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<p>[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1538460, member: 12789"]Even when it goes against "official" policy. I have banks that sell me boxes and don't charge me for them, despite the fact that they got a memorandum a while back that they had to start charging 5% on all coin orders. I also buy up bags of coins from commercial deposits. I have had "good" banks go stinky, and stinky banks go good on me. One bank that was a real stinker to get goodies from all of a sudden turned around and started giving me all sorts of goodies, half rolls, boxes of cents and nickels etc. I surmise it might have been the candy "bribes" that turned them around. I have given out gift cards and hockey and baseball tickets where they are allowed to get them, otherwise candy makes dandy. Oh I have found a couple of coin collectors working in the banks in the mix - we trade stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>The best is when you know tellers are holding stuff for you and having you rush in to get it before anybody else gets it. It gets better when they "don't have anything" because you haven't come in yet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1538460, member: 12789"]Even when it goes against "official" policy. I have banks that sell me boxes and don't charge me for them, despite the fact that they got a memorandum a while back that they had to start charging 5% on all coin orders. I also buy up bags of coins from commercial deposits. I have had "good" banks go stinky, and stinky banks go good on me. One bank that was a real stinker to get goodies from all of a sudden turned around and started giving me all sorts of goodies, half rolls, boxes of cents and nickels etc. I surmise it might have been the candy "bribes" that turned them around. I have given out gift cards and hockey and baseball tickets where they are allowed to get them, otherwise candy makes dandy. Oh I have found a couple of coin collectors working in the banks in the mix - we trade stuff. The best is when you know tellers are holding stuff for you and having you rush in to get it before anybody else gets it. It gets better when they "don't have anything" because you haven't come in yet.[/QUOTE]
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