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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor, post: 733362, member: 5454&quot;]<b>Bum machines</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Just a polite warning to those who use the change counting machines at the bank.&nbsp; There are some machines that count your coins incorrectly.</p><p>I had a feeling that one machine at the Savings Institute in Plainfield, CT was miscounting my coins every time.</p><p>So I hand counted exactly 200 half dollars and ran them in the self service machine.&nbsp; It only counted 198 and spit out a slip for $99.&nbsp; I told the teller who said that was impossible. &quot;this machine is calibrated weekly&quot;.</p><p>I told her next time I wanted her to run the coins through.</p><p>So I went back with another 200 halfs.&nbsp; She hand counted them first upon my request to do so.&nbsp; She got 200 in her count.&nbsp; Then she turned on the machine and ran them through and it counted 197.&nbsp; I said &quot;see that&quot;? and she nodded her head.</p><p>I gave her a second coffee can with exactly 100 half dollars in it.</p><p>She counted about 30 coins and turned the machine on and pushed the coins into the machine as she counted them [supposedly she counted them].</p><p>The machine counted 98 coins and gyped me out of a dollar.&nbsp; She refused to agree I got cheated the second time.&nbsp; She did not count out all the coins before running them into the machine.&nbsp; She made good on the first batch for the $1.50 she saw the machine cheat me out of.&nbsp; But she refused to acknowledge the second batch was 100 coins and didn&#039;t make up the $1.00 she saw the machine cheat me for.</p><p>&nbsp;So I closed my accounts there and never went back.</p><p>My new bank has a different machine which is a Cummins.&nbsp; That machine has always counted correctly and never cheated me once.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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