrieve a few of my coins but doubt I got them all. Free money for them. Foreign coins can be exchanged as can damaged coins. [ATTACH=full]1168439[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1168440[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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