beckoa

...FedEx tried to deliver again today but no one home

Ordered an additional $500 John Quincy Adams just now...

Danger Man

I can't wait for mine to arrive. I have many uses in mind for them.
1. I am buying an air conditioning unit from a company that does not take cc's. (coins = $)
2. My utilities that don't take cc's.
3. A few restaurants I know that do not take cc's.
4. I have some flights coming up and those guys tips are going to be nice and round.
5. I am going to KUL in a couple of months, I wonder if I can find uses there.
6. If I have a surplus I will just sell them to some restaurants over the weekends when they need change or put them in my business.
NEED MORE PRESIDENTS TO BUY NOW!!!

rc408

Thanks OP! $1000 is on it's way. 2 boxes each of 2 different prez.

icurhere2

Next coin comes out in November:

http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/$1coin/?action=schedule

I've ordered all to date but GW, received all except Andrew Jackson.

Will be using Madison to pay for drinks at a bar this weekend.

craz

I cant believe that BoA is the sole Bank that you have an acct with!

If it is why not pay off your CCs at their Banks if theres a local branch. So if you have a CitiAA MC go to a local Citi Bank branch and pay off your bill with whatever you have in Coins.

Thats alot better then depositing it to your acct anyway.

ingy

Two young ladies knocked at my door tonight carrying a very heavy box.

Seems like the US Post Office decided to deliver to the wrong address

We gave them a token of our appreciation.

yoshapman

got $2500 today, deposited $2500 today, 5,000 miles richer (promotion through AA Amex card for double miles for next 3 months up to 5,000 miles, so this will help ensure that I'll make it). Love this promo.

Marathon Man

how do you pay your utilities with coins unless the offices of those utilities are walk ins that are near your home?? I don't love writing checks but some places like the national grid electric still want it that way so I must do it. I could do auto bill pay to deduct from my bank acct but it still is not a CC. It's debit from checking only.

yeah, agreed but convenience is key... As well, in each of our respective areas, I am certain the conditions vary to make things work out for one person where they may not for another.

My wife has a different bank (citizens) so sometimes we put all the coins in there but their nearest branch is at a supermarket so it's harder. Also, we tend to not really go far from home toward where that market is as much as we did when both working more full time. Now I work as a consultant and am at home a lot, and she's stay at home mom right now too. My old office was no where near anything except some bank they used that I had no account at, and the nearest CITI financial office is too far to make a trip to just to cash out coins. It is near a Trader Joes but we only go there like once every 2 weeks if we can. If you have little kids like we do, you tend to try to group your visits to things anyway, and so if I can do that in order to accomplish certain sets of errands, I may as well just comply with the new BofA rules and deposit bulk $2,000 per visit wherever possible.

My BofA acct is the one I have for a few reasons:

1) I have their Alaska Airlines my debit visa check card, which is a mileage earning card. It only gives me .5 mile per $1 spent but that works on many things that DO take only DEBIT (sadly, this does not include the above checking acct debits that you set up in auto bill pay for utilities that do not take CCs though). Over time, this has in fact added up (oh, remember those days when buying postal money orders was the way to go? ) Anyway, I do use partners of that airline and have amassed some miles on it so if I DO need to use debit, I get something back, at the very least. (If you are a member of Costco and do not use AMEX there, this is the next best way to pay them and earn miles too).

2) BofA has no fees as long as I have direct deposit, which I actually do every month for about $5-10 from an ING acct transferred into BofA. (Other banks like Citi and I think Chase do not let you do that to accommodate the DD rule that waives monthly acct fees)

3) The branch is like .6 miles from home. Next to a few stores we frequent in our town. Again, convenience is key!

4) My brother had $35,000 stolen from his bank at Citizens, where my wife still insists on having her sole acct (we have a joint savings elsewhere but the checkings are separate for our own reasons that don't matter here). Sadly, she likes to use her bank's debit card sometimes and earns NOTHING! () Supermarket money orders in our area--if and when they had ever worked, would be cost prohibitive--trust me I have checked it all out.

Nonetheless, I do not trust that bank anymore even though they eventually found out about an internal scam and eventually fixed all the frauded accounts. Plus the bank charges fees and you can only get out of it if you deposit like a ton of money. Long story but they have become the FEE bank where BofA used to be, so I stick with BofA. I do better with ING and Citi savings accts where your rates are far better anyway. The rest of my $ is in mutual funds and other long term investments... I suppose I COULD further fund those with these coins but I would have to make a special trip 45 mins south of home in traffic to get to the office where this would take place. I suppose driving into Boston, where I no longer (currently) have an office would also be a viable way to cash these out, seeing as how there's a federal reserve there that would take any amounts of such coinage.

BofA is not perfect and oh yes I have had my run ins, but the local branch has been very accommodating to me and has fixed past issues with the main bank, as well as being very friendly and all that jaz.

My other 'banking' and money spending is done on mile and point earning credit cards.

For me, the coins offer extra miles to pad accounts that need to reach award level. It is working.
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This banking glitch is like Tom Brady going down for the season. (well, not that bad!) The Patriots will STILL find a way!

Marathon Man

oh I bet you did!! but the alternative websites are another forum so no need to expand on those details of the ladies with heavy boxes. This is a family place

soitgoes

Some utilities do have walk-in service centers, but more common are payment acceptance locations at grocery stores and the like.

Amicus

At least you received them!

I ordered $1000 (four boxes) of coins on 8/12 and received an email from the Mint that they were shipped on 8/19. According to the email, delivery would be by USPS.

Attempted to track my order online numerous times, using the tracking number provided by the Mint in their email. I receive a message: no record of the item. I telephone customer service of the Mint, and the rep. tells me the order arrived on 8/25 in a nearby suburb, but can't tell me any more information, except that the package was sent parcel post. This rep. also informs me that the Post Office will NOT allow the Mint to track orders. (??)

Today, my local post office asserts it never received any such package, although, they acknowledge it is possible that someone might have "forgot" to scan in the package. The post office here won't even acknowledge that the tracking number I provided, from the Mint email to me, is valid.
They also won't help trace it because the coins were not sent insured. In other words, "too bad."

Now, I have to complete a form from the Mint website for non-receipt of items, as well as have AmEx. charge back the $1000.

sammy0623

my order of
was just randomly canceled...all 4 items

JonathanIT

Have you ordered before?

gpapadop

>>>>>>>>>>>>>Now, I have to complete a form from the Mint website for non-receipt of items, as well as have AmEx. charge back the $1000.

I feel your pain....Based on experience, I would just screw the the US Mint form and just go straight to dispute the charges on the credit card and let them deal with it.

SPN Lifer

I have a fifteen-year-old son with his own Starwood American Express card that he uses for tuition, etc.

But I do not do U.S. Mint orders for him. Why?

The U.S. Mint website says that the user is representing the purchaser to be over 18 years old upon ordering.

Misrepresentation to the federal government over the internet would be wire fraud, a federal crime. I prefer not to commit felonies.

I help out my adult in-laws instead.