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Feb 9, 10, 9:38 pm
#7891
Join Date: Sep 2009
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Originally Posted by aviators99
And what sort of transaction *does* result in coins being "circulated"? I claim that there is no such thing.
Feb 9, 10, 10:03 pm
#7892
Join Date: Feb 2009
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I tried to use the coins yesterday at a non-chain mini-mart near my home and the cashier/owner straight up refused to accept the coins. I tried to pay $26 with one whole roll and a single coin and he said no I'm not taking those, the bank charges me to deposit them. I almost flipped, but I maintained my composure and just walked out. How are we supposed to circulate them if stores won't accept them?
Last edited by 4Health; Feb 9, 10 at 11:51 pm
Feb 9, 10, 10:20 pm
#7893
Join Date: May 2001
Location: RSW/FMY
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Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry8830/4.2.2 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/105)
What about using a virtual account number for online purchases?
Or am I leaking hush-hush information?
I don't know if it's hush hush, but so far I'm thinking only you and I have thought of this! 
(Yes, I'm being sarcastic, but let's keep it a dirty little secret)
Pawtimmy -- oh, no wait ... This one goes with the primary account, so pawtim.
Originally Posted by mrpickles
Originally Posted by josephstern
For personal Visas and MCs, AFAIK, the number would still be the same even if the name were different. So I don't think this will really help.
What about using a virtual account number for online purchases?
Or am I leaking hush-hush information?
(Yes, I'm being sarcastic, but let's keep it a dirty little secret)
Pawtimmy -- oh, no wait ... This one goes with the primary account, so pawtim.
Last edited by pawtim; Feb 9, 10 at 10:23 pm
Feb 9, 10, 10:54 pm
#7894
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 1,758
Originally Posted by mrpickles
What about using a virtual account number for online purchases?
Feb 9, 10, 11:58 pm
#7895
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Miami, FL, USA
Posts: 3,985
Originally Posted by dayone
Something that involves a third party and actually opening the coin roll would be a start but you're welcome to claim anything you wish.
Maybe if you spent them at Walt Disney World, but to tell you the truth, I wouldn't be surprised if they took rogue ones to the bank, too.
Feb 10, 10, 1:48 am
#7896
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 12
Has anyone been to the authorized payment centers for various utility companies? Are they sketch?
Feb 10, 10, 6:47 am
#7897
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Upper Sternistan
Posts: 8,984
Originally Posted by aviators99
Maybe if you spent them at Walt Disney World, but to tell you the truth, I wouldn't be surprised if they took rogue ones to the bank, too.
Anyway, at those place, you've got to use a card at each vendor. It's such a rip-off already, might as well get your 12 miles each time you get a bottle of water.
Feb 10, 10, 8:57 am
#7898
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Originally Posted by aviators99
Like I said, there are no transactions I can think of where what you describe above will happen. Even if they did "open the roll", why would that make a difference? They would then do the same thing with the coins as if they never opened it. Which is the same thing most people in this thread do with them.
The aim of most people in this thread is not to circulate the coins, so citing their behavior seems inapplicable. If one wants to circulate the coins, there are ways to do it.
Feb 10, 10, 9:32 am
#7899
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: WAS
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Posts: 648
Originally Posted by 4Health
I tried to use the coins yesterday at a non-chain mini-mart near my home and the cashier/owner straight up refused to accept the coins. I tried to pay $26 with one whole roll and a single coin and he said no I'm not taking those, the bank charges me to deposit them. I almost flipped, but I maintained my composure and just walked out. How are we supposed to circulate them if stores won't accept them?
Feb 10, 10, 9:55 am
#7900
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Originally Posted by dayone
If one wants to circulate the coins, there are ways to do it.
Other examples:
I offer them whenever anyone asks, "Can you break a $20 bill?".
We use full rolls to pay the petsitter. Does she deposit them in the bank? I expect not because she frequently emphasizes that she prefers to be paid in "cash".
Feb 10, 10, 10:18 am
#7901
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 216
I recently changed to a job where the Coke machine is $0.60 instead of $0.25 at my old job and given the amount of soda I drink, this may be the thing that really makes a dent in the pile of coins that the Fed is holding.
I also keep a bunch in my rollaboard suitcase that I use for tips for maids and for the soda machines at hotels, to get the luggage carts at the airports when they don't take cards. I have paid my cleaning lady with them in the past, but I suspect she just takes them to the bank.
The DC parking meters (the French style ones that spit out the paper ticket) take them, and I have used those quite a bit. The meters purport to take credit cards, but they actually do not.
I probably spend $1,000 per year without too much effort.
I also keep a bunch in my rollaboard suitcase that I use for tips for maids and for the soda machines at hotels, to get the luggage carts at the airports when they don't take cards. I have paid my cleaning lady with them in the past, but I suspect she just takes them to the bank.
The DC parking meters (the French style ones that spit out the paper ticket) take them, and I have used those quite a bit. The meters purport to take credit cards, but they actually do not.
I probably spend $1,000 per year without too much effort.
Originally Posted by mia
Agreed. Our primary use is for tips. My office landlord buys five at a time from me and includes one in each tip.
Other examples:
I offer them whenever anyone asks, "Can you break a $20 bill?".
We use full rolls to pay the petsitter. Does she deposit them in the bank? I expect not because she frequently emphasizes that she prefers to be paid in "cash".
Other examples:
I offer them whenever anyone asks, "Can you break a $20 bill?".
We use full rolls to pay the petsitter. Does she deposit them in the bank? I expect not because she frequently emphasizes that she prefers to be paid in "cash".
Feb 10, 10, 11:09 am
#7902
Join Date: Dec 2009
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Feb 10, 10, 12:47 pm
#7903
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Miami, FL, USA
Posts: 3,985
Originally Posted by dayone
If one opened the roll and occasionally used a few coins to pay at Starbucks and then several more coins at the cleaners and then two or three to buy candy and mints, that would make a difference.
Feb 10, 10, 12:59 pm
#7904
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Originally Posted by aviators99
I disagree. This is what I use them for, and I know from speaking to these people that they bring them right to the bank, and will *not* hand them out as change.
Feb 10, 10, 1:34 pm
#7905
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Miami, FL, USA
Posts: 3,985
Originally Posted by annerj
YMMV but I get them in change a various places.
