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JudyJFLA

All hail those on every forum on FT who let us know about any promotions they find for miles or points, including coins, the 1000 MR points for a 5000 BA miles bonus or the 250% US holiday shopping bonus for 140 miles per dollar. That is the goal of FT, With linited funds, I have been able to travel to places that I could only dream of before. I for one would have never known about any of these offers without FT.

BTW, I have not had any orders canceled this year, ordering the max of presidents each time on different credit cards, and $2500 of NA's each time, with orders placed around 2 weeks apart.

Happy New Year to all, and can't we all just get along in the new year?

JudyJFLA

WRCSolberg

I don't blame Mr. Pickles specifically. It's the same story with many of these schemes including most recently the Citi card churning - a few people go overboard with it and ruin it for everyone else. It sucks, but that's life - everyone is out for themselves and only themselves.

At any rate, I'm not convinced this deal is dead yet. I'm still receiving presidential coins and they're still being charged on my credit card as normal purchases. Supposedly, the NA coins will be back in stock on 1/16(subject to change I'm sure) so we'll go from there.

There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to why they cancel orders. I've had small orders canceled before, so IME, it's certainly not because of volume.

Sosiouxme

The charge on my CC reflects the coin purchase as a sale. I'm pleased. Depending on how these coins work with my spending habits and my previously referenced "project", I may order them again.

As my intent is to use them as I would paper money, I don't know how much actual demand I have for them. I don't carry a lot of cash as I don't make many cash purchases -- I do, however, leave any tips in cash to service providers, so that might be the niche for these coins.

At any rate, I'm pleased that this seems to be working out and I thank the members of this forum for being so free with information.

Cheers!

josephstern

My orders still seem to be going strong - although I am trying to lay low a bit by only ordering what I need to qualify for cc bonuses, and maybe just a little more. I haven't put in a max-out order in a while.

On the Mr. Pickles front: with every deal, especially here on FT, there's on user who takes it the furthest. If it wasn't Mr. Pickles, it would have been whoever was next in line. But Mr. Pickles was gracious with his information to the forum, and I am grateful for that. We are a community, and we share.

Pokerface

Did you go to the cage and ask to change them for cash? I can't imagine any casino accepting that. But it's legal tender and I think they'd have a hard time refusing you if you were trying to buy chips or a slot ticket to gamble with.

deant

Major casinos in LV only accept bills - no coins allowed. Casinos are now out of the coin business. The slots only give out "tickets" that you take to a machine and redeem (or you can put them back into other slots).

AlohaDaveKennedy

Yes, received the same letter. BTW, to date 1 shipment was $250 light and 2 were received without the standard paperwork inside.

Also, been testing the new programming changes at the ordering site - some limitations are now enforced. Example: "You have exceeded the shopping cart limit of 2 for the product (Y04 ). Please reduce your quantity."

Carl Johnson

A friend of mine got a major strip casino to take a box off of her, but it was a giant pain, they unrolled and counted all the coins - by hand if I understood her right. You can probably get them to accommodate you for small quantities like that. I figure they won't take large quantities, if I was running a casino I wouldn't take large quantities. First, casinos have to guard against being used for money laundering, and second, they're not in the business of taking heavy, bulky coins and giving lightweight, compact bills in exchange. How does being used as a coin exchange advance their business interests?

Taking an occasional box, though, probably does advance their business interests, they accommodate you in a way that doesn't excessively burden them, and as you are heading back out after the transaction there is a fair likelihood that you will leave some of the cash in one of their slot machines.

balima

Received my order of Presidents today. Ordered on the 26th, shipped on the 29th. It was a small order, but I got my fix of gold bullion and racked somemore miles. All is well in the world.

Pokerface

I understand how casinos work, I live in Las Vegas. They would never exchange straight for bills but if you are a big enough gambler I think they'd exchange for checks although it may be a pain. I know several "high rollers" that could probably get them to do large amounts however the promotion probably isn't worth it for guys like that.

zzyzx

It seems we had different experience. I brought some coins to one of the LV casinos, I deposited those coins without any problem. I did have to open up each roll, and the cashier put the coins in a machine to count the numbers. I don't think nowadays the casinos still use manpower to count the coins.

That was it.

bdd

i'm told Fremont Street still has casinos that take coins. i'm busy losing too much money to venture out there though...

...all done at caesars palace...
when i brought a lot of coins (around $100 worth), i was told they'd only accept $5 to trade for paper.

later when i brought $10 in coins, they traded for paper without any question.

i did this a few times... but it's definitely not worth it.

i guess the best bet is those coinstar machines (or something similar, if you know what i mean).

pawtim

To me, there is a very significant difference between an account transcript and a copy of the tax return. A transcript has very little information, whereas getting a copy of the return has all the lines, all the schedules, attachments, statements, etc. A much more detailed audit can be done with the full return. But, that's just the way I see it.

And, as to your second paragraph, I basically agree with you -- it's personal information, and that's why they need your permission to verify it. As with mortgages, credit cards are laying out money on your behalf, essentially similar in that both are at least some sort of loan. If the creditor wants you to verify the information and you don't want to, then don't do business together. After the recent experiences with "no doc, no verification" loans, IMHO verification of assertions doesn't seem unreasonable.

I'm not sure I'd say indifferent, exactly, but the basic idea is true enough -- on balance, I have no objection to providing a 4506-T, and I would often prefer that my boxes be left without a signature -- I think that should be up to each person to decide. When I get a "signature required" delivery from FedEx (not coins, obviously), I leave a note with my mobile number on it, the driver calls me and I verbally authorize her to leave the package in a certain location, releasing FedEx from liability for it. I know that's not the way everyone would handle it, but it works for me. I live pretty far from my job, I commute via train, and waiting around until 10AM means I don't get to work until 4+ hours after I usually get there, so it's a considered tradeoff to me, especially since it's impossible to predict with any clarity when an order will ship!

In a similar way, I don't fret about LCT reports or SARs either, so that goes to your point that my general lack of worrying about things related to the coin program differs from the opinion of some others.

Each person can handle these things as they deem appropriate for her- or himself.

Comicwoman

Coinstar charges nearly a 10% fee. The fee is waived if you have the coins go to a gift card...but you could have purchased that same gift card on a cc. There are some banks that have free counting machines. If you want to pay a fee to count your coins, just UPS them to me and I will do it for only 8%.