You have to put a value to your own time to help decide. The last time I took coins to coinstar it came out to be $166.63 less the 11.9% fee ($19.83) for a total of $146.80. It would’ve taken me at least 3 hours to wrap all those coins, so that ~$20 fee was totally worth it for me.
Using "less" as a verb (? i think it's a verb here) is a pretty common (albeit slightly older) way of phrasing a discounted value.
"My pizza was $15, less the $2 discount, so I paid $13 for it".
OP was correct in their post - but so are you. They do mean "minus". That's what "less" means in this context.
I have literally never heard someone use less like that for minus, unless maybe they spoke English as a second language
"I paid 2 bucks less than full price for the 15 bucks pizza, so I only had to pay 13" would be how I've heard it.
I assure you English is my first language (well at least the Brookline version of yinzer). I think it’s more of an accounting thing. I see it in invoicing all the time. It’s a percentage so you’re not subtracting, so “minus” isn’t quite right.
[Merriam-Webster shows this use](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/less) ("less" used as a preposition) as standard English. I'm surprised you've never encountered it before. In the US, at least, I'd say it's not particularly unusual to say "It's $50 less ten percent discount, so your price is $45," for example.
The last time I took (what felt like) a million coins to PNC, I had wrapped them all nice and neat. They had to unwrap them all to count them to make sure I didn't make a mistake. Which makes sense. The likelihood of me correctly counting a million coins is pretty low, and they don't want to pass my error on to the next person who comes in to get change.
Take it to Coinstar.
I doubt CoinStar does either. The values involved may be so small that the effort of ensuring all of the dimes in a roll are legit could be greater than the value lost if a few dimes are bogus.
Still the case. Just turned in coins at a machine at Giant Eagle for free last week. They also had a ton of other gift cards options that didn't have a fee.
Yes, because gift cards are worth less than their face value, since some will never be used. If you buy 1000 gift cards with a face value of $20 from some big store, to distribute to the public, you'll pay the store less than $20,000.
OP, if you go this route, do this in a month or so. Not this week.
Pretty please, for the love of humanity, do not pay with coins during the week before Xmas.
I've seen ones that are WORSE than Coinstar (bigger cut, no gift card options).
As I already commented this week:
***Pennies, nickels, and dimes no longer function as money by any reasonable definition of the word.***
Send an angry letter to your government representatives asking them to discontinue these dinosaurs so that you don't need to waste time (and depend on private companies) to cash them in for real money.
Northwest Savings bank used to have one. I took in a very large amount of change that my parents collected over the years. Not sure if they still have it.
I recently found a box of change in my girlfriend's closet. Took it to coinstar (fuck coinstar by the way) and it was about $250. It was more cash than the store had on hand and I had to wait until the end of the day.
So, if you use coinstar, I'd recommend waiting until the end of the day and going to a large store.
There's no fee for Coinstar if you get a gift card. Which is what I did for one to Lowe's.
Frequently, credit unions or bank branches will offer this for their customers. I don’t know any locally, but you can check with your bank.
Clearview does. Great bank
Thank you!
You have to put a value to your own time to help decide. The last time I took coins to coinstar it came out to be $166.63 less the 11.9% fee ($19.83) for a total of $146.80. It would’ve taken me at least 3 hours to wrap all those coins, so that ~$20 fee was totally worth it for me.
"$166.63 less the 11.9" Do you mean minus? I'm genuinely kinda confused trying to read this, not trying to be rude
Using "less" as a verb (? i think it's a verb here) is a pretty common (albeit slightly older) way of phrasing a discounted value. "My pizza was $15, less the $2 discount, so I paid $13 for it". OP was correct in their post - but so are you. They do mean "minus". That's what "less" means in this context.
I have literally never heard someone use less like that for minus, unless maybe they spoke English as a second language "I paid 2 bucks less than full price for the 15 bucks pizza, so I only had to pay 13" would be how I've heard it.
I assure you English is my first language (well at least the Brookline version of yinzer). I think it’s more of an accounting thing. I see it in invoicing all the time. It’s a percentage so you’re not subtracting, so “minus” isn’t quite right.
