Astrophsx

Don't waste your time on these people. He basically posted that he wishes the government would waste even more money on this beyond what the mint already does to ship these out to us and pay for credit card fees. I have a hard time buying that this person has distributed all the coins he has gotten from the mint. There is a household limit, so most people either order a bunch at once or spread it out over time. Either way most of these coins do not stay in circulation. Don't feed the trolls as they say.

mahoney100

I was wondering if anyone has paid property taxes in chicago using coins? The website i consulted said that property taxes could be paid in person in cash or at a local CHASE branch. Has anyone paid using coins?

gree0411

Does the mint ship to a military address?

AlohaDaveKennedy

Stuck with a few coins that the mint does not want you depositing at the bank?

Cart those offending coins to Ecuador where they are heavily used. In fact no problemo distributing coins over most of Central and South America whether for airport taxes, meals, transportation or the like. Most of the existing dollar coins from the earlier Native American series I see down there are extremely worn from usage.

Question: Would the mint consider recapitalizing South America as a valid reason to lift its lifetime NA dollar coin limits?

pmaddock

Reading this thread I have to wonder if I'm not being aggressive enough. I've been somewhat conservative in hopes of remaining at least partially under the radar but it sounds like the heavy activity is going to blow the lid off this thing sooner rather than later.

Is it time to go all out before its done?

Just to give you an idea of what I mean:
1. I limit myself to 1 $500 order per month.
2. I string out the deposits among 4 branches of my bank that are on my normal commute/errand routes - usually no more than $100 at a time.
3. My Bank has a coin machine at every branch that does count these coins. So the teller never touches the coins and I'm sure they wouldn't want to say 'no' because they'd have to go get the things out of the machine.
4. I tried spreading it out a bit more - using coinstar to get a Lowe's gift code (no fee) but the cashiers have a real issue with a paper slip for a gift card so I stopped that one. (although the December extra $10 rebate was nice).

Happy

Are you serious?

For the time and effort involved, a measly $500 purchase?

Kohoutek

Despite the heckler(s) that will post here, I don't see what you're doing is a bad thing. Continue to do what you feel comfortable with, despite the eggers-on that you'll get from this thread. Sheesh with the "advice" on this thread.

cardigans1

I'm using a coin deposit machine as well - I mix in a few nickles, dimes, and quarters. Take it to the teller for deposit no problem.

Granted I haven't done this post Mint moratorium.

Astrophsx

I think what you are doing is fine. There are still caps on the total amount you can order, so eventually you will hit what everyone else has been receiving. You could probably bring in two boxes per trip and order more frequently, or actually use them and distribute them. Maybe at the carwash and such.

nwa330

I don't answer the doorbell for less then $5000

pmaddock

Well let me put it into context - I'm not making any special trips for this. Its more like I get the $500 and then drop by the bank at the grocery store or when I'm going to the bank for some other reason. (I'm big on actually filing those rebates, etc.) When you only get $500 a month its pretty easy to empty in out in a few chunks over the next month. Additionally its not just the 500 miles - it the cumulative spend I'm after since it will get me to the next MQM threshold with far less net spend than one of those mileage runs or alike.

beckoa

Ordered 3/24/10 another $500 of JA's
Shipped 3/27/10
Arrived 3/29/10

Under a week... not bad

And yes... I do smaller batches

Pokerface

May be an opportunity to finally get rid of coins at the casino. Eastside Cannery in Las Vegas just opened a "classic slot" room dealing only in coins. This means change attendant and buckets to take to cashier. Might get a way with unloading some coins here.

GoingAway

If it's truly classic, it won't take the gold dollar coins, only the old silver dollar ones.

Helena Handbaskets

So you could drop a dollar in the slot and, win or lose, drop the other 4,999 dollars in the bucket and cash out with bills? I wonder what that would do to the casino's accounting at the end of the day.