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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NOS, post: 3127858, member: 2098&quot;]This is a pretty outlandish claim. I recall a number of years ago some news people conducted detailed experiments with Coinstar machines to assess their accuracy. The producers meticulously hand counted every coin they planned to put into the Coinstar machines. What they found was they were surprisingly accurate with only a one dime or so conflict found in the amount inserted to the amount credited out of thousands of coins that were put in.</p><p><br /></p><p>In fact, local news reporters conduct these experiments somewhat frequently. Here is one such story: <a href="https://www.ksl.com/?sid=42926525&amp;nid=148" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ksl.com/?sid=42926525&amp;nid=148" rel="nofollow">https://www.ksl.com/?sid=42926525&amp;nid=148</a>. It was determined that coin counting machines in general are &quot;off 18.5 cents for every $300&quot; that is inserted.</p><p><br /></p><p>While I have read some horror stories on here about users getting shorted by wildly inaccurate amounts (typically at banks and credit unions), these are typically due to the machines getting jammed or filled up from their dumping massive amounts of coins into the machine at one time. That, or the machines just needed to be cleaned.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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