Change counting machine

Anyone know where I can find one of those machines into which you pour a bunch of change and it counts how much you have? I think they charge about 8% for the service.

call your bank, they might do it for free.

Subject: Re: Change counting machine

ANFIELD wrote: Anyone know where I can find one of those machines into which you pour a bunch of change and it counts how much you have? I think they charge about 8% for the service.

I usually see them at grocery stores but I think they give you a receipt to be used only at the grocery store you brought the change to.

Commerce Bank 269 5th Avenue

Subject: Re: Change counting machine

stacey wrote: [quote=ANFIELD]Anyone know where I can find one of those machines into which you pour a bunch of change and it counts how much you have? I think they charge about 8% for the service.

I usually see them at grocery stores but I think they give you a receipt to be used only at the grocery store you brought the change to.

Coinstar machines! Actually, they usually give you either a receipt that can used for groceries, or you can take it to a checkout line and get cash. Coinstar has saved my rich yuppie white ass (sorry, couldn't resist) SEVERAL times when I was too broke to buy food. You can find locations at Coinstar.com; I think the closest ones are at the Pathmark at the Ratner Mall and one at the Key Food on 5th Avenue.

Commerce Bank is the correct answer. They let you use their machine 100% free of charge whether you have an account there or not...that 8% can be tough to take if you are turning a lot in...

Commerce Bank of 5th Avenue, without a doubt. You don't need to be a customer, and they will take any amount of coins that you bring in. Witness my coin reciept from January - so impressive that I had to document it:



(Even more amazing: most of that was in my husband's dresser drawers. I swear, he's incorrigable.)

WOW! I remember having hauls like that in college. It felt like winning the lottery.

wow THAT's a lot of Ching Ching!

When my girlfriend and I started dating, she had this HUGE container of money, separated into smaller containers by penny, nickel, dime, quarter. I looked at it and said, SHIT, that's a lot of money, you should turn that in. She said that she thought it was like 60 bucks and was not in a big rush.
I told her it was more like $350 or so (it was a lot). We argued lightly about this, and I said, "I'll give you 100 bucks right now for it". So we agreed, and we sat on her bed and counted it. I must say (buy luck or blood?) I was only off by like 10-20 bucks. Not bad for eyeballing. (I did not take it from her for 100 bucks though, we cashed it in and she took me to dinner)

Later we joked that it was one of our first dates together. I tried to convince her that that is what all Jews do on first dates (I'm jewish, she's not)...

While you may be Jewish, Dave, it sounds like you don't keep as strictly Kosher as you'd have us believe! wink wink, nudge, nudge, say no more.

PS - Thanks, all, for the info. Commerce bank it is for the change, er, changing.

ANFIELD wrote: While you may be Jewish Dave, it sounds like you don't keep as strictly Kosher as you'd have us believe! wink wink, nudge, nudge, say no more.

Well, I make sure she only eats Kosher... wink wink.
(a nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat, eh?)

You can also use the Coinstar website to find a Coinstar-operated Coinstar machine near you. Although I heard that Coinstar was pro-Ratnerville.

Yep, I use the ones at Pathmark.