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Jan 7, 2010, 9:52 pm
#7366
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Chicago
Posts: 79
This sounds like the pallet program they had last year, where a 2% discount was given but you had to order by the pallet. The downside was that it had to be a wire transfer not via a CC, which I would think would have to be the same in this case. Did she mention being able to do this via a card?
Jan 7, 2010, 10:16 pm
#7368
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 375
As in just going in with the rolls? The hassle was using the coin machine. It miscounted every single batch and spit out half the coins. I'm going to try another bank, but if I can just deposit the rolls, I will do that, unless I can pay my credit card at the branch that isn't the sponsor of the c/c aka BA Chase Visa paid at XYZ bank at which I have an account that is not a Chase Bank. Can I do that even for a small fee? It seems all the free bill payments are online.
Jan 8, 2010, 12:12 am
#7370
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: SEA
Posts: 200
As in just going in with the rolls? The hassle was using the coin machine. It miscounted every single batch and spit out half the coins. I'm going to try another bank, but if I can just deposit the rolls, I will do that, unless I can pay my credit card at the branch that isn't the sponsor of the c/c aka BA Chase Visa paid at XYZ bank at which I have an account that is not a Chase Bank. Can I do that even for a small fee? It seems all the free bill payments are online.
Jan 8, 2010, 12:24 am
#7371
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 375
I've never had to take them out of the rolls to deposit them. I just take stacked trays in one of the larger shipping boxes. Lately, just cutting off the flaps of the new interior boxes. Try a few different banks and you should find one that will let you do it this way. Much easier.
Jan 8, 2010, 3:33 am
#7372
Join Date: Dec 2009
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Jan 8, 2010, 3:36 am
#7373
Join Date: Dec 2009
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Some years back when I used to get rolls to search for silver coins I'd get rolls from the bank that were short a coin (once short 2 coins) that were obviously rolled by hand. So I prefer the ones from the mint. Not likely to be short.
Jan 8, 2010, 7:32 am
#7374
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galveston1602, thanks for the idea of paying property taxes with the coins. (Now I'm wondering about walking into an IRS office and paying estimated taxes with a few hundred pounds of coins.) I might also try doing my next contribution to my local library that way, instead of by check. (Yes, I could use a credit card, but then they get less money and I have to subtract the value of the points I get from my deduction.)
Jan 8, 2010, 10:11 am
#7375
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 2,834
If they offer 2% off while taking credit cards, I really want to know about that. (I might have to set up the trick to get almost 5% rebate on a card for that.)
galveston1602, thanks for the idea of paying property taxes with the coins. (Now I'm wondering about walking into an IRS office and paying estimated taxes with a few hundred pounds of coins.) I might also try doing my next contribution to my local library that way, instead of by check. (Yes, I could use a credit card, but then they get less money and I have to subtract the value of the points I get from my deduction.)
galveston1602, thanks for the idea of paying property taxes with the coins. (Now I'm wondering about walking into an IRS office and paying estimated taxes with a few hundred pounds of coins.) I might also try doing my next contribution to my local library that way, instead of by check. (Yes, I could use a credit card, but then they get less money and I have to subtract the value of the points I get from my deduction.)
"......and I have to subtract the value of the points I get from the deduction."
Where did you get this tax advice?
Jan 8, 2010, 10:20 am
#7376
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Austin, TX
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Property Taxes
I charge my Dallas County property taxes, but unfortunately that amount is only about 20% of the total property taxes. The other 80% goes to the city where I live and they will charge a fee. Not sure if they will take coins. Also not sure if I have the courage to walk in with several thousand dollars of coins to the city hall.
No one in the office would speak to me after I started hauling them in (I had called earlier that money to confirm they accepted *cash* payments). Several of the workers insisted on piling the rolls/boxes up in their conference room and unwrapping each role to count. Gotta love the government - one branch wraps them, the other unwraps them.
43 minutes later . . . I had my paid receipt.
Jan 8, 2010, 10:27 am
#7377
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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If they offer 2% off while taking credit cards, I really want to know about that. (I might have to set up the trick to get almost 5% rebate on a card for that.)
galveston1602, thanks for the idea of paying property taxes with the coins. (Now I'm wondering about walking into an IRS office and paying estimated taxes with a few hundred pounds of coins.)
galveston1602, thanks for the idea of paying property taxes with the coins. (Now I'm wondering about walking into an IRS office and paying estimated taxes with a few hundred pounds of coins.)
I tried to pay San Diego prop taxes with coins, no go; while they do take coins, they have to count and reroll them and "don't have dollar coin wrappers" although they may by the time the April installment is due. Local IRS office per website "accepts cash payments - exact change required" but doesn't accept live phone calls. I may make a field trip there next week with some coins
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Jan 8, 2010, 10:40 am
#7378
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 502
It also sounds like the bulk program anyways which does not allow credit card as payments (if its the same as last year).
Jan 8, 2010, 10:41 am
#7379
Join Date: Dec 2009
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Yeah, my county in Texas also charges a 2% fee on cc for property taxes. I had seen the suggestion in the FAQ sticky back in November and made several trips from my car to the front desk to pay the X,XXX.XX in property taxes with coins.
No one in the office would speak to me after I started hauling them in (I had called earlier that money to confirm they accepted *cash* payments). Several of the workers insisted on piling the rolls/boxes up in their conference room and unwrapping each role to count. Gotta love the government - one branch wraps them, the other unwraps them.
43 minutes later . . . I had my paid receipt.
No one in the office would speak to me after I started hauling them in (I had called earlier that money to confirm they accepted *cash* payments). Several of the workers insisted on piling the rolls/boxes up in their conference room and unwrapping each role to count. Gotta love the government - one branch wraps them, the other unwraps them.
43 minutes later . . . I had my paid receipt.
Jan 8, 2010, 11:18 am
#7380
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Independence, MO USA
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Although the IRS website says they will take cash, a lot of the smaller office don't. They don't have a cashier function or the correct staffing. They'll send you out to return with a check or money order. You probably don't want to push the IRS on that issue.