A benevolent slot (soft drink) machine.

RWB

There is a soft drink machine on my floor of our office building. The guy who maintains it recently adjusted it so it wouldn’t reject presidential dollar coins. Drinks are $1.25. For the next two weeks, whenever you put in a dollar coin and a quarter, you got back your drink and 4 quarters. Only happened with dollar coins, not paper. He adjusted the machine earlier this week. Now it takes your money and you just get the drink.

cmerlo1

I wonder how much they lost?

DwaineO

Cool story.

pauljuno

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Based upon the information from the OP's message and the number of times I've received dollar coins in circulation. I would guess they lost a dollar.

Longacre

<< <i>I wonder how much they lost? >>



Not getting into the intricacies of the vendor machine owner versus the soda company, I am inclined to think they didn't lose much. I used to be Director of International Tax at a BIG soda outfit based in New York (the blue company, not the dastardly red company based in Altanta). At HQ we were able to buy cans of soda at cost-- 25 cents.

Stooge

There is a DietCoke machine where I work and if you put a bill into it and keep pushing the button for the pop it would give 4 cans of pop, and change for the bill. after several weeks of getting 4 cans for the price of 1, the Guy adjusted it.

Later, Paul.

RWB

I doubt the loss was more than a couple of dollars. I’m probably the only one on this floor who uses dollar coins. Plus most people, including me, are at client sites most of the week.

gecko109

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<< <i>I wonder how much they lost? >>



Not getting into the intricacies of the vendor machine owner versus the soda company, I am inclined to think they didn't lose much. I used to be Director of International Tax at a BIG soda outfit based in New York (the blue company, not the dastardly red company based in Altanta). At HQ we were able to buy cans of soda at cost-- 25 cents. >>



How long ago are you talking? I was a salesman for Royal Crown in Chicago in '97-'98 and I know for a fact that "at cost" was $3.90 per case, or just over 16 cents per can.

Kablemodem

We had a pinball machine in our dorm at college that we got so good at that one quarter was enough to keep us playing for a week. The vendor lost hundreds. Unfortunately, I spent all my money on baseball cards instead of coins back then.

AJ2525

Many years ago at a Red Robin restaurant in Colorado Springs, the change machine by the five or so video games would accept Halves and give back $5 in quarters. I brought it to the attention of the hosts at the workstand. Several months later I checked again and the machine had not been fixed.

bigmansam88

At my school the vending machines have candy and chips that all cost $1.

For a few days people were able to pay just a dime for whatever they wanted, but then somebody told the guy that runs the machine.