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<p>[QUOTE="Kevin Dore, post: 3175766, member: 96515"]So a while back I came up with what I thought was a brilliant idea. Why not search people's change before it even gets rolled? So to do this I came up with the idea to ask around at work to see if anybody uses coinstar and pays that 12% fee. I found one old man that did and I offered to buy his change for full face value and save him that fee. A few weeks later (which was yesterday) he had finally filled up his jar and brought it to me. I also have another co-worker that says he's bringing me 3 shoe boxes full that he's collected for years. A third person said she would hold her for me next time she cashes it in and she will ask some relatives of hers that she knows uses coinstar.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now to my first score: I counted his jar of change and it came out to $62.35. I found 45 cents in silver which includes a 1928D Mercury dime! And a single wheat penny. I brought him $63.35 today because I told him I'm adding an extra dollar to it for that Mercury dime since I consider that such a great find. So basically I paid him blue book value for that and came out with the other 35 cents in silver as profit. Plus I got to keep his foreign coins. A Canadian quarter and dime, and a 1 francf coin from 1962. I saved him about $8 in constar fees plus gave him an extra dollar so of course he's happy too. Can't wait to see what those shoe boxes brings me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of this idea so I'm curious if anybody else has done this or something similar and what your results have been[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Kevin Dore, post: 3175766, member: 96515"]So a while back I came up with what I thought was a brilliant idea. Why not search people's change before it even gets rolled? So to do this I came up with the idea to ask around at work to see if anybody uses coinstar and pays that 12% fee. I found one old man that did and I offered to buy his change for full face value and save him that fee. A few weeks later (which was yesterday) he had finally filled up his jar and brought it to me. I also have another co-worker that says he's bringing me 3 shoe boxes full that he's collected for years. A third person said she would hold her for me next time she cashes it in and she will ask some relatives of hers that she knows uses coinstar. Now to my first score: I counted his jar of change and it came out to $62.35. I found 45 cents in silver which includes a 1928D Mercury dime! And a single wheat penny. I brought him $63.35 today because I told him I'm adding an extra dollar to it for that Mercury dime since I consider that such a great find. So basically I paid him blue book value for that and came out with the other 35 cents in silver as profit. Plus I got to keep his foreign coins. A Canadian quarter and dime, and a 1 francf coin from 1962. I saved him about $8 in constar fees plus gave him an extra dollar so of course he's happy too. Can't wait to see what those shoe boxes brings me. I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of this idea so I'm curious if anybody else has done this or something similar and what your results have been[/QUOTE]
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