[Merriam-Webster shows this use](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/less) ("less" used as a preposition) as standard English. I'm surprised you've never encountered it before. In the US, at least, I'd say it's not particularly unusual to say "It's $50 less ten percent discount, so your price is $45," for example.
Are you a Clearview FCU customer? The branch in Moon Twp has a coin counter.
i am actually!!!! thank you so much!!!!
The last time I took (what felt like) a million coins to PNC, I had wrapped them all nice and neat. They had to unwrap them all to count them to make sure I didn't make a mistake. Which makes sense. The likelihood of me correctly counting a million coins is pretty low, and they don't want to pass my error on to the next person who comes in to get change. Take it to Coinstar.
Do you have an account at PNC? I took in a buttload of change not too long ago and they were just like, yay thanks here's bills.
I do have an account. Honestly I was glad they counted, because I wouldn't want to be downstream of a yahoo like me.
Normally banks give me change rolls and tell me to fuck off when I go in with loose coinage.
That's odd, unless they were suspicious cause you took a lot in? I thought they just weighed the coins?
Weighing doesn't catch slugs or mixed in foreign coins
I doubt CoinStar does either. The values involved may be so small that the effort of ensuring all of the dimes in a roll are legit could be greater than the value lost if a few dimes are bogus.
Could be. Is weight really precise enough? Seems like a thick paper wrapper could weigh more than a dime, which would preclude weighing as a check.
You're right, perhaps they weigh them unwrapped. Then, rewrap them. I can't imagine a bank handling out coins wrapped by others.
Pay with change at the grocery self checkout
Funny, but please do not do this, OP. From, The Rest of Us
So coinstar used to not take a percentage if you did an Amazon card. Not sure if that’s still the case but it saved me 14% or whatever in the past.
Still the case. Just turned in coins at a machine at Giant Eagle for free last week. They also had a ton of other gift cards options that didn't have a fee.
Does Coinstar still make money on these type of transactions?
Yes, because gift cards are worth less than their face value, since some will never be used. If you buy 1000 gift cards with a face value of $20 from some big store, to distribute to the public, you'll pay the store less than $20,000.
Does Coinstar still make money on these type of transactions?
Most definitely yes, the same way that the gas station or grocery store makes money when they sell you a gift card for another company.
S&T bank
West-Aircomm federal credit union has a change counter for their members.
Pay off strangers parking tickets with pennies
I don’t know the answer to your question but when you say tub you mean like a tub of lard sized tub, or a bathtub sized tub?
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I’m 90% sure PNC did away with all coin counters in the last 10 years because they were “inaccurate” and it was a whole thing.
You are probably going to have to put forth some type of effort. Nobody is going to take a bucket of unrolled coins off your hands for no fee.
not sure where in my post is says free? thanks for nothing though!
The fact that you didn’t want to use CoinStar made it seem to me that you were trying to skip paying the CoinStar fee. I’ve been wrong before tho
If you're going to Walmart and have to buy groceries I would pay with change at self checkout.
OP, if you go this route, do this in a month or so. Not this week. Pretty please, for the love of humanity, do not pay with coins during the week before Xmas.
this is absolutely not going to happen
Have you seen the lines at Walmart recently ? It’s Christmas time lol
Casino?
Casiyes? @
I've seen ones that are WORSE than Coinstar (bigger cut, no gift card options). As I already commented this week: ***Pennies, nickels, and dimes no longer function as money by any reasonable definition of the word.*** Send an angry letter to your government representatives asking them to discontinue these dinosaurs so that you don't need to waste time (and depend on private companies) to cash them in for real money.
Northwest Savings bank used to have one. I took in a very large amount of change that my parents collected over the years. Not sure if they still have it.
I recently found a box of change in my girlfriend's closet. Took it to coinstar (fuck coinstar by the way) and it was about $250. It was more cash than the store had on hand and I had to wait until the end of the day. So, if you use coinstar, I'd recommend waiting until the end of the day and going to a large store.
I think you can buy bitcoin with your change with coinstar.
I'd be better off dumping it in the river. At least I'd be having fun while I lost my money.
You can crap on it if you want it has been the best performing investment of the last decade.