Do you feel a little odd when you scoop up coins from a Coinstar machine?

291fifth · May 25, 2016 9:28AM

Do you wonder if someone is watching you?

pcgs69 · May 25, 2016 9:31AM

Yes, but I try to remember that they don't know you and will never see you again. Unless, of course, someone does know you and sees you scooping it up!

epcjimi1 · May 25, 2016 9:32AM

Topic Title: Do you feel a little odd when you scoop up coins from a Coinstar machine?

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Weiss · May 25, 2016 9:34AM

Yes.

But I still do it 100% of the time. Regardless of who is watching, who is near, and how they look at me. Not only that, I actually sweep the return slot with my hand every single time. No exceptions.

This is one of those things where you'll miss 100% of the coins you don't reach for.

Because of this, I've found hundreds of coins from steel cents to buffalo nickels to mercury dimes, tokens of every imaginable variety, and coins literally from around the world.

TopographicOceans · May 25, 2016 9:50AM

It's the only way to become a millionaire

WillieBoyd2 · May 25, 2016 9:59AM

If anyone asks I tell them that I keep the rejected foreign coins.

ambro51 · May 25, 2016 10:08AM

You're always on some type of store survailence video , so remember to smile as you commit the act.

PaleElf · May 25, 2016 10:53AM

Just swiped. $0.54. Nothing of note.

DNADave · May 25, 2016 10:57AM

I always look and take what is there....but yesterday, I couldn't bring myself to bending over and looking underneath.??

TigersFan2 · May 25, 2016 12:12PM

Originally posted by: pcgs69
Yes, but I try to remember that they don't know you and will never see you again. Unless, of course, someone does know you and sees you scooping it up!

That's what I told myself that time I visited a nude beach many years ago.

MsMorrisine · May 25, 2016 12:16PM

A cop saw me do it once and grimaced.

No charges.

It got me to thinking that it's technically stealing.

Scored 26 cents a few days ago. I am a criminal yet charged.

mustangmanbob · May 25, 2016 12:45PM

It is abandoned, like coins on the ground. You are not "taking" it from anyone or a company.

Tonight's gift was ironic.

My wife was saying we needed to take her parents, in their 80's to see Canada, as they have never been out of the country.

At the Coinstar was a $2 Canadian, with the usual Console pennies, a battered quarter, and 1 silver dime.

MICHAELDIXON · May 25, 2016 12:53PM

I usually only pick up the collectible coins out of the CoinStar. Any moderns I leave for somebody else.

Kccoin · May 25, 2016 3:56PM

Yes I feel odd, but its probably because I am naturally odd.

( I like collecting coins )

ms70 · May 25, 2016 4:31PM

I think it's human nature to feel like someone's watching when one is doing something "odd", but I also don't think other people notice these activities as much as we think they do. It's happening all around us every day.

lordmarcovan · May 25, 2016 4:33PM

Do you feel a little odd when you scoop up coins from a Coinstar machine?

Dunno. Maybe I would, if my local Coinstar machine actually ever HAD coins in the reject bin. My all-time (and only) big score thus far has been a single sea-green colored Zincoln (date unreadable) with moon-surface corrosion craters in it.

For all you people who DO find stuff in the CoinStar machines: you suck.

nwcoast · May 25, 2016 4:37PM

Yes indeed.
Depends on the location of the machine. I prefer the -out of the way machines- where it's less likely I'll be observed.

Found a silver dime a couple of weeks ago, after a lengthy spell of mostly foreign and modern rejects.

DCW · May 25, 2016 10:08PM

I usually employ my children to do the deed.
Have had a lot of good times at the coinstar machine coming back from ballet lessons. Last month, found a couple of steel cents. A little farther back, a silver dime. Enough to break up the monotony of grocery shopping and stimulate some interest in coins for the little ones.

mbogoman · May 25, 2016 10:35PM

Only when there is so much in the bin that it requires two or three swipes to get all of it. A couple months ago I pulled $4.54 out of the bin - a couple of handfulls. No silver that time, but plenty of lunch money!!

oih82w8 · May 25, 2016 11:10PM

I used to look at any vending type machine I would pass by. Then one of my girls picked up on my actions and would sometimes run to the machines to check 'em out. My wife used to get so mad at me for teaching my girl to do that. Every once in a while it does pay off.

ricko · May 25, 2016 11:13PM

Not really.... I just reach down and grab them... once, it took three grabs... that day I got $1.97 if I remember correctly... Have found several Euro's but no good collector coins. Cheers, RickO

291fifth · May 25, 2016 11:59PM

I think a much better way to come up with some change is to find a shopping cart at Aldi that still has the quarter in the slot. No one notices that. You just pull out the cart and go shopping while slipping your own quarter back into your pocket.

TwoSides2aCoin · May 26, 2016 12:09AM

I've found that looking through coins all day is tedious, monotonous, straining to the eyes, and taxing. All of which lead me to walk briskly past machines with a change slot. I don't even think of looking. And plus, it's not my property. (that's just me) Each is entitled to their own.

OnlyGoldIsMoney · May 26, 2016 2:27AM

No problem for me even if people are looking.

GotTheBug · May 26, 2016 2:52AM

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joeykoins · May 26, 2016 3:00AM

For me, not so much taking a quick swipe through both the return bin and the receiving tray. but when I look "under" the machine is when I wonder if anyone is looking? Oh yes, like mentioned earlier, also when there is a fair amount of coinage in the bin.

asheland · May 26, 2016 3:09AM

I check, but haven't found a coin, yet.

golden · May 26, 2016 4:46AM

Originally posted by: pcgs69
Yes, but I try to remember that they don't know you and will never see you again. Unless, of course, someone does know you and sees you scooping it up!

ElKevvo · May 26, 2016 7:56AM

My kids check them and think it is fun. They don't find much but it is the thrill of the hunt for them.

K

windwhispersintrees · May 26, 2016 9:45AM

I used to check the return slots on pay phones when I was a kid. Don't think I ever found anything. No Coinstar machines in my usual travels. I do usually pick up coins when I see them on the ground.

Do you feel a little odd when you scoop up coins from a Coinstar machine?

